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ER Show w Howie Morgan 06/2626 · The Elise Richmond Show

• 0:01
  SPEAKER_00: And now it's time for the Elise Richmond Show right here on WNAU.
• 0:07
  SPEAKER_00: And now, without further ado, here's Elise.
• 0:11
  SPEAKER_01: Welcome to the Elise Richmond Show.
• 0:13
  SPEAKER_01: Good morning.
• 0:14
  SPEAKER_01: How is everybody this morning?
• 0:16
  SPEAKER_01: Happy Tuesday.
• 0:17
  SPEAKER_01: I am so glad that you're listening to the show this morning because let me tell you, there are about a million topics to talk about, that's for sure.
• 0:25
  SPEAKER_01: And I have been putting this show together what seems like yesterday and last evening and then this morning, a bunch of things happened and it's all changed up, so who knows what we're going to end up talking about.
• 0:37
  SPEAKER_01: But in the second segment, we do have uh Ron Eller, who's running, as you know, against Benny Bernie Thompson for the House of U.S.
• 0:45
  SPEAKER_01: House of Representatives seat.
• 0:47
  SPEAKER_01: His campaign manager, Howie Morgan, is going to be on the show.
• 0:51
  SPEAKER_01: And then, of course, you know, we all have to talk about the things we always talk about in the first segment.
• 0:57
  SPEAKER_01: Bob doesn't like the first segment of the Least Richmond show because he thinks it's a waste of time to talk about fluffy things.
• 1:05
  SPEAKER_01: Right, Bob?
• 1:06
  SPEAKER_01: But I love talking about fluffy things.
• 1:09
  SPEAKER_01: You do talk about Ole Miss Sports?
• 1:12
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, but I I bore you with some of my fluffy stuff.
• 1:16
  SPEAKER_01: You didn't want to hear about the flag.
• 1:17
  SPEAKER_01: No, no, no.
• 1:17
  SPEAKER_01: The flag is good.
• 1:19
  SPEAKER_01: And the Richmond's bicker right here on WNAU 1470.
• 1:24
  SPEAKER_03: We had lots to talk about, Paul.
• 1:26
  SPEAKER_01: We do, so we're gonna get going right away.
• 1:29
  SPEAKER_01: And the first thing up, of course, is this coming Sunday is Father's Day.
• 1:36
  SPEAKER_01: Now, I've just got to tell all of you out there, my daddy was one of the most important people in my life, my whole entire life.
• 1:44
  SPEAKER_01: And um I miss him so much.
• 1:47
  SPEAKER_01: I cannot believe it that he has been gone 34 years, but I still have the most wonderful memories and was so proud always to be his daughter.
• 1:57
  SPEAKER_01: Um I had uh I have, I should say, about five stories that I always tell about my dad and I um every every Father's Day, and I kind of shuffle them around because I know that folks don't always remember what you said the year before.
• 2:18
  SPEAKER_01: But one of my favorite lessons, because he had many, many lessons, he was a banker for all of his life after he got out of um the army in World War II and took a job as a teller, and he went from the tell from a teller all the way up to the CEO and the chairman of the board, and he uh I was quite proud of him, as you could well imagine.
• 2:41
  SPEAKER_01: Anyway, he had a lot of lessons about money, and this is one of the most important ones that he ever told me.
• 2:50
  SPEAKER_01: And um it was kind of at the end of his life, and it was the last time that daddy and I had gone out shopping together.
• 2:58
  SPEAKER_01: My mom was at the beauty shop, daddy was ill, and he'd lost a lot of weight, and therefore I had been there for Valentine's, and this was about um oh, I'd say a couple weeks, a month or so later, I came back because of his condition.
• 3:14
  SPEAKER_01: And he was always a dapper dresser because my grandfather, his father, had a ladies ready-to-wear store, and so they always were very interested in clothing, and that was their business.
• 3:24
  SPEAKER_01: So I had given Daddy a pair of pants, a smaller size that fit him, because he wanted pants that fit.
• 3:31
  SPEAKER_01: And um he liked them so well he decided he would go get another pair.
• 3:35
  SPEAKER_01: And so away we went.
• 3:38
  SPEAKER_01: Now we were walking along toward the store where I'd purchased that pair of slacks for Daddy, and uh we were kind of locked arms because he wasn't walking totally steady, and I wanted to make sure that he didn't fall there on the concrete.
• 3:53
  SPEAKER_01: And so as we were walking toward that store, we both eyed a bright, shiny penny that was lying on the sidewalk right in front of us.
• 4:02
  SPEAKER_01: And Daddy said to me, Elise, reach down there and pick up that penny.
• 4:07
  SPEAKER_01: He could not do that himself anymore, and I was afraid to reach down because I didn't want to pull him down too.
• 4:14
  SPEAKER_01: So I replied to Daddy, Daddy, don't you think after all of this time you don't have to pick up a penny on the sidewalk?
• 4:24
  SPEAKER_01: Whoop, that was the wrong thing to say.
• 4:26
  SPEAKER_01: He stopped right away, looked me straight in the eye, and he said, It takes ten pennies to make a dime, and it takes ten dimes to make a dollar, and this is how I made this money, and it would behoove you, little girl, to remember this.
• 4:43
  SPEAKER_01: And Daddy, I do remember this.
• 4:45
  SPEAKER_01: Every time I see a penny, or any change for that matter on the ground, I remember that day, that very special day, and I reach down and I pick up that penny no matter where I am, and I think of you, that special angel that is always on my shoulder, still teaching me, and I remember everything that you taught me in the past.
• 5:12
  SPEAKER_01: Now that day, as I said, was quite a number of years ago because he passed away a few months after that event.
• 5:21
  SPEAKER_01: But it's a day I'll never forget.
• 5:23
  SPEAKER_01: My dad was so special to me, and I was so proud always to be his daughter.
• 5:32
  SPEAKER_01: You're a lucky, lucky person if you've got a daddy or a mom for the guys, it's usually a mom that is special to you, and boy oh boy, God gave me the two very best.
• 5:46
  SPEAKER_01: So I have to say to everybody out there, happy Father's Day to all you dads that are listening right now, all you grandfathers, all you uncles and brothers that are daddies, you are so important to each of your children.
• 6:01
  SPEAKER_01: So happy Father's Day from the Lise Richmond Show to every one of you.
• 6:08
  SPEAKER_01: Now, Bob Richman, he is here, as you know, because we were fussing at the beginning of the show.
• 6:18
  SPEAKER_01: What say you about James A.
• 6:22
  SPEAKER_01: Richmond, your daddy?
• 6:24
  SPEAKER_03: You never called him that.
• 6:25
  SPEAKER_03: What'd you used to call him?
• 6:26
  SPEAKER_01: Big Daddy.
• 6:26
  SPEAKER_03: That's right.
• 6:27
  SPEAKER_01: I called him Big Daddy, yeah.
• 6:29
  SPEAKER_01: And he called me the redhead.
• 6:30
  SPEAKER_01: Where's the redhead?
• 6:31
  SPEAKER_01: He'd say.
• 6:33
  SPEAKER_03: Well, my father taught me a lot about business.
• 6:37
  SPEAKER_03: And in fact, growing up, he always taught me the art of the deal.
• 6:43
  SPEAKER_03: Way before Trump ever came out with his book, or anybody really knew about Trump.
• 6:49
  SPEAKER_03: It was the art of the deal.
• 6:51
  SPEAKER_01: Well, I think you need to preface that by saying that your dad was a salesman.
• 6:55
  SPEAKER_01: He was a heck of a salesman.
• 6:57
  SPEAKER_03: Absolutely.
• 6:58
  SPEAKER_03: And so that's something that you know I kept for a long time because when it comes to any type of negotiations or anything like that, I'm in it.
• 7:11
  SPEAKER_03: And I'm really thinking about what your daddy taught you.
• 7:14
  SPEAKER_03: Absolutely.
• 7:16
  SPEAKER_03: And he always was very positive, he always was, you know, through all adversity, and there was a lot of adversity in his life, are the seeds to success.
• 7:25
  SPEAKER_03: And so he always preached that.
• 7:28
  SPEAKER_03: And, you know, he was World War II pilot, and his co-pilot was actor Jackie Coogan.
• 7:37
  SPEAKER_03: And so I'd meet Jackie Coogan, and you know, he was Uncle Fester when I was a kid.
• 7:42
  SPEAKER_01: At the time I was like, You knew Uncle Fester personally.
• 7:45
  SPEAKER_03: Absolutely.
• 7:46
  SPEAKER_03: And, you know, it was a funny story.
• 7:48
  SPEAKER_03: He goes, I go, Mr.
• 7:51
  SPEAKER_03: Coogan, here's a piece of paper.
• 7:53
  SPEAKER_03: Can you sign this piece of paper 20 times?
• 7:56
  SPEAKER_03: And he looked at me, he goes, Why do you want me to sign it 20 times?
• 7:59
  SPEAKER_01: How old were you?
• 8:01
  SPEAKER_03: I was probably seventh grade, sixth grade, somewhere around.
• 8:06
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, sixth grade.
• 8:08
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 8:09
  SPEAKER_03: And uh I think it was probably more like seven, five, could be six, whatever.
• 8:15
  SPEAKER_03: I said, because I want to sell it at school.
• 8:18
  SPEAKER_03: I can make money selling your signature 20 times, your autograph.
• 8:23
  SPEAKER_03: He looked at my dad and he goes, Jim, a kid just like you.
• 8:27
  SPEAKER_03: Chip off the old block.
• 8:29
  SPEAKER_01: There you go.
• 8:30
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, Big Daddy was funny.
• 8:32
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, I was a salesperson always, too, in the brokerage business and insurance business, selling uh started out in property casualty.
• 8:41
  SPEAKER_01: And he and I got along very, very well because of that, and I loved talking to him.
• 8:46
  SPEAKER_01: And uh none of his daughters were really salespeople that I know of.
• 8:50
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know any of them ever selling anything.
• 8:53
  SPEAKER_01: And so we had a lot of conversations.
• 8:56
  SPEAKER_01: And one time we were sitting talking, Bob was down in the Bay Area, still doing something down at one of our properties, and um he was talking to me and he went through a whole explanation, evaluation of each one of his kids.
• 9:15
  SPEAKER_01: And Bob was the youngest child of seven children in eight years, so you can imagine that.
• 9:22
  SPEAKER_01: And Big Daddy was talking about what a responsibility that was to make sure those kids were all taken care of, and he told me that he kept five thousand dollars of cash hidden in the bottom of a desk drawer in a lockbox in case everything went belly up, he would always be able to feed his kids.
• 9:41
  SPEAKER_01: And I thought that was kind of a really sweet story about your daddy that we haven't talked about in a long time.
• 9:47
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know if you even remember that happening way back when.
• 9:50
  SPEAKER_03: And he also, when the Giants moved, the baseball team moved from New York out to the Bay Area, um, he was trying to get them to build Candlestick Park instead of at Hunter's Point, he was trying to get them to build it in Millbra, uh down by the airport.
• 10:11
  SPEAKER_03: And it almost happened, but when they finally decided that, you know, they wanted to build it, they decided that they wanted in the city limits.
• 10:21
  SPEAKER_01: And kind of like trying to keep the Chicago Bears in Chicago.
• 10:25
  SPEAKER_03: That's right.
• 10:25
  SPEAKER_03: And you know, so you always you always wonder about all this stuff.
• 10:29
  SPEAKER_03: So one day I was in high school and we're going to a Giants game and working docking walking down, and all of a sudden the owner of the Giants comes walking by, Bob Lurie.
• 10:39
  SPEAKER_03: And my dad and Bob Lurie, hey Jim, how are you doing?
• 10:44
  SPEAKER_03: Bob, how are you doing?
• 10:46
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, it was really I couldn't believe it.
• 10:48
  SPEAKER_01: You were impressed because you were a little kid.
• 10:51
  SPEAKER_03: Absolutely talking to the owner of the Giants, you know, as we're walking walking into the game and everything like that.
• 10:57
  SPEAKER_03: It was like pretty amazing, so it was pretty spectacular.
• 11:02
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, your dad was quite a quite a presence.
• 11:07
  SPEAKER_01: He truly was.
• 11:08
  SPEAKER_01: And uh he um he had a lot of things to tell everybody, and he loved cats.
• 11:14
  SPEAKER_01: That was kind of a funny thing about him.
• 11:16
  SPEAKER_01: Here's this great big guy, and he loved cats.
• 11:20
  SPEAKER_03: He was a cat man.
• 11:22
  SPEAKER_01: He was, he was, he loved cats, and usually you see great big guys and they want to deal with dogs and not cats, but he loved cats, and uh so he always had some kittens running around and cats.
• 11:33
  SPEAKER_03: His last dying breath, yes, he died of a heart attack in his recliner chair with his new kitten in his lap.
• 11:43
  SPEAKER_01: Right.
• 11:43
  SPEAKER_01: He was eating an ice cream cone, and the little kitten was licking the bottom of it, and he was eating the top of it.
• 11:51
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so that was kind of a sweet thing, and Bob's mom would tell that story to all the kids.
• 11:57
  SPEAKER_01: So, anyway, we had the blessings of having wonderful parents, and uh, I'm uh I'm very proud of that.
• 12:05
  SPEAKER_01: So I want all of you folks out there to always know that no matter what you do, your kids are watching you, and they are immolating what you do.
• 12:15
  SPEAKER_01: And I think that it's very, very important that you teach them well.
• 12:20
  SPEAKER_01: Crosby Stills and Nash had a song about that, Teach Your Children Well.
• 12:24
  SPEAKER_01: And I always listened to that song and thought, wow, that's pretty profound.
• 12:29
  SPEAKER_01: And then in the in the rest of the song it said, and kids teach your parents well.
• 12:34
  SPEAKER_01: So I think it's a back and forth thing that maybe we can learn a lot from younger people.
• 12:39
  SPEAKER_01: Sometimes I don't like it, and I can learn some things that I think they need to be uh put in the corner about, especially kids like Antifa, they need to be set down and given um a Bible and told to read it.
• 12:54
  SPEAKER_01: Set down and given a few harsh words about how you're supposed to act in America.
• 13:00
  SPEAKER_01: Oh my lands.
• 13:01
  SPEAKER_01: What do you say about that, Bob Richman?
• 13:03
  SPEAKER_01: It just popped in my mind, you know, that those children I don't think had a lot of direction, maybe.
• 13:09
  SPEAKER_01: I certainly wasn't gonna run out and burn a building down in in Portland.
• 13:14
  SPEAKER_01: Why not?
• 13:15
  SPEAKER_01: Because I was taught to respect the flag, the government, the president.
• 13:20
  SPEAKER_01: Didn't make any difference to the president.
• 13:22
  SPEAKER_01: My dad would say this as a comment from my dad, who was a very, very conservative Democrat who voted for Ronald Reagan twice.
• 13:31
  SPEAKER_01: He and my mom both.
• 13:33
  SPEAKER_01: Uh they he said one time to me, Elise, it's okay about a president that you don't agree with because in four years you can change it.
• 13:42
  SPEAKER_01: He was such a patriot and he believed in the American way and the American system so well.
• 13:47
  SPEAKER_01: And of course, so did your dad, being an Air Force guy and fighting in um World War II.
• 13:53
  SPEAKER_01: It was always my dad did too.
• 13:54
  SPEAKER_03: It was always growing up.
• 13:55
  SPEAKER_03: It was always the counterculture that rioted and did a lot of bad things.
• 14:00
  SPEAKER_01: Well, the hippies in San Francisco, and those kids grew up, and look what they taught their children.
• 14:05
  SPEAKER_03: Another great story about my dad is we go, he'd as a kid, again, I was probably eight years old, he'd drive us up to Hate Ashbury.
• 14:12
  SPEAKER_01: Up you guys all up to Hate Ashbury.
• 14:15
  SPEAKER_01: That was seven kids in the car.
• 14:17
  SPEAKER_03: Well, not all seven.
• 14:18
  SPEAKER_03: There'd be maybe me, my sister, and my brother, and maybe my other sister, the four of us.
• 14:24
  SPEAKER_03: And he'd drive the hate and look at all the kids and stuff like that.
• 14:28
  SPEAKER_03: And all the hippies.
• 14:30
  SPEAKER_03: We he'd make jokes and we'd laugh and stuff, you know, being an eight-year-old.
• 14:33
  SPEAKER_03: You didn't quite understand it.
• 14:35
  SPEAKER_03: He goes, Now, one thing, you see all these kids, you know why they're out here on the street, dressed as they are, looking as they are, acting as they are.
• 14:44
  SPEAKER_03: They didn't go to college.
• 14:48
  SPEAKER_03: That was big with those World War II guys to all their kids to go to college.
• 14:52
  SPEAKER_03: Oh gosh, he did put an impression in me about going to college.
• 14:56
  SPEAKER_03: Boy, if I didn't want to end up like that out there, I better go to college.
• 15:00
  SPEAKER_01: Well, I knew from the time I was born that I had any kind of thought in my head I was going to college.
• 15:06
  SPEAKER_01: This was a non-negotiable item.
• 15:10
  SPEAKER_01: The question was where?
• 15:11
  SPEAKER_01: And I thank God in heaven that I ended up at OMIS.
• 15:16
  SPEAKER_01: I was really happy about that.
• 15:17
  SPEAKER_01: And speaking of OMIS, uh, it's time right now to take a break.
• 15:25
  SPEAKER_03: Aren't you gonna talk about what happened in the baseball games?
• 15:28
  SPEAKER_01: After the break.
• 15:29
  SPEAKER_03: After the break.
• 15:30
  SPEAKER_01: Stay with us, folks.
• 15:31
  SPEAKER_01: It's WNAU 1470, it's Olies Radio, and we're gonna talk about Ole Miss when we come back, so stay right with us.
• 15:40
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, we've also got Howie Morgan coming on, Ron Eller's campaign manager.
• 15:45
  SPEAKER_01: He's an Ole Miss Rebel too, so he'll drop.
• 15:48
  SPEAKER_01: What are you saying about Ole Miss baseball?
• 15:50
  SPEAKER_01: I'm so disappointed, I can't tell you.
• 15:53
  SPEAKER_03: I'll tell you, I was so hyped about their pitching during the regionals.
• 15:57
  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
• 15:58
  SPEAKER_03: And then all of a sudden there was no pitching in the World Series.
• 16:02
  SPEAKER_01: It was it was something else.
• 16:03
  SPEAKER_01: What say you, Howie Morgan, about all that?
• 16:06
  SPEAKER_04: You know, it was definitely disappointing about what happened, but the fact that we actually made it to the College World Series was a shock to me.
• 16:14
  SPEAKER_04: I didn't think we had a shot all this year.
• 16:17
  SPEAKER_04: We were so bad beginning of the year.
• 16:20
  SPEAKER_04: And to see all the momentum in Mississippi State and something else.
• 16:26
  SPEAKER_04: And at home, we went to Omaha, they didn't, and I will have fun with always in my 2022 trip to Omaha.
• 16:37
  SPEAKER_01: Oh my.
• 16:38
  SPEAKER_01: We do have memories of that.
• 16:39
  SPEAKER_01: That was all really so much fun.
• 16:42
  SPEAKER_01: Because both times I think it was a surprise to me that they were there.
• 16:47
  SPEAKER_01: Both times.
• 16:48
  SPEAKER_01: The way they started out with the game in the beginning.
• 16:52
  SPEAKER_01: So I don't know, it's disappointment, but you know what?
• 16:55
  SPEAKER_01: Football's coming up, and there's next year for basketball and baseball, and God knows Bob Richmond and I love it all.
• 17:02
  SPEAKER_01: How about you, Howie?
• 17:04
  SPEAKER_01: I got my ticket to the almost LSU football game.
• 17:08
  SPEAKER_04: I'm ready for that in September.
• 17:10
  SPEAKER_04: Hottie Toddy! Absolutely.
• 17:13
  SPEAKER_04: So uh you know, we have a home stall, pictures on the National Day, it gives us great good feelings for our level fans, and technically introduces a lot of people to almost uh information.
• 17:28
  SPEAKER_04: You may not have heard about us before.
• 17:33
  SPEAKER_01: Absolutely, absolutely.
• 17:35
  SPEAKER_04: We may have more role scholars than anybody else in the SEC, but uh we we don't get numbers for that nearly as much as we do our sporting games.
• 17:44
  SPEAKER_01: Well, we also get uh a lot of recognition because of partying in the grove.
• 17:49
  SPEAKER_01: You know, that's all is a part of OMS.
• 17:51
  SPEAKER_01: We're party folks too, and that means we're happy, we smile, and we love our OMIS.
• 17:58
  SPEAKER_01: We love our teams.
• 17:59
  SPEAKER_01: We really do.
• 18:00
  SPEAKER_01: Bob even is now a big OMS Rebel fan.
• 18:04
  SPEAKER_01: He was the only guy, Howie Morgan and listeners, that knew that the SEC stood for something besides the Securities Exchange Commission.
• 18:13
  SPEAKER_01: It was the Southeastern Conference.
• 18:16
  SPEAKER_01: So I said, I better date this guy because he knows who Archie Manning is.
• 18:21
  unknown: Yeah.
• 18:22
  SPEAKER_04: I told one of my actually had lunch with Archie's past week just at Branton and Jackson, and again said, What a wonderful gentleman he is.
• 18:31
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, he's a doll.
• 18:32
  SPEAKER_01: He really is.
• 18:33
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, growing up, one of the big things that introduced me to Ole Miss as a as a young age was I used to watch on Saturdays College Bowl.
• 18:42
  SPEAKER_03: And they'd have all the universities getting together, competing each other for answering questions.
• 18:48
  SPEAKER_03: And one of the colleges they called Ole Miss.
• 18:52
  SPEAKER_03: And I said, Who would ever want to go to a college called Old Miss?
• 18:57
  SPEAKER_03: And I just used to laugh at that name, not knowing it was O L E.
• 19:02
  SPEAKER_01: There you go.
• 19:03
  SPEAKER_01: And so now who would have ever guessed at that point that you were carrying on like that, that you were gonna marry somebody who actually graduated from Ole Miss.
• 19:11
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, fine, we're moving on to politics now.
• 19:13
  SPEAKER_01: That's what we've got Howie on the show for.
• 19:17
  SPEAKER_01: So, Bob, you received a letter from the GOP.
• 19:24
  SPEAKER_01: It was a fundraising letter.
• 19:26
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I received it from Mike Hurst, the chairman of the Mississippi State GOP.
• 19:31
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and so what does that have to do with Howie Morgan?
• 19:34
  SPEAKER_03: I was really happy to see that how much they were touting um Ron Eller's race, that once and for all, there's a chance to beat Bernie Bernie Sanders, I was gonna say.
• 19:49
  SPEAKER_01: That's our name for him, Howie.
• 19:51
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 19:52
  SPEAKER_03: Benny Thompson.
• 19:53
  SPEAKER_03: And that they had already been walking in all all the 52, I think it's 52 counties of Mississippi.
• 20:01
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, walking and talking and knocking on doors.
• 20:04
  SPEAKER_03: There's it sounded like they had have a of course they're asking me for money to keep on going, and they had a had a very big commitment to go ahead and help Ron Eller beat Benny Thompson.
• 20:18
  SPEAKER_01: So So what say you, Howie Morgan, about all that?
• 20:24
  SPEAKER_04: Well, I would love to have uh Mr.
• 20:26
  SPEAKER_04: Hurst support as well as the rest of members of the Mrs.
• 20:30
  SPEAKER_04: What the Voltable Fire.
• 20:31
  SPEAKER_04: Um coming out as well.
• 20:35
  SPEAKER_04: That's good.
• 20:36
  SPEAKER_04: And and all uh two years ago first from Roger worked.
• 21:08
  SPEAKER_04: And support it was the very first person to do that.
• 21:11
  SPEAKER_03: You know, one of the th things that uh Elise did uh when he she had drawn on the show was she was calling out Roger Wicker and say, Come on, Roger, put your money together.
• 21:24
  SPEAKER_03: And donate to his campaign.
• 21:26
  SPEAKER_03: And then about a week later the money came in.
• 21:29
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so that worked out really well.
• 21:31
  SPEAKER_01: I never, I guess because of my profession, Howie, I never was afraid to ask anybody for money.
• 21:37
  SPEAKER_01: And it's like, yeah, you can write that$30,000 check, you can write that$80,000 check to Franklin Fund or to Washington Mutual or blah, blah, blah.
• 21:45
  SPEAKER_01: And so I never have been afraid to ask anybody for money, and campaigns cannot be run without money.
• 21:51
  SPEAKER_01: We all know that.
• 21:53
  SPEAKER_04: Absolutely trying to reach tens of thousands of voters all across thirty counties or twenty.
• 22:03
  SPEAKER_04: It's usually the district itself represents around six hundred to seven hundred thousand people.
• 22:09
  SPEAKER_04: That's that's a fifty thousand homes is much as fifty other homes.
• 22:14
  SPEAKER_04: That's a lot of people you gotta go represent and even if you target down people you want to just talk to.
• 22:23
  SPEAKER_04: Okay.
• 22:24
  SPEAKER_04: That's one mayor is gonna cost you 30,000 at least.
• 22:30
  SPEAKER_01: Really?
• 22:30
  SPEAKER_01: I was gonna ask you about that, and I was gonna also ask you what is the most successful uh way to reach that many people?
• 22:39
  SPEAKER_04: Well, in a campaign like this, uh for for one hour, and which of course is the district is district two, which goes from the Memphis area all the way down below Natchez, and it goes from the Mississippi Delta.
• 22:53
  SPEAKER_04: That's a lot of very rural areas.
• 22:55
  SPEAKER_04: And we actually use a lot of digital marketing the same thing that Coke, Pepsi, and GM that we use.
• 23:02
  SPEAKER_04: We do the same thing.
• 23:04
  SPEAKER_04: And it makes it a lot less expensive when you can target voters by using what they call OTP and CTV and pretty well.
• 23:13
  SPEAKER_04: That's the TV ad to target to your smart TVs you have in your house.
• 23:18
  SPEAKER_04: I can literally talk to my uh demographic gentleman and mail and say, here is a list of voters that I want to target, and he'll come back and tell me in every single home how many smart TVs you have, how many Xboxes, how many phones, cell phones, how many laptops, how many tablets.
• 23:39
  SPEAKER_04: And we know exactly what you have in the house, and uh I know how to reach people in the house by by using and you can use uh either an OTP, which is a 30-second TV, a regular TV ad would be if you were uh using the TVA.
• 24:00
  SPEAKER_04: But we also have players, which is like a short video you would see what you saw, YouTube, ESPN store, starting Fox News, uh 10 seconds maybe 15 seconds TV ad.
• 24:14
  SPEAKER_04: We can target all those people who live in those homes, and that's a much less expensive way to do that instead of paying a dollar for a piece of mail.
• 24:23
  SPEAKER_04: You can literally do a thousand digital display ads for ten dollars.
• 24:29
  SPEAKER_02: Oh my.
• 24:30
  SPEAKER_04: Yes, it's a it's a whole lot less expensive.
• 24:33
  SPEAKER_04: And it actually has extra money.
• 24:36
  SPEAKER_04: So if you saw that you want to click click on it, you'll go to our website and get even more information.
• 24:41
  SPEAKER_04: And of course for linehour, it's about linehour.com.
• 24:44
  SPEAKER_01: What about yard uh signs?
• 24:46
  SPEAKER_01: Do they still work?
• 24:48
  SPEAKER_04: Yard signs are really just for name ID and reinforcing the persons that actually want to support you.
• 24:56
  SPEAKER_04: Um it's it's it's not a big deal.
• 25:00
  SPEAKER_04: Uh it's nice to have people who are influencers in your community who say, I believe this person is put in the yard.
• 25:08
  SPEAKER_04: Because usually there are five, ten other neighbors are there saying, I know this person's pretty active, I trust this individual, and if he has a yard sign in his yard or Ron Eller or anyone else, they'll say, Okay, I I I trust him.
• 25:24
  SPEAKER_04: That guy must be a good guy.
• 25:25
  SPEAKER_04: So yes, it does help.
• 25:27
  SPEAKER_04: But it doesn't have a reach that you would think.
• 25:30
  SPEAKER_04: It's not uh a billboard, it's not a TBN, and it's not a it's not reaching a thousand people.
• 25:37
  SPEAKER_04: And it costs nowadays at least five dollars for a summary.
• 25:40
  SPEAKER_01: I know, I can't believe that.
• 25:44
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I can't believe that.
• 25:46
  SPEAKER_01: You know, uh the only thing I would say is what you just said.
• 25:49
  SPEAKER_01: I agree with you a hundred percent, Howie, uh, that people see that in somebody's yard and they go, Oh, well, I respect what that person believes, and so that might sway some other people driving back and forth all the time.
• 26:02
  SPEAKER_01: Um I I don't know now.
• 26:04
  SPEAKER_01: Another thing about mailers is I see people in polling places holding up those mailers so that they've got the right name or they've got it like they want it to be.
• 26:15
  SPEAKER_01: So I don't know.
• 26:16
  SPEAKER_01: I think that maybe there's not that many of them when now that we have digital things, but maybe some of the older people kind of like things in their hand.
• 26:24
  SPEAKER_01: What do you think?
• 26:26
  SPEAKER_01: Well, I I definitely agree.
• 26:28
  SPEAKER_04: The problem is that even a postage, even at bolt mail, political bolt mail, for one mail is fifty cents.
• 26:35
  SPEAKER_04: Oh my lands.
• 26:36
  SPEAKER_04: That's a big doesn't go to brain, it doesn't go to mail sort, it doesn't go a designer fee, or the person you had to hire to design that thing.
• 26:44
  SPEAKER_04: It's it's it's it's it's it it's at least 75 cents for a piece of mail.
• 26:51
  SPEAKER_04: And again, that could have been used for you know ten digital display ads.
• 26:57
  SPEAKER_01: Well, and there you have it, because um we have been talking about this letter from the GOP wanting uh to raise money, and so what you're saying, ha Hallie, is it takes a lot of money to run a campaign, and you have to use your money wisely.
• 27:14
  SPEAKER_01: So I'm looking at the clock, going to take a quick break, and we're gonna come right back, and then we're gonna get back to this letter about raising money in the state.
• 27:22
  SPEAKER_01: Are they really, really doing what they're saying they're doing?
• 27:25
  SPEAKER_01: It's WNAU, it's Daily Switch Michel.
• 27:28
  SPEAKER_01: We are so happy to be here in New Albany, Mississippi.
• 27:33
  SPEAKER_01: Coming right back.
• 27:35
  SPEAKER_01: Howie Morgan is gonna stay with us, I think.
• 27:37
  SPEAKER_01: I didn't ask him, but I hope he will.
• 27:39
  SPEAKER_01: And we're gonna, he's laughing now, so maybe he's gonna stay for a few more minutes, and we'll be back in just a few more minutes.
• 27:48
  SPEAKER_01: Stay with us.
• 27:49
  SPEAKER_01: What are your plans for celebrating America's semi-quincentennial?
• 27:54
  SPEAKER_04: Well, Republicans all across the state, you get across the finish line.
• 27:58
  SPEAKER_04: The Southern Poverty Law Center has got millions of dollars that they can give uh Will Colomb, and they actually already have.
• 28:06
  SPEAKER_02: Oh my.
• 28:07
  SPEAKER_04: They were very, very active in a race in in Gulfport, Mississippi for mayor.
• 28:11
  SPEAKER_04: I would love to know how much money they spend.
• 28:14
  SPEAKER_04: And they have literally, according to their own records this past uh year, uh$700 million in their funds they can spend.
• 28:24
  SPEAKER_01: That's unbelievable to me.
• 28:26
  SPEAKER_01: Absolutely unbelievable that that that they can raise that much money and be the crooks that they are.
• 28:32
  SPEAKER_01: That was all brought forward in those hearings just last week.
• 28:36
  SPEAKER_04: And so the Republican Party has to use their money very wisely.
• 28:40
  SPEAKER_04: And I have talked to the chairman and I have talked to Mike Hurst as well, uh, and Rant Svilbo.
• 28:47
  SPEAKER_04: Both of them say very strongly they need to get Republicans out.
• 28:52
  SPEAKER_04: And no matter where they are, they've got to get them out.
• 28:55
  SPEAKER_04: And one of those areas that they have sometimes trouble getting Republicans out is the Mississippi Delta and the second congressional district.
• 29:02
  SPEAKER_04: People don't realize we have a shot.
• 29:05
  SPEAKER_04: Quite frankly, and this year it's a weird dynamic.
• 29:09
  SPEAKER_04: We have a Republican, we have a Democrat, we also have an independent.
• 29:13
  SPEAKER_02: Right.
• 29:13
  SPEAKER_04: And this is a gentleman who has been very active, and if he does pull just as little as 10% of the vote, all of a sudden that was the playing field for the Benny Thompson Ron Eller race.
• 29:28
  SPEAKER_02: Right.
• 29:29
  SPEAKER_04: So it is important if people go to vote Ron Eller or helpron.com and donate money to Ron Eller's campaign.
• 29:38
  SPEAKER_04: If the Republican Party does indeed follow through on that letter that you receive, it will say that, hey, we're all going to support Ron Eller.
• 29:46
  SPEAKER_04: We do need voters in that district to come out, and we do have a shot of winning that race this year uh because of the unique circumstances that's happening.
• 29:54
  SPEAKER_04: And that would be great.
• 29:55
  SPEAKER_04: So I look forward to seeing the Mississippi Republican Party follow through on that letter and donate money to the campaign for Ron Eller, as well as having activists all across the district uh to help Ron Eller as well.
• 30:09
  SPEAKER_03: Now, do you think the fact that this is the last time that uh Thompson's gonna be able to run and win in his district because it's gonna be redistrict and uh at least hopefully it'll be a Republican district, but at least it'll be a uh purple district once they redistrict it.
• 30:28
  SPEAKER_03: But they should redistrict it as a a a red district.
• 30:32
  SPEAKER_03: Uh do you think that can Ron can use that uh against Bernie and say, hey, Benny, Benny.
• 30:39
  SPEAKER_01: We've called him Benny Bernie for so long, we're still calling him that.
• 30:43
  SPEAKER_03: We got the ChuCo train coming.
• 30:44
  SPEAKER_03: Do you think you can use that at all against uh Benny to go ahead and draw votes from the Delta to him instead of uh Benny?
• 30:55
  SPEAKER_04: Well, yeah, you would think that some voters are very concerned about the future.
• 31:00
  SPEAKER_04: And knowing that Benny is no longer gonna be the long-term congressman of that district like he has been forever, they now realize that, hey, we need to look to the other party, the Republican Party, to find who's gonna be our champion.
• 31:15
  SPEAKER_04: You know, one of the things that that that people forget is that DC changes hands a lot.
• 31:21
  SPEAKER_04: I mean, just look at the last seven presidents.
• 31:24
  SPEAKER_04: It's Republican Democrat, the Republican-Democrat.
• 31:27
  SPEAKER_04: And it would not surprise me at all, given the current climate, that we have a Democrat for president in the next election.
• 31:33
  SPEAKER_01: That scares me to death.
• 31:36
  SPEAKER_04: Well, that's just the way it is.
• 31:38
  SPEAKER_04: The mathematical way things happen.
• 31:40
  SPEAKER_04: I mean, uh, when you have a current president who's got 38% positives, uh, that's gonna hurt people up and down the ballot.
• 31:48
  SPEAKER_04: And I I you know Trump has all presidents have start off very high numbers and they end very low.
• 31:55
  SPEAKER_04: And and Trump he was very, very low last time, and we'll see what the midterms bring us.
• 32:02
  SPEAKER_04: But if the midterms, if if if Trump loses the House and the Senate, there are gonna be a lot of mad Republicans all across this country, and and we're gonna see what happens the following year.
• 32:14
  SPEAKER_04: But that gives you a chance for a lot of people who are smart.
• 32:19
  SPEAKER_04: You know, we've had a lot of people, especially young urban professionals, realize that in Mississippi, if you want to get ahead, you can't be the king of the Democrat Party.
• 32:31
  SPEAKER_04: You're not getting any you don't have a seat at the table.
• 32:34
  SPEAKER_04: If you want to see the table, you need to rec recognize who the majority party is and join that organization.
• 32:40
  SPEAKER_01: Absolutely.
• 32:41
  SPEAKER_01: Do I have to mention Delbert Holzman?
• 32:43
  SPEAKER_01: That's exactly what he did.
• 32:45
  SPEAKER_01: Change from Democrat to Republican so you can get elected with that whole stream of Republicans from the governor down.
• 32:53
  SPEAKER_01: And I don't think if he was a Democrat and stayed Democrat, he would have ever been elected, because you couldn't do that, right?
• 33:00
  SPEAKER_04: True.
• 33:00
  SPEAKER_04: But they're also in the black community, I see a lot of people who are pro-life, pro-gun, absolutely, pro pro I mean in fact the Libertarian Party years ago did a survey, and they found out you know who trusts government the least?
• 33:17
  SPEAKER_04: It it believe it or not, it was black Americans.
• 33:20
  SPEAKER_04: Uh I wonder why.
• 33:21
  SPEAKER_04: Could it be 200 years of slavery?
• 33:23
  SPEAKER_04: It could be.
• 33:24
  SPEAKER_04: Uh they were more likely to be open to uh conservative messages and conservative values, and and they were always behind that.
• 33:34
  SPEAKER_04: The problem was the minute you put an R behind them, they flee because Republicans, let's be honest, especially uh in the early parts of this uh century, were very hostile to uh to get to black Americans.
• 33:50
  SPEAKER_03: I thought it was the Democrats.
• 33:52
  SPEAKER_03: I thought it was the Democrats that passed and voted against the um voter rights act of nineteen sixty-five.
• 33:59
  SPEAKER_03: Not locally.
• 34:00
  SPEAKER_04: That may be true, but locally in the South, you didn't get have anybody who was helping them out.
• 34:06
  SPEAKER_03: Everybody was Democrats back then.
• 34:08
  SPEAKER_04: Correct.
• 34:08
  SPEAKER_04: There was no Republican Party.
• 34:10
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 34:10
  SPEAKER_04: And so they don't trust the Prophet, and they still have a very bad trust.
• 34:15
  SPEAKER_04: I mean, look what happened to Latinos right now in Texas.
• 34:18
  SPEAKER_04: We had a lot of Latinos that joined the Republican Party and voted for Donald Trump two years ago.
• 34:24
  SPEAKER_04: I know because I do campaigns in the Rio Grande Valley in Texas.
• 34:28
  SPEAKER_04: Right now, there's no way we're winning those districts.
• 34:32
  SPEAKER_04: They have flipped incredibly.
• 34:35
  SPEAKER_04: I mean, this the biggest swing I've ever seen.
• 34:39
  SPEAKER_04: Um in fact, Governor uh Abbott's guys told me they've already written off all those congressional districts that they they thought they were going to have in the Rio Grande Value.
• 34:48
  SPEAKER_04: There's no way that happened?
• 34:49
  SPEAKER_01: How did that happen?
• 34:51
  SPEAKER_01: Because the Democrats got to them and changed their ideas?
• 34:55
  SPEAKER_04: Donald Trump has had a complete turnaround.
• 34:57
  SPEAKER_04: Uh remember, he was going after the illegals in this country, especially the bad ones.
• 35:02
  SPEAKER_04: And instead, he went after all the illegals, and that wasn't really what the American people really wanted.
• 35:08
  SPEAKER_04: So he has really, really there is no doubt that people who are here legally didn't like illegal aliens, and they really hated the criminal illegal aliens, and they thought Donald Trump was going to go after the criminal illegal aliens, and instead he just went after all the illegal aliens, and that ch that's their cousins, that's their brothers, that maybe an aunt or uncle or a grandparent, and that's just hard for us to overcome uh when you're when you really target a community like that.
• 35:36
  SPEAKER_03: Well, isn't all the illegal Hispanics taking all the jobs from the blacks and keeping their jobs at a lower wage?
• 35:45
  SPEAKER_03: Don't they see that still?
• 35:47
  SPEAKER_03: I'm sure once we come to the midterms, hopefully Republicans will remind them of what's going on with who's taking all your jobs.
• 35:56
  SPEAKER_03: All those illegals who aren't criminals and are working are taking their jobs, and they're also keeping the wages lower because they're being hired for less than you.
• 36:07
  SPEAKER_03: They're being replaced.
• 36:08
  SPEAKER_04: Well, right now we have a very hot job market.
• 36:11
  SPEAKER_04: Anybody who wants a job can get one.
• 36:13
  SPEAKER_04: Um it's it's that I I don't see that as an economic reality in many of these areas.
• 36:20
  SPEAKER_04: I mean, go to West Texas, there are a lot of Hispanics getting a lot of money working in the oil field.
• 36:26
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, what I'm talking about is Mississippi.
• 36:28
  SPEAKER_04: Well, Mississippi, we have people on welfare.
• 36:31
  SPEAKER_04: They don't need a job.
• 36:32
  SPEAKER_04: They can stay right home and get paid for free.
• 36:34
  SPEAKER_03: There you go.
• 36:35
  SPEAKER_03: I forgot about that.
• 36:36
  SPEAKER_01: Oh yeah.
• 36:37
  SPEAKER_01: Oh yeah.
• 36:37
  SPEAKER_01: Thanks for that reminder.
• 36:39
  SPEAKER_01: Oh my lands.
• 36:40
  SPEAKER_01: And the answer to that goes deeper and deeper into all kinds of things that happen.
• 36:45
  SPEAKER_01: Wow.
• 36:45
  SPEAKER_01: That's a whole show unto itself.
• 36:49
  SPEAKER_04: We need to get people who live in the Mississippi Delta uh where there's no jobs and no future of jobs, because the the agricultural society is not coming back.
• 36:58
  SPEAKER_04: We have mechanized, we have new technologies that allow us to have higher, higher production.
• 37:03
  SPEAKER_04: And if you're not with the times, if you haven't been to a trade school, which is very, very cheap, and in fact, a lot of times it's free right here in Mississippi, Virginia colleges, uh there are a lot of people who can have jobs if they moved somewhere like the Jackson metro area, Oxford, Columbus is at a lot of growth.
• 37:23
  SPEAKER_04: The Gulf Coast has always been blowing up.
• 37:25
  SPEAKER_04: Even Natchez has got a great uh economic turnaround uh coming to them down there.
• 37:32
  SPEAKER_04: So go to Hattiesburg, go to Meridian, go go find someplace where there's actually economic activity, uh, go work a trade where people want you.
• 37:41
  SPEAKER_04: And if if you're gonna if you're gonna be a live in the Mississippi Delta, you're not you're not gonna have a whole lot of job opportunities unless you get with the technology and decide to do something that's gonna be productive and people want to have this life.
• 37:54
  SPEAKER_04: And I I've always said if you were to get into a truck and drive to West Texas, get out of Delta, man, you're gonna make a lot of money out there.
• 38:03
  SPEAKER_04: So go out, go west, young man, go west.
• 38:06
  SPEAKER_01: But we don't want them all relieving Mississippi.
• 38:09
  SPEAKER_01: We want people working in Mississippi.
• 38:11
  SPEAKER_01: Howie.
• 38:12
  SPEAKER_04: Well you can't have jobs in Mississippi if you don't have any jobs in Mississippi.
• 38:16
  SPEAKER_04: Uh Governor Reeves is working very hard to increase the the economic ability of our state to be freer, but we still have a long way to go.
• 38:25
  SPEAKER_02: Yes.
• 38:26
  SPEAKER_04: I mean we have uh we still have a lot of regulations.
• 38:29
  SPEAKER_04: Uh, you know, just trying to get a hospital, we're one of those states that still has to have a certificate of need, and we have to decide.
• 38:36
  SPEAKER_04: It's a certificate of need, one of the craziest things in the world.
• 38:40
  SPEAKER_04: If you own a convenience store and you want to build a convenience store some neighborhood, you have to then go to other convenience stores and they get to approve whether or not you get to build your convenience store.
• 38:52
  SPEAKER_04: That's crazy.
• 38:53
  SPEAKER_04: That's crazy.
• 38:54
  SPEAKER_04: That's insane.
• 38:55
  SPEAKER_04: That's what hospitals have to do in the Mississippi.
• 38:58
  SPEAKER_04: If you're a doctor or several doctors that want to get together and build a clinic, I I know for a fact on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, there's a certain kind of hearing clinics for your ears.
• 39:10
  SPEAKER_04: And the guy who runs that thing is one of the biggest political donors to everybody on the Gulf Coast.
• 39:16
  SPEAKER_04: And guess what we don't have in the Gulf Coast?
• 39:18
  SPEAKER_04: Other hearing centers.
• 39:20
  SPEAKER_04: He owns them, he runs them, and he gets to have he gets to regulate his own market.
• 39:25
  SPEAKER_04: That is ridiculous.
• 39:26
  SPEAKER_04: I wish we would get rid of certificate of need.
• 39:28
  SPEAKER_04: If you have doctors or organization that wants to build a new hospital, let them build it, let them do it, let them open that clinic, whatever they want to do.
• 39:37
  SPEAKER_01: I would think that the legislator, that would be one of the things that they would really want to bring a bill forward or however you get rid of that or change that, because that's insane.
• 39:47
  SPEAKER_01: That really keeps things down.
• 39:49
  SPEAKER_01: That that keeps things down.
• 39:51
  SPEAKER_03: They're getting a lot of campaign contributions, like how he's saying, it's about the money.
• 39:54
  SPEAKER_01: It is all about the money, yes.
• 39:56
  SPEAKER_04: Yes, well, it's not just about the money, it's about the fact that there is a lot of Republicans who are regulatory Republicans.
• 40:07
  SPEAKER_04: And don't forget, that's that comes right from out of Washington, D.C.
• 40:10
  SPEAKER_04: No one loves regulations more than Donald Trump.
• 40:13
  SPEAKER_04: He wants everybody to do things his way.
• 40:15
  SPEAKER_04: The fact of the matter is we want government to get out of the way and let us do what we want to do, and we don't want to do it your way.
• 40:21
  SPEAKER_04: If you want to build your either way, if you are you want to build a house, I don't care if you build out of sticks or stones or whatever the three little pigs build their three houses out of.
• 40:34
  SPEAKER_04: Let them build their house the way they want to.
• 40:36
  SPEAKER_04: I I don't mind.
• 40:37
  SPEAKER_04: The other one has to put up with it.
• 40:38
  SPEAKER_04: So if somebody can insure your house that way, go do it.
• 40:42
  SPEAKER_04: Why do we have to have all these regulations from somebody in Jackson or DC to tell us how to live our lives and and what we can do in our own property?
• 40:52
  SPEAKER_04: I'd much rather have economic freedom that allows that to go.
• 40:56
  SPEAKER_04: We know countries that have economic freedom are completely they have more economic opportunity than anywhere else.
• 41:03
  SPEAKER_04: Look at Hong Kong and Singapore.
• 41:05
  SPEAKER_04: They were islands that had zero uh natural resources, but they had complete freedom to do whatever they wanted to, and guess what?
• 41:14
  SPEAKER_04: The people who got off their butts and worked made a bunch of money, and those who didn't, well, you fell by the wayside.
• 41:22
  SPEAKER_04: And we have a a a a we have a tradition in the United States of America of saying, no, we're gonna help everybody, so let's we don't want everybody to be too successful.
• 41:33
  SPEAKER_04: The fact of the matter is you're hindering so many people.
• 41:37
  SPEAKER_04: Um just by unfortunately, when I live in Gulfport, Mississippi, we have a a if you want to build a project in the Gulf Coast, I know many architects and contractors that will tell you if you build it in this county or this city, we'll guarantee we'll have production started in 45 days or 60 days or 90 days.
• 41:58
  SPEAKER_04: They already know the regulatory climate of their area.
• 42:01
  SPEAKER_04: They won't give you a date if you do it in Gulfport, Mississippi, because we have a building department and a mayor uh office that just cannot get a hold of the regulatory process and it hinders overall economic activity for the entire city.
• 42:19
  SPEAKER_03: Are they Democrats?
• 42:21
  SPEAKER_04: No, the Republicans, it's the largest Republican city in Mississippi.
• 42:24
  SPEAKER_03: They better get them out of office.
• 42:26
  unknown: Wow.
• 42:27
  SPEAKER_04: That's what happens to the city.
• 42:30
  SPEAKER_04: Well, don't forget it, I don't even go for it, and I've had Republicans uh in the city council.
• 42:35
  SPEAKER_04: They've actually proposed tax increases, they've imposed anti-gun legislation, and they've proposed anti-um development legislation.
• 42:44
  SPEAKER_01: Sounds like a bunch of rhinos to me, and who likes rhinos?
• 42:47
  SPEAKER_01: I sure don't.
• 42:48
  SPEAKER_03: Yes, if they're Democrats in their past.
• 42:50
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, maybe they're like Gilbert Hoseman, they used to be Democrats, and you can change your registration, but that doesn't change your mindset.
• 42:57
  SPEAKER_04: Well, the problem is a lot of people don't understand that it's not about voting for Republicans.
• 43:03
  SPEAKER_04: It's about voting for conservatives.
• 43:05
  SPEAKER_04: Because people who are they would change parties all the time.
• 43:09
  SPEAKER_04: Right there in Oxford, Mississippi, the the biggest liberal in the state Senate was Gray Tollison.
• 43:17
  SPEAKER_04: And all of a sudden the Republicans got in charge and he changed parties and he became Republican.
• 43:22
  SPEAKER_04: He's still the biggest liberal in the state Senate.
• 43:24
  SPEAKER_04: Yes, absolutely.
• 43:25
  SPEAKER_04: But he was smart and he was smart enough to realize the winning teams, other teams I'm gonna change.
• 43:31
  SPEAKER_04: He changed uniforms, but he's still the same player.
• 43:34
  SPEAKER_01: Absolutely.
• 43:35
  SPEAKER_01: Absolutely.
• 43:36
  SPEAKER_01: So now, Howie Morgan, I want you to tell us what we need to do to get Ron Eller elected.
• 43:44
  SPEAKER_01: How can we help?
• 43:45
  SPEAKER_01: Where do you spend money?
• 43:46
  SPEAKER_01: Where do you go?
• 43:47
  SPEAKER_01: Because we really need to do that.
• 43:49
  SPEAKER_01: Roger Wicker, Senator Roger Wicker, Senator Cindy Hyde Smith, listen up.
• 43:54
  SPEAKER_01: We need the money now.
• 43:57
  SPEAKER_04: Roger's always been very generous to Ron Eller.
• 44:00
  SPEAKER_01: Want him to be generous again, it's another campaign.
• 44:03
  SPEAKER_04: Well, he doesn't have a campaign this year.
• 44:05
  SPEAKER_04: Roger doesn't, but Sidney Hyatt Smith does.
• 44:07
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
• 44:07
  SPEAKER_04: And I am sure Sidney Hyatt Smith, well, hopefully, Sydney Hyatt Smith, one day soon will come and talk to Ron and have a conversation with him and talk about how they can work together.
• 44:18
  SPEAKER_01: Well, we can ask them right now to do that.
• 44:20
  SPEAKER_01: You know another thing, I just want to say one quick thing that really I believe campaign managers, that would be you, Howie, just kind of miss.
• 44:28
  SPEAKER_01: Republican women are out there and they have clubs all over the state now.
• 44:34
  SPEAKER_01: Diane Pickering is the president, and she is really one of the best presidents I've seen with Mississippi Republican women.
• 44:42
  SPEAKER_01: We she's active, she is she's out there, she really, really is good, and she's a great speaker.
• 44:48
  SPEAKER_01: And I think that if people would reach out to those Republican women, they will help.
• 44:53
  SPEAKER_01: They are waiting to be told what to do to help Republicans get elected.
• 44:59
  SPEAKER_01: They also have some bucks, and they can absolutely donate to Ron's campaign too.
• 45:05
  SPEAKER_01: So don't forget the Republican women, Howie, when you need some help.
• 45:09
  SPEAKER_04: Well, there aren't a whole lot of Republican women in Clarksdale, Indianoa, Rowan Fork.
• 45:16
  SPEAKER_04: You know.
• 45:16
  SPEAKER_01: Well, we've tried with those clubs.
• 45:18
  SPEAKER_01: You know that they're trying to get them started.
• 45:20
  SPEAKER_01: And the ones in Vicksburg and different places like that will move will go in.
• 45:24
  SPEAKER_01: We've had women in Union County here and Pollertok County go over there to help run campaigns and do things.
• 45:31
  SPEAKER_01: So we just need to reach out and get them organized, I think.
• 45:35
  SPEAKER_04: Well, we Ron has had a lot of help for a lot of Republican clubs in Lafayette County and Sanatobia, Tate County.
• 45:43
  SPEAKER_04: They're not in the district.
• 45:44
  SPEAKER_04: Uh people in Rankin County, people in the Gulf Coast can all go help out Ron Ellis.
• 45:49
  SPEAKER_04: It doesn't matter where you are.
• 45:50
  SPEAKER_03: People all vote RonL.com.
• 45:53
  SPEAKER_03: All Mississippian Republicans are dying to get rid of Benny Thompson.
• 45:59
  SPEAKER_01: Absolutely.
• 46:00
  SPEAKER_03: Because of what he did on January 6th.
• 46:03
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, yeah, the G6ers.
• 46:05
  SPEAKER_03: And everything else that he did.
• 46:07
  SPEAKER_01: They they really, uh really want to get rid of him.
• 46:09
  SPEAKER_01: So anyway, I bring it back to what's your final thing you'd like to say, uh, Howie, about how to help him.
• 46:17
  SPEAKER_04: I think first of all, you gotta decide if you're a conservative or not.
• 46:20
  SPEAKER_04: And if you're a conservative and you want to help another conservative, then your guy that you want to help Mississippi to beat Bain Thompson is Ron Eller.
• 46:28
  SPEAKER_04: Go to voteroneller.com.
• 46:30
  SPEAKER_04: And or if you just have 25 bucks you want to give right now, then go to helpron.com.
• 46:35
  SPEAKER_04: Because if you want to help Ron, helpron.com.
• 46:39
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, I think it's a great thing.
• 46:40
  SPEAKER_01: Howie Morgan, thank you so much for being on the Elise Richmond Show today.
• 46:44
  SPEAKER_01: You didn't have much notice that we were gonna do this, but you sure came through like a champ.
• 46:49
  SPEAKER_01: And you always have all of the latest information.
• 46:53
  SPEAKER_01: You know things about Texas that we've never even thought about.
• 46:56
  SPEAKER_01: So uh because of your connections.
• 46:58
  SPEAKER_01: I thank you, friend, Hottie Toddy.
• 47:01
  SPEAKER_03: Hottie Toddy, just a minute.
• 47:03
  SPEAKER_01: Bob's got one more.
• 47:04
  SPEAKER_01: He always has one more thing.
• 47:05
  SPEAKER_03: We're gonna have to bring you on coming up soon because we definitely want to get into the governor's race here in Mississippi, and I think you'd be a great one to clue us in on what's going on in the governor's race.
• 47:16
  SPEAKER_04: No, the governor's race, but it's going to be the AG, the auditor, next turn.
• 47:22
  SPEAKER_03: It's all about a statewide races.
• 47:24
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, every one of them.
• 47:25
  SPEAKER_03: We'll bring you on so we can discuss them all.
• 47:27
  SPEAKER_01: You're our go-to guy, Howie Morgan.
• 47:30
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you so much for being on the Elise Richard show this morning.
• 47:33
  SPEAKER_01: I truly appreciate it.
• 47:35
  SPEAKER_01: Take care.
• 47:36
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, glad you're there.
• 47:38
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, folks, we just have a few more minutes left here.
• 47:41
  SPEAKER_01: And Bob Richmond, what say you about all of it?
• 47:45
  SPEAKER_03: I don't know, man.
• 47:46
  SPEAKER_03: It's looking good, maybe that the state party, I'm a I'm jacked.
• 47:51
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, that they would help Ron and put out a letter like this and and support him and give him volunteers who are gonna walk and knock.
• 48:00
  SPEAKER_03: You know, one of the good things that uh parties can do, state parties, is you put out a whole um statewide voting pamphlet on who to vote for in different counties.
• 48:15
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, yeah, I see that.
• 48:16
  SPEAKER_03: You can go down and list all sorts of Republicans that are running and get it out there so you're not just wasting one mailer on one person, you're actually doing a whole slate of voters.
• 48:30
  SPEAKER_03: So a person can use that when they go in to vote, they have the slate of the Republican Party in front of them and they know who to go ahead and vote for.
• 48:38
  SPEAKER_03: Because a lot of times voters they don't have time to go ahead and research all the races that are going on.
• 48:44
  SPEAKER_03: They usually try to get something.
• 48:47
  SPEAKER_03: So if they had a slate of voters from the California Republican Party to vote for, they were very effective in California to be able to do that.
• 48:54
  SPEAKER_01: Oh yeah, in California, that was incredible.
• 48:56
  SPEAKER_01: The Democrats did that from Obama down.
• 48:59
  SPEAKER_01: I watched people walking in the polls with those cards in their hands, and they were just gonna vote from Obama all the way down to the mayor of Coachella.
• 49:09
  SPEAKER_03: And most of them were in Spanish.
• 49:11
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and most of them were in Spanish.
• 49:13
  SPEAKER_01: Amen.
• 49:13
  SPEAKER_01: And then when they walked out, they gave them t-shirts.
• 49:16
  SPEAKER_01: Now I'm not saying you need to do that, but they were doing that and bottles of water and booze.
• 49:21
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
• 49:22
  SPEAKER_01: And they were busting them in with those cards in their hands, and so that is very effective because it makes it easy for people who don't have a lot of brains.
• 49:32
  SPEAKER_03: Well, look at all the homeless that they say voted this last election in LA.
• 49:36
  SPEAKER_03: Those homeless people didn't vote.
• 49:38
  SPEAKER_03: People went around and collected their ballots, and probably, well, they didn't have to pay them because who knows where those ballots were mailed to.
• 49:46
  SPEAKER_03: Exactly.
• 49:47
  SPEAKER_03: They, you know, you have gangs, you have Underworld going around collecting as many ballots as possible, and then they sell them to campaigns.
• 49:56
  SPEAKER_03: They sell them in bundles of a thousand.
• 49:58
  SPEAKER_03: How do you think the the um woman who's running, the communist who's running, overtook the Republican.
• 50:08
  SPEAKER_03: Oh no, you mean um Oh gosh, his name is Ram and Soup, Elise.
• 50:16
  SPEAKER_01: She was ramen soup, but I mean the the Republican running um against her.
• 50:20
  SPEAKER_01: Because all I can think of is the one from Maine, because he's the one that's getting all the attention right now.
• 50:25
  SPEAKER_03: And what's his name?
• 50:28
  SPEAKER_03: Right.
• 50:29
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
• 50:30
  SPEAKER_01: So anyway, it's it's a big old mess.
• 50:33
  SPEAKER_01: Absolute big old mess.
• 50:34
  SPEAKER_01: We had a whole section we were gonna talk about uh with uh Donald Trump and the agreement uh to end this Iranian war and to see if it got signed or not.
• 50:45
  SPEAKER_01: If it is well it's signed, I guess.
• 50:48
  SPEAKER_01: Um but what I'm talking about if it's gonna be if anybody is gonna be able to actually hold them hold the Iranians' feet to the fire to get all of the nuke stuff out.
• 50:59
  SPEAKER_01: But I have one thing to say for the people who are all crazy about gas prices, let's just think about that for a minute.
• 51:07
  SPEAKER_01: Gas prices have already kind of started going down.
• 51:11
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, Elise.
• 51:13
  SPEAKER_03: Ten cents cheaper than last week when I filled up today coming in here today.
• 51:18
  SPEAKER_03: Ten cents a gallon cheaper.
• 51:20
  SPEAKER_03: So it's like fifteen percent last time it's come down since the high.
• 51:23
  SPEAKER_03: So it's got to be around twenty percent.
• 51:25
  SPEAKER_03: Prices are falling.
• 51:27
  SPEAKER_03: They are and for all they're gonna be way down by the midterm.
• 51:30
  SPEAKER_03: So this uh you know, gas price thing everybody everybody's upset about pretty much one thing gas price.
• 51:37
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so quit that.
• 51:38
  SPEAKER_01: If you are out there talking about gas prices, go to the pumps, look at what you were paying, look at what it is now.
• 51:46
  SPEAKER_01: And it's gonna fall like a rocket when all of this is finished and the Straits of Hormuz are open.
• 51:52
  SPEAKER_01: And that is gonna really help Republicans.
• 51:54
  SPEAKER_01: So let's stop talking about that.
• 51:56
  SPEAKER_01: Because here's the deal to me.
• 51:59
  SPEAKER_01: Donald Trump did this because he wanted to stop the Iranians from s nuclear war.
• 52:06
  SPEAKER_03: Or killing Americans.
• 52:08
  SPEAKER_01: Killing Americans.
• 52:09
  SPEAKER_01: They found out that they were able to send those things right on in to America.
• 52:15
  SPEAKER_01: So now I want to ask you this question.
• 52:17
  SPEAKER_01: Would you rather be nuked or have higher gas prices?
• 52:22
  SPEAKER_03: For a short period of time.
• 52:24
  SPEAKER_01: For a short period of time.
• 52:25
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you.
• 52:26
  SPEAKER_01: I'll take higher gas prices than I would listen to the scare of a nuclear war.
• 52:33
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, come on, people, that is a no-brainer.
• 52:36
  SPEAKER_01: So stop it with the high gas prices because they have gone down significantly in the last two weeks.
• 52:42
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, it's down 60 cents.
• 52:45
  SPEAKER_01: Absolutely.
• 52:46
  SPEAKER_03: Since the beginning of the high.
• 52:47
  SPEAKER_01: So we've got to get that word out because that's what Donald Trump is.
• 52:50
  SPEAKER_01: I hope hopefully was his plan.
• 52:52
  SPEAKER_03: I hope Donald Trump thanks the United States citizens for holding on for a little convenience of high gas prices for a short period of time so he could have world peace.
• 53:06
  SPEAKER_01: Absolutely.
• 53:07
  SPEAKER_01: It's very, very important.
• 53:08
  SPEAKER_01: So I'm looking at the clock right now on the Elise Richmond show.
• 53:12
  SPEAKER_01: It's in the can pretty soon.
• 53:14
  SPEAKER_01: It's gonna be a done deal.
• 53:17
  SPEAKER_01: And I want to thank all of you for listening today.
• 53:19
  SPEAKER_01: And we have a lot of plans coming up because it is, we didn't get to talk about it much.
• 53:24
  SPEAKER_01: It is actually the um birthday, the 250th year birthday of America.
• 53:31
  SPEAKER_01: And so we have plans coming up to talk about all of those things.
• 53:35
  SPEAKER_01: I want to wish you all a happy week.
• 53:38
  SPEAKER_01: Go forward, do Republican things, do a Republican conservative thing every day.
• 53:44
  SPEAKER_01: Send some money to Ron Eller so he has a chance to win that election.
• 53:50
  SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna be back next week, 11 o'clock on Tuesday, and I sure hope you are too.
• 53:55
  SPEAKER_01: Douglas Carswell will be with us, and he is an interesting guy, let me tell you.
• 54:01
  SPEAKER_01: You're gonna love listening about him.
• 54:04
  SPEAKER_01: I want to say this too.
• 54:06
  SPEAKER_01: Please continue to pray for President Donald J.
• 54:09
  SPEAKER_01: Trump and his family.
• 54:10
  SPEAKER_01: We want to keep him safe.
• 54:11
  SPEAKER_01: Please continue to pray for J.D.
• 54:13
  SPEAKER_01: Vance and his family.
• 54:14
  SPEAKER_01: We want to keep them safe as well.
• 54:18
  SPEAKER_01: Have a great week, as I just said.
• 54:21
  SPEAKER_01: Come back next week at 11.
• 54:23
  SPEAKER_01: God bless you and God bless our America.
• 54:29
  SPEAKER_00: You've been listening to the Elise Richmond Show right here on WNAU.
• 54:34
  SPEAKER_00: Be sure and tune in again next Tuesday at eleven for the Elise Richmond Show.