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Republicans Kick Off Midterm Convention · ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes

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  Speaker 1: From the principal Toyota studios, it's Morning in Memphis with
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  Speaker 1: Todd Starnes.
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  Speaker 2: And hello, everybody. Happy Wednesday to you. And we have
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  Speaker 2: a jam-packed day for you. Sun up to sundown here
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  Speaker 2: on the Mighty 990. Of course, the big Republican midterm
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  Speaker 2: convention getting underway later tonight in Dallas, Texas. We're going
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  Speaker 2: to be talking to a lot of lawmakers throughout the
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  Speaker 2: day that are at the convention. And we'll be providing
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  Speaker 2: you exclusive coverage right here on your radio station for
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  Speaker 2: political news coverage tonight. By the way, 78 degrees right
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  Speaker 2: now at Whitehaven High School. It is going to be
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  Speaker 2: another scorcher. Laura Huckabee, our chief meteorologist, will be along
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  Speaker 2: in just a little while with an updated look at
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  Speaker 2: your forecast. and Commander Chuck taking a look at the
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  Speaker 2: morning commute today. Real quick, before we go right away
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  Speaker 2: to our Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line, I have to give
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  Speaker 2: you guys a huge shout-out. Well done, KWAM listening audience. Yesterday,
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  Speaker 2: we had George Brown on from Kroger, and there was
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  Speaker 2: a huge, huge response yesterday to our first responder supply drive,
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  Speaker 2: This was right outside the Kroger at Poplar and Highland.
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  Speaker 2: And we understand George sent us a note late last night.
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  Speaker 3: It was a huge success.
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  Speaker 2: And you guys donated thousands of dollars worth of items, snacks,
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  Speaker 2: all sorts of things to our first responders. They're going
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  Speaker 2: to be divided up between Memphis Police, Shelby County Sheriff's Department,
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  Speaker 2: and the Memphis Fire Department. So we want to say
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  Speaker 2: thank you, first of all, to our great agents. KWAM
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  Speaker 2: audience and also the good people over at Kroger. What
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  Speaker 2: a great day yesterday. Had a chance to get out
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  Speaker 2: there and KWAM, our staff dropped off some supplies as well.
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  Speaker 2: And we're just honored to be able to stand up
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  Speaker 2: and say thank you. for the great work that our
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  Speaker 2: first responders are engaged in every single day.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we are in the throes of politics here in
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  Speaker 2: the Mid-South, and our next guest wants to be the
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  Speaker 2: next governor of the state of Tennessee. She is right
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  Speaker 2: now a Memphis City Councilman, Jerry Green. Jerry, hope you're
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  Speaker 2: doing well today. And please tell me, you guys have
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  Speaker 2: like an emergency kiddie pool that you guys could jump in.
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  Speaker 3: It's hot out there on the campaign trail.
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  Speaker 4: Man, thank you for having me back, Todd. I love
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  Speaker 4: coming on KWAM, even if it's early. But, yeah, it
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  Speaker 4: is ridiculously hot. I'm ready for fall weather already. Football started.
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  Speaker 4: It's time for some fall weather.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, yes, it is.
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  Speaker 2: And, by the way, speaking of football, what an amazing
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  Speaker 2: launch to the football season for the Memphis Tigers. And
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  Speaker 2: that stadium is really breathtaking. And the University of Memphis
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  Speaker 2: off to a great start.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, University of Memphis, and of course my college, University
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  Speaker 4: of Tennessee, had a pretty good start too, so... It's
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  Speaker 4: going to be great from one side of Tennessee to the.
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  Speaker 1: Other this year.
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  Speaker 2: It's east to west. That's what it's all about. Jerry,
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  Speaker 2: we've got a lot of politics to talk about, and
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  Speaker 2: you made some headlines yesterday throwing down the gauntlet, and
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  Speaker 2: you're challenging Senator Marsha Blackburn to a series of debates
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  Speaker 2: across the state of Tennessee. Tell us about the back
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  Speaker 2: story there.
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  Speaker 4: Well, we've been asking Senator Blackburn to debate us for
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  Speaker 4: almost a year now, over 300 days, and we've received
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  Speaker 4: no response. So I thought perhaps if we laid out
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  Speaker 4: some dates and places and sent her a formal letter
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  Speaker 4: that she would actually participate in this job interview that
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  Speaker 4: we are both in the middle of right now. And
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  Speaker 4: we started with her hometown, you know, not far from
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  Speaker 4: our house. So hopefully she can make at least one
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  Speaker 4: of them.
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  Speaker 2: Why is a debate and debating your opponent on stage,
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  Speaker 2: why is that important to the electoral process?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I think that if you can't take the questions,
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  Speaker 4: you don't have the answers, and the voters are owed
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  Speaker 4: at the very least a debate. I think she should
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  Speaker 4: also be holding town halls, as I've had over 170
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  Speaker 4: across the state, taking questions directly from the people who
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  Speaker 4: she'll be working for. But if you can't stand up
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  Speaker 4: and say what you stand for, then you don't deserve
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  Speaker 4: the job, in my opinion. This is how you tell
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  Speaker 4: voters what you believe, what you don't believe, what your
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  Speaker 4: plans are, what your policies would be, and the voters
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  Speaker 4: deserve to have us stand side by side and hear that.
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  Speaker 2: I found it interesting. You actually referenced a column that
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  Speaker 2: Senator Blackburn wrote back in 2024. This was the actual headline.
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  Speaker 2: Now more than ever, America needs robust, bipartisan and respectful debate.
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  Speaker 2: What do you think changed there? Why do you think
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  Speaker 2: the senator doesn't want to get out on the debate stage?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I think we all saw when she was asked
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  Speaker 4: questions by the press. Again, I'm here talking to the press.
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  Speaker 4: I think that's part of the job interview, too. She
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  Speaker 4: sort of fumbled, saying she was talking to Tennesseans every day.
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  Speaker 4: That's actually what I'm doing. I was up in Campbell
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  Speaker 4: County yesterday, a plus 90 Trump district, and we had
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  Speaker 4: 120 people show up in 100-degree weather to talk to me.
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  Speaker 4: But I think after that, she tried to do a
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  Speaker 4: few press interviews and they didn't go well. So they
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  Speaker 4: just shut it down. And she thinks she can coast
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  Speaker 4: through this election. She thinks that she has it on lock.
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  Speaker 4: And I think we're going to surprise a lot of people. But, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: she wants to debate when she wants to debate, but
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  Speaker 4: not when the people deserve it.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's interesting, and folks, we're talking to Jerry Green,
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  Speaker 2: running to be the next governor of the state of Tennessee. Jerry,
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  Speaker 2: I think it was interesting. All of a sudden, we
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  Speaker 2: started getting this inside dirt. on David Hatley, and I
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  Speaker 2: had to Google David Hatley very quickly. I'm like, who
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  Speaker 2: is David Hatley, and why are the Republicans scared of
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  Speaker 2: this guy? He is running as an independent, apparently a
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  Speaker 2: very wealthy man. We're not going to get into his laundry.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to have him on KWAM in a couple
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  Speaker 2: of days. But I'm wondering about Hatley.
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  Speaker 3: How do you view his campaign? Any concerns there?
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  Speaker 4: Well, You know, we're running a campaign that is about families,
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  Speaker 4: not billionaires. We think that we are more in touch
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  Speaker 4: with the people. And I think his slogan is something like,
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  Speaker 4: built not bought. But he's trying to buy an election.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, he is out of touch. He's never voted. Like,
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  Speaker 4: that seems like the basics if you want to actually
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  Speaker 4: be a governor of this state to have participated in
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  Speaker 4: the political process at the very bottom level. So I
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  Speaker 4: think it's problematic on a lot of ways, but I
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  Speaker 4: truly believe that the work we've been doing for over
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  Speaker 4: a year is going to matter more than somebody throwing
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  Speaker 4: money in at the last minute.
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  Speaker 2: I want to ask you real quick, new numbers came out,
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  Speaker 2: Memphis Safe Task Force, and it's pretty remarkable when you
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  Speaker 2: look at the numbers, and the one that really doesn't
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  Speaker 2: get the headlines that I think ought to, that at
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  Speaker 2: least 186 missing children have been located since the operation began.
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  Speaker 2: Does that make it worth it? I mean, and I
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  Speaker 2: understand Democrats, you know, they've got a problem with this
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  Speaker 2: task force. But the fact that they're finding missing children,
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  Speaker 2: does that make it worth it?
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  Speaker 4: So I actually talked to several people within the police
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  Speaker 4: force about that. And what I learned is what They
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  Speaker 4: were doing our following up on runaways that had never
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  Speaker 4: been followed up on. And by the time that they
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  Speaker 4: called them, they had returned home or they were living
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  Speaker 4: with an aunt. And so, like, yes, it's good that
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  Speaker 4: we cleared those files, but it wasn't so much they
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  Speaker 4: walked around and found missing children. It was children that were...
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  Speaker 4: And if you go back and look at the files,
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  Speaker 4: they'll say they're found at school, they're found at their
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  Speaker 4: mother's home. they were already back home. They were just,
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  Speaker 4: you know, finishing the paperwork. So I think I find problematic,
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  Speaker 4: you and I have had this conversation before, is more
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  Speaker 4: surrounds the National Guard and how I believe that is
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  Speaker 4: unconstitutional on the Tennessee level and the U.S. level. And,
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  Speaker 4: you know, what we've seen in the same period of
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  Speaker 4: time of them being here is they have made zero arrests, none,
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  Speaker 4: and they have actually killed at least one citizen. That
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  Speaker 4: is what I find problematic.
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  Speaker 3: Who was armed with a gun?
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  Speaker 4: Who was shot in the back.
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  Speaker 2: Who was armed with a gun in a very dangerous–
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  Speaker 2: that could have been a very dangerous situation.
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  Speaker 4: We can go back and forth, but the point is
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  Speaker 4: they've made zero arrests, none, no arrests. They have not
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  Speaker 4: helped in any– when I talked to C.J. Davis, When
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  Speaker 4: I talk to Bill Gibbons, when I talk to the
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  Speaker 4: professionals who are actually in charge, they say what's the
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  Speaker 4: most helpful thing is having the highway patrol out on
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  Speaker 4: the highways.
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  Speaker 1: And I agree.
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  Speaker 4: I agree. I don't miss this hour not getting run
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  Speaker 4: over by somebody with drive-out tax on the highway. That's
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  Speaker 4: what really was draining a lot of the resources away
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  Speaker 4: from our police force. And they've been doing the work.
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  Speaker 1: But it was also the council people.
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  Speaker 2: But, Jerry, it was also the idea that we still
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  Speaker 2: did not have a full complement of Memphis police officers.
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  Speaker 2: And one of the arguments was that the addition of
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  Speaker 2: the task force helped boost those numbers up. So I'm wondering,
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  Speaker 2: maybe we need to be boosting up the Memphis Police
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  Speaker 2: Department numbers and getting more cops out on the street.
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  Speaker 4: And so what I was about to say before you
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  Speaker 4: made that point was what we've done on the council
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  Speaker 4: to increase those numbers, which have increased under my time
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  Speaker 4: is increase their pay, increase their benefits, get them more
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  Speaker 4: police cars because ours were old, and put more funding into, like,
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  Speaker 4: renovating the Mount Moriah precinct. So we actually have been
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  Speaker 4: putting money into our first responders, and I've been one
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  Speaker 4: of the biggest champions, especially around their pay, making sure
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  Speaker 4: that all our first responders receive the pay that they're owed.
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  Speaker 1: And, again.
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  Speaker 3: And you have.
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  Speaker 4: It's what helps. It's having the extra force on. And
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  Speaker 4: you think about it, the extra force on the interstate,
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  Speaker 4: that doesn't tie somebody up for three hours cleaning up
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  Speaker 4: a wreck. They can be actually out doing that. And
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  Speaker 4: so I agree. The THP needs to stay there and
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  Speaker 4: help us monitor the interstate. That's the supplement we need,
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  Speaker 4: not National Guard walking around our target.
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  Speaker 2: Jerry, we're going to get you back on, and I
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  Speaker 2: want to have you on for a full hour, and
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  Speaker 2: we'll do it at a later hour somewhere.
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  Speaker 3: You don't have to get up at the crack of dawn.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I am. I am always happy to come on.
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  Speaker 4: I'm always happy to answer your questions, the people's questions.
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  Speaker 4: And I hope that, you know, I agreed to a
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  Speaker 4: debate on Kalam with you. I hope that Marshall Blackburn
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  Speaker 4: says yes, and maybe you can be one of the moderators.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we have extended the offer, and so we will
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  Speaker 2: let you know what the senator says. We did invite
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  Speaker 2: the senator on. Her people said maybe in a couple
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  Speaker 2: of weeks, so we'll get back to her then. But
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  Speaker 2: the clock is ticking. Jerry Green, thank you for coming
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  Speaker 2: on the show. Where can people go if they want
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  Speaker 2: to get more information about your campaign?
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  Speaker 4: Go to greenforgovernor.com. Learn about me. Learn about my platform.
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  Speaker 4: Learn about where we'll be next. We're on all the
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  Speaker 4: social media.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Jerry, thank you for coming on KWM. We'll
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  Speaker 2: get you back on very soon.
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  Speaker 3: All right. There you go.
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  Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen, Jerry Green running for governor on the
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  Speaker 2: Democrat side of the aisle for governor. And we have
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  Speaker 2: reached out to Senator Blackburn's office. She said they said
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  Speaker 2: that she'll be possibly available in a couple of weeks.
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  Speaker 2: and we will get her on as soon as we
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  Speaker 2: can make that happen.
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  Speaker 3: Also, Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Hatley, running as an independent, he will be coming on
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  Speaker 2: KWAM as well. This really is your home, your exclusive
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  Speaker 2: home for politics.
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  Speaker 3: In the Mid-South.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to take a quick break. Steve Gill coming up. Also,
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  Speaker 2: it's Wednesday. Adam Martin from Bluff City Advisory is going
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  Speaker 2: to be here. We're going to be taking your calls.
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  Speaker 2: And right now, a chance for you to win a
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  Speaker 2: We'll be right back. All right, it is 78 degrees
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  Speaker 2: at the Bass Pro Shop Pyramid in downtown.
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  Speaker 3: Hello, everybody. Welcome back.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Todd Stearns. Great to have you with us. By
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  Speaker 2: the way, good to see Mark Wahlberg in town yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: He was at the Bass Pro Pyramid celebrating the grand
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  Speaker 2: relaunch of Wahlbergers Wild. And it's a brand-new restaurant concept.
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  Speaker 2: So if you would like to sample Gator Bites, a
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  Speaker 2: courtesy of the Wahlburgers and Mark Wahlberg and the family.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go to Lakeland, Tennessee real quick. Don on the phone. Don,
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  Speaker 2: I hope you're having a great day there in Lakeland.
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  Speaker 4: I'm having a fantastic day. It's a blessed day by
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  Speaker 4: our Lord Jesus Christ.
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  Speaker 3: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: Amen to that. And congratulations, Don, because you are a
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  Speaker 2: winner of a signed copy of The Golden Age.
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  Speaker 4: I'll take it.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 5: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Don, we really appreciate you listening to KWAM this morning.
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  Speaker 2: Hang tight. Helen will get all of your information. And
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  Speaker 2: in the meantime, I want to go right away to
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  Speaker 2: our Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line. Busy day. Steve Gill, publisher
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  Speaker 2: of TriStar Daily. Steve, you just heard Jerry Green on KWAM.
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  Speaker 2: And one of the weird things about KWAM, we're the
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  Speaker 2: one conservative news station in America, and we like to
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  Speaker 2: hear from everybody, Republicans, Democrats, and Independents.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and, you know, that's the thing and the way
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  Speaker 1: it should be. I mean, if we're going to win, quote,
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  Speaker 1: as conservatives and as Republicans, why should we be afraid
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  Speaker 1: to compare our views with their views? Particularly now, again,
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  Speaker 1: some of the views that we're getting from the DSA,
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  Speaker 1: radical Democrats are way out there. But the more they talk,
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  Speaker 1: the better we do.
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  Speaker 2: It's a great point. And look, Jerry Green, do you
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  Speaker 2: think she has a fair argument here? She's challenging Marsha
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  Speaker 2: Blackburn to a debate, and she's actually quoting Marsha Blackburn
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  Speaker 2: saying there's, you know, we need robust debates.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think that, you know, while I understand
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  Speaker 1: tactically why Marsha Blackburn doesn't want to debate, I mean, she's,
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  Speaker 1: you know, supposedly has a big lead. Why not sit
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  Speaker 1: on it? But tactics and strategy also aren't good for
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  Speaker 1: policy because Marsha or Jerry Green or David Hatley or
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  Speaker 1: Lauren Kingston are going to be governor.
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  Speaker 4: And when you go into that.
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  Speaker 1: Office, it might be nice to be able to argue
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  Speaker 1: to the legislature that you should support my legislative priorities
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  Speaker 1: because I put them out there. I debated them. I
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  Speaker 1: discussed them. The people voted for me because they supported
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  Speaker 1: those policies. and you should too. So as a policy matter,
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  Speaker 1: I support debate. I think candidates ought to be able
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  Speaker 1: to step up, show the distinctions and differences between them
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  Speaker 1: and their opponents, because that's part of the political process,
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  Speaker 1: and it's definitely part of the policy process.
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  Speaker 2: Steve, tonight, Republicans kick off their midterm convention. You know,
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  Speaker 2: they used to do these many, many years ago, and
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  Speaker 2: they stopped because they really had no impact at all
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  Speaker 2: on the midterm elections. How do you think this plays out?
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  Speaker 2: What do you want to see tonight?
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  Speaker 1: I think it's going to be good for President Trump
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  Speaker 1: and the other speakers to have their chance to lay
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  Speaker 1: out their agenda that they want to promote during the midterm.
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  Speaker 1: I think we spent too much time talking about what
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  Speaker 1: we could have, should have, would have done and haven't
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  Speaker 1: because the Senate hasn't helped. The House has such a
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  Speaker 1: narrow majority. But I think the focus has to be
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  Speaker 1: on what's next, not what Biden did, not what the
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  Speaker 1: Democrats are doing wrong. I think Republicans have to lay
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  Speaker 1: out a clear agenda in these next couple of days
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  Speaker 1: of here's what's next and here's how we're going to
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  Speaker 1: do it with your help, giving us a bigger majority
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  Speaker 1: in the Senate, a bigger majority in the House, letting
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  Speaker 1: us keep those bodies so that we can actually accomplish
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  Speaker 1: what's next on the agenda. But I think if their
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  Speaker 1: only focus is how bad the Democrats are, that's what
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  Speaker 1: the Democrats do. They hate Trump. It's Trump derangement syndrome
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  Speaker 1: on steroids. I think Republicans need to offer an alternative.
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  Speaker 2: I know Ted Cruz is out there saying that Republicans
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  Speaker 2: have done a lousy job of promoting what they've actually accomplished.
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  Speaker 3: Is he right there?
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  Speaker 1: I agree, and I think that they also need to
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  Speaker 1: lay out some of the reasons why, for example, gas
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  Speaker 1: prices are high. We haven't built a new refinery in
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  Speaker 1: this country, thanks to the liberals, thanks to the regulations,
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  Speaker 1: since 1977. So we can have all this oil, but
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  Speaker 1: you don't turn it into gas or diesel or other
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  Speaker 1: products if you don't have the refineries. And the refineries
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  Speaker 1: we can build today will be more efficient, cleaner, more effective,
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  Speaker 1: more cost effective. And I think laying out why California
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  Speaker 1: has gas prices that are $ 2 higher than the rest
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  Speaker 1: of the country is because the same policies they've put
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  Speaker 1: upon the rest of us. or what they've done to
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  Speaker 1: themselves in California.
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  Speaker 2: Steve, got to leave it there, my friend. But we
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  Speaker 2: appreciate you coming on. We're going to get you back
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: on a lot of politics to talk about. Folks, hang tight.
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: 901-260-5926.
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: Do you want to see a gubernatorial debate here in Tennessee?
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: 901-260-5926.
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: We'll be right back.
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: Already 81 degrees at Memphis Zoo.
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: Hello, everybody. Welcome back.
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: I'm Todd Stearns. Great to have you with us. for
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: the drive into work today. By the way, speaking of
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: the Memphis Zoo, congrats. We have two brand-new tiger cubs
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: born to Mom Adari and Dad.
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: Is it Badar?
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: Badar?
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: Somebody from the zoo will correct us. Anyway, well done.
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: The announcement, by the way, was made during halftime at
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: the Memphis Tigers game. And no word on if one
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: of the— well, the Tigers are both females, so naming them
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: Tom would be sort of weird. But then again, with
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: today's pronoun problems, who knows?
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: It might work.
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: A new Tom Tiger.
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: Let's say hello to Adam Martin, a financial advisor from
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: Bluff City Advisory.
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: Adam, good to see you today.
• 19:34
  Speaker 5: It's good seeing you, Todd. How are you today?
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: You know, I'm doing well. The AC is working, and
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: that's all I really care about.
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: Amen.
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: I mean, to measure how well my day is going,
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: that's the measurement right there.
• 19:46
  Speaker 5: I agree 100%. It's warm out there. Definitely.
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: All right. Well, let's get started then.
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: And by the way, folks, bluffcityadvisory.com is the website, bluffcityadvisory.com.
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: Adam Martin, our great financial advisor. We're talking stock market
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: and elections, and that has been a lot of conversation
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: about the economy. So how does the stock market tend
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: to perform during these election years compared with non-election years?
• 20:13
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's a great question.
• 20:14
  Speaker 6: And we get a lot of phone calls, especially like
• 20:17
  Speaker 6: midterm elections, presidential elections, and just people concerned about well,
• 20:21
  Speaker 6: how is this policy going to affect my portfolio? And
• 20:24
  Speaker 6: a lot of times we tell them, you know, election
• 20:26
  Speaker 6: years can certainly attract a lot of attention from investors.
• 20:29
  Speaker 5: But historically, the.
• 20:31
  Speaker 6: Market has continued to be driven primarily by a broader
• 20:34
  Speaker 6: economy rather than election itself.
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: Do the elections, would you say presidential elections, midterm elections
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: actually drive market performance.
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: Or are there other factors here?
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: I know inflation is has been a big concern of late.
• 20:48
  Speaker 6: You know, policy can definitely affect markets. And when we
• 20:52
  Speaker 6: talk about what does that particularly affect, we think about
• 20:55
  Speaker 6: certain types of industries. You know, we look at health
• 20:58
  Speaker 6: care policy that can affect certain stock positions that you
• 21:02
  Speaker 6: may have exposed to the health care sector. You know,
• 21:04
  Speaker 6: we talk about energy. We're seeing it right now with
• 21:07
  Speaker 6: the war in Iran and how gas prices are going
• 21:11
  Speaker 6: through the roof. And we're talking about new oil production
• 21:14
  Speaker 6: out of Venezuela. So, I mean, Elections certainly have some
• 21:18
  Speaker 6: kind of influence, but what we look at as financial
• 21:21
  Speaker 6: advisors is we look at the broader economy and good,
• 21:26
  Speaker 6: strong balance sheets.
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: See, I've always felt– and tell me if this is wrong, Adam.
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: You can throw something at me. Don't throw anything at me,
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: but you can tell me if this is wrong. I
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: think there's Wall Street and there's Main Street, and there
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: are a lot of people that are not invested in
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: Wall Street. And, you know, they're dealing with, you know,
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: other issues out there, you know, pocketbook issues, you know,
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: on Main Street.
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: Definitely.
• 21:45
  Speaker 6: I mean, to go even further on the financial advising space,
• 21:49
  Speaker 6: we're not just here to tell you which stocks or
• 21:52
  Speaker 6: bonds to pick and choose or buy. We have real
• 21:54
  Speaker 6: life conversations around the Main Street, like, OK, comprehensive planning,
• 21:59
  Speaker 6: your dollar doesn't go as far.
• 22:00
  Speaker 5: Why is that?
• 22:01
  Speaker 6: You know, we have an educational conversation around high inflation.
• 22:05
  Speaker 5: It erodes the spending power.
• 22:07
  Speaker 6: So we try to talk to people and say, listen,
• 22:11
  Speaker 6: here's how this could affect you, not just on your
• 22:14
  Speaker 6: stock portfolio, but your everyday life.
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: And also, it's good, I mean, if you are in
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: the stock market, to be prepared, you know, because there
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: are some things that may happen during an election cycle
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: and election season that would not happen normally.
• 22:27
  Speaker 5: Definitely.
• 22:28
  Speaker 6: And that's why we tell people not to make your
• 22:30
  Speaker 6: portfolio's decisions off of short-term volatility or short-term things. You know,
• 22:35
  Speaker 6: we want you to stay long-term, be diversified. and look
• 22:39
  Speaker 6: at the fundamentals of what makes.
• 22:41
  Speaker 5: People successful in the market.
• 22:42
  Speaker 6: That's evaluating things like what's the inflation.
• 22:46
  Speaker 5: Rate right now?
• 22:46
  Speaker 6: This company you're looking at, what's their balance sheet? Are
• 22:50
  Speaker 6: they running a net positive or a net negative? We
• 22:52
  Speaker 6: want to look at these things as a long-term investment
• 22:55
  Speaker 6: strategy and not some short-term decision.
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: I'm wondering if people, and we hear this all the time,
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: is that people vote on pocketbook issues like the price
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: of gasoline or grocery prices. Is that really true?
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: Definitely.
• 23:10
  Speaker 5: I mean, a lot of people do.
• 23:12
  Speaker 6: The knee-jerk reaction is a real thing, and we don't
• 23:14
  Speaker 6: shy away from it. We just try to talk you
• 23:16
  Speaker 6: off the ledge, if that makes any sense.
• 23:19
  Speaker 5: We try to tell you, like, here's historically, here's how
• 23:22
  Speaker 5: the S & P 500 has performed. Have we seen
• 23:25
  Speaker 5: some peaks?
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 23:26
  Speaker 5: Have we seen some valleys?
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 23:28
  Speaker 5: But if we look at a graph of.
• 23:30
  Speaker 6: The S & P 500 over a 40-year time frame,
• 23:32
  Speaker 6: it's an upward slope. So that's the reason why we
• 23:35
  Speaker 6: say let's stay invested, and even short-term volatility could be
• 23:39
  Speaker 6: a good buying opportunity.
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: During election season, what do you advise when folks are saying, okay,
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: I want to invest in the stock market? What sectors,
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: what industries are hot, I would say, these days?
• 23:51
  Speaker 6: We just go back to the fundamentals, Todd. We say,
• 23:54
  Speaker 6: you know, what is your risk tolerance?
• 23:56
  Speaker 5: Where are you at?
• 23:56
  Speaker 6: Are you talking about Main Street? is where are you
• 23:59
  Speaker 6: at currently in your job? Are you approaching retirement? Let's
• 24:03
  Speaker 6: put the noise to the side here, but think about
• 24:06
  Speaker 6: your current situation and your risk tolerance and how you're allocated.
• 24:11
  Speaker 6: We're going to see some volatility, some short-term swings, but
• 24:15
  Speaker 6: staying invested, having conversations with your financial advisor, that's what
• 24:20
  Speaker 6: we're here to do, is just to go Lay out
• 24:23
  Speaker 6: the facts away from the fiction.
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: Adam Martin is a financial advisor with Bluff City Advisory.
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: BluffCityAdvisory.com is the website. That's BluffCityAdvisory.com. Adam, if somebody goes
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: to your website, what kind of information are they going
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: to see there, and how can they reach out to you?
• 24:42
  Speaker 6: Well, you can reach out to me by my email.
• 24:44
  Speaker 6: It's adam at bluffcityadvisory.com. Or you can give us a call.
• 24:49
  Speaker 6: The phone number is 901-365-3447. If you go to our website,
• 24:55
  Speaker 6: you're going to see a plethora of our backgrounds, what
• 24:59
  Speaker 6: I do, what I specialize in, our managing partner, his background,
• 25:03
  Speaker 6: his education, what he specializes in. But mostly we care
• 25:07
  Speaker 6: about the city of Memphis. And we have a big
• 25:09
  Speaker 6: Memphis feel to our website. And we want you guys
• 25:13
  Speaker 6: that are approaching retirement or you've inherited some money and
• 25:17
  Speaker 6: you don't know what to do with it.
• 25:18
  Speaker 5: Go there.
• 25:19
  Speaker 6: We've got a lot of resources for how to think
• 25:21
  Speaker 6: through your situation.
• 25:22
  Speaker 5: But most importantly, call us. We're here to help.
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: I love that.
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: And again, this is about making sure our KOM audience
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: is taken care of.
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: It doesn't matter.
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: That's what we have the roofing experts on. You know,
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: we have Joe Garner and the Morgan shop on the weekend.
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: We've got our gardening crew, so you can grow your
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: own vegetables.
• 25:42
  Speaker 5: That's what I love about this show, Todd. I mean,
• 25:43
  Speaker 5: I'm a local guy.
• 25:45
  Speaker 6: I moved away for a little bit while I was
• 25:46
  Speaker 6: in the military, but chose to come home. My passion
• 25:50
  Speaker 6: is the city of Memphis. If I can do my
• 25:52
  Speaker 6: part in just helping the citizens of Memphis get better financially,
• 25:56
  Speaker 6: that's what I'm here to do.
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: I love that. All right. Adam Martin, everybody.
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: Financial advisor, bluffcityadvisory.com is the website. You can reach Adam
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: at bluffcityadvisory.com and write down the number, 901-365-3447. And we'll
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: get you in touch with Adam.
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: All right, my friend. I need to figure out. I
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: think a lot of people are investing in swimming pools.
• 26:22
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: And freezers.
• 26:25
  Speaker 5: I have one myself.
• 26:26
  Speaker 6: There's an argument to be made that it's a hole
• 26:28
  Speaker 6: in the ground that you put a lot of money into,
• 26:30
  Speaker 6: but it's nice when you can get in it.
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, when it's 300 degrees outside, you better believe it. Adam,
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: good to see you, my friend.
• 26:36
  Speaker 5: Good seeing you too, Todd.
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: All right, ladies and gentlemen, we've got to take a
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: quick break. When we come back, your calls. Do you
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: want to see the gubernatorial candidates debate? I will tell
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: you this. During our interview with Adam Martin, I got
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: an immediate message. Senator Piper wants to come on the program.
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: So we will make that happen. And again, we look. Folks,
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: this is all about hearing from the candidates, hearing their platforms,
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: and then you get to decide as to what. I'm
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: not telling you who to vote for. You're smart enough
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: to make that decision for yourself. So, again, do you
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: want to see the gubernatorial candidates debate?
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: Give us a call, 901-260-5926. That's 901-260-5926.
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: We'll be right back. All right, welcome back, everybody. This
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: is Todd Stearns in the principal Toyota Memphis studio. And, again,
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: want to say thank you to all the KWAM listeners
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: who dropped by Kroger yesterday. That was Poplar and Highland.
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: That's right around the corner from Buster's, for those of
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: you who might be more familiar with that establishment. Thousands
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: of dollars donated to our first responders yesterday. This this
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: project headed up by our friends at Kroger. Good to
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: see George Brown down there. He was on the morning
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: show yesterday. I mean, this is quick turnaround. You guys
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: did such a tremendous job of dropping off things, snacks
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: and things of that nature. for our first responders, and
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: we greatly appreciate it. All right, the question, do you
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: want to see the candidates debate, and who do you
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: support in the gubernatorial race? Our number, 901-260-5926. Let's go
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: to Midtown. Monica, listening to us this morning. Good morning, Monica.
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: I hope you're doing well today.
• 28:29
  Speaker 4: Good morning, Todd. I'm doing great. You know, I'm surprised
• 28:35
  Speaker 4: that you're going on and on and on about Marsha
• 28:38
  Speaker 4: Blackburn not wanting to debate. She's been on your show
• 28:42
  Speaker 4: so many times. We've learned a lot by her being
• 28:45
  Speaker 4: on your show already. I'm going to vote for her
• 28:49
  Speaker 4: whether she has a debate or whatever else that she
• 28:52
  Speaker 4: doesn't want to do. I don't care. I'm going to
• 28:55
  Speaker 4: vote for her because she's a class act.
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: And I'm surprised that you're her friend.
• 29:00
  Speaker 4: And she comes on... Your show is a drop of
• 29:03
  Speaker 4: a dime. And so, yes, I'm voting for Marsha Blackburn,
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: and I don't care whether she has a debate or not.
• 29:10
  Speaker 4: I know her views. She has been at the White House.
• 29:13
  Speaker 4: I mean, this lady that she just had green, she
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: put me to sleep.
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: I mean, that's a neighborhood voice.
• 29:22
  Speaker 4: That's not someone speaking with authority. I said, I'm.
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: Voting for Marsha Blackburn.
• 29:28
  Speaker 6: She doesn't have to have a debate.
• 29:30
  Speaker 4: For me, because I know the type of lady she is.
• 29:34
  Speaker 4: You've taught us about her by having her on your show.
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: Oh, look, I've endorsed.
• 29:38
  Speaker 4: No, no, no.
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: Monica, I've actually.
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: Endorsed Marshall Blackburn. So she's got my vote. She had
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: my vote in the primary. But I have a rule,
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: and this has nothing to do with Marshall Blackburn. This
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: is just my rule that I've lived by for many, many,
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: many years, is that I believe if you want to
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: run for office, you should be willing to debate your opponents.
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: And I think that's important. It's not just for the candidates,
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: but I think it's important for the electorate, Monica, to
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: see that conservative values and viewpoints do stand up and
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: they do trump whatever the left may be arguing. And
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: so I think that there's something missing when the candidates
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: don't do that.
• 30:21
  Speaker 6: I don't care.
• 30:22
  Speaker 4: I'm going to vote for her.
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: She's a bad ass.
• 30:25
  Speaker 4: And you need to break that. Rules are made to
• 30:27
  Speaker 4: be changed and brought up to times.
• 30:30
  Speaker 5: Leave her alone.
• 30:31
  Speaker 4: Leave her alone. I mean, she's up there working and
• 30:33
  Speaker 4: she's doing what she does. Just leave her alone. This
• 30:36
  Speaker 4: lady here is trying to get some notoriety or some
• 30:39
  Speaker 4: publicity or wherever Marsha Blackburn is.
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: Leave her alone.
• 30:44
  Speaker 6: I'm going to vote for her.
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: Monica.
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: Monica, you have made your point. You have made your
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: argument well done. And I hope you have a great
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: day there in Midtown. Thank you for calling in.
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: 901-260-5926.
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: And look, this is what we do here on KWAM.
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: Not everybody agrees, and that's okay. But this is the
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: one radio station in the entire state of Tennessee that
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: where you're able to do that. And I think it
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: makes for a great conversation.
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: 901-260-5926.
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: I will say this about Jerry Green. I didn't even
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: realize this. I was looking down at my notes, her
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: campaign slogan, One Tough Mother. That's Jerry Green. That's Jerry
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: with two R's and an I.
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: 901-260-5926. That's 901-260-5926. All right.
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: Look, how.
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: This Memphis Tigers situation, this is bizarre. So it turns
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: out there's a new wrinkle now in whatever happened Saturday
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: at the concessions. And all I can tell you is
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: this is a first world problem. That's all I can
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: tell you. So the Daily Memphian sent one of their
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: reporters to review the $ 7 meals, right? So the athletic
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: director said part of the whole enticement to bring your
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: family was to make it affordable. So the athletic director,
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: Ed Scott, said, look, here's what we're going to do.
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: We're going to have what we call $ 7 meals. One
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: of them is like chicken tenders and potato chips and
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: a drink. And the other was, what, mac and cheese
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: and something. And the other was a hot dog, a
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: hot dog, popcorn, and soda, all for $ 7.
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: It was a pretty darn good deal.
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: Well, it turns out that there were hoops that people
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: had to go through, and the Daily Memphian doing this piece,
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: and they actually reviewed the food. First of all, they
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: said there was no mac and cheese. You couldn't find it.
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: But who's going to eat mac and cheese? It was
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: 120 degrees in that stadium. Give me a MemPop for
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: crying out.
• 32:57
  Speaker 3: You know what?
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: Forget the MemPops. Give me the freezer they put the
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: MemPops in. Can I rent that, please? But anyway, they reviewed.
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: I've got to get to the reviews here. So they
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: went to go get the hot dog. And the writer
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: who wrote this piece, oh, yes, Sophia Surratt. She is
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: the Daily Memphian writer here. She says, I got the
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: hot dog value meal, hot dog, popcorn box, and a
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: can drink. She said the meal was advertised with chips
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: and a drink, but she said when she got there,
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: the meal only came with a canned drink. They couldn't
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: get bottled water. She wanted bottled water. These kids, drink
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: a Coke. It's not going to kill you, at least
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: not right away. She says, now, I understand some people
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: like their hot dog plain, but I'm not one of them.
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: There was no mustard or ketchup packets anywhere to be found.
• 33:50
  Speaker 5: Oh, the horror.
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: She said the hot dog itself did not disappoint. It
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: held up to its end of the barge. Okay, it
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: was a hot dog. What are you going to? Was
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: it like a Wahlburgers? Was it a bison bratwurst or whatever?
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: No, it was a hot dog.
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: The popcorn was fine as well, and the box could
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: also be used as a paper.
• 34:11
  Speaker 3: Fan in the extreme heat. Well, there you go.
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: You see, you take lemons and you make lemonade. Then
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: she went on to the chicken tenders. Oh, and this
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: was the problem. So say you've got kids and one
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: of the kids wants a hot dog and the other
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: wants the chicken tenders. According to the Daily Memphian, you
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: have to go to separate locations. So it's not like,
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: you know, go to one place to get your $ 7
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: value meal. Greg Morris, his wife, and three kids were
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: excited to come to a Tigers game after not having
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: been to one in several years. Like me, the family
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: had to hit two different concession stands to buy the
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: meal deals because one of the children likes chicken tenders
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: and the other likes hot dogs.
• 34:53
  Speaker 4: Mr.
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: Morris says it makes it hard for families, but you
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: gotta do what you gotta do. You gotta do what
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: you gotta do.
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: That's a great way to look at it, Mr.
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: Morris. Meanwhile, in some third-world countries, people are running around
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: with spears trying to stab boars for supper. And here
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: in Memphis, we're wandering around trying to find a ketchup packet.
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: You can't make this up. Oh, but the problem was,
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: according to the Daily Memphian, and you really don't want
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: to irritate the staff writers of the Daily Memphian because
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: they'll write bad reviews. And they pointed out that, uh,
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: the lines were like an hour to get, I mean,
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: that's a long time, an hour. Um, also, uh, they
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: said that, um, the chocolate chip crumble cookie would set
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: you back $ 5 and 50 cents. So all that is,
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: I don't know what to tell you. I mean, uh,
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: eat before you go to the game. I, you know,
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: I mean, there are plenty of great restaurants out there. Um,
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: But anyway, University of Memphis says they're fixing all of this,
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: so no need to worry. The next home game, everything's
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: going to be okay. Let me tell you what's coming
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: up on tomorrow's show. We're going to be talking to
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: the new regional chief of Turning Point USA, and they
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: are really running and gunning. We understand there are many,
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: many clubs, TPUSA clubs, starting right here in the Mid-South,
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: in the Bluff City. And we're going to have a
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: great conversation with Mason Guerra. He'll be joining us on
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: tomorrow's show. Also want to give an early shout out
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: to the TPUSA chapter at Collierville High School. These kids
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: getting up at 630 in the morning tomorrow for their
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: big launch. So we want to say thank you to
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: the great folks over at Collierville High School. That music
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: means we've got to scoot out of here, everybody. We're
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: going to be back at 11 o'clock live from Dallas, Texas,
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: the Republican midterms exclusively right here on the Mighty 990.
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: Get out there. Stay cool, everybody.