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Texas Dem Calls for a Crackdown on Beef · ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes

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  Speaker 1: Well, live from the Liberty University Studio in Memphis, Tennessee.
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  Speaker 1: Todd starts Monday.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Hello, everybody, welcome to the Todd Stearns Radio Show.
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  Speaker 2: And wow, do we have a lot happening on today's program.
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  Speaker 2: Senator Mark Wayne Mullen, who is President Trump's replacement for
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  Speaker 2: is undergoing confirmation hearings right now up on Campitol Hill
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  Speaker 2: and it's getting a little spicy. We're going to get
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  Speaker 2: to all of that in just a little while. And guys,
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  Speaker 2: that would be super helpful. Also, we've got a we
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  Speaker 2: have a load of guests coming up. Liz Peak's going
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  Speaker 2: to be here also, Michelle Tafoya, who is who is
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  Speaker 2: Again that number, nine oh one two six zero five
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  Speaker 2: We're also following a hearing of featuring Tulsea Gambard, who
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  Speaker 2: is sort of kind of on the hot seat right
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  Speaker 2: now after what happened and what went down with Joe Kent.
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  Speaker 2: Joe Kent, of course announcing his resignation yesterday. We're going
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  Speaker 2: to get into that a little bit later on the program.
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  Speaker 2: There are a lot of accusations being slung around, but
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  Speaker 2: here's what you need to know about Joe Kent. The
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  Speaker 2: first interviews that he's agreed to do are with Tucker
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  Speaker 2: Carlson and Candice Owen, so you can sort of figure
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  Speaker 2: out exactly what his thinking is. Right now. A lot
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  Speaker 2: of people are condemning Kent. President Trump has been sort
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  Speaker 2: of hands off, you know, as far as I mean,
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  Speaker 2: He's said some nice things about Kent. But the reporting
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  Speaker 2: that we are getting is that it's been very clear
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  Speaker 2: for quite some time that Kent was leaking. He had
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  Speaker 2: been banned from some of the intelligence meetings with the President,
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  Speaker 2: and at that point a lot of people are wondering
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  Speaker 2: why was he still employed there, why did Tulci Gabbard
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  Speaker 2: not do anything about that? And is it possible that
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  Speaker 2: Tulci Gabbard's job could be on the line here. Caroline
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  Speaker 2: Lovett earlier today was asked about that during a sort
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  Speaker 2: of a White House a scrum there outside on what
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  Speaker 2: they call Pebble Beach where all the reporters get her,
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  Speaker 2: and she said, ultimately, you know, that decision is up
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  Speaker 2: to the President. So not exactly a ringing endorsement. Speaking
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  Speaker 2: of the President, got a call last night from the
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  Speaker 2: White House and the President Trump is going to be
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  Speaker 2: coming to Memphis. President Trump will be arriving in the
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  Speaker 2: Bluff City on Monday, and he's going to be touting
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  Speaker 2: the incredible success of the Memphis Safe task for so
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  Speaker 2: looking forward to being with the President. And we'll tell
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  Speaker 2: you more about that as it happens on Monday's program.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, it's interesting what's happened here in Memphis
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  Speaker 2: is not getting any national media attention. And the reason
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  Speaker 2: why is because this city has literally been transformed. You
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  Speaker 2: had a city that was the deadliest in America. People
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  Speaker 2: were afraid to go grocery shopping. You had nine and
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  Speaker 2: ten year old children that were out carjacking folks, and
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  Speaker 2: a lot of that kind of crime has been completely eradicated.
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  Speaker 2: As a matter of fact. I mean some estimates that
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  Speaker 2: I've seen crime down something what like seventy percent in
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  Speaker 2: some categories. It's remarkable the work that the President has
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  Speaker 2: done here. And again, this is a city that was oppressed.
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  Speaker 2: It was a city that had been turned into a
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  Speaker 2: war zone. One of the big problems though, that we're
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  Speaker 2: now facing is we have a George Sorow style da
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  Speaker 2: by the name of Steve Mulroy. And this guy is
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  Speaker 2: actually I mean he's they're not prosecuting a lot of
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  Speaker 2: the people that need to be prosecuted, and so a
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  Speaker 2: lot of these criminal thugs that the task Force is
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  Speaker 2: rounding up, they're putting right back out onto the street. Now,
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  Speaker 2: I can tell you that what's happening here in Memphis
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  Speaker 2: is a beautiful thing. And honestly, if you are looking
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  Speaker 2: for a great weekend vacation getaway, this is the place
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  Speaker 2: to visit. There's so much, so much to see and
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  Speaker 2: do in Memphis. But don't take my word for it. And
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  Speaker 2: I know we have a lot of listeners in our
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  Speaker 2: flagship station KWAM. And I'm sure that a lot of
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  Speaker 2: them will attest to the fact that this is a
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  Speaker 2: much safer city now that President Trump sent in the
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  Speaker 2: task Force. And so the President's coming to town and
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  Speaker 2: he's going to be touting all of that. Meanwhile, you
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  Speaker 2: have Democrats here and this is the only we are
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  Speaker 2: the blue buttocks of Tennessee. And I mean it is
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  Speaker 2: a dark it is a dark blue butt And the
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  Speaker 2: reality is the Democrats here got us into this situation
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  Speaker 2: because the Democrats love criminals. The Democrats love chaos. The
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  Speaker 2: Democrats want you to live your life in fear, and
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  Speaker 2: so they created an environment in Memphis where where crime was.
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  Speaker 2: You guys just don't know how bad it. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it was bad. It's the the idea that you couldn't
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  Speaker 2: even I don't go to the grocery store without you know,
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  Speaker 2: you had to. You had to make sure you had
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  Speaker 2: your gun, and you had to make sure that when
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  Speaker 2: you got out, you were looking around and it's almost
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  Speaker 2: like people were zigzagging, you know, through the parking lot
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  Speaker 2: to get to get to the grocery store. It's insane.
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  Speaker 2: And you don't have to do that anymore. Now you
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  Speaker 2: can you can play music and you can you can
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  Speaker 2: get out of your car. You don't have to wear kevlar,
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  Speaker 2: you don't have to worry about making sure you've got
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  Speaker 2: all your affairs in order just to go get I
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  Speaker 2: don't know, a carton of eggs. It's like a whole
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  Speaker 2: new day here, and a lot of people didn't think
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  Speaker 2: that could happen. They don't get me wrong. We still
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  Speaker 2: got people getting shot, but the reality is they're they're shooting.
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  Speaker 2: They're not shooting at just innocent people going to I
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  Speaker 2: don't get a Chick fil a sandwich. They're not robbing people.
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  Speaker 2: They were literally carjacking people, don't I don't know if
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  Speaker 2: you remember this. They were carjacking people in the drive
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  Speaker 2: through of the McDonald's. So not only were they stealing
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  Speaker 2: your car, they were stealing your egg McMuffin, and.
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  Speaker 3: If you got a kid's meal, then they stole the
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  Speaker 3: toy too.
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  Speaker 2: Son of a biscuit eater. Yeah, I hate those criminals.
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  Speaker 2: I hate the thugs. So so now President Trump, you know,
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  Speaker 2: he stopped all of that. And it all started right
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  Speaker 2: here on this radio program, right we had the President
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  Speaker 2: on and we were he was talking about how great
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  Speaker 2: things were going in Washington, and I said, mister President, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that's great, but you got to you gotta see what's
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  Speaker 2: happening here in Memphis. He was not aware. He said
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  Speaker 2: he was going to look into it, and a couple
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  Speaker 2: of weeks later he said, yeah, we're gees al stars.
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  Speaker 2: We're gonna we got to send the National Guard in. Well, no,
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  Speaker 2: I don't think he said gez alou, but I imagine that
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  Speaker 2: he would say gezulou and he did. And of course
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  Speaker 2: the Trump family is very involved here in Memphis. They
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  Speaker 2: are massive donors to Saint Jude Children's Research Hospital that
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  Speaker 2: does not get a lot of attention. They don't last
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  Speaker 2: for it, they really don't. But it goes to the
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  Speaker 2: heart of who President Trump is and the values that
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  Speaker 2: he raised his children with that they, you know, want
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  Speaker 2: to be donors and they want to be great supporters
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  Speaker 2: of a hospital like Saint Jude. So God bless God
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  Speaker 2: bless President Trump. And again, you folks in Memphis, I look,
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  Speaker 2: there are already statements coming out. You've got Democrats that
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  Speaker 2: are saying the President's not welcome. Are you glad, Memphis,
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  Speaker 2: Tennessee that President Trump sent the National Guard to your community?
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  Speaker 2: were talking yesterday day on the show, and we're gonna
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  Speaker 2: it's just sort of there's a nice tie in here.
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  Speaker 2: We were talking on the show yesterday about spring Breakers
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  Speaker 2: gone Wild, and we did a segment last night of
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  Speaker 2: the NEWSMAC Show with our good friend Case Smike Hill
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  Speaker 2: and Mary Walter, and we actually came up with a
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  Speaker 2: solution for what's been going on with the with the
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  Speaker 2: spring Breakers, and we're gonna get to that in just
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  Speaker 2: a little while. But one of the problems in America,
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  Speaker 2: and one of the problems in Memphis, Tennessee, by the way,
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  Speaker 2: which a report came out and I think we've lost
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  Speaker 2: almost forty fifty thousand citizens that have moved away. And
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  Speaker 2: it wasn't just because of the crime, but it was
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  Speaker 2: also because of the education system. Seventy percent of the
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  Speaker 2: kids in public schools in Memphis cannot read at grade level.
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  Speaker 2: And so when you are planning on relocating your family,
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  Speaker 2: one of the first things you're looking at is, okay,
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  Speaker 2: is there a lot of crime in the neighborhood is there,
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  Speaker 2: How are the schools And if you've got if you've
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  Speaker 2: got serious crime, and if you've got lousy schools, chances
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  Speaker 2: are you're not going to relocate your family to a
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  Speaker 2: place like Memphis. And for the past couple of years,
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  Speaker 2: we've had city Hall telling us, Oh, it's just a
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  Speaker 2: perception problem. It's just a perception of crime. It's a
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  Speaker 2: perception problem. All the people moving away, it's a perception problem. Well,
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  Speaker 2: now Tennessee is about to reconfigure how taxes are handed
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  Speaker 2: out to local municipalities, and a lot of it's going
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  Speaker 2: to be based on population. So guess what. Now, all
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  Speaker 2: of a sudden, the Democrats are squawking about how many
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  Speaker 2: people they have lost, and it's probably a lot more
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  Speaker 2: than forty five to fifty thousand people, to be perfectly
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  Speaker 2: honest with you. But the reality of the schools. I
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  Speaker 2: want to get back to the schools here. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it's you've got all these kids, and I've noticed this
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  Speaker 2: trend across the entire nation where these kids are walking
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  Speaker 2: out of class and they're marching in this streets. You know,
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  Speaker 2: they're hating ice, and they've got all these signs and
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  Speaker 2: Lord love them. The kids are so dumb they can't
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  Speaker 2: even read what's on the signs because they're not at
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  Speaker 2: reading level. They're not teaching the kids how to read.
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  Speaker 2: They're not teaching the kids how to write. And in
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  Speaker 2: a lot of schools, the kids basically run the program
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  Speaker 2: hands off, and teachers have to be hands off otherwise
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  Speaker 2: they get sued or they get thrown in jail. But
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  Speaker 2: we came to the conclusion that's been watching all of
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  Speaker 2: these thugs and thuggets and thugglings rioting, and there's a
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  Speaker 2: common denominator in all of them. Whether you're at a
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  Speaker 2: Chuck E Cheese or a Red Lobster or an olive
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  Speaker 2: garden or a TGI Fridays or a wah Wah or
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  Speaker 2: a seven to eleven or a wal Mart or a Kroger,
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  Speaker 2: or the Rodeo in Houston, Texas, or downtown Winston Salem,
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  Speaker 2: North Carolina, or Miami, Florida, or Daytona Beach, Florida, the
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  Speaker 2: Navy Yard in Washington, d C. Tom Lee Park, and Memphis.
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  Speaker 2: There's a common denominator between all of the thugs and
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  Speaker 2: the thugglings and the thug ads. Well, okay, maybe two,
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  Speaker 2: but the one I want to talk about. They're all utes.
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  Speaker 2: That's right, ladies and gentlemen, they're all teenagers. And it
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  Speaker 2: dawned on our panel that maybe the problem here is
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  Speaker 2: that parents are just simply not parenting their kids. It's
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  Speaker 2: I mean, if your child is out on the streets
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  Speaker 2: at you know, any time past dark, that's on you,
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  Speaker 2: mom and dad. And quite frankly, mom and dad, you
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  Speaker 2: belong in jail, and mom and dad, if you're little
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  Speaker 2: thug or thuggling, if your child is responsible for looting
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  Speaker 2: a store, then you ought to be personally responsible for
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  Speaker 2: all of the damage that your child does. But anyway,
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  Speaker 2: our panel and I I love this because Ky smyth Hill,
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  Speaker 2: who is she is from Australia or England. I think
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  Speaker 2: she's British. So Kay is out there saying and she
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  Speaker 2: agreed with me, and I said, the problem is that
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  Speaker 2: we're not engaging in corporal punishment anymore. That many moms
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  Speaker 2: and dans, many moms and dads no longer use the belt.
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  Speaker 2: And my suggestion, just based on what we've seen over
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  Speaker 2: the past five or six days with the all hell
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  Speaker 2: breaking loose at the spring Break events, is that we
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  Speaker 2: need a good old fashion nationwide butt whooping. And I'm
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  Speaker 2: not talking about one of those high falutin butt whoopings
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  Speaker 2: with the G. I'm talking about a good old fashioned
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  Speaker 2: butt whooping that's with an N, no G apostrophe, a
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  Speaker 2: good old fashion go get me a switch butt whoopan
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  Speaker 2: or some people prefer the belt. But I think that's
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  Speaker 2: a big problem is that we're just not disciplining our kids.
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  Speaker 2: Have you been to a restaurant, You've seen kids raise it? Holy?
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  Speaker 2: You know what? That's I can promise you that did
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  Speaker 2: on Monday. Maybe you have some recommendations if the president one,
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  Speaker 2: and of course a lot of people are focused on
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  Speaker 2: Minnesota and our next guest is running for the US Senate.
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  Speaker 2: She is a former NFL sideline reporter. Our good friend
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  Speaker 2: Michelle Tafoya. Michelle, good to have you back with us.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, thanks for having me. I appreciate it.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's interesting. We've been watching over the past
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  Speaker 2: week or so of the Governor Tim Waltz testifying up
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  Speaker 2: on Campitol Hill, and it's just every single time this
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: guy opened his mouth, it's almost as if what in
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  Speaker 2: the world were the people of Minnesota.
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  Speaker 4: Thinking, Yeah, it's it's amazing. And we could say that
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: now about Abigail Spanberger in Virginia. These Democrats who position
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: themselves as moderates and very you know, sort of right
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: middle of the road for showing their true colors once
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  Speaker 4: they get into positions of power. And unfortunately Tim Wallas
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: has gotten a pass here in Minnesota because our local
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: media did not vet him. You noticed when he was
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: suddenly catapulted into the vice presidential nomination alongside Kamala Harris.
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: Suddenly the national media started to vet him and things
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: became much clearer. And so now I think the vast
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: majority of Minnesota's are very embarrassed by this governor. I
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: talked to Democrats and Republicans who feel that way. So
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: that is why he's stepping out of the race. He
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: was going to run for a third term, and he
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: no longer is because he knows he cannot win.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I know Minnesota. I've traveled there a lot
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: during my time at Fox News Channel on the campaign trail,
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: and just so many good, decent, hard working as salt
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: of the earth folks there, and they have to be
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: so enraged to know that they're hard earned money was
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: going to fund a lot of these fraudulent agencies run
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: by mostly Somali Americans.
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  Speaker 4: It is sickening. It is sickening, and I can tell
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: you that this is something that I talk about on
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  Speaker 4: the trail all the time, whether it's Northern Minnesota, southern Minnesota,
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: or right in the cities. People are outraged, and I
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: think now they're at the point where they're not only
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: outraged that it's happened to them, but they're waiting patiently
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: to see if anyone pays the price. Is Tim Walls complicit,
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: figure it out and punish accordingly. Same with our Attorney
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: General Keith Ellison. It's we have him on tape saying
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: things that are very untoured for an age and potentially illegal.
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: We need the US Attorney's office here in Minnesota, we
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: need the DOJ to continue to press on this. I
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  Speaker 4: think people are even more angry that no one has
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  Speaker 4: been held accountable. Yes, we have some of the fraudsters
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: in prison, but the amount of money that has gone
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: out of this Stay todd and it's federal money too,
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: as you mentioned, is astonishing. We don't even think we've
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: seen the end of it yet. We're sitting at around
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: nine billion dollars. There are projections from doctor Oz that
• 24:21
  Speaker 4: it's going to be eighteen billion dollars. Medicare, Medicaid all
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  Speaker 4: kinds of fraud, and people are ticked off and they're
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: ready for change. And that's one of the big reasons
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  Speaker 4: I got in this.
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  Speaker 2: Race, Michelle. I think the jaw dropping and as jaw
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: dropping as those numbers are, that's just in Minnesota. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: we haven't even begun to look at, for example, California,
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: New York, Illinois. Steven Miller was actually on it doing
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: an interview Gosh, a couple of days ago. He said
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  Speaker 2: that if we were to eliminate all of the fraud
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: just within these federal programs, it would generate enough money
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  Speaker 2: to balance the budget. I mean, that's what we're talking
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  Speaker 2: about here, and that's where I think you would be
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: so strategic being a member of the Senate.
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  Speaker 4: Listen, one of the things I will sign on to
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: immediately is the Deporting Fraudsters Act, which Mike Lee and
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: Ted Cruz are part of. And what it would say, Todd,
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  Speaker 4: is that if you are a guest here in this
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  Speaker 4: country and you defraud American citizens, you will be deported
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: and you cannot come back. Furthermore, if you're an American
• 25:24
  Speaker 4: and you defraud Americans, no more just white collar crime punishments.
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  Speaker 4: There should be mandatory minimums in prison, because what you're
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: doing is you're really you're violating people. You're taking their earnings,
• 25:37
  Speaker 4: You're stealing from the American people. This is all of
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: our money. It's happening in his various states, but so
• 25:44
  Speaker 4: much of it is federal dollars. And that's the other part.
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: The Senate can strip these states of this funding unless
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: they have these anti fraud mechanisms in place to audit,
• 25:55
  Speaker 4: to claw back, and to stop the frauds from happening.
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: To begin with, we should just be funneling a ton
• 26:01
  Speaker 4: of money into any particular state or program unless we
• 26:06
  Speaker 4: get the receipts first. I don't know about you, but
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: when I do my expenses for work, I put them
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: on a card, I pay cash whatever I turn into receipts,
• 26:15
  Speaker 4: and then I'm reimbursed. And that should be the way
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  Speaker 4: it works for the states as well.
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  Speaker 2: There's been a lot of frustration up up in the Senate,
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  Speaker 2: and a lot of it is being directed at Republicans,
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: and there's a lot of frustration over the Safe of America
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: Act probably, and I've tried to prepare my audience. I
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: just don't think it's going to happen. I hope it does,
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: and it should, but the reality of it, you've got
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: Republicans that are entrench there that do not want to budge.
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: If you were in the Senate right now, what would
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: your vote be?
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: Well, listen, they don't want to budge on a filibuster.
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: There are a lot of people who say, I'll just
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: bust this filibuster. Let's get this through with fifty one
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: votes instead of the sixty necessary. Then there's the option
• 26:56
  Speaker 4: of the talking filibuster. Let's let everybody stand up there
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: and talk until they're exhausted. But that would prevent a
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: lot of work from getting done. I'm not in favor
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: of breaking up the filibuster. I know that might disappoint
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: some people, but to do that, you're just abandoning all
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: of the reasons that it was put in to begin with.
• 27:13
  Speaker 4: And so I'm on the side.
• 27:14
  Speaker 5: Of sticking with the filibuster.
• 27:17
  Speaker 4: Let's make this a talking filibuster. Let's let these Democrats
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: stand up there and preach to the American public why
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: it's a bad idea to have voter ideas, why it's
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: a bad idea to have American citizens being the only
• 27:32
  Speaker 4: ones to vote. I mean, those are the crucial parts
• 27:34
  Speaker 4: of this bill. And here in Minnesota, where we see
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: not just fraud, but voter fraud at a scale that
• 27:42
  Speaker 4: is hopefully to be exposed. Our Secretary of State will
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: not turn over the voter rules to the DOJ. That
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: should tell you something.
• 27:51
  Speaker 5: You know, we want to see our votes matter.
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: We want people to feel enfranchised, not disenfranchised. We want
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: people to go to the vote no knowing that their
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: vote counts. And I just think that's one of the
• 28:03
  Speaker 4: most basic things you can offer people.
• 28:06
  Speaker 5: And to stand in the.
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: Way of that for these various you know, Jim Crow
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: two point zero excuses that Chuck Schumer and company are
• 28:13
  Speaker 4: making is embarrassing. So I say, let him stand there
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: and try to defend that.
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm I'm good with the talking filibuster, But the
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: reality is the Democrats are going to blow this up
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: if they ever get control again. And unfortunately there's still
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: a lot of the president's agenda that is backlogged and
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: it's not getting through the Senate. The President is getting frustrated,
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: you know, he says, let's neot the filibuster. My concern
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: is this could have blowback on everybody come the midterm elections.
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: What are you hearing from people in Minnesota.
• 28:45
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it's it's pretty split here in Minnesota
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: in terms of yes, people are in.
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: Pace that they are. Do we lose, Michelle, we still
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: got okay. There we go.
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: Oh you got me, We got okay. You know, we're
• 29:02
  Speaker 4: in an environment where consumers can buy things instantly, right
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: you get hit stuff delivered to your phone, delivered to
• 29:10
  Speaker 4: your door. So watching this excruciatingly slow process in the
• 29:14
  Speaker 4: Senate is is hard for our nature.
• 29:18
  Speaker 5: But I think what's.
• 29:19
  Speaker 4: So important is keeping the Senate in Republican hands. And
• 29:22
  Speaker 4: I would love people to help me at Michelle tafoya
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  Speaker 4: dot com. It's Michelle with one l paf o ya
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  Speaker 4: dot com and make sure that Look, we have an
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  Speaker 4: extraordinary opportunity here in Minnesota. We have had single party
• 29:35
  Speaker 4: rule for a long time.
• 29:36
  Speaker 5: We currently have.
• 29:37
  Speaker 4: Tina Smith and Amy Clotheshar two Democrats representing us in
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: the Senate. Tina Smith is stepping down. It's an open seat.
• 29:44
  Speaker 4: We can take it to the Republicans. That is why
• 29:47
  Speaker 4: Tim Scott has endorsed me. That is why people like
• 29:49
  Speaker 4: Mark Wayne Mullen have supported me.
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  Speaker 6: So we know we.
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  Speaker 4: Can do this here in Minnesota. We would love help
• 29:54
  Speaker 4: because it's not just about Minnesota and our voters. It's
• 29:59
  Speaker 4: about holding the Senate and maybe even increasing that lead
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  Speaker 4: in the Senate. So I would love everyone to go
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  Speaker 4: and ship in a few bucks at Michelle Tafoya dot com.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely, And Michelle, before we let you go, what
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: would you say are the big issues? I mean, you're
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: out there talking two voters asign from the fraud. What
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: are some of the big issues on the minds of
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: voters there in Minnesota?
• 30:20
  Speaker 7: Well?
• 30:20
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, look, we've all been told that the
• 30:23
  Speaker 4: word affordability is key, and it is and right now,
• 30:26
  Speaker 4: I would say, you know, look, we had gas prices
• 30:28
  Speaker 4: at a five year low and we were really enjoying
• 30:31
  Speaker 4: watching that, and now here we are in a conflict
• 30:34
  Speaker 4: in the Middle East, which is bringing gas prices up again.
• 30:37
  Speaker 4: I know it's frustrating and I know it's hard for people.
• 30:41
  Speaker 4: What I would say to them is, we've lost some
• 30:43
  Speaker 4: service members over there who have put their lives on
• 30:46
  Speaker 4: the line to protect us, to protect the region, protect
• 30:49
  Speaker 4: America's friends in the region. We can all you know,
• 30:53
  Speaker 4: it used to be during the past wars, especially World
• 30:55
  Speaker 4: War Two, Americans got behind our servicemen and women, and
• 31:00
  Speaker 4: we did little things to show our support for them.
• 31:03
  Speaker 4: We collected mentally, you know, we recycled stuff aluminum so
• 31:06
  Speaker 4: that we could you know, help in the war effort.
• 31:09
  Speaker 4: I think right now, at least just kind of keeping
• 31:12
  Speaker 4: a stiff upper lip. Maybe you'd take one less trip
• 31:16
  Speaker 4: to Starbucks and so that gas goes a little further
• 31:19
  Speaker 4: until this thing is over and these gas prices come
• 31:21
  Speaker 4: back down again. Let's just try to be patriots about this.
• 31:25
  Speaker 4: Whether you agree with it or not, we're there and
• 31:29
  Speaker 4: we've got to support our men and women in uniform.
• 31:32
  Speaker 4: That's a big one. So again that kind of connects
• 31:35
  Speaker 4: with the affordability stuff. Iran is a big topic. Immigration
• 31:39
  Speaker 4: continues to be a big topic. We like that the
• 31:41
  Speaker 4: border is closed, but people are still concerned about criminal
• 31:45
  Speaker 4: illegals who are here. Heck, we even seen, as you know, Todd,
• 31:48
  Speaker 4: some naturalized American citizens here commit atrocities against those people.
• 31:53
  Speaker 4: And so it's it's a it's a rough time. It's
• 31:56
  Speaker 4: a it's a challenging time to be in America. People
• 32:00
  Speaker 4: want stability, they want change, and I really believe that people,
• 32:06
  Speaker 4: particularly on the Republicans and independent side, want to see
• 32:10
  Speaker 4: this president's agenda continue to go forward. And in order
• 32:13
  Speaker 4: to do that, these midterms are going to matter in
• 32:16
  Speaker 4: a huge way.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Well, Michelle, we're gonna leave it here and again,
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: folks go to her website. She's got all sorts of information.
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: You can see her platform Michelle Tafoya dot com. That's
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: Michelle with one L. Michelle Tafoya dot com. Michelle, we're
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: gonna get you back on between now an election day.
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  Speaker 2: Good luck to you out there on the campaign trail.
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  Speaker 4: I thank you so much for the time to have
• 32:38
  Speaker 4: a great day.
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  Speaker 2: All right, you too, There you go, everybody. Michelle Tafoya,
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: former NFL sideline reporter. Now, look, yeah, I'm with the president.
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: I think we have to nuke the filibuster. She clearly
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: is on the side of keeping the filibuster and making
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: it a talking filibuster.
• 32:56
  Speaker 8: Uh.
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: Curious to hear from you on that because and she said,
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  Speaker 2: there is a split among voters in Minnesota on whether
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: or not we should nuke the filibuster. What say you?
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  Speaker 2: in Florida listening to us on WOCA. Richard, what's on
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  Speaker 2: your mind?
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  Speaker 8: Thank you mister Todd for take the call. I just
• 34:38
  Speaker 8: heard your interview with Michelle, and with all due respect
• 34:42
  Speaker 8: to the lady, I disagree with their one hundred percent.
• 34:46
  Speaker 8: I think that same attitude is a spineless, jellyfish, backbone ninetitude.
• 34:51
  Speaker 8: If they don't nook the filibuster, nothing's going to get done.
• 34:55
  Speaker 8: And it's not Trump agenda. This is the American agenda.
• 34:58
  Speaker 8: The things that America wan on this Save America Act
• 35:02
  Speaker 8: was like watch high seventies or eighties voter approval and
• 35:07
  Speaker 8: if they don't fix that, then there's no hope for
• 35:10
  Speaker 8: the country. And her attitude of just doing the way
• 35:14
  Speaker 8: she was saying, let people get up and talk. All
• 35:17
  Speaker 8: the Democrats are going to do is put up people
• 35:19
  Speaker 8: that's going to get elected in their precincts. No matter
• 35:22
  Speaker 8: how they vote, it's just going to be a mess. No,
• 35:25
  Speaker 8: So the only way to do it is come out fighting.
• 35:27
  Speaker 8: And I'm not for her at all. I hope she
• 35:30
  Speaker 8: don't win the election. I hope they put some else
• 35:32
  Speaker 8: in her place. But I'm totally against what she said,
• 35:36
  Speaker 8: and I think they need to nuke the filibuster and
• 35:38
  Speaker 8: go come out fighting. Here's my issues, mister Todd. I
• 35:42
  Speaker 8: believe the Republicans don't want to do it because then
• 35:45
  Speaker 8: they're going to have to stand up, you know, and
• 35:48
  Speaker 8: be counted. As long as they can blame the Democrats
• 35:51
  Speaker 8: and say all we're all four, but they're against it,
• 35:53
  Speaker 8: then it don't make them look bad. But if we
• 35:55
  Speaker 8: knuke the filibuster, then every one of them's got to
• 35:58
  Speaker 8: vote for this save America. And I think there's a
• 36:01
  Speaker 8: lot of them that don't want to themselves.
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: Well, I think are there are a lot of Republicans
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: who are just lazy. But I think the bigger problem
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: is they're scared. You know, they've never they just have
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: not spent a lot of time in power in Washington.
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: They're always the minority party and that they are more comfortable,
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: I think, being the minority party. But they've got to
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: stand up to these Democrats, because the Democrats are nothing
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: more than great big bullies, and we've got to do
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: to them as they have done to us. And I'm
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: telling you right now, Richard, when the Democrats gain control,
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: and they will end up gaining control of the Senate,
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: the first thing they will do is abolish the filibuster,
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: and they will shove every single bit of their agenda
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: right through the Senate and we won't be able to
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: do anything about it. So we need to go ahead
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: take care of business now. And again, the overarching issue
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: here is providing integrity and stopping the cheat at the
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: ballot box. That's why this is so vitally important, because
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: when you take away the cheat, when you take away
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: the votes from the illegal aliens and the dead people,
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: then Republicans end up winning, where typically the Democrats win.
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  Speaker 2: This is why it's just so vitally important. I didn't
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: mean to interrupt, but go ahead and finish your thought, Richard, No.
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  Speaker 8: Mitchell, Tom one hundred percent, not to any Yes, maam,
• 37:27
  Speaker 8: I see it, one hundred percent like you do. It's
• 37:30
  Speaker 8: vitally important and we have to do it. There's no
• 37:33
  Speaker 8: other way we're going to win if we don't. And
• 37:35
  Speaker 8: it's the right thing to do. In seventy five eighty
• 37:38
  Speaker 8: percent of the American people see it and realize it, and
• 37:41
  Speaker 8: I think we have to force the Republicans either to
• 37:44
  Speaker 8: do it or throw them out of office one of
• 37:45
  Speaker 8: the two. If they don't want to fight, they need
• 37:47
  Speaker 8: to go home and take a job digging ditches and
• 37:50
  Speaker 8: let us put somebody in their place that'll fight for America.
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a Look, it's a great thought there, Richard,
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: and I appreciate the call. Thank you. We are we
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: got to leave it there. Look, let me just say
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: this about the Democrats. They are they are out for
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: blood and right now. And we'll go over the numbers
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: from yesterday in Illinois, but the reality is they're motivated
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: right now for the US Senate race. For example, in Illinois, yesterday,
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: well over a million people voted on the Democrat side
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: of the isle, barely I think three maybe four hundred thousand.
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: We'll look at the official final numbers during the break,
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: but about four hundred thousand people turned out to vote
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: for the Republican candidates. So you can see there is
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: an enthusiasm gap right now. So we've just got to
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: figure out how to get our side of the aisle enthused.
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: How do we enthuse you, guys? I mean, you're the
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: ones that are not going to the polls, So how
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: do we enthuse you? Nine oh one two six zero
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: five nine two six. This is the Todd Stearns Show.
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: Ply from the Liberty University Studio in Memphis, Tennessee. It's
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: common sense conservative commentary from Todd stars.
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: Sais Samaritan. All right, hello, everybody, welcome to hour two
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: of the Big Show. May I just may I ask
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: you a personal question here for for you know, before
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: we get into that Dylan and I have I have
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: news to share with you. So I you know, the
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: lovely miss Christen. She shows up every day right about
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: the same time and she gets my uh my hair
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: and face appropriate for national television. You know, we don't
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: to frighten the children. Shaked up?
• 40:03
  Speaker 3: What they say?
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: What is it? You're caked? I am caked up. Yeah,
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: I look good. I'm very tan. I'm not as bronze
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: as well some people in politics, but appropriately toned. Yeah, toned,
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: thank you. So anyway, yesterday we told you about the
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: you know, about the the endorsement offer I've been made,
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: and we we had the it's the it's not champstick.
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: It's called the lip balm is what it's called. Yes,
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: and it's all organic and it's very delicious and it
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: smells of peppermint, which apparently keeps the Asian ladybugs at bay.
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: Did you know that?
• 40:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we we figured that out together. I haven't seen one.
• 40:45
  Speaker 3: By the way, they're not they're not near us.
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: This catch ept is great for all sorts of things.
• 40:49
  Speaker 9: It is.
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: Anyway, somebody told me your lips looked rather supple yesterday.
• 40:55
  Speaker 3: Wow. Wow, I'm glad that I'm glad this is starting
• 40:59
  Speaker 3: to get noticed.
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I just there, you go.
• 41:01
  Speaker 3: This is something that hasn't been mentioned that much.
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: You know, I didn't realize. I always thought it was
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: my eyes that was my strongest feature, or then my
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: eye after the incident, but I still have two good
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: working eyes.
• 41:15
  Speaker 3: Well, once the eye happened, then they had to, you know,
• 41:17
  Speaker 3: find something else.
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so it's the lips. The lips their supple Okay,
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: I digress. So I'm meant to tell that to you anyway.
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: Can we talk about something here, folks, because this has
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: been driving me nuts. So I I love being a conservative.
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: I'm more of a conservative than I am a Republican.
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: But I I joined the Republican Party because you know,
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: I support Republican Canadas by and large and so and
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: I do, and I've got no problem with that. But
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: here lately, I don't know is it is it just
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: me or and this may just be a unique Memphis,
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: Tennessee issue, But it just seems to me that Republican
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: politics is just getting mean and nasty and dirty. And
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: I've I've been observing all of this from from a distance,
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: and I've been watching people that that I know, some
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: of the most some of the most kind hearted people,
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: some of the most giving people, folks that are out
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: there at every single Republican event and anytime they need,
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: you know, a volunteer, these folks just show up. They're
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: they're the grassroots of the party. You may know people
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: like this in your community. And those are the folks
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: that I have great respect for because they're not looking
• 42:49
  Speaker 2: for fame, they're not looking for glory. They don't have
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: a million dollars to donate to the Republican cause, but
• 42:57
  Speaker 2: they they care about their country. They care about the
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: country they want to leave for their kids, and so
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: they get involved and they volunteer, and they're not looking
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: for applause. They do the work that needs to be done.
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: And more often than not, and I've seen this happen
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: in other places, these people inevitably get shoved to the
• 43:19
  Speaker 2: side when it comes time for them to take on
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: a leadership role. They're told they're not welcome, they're kind
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: is not welcome, they're not bonafied, when in fact, they're
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: more Republican the most of the people that are in
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: leadership positions. And so I've noticed, you know, so I've
• 43:44
  Speaker 2: been defending you know, I try to keep all of
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: the politics, don't you. You've got a personal Facebook page.
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: Well you're young. Do you still do the Facebook? Or
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: is that like a boomer thing.
• 43:53
  Speaker 3: I use it to see other people's lives.
• 43:55
  Speaker 2: Out, so you don't post your own stuff.
• 43:57
  Speaker 3: I have a linked to my Instagram, so whatever I
• 43:59
  Speaker 3: post on Instagram also goes to Facebook.
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: Okay, that makes sense. No, that makes perfect sense. So
• 44:06
  Speaker 2: so I post a lot. I don't post a lot
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: of political stuff on my personal page. I mostly you know,
• 44:11
  Speaker 2: We've got almost a half a million followers on our
• 44:13
  Speaker 2: Facebook fan page, and I just put all that there.
• 44:16
  Speaker 2: We've got a private group that's got almost eighty thousand people,
• 44:20
  Speaker 2: so there are plenty of folks if they want to
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: debate politics. But every now and again, I've posted stuff
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: on my personal page and all hell breaks loose. I mean,
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: some of the nastiest comments. You know, I'm out there
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: trying to defend these good, good hearted, grassroots people. And
• 44:38
  Speaker 2: I finally decided enough was enough, and I have made
• 44:42
  Speaker 2: a decision just on my personal page, I am not
• 44:46
  Speaker 2: posting any more political conversations. And I want to share
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: with you what I wrote. And maybe you guys may
• 44:54
  Speaker 2: disagree with me on this, and if so, I want
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: you to read me the Riot Act. But this is
• 44:59
  Speaker 2: what I just wrote. After much thought, I have decided
• 45:03
  Speaker 2: to ban political conversations on my personal Facebook page. I'm
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: a conservative and a Christian, and apparently that triggers people,
• 45:12
  Speaker 2: and by the way, it triggers my Facebook friends. These
• 45:16
  Speaker 2: are friends I don't know, you know. Let me stop
• 45:20
  Speaker 2: here for just a moment. I heard that a lot
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: of people, like back in twenty sixteen and moving forward,
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: a lot of people lost longtime friends because you voted
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: for Donald Trump or you happen to be a Republican
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: and people would unfriend you and say I can't be
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: associated with you anymore because of your political beliefs. And
• 45:42
  Speaker 2: I'm like, what the hell are these people talking about?
• 45:47
  Speaker 2: You're a You're just a fire right extremist. Stun what
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: does that mean? And no, I didn't write all that.
• 45:59
  Speaker 2: I'm I put a pause there, so I'm going to
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: get back to what I wrote here. But just think
• 46:03
  Speaker 2: about this for a moment. Todd Starns is there are
• 46:06
  Speaker 2: people in Memphis who consider me within the Republican Party
• 46:10
  Speaker 2: here to be a far right extremist. And I'm trying
• 46:13
  Speaker 2: to understand what that means. Oh, by the way, Dylan,
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: you know our logo for KWM the mighty nine ninety.
• 46:21
  Speaker 2: Do you know what the Democrats call us?
• 46:23
  Speaker 3: What is that?
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: The whitey nine Nights? I'm like, what does that even mean?
• 46:29
  Speaker 2: What does that mean? We have more black callers to
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: the Todd Sterns So than any other national radio show
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: in America.
• 46:35
  Speaker 3: They didn't black people start their Republican Party in Memphis.
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: That is true, and I wish they would take it
• 46:40
  Speaker 2: back over. I'm telling you it's these people. They don't
• 46:46
  Speaker 2: get it. So anyway, what was I say?
• 46:48
  Speaker 9: Oh?
• 46:48
  Speaker 2: So, so I thought to myself, what is it that
• 46:51
  Speaker 2: makes Todd Starns a far right extremist? You've had it
• 46:55
  Speaker 2: for Trump? Well, Trump's actually a populist. He's nowhere near
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: far right because he's mean. Okay, well okay, but how
• 47:03
  Speaker 2: does that impact me? Help me understand that? So I
• 47:10
  Speaker 2: got to thinking about that. All right, Well, I believe
• 47:13
  Speaker 2: that I am well, I'm a conservative. I believe in
• 47:18
  Speaker 2: free speech, and I believe that also includes Democrats. So
• 47:23
  Speaker 2: if you say something that I disagree with that I'm
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: going to defend your right to say it. I guess
• 47:30
  Speaker 2: that makes me a far right extremist. I believe and
• 47:33
  Speaker 2: freedom of religion, provided that your religion doesn't want to
• 47:36
  Speaker 2: blow my religion to smither rains. I guess that makes
• 47:40
  Speaker 2: me a far right extremist. I believe that life begins
• 47:44
  Speaker 2: at conception, so therefore, I guess I must be a
• 47:48
  Speaker 2: far right extremist according to the local Republicans. All right,
• 47:53
  Speaker 2: I'm getting off on a teage. I didn't even want
• 47:55
  Speaker 2: to talk about this, but I got to get this
• 47:59
  Speaker 2: off my mind. So here we go back to what
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: I wrote. I never imagined that local politics would be
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: more cutthroat than national politics. Man, it is ugly, ugly.
• 48:11
  Speaker 2: I'll temper my words here, but I completely understand why
• 48:15
  Speaker 2: my side of the aisle has a hard time winning elections.
• 48:19
  Speaker 2: They're too busy stabbing fellow Republicans in the back. It's
• 48:23
  Speaker 2: been incredibly disappointed to see good and decent grassroots folks
• 48:27
  Speaker 2: being dragged through the mud and maligned by ugly whisper
• 48:31
  Speaker 2: campaigns and threats. The intolerance of diverse opinion is simply
• 48:37
  Speaker 2: un American, and some of the most awful behavior has
• 48:42
  Speaker 2: come from folks who professed to sit in a pew
• 48:44
  Speaker 2: on Sunday mornings. Oh Jesus, let me tell you something
• 48:47
  Speaker 2: about that, these Republicans. I'm a thoalar of our Lord
• 48:52
  Speaker 2: and Savior Jesus Christ. You far right extremist Jesus Loo.
• 49:00
  Speaker 2: You know it gets so bad, Dylan that you think,
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: you know what. I don't need this. I don't need
• 49:07
  Speaker 2: this chaos and anxiety in my life locally, I don't
• 49:12
  Speaker 2: need it. I guess to the point where you don't
• 49:15
  Speaker 2: want to go to a Republican event or in a church,
• 49:18
  Speaker 2: you just want to stay inside. It gets to be
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: a bit much, you know what I mean. Let me
• 49:27
  Speaker 2: continue all that to say, if you want to offer
• 49:32
  Speaker 2: a political commentary, you can do it on my show page.
• 49:37
  Speaker 2: Thank you for your attention to this matter, you know what.
• 49:42
  Speaker 2: And I should have said this. And if you've got
• 49:44
  Speaker 2: a problem with me being a conservative and a Christian,
• 49:48
  Speaker 2: feel free to unfriend me because I don't know who
• 49:52
  Speaker 2: half these people are. Anyway.
• 49:57
  Speaker 3: That's a lot of baggets to release. Does it feel better?
• 50:00
  Speaker 2: I feel, you know, I feel like a load has
• 50:03
  Speaker 2: been lifting.
• 50:03
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 50:04
  Speaker 3: Not to worry about other people is nice.
• 50:07
  Speaker 2: It really is. Because I hate to say, and I
• 50:09
  Speaker 2: mean this in a very loving way. I really don't
• 50:12
  Speaker 2: give a damn what you think. I really don't.
• 50:16
  Speaker 3: It's a good it's a good mindset for a laughing.
• 50:19
  Speaker 2: I could really care less. And you know, and these
• 50:21
  Speaker 2: are the same folks that come in would you bind
• 50:24
  Speaker 2: the pretty night party? Would you buy a would you
• 50:27
  Speaker 2: buy a table? And are dinner? No, I'm not buying. No,
• 50:31
  Speaker 2: I'm not spending money with you. Rather go to Taco
• 50:37
  Speaker 2: Bell at nine o'clock at night, right before bedtime, and
• 50:41
  Speaker 2: get a horrible case of acid reflux. Then go to
• 50:44
  Speaker 2: one of your freaking parties. Oh wow, I do feel better,
• 50:50
  Speaker 2: Thank you, Dylan. Nine oh one two six zero five
• 50:56
  Speaker 2: nine two six is my telephone number. That's nine oh
• 50:59
  Speaker 2: one two six zero five. Died two six. No, it
• 51:04
  Speaker 2: doesn't mean no, no, no, tell. It does not mean
• 51:08
  Speaker 2: that I'm not going to support candidates. I will, but
• 51:11
  Speaker 2: I'm going to you know what, there's some good independent
• 51:13
  Speaker 2: candidates out there running and I'm going to support those folks.
• 51:18
  Speaker 2: I think it was a mistake to join a political party,
• 51:23
  Speaker 2: is what I'm getting at. And I think my dad
• 51:26
  Speaker 2: was onto something because he was never really he was
• 51:29
  Speaker 2: never a member of any political party. He always voted
• 51:32
  Speaker 2: for the man. He said, that's who you need to be.
• 51:37
  Speaker 2: You need to look at these individuals, and maybe that's
• 51:39
  Speaker 2: the solution to what's wrong with America right now, is
• 51:44
  Speaker 2: that we need to start and just think about this
• 51:47
  Speaker 2: for a moment. You know, Kevin Kylie down in southern California,
• 51:50
  Speaker 2: a longtime Republican running as an independent. I don't know,
• 51:54
  Speaker 2: maybe maybe if we had fifty or sixty or seventy
• 51:58
  Speaker 2: independence up on Capitol Hill kind of makes you wonder
• 52:03
  Speaker 2: if we might be able to get some things done
• 52:05
  Speaker 2: and get some things accomplished. I'm just saying, all right,
• 52:09
  Speaker 2: let's go to the phones. Nine oh one two six
• 52:12
  Speaker 2: zero five nine two six Mary in Memphis listening to
• 52:16
  Speaker 2: us on k w A A M. I'm Mary. What's
• 52:18
  Speaker 2: on your mind today?
• 52:20
  Speaker 10: I'm Mary and I've been listening every day now.
• 52:23
  Speaker 11: Uh uh.
• 52:24
  Speaker 10: You were talking about the churches and how review people
• 52:27
  Speaker 10: who have a difference of a canyon, right, Yes, Okay,
• 52:31
  Speaker 10: Remember it's the democrats. These churches, especially in some churches,
• 52:35
  Speaker 10: face based initiatives money from the government. So whoever comes
• 52:41
  Speaker 10: to a church with a different opinion than a Democrat,
• 52:44
  Speaker 10: they are bagged up against the wall.
• 52:47
  Speaker 12: There's no, when there.
• 52:48
  Speaker 10: They got money from the government, the Democrats.
• 52:51
  Speaker 2: You remember, I do remember that, Yes.
• 52:54
  Speaker 10: Faith based initiatives. That's why he keeps meeting all the
• 52:58
  Speaker 10: bad of the position that you know, just being held
• 53:02
  Speaker 10: in the church. They got government money, they got Goldman handouts,
• 53:07
  Speaker 10: they stole out.
• 53:09
  Speaker 2: Mary. You know what I'm impressed by is that in
• 53:14
  Speaker 2: Memphis right now, for example, all the Democrats are running,
• 53:17
  Speaker 2: they're getting ready for the primaries. Just about every single
• 53:20
  Speaker 2: debate and every single town hall has been held inside
• 53:24
  Speaker 2: a black church congregation. Meanwhile, on the Republican side, Diddley Squat,
• 53:30
  Speaker 2: nothing's happening.
• 53:32
  Speaker 10: Well, it's par for the course.
• 53:34
  Speaker 13: You know.
• 53:35
  Speaker 10: They they go where they send the money to.
• 53:38
  Speaker 2: That's Democrats, they go where they send the money to.
• 53:41
  Speaker 2: You're absolutely right about that. All right, all right, Mary,
• 53:45
  Speaker 2: thank you for calling. We have a little bad phone
• 53:47
  Speaker 2: connection there, but we'll try to get that worked out
• 53:49
  Speaker 2: for next time. But God bless you. Mary. We love
• 53:51
  Speaker 2: it when you call in, and we thank you for
• 53:53
  Speaker 2: being a loyal listener to our local affiliate. Kate w
• 53:57
  Speaker 2: a m. All right, we're going to take a break here.
• 54:00
  Speaker 2: We're going right to the phones. Nine oh one two
• 54:02
  Speaker 2: six zero five, nine two six. Have have you lost friends?
• 54:06
  Speaker 2: Do you have relatives that get triggered by your politics?
• 54:09
  Speaker 2: And if so, how do you deal with those? With
• 54:12
  Speaker 2: those people, I just say, do you rip them out
• 54:15
  Speaker 2: like a bad tooth? What do you do? Nine oh
• 54:17
  Speaker 2: one two six zero five nine two six. This is
• 54:20
  Speaker 2: the ton Sterns Show. All right, let's go to the phones,
• 54:31
  Speaker 2: Gary and Zaytona Beach, Florida. Gary, I understand you went
• 54:36
  Speaker 2: to weigh in on the relatives triggered by religion, religious.
• 54:42
  Speaker 12: Religion, religion and the combination of politics. I'm I pretty
• 54:46
  Speaker 12: much stayostic grid as far as any state. My wife
• 54:50
  Speaker 12: does that. She's on the grid. She likes to Facebook
• 54:54
  Speaker 12: and all the social media. But with the coming of
• 54:57
  Speaker 12: Trump and at the end of RUSSI in Boz's wonderful career,
• 55:03
  Speaker 12: I became a fan of T shirts that would speak
• 55:06
  Speaker 12: to how I felt. And the funniest story was as
• 55:11
  Speaker 12: far as triggering a relative who lives way north of
• 55:16
  Speaker 12: the Mason Dixton Rush was promoting his be'sy ross jacket
• 55:21
  Speaker 12: and they had the flag in Russia's signature on the sleeve.
• 55:25
  Speaker 12: So I invested in one of those jackets and we
• 55:27
  Speaker 12: were going out to dinner with a family member and
• 55:32
  Speaker 12: she said to me, you're going you're gonna wear that
• 55:34
  Speaker 12: jacket out to dinner? And I said absolutely, why and
• 55:38
  Speaker 12: she goes, it's it's so racist. I can't imagine. And
• 55:41
  Speaker 12: she'd spent about eight years in college and a lot
• 55:43
  Speaker 12: of degrees. And I said, why is my jacket racist?
• 55:47
  Speaker 12: She's got the Confederate flag on it. I know you
• 55:50
  Speaker 12: live in Florida, but you're wearing a jacket with it.
• 55:53
  Speaker 12: And I said, you think that this, this flight here
• 55:56
  Speaker 12: is the Confederate flight And she goes, well, it is.
• 56:00
  Speaker 12: My children spoke up and said, Subs, Betsy Ross, there's
• 56:05
  Speaker 12: not the Confederate flag. And it just made me realize
• 56:09
  Speaker 12: on how the assumptions and how crazy people had gotten.
• 56:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's and it's so sad, and people call it
• 56:19
  Speaker 2: Trump arrangements roun syndrome TDS. I think we're watching a
• 56:23
  Speaker 2: lot of people getting stage four TDS. But also, and
• 56:27
  Speaker 2: I was getting in the break, I was getting some
• 56:29
  Speaker 2: messages from folks in other parts of the country that
• 56:32
  Speaker 2: say they're dealing with the same issues on their local
• 56:35
  Speaker 2: Republican level. And I think one of the things is
• 56:37
  Speaker 2: that a lot of these establishment folks. They went into
• 56:40
  Speaker 2: the closet during the Trump years and now they're coming out.
• 56:44
  Speaker 2: They're thinking they're going to be able to regain control
• 56:47
  Speaker 2: and move the party back to the squish middle where
• 56:52
  Speaker 2: they do the bidding of the Chamber of Commerce and
• 56:55
  Speaker 2: big business and going back to more of a Rockefeller
• 56:58
  Speaker 2: Republican party. Uh, and not the Party of Trump, which
• 57:02
  Speaker 2: is more of a populist party. So I think I
• 57:04
  Speaker 2: think that's a lot a lot of it. Gary thinks
• 57:07
  Speaker 2: for the call, and I just hate it again for
• 57:09
  Speaker 2: the relatives especially. I mean, if you're gonna lose friends seriously,
• 57:14
  Speaker 2: you know, if you've got a problem with me because
• 57:16
  Speaker 2: of my politics, Yeah, you're good. Just hit that on
• 57:19
  Speaker 2: friend button. We're good. Don't let the door hits it
• 57:23
  Speaker 2: with the good Lord split you all right, Hang time,
• 57:25
  Speaker 2: everybody gotta take a quick break. Nine oh one two
• 57:28
  Speaker 2: six zero five nine. We're gonna get to your calls.
• 57:31
  Speaker 2: Don't go anywhere, We'll be right back.
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  Speaker 9: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: Liz her Twitter feed is smoking hot today. Everybody. Welcome
• 57:56
  Speaker 2: back to the Tom Sterns Radio Show. And I want
• 57:58
  Speaker 2: to go right away too. Our Patriot mobile news maker line.
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  Speaker 2: Liz be joining us Liz, where to start? There is
• 58:06
  Speaker 2: so much to talk about today. Hope you're doing good.
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  Speaker 13: I'm just great. Thanks for having me on.
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  Speaker 2: So one of the big stories you've been following, of course,
• 58:14
  Speaker 2: or Richard Blumenthal. He's now saying that he doesn't necessarily
• 58:20
  Speaker 2: know where his birth certificate is. Again, this argument is
• 58:24
  Speaker 2: that for somehow Americans do not have proper forms of identification.
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  Speaker 13: Yeah, I mean, this is just a tired story and
• 58:32
  Speaker 13: so stupid. If you go online if you are missing
• 58:36
  Speaker 13: your birth certificate, and hey, you know most people don't
• 58:39
  Speaker 13: keep track of it. Perhaps they should. It's about as
• 58:43
  Speaker 13: easy as crossing the street to get a new one,
• 58:46
  Speaker 13: get a copy of one. But also, you know, I
• 58:49
  Speaker 13: think passports are also a pretty good proof of citizenship.
• 58:52
  Speaker 13: And you know, here's the deal. If you're a citizen,
• 58:56
  Speaker 13: you can prove it very easily. So I just think
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  Speaker 13: this there's so much dishonesty, honestly, todd coming from the
• 59:03
  Speaker 13: left constantly. My favorite thing recently was Gavin Newsom on
• 59:08
  Speaker 13: some podcast or in some interviews saying, oh, California is
• 59:12
  Speaker 13: a much lower tax date than Florida and Texas. What's
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  Speaker 13: he talking about? It's just lies and more lies. I mean,
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  Speaker 13: get Blumenthal obviously it's a pretty good history of line,
• 59:21
  Speaker 13: but you know, it just makes your head explode.
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  Speaker 2: No, it does. And the amount of disinformation that's coming,
• 59:29
  Speaker 2: not only from Democrats but even in the media. You know,
• 59:32
  Speaker 2: when you look at what's happening with the war. I
• 59:34
  Speaker 2: think Rasmussen Reports have a new survey out that shows
• 59:37
  Speaker 2: most Americans actually believe the war is going quite well.
• 59:41
  Speaker 2: President Trump is succeeding and as is if Iran has
• 59:45
  Speaker 2: not been a threat to the world since nineteen seventy nine.
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  Speaker 13: Yeah, I mean, it's very disheartening that reflexively the left
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  Speaker 13: wing media and Democrats just naturally oppose any thing that's
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  Speaker 13: going on that is shepherded through by Donald Trump, including
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 13: obviously the war in Iran. How many Democrats have been
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  Speaker 13: toned solemnly, whether it's Kamala Harris or Hillary Clinton or
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  Speaker 13: just name a Democrat, that we will not allow Iran
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  Speaker 13: to have a nuclear weapon. Well, what did they think
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  Speaker 13: was really going to stand in the way of that?
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  Speaker 13: Certainly Obama's jcpoa that the Joint Agreement with other nations
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  Speaker 13: had no impact on Iran moving towards a nuclear weapon,
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  Speaker 13: and we all knew it at the time. Remember I
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 13: mean bb net Nahou came an addressed Congress and said,
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  Speaker 13: this is not going to prevent Iran from getting a
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  Speaker 13: nuclear weapon. It is only going to delay it slightly.
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  Speaker 13: And that's really basically what happened. So I find again
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  Speaker 13: the sort of idiot flank of the Democrat Party, by
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  Speaker 13: which I mean two thirds of the Democrat Party, which
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  Speaker 13: is just saying, oh, there's no strategy, there's no there's
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  Speaker 13: no imminent threat, you know, thank you for that, because
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  Speaker 13: an imminent threat, I guess would be an ICBM loaded
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  Speaker 13: with nukes, you know, ten seconds out from New York City.
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  Speaker 13: I mean, what are they talking about? This is truly
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  Speaker 13: a righteous thing that we're doing. And if you don't
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  Speaker 13: believe it, look how many countries have been under attacked
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  Speaker 13: by Iran in the last two weeks. They have no
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  Speaker 13: allies other than China and possibly Russia. But this is
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  Speaker 13: in the broader scheme of things, a way to defang
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  Speaker 13: the worst element of the Middle East. The recent Middle
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  Speaker 13: East is constantly erupting in chaos is because of Iran,
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  Speaker 13: because of the Hutis taking on Saudi Arabia, and because
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  Speaker 13: of the Hamas people in flaughtering Israelis, and obviously because
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  Speaker 13: of Hesboa, who has made the wonderful country of Lebanon
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  Speaker 13: a nightmare. So this is the right thing to be doing.
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  Speaker 13: Is it uncomfortable for a few weeks? My God, America,
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 13: gird your loins. You know we can withstand this. Our
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 13: economy is strong, our nation is strong. What I'll tell you,
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 13: the countries that are being hurt by this are our
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 13: countries like Germany, where they are teetering on the brink
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  Speaker 13: of recession because why their energy prices are so high
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 13: because they have decided to go to windmills in the sunshine
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  Speaker 13: instead of actually exploring and exploiting coal and fossil fuels
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  Speaker 13: that are actually indigenous to Germany in some cases. So
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  Speaker 13: you know, I find look, people should be critical. They
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  Speaker 13: should be assessing whether this is going.
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  Speaker 8: Well or not.
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  Speaker 13: If you tell me that we went to war and
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  Speaker 13: degraded our enemies air power and navy and leadership all
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  Speaker 13: in two weeks, I think that's a pretty credible response.
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  Speaker 2: I've never heard you say gird your loins before it
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  Speaker 2: live is peaking. I'm somewhat speechless.
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  Speaker 13: Well, I mean, honestly, I just feel like we've all gotten.
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  Speaker 13: So you know, I'm look, I understand that high gas
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 13: prices is a real problem for a lot of people.
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 13: Not all people, but it's a real problem for a
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  Speaker 13: lot of people. It will, I think, be temporary. And
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  Speaker 13: the minute that straight of Hormuz is somehow secured, which
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  Speaker 13: I think they will be doing in the next couple
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  Speaker 13: of weeks, oil prices are going to come right back
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  Speaker 13: down again. So this is a temporary phenomenon. And you know,
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  Speaker 13: I hope that people are willing to make a sacrifice
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  Speaker 13: in order to again preserve our country because our country
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  Speaker 13: was going to be threatened by Iran from these malas
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  Speaker 13: and they're bad people.
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  Speaker 2: And look, and I think it's important. You know, again,
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  Speaker 2: the media is always going to focus on the people
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  Speaker 2: that are making the most noise, and I know the
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  Speaker 2: British and the fringe in Spain and everybody's all upset,
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  Speaker 2: and I get that, but I think what we ought
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  Speaker 2: to be focusing on the people who are not complaining,
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  Speaker 2: and those would be the Air of Nations, because they
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  Speaker 2: know exactly how dangerous Iran is and they haven't said
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  Speaker 2: a word about this, and I suspect they're all very privately,
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  Speaker 2: very happy that President Trump is doing what he's doing here.
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  Speaker 13: Yes, they have been intimidated and bullied by Iran for decades,
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  Speaker 13: and they are, by the way, under enormous attack by
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  Speaker 13: Iran right now. I mean, this really isn't being covered
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  Speaker 13: very much in our media, but the Wall Street Journal
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  Speaker 13: uncharacteristically had a very lengthy piece about all the incoming
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  Speaker 13: in Abu Dhabi, Dubai, in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, et cetera.
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  Speaker 13: I mean, they're all under attack. Gutter and others that
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  Speaker 13: historically have been sort of playing cat and mouse with
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  Speaker 13: Iran and unwilling to take them on. I think Iran
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  Speaker 13: has really done something stupid here because they've turned the
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  Speaker 13: entire Middle East into a ring of enemies and they
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  Speaker 13: are surrounded. They don't have any friends there. They've even
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 13: been gone after Turkey, which is pretty extraordinary. So I
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 13: think you're right. We do have coalition partners, and some
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 13: of them have actually been involved in some of the
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 13: military activities. Not many, but you know, I think you're
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  Speaker 13: right that those countries are are delighted to have these
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  Speaker 13: full mentors of terror basically being wiped off the map
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  Speaker 13: and these and the leadership is indeed being taken out.
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  Speaker 2: So that's good Liz, before we let you go. And
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  Speaker 2: I know this story just dropped a little while ago,
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 2: but I saw that you had to mention it on
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 2: on Acts. There is great controversy right now on the left,
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 2: says our Chaves. The New York Times doing an investigation
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 2: that alleges he was sexually abusing women, including underage girls. Uh,
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 2: this is really a remarkable story. We understand that some
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  Speaker 2: Texas cities have actually canceled their uh, says our Chaves
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  Speaker 2: day events as a result of these allegations.
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  Speaker 13: Yeah, another hero to the left falls off his pedestal.
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  Speaker 13: It is interesting because I'm surprised the New York Times
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  Speaker 13: did it, frankly, and good for them, But this is
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  Speaker 13: really a terrible story. And yeah, I mean, I don't
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  Speaker 13: know if I have to say, Todd, you have to
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 13: become incredibly careful about what is real and what is
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 13: not on X and all these other sites. But supposedly
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  Speaker 13: Joe Biden had a bust of Chavez in the Oval office.
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 13: I don't know if that's true, but that showed up online.
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  Speaker 13: He is a hero to those who lead the labor movement,
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  Speaker 13: and you know he is currently being deep froped, there's
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 13: no question about it. Terrible story and you know, good
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 13: for the times we're putting it out there.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely and yeah, you're you're absolutely right. President Biden's oval office,
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  Speaker 2: they had a bust of Chavez right there in the oval.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah.
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  Speaker 13: Well, you know, remember Joe Biden was a big champion
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  Speaker 13: of organized labor. Yes, and you know here's one of
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  Speaker 13: the guys that he revered. Pretty amazy.
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  Speaker 2: That's incredible. All right, Liz, always always good hearing from you,
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  Speaker 2: my friend.
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  Speaker 13: Thank you for having me.
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  Speaker 2: Take care all right, great great writer right there in
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  Speaker 2: great American patriot ladies and gentlemen, Liz peak. And yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we'll do a little deeper dive into the Chavez allegations
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 2: in just a moment. I do want to go to
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  Speaker 2: the phone line. So we've got a lot of folks
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  Speaker 2: wanting to weigh in. Nine oh one two six zero
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  Speaker 2: five nine two six. Let's go to Bob in Fayette County, Tennessee. Bob,
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  Speaker 2: what's on your mind today?
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  Speaker 5: Well, the first thing you saw on my mind is
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  Speaker 5: that just delivered another cat. So the farm is going good.
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  Speaker 2: Oh so I think we should qualify for our national
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 2: audience here. So you have a farm and you just
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 2: you guys just had a baby calf.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, twenty minutes ago. Why run it? So gotta love it.
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  Speaker 5: God's creation is amazing. Listen. I wanted to I'm so
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  Speaker 5: appreciative to you Todd for having your last caller in
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  Speaker 5: because one of the things that people don't understand is
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  Speaker 5: that one of the great alliances that was taking place
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 5: in our hemisphere was between the Iotolis, Iran and Maduro
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 5: Is Venezuela. And the reason that is so essential for
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 5: us to grasp is that if Iran were to base
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 5: ballistic missiles in Venezuela, the flight time from launch to
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 5: impact from let's just say Caracas to Memphis is about
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  Speaker 5: eight seconds. There's no time to shoot it down.
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  Speaker 2: It's that fast. And Bob, not only is there no time.
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  Speaker 2: I was reading a report a couple of weeks ago.
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  Speaker 2: And you may have more information on this than I do,
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  Speaker 2: but I was reading a report that you know, the
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 2: the technology that is needed to shoot those things down
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 2: has not really worked well for us. So it's that
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 2: could be very problematic.
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  Speaker 5: Well exactly, and I'm talking about when I'm doing this calculation,
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  Speaker 5: I'm looking at what we pretty much knew Yron had
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 5: on hand, which is you know, nineteen eighties technology Chinese
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 5: intercontinental ballistic missiles which are flying at round mocked eight
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  Speaker 5: point three. Well, the newer models are faster, so you know.
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  Speaker 5: I this reminded me of Neville Chamberlain coming back from
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 5: Berlin in nineteen thirty nine and getting off the airplane
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 5: holding up a piece of paper to the people of
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  Speaker 5: England and saying, I have met with mister Hitler and
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 5: we will have peace in our time. And six months
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 5: later the world was at war. In the nuclear age,
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 5: there's no time to hesitate. If your enemy is stockpiling
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 5: nuclear weapons or even trying to, and they're calling for
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 5: your death, they have to be stopped.
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  Speaker 2: Well, and bo, I'm going back to the Cuban missile crisis.
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 2: I mean, even Kennedy understood, there's no way that we're
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 2: going to be We're going to allow the Russians to
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 2: introduce nuclear missiles, you know, into the theater. That just
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 2: simply cannot be allowed to happen.
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  Speaker 5: If you launch from Teyron, Iran and try to hit
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  Speaker 5: Washing the DC, you're looking at a flight gum of
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  Speaker 5: about twenty five seconds. If you're launching from excuse me,
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 5: twenty five minutes. If you're launching from Teyron and trying
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 5: to hit Los Angeles, you're looking at another ten to
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 5: fifteen minutes of flat time. So if you're going to
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 5: detonate that weapon over the Atlantic Ocean as it's crossing
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 5: the sea, you've got to intercept it as it's flying
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 5: to you with a missile that's flying toward it in
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 5: enough time to blow it up. And that means there
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 5: are seconds. It is a calculation on which there's no
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 5: time to deal with bureaucracy. The best way to push
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 5: this threat back into the stone age where it belongs
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 5: is to deal with it proactively, and I applaud mister
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 5: Trump for doing that.
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  Speaker 2: You know, Bob, I heard somebody say it's you know,
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 2: because you can. I mean, it is possible to shoot
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 2: down on ICBM, but it's extremely difficult. And what is
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 2: if they're saying it's like hitting a bullet with another bullet.
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 5: That's exactly what it's like. And you better hope that
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 5: they haven't developed any kind of radar jamming or countermeasures
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 5: for that missile that's coming in DOOWND, because you don't
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 5: have time to shoot a second one, your first shot
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 5: has to hit.
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  Speaker 2: So, Bob, I know you guys are hosting a huge event,
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 2: a big Reagan dinner coming up, and I know we
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 2: have a lot of listeners in the western part of Tennessee.
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 2: Give us the loanown what's going on?
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 5: Yeah, a quick pitch here in just here in rural
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 5: Fayette County, just outside of Shelby County, Memphis, we are
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 5: having our Reagan Dinner, our annual fundraiser. We have invited
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 5: Tim Burchett, who is one of only two US Congressmen
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 5: who voted to make sure that the sexual indiscretions are
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 5: not covered up by Congress, and so he's going to
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 5: be here too. Imishman from the from Tennessee anyway, and uh,
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 5: we're also having the three candidates for governor, Marshall Blackburn,
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 5: Manty Fritz and John Rose. They'll least have been given
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 5: some time to make a pitch and try to earn
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 5: your vote. And we're gonna have a great night celebrating
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 5: what it means to be an American patriot. We're gonna
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 5: auction off some live firearms because we are Second Amendment
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 5: adherent's out here, and we're gonna have an awesome time.
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 2: I love this. Are you gonna want to find Bob?
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 2: Are you gonna make them all set at the same table?
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 2: That would be fun.
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 5: Proximity thereof Okay.
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 2: All right, I take away the cutlery, but I would
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 2: definitely that would be fun to watch.
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 5: Yeah, uh we uh. If folks are interested, if you're
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 5: in West Tennessee or you're going to be in the
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 5: neighborhood Moren Mississippi, Eastern Arkansas, we'd love to have you come.
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 5: It's real easy to order tickets. We're almost sold out,
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 5: which is really unusual for a Republican fundraiser. But we're
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 5: almost sold out, so you need to order them quickly.
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 5: It's at stay at p n GOP that's Fayette tngop
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  Speaker 5: dot org. You can purchase your tickets online and we
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  Speaker 5: would love to see any American pakers you want to
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 5: show up and show support for our party.
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 3: I love that.
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 2: And you said that, and you said there's going to
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 2: be some guns there so people will be able to
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 2: what is that like a raffle?
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 5: Oh doti, Well, you know what we're gonna do is
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 5: a live auction, and we have three really amazing collectible firearms.
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 5: You'll want to pass down to your children and great grandchildren.
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 5: We have a Donald Trump AR fifteen. It's a copper
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 5: finished lower receiver and upper receiver and handguards and it's
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 5: a laser engraved with a number of really cool images
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 5: of Donald Trump and the White House and so forth.
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 5: Have a twelve gage semi automatic shotgun wrapped in the
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 5: American flag.
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 8: Wow, that we're going.
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 5: To auction off. And we have a Cowboys style twenty
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 5: two caliber Henry collectible firearms fully operational liver action. We're
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 5: going to be all auction all these off. Henry is
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 5: engraved with Sayett County Republicans also, so we'll have some
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 5: other surprises for the night, trying to make it really rewarding.
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 5: Love to have folks out there on Saturday, all right
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 5: in the summer.
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 2: All right, good stuff, Well, Bob, thank you for calling
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 2: in and the good luck there folks. That's pretty darn exciting.
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 2: And again the website address if you'd like to get
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 2: information getting a ticket and Wow Trump AAR fifteen. That's
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 2: that sounds pretty awesome. Go to their website. It's Fayette County.
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 2: It's Fayette t NGP dot org for their Big Reagan
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 2: Dinner and you know, if you guys are having a
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 2: big event somewhere, you know, we're happy to let folks
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 2: know about that. So all you have to do is
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 2: just give us a call. But we've got to take
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 2: a break now, haying time. We've got Charles in North Carolina,
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 2: German Shepherd on hold as well. We'll be right back
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 2: all right, coming up tonight five o'clock eastern on the
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 2: Ton Stern Show on Newsmax, Newsmax two. You can watch
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 2: us on YouTube, Facebook and a lot of the OTT platforms.
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 2: Senator Mike Rounds from South Dakota is going to join us.
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 2: Also Ben Ferguson, a host of the Ben Ferguson Show.
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 2: Our good friend Matt Schlapp, who is the chairman of Seapack.
• 1:15:23
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  Speaker 2: Two big stories happening right now simultaneously up on Capitol Hill.
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  Speaker 2: One is the same actor. We're going to get to
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  Speaker 2: that in just a moment. But Ran Paul is going
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  Speaker 2: at it. He's really upset at Senator Mark Wayne Mullen.
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  Speaker 2: His confirmation hearing underway, and Ran Paul is having none
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  Speaker 2: of it. Let's take a listen to what happened.
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  Speaker 14: Uh calling me a liar, sir. I think there's everybody
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  Speaker 14: in this room knows that I'm very blunt and direct
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  Speaker 14: to the point, and if i have something to say,
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  Speaker 14: back in your back in my house days, we actually
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  Speaker 14: did have this conversation because the remarks that I've made
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  Speaker 14: you were in a room. I simply addressed that I said,
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  Speaker 14: I could understand because of the behavior you were having
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  Speaker 14: that I got to understand why your neighbor by the
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  Speaker 14: neighbor did what he did. As far as my terms,
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 14: is the snake in the grass, sir, I work around
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  Speaker 14: this room to try to fix problems. I've worked with
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  Speaker 14: many people in this room. Seems like you fight Republicans
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  Speaker 14: more than you work with us. I did address those remarks.
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  Speaker 14: I did explain your gimmicks by the amendment you put forth.
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  Speaker 14: And as far as me saying that I invote violence,
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  Speaker 14: I don't. I don't think anybody should be hit by
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  Speaker 14: a supper. I don't like that. But if I do
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  Speaker 14: So for you to say I'm a liar, sir, that's
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  Speaker 14: not accurate. And I got proof to say that, because
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  Speaker 14: you have spent millions of dollars in my campaigns against me,
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  Speaker 14: because we just don't get along. However, sir, that doesn't
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  Speaker 14: keep me at all from doing my job. I can
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  Speaker 14: have different opinions with everybody in this room, but as
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  Speaker 14: much as I will my own back guard in Oklahoma.
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  Speaker 14: It's bigger than the partisan bickering that we have. It's
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  Speaker 14: bigger than the pitical political differences we have. The truth
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  Speaker 14: is I have a job to do and I don't
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  Speaker 14: like to fell at anything at all. So I can
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  Speaker 14: set it aside. If you're willing to set it aside,
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  Speaker 14: let me earn your respect.
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  Speaker 2: All right. That was Mark Wwayne Mullen. All of this
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  Speaker 2: goes back to I mean, we're talking years ago when
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  Speaker 2: Mark Wayne Mullen apparently called Ran Paul a freaking snake
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  Speaker 2: and then said he completely understood why a neighbor beat
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  Speaker 2: up Rand Paul in his yard. Oh that's not funny,
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  Speaker 2: but uh, anyway, it's just back and forth. Apparently ram
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  Speaker 2: Paul refused to allow Senator Katie Britt of Alabama to
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  Speaker 2: introduce Senator Mullen to the committee. Regardless, I still think
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  Speaker 2: Mullen has the votes, but ram Paul is going to
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  Speaker 2: make it extremely difficult. You see, this is I want
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  Speaker 2: to go back to the last hour for a quick second.
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  Speaker 2: That's what I was talking about, is that Republicans. They
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  Speaker 2: don't know how to win the day. They don't know
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  Speaker 2: which they don't know. They don't know which hill they
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  Speaker 2: the wrong hill. A nine oh one two six zero
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  Speaker 2: to the phones. Say hello to Charles in North Carolina.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Charles. What's on your mind today?
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  Speaker 6: Well, Tied to Save Act is on my mind today.
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  Speaker 6: I was watching those the debate yesterday and not surprisingly Todd,
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  Speaker 6: my home state Senator Tom Tillis, who co authored the
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  Speaker 6: Save Act a year ago, was a no show yesterday,
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  Speaker 6: which just goes to show you that a lot of
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  Speaker 6: these Republican senators that give it voice support, it's just
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  Speaker 6: all performative and it's not reality. But that was just
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  Speaker 6: the ultimate cowardice, in my opinion type. But what I
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  Speaker 6: wanted to ask you about and talk to you about
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  Speaker 6: is this speaking filibuster. You know, President Trump has really
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  Speaker 6: gone out there by saying this is the most important
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  Speaker 6: thing that Congress can vote on, He's not going to
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  Speaker 6: sign any other piece of legislation, and that this is
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  Speaker 6: passed and it's almost the equivalent tide of what Abraham
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  Speaker 6: Lincoln did in eighteen sixty five demanding the Congress pass
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  Speaker 6: the Thirteenth Amendment. You know, and I think that President
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  Speaker 6: Trump is going to have to go after in demand
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  Speaker 6: passage with the same vigor that Lincoln did with the
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  Speaker 6: thirteenth Amendment. So here's what I think.
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  Speaker 5: He should do.
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  Speaker 6: Todd, I don't know if it's good that. If there's
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  Speaker 6: gonna be a speaking filibuster, I would demand it. But
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  Speaker 6: I would just go ahead if I were the president
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  Speaker 6: right now and say until this is passed, all leaves
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  Speaker 6: are canceled. You're not going home for Easter. I'm calling
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  Speaker 6: an emergency session. You're staying in session all year. I
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  Speaker 6: don't care if that means you got to stay here
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  Speaker 6: Memorial Day, all through the summer, all through your August.
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  Speaker 6: Re says, you guys are gonna stay up here, and
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  Speaker 6: you're gonna and you're gonna do a speaking filibuster and
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  Speaker 6: this bill is going to pass. Otherwise you're not going home.
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  Speaker 9: Now.
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  Speaker 8: What do you think would happen if.
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  Speaker 5: He tried that fusture?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think there would there would be chaos. But
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  Speaker 2: that's OK because he would be protected under the Constitution.
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  Speaker 2: Let my memory may fail here, but I think it's
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  Speaker 2: Article two, section three of the Constitution the President that
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  Speaker 2: gives the president the authority to convene both houses of Congress,
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  Speaker 2: and so he could either he can either keep everybody
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  Speaker 2: in session or he could just keep the Senate in session.
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  Speaker 2: You know. I I like that idea. The president is
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  Speaker 2: allowed to do that and under really and that's under
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  Speaker 2: his terms. I mean, there doesn't have to be a
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  Speaker 2: specific reason, but he has that. He has that within
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  Speaker 2: his power in the executive branch. Yeah, I like that idea.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, And just demand that there's a speaking filibuster. Not
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  Speaker 6: the sixty vote threshold though I forgot the edge if
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 6: people use to call that one. But just demand that
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  Speaker 6: the Democrats get up there and uh, and if they're
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  Speaker 6: going to fill a bus or they have to speak,
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  Speaker 6: and even even Republicans. But I just think that would
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  Speaker 6: put enormous pressure on these senators. If they couldn't go home,
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 6: if they couldn't waste money for their re election campaigns.
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  Speaker 6: I just think that would put the fear of God
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  Speaker 6: in them, but put a lot of fire under their feet.
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  Speaker 6: And I think that would be effective. I mean, I
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  Speaker 6: know it's kind of like a street fight. But you know,
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  Speaker 6: this is without to say that, Tood, nothing else really
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  Speaker 6: matters because if without that, Republicans are going to lose elections.
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  Speaker 6: And once the Democrats get power, you know what they're
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 6: going to do. They've already said what they're going to do.
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  Speaker 6: So this is just there's nothing more urgent in my
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 6: opinion than this right here at the safe.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so. And again going back to the
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  Speaker 2: talking filibuster, you still have to have I mean, to
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  Speaker 2: stop the filibuster. To break the filibuster, you've got to
• 1:24:46
  Speaker 2: pass a cloture motion, which would still require a sixty
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  Speaker 2: vote super majority. So but at the same time, it
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  Speaker 2: would force the Democrats. They would physically have to stand up.
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  Speaker 2: There's no sitting down. They would have to to stand
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  Speaker 2: and they would have to speak. So the question is
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  Speaker 2: are we you know, is that where is that where
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  Speaker 2: we're gonna go?
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  Speaker 6: Well, I hope so, because I mean, this is this
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 6: is the line in the sand, this is the red line,
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 6: this is the hill to Donald I mean, you look
• 1:25:18
  Speaker 6: at what they've been trying to do to President Trump
• 1:25:21
  Speaker 6: and Republicans since twenty sixteen with Russia Gate, and then
• 1:25:26
  Speaker 6: you had twenty twenty all the election and appearance, you
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 6: had the law Fair where they tried to bankrupt them,
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 6: throw them in jail. Then you know you on the
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 6: heels of that, you've got twenty twenty four where two
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 6: assassination attempts. I mean, they will do anything and everything
• 1:25:45
  Speaker 6: they can, the Democrats to rig and steal an election
• 1:25:49
  Speaker 6: if they will do everything that I just mentioned, and
• 1:25:51
  Speaker 6: the only way to prevent them is to pass this
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 6: stay back because once they get power, they'll come back
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 6: with a vengeance and they'll come after Trump and all
• 1:25:59
  Speaker 6: of us, including me and U Todd because she's got
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 6: a big platform too.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, all right, Charles, thank you for that. Uh
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  Speaker 2: nine oh one two six zero five nine two six
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  Speaker 2: is our number. Let's go to German Shepherd, German Shepherd,
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 2: what's on your mind today?
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  Speaker 7: Hey, mister Todd. I emailed mister Tillis yesterday and expressed
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 7: to him how angry I am at him for not
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 7: voting at all for the Save America Act when here
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 7: in North Carolina we just passed the id law to
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 7: vote in North Carolina. It makes no sense and it's
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 7: ridiculous and it just comes to mind Deuteronomy twenty three one,
• 1:26:40
  Speaker 7: where it says that if your if your stones are
• 1:26:44
  Speaker 7: wounded or missing, you can't be in the assembly of
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  Speaker 7: the Lord. And you know, Tom Tillis, I look forward
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 7: to him leaving the sentence because he doesn't have a pair.
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  Speaker 12: You know, I'm just tired of it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, it's it's really unfortunate. You can tell
• 1:26:57
  Speaker 2: her he crosses his legs. I think you're right there.
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 2: But you know, Tom Tillis has exposed himself for being
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 2: a Democrat, and that is just simply unacceptable. And I
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 2: certainly hope, I certainly hope that Michael Wattley is going
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 2: to be able to have the money he needs and
• 1:27:18
  Speaker 2: the support he needs to win that Senate seat. It
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 2: is going to be an uphill climb for you guys
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 2: there in North Carolina. German Shepherd, Yes.
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  Speaker 7: Sir, and I feel for you. My social media page
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 7: got me in trouble at my church and they stripped
• 1:27:34
  Speaker 7: me of all my ministry there. So I come to
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 7: the conclusion through other mentors that if I can't do
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 7: what God has called me to do there, we just
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 7: go somewhere else and do what God's called us to do.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Look, I mean, I hear what you're saying. This
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 2: has nothing to do with the church I go to,
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 2: But I'm just talking about Christians in general. They profess
• 1:27:53
  Speaker 2: Christ and then they behave like heathens, and I got
• 1:27:56
  Speaker 2: a big problem with that. But the German shepherd in there,
• 1:28:00
  Speaker 2: and thank you for calling in. I got to talk
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 2: about James tall Rico. And I don't know what's going
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 2: on with you, you folks in Texas here, but this guy,
• 1:28:13
  Speaker 2: it's really funny. I think the Democrats there in Texas
• 1:28:17
  Speaker 2: got snookered In all honesty, they the Democrats just I'm
• 1:28:21
  Speaker 2: just thinking as a Democrat here, so bear with me.
• 1:28:24
  Speaker 2: If I'm a Democrat. Jasmin Crockett is the better candidate.
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 2: But they went with James tall Rico. And yeah, she's look,
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 2: she's a blowhard. I get that, But James tall Rico,
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 2: this guy's dangerous. But it turns they thought the you know,
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 2: he kind of looks like, oh, what's the guy in
• 1:28:43
  Speaker 2: the Mad magazine? Alfred? What is it alfredy Newman? Is
• 1:28:47
  Speaker 2: that the guy's name? The Mad Magazine guy? So he
• 1:28:51
  Speaker 2: looks like, you know, very harmless, and you know he's
• 1:28:55
  Speaker 2: got the he doesn't have facial hair. I don't think
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 2: he's hit pub yet. He's the theologian, right, he's the preacher,
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 2: and he's got all this radical nonsense about the church.
• 1:29:11
  Speaker 2: And I think a lot of Evangelicals and most people
• 1:29:14
  Speaker 2: in Texas are Baptists, even the Catholics are Baptist in Texas.
• 1:29:17
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's that predominative of a religion that I
• 1:29:20
  Speaker 2: think his theology is a big problem. But I think
• 1:29:23
  Speaker 2: maybe for the average Texan they're not into that theology stuff,
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 2: so that doesn't bother them, bother them a lot. But
• 1:29:30
  Speaker 2: what I'm about to play for you should bother you Texans,
• 1:29:34
  Speaker 2: because this guy apparently wants to ban brisket and barbecue.
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 2: Take a listen.
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  Speaker 15: We have, i think, heard more and more issues of
• 1:29:43
  Speaker 15: animal welfare. I think not just because it's the right
• 1:29:45
  Speaker 15: thing to do and the moral thing to do, but
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 15: also it's, as all of you know, necessary to fight
• 1:29:50
  Speaker 15: climate change. It is now existential that we try to
• 1:29:54
  Speaker 15: reduce our meat consumption and that we try to respect
• 1:29:57
  Speaker 15: animals in all aspects of society. And so I am
• 1:30:01
  Speaker 15: proud to say that our campaign has officially become a
• 1:30:04
  Speaker 15: non meat campaign. So we we are only buying vegan
• 1:30:11
  Speaker 15: products from from our local vegan businesses. Some of you
• 1:30:14
  Speaker 15: may know big nonas. They were little nonas and then
• 1:30:17
  Speaker 15: they opened up brick and mortars and their big nonas.
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 15: But we just got our pizza from there today. And
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 15: so the point is that I think all of us,
• 1:30:25
  Speaker 15: not just policymakers, but everyone has to take personal responsibility
• 1:30:29
  Speaker 15: in this effort.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry he lost me at non meat campaign. What
• 1:30:37
  Speaker 2: is that all about? Who in their right mind would
• 1:30:40
  Speaker 2: think this kind of a Democrat could get elected? And
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 2: of all places, Texas, where steak is the official food.
• 1:30:46
  Speaker 2: I mean, babies, they don't even do bottles in Texas.
• 1:30:49
  Speaker 2: You guys just give them a ribbi or a tea bone.
• 1:30:53
  Speaker 2: I think it's a tea bone so they can teeth.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just I've never heard such nonsense coming out of
• 1:31:00
  Speaker 2: a Texas politician, because even the Democrats buy and larger
• 1:31:04
  Speaker 2: meat eaters and Texas. So you've got Tallarico, who, by
• 1:31:08
  Speaker 2: the way, delivered this comment back in twenty twenty two
• 1:31:11
  Speaker 2: with a face diaper on and the guy saying, yeah,
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 2: we need to go vegan in the great state of Texas.
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 2: Of course, this is the same guy who says that
• 1:31:24
  Speaker 2: God is non binary and putting prisoners into a jail
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 2: is a form of violence. Oh, we also said that
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 2: the birth of Christ is really what a metaphor for abortion?
• 1:31:40
  Speaker 2: Abortion rights unbelievable. So anyway, I'm just curious, ladies and gentlemen,
• 1:31:45
  Speaker 2: is that going to play here? Are you guys getting
• 1:31:48
  Speaker 2: a lot of vegans moving into the lone Star state?
• 1:31:51
  Speaker 2: You know, that's how it starts, Dylan, That's how it starts.
• 1:31:54
  Speaker 2: You see the vegans move in and then everything goes
• 1:31:57
  Speaker 2: to hell in a handbasket, and.
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 3: All of a sudden as a cauliflower chicken patty on
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 3: their menu.
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 2: Son of a biscuit eater. It's that easy. That's what
• 1:32:05
  Speaker 2: happened to ashevilt. They started serving barbecue tofu and you know,
• 1:32:09
  Speaker 2: now they got drum circles and everything smells like petchuli oil.
• 1:32:12
  Speaker 2: Got to take a break. We'll be right back. All right,
• 1:32:27
  Speaker 2: Welcome back to everybody. Good to have you with us.
• 1:32:30
  Speaker 2: Here's Congressman Brandon gill Out of Texas. Take a listen
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  Speaker 2: to cut eleven.
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  Speaker 16: Charia law and radical Islam have no place in the
• 1:32:42
  Speaker 16: United States. You know, there's a fundamental truth that I
• 1:32:46
  Speaker 16: think we've got to recognize, which is that not all
• 1:32:48
  Speaker 16: cultures are created equal, and they are not all equally
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 16: compatible with America's governing framework. The reality is that radical
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  Speaker 16: Islam is a political ideology, has a very different conception
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  Speaker 16: of freedom of speech than we have in the United States,
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  Speaker 16: a very different conception of freedom of religion, of separation
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  Speaker 16: of church and state, or of Moskin state. Islam as
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  Speaker 16: a political ideology is inherently imperialistic, and we see that
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  Speaker 16: now unfortunately all over the Western world.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no doubt about that. So well, said Congressman Gil
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  Speaker 2: and he is speaking truth to his colleagues up on
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  Speaker 2: Capitol Hill. This story out of Arkansas. University of Arkansas,
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  Speaker 2: the Turning Point USA chapter there has officially broken ties
• 1:33:40
  Speaker 2: with the national group and they have reorganized under a
• 1:33:44
  Speaker 2: new name. They're not going to be known as Young
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  Speaker 2: American Revival at the University of Arkansas, the student chapter,
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  Speaker 2: they're posting a message on social media and they're saying
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  Speaker 2: this was the decision of the entire colubs. He said
• 1:34:01
  Speaker 2: that Turning Point USA the organization had lost sight of
• 1:34:04
  Speaker 2: what is truly important. They're no longer focused on the
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  Speaker 2: guiding north star, which is fighting for conservative policy, primples, principles,
• 1:34:13
  Speaker 2: and values. They say that they've been consumed with metrics,
• 1:34:18
  Speaker 2: creating viral cultural moments and chasing relevance. He said that
• 1:34:24
  Speaker 2: TPUSA has become reactionary when in fact they need to
• 1:34:29
  Speaker 2: be proactive. So TPUSA not commenting on this. Let me
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  Speaker 2: just say they're not going to be the only chapter
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  Speaker 2: to part ways. I'll just leave it at that for
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  Speaker 2: right now. Got to take a break. If you've got
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  Speaker 2: questions about your taxes. Nine oh one two six zero
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  Speaker 2: five nine two six, will be right back. All right,
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  Speaker 2: Welcome back everybody. Looking forward to seeing everybody at Sea
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  Speaker 2: PAC next week. I'll be speaking down there. We've got
• 1:35:03
  Speaker 2: Matt Schlamp coming on the NEWSMAC show later this evening.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of you have been been concerned about your taxes,
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  Speaker 2: and I get it. Everybody gets all riled up and
• 1:35:16
  Speaker 2: gets what's the clinical term puckered when it comes to
• 1:35:21
  Speaker 2: tax season. Well, fortunately we have a solution to all
• 1:35:25
  Speaker 2: of that, and we're going to be talking about taxes
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  Speaker 2: today and maybe just maybe you have a question. I
• 1:35:31
  Speaker 2: want you to go ahead and give us a call.
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  Speaker 2: Nine oh one two six zero five nine two six.
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  Speaker 2: That's nine oh one two six zero five nine two six.
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  Speaker 2: Always a pleasure every Wednesday to welcome our friends from
• 1:35:43
  Speaker 2: Strategic Financial Partners the website Strategic Financialpartners dot com. Adam
• 1:35:48
  Speaker 2: Martin and Chris loftis joining us guys. Always good to
• 1:35:51
  Speaker 2: see you. Absolutely, So I take it we were talking
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  Speaker 2: to the break here because the weather it's like ten
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  Speaker 2: degrees one day and eighty five the next, so you're
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  Speaker 2: short sleeves.
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  Speaker 17: Or sleeves, I probably don't want to get in the
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  Speaker 17: pool just yet.
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  Speaker 2: So no, I wouldn't. I wouldn't advise doing that. But
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  Speaker 2: at least it's cooler outside, is what you're saying.
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  Speaker 17: Yes, Yeah, it's a nice, nice settle breeze, and you know,
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  Speaker 17: you might bill get a little bit of tan on
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  Speaker 17: the sunshine.
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  Speaker 9: You know.
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  Speaker 17: It's it's that, it's that false spring unfortunately, this wonderful
• 1:36:20
  Speaker 17: Memphis weather.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, my TV makeup artist gives me my tan and
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 2: the Dylan supple lips, so for me.
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  Speaker 3: We got to stop that.
• 1:36:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we got so. Yeah, that's that kind of creeped
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  Speaker 2: me out. Guys. We're talking about the tax deadline coming
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  Speaker 2: up April fifteenth, so we're officially what today one month
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  Speaker 2: out a little bit less.
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  Speaker 17: Actually, yeah, yeah, we're coming up on it.
• 1:36:42
  Speaker 2: She's a loose So we're talking today about being proactive,
• 1:36:46
  Speaker 2: right and not waiting until the last minute, and also
• 1:36:49
  Speaker 2: something called tax planning, qualified tax planning. I haven't heard
• 1:36:52
  Speaker 2: of that phrase before. What is that?
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  Speaker 5: You know?
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  Speaker 18: That's a great question, And first let me just I
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  Speaker 18: want to clarify we're not providing tax advice today. Listeners
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  Speaker 18: should always consult with their qualified tax professional regarding their
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  Speaker 18: specific situation. But when we think about qualified proactive tax planning,
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  Speaker 18: what we're really thinking about is what can we take
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  Speaker 18: advantage of before the tax deadline? Because there are a
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  Speaker 18: lot of things that we can do that could help
• 1:37:18
  Speaker 18: your financial or your tax situation. So if we're really
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  Speaker 18: wanting to maximize contributions into an IRA or any kind
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  Speaker 18: of other qualified plan and reduce our taxbile income, this
• 1:37:29
  Speaker 18: is a good opportunity to think what can I take
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  Speaker 18: advantage of before April fifteenth?
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  Speaker 2: So what are some of the moves that people can
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  Speaker 2: still make before the tax deadline.
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  Speaker 18: So if what we're wanting to look at is, hey,
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  Speaker 18: I earnt a lot of money and I want to
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  Speaker 18: reduce my taxbile income, what's the way that we could
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  Speaker 18: kill two birds with one stone.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that could be.
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  Speaker 18: Let's if we qualify we should contribute to an IRA,
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  Speaker 18: because for every dollar that we put into that pre
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  Speaker 18: tax IRA, we can reduce our taxable income by that
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  Speaker 18: amount and it can be considered a prior year contribution.
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  Speaker 18: So we're in twenty twenty six now, but if we
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  Speaker 18: make this contribution before April fifteenth, it could be a
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  Speaker 18: twenty twenty five contribution.
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  Speaker 2: So what happens if somebody hasn't maxed out?
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  Speaker 18: So if they haven't maxed out, then basically what they're
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  Speaker 18: on the hook for for paying their taxes is just that.
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  Speaker 18: So what we want to look at is how can
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  Speaker 18: we reduce it? If you're looking or you're you're facing
• 1:38:22
  Speaker 18: a big tax obligation and you're like, how do I
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  Speaker 18: reduce that? Well, it could be as simple as let's
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  Speaker 18: make a contribution and if we can, let's do the
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  Speaker 18: maximum contribution to that qualified retirement account.
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  Speaker 2: On the other side, you've got the contributing contributions to
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  Speaker 2: like a traditional IRA. Will that helps somebody this close
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  Speaker 2: to tax time.
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  Speaker 17: Yeah, absolutely, one of the things that I can add here,
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  Speaker 17: and I'll let Adam finish out that question is this
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  Speaker 17: is a great time to look at look at your
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  Speaker 17: finances and review, right, especially if you're looking at kind
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  Speaker 17: of a big tax bill, and this kind of gives
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  Speaker 17: you opportunity, like said, kill two birds with one stone.
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  Speaker 17: I actually have quite a few people who are asking, hey,
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  Speaker 17: since we're already meeting, can we go ahead and start
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  Speaker 17: planning in advance for twenty twenty six? And I was like, absolutely,
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  Speaker 17: we can. It actually makes great sense. So you have
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  Speaker 17: a lot of people who are already looking ahead, taking
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  Speaker 17: advantage of their time with us and any of their
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  Speaker 17: tax professionals. That way they can go ahead and say, okay,
• 1:39:20
  Speaker 17: we've got everything taking care of on a review mirror.
• 1:39:23
  Speaker 17: Let's go ahead and put some things in place for
• 1:39:25
  Speaker 17: the rest this year so that we're not playing catch
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  Speaker 17: up this time next year.
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  Speaker 18: Yeah, Adam, Yeah, So you know, I think about the
• 1:39:31
  Speaker 18: individual that we're discussing here, so you know, looking at
• 1:39:34
  Speaker 18: somebody who may be fifty and older, there are things
• 1:39:37
  Speaker 18: like ketchup contributions that this is a great time to
• 1:39:40
  Speaker 18: be talking about that. So they get to add one
• 1:39:43
  Speaker 18: thousand dollars more into a qualified retirement plan because that
• 1:39:47
  Speaker 18: is the ketchup provision. So this is just a time
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  Speaker 18: where we want people to pump the brakes a little bit,
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  Speaker 18: not really look at hey, I just want to just
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  Speaker 18: get a tax return or get this burden off of
• 1:39:58
  Speaker 18: my back. I want them to really be th thinking
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  Speaker 18: of a strategy of how does that reduce my taxbile
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  Speaker 18: income but also help me with my retirement savings.
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  Speaker 2: All right, we've got Adam Martin and Chris laftas So
• 1:40:09
  Speaker 2: with us from Strategic Financial Partners every Wednesday answering your questions.
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  Speaker 2: A Strategic Financial Partners dot com is the website and
• 1:40:18
  Speaker 2: the phone number to call in nine oh one two
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  Speaker 2: six zero five nine two six. That's nine oh one
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  Speaker 2: two six zero five nine two six. You know, Adam,
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  Speaker 2: a lot of small businesses, and you know it's not
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  Speaker 2: just individuals. Everybody's got to pay their taxes. A lot
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  Speaker 2: of small businesses listing what about them? Are there any
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  Speaker 2: planning opportunities that are still on the table for them? Absolutely?
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  Speaker 18: So I love working with small business owners. And you
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  Speaker 18: you probably either have like a solo flour one K
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  Speaker 18: or a set by array. These are particular individual vehicles
• 1:40:50
  Speaker 18: that we call them specifically for those small businesses, and
• 1:40:53
  Speaker 18: depending on how their business is structured, they you know,
• 1:40:56
  Speaker 18: when they go to file, this is an opportunity for
• 1:40:58
  Speaker 18: them to work for their CPAs and work with their
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  Speaker 18: CPAs and say, you know, how do I stay compliant
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  Speaker 18: but maximize the opportunity Because steps have higher income or
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  Speaker 18: contribution limits than a regular IRA does, so this could
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  Speaker 18: be a very good way for that business to lower
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  Speaker 18: their taxable impact because they can contribute a much higher amount.
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  Speaker 18: And same for the solo case. When we look at that,
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  Speaker 18: that's a particular investment vehicle where we can do more
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  Speaker 18: things like an employee contribution and an employer contribution, so
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  Speaker 18: we're doubling how much we can take advantage of the
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  Speaker 18: tax goes.
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  Speaker 17: You know, a mistake that I think we see a
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  Speaker 17: lot of, especially when it comes to small business owners
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  Speaker 17: around this time, as you know, waiting until the last
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  Speaker 17: minute and focusing solely on minimizing taxes instead of building
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  Speaker 17: long term wealth. Right, so sometimes you know, and the
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  Speaker 17: rust reduced taxes, individuals could overlook strategies that could benefit
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  Speaker 17: them in the long term. But you know, if you
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  Speaker 17: have a structured retirement playing risk management, that could be
• 1:41:55
  Speaker 17: something beneficial to think about. In the long run.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I know a lot of people. I found
• 1:41:59
  Speaker 2: myself in this situation a few years ago. You end
• 1:42:03
  Speaker 2: up owing more than you expected to owe. What what
• 1:42:06
  Speaker 2: should someone like me be thinking about for maybe next year. Well,
• 1:42:10
  Speaker 2: here's what I always tell people.
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  Speaker 18: When they get a refund, you essentially gave the government
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  Speaker 18: an interest free loan and they paid you back nothing
• 1:42:17
  Speaker 18: in the way of interest. So I want people to
• 1:42:19
  Speaker 18: be thinking that if you're getting a refund, maybe you
• 1:42:22
  Speaker 18: should talk to a financial advisor or CPA and say,
• 1:42:25
  Speaker 18: you know, I know that they're giving me this money back,
• 1:42:28
  Speaker 18: but they didn't pay me any interest, and you could
• 1:42:30
  Speaker 18: have taken the same amount and put it into an
• 1:42:33
  Speaker 18: investment vehicle that gave you some interest back. So that's
• 1:42:36
  Speaker 18: just a mindset change that we really want to work
• 1:42:38
  Speaker 18: with the listeners out there to be thinking about.
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  Speaker 2: Well, let's talk about planning considerations for investors. What should
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  Speaker 2: they be thinking about right now?
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  Speaker 18: So planning for investors, what they should be thinking about
• 1:42:52
  Speaker 18: is can I or do I qualify to make a
• 1:42:54
  Speaker 18: contribution to an I ray or is there a way
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  Speaker 18: that I can add this to my qualified retirement plan
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  Speaker 18: and reduce my taxable income So that's really what we
• 1:43:05
  Speaker 18: want to do, is to get you invested in the
• 1:43:07
  Speaker 18: market with money that you might be subjected to pay
• 1:43:10
  Speaker 18: taxes with if possible.
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  Speaker 17: You know, in any any adjustments that need to be made,
• 1:43:15
  Speaker 17: any investment decisions, they really need to be closely aligned
• 1:43:18
  Speaker 17: with the individual's risk tolerance, right. Uh, you know, time
• 1:43:22
  Speaker 17: horizon and financial objectives. I mean, these are all things
• 1:43:25
  Speaker 17: that really need to be evaluated in course corrected, you know,
• 1:43:28
  Speaker 17: pretty routinely, instead of making it just a once a
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  Speaker 17: year thing. Because that way it allows you to be
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  Speaker 17: in the know about what your own what your own
• 1:43:36
  Speaker 17: assets are doing.
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  Speaker 2: Right. So I gotta we got to talk about charitable giver.
• 1:43:40
  Speaker 2: I've got to get this in. But I've got a
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  Speaker 2: funny story. Uh. There was a pastor. Uh and I'm
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  Speaker 2: not sure where this happened, but you know a lot
• 1:43:48
  Speaker 2: of people when they're doing their income taxes, they fudge
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  Speaker 2: a little bit on their giving their right. So he
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  Speaker 2: made the congregation bring in their their I R. S
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  Speaker 2: documents so that he verify.
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  Speaker 18: He wanted to know where the gold was.
• 1:44:03
  Speaker 2: He wanted to see if it matched up. Otherwise people
• 1:44:06
  Speaker 2: are gonna have to be writing checks.
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  Speaker 17: Buts and balances.
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  Speaker 2: Oh there it is. I love that. But what about
• 1:44:13
  Speaker 2: charitable planning and how does that fit into, you know, again,
• 1:44:17
  Speaker 2: being proactive for tax season.
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  Speaker 18: That's that's a very good question. And I do a
• 1:44:22
  Speaker 18: lot of this from our clients. So there's one thing
• 1:44:24
  Speaker 18: I want to mention on qualified charitable distributions. That deadline
• 1:44:28
  Speaker 18: is actually December thirty first, this not April fifteenth. And
• 1:44:32
  Speaker 18: that is because most of the time qualified charitable distributions
• 1:44:35
  Speaker 18: are coming from required minimum distributions. So you reach age
• 1:44:40
  Speaker 18: seventy three, the government says you can no longer defer
• 1:44:42
  Speaker 18: paying taxes on your qualified money. You have to take
• 1:44:45
  Speaker 18: a distribution. Well, what we see a lot is they
• 1:44:48
  Speaker 18: take this distribution and then just fund the church or
• 1:44:50
  Speaker 18: their their charitable organization with money that they pay taxes on. Well,
• 1:44:55
  Speaker 18: here's what I want them to think about is that
• 1:44:57
  Speaker 18: if you don't need those dollars, you don't need your
• 1:44:59
  Speaker 18: R and D, and you want to tie and you
• 1:45:01
  Speaker 18: want to give it to your charity, why don't you
• 1:45:04
  Speaker 18: send them the R and D directly to the church.
• 1:45:06
  Speaker 18: And it's considered a qualified charitable distribution, so there's no
• 1:45:09
  Speaker 18: taxable event to you or.
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  Speaker 2: To the charity. Oh, I like that. That's a great idea.
• 1:45:14
  Speaker 2: Real quick, guys, what about what about scams? You know
• 1:45:16
  Speaker 2: there are a lot of scammers out there, bad guys.
• 1:45:19
  Speaker 2: How do we how do we avoid all of that?
• 1:45:21
  Speaker 18: So earlier you asked about qualified tax planning, and that
• 1:45:25
  Speaker 18: essentially means using strategies that are fully compliant with the IRS.
• 1:45:29
  Speaker 18: We see a lot of things on social media and
• 1:45:31
  Speaker 18: the Internet that are that too good to be true,
• 1:45:34
  Speaker 18: and I always want people to think if it sounds
• 1:45:36
  Speaker 18: too good to be true, generally is proper planning is
• 1:45:39
  Speaker 18: not about align you know, it's it is about aligning
• 1:45:42
  Speaker 18: with regulations and documentations that's suitable for the clients and
• 1:45:46
  Speaker 18: the IRS. And so that's where working with your CPA,
• 1:45:50
  Speaker 18: they're going to tell you what's the IRS code and
• 1:45:52
  Speaker 18: this is how you do it. The same for the
• 1:45:53
  Speaker 18: financial advisor, we're going to say this is how you
• 1:45:55
  Speaker 18: stay compliant.
• 1:45:56
  Speaker 17: Well on top of that, so Todd, I'll be willing
• 1:45:58
  Speaker 17: to guess that most of your listeners I've probably gotten
• 1:46:01
  Speaker 17: a call from somebody claiming to be the IRS. You know,
• 1:46:04
  Speaker 17: I know it's happened to me. I'm sure it's happened
• 1:46:05
  Speaker 17: to you. It's happened to you the irs something be
• 1:46:09
  Speaker 17: important to note. They will typically only reach out to
• 1:46:12
  Speaker 17: you via mail, all right, So that's a real easy way.
• 1:46:15
  Speaker 17: They will very rarely, if ever, I do not believe
• 1:46:17
  Speaker 17: I've not heard of this, call you directly by your cell.
• 1:46:21
  Speaker 17: It will be in the form of some approved mail
• 1:46:24
  Speaker 17: that will be very easy to identify. And so you
• 1:46:26
  Speaker 17: see a lot of people who fall victim to that mindset,
• 1:46:29
  Speaker 17: especially around this time of year when you have people
• 1:46:31
  Speaker 17: panicking about being a deadline or not.
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  Speaker 2: Fair enough, fair enough, all right, guys, a lot of
• 1:46:36
  Speaker 2: great advice and folks, If you have further questions, I
• 1:46:39
  Speaker 2: want you to another website, Strategic Financial Partners dot com.
• 1:46:42
  Speaker 2: Get something to write down. I want you to write
• 1:46:45
  Speaker 2: down phone numbers in just one second, but again, Strategic
• 1:46:47
  Speaker 2: Financial Partners dot com. Adam Martin Financial Advisor, Adam, how
• 1:46:52
  Speaker 2: can our listeners reach you?
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  Speaker 18: You can give me a call at nine zero one
• 1:46:56
  Speaker 18: two six zero two four three eight, or you can
• 1:46:58
  Speaker 18: email me Adam Mark at Strategic Financial Partners dot com.
• 1:47:02
  Speaker 2: All right, And Chris loftis financial services rep. How can
• 1:47:05
  Speaker 2: they reach out to you?
• 1:47:06
  Speaker 17: Chris Matho number is nine zero one six five seven
• 1:47:09
  Speaker 17: three three two four, and you can reach me at
• 1:47:11
  Speaker 17: c LOFTUS at Strategic Financial Partners dot com.
• 1:47:14
  Speaker 2: All right, guys, great to see you. All right, hang tight, everybody,
• 1:47:18
  Speaker 2: we'll be right back. All right, Welcome back, everybody. This
• 1:47:30
  Speaker 2: is the Tom Stearns Radio Show. By the way, had
• 1:47:34
  Speaker 2: an opportunity to speak with California Congressman Tom McClintock on
• 1:47:40
  Speaker 2: NEWSMACS last night. Let's take a listen, joining us now
• 1:47:43
  Speaker 2: to discuss Congressman Tim mcclen McClintock, a great Republican from California, congressman,
• 1:47:49
  Speaker 2: Good to see you. So the majority leader seems to
• 1:47:53
  Speaker 2: think that it is still a possibility that we could
• 1:47:56
  Speaker 2: get the sixty votes at the Senate.
• 1:47:58
  Speaker 9: What say you, well, well, Americans strongly support by eighty
• 1:48:02
  Speaker 9: percent margins support a voter I d most Democrats supported
• 1:48:09
  Speaker 9: at the racket file level.
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  Speaker 11: So hopefully a few of the they're elected officials will
• 1:48:14
  Speaker 11: feel the heat to see the light.
• 1:48:16
  Speaker 9: You know.
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  Speaker 2: One of the things I appreciated Senator Ted Cruz just
• 1:48:19
  Speaker 2: moments ago delivering a pretty impassioned argument there in the Senate,
• 1:48:23
  Speaker 2: and he said, hey, look, you know they're calling this
• 1:48:25
  Speaker 2: Jim crow two point Oh, the reality is it was
• 1:48:28
  Speaker 2: the Democrats who passed Jim Crow one point.
• 1:48:32
  Speaker 11: Oh well, true. And you know, there have been a
• 1:48:35
  Speaker 11: lot of studies between the states with voter ID laws
• 1:48:39
  Speaker 11: and those without, and they've discovered no difference in turnouts.
• 1:48:43
  Speaker 11: So there's no data support to claim that this is
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  Speaker 11: voter suppression, you know. But I think it's absolutely critical
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  Speaker 11: for a democracy, and every election somebody wins and somebody loses.
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  Speaker 11: Democracy depends on whoever loses being able to trust that
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  Speaker 11: the election was a fair, an accurate reflection of the
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  Speaker 11: will of the majority. But in recent years, many states
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  Speaker 11: of the woke left are torn down all of the
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  Speaker 11: safeguards that we build into our process. Mail in ballots
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  Speaker 11: where there's no chain of custody, accounting ballots weeks after
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  Speaker 11: election day, accounting ballots, and secret ballot harvesting, turning election
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  Speaker 11: day into election love instead, registration forbidding, proof of identity.
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  Speaker 11: All of these make cheating easy, but even worse, they
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  Speaker 11: destroy the public's confidence in the process.
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  Speaker 2: And Congressman, I've got a couple of concerns and I
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  Speaker 2: want I want to get your thoughts here on this.
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  Speaker 2: The first one is that I think the average Republican
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  Speaker 2: voter that they're they're watching what's happening right now in
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  Speaker 2: the Senate and they see Republican lawmakers who appear to
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  Speaker 2: be either sabotaging or slow marching the president's agenda here.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm concerned that that could have blowback on the
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  Speaker 2: Republican in the midterm elections.
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  Speaker 11: What say you, Well, that's always been the nature of
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  Speaker 11: the Senate. You remember the story of George Washington explaining
• 1:50:08
  Speaker 11: to Thomas Jefferson that the Senate was the saucer in
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  Speaker 11: which the hot tea of the House was to be cool.
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  Speaker 11: So it's always a more restrained process, which is very
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  Speaker 11: frustrating when you're trying to get something done. But the
• 1:50:25
  Speaker 11: founders created a process where they wanted it to be
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  Speaker 11: very difficult to make laws, to make decisions. They wanted
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  Speaker 11: these issues held up to every conceivable light. They wanted
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  Speaker 11: to create a consensus across the country. And that's very
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  Speaker 11: time consuming and it's very frustrating when you're trying to
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  Speaker 11: get something done. But it served us well over the
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  Speaker 11: past two and a half century.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it has. But I know President Trump is getting frustrated.
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  Speaker 2: He's weighing in on a true social get your senators,
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  Speaker 2: Republican or Democrat, to vote yes on the Save America Act.
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  Speaker 2: Will never ever endorse anyone who votes against Save America?
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  Speaker 2: Does the President does?
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  Speaker 5: He does?
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  Speaker 2: He have a fair point here, Oh.
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  Speaker 11: I believe he does and is ever Dirkson said, when
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  Speaker 11: they feel the heat, they see the light. The more
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  Speaker 11: he brought on them, the more light they're going to see.
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  Speaker 11: So bring it a hunt.
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  Speaker 2: Well, as you and I are talking here, we're also
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  Speaker 2: watching a debate happening live on the floor of the
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  Speaker 2: Senate as they work through all of this. I know
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  Speaker 2: several House Republicans, by the way, have pledged to vote
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  Speaker 2: no on all Senate bills until the Save America Act
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  Speaker 2: is passed. Do you support that?
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  Speaker 11: Well, I have a very simple policy. I vote yes
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  Speaker 11: on all of the good bills, and I vote no
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  Speaker 11: on all of the bad bills, and then I go home,
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  Speaker 11: brush my teeth, and go to bed.
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  Speaker 2: Well. You can't get much more common sense than that,
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  Speaker 2: can you? Everybody? All right? That was Congressman mcclin talk
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  Speaker 2: from California. We certainly appreciate his great work home. Hopefully
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  Speaker 2: he'll be returning to Congress. You know, he's one of
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  Speaker 2: those districts that got nailed by the Democrats out there,
• 1:52:06
  Speaker 2: Governor Kavin Uskam and the Dems, so a lot of
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  Speaker 2: work today on Capitol Hill. We're still monitoring a lot
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• 1:52:17
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