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THE WAR OF THE INFLUENCERS: Tucker, Megyn, Candace vs Trump, Levin & Shapiro · ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes

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  Speaker 1: Live from the Liberty University Studio in Memphis, Tennessee. It's
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  Speaker 1: America's favorite gun, total Bible clinging, deplorable Americans, American.
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  Speaker 2: Tod stars.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, hello, everybody, Welcome to the Todd Starns Radio Show.
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  Speaker 3: Great to have you with us today.
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  Speaker 3: now apparently setting their sights on the rest of the country.
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  Speaker 3: of the Midwest. So all that to say, great to
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  Speaker 3: be with you today. Hunker down wherever you are, and
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  Speaker 3: we'll have a lot of fun together on the radio
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  Speaker 3: over the next three hours. So were our starting off
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  Speaker 3: point today is it's a little odd President Trump has
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  Speaker 3: finally weighed in on the big social media battles. Now.
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  Speaker 5: Look.
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  Speaker 3: Over the weekend there was some weird stuff going down
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  Speaker 3: with Tucker Carlson and Iran and Tucker suggesting that the
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  Speaker 3: CIA was somehow spying on his text messages and Tucker
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  Speaker 3: was pretty fired up about this, and we're going to
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  Speaker 3: play some of that audio in just a moment. But
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  Speaker 3: let me just say that there are a lot of
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  Speaker 3: moving parts here, and I think we can I think
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  Speaker 3: I have finally figured out out what's going on here,
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  Speaker 3: and it's not good. Now, it's important for us to
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  Speaker 3: put all of this in perspective and put it in
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  Speaker 3: within context. So look, the reality is, most Americans are
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  Speaker 3: not on X. Most Americans are not on a lot
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  Speaker 3: of the platforms that Candice Owens and Megan Kelly and
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  Speaker 3: Steve Bannon and Tucker Carlson Operator and even I mean, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: they've got millions of people that watch their podcast, no
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  Speaker 3: doubt about that. But they don't represent the majority. I
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  Speaker 3: don'tieve they don't represent the majority of the nation, or
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  Speaker 3: really the conservative movement, and if you want to, if
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  Speaker 3: you want to drill down, even the MAGA movement. But
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  Speaker 3: there's just a lot of hate and a lot of
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  Speaker 3: animosity out there, and I believe at the end of
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  Speaker 3: the day, all of this is driven by clicks. Now
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  Speaker 3: here's what you need to know about social media right now.
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  Speaker 3: Some of the larger influencers and that includes yours. Truly,
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  Speaker 3: we are reimbursed, We are compensated for what we post
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  Speaker 3: on our social media platforms. A lot of people to
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  Speaker 3: get into the algorithms, and we don't do this, by
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  Speaker 3: the way, but a lot of people to get into
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  Speaker 3: the algorithms, they'll post things that may not necessarily be true,
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  Speaker 3: and they there's no punishment for that, There's no sort
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  Speaker 3: of retribution. And so a lot of these social media
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  Speaker 3: influencers that you see out there are posting things they
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  Speaker 3: know are not true because they don't care that, they
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  Speaker 3: know there's no consequence, and they actually just want a
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  Speaker 3: paycheck out of it. So remember what I've been saying
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  Speaker 3: this for years now, that there are many people in
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  Speaker 3: the conservative movement that simply get paid to be a conservative,
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  Speaker 3: and many times they won't even tell you that. You know,
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  Speaker 3: with us, yes we tell you who our sponsors are.
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  Speaker 3: And that's important because as yes, we vet all of
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  Speaker 3: our sponsors and we support all of our sponsors. But
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  Speaker 3: it would be unfair to you if I was out there,
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  Speaker 3: you know, hawking some Let's say, well, we're talking about
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  Speaker 3: moon pies. Moon pies, they do not sponsor the town
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  Speaker 3: Sterns radio show but they ought to, but they don't.
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  Speaker 3: But let's just assume for a minute that I'm talking,
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  Speaker 3: you know, twenty four to seven about how much I
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  Speaker 3: love moon Pies and I never disclosed the fact that
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  Speaker 3: moon Pies was paying me a lot of money to
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  Speaker 3: save that. Then that is a trust and it's an
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  Speaker 3: integrity issue. So when you see people like the Tuckers
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  Speaker 3: and the Megan Kelly, let me just say this about
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  Speaker 3: Meghan Kelly, She's never been a conservative, never ever. And
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  Speaker 3: you have to go all the way back. A lot
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  Speaker 3: of people want to forget about the Fox News Channel
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  Speaker 3: days and that failed TV show, the talk show she
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  Speaker 3: did for was it for NBC, was CBS. It was
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  Speaker 3: one of the networks where she embraced transgenderism. You know,
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  Speaker 3: they want you to forget that they used to be
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  Speaker 3: on the exact opposite side of the issues that they
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  Speaker 3: currently represent. And the reason why is they realize there's
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  Speaker 3: money to be made in the MAGA movement. In the
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  Speaker 3: maga world, there's money to be it is lucrative for
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  Speaker 3: these folks. And I'm not saying that there's Look, that's
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  Speaker 3: how they run their shop, and you can agree or
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  Speaker 3: disagree with them, but a lot of people are very disappointed.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of people are very shocked at Tucker Carlson,
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  Speaker 3: and many people are saying, oh, this is not the
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  Speaker 3: Tucker that we all knew, but it really is. Tucker's done.
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  Speaker 3: His entire career has been like this, so I'm not
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  Speaker 3: sure why people are suddenly surprised that he's come out
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  Speaker 3: against President Trump and the MAGA movement. It's really odd
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  Speaker 3: to me that that President Trump, or rather that Tucker
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  Speaker 3: Carlson has done that. So look, there's been a lot
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  Speaker 3: of hate being directed at Mark Levin and Mike Hackabee,
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  Speaker 3: and I would say Ben Shapiro over Israel, and there
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  Speaker 3: is no doubt about it. There has been a shift
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  Speaker 3: and the thinking about Israel within the Republican Party and
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  Speaker 3: within the Conservative movement, no doubt about that. There has
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  Speaker 3: been a shift, and we can we can talk about
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  Speaker 3: why that that shift happened. I think a lot of
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  Speaker 3: it has to do with very poor pr and marketing,
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  Speaker 3: and a lot of people within the world of the
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  Speaker 3: Israel movement, they just took it for granted that future
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  Speaker 3: generations of America would be passionately supporters and defenders of
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  Speaker 3: the Nation of Israel, of which we happen to be
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  Speaker 3: so anyway, President Trump is now coming out and saying
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  Speaker 3: that he is defending Mark Levin. Here and Mark Levin,
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  Speaker 3: they've tried to crucify this guy. And here's the tell. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: here's the tell. The only people who haven't changed their
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  Speaker 3: positions are people like Todd Stearns and Mark Levin and
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  Speaker 3: Mike Hakabie. We've always stood our ground on the issue
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  Speaker 3: of Israel. Our views have never changed, so all of
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  Speaker 3: you people, And it's great to watch all of these
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  Speaker 3: folks out there saying, stars, you've betrayed us. You're just
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  Speaker 3: you're a you're a you're a show for Israel right now. No,
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  Speaker 3: we used to support you. I'm the same Todd Starns
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  Speaker 3: that I was when I started this many years ago,
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  Speaker 3: many years ago. Mark Levin's position has never changed. The
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  Speaker 3: only people who have changed their positions are the Candice
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  Speaker 3: Owens and the the Tucker Carlson's, and the Megan Kelly's
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  Speaker 3: and the Steve Bannons. And by the way, that crazy woman,
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  Speaker 3: the Catholic who Carrie what's your name? Prjahn. We'll get
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  Speaker 3: to her in just a minute. So's it's a big
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  Speaker 3: mess right now. In the conservative world, and if we're
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  Speaker 3: not careful, this is going to be problematic for us
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  Speaker 3: as we move into the midterms. So anyway, the President
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  Speaker 3: now throwing a support behind Mark Levin, and he says
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  Speaker 3: that Mark Levin is truly great American patriot who has
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  Speaker 3: been under siege by other people with far less intellect,
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  Speaker 3: capability and love for our country. The President goes on
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  Speaker 3: to say, Levin is far smarter than those who criticize him,
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  Speaker 3: but above all, he is a man of great wisdom
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  Speaker 3: and common sense who truly loves our country. Reading from
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  Speaker 3: the New York Post take on this, Levin and Kelly
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  Speaker 3: traded personal attacks over the weekend. She questioned the size
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  Speaker 3: of his manhood, ladies and gentlemen. It's insane. So the
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  Speaker 3: Post goes on to say. The President suggested that Levin's
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  Speaker 3: critics were movadd by jealousy, writing that those attacking the
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  Speaker 3: conservative commentator were jealous and angry human beings who sway
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  Speaker 3: is much less than the public understands those that speak ill.
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  Speaker 3: This is a quoting from the President here. Those that
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  Speaker 3: speak ill of Mark will quickly fall by the wayside
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  Speaker 3: as do the people whose ideas policies and footings are
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  Speaker 3: not sound. And this is where I really want us
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  Speaker 3: to This is our jumping off point. The President said this.
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  Speaker 3: They are not maga, I am, And MAGA includes not
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  Speaker 3: allowing Iran, a sick, demented, and violent terrorist regime, to
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  Speaker 3: have a nuclear weapon to blow up the United States
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  Speaker 3: of America, the Middle East, and ultimately the rest of
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  Speaker 3: the world. And of course Levin is very grateful for
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  Speaker 3: the President stepping into the fray here. Now, what does
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  Speaker 3: this have to do with Tucker Colonelson. Well, a few
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  Speaker 3: days ago, Tucker, this is over the weekend, or right
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  Speaker 3: before the weekend, Tucker released a very odd video. All right,
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  Speaker 3: and this is a Smidgelong. We're not going to play
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  Speaker 3: all of it, but I want you to listen to
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  Speaker 3: what Tucker had to say.
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  Speaker 6: So the other day I found out that the CIA
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  Speaker 6: is preparing some kind of criminal referral against me, a
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  Speaker 6: crime report to the Department of Justice, on the basis
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  Speaker 6: of a supposed crime I committed.
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  Speaker 5: What's that crime?
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  Speaker 6: Well, talking to people in Iran before the war. They
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  Speaker 6: read my texts. So the crime under consideration, apparently would
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  Speaker 6: be the foreign Agent Act or something like that, acting
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  Speaker 6: as an agent of a foreign power and expect this
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  Speaker 6: to go anywhere. I'm not too worried about an actual
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  Speaker 6: criminal case against me for a bunch of reasons. One,
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  Speaker 6: I'm not an agent of a foreign power. Unlike a
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  Speaker 6: lot of people commenting on US politics and global affairs.
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  Speaker 6: I have only one loyalty, and that's the United States
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  Speaker 6: and have never acted against it. It's interests for the
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  Speaker 6: only interests I care about, because I'm from here and
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  Speaker 6: I have a lot of kids, so that's not a concern.
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  Speaker 6: I've also never taken money from anybody. Don't need it,
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  Speaker 6: don't want it, and that's provable. And moreover, it's my
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  Speaker 6: job to talk to everybody all the time and try
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  Speaker 6: and figure out what's happening around the world. That's literally
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  Speaker 6: what I do for a living, and I'm not gonna
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  Speaker 6: stop doing that, nor should I. I don't think. I'm
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  Speaker 6: also an American, I can talk to anybody. I have
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  Speaker 6: no secrets to divulge, so legally, I think the case
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  Speaker 6: is ludacris and I doubt it will even become a case.
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  Speaker 6: I'm bringing this up for a couple of reasons, though,
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  Speaker 6: and they're pretty obvious. One is that countries tend to
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  Speaker 6: become more mioritarian in wartime. It's just the nature of war.
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  Speaker 6: People are dying, the stakes are high, people's emotions have
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  Speaker 6: risen to a very high point, to a crescendo, and
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  Speaker 6: so there's much less tolerance for any kind of dissent
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  Speaker 6: in the homeland. The irony, of course, is the United
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  Speaker 6: States fights wars on behalf of freedom, but there's always
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  Speaker 6: less of it here in our country during war. So
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  Speaker 6: that's a widely recognized phenomenon and it's likely to happen
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  Speaker 6: now too. Another point to make that is worth knowing
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  Speaker 6: is that the US I see the Intelligence Agency spy
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  Speaker 6: on Americans. Now you probably knew that, and it's been
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  Speaker 6: revealed a lot, including by Julina Songe and Ed Snowden
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  Speaker 6: of the Humor threatened with death for revealing it. But
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  Speaker 6: everyone knows. But it's probably a little more widespread than
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  Speaker 6: most people understand. And it's outrageous. There's no justification for
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  Speaker 6: your government, which you own, you're a shareholder in it,
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  Speaker 6: you pay for it to be violating your privacy like this.
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  Speaker 6: But it happens all the time. And in fact, one
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  Speaker 6: of the reasons that CIA or people within CIA, is
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  Speaker 6: to be clear it's a huge, sprawling, disconnected agency. What
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  Speaker 6: it does in a specific case doesn't represent what everybody
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  Speaker 6: in the building things. But there are some people who
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  Speaker 6: are mad at me for my views about Israel, and
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  Speaker 6: they have some latitude. And one of the reasons they
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  Speaker 6: pass on criminal complaints in effect to law enforcement is
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  Speaker 6: to justify warrants for spying on Americans. So that is
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  Speaker 6: an absolutely real thing.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, let me jump in here, because you got the
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  Speaker 3: gist of it here, and there are a couple of
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  Speaker 3: theories floating around. But first of all, you need to
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  Speaker 3: understand some facts about how the CIA actually works. First
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  Speaker 3: of all, the CIA cannot surveil an American citizen on
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  Speaker 3: American soil. It is not legal. All right. So there's
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  Speaker 3: you say, well, if that's the case, how did Tucker,
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  Speaker 3: how did Tucker know about all of this? Well, first
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  Speaker 3: of all, the CIA is never going to call up
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  Speaker 3: somebody and say, hey, Tucker, we're illegally right tapping you.
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  Speaker 3: All right, That does not happen. Okay, So I don't
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  Speaker 3: think that he could have known one way or the other.
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  Speaker 3: But here is another thought. Let's just say, and Tucker
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  Speaker 3: admitted that he had been having conversations with the Iranians.
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  Speaker 3: Is it possible that the CIA was actually spying on
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  Speaker 3: the Iranians and they came across Tucker's text messages during
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  Speaker 3: their surveillance of the Iranians. Yes, that is that is possible. However,
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  Speaker 3: the administration has denied any of this is true. Axios
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  Speaker 3: has the story and they're saying no, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 3: this this never happened. What's going on here? So our
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  Speaker 3: good buddy and a good friend of mine, Rob Martin.
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  Speaker 3: So we've got three scenarios here when it comes to Tucker.
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  Speaker 3: First of all, Tucker, I mean, these are the options
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  Speaker 3: that Tucker met privately with President Trump and the White
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  Speaker 3: House and other Trump administration officials and then conducted conversations
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  Speaker 3: with the Iranians. If in fact that is true and
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  Speaker 3: Tucker did that and Tucker shared information that would be
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  Speaker 3: a violation of federal law, it would be considered treason.
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  Speaker 3: Was he aiding and a betting a foreign enemy? I
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  Speaker 3: genuinely don't think that's the story here. But there is
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  Speaker 3: another possibility, and this one may I think actually has
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  Speaker 3: legs that Tucker just made all of this up, and
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  Speaker 3: it would not be the first time that he's just
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  Speaker 3: made up these kinds of stories to portray himself as
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  Speaker 3: some sort of a victim of the administration, which, by
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  Speaker 3: the way, is a very classic thing that that Tucker does.
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  Speaker 3: But no, I don't believe that he committed treason. I
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  Speaker 3: can't let my mind go down that pathway. But what
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  Speaker 3: I am saying is that the social media influencer crowd
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  Speaker 3: this is too much, folks. It's just I don't like
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  Speaker 3: talking about the other show host. We've got our own
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  Speaker 3: show to do. We do our own thing. But the
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  Speaker 3: problem here, I'm getting so many messages from folks over
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  Speaker 3: the weekend saying, what is going on here? So we're
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  Speaker 3: going to talk about it. If you've got questions, give
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  Speaker 3: us a call. You want to weigh in here if
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  Speaker 3: you have any concerns. I know many of you say
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  Speaker 3: we need to get out of Iron, and I hear
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  Speaker 3: over Anthem, mccloff in a group and the McLaughlin Pole
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  Speaker 3: has an interesting survey out. They asked Americans how do
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  Speaker 3: you feel about the war against Iran? And right now,
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  Speaker 3: Americans in the McLaughlin poll supporting President Trump's actions fifty
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  Speaker 3: one percent to forty one percent. So that's a pretty
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  Speaker 3: significant poll that came out over the weekend. Now, the
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  Speaker 3: reality is many other polls show the complete opposite of that.
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  Speaker 3: So you know you can these poles are a dime
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  Speaker 3: Iran here on American soil. This is the ap analysis.
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  Speaker 3: Two weeks into war with Iran, Trump has been knocked
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  Speaker 3: back on his political heels. Is that true, Ladies and gentlemen,
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  Speaker 3: do you agree with that assessment? Because right now it
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  Speaker 3: looks like we're bombing Iran to Kingdom come. According to
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  Speaker 3: the Associated Press, in the two weeks since the war started,
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  Speaker 3: the President is growing more agitated with news coverage and
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  Speaker 3: has failed to find a way to explain why he
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  Speaker 3: started the war or how he will end it. So
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  Speaker 3: we'll get into more of that coming up after the break.
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  Speaker 3: Nine oh one two six zero five tone two six.
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  Speaker 3: Is it time for us to declare victory and get out?
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  Speaker 3: Or do we finish the job. And if so, what
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  Speaker 3: is that job? Nine oh one two six zero five,
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  Speaker 3: dine two six. We'll be right back, all right, Welcome back, everybody.
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  Speaker 3: It is the Todd Starnes Radio Show. What an honor
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  Speaker 5: Yeah? We typically went to the beach, though, but I'm
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  Speaker 5: We usually went to Florida. I've actually never been down
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  Speaker 5: to the Gulf of America. Really, this is breaking news.
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  Speaker 5: I am never Actually I lived in Mississippi my whole life.
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  Speaker 5: I never went south, Is that right? True?
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: That's it gets better as you go south in Mississippi.
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: I've heard beautiful beaches, as a matter of fact, the
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: prettiest beaches in the world. The Redneck Riviera is what
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: we call that area, that swath of like Mississippi and Alabama. Yeah,
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: and then the Florida Panhandle.
• 20:50
  Speaker 5: Yeah. I mean I've seen like the pictures down there,
• 20:53
  Speaker 5: like Biloxi area, Like it looks not Mississippi at all.
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: Well, you know, spring break used to be a lot
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: of fun, right You go down there and you go
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: to the beach, you play volleyball, probably get a little rowdy,
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: you know in the evening times at the establishments down there.
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: You know how it goes, you know, especially if you're
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: a college kid. You're trying to blow off steam. And
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: there were never really back back in the seventies and eighties,
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: you never heard of chaos happening at spring break, but
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: may and nowadays. I was looking at some video from
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: Daytona Beach, Florida. All u W, it's interesting. We had
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: incidents in Daytona Beach, in Winston Salem, North Carolina, and
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: in Houston, and even in Memphis there was an incident
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: over the weekend. But people it's like they don't know
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: how to behave in public anymore. And I was showing
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: the video of what was going on down at Daytona
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: Beach where you had thousands of shall we call them
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: young scholars on the beach, causing all sorts of mayhem,
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: multiple shots fired. And you look at these videos and
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: you think, wait a second, is that a chuck e Cheese? No,
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: that's not a Chuck e Chee?
• 22:04
  Speaker 7: No?
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: Is that the mall? Is that the local? No, that's
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: not the local mall. Is that the wah wah the
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: seven to eleven? No? No, no, it's Daytona Beach. It's like, no,
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: it's not a red Lobster either. Now I'm just telling
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: you it's no, and it's not a wal Mart. This
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: is insane that people don't know how to behave in
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: public anymore. And I really feel I feel bad for
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: theod the good taxpayers of Daytona Beach and other communities
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: because this is really getting out of control now in Houston,
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: and you guys are gonna have to help me out
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: here on a Patriot Talk nine to twenty. But every
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: year at this time, you guys host the big Houston
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: livestock show and rodeo. It's called Rodeo Houston and it
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: is billed as the world's largest rodeo and livestock show.
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  Speaker 5: Oh.
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  Speaker 3: I remember years ago, Dylan, we were down in Fort Worth, Texas.
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: I was speaking at an event down there, and Glascock
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: went with us, and you know, they have the steers
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: that just like they're they're just walking down the street.
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: And there was one guy and you could actually get
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: up on top of a steer and have your photograph made.
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: And there's a picture of Dalton Glascock mounting a steer.
• 23:21
  Speaker 5: I was hoping that you would say it was you.
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: You know, I thought about it, but the steer looked
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: at me and it was like, yeah, buddy, that's not
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: gonna happen. Yeah, the steer was like, you're gonna take
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  Speaker 3: a pass.
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  Speaker 5: A long day.
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: I get it. It's a long day, heavy load for
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: the steer. That is so anyway, over the weekend they
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: had the event and according to all the news reports,
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: all hellbro close. And I will just tell you that
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: the same crowd that was riding in Daytona Beach was
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: the same crowd riding in downtown Winston, Sale of North
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: Carolina was the same crowd that was riding in Washington,
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: d c. In the Navy Yard, they were literally fighting
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: with the National Guard there. The same crowd that was
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: fighting and causing mayhem at the Tom Lee Park in Memphis, Tennessee.
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: And it's the same crowd, the same crowd that was
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: causing mayhem in Houston, Texas. So a police officer said,
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: you know enough of this, and he got on his
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: social media platform and I want you to listen to
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: how he described the situation there in Houston.
• 24:30
  Speaker 8: If you were wondering why the rodio and the Houston
• 24:32
  Speaker 8: radio was shutting down yesterday and people wear kick diyar
• 24:35
  Speaker 8: earlier that paid a lot of good money to enjoy
• 24:38
  Speaker 8: a radio carnivo and show.
• 24:41
  Speaker 5: I'm going to show you stick around.
• 24:54
  Speaker 8: I want to talk so much, but how do y'all
• 24:58
  Speaker 8: go from fighting to dance and laughing at the same time.
• 25:05
  Speaker 8: I can make this up, but this is a trash behavior,
• 25:10
  Speaker 8: like very very trash. All their parents failed them.
• 25:16
  Speaker 5: That's all I can say. They have no upbringings.
• 25:20
  Speaker 8: Why would you go to an event and act like that,
• 25:23
  Speaker 8: you don't have your emotions and attacked.
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: That's garbage, Yeah it is. And they had to shut
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: down the rodeo. And you know who I felt bad for.
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: I feel bad for all the vendors. You know, these
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: are hard working folks. I mean, these are sort of
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: blue collar, working class folks here, and many of them
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: use the fairs like this and use the rodeo as
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: a way to earn a lot of money. And you
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: can't do that if people are fighting, and guess what's
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: going to happen. Fewer people are going to start showing
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: up with this rodeo as a result of all of this.
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: The videos are just really disturbing, and I think this
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: officer is onto something here. Why are parents raising their
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: children to behave like animals? Why is that happening? This
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: is look and I know it's an offense to animals,
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: because not even animals behave like this. This is savage
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: behavior that we're watching in city after city after city,
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: and I hate it for all the good people, all
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: the business owners, the folks, the families just out trying
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: to have a good time. Now, in their defense, Dylan,
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: I will say this that the incident happened at the
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: carnival grounds, and it could be that the youngsters got
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: confused and thought they were on board a carnival cruise ship,
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: which is why they committed all this may because let
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: me tell you something, there's no way on God's green
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: Earth that I will ever get on board any sort
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: of a cruise ship heading south of the border. I
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: don't want to get trapped on a boat.
• 27:01
  Speaker 5: It's like prison on water.
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: Can you seriously have you seen? I mean, it's it's
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: not an anomaly. I mean, that's what's happening right now.
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: I feel bad for the cruise ship industry.
• 27:12
  Speaker 5: Oh yeah, and there there are a few good cruise
• 27:15
  Speaker 5: companies out there that do a good job. But like
• 27:18
  Speaker 5: you know, the cheaper ones, the ones that people can afford,
• 27:21
  Speaker 5: like those are those are in rough waters right now.
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's sort of like Spirit Airlines. Yeah, if it's
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: a cheap cruise, you don't want to go.
• 27:29
  Speaker 5: It's not like you can leave like you can't. There's
• 27:31
  Speaker 5: not a you know, there are raft boats, but you
• 27:33
  Speaker 5: can't just use them.
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: Well, if push came to shov, I mean, do you
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: want the Houston Rodeo happening on water because I mean,
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: I mean, how many videos have we seen.
• 27:43
  Speaker 5: That's nightmare fuel right there?
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah, the whole thing is nightmare. But here's the problem.
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: Nobody wants to address the issue here. Nobody wants to
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: talk about the root issue, which is where are moms
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: and dads? Why aren't they disciplining their kids and By
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: the way, why aren't the cops arresting all of these people?
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: I mean, that's that's what needs to happen, and because
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: and part of the reason is parents these days, their
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: children are like they're like God's gift to mankind, so
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: their children can do no harm. So therefore they never
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: disciplined their kids. And it's always everybody else's fault. It's
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: never the fault of the children. By the way, there
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: was video of a they spent what sixty million dollars
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: to renovate a park on the Mississippi River in Memphis,
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: and over the weekend there was this massive brawl and
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: there was the obligatory you know, four hundred pound goog
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: that would be gals of girth, a gall of girth.
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: And then Dylan, there was a guy and a wheel
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: This is terrible. There was a guy in a wheelchair
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: with one leg and he abandons his wheelchair and he's
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: hopping around on what we've got the video that's.
• 28:56
  Speaker 5: A dedication Hewett's finest degree.
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: He's trying to fight people were breaking them. I don't
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: know what he was doing, but he was hopping around
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: on one leg.
• 29:04
  Speaker 5: I thought it was him. I'd stay in the chair.
• 29:06
  Speaker 5: I mean, you can run over people if they're on
• 29:07
  Speaker 5: the ground. You know you have leverage there. You don't
• 29:10
  Speaker 5: even know about it.
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: Or if you're wearing like a prosthetic device, sorry, take
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: it off. Take it off and use that as a
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: battering ram.
• 29:20
  Speaker 5: Don't bring a prosthetic leg to a gunfight.
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: And I'm watching the guy he's wheeling the chair around
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: in the middle of the fight, and I'm like, he's no,
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: he's not gonna get up. He's is he going to
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: get up? And I thought maybe he had sprained his ankle.
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: He didn't have an ankle, there was no leg.
• 29:36
  Speaker 5: There were you cheering for him in this battle here?
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: You kind of have to you kind of have to.
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: Only in Memphis, I'm like, sixty million dollars, sixty million
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: dollars for what we should have just built an MMA
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: fighting ring down there. Seriously, let everybody have at it.
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: But what's going on in society, ladies and gentlemen, like
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: for Winston Salem and I just I I actually hit
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: it for all of our WSJS listers because you guys
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: have a beautiful, beautiful community, but a lot of businesses
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: are just done. They're saying it's almost impossible to operate
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: in the downtown area because of all the fighting. So
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: at what point, As a matter of fact, police now
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: in Winston Salem are shutting down the large gatherings of
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: unsupervised utes in downtown. The police chief now calling on
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: the public to intervene over the weekend. A crowd of
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: some two hundred utes. Reading from the reporting from WGHP
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: in Winston Salem, Miller's on trade bar manager Christmas that
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: he was working at the bar alone when he first
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: heard the commotion early on in the evening. He said,
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: everything was nice and okay, and find just a lot
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: of people on the street, usual for a Wednesday night.
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: Police responded to numerous calls for trespassing, fights and disturbances.
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: The sports bar had to close its doors earlier than usual.
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: So you see what's happening here. This is impacting business.
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: So how do we fix this? Ladies and gentlemen. Nine
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  Speaker 3: five nine two six. Apparently they were using those scooters.
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  Speaker 3: Have you guys seen those scooters that you can I
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  Speaker 3: guess lease the scooter and you've got grown people like
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: scooting around on the scooters. They were using the scooters
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: and as weapons, and they were throwing the scooters at
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: people just across the street. Cheesecakes by Alex Twin. City
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: shift leader Jada Carter said their store hours saved them
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: before the youth activities became too much. Oh that's what
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: they're calling you now, youth activities gotcha? What a brawl?
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: What a mess, ladies and gentlemen, and of all places.
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: Winston Salem, North Carolina police say these types of gatherings
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: become a trend nationwide when temperatures begin to rise. That's
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: why officials are calling for parents in the community to
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  Speaker 3: keep teams engaged and safe as we get into the
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: summer months. Here's what the police chief had to say.
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: Curious to hear your thoughts on this one. They said
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: it was an unsanctioned party planned for high school age
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: kids out on spring break. Now it's a long statement.
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: I don't want to read all of this, but he says.
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: The chief says, we are now dealing with the same
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  Speaker 3: problem we face last summer, unsupervised juveniles. I come before
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: you again with a similar message. Our youth are the
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  Speaker 3: most precious asset we have in our community. They are
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: our future. Well, if that's the case, case, may I
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: recommend that we start putting belt to ass to the
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: assets of our country, because that's the only way this
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: is going to get resolved is for parents to start
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: acting like parents and beating the living daylights out of
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: their children in a loving way, of course. But I'm
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: telling you if if I had, if I had been
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: engaged in anything like this, I can tell you my
• 33:26
  Speaker 3: mom and dad would have been down there, down there
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: with the belt off already, and I'd be begging the
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: police to arrest me. And that's really the kind of
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: fear of God we need to instill into these little evil,
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: heathen children. And that's what they are there, heathen children. Unbelievable.
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: All Right, we got to take a break. Nine oh
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  Speaker 3: The President says they didn't realize just how bad it was,
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  Speaker 3: and they the previous administrations just turned a blind eye
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  Speaker 3: to what was happening at the Kennedy Center as far
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  Speaker 3: re rebuild the thing, and the President says that's going
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  Speaker 3: about whether or not Rick Runell was going to remain
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  Speaker 3: Kennedy Senator Kennedy Center rather shutting down. You know a
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  Speaker 3: lot of groups have been canceling, so they were having
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  Speaker 3: a hard time actually finding groups that were willing to
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  Speaker 3: come in and perform. So yet no the Oscars, No, Dylan,
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  Speaker 3: I did not watch the Oscars last night. I normally
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  Speaker 3: I take one for the team. I am in the
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  Speaker 3: final edits of the book, and I thought, you know what,
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: I can't be bothered. I don't want to get riled
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  Speaker 3: up last night. And honestly, I forgot they were even
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: holding the Academy Awards. It was this really sort of
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: ho hum. But there was an interesting moment and we
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  Speaker 3: pulled some audio and I'll share that with you coming
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  Speaker 3: up to the next hour of the show. By the way,
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  Speaker 3: coming in President Trump, speaker Mike Johnson. We got Congressman
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  Speaker 3: go to the phone lines Clyde in Texas, Clyde, what's
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: on your mind?
• 36:31
  Speaker 9: Well, sir, glad it Aaron talk to you anyway. Yeah,
• 36:35
  Speaker 9: you're talking about these two hundred teenagers are getting in
• 36:37
  Speaker 9: trouble if there's Salem, Winston, Winston, Salem anyway, Mike, care
• 36:43
  Speaker 9: is what we what did we have as kids that
• 36:45
  Speaker 9: they don't have to day? They don't afford a curve.
• 36:50
  Speaker 9: They gotta afford that curve. You're make him in a
• 36:52
  Speaker 9: house at ten o flock about take them to jail,
• 36:53
  Speaker 9: make their personal now, pay a fine and get him out,
• 36:56
  Speaker 9: and I guarantee the parents will start paying attention.
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: I like your idea, and you know what, you raise
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: a good point. I think kids today have a heck
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: of a lot more than we had. We didn't have
• 37:06
  Speaker 3: our own private phones, we didn't have our own private computers.
• 37:11
  Speaker 9: Right, we want to make phone call? We went down
• 37:14
  Speaker 9: the number on our little landline.
• 37:16
  Speaker 3: We certainly did. And also, uh, our parents had a rule.
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: You got to get back home when the street lights
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: come on. Right, that's it.
• 37:26
  Speaker 9: I Clyde belts on that incident.
• 37:32
  Speaker 3: You know, I think that's the biggest problem is that
• 37:35
  Speaker 3: we're not using belts. And that's that's a big problem.
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: Kids just don't they're not disciplined. Uh, and parents, you
• 37:42
  Speaker 3: got to do your job, all right, We got to
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: take a right Clyde, thank you for that call. Nine
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  Speaker 3: I'm curious to hear your thoughts about this this story.
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  Speaker 3: A mom went on social media and she's really frustrated.
• 39:03
  Speaker 3: She said that her daughter is really not learning a
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: lot in her local public school, provided for by your
• 39:11
  Speaker 3: tax dollars. By the way, and she goes on to say,
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: and we'll play this clip here, that only one out
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: of every four children in this child's math class actually
• 39:22
  Speaker 3: speaks English. Take a listen.
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  Speaker 2: I'm about to ask what I'm not supposed to ask.
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  Speaker 10: Why is one of my children in a class where
• 39:33
  Speaker 10: she's one of four kids that speaks English in math?
• 39:38
  Speaker 10: And she doesn't get to learn math because there's twenty
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  Speaker 10: plus other kids who don't know English, and the teacher
• 39:42
  Speaker 10: has to accommodate them. And I'm not blaming the teacher.
• 39:44
  Speaker 10: I actually feel really bad for the teachers. Why why
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  Speaker 10: am I paying property taxes? Why am I paying income tax?
• 39:52
  Speaker 10: Why am I paying taxes for anything? For my children
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  Speaker 10: to have the right to a free and public education, which,
• 39:56
  Speaker 10: by the way, they constantly are trying to take the
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  Speaker 10: ability for us to homeschool and all that stuff away
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  Speaker 10: to make them go to public school. But then when
• 40:04
  Speaker 10: they go to public school, this is what they get.
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  Speaker 10: You don't get to learn math because you know English,
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  Speaker 10: so you just don't get.
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  Speaker 2: To learn math.
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  Speaker 11: What.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, So it turns out that that this is a
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  Speaker 3: big problem in many public schools. So you've got the
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  Speaker 3: last count, well over six million children in our nation's
• 40:27
  Speaker 3: public education system do they don't speak any English? And
• 40:32
  Speaker 3: so now these schools have to go out there and
• 40:34
  Speaker 3: have to find ESL teachers. That's English as the second
• 40:38
  Speaker 3: language student teacher. By the way, that's nearly eleven percent.
• 40:44
  Speaker 3: By the way, when you look at the six million,
• 40:46
  Speaker 3: that's nearly eleven percent of the total public school enrollment
• 40:50
  Speaker 3: that can't speak English. So what happens is many public
• 40:54
  Speaker 3: schools and they don't have a lot of money. You know,
• 40:57
  Speaker 3: there's just not a lot to go around. And so
• 41:00
  Speaker 3: instead of say hiring an additional math teacher or a
• 41:03
  Speaker 3: science teacher, they have to go out there and hire
• 41:06
  Speaker 3: these ESL teachers English as a second language teacher, because
• 41:11
  Speaker 3: these kids have to learn how to speak English. So
• 41:13
  Speaker 3: again it goes back to the idea that it's not
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  Speaker 3: just the illegal alien children here, right, it's taking away
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  Speaker 3: from the law abiding American children, the resources, the money
• 41:26
  Speaker 3: that it's costing to educate all of these kids who
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  Speaker 3: do not speak our language. And it is a growing,
• 41:36
  Speaker 3: growing problem. And by the way, this is not just
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  Speaker 3: happening in the big cities. This is happening in smaller
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  Speaker 3: communities as well. So I feel bad for this mom,
• 41:45
  Speaker 3: but I think a lot of people are now beginning
• 41:47
  Speaker 3: to wake up and realize, wait a second, this is
• 41:50
  Speaker 3: not good talking about the illegal immigration. We're not able
• 41:55
  Speaker 3: to accommodate the millions of people that came here from
• 41:58
  Speaker 3: Spanish speaking countries that had completely overwhelmed our nation's education system.
• 42:03
  Speaker 3: And that's that's what's really going on here, all right,
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  Speaker 3: nine oh one two six zero five nine two six
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  Speaker 3: hour telephone number. That's nine oh one two six zero
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  Speaker 3: five nine two six. Speaking of that, you folks in Houston.
• 42:17
  Speaker 3: Harris County, Texas, a brand new report out that they
• 42:21
  Speaker 3: caught an ilegal voting in the twenty twenty four election.
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  Speaker 3: Take a lesson.
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  Speaker 12: Federal investigators say a british Man knowingly broke US election law.
• 42:32
  Speaker 12: According to court documents, Samuel James Hall, described as a
• 42:35
  Speaker 12: non US citizen, is accused of voting in the twenty
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  Speaker 12: twenty four general election, casting a ballot in races for president,
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  Speaker 12: vice president, Senate, and the House of Representatives, despite allegedly
• 42:46
  Speaker 12: knowing he was not eligible to vote. The Harris County
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  Speaker 12: tax Assessor, Collector and voter Registrar's office tells ABC thirteen
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  Speaker 12: it first learned Hall was on the voter rules last June,
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  Speaker 12: seven months after the election. Officials say they notified him
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  Speaker 12: and that Hall then canceled his own registration. The registrar
• 43:04
  Speaker 12: says he was removed from the voter roles and is
• 43:07
  Speaker 12: not currently registered to vote in Harris County, writing in
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  Speaker 12: a statement, quote, as this is an ongoing investigation, we
• 43:14
  Speaker 12: are unable to share more at this time, and remained
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  Speaker 12: committed to ensuring that the voter registration roles are up
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  Speaker 12: to date and that only eligible citizens are enrolled and
• 43:23
  Speaker 12: part of the process. ABC thirteen asked how Hall was
• 43:26
  Speaker 12: able to register to vote in the first place, since
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  Speaker 12: that is the key issue, but we have.
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  Speaker 2: Not gotten that answer.
• 43:33
  Speaker 12: Last year, the Texas Secretary of State says it identified
• 43:36
  Speaker 12: thirty three people who may have illegally voted out of
• 43:40
  Speaker 12: nearly eleven point four million ballots cast in that election.
• 43:44
  Speaker 12: Thirty three votes ultimately not enough to change the outcome
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  Speaker 12: of any election in this case. The FBI's Houston Field
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  Speaker 12: office says Hall made his initial federal court appearance Wednesday,
• 43:54
  Speaker 12: where he pleaded not guilty. Court documents show he posted bond.
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  Speaker 12: Hall's attorney declined to comment when ABC thirteen reached out,
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  Speaker 12: but his client now facing a penalty of up to
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  Speaker 12: one year in federal prison.
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  Speaker 3: But but but wait, wait, wait a second here, I
• 44:10
  Speaker 3: thought the Democrats told us this never happens, that there's
• 44:14
  Speaker 3: never been an incident of anybody voting in an election
• 44:18
  Speaker 3: that was not allowed to vote an election. That's what
• 44:20
  Speaker 3: they told us. Now, my question and It's a great
• 44:24
  Speaker 3: question that ABC asked is how is this guy allowed
• 44:26
  Speaker 3: to vote in the first place. That has to be investigated.
• 44:29
  Speaker 3: But my other question is how many other people were
• 44:33
  Speaker 3: able to vote that we don't know about. You know,
• 44:36
  Speaker 3: they're trying to dismiss this as a one off. I
• 44:38
  Speaker 3: don't think it's a one off. I think there are
• 44:40
  Speaker 3: a lot of people voting in those Texas elections who
• 44:43
  Speaker 3: are not supposed to be voting. Meanwhile, speaking of Texas,
• 44:48
  Speaker 3: Dan Crenshaw is on the warpath. You know, he got
• 44:51
  Speaker 3: booted out of the Republican primary, and so anyway he's
• 44:56
  Speaker 3: out for blood. This is Congressman Crenshaw calling out MAGA.
• 45:01
  Speaker 13: Last time you were with us, we spoke about you
• 45:04
  Speaker 13: felt the need for moral clarity. That was a phrase
• 45:07
  Speaker 13: you used for some within your own party, specifically around
• 45:10
  Speaker 13: anti Semitism in this country. I want to read for
• 45:13
  Speaker 13: you a few things that some Republican lawmakers said this week.
• 45:16
  Speaker 13: Andy Ogles of Tennessee said America is a product of
• 45:19
  Speaker 13: English Christian culture. Muslims don't belong in American society. Florida's
• 45:25
  Speaker 13: Randy Fine said we need more Islamophobia, not less fear
• 45:29
  Speaker 13: of Islam is rational, and Senator Tommy Tupperville of Alabama
• 45:33
  Speaker 13: posted a picture of the nine to eleven attack next
• 45:36
  Speaker 13: to the New York City mayor at dinner breaking his
• 45:39
  Speaker 13: fast at Ramadan, with the phrase the enemy is inside
• 45:42
  Speaker 13: the gates. What do you think of this language and
• 45:46
  Speaker 13: should Republican leaders speak up about it?
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  Speaker 7: I still think it's fairly fringe.
• 45:51
  Speaker 14: I mean, the truth of the matter is radical Islamism
• 45:56
  Speaker 14: is bad. Right, We've always known that should be that
• 45:59
  Speaker 14: should not be a contra virtual statement at all.
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  Speaker 7: But that's not what they said. Plenty of peaceful Muslims
• 46:03
  Speaker 7: who live among us. I realized that.
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  Speaker 14: But you know that that's not a mainstream that's not
• 46:07
  Speaker 14: a mainstream narrative. But by by any stretch, I think
• 46:11
  Speaker 14: trying to fight it internally what probably gives it more
• 46:15
  Speaker 14: a lot more air than than is necessary.
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  Speaker 7: We've seen that to be the case. Is you know,
• 46:20
  Speaker 7: if there's there's there's there's.
• 46:21
  Speaker 14: A Republican conflict ongoing right now over Israel and the
• 46:25
  Speaker 14: anti Semitism issues, and so you know, you one could
• 46:28
  Speaker 14: make the argument that speaking out against it is only
• 46:30
  Speaker 14: inflamed it.
• 46:32
  Speaker 7: So look, I still think that's very fringe.
• 46:34
  Speaker 14: I don't think that's that's that's certainly not the administration's position.
• 46:37
  Speaker 7: And uh, like, we're going to go after radical Islam.
• 46:39
  Speaker 14: That's why we need to fund agencies like DHS, and.
• 46:44
  Speaker 7: That's what we're going to do.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, So Congressman Crenshaw believes that all of you folks
• 46:50
  Speaker 3: that are concerned about Islam, you are fringe people, and
• 46:54
  Speaker 3: that there's no reason for us to be worried about
• 46:57
  Speaker 3: a Muslim majority in the country. However, I would direct
• 47:04
  Speaker 3: your attention to what's happening overseas right now in the
• 47:07
  Speaker 3: United Kingdom, where Muslims are getting very close to becoming
• 47:12
  Speaker 3: the majority. They're wielding way too much influence in the culture,
• 47:18
  Speaker 3: so much so that there is a story circulating on
• 47:22
  Speaker 3: British television about public schools in the UK telling children
• 47:28
  Speaker 3: not to draw images of Jesus Christ. And the reason
• 47:31
  Speaker 3: why is they're afraid that drawing images of Jesus Christ
• 47:35
  Speaker 3: may cause offense to Muslim students. Take a listen.
• 47:42
  Speaker 15: Cut five found out that a document called Sharing the
• 47:47
  Speaker 15: Journey Faith Sensitivities were sent to head teachers in the
• 47:50
  Speaker 15: North to tell them that figurative imagery of humans is
• 47:54
  Speaker 15: considered blasphemy for Muslims that they should start considering to
• 48:00
  Speaker 15: protect them Muslim and other faith pupils. So, for example,
• 48:05
  Speaker 15: they should have single sex women, not mixed women. But
• 48:07
  Speaker 15: they should also not give children roles in nativity plays
• 48:10
  Speaker 15: that might make them feel uncomfortable, and they shouldn't in
• 48:13
  Speaker 15: lessons use drawings of Jesus because Jesus was actually a
• 48:17
  Speaker 15: prophet for Islam and that might upset everybody. Well, I'm
• 48:20
  Speaker 15: a Christian. I love drawings of Jesus, and my friend
• 48:23
  Speaker 15: Bernie has a very talented daughter called Isabel's spoff Off,
• 48:27
  Speaker 15: and she actually paints Jesus like this. I think we've
• 48:30
  Speaker 15: got a picture here to show everyone beautiful. That is
• 48:33
  Speaker 15: Isabelle sitting at the.
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  Speaker 7: So talented.
• 48:38
  Speaker 15: I've got a Christmas card from Bernie which is one
• 48:40
  Speaker 15: of Isabelle's drawings, and Alice actually has it in her
• 48:43
  Speaker 15: religious part of her playroom, which.
• 48:46
  Speaker 12: She I need to give Bernie my address so I
• 48:49
  Speaker 12: can get work. I really do, Bernie, and your daughter
• 48:53
  Speaker 12: is so talented, isabel You are an incredible.
• 48:56
  Speaker 15: And you can actually see Isabella's drawings on Bernie's Twitter,
• 48:58
  Speaker 15: which I think is artemis for now.
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  Speaker 2: That's correct.
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  Speaker 15: Indeed, so we are a Christian country. We're going to
• 49:04
  Speaker 15: draw Jesus in schools.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, good for you, ma'am. Meantime, a woman in
• 49:10
  Speaker 3: England claimed in public she was at a public gathering
• 49:14
  Speaker 3: and she said that England is a Christian country and
• 49:18
  Speaker 3: did not want to hear about the Quran. She was
• 49:20
  Speaker 3: immediately arrested by British police and that, ladies and gentlemen
• 49:25
  Speaker 3: is what Shariah looks like. Just FYI. There were other schools,
• 49:31
  Speaker 3: including one here in the United States, where during Ramadan,
• 49:36
  Speaker 3: the Muslims are not allowed to eat, so they fast.
• 49:42
  Speaker 3: And there have been some schools in the UK that
• 49:46
  Speaker 3: have told Christian students they are not allowed to eat snacks.
• 49:50
  Speaker 3: They're not allowed to eat food because it might offend
• 49:55
  Speaker 3: their Muslim classmates. Now this lady writing in and she
• 49:59
  Speaker 3: is over in the I believe this is in New Mexico.
• 50:02
  Speaker 3: She says, I work in a public school. The first
• 50:05
  Speaker 3: and second grade lunch period remains the same during Ramadan.
• 50:09
  Speaker 3: A few kids in the third and fourth grade lunch
• 50:11
  Speaker 3: period choose to take their books and iPads to the
• 50:14
  Speaker 3: auditorium rather than enter the lunch room. By fifth and
• 50:20
  Speaker 3: sixth grade, many most Muslim kids choose to fast, and
• 50:23
  Speaker 3: many of these schools are now making public accommodations for
• 50:28
  Speaker 3: these Muslim kids, by the way, accommodations that are not
• 50:31
  Speaker 3: made to Christian children, either in the UK or here
• 50:35
  Speaker 3: in the United States. So anyway, curious to hear thoughts
• 50:41
  Speaker 3: on this. I want to read this to you. A
• 50:45
  Speaker 3: lady said, my neighbor is a substitute teacher. She worked
• 50:48
  Speaker 3: at a school this week that was not allowing snack
• 50:51
  Speaker 3: time for any child, and no child could have his
• 50:54
  Speaker 3: or her water at their desk because some Muslim students
• 50:58
  Speaker 3: were doing Ramadan in Phoenix, Arizona. One set of rules
• 51:05
  Speaker 3: and we have to follow them, and if they run
• 51:09
  Speaker 3: contrary to the teachings of Islam, we're not allowed to
• 51:12
  Speaker 3: do it. You've got to pay attention to all of this, folks,
• 51:15
  Speaker 3: because it is all leading us to a very very
• 51:18
  Speaker 3: bad place in American history. All Right, gotta take a
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  Speaker 3: break here. Nine oh one two six zero five nine
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• 51:37
  Speaker 3: welcome back, everybody. This is the Tom Sterns Radio Show.
• 51:39
  Speaker 3: Let's go right to the phone lines. Atlanta, Georgia, Cynthia
• 51:44
  Speaker 3: joins us. Hi, Cynthia, what's on your mind?
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  Speaker 15: Hi?
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  Speaker 16: Well, I'm listening to your comments and wanted to add
• 51:50
  Speaker 16: to it. I do have Muslim friends, so I get
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  Speaker 16: a lot of insight. Number One, our schools are government schools.
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  Speaker 16: There's a Department of Education. These are government schools. We
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  Speaker 16: have in this country a separation of church and state.
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  Speaker 16: Muslim is a religion. It's a separation of church in state.
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  Speaker 16: The state school should not be affording any religion extra niceties.
• 52:22
  Speaker 16: Let's put it like that. The Catholics were not allowed
• 52:25
  Speaker 16: to have extra niceties in the school system and they
• 52:29
  Speaker 16: started their own schools. There are Baptist schools here in
• 52:33
  Speaker 16: Atlanta that do not believe in some of the things
• 52:36
  Speaker 16: going on in the school system, and so they start
• 52:38
  Speaker 16: their own school. Muslim steve to go to the Muslim school.
• 52:41
  Speaker 16: We have a large contingency of Muslims here in the
• 52:44
  Speaker 16: Atlanta area. With that in mind, one of my Muslim
• 52:48
  Speaker 16: friends told me, after nine eleven, your people will forget
• 52:52
  Speaker 16: nine to eleven. We will not. Generation after generation we
• 52:57
  Speaker 16: will take you over. We won't take it by will
• 53:01
  Speaker 16: take it by the womb. He has seven children. My
• 53:05
  Speaker 16: children are having won two and three children, they will
• 53:08
  Speaker 16: take us sober by the womb and they mean to
• 53:10
  Speaker 16: do it, and that's why they're in the school system
• 53:12
  Speaker 16: changing things now.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I will say this, Cynthia, that the Constitution does
• 53:19
  Speaker 3: not that phrase separation of church and State is nowhere
• 53:22
  Speaker 3: in the US Constitution. What it does say is that
• 53:26
  Speaker 3: Congress will not make any laws respecting an establishment of religion.
• 53:31
  Speaker 3: And when you are forcing the children to fast alongside
• 53:36
  Speaker 3: their Muslim classmates, you are forcing a religion on the
• 53:40
  Speaker 3: children in that classroom. And that's where I have a problem.
• 53:44
  Speaker 16: You are correct, and that's why there's Muslim schools. If
• 53:47
  Speaker 16: you do not agree with the school, the government school,
• 53:52
  Speaker 16: then you take your child out and you put him
• 53:54
  Speaker 16: in a Baptist school, you put him in a Methodist school.
• 53:56
  Speaker 16: So you put him in a Muslim school or a
• 53:58
  Speaker 16: Catholic school. If you want seal, if you want special
• 54:02
  Speaker 16: niceties to come to you or rules to come to you,
• 54:05
  Speaker 16: do not expect every other child in the classroom to
• 54:08
  Speaker 16: take care of it for you. You take your child
• 54:11
  Speaker 16: and you pay for that nicety that you're asking for
• 54:14
  Speaker 16: your child, and you put them in a private school.
• 54:16
  Speaker 3: But Cynthia, in the area that you live. You're telling
• 54:19
  Speaker 3: me that even in the Atlanta area, you guys are
• 54:21
  Speaker 3: seeing a very large increase in the number of Muslims.
• 54:26
  Speaker 16: Of course, well, you have to look at it this way.
• 54:30
  Speaker 16: Obama when he started bringing in people into the country,
• 54:35
  Speaker 16: he settled them in Kentucky, he settled them in Minnesota,
• 54:39
  Speaker 16: he settled them in Stoe Mountain, Georgia, he settled them
• 54:42
  Speaker 16: in South Carolina. Thousands. It has been a plan for
• 54:49
  Speaker 16: quite some time. His plan is to change the United States,
• 54:53
  Speaker 16: the very United States of America. And he's doing it silently, quietly.
• 54:58
  Speaker 16: You hear something about of their so often. But if
• 55:01
  Speaker 16: you talk to him as them, they'll tell you we
• 55:04
  Speaker 16: will take you over. It's down by the sword, by
• 55:07
  Speaker 16: the womb. And you know when he first said that
• 55:09
  Speaker 16: to me, I was like, well, what exactly does that mean?
• 55:12
  Speaker 16: Then I started recognizing he had three different wives. Each
• 55:15
  Speaker 16: one hands three to five children. He beat out my
• 55:18
  Speaker 16: three kids. You know these young people that are saying, well,
• 55:22
  Speaker 16: we don't want to have any children, while there's a
• 55:25
  Speaker 16: Muslim sitting out there having five and six. They will
• 55:27
  Speaker 16: take us over by voting. They'll just take us over.
• 55:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a fair point. I mean, it's it's it's
• 55:34
  Speaker 3: a matter of numbers, and it really is a numbers game.
• 55:37
  Speaker 3: And look, I think you're why, Cynthia, to remember what
• 55:39
  Speaker 3: Obama said he was going to fundamentally transform America. That
• 55:43
  Speaker 3: was not meant for just the eight years of his presidency.
• 55:46
  Speaker 3: He was literally laying the groundwork for this to continue
• 55:51
  Speaker 3: for you know, for at least a generation. So I
• 55:54
  Speaker 3: would say, and I think that I saw a number.
• 55:57
  Speaker 3: By twenty thirty, maybe you're going to see in many
• 56:01
  Speaker 3: parts of the country a Muslim being the dominant religion,
• 56:05
  Speaker 3: just simply as a result of the birth rate. So Cynthia,
• 56:08
  Speaker 3: appreciate that call. We've got to run for a break.
• 56:11
  Speaker 3: You've given us a lot to think about. Well, there
• 56:14
  Speaker 3: you go. Nine oh one two six zero five nine
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  Speaker 3: six zero five nine two six. Got to take a
• 56:23
  Speaker 3: quick break. This is the Todd Sterns Show, all right.
• 56:52
  Speaker 3: Honored to have our good friend Congressman Scott D. Charlais,
• 56:56
  Speaker 3: who represents the Chattanooga area in Rissy, joined us on
• 57:01
  Speaker 3: Newsback's Friday Night. Here's that conversation.
• 57:05
  Speaker 5: Good to have you with us.
• 57:06
  Speaker 3: This evening, Congressman, So I'm going to ask you that question,
• 57:10
  Speaker 3: why is it this guy was not booted out of
• 57:13
  Speaker 3: the country after he was set free from prison?
• 57:16
  Speaker 17: Are there so many cases like this? And I'm afraid
• 57:18
  Speaker 17: we're just going to see more and more. We knew
• 57:20
  Speaker 17: and President Biden opened the border and twenty million people
• 57:23
  Speaker 17: poured through. There's two to three million godaways. The godaways
• 57:27
  Speaker 17: didn't want to turn themselves in and get all the
• 57:30
  Speaker 17: freebies that go along with coming into this country. And
• 57:33
  Speaker 17: so it's not a surprise that these things are happening.
• 57:37
  Speaker 17: And you know, just again and again in liberal states
• 57:42
  Speaker 17: and counties, corrupt people are being released onto the streets
• 57:47
  Speaker 17: and we see them committing crimes over and over again.
• 57:51
  Speaker 3: Congressman, there has been a lot of concern among your
• 57:54
  Speaker 3: colleagues up on Capitol Hill about sleeper cells. Is that
• 57:57
  Speaker 3: what we're watching here? I mean, we had the Awesome
• 58:00
  Speaker 3: to An attack, we had New York City, Michigan, we
• 58:03
  Speaker 3: had Old Dominion University. Is that what we're looking at?
• 58:06
  Speaker 17: Well, we've been expecting this again ever since the open border.
• 58:09
  Speaker 17: Now with the war in Iran, you know, the impetus
• 58:15
  Speaker 17: is there for these people to strike, and that's the
• 58:18
  Speaker 17: whole point of being sleeper self. They're going to rise
• 58:21
  Speaker 17: up at the right time, and I can expect almost
• 58:25
  Speaker 17: every day or two that we're going to see this
• 58:28
  Speaker 17: type of activity going on around the country.
• 58:30
  Speaker 5: We need to be hyper vigilant.
• 58:31
  Speaker 17: Should be an absolute no brainer for Democrats to fund DHS.
• 58:36
  Speaker 17: There's no time I can think of. We need homeland
• 58:39
  Speaker 17: security at full strength. And why they're using this as
• 58:43
  Speaker 17: a political football is beyond me.
• 58:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah, there was. I want to go back up to
• 58:48
  Speaker 3: Michigan for a moment. We understand that at least Alyssa Slotkin,
• 58:52
  Speaker 3: she's the Democrat senator from those parts, says homeland Security
• 58:56
  Speaker 3: should be funded. But here's the problem. She actually voted
• 58:59
  Speaker 3: against on to get yesterday. Take a listen.
• 59:02
  Speaker 18: Certainly we need to fund the Department of Homeland Security,
• 59:06
  Speaker 18: and we need, in my view, to cut away all
• 59:08
  Speaker 18: the conversation on ICE, which is its own conversation from
• 59:11
  Speaker 18: all the core missions of the Department of Homeland Security.
• 59:14
  Speaker 2: But they're essential, they're on the job. They're working today.
• 59:17
  Speaker 3: Okay, So when the when the terror rest at in
• 59:19
  Speaker 3: your congressional district or operating in your state, the Democrats
• 59:23
  Speaker 3: say oh yeah, we got we got a fund DHS.
• 59:25
  Speaker 17: Yeah, I know, at least while we started on Armed
• 59:27
  Speaker 17: Services Committee together.
• 59:30
  Speaker 19: You know, she she gets that.
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  Speaker 17: it didn't look good. We had two people killed there.
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  Speaker 17: Trump has taken steps to correct that. They changed the
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  Speaker 17: way they were operating. They replaced Christie Known with Mark
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  Speaker 17: Wayne Mullens. And so their first shutdown was all about
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  Speaker 17: is trying to get political mileage out of what happened
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  Speaker 17: What's not funded as TSA, Coast Guard, Homeland Security, and
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  Speaker 17: so they're playing this game trying to get as much capital.
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  Speaker 17: It's almost like they're January sixth. Now they're going to
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  Speaker 17: use Minnesota or their George Floyd moment. You know, they're
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  Speaker 17: going to use this gain score political points on an
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  Speaker 17: to see more of this. We need to be hyper vigilant,
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  Speaker 17: and this is not the time to playing games.
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  Speaker 3: All right, I want to bring up Congressman Andy Ogles
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  Speaker 3: from your state there in Tennessee, and the middle represents
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  Speaker 3: a district in the middle part of the state. He
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  Speaker 3: wants to see massive immigration overhaul. Here's what he wrote
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  Speaker 3: on x I'm preparing a monumental bill that repeals the
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  Speaker 3: Heartseller Act of nineteen sixty five, which allows immigration from
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  Speaker 3: the Eastern Hemisphere. This would be a pretty significant change
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  Speaker 3: if it happens. Do you support Congressman Ogles and his
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  Speaker 3: efforts here?
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  Speaker 5: Well, yeah, I.
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  Speaker 20: Tell you what.
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  Speaker 17: I've been an advocate for better vetting for a long time.
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  Speaker 17: A Newsweek wrote an article about five or six years
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  Speaker 17: ago when we had the disastrous Afghan withdraw about the
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  Speaker 17: fourteen heartless members of Congress that voted against letting all
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  Speaker 17: these Afghan interpreters come in. Well, we know that there
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  Speaker 17: was a lot more than just Afghan interpreters that were
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  Speaker 17: jumping on those planes. And sure enough, you know, years
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  Speaker 17: later in DC we see Afghan national shoot and kill
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  Speaker 17: a female National Guard and shoot another National guardsman in
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  Speaker 17: the head. And then ironically, Newsweek writes an article praising
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  Speaker 17: those who had the foresight to vote against such a thing.
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  Speaker 17: So I think Andy's trying to do the right thing.
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  Speaker 17: That we need to vet people from unfriendly countries, and
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  Speaker 17: you know why are we letting them in? They're not
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  Speaker 17: coming in legally, and those should be the ones that
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  Speaker 17: you know, we're targeting first. It's just that they're hard
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  Speaker 17: to find.
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  Speaker 5: The problem.
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  Speaker 17: The guideaway just you walked across the border, came in
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  Speaker 17: in any number of ways, and they're harder to track.
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  Speaker 17: But Homeland Security and our other agencies are doing their
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  Speaker 17: best to track them down.
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  Speaker 5: All right.
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  Speaker 3: play some audio here. This is a crazy story out
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  Speaker 3: of Pennsylvania where a school district took a great issue
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  Speaker 3: with a longtime bus driver. This guy a retired cop
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  Speaker 3: and he was wearing a Maga hat and they told
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  Speaker 3: him the hat had to come off. Got number three.
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  Speaker 21: Is this hat worth the heartache?
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  Speaker 5: And to me it is.
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  Speaker 22: If that wasn't a condition of my employment, I'd be
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  Speaker 22: back to work tomorrow. I missed the kids. This kids
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  Speaker 22: and I had a great relationship.
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  Speaker 23: But a complaint from one of mister Dave's bus seventy
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  Speaker 23: three students about his make America Great Again hat has
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  Speaker 23: brought that relationship to a screeching halt.
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  Speaker 22: I get a phone call from my boss at Christ's
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  Speaker 22: Transportation and she contacts me and says, hey, listen, I'm
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  Speaker 22: going to buy you a hat, an American flag hat,
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  Speaker 22: because the school district has deemed that they don't want
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  Speaker 22: you to wear the make America a Great Again.
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  Speaker 7: Hat.
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  Speaker 23: Dave Bonhoff, a retired Baltimore County police officer turned Littlestown
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  Speaker 23: Area school bus driver, says he chose to walk away
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  Speaker 23: before afternoon drop off, claiming the district and Christ Transportation
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  Speaker 23: violated his freedom of speech.
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  Speaker 22: There's nothing in this hat that says anything about partisanship.
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  Speaker 21: What do you say to people who may argue that
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  Speaker 21: the hat is pretty synonymous with President Donald Trump, a
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  Speaker 21: political figure.
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  Speaker 22: I would say that they're incorrect. I would say that
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  Speaker 22: making America great is what we should all strive to be.
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  Speaker 22: Anybody who doesn't want America to prosper I take issue
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  Speaker 22: with them.
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  Speaker 23: Al Moyer, Littlestown Area is superintendent of Schools, clarified over
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  Speaker 23: the phone that Bonhoff was an employee of Christ Transportation,
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  Speaker 23: not the district.
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  Speaker 3: All right, there you go, So the guy said, you
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  Speaker 3: forget this, and he's not gonna be driving a bus
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  Speaker 3: if he can't wear his MAGA hat. Now, the good
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  Speaker 3: news is that one of the state lawmakers in that
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 3: area has now weighed in Dave Mastriano, and Dave has
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  Speaker 3: been a guest on this program before, a great guy.
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  Speaker 3: And Dave says, hey, hold up for a second here,
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  Speaker 3: there's nothing wrong with what this guy did. Free speech
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 3: does not exist only for views that are popular. And
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  Speaker 3: he's got a great point here. He says, freedom of
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  Speaker 3: expression is not granted by bureaucrats, administrators, or activists. And
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  Speaker 3: the reality is that the US Constitution affords mister Bonhoff
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  Speaker 3: the right to wear that maga hat wherever he sees fit, period.
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  Speaker 3: So we'll keep you updated on that story. I suspect
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  Speaker 3: we may be seeing this one going to the courts.
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  Speaker 3: is the Todd Sterns Show. Dylan, I'm curious, have you
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  Speaker 3: ever had a filet o fish sandwich at McDonald's.
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  Speaker 5: You know, I try to avoid the file fish.
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  Speaker 7: Why do you not like?
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  Speaker 5: Well, I don't trust that it's actually fish. That's the
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  Speaker 5: basis of mine.
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  Speaker 3: So you think it's like fake fish meat?
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  Speaker 5: Well, yeah, it's like it's like how I viewed spam
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  Speaker 5: or how I view some hot dogs. I don't believe it.
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  Speaker 3: I love saying the name of it, file fish.
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  Speaker 5: It is clever. Yeah it is. It's not it's clever
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  Speaker 5: for me to eat it.
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  Speaker 3: So well. McDonald's is making some headlines with their fileo fish,
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  Speaker 3: and I've got some good news for you. It actually
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  Speaker 3: is fish. It probably is no, it is fish.
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  Speaker 5: I believe. I believe.
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  Speaker 3: We have a definitive story in the infectious Disease Jesus
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  Speaker 3: section of the USA Today newspaper. This is the headline.
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  Speaker 3: McDonald's fileo fish may have gross surprise inside and it's normal.
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  Speaker 3: So of course, during Lent, you know, fileo fish becomes
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  Speaker 3: incredibly popular because I guess what the Catholics and Episcopalians
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  Speaker 3: who celebrates Lent.
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  Speaker 5: I think that's the process.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, I'm I don't know where Baptists we eat all
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  Speaker 3: the time.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't do.
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  Speaker 3: The Presbyterians. I don't know what the Presbyterians.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know, all right, I just don't So I
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  Speaker 5: don't know of anyone else.
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  Speaker 3: Somebody will fact check me here. I don't want to
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  Speaker 3: start a religious war. But anyway, a lot of people
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  Speaker 3: love to go to McDonald's for Lent for their filet
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  Speaker 3: o fish sandwich and by the way, this is an
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  Speaker 3: interesting little story here, but the sandwich itself was actually
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  Speaker 3: created by a McDonald's franchisee who was operating a restaurant
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  Speaker 3: in a predominantly Catholic neighborhood in Cincinnati. And this was gosh,
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 3: when was that back in nineteen sixty two when Lou
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 3: Growing brought the very first mcdim donald's franchise into the city.
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  Speaker 3: And so back in the day, there was a rule
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 3: and when it came to McDonald's, you were not allowed
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  Speaker 3: to add anything to the menu. And that was a
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 3: big problem early on with McDonald's is that when they
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 3: started franchising, the franchises would add things like fried chicken
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 3: and tacos, and so Ray Kroc had to come in
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 3: and put a stop to all of that. And so anyway,
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  Speaker 3: this guy, Lou the franchise owner in Cincinnati, so we
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 3: got to figure out something because our business is getting
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  Speaker 3: killed here during the forty day period of fasting. So
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  Speaker 3: he created the filet o fish sandwich as an alternative.
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  Speaker 3: He came up with the batter, came up with that
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  Speaker 3: tartar sauce. You could put that tartar sauce on a
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  Speaker 3: flip flop and I would eat it. I love the
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 3: tartar sauce. And then he took it to McDonald's right
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 3: to the head Hauncho Ray Kroc. Ray Kroc actually favored
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  Speaker 3: a grilled pineapple sandwich is an alternative, but the filet
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  Speaker 3: of fish literally has gone on to be one of
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  Speaker 3: their most popular sandwiches, hundreds of million of sandwiches every year.
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  Speaker 3: Here's the problem. Apparently a Reddit user posted photos of
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  Speaker 3: a worm that was found inside a filet of fish sandwich.
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  Speaker 3: And you know why that's a good thing, Dylan.
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  Speaker 5: No, I don't know why that's a good thing.
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 3: It's a good thing. According to Matthew Spina at the
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 3: tasting table, it's a sign that the fish was actually
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 3: caught in the wild. Commenters on Reddit said, well, now
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 3: we know it's real fish.
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  Speaker 5: Another crazy standard of operation there.
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 3: Another said my exact thought. I've worked fish markets. Fish
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 3: have parasites. No is this true? Have we been able
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 3: to verify this?
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  Speaker 5: This is giving me more like reason not to eat this.
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  Speaker 5: By the way, I don't know if you're trying to
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 5: convince me. I'm sure you're not.
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  Speaker 3: But wait a second, does that violate the meat standard
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  Speaker 3: because technically the worm is not is that covered?
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  Speaker 5: I don't know. I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not sure this is accurate. I'm not buying with
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  Speaker 3: the Reddit person because again, why would that and if
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  Speaker 3: in fact you do have They say it's a type
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 3: of round worm that is found in saltwater fish like cod, pollock, halibate,
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 3: and flounder.
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 5: If you found the worm in your patty, but this
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 5: is a scenario I needs you ton't. So like the
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 5: tartar sauce, if the tartar sauce was on the fish filet,
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 5: but you did find the worm, would you still eat
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 5: the sandwich?
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  Speaker 3: Projectile vomiting would ensue, Okay, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Immediately, So that means you would eat it. No.
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  Speaker 3: In fact, if well, if I knew the worm was
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 3: in the sandwich.
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  Speaker 5: With the tartar sauce, no, okay, but.
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 3: I would on a float flop, I would right. Uh,
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 3: let's go to Tom and call yourville, Tennessee. Tom. What's
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 3: on your mind?
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  Speaker 19: Boy?
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  Speaker 24: Your show is on fire today, Todd.
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 3: I'm coming a lot of stuff.
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  Speaker 24: So I'm Catholic and this is limp for us Catholics
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  Speaker 24: around the area. So we don't eat meat on Friday
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  Speaker 24: and when y'all started talking about the McDonald's play of
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 24: fish sandwich. I'm like, please, don't tell me that there's
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 24: something else besides meat in it, because I'm gon eating
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  Speaker 24: a lot of fish. And I got a fun fact
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  Speaker 24: for you. Back in the day, the Vatican classified the
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 24: kapi bara as fish rather than meat because there wasn't
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 24: a lot of meat or fish good fish in Venezuela,
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 24: so they were allowed to consume capy bear, so they
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 24: classified it based on fish by their aquatic lifestyle. About
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 24: the biological classification, is that so.
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  Speaker 3: You're able to do that? Well, I guess if you're
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 3: the pope you can do that kind of thing. I suppose.
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  Speaker 24: I don't know where we're going to be able to
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 24: find the Cafe Bera around here and eat it.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, Dylan, your thoughts on that.
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  Speaker 5: I would eat a Caffy Bera over a fish filet.
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  Speaker 3: That's heart Wow, Tom, thanks for the call there. And uh,
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 3: what is.
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  Speaker 5: That cappy barra? Yeah it's not it's not a fish.
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 5: It's like a mammal. It's like a wombats.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my word, why would you put a wombat on
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 3: the menu. I'm not eating a wombat.
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  Speaker 5: Well, the Pope liked it.
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  Speaker 3: So, uh, you see, this is why I'm Baptist. We
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 3: eat everything.
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  Speaker 5: We eat steak.
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  Speaker 3: We do eat steak. You know, it's funny.
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 5: I was.
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  Speaker 3: I was trying to figure out why everybody in line,
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 3: because you know, when you're in line with the McDonald's,
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 3: you hear people ordering, and everybody was ordering a filet
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 3: of fish. So I guess we got a lot of
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  Speaker 3: Catholics in the neighborhood.
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  Speaker 5: I don't believe it. I don't believe what that we
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 5: have Catholics in the neighborhood that everyone is ordering fish.
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  Speaker 3: They are because well, if you're a practicing Catholic, you
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 3: can't eat meat, so you got to eat the fish.
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 3: What about chicken? Are you guys allow? We should have
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 3: asked Tom, the Catholic from Collierville if we could, if
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 3: they're allowed to eat chicken?
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 5: Yeah, what's on the list? The dues and don'ts oh
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 5: my lord?
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 3: And then you got the nuns with the rulers. Yeah,
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 3: and that's a tough religion. I'm telling you, it's a
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 3: lot going on. Oh, who's our guy, you know, who
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 3: would know our Wolf River popcorn guy, Jim the popcorn guy. Yes,
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 3: he would know he's Catholic. By the way, someone told
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 3: me that the bishop, the Catholic bishop in Memphis used
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 3: to be a Baptist. Oh wow, yeah, I got to
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 3: beat this guy.
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 5: Yeah, he probably has a really cool story.
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 3: All right, well, I'm sure somebody will will help us fit.
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 3: Is there like a list of things do you guys
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 3: do that? Does the church like release the list or
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 3: is it something ingreened in you from the early days,
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 3: Like you know, you're five or six years old and
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 3: you you know, want to you know, want to cheese
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 3: burger from like Burger King, and the next thing, you
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 3: know is, you know, you got the nun wrap in
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 3: your knuckles? Is that a thing?
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 5: I don't.
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 3: Everything I learned about the Catholic Church I learned by
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 3: watching The Blues Brothers. So the theology maybe it's smidge off,
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 3: just a smidge.
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  Speaker 5: Wow.
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  Speaker 5: Todd starts.
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  Speaker 3: Oh well, hello everybody, Welcome to the Tod Stearns Radio Program.
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  Speaker 3: Great to have you with us today. As we continue
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  Speaker 3: our conversation about lent So Dylan, I Dylan, I had
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  Speaker 3: gpting and we've got some intel. Apparently the rules change
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  Speaker 3: by the way, A Beth, the Lovely Beth, who is
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  Speaker 3: the booker for the newsbas TV show. She sent me
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  Speaker 3: a note Todd, I was raised Catholic. We could not
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 3: eat chicken on Fridays and Lent. Oh okay, I don't
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  Speaker 3: know about that.
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  Speaker 5: That's not too bad.
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's so. It's not like you can't like eat
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 3: meat like the all the time. Right, That's where I'm confused.
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 3: So Catholics can eat the following things during Lent, sam
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 3: and tuna, cod, tilapia, wombats. No, I'm just kidding, can
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 3: eat wombats, crab, lobster, clams, and oysters. You're also allowed
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 3: to eat Oh well, you know what if you could
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 3: do shrimp, I'm good, you know I could. I could
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  Speaker 3: be a Catholic.
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  Speaker 5: Doesn't sound too bad. Yeah, so far.
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 3: Vegetarian beans, lentils, chickpeas, tofu, nuts and seeds. Okay, dairy
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 3: you still get to drink milk, eat cheese, yogurt, butter
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 3: and eggs. Then you got the pasta, rice, bread, cereals. Okay,
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 3: this is not bad. And most people you can eat.
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  Speaker 3: You're sposed You're supposed to be meatless on Wednesday and
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 3: off Fridays.
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 5: Okay, I don't know.
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 3: That's tough. You know why? I drive by Central Barbecue
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 3: on the way home every day and my catalog I
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 3: don't know what happens, but it immediately turns into the barbecue.
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 5: I understand that.
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah, however, if you're a pregnant woman, if you're old,
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 3: or you have a health condition, you're exempt from the rules.
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 5: Oh wow, there you go, just get pregnant.
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 3: There you go. All right, So well, thank you a
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 3: miss Beth for clarifying the rules and regulations. There do
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 3: they give you a manual? I wonder?
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  Speaker 11: I know.
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 3: All right, We've got a lot going on this hour
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 3: of the program, and honor to have you with us.
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 3: And I want to welcome on the Patriot Mobile neuse
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  Speaker 3: maker Line our good friend Steve gil He is the
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  Speaker 3: publisher of try Stardaily dot com. Steve, hope you're doing
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 3: well today. Thanks for joining us.
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  Speaker 5: Annuel.
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  Speaker 4: They may give you a menu doing the same sort
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 4: of thing that lets you know exactly what you're allowed
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  Speaker 4: to eat.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, a good point there, Steve. We're gonna put you on.
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 3: We're gonna put you a whole We've got a super
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 3: bad connection and we're going to try to get that
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 3: worked out, and we'll get back to Steve in UH,
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 3: just one moment, all right. We had an interesting conversation
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 3: with a guy running for uh running for office in
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 3: the Great State of Georgia. And you guys in Georgia
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 3: are dealing with a lot of stuff when it comes
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 3: to your Republican politics. And I don't know if you
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 3: know what it's not an anomaly. I mean, I think
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 3: this is this is hapening all over the nation as
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 3: Republicans sort of, I don't know, wage war on each other.
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 3: It's sort of a weird thing. But anyway, there's a
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 3: guy running for office. He's running to be the next
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 3: lieutenant governor, and he's put out this video which I
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 3: think is both hilarious and horrifying. But now everybody's accusing
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 3: him of being Islamophobic and they're calling for him to
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 3: pull out of the race. The guy's name is State
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 3: Senator Greg Dolozol, and the video he released a campaign
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 3: ad and it depicts Muslims terrorizing white Georgia residents and
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 3: then the entire ad ends with the message keep Georgia
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 3: Sharia free. Mister Dolozol is from coming Georgia, and he
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 3: characterized Muslims as invaders who would rather pillage our generosity
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 3: than assimilate. He was a guest on My new Umac's
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  Speaker 3: TV show. By the way, one state representative Ruwa roman, A,
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  Speaker 3: one of only two Muslims in the Georgia House, said
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 3: that she was appalled and said that he should be
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 3: removed from the race. Also once an apology. Let's take
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 3: a listen to the interview. I'm just curious what's been
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 3: the reaction to that video around the state of Georgia.
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 2: Well, it depends who you as Todd.
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  Speaker 20: There's certainly people that hate it, but there are a
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 20: lot of people who recognize that the message behind the video.
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 20: All the video may make people uncomfortable, the message behind
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 20: the video is the exact posture that we should be
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 20: taking in America. We cannot allow the invasion of foreign
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 20: laws into our courts. We cannot have parallel legal systems
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 20: set up with these parallel tribunals where people adjudicate cases
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 20: with systems of law that don't comport with the United
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 20: States Constitution. So I would say, in my world, it's
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 20: been eighty twenty positive, but certainly I'm probably here for
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 20: more Republicans than Democrats. That's probably be expected as well.
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  Speaker 16: Well.
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  Speaker 3: It's min understanding too that you've actually been asked to
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 3: drop out of the race for LG. What say you
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 3: to that, tolber and I am going to go anywhere.
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  Speaker 20: I certainly don't take advice from the Senate Majority leader
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 20: and the other folks that want to hide their heads
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 20: in the sand. You know, it's actually sad that in
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 20: the very week that we released this video, we had
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 20: three separate terrorist attacks on American soil conducted by individuals
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 20: who have sworn their allegiance to a foreign terroristic organization.
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 20: Some of them should, you know, should never have gotten
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 20: out of jail. Frankly, should have been tried for trees.
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 20: And if you swear allegiance to ISIS and you're doing
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 20: the work of ISIS, you should either be denaturalized if deported,
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 20: or frankly, you should be tried for trees and hung
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 20: in the town square. But you know, this individual has
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 20: let out early. I was recommended for a twenty year sentence,
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 20: didn't even serve half of that. And now we've got
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 20: a fine gentleman, an old Dominion by the name Lieutenant
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 20: Colonel Brandon Shaw. You know, this guy survived multiple two
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 20: of duty, hundreds of flight hours, but couldn't survive a
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 20: classroom in America where we have foreign elements seeking to
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 20: kill ROTC students.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and what does this say about those rot cadets
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 3: who apparently killed the guy the Jihatas with their bare hands.
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 3: God blessed those kids, and certainly hope that we see
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 3: them honored by President Trump. What say you to that?
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  Speaker 19: I completely agree.
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  Speaker 20: Apparently this individual walked in the room, asked if it
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 20: was the ROTC classroom, and opened fire and then suffered
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 20: the death, Like you said, at the hands of these
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 20: ROTC members, I was given swift justice. I think there
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 20: were twenty two stab wounds that he incurred in their
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 20: successful attempt to neutralize the threat. And frankly, that's how
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 20: I hope that all Americans would respond to these animals
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 20: who are seeking to come into this country or are
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 20: already in this country but have sworn allegiance to these
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 20: foreign entities that want to see death to America. And
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 20: it's frankly high time Todd that every elected official recognized
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 20: the threat that we are under the idea that we
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 20: are not funding the Department of homeland security in the
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 20: midst of these terrorist attacks on our soil is shameful.
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 20: It's a complete dereliction of duty by the Democrat Party
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 20: and it should be something that should be universally condemned
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  Speaker 20: by every single elected official in America.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, look, this is a difficult thing that we're
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 3: going to be talking about. And I don't know if
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 3: you heard our last segment here, but there is a
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 3: lot of passion here. The reality is the Islamist when
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 3: they gain control of a country, that's bad news for Christians,
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 3: for Jews, for members of the LGBT community. And all
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 3: we have to do is look at country after country
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 3: in the Middle East, look at world history. We are
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 3: not learning lessons here, sir. And this is what greatly
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 3: concerns me.
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  Speaker 20: Yeah, we have a two hundred and fifty year old
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 20: history here, Todd of recognizing equal value, equal rights for individuals.
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 20: You certainly become a long way on that quest. But
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  Speaker 20: Sharia law does not seek to adjudicate life on a
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  Speaker 20: daily basis in the same way that we would say
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 20: comports with the United States Constitution. And there are this
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 20: is a tough, uncomfortable issue because we do want to
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 20: be a country who welcomes everyone. That's part of our ethos.
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 20: We want to welcome people here, but we have to
• 1:24:15
  Speaker 20: recognize that there are some people that want to come
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 20: here with the sole intended purpose of overthrowing this country.
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 20: And so those are not people that you can welcome
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 20: into this country. You know, President Trump was ahead of
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 20: his time when he banned individuals from countries that hate America,
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 20: who have sworn allegiances to America. He had banned the
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 20: immigration from those countries. I think that it's something that
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 20: we should look at again. We cannot allow ourselves to
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 20: have this suicidal empathy that allows us to welcome people
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 20: into this country that would slit our throats.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's a great point the State senator brings up.
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  Speaker 3: And again, when you look at the numbers of mothque
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 3: that are being built in the country, the numbers of
• 1:24:57
  Speaker 3: Muslims that were imported into the United States, it does
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 3: make you wonder are we, you know, are people willing
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 3: to assimilates That's the big question. All right, I think
• 1:25:09
  Speaker 3: we've worked out our tech issues. Let's bring in Steve
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 3: Gill on our Patriot Mobile news maker line. Steve publisher
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 3: of Trying stardaily dot Com. Steve, good to have you
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 3: back with us. I will say this as it does
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  Speaker 3: seem to be the big issue that's impacting Congress right
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 3: now that they've got a Sharia free caucus, which is
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 3: what the fastest growing caucus up on Capitol Hill. Do
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 3: you anticipate this actually being a real and authentic issue
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 3: on the campaign trail?
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  Speaker 25: Absolutely?
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  Speaker 5: I think when you've seen just in the last couple
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  Speaker 5: of weeks.
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  Speaker 4: A number of radical Islamists who've conducted terrorist attacks in
• 1:25:49
  Speaker 4: this country. Well, by the way, Department full Land Security
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 4: is at limited numbers because the Democrats are refusing to
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 4: pay them, while people are being blocked from efficiently getting
• 1:25:59
  Speaker 4: on and off air plants because the Democrats are refusing.
• 1:26:02
  Speaker 5: To fund TSA.
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  Speaker 19: We're putting ourselves.
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  Speaker 26: At risk while our enemies, mainly these Islamists who are
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 26: trying to kill in the name of Allah, are successful
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 26: in many of these cases. And it's interesting that you know,
• 1:26:17
  Speaker 26: folks like the senator you were just talking to, Andy Ogles,
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 26: Congressman Andy Ogles, Tommy Tumberville, Senator from Alabama, they're under
• 1:26:26
  Speaker 26: fire for criticizing the radical Islamist agenda in this country,
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 26: while nobody is listening to the moms in this country
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  Speaker 26: and in London who were specifically.
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 25: Saying we're going to take over, We're gonna kill you.
• 1:26:40
  Speaker 25: Our religion allows us to rape unbelieving women. They're telling
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 25: us what they're gonna do. They're telling us what they're doing.
• 1:26:48
  Speaker 26: And yet the ones who are criticized are like your guests,
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 26: the Senator Tommy Tumberville, Andy Ogles and others who point
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 26: out that Islam is antithetical to the values of a democratic, free,
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  Speaker 26: modern civilized society.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Look, it's uh, it is interesting that they're the ones
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 3: that are coming under attack here when in fact, you've
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 3: got so many moms out there, and it's hard, especially
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 3: when you're you know, watching what's happening in social media.
• 1:27:18
  Speaker 3: It's hard not to conflate the issue here. But the
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 3: reality is you have a lot of moms that are
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 3: preaching hate, that are preaching death to America in the country,
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 3: and Steve, unfortunately we have got a super bad connection.
• 1:27:34
  Speaker 3: We're going to try to get that worked out. But again,
• 1:27:36
  Speaker 3: Steve Gill with us on the Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line.
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 3: I'm very sorry about that, folks, but bear with us,
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 3: all right, We've got to take a break here. Nine
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  Speaker 3: oh one two six zero five nine two six. Our number,
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  Speaker 3: that's nine oh one two six zero five nine two six.
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 3: This is the Todd starn Show. No matter, how many
• 1:28:04
  Speaker 3: years have you guys been married?
• 1:28:06
  Speaker 5: Now?
• 1:28:06
  Speaker 3: Is it two years yet?
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 5: Not yet? It will be two years in September.
• 1:28:10
  Speaker 3: I need to ask you a personal question, Yes, just
• 1:28:14
  Speaker 3: between you and me and the millions of people listening
• 1:28:17
  Speaker 3: to the program right now. Honeymoon? Where did you guys
• 1:28:20
  Speaker 3: go for the honeymoon?
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 5: We went to the Dominican Republic.
• 1:28:24
  Speaker 3: Okay, did your mom and dad enjoy the trip?
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 5: Did they enjoy our honeymoon?
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah? Did they come along with you on the honeymoon?
• 1:28:32
  Speaker 20: No?
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  Speaker 5: I can't say that they did.
• 1:28:34
  Speaker 4: They did?
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 5: Yeah?
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 3: What about the inn laws?
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 5: Not them either?
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 3: Really?
• 1:28:39
  Speaker 5: Yeah? Why not believe it or not? Well, you know,
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 5: the honeymoon's typically for you and your spouse.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, that's where you are wrong, my Fred, That's why
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 3: you are wrong.
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 5: I wonder, I wonder what's next.
• 1:28:51
  Speaker 3: Here's the headline from the Wall Street Journal, why my
• 1:28:54
  Speaker 3: mom is coming on the honeymoon. No, it's the latest
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 3: trend among gen z. Yes, couples are inviting their parents
• 1:29:04
  Speaker 3: and other relatives on post wedding trips known as honeymoons.
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 5: Wow? Why? Wow?
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 3: What is wrong with this generation? This is from the
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 3: Wall Street Journal. When Deane Peterson told friends she was
• 1:29:20
  Speaker 3: going on a honeymoon, they were confused. The seventy four
• 1:29:23
  Speaker 3: year old had not mentioned getting married. Peterson explained that
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 3: she was going to accompany her daughter and son in
• 1:29:29
  Speaker 3: law on a two week safari in Zimbabwe and Zambia.
• 1:29:35
  Speaker 3: An extended silence ensued. You know I can believe that.
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 5: Yeah, me too.
• 1:29:40
  Speaker 3: It's not as unusual as you or Peterson's friends might think.
• 1:29:45
  Speaker 3: Couples are inviting relatives on their honeymoons, saying they have
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 3: a lifetime for romance and solo travel, but a finite
• 1:29:53
  Speaker 3: period to spend with their families. They're calling them family moons.
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 3: Peterson's daughter, Robin Dixon, said her friends were aghast when
• 1:30:04
  Speaker 3: she told them about the plan to bring her mom.
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 3: Friends of the groom chined him with mother in law jokes.
• 1:30:10
  Speaker 3: They both insist the invitation felt natural. Really though, is
• 1:30:15
  Speaker 3: that true? I mean, the first you're plotting out your
• 1:30:17
  Speaker 3: honeymoon and you're like, I wonder where the mother in
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 3: law wants to go.
• 1:30:20
  Speaker 5: Yeah, this can't be the groom's idea, right, this cannot
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 5: be his idea.
• 1:30:26
  Speaker 3: The parents of the group Alex Dixon, were invited to
• 1:30:30
  Speaker 3: but they declined. Smart say, well, here's the reason why,
• 1:30:36
  Speaker 3: saying they would have come if the couple had chosen
• 1:30:38
  Speaker 3: another location like the south of France. Well, who wants
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 3: to get eaten by like a wild animal, like a wombat?
• 1:30:47
  Speaker 5: This is so weird. Do they eat people wombats? No,
• 1:30:50
  Speaker 5: they poop squares. Though I'm it's sorry, Will, It's true.
• 1:30:58
  Speaker 5: It's cubes actually hughes.
• 1:31:02
  Speaker 3: Uh Jesus alone. So bringing the in laws continuing with
• 1:31:09
  Speaker 3: the Wall Street Journal, bringing the in laws is part
• 1:31:12
  Speaker 3: of a broader redefining of the traditional honeymoon, where newly
• 1:31:15
  Speaker 3: married kocoon themselves from the outside world. There's the buddy moon,
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 3: in which newly weds invite friends on vacation after the wedding,
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 3: and there's also the post destination wedding extension. Oh, they
• 1:31:29
  Speaker 3: did a Medea movie about that. Yeah, they went to
• 1:31:33
  Speaker 3: the Bahamas. It was not very funny.
• 1:31:36
  Speaker 5: Romance is dead.
• 1:31:37
  Speaker 3: Family mooners say the presidence of moms and dads don't
• 1:31:41
  Speaker 3: have to douse the flames yeah, I'm pretty sure it would.
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 5: What kind of family is this? This family dynamic has
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 5: to be very close.
• 1:31:50
  Speaker 3: Honey, honey, what are you doing in there? Honey? Can
• 1:31:53
  Speaker 3: you come out?
• 1:31:54
  Speaker 5: Doors? Are locked? I don't want my family near any
• 1:31:58
  Speaker 5: moon that I have.
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 3: What's that banging noise? Julia and Stefan Cune were brainstorming
• 1:32:07
  Speaker 3: honeymoon locations when her parents, Eileen and Myron, mentioned they
• 1:32:13
  Speaker 3: were planning an anniversary trip to South America. Eileen casually
• 1:32:17
  Speaker 3: suggested they do a honeymoon anniversary trip. Not wanting to
• 1:32:21
  Speaker 3: be left out, Julia's younger sister joined, do you know what,
• 1:32:24
  Speaker 3: bring grandma and grandpa too?
• 1:32:27
  Speaker 5: You're saving money.
• 1:32:28
  Speaker 3: The crazy relatives invite them all. And if you don't
• 1:32:34
  Speaker 3: know if you're the crazy, you know, have you ever
• 1:32:35
  Speaker 3: been to a wedding? Yes, and you've got all these
• 1:32:39
  Speaker 3: relatives and so you always it's like the the weird
• 1:32:43
  Speaker 3: relatives always get stuck at like the back table, right,
• 1:32:47
  Speaker 3: And if you don't know that you're at the at
• 1:32:50
  Speaker 3: the back table, then you are one of the weird.
• 1:32:51
  Speaker 5: If you're wondering, yeah, if you're like, you're like, who
• 1:32:54
  Speaker 5: is the crazy? Who's the crazy? Uncle?
• 1:32:57
  Speaker 3: This is all very strange.
• 1:32:59
  Speaker 5: I can't believe this is actually a trend. This is
• 1:33:01
  Speaker 5: like the worst thing.
• 1:33:02
  Speaker 3: Ever I've Yeah, I'm just curious if any of our
• 1:33:05
  Speaker 3: listeners have done something like this where they all just
• 1:33:07
  Speaker 3: it's like a family vacation. We used to do that,
• 1:33:10
  Speaker 3: but we would go down to like the pink Porpoise.
• 1:33:13
  Speaker 3: Nobody was getting married.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 1:33:17
  Speaker 3: Also another interesting story involving a gen Z and we're
• 1:33:21
  Speaker 3: gonna get to this after the break, but apparently there
• 1:33:23
  Speaker 3: is they're calling it fridge cigarettes. They're saying that gen
• 1:33:28
  Speaker 3: Z is now gulping down gallons of diet coke instead
• 1:33:31
  Speaker 3: of smoking cigarettes. How to deal with stress? Is that true?
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  Speaker 3: Nine oh one two six zero five nine two six
• 1:33:39
  Speaker 3: are a telephone number, that's nine oh one two six
• 1:33:42
  Speaker 3: zero five nine two six. This is the Tod Stern Show.
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  Speaker 3: All right, welcome back, everybody. This is the Tom Sterns
• 1:34:04
  Speaker 3: Radio Show. So, yeah, this is a crazy story. But
• 1:34:09
  Speaker 3: apparently gen Z is dealing there. They're a stressed their
• 1:34:13
  Speaker 3: their generation is stressed out and uh no, I'm sure
• 1:34:18
  Speaker 3: it's a it's a variety of issues. But anyway, the
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  Speaker 3: good news here is that the gen Zers are choosing
• 1:34:26
  Speaker 3: not to smoke cigarettes. I guess to calm their nerves.
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  Speaker 12: There.
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  Speaker 3: It's it's a bit of a frazzled generation, if you will.
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  Speaker 3: So anyway, there is there's a new thing that young
• 1:34:38
  Speaker 3: people are doing, and it's got a it's a term now, Dylan.
• 1:34:41
  Speaker 3: It's called as if you're walking around and let's say,
• 1:34:45
  Speaker 3: the lovely Miss Helen says, man, I could use a
• 1:34:48
  Speaker 3: fridge cigarette. You would normally think, oh, somebody keeps some
• 1:34:52
  Speaker 3: mar burrows in the in the refrigerator.
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  Speaker 5: It's a safe it's a safe place to put them.
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  Speaker 5: I guess, yeah, that's what I would.
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  Speaker 3: Think, cool men thaller or something.
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  Speaker 7: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, but no, that would be wrong. That would
• 1:35:03
  Speaker 3: be incorrect because it's actually a gen Z slang term
• 1:35:07
  Speaker 3: for an ice cold canned of diet coke.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, did you know this? No, this is actually the
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  Speaker 5: first time I've heard.
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  Speaker 3: This is This is from Fox News. The mid afternoon
• 1:35:18
  Speaker 3: cigarette cigarette break has taken a new form for gen
• 1:35:22
  Speaker 3: Z with a sweet, bubbly twist. The fix is diet soda,
• 1:35:28
  Speaker 3: particularly diet coke, chilled to perfection. It's a TikTok trend,
• 1:35:34
  Speaker 3: just a little something to take the edge off. Now,
• 1:35:37
  Speaker 3: does diet coke cause cancer? I'm trying to keep up
• 1:35:39
  Speaker 3: with what causes cancer?
• 1:35:41
  Speaker 5: See I heard that when I was a kid.
• 1:35:42
  Speaker 3: Are you is it? Yeah? Are you more likely to
• 1:35:45
  Speaker 3: get cancer from smoking cigarettes or drinking diet coke?
• 1:35:50
  Speaker 5: Yeah? They told us like, oh, you're on diet, like
• 1:35:53
  Speaker 5: diet coke is your cancer? Because they were like, it's
• 1:35:55
  Speaker 5: not any better. That's what they were saying, right, They're like,
• 1:35:57
  Speaker 5: diet coke's not any better than actual. So then I'm like, well,
• 1:36:01
  Speaker 5: what's the point. And then they came out with coke
• 1:36:03
  Speaker 5: zero And who knows what coke zero is because it
• 1:36:07
  Speaker 5: still tastes like coke to me, So I don't know. Well.
• 1:36:10
  Speaker 3: By the way, speaking of ice cream, there is a
• 1:36:13
  Speaker 3: new study out that says ice cream is actually linked
• 1:36:16
  Speaker 3: to a surprising health benefits. So they told us that
• 1:36:20
  Speaker 3: eating ice cream was bad for you, but apparently it's
• 1:36:23
  Speaker 3: good for you. Interesting side Tech Daily has the story
• 1:36:29
  Speaker 3: and they said that eating people who ate more ice
• 1:36:32
  Speaker 3: cream sometimes had a lower risk of tight to diapedes.
• 1:36:37
  Speaker 3: I just they who are these scientists?
• 1:36:39
  Speaker 5: It's probably not Bluebell, right, they may.
• 1:36:42
  Speaker 3: Work for blue Bell ice Cream scientists say, yeah, come on,
• 1:36:49
  Speaker 3: just eat a pint.
• 1:36:50
  Speaker 5: Very healthy.
• 1:36:51
  Speaker 3: Don't worry about that. Don't worry about the fact you've
• 1:36:54
  Speaker 3: lost feeling in your left side. It's all good. That's
• 1:36:58
  Speaker 3: just the brain freeze, just the brain freeze. So anyway
• 1:37:03
  Speaker 3: back to this. Jonathan Albert is a psycho therapist based
• 1:37:07
  Speaker 3: in New York City, and he said that fridge cigarettes
• 1:37:12
  Speaker 3: work because diet coke can act as an emotional stand in.
• 1:37:16
  Speaker 3: I'm telling you a lot of there are a lot
• 1:37:18
  Speaker 3: of emotional problems with this generation.
• 1:37:21
  Speaker 5: Yeah, we always like to find something something to ease
• 1:37:24
  Speaker 5: the pain.
• 1:37:26
  Speaker 3: It becomes a way for people to pause, reset, or
• 1:37:29
  Speaker 3: reward themselves.
• 1:37:31
  Speaker 5: I would never reward myself with a diet coat.
• 1:37:34
  Speaker 3: Or a tab.
• 1:37:36
  Speaker 5: Ugh.
• 1:37:37
  Speaker 3: Those those pink they're like pepto bismol colored cans. Mother,
• 1:37:43
  Speaker 3: my mom used to chug those things. She also smoked.
• 1:37:47
  Speaker 5: You guys also like ate the aids or whatever what
• 1:37:50
  Speaker 5: was it?
• 1:37:51
  Speaker 26: Oh?
• 1:37:51
  Speaker 3: Yes, aids were very popular back in the day.
• 1:37:54
  Speaker 5: It was like an ad that said I love aids.
• 1:37:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah, everybody loves aids. Yes, They're very delicious. And the
• 1:37:59
  Speaker 3: way comes off.
• 1:38:00
  Speaker 5: With aids, it does, indeed, could.
• 1:38:04
  Speaker 3: You imagine though, And by the way, just in case
• 1:38:06
  Speaker 3: anybody reports us to the Human Rights Campaign. We're talking
• 1:38:09
  Speaker 3: about the diet the diet candy. It's a delicious caramel.
• 1:38:14
  Speaker 3: It's a square caramel, by the way. Yeah, and you
• 1:38:18
  Speaker 3: pop him in. And they were called AIDS.
• 1:38:20
  Speaker 5: Yeah. I don't know why they're called AIDS. Well I
• 1:38:22
  Speaker 5: wasn't alive to know why they're called AIDS. But you know,
• 1:38:26
  Speaker 5: because wasn't AIDS, like the actual AIDS before AIDS.
• 1:38:29
  Speaker 3: Yes, so it was. It was sort of co opted.
• 1:38:32
  Speaker 3: I think, I don't.
• 1:38:34
  Speaker 5: Know, you should know, this is what you ate.
• 1:38:38
  Speaker 3: But the problem was a lot of kids would go
• 1:38:40
  Speaker 3: into their mom's cambine and they're like, oh, candy, and
• 1:38:43
  Speaker 3: so they'd start chowing down on the AIDS.
• 1:38:46
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 1:38:46
  Speaker 3: So anyway, what an unfortunate name though, because once AIDS
• 1:38:50
  Speaker 3: came out as a you know, disease, Well, the candy
• 1:38:53
  Speaker 3: sales I think dropped off just a smitch.
• 1:38:56
  Speaker 5: I can imagine.
• 1:38:58
  Speaker 3: Billy wants some AID No, Mommy, no. Any there was
• 1:39:06
  Speaker 3: a great commercial. You should look that up. I think
• 1:39:09
  Speaker 3: we've played it once before on the show. So going
• 1:39:13
  Speaker 3: back to the story of the psychology, expert noted that
• 1:39:16
  Speaker 3: cranking open an ice cold diet coke is a sensory experience,
• 1:39:20
  Speaker 3: much like smoking. The crisp sound, the carbonation, and the
• 1:39:25
  Speaker 3: cold hit all offer a quick, reliable burst of stimulation
• 1:39:29
  Speaker 3: or relief. You know what happened to me over the weekend,
• 1:39:32
  Speaker 3: I was drinking a doctor I only drink doctor pepper
• 1:39:34
  Speaker 3: on the weekends now because you know, I'm on the
• 1:39:36
  Speaker 3: diet whatnot. And I don't know what happened. This happens
• 1:39:40
  Speaker 3: every single time I open up a doctor Pepper, It
• 1:39:43
  Speaker 3: like sprays all over the place. I guess that was
• 1:39:47
  Speaker 3: a I guess you could call it a reliable burst
• 1:39:50
  Speaker 3: of stimulation.
• 1:39:52
  Speaker 5: See that actually is a reward, though, because you're holding
• 1:39:55
  Speaker 5: off the doctor Pepper until the weekend, So that actually
• 1:39:58
  Speaker 5: is a reward. This is like you're going into your
• 1:40:01
  Speaker 5: fridge to get a cigarette every two hours.
• 1:40:03
  Speaker 3: Lo, and there lies the warning. Dylan is the psychoanalyst,
• 1:40:10
  Speaker 3: says when diet coke becomes a daily emotional crutch, it
• 1:40:14
  Speaker 3: can reinforce dependency patterns, particularly if it's being used to
• 1:40:18
  Speaker 3: manage anxiety, suppress appetite, or avoid discomfort. Well. On the
• 1:40:26
  Speaker 3: on the plus side, a six pack of diet coke
• 1:40:28
  Speaker 3: is cheaper than I don't know, meth.
• 1:40:32
  Speaker 5: Indeed, there's worse things to be addicted.
• 1:40:34
  Speaker 19: To or weed.
• 1:40:36
  Speaker 3: Nine oh one two six zero five nine two six
• 1:40:39
  Speaker 3: is our telephone number. That's nine oh one two six
• 1:40:42
  Speaker 3: zero five nine two six. All Right, we've got to
• 1:40:44
  Speaker 3: talk about what's happening down in Trussville, Alabama. Pardon me, Tuscaloosa, Alabama,
• 1:40:52
  Speaker 3: the home of the University of Alabama. They have a
• 1:40:54
  Speaker 3: public library down there, and for the past year, the
• 1:40:58
  Speaker 3: local chapter of Eagle for which is a great conservative organization,
• 1:41:02
  Speaker 3: has been holding their monthly meetings at the public library.
• 1:41:06
  Speaker 3: They have a little room, a community room. People can
• 1:41:09
  Speaker 3: rent out the community room, and so they agreed to
• 1:41:11
  Speaker 3: do so. Well, anyway, the librarians came over and said, oh,
• 1:41:16
  Speaker 3: we didn't realize you guys were Christians, and we're not
• 1:41:19
  Speaker 3: allowed to rent the room to any religious people. So
• 1:41:23
  Speaker 3: now they've got a lawyer, they've got Alliance Defending Freedom
• 1:41:27
  Speaker 3: representing them. Becky Garretson and Travis Barram, we're on my
• 1:41:32
  Speaker 3: NEWSMAC show to give us the lowdown of what actually
• 1:41:35
  Speaker 3: happened tigulism. Joining me now, Becky Garretson, the executive director
• 1:41:39
  Speaker 3: for Eagle Form of Alabama, and Travis Barram senior counsel
• 1:41:43
  Speaker 3: for Alliance Defending Freedom. Good to have you with us, Becky,
• 1:41:47
  Speaker 3: I am just shocked, Eagle Forum. Of all folks, y'all
• 1:41:51
  Speaker 3: are good, decent folks. What in the world happened at
• 1:41:54
  Speaker 3: that library?
• 1:41:55
  Speaker 2: That's right, Thank you so much for having us.
• 1:41:58
  Speaker 27: You know, we've been meeting in their life. They gave
• 1:42:00
  Speaker 27: us permission to meet for a year. We've been meeting there,
• 1:42:03
  Speaker 27: and then all of a sudden, out of the blue,
• 1:42:05
  Speaker 27: they tell us that due to the social and political climate,
• 1:42:09
  Speaker 27: we will be canceling all of your future upcoming dates.
• 1:42:12
  Speaker 27: And they pointed to their policy that says if you're
• 1:42:16
  Speaker 27: religious or sectarian, you're not allowed to use their space.
• 1:42:19
  Speaker 2: We were shocked. That is a clear violation of our
• 1:42:23
  Speaker 2: constitutional rights.
• 1:42:25
  Speaker 27: So we sent them a demand letter, hoping they would
• 1:42:27
  Speaker 27: see the policy was wrong and do something about it
• 1:42:30
  Speaker 27: and rescind their decision.
• 1:42:32
  Speaker 2: That didn't happen, and here we are.
• 1:42:35
  Speaker 3: Travis, I'm really surprised to hear this news. First of all, dude,
• 1:42:39
  Speaker 3: it's Alabama. Second of all, they've had drag queens and
• 1:42:43
  Speaker 3: all sorts of crazy stuff going down in those libraries.
• 1:42:46
  Speaker 3: You're going to tell me that Eagle Forum is the
• 1:42:48
  Speaker 3: problem child here.
• 1:42:50
  Speaker 11: It is absurd and it's blatantly unconstitutional. The Supreme Court
• 1:42:54
  Speaker 11: has been clear time and time again that public spaces
• 1:42:58
  Speaker 11: have to be open to all groups an even handed basis.
• 1:43:01
  Speaker 11: Religious and secular groups given the same access. And if
• 1:43:05
  Speaker 11: the government tries to exclude a religious groups simply because
• 1:43:08
  Speaker 11: it's religious, that's discrimination and that finalists.
• 1:43:11
  Speaker 19: The First Amendment.
• 1:43:13
  Speaker 3: Beg I'm curious, you know your organization, and again it
• 1:43:17
  Speaker 3: is Alabama, But that's a lesson here because it can
• 1:43:20
  Speaker 3: happen in any state in the nation, including a conservative
• 1:43:24
  Speaker 3: Christian state like Alabama.
• 1:43:26
  Speaker 27: Indeed, we took a stand because we felt like if
• 1:43:30
  Speaker 27: they can do it to us, they're going to do
• 1:43:33
  Speaker 27: it to others, and we need to stand up for
• 1:43:35
  Speaker 27: those other groups as well so they don't come to
• 1:43:37
  Speaker 27: the same fate.
• 1:43:38
  Speaker 3: Travis, I'm curious what, let's get down to the legal
• 1:43:40
  Speaker 3: leaves here. What does the law say.
• 1:43:44
  Speaker 11: Well, the law says very clearly that if you're going
• 1:43:46
  Speaker 11: to if the government opens up a meeting space, it
• 1:43:50
  Speaker 11: has to give religious and secular groups the same access
• 1:43:52
  Speaker 11: to that space. The Supreme Court has said that in
• 1:43:55
  Speaker 11: cases dealing with public universities with public schools with government
• 1:44:01
  Speaker 11: programs that give schools shredded tires for their playgrounds. So
• 1:44:05
  Speaker 11: it's been clear time and time again if you exclude,
• 1:44:08
  Speaker 11: if the government excludes a religious group from a program
• 1:44:12
  Speaker 11: simply because it's religious, that violates the law. That's unconstitutional,
• 1:44:17
  Speaker 11: and that's what needs to get changed here.
• 1:44:19
  Speaker 3: And for egle Forum folks, the message here is don't
• 1:44:24
  Speaker 3: back down, don't go away quietly into the good night.
• 1:44:27
  Speaker 11: Indeed, it's wonderful to see groups like ego Forums taking
• 1:44:31
  Speaker 11: a stand here, and we hope that the court system
• 1:44:34
  Speaker 11: is going to vindicate their stand by striking down this
• 1:44:38
  Speaker 11: policy and allowing the group to come back in. Or
• 1:44:42
  Speaker 11: we hope that the library comes to its senses and realizes, hey,
• 1:44:46
  Speaker 11: we need to change our policies to line up with
• 1:44:48
  Speaker 11: the constitution.
• 1:44:49
  Speaker 19: Yeah, Miss Starret's and your reaction to that as well.
• 1:44:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the outcome that we're hoping for.
• 1:44:54
  Speaker 27: It's a great place to meet, it should be available
• 1:44:57
  Speaker 27: to everyone.
• 1:44:58
  Speaker 2: We had a great relationship group leaders and their staff.
• 1:45:01
  Speaker 2: Everything was fine.
• 1:45:02
  Speaker 27: So it was shocking to us, and we hope they'll
• 1:45:05
  Speaker 27: hurry up and turn their decision around and change their policy.
• 1:45:09
  Speaker 3: Beg Yeah, I'm curious. Is this the first time that
• 1:45:11
  Speaker 3: you guys have come under fire like this for meeting.
• 1:45:15
  Speaker 2: Yes, we have action groups that meet across the state.
• 1:45:18
  Speaker 27: Most of them monthly, all over communities across the state.
• 1:45:22
  Speaker 27: And this is the first time we have actually been
• 1:45:24
  Speaker 27: kicked out of a place, just especially for religious reasons.
• 1:45:29
  Speaker 27: That really shocked us.
• 1:45:35
  Speaker 3: All Right, Washington State, Man, are they in a world
• 1:45:39
  Speaker 3: have hurt? Democrats are now going to be raising taxes.
• 1:45:44
  Speaker 3: Also in Seattle, it has literally crippled business in the
• 1:45:49
  Speaker 3: downtown core. So the Downtown Seattle Association had a big
• 1:45:53
  Speaker 3: meeting about this. The president and CEO a guy by
• 1:45:57
  Speaker 3: the name of John Scholes, and he is annihilating this
• 1:46:01
  Speaker 3: so called progressive tank. So I want you to take
• 1:46:04
  Speaker 3: a listen to us.
• 1:46:05
  Speaker 28: But as we've seen crime decrease in the core of downtown,
• 1:46:08
  Speaker 28: we have seen it shift and we have.
• 1:46:09
  Speaker 19: Seen it increase in other neighborhoods.
• 1:46:11
  Speaker 28: It's up in Belltown and it's up in the Chinatown
• 1:46:13
  Speaker 28: International District. Job growth in our city last year softened.
• 1:46:18
  Speaker 28: We lost jobs, and over the last five years in
• 1:46:21
  Speaker 28: downtown Seattle we've lost thirty seven jobs.
• 1:46:24
  Speaker 19: We're going in the wrong direction.
• 1:46:27
  Speaker 28: And meanwhile, in Bellevue, they've been adding jobs twelve percent
• 1:46:31
  Speaker 28: job growth over the same period compared to Seattle.
• 1:46:34
  Speaker 19: Here, and I want to be clear, I'm not rooting
• 1:46:36
  Speaker 19: against Bellevue.
• 1:46:37
  Speaker 28: By any means, and I think we've got some Bellvue
• 1:46:39
  Speaker 28: friends in the house today. I saw Joe Faane, the
• 1:46:42
  Speaker 28: CEO of the Bellevy Chamber earlier. I want Bellvue to succeed,
• 1:46:46
  Speaker 28: and I'm also rooting for Seattle and waving the flag
• 1:46:50
  Speaker 28: here that we're going in the wrong direction after twenty
• 1:46:53
  Speaker 28: years of incredibly steady job growth and over this period
• 1:46:57
  Speaker 28: where we've seen a decrease in jobs, we've seen a
• 1:47:02
  Speaker 28: record increase in taxes that employers in the city of
• 1:47:05
  Speaker 28: Seattle are paying that employers aren't paying in Bellevue in
• 1:47:09
  Speaker 28: other cities in our region. We have become an outlier
• 1:47:12
  Speaker 28: when it comes to the cost of doing business in
• 1:47:14
  Speaker 28: our city. In total, over the last three years or so,
• 1:47:17
  Speaker 28: there's a billion dollars in new taxes that employers based
• 1:47:20
  Speaker 28: in the city of Seattle are paying that they weren't
• 1:47:23
  Speaker 28: paying five years ago, and that they're not paying in
• 1:47:26
  Speaker 28: Belvy in other parts of our region.
• 1:47:28
  Speaker 19: This, along with hybrid work.
• 1:47:31
  Speaker 28: And some of the continued shifts in the tech economy
• 1:47:34
  Speaker 28: has contributed to an office vacancy rate in downtown Seattle
• 1:47:37
  Speaker 28: plus thirty percent, a historic number. And this reality is
• 1:47:42
  Speaker 28: driving down the value of commercial property in our city,
• 1:47:46
  Speaker 28: and particularly in downtown, driving down the value of office buildings.
• 1:47:50
  Speaker 28: The ten buildings that were worth the most in twenty
• 1:47:54
  Speaker 28: twenty two lost more than half their value when you
• 1:47:57
  Speaker 28: compare their number today to that period just six years ago.
• 1:48:01
  Speaker 19: The excuse me four years ago.
• 1:48:03
  Speaker 28: So that reality of the commercial values declining in our
• 1:48:07
  Speaker 28: downtown in a city that is heavily dependent on property taxes,
• 1:48:11
  Speaker 28: that has put property taxes for universal preschool, and for
• 1:48:16
  Speaker 28: transportation and for education, and we will have a library
• 1:48:19
  Speaker 28: levee on the ballot. This is a way in which
• 1:48:21
  Speaker 28: we've raised revenue through the property tax. The reality of
• 1:48:25
  Speaker 28: a declining tax based on the commercial side shifts the
• 1:48:28
  Speaker 28: tax burden to renters, owners and small businesses through their
• 1:48:32
  Speaker 28: triple net leases. These taxes that have been proposed and
• 1:48:36
  Speaker 28: adopted over the last three or four years have been
• 1:48:39
  Speaker 28: articulated as progressive revenue. But let me tell you the
• 1:48:43
  Speaker 28: results of what is happening here, of this massive tax
• 1:48:46
  Speaker 28: shift to renters, to homeowners, to small businesses in the
• 1:48:49
  Speaker 28: city of Seattle. There's nothing progressive about that, and that
• 1:48:53
  Speaker 28: has been the effect. And I will say, we don't
• 1:49:01
  Speaker 28: need more business taxes in Seattle. We need more businesses
• 1:49:06
  Speaker 28: in Seattle paying taxes.
• 1:49:12
  Speaker 19: That's how we strengthen the tax base.
• 1:49:14
  Speaker 28: We fill these vacant storefronts, we fill the vacant floors
• 1:49:17
  Speaker 28: in our office buildings.
• 1:49:19
  Speaker 19: We drive up those commercial values.
• 1:49:20
  Speaker 28: We take some of the burden off of renters and
• 1:49:22
  Speaker 28: owners and small business. We grow the pie, We create jobs,
• 1:49:26
  Speaker 28: we create opportunities, and we have to recognize we're in
• 1:49:29
  Speaker 28: an incredibly competitive environment when it comes to the choices
• 1:49:33
  Speaker 28: that employers have within the city, within the region, and
• 1:49:35
  Speaker 28: within the state. They don't have to be here. We
• 1:49:39
  Speaker 28: want them here, and there's great reasons for them to
• 1:49:41
  Speaker 28: be here. We have incredible talent, this natural beauty, and
• 1:49:45
  Speaker 28: incredible downtown. We have to every day recognize how competitive
• 1:49:51
  Speaker 28: of a landscape we have, and we have to accept
• 1:49:54
  Speaker 28: the box score. You know, I believe that, And it's
• 1:49:57
  Speaker 28: been said often over these last few years that democracies
• 1:50:00
  Speaker 28: don't survive without a shared set of facts and a
• 1:50:03
  Speaker 28: shared reality, and either do downtowns.
• 1:50:07
  Speaker 19: So we need to accept the facts.
• 1:50:09
  Speaker 28: And the reality of where we sit today and the
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  Speaker 28: choices that employers have.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's look, I'm glad to hear this kind of
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  Speaker 3: language coming out, and that's really where it's going to
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  Speaker 3: have to come from from the business community and especially
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  Speaker 3: the small business owners, you know. And he's absolutely right
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  Speaker 3: about who's going to end up bearing the brunt of
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  Speaker 3: all of this. You know, let's just say that the
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  Speaker 3: property taxes are going to be increased, and that's been
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  Speaker 3: a big issue with a lot of medium sized communities.
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  Speaker 3: And the fact of the matter is the landlords are
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  Speaker 3: going to pass along whatever those costs are to the
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  Speaker 3: to the people that are renting. So you can expect
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  Speaker 3: for rent prices to go up no matter where you are.
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  Speaker 3: So until these towns and communities get a hold on
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  Speaker 3: their spending, nothing is going to change, and prices are
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  Speaker 3: going to continue to go up. So look, we've got
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  Speaker 3: a great show tonight, five o'clock Eastern on Newsmax, The
• 1:51:08
  Speaker 3: Todd Stern Show. You can watch us on Newsmax two's
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  Speaker 3: live YouTube channel, also on a number of OTT platforms,
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  Speaker 3: so you can just check your cable listings for that
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  Speaker 3: Senator Tommy Tumberville joins us right out of the gate,
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  Speaker 3: and he's going to be talking about the Sharia Caucus,
• 1:51:27
  Speaker 3: the anti Sharia caucus that has developed. It is now
• 1:51:30
  Speaker 3: the fastest growing caucus up on Capitol Hill, well over
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  Speaker 3: fifty members. So we'll be talking to the Senator about that. Also,
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  Speaker 3: efforts in the Senate to get the Save America Act passed.
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  Speaker 3: We understand that there have been some new developments there
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  Speaker 3: with Senator Schmidt out of Missouri, so we're going to
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  Speaker 3: keep you updated on all of that. It's going to
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  Speaker 3: be a lot of fun tonight. And of course Tracy
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  Speaker 3: Burns is going to be along. She's got a brand
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  Speaker 3: new book out that shows you how to deduct edverary
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  Speaker 3: on your income taxes. That's going to be a great
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  Speaker 3: segment as well. All right, we've got to screw down
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  Speaker 3: to here, folks. It has been a great, great show today.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you for listening, Thank you for calling in. Get
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  Speaker 3: out there, folks, have a great when you'd be safe
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