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Getting Away With It · ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes

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  Speaker 1: Well, lie from the Liberty University Studio in Memphis, Tennessee.
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  Speaker 1: It's America's favorite gun, total Bible clinging, deplorable American, that's.
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  Speaker 2: American. Todd starts well air. Hello, fellow Patriots.
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  Speaker 3: Jeff Stein in the air chair again today, filling in
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  Speaker 3: for Todd Starnes, who's just a little bit under the
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  Speaker 3: weather summer, cold and all that sort of thing. Let's
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  Speaker 3: give them the weekend to get back to full strength
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  Speaker 3: and hopefully be back to you from the Liberty University
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  Speaker 3: Studio on Monday.
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  Speaker 2: I'm coming to you.
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  Speaker 3: From my home base in the Free State of Iowa
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  Speaker 3: on this open line Friday, and I look forward to
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  Speaker 3: continuing the coast to coast conversation with you folks as
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  Speaker 3: always at nine oh one two six five nine two six,
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  Speaker 3: same number as always, nine oh one two six oh
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  Speaker 3: five nine two six. There is so much to talk about.
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  Speaker 3: We'll let you control the conversation through those phone calls.
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  Speaker 3: But we are going to talk with a couple of
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  Speaker 3: guests during the program today, one from the National Taxpayers
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  Speaker 3: Union about something called the Jones Act. You may not
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  Speaker 3: know about it. The President recently waived it to allow
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  Speaker 3: our energy costs to stay low. I think they have
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  Speaker 3: the idea of, uh, why not get rid of that
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  Speaker 3: Jones Act for Good. Pete sepp Off, the National Taxpayers
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  Speaker 3: Union is his name. He'll join us in our number two,
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  Speaker 3: and we'll also talk with doctor Carl Masseli of a
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  Speaker 3: group called Do No Harm. We spent a fair amount
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  Speaker 3: of time yesterday on the program talking about this report
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  Speaker 3: from the Department of Human Services Health and Human Services
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  Speaker 3: that indicated that there were a lot of clinicians and
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  Speaker 3: supposed healthcare facilities that were pushing transgender treatment because they
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  Speaker 3: made more money off of it. We'll talk to a
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  Speaker 3: doctor on the front lines of this issue coming up
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  Speaker 3: in our number two as well. We'll also check in
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  Speaker 3: with the FedEx Saint Jude Championship, the PGA tour stop
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  Speaker 3: in the home base of Memphis. That and of course
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  Speaker 3: your calls at nine oh one two six h five
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  Speaker 3: nine two six. I am really struck by something and
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  Speaker 3: it's getting worse, and it needed to stop yesterday. But
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  Speaker 3: it's the lawlessness of those, particularly on the left, to
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  Speaker 3: make a political point. Now my background, in addition to
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  Speaker 3: spending many many years behind a microphone, I am a
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  Speaker 3: licensed attorney. I'm licensed in the federal and state courts,
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  Speaker 3: I could sue any one of you at any time.
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  Speaker 3: So my background is based on the fundamental premise of
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  Speaker 3: a fair judicial system. And because some aspects of the
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  Speaker 3: system have broken down in recent years in favor of
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  Speaker 3: a political agenda, we don't have the kind of fair
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  Speaker 3: judicial system that our system demands, that our government, that
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  Speaker 3: are our republic demands. You know, in a past life,
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  Speaker 3: when I was practicing law full time, I would represent
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  Speaker 3: people accused of crimes, and I would have people at
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  Speaker 3: times say, well, how can you represent guilty people? Well,
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  Speaker 3: the first thing is it was not my job to
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  Speaker 3: determine if they were guilty or innocent. My job was
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  Speaker 3: to represent them and advocate on their behalf before a
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  Speaker 3: judge or a jury. Not my job to decide guilt
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  Speaker 3: or innocence. That was either a judge or a jury's job.
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  Speaker 3: And so you have to assume if the system is
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  Speaker 3: actually going to work, we have prosecutors in law enforcement
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  Speaker 3: doing their jobs to the best of their ability. You'd
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  Speaker 3: have defense attorneys doing their jobs to the best of
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  Speaker 3: their ability. You'd have fair judges, you'd have fair juries.
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  Speaker 3: And only when every aspect of the system is working
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  Speaker 3: to the best of their ability. Do you have a
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  Speaker 3: judicial system that's fair and honest and works? Now, it's
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  Speaker 3: pretty simple, now, is that idealistic?
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  Speaker 2: Well? Probably? Did it get much.
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  Speaker 3: Further from reality in present days? Yes, obviously it has.
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  Speaker 3: I have a few examples here on the screen, and
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  Speaker 3: there are examples of this sort of thing in Todd's
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  Speaker 3: new book, The Golden Age, How Trump Saved America. If
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  Speaker 3: you don't have your copy, order it right now on Amazon.
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  Speaker 3: If you pick it up along with a couple of
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  Speaker 3: copy of Todd's book from last year, Stars Angled Blessings.
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  Speaker 3: If you buy both The Golden Age and Star Spangled Blessings, you.
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  Speaker 2: Get free shipping on Amazon.
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  Speaker 3: If your member of Prime order Todd's book The Golden
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  Speaker 3: Age and you'll have it in your hands tomorrow. So
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  Speaker 3: he has examples of this in the book as well.
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  Speaker 3: But here are just a few from today's headlines alone.
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  Speaker 3: US Attorney for the District of Columbia, Janeine Piro, today
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  Speaker 3: announced her office is filing felony charges against a woman
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  Speaker 3: for vandalizing the World War II Memorial in Washington, d C.
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  Speaker 3: This is a reprobate named Melissa Ferris. Now in custody,
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  Speaker 3: facing charges of desecration of property of the United States
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  Speaker 3: and destruction of veterans memorials. Those crimes carry penalties of
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  Speaker 3: up to ten years in prison. Brightly colored graffiti spray
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  Speaker 3: painted on it reading clean Hands, Dirty Money, and somehow
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  Speaker 3: soap bubbles came out of the fountain. In other words,
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  Speaker 3: they this woman is accused of not only spray painting
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  Speaker 3: I think it's pink and green neon colored graffiti, but
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  Speaker 3: then dumped a bunch of soap into the fountain to
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  Speaker 3: not only gum up the works, but create a bunch
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  Speaker 3: of bubbles like you're going to do your dishes. The
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  Speaker 3: Interior Department properly called the vandalism an utter disgrace. More
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  Speaker 3: than four hundred thousand Americans died in World War Two. Well,
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  Speaker 3: now we have charges against this person. Now, if you
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  Speaker 3: want to make a political point, and I'm not sure
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  Speaker 3: why desecrating that memorial with clean hands, dirty money, I
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  Speaker 3: don't even know what you're protesting with that. But in
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  Speaker 3: any event, what possesses someone to think that they can
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  Speaker 3: do that, Well, because they get away with it, and
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  Speaker 3: they get before woke courts, or they get before for
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  Speaker 3: jurys who have similar political views, and the juries then
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  Speaker 3: ignore the law. They engage in something called juror nullification,
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  Speaker 3: meaning that the jury ignores the law and whatever small
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  Speaker 3: little slap on the wrist the person might get would
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  Speaker 3: be worth it in their world. Now, I hope that
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  Speaker 3: this prosecution sticks because desecrating a war memorial to make
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  Speaker 3: some sort of political point that I'm not sure seems unrelated.
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  Speaker 3: This is not just playtime, and hopefully the US Attorney,
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  Speaker 3: Judge Janine will take care of that well. Meanwhile, you
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  Speaker 3: have other situations where it looks like people are negotiating
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  Speaker 3: deals to get away with murder. Yes, literally, Lawyers for
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  Speaker 3: the man charged with killing Charlie Kirk now say he
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  Speaker 3: should not be eligible for the death penalty in Utah
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  Speaker 3: because he quote hit the intended target. Now understand, prosecutors
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  Speaker 3: are saying that Tyler Robinson murdered Charlie Kirk and endangered
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  Speaker 3: other people around because you're firing a gun at a
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  Speaker 3: distance might hit other people. Now, that is what's known
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  Speaker 3: as an aggravating factor under state law that would make
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  Speaker 3: Tyler Robinson eligible for the death penalty. His attorneys yesterday,
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  Speaker 3: in order to remove the death penalty, said he hit
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  Speaker 3: the intended target. So therefore there's no aggravating factor that's
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  Speaker 3: admitting that he killed him. But what will wind up
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  Speaker 3: happening is, let's say that the court agrees that no
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  Speaker 3: one was harmed nearby, and so therefore the death penalty
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  Speaker 3: is off the table. That pleading in court cannot be
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  Speaker 3: used against the defendant in trial, So the jury will
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  Speaker 3: never know that the defense essentially is saying he didn't
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  Speaker 3: do it. But if he did, he hit the target.
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  Speaker 3: I mean the phraseology hit the intended target.
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  Speaker 2: It is so callous.
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  Speaker 3: Then you've got what you've heard on the news today.
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  Speaker 3: Luigi Mangione went to federal court and entered a plea
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  Speaker 3: of guilty in advance of his New York state murder trial. Now,
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  Speaker 3: this is the individual who murdered the healthcare executive the
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  Speaker 3: streets of New York. Brian Thompson was his name. United
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  Speaker 3: Healthcare was the organization, and he ran Mister Thompson actually
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  Speaker 3: an Iowa native. It's the state where I have been born,
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  Speaker 3: raised in where I work. Luigi Mangione said in open
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  Speaker 3: court that he shot Brian Thompson, and he said I
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  Speaker 3: knew what I was doing. He talked about using a
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  Speaker 3: three D printer to make a gun. This is all
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  Speaker 3: in federal court. Now here's the problem with the system.
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  Speaker 3: The federal charge is stalking.
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  Speaker 2: He found.
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  Speaker 3: He's just admitted guilt and sentencing will be set for
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  Speaker 3: later this year.
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  Speaker 2: I think I heard December.
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  Speaker 3: Now, why did he admit to stalking and as part
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  Speaker 3: of that admit to shooting Brian Thompson Because he's now
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  Speaker 3: going to try to weasel out of a merger charge
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  Speaker 3: in New York state court by claiming double jeopardy. Double
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  Speaker 3: jeopardy is the legal principle where you cannot be tried
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  Speaker 3: for the same thing twice. And so they're going to say, well, yes,
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  Speaker 3: he's going to get life in prison in the federal case,
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  Speaker 3: that's the maximum sentence, life in prison.
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  Speaker 2: But he's going to.
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  Speaker 3: Now claim in New York state court. Up, I already
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  Speaker 3: admitted to that in federal court. You cannot try me
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  Speaker 3: in state court for murder where the death penalty might
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  Speaker 3: be an issue because New York has such broad double
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  Speaker 3: jeopardy rules. Instead of a situation where you've got a
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  Speaker 3: federal and a state charge and therefore you're really going
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  Speaker 3: to make sure that you get him up, he pleaded
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  Speaker 3: to the federal charge before we tried him in state court. Yes,
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  Speaker 3: we can't try him in state court. There goes the murder,
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  Speaker 3: there goes the death penalty, and there goes justice. Now
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  Speaker 3: we don't know for sure that that's going to work,
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  Speaker 3: but based on how they have gone in court in
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  Speaker 3: New York, pretty good chance it might. So there's your example.
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  Speaker 3: We've got woke courts and rules therefore encouraging people to
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  Speaker 3: violate the law because what's gonna possibly happen to them,
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  Speaker 3: not what the law says. We're on the wrong path, friends,
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  Speaker 3: we need to turn this around. Interested in your thoughts
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  Speaker 3: on this. At nine oh one two six zero five
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  Speaker 3: nine two six, Jeff Stein filling in for Todd from
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  Speaker 3: the Liberty University Studio. Let's take a break now your
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  Speaker 3: calls on the other side. On the Friday edition open
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  Speaker 3: finally time for a straightforward assess of the state of
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  Speaker 3: our nation.
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  Speaker 3: Open Back to the Liberty University Studio and The Todd
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  Speaker 3: starn Show.
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  Speaker 2: Jeff Stein filling in for Todd Today.
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  Speaker 3: Nine oh one two six oh five, nine two six.
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  Speaker 3: That's the number you used to continue this coast to
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  Speaker 3: coast conversation on an open line Friday. And that is
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  Speaker 3: the number that Joe used to call in from La
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  Speaker 3: j Georgia. He listens on the Great affiliate WDUN. Joe,
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  Speaker 3: good to talk to you. Thanks for calling in.
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  Speaker 5: How are you, Jeff? I'm doing great. You're doing a
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  Speaker 5: great job. Set of student for Todd. I just got
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  Speaker 5: through reading the great Todd Starns book The Golden Age,
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  Speaker 5: and it's the best book I've ever read. And I
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  Speaker 5: think if every American could read this book, I think
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  Speaker 5: the Democrats would never win another on national as it
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  Speaker 5: is a super book. And I want to recommend everybody
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  Speaker 5: listening to this great show that they go to their
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  Speaker 5: nearest books. Shore Today and by the great Todd Starns
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  Speaker 5: book The Golden Age has really fired me up. I'm
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  Speaker 5: energized and I think that it will lead. I predict
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  Speaker 5: we're gonna win, the Republicans will win amid terms by landslides,
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  Speaker 5: and I think Todd starnsbook will have a lot to
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  Speaker 5: do with that great victory.
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  Speaker 3: What I really liked about it myself, Joan, I'm interested
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  Speaker 3: in your thoughts there. The subtitle is how Trump Saved America,
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  Speaker 3: but there are chapters with various things, How Trump saved this,
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  Speaker 3: How Trump saved Christmas, Memphis, education, et cetera. These things
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  Speaker 3: are full of examples and you can't dispute facts. That's
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  Speaker 3: what I like about it. What did you enjoy the
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  Speaker 3: most about the Golden Age?
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  Speaker 5: Well, it was just everything he had to say about
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  Speaker 5: freedom and liberty and what a great job Trump has done.
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  Speaker 5: You know, the stock market is continuing to hit new highs.
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  Speaker 5: I think he's got about thirty records he's been president.
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  Speaker 5: So I mean, if you read this book, it'll make
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  Speaker 5: you feel great about the future. And I just want
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  Speaker 5: to come in Todd on the best book I've ever read.
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  Speaker 5: And I recommend everybody go to the nearest bookstore and
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  Speaker 5: buy the great Tom Stearns book called The Golden Age,
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  Speaker 5: and keep on keep up the good work well, Joe.
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  Speaker 3: I appreciate it, but I got to ask. You're two
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  Speaker 3: months away from Apple Festival down in that part of
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  Speaker 3: the world. How's the crop going to be this year?
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  Speaker 5: It's gonna be good. Come down to LJA and come
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  Speaker 5: to Food's Famous Barbecue. You'll get a good barbecue and
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  Speaker 5: you can buy some great apples from all of our
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  Speaker 5: great retailers down here that sells a great product.
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  Speaker 3: And I drop your name and I get the best
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  Speaker 3: meal in the house if I go.
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  Speaker 5: There right exactly exactly, you will come see this. We'd
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  Speaker 5: love to see you, and I'll buy you a barbecue
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  Speaker 5: at Food's Barbecue if you come.
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  Speaker 3: Joe, thanks so much for calling in today. Have yourself
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  Speaker 3: a blessed weekend, sir.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you. Jeff by by all right, take good care.
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  Speaker 3: Joe calling in from LJ Georgia again listening to the
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  Speaker 3: North Georgia affiliate of the program WDUN.
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  Speaker 2: And the book is.
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  Speaker 3: Called The Golden Age How Trump Saved American And I
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  Speaker 3: just checked again at Amazon dot com and it is
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  Speaker 3: still in the top ten in three different categories, including
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  Speaker 3: political commentary and opinion. Let's add to that. Please, nothing
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  Speaker 3: helps an author's recovery from a summer cold like seeing
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  Speaker 3: book sales go up. So go to Amazon dot com
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  Speaker 3: and purchase a copy of The Golden Age How Trump
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  Speaker 3: Saved America, as noted in the top ten and no
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  Speaker 3: fewer than three Amazon categories. If you have Amazon Prime
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  Speaker 3: order now, you get it tomorrow. If you would like
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  Speaker 3: to get free shipping, well you've got to get to
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  Speaker 3: a certain dollar amount. So why not pair up the
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  Speaker 3: Golden Age How Trump Saved America. That's the current book
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  Speaker 3: with last year Star Spangled Blessings. Buy them both and
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  Speaker 3: you get the free shipping. And again Amazon dot Com
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  Speaker 3: or wherever you get your good books these days. Nine
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  Speaker 3: oh one two six h five nine two six is
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  Speaker 3: how you can reach us in the Liberty University studio.
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  Speaker 3: We'll go out to the golf course again shortly the
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  Speaker 3: FedEx Saint Jude Championship, the PGA Tour event is at
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  Speaker 3: the TPC South Winds in Memphis, and we'll talk to
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  Speaker 3: the folks out there again. Parker May will join us
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  Speaker 3: as he did yesterday and coming up in the next hour.
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  Speaker 3: And I mentioned this a moment ago, but I do
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  Speaker 3: so because we have two excellent guests and we really
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  Speaker 3: want to make sure you stay with us to learn
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  Speaker 3: much more about actions by the Trump administration first to
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  Speaker 3: make sure our energy costs stay low, and that includes
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  Speaker 3: waving certain rules. And when you see how well it
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  Speaker 3: goes with the waiver, you may say to yourself, why
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  Speaker 3: do we even have these rules at all? And that's
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  Speaker 3: what the National Taxpayers Union is suggesting. And also, we're
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  Speaker 3: gonna pick up a bit where we left off yesterday,
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  Speaker 3: but we're gonna get it much more in detail about
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  Speaker 3: this Wolves in Doctor's Clothing report that was released yesterday
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  Speaker 3: just before this.
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  Speaker 2: Program came on the air.
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  Speaker 3: Wolves in White Coats is what it's called, Wolves in
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  Speaker 3: White Coats. How doctors and hospitals pushed and profited from
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  Speaker 3: the fraud of gender medicine. Doctor Kurt Masseli is chief
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  Speaker 3: medical officer with a group called Do No Harm. We're
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  Speaker 3: gonna talk with him next hour as well, and we
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  Speaker 3: have a few other folks that we are trying to
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  Speaker 3: fit in. You know, it's a great thing to have
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  Speaker 3: a lot of people want to be on this program
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  Speaker 3: and speak to you the Todd Starns audience. Of course,
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  Speaker 3: my luck, they all want to be on at the
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  Speaker 3: same time, and that just doesn't work, So we're gonna
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  Speaker 3: figure it out and bring you the absolute best of
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  Speaker 3: the bunch.
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  Speaker 2: Shortbreak.
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  Speaker 3: Now we'll be back on the other side from the
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  Speaker 3: Liberty University Studio. Jeffstein in for Todd. Thanks for bringing
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  Speaker 3: along on the Todd Starn Show. Welcome back to the
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  Speaker 3: Liberty University Studio and the Todd Starn Show.
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  Speaker 2: Jeff Stein filling in for Todd today.
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  Speaker 3: We'll give him the rest of this week and the
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  Speaker 3: weekend to heel up from that summer cold and whatever
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  Speaker 3: it is that attacks your throat, especially when you're a
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  Speaker 3: radio person.
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  Speaker 2: I hate it when that happens.
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  Speaker 3: We'll let Todd rest up. We'll let you pick up
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  Speaker 3: your copy of The Golden Age How Trump Saved America
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  Speaker 3: at your local bookstore or online Barnes and Noble, Amazon,
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  Speaker 3: wherever you get your good books. But now let's go
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  Speaker 3: to the Patriot Mobile newsmaker line. Parker May is standing
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  Speaker 3: by at the TPC South Wind because this is round
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  Speaker 3: two of the FedEx Saint Jude Championship at the home
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  Speaker 3: base of Memphis. Parker, how are things going at the
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  Speaker 3: course today?
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  Speaker 6: I was just filling Hell and Jeff that the heat
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  Speaker 6: might be a little bit worse today, but overall it's
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  Speaker 6: been a good morning of play. The scores are low
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  Speaker 6: this morning, and I really think it's an advantage to
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  Speaker 6: players who are getting their early tea times this morning,
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  Speaker 6: getting to beat the heat a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: If you may.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I'm I'm the guy who's sitting here staring at
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  Speaker 3: the numbers.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think I'm not trying to rub.
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  Speaker 3: It in, you know, because, as I told you yesterday,
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  Speaker 3: the air conditioning's broken in my studio. So I got
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  Speaker 3: my own little first world problem. But it says that
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  Speaker 3: at eleven thirty in the morning, as you and I
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  Speaker 3: are talking in Memphis, Tennessee, it's ninety degrees, barely any
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  Speaker 3: clouds in the sky, and it feels like ninety nine.
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  Speaker 2: So there you go. You got that going for you today.
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  Speaker 6: That sounds exactly right. I mean, I'm looking up in
• 20:42
  Speaker 6: the scar right now. I don't see a single cloud.
• 20:44
  Speaker 6: That's just the sun beaming down as I'm just past
• 20:47
  Speaker 6: the eighteenth of green here.
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: So are is anybody off to the races. I'm seeing
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: some changes at the leader board. Some people are getting
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: hot this morning, not just because of the temperature, yea.
• 21:00
  Speaker 6: The leaderboard has been chaotic this morning with the early
• 21:03
  Speaker 6: way of players really taking advantage of kind of being
• 21:06
  Speaker 6: the heatal as the afternoon player are probably gonn get
• 21:08
  Speaker 6: the worst of it. Sung JM, who just walked off
• 21:11
  Speaker 6: the eighteenth green in the end of the scoring area
• 21:13
  Speaker 6: right now as the lead at eight under par, played
• 21:16
  Speaker 6: a fantastic round today, four under birding his first three
• 21:20
  Speaker 6: holes is really key. It's a stretch where you've got
• 21:22
  Speaker 6: to take advantage those early three holes.
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: And I'm noticing some familiar names that the leader board
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: in terms of getting off to a decent start. And again, explain,
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: if you would, for the folks who may have missed
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: the conversation yesterday, how how does this work in terms
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: of when they teed off and how many are in
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: a grouping, et cetera.
• 21:44
  Speaker 6: Absolutely so, the field this week consists of the top
• 21:47
  Speaker 6: seventy players in the world from the entire regular season
• 21:50
  Speaker 6: of the PGA Tour thirty two events leading up to
• 21:53
  Speaker 6: this going off in starting at seven am, all the
• 21:58
  Speaker 6: way down to one oh five the last tea time.
• 22:01
  Speaker 6: And these are players just trying to continue to fight
• 22:04
  Speaker 6: to extend their season. While most of the players have
• 22:06
  Speaker 6: already secured their spot in next week's BMW Championship in
• 22:09
  Speaker 6: Saint Louis, a lot of guys, especially from the forty
• 22:12
  Speaker 6: five to seventy range, are batting just to make it
• 22:15
  Speaker 6: to next week, and that's where you get the big
• 22:17
  Speaker 6: money events and you're guaranteed to play in the majors
• 22:19
  Speaker 6: for twenty twenty seven.
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: So obviously a lot on the line for folks because
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: this is this tiered approach of three separate rounds. Were
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: there any surprises in Day one of folks who either
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: did themselves proud moving on up or folks who just
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: couldn't find the hole if it was the size of
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: a peach basket.
• 22:45
  Speaker 6: Yeah, Jeff ben Tooms, you had guys who have stored
• 22:50
  Speaker 6: played great here steps up in round and one, especially
• 22:54
  Speaker 6: when their backs against the wall. And it's something about
• 22:55
  Speaker 6: that when golfers know they have to play well, some
• 22:58
  Speaker 6: of them rise to the occasion. Guys like Jordan Speed
• 23:01
  Speaker 6: and Michael Kim, who came to the week outside the
• 23:03
  Speaker 6: top fifty, stepping up and getting into a time for
• 23:06
  Speaker 6: the after round one. Now they sit three stocks back
• 23:08
  Speaker 6: right now as they started their round, But that's because
• 23:10
  Speaker 6: sun Jam played so well this morning. But when those
• 23:12
  Speaker 6: kind of guys know the spot they're in, knowing they
• 23:15
  Speaker 6: have to play really well just to advance the next
• 23:17
  Speaker 6: week and continue their season. They kind of have that
• 23:20
  Speaker 6: extra push and that extra gear that they find to
• 23:23
  Speaker 6: get a few extra birdies to start their week.
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: And I'm wondering if the course plays differently early morning
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: as opposed to the real heat of the day. And
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: I've made the mention it's eleven thirty Central Time roughly
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: in memphisis we're talking, it's already ninety degrees, but folks
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: started teeing off at just after seven in the morning,
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: And I'm just wondering if either the flight of the
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: ball or just the overall playing conditions better in the
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: early morning as opposed to later in the day.
• 23:54
  Speaker 6: It's kind of mix up both when it comes to
• 23:56
  Speaker 6: the advantages. And you kind of mentioned the heat has
• 24:00
  Speaker 6: been a factor, and it will be continued to even
• 24:02
  Speaker 6: more in fact as the day goes on. But it's
• 24:04
  Speaker 6: an advantage to the early guys because you're not playing
• 24:07
  Speaker 6: in one hundred or new weathers. It'll probably get to
• 24:09
  Speaker 6: this afternoon with the heat indecks, but then the greens
• 24:13
  Speaker 6: are a lot salter when you into the afternoon, so
• 24:15
  Speaker 6: you can be a little bit more aggressive with your
• 24:17
  Speaker 6: iron shots in the fairway. And that's why keeping the
• 24:19
  Speaker 6: ball in the fairway so important on this course, because
• 24:22
  Speaker 6: that sets you up, especially once the end of the
• 24:24
  Speaker 6: afternoon wave, of great opportunity to really be aggressive with
• 24:27
  Speaker 6: that second shot and really attack these tough pen locations.
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: And again that's the thing where depending if there's dew
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: on the ground and that changes things in the wind
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: and how heavy it is with humidity, et cetera. You
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: lost one player after the opening round, and that may
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: we don't really know the reasons for the withdrawal other
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: than the fact that it was not a really good
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: opening round. Perhaps injury. What do you know about that?
• 24:54
  Speaker 6: Yeah, Robert McIntyre withdrawing from the tournament early this morning.
• 24:57
  Speaker 6: It's a couple of hours before his round two TI time. Obviously,
• 25:00
  Speaker 6: if you're looking at the lad where he didn't have
• 25:02
  Speaker 6: his stuff yesterday in eighty two twelve over pour in
• 25:05
  Speaker 6: round one, was dead last after Thursday's round, and it
• 25:08
  Speaker 6: was one of these situations where mcintark didn't really need
• 25:11
  Speaker 6: to play well this week. It had already locked up
• 25:13
  Speaker 6: his spot in next week's BMW championship. So he's like,
• 25:16
  Speaker 6: you kind of get the mindset of why I would
• 25:18
  Speaker 6: I play three rounds when maybe the best I can
• 25:20
  Speaker 6: get at sixty eight, maybe sixty five. I played great,
• 25:24
  Speaker 6: He's already eight shots behind the guy that's front him
• 25:26
  Speaker 6: on the leaderboard. So take yesterday's ar rest, go ahead
• 25:29
  Speaker 6: and get to Saint Louis, take a few days off
• 25:31
  Speaker 6: in practice, and get ready for a big charge next week.
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah, there are times, and again I gave up golf
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: long ago because I had zero aptitude for it. But
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: if you just blow up and I guess this was
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: this the worst round he's had in a professional tournament,
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: we just have that kind.
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: Of a day.
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's best if you can just kind of fold
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: your ten to move on to the next one, if
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: you don't need it in order to move forward. That
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: does not necessarily open up a slot then, right, in
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: terms of anybody else moving up his departure because his
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: spot next week was secure, that doesn't change anything in
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: terms of the breakoff point for who advances to Saint Louis.
• 26:14
  Speaker 6: Correct, You're exactly right, Jeff. Even though mcintarre's withdrawing not
• 26:18
  Speaker 6: going to be collecting an these FedEx Cup points for
• 26:20
  Speaker 6: the week in Memphis. He had enough who was regular
• 26:23
  Speaker 6: season in success to already guarantee its top fifty spots,
• 26:26
  Speaker 6: so that takes the way off his shoulders knowing there
• 26:28
  Speaker 6: wasn't really as much pressure and the case for a lot
• 26:31
  Speaker 6: of these top guys here, and it's kind of the
• 26:33
  Speaker 6: reason you see something maybe not get off to the
• 26:35
  Speaker 6: best start because they know there's not as much pressure
• 26:37
  Speaker 6: this week. Guys like Roy McElroy Ben Griffin didn't have
• 26:40
  Speaker 6: their best days. Yes, should go in three and four
• 26:42
  Speaker 6: over part respectively, but they know they're both safely in
• 26:45
  Speaker 6: Saint Louis and probably safe in Atlanta as well. So
• 26:48
  Speaker 6: it's for those kind of guys just stopped being in
• 26:50
  Speaker 6: the right form as you get to that Tour championship
• 26:53
  Speaker 6: in a couple of weeks, and you.
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: Got to, you know, stay sharp right and and so
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: if if you're playing all right and there's nothing to lose,
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: I guess you can try a few things. You can
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: work a little bit on aspects of your game without
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: the pressure of needing to make certain clutch shots in
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: order to uh in order to move forward.
• 27:14
  Speaker 6: Exactly you think about, especially for McIntire's positions. Why would
• 27:18
  Speaker 6: you play three more rounds in this seak knowing it's
• 27:20
  Speaker 6: gonna get even hotter as the weekend goes on. It's
• 27:23
  Speaker 6: not It's probably not gonna be the most respected moving
• 27:26
  Speaker 6: golf And you're taking an opportunitywy from the fans here.
• 27:29
  Speaker 6: And he's pretty popular, players won some big tournaments, but
• 27:32
  Speaker 6: still no opportunity to watch it for these fans of
• 27:35
  Speaker 6: watch him play through rounds. But it's also it's in
• 27:37
  Speaker 6: the best case of the player. Honestly, he gets to rest,
• 27:39
  Speaker 6: he gets to really prepare, but now he needs a
• 27:41
  Speaker 6: big week next week. That's what makes it tougher for him.
• 27:44
  Speaker 6: He's not he's in a position to where as I
• 27:46
  Speaker 6: mentioned earlier, he's locked up his spot in Saint Louis,
• 27:48
  Speaker 6: but he is far from locked up his spot in
• 27:50
  Speaker 6: Atlanta for the Tour Championship. So and in a way,
• 27:53
  Speaker 6: it makes it makes this week easier for him because
• 27:55
  Speaker 6: he's not playing three more rounds of golf in the heat,
• 27:57
  Speaker 6: but it puts more pressure on him next week in
• 27:59
  Speaker 6: Saint Louis.
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: And I have no idea.
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: Maybe he was battling a little something and can use
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: the rest time, could be things other than just I
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: don't want to spend three more days in this heat. Well, Parker,
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: you're spending these days in the heat, and we'll check
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: in with you again from the course next hour with
• 28:16
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• 28:19
  Speaker 6: Sound great, Jeff, looking forward to.
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  Speaker 2: It's an open line Friday.
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: We've got a lot of guests this hour, but make
• 38:43
  Speaker 3: sure you make note of the number to call when
• 38:46
  Speaker 3: we have time to hear from you. America nine oh
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• 38:51
  Speaker 3: one two six oh five nine two six, same number
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  Speaker 3: you're used to using. But we begin this second hour
• 38:57
  Speaker 3: on a Friday by going to the Patriot Mobile newsmaker
• 39:01
  Speaker 3: line and a return guest on the program.
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: He is Pete Sepp.
• 39:04
  Speaker 3: Mister Sepp is the president of the National Taxpayers Union.
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: They're online NTU dot org.
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  Speaker 2: Mister Sep. Jeff Stein in for Todd.
• 39:13
  Speaker 7: Good to talk to you again, Sarah, Yeah, great to
• 39:16
  Speaker 7: be here again.
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  Speaker 3: Remind people who may not be aware National Taxpayers Union.
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: Who are you, folks, and what do you do?
• 39:24
  Speaker 7: We're a nonprofit, nonpartisan citizen group founded all the way
• 39:27
  Speaker 7: back in nineteen sixty nine to work for lower peror,
• 39:31
  Speaker 7: simpler taxes, less wasteful spending in government, and economic freedom
• 39:36
  Speaker 7: at all levels.
• 39:38
  Speaker 3: Well that's no small agenda, to be sure. I wanted
• 39:43
  Speaker 3: to talk to you today because of something called the
• 39:47
  Speaker 3: Jones Act.
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: I will concede.
• 39:50
  Speaker 3: I had no idea what this was, and apparently President
• 39:55
  Speaker 3: Trump got involved for a waiver of this. Explain first
• 39:59
  Speaker 3: of all, what the Jones Act is and what did
• 40:02
  Speaker 3: the President do recently.
• 40:04
  Speaker 7: Well, official title of the act is the Merchant Marine
• 40:08
  Speaker 7: Act of nineteen twenty, so this is a more than
• 40:11
  Speaker 7: one hundred year old law. It's called the Jones Act
• 40:14
  Speaker 7: because of the Senator way back when who sponsored the bill.
• 40:19
  Speaker 7: And what it says is that for any ships traveling
• 40:24
  Speaker 7: between US ports, whether the East Coast or the West
• 40:28
  Speaker 7: Coast inland between Hawaii and Alaska, if cargo is traveling
• 40:34
  Speaker 7: in a shift between two US ports, that ship must
• 40:39
  Speaker 7: be US built, US owned, US crewed, and US flag.
• 40:45
  Speaker 7: Now that sounds like a great idea, but the effect
• 40:49
  Speaker 7: of this law and several other laws actually that create
• 40:53
  Speaker 7: a whole network of merchant marine subsidies. Is the burden
• 40:57
  Speaker 7: consumers and burden X payers. They need to be changed
• 41:03
  Speaker 7: to reflect modern reality.
• 41:06
  Speaker 3: So again, it sounds on the face of it, and
• 41:10
  Speaker 3: I'm not using this in the term a lot of
• 41:12
  Speaker 3: people use it. It sounds America first, right, where we
• 41:17
  Speaker 3: want to make sure that things are produced here and
• 41:20
  Speaker 3: that we have Americans involved in construction, etc. Let's assume
• 41:26
  Speaker 3: that there was a good reason for it to begin with,
• 41:29
  Speaker 3: and I don't know that there was. But how is
• 41:32
  Speaker 3: it that it is outdated these days?
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: What is it that needs to.
• 41:37
  Speaker 3: Be done, because it seems like this waiver has been
• 41:40
  Speaker 3: pretty successful.
• 41:42
  Speaker 7: Yes, in fact, there has been by my count at
• 41:45
  Speaker 7: least twenty waivers of these restrictions over the past twenty years,
• 41:52
  Speaker 7: and the latest one beings the one that the President
• 41:55
  Speaker 7: announced a ninety day waiver on oil, gas, gasoline, and
• 42:02
  Speaker 7: fertilizer products. So now, if an oil terminal in Louisiana
• 42:09
  Speaker 7: needs to shift something up to Span Georgia or further
• 42:14
  Speaker 7: up the East Coast, the Jones Act will not apply.
• 42:18
  Speaker 7: And a foreign flagged vessel or a US vessel with
• 42:22
  Speaker 7: a foreign crew or whatever can do that. Well, if
• 42:26
  Speaker 7: so many waivers keep getting granted in name of helping
• 42:30
  Speaker 7: consumers afford things and helping goods get shipped quickly, why
• 42:36
  Speaker 7: in the world do we have this law in the
• 42:38
  Speaker 7: first place, that's the big question. Well, the law is
• 42:41
  Speaker 7: intended to maintain a strong merchant marine fleet that was
• 42:45
  Speaker 7: US based. It hasn't worked. There are fewer than one
• 42:49
  Speaker 7: hundred vessels in the so called Jones Act fleet that
• 42:53
  Speaker 7: need all those requirements I mentioned. Meanwhile, thousands of vessels
• 43:00
  Speaker 7: at the United States every year and could provide faster
• 43:04
  Speaker 7: shipment of goods not only on the coasts but on
• 43:08
  Speaker 7: inland waterways. And this is a big deal. When you
• 43:11
  Speaker 7: take a look at the United States right now, about
• 43:15
  Speaker 7: two percent of all traffic all goods travel on either
• 43:21
  Speaker 7: barges or ships that are Jonzac's compliant. And in Europe,
• 43:27
  Speaker 7: where you don't have these kinds of laws, forty percent
• 43:31
  Speaker 7: of break travels that way. And the result is we
• 43:35
  Speaker 7: have a lot of breaks spilling onto highways and wear
• 43:39
  Speaker 7: and tear on bridges and roads that end up costing taxpayers.
• 43:44
  Speaker 7: So these stillover effects are very pernicious. And of course
• 43:49
  Speaker 7: we haven't even gotten into the consumer costs.
• 43:52
  Speaker 3: Yet Pete Sapp of the National Taxpayers Union is our
• 43:56
  Speaker 3: gas live on the Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line on the
• 43:59
  Speaker 3: Todd Stars Jeff Stein filling in for Todd Today from
• 44:02
  Speaker 3: the Liberty University Studio. So basically, in order to avoid
• 44:08
  Speaker 3: unnecessary restrictions on the waterways, the supply chain moves to
• 44:13
  Speaker 3: ground based and that's where we then have unanticipated or
• 44:19
  Speaker 3: unnecessary wear and tear on infrastructure. And we all know
• 44:23
  Speaker 3: how much construction is done on roadways in the summer
• 44:26
  Speaker 3: because we all grouse about it. That's not only an
• 44:30
  Speaker 3: inconvenience and a problem for the transportation, but very costly
• 44:35
  Speaker 3: to the taxpayers.
• 44:36
  Speaker 7: Yeah, exactly. And when we think about it, it is
• 44:41
  Speaker 7: so expensive to build a ship here because of some
• 44:45
  Speaker 7: of these JONZAC requirements. I mean, if you have to
• 44:48
  Speaker 7: find a US shipyard to build the JONZAC compliance vessel,
• 44:54
  Speaker 7: and you've got to pay a US Space crew to
• 44:56
  Speaker 7: do it, and you have to have US and vesters
• 45:00
  Speaker 7: to put money into the ships, the costs start going
• 45:04
  Speaker 7: up because you have very expensive union labor, you have
• 45:08
  Speaker 7: materials that are actually costlier in part because of cara
• 45:13
  Speaker 7: iff policies. The steel gets costlier, and so the bottom
• 45:18
  Speaker 7: line is it costs about five times as much to
• 45:21
  Speaker 7: build a ship here for a variety of reasons than
• 45:25
  Speaker 7: it does in other industrialized countries. I'm not even talking
• 45:29
  Speaker 7: about China. You know that's a slave labor economy. I'm
• 45:33
  Speaker 7: talking about our peers in the capitalist world. They can
• 45:37
  Speaker 7: build ships much more cheaply. And you know, mentioning consumers
• 45:42
  Speaker 7: here because of these requirements, because there are few ships available,
• 45:47
  Speaker 7: it takes longer, it's costlier. The cost to consumers of
• 45:52
  Speaker 7: energy shipments on the East Coast alone due to these
• 45:56
  Speaker 7: jon Back type laws is almost eight hundred million dollars
• 46:00
  Speaker 7: extra annually. So you can understand why the President suspended
• 46:06
  Speaker 7: the Jones Act on shipments of fuel. There are genuine
• 46:10
  Speaker 7: costs as a result of these regulations. Kudos to him
• 46:15
  Speaker 7: for avoiding them. But why don't we just do that
• 46:18
  Speaker 7: year round without waiting for a waiver.
• 46:22
  Speaker 3: Current waiver expires, as you and I are speaking, in
• 46:25
  Speaker 3: just a couple of days.
• 46:26
  Speaker 7: Correct, Well, the last waiver was going to expire in
• 46:32
  Speaker 7: a couple of days. The President has just announced that
• 46:36
  Speaker 7: you will extend it anoder ninety days, So that takes
• 46:39
  Speaker 7: us to a couple of weeks before Thanksgiving.
• 46:45
  Speaker 3: Well, is this the sort of thing that in an
• 46:46
  Speaker 3: executive order would be helpful or is this yet another
• 46:51
  Speaker 3: thing that Congress should be taken care of, but we
• 46:55
  Speaker 3: can't expect that they will.
• 46:57
  Speaker 7: Well, executive orders can certainly continue suspensions. Now, there do
• 47:03
  Speaker 7: have to be reasons for the suspensions. National security is
• 47:07
  Speaker 7: the one that's operating here because of the Iran conflict.
• 47:11
  Speaker 7: In the past, natural disasters, economic emergencies have been the justification. Ultimately,
• 47:18
  Speaker 7: though Congress really does need to get involved. There are
• 47:22
  Speaker 7: bills to either repeal the Jones Act entirely or to
• 47:26
  Speaker 7: provide some relief, at least to what are called non
• 47:31
  Speaker 7: contiguous areas. In other words, great that travels between California
• 47:36
  Speaker 7: and Hawaii that's subject to Jones Act restrictions, and it
• 47:40
  Speaker 7: costs the average Hawaiian family about eighteen hundred dollars extray year.
• 47:46
  Speaker 7: There's a bill from Ed Case, a Delegate Democrat from
• 47:50
  Speaker 7: Hawaii and a Republican from Guam, of all places, because
• 47:55
  Speaker 7: they're affected by it, that would suspend the Jones Act
• 48:00
  Speaker 7: permanently for traffic that is going back and forth between
• 48:04
  Speaker 7: the territories and our coasts.
• 48:07
  Speaker 3: It's part of the Merchant Marine Act of nineteen twenty.
• 48:10
  Speaker 3: This section is called the Jones Act. And again now
• 48:14
  Speaker 3: we've got the next suspension, one more reason to suggest
• 48:19
  Speaker 3: perhaps it's not needed at all. National Taxpayers Union Online
• 48:23
  Speaker 3: NTU dot org. Pete Sepp is president of NTU and
• 48:27
  Speaker 3: he's been with us now on the Patriot Mobile newspaper
• 48:30
  Speaker 3: newsmaker line. Mister Shepp, thanks so much for taking the time.
• 48:34
  Speaker 3: I appreciate the information as always, and have a great weekend.
• 48:37
  Speaker 7: You do the same, my pleasure, and.
• 48:40
  Speaker 3: Mister Shepp joined us on the Patriot Mobile newsmaker line.
• 48:43
  Speaker 3: As we continue on this open line Friday from the
• 48:46
  Speaker 3: Liberty University Studio, nine oh one two six oh five
• 48:50
  Speaker 3: nine two six is the number we'll get back out
• 48:53
  Speaker 3: to the FedEx Championship after this short break. I'm Jeff
• 48:57
  Speaker 3: Stein filling in for Todd. Thanks for being along on
• 48:59
  Speaker 3: the Todd Starn Show. Welcome back to the Liberty University
• 49:09
  Speaker 3: Studio and this open line Friday edition of the Todd
• 49:12
  Speaker 3: Starn Show. Jeff Stein filling in for Todd. Today, a
• 49:15
  Speaker 3: lot of good stuff going on in Memphis, Tennessee, and
• 49:18
  Speaker 3: that includes the annual FedEx Saint Jude Championship. It is
• 49:22
  Speaker 3: round two of this tournament, which is the first of
• 49:27
  Speaker 3: three in the FedEx Cup playoff, and we're joined now
• 49:31
  Speaker 3: on the Patreot Mobile newsmaker line by the mighty nine
• 49:34
  Speaker 3: ninety KWAM sports commentator Parker May and Parker, I'm the
• 49:38
  Speaker 3: one who keeps bothering you about the heat. I mean,
• 49:42
  Speaker 3: come on, it's August, It's gonna be hot. Here's how
• 49:44
  Speaker 3: hot it is. It's so hot the Weather Service did
• 49:47
  Speaker 3: not even update its data in the past hour.
• 49:50
  Speaker 2: It's given up keeping count. How does that make you feel?
• 49:55
  Speaker 6: You know, I don't blame them. I think at this
• 49:57
  Speaker 6: point the weather can just stay hot. That'll be good enough.
• 50:02
  Speaker 3: You don't need numbers. The only numbers you need are
• 50:05
  Speaker 3: on the leader board. That I see that Scottie Scheffler's
• 50:09
  Speaker 3: making quite a run today early in his round.
• 50:13
  Speaker 6: And that's what I's what I was just talking about
• 50:15
  Speaker 6: with some of the other media members here. That has
• 50:16
  Speaker 6: been the story of the morning. Scottie Scheffler being aggressive
• 50:20
  Speaker 6: through his first four holes, birdying all four of them
• 50:23
  Speaker 6: and now put himself in a great spot, now tied
• 50:26
  Speaker 6: for second early in the second round.
• 50:30
  Speaker 3: So that's pretty good. Has he traditionally played well at
• 50:34
  Speaker 3: the course? I don't have the history of it you do,
• 50:36
  Speaker 3: of course he has.
• 50:38
  Speaker 6: It's kind of a weird trajectory for Scotty looking at
• 50:40
  Speaker 6: it back of her the last four years of her
• 50:42
  Speaker 6: at TPC Stuthlind missed the cutback in twenty twenty two,
• 50:46
  Speaker 6: and then since then it's been a steady trajectory up
• 50:49
  Speaker 6: to where you think the next step up for him
• 50:50
  Speaker 6: is a win here at Keeps Staluth win back to
• 50:53
  Speaker 6: back top five finishes, a tie for fourth in twenty
• 50:55
  Speaker 6: twenty four and then a tie for third last year.
• 50:58
  Speaker 6: So he is really the more he comes to this course,
• 51:01
  Speaker 6: and you're really seeing it now in the second round,
• 51:05
  Speaker 6: you have.
• 51:05
  Speaker 3: A slow and steady wins the race, and you have
• 51:09
  Speaker 3: the leader in the clubhouse with a pair of four
• 51:12
  Speaker 3: hundred par rounds to start, and he's already there cooling
• 51:15
  Speaker 3: off before tomorrow.
• 51:18
  Speaker 6: That's a huge advantage for some JM knowing he can
• 51:20
  Speaker 6: get into this morning seeing off just before eight o'clock
• 51:24
  Speaker 6: and really being aggressive. He set the stage earth Bertie
• 51:28
  Speaker 6: and now he's gonna sit and watch the rest of
• 51:31
  Speaker 6: these guys play in this hot afternoon heat and knowing
• 51:34
  Speaker 6: he probably won't have to see off again until at
• 51:36
  Speaker 6: least twelve thirty tomorrow.
• 51:38
  Speaker 3: Now'll be plenty hot then, but plenty of time to recover.
• 51:41
  Speaker 3: Parker May joining us from TPC South Wind in Memphis
• 51:45
  Speaker 3: the FedEx Saint Jude Championship, joining us on the Todd
• 51:48
  Speaker 3: Starring Show on the Patriot Mobile.
• 51:50
  Speaker 2: Newsmaker line, how have the crowd spent?
• 51:53
  Speaker 3: Obviously, you buy your tickets for this well in advance,
• 51:55
  Speaker 3: gets your chance to see some of the greatest names
• 51:58
  Speaker 3: in golf today. But how have the crowd's been holding
• 52:01
  Speaker 3: up here?
• 52:01
  Speaker 2: On day two?
• 52:03
  Speaker 6: The crowds have been great, a little bit better than yesterday.
• 52:06
  Speaker 6: And I think it's one of those things where it's
• 52:08
  Speaker 6: hard to know what you're gonna get with crowds. The
• 52:10
  Speaker 6: first two rounds we see. In other word, you mentioned
• 52:13
  Speaker 6: the tournament is in August now, and so schools are
• 52:15
  Speaker 6: back in session, a lot of people are at work.
• 52:17
  Speaker 6: But the crowds have been great. A few kids out here,
• 52:19
  Speaker 6: which is nice when the kids skip school to come
• 52:22
  Speaker 6: watch some very high level golf. But I'm really excited
• 52:25
  Speaker 6: to see how the crowds developed going into the weekend.
• 52:28
  Speaker 6: Saturday and Sunday. But a lot of the feature groups
• 52:30
  Speaker 6: have had unbelievable following, especially the Scotti Scheffler Roy McRoy
• 52:33
  Speaker 6: group and the Jordan Sped Tommy Fleetwood group has had
• 52:36
  Speaker 6: the two biggest followings so far that I've seen.
• 52:39
  Speaker 3: Well, it looks like of that latter pairing, Fleetwood's got
• 52:42
  Speaker 3: the better on Space today, outlasting him not only in
• 52:46
  Speaker 3: today's round, but therefore on the leader board.
• 52:48
  Speaker 2: As a whole.
• 52:50
  Speaker 6: Yes, that's a pairing that's been really interesting to watch.
• 52:53
  Speaker 6: I talked about that yesterday. That was my featured group
• 52:56
  Speaker 6: to watch today as I both played a combined nine
• 52:59
  Speaker 6: under yesterday. Both also kind of different starts. He was
• 53:02
  Speaker 6: getting a better start than Speak into this second round,
• 53:05
  Speaker 6: but Speech on those players you never really know what.
• 53:08
  Speaker 6: He's just gonna turn it on and fire off a
• 53:10
  Speaker 6: stretch like Scotti Schefler just did. He can easily go
• 53:13
  Speaker 6: three straight and get it right back into this top
• 53:14
  Speaker 6: of the leader board. So that's going to a really
• 53:16
  Speaker 6: intriguing group to watch as they come on this back
• 53:19
  Speaker 6: nine here in a few holes.
• 53:20
  Speaker 3: In Scheffler playing with McElroy the last two days, that's
• 53:23
  Speaker 3: got to be a fan favorite. But also interesting the
• 53:26
  Speaker 3: dynamic between the two of them because as you told
• 53:29
  Speaker 3: us yesterday and correct me if I'm wrong, you know
• 53:31
  Speaker 3: you've got Scheffler. As you say today, the trajectory is
• 53:34
  Speaker 3: toward the championship and McElroy's looking at this as twelve
• 53:38
  Speaker 3: rounds to get the FedEx Cup as the overall champ.
• 53:43
  Speaker 6: Yeah, you're exactly right. You kind of mentioned those two
• 53:45
  Speaker 6: trajectories and it's interesting the trajectories that they've been at
• 53:48
  Speaker 6: in their history of playing CPC south Wind. McRoy historically,
• 53:53
  Speaker 6: especially in the past years, has not played this course
• 53:56
  Speaker 6: very well. He skipped the tournament last year, came in
• 53:59
  Speaker 6: third to last back in twenty twenty four, so he
• 54:02
  Speaker 6: hasn't really had that much s sex here and that's
• 54:04
  Speaker 6: continued into this tournament. And the opposite for Seffler, who,
• 54:08
  Speaker 6: as I mentioned, has continued to rise turn a year
• 54:12
  Speaker 6: out the more he comes to this course.
• 54:15
  Speaker 2: So where's lunch for you today?
• 54:17
  Speaker 6: You know, as I'm walking around the back nine, I'm
• 54:19
  Speaker 6: I'm probably have to take advantage of the new grounds
• 54:22
  Speaker 6: plus tickets. That's what I would encourage fans to get
• 54:24
  Speaker 6: if they're coning in the weekend. Free food, free drinks
• 54:28
  Speaker 6: for fans scattered along the golf course. One hundred bucks
• 54:31
  Speaker 6: gets you the ticket and all you can eat food
• 54:33
  Speaker 6: and drink along the golf course. So that's where I'll
• 54:35
  Speaker 6: be eating a great Burger double cheeseburger. That's what I
• 54:38
  Speaker 6: went with yesterday. Probably gonna stick with it today.
• 54:42
  Speaker 3: You know, some people say we got to be adventurous,
• 54:44
  Speaker 3: you got to try different things. I'm a big fan
• 54:47
  Speaker 3: of I like this. I like the sure thing.
• 54:49
  Speaker 2: How are you gonna go wrong with the cheeseburger right exactly.
• 54:53
  Speaker 6: I don't know what they do with this cheeseburger. They
• 54:55
  Speaker 6: got some special sauce on it. The double patties really
• 54:58
  Speaker 6: makes it work. And I'm a big fan of the same.
• 55:00
  Speaker 6: If it ain't broke, don't fix its Imo for lunch today.
• 55:05
  Speaker 2: There you go.
• 55:06
  Speaker 3: All right, Well you've made me hungry because I've got
• 55:08
  Speaker 3: nothing but a protein bar here.
• 55:10
  Speaker 2: But that's okay, Parker May. Thanks so much for taking
• 55:14
  Speaker 2: the time.
• 55:14
  Speaker 3: We'll check in with you again next hour and talk
• 55:17
  Speaker 3: about what to expect on the weekend at the FedEx
• 55:20
  Speaker 3: Saint Jude Championship.
• 55:21
  Speaker 6: Talk to you soon, Thanks, Jeff, talk to you later.
• 55:25
  Speaker 2: And Parker May.
• 55:26
  Speaker 3: Sports commentator for the mighty nine ninety Kwam joined us
• 55:30
  Speaker 3: on the Patriot Mobile newsmaker line from TPC South Wind
• 55:35
  Speaker 3: in Memphis. You know the purse for this event twenty
• 55:38
  Speaker 3: million dollars. Now, granted, that's walking around money for Todd Starnes,
• 55:44
  Speaker 3: but that's a lot of money.
• 55:46
  Speaker 2: For a pro golf tournament. Wow.
• 55:48
  Speaker 3: All right, we are going to take our bottom of
• 55:51
  Speaker 3: the hour break now, and when we come back, we're
• 55:53
  Speaker 3: gonna talk about medical professionals who are doing bad things
• 55:58
  Speaker 3: to kids.
• 55:59
  Speaker 2: All well, for the.
• 56:00
  Speaker 3: Money, Stay tuned. Jeff Stein filling in for Todd. This
• 56:04
  Speaker 3: is the Todd starn Show. Welcome back to the Liberty
• 56:22
  Speaker 3: University Studio and the Todd starn Show. Jeff Stein filling
• 56:26
  Speaker 3: in for Todd. Today, it's an open line Friday nine
• 56:29
  Speaker 3: oh one two six, soh five nine two six, plenty
• 56:33
  Speaker 3: of time for your calls in the next hour. But
• 56:35
  Speaker 3: now we go to the Patriot Mobile newsmaker line and
• 56:38
  Speaker 3: I'm pleased to welcome doctor Kurt Miscelli. Doctor Misselli is
• 56:41
  Speaker 3: chief medical officer at Do No Harm. Doctor Misselli, thanks
• 56:46
  Speaker 3: so much for taking the time.
• 56:48
  Speaker 8: How are you, sir, I'm well, Thanks for having me,
• 56:50
  Speaker 8: Jeff tell us.
• 56:52
  Speaker 2: First of all, do no Harm? Who are you, folks
• 56:54
  Speaker 2: and what do you do?
• 56:56
  Speaker 8: Absolutely, we're an organization of over fifty thousand people that's physicians,
• 57:00
  Speaker 8: other healthcare providers, concerns, citizens, and that are really focused
• 57:04
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• 57:08
  Speaker 8: safe from this harmful gender ideology.
• 57:11
  Speaker 3: Do No Harm Medicine dot org is the website with
• 57:15
  Speaker 3: all the good information you need. Do No Harm Medicine
• 57:17
  Speaker 3: dot org. Now, yesterday on this program, we were on
• 57:21
  Speaker 3: the air just as this report was released from Health
• 57:24
  Speaker 3: and Human Services titled Wolves in White Coats How doctors
• 57:29
  Speaker 3: and hospitals pushed and profited from the fraud of quote
• 57:33
  Speaker 3: gender medicine unquote. When this report was released, what in it,
• 57:39
  Speaker 3: if anything surprised you, doctor MISSELI, Well, I'd.
• 57:44
  Speaker 8: Say this report is another wake up call. It's another
• 57:46
  Speaker 8: wake up call for the medical establishment, and it really
• 57:49
  Speaker 8: goes a long way to aiming to protect kids from
• 57:52
  Speaker 8: this harmful ideology. And I think what we see is
• 57:55
  Speaker 8: we try to get to answer the question of how
• 57:57
  Speaker 8: did we allow this madness to occur out a system
• 58:01
  Speaker 8: where we have kids who are vulnerable and confused about
• 58:05
  Speaker 8: their gender, how did we push them into pubitty blockers,
• 58:08
  Speaker 8: cross tex pharmones and surgery sort of this irreparable significant
• 58:12
  Speaker 8: harm and it leads to to three main things, and
• 58:16
  Speaker 8: that's profit driven without any ethical considerations, the pressure from
• 58:21
  Speaker 8: medical societies and medical organization pushing this ideology, and the politics,
• 58:25
  Speaker 8: particularly from the Biden administration that was pushing again the
• 58:29
  Speaker 8: w path quote unquote standards of care, which just pushed
• 58:33
  Speaker 8: kids into this medical lives pathway. And I think one
• 58:36
  Speaker 8: of the biggest takeaways for me was again hearing the
• 58:39
  Speaker 8: stories of the d transitioners and there are eight stories
• 58:42
  Speaker 8: that are told within that report, and again just hearing
• 58:45
  Speaker 8: what they've gone through in the horrors of the medical system.
• 58:48
  Speaker 8: But medicine is done to them. We need to do
• 58:50
  Speaker 8: better than that. We need to restore our ethics, restore
• 58:52
  Speaker 8: our principles, make sure we do what's right in order
• 58:55
  Speaker 8: to help these kids, and to do that as soon
• 58:59
  Speaker 8: as we can. And I think that this report calls
• 59:02
  Speaker 8: for us to come together and to do right by
• 59:05
  Speaker 8: those individuals that have been harmed and to make sure
• 59:07
  Speaker 8: that this harm doesn't continue to occur to kids YEW.
• 59:10
  Speaker 3: For me, as a lay person, I don't have a
• 59:12
  Speaker 3: medical background. It's one thing for these medical folks to
• 59:17
  Speaker 3: have some sort of political agenda. In other words, they're
• 59:23
  Speaker 3: just horribly misguided and they're encouraging this sort of thing.
• 59:28
  Speaker 3: But when you then lay on top of it this
• 59:31
  Speaker 3: huge profit motive that your organization do no harm. Revealed
• 59:37
  Speaker 3: earlier this year as well, just because of the insurance coding,
• 59:42
  Speaker 3: I mean, a lot of people are making an awful
• 59:45
  Speaker 3: lot of money at the expense of young people and
• 59:48
  Speaker 3: their health and safety.
• 59:50
  Speaker 8: It's tragic. And we created a database that looked at
• 59:54
  Speaker 8: claims from twenty nineteen to twenty twenty three, and what
• 59:57
  Speaker 8: you see there is nearly one hundred and twenty million
• 59:59
  Speaker 8: dollars claims related to these interventions on kids. And we
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 8: believe that that's an undercounting because there's some hospitals and
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 8: claims that we don't even have in our database that
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 8: we weren't able to obtain. It is a huge amount
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 8: of money and when you look at it, and I
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 8: think the report here from HHS does highlight it. You
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 8: look at the lifetime cost of medications anywhere from twenty
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 8: five to seventy five thousand dollars, So you look at
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 8: the cost of surgeries anywhere from one hundred to one
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 8: hundred and seventy thousand dollars, and that doesn't include other
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 8: interventions voice therapies, hair removals, fertility preservation, and it says
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 8: nothing in terms of the psychological consequences that we brought
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 8: upon an individual. It is a tremendously lucrative industry, unfortunately,
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 8: and for some it's created these and this disincentive to
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 8: continue to treat in such a way that again our
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 8: professional ethics should say, no, these are children. We need
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 8: to look at the evidence. We need to recognize that
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 8: the benefit is just not there and the harms are
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 8: significant for these interventions, and that's what we as again
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 8: as professional, need to do. And you're right as well
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 8: about the coding concerns that you know that there's certainly
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 8: evidence and reason to believe that some providers may have
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 8: diagnosed kids with physical conditions that they don't even have
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 8: in order to push this scheme, and that is obviously
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 8: misleading and potentially fraudulent in nature. And it's the reason
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 8: why this report, particularly the appendix in it, is being
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 8: forwarded to the Office of the Inspector General because it
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 8: lists a series of hospitals where there are just these
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 8: concerns of what happened and possible fraudulent coding practices.
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 3: The Vice President sent a letter to the Attorney General
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 3: urging possible prosecution, as you mentioned, Secretary Kennedy, forwarding it
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 3: to the Inspector General. I'm just really struck by people
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 3: who would code things a certain way just to meet
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 3: the outcome they're trying to get. And the fact that
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 3: there's enough of a paper trail or a digital trail
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 3: here that you can really track it, that is going
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 3: to open a lot of people's eyes.
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 2: My sense is.
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 3: That the report that Do No Harm released earlier this year,
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 3: set the table. This new HS report adds to it.
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  Speaker 3: My fear is that there's a lot more, a lot
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 3: worse to be revealed. You're on the front line. What
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 3: do you think, you know?
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 8: I think unfortunately that's true. And we even look at
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 8: a simple code like precocious puberty, which is fairly puberty,
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 8: so puberty that's happening in a kid who's six, seven,
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 8: eight years old, and hear what we're seeing is that
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 8: diagnosis is being applied to thirteen, fourteen, fifteen year old
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 8: kids again in order to give them puberty blockers to
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 8: get them paid for and to get them to force
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 8: them through those claims through the insurance and that is
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 8: just wrong and it's completely wrong. And when you read
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 8: the report, you see that there are millions upon millions
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 8: of dollars that are associated with such claims. And again
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 8: that's just one diagnosis to precocious puberty. We know that
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 8: endocrem disorder not otherwise specified, is one that organizations such
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 8: as Planned Parenthood of Southeast Pennsylvania and other organizations have
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 8: said that they've used in order to meet the needs
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 8: of insurance companies, that they've used a diagnostic code for
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 8: an endocrine disorder when these conditions are psychological in nature
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 8: in terms of the struggle that one is going through
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 8: with their gender dysphoria. And again, these are just a
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 8: couple of the codes. There's many concerns related to other
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 8: codes that have been used. And I think you're right,
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 8: this is an onion in many perspectives, and we're just
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 8: starting to feel it and find just the corruption that
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 8: is under it.
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  Speaker 3: I note from your biography, doctor Misceli, that your board
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 3: certified in both psychiatry and internal medicine. So because of that,
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 3: expertise and what you just mentioned treating as a medical
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 3: issue something that is actually psychiatric in nature. As you
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 3: read through these, as you examine this, it must just
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 3: be absolutely galling to you that others in the profession
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 3: quote unquote, the way they're handling it, it's in quotes,
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 3: are damaging people for life physically and mentally. I mean this,
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 3: how widespread is this? Are we beginning to believe?
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 9: It?
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 8: Certainly is troubling, and no doubt, the vast majority of
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 8: physicians and healthcare practitioners are good, honest people feeling the
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 8: right thing each and every day. But unfortunately we have
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 8: to also recognize the realities that are out there. And
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 8: again in that database that we created, the Stock to
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 8: Harm Database that Do No Harm put together, we saw
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 8: that there were almost fourteen thousand children who were impacted
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 8: by puberty blockers, cross tex hormones or surgeries. And within
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 8: that pool of kids, more than fifty seven hundred kids
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 8: had such surgeries, again as minors. And I think what
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 8: really speaks to me is what the Assistant Secretary of
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 8: Health said yesterday, and that's that's psychiatry. Psychology. We need
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 8: to provide confident and compassionate mental health care. We should
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 8: not be putting kids on this treadmill to medicalization of
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 8: puberty blockers and cross sex hormones and such. What we
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 8: need to do is to fully assess the individual, to
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 8: understand what's going on, the difficulties they're having, Understand the trauma,
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 8: the other psychiatric elements that they might be struggling with,
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 8: help them through those things, because what we're finding is
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 8: that many of these children are coming with lots of
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 8: comorbid conditions, and instead what they're being pushed in is
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 8: this pathway that just leads to hear a terrible harm.
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 8: And we need to do much better in psychiatry and
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 8: psychology and all of medicine. And unfortunately, many of our
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 8: medical societies are captured in such a way that they
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 8: continue to push this affirmation model. You know, it's only
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 8: the American Society of Plastic Surgeons that has really stood
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 8: out in terms of saying, no, the evidence just isn't
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 8: there for these interventions, and we shouldn't be doing surgery
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 8: by any means on children. Again, this is the American
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 8: Society of Plastic Surgeons, and so they speak with a
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 8: strong voice and they also acknowledge just again the endocrine interventions,
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 8: that the evidence is just not there for them. So
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 8: we need to go back to restoring our professional ethics,
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 8: recognizing that our first responsibility is to do no harm,
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 8: and recognize that we can do more for these kids
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 8: in terms of helping them through their troubles with appropriate
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 8: psychological help and interventions and not again medicalizing them and
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 8: making them lifelong patients.
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 3: It is tragic and in some cases we're learning criminal.
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 3: Doctor Kurt Misselli of Do No Harm Online, Do No
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 3: Harmmedicine dot Org, thank you for continuing this effort, this
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 3: information effort, and I hope we talk again.
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 8: Appreciate it. Thanks so much for having me Jess.
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 3: Doctor Masselli joined us on the Patriot Mobile newsmaker line.
• 1:06:39
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• 1:06:42
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  Speaker 3: newsmaker line and talking to us from the Great Iowa
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 3: State Fair. Third District Congressman Zach Nunn. He is a Republican.
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 3: He is also a colonel in the US Air Force Reserve,
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 3: and we rely upon him for insight on a variety
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 3: of topics. Congressman, thanks for taking the time.
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  Speaker 2: How's the day going at the fair? Jeff.
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 6: We are at the Great Iowa State Fair and thrilled
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 6: we got to kick off the two hundred and fifty's
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 6: Birthday of America with a great state fair showing in DC.
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 6: But nothing compares to being back in Iowa. We have
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 6: this steer show about ready to kick off. We've got
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 6: a number of folks from Washington who have set up
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 6: shop here and amongst the millions of Ye Island, We've
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 6: got SBA Small Administrator by Kelly Lefsler with me today.
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 6: We've got our Secretary Veterans Affairs coming out, and we've
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 6: got the Attorney General.
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 9: Who's going to be with us.
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 6: So it's just not only a great showing of livestock,
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 6: it's a great showing of DC politicians coming to the
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 6: Iowa State Fair in here and directly from hometown folks
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 6: on what's important.
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 3: Now, you're not taking people like the SBA administrator and
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 3: the veteran secretary through a show ring. They're just in conversation, right,
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 3: They're not on display that way.
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 6: We have not put them in a pin yet, Jeff,
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 6: So I will say beston show has been pretty impressive here.
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 6: Kelly Lefler went and is meeting with a small family
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 6: farm that grows watermelons here in Iowa. We're talking about
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 6: what it means for they're one of eighty seven thousand
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 6: family small farms here in Iowa. And I will say
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 6: we had the group out here and milk and cow
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 6: so they're learning how to operate the farm if we
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 6: ever need backup.
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 3: That's our second straight year at the fair. I talked
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 3: to her in town last year at the time. Well,
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 3: you've also been talking with cattlemen because the beef industry
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 3: not only in the Midwest, but the rest of the country,
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 3: they're in.
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 2: Some need of help and expanded markets.
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 6: That's exactly right. This is one of the areas where
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 6: we have really pushed and I think it's important to
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 6: level set here. We came out of the Biden administration
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 6: with a fifty billion dollar trade deficit for US agriculture,
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 6: and that didn't happen by mistake. The first Rum administration.
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 6: We are five billion surplus. We went to ten times
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 6: that fifty billion down in just four years. As a result,
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 6: we have not only been digging out of it, we've
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 6: been taking down trade barriers. Look, here's reality for our
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 6: cattle guys. If you're a dairy farmer and you are
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 6: producing milk, you can't sell it to Canada without a
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 6: two hundred percent tariff. That shuts down knowing what we're
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 6: able to produce domestically. It creates some artificial environment where
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 6: effictively American taxpayers are subsidizing dairy in Canada. We don't
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 6: want to see that anymore. I think this is one
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 6: of the proud things that both the administration have highlighted,
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 6: bringing down tariffs, fair trade for US domestic products, particularly
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 6: our commodities. We just talked about getting you know, double
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 6: the amount of soybeans into China, holding China accountable for
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 6: trade manipulations, but then also helping up new markets. I
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 6: personally led a trade delegation to Taiwan. Taiwan's going to
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 6: be selling US lots of semiconductors, which we absolutely need.
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 6: But in addition, we took their commodities tariffs from ninety
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 6: five percent down to basically zero, which means we're selling
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 6: things like corn, soybean, wheat, sorghum, pork, and cattle all
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 6: to a new market from my home state of Iowa.
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 6: That's a four hundred million dollar win just off of that.
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 6: These are the types of things that an aggressive trade
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 6: plan helps not only folks here in Iowa, but is
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 6: being showcased at the Iowa State Fair as America is
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 6: back in the driver's seat when it comes to everything
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 6: from manufacturing to growing. If we can do it here,
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 6: we're better off and less dependent on foreign powers.
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 3: The US Trade Rep Jamison Greer along with you and
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 3: talking to a lot of these folks about how to
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 3: again stick with a strong America first platform, but also
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 3: have good trade relations with a variety of markets.
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 6: And I think this is one of the things we
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 6: can really showcase here with both the master here, but
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 6: also what we are able to grow here in the
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 6: United States makes us a net exporter of both food
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 6: also energy in the biofuel sector. But what we build
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 6: here and I also had the Labor Secretary out the
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 6: week prior and one of the things we did is
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 6: we went and we talked to an Iowa business like
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 6: Autojet that makes mufflers here in the United States. They
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 6: were about to be buried by China, who was competing
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 6: in this space dumping on the United States for the
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 6: last four years. And both the Vice presidents JD. Vance
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 6: who came out to my district here and spoke to it,
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 6: as well as the labor secretaries, and we've got to
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 6: be able to manufacture things in the US again, and
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 6: we're moving that way. But we also have to have
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 6: the workforce.
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 9: To be able to build this.
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 6: And that's one of the reasons I'm so proud. We've
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 6: really invested in the trade schools, making sure that we
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 6: have both the apprenticeship programs down to the high school
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 6: level in training, but also that there's a pipeline for
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 6: skilled workcraft. That's everything from plumbers and pipefitters to welders
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 6: and HVAC specialists. If we want to be able to
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 6: build here in the US again, we've got to have
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 6: young people know that this is a pathway. It can
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 6: be really successful both for themselves and having a good
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 6: paying job, but also a skill set they can do
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 6: with their hands stuff. It's not going to be a
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 6: replaced AI, but going to help America continue to be
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 6: competitive in what we grow, what we build by Americans
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 6: for Americans, and export.
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 9: Around the world.
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  Speaker 3: Zach Nunn is our guest Republican third District of Iowa
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 3: in a good reelection battle. So if you'd like to
• 1:12:41
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  Speaker 3: Congressman None out. Now, I've got about sixty seconds. You're
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 3: not just politicking. You're a dad and your kids are
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 3: showing at the fair. Could there be anything more nerve
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 3: racking than that?
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  Speaker 7: I would say, you.
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  Speaker 6: Know, we have one of the most competitive races in
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 6: the country right now. We'll decide whether we have a
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 6: majority or not based on this race. But what has
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 6: my heart rate up right now? As I've got a
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 6: daughter showing a ram, another daughter showing you, one showing
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 6: a goat and my youngest five years old, she's showing
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 6: a Persian cat only at the Isowa State Fair. And
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 6: you have a pro American Persian cat in runner off
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 6: to see what's gonna happen for the blue ribbons?
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 3: Are we we collecting some? I was gonna say hardware,
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 3: but they're blue ribbons? How are the kids doing?
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 6: So we've done very well at County Fair.
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 7: I will say we got reserve.
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 6: Brand champion on the cat, and both the you and
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 6: the ram and the goat have all been able to compete.
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 6: Now at State Fair, we'll be showing it from now
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 6: throughout the weekend and as soon as they're done showing livestock,
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 6: they'll be on the dance stage doing what every father
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 6: both loves and dreads was watching and paying for their
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 6: kids in the dance routine. So we'll see how this
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 6: goes down.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, you are made strong stuff. Okay, last question. The
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  Speaker 3: Iowa State Fair is known for food on a stick.
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 3: It started with the great pork chops, but now everything
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 3: comes on a stick. What is your favorite on a
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 3: stick food at the fair?
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  Speaker 6: God bless you guys. So here's what we're looking at
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  Speaker 6: for the State Fair. This year. Not only do we
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 6: have pork chop on a stick, bacon ramp pork chop,
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 6: which is my personal favorite, but new this year of
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 6: the State Fair, we have the aggis and bacon and
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 6: fried wanton, very light flavoring.
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  Speaker 10: It on a stick.
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  Speaker 6: It's worth trying out. It's the best husion food of
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 6: Nomlet and China two together.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not doing it. I'm not doing it.
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  Speaker 3: Congressman zach Nunn from Iowall, thanks for calling in from
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  Speaker 3: the State Fair in Des Moines, Ah. The reviews of
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  Speaker 3: the food continue, and our three of the Todd.
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 2: Starrn shows stay with us.
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  Speaker 10: Jeff Stein in for Todd today.
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 1: Live from the Liberty University Studio in Memphis, Tennessee. It's
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 1: America's conservative blowtorch. That's that's American.
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  Speaker 2: To start Monday.
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  Speaker 3: Hello, fellow patriots, Jeff Stein coming to you from the
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 3: Free State of Iowa and the Liberty University Studio today
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 3: on this Friday. Filling in for Todd will let him
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 3: get fully over this little bug that he picked up
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 3: along the way so that he can be back behind
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 3: the microphone as soon as possible, hopefully as soon as
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  Speaker 3: Monday nine oh one, two six oh five, nine two six.
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  Speaker 3: That's how you can join our coast to coast conversation
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 3: on an open line Friday, and we have plenty of
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 3: time for your calls this hour nine oh one two
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 3: six oh five nine two six. Now, this has been
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 3: an unfortunate week in a number of respects in the
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 3: world of mister Starns. This is the week you've had
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 3: on your calendar for I don't know how long, the
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 3: week that the book comes out, The Golden Age How
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 3: Trump Saved America, thanks to the good folks at Humanics Books.
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  Speaker 3: And it's a fantastic book. The content is super, the
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 3: design is great, and I even notice paper quality, the
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 3: weight of it. This is a nice book, The Golden Age,
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 3: How Trump Saved America. So I was here, as you
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 3: folks may know, on Monday as Todd was making his
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 3: way back from this great session he had in California
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 3: and spoke to some six thousand people and signed books
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 3: for four hours. Made his way back on Monday and
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 3: picked up the beginnings of a little bug along the way,
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 3: which happens when you travel, And so he did the program,
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 3: did a book signing at the Barnes and Noble, and
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 3: then lost his voice. And again, if you're the kind
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 3: of person who needs your voice for your living, like
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 3: those of us in radio, that's a pretty big deal.
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 3: So he's been gulping herbal tea and doing everything else
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 3: he can do, but he's not here. And more importantly,
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 3: you've missed out. You have not had the kind of
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 3: the diet of Todd Starns that you need to have
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 3: your daily helping of Starns wisdom. Well, we're going to
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 3: try to fix that as best we can. As I mentioned,
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 3: the book came out on Tuesday, the Golden Age, How
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 3: Trump Saved America, and Todd was kind enough to join
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 3: me on my Iowa program on Tuesday morning, the day
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 3: the book was released, and I got the chance to
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 3: interview him about the book and the things that are
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 3: in it. So if you've been missing our boy this week,
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 3: we're going to try to make it up to you.
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 3: Here is the conversation I had on my program in
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 3: Iowa with the great Todd Starns about the book.
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  Speaker 2: Listen to this, Jeff, good morning.
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  Speaker 9: Just always a pleasure to hang out with you and
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 9: the great listeners there on KXEL.
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  Speaker 3: This is a fantastic book, not only the content which is,
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 3: as per custom, tremendous, but my goodness, this cover is
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 3: going to jump right off the shelf. Tell us why
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 3: you titled the book the Golden Age, how Trump saved America,
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 3: And tell us about.
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 2: This cover art.
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  Speaker 9: Well, the cover. If you've read The Great Gatsby, you'll
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 9: understand the connection there, which was pretty intentional, and we
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 9: wanted to have that Roaring twenties sort of celebratory art
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 9: Deco looked to the book and it's a celebration, no
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 9: doubt about it. But it's also a warning because after
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 9: the Roaring Twenties came the Great Suppression. And the reason
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 9: I wrote the book was again to remind people of
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 9: what Ronald Reagan said, that freedom isn't pants along in
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 9: our bloodstream. Every generation has to fight for freedom. And
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 9: one of the things I really appreciate about President trumpkin
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 9: and when you back away from all of the noise,
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 9: you realize that this country was on a very dangerous path,
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 9: and it was President Trump who slammed on the breaks
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  Speaker 9: and really saved the country from what I believe would
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 9: have been an ultimate socialist takeover. So that's sort of
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 9: you know that that really was the mission behind the book.
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 9: Celebrate all the great things that have happened, but then
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 9: an eye to the future.
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  Speaker 3: And again, the subtitle is how Trump saved America, and
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 3: you have documented this in a variety of the chapters,
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 3: How Trump saved common Sense, How Trump saved your hometown
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 3: of Memphis, How Trump saved our schools, How Trump saved Christmas.
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  Speaker 2: And again.
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  Speaker 3: The examples are easy to come by because they are
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 3: so plentiful, but it's the kind of fact based information
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 3: needed to rebut the claims of the critics about Trump
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 3: and what his real motivation is.
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  Speaker 9: You know, it's a great observation, and you know, I
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 9: had a lot of fun writing this. I had to
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 9: write it on a pretty short deadline, but I really
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 9: feel like we were a able to and you really
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 9: get to the essence of who Donald Trump is. And
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 9: when you read the book, you I hope people come
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 9: across understanding that here's a billionaire who literally understands how
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 9: a blue collar worker thinks. And you see that in
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 9: his own life. And I think it's because he was
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 9: in the construction industry. You know, he was working around
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 9: these people, growing up around these people, and I think
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 9: that really did flavor who he is and honestly, it's
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 9: it's not a fair comparison, but it's sort of like
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 9: if you remember the Beverly Hillbillies, And I've got a
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 9: chapter in the book on the Beverly hill Billies when
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 9: when Jed and Granny and uh and Ellie May and
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 9: Jethrow all moved to Beverly Hills. They were super wealthy,
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 9: but they were out there were outsiders. They you know,
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 9: high society looked down on them. And I think in
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 9: some way, I think high society looks down on Donald
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  Speaker 9: Trump because he's able to pallow around with the blue
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  Speaker 9: collar folks.
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  Speaker 3: I have analogized previously that it's sort of like, and yes,
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 3: I remember the Hillbillies very well. It's sort of like Caddyshack,
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 3: where Donald Trump is the Rodney Dangerfield character. He comes
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 3: in and just upsets their world and they don't know
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 3: what to make of it, but the public loves it. So,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it's the sort of thing that you would think.
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 3: You would think that members of the House and Senate
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 3: would say, this guy's popular. He's got ideas that are
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 3: pretty good that the American people like, we should put
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 3: his agenda into place. Yet I'm whining and Monent Todd,
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 3: And I know you're disappointed too, what's going on with Congress.
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 3: How are they not helping us reach the potential of
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 3: the Golden Age.
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  Speaker 9: So I'm not surprised by this at all, and I
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 9: address this in the book. You know, going back to
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 9: the lead up to the election of Donald J. Trump,
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 9: the first go around, Trump was really the enemy of
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 9: the Republican Party. They considered him to be the enemy.
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 9: But the reality is, and the reason why he got
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 9: elected in the first place, is because the Republicans would
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 9: always campaign on their promises and then they would eventually
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 9: they would go back on the promises, and the American
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 9: people just got sick and tired of it, which really
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 9: I think paid the way for Donald J. Trump. So, look,
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 9: the Republicans are going along to get along. They've been
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 9: doing that for a long time now, and I think
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 9: they see that President Trump is going to be a
• 1:22:37
  Speaker 9: lane duck president. He's gone in two years. So that's
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 9: why I think we're seeing so much strong, strong pushback
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 9: from especially the US Senate. They know they've got the power,
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 9: they know they have the votes to stop whatever they
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 9: want to. And that's one of the reasons why I
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 9: believe the Save America Act never came to fruition.
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 3: The people who are in power now got elected under
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 3: the old system, the current system, Republicans and Democrats alike,
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 3: and they don't want to screw up what got them elected.
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 3: And that is about the antithesis of working for America.
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 3: I get an awful lot here, and I know you
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 3: get it a lot when you talk with the good listeners. Well,
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 3: this is all interesting conversation. But what can we do?
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 3: And you've dedicated a chapter in the book to how
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 3: Americans can save Trump's agenda and that's.
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 2: Vital, Well, it really is.
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 9: And you know, we've got to make sure that we
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 9: don't sit, as we say in the Baptist faith tradition,
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 9: we sit on our blessed assurance. We've got to get
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 9: up and we've got to engage the culture. And that's
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 9: one of one of the things we talk about in
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 9: the book. It's a fun read. There's a lot of
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 9: laughter in the book and a lot of humor, and
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 9: you know, there are some challenges for all of us.
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 9: So I really do hope that people have fun reading this,
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 9: and I hope they come away inspired and also us
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 9: fine with their vote, with Donald J. Trump, because he
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 9: really did deliver all those campaign promises.
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 3: And again, as per custom folks, with a Starns book,
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 3: you get lots of stories of real life situations and
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 3: you also get a nice twist of Todd's pen. Jimmy
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 3: Lee Ledbetter makes another appearance. The Metropolis of Woolly Booger
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 3: is in here as well, and this is another great
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 3: opportunity for you as an author to stretch the writing
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 3: muscles a little bit. Last year Star Spangled Blessings, the
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 3: year before that, Twilight's Last Gleaming, and now with The
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 3: Golden Age. These are all very different styles of writing
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 3: and that's got to be pretty interesting as you publish
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 3: your ninth book.
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 2: Thank you very much.
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, it's been a lot of fun. I just
• 1:24:50
  Speaker 9: got back from from California. I was speaking. We launched
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 9: our book tour there in southern California and signed over
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 9: four hundre in fifty books. It was pretty insane, but
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 9: it was so fun to meet so many of our
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 9: readers you know that you know they've read many of
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 9: the other books, and it's really fun to meet people
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 9: from other cultures, other backgrounds, other states. You know that
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 9: enjoyed the southern humor, the down home kind of you
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 9: know approach that I that I take on things. And
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 9: we just had a wonderful time out there on the
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 9: West Coast.
• 1:25:23
  Speaker 3: One of the things that I ask authors pretty regularly,
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 3: and so I'll ask you the same question. It's one
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 3: thing to collect notes as you go along, and I
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 3: trust you keep a file folder of clippings and print
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 3: outs and whatever. It is handy for just such an occasion.
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 3: But it's only when you put it all together, stitch
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 3: it all together in book form, and then sit down
• 1:25:45
  Speaker 3: and read it cover to cover that some things really
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 3: come together for you. And I'm just wondering. You knew
• 1:25:51
  Speaker 3: all the stories you put them in the book, but
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 3: when you sat down to proofread or read the manuscript
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 3: as a whole, what jumped out at you? Where there's
• 1:25:59
  Speaker 3: some connect actions that you wound up making that really
• 1:26:02
  Speaker 3: came across to you that you maybe didn't intend on
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 3: putting in there, but they just became a parent.
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 9: Yeah, that's a great question. I actually rewrote the ending
• 1:26:12
  Speaker 9: as we're in final edits. Marco Rubio had given a
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 9: terrific speech and really talking about saving Western civilization, and
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 9: you know, I think that's sort of a common theme
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 9: through the book, you know, and now here we are
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 9: watching the rise of socialism, the rise of the Islamic movement,
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 9: so a lot happening, you know, in the culture. So
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 9: it's it's one of these for such a time as
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 9: just books, I have to imagine. But again, just had
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 9: a lot of fun writing this one. And you know,
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 9: you never know where things are going to go, but
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 9: this was a lot of fun to put pen to
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 9: paper on.
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  Speaker 3: The book is entitled The Golden Age, How Trump Saved America.
• 1:26:56
  Speaker 3: It is released nationally today. Get it at your local bookstore,
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 3: order at Amazon dot com, you can go to Todd
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 3: Starns dot com, get it wherever you get your good
• 1:27:05
  Speaker 3: books these days. And as I often say, get too
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 3: because when you loan one to someone and they never
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 3: give it back to you, you'll still have the original copy.
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 3: The Golden Age, How Trump Saved America. Final question for
• 1:27:18
  Speaker 3: Todd Starns, because you've got a show to do, friend.
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 3: But as you look at where we are right now,
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 3: we're to the midway point. Is this a tipping point
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 3: on how the second Trump term will be remembered? In
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 3: other words, it's been gangbusters for the first couple of
• 1:27:36
  Speaker 3: years because of this election. Is this the tipping point
• 1:27:39
  Speaker 3: to where history may say it truly became the Golden Age?
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 3: Or if people don't show up and politicians don't stand up,
• 1:27:49
  Speaker 3: this could be what history would say was the biggest
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 3: missed opportunity of the century.
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 9: Yeah, I think it could be. I really do. I'm
• 1:27:58
  Speaker 9: curious about the electorate. We have certainly seen a depressed
• 1:28:03
  Speaker 9: Republican turnout and a lot of the primaries, you know,
• 1:28:06
  Speaker 9: will that change for the mid terms. I think a
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 9: lot of that will will really determine on the economy
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 9: and those pocketbook issues that's normally how people vote in
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 9: the country.
• 1:28:17
  Speaker 7: You know.
• 1:28:17
  Speaker 9: The other thing is, you know, a lot a lot
• 1:28:19
  Speaker 9: of these races, especially at the congressional level, are local
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 9: and they're decided on local issues. So that could be
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 9: interesting to watch, especially in some of the states where
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 9: Democrats are really fired up over the redrawing of the district,
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 9: so you know, that could play an impact as well.
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 9: I still think the Republicans are going to be able
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 9: to maintain control of Congress, I really do. And the
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 9: only reason is the Democrats are honestly just nominating slap
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 9: crazy people for some of these these races. But Jeff,
• 1:28:54
  Speaker 9: before we go, you know, I just wanted to extend
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 9: my condolences to the Grassley family on the passing of
• 1:29:02
  Speaker 9: sweet Bath. Yes, I mean forty nine years old. Wow,
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 9: what a life.
• 1:29:09
  Speaker 3: And to go out in a blaze of glory with
• 1:29:11
  Speaker 3: what could have been an electrical fire with the scorched plug.
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 3: Do you know the back half of that story? And
• 1:29:18
  Speaker 3: again for the audience, Senator Grassley is tweeted about Beth,
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 3: his upright hoover vacuum cleaner that I believe was his
• 1:29:26
  Speaker 3: mother in laws for fourteen years and he has been
• 1:29:28
  Speaker 3: responsible Barber's made sure he runs it for the last
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 3: thirty four. So he tweeted out rip Beth. A Sioux
• 1:29:37
  Speaker 3: Sidion Good Iowa had a similar model somewhat new, newer
• 1:29:43
  Speaker 3: and offered it to the Senator as a replacement, and
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 3: the Senator took him up on it.
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 2: So Beth two point zero.
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 3: Will soon be at the grass Ley house in New Hartfordshire.
• 1:29:56
  Speaker 9: You know, I have to imagine, Jeff, I can't wait
• 1:29:58
  Speaker 9: to see the official O bit because the I will
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 9: have to be best sucked. And it was a good thing.
• 1:30:03
  Speaker 3: I mean, oh oh, look at this now this is
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 3: not his first day. He waited until the end of
• 1:30:10
  Speaker 3: the interview to drop that. By the way, we got
• 1:30:13
  Speaker 3: a text and it's from a listener that you have
• 1:30:15
  Speaker 3: met during one of your visits Diowa, and the quote
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 3: is this, You're the best, Todd, have a great day.
• 1:30:21
  Speaker 3: I don't think I could summarize it any better, mister Starns.
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 3: Congratulations on the release of the Golden Age and get.
• 1:30:28
  Speaker 2: Back to work.
• 1:30:29
  Speaker 9: Well, thank you very much. Apologies for the voice. I'm
• 1:30:31
  Speaker 9: a little under the weather. That California weather did not
• 1:30:34
  Speaker 9: agree with me, but we look forward to hanging out
• 1:30:37
  Speaker 9: with you guys later this evening on KXCL.
• 1:30:39
  Speaker 3: Todd, take good care and congratulations once again.
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 9: All right, thanks Jeff.
• 1:30:44
  Speaker 3: That's my conversation with the great Todd Starns on Tuesday
• 1:30:47
  Speaker 3: on my Iowa radio programming. Because Todd's been under the weather,
• 1:30:51
  Speaker 3: because of the voice, et cetera, you haven't heard him
• 1:30:54
  Speaker 3: that much this week, we wanted to give you a
• 1:30:56
  Speaker 3: little a little heap and help in the Starns before
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  Speaker 3: the weekend.
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  Speaker 2: Jeff Stein filling in for Todd. Shortbreak.
• 1:31:03
  Speaker 3: Now more with you on the other side on the
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  Speaker 3: Todd starn Show. Welcome back to the Liberty University Studio
• 1:31:15
  Speaker 3: on the Todd Starn Show. Jeff Stein filling in for
• 1:31:17
  Speaker 3: Todd today. Apologies to the affiliates along the line for
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 3: going long in that first segment, but I wanted y'all
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  Speaker 3: to hear the full conversation that Todd and I had
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  Speaker 3: on Tuesday about the new book, because obviously you could
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 3: tell the voice was going there. Hopefully he'll be back
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  Speaker 3: first of the week. The Great Humanics Books Publishing Company
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  Speaker 3: started by Christopher Ruddy of Newsmax. They're the ones who
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  Speaker 3: have published Todd Starn's ninth book, The Golden Age, How
• 1:31:44
  Speaker 3: Trump Saved America. And I'm looking at the entry at
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  Speaker 3: Amazon and it is not only is it in the
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  Speaker 3: top ten in three different categories, there's been a tick
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  Speaker 3: upward since this program began. I'm just saying number eight
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  Speaker 3: in the country and political commentary, and this thing is going.
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  Speaker 3: And you can get your copy by going to your
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  Speaker 3: local bookstore or go to a place like Amazon dot com.
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  Speaker 3: And again, if you have Amazon Prime, they'll send it
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  Speaker 2: That's nice.
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  Speaker 3: And if you'd like to go with the standard shipping,
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  Speaker 3: well there's free delivery if you get.
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  Speaker 2: Above a certain amountain. So here's how you do that.
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  Speaker 3: You buy a copy of The Golden Age How Trump
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  Speaker 3: Saved America, Todd's book from this year, and pair it
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  Speaker 3: with a copy of Star Spangled Blessings Devotions for Patriots
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  Speaker 3: released last year. You put that together, you get the
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  Speaker 3: middle of next week.
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  Speaker 2: Not bad, not bad at all.
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  Speaker 3: The Golden Age How Trump Saved America by the Great
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  Speaker 3: Todd Starns. All right, the temperature in Memphis is heating up.
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 3: We'll see what's left of Parker May at the golf course.
• 1:32:55
  Speaker 3: I mean this is he was there for the program
• 1:32:57
  Speaker 3: on Wednesday. Now, this is round two of the PGA
• 1:33:00
  Speaker 3: Tour stop. And don't look now, but the heat indexes
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  Speaker 3: one hundred and.
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  Speaker 2: Five in Memphis.
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  Speaker 3: We'll check in with Parker one last time from the
• 1:33:09
  Speaker 3: PGA Tour stop in Memphis. That's after this break at
• 1:33:13
  Speaker 3: the bottom of the hour. Jeff Stein in for Todd,
• 1:33:15
  Speaker 3: Thanks for being here on the Todd Starn Show. Brands,
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  Speaker 3: Welcome back to the Liberty University Studio and the Todd
• 1:33:39
  Speaker 3: Starn Show. Jeff Stein filling in for Todd on this
• 1:33:42
  Speaker 3: open line Friday, and it's a big week in Memphis
• 1:33:45
  Speaker 3: because again it is the annual fed X Saint Jude
• 1:33:50
  Speaker 3: Championship taking place at TPC South Wind. And let's go
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  Speaker 3: one more time to the course where Parker Mayo the
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  Speaker 3: mighty nine ninety KWAM has in covering the event. And
• 1:34:01
  Speaker 3: it seems to me that the only thing hotter than
• 1:34:03
  Speaker 3: the weather is Scottie Scheffler's game.
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  Speaker 6: Parker Jeff, he took the words right out of my mouth.
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  Speaker 6: I just watched him finished up his front nine on
• 1:34:12
  Speaker 6: the ninth Degreen, an impressive part to finish five through
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  Speaker 6: nine holes, now just one shot back of the leader.
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  Speaker 6: Stung JM. And I totally expect at this point Scheffer
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  Speaker 6: to beat the leader when he reached the clubhouse after
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  Speaker 6: nine more holes.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I think if I remember right from the last hour,
• 1:34:30
  Speaker 3: mister Schaeffler birdied each of the first four holes. That's
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  Speaker 3: a pretty good way to start. And nobody is having
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  Speaker 3: a better round today. There is one golfer who completed
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  Speaker 3: his second round at five under. Scheffler's already at five
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  Speaker 3: under halfway through.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, Scheffler has these potential, has the taste so not
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  Speaker 6: only have the best round the day, but I have
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  Speaker 6: the best round of the tournament so far. A lot
• 1:34:54
  Speaker 6: of guys shot five hundred yesterday and no one could
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  Speaker 6: really get the sixth under. Scheffler has a great opportunity
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  Speaker 6: to do that. We can get past these first few holes,
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  Speaker 6: especially at ten, eleven, twelve, stretch is pretty tough, so
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  Speaker 6: you can get through that. He's got a lot of
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  Speaker 6: birdy opportunities late in that back nine, at fifteen and
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  Speaker 6: in sixteen.
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  Speaker 3: Now, normally when we look at a PGA Tour event,
• 1:35:13
  Speaker 3: we go through the first couple of rounds and there's
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  Speaker 3: a cut line and some folks don't make it to
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  Speaker 3: the weekend. This tournament obviously is very different. Remind the
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  Speaker 3: audience why this is different, and I trust there's no
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  Speaker 3: cut line.
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  Speaker 6: This is a part This is part one of a
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  Speaker 6: three part FedEx Cup playoff event. So top seventy players
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  Speaker 6: are here. They're all four rounds, so you get to
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  Speaker 6: watch all the big names, Roy McElroy, Scotti, Scheffler, everybody
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  Speaker 6: for four rounds. And then after the four rounds, the
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  Speaker 6: top seventy player or the top fifty after this week
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  Speaker 6: in the FedEx Cup standings not just the top fifty
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  Speaker 6: on this week's leader board, but the fifty throughout the
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  Speaker 6: whole season, all thirty two weeks. And then the emphasis
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  Speaker 6: on this one will be heading next week's BMW Championship
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  Speaker 6: at Bellery Country Club in Saint Louis.
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  Speaker 3: So you had seventy top seventy and they paired off,
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  Speaker 3: and they've been playing in duos, same playing partner each
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  Speaker 3: of the first two days. How do we determine the
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  Speaker 3: pairings for round three and for round four?
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  Speaker 6: Around three and four, It'll be determined by where they're
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  Speaker 6: on the leaderboard. So guys not doing so great, they'll
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  Speaker 6: have the early morning two times tomorrow morning, and then
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  Speaker 6: the guys like guy Scheffler stung to him at the
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  Speaker 6: top of our leaderboard, we'll we see them off closer
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  Speaker 6: to one o'clock Central time tomorrow afternoon as they look
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  Speaker 6: to make the push on moving day tomorrow.
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  Speaker 3: All right, So again they're not in the same duos.
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  Speaker 3: It depends on where they are on the leader board.
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  Speaker 3: Who else has been attracting some attention? Some of these
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  Speaker 3: names that we've been discussing in the past two days,
• 1:36:46
  Speaker 3: folks have heard of, no doubt, But who else is
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  Speaker 3: attracting some attention. I know that as I'm looking right
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  Speaker 3: now at the top six places, You've got an awful
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  Speaker 3: lot of international players in that top five, top Sex.
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  Speaker 6: You're exactly right, Sun Jam from Korea at the top,
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  Speaker 6: a couple Canadians in the top as well. So it's
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  Speaker 6: been a great mix of international and American players. And
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  Speaker 6: you think about recent history of CPCTYFF went back to
• 1:37:14
  Speaker 6: back winners that are internationally at Justin Rose from England
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  Speaker 6: last year in twenty twenty five, and then in twenty
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  Speaker 6: twenty four Adeki Masiama from Japan. So this is a
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  Speaker 6: course where for some reason or another, international players have
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  Speaker 6: found their way around the golf course really well at
• 1:37:29
  Speaker 6: a high level, and I could see that continuing this weekend.
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  Speaker 3: You mentioned in our past conversations the grass is different
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  Speaker 3: at TPC South Wind in Memphis than at some of
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  Speaker 3: the other tour stops. What's distinctive about this course and
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  Speaker 3: how does that potentially play into some people's games and
• 1:37:49
  Speaker 3: not so much for others.
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  Speaker 6: This is a course that that really highlights iron play.
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  Speaker 6: The fairways are narrow, they're tough, so no one's really
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  Speaker 6: hitting a lot of fairway. I mean If you look
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  Speaker 6: think about the guys who were at the top of
• 1:38:02
  Speaker 6: our leaderboard after on one, most of them are early
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  Speaker 6: hitting fifty to sixty percent of their fairways. And you
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  Speaker 6: think about saying, well, you're a PGA Tour player, you
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  Speaker 6: think you'd make a little mores because the fairways are
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  Speaker 6: so narrow. So it really highlights these iron players that
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  Speaker 6: do a great cup a ball striking and getting their
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  Speaker 6: second shots close to the pin on the green. That's
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  Speaker 6: why you've seen guys like Jay Knapp and Scotti Scheffler
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  Speaker 6: play so well at this course. And that's because the
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  Speaker 6: conditions here and that's they're used to that playing on
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  Speaker 6: the Bermuda grasses that are more located in this area.
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  Speaker 6: The first time they've seen this surface since May. That
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  Speaker 6: courses in Charlotte so similar southeast area where the kind
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  Speaker 6: of surfaces are found.
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  Speaker 3: I noticed the story on the website at mighty nine
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  Speaker 3: to ninety dot com. So the tournament's being held this
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  Speaker 3: year and it's being held next year, but then the
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  Speaker 3: PGA Tour is scrambling the schedule and you're looking for
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  Speaker 3: other types of players who may make it to a
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  Speaker 3: Memphis Tour stop.
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  Speaker 2: Did I read that correctly.
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  Speaker 6: You're correct. Yeah, it's kind of a sad story. It
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  Speaker 6: actually broke on my birthday, so not the best news
• 1:39:09
  Speaker 6: to wake up nil your birthday. But yeah, PPC South
• 1:39:12
  Speaker 6: one potentially losing they're turning in twenty twenty eight or
• 1:39:16
  Speaker 6: definitely losing its premier status. Since twenty twenty it was
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  Speaker 6: a World Golf Championship event. In twenty twenty two, became
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  Speaker 6: a FedEx Cup playoff event, and you've really seen it
• 1:39:26
  Speaker 6: kind of rise and start them and the players. I've
• 1:39:29
  Speaker 6: always really appreciated this event because of its impacted to
• 1:39:32
  Speaker 6: sing ju, but that's really grown in recent years and
• 1:39:35
  Speaker 6: then frinks be taken away. Some of the players have
• 1:39:37
  Speaker 6: even mentioned that their statisty it go and they wanted
• 1:39:39
  Speaker 6: to still be a home on the PGA Tour in
• 1:39:42
  Speaker 6: some capacity of it can't be one of the top stops,
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  Speaker 6: So I do expect it to be a PG one,
• 1:39:47
  Speaker 6: but it might be on the Challenger Series. As the
• 1:39:50
  Speaker 6: PGA is moving into a two tiered system with the
• 1:39:53
  Speaker 6: Championship Series and the Challenger Series starting in twenty twenty eight.
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  Speaker 2: That's just the reordering of pro sports.
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  Speaker 3: But you've also got the uh we used to call
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  Speaker 3: it the Senior Tour, but now I think it's called
• 1:40:04
  Speaker 3: the Champions Tour, and there's a lot of good golf
• 1:40:07
  Speaker 3: being played there. And again, let's close with the role
• 1:40:10
  Speaker 3: that this tournament is played in the history of the
• 1:40:13
  Speaker 3: Memphis philanthropic community, in particular the great Saint Jude Children's Hospital.
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  Speaker 6: And we've touched on it a little bit yesterday, but
• 1:40:23
  Speaker 6: it's a really great job highlighting these Saint Jude patients
• 1:40:26
  Speaker 6: and really kind of giving them a once in a
• 1:40:28
  Speaker 6: lifetime opportunity that they might not get other places. They're
• 1:40:32
  Speaker 6: really close with the PGA Tour players. The players spend
• 1:40:35
  Speaker 6: a lot of time in them throughout the week, starting
• 1:40:36
  Speaker 6: on Monday leading up to the event, and then Wednesday,
• 1:40:39
  Speaker 6: on the prim they do a really special thing is
• 1:40:41
  Speaker 6: touched on yesterday, eleventh Pole. The players walk the home
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  Speaker 6: with the patients especially, and it's a really special part
• 1:40:47
  Speaker 6: through the Island Green. So a lot of the patients
• 1:40:50
  Speaker 6: love that hole. The players love that hole. It's really
• 1:40:52
  Speaker 6: challenging for them. So Gina spend that quite time with
• 1:40:54
  Speaker 6: the Saint Dude patients. And then Sunday is really special
• 1:40:57
  Speaker 6: honoring several Saint Due patients by name and having to
• 1:41:00
  Speaker 6: an announced on the speakers throughout the eighteenth and Green
• 1:41:02
  Speaker 6: and having to kind of work with the caddies and
• 1:41:04
  Speaker 6: be a caddy for a whole work with the players,
• 1:41:07
  Speaker 6: and even be the penholders on the eighteenth Green. On
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  Speaker 6: Championship Sunday, the.
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  Speaker 3: Mighty nine ninety KWAM the flagship station of the Starns
• 1:41:15
  Speaker 3: Media Group, and this radio program always a key presence
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  Speaker 3: at the FedEx Saint Jude Championship TPC South Wind in Memphis.
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  Speaker 3: Parker May, thanks so much for these fun conversations and
• 1:41:26
  Speaker 3: go find some shade.
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  Speaker 6: That's a plan, Jeff, thank you for your Tom really
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  Speaker 6: enjoyed these talks.
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  Speaker 2: Likewise, sir, take good care.
• 1:41:34
  Speaker 3: And Parker May joined us on the Patriot Mobile newsmaker line,
• 1:41:38
  Speaker 3: and I say take good care because weather Services it's
• 1:41:42
  Speaker 3: ninety six out there, but feels like one hundred and
• 1:41:45
  Speaker 3: five woof hydration.
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  Speaker 2: That's the key.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know why I'm in a food mode or
• 1:41:52
  Speaker 3: food and drink mode. Maybe it's because I've missed lunch.
• 1:41:55
  Speaker 3: But when we come back in our final segment of
• 1:41:57
  Speaker 3: the week, I want to involve the team down in Memphis,
• 1:42:00
  Speaker 3: Nylan and Helen, who have done such a fantastic job
• 1:42:03
  Speaker 3: helping me out.
• 1:42:03
  Speaker 2: Filling in for Todd.
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  Speaker 3: This week, We're going to talk about some of the
• 1:42:06
  Speaker 3: most decadent food you've ever heard of, and most of
• 1:42:10
  Speaker 3: it is served on a stick. We'll do that when
• 1:42:12
  Speaker 3: we come back from the Liberty University Studio. Jeff Stein
• 1:42:15
  Speaker 3: filling in for Todd. Thanks for being along guys on
• 1:42:18
  Speaker 3: the Todd Starn Show.
• 1:42:27
  Speaker 2: Welcome back.
• 1:42:27
  Speaker 3: Liberty University Studio is the location for the Todd Starn
• 1:42:31
  Speaker 3: Show on this Friday. Jeff Stein filling in for Todd.
• 1:42:34
  Speaker 3: And Yeah, he caught a little bug and he lost
• 1:42:37
  Speaker 3: his voice, his speaking voice, but he's not lost his words.
• 1:42:40
  Speaker 3: He's on the twitter x machine as we speak. Let
• 1:42:43
  Speaker 3: me read to you if you'll allow mister Starnes's latest
• 1:42:46
  Speaker 3: post on twitter x. It reads as follows. History will
• 1:42:50
  Speaker 3: record that Texas fell to the Islamis under the rule
• 1:42:54
  Speaker 3: of Republicans. Let it be known that the Republicans stood
• 1:42:58
  Speaker 3: down and allowed the Islamist to overrun the Lone Star state.
• 1:43:03
  Speaker 3: They literally control every office in state government and they've
• 1:43:08
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• 1:43:13
  Speaker 3: not on the radio, you could just hear him read
• 1:43:16
  Speaker 3: those words follow him on the Twitter X machine. I've
• 1:43:20
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• 1:43:25
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  Speaker 2: You can follow me.
• 1:43:27
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• 1:43:39
  Speaker 2: And I reposted the video of a.
• 1:43:42
  Speaker 3: Group of smelly agitators who tried to take over Todd's
• 1:43:45
  Speaker 3: book signing in Memphis on Tuesday night. The book, well, sure,
• 1:43:49
  Speaker 3: it's called The Golden Age How Trump Saved America. Get
• 1:43:51
  Speaker 3: yourself a couple of copies wherever good books are sold.
• 1:43:55
  Speaker 3: Now we're at the end of a week on a Friday,
• 1:43:58
  Speaker 3: and here where I am in the state of it
• 1:44:00
  Speaker 3: is Iowa State Fair Time. And at the end of
• 1:44:02
  Speaker 3: the last hour you might have heard, I was in
• 1:44:05
  Speaker 3: conversation with Iowa Congressman Zach Nunn about fair food and
• 1:44:10
  Speaker 3: he started listing ingredients on something and I just cut
• 1:44:13
  Speaker 3: him off and said, I'm not going to try that,
• 1:44:15
  Speaker 3: but I'll invite Dylan and Helen to join the conversation
• 1:44:18
  Speaker 3: if they like, because this is the description. It's a
• 1:44:22
  Speaker 3: big deal. Getting new food at the State Fair. Maybe
• 1:44:25
  Speaker 3: it is where you live as well.
• 1:44:26
  Speaker 2: Well.
• 1:44:26
  Speaker 3: We have three finalists for best New Fair Food. Here's
• 1:44:30
  Speaker 3: the one that the Congressman was advocating. It's called the
• 1:44:33
  Speaker 3: All Americans scrambled egg roll, wrapped in our signature crispy
• 1:44:38
  Speaker 3: golden egg roll.
• 1:44:40
  Speaker 2: Right, so it's an egg roll.
• 1:44:42
  Speaker 3: Is the ultimate American classic feast, thick cut, smoky bacon,
• 1:44:47
  Speaker 3: savory sausage, hardy hash browns, farm fresh, fluffy scrambled eggs,
• 1:44:53
  Speaker 3: and melted cheddar cheese, all blended with a drizzle of
• 1:44:57
  Speaker 3: cheesy ranch dressing. Who's up for a serving of that?
• 1:45:03
  Speaker 11: That sounds like the best breakfast you've ever had, Jeff,
• 1:45:07
  Speaker 11: I'm not gonna lie. I would eat that in a heartbeat.
• 1:45:09
  Speaker 11: I'll probably have two if I could.
• 1:45:12
  Speaker 3: Well, And it looks like they're giving you two little
• 1:45:13
  Speaker 3: egg rolls in this carton and from the picture that
• 1:45:16
  Speaker 3: I'm seeing, But I mean, you tell me you've got
• 1:45:18
  Speaker 3: multiple forms of pig. I mean, here's bacon, here's sausage.
• 1:45:22
  Speaker 3: I'm in you don't have to tell me twice.
• 1:45:24
  Speaker 11: That's like the Big three of breakfast. I mean, you
• 1:45:27
  Speaker 11: can't go wrong with any of those items.
• 1:45:29
  Speaker 2: And then drizzling it with cheesy ranch.
• 1:45:32
  Speaker 3: Okay, so now that I can see now they're also
• 1:45:35
  Speaker 3: patriotic at the fair this year, and so they had
• 1:45:39
  Speaker 3: to celebrate America's two hundred and fiftieth birthday. Here's ice cream. Okay,
• 1:45:45
  Speaker 3: it's called Sweet Americana. You've got strawberry shortcake ice cream,
• 1:45:51
  Speaker 3: lemon bar ice cream, and blueberry crisp ice cream, each
• 1:45:56
  Speaker 3: with a garnish and some some bit of a sauce.
• 1:46:02
  Speaker 3: So you've got the strawberry, the lemon, and the blueberry.
• 1:46:06
  Speaker 3: So it looks like red, white and blue. Wow, that's
• 1:46:08
  Speaker 3: that's for a family.
• 1:46:10
  Speaker 11: That's pretty patriotic. I mean the garnish kind of makes
• 1:46:12
  Speaker 11: it fancy, now, I mean gourmet.
• 1:46:16
  Speaker 3: Well, you know, it's it's like they tried as opposed
• 1:46:18
  Speaker 3: to how I usually eat this stuff. I'd look at
• 1:46:21
  Speaker 3: that and I'd say, well, that's that's two pretty eat.
• 1:46:23
  Speaker 11: Right, I mean you're used. I mean most state fairs
• 1:46:26
  Speaker 11: have you know, the fried butter, which who cares about
• 1:46:28
  Speaker 11: what that looks like? It's for more about the taste.
• 1:46:31
  Speaker 11: And then I'm looking at a list here that says
• 1:46:33
  Speaker 11: spaghetti and meatballs on a stick, which I don't even
• 1:46:35
  Speaker 11: know how that would work.
• 1:46:37
  Speaker 2: Practically it's wrapped tightly. Yeah, I can think of.
• 1:46:41
  Speaker 11: And that goes south really fast if you get just
• 1:46:43
  Speaker 11: one like pasta string, you know, the snowball.
• 1:46:48
  Speaker 2: This all started with pork chops.
• 1:46:51
  Speaker 3: Now, Iowa is the top producing pork state in the nation,
• 1:46:56
  Speaker 3: North Carolina right behind.
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  Speaker 2: But we came up with these inch think Iowa chops.
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  Speaker 3: And instead of sitting down like civilized folks. You don't
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  Speaker 3: want to sit down with your knife and fork and
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  Speaker 3: have a big old pork chop. You want to be
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  Speaker 3: able to wander the fairgrounds. And so they figured out, well,
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  Speaker 3: what if we put it on a stick and you
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  Speaker 3: could just walk and carry it and gnaw on it,
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  Speaker 3: you know, like it's a turkey leg at a Renaissance festival, which,
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  Speaker 3: by the way, they have the turkey legs too. But
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  Speaker 3: here's a good one on a stick. It's called star
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  Speaker 3: spangled Swine prime grade pork belly with apple chipotly rub signature,
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  Speaker 3: big red soda glaze rolled in blue and white honey crystals.
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  Speaker 11: The big red soda glaze is throwing me off there.
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  Speaker 11: I can't get past that part.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you know, you just take your pork belly and
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  Speaker 3: you put on this and I suppose they make it
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  Speaker 3: with doctor pepper or something, so that's how we get
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  Speaker 3: the red, white and blue again. I don't you just
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  Speaker 3: give me the pork belly and I'm home. But here's
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  Speaker 3: something you could not You could not pay me enough.
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  Speaker 3: Garlic dill pickle cheese curds. O you are you part
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  Speaker 3: of this craze of everything has to be dill pickle flavored?
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  Speaker 2: I'm not.
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  Speaker 11: My wife is very much, so so much that, like,
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  Speaker 11: if we go on a road trip, she'll get those
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  Speaker 11: like pickle pickle slices that you can get in the bags.
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  Speaker 2: It makes the whole.
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  Speaker 11: Car smell like dill and h just awful, terrible, And
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  Speaker 11: I feel like that is also a state fair staple.
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  Speaker 11: Is the pickled things like pickled oreos? Why is that
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  Speaker 11: a thing?
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  Speaker 3: Did you not have all the conversations you needed to
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  Speaker 3: have before getting married?
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  Speaker 11: Apparently not? This one was on the list.
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  Speaker 2: Garlic dill pickle cheese curds.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, combining our two most popular flavors garlic and dill
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  Speaker 3: pickle to flavor cheese curds. Now, in my world, that's
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  Speaker 3: ruining a perfectly good cheese curd.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah, this sounds like a Wisconsin thing too, the cheese curds.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I believe in strong borders, but if somebody from
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  Speaker 3: Wisconsin comes into Iowa with a good batch of cheese curds,
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  Speaker 3: I'll let them in.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah, no problem there. They offer up that that's a
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  Speaker 11: good trade off.
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  Speaker 3: Now now I'm drawing the line at Minnesota. I don't
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  Speaker 3: need them coming down. But Wisconsin with the cheese curds. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: here's one. Now this restaurant. I wonder if Starnes has
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  Speaker 3: a piece of this. The restaurant is called Tater Todd
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  Speaker 3: and Hot Dougs. Sounds like they have tater tots and
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  Speaker 3: hot dogs. So it's Tater Todd and Hot Dougs. Try
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  Speaker 3: calling him Tater Todd when he comes in next week.
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  Speaker 3: See how that goes over.
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  Speaker 11: I might not be at this board when that happens.
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  Speaker 3: Celebrates his last day, celebrated no stuffed tater kegs. So
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  Speaker 3: what they've done is they've they've created like a tater tot,
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  Speaker 3: but they filled it with the ingredients of a good
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  Speaker 3: breakfast skillet. So you we got eggs, sausage, cheddar cheese
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  Speaker 3: in this deep fried tater tot shell and they serve
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  Speaker 3: it with creamy cheddar cheese and sour cream. It's crispy
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  Speaker 3: on the outside, flavorful on the inside.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah, I have no problem with that at all. These
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  Speaker 11: are these sound pretty good? Yeah, I'm not gonna lie.
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  Speaker 11: Most things that you that I thought that you would
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  Speaker 11: name sound gross, but like these, except for the pickled stuff, Yep,
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  Speaker 11: I agree with I agree with them.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, well I'm gonna turn that on you because they
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  Speaker 3: also have a vegetarian version of the tater keg.
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  Speaker 2: Now who needs that?
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  Speaker 4: No?
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  Speaker 11: Yeah, I would pass on that one, of course.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, let's see find a gross food for you here. Oh,
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  Speaker 3: here we go. Banana cream fries.
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  Speaker 11: Now I'm still with you. Unfortunately, I do love bananas.
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  Speaker 11: That's like the one fruit that I'll eat.
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  Speaker 3: Actually, Banana cream funnel cake fries, funnel cake sticks coated
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  Speaker 3: in powdered sugar and topped with banana pudding.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, that's good.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, uh huh, I'm down. Uh huh.
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  Speaker 3: A butter dipped ice cream cone vanilla soft serve ice
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  Speaker 3: cream coated in a warm, buttery hard shell, sprinkled with
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  Speaker 3: flaky salt that cracks with every I don't want my
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  Speaker 3: food cracking with everybody.
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  Speaker 11: Don't now unless it's a crim breulet, I wouldn't want
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  Speaker 11: it cracking.
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  Speaker 2: Huh huh. Six bucks for that, by the way, too much. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: not happening.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I hope that your appetites have all been appropriately
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  Speaker 3: stoked and that you order a copy of The Golden
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  Speaker 3: Age How Trump Saved America. Thank you Dylan, Thank you Helen.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks to Parker at the golf course. Mister Starnes, keep
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  Speaker 3: guzzling that hot tea and honey, and I hope you're
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  Speaker 3: back on Monday. Thanks to all of you folks for
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  Speaker 3: being along. Jeff Stein, great time filling in on the
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  Speaker 3: Todd starn Show.