Latest / ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes / Otis Sanford Calls Trump a Race-Baiting “Disgusting Disgrace”

Transcript

Otis Sanford Calls Trump a Race-Baiting “Disgusting Disgrace” · ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes

• 0:01
  Speaker 1: From the principal Toyota studios, it's Morning in Memphis with
• 0:06
  Speaker 1: Todd Starnes.
• 0:09
  Speaker 2: And hello, everybody. Good morning and welcome to the show.
• 0:13
  Speaker 2: It is going to be a scorcher today. You just
• 0:16
  Speaker 2: heard Laura Huckabee with the forecast. We're going to check
• 0:19
  Speaker 2: in with her a little bit later on today, but
• 0:23
  Speaker 2: a little bit later on in the program, by the way. Also,
• 0:26
  Speaker 2: Commander Chuck standing by with a look at your morning
• 0:28
  Speaker 2: commute forecast. Again, traffic pretty busy out there this morning,
• 0:32
  Speaker 2: and most of it due to the crazy construction zones. Well,
• 0:36
  Speaker 2: we have a terrific show for you coming up in
• 0:39
  Speaker 2: just a little while. We are becoming, KWAM is becoming
• 0:43
  Speaker 2: the unofficial official fan zone of the University of Memphis Tigers,
• 0:48
  Speaker 2: and we love that because we love the Tigers here.
• 0:51
  Speaker 2: Phil Glass from the Highland 100 Booster Club is going
• 0:55
  Speaker 2: to be here a little bit later on to talk
• 0:57
  Speaker 2: about all the excitement there at the all-new Liberty Bowl Stadium.
• 1:02
  Speaker 2: So that's going to be a lot of fun, and
• 1:04
  Speaker 2: we'll be talking with Phil coming up here in just
• 1:07
  Speaker 2: a little while here on the Mighty 990. And the huge,
• 1:11
  Speaker 2: huge news, of course, Memphis Tigers debuting in the newly renovated,
• 1:16
  Speaker 2: and this is a multimillion-dollar renovation, Harold Grater, who was
• 1:20
  Speaker 2: on the show earlier this week, was actually there and
• 1:24
  Speaker 2: posted some amazing photos last night. Looks like they had
• 1:28
  Speaker 2: a couple of events, and it was just really an
• 1:31
  Speaker 2: amazing scene down there. Once you turn the lights on,
• 1:35
  Speaker 2: that place really... Really just, it pops. Pretty spectacular. So
• 1:40
  Speaker 2: we'll be talking to Phil Glass here in just a
• 1:44
  Speaker 2: little while. Our telephone number, and you'll need this. We
• 1:48
  Speaker 2: have some great giveaways today. A chance for you to
• 1:50
  Speaker 2: win a signed copy of my brand new book. It's
• 1:53
  Speaker 2: called The Golden Age, How Trump Saved America.
• 1:55
  Speaker 3: 901-260-5926.
• 1:58
  Speaker 2: We will be giving away a copy sometime during the show. Again,
• 2:02
  Speaker 2: that number 901-260-5926. I want to play some audio here.
• 2:09
  Speaker 2: This is from yesterday, last night up on Capitol Hill.
• 2:14
  Speaker 2: The entire Tennessee congressional delegation. including Congressman David Kustoff standing
• 2:21
  Speaker 2: alongside Congresswoman Diana Harshbarger as she honored the one and
• 2:26
  Speaker 2: only Dolly Parton. Let's take a listen.
• 2:29
  Speaker 3: Mr.
• 2:29
  Speaker 4: Speaker, I rise today to honor a true daughter of Tennessee,
• 2:33
  Speaker 4: Dolly Parton, a woman who needs no introduction. Dolly was
• 2:37
  Speaker 4: a native of my district in East Tennessee, and she
• 2:40
  Speaker 4: was from Locust Ridge in Sevier County. She never forgot
• 2:45
  Speaker 4: where she came from. Her music told the truth about
• 2:48
  Speaker 4: hard work and faith and family, and that truth is
• 2:52
  Speaker 4: why the whole world fell in love with Dolly. But
• 2:55
  Speaker 4: it was her heart that made her a legend back home.
• 2:59
  Speaker 4: She rebuilt the community after the wildfires in 2016 that
• 3:03
  Speaker 4: tore through Sevier County. She opened doors for children to
• 3:06
  Speaker 4: learn to read through her imagination library. She supported health
• 3:11
  Speaker 4: care and research for Tennessee families, and she protected the
• 3:14
  Speaker 4: mountains that she loved. Most people will know her theme
• 3:19
  Speaker 4: park that's in the district called Dollywood. She was guided
• 3:23
  Speaker 4: by her faith in her East Tennessee upbringing, and Dolly
• 3:26
  Speaker 4: used her success to lift people up around.
• 3:29
  Speaker 5: Her at every turn.
• 3:31
  Speaker 4: My prayers are with her family and everyone who loved her.
• 3:34
  Speaker 4: The Tennessee delegation is committed to ensuring that her legacy
• 3:38
  Speaker 4: is remembered for generations to come.
• 3:40
  Speaker 2: All right. Well, thank you for that, Diana Harshberger there,
• 3:44
  Speaker 2: reading the honorarium there of Dolly Parton there inside the
• 3:51
  Speaker 2: Capitol building. So can we talk about Otis Sanford for
• 3:55
  Speaker 2: just a moment here? Otis Sanford, many of you have
• 3:59
  Speaker 2: read his column in the Daily Memphian. He's on one
• 4:03
  Speaker 2: of the local TV stations. And this guy, and a
• 4:08
  Speaker 2: lot of people may not realize this, but Otis Sanford
• 4:10
  Speaker 2: was a part, and he is a professor emeritus at
• 4:15
  Speaker 2: the University of Memphis in the journalism program. This guy
• 4:19
  Speaker 2: is a raging, race-baiting leftist and wrote something that has
• 4:25
  Speaker 2: really rankled a lot of people here in the Mid-South,
• 4:29
  Speaker 2: and it's pretty nasty. But I'm going to read it
• 4:32
  Speaker 2: for you so you get the idea of who this
• 4:34
  Speaker 2: guy really is. Everybody, you know, the local media worship
• 4:38
  Speaker 2: this guy. like he is Jesus Christ with an ink
• 4:42
  Speaker 2: pen and a notepad. I mean, they worship Otis Sanford.
• 4:47
  Speaker 2: But this is what Otis wrote on a social media
• 4:50
  Speaker 2: page about President Trump and also the Republicans who represent
• 4:55
  Speaker 2: Memphis and Tennessee both locally and also at the federal level.
• 5:02
  Speaker 2: Here's what Sanford said. Some people have asked me why
• 5:05
  Speaker 2: I am so critical of Tennessee Republican politicians. such as
• 5:09
  Speaker 2: Senator Marsha Blackburn, Representative David Kustoff, and State Senator Brent Taylor.
• 5:14
  Speaker 2: Here's my answer. All three of them have sold their
• 5:18
  Speaker 2: political souls to the most corrupt, incompetent, mean-spirited, conniving, lying, vindictive, race-baiting, misogynistic,
• 5:28
  Speaker 2: and dangerous president in American history. All of them know better.
• 5:32
  Speaker 2: They know deep down that this man is a disgusting disgrace.
• 5:37
  Speaker 2: He's writing this about the president of the United States,
• 5:39
  Speaker 2: by the way. Yet they kowtow to him as if
• 5:43
  Speaker 2: he is a deity. I cannot in good conscience stay silent.
• 5:48
  Speaker 2: Enough is enough. Well, what exactly is he talking about here?
• 5:53
  Speaker 2: I don't see any of these individuals bowing down or
• 5:57
  Speaker 2: kowtowing to anything that Donald Trump says. What they have
• 6:01
  Speaker 2: done is they have embraced the America First agenda. What
• 6:05
  Speaker 2: they have done is take a stand for the good
• 6:08
  Speaker 2: people of Memphis and Shelby County. As a matter of fact,
• 6:13
  Speaker 2: I would contend that Otis Sanford, shame on you, sir,
• 6:18
  Speaker 2: Because it seems to me that Otis Sanford is the
• 6:20
  Speaker 2: one kowtowing, and he's kowtowing to the gangbangers and the
• 6:24
  Speaker 2: thugs and the thuglings out there. Where's Otis Sanford with
• 6:29
  Speaker 2: all the columns condemning the black-on-black violence in Memphis? Where's
• 6:35
  Speaker 2: Otis Sanford ripping the Democrats for the massive, massive loss
• 6:42
  Speaker 2: of population? the businesses leaving the Mid-South. And by the way,
• 6:48
  Speaker 2: many of these businesses could actually stay here, and many
• 6:52
  Speaker 2: of them wanted to stay here. I mean, you've got FedEx.
• 6:57
  Speaker 2: Let's talk about FedEx for just a moment, where you've
• 6:59
  Speaker 2: got FedEx. FedEx stampers have to come from other areas.
• 7:03
  Speaker 2: They literally live beyond Fayette County because they're concerned about
• 7:07
  Speaker 2: the crime right here in Memphis. Where's Odo Sanford writing
• 7:10
  Speaker 2: those kinds of columns? But this guy is no different
• 7:15
  Speaker 2: than Al Sharpton and all these greasy race baiters out
• 7:19
  Speaker 2: there who make their money by foaming up and throwing
• 7:24
  Speaker 2: gasoline on some sort of a race war that they
• 7:26
  Speaker 2: started in the first place. But that's not why we
• 7:29
  Speaker 2: ought to be concerned about this, because Otis showed himself
• 7:32
  Speaker 2: for who he really is. And I can respect that
• 7:35
  Speaker 2: in a man. But here's what bothers me. This guy's
• 7:39
  Speaker 2: been teaching journalism at the University of Memphis for years,
• 7:43
  Speaker 2: and now you know, ladies and gentlemen, why so many
• 7:46
  Speaker 2: of the journalism grads coming out of the University of
• 7:49
  Speaker 2: Memphis share these beliefs. Those journalism classrooms were nothing more
• 7:55
  Speaker 2: than indoctrination and propaganda centers for this guy's left-wing ideology.
• 8:01
  Speaker 2: And for that, he should be condemned. But again, here
• 8:05
  Speaker 2: in Memphis, the media and that certain crowd, and you
• 8:10
  Speaker 2: know who I'm talking about, that certain crowd, they worship
• 8:14
  Speaker 2: this guy. They worship this guy. Shame on you, Otis Sanford.
• 8:18
  Speaker 2: Whatever happened to fair and balanced, sir? Whatever happened to that?
• 8:22
  Speaker 2: All right. Got to take a quick break here. 901-260-5926.
• 8:27
  Speaker 2: Yesterday on the national show, we had a great conversation
• 8:30
  Speaker 2: with Kristen New. We're going to play some of that.
• 8:33
  Speaker 2: Something she wrote on social media going viral in the Mid-South.
• 8:37
  Speaker 2: We're going to get to that. Also, a chance for
• 8:40
  Speaker 2: you to win a signed copy of my brand-new book,
• 8:42
  Speaker 2: The Golden Age. Caller number 2 to 901-260-5926. Caller number 2, 901-260-5926.
• 8:53
  Speaker 2: Get you a copy, a signed copy of my new book,
• 8:55
  Speaker 2: The Golden Age. We'll be right back, everybody. All right.
• 9:06
  Speaker 2: It is 400 degrees right now outside Bartlett High School. Sorry, kids.
• 9:11
  Speaker 2: It's going to be a hot one today. Lisa, look,
• 9:16
  Speaker 2: Laura Huckabee is going to have your weather forecast coming
• 9:20
  Speaker 2: up in just a little while, but Lisa from Berclair
• 9:23
  Speaker 2: is on the line. Lisa, how are you doing today?
• 9:27
  Speaker 6: Good morning, Todd. How are you doing?
• 9:29
  Speaker 2: Well, this is Lisa Arnold, our good friend and great
• 9:32
  Speaker 2: American patriot. Lisa, I'm doing good, you know, getting back
• 9:35
  Speaker 2: into the morning routine here on the Mighty 990.
• 9:38
  Speaker 3: I know.
• 9:39
  Speaker 7: I'm enjoying the show. I'm glad you're back.
• 9:42
  Speaker 2: Well, Lisa, I've got some exciting news for you because
• 9:45
  Speaker 2: you are the winner of a copy of The Golden Age,
• 9:49
  Speaker 2: How Trump Saved America.
• 9:50
  Speaker 3: Awesome.
• 9:52
  Speaker 7: You know, Todd, I've been trying to get to your
• 9:54
  Speaker 7: book signings and stuff, but, you know, my work schedule
• 9:58
  Speaker 7: is all over the place. so I sleep when most
• 10:01
  Speaker 7: people are up during the day.
• 10:06
  Speaker 2: I could bring one over to the office here, Lisa,
• 10:10
  Speaker 2: you know, about 1, 2 o'clock in the morning. Is
• 10:12
  Speaker 2: that your busy time?
• 10:14
  Speaker 7: Yeah, between 2 and 4, 5. 4.30, that's when the
• 10:20
  Speaker 7: crazies happen. So that's my busiest time of the day
• 10:24
  Speaker 7: or the night.
• 10:25
  Speaker 2: Lisa, here's how crazy it is. Literally, I've been on
• 10:27
  Speaker 2: the road since the book came out. So the past three,
• 10:30
  Speaker 2: four weeks, you know, been on the road on the weekends.
• 10:32
  Speaker 2: So I'm at Whole Foods in Germantown yesterday, and a
• 10:37
  Speaker 2: lady comes up to me. She says, we've been missing
• 10:39
  Speaker 2: you at church. And I thought, uh-oh. I'm on somebody's
• 10:44
  Speaker 2: prayer list because I haven't been in church. I've been
• 10:46
  Speaker 2: out on the road on the weekends.
• 10:48
  Speaker 3: I know.
• 10:48
  Speaker 7: You've been busy.
• 10:50
  Speaker 2: This Sunday, I don't have anything to do except go
• 10:54
  Speaker 2: to the Memphis Tigers game on Saturday and then finally
• 10:57
  Speaker 2: church at Germantown Baptist on Sunday. So it'll be nice
• 11:01
  Speaker 2: to kind of get back into the routine.
• 11:02
  Speaker 7: Well, hopefully I'll see you at the game Saturday. I'll
• 11:05
  Speaker 7: be there also.
• 11:06
  Speaker 2: Lisa, it's going to be a great game. I'm so
• 11:08
  Speaker 2: excited about the team, the attitude, the renovation. It's going
• 11:14
  Speaker 2: to be a pretty spectacular weekend, I think, for Memphis.
• 11:18
  Speaker 7: I think so, too.
• 11:19
  Speaker 2: All right, Lisa, hang tight. We're going to get you
• 11:21
  Speaker 2: that copy of the book. And as we're doing that,
• 11:25
  Speaker 2: I want to go to this audio I told you about.
• 11:27
  Speaker 2: Kristen New, who founded the Shelby County chapter of Moms
• 11:32
  Speaker 2: for Liberty, writing about concerns she's having about the Republican Party.
• 11:37
  Speaker 2: And this is a conversation that's literally being had around
• 11:40
  Speaker 2: the nation right now. Take a listen. We've got to
• 11:43
  Speaker 2: talk about this post you wrote about your local Republican Party,
• 11:47
  Speaker 2: which you are a member of the grassroots, which were
• 11:49
  Speaker 2: kind of, I mean, unceremoniously shoved aside here. And there's
• 11:55
  Speaker 2: really no polite way to say this, but locally, Republicans
• 11:57
  Speaker 2: got their butts handed to them.
• 11:58
  Speaker 3: We did. I actually hold a vote in the party.
• 12:00
  Speaker 3: I'm the District 83 representative of the party that covers Germantown,
• 12:04
  Speaker 3: a little sliver of Cordova, some of that area, East Memphis.
• 12:10
  Speaker 3: And so I... I am part of the Republican Party,
• 12:13
  Speaker 3: but like you said, I was the grassroots faction of
• 12:16
  Speaker 3: the party. And so there's another girl that we call
• 12:20
  Speaker 3: ourselves the Christens here, and we are the conservative housewives.
• 12:23
  Speaker 2: The real housewives of Germantown.
• 12:25
  Speaker 3: Yes, the housewives of Germantown. So we actually got a
• 12:28
  Speaker 3: mention in your book, which I'm so excited about. So
• 12:32
  Speaker 3: everybody go buy that book just so you can read
• 12:35
  Speaker 3: this chapter.
• 12:35
  Speaker 2: Oh, I forgot about that. Yes, y'all are in my book.
• 12:38
  Speaker 3: You're in the book.
• 12:38
  Speaker 2: I forgot the real Housewives.
• 12:40
  Speaker 3: But yeah, so what we're doing in the Republican Party
• 12:42
  Speaker 3: and what we tried to do is that we took
• 12:44
  Speaker 3: over the party a couple of years ago during Revive
• 12:46
  Speaker 3: 25 is what we call it. It was the year 2025.
• 12:49
  Speaker 3: And we built this outreach committee. And this outreach committee
• 12:53
  Speaker 3: had the idea, this crazy idea that we're not going
• 12:57
  Speaker 3: to ask people to come to us and do these
• 12:59
  Speaker 3: you know, these meet and greets and these little house parties,
• 13:01
  Speaker 3: we're actually going to go to the people. So we
• 13:03
  Speaker 3: started setting up tents at festivals. We started just, you
• 13:09
  Speaker 3: were at one of the sign waving events. We literally
• 13:12
  Speaker 3: stood on the side of the road and invited people
• 13:15
  Speaker 3: to come over.
• 13:16
  Speaker 2: I'm just going to say this, Dylan. Kristen won't admit
• 13:19
  Speaker 2: to this, but I showed a little bit of ankle
• 13:21
  Speaker 2: and I tell you.
• 13:22
  Speaker 3: Todd got more people to honk than any of us did.
• 13:26
  Speaker 2: I got good looking ankles. I'm just saying.
• 13:30
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 13:30
  Speaker 2: It stinks away.
• 13:33
  Speaker 3: But we do have fun. And that was the whole purpose.
• 13:35
  Speaker 3: Because politics has gotten gross. It has gotten swampy, disgusting.
• 13:40
  Speaker 3: We wanted to get back to the good old handshaking,
• 13:44
  Speaker 3: kissing babies, politicking way of the South. And that is
• 13:47
  Speaker 3: what we wanted to get back into. But we were
• 13:51
  Speaker 3: pushed aside. And we were told by the elite establishment
• 13:55
  Speaker 3: that we don't want to do that because we're We
• 13:57
  Speaker 3: don't want these Walmart people in our party. We want
• 14:02
  Speaker 3: only the people who are willing to write big checks.
• 14:05
  Speaker 3: But what they don't understand is that I would actually
• 14:08
  Speaker 3: rather have those people, because you know who votes? Those people.
• 14:11
  Speaker 3: They may can only write you a $ 5 check, and
• 14:14
  Speaker 3: that's fine, and I'll take their $ 5, but I don't
• 14:16
  Speaker 3: really need their $ 5. What I need is their vote.
• 14:19
  Speaker 3: And so that's what the Republican Party was missing. We
• 14:21
  Speaker 3: had a debrief last night. And so that debrief, the leaders,
• 14:25
  Speaker 3: the executive board, They they I thought they were going
• 14:29
  Speaker 3: to go in there and tell us, you know, exactly
• 14:31
  Speaker 3: what it is that we need to do to fix
• 14:33
  Speaker 3: the fact that we got our butts handed to us
• 14:36
  Speaker 3: here in Shelby County. It was the worst turnout of
• 14:38
  Speaker 3: a primary that we've ever had. But instead, they blamed
• 14:42
  Speaker 3: the voters. They blamed apathy. They blamed the candidates for
• 14:46
  Speaker 3: not running good campaigns. They blamed everybody but themselves. And
• 14:50
  Speaker 3: I had to sit there and listen that.
• 14:51
  Speaker 5: For an hour.
• 14:52
  Speaker 3: So I went on Facebook and I talked about it
• 14:55
  Speaker 3: because leaders don't blame other people. leaders say, we dropped
• 14:59
  Speaker 3: the ball. They had a room full of people last
• 15:02
  Speaker 3: night willing to help fix it, willing to say, okay,
• 15:05
  Speaker 3: we're good. We know the ball was dropped. What can
• 15:08
  Speaker 3: we do? And that didn't happen.
• 15:10
  Speaker 2: It's really shocking to me because I do remember when
• 15:13
  Speaker 2: you guys were leading the charge and, I mean, hundreds
• 15:17
  Speaker 2: of people were coming by your tents and the displays.
• 15:20
  Speaker 2: They were getting Trump gear, all this kind of stuff.
• 15:24
  Speaker 2: And I just, as you guys were, as I was
• 15:27
  Speaker 2: reading what you wrote on social media, I kept thinking
• 15:31
  Speaker 2: to myself, I have heard this story over and over
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: and over and over again from all over the country.
• 15:35
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 15:36
  Speaker 2: Where it seems like this is what's happening in the
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: Memphis area is really a microcosm of what's happening nationwide
• 15:42
  Speaker 2: with the Republican Party right now.
• 15:44
  Speaker 3: People are feeling homeless. They don't have a party now
• 15:47
  Speaker 3: because the Republican Party is kind of like the new
• 15:50
  Speaker 3: Democrat Party. It's the party of the elites. It's the
• 15:52
  Speaker 3: party of you don't belong here. And then the Democrats,
• 15:56
  Speaker 3: of course, have gone off the deep end. They don't
• 15:57
  Speaker 3: even know where they're at on another planet. So then
• 16:00
  Speaker 3: you have a lot of people like me who don't
• 16:02
  Speaker 3: feel like they identify with the elitist part of the party,
• 16:06
  Speaker 3: the private clubs, the $ 300 plate dinners, that kind of stuff.
• 16:10
  Speaker 3: We don't identify with that, but we don't have anybody
• 16:13
  Speaker 3: that is really talking to us, the everyday person. So
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: we don't feel a part of anything. And then we
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: don't vote. We're not going out to the primaries because
• 16:23
  Speaker 3: the Republicans, they control the ballot so tightly that they
• 16:27
  Speaker 3: actually choose... who goes on the ballot before you even
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: get to the polls. And that's why you're really not
• 16:33
  Speaker 3: allowed to primary their chosen people. And in Shelby County,
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: we had an election where we had only one person
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: on the ballot for a position or we had nobody.
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: That does not create a sense of urgency for the
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: voters to show up.
• 16:46
  Speaker 5: At the polls.
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: All right, there we go. And again, if you want
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: to listen, it was a long-form interview. If you'd like
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: to listen to the entire interview, go to toddstearns.com and
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: you can download my free podcast, and you'll be able
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: to listen to the entire interview. By the way, our
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: podcast number is now over 400,000 subscribers. So we first
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: of all want to say thank you for all the
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: folks here in the Memphis area that subscribe to the
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: podcast and thank you for listening. But again, Kristen knew
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: really appreciated that great in-depth conversation real quick before we
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: head off to break. Have to congratulate Dale Sanders of Bartlett,
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: 91 years old. This guy's not sitting down in the
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: cranker barrel rocking chair.
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: Mr.
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: Sanders just claimed, reclaimed the record as the oldest hiker
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: on the Appalachian Trail. This is remarkable. So Mr. Sanders,
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: talking to the Daily Memphian, said he fell about 71
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: times on the journey. but he was able to finish,
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: had to spend a little bit of time in the hospital,
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: but he did a terrific job on the trail between
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: Springer Mountain in Georgia and, of course, the great state
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: of Maine. That was quite the hike, but congratulations to Mr. Sanders.
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: He started in September of 2025 in West Virginia, and
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: he finished Monday this week on top of Maine's highest peak.
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: So well done, sir. And thanks for making all of
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: us here in the Mid-South area proud. All right, got
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: to take a quick break here. The Highland 100, Phil Glass,
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: coming up next.
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: We'll be right back.
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: All right. Welcome back, everybody. I want to say a
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: very good morning to the Memphis Apologetics Club. I know
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: a lot of their folks listening to KWIN this morning.
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: And good news over at Christian Brothers High School, the
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: temperature dropping from 300 degrees this morning down to 80 degrees.
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: So there you go. It's a grab a sweater. It's
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: a little chilly out there now. It is going to
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: be a hot one. Laura Huckabee standing by. She'll be
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: with us throughout the day. with this big heat advisory.
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: And of course, it's going to get a little bit
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: hotter tomorrow. Air quality alert. So you guys be careful.
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: Don't be outdoors unless you need to. I have been
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: waiting for all day for our next guest. He is
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: a great patriot and really a great ambassador for Memphis
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: and for the University of Memphis Tigers. He is the
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: former president of the Highland 100 Booster Club. We're talking
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: about the ultimate tiger, Mr. Phil Glass. Phil, good to
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: have you with us.
• 19:35
  Speaker 8: Hey, it's great as always to be here. It's such
• 19:37
  Speaker 8: an honor.
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: You know, this is– you and your wife, I understand,
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: you guys were part of the, what, several thousand people
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: that went out to Vegas to cheer on the Tigers.
• 19:46
  Speaker 8: That's correct, man. It was a great crowd. I'd say
• 19:48
  Speaker 8: there's 3,000 to 4,000 Tigers. fans there just showing the
• 19:51
  Speaker 8: support of Charles Huff and the new regime and the
• 19:54
  Speaker 8: University of Memphis football program.
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: I was watching it in the wee hours back in
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: Memphis like many of us, and it did my heart
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: good to see all that blue.
• 20:06
  Speaker 8: Yeah, it was great. As I shared with you earlier,
• 20:10
  Speaker 8: we went to one of the event venues right across
• 20:12
  Speaker 8: the street before the game, and the bartender said this
• 20:15
  Speaker 8: is one of the first times he's ever seen more
• 20:17
  Speaker 8: fans from the opposing team than the UNLV fans. So
• 20:20
  Speaker 8: that touched my heart as a Tiger fan.
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: I'm just curious. You've been a fan for a really
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: long time. It just seems like there's a different vibe. There's,
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: I don't know, some excitement, electricity.
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: There is.
• 20:32
  Speaker 8: You know, Coach Huff, as the community gets to know him,
• 20:36
  Speaker 8: just a great man, great coach, the passion he's bringing.
• 20:40
  Speaker 8: You know, I love Coach Silverfield, a great friend of mine.
• 20:43
  Speaker 8: But Charles Huff, he brings a different energy. You're already
• 20:47
  Speaker 8: seeing it translate on the field and there's no doubt
• 20:49
  Speaker 8: it's going to translate in our stands and among our fans.
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: There was something that he did after the game, and
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: I want to play this audio, where he was giving
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: out the game ball. And I just thought this was
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: the neatest thing. I want you guys to listen to
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: what happened. Cut 48.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: I'm hard on you guys. I am hard on the
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: people that take care of you guys. Okay, so I
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: want to give a game ball to a person that
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: has put up with my since December. And every single time...
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: Every single time, regardless of how upset I was, it was, Coach,
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: I'm on it. So somebody's fighting for you guys, and
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: that's Ms. Kavish. Kavish!
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: Kavish!
• 21:40
  Speaker 8: Kavish!
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: Kavish!
• 21:42
  Speaker 7: Kavish!
• 21:43
  Speaker 8: Wow.
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: What do you make of that?
• 21:47
  Speaker 8: Coach Huff doesn't take for granted that it, coaching a
• 21:51
  Speaker 8: football team is not just him, right? It's an entire administration,
• 21:55
  Speaker 8: which our administration has come so far in building up
• 21:59
  Speaker 8: this program, and he doesn't take that for granted. He
• 22:03
  Speaker 8: doesn't take for granted the fans. It's not just one person,
• 22:08
  Speaker 8: and that's what I love about the guy.
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: For me, that's the exciting part is that this coach,
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: and we're going to get to the stadium and all
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: that other kind of stuff, the renovations, I think the
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: way he has renovated the mindset of Memphis football.
• 22:25
  Speaker 8: Absolutely. You can tell the pedigree of where he's come from,
• 22:30
  Speaker 8: the great coaches he's coached under and learned from. He
• 22:34
  Speaker 8: brings it to us here in the 901.
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: Coach Saban.
• 22:37
  Speaker 8: Coach Saban, Coach Franklin at Penn State, just great coaches.
• 22:43
  Speaker 8: But he's learned along the way, and there's no doubt
• 22:45
  Speaker 8: he's allowed that to influence him. And that energy brings,
• 22:48
  Speaker 8: I mean, it's just different, and it's what this community needs.
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: We're excited to have the ultimate tiger, Phil Glass, in
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: studio with us from the Highland 100 Booster Club. Highland100. org,
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: that's Highland100. org, is the website. You can join and become
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: a member of the Booster Club, and we're going to
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: talk about what that's all about in just a moment.
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: I want to get back and play some audio here.
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: This is from Coach Huff. This is the man. that
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: is pouring his life into the hearts and minds of
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: these very impressionable young players. Cut 47, please. All right,
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: real quick.
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: I won't be long, okay? First thing we do, we
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: lock in. So when I say check, you clap once.
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: When I say check, check, you clap twice. Let's try it.
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: Check, check, check.
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: Okay, first of all, I appreciate you guys. Change is
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: not easy. It's hard. You guys signed up for something,
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: and it changed. I get that. But what you guys
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: did sign up for was to finish this season the
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: right way. For the next week, week and a half,
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: whatever it is, you guys need to make sure you
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: finish this thing the right way. Where are the seniors at?
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: If you're a senior, raise your hand. These guys have
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: invested in the blue and the white. These guys have
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: invested in this community and university. They deserve to finish
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: this thing the right way. In the situation you guys
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: are in, it would be easy for 30 guys to say,
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: I ain't playing in the bowl game. I ain't this.
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: I ain't that.
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: You guys showing up every day with the right mentality.
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: You guys showing up today with the right competitive spirit
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: says a lot about you as a person. I want
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: to first say thank you because you guys didn't choose me.
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: I chose you. OK, I chose you because of who
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: you are, not what you are. What you are are
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: football players. Who you are are men that are ultimately
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: gonna go in the world and have a chance to
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: create a lot of value for you. Some of you
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: guys are gonna play in the NFL for 38 years, awesome.
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: Some of you guys won't sniff the NFL, but you're
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: gonna be phenomenal husbands, phenomenal fathers, phenomenal citizens. Okay, so
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: don't lose fact, don't lose track of what ultimately is important.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: What's ultimately important is that you use this opportunity, right,
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: to create value for you and your family. The guys
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: that do get an opportunity or want to come back, great.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: It's going to change. And I'm not sitting here saying
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: that what you guys have done hasn't been very good.
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: It's going to be different. It'll be the hardest thing
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: that you ever do. But it'll be the most rewarding
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: thing that you ever do. You ask anybody that's played
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: for me, for the first week and a half, you'll
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: hate me. For the rest of your life, you'll love me.
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: I love you guys. I appreciate you guys. You say, well,
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: how do you love me? I love you because you
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: chose to do something that's very hard. Football is hard, man.
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: A lot of people at home can't do what you
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: guys do. Obviously, it's my job to do a really
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: good job of showing you guys that I care about
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: you without a helmet first, with the helmet second. My
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: goal is to help you chase your dreams at the
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: highest level.
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: I don't want to get political. We're not here to
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: talk politics. But honestly, he needs to deliver that speech
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: from City Hall because that's how you fix what's broken
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: in Memphis right now.
• 25:59
  Speaker 8: Absolutely. And just, you know, I've heard him say, you know,
• 26:01
  Speaker 8: if I can build a champion of life, I'll build
• 26:04
  Speaker 8: a champion on the field. But it starts with life first.
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: A thousand percent. Ultimate Tiger, Phil Glass, Highland 100 Booster Club.
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: Let's talk about what's going to happen Saturday. I'm just
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: hoping for the city, we pack out that stadium. We
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: want people watching the game outside the stadium.
• 26:23
  Speaker 8: Absolutely. Some people may say, we're just playing Arkansas State.
• 26:28
  Speaker 8: That's a regional rivalry. They're going to bring us everything.
• 26:31
  Speaker 8: They're just down the road in Jonesboro, so they're going
• 26:33
  Speaker 8: to travel well. They're going to be here. That stadium
• 26:36
  Speaker 8: needs to be blue. all the way around. And, uh,
• 26:40
  Speaker 8: it's going to be exciting. The renovations, uh, the game
• 26:43
  Speaker 8: day experience.
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: Uh, have you, have you seen it? You've gotten the
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: sneak peek.
• 26:46
  Speaker 8: I have, I've got, got to see it. Got to
• 26:48
  Speaker 8: see the inside.
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: You're the ultimate tiger.
• 26:50
  Speaker 8: Right.
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: Of course. Yeah.
• 26:51
  Speaker 8: Uh, you know, I know there's still gonna be some
• 26:52
  Speaker 8: work going on on the outside a little bit, but
• 26:54
  Speaker 8: the inside's complete done. It's, it's, it's, it's beautiful. It's, it's, uh,
• 27:00
  Speaker 8: it's something to showcase in the, we're going to be
• 27:02
  Speaker 8: able as the Memphis community to say, Hey, this is
• 27:05
  Speaker 8: our stadium. It's going to be, uh, I believe ESPN
• 27:08
  Speaker 8: is going to be talking about it.
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: No doubt about it. I was watching or looking at
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: some photos. Harold Grater, who was just on the show
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: earlier this week talking about it, posted some pictures last night,
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: and it didn't even look like the Liberty Bowl at
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: nighttime with all the lights and everything.
• 27:23
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 27:24
  Speaker 8: As a matter of fact, Coach Huff, to do something
• 27:28
  Speaker 8: for the community for his radio show tonight, we're actually
• 27:31
  Speaker 8: having it at the stadium. So if you've never come
• 27:34
  Speaker 8: out to his radio show, we show up at 1230.
• 27:37
  Speaker 8: Starts at 7 o'clock, but at 6 o'clock, show up
• 27:39
  Speaker 8: at the stadium. You can get in and get a preview.
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's going to be a lot of fun tonight.
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: Let's talk about the Booster Club because you guys spring
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: into action. You guys do a lot of stuff, but
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: especially on game day, tailgating.
• 27:51
  Speaker 8: Tailgating, if you're a member, you can come out. If
• 27:54
  Speaker 8: you're thinking about being a member, find a member. They
• 27:56
  Speaker 8: can bring a guest. We tailgate every game day right
• 28:00
  Speaker 8: out by the fountain. We have big banners up, no doubt,
• 28:04
  Speaker 8: where our tent is at. Come see what we're all about.
• 28:07
  Speaker 8: Meet the other members. Feel the passion of what we do.
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: You guys tailgate well.
• 28:12
  Speaker 8: We do.
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: Very well.
• 28:13
  Speaker 8: Very well. We're going to enjoy the game today. win
• 28:18
  Speaker 8: or lose uh we pray we have a win but
• 28:20
  Speaker 8: we're going to enjoy ourselves.
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: But you guys do a lot more than just the
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: tailgating as well well you know if somebody's listening and
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: they're like hey this sounds like something you know that's
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: a great fit for me tell us about what you
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: guys are up to at the highland hundred.
• 28:31
  Speaker 8: Well you know again we're the booster club the the
• 28:34
  Speaker 8: uh official booster club of the football program but you
• 28:37
  Speaker 8: know our primary function is to raise funds to support
• 28:41
  Speaker 8: uh And then, you know, we do other things. You know,
• 28:44
  Speaker 8: we always build relationships with the coaches and ask the coach,
• 28:46
  Speaker 8: you know, year to year, what do you need? What
• 28:48
  Speaker 8: do you need from us? What can we help you support?
• 28:50
  Speaker 8: And we take that. That's how we plan our year
• 28:53
  Speaker 8: and doing our events is. based on what the coach
• 28:55
  Speaker 8: tells us he.
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: Needs fantastic so again uh highlandhunter.org and people can join
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: uh there and get all the.
• 29:02
  Speaker 8: Information absolutely uh you matter of fact you can come
• 29:04
  Speaker 8: to the tailgate you can join at the tailgate.
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: Oh fantastic that's going to be awesome and you'll be
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: there a saturday.
• 29:10
  Speaker 8: I'll be i'll be there uh sun rises whatever time
• 29:13
  Speaker 8: it is i'll be there i.
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: Mean you're like a local celebrity phil do you get
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: that do you people like hey i i know that
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: guy and I do.
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: I do.
• 29:21
  Speaker 8: You know, people want to take pictures, actually get autographs,
• 29:24
  Speaker 8: and it's kind of surreal. That's not why I do it,
• 29:27
  Speaker 8: but I enjoy it, especially when it's the kids and
• 29:31
  Speaker 8: hopefully build up the young generation of Tiger fans put
• 29:36
  Speaker 8: the passion into them that I have and that it
• 29:39
  Speaker 8: carries on.
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: I hope you have like one of those little personal
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: fans you can carry around Saturday.
• 29:43
  Speaker 8: I've learned, been doing this 11th year doing it. So
• 29:46
  Speaker 8: I've learned how to deal with the heat and the
• 29:49
  Speaker 8: cold and all the elements of the weather.
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: Good stuff. I'm glad to hear that. Phil, look, congratulations
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: and thank you for the great work you're doing for
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: the University of Memphis and all of the folks at
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: the Highland 100. We really appreciate you guys, and thank
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: you for what you're doing for Memphis.
• 30:05
  Speaker 8: Well, I appreciate it. It's always an honor, and go
• 30:07
  Speaker 8: Tigers go.
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: Go Tigers go, and we've got to go to a break,
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: ladies and gentlemen. Our telephone number, 901-260-5926. Are you excited
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: about the program, excited about where the University of Memphis
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: football program is going? Give us a call, 901-260-5926. We'll
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: be right back. All right, welcome back. It is 81 degrees.
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: It is going to be a hot one across the Mid-South.
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: Laura Huckabee will be along in just a little while
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: with your updated weather forecast. Also, a look at what
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: the weekend weather is going to be like as well.
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: By the way, speaking of that, there is a lot
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: of stuff. Not only do we have the big game
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: on Saturday afternoon, at the Liberty Bowl, the Delta Fair
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: Music Festival getting underway. By the way, you'll have a
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: chance to win a pack of family tickets to that
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: coming up on the Mighty 990 starting tomorrow and as
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: well as next week. So, again, the Delta Fair and
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: a lot of stuff happening over there. DeltaFest.com is the
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: website if you'd like to check out all the musical
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: performances and all of the other stuff there. That's DeltaFest.com.
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: And then coming up on September the 11th, Zoo Rendezvous
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: takes place. There's going to be a big food tasting.
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: Some of the best restaurants in Memphis over at the
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: zoo at Overton Park. you're going to want to get
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: information about that. All you have to do is go
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: to memphiszoo.org. That's memphiszoo.org. By the way, caller number three
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: will now get a signed copy of my new book.
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: Just wanted to do something nice as we relaunch the
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: morning show here on KWAM, and I do have a
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: brand new book out called The Golden Age, How Trump
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: Saved America. I've been traveling all over the country promoting
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: the book, doing book signings, and we had so many
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: of our Great listeners and readers come out. We're at
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: Barnes & Noble and Wolfchase and also at JoJo's in Germantown.
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: So thank you guys for coming out. But if you
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: weren't able to get there, caller number 3 to 901-260-5926.
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: We'll pick up a free copy of that book. That's 901-260-5926.
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: By the way, some news out of City Hall where
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: the Memphis City Council, voted to rename a section of
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: Union Avenue in the medical district in honor of former
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: Mayor Lee Harris. Some members of the city council actually
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: opposed renaming the street, but still they managed to find
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: enough votes to get this passed. Council member Jerry Green,
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: who's running for governor, actually proposed honoring Lee Harris. She
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: served as his former, she was his former deputy chief
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: of staff, and Green said he's done an incredible job
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: for the community. What exactly has he done? What did
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: Lee Harris actually do? Harris is also a former city
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: council member and state senator. Council members Dr. Jeff Warren
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: and Edmund Ford Sr. said on Tuesday that they could
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: not support the the renaming of the street. So voting yes,
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: Jerry Green, J.B. Smiley, Philip Spinoza, and Pearl Walker, Edmund
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: Ford Sr., no. And then all the others voted either
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: president or not voting, and that included Yolanda Cooper Sutton,
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: Chase Carlisle, Jeff Warren, Janice Waringer Washington, and there you go.
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: So that's that. No, we do not know... We do
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: not know if the road that was named after Lee
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: Harris was, in fact, a dead-end road. But we'll get
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: on that, and we'll let you know on tomorrow's edition
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: of The Morning Show. 901-260-5926, our telephone number. That's 901-260-5926.
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: So we're going to be following a couple of big
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: stories today. The Lindsey Clancy trial, the jury there can't
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: seem to reach a verdict. And so the judge... ordered
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: them back to deliberate, then sent them home for the evening.
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: So they're back. They'll be back this morning. We'll keep
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: you updated. And, of course, we'll be talking about this
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: on the national radio show. That's coming up at 11
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: o'clock exclusively here on the Mighty 990. Also, we've been
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: following the situation with the Republican Party, and there really
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: is a huge struggle right now to come up with
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: a message that is going to resonate with voters in
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: the midterms. And it's going to be tough. Right now
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: in Texas, there's a huge battle between establishment Republicans and
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: and MAGA Republicans, and that is not going well. So
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: a lot of people are just really frustrated right now.
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: And a lot of it has to do with the war,
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: high gas prices, grocery prices aren't going down, and, of course,
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: the affordability issue for America's young people. I want you
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: to listen to cut number 32. This is from News Nation,
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: and they're talking about all of us folks in the
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: great state of Tennessee. Take a listen.
• 35:34
  Speaker 6: And Steve, I was going to ask you too quickly,
• 35:35
  Speaker 6: in your home of Hamilton County, Tennessee, where you are now,
• 35:38
  Speaker 6: the Republican barely squeezed out a win in the mayoral
• 35:40
  Speaker 6: election after winning in 2022 by 16 points. And the
• 35:46
  Speaker 6: Republican in Knox County also barely won the mayoral election.
• 35:49
  Speaker 6: Trump carried both of these counties in 2024. So should
• 35:52
  Speaker 6: the GOP be taking these early warning signs seriously before
• 35:56
  Speaker 6: the midterms?
• 35:57
  Speaker 7: Absolutely, yes.
• 35:58
  Speaker 5: You know, I wrote an article about this because, frankly,
• 36:00
  Speaker 5: I was astounded.
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: I live here.
• 36:01
  Speaker 5: This is one of the reddest parts in America, eastern Tennessee.
• 36:04
  Speaker 5: These should be easy races. They were easy races four
• 36:07
  Speaker 5: years ago, and they got uncomfortably.
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: Tight this time. That tells me that on a turnout basis.
• 36:13
  Speaker 5: Democrats are incredibly fired up, even in deeply red parts
• 36:17
  Speaker 5: of the country. So the Democrats aren't going to win Tennessee.
• 36:19
  Speaker 5: They're certainly not going to win eastern Tennessee. But the
• 36:21
  Speaker 5: fact that they made this uncomfortable for us in Hamilton County,
• 36:24
  Speaker 5: where I live, that is absolutely absolutely a warning sign
• 36:27
  Speaker 5: to all of America.
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: All right. There you have it. We're going to keep
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: that conversation going at 11 o'clock. Thank you for joining us.
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: Tell a friend to listen. Seven o'clock right here on
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: the body. Nine ninety. Stay safe, everybody.