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Georgia Democrat: Pledge of Allegiance is Offensive · ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes

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  Speaker 1: Todd Starnes.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah. Well, hello, everybody. Welcome to the Todd Starnes
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  Speaker 3: Radio Show. Great to have you with us today. And, wow,
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  Speaker 3: ladies and gentlemen, I, what was it, two weeks ago,
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  Speaker 3: two weeks ago, three weeks ago, it may have been
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  Speaker 3: guess it was a conspiracy theory. I've been trying to
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  Speaker 3: I have talked to enough people now to confirm something
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  Speaker 3: I shared on air, and really I posited a theory
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  Speaker 3: that to Harry Hurley and Steve Gill on this program.
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  Speaker 3: And I now believe that theory to be reality. And
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  Speaker 3: if you go back into the Todd Stern Showtime machine,
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  Speaker 3: here's what I said. I suggested that there was an
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  Speaker 3: effort to actually sabotage the midterm elections, that Republicans really
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  Speaker 3: were not interested in actually winning the midterm elections. And
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  Speaker 3: I think now we've got the evidence we need. So yesterday,
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  Speaker 3: and the day before that, and I guess we should
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  Speaker 3: probably start with Senator John Kennedy, but a lot of
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  Speaker 3: this centers on what's happening right now in Texas and
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  Speaker 3: also in Georgia. And there may be a Tennessee angle
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  Speaker 3: to all of this as well, and I'll get to that.
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  Speaker 3: But definitely Texas. And this is a major, major issue.
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  Speaker 3: The U.S. Senate race, Ken Paxton, James Talofrico, and a
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  Speaker 3: lot of the polling data out there seems to indicate
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  Speaker 3: that Talofrico is surging and is somehow connecting with voters. Now,
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  Speaker 3: you can believe the polls. You cannot believe the polls.
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  Speaker 3: That's up to you. But what we can talk about
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  Speaker 3: are the fundraising numbers, and that is something that is concrete,
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  Speaker 3: something we can actually look at and we can analyze
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  Speaker 3: and say, okay, this is how much money the candidates have.
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  Speaker 3: And right now, Talafrico is getting a lot of money,
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  Speaker 3: a lot more than Ken Paxton. Now, yesterday, you had
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  Speaker 3: Majority Leader John Thune, he was doing Fox News. That's
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  Speaker 3: really the only.
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  Speaker 3: News outlet that Thune will go on because they will
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  Speaker 3: not ask him tough questions. They just will not. And
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  Speaker 3: that's a conversation for another day, but that's the reality
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  Speaker 3: of it. So John Thune's out there, and he's saying, well,
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  Speaker 3: we just don't have any money. We don't have any
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  Speaker 3: money to help. We John Thune is now dumping all
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  Speaker 3: of this in Trump's lap and saying, Mr. President, if
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  Speaker 3: you want Ken Paxton to win the Senate in Texas,
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  Speaker 3: you're going to have to throw in some money here
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  Speaker 3: because we got no money. Well, that's a load of— I
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  Speaker 3: almost had to— oh, my goodness. That is a load of hooey,
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  Speaker 3: ladies and gentlemen, a load of grade-A hooey. Because we
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  Speaker 3: know that the Senate Republicans spent over $ 100 million defending
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  Speaker 3: John Cornyn in the primary. The primary where one John
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  Speaker 3: Cornyn got his buttocks handed to him in a sling. No,
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  Speaker 3: not literally, Dylan, but figuratively. Theater of the mind, radio.
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  Speaker 3: So they spent $ 100 million trying to destroy Ken Paxton,
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  Speaker 3: and you're telling me now they got no money? They
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  Speaker 3: got no money left. That's the argument that they are
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  Speaker 3: literally trying to make. As a matter of fact, here
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  Speaker 3: is John Kennedy, Senator John Kennedy, cut 27.
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  Speaker 5: It didn't sound from his answer that the president made
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  Speaker 5: any commitments, either himself or through his super PAC, to
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  Speaker 5: write checks for Paxton, at least right now.
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  Speaker 6: Does Senate Leadership.
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  Speaker 5: Fund or NRSC have any plans for TV ads to
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  Speaker 5: support him? Because he's down in spending there.
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  Speaker 7: Well, I listened to your interview. It was very good,
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  Speaker 7: by the way, with the attorney general. Look, there's no
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  Speaker 7: sense bubble wrapping it. We've got a race in Texas.
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  Speaker 7: And the attorney general is going to have to do
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  Speaker 7: two things. He's going to have to point out the
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  Speaker 7: deficiencies of Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Tavarico.
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  Speaker 7: He really is a lulu linen, and he's a little
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  Speaker 7: bit of a weenie. But at the same time, Mr.
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  Speaker 7: Paxton is going to have to talk about what he's
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  Speaker 7: going to do, a positive platform for the United States Senate.
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  Speaker 3: You can't win an.
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  Speaker 7: Election by saying the other guy is worse than me.
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  Speaker 7: Money is an issue.
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  Speaker 4: Mr.
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  Speaker 7: Tallarico has been raising bucket loads of money from California, Hollywood,
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  Speaker 7: all the beautiful people who partied with Harvey Weinstein. We
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  Speaker 7: in the Senate don't have the money budgeted for Texas.
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  Speaker 7: We need help from the president. The president says he
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  Speaker 7: has $ 850 million in his campaign accounts. That's a lot
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  Speaker 7: of jack. I'm hoping that the president's going to spend
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  Speaker 7: $ 100 or $ 200 million in Texas, but he hasn't committed
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  Speaker 7: to it yet. But in the meantime, we've got a race,
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  Speaker 7: and I'm not going to play act and say that
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  Speaker 7: we don't.
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  Speaker 3: All right. With the latest interactive polls, this is from Texas.
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  Speaker 3: Talafrico leading Ken Paxton 44% to 43%. 12.6% not sure.
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  Speaker 3: So the Senate race is up in the air right now.
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  Speaker 3: With leaners, Talafrico and Paxton are tied up at 50%.
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  Speaker 3: And that information just coming out. Just very, very recently,
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  Speaker 3: Greg Abbott doing better at the polls right now than
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  Speaker 3: Ken Paxton is. So here is the majority leader, John Thune.
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  Speaker 8: Let's talk a little bit about Texas and the race
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  Speaker 8: between James Tallarico and Ken Paxton. I know you supported
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  Speaker 8: John Cornyn. The president supported Ken Paxton. One GOP donor
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  Speaker 8: in Texas said you broke it, you own it. Is
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  Speaker 8: his attitude towards the White House in terms of getting
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  Speaker 8: going on backing that race? What do you think is
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  Speaker 8: going to happen there?
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  Speaker 9: I think that the, I'm hoping the White House will
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  Speaker 9: become engaged. Texas is an incredibly expensive state and obviously
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  Speaker 9: one that we need, we've got to hold. If we're
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  Speaker 9: going to keep the United States Senate, if we're going
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  Speaker 9: to keep a majority, Martha, with Texas, that is, we
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  Speaker 9: absolutely have to win that race. So everybody's all in
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  Speaker 9: for Ken Paxton. The primary is over. We're focused now
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  Speaker 9: on the general election. But because Texas is such an
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  Speaker 9: expensive state, we're going to need the president and his
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  Speaker 9: team to be engaged there and to be putting resources
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  Speaker 9: into that race.
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  Speaker 3: All right, so let me give you the numbers. These
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  Speaker 3: are cold numbers, so fine. You don't want to believe
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  Speaker 3: the polling data. Let's take a look at what we
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  Speaker 3: do know and what we can glean from that. According
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  Speaker 3: to Federal Election Commission data, and this is as of
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  Speaker 3: August 31st, James Tallarico has raised roughly $ 72 million compared
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  Speaker 3: with $ 16. 8 million from Ken Paxton. Now, when you look
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  Speaker 3: at the principal campaign committee money, the disparity is even starker.
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  Speaker 3: Tallarico raising $ 68. 6 million through June 30th, Paxton only raising
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  Speaker 3: $ 9. 2 million. So Tallarico has got about a little over
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  Speaker 3: seven times as much direct campaign money as Ken Paxton has.
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  Speaker 3: So that's a problem. That is a huge problem. When
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  Speaker 3: you look at and when you go down through, the
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  Speaker 3: Democrats are eating the Republicans' lunch right now when it
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  Speaker 3: comes to fundraising and getting money for their candidates in Texas.
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  Speaker 3: And Ted Cruz is pretty angry about all of this.
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  Speaker 3: As a matter of fact, Can we play that Ted
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  Speaker 3: Cruz audio?
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  Speaker 10: Some of the Republicans that are throwing rocks at Ken Paxton,
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  Speaker 10: my message to them is enough.
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  Speaker 3: Stop your bitching.
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  Speaker 10: We had a 200 million dollar primary and Ken won.
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  Speaker 10: And one of the reasons the numbers are close is
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  Speaker 10: because 200 million dollars of attack ads were run against him.
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  Speaker 3: And that does damage. You want to complain, complain in
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  Speaker 3: the primary.
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  Speaker 7: It's over.
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  Speaker 10: And by the way, I will say every moderate Republican
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  Speaker 10: When they win a primary, they tell conservatives, now shut
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  Speaker 10: up and support the nominee. My answer to everyone whining,
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  Speaker 10: shut up and support the nominee and don't hand Texas
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  Speaker 10: over to a communist lunatic.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, I agree with that. But that's not what's happening here.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm going to explain why. There's a nefarious reason
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  Speaker 3: behind all of this. Trump is upset about this. He
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  Speaker 3: was on with the lieutenant governor. The lieutenant governor owns
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  Speaker 3: a radio station in Houston. And they did a podcast
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  Speaker 3: interview today. We'll get to more of that. The president's
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  Speaker 3: really upset. John Cornyn said he is not going to
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  Speaker 3: raise money. for Ken Paxton. He is not, he said
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  Speaker 3: he will support the candidate, meaning I'm assuming he's going
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  Speaker 3: to vote for the guy, but that's it. And look,
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  Speaker 3: I don't blame John Cornyn. All right. I, John, John
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  Speaker 3: Cornyn got, um, you know, he got what he had coming,
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  Speaker 3: but I don't blame him for being butthurt, but all
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  Speaker 3: these others, there's something else going on and I'll get
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  Speaker 3: to that in just a moment. But John Cornyn is
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  Speaker 3: actually raising money for other Senate Republicans, but not Ken
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  Speaker 3: Paxton in Texas. And specifically, he's working in New Hampshire, Michigan,
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  Speaker 3: and Alaska. We got, what, Mike Rogers going up against El-Saeed,
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  Speaker 3: Abdul El-Saeed there in that contentious race. Paxton said, I'm sorry,
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  Speaker 3: Cornyn said, Texas can become a black hole when it
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  Speaker 3: comes to campaign cash. That's especially noteworthy because Cornyn still
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  Speaker 3: has a substantial fundraising apparatus in Texas. But again, I
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  Speaker 3: understand why he doesn't want to help Paxton, because it
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  Speaker 3: was ugly. It was really ugly, and it became personal.
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  Speaker 3: So I get that part of it, no doubt about that.
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  Speaker 3: But ladies and gentlemen, the reason why the Republicans are
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  Speaker 3: not helping here in Texas— is because they want Kim
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  Speaker 3: Paxton to lose. And it has nothing to do with
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  Speaker 3: his divorce or the personal scandals or failings. It has
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  Speaker 3: nothing to do with that. They perceive Paxton to be
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  Speaker 3: a MAGA candidate, and they want the MAGA candidates to
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  Speaker 3: lose so they can come back after the November midterms
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  Speaker 3: and say, you see what happened here? We backed the
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  Speaker 3: MAGA candidates, and they lost. We will not do that again.
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  Speaker 3: So they're trying to set up MAGA for failure so
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  Speaker 3: they can be shoved aside and the establishment can come
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  Speaker 3: right back in and take back control of the party. That,
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  Speaker 3: ladies and gentlemen, is what's really going on here. If
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  Speaker 3: you sense in your community, if you sense in your
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  Speaker 3: state that the Republicans just aren't doing a lot, if
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  Speaker 3: you have establishment Republicans running your state party, that's probably
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  Speaker 3: the reason why. They are willing to... lose power to
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  Speaker 3: make this point. Now, I'm talking about the Senate more
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  Speaker 3: so than the House of Representatives, and Mike Johnson has
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  Speaker 3: really turned out to surprise a lot of people, including me.
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  Speaker 3: He has done a terrific job of corralling a very,
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  Speaker 3: very slim majority in the House of Representatives, and he's
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  Speaker 3: done a good job of it. But the latest polling data,
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  Speaker 3: this is from the University of Virginia, the latest polling
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  Speaker 3: data out of the Center for Politics there, That's Larry
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  Speaker 3: Sabato's organization, and it's a far-left organization. He's now suggesting
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  Speaker 3: that the Republicans could keep the Senate, but will more
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  Speaker 3: than likely lose the House of Representatives. So right now,
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  Speaker 3: these are the toss-up races. I'll share what I can here.
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  Speaker 3: We may need to go to a break. But I
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  Speaker 3: do want to get your take on this. If you
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  Speaker 3: buy into the theory here, the notion that this is
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  Speaker 3: all a setup and that establishment Republicans are trying to
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  Speaker 3: deep-six the midterms, 901-260-5926, that's 901-260-5926. Now, according to Sabato,
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  Speaker 3: they think the following races are still categorized as toss-ups. Michigan,
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  Speaker 3: they say Abdul El-Saeed just cannot bring himself to completely
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  Speaker 3: distance himself from Hasan Piker, and that is great news
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  Speaker 3: for Mike Rogers. So right now, Rogers is, in their estimation—
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  Speaker 3: Rogers is doing well, but at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 3: they think best guess right now, El-Sayed is going to
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  Speaker 3: be able to overcome the numbers there. Also, the trade
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  Speaker 3: war with Canada could play a factor in the Michigan race.
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  Speaker 3: In the state of Maine, they're going with Susan Collins there,
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  Speaker 3: so that is a safe seat for Alaska. In Maine,
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  Speaker 3: in Alaska, you've got former Congress gal Mary Peltola, who
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  Speaker 3: is the Democrat, and she is favored right now over
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  Speaker 3: the incumbent Senator Dan Sullivan. And in Ohio, it's looking
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  Speaker 3: bad for Republicans there. They're suggesting that Sherrod Brown could
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  Speaker 3: end up being the victor there. What's interesting about Sabato,
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  Speaker 3: they've got Paxton winning in Texas. So that would be
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  Speaker 3: a Republican safe seat again. Looking at Democrats picking up,
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  Speaker 3: according to Sabato, Democrats would be picking up Alaska, and
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  Speaker 3: that's about it, and possibly Ohio. So anyway, we've got
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  Speaker 3: we come back, your thoughts... How do you feel the
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  Speaker 3: Republicans are doing out there, and how do you think
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  Speaker 3: this is going to play out?
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  Speaker 3: All right. So when you take a look at some
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  Speaker 3: of the polling data out there, I just want to
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  Speaker 3: run through this, and we'll do this on a weekly
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  Speaker 3: basis as we move on to the midterms. Democrats leading
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  Speaker 3: the national vote in generic congressional ballots. And this would be, again,
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  Speaker 3: asking voters whether they plan to support the Democrat or
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  Speaker 3: Republican candidate for Congress. Economist YouGov, Morning Consult, rather, Reuters, Qantas,
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  Speaker 3: Emerson all have Democrats up by between five points and
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  Speaker 3: eight points. Real clear advantage, real clear advantage has Democrats
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  Speaker 3: with a 6.4% advantage over Republicans. Nate Silver's Silver Bulletin,
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  Speaker 3: almost identical, and I mean, it's really across the board.
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  Speaker 3: So the important takeaway here, Cook's latest ratings have Republicans
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  Speaker 3: in serious danger of losing the House. And again, the Senate,
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  Speaker 3: Cook identifies six Senate races as toss-ups. Alaska, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, Ohio,
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  Speaker 3: and Texas.
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  Speaker 12: All right, 901-260-5926.
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• 22:28
  Speaker 3: We round them up every day. We put them in
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: kind of like jury duty.
• 22:33
  Speaker 12: They get paid to call in and be here.
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: Now on deck, Charles from WSIC. Up next, Miss Janice
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: from New Orleans. I think she's so mad at us
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: because we're big pro-Trumpers here on the program. That's okay.
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: We love Miss Janice. But in all honesty, there are
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: a lot of hosts out there that just do not
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: like callers. They don't take the calls. And we're not
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: one of those shows. We love hearing from you guys.
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: And again, we describe it thusly as if it is
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: a great big front porch. That's what this radio station is.
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: A radio show is. Oh, by the way, I've got
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: to read this text from Mary Walter. And I forgot
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: to bring this up yesterday when she was on the show.
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: Mary sent me a note, and I don't know why
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: we missed this, but we should, and if it wasn't
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: like spur of the moment, we would have her on.
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: Next week, we have to ask her about this. So, Helen,
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: remind me that we've got to talk to Mary Walter
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: about this. Mary's from New Jersey, and you need to
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: understand that. So, she's a Northerner, and she's a Jersey girl.
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: She says, Todd... We made our maiden voyage to Cracker Barrel.
• 23:48
  Speaker 10: Whoa.
• 23:49
  Speaker 12: Like for the first time.
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: First time ever.
• 23:52
  Speaker 12: This is huge for Mary.
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: She goes on. It was fine. And I'm like, uh-oh.
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: It was fine, but we don't get the gravy thing
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: at all. We sidelined the gravy. It's like Jell-O and
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: doesn't have any taste. The biscuits were much better with
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: just butter. So I guess what they ordered, biscuits and gravy?
• 24:16
  Speaker 12: Yeah, it sounds like it.
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: So here's, wow, I just, I feel bad about saying this.
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: Cracker Barrel's just not that good. It's not like it
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: used to be, like years ago.
• 24:27
  Speaker 13: Yeah.
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: And so I get the gravy thing. Their gravy is
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: weird and it doesn't taste good.
• 24:32
  Speaker 12: Yeah. But they used to. Like, that's the thing. But
• 24:35
  Speaker 12: it used to. What we remember is that nostalgic home cooking, like,
• 24:39
  Speaker 12: taste of gravy. I don't know what it is now.
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: Jell-O. I know exactly.
• 24:43
  Speaker 12: It might be Jell-O.
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: I can imagine it.
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: Yep.
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: I'm sure it jiggled as it was plopped down on
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: the table.
• 24:47
  Speaker 12: It's not supposed to jiggle.
• 24:48
  Speaker 14: No.
• 24:49
  Speaker 12: It's supposed to like drip down like a volcano almost.
• 24:53
  Speaker 13: Yeah.
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: Well, exactly. And it's got to have big chunks of like,
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: I mean, if you're going to do sausage gravy, I
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: am not a, I am not a big biscuits and
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: gravy kind of a person, but you've got to have
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: some good, you got to have flavor. You got to
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: put a little couple of dashes of the Worcestershire sauce
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: in there to give it the tang, some hot sauce.
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: And plenty of salt and pepper.
• 25:12
  Speaker 12: Cracker Barrel could take a few notes here.
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: And grab some. I'm just telling you, you've got your
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: choices here. Tennessee, you've got Tennessee Pride, Ernie Pride. You've
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: got that sausage. But you've got to have the hot
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: sausage or William's sausage, which is my go-to sausage. And
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: make sure you get some good chunks. You don't want
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: to have the crumble. You want to have good chunks
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: of sausage in your sausage gravy. So I understand why, Mary.
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: I haven't even.
• 25:40
  Speaker 12: Yeah, I don't even know what that I would have
• 25:42
  Speaker 12: told her to order. I mean, that's probably it. I mean,
• 25:45
  Speaker 12: I don't know what else there is.
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I know. So what I want to do is
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: when she comes back to Memphis, because she and the
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: husband are coming down here, I think. So we're going
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: to have to figure out where do we want to
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: take them for a good country cooking meal in Memphis, Tennessee?
• 26:04
  Speaker 12: Yeah, there's a lot of places.
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: I'm thinking Fat Larry's as a possibility.
• 26:07
  Speaker 12: Oh, yeah.
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: Maybe. I don't know. 901-260-5926 is our telephone number. That's 901-260-5926. So, Mary,
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: we're going to talk about this. We're going to walk
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: you through. We've got to get Mary some good country cooking,
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: and we'll figure it out. I may just have them
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: all over, and I'll fix country fried steak, and I'll
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: do the whole southern meal. That may be possibly the
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: answer here. All right. Again, thank you so much, Greensboro Sports,
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: for those kind words. And I want to say thank
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: you to WSJS for carrying the show and also for
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: all of you great listeners out there in North Carolina.
• 26:49
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• 26:52
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  Speaker 3: Say hello to Robin, listening to us in Indiana today. Hi, Robin.
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: What's on your mind?
• 27:45
  Speaker 15: Long time no talk. Last time I talked to you
• 27:47
  Speaker 15: was in 2020-2030.
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: Wow, it's been a while.
• 27:51
  Speaker 15: Yeah, I had a couple comments. One of them is
• 27:55
  Speaker 15: when you're talking about the polls, you know, in Indiana,
• 27:59
  Speaker 15: I think a lot of other people in the electorate
• 28:02
  Speaker 15: and the states have to do what we did. We
• 28:04
  Speaker 15: were kind of told by the establishment Republicans, you're not
• 28:08
  Speaker 15: going to be able to do this. So we just
• 28:09
  Speaker 15: primaried them and got rid of all but one.
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: Oh, is that? And that worked out for you guys?
• 28:16
  Speaker 15: Well, yeah. I mean, Senator Banks came down here and worked,
• 28:19
  Speaker 15: and then we've got some TPUSA folks down here working
• 28:22
  Speaker 15: and door knocking and ballot harvesting, things that we weren't
• 28:28
  Speaker 15: really doing down in Indiana until Donald Trump got reelected,
• 28:33
  Speaker 15: and we've seen the direction.
• 28:34
  Speaker 16: It was going.
• 28:36
  Speaker 15: What I think is happening is I don't have to
• 28:40
  Speaker 15: think it. They're proving it. The Republicans are proving that.
• 28:43
  Speaker 15: They don't give a daggone what we have to say.
• 28:45
  Speaker 15: The people who voted to put them in, they want
• 28:48
  Speaker 15: the power. They're not going along the lines of, you
• 28:52
  Speaker 15: go to Washington to represent our needs, and they don't
• 28:55
  Speaker 15: listen to us. They tell us, you're not important. So
• 28:58
  Speaker 15: we're going to have to go out there and put
• 29:00
  Speaker 15: people in there that are going to do what we
• 29:02
  Speaker 15: asked them to do.
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm with you, Robin, and I think that's ultimately
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: how we're going to have to operate here. And look,
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: I think at the end of the day, I mean,
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: a state like Indiana, you guys are pretty safe. But
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: at the end of the day, if these Republicans are
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: not doing what we tell them to do, we've got
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: to replace them. I mean, it really is that simple.
• 29:25
  Speaker 15: Right, and then the last thing, I made my husband
• 29:28
  Speaker 15: biscuits and gravy this morning, homemade, and Cracker Barley ain't
• 29:33
  Speaker 15: got nothing on me. I throw a little bit of
• 29:35
  Speaker 15: bacon grease in there with that sausage, and you get
• 29:38
  Speaker 15: a delicious crust. biscuit and gravy.
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: Let me ask you this, Robin. Now, are you old school?
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: Do you have your bacon drippings, like, in an old
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: coffee can, you know, on the counter? Or do you do...
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: I think there's some... I got a.
• 29:52
  Speaker 15: Little crock, and whenever I fry bacon, I put the
• 29:56
  Speaker 15: bacon drippings in the crock, and it's got, you know,
• 29:58
  Speaker 15: the old-fashioned... hinge on it, and then you, I set
• 30:02
  Speaker 15: it in the refrigerator. I don't like to leave it
• 30:04
  Speaker 15: on the, I don't want it to get rancid.
• 30:06
  Speaker 14: On the counter.
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, that's wise. That's smart. That is smart. All right, Robin,
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: you got to hand me over for biscuits and gravy now.
• 30:14
  Speaker 15: You got it. Hey, thanks for coming to Jack Hibbs Church, too.
• 30:17
  Speaker 15: That's my pastor via online, and it was great seeing
• 30:20
  Speaker 15: you that Wednesday night.
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: We had so much fun there. It was such great,
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: great people, and wow, thank you for that. I really
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: enjoyed that.
• 30:31
  Speaker 15: Yeah, well, thank you for that, too.
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: All right, Robin. God bless. Enjoy those biscuits and gravy.
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: My goodness. 901-260-5926, our number. Dylan, we got an email
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: from Janet, and Janet was asking a question about the podcast.
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: I just think this was funny, and we answered. We
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: got her fixed up with the podcast. She says, Todd,
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: I usually download your podcast to listen to when I
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: milk my cow at night.
• 31:03
  Speaker 12: Oh, okay.
• 31:03
  Speaker 11: Yeah.
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: And then she went on to explain what the problem was.
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: And it was, you know, we were able to get
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: it fixed out. But anyway, I just, I never knew.
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: But you know what? What are you going to do?
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: Our guy from Pesci's, the Italian deli in Memphis, he
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: actually can't listen to the show live because they are
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: running and gunning down there with the meatball subs. But
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: he tells me, I make the meatballs while I listen
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: to your podcast at night.
• 31:33
  Speaker 12: Very inspirational.
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: I feel, I mean, I am honored.
• 31:37
  Speaker 13: Yeah.
• 31:37
  Speaker 14: Honored.
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: All right, we've got to take a break.
• 31:39
  Speaker 14: 901-260-5926.
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: This is the Todd Stern Show. All right, let's see
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: if we can work in some calls here. Josh in
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: North Carolina listening to us on WSJS. Hi, Josh. What's
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: on your mind today?
• 32:05
  Speaker 17: Well, first of all, I just jumped in the car
• 32:07
  Speaker 17: about 15 minutes ago, and I actually appreciate you bringing
• 32:11
  Speaker 17: up WSJS in North Carolina. I live in Western Salem.
• 32:17
  Speaker 17: Thank you for that. I call in periodically to brag
• 32:23
  Speaker 17: about my son because he will not do it. I mean,
• 32:26
  Speaker 17: to him it's just a job, but he is a
• 32:28
  Speaker 17: career Marine. And he's the crew chief on the largest
• 32:34
  Speaker 17: helicopter in the world. And he's actually the youngest staff
• 32:41
  Speaker 17: sergeant in North Carolina and has the three highest medals.
• 32:47
  Speaker 17: in a non-combat situation, and two accommodations from commanders. You
• 32:56
  Speaker 17: signed a book for him about a year ago. I
• 32:59
  Speaker 17: believe it was Stars and Stripes. Well, first off, I'm sorry,
• 33:04
  Speaker 17: I skipped something. In The Hanger, they play music, they
• 33:08
  Speaker 17: play talk radio, Everybody kind of has a chance to
• 33:11
  Speaker 17: do it. Well, I've turned him on to you, and
• 33:15
  Speaker 17: whenever it's his turn, he turns on Todd Starks.
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: Oh, wow.
• 33:20
  Speaker 17: And, yeah, when they went overseas, he took that fine
• 33:26
  Speaker 17: copy that you gave them. He gave it to a Democrat,
• 33:33
  Speaker 17: and after he read the book, when he came home,
• 33:37
  Speaker 17: he switched to Republican.
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: Is that right? So he's like an evangelist for the show.
• 33:45
  Speaker 17: Yeah, basically.
• 33:47
  Speaker 3: Wow, I love this. This is a great story.
• 33:50
  Speaker 17: Yeah, he actually turned a no-joke Democrat into a Republican
• 33:58
  Speaker 17: after reading a book and listening to the show and
• 34:01
  Speaker 17: talking about the things that you talk about.
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: Well, Josh, we're only able to do that. And you
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: tell your son I said this. We're only able to
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: do that because of people like your son, who's out
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: there standing guard, fighting for our freedom, putting his life
• 34:18
  Speaker 3: on the line for all of the rest of us.
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: And I know on this radio program, we proudly stand
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: alongside our fighting men and women, and we just say,
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: God bless them. Josh, thank you so much for calling in,
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: and what a great encouragement that is. We're like, wow,
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: we're changing hearts and minds here.
• 34:41
  Speaker 12: This is not the first time that's happened. We've converted
• 34:43
  Speaker 12: several people.
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: With the Marines. The Marines. I love it. I love it.
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: Let's go to Germantown, Tennessee. Murph, listening to us on KWAM. Hey,
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: Professor Murph.
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: How are you, Dr.
• 34:57
  Speaker 13: Starnes?
• 34:57
  Speaker 16: Good to hear from you. Got a couple of observations.
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah, go for it.
• 35:02
  Speaker 16: This group that's in downtown Memphis, this boycott that's fussing
• 35:09
  Speaker 16: and moaning about the National Guard in town and the
• 35:13
  Speaker 16: task force. Now, correct us if it's wrong. They recovered
• 35:20
  Speaker 16: stolen weapons, recovered kidnapped children, and arrested illegally entering the
• 35:30
  Speaker 16: country immigrants, and they're supposed to be the bad guys?
• 35:37
  Speaker 16: Second observation, the state of Massachusetts just re-elected a man.
• 35:45
  Speaker 13: Yes, sir.
• 35:45
  Speaker 16: He's the United States Senate that's been in the Senate
• 35:50
  Speaker 16: for 40 to 50-plus years. We're $ 40 trillion in debt.
• 35:58
  Speaker 16: A newborn today is $ 370, 000 plus in debt, and it
• 36:05
  Speaker 16: hasn't even gotten out of the crib. Was Pogo right
• 36:11
  Speaker 16: when he said, we have found the enemy, and it
• 36:14
  Speaker 16: is us?
• 36:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's deep right there, Murph, but yeah, you're absolutely right.
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: I want to circle back, if we can, because a
• 36:23
  Speaker 3: lot of folks may not know what you're talking about
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: with the boycott. We've got more than 50 businesses in
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: the Memphis area, and they're refusing to serve any member
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: of the Memphis Safe Task Force, federal law enforcement, local
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: law enforcement. They're not welcome in their businesses. A lot
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: of this stems from the fact that ICE raided a
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: Mexican nightclub. More than 120 illegals were arrested. We're talking
• 36:56
  Speaker 3: about very bad people here. Some of the illegals had
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: criminal histories with larceny, drug possession, domestic violence, prostitution, child endangerment,
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: and driving while intoxicated. And Murph, to your point, these
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: liberal businesses are standing alongside these people. Unbelievable. Professor Murph,
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: I've got to leave it there. We've got to take
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: a break for the top of the hour news, but
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: thank you for calling in. Unbelievable. All right, hang tight, everybody.
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: We're going to be talking to the senior pastor at
• 37:30
  Speaker 3: Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church coming up next.
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: From Memphis, Tennessee, it's Common Sense Conservative Commentary from Todd Starnes.
• 38:07
  Speaker 3: And hello, everybody. Welcome to the Todd Starnes Radio Show,
• 38:10
  Speaker 3: border to border, coast to coast, across the fruited plain.
• 38:14
  Speaker 3: Great to have you with us today. We have a
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: lot going on this hour of the program. We are
• 38:20
  Speaker 3: monitoring the Lindsay Clancy trial. We're going to keep you
• 38:23
  Speaker 3: updated on any developments there. Also, the Charlie Kirk murder
• 38:30
  Speaker 3: trial underway and some pretty awful things happening there. We'll
• 38:34
  Speaker 3: tell you all about that a little bit later as well.
• 38:36
  Speaker 14: 901-260-5926.
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: That is our telephone number.
• 38:38
  Speaker 12: That's 901-260-5926.
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: By the way, We had a terrific interview this morning
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: on Newsmax, one of the early shows, promoting my new book,
• 38:52
  Speaker 3: The Golden Age, How Trump Saved America. And the book
• 38:57
  Speaker 3: is doing incredibly well, hit Amazon's bestseller list, and we're
• 39:02
  Speaker 3: pretty excited about that. I mean, we're, what, two.
• 39:04
  Speaker 12: Weeks out now.
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: And we're just excited to hear really the great stories
• 39:12
  Speaker 3: of people reading the book, and not only being encouraged
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: and inspired, but also being able to laugh, because there
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: is a lot of laughter in this book. And I
• 39:21
  Speaker 3: want to encourage you to get a copy of The
• 39:23
  Speaker 3: Golden Age, grab one for your church library as well,
• 39:27
  Speaker 3: or your pastor. You can get a copy at your
• 39:30
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• 39:32
  Speaker 3: in America have copies in their stores. And of course,
• 39:35
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• 39:38
  Speaker 3: So we really appreciate the thousands of you who have
• 39:41
  Speaker 3: already purchased copies of The Golden Age. And of course,
• 39:44
  Speaker 3: Thank you to President Trump for endorsing the book, as
• 39:47
  Speaker 3: well as Speaker of the House Mike Johnson. Well, one
• 39:51
  Speaker 3: of the themes in the Golden Age is the rise
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: of socialism and the danger that poses to the Republic,
• 39:57
  Speaker 3: and I'm excited to talk to our next guest about that.
• 40:01
  Speaker 3: He is the senior pastor at the great historic Coral
• 40:05
  Speaker 3: Ridge Presbyterian Church, also the founder of the Institute for
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: Faith and Culture. Our good friend, Dr. Rob Pasadena.
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: Dr.
• 40:14
  Speaker 3: Rob, good to have you with us.
• 40:16
  Speaker 12: Thank you so much.
• 40:18
  Speaker 3: You know, Dr. Rob, you have been covering this for
• 40:21
  Speaker 3: a while and watching the rise of socialism, the rise
• 40:26
  Speaker 3: of these Democratic socialist backed candidates. And of course, we've
• 40:31
  Speaker 3: got Hassan Piker. Where do you want to start?
• 40:35
  Speaker 18: Well, it's amazing because what we're seeing now is unprecedented.
• 40:39
  Speaker 18: I think we used to talk about communism and socialism
• 40:42
  Speaker 18: as bad economic systems. We've talked about kind of the
• 40:46
  Speaker 18: moral bankruptcy that they leave behind. But we're really seeing
• 40:50
  Speaker 18: this unprecedented wave and movement of capturing the minds and
• 40:54
  Speaker 18: the hearts of the next generation. And you're seeing new
• 40:58
  Speaker 18: influencers on social media and using all of their means
• 41:03
  Speaker 18: and methods and innovative tools in order to really indoctrinate,
• 41:09
  Speaker 18: no longer inform, but indoctrinate the next generation to really
• 41:13
  Speaker 18: buy into these socialist ideas that are rooted in Marxism,
• 41:18
  Speaker 18: which is absolutely demonic and evil.
• 41:20
  Speaker 12: Dr.
• 41:20
  Speaker 3: Rob Pacienza joining us on our Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line today.
• 41:25
  Speaker 3: When you look at the social media influencers, how influential
• 41:31
  Speaker 3: are people like Hassan Piker in shaping the attitudes and
• 41:36
  Speaker 3: the viewpoints of young voters?
• 41:39
  Speaker 18: Well, clearly he's very influential and he's not talking about
• 41:44
  Speaker 18: these systems and these ideas simply in technical terms. He's
• 41:48
  Speaker 18: using real life examples and he's appealing to the anger
• 41:53
  Speaker 18: that exists and maybe the skepticism that exists in the
• 41:57
  Speaker 18: next generation when it comes to justice, when it comes
• 42:00
  Speaker 18: to equity, when it comes to what the previous generations
• 42:05
  Speaker 18: and their opinions have kind of left behind and left
• 42:07
  Speaker 18: them in a quote unquote disenfranchised state. And so he's
• 42:11
  Speaker 18: really tugging at their heartstrings and using these real life
• 42:15
  Speaker 18: examples and using buzzwords that the next generation is really
• 42:20
  Speaker 18: taking a liking to. And words, to be honest with you,
• 42:24
  Speaker 18: that really have been hijacked from Christianity and from our
• 42:27
  Speaker 18: Judeo-Christian heritage as a nation.
• 42:30
  Speaker 3: I'm all about justice. I'm all about.
• 42:32
  Speaker 18: Treating people with dignity and respect. But I believe that
• 42:36
  Speaker 18: I'm compelled by the spirit of the living God. I'm
• 42:39
  Speaker 18: compelled by the love of Christ and not mandated by
• 42:42
  Speaker 18: the state as these evil and chaotic systems like socialism
• 42:49
  Speaker 18: and communism have been attempting to do. for centuries here
• 42:54
  Speaker 18: throughout the world.
• 42:55
  Speaker 3: Why do you think it is that socialism is gaining
• 42:59
  Speaker 3: traction in Gen Z?
• 43:03
  Speaker 18: Well, I think people are looking, really, I mean, you
• 43:06
  Speaker 18: look at the, going back to 2020, and we had
• 43:08
  Speaker 18: the riots, we had the COVID pandemic, which obviously is
• 43:15
  Speaker 18: being revealed to be an incredible fraud. We're seeing the
• 43:21
  Speaker 18: cries for justice. And we saw people trying to attack
• 43:25
  Speaker 18: law enforcement and try to claim that our nation is
• 43:29
  Speaker 18: systemically racist. And so I think this is unfortunately the
• 43:32
  Speaker 18: fatal fruits of critical race theory, Black Lives Matters, and
• 43:38
  Speaker 18: people crying out for justice. The problem is they're finding
• 43:41
  Speaker 18: it in all the wrong places. You don't achieve justice
• 43:45
  Speaker 18: in a society by putting down one group of people
• 43:49
  Speaker 18: and manufacturing the elevation of another group of people. You
• 43:53
  Speaker 18: certainly don't do it through the redistribution of wealth. But
• 43:56
  Speaker 18: I think the next generation is crying for justice. They're
• 43:59
  Speaker 18: crying for equity. They really do. They have bought the
• 44:03
  Speaker 18: lie that America is an evil nation and systemically racist.
• 44:08
  Speaker 3: So, of course.
• 44:09
  Speaker 18: Marxism, communism, and socialism is going to speak to a
• 44:15
  Speaker 18: next generation that's looking for a movement, looking for new voices.
• 44:19
  Speaker 18: They're disenfranchised with the old political systems, but that's precisely
• 44:24
  Speaker 18: the problem. We're not just talking about a new political system.
• 44:26
  Speaker 18: We're talking about a radical evil ideology. This is really
• 44:31
  Speaker 18: a battle of worldviews. It's not a battle of political systems.
• 44:34
  Speaker 18: And I think that's what we need to be communicating
• 44:36
  Speaker 18: to the next generation is This is an ideology that
• 44:39
  Speaker 18: has wreaked havoc across societies over the last centuries, resulting
• 44:44
  Speaker 18: in hundreds of millions of deaths because Marxism itself was
• 44:49
  Speaker 18: rooted in a satanic, demonic ideology.
• 44:52
  Speaker 3: Does it concern you, though, that, and again, I actually
• 44:57
  Speaker 3: wrote about this in The Golden Age, that the kids
• 45:00
  Speaker 3: aren't learning this at home, they're learning this in their
• 45:03
  Speaker 3: school system, and The problem I have now is the
• 45:06
  Speaker 3: schools are clearly, they have an agenda, and they're promoting
• 45:10
  Speaker 3: socialism as opposed to explaining what you just did, that
• 45:15
  Speaker 3: socialism never works, and it has, in fact, caused great
• 45:19
  Speaker 3: death and agony and destruction across the world. Kids aren't
• 45:23
  Speaker 3: getting that part of the story.
• 45:26
  Speaker 18: Of course not, because we made a decision years ago
• 45:29
  Speaker 18: to replace civics with social studies. So no longer are
• 45:33
  Speaker 18: they learning the foundations of a free and flourishing society.
• 45:36
  Speaker 18: No longer are they learning the factual truths that made
• 45:41
  Speaker 18: America great in the first place 250 years ago. Now
• 45:44
  Speaker 18: they're learning what it means to be a globalist, what
• 45:48
  Speaker 18: it means to reject your heritage and your tradition, to
• 45:52
  Speaker 18: call out your founders for being racist, and to embrace
• 45:56
  Speaker 18: a pagan globalist mindset. that they're being learned, that it's
• 46:01
  Speaker 18: being taught in public school systems. As I said earlier,
• 46:04
  Speaker 18: no longer are children being educated and informed. They're being
• 46:07
  Speaker 18: indoctrinated from elementary schools, where they're learning about radical gender
• 46:11
  Speaker 18: madness in kindergarten and first grade, all the way through
• 46:14
  Speaker 18: the institutions of higher education, where they're being led by
• 46:19
  Speaker 18: certain institutions that have board members, deans, and faculty that
• 46:25
  Speaker 18: that are card-carrying socialists here in America, that are training
• 46:28
  Speaker 18: the next generation to be Marxist, to be anti-Semitic, and
• 46:32
  Speaker 18: to fundamentally hate America.
• 46:35
  Speaker 13: Dr.
• 46:35
  Speaker 3: Rob Passienza joining us on our Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line,
• 46:38
  Speaker 3: senior pastor of Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church, and also the
• 46:42
  Speaker 3: founder of the Institute for Faith and Culture. When you
• 46:47
  Speaker 3: look at the church, first of all, I'm wondering, does
• 46:50
  Speaker 3: the church have a responsibility here to speak truth to
• 46:53
  Speaker 3: the culture? And if so, how do you do that?
• 46:58
  Speaker 18: Absolutely as a responsibility. When you look at the church
• 47:01
  Speaker 18: in colonial America, it's not an opinion. It is absolutely
• 47:06
  Speaker 18: factual to say that if it was not for the
• 47:09
  Speaker 18: pulpit speaking truth to power, preaching the whole counsel of
• 47:13
  Speaker 18: God and applying it to our cultural moment, we would
• 47:16
  Speaker 18: not have experienced the unprecedented freedom. that we've experienced the
• 47:20
  Speaker 18: last 250 years. Before there was a revolution, before there
• 47:23
  Speaker 18: was a Declaration of Independence, there was a great awakening
• 47:26
  Speaker 18: in this nation. It was bold, biblical preaching that, as
• 47:30
  Speaker 18: I said, was preaching the whole counsel of God and
• 47:32
  Speaker 18: applying it to our culture. But that's not just the
• 47:34
  Speaker 18: story of America. That's the story of civilization over the
• 47:37
  Speaker 18: last 2,000 years. As our good friend, Os Guinness, often says,
• 47:41
  Speaker 18: the Western civilization would be unrecognizable if it wasn't for
• 47:45
  Speaker 18: the influence of Christianity. There's no other explanation for how
• 47:49
  Speaker 18: the world could have been turned upside down through a crucified,
• 47:53
  Speaker 18: executed Messiah if it wasn't for the pervasive influence of, first,
• 47:59
  Speaker 18: the reality that Jesus is no longer dead but alive,
• 48:02
  Speaker 18: but then that message of resurrection spread throughout the known
• 48:06
  Speaker 18: world that not only people could be transformed physically and spiritually,
• 48:10
  Speaker 18: but that the whole cosmic order would be restored and
• 48:13
  Speaker 18: renewed through the message of Christianity. So we are obligated
• 48:16
  Speaker 18: as Christians, pastors, churches, to preach that whole counsel of God,
• 48:23
  Speaker 18: to help the people in their congregation apply it to
• 48:27
  Speaker 18: their everyday life. Paul says in 2 Corinthians 10, verse 4,
• 48:32
  Speaker 18: that we are called to destroy strongholds with divine power.
• 48:36
  Speaker 12: That is the word of God.
• 48:37
  Speaker 18: So we are to take the word of God, expose
• 48:39
  Speaker 18: the lies of our culture, and present to the world
• 48:42
  Speaker 18: that there is a better way, the the truth of
• 48:45
  Speaker 18: Christianity lived under a life, under the surrender to the
• 48:51
  Speaker 18: lordship of Jesus Christ.
• 48:53
  Speaker 3: You know, I'm wondering about Gen Z, and these kids,
• 48:59
  Speaker 3: you know, they've really been through a lot. You've got
• 49:02
  Speaker 3: the China virus, the assassination of Charlie Kirk, a lot
• 49:05
  Speaker 3: of turmoil during the Biden administration years. And I think
• 49:09
  Speaker 3: when kids kids hear conservatives talking, you know, and the kids,
• 49:14
  Speaker 3: for example, complaining about affordability, which is an issue for
• 49:17
  Speaker 3: their generation. And the response is, well, get a job
• 49:21
  Speaker 3: or get a second or third job. I'm not sure
• 49:24
  Speaker 3: if we have displayed compassion that needs to be displayed
• 49:29
  Speaker 3: here to these young people. And I'm wondering if we're
• 49:32
  Speaker 3: really missing the mark.
• 49:35
  Speaker 18: You're absolutely right. As I said earlier, the left has
• 49:39
  Speaker 18: really hijacked some of the truths and some of the
• 49:42
  Speaker 18: beautiful words that came out of Christianity and a Judeo-Christian worldview.
• 49:48
  Speaker 18: Issues like compassion and justice and care and taking people
• 49:55
  Speaker 18: in with a hospitable spirit. This comes from the Judeo-Christian worldview.
• 50:00
  Speaker 18: This comes straight from the Bible. So absolutely, Todd, we
• 50:05
  Speaker 18: need to expose the lies of our culture, but we
• 50:08
  Speaker 18: need to show the next generation of the truth, goodness,
• 50:12
  Speaker 18: and beauty of the Christian worldview and of the message
• 50:15
  Speaker 18: of Christianity, that it should be the church that's opening
• 50:18
  Speaker 18: their arms to the poor and to the stranger. It
• 50:22
  Speaker 18: should be the church and to the Christian that is
• 50:25
  Speaker 18: fighting for justice, not a state-mandated social justice movement. that's
• 50:31
  Speaker 18: rooted in Marxism, but the message of Christianity that has
• 50:35
  Speaker 18: always led to freedom and flourishing for all people. We
• 50:38
  Speaker 18: need to teach the next generation that wherever Christianity has
• 50:41
  Speaker 18: been embraced throughout civilization, those societies have flourished and flourished
• 50:47
  Speaker 18: for all people, not just for Christians, but wherever Christianity
• 50:51
  Speaker 18: has been oppressed or rejected, those societies have floundered and
• 50:56
  Speaker 18: there's not human flourishing for all people. So we need
• 50:59
  Speaker 18: to teach the next generation that Christianity is not irrelevant,
• 51:03
  Speaker 18: it's not oppressive, but it is the greatest force of
• 51:06
  Speaker 18: common good in the history of the world. We need
• 51:09
  Speaker 18: to show them lessons from history and show them yet
• 51:12
  Speaker 18: again today how in the 21st century, Christianity is the
• 51:16
  Speaker 18: ultimate answer and the best answer for the injustice and
• 51:20
  Speaker 18: the problems that we're facing in society today.
• 51:23
  Speaker 3: All right, well said. And what a great place to
• 51:26
  Speaker 3: wrap this conversation up.
• 51:28
  Speaker 13: Dr.
• 51:29
  Speaker 3: Rob Pacienza, senior pastor at Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church, the
• 51:33
  Speaker 3: founder of the Institute for Faith and Culture. The website address,
• 51:37
  Speaker 3: and we'll have this on our social media feeds, institutefc.org.
• 51:42
  Speaker 3: That's institutefc.org.
• 51:45
  Speaker 12: Dr.
• 51:45
  Speaker 3: Rob, good to see you, my friend. Thank you for
• 51:47
  Speaker 3: the great word today.
• 51:49
  Speaker 12: Thank you, Todd.
• 51:50
  Speaker 3: All right, there you have it. I mean, it really
• 51:52
  Speaker 3: is that simple, but we are going to have to
• 51:55
  Speaker 3: be intentional about reaching out to Gen Z and tackling
• 51:59
  Speaker 3: this clear and present danger to the republic. And I
• 52:02
  Speaker 3: lay this out in the golden age, that if we
• 52:05
  Speaker 3: do not stop and deal with this, we could end
• 52:08
  Speaker 3: up losing the republic. I mean, that's how grave of
• 52:11
  Speaker 3: a situation it is. All right, now we've got to
• 52:14
  Speaker 3: take a break here. 901-260-5926. We'll take your calls on
• 52:19
  Speaker 3: what Dr. Rob had to say.
• 52:21
  Speaker 13: That's 901-260-5926.
• 52:25
  Speaker 3: This is the Todd Stern Show. All right. I like Dr.
• 52:39
  Speaker 3: Rob Passienza. He's a good guy. Remember, Coral Ridge Presbyterian
• 52:44
  Speaker 3: played such an important role in the conservative movement back
• 52:48
  Speaker 3: in the days after Jimmy Carter. And what, oh goodness, D.
• 52:56
  Speaker 3: James Kennedy was the great pastor there and just a
• 53:00
  Speaker 3: great voice and spoke a lot of truth to the culture.
• 53:03
  Speaker 3: By the way, Dylan, we should probably go through the mailbag.
• 53:06
  Speaker 3: So many people are leaving book reviews now on Amazon,
• 53:10
  Speaker 3: and thank you for that. And we want to encourage
• 53:13
  Speaker 3: you to do it. Here's what TP1 wrote, not to
• 53:19
  Speaker 3: be confused with TP2. But TP1, five stars, excellent book.
• 53:24
  Speaker 3: This is an excellent read. Shows how important it is
• 53:27
  Speaker 3: to have someone like Donald Trump at the helm at
• 53:30
  Speaker 3: a time like this. Lisa writing in, best book I
• 53:36
  Speaker 3: read all summer. It's a great book. Loved it. Todd
• 53:39
  Speaker 3: Stearns delivers again. God bless America. And God try to
• 53:44
  Speaker 3: heal the TDS children. Well said, Lisa. Oh, gosh. Pink
• 53:54
  Speaker 3: Eye says, an excellent read. Catherine writing in and says,
• 53:58
  Speaker 3: this is a great, easy read. The book is very enlightening.
• 54:02
  Speaker 3: Pastor Jack Hibbs recommended this book, and I've enjoyed it immensely.
• 54:09
  Speaker 3: Lefty says, Lefty got carried away. I'm not going to
• 54:14
  Speaker 3: read everything Lefty said. But crushing the British crown is
• 54:17
  Speaker 3: still an American civil duty. So he's still fighting the
• 54:21
  Speaker 3: Revolutionary War. Lefty is. All right. Lefty says, what happened
• 54:27
  Speaker 3: to the British Navy? In a word, gone the way
• 54:30
  Speaker 3: of questionable dentistry, me tinkles. Read this book, America, for
• 54:35
  Speaker 3: clarity of the times. Nuff said. God bless America. Let
• 54:40
  Speaker 3: American freedom reign, baby. Great book.
• 54:44
  Speaker 17: All right.
• 54:44
  Speaker 3: A great word there. Lefty? Tracy says, please don't listen
• 54:50
  Speaker 3: to the people with TDS who leave hate-filled reviews. They
• 54:54
  Speaker 3: haven't even read the book, only trying to bring the
• 54:56
  Speaker 3: ratings down. Buy the book, read it, leave an honest
• 55:00
  Speaker 3: review based on quality, even if you don't agree. No
• 55:03
  Speaker 3: person will like any book that is positive and about
• 55:06
  Speaker 3: someone whose political beliefs are not theirs. Why buy it
• 55:09
  Speaker 3: when you know you won't like it before one word
• 55:12
  Speaker 3: is read? Tracy, did you like the book? I just
• 55:18
  Speaker 3: throw that out there.
• 55:19
  Speaker 12: That's a very objective answer there.
• 55:20
  Speaker 3: I know. And Plumberman says, this is a great book.
• 55:26
  Speaker 3: The truth is the truth, and no matter what a
• 55:27
  Speaker 3: person feels about another person, if the information presented is
• 55:31
  Speaker 3: based on facts, then it stands. Socialists won't like it,
• 55:36
  Speaker 3: but they really don't like much of anything that is good, wholesome, true,
• 55:39
  Speaker 3: and godly. Oh, well, good job, Mr. President. And good job,
• 55:42
  Speaker 3: Todd Stearns. Well, thank you, Plumber Man. I appreciate that.
• 55:46
  Speaker 3: And thank all of you who've left book reviews. Well,
• 55:49
  Speaker 3: we're going to read some of those once a week.
• 55:50
  Speaker 3: We'll go through and read only the nice ones. No,
• 55:54
  Speaker 3: we'll read all of them. We'll read even the one-star reviews.
• 55:57
  Speaker 3: But you've got to head over to Amazon, leave a
• 55:59
  Speaker 3: book review, and give us a ranking there. We would
• 56:02
  Speaker 3: greatly appreciate your help. All right, hang tight, everybody. Our
• 56:06
  Speaker 3: good buddy Jeffrey Lord coming up next, contributing editor for
• 56:09
  Speaker 3: The American Spectator. You know, there are some days I
• 56:24
  Speaker 3: wish we were broadcasting the show from Gainesville, Georgia, at
• 56:28
  Speaker 3: the beautiful and world-famous Longstreet Cafe. And not just because
• 56:33
  Speaker 3: they have great biscuits and ice cream. But they've got
• 56:37
  Speaker 3: a lot of opinions over there. They have a table.
• 56:40
  Speaker 3: I can't remember. There's a table there in the restaurant
• 56:43
  Speaker 3: where a bunch of the old-timers sit around. And I
• 56:45
  Speaker 3: don't know what the— no, I don't think there's a name
• 56:47
  Speaker 3: for the table. Somebody from WDN will call and help
• 56:50
  Speaker 3: us out with that. But anyway, the reason why— and there
• 56:54
  Speaker 3: are a lot of opinions, so there's no shortages of opinion. Anyway,
• 56:58
  Speaker 3: this woman you're about to hear, her name is Delay Lohman.
• 57:03
  Speaker 3: She's a member of the DeKalb County Board of Elections.
• 57:07
  Speaker 3: And she is outraged over all of you folk who
• 57:11
  Speaker 3: recite the Pledge of Allegiance. Now, this is a woman
• 57:14
  Speaker 3: who is a person of responsibility overseeing the elections there
• 57:19
  Speaker 3: in DeKalb County, which is a part of the metro
• 57:21
  Speaker 3: Atlanta area. Take a listen.
• 57:24
  Speaker 14: Reciting the Pledge of Allegiance is not unifying, and requesting
• 57:28
  Speaker 14: it is offensive. I will not support it, and I
• 57:32
  Speaker 14: hope that it does not get brought up again until
• 57:35
  Speaker 14: we can be assured that this country has pledged allegiance
• 57:38
  Speaker 14: to all of its citizens and treats all of us
• 57:41
  Speaker 14: as Americans, which it does not and never has.
• 57:45
  Speaker 3: That's it.
• 57:47
  Speaker 14: So when we have multiple people making complaints about reciting
• 57:54
  Speaker 14: the Pledge of Allegiance, it feels like we have lost
• 57:57
  Speaker 14: the plot. Regarding the claim that this is somehow unifying,
• 58:04
  Speaker 14: I just want to remind you that our legislature convened
• 58:09
  Speaker 14: in a special session this summer to take voting representation
• 58:13
  Speaker 14: away from black people.
• 58:16
  Speaker 3: Okay, that's simply not true. That is a lie. I
• 58:21
  Speaker 3: want to meet these people who take offense at the
• 58:23
  Speaker 3: Pledge of Allegiance. Dollars to donuts, most of them came
• 58:27
  Speaker 3: here from somewhere else, and I'll say this, they need
• 58:30
  Speaker 3: to go right back to where they came from. But
• 58:33
  Speaker 3: as far as this woman, Ms. Lohman. a member of
• 58:37
  Speaker 3: the DeKalb County Board of Elections who is offended every
• 58:42
  Speaker 3: time the Pledge of Allegiance is recited. Pucker up, baby!
• 58:46
  Speaker 3: I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States
• 58:50
  Speaker 3: of America and to the republic for which it stands,
• 58:54
  Speaker 3: one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
• 59:00
  Speaker 3: Up yours, ma'am! All right, I feel better now. Let's
• 59:06
  Speaker 3: go to the Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line. Our good friend,
• 59:10
  Speaker 3: Jeffrey Lord, contributing editor at the American Spectator. Jeffrey, I'm
• 59:15
  Speaker 3: in a mood today.
• 59:17
  Speaker 12: I think you are.
• 59:20
  Speaker 19: You know, I have to say, I think I learned
• 59:23
  Speaker 19: the Pledge of Allegiance in the second grade. You know,
• 59:27
  Speaker 19: it was taught to us, it was Seen as vastly normal.
• 59:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I've never heard of such nonsense before, and it
• 59:36
  Speaker 3: just aggravates me that we've got people who just hate
• 59:40
  Speaker 3: our country, and they don't love our country, and now
• 59:43
  Speaker 3: these people are being elected to offices and places of position.
• 59:47
  Speaker 3: And I'm telling you, the rise of democratic socialism in America, Jeffrey,
• 59:52
  Speaker 3: I hope people understand how dangerous that could eventually become
• 59:55
  Speaker 3: for us.
• 59:57
  Speaker 19: Yeah, I think that's true. We take a lot of
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 19: things for granted here. And one of them, alas, is
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 19: that everybody in the country has an education of some sort.
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 19: And I'm not talking about a PhD from Harvard. I'm
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 19: talking about a basic elementary school education where you learn reading, writing,
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 19: and arithmetic. And you also understand what it means to
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 19: salute the flag, say the Pledge of Allegiance. When I
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 19: was a kid, by the time I reached junior high school,
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 19: I played cornet, you'll be amused at this, and was
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 19: in the junior high school band. And they gave us
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 19: red blazers and gray slacks or skirts to march with.
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 19: And we learned to salute the flag and everything else. So, wow,
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 19: this has been around for a very long time and
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 19: it long predates us.
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, the radio station I own here in Memphis,
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 3: KWAM Newsradio, every day at noon We have great musicians here.
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 3: We're a great music town. And we've got one of
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 3: the a cappella student groups, and they perform the national anthem.
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 3: We don't do the top of the hour news at noon.
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 3: We do the national anthem. And then every morning in
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 3: the morning show, we have students that come on and
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 3: they recite the Pledge of Allegiance for the entire city.
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 3: I just think that's an important thing for us to do,
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 3: you know, as we raise up these next generation patriots.
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 19: Well, you know, doing the Pledge of Allegiance is something
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 19: I've done countless times in my life. As to singing
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 19: the national anthem, I can say with assurance that there
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 19: was a reason I never became the fifth Beatle. However,
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 19: I'd start to sing and everybody would look at me
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 19: and say, oh, please.
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 14: Wow.
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 3: Wow. Jeffrey, I want to move on here because we
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 3: got a lot of ground to cover. Um, Look, all
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 3: the polls that are out there, we kind of went
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 3: through all the major polls. Everybody's got Democrats taking the
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 3: midterm elections. In Texas right now, there's a big battle
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 3: over the Senate whether or not– well, first of all,
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  Speaker 3: Thune says they got no money to help Ken Paxton out.
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  Speaker 3: And he says Trump's going to have to step in.
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  Speaker 3: I just did a quick search in Georgia and North Carolina.
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  Speaker 3: The Senate race is there. where Democrats are out fundraising
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  Speaker 3: the Republicans. John Ossoff in Georgia, $ 77 million. You've got
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  Speaker 3: Mike Collins at $ 7 million. North Carolina, Roy Cooper, $ 34. 9 million.
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  Speaker 3: To Michael Watley, it's $ 11. 2 million. What's going on out there?
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  Speaker 3: You've covered politics a long time. What's going on?
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  Speaker 19: Yeah, well, I've been through these– midterm elections many times.
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  Speaker 19: In 1986, when I was one of the Reagan White
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  Speaker 19: House political directors, my job was basically to run around
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  Speaker 19: America and sort of lay the groundwork for a presidential
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  Speaker 19: visit where President Reagan would come in and campaign for
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  Speaker 19: candidate A, B, C, or D. It only had sort
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  Speaker 19: of marginal success. I mean, one of the things that
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  Speaker 19: happens is the president of the And the president of
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  Speaker 19: the moment is not on the ballot, but he is
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  Speaker 19: on the ballot, if you get my drift here. And
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  Speaker 19: so if there are people out there, in this case,
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  Speaker 19: in our situation right now, Democrats who can't abide President Trump,
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  Speaker 19: they're all pumped up and ready to go. People on
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  Speaker 19: our side have to get their act together and be
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  Speaker 19: ready to show up and do the deed. You know,
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  Speaker 19: just last night, I was at a local meeting here
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  Speaker 19: of our county Republican women. And I can tell you
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  Speaker 19: they're pretty pumped up. They're ready to go. They've got
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  Speaker 19: plans for door knocking, all the basics that you've got
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  Speaker 19: to do. That's what has to be done here as
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  Speaker 19: we move into this. And the other thing, you just
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  Speaker 19: have no idea what's out there beyond your control. The
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  Speaker 19: one example that I always fall back on And I
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  Speaker 19: was a kid just studying politics in the day in Massachusetts.
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  Speaker 19: But in the day, it looked like President Kennedy and
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  Speaker 19: Democrats were going to take a fairly big loss in
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  Speaker 19: the 1962 midterm elections. And all of a sudden, out
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  Speaker 19: of the blue, Nikita Khrushchev and the Russians decided it
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  Speaker 19: would be a good idea to ship nuclear weapons into Cuba.
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  Speaker 19: Thus was born, as it was called, the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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  Speaker 19: And suddenly the whole world was on tenderhooks. Were we
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  Speaker 19: going to have a nuclear war, etc.? And predictably, the
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  Speaker 19: country rallied to JFK. And Democrats did pretty well when
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 19: it came time to vote because people were literally scared
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  Speaker 19: to death that we were going to have a nuclear war.
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  Speaker 19: So my point is, here we are just at the
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  Speaker 19: very beginning of September. We have no idea what's going
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  Speaker 19: to happen for this month or October and the few
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  Speaker 19: days in November. Anything could happen, and we need to
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  Speaker 19: be ready for that.
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  Speaker 3: No, I think you're right about that. And again, it
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  Speaker 3: frustrates me because I see that this should be an easy– honestly,
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  Speaker 3: I know traditionally Democrats, the party out of power, usually
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  Speaker 3: has gains in these midterms. but I really feel like
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  Speaker 3: this could be and should be different based solely on
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  Speaker 3: the fact the Democrats are slap-crazy nuts right now.
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  Speaker 13: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 19: I mean, I think they have, I mean, it is
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  Speaker 19: remarkable to me, having been around the block a bit,
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  Speaker 19: to see them just go off the rails with the
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  Speaker 19: whole socialism nonsense and all of this kind of thing.
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  Speaker 19: And You know, I'm always particularly amused that they think
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  Speaker 19: that campaigning on socialism in Florida is going to help
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  Speaker 19: them when you've got all these people who are in
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  Speaker 19: Florida in the first place because they escaped the socialism
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  Speaker 19: in Cuba. I mean, just, you know, hello, just doesn't
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  Speaker 19: make too much sense here. But we have a ways
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  Speaker 19: to go. And my point is anything can happen here
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  Speaker 19: between now and it's time to vote.
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  Speaker 3: So it's not time to pull the fire alarm just yet.
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  Speaker 19: No, no. I mean, I think if we get to
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  Speaker 19: the middle of October and we're finding problems, yeah, that's
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  Speaker 19: when you need to be really, really concerned. But we're
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  Speaker 19: not there yet. We'll get there, but we're not there.
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  Speaker 3: I want to play this. This is Ted Cruz, and
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  Speaker 3: he did not mince much words here. He's upset over,
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  Speaker 3: and I think, look, I said this early, early on
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  Speaker 3: in the show. I do think that the establishment want,
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  Speaker 3: in the back of their hearts, they want Talafrico to
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  Speaker 3: win only to put the MAGA crowd in their place.
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  Speaker 3: And I think a lot of them are just very
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  Speaker 3: upset that Kim Paxton beat John Cornyn. Here's Ted Cruz.
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  Speaker 3: Take a listen. I want to get your reaction.
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  Speaker 10: Some of the Republicans that are throwing rocks at Ken Paxton,
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  Speaker 10: my message to them is enough. Stop your bitching. We
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  Speaker 10: had a $ 200 million primary, and Ken won. And one
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  Speaker 10: of the reasons the numbers are close is because $ 200
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  Speaker 10: million of attack ads were run against him, and that
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  Speaker 10: does damage. You want to complain, complain in the primary.
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  Speaker 4: It's over.
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  Speaker 3: And by the way, I will say.
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  Speaker 10: Every moderate Republican, when they win a primary, they tell conservatives,
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  Speaker 10: now shut up and support the nominee. My answer to
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  Speaker 10: everyone whining, shut up and support the nominee, and don't
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  Speaker 10: hand Texas over to a communist lunatic.
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  Speaker 3: What do you think about that, Jeffrey Lord?
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  Speaker 19: Well, I always like the fact that Ted Cruz is
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  Speaker 19: so soft-spoken, and it's always difficult to understand what he means.
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  Speaker 19: I've met him a few times and had a little
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  Speaker 19: time with him, and I think he's terrific. I think
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  Speaker 19: he is an A-plus senator for Texas and a real asset.
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  Speaker 19: And he's in his position there to help the Texas
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  Speaker 19: Republican Party and to keep that Senate seat, to have
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  Speaker 19: that Senate seat in the Republican column here. But even
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  Speaker 19: Ted Cruz can have difficulty on occasion.
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  Speaker 3: That's true. No, it's a fair point. Just curious, the
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  Speaker 3: big midterm rally, Coming up next week in, what, Dallas,
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  Speaker 3: this is something new. Do you see that making an
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  Speaker 3: impact one way or the other?
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  Speaker 12: Well, it could.
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  Speaker 19: I mean, since it's never been done before, it could
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  Speaker 19: well have some sort of an impact. We've all been
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  Speaker 19: to a Republican convention and national convention. In our era,
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 19: they're not only substance, they're show business. I'll be looking
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  Speaker 19: forward to seeing what is on the docket for a
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  Speaker 19: midterm convention because I think there will be there probably
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  Speaker 19: are right this minute, people behind the scenes who are
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  Speaker 19: planning the show business aspect of all of this. You know, that,
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  Speaker 19: I have to laugh, that began to take effect when
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  Speaker 19: Ronald Reagan arrived on the scene. And there was no accident.
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  Speaker 19: You know, he was an actor. He understood show business.
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  Speaker 19: He understood that presentation is part of the deal in
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  Speaker 19: the television era. And there was some moaning and groaning
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 19: in the day by professional politicians, but by the time
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  Speaker 19: we got to the 1984 convention and he was renominated, boy,
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  Speaker 19: I'll tell you, the Republican Party was whipped into shape
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  Speaker 19: and knew how to put on a show. I was
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  Speaker 19: there for that, and things were pretty good. So I
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 19: imagine this will be a pretty interesting show here with
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  Speaker 19: a point to be made about Republicans versus Democrats and
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  Speaker 19: the Democratic turn to socialism. I imagine we'll be hearing
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  Speaker 19: a lot about that.
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  Speaker 3: All right, Jeffrey, always great hearing your take on things.
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  Speaker 3: Ladies and gentlemen, if you don't have his website bookmarked,
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 3: you need to. TheJeffreyLord.com. That's TheJeffreyLord.com. He has some great
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 3: stories up on Charlie Kirk and the trial, also the
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 3: huge win at the Supreme Court. for the president and
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 3: his big, beautiful ballroom. You'll be able to check it
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  Speaker 3: out there at thejeffreylord.com. Jeffrey, good to hear from you,
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  Speaker 3: my friend.
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  Speaker 13: Thanks.
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  Speaker 19: I'll see you around the block.
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  Speaker 3: All right. Indeed, ladies and gentlemen. All right. We've got
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  Speaker 3: to take a break here.
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  Speaker 11: 901-260-5926.
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  Speaker 3: That's 901-260-5926. This is the Todd Stern Show. You know, Dylan,
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 3: there's something that we don't talk much about on the program,
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 3: but maybe we ought to. You know, there's a food
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 3: chain here in the world, in the world community, and humans,
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 3: we should be always at the top of the pile.
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  Speaker 12: Theoretically, yeah, we should be.
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  Speaker 3: This story coming out of Reno, Nevada, has me very worried,
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 3: very worried. A woman was swimming in Lake Tahoe. when
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 3: she was mauled in the water. Now, you might be
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 3: thinking this was Lake Tahoe. Was it, I don't know,
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 3: the Loch Ness Monster? Was it some sort of, like, bear? No,
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  Speaker 3: it was an otter. Oh, like the cute, lovable otters, right? So,
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  Speaker 3: Lynette Bellen, this is from the New York Post, the
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  Speaker 3: writer Chris Branford, Miss Bellen is a swimming instructor. She
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  Speaker 3: said that she was swimming in Lake Tahoe when she
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  Speaker 3: was savagely attacked by an otter during an open water swim.
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 3: She recalled she posted all this on Instagram. She recalled
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  Speaker 3: how she had to fight off the animal near Hidden Beach,
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 3: telling CBS News something grabbed my leg and pulled me under.
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  Speaker 3: She said it was so powerful I thought it was
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  Speaker 3: a human. Miss Bellen said she'd swum in Lake Tahoe
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  Speaker 3: for 25 years. Said the otter lunged at her and
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  Speaker 3: began biting and scratching. It was just ruthless, she said.
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  Speaker 3: This was shocking. I had no idea.
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  Speaker 12: I'm sorry, but when you said that they grabbed her
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  Speaker 12: and pulled her under, I just can't imagine a small
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  Speaker 12: little otter. I mean, how big is this otter?
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  Speaker 3: Well, this is where it gets interesting. It turns out
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 3: that otters are considered to be apex predators. They're extremely dangerous.
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  Speaker 12: I did not know that.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, you see the cute little otters and
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  Speaker 3: they got the little feet and the little teeth, you know,
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  Speaker 3: and the... I don't know how they sound.
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  Speaker 12: Yeah, that sounds like accurate.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 12: They look like little, cute little dogs.
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  Speaker 13: Right.
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  Speaker 12: You would have them as a pet.
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  Speaker 3: Little fluffy little things, you know, like little furry, like,
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  Speaker 3: you know, the ground beef you buy in the supermarket
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  Speaker 3: of the tube.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: That's kind of what a little otter looks like.
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  Speaker 12: Literally.
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  Speaker 3: Legs. Cradle them, cuddle them. Rock-a-bye otter.
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  Speaker 12: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: You call them, give them a name, Ollie the otter
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  Speaker 3: or something like that.
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  Speaker 14: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Meanwhile, the otters are looking at you like... I mean,
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  Speaker 3: that's what they are. So otters are very dangerous, and
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  Speaker 3: they are a direct danger to humans because of their
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  Speaker 3: strong bites. They have very powerful jaws. Here's the thing.
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 3: They also can transmit diseases like rabies. Oh, good. And
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  Speaker 3: they've been known to actually, in some instances, the mother
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  Speaker 3: otters are the more dangerous. And the mother otters, there
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  Speaker 3: are documented incidents where of these mother otters knocking over
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  Speaker 3: kayaks and chasing boats because they got too close to
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  Speaker 3: the little baby otters.
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  Speaker 12: And I would still own one. After all of that,
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  Speaker 12: I would still own one.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, gosh.
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  Speaker 12: I could take it.
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  Speaker 3: Unbelievable. It's bad enough we got, what, little midget donkeys
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  Speaker 3: running around terrorizing cops in Georgia. Now we got otters
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  Speaker 3: on the prowl in Lake Tahoe, for goodness sakes. We'll
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 3: be right back.
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  Speaker 1: From Memphis, Tennessee. On the banks of the mighty Mississippi.
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  Speaker 1: It's America's conservative blowtorch.
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  Speaker 13: That's us, that's right.
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  Speaker 3: I love this American ride. Todd Starnes. Buenos dias, gringo Americanos.
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  Speaker 3: I'm just kidding, sorry. Hello, everybody. I was looking at
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 3: a Taco Bell story and I Forgot what language I
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  Speaker 3: was supposed to be speaking. Great to have you with
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  Speaker 3: us today. Hello, Americans. Great to have you with us today.
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  Speaker 3: Write down our telephone number for this hour of the program, 901-260-5926.
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 3: That's 901-260-5926. Dylan, I am still, I am just bothered
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  Speaker 3: by the fact that we have killer otters that are
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  Speaker 3: right now prowling the waterways of America looking for unsuspecting
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  Speaker 3: humans to devour.
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  Speaker 12: They're mauling women.
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  Speaker 3: This is not good.
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  Speaker 12: What's happening?
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  Speaker 3: No, I mean, look, they got to be Democrats.
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  Speaker 12: They have to be.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, if they're doing that to the women.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, got to be. Got to be.
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  Speaker 12: I would still own an otter. I don't know what
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  Speaker 12: the problem is here. They're small enough for me that
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  Speaker 12: I would declaw it.
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  Speaker 20: No, I'm not.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm not. Aren't they the Chippendales over at Disney World?
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  Speaker 12: Are they otters?
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 3: Are they otters or beavers or something? Are they chipmunks?
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  Speaker 3: They all look the same to me.
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  Speaker 12: This is terrible.
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  Speaker 3: Kristen knew. What are you laughing at her?
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  Speaker 13: Todd doesn't know the difference between an otter and a chipmunk.
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  Speaker 13: Chipmunks are this big, Todd.
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  Speaker 3: Not the ones at Disney. These things were big. They're
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  Speaker 3: like big furry things.
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  Speaker 13: I know. I was scared of them when I was
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  Speaker 13: a kid. Don't touch me.
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  Speaker 3: No, I'm a grown adult. I was trying to enjoy
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  Speaker 3: my eggs and bacon. And all of a sudden, I've
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 3: got a couple of big hairy Chippendales. They're freaky.
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  Speaker 13: No, thank you. No, thank you, Disney.
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  Speaker 3: Well, they announced this. I was at Disneyland. And they said,
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 3: ladies and gentlemen. boys and girls, please welcome the Chip
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 3: and Dale review. And I'm like, oh, my God, am
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 3: I in a strip club?
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  Speaker 13: Wait, they said ladies and gentlemen?
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  Speaker 3: I thought that was against Disney. No, no, no, this
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 3: was back.
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  Speaker 13: Before the– Oh, okay, back before the Walt Disney.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, okay.
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  Speaker 21: Yeah.
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  Speaker 13: I don't even think they say that anymore.
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  Speaker 14: I don't know.
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  Speaker 13: I think maybe they've gone back to it. But for
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 13: a while, they did not say, ladies and gentlemen.
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  Speaker 3: And I don't know where those pause. By the way,
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 3: we are excited to have Kristen Ewe with us, who
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 3: is a dear friend. You started the Moms for Liberty chapter.
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 13: I did. Jenny Martin and I started Moms for Liberty.
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 13: That was back during COVID when we were advocating for
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 13: the rights of our children. So that's how you and
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 13: I met.
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  Speaker 18: Yeah.
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  Speaker 13: And now we've become friends outside of radio and outside
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 13: of politics. Although I seem to think we always talk
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 13: about politics.
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  Speaker 3: That's all we do.
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 13: That's all we do.
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 3: All we do.
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 13: We eat, sleep, and breathe it.
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  Speaker 3: So we're going to talk politics in just a second.
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  Speaker 3: I do want to go to the phone. So we
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  Speaker 3: have Tom in Houston, Texas. First of all, Tom, how's that?
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 3: Are you guys getting the tropical storm? Has that already
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 3: passed you guys by?
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  Speaker 2: Well, it crushed us. It brushed off to the east.
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  Speaker 2: It hit at the Texas-Louisiana line at Sabine Pass.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: And it got Beaumont and the good, beautiful woods of
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 2: East Texas as it proceeded, let's say, towards Waco. If
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  Speaker 2: you can follow the track I'm talking about.
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 3: I'm following the track. We'll check in with Chip and
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  Speaker 3: Joanna Gaines. Hope they're doing well. Anyway. All right. What's
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 3: going on, Tom? I'm glad you're okay. What do you
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 3: want to talk about?
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  Speaker 2: Well, you have the story about the Pledge of Allegiance-hating
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 2: woman that you found out there.
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 3: Yes, from Georgia. Yes. She finds the Pledge of Allegiance offensive, Tom.
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 2: And I've always... said this, and I ask people to
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  Speaker 2: join with me. At the end of the Pledge of Allegiance,
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 2: I add the line, those who will fight for it.
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 2: Because freedom ain't free. And we can see what a
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 2: mere 40 years of This poor American, what's the word
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 2: I'm looking for, attitudes have brought us. And before I go,
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 2: I do want to say this. I know you were
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 2: a big part of the Rush Limbaugh show. And I
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 2: think we need to resurrect a saying from Rush's honor
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 2: and put it on your shoulders. When I come on
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  Speaker 2: the line, I'm going to start saying ditto.
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  Speaker 3: Well, wow.
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  Speaker 2: And I mean that as an honor upon you. You
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  Speaker 2: do a great show. I want you to come down
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  Speaker 2: to Houston, and I'm going to take you out and
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 2: show you what real barbecue tastes like. And I think
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 2: the opportunity here with we're having the mid-cycle convention, come
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 2: on down with two or three of your you know,
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 2: your massive 500, 600 staff members, and we can.
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  Speaker 19: Have a party.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, I love that idea, Tom. That's a deal, and
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 3: I appreciate you saying that. What an honor. So I'll
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 3: just throw in my mega dittos. I'm going to trump
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 3: your ditto with my mega ditto. How's that?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, well.
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  Speaker 3: All right, my friend. I know. I know. Tom, look,
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  Speaker 3: thank you for calling in. And it's a good thought
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 3: you had. And Dylan, we may have to go down.
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 3: We may have to make a road trip to Houston again.
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  Speaker 12: Yeah, but I'm not buying the barbecue thing at all.
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 3: No, I'm not. It's brisket. It's brisket.
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  Speaker 12: They can have brisket. I'm fine with that.
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 3: Barbecue is, yeah.
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 12: We have barbecue.
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 3: It's pork.
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  Speaker 10: Pork.
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  Speaker 3: Kristen New, we have several things to talk about. You
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 3: are making a lot of noise on social media today.
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 3: over a post you wrote, but we're also going to
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 3: talk about cheerleading, and so we may have to keep
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 3: you over from the break because we've got to talk
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 3: about these NFL male cheerleaders. And I know you may
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 3: have some thoughts about that. And if you don't, I'm
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 3: going to give you some thoughts.
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  Speaker 13: No, I have some thoughts. I have all kinds of
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 13: thoughts about it.
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  Speaker 3: But first, we've got to talk about this post you
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 3: wrote about your local Republican Party, which you are a
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 3: member of the grassroots, which were kind of, I mean,
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 3: unceremoniously shoved aside here. And there's really no polite way
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 3: to say this, but locally, Republicans got their butts handed
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 3: to them.
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  Speaker 13: We did. I actually hold a vote in the party.
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 13: I'm the District 83 representative of the party that covers
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 13: Germantown a little sliver. of uh cordova you know some
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 13: of that area east memphis and um so i i
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 13: am part of the republican party but like you said
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 13: i was the grassroots faction of the party and so
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 13: there's another girl that we we call ourselves the christians
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 13: here and we are the conservative housewives.
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 3: The real housewives of germantown.
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 13: Housewives of germantown so uh we are actually got a
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 13: mention in your book which i'm so excited about So
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 13: everybody go buy that book just so you can read
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 13: this chapter.
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 3: Oh, I forgot about that.
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  Speaker 14: Yes.
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 3: Y'all are in my book.
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 13: You're in the book.
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 3: It's so exciting. The Real Housewives.
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 13: So what we're doing in the Republican Party and what
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 13: we tried to do is that we took over the
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 13: party a couple of years ago during Revive 25 is
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 13: what we call it. It was the year 2025. And
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 13: we built this outreach committee. And this outreach committee had
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 13: the idea, this crazy idea of, That we're not going
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 13: to ask people to come to us and do these
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 13: meet and greets and these little house parties. We're actually
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 13: going to go to the people. So we started setting
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 13: up tents at festivals. We started just, you were at
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 13: one of the sign waving events. We literally stood on
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 13: the side of the road and invited people to come over.
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 3: I'm just going to say this, Dylan. Kristen won't admit
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 3: to this, but I showed a little bit of ankle,
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 3: and I tell you.
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 13: Todd got more people to honk than any of us did.
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 3: I got good-looking ankles. I'm just saying.
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 7: I don't know.
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 12: Maybe it stinks.
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 1: Away.
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  Speaker 13: But we do have fun, and that was the whole purpose.
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 13: Because politics has gotten gross. It has gotten swampy, disgusting.
• 1:23:15
  Speaker 13: We wanted to get back to it. The good old handshaking,
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 13: kissing babies, politicking way of the South. And that is
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 13: what we wanted to get back into. But we were
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 13: pushed aside. And we were told by the elite establishment
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 13: that we don't want to do that because we don't
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 13: want these Walmart people in our party. We want only
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 13: the people who are willing to write big checks. But
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 13: what they don't understand is that I would actually rather
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 13: have those people because you know who votes? Those people,
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 13: they may can only write you a five dollar check
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 13: and that's fine. And I'll take their five dollars, but
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 13: I don't really need their five dollars. What I need
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 13: is their vote. And so that's what the Republican Party
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 13: was missing. We had a debrief last night. And so
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 13: that debrief, the leaders, the executive board, they they I
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 13: thought they were going to go in there and tell us,
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 13: you know, exactly what it is that we need to
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 13: do to fix the fact that we got our butts
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 13: handed to us here in Shelby County. It was the
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 13: worst turnout of a primary that we've ever had. But instead,
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 13: they blamed the voters. They blamed apathy. They blamed the
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 13: candidates for not running good campaigns. They blamed everybody but themselves.
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 13: And I had to sit there and listen to that
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 13: for an hour or so. I went on Facebook and
• 1:24:28
  Speaker 13: I talked about it because leaders don't blame other people.
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 13: Leaders say, we dropped the ball. They had a room
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 13: full of people last night willing to help fix it,
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 13: willing to say, okay, we're good. We know the ball
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 13: was dropped. What can we do? And that didn't happen.
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  Speaker 3: It's really shocking to me because I do remember when
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 3: you guys were leading the charge and, I mean, hundreds
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 3: of people were coming by your tents and the displays.
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 3: They were getting Trump gear, all this kind of stuff.
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 3: And I just, as you guys were, as I was
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 3: reading what you wrote on social media, I kept thinking
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 3: to myself, I have heard this story over and over
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 3: and over and over again from all over the country.
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 13: Yes.
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 3: Where it seems like this is what's happening in the
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 3: Memphis area is really a microcosm of what's happening nationwide
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 3: with the Republican Party right now.
• 1:25:18
  Speaker 13: People are feeling homeless. They don't have a party now
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 13: because the Republican Party is kind of like the New
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 13: Democrat Party. It's the party of the elites. It's the
• 1:25:26
  Speaker 13: party of you don't belong here. And then the Democrats,
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 13: of course, have gone off the deep end. They don't
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 13: even know where they're at. They're on another planet. So
• 1:25:34
  Speaker 13: then you have a lot of people like me who
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 13: don't feel like they identify with the elitist part of
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 13: the party, the private clubs, the $ 300 plate dinners, that
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 13: kind of stuff. We don't identify with that, but we
• 1:25:47
  Speaker 13: don't have anybody that is really talking to us, the
• 1:25:51
  Speaker 13: everyday person. So we don't feel a part of anything.
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 13: And then we don't vote. We're not going out to
• 1:25:57
  Speaker 13: the primaries because the Republicans, they control the ballot so
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 13: tightly that they actually choose who goes on the ballot
• 1:26:04
  Speaker 13: before you even get to the polls. And that's why
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 13: you're really not allowed to primary their chosen people. And
• 1:26:10
  Speaker 13: in Shelby County, we had an election where we had
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 13: only one person on the ballot for a position or
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 13: we had nobody. That does not create a sense of
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 13: urgency for the voters to show up at the polls.
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 3: I know just in the Tennessee and they redistricted, they
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 3: redrew their condition. Did they blame that?
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 13: They did. Todd, they blamed everything but themselves. on why
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 13: people did not show up at the polls. But I
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 13: am listening to the people. People are calling me. Candidates
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 13: are calling me. Candidates are saying, we're not getting help
• 1:26:39
  Speaker 13: from our party. We feel like we're on an island.
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 13: We were told we were going to have an army
• 1:26:44
  Speaker 13: of volunteers is the quote, but they got nothing. Yeah.
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 13: They got nothing.
• 1:26:48
  Speaker 3: I mean, it's unfortunate, but I mean, the results speak
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 3: for themselves.
• 1:26:53
  Speaker 13: Yes. And so when I go out there and I
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 13: was campaigning for our Republican sheriff, Brad Lesk, We went
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 13: out to a place called ATOP. It's anointed temple of praise.
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 13: It's a predominantly black church in a black area, all Democrat.
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 13: And I had five or six candidates. They don't know
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 13: who I am. They had five or six candidates bum
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 13: rush me to try to give me their literature because
• 1:27:15
  Speaker 13: they're all running for the same position. They're fighting like
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 13: the third monkey trying to get on the arc here
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 13: because that creates an urgency and they are motivated. They
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 13: are driving their people to the polls. They are organized
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 13: and they're winning.
• 1:27:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and they are winning. What concerns me about the
• 1:27:33
  Speaker 3: newly redrawn districts that favor Republicans is that if the
• 1:27:38
  Speaker 3: election had been held, if that had been the actual
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 3: election instead of the primary, Justin Pearson would have won
• 1:27:45
  Speaker 3: because he pulled in huge votes. So overall, Republicans outvoted
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 3: by about 20,000. The question is, are those Republicans going
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 3: to be motivated to get out and vote in November?
• 1:27:57
  Speaker 3: Because the Democrats are. They're going to get out their votes.
• 1:28:00
  Speaker 13: I'm scared. And there's a disconnect. And I don't know
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 13: how to connect that, but through some really hard work
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 13: and messaging, we have to change our messaging. People are
• 1:28:11
  Speaker 13: not getting it. They're not saying, yeah, I really want
• 1:28:14
  Speaker 13: to go vote for these Republicans. They're seeing them as
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 13: a bunch of rhinos who aren't doing what they're supposed
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 13: to do once they get elected.
• 1:28:20
  Speaker 3: So I think we've identified the problem here. We've got
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 3: to talk about solutions. I want to do this right
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 3: after the break, though. 901-260-5926, if you'd like to join
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 3: the conversation with Kristen New. You can follow her on
• 1:28:33
  Speaker 3: social media. Kristen New for Germantown is her Facebook handle.
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 3: Kristen New, that's Kristen with an I. Kristen New for Germantown. 901-260-5926.
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 3: This is the Tom Stern Show. All right. We've got
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 3: to give you a title. Conservative show goddess or something.
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 3: Kristen New. I like that. Yeah. Mary Walters, the queen
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 3: of talk radio.
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 13: A little Vegas-y, but you know.
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 3: Kristen New joining us. Follow Kristen on social media. Kristen
• 1:29:09
  Speaker 3: New for Germantown. Kristen, we've got John calling in from Georgia.
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 3: WDUN wants to talk about the Republican Party. John, you're
• 1:29:17
  Speaker 3: on the air with Kristen. What's going on? What's on
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 3: your mind?
• 1:29:20
  Speaker 21: Hey, Todd. I'm a 20-year veteran, retired, and I hate
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 21: to say it, but I think the Republican Party is
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 21: basically dead. And our republic that I love so much,
• 1:29:37
  Speaker 21: I fear, is circling the drain as we speak. I mean,
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 21: our kids are brainwashed in these public schools. That's why
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 21: all this socialist stuff's going on, because that's what they're
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 21: taught in school.
• 1:29:53
  Speaker 2: And it's just.
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 21: It's very disturbing, and also I wanted to tell you
• 1:29:58
  Speaker 21: that I saw a video the other day. I've always
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 21: been a little upset about all the signs being in
• 1:30:04
  Speaker 21: English and Spanish, but I saw a video in Dearborn,
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 21: Michigan of the Home Depot, and the signs were in
• 1:30:11
  Speaker 21: English and Arabic.
• 1:30:13
  Speaker 3: Yes, sir, and John, you better buckle up because more
• 1:30:16
  Speaker 3: of that is coming. I guarantee it. John, thank you
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 3: for your service. I want to bring Kristen in here
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 3: and get you to weigh in on this. I can
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 3: understand why he feels that way, but I still think
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 3: this is all salvageable. What about you? What do we
• 1:30:30
  Speaker 3: need to do to turn the ship around?
• 1:30:31
  Speaker 13: So this is the thing is that I think the
• 1:30:33
  Speaker 13: pendulum is going to swing the other way when people
• 1:30:37
  Speaker 13: just start getting absolutely fed up to the point where
• 1:30:41
  Speaker 13: changes are going to be forced upon these people. But
• 1:30:45
  Speaker 13: I don't know if people are there yet, Todd. I mean—
• 1:30:47
  Speaker 13: People that I talked to were there, but the majority
• 1:30:50
  Speaker 13: of people are just kind of still had their blinders on.
• 1:30:53
  Speaker 13: They're just kind of going through their everyday life. They
• 1:30:56
  Speaker 13: like to get on social media and whine about stuff.
• 1:30:58
  Speaker 13: But what are you doing as a citizen to hold
• 1:31:02
  Speaker 13: your leadership accountable? Because don't forget, they work for you.
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 13: You are their boss. And I think we as the
• 1:31:08
  Speaker 13: community and the citizens have forgotten that. And therefore, they
• 1:31:12
  Speaker 13: have taken advantage of that. And they seem to think
• 1:31:15
  Speaker 13: that they overlord over us when it's actually the opposite
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 13: way around.
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 3: I wonder if just stop giving money to the local
• 1:31:23
  Speaker 3: party and give it to your candidate instead.
• 1:31:26
  Speaker 13: You can do that. And that's the thing. The local party,
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 13: we really don't know how they use these funds. You
• 1:31:32
  Speaker 13: give all this money, but do you get an itemized
• 1:31:35
  Speaker 13: statement of how they're using your funds? I don't. I
• 1:31:38
  Speaker 13: don't know what they're using it for. All I see
• 1:31:40
  Speaker 13: is that they're going to statesman's dinners for $ 300 a pop.
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 13: using your funds. I see that they're throwing parties for
• 1:31:47
  Speaker 13: their chosen candidates using your funds. But these aren't driving
• 1:31:52
  Speaker 13: out voters. All they are doing is they're doing their
• 1:31:56
  Speaker 13: paparazzi show, is what I call it. They like taking
• 1:31:58
  Speaker 13: their pictures. They like putting their social media posts up.
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 13: But not one of those efforts is driving not even
• 1:32:06
  Speaker 13: current voters, but also you have to create new voters.
• 1:32:09
  Speaker 13: And if you're not creating new voters, your current GOP,
• 1:32:12
  Speaker 13: Let's face it. They're the older boomers. OK, they're not
• 1:32:16
  Speaker 13: going to be around forever. You have to create new voters.
• 1:32:19
  Speaker 13: The Democrat Party is creating new voters by brainwashing him,
• 1:32:22
  Speaker 13: like he said.
• 1:32:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah, no doubt about it. And that was a that
• 1:32:26
  Speaker 3: was a big part of of writing. The golden age
• 1:32:29
  Speaker 3: was to, again, identify the great successes of the Trump administration,
• 1:32:33
  Speaker 3: but also to remind people we've got a long fight
• 1:32:37
  Speaker 3: ahead of us. and we've got to make sure we're
• 1:32:39
  Speaker 3: raising up a generation of patriots. Kristen, can you stick around?
• 1:32:43
  Speaker 13: I can.
• 1:32:43
  Speaker 3: Okay, we've got to take a break here, and I
• 1:32:46
  Speaker 3: do want to get you to weigh in on the...
• 1:32:48
  Speaker 3: The big NFL controversy. And we're also taking your calls
• 1:32:50
  Speaker 3: as well. What is the solution here, ladies and gentlemen,
• 1:32:54
  Speaker 3: to fixing what is broken with the Republicans?
• 1:32:59
  Speaker 12: 901-260-5926.
• 1:33:00
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• 1:33:07
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• 1:33:12
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• 1:33:30
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• 1:33:32
  Speaker 3: with us today. Our telephone number, 901-260-5926. And we are
• 1:33:37
  Speaker 3: honored to have Kristen New with us. Kristen New for
• 1:33:40
  Speaker 3: Germantown is her Facebook page, really stirring up a lot
• 1:33:45
  Speaker 3: of conversation on social media with her take on Republican
• 1:33:50
  Speaker 3: politics from a local perspective, but honestly, as I was
• 1:33:52
  Speaker 3: reading this, I'm thinking this could be any Republican party
• 1:33:55
  Speaker 3: in the entire country. You know, honestly, Christian, at the
• 1:33:58
  Speaker 3: end of the day, and my philosophy has always been this,
• 1:34:02
  Speaker 3: once the primaries are over, you get behind the candidates
• 1:34:05
  Speaker 3: and you get them elected. I mean, that's, you know,
• 1:34:07
  Speaker 3: part of being a Republican is, you know, sometimes you're
• 1:34:10
  Speaker 3: going to have conservative candidates, sometimes maybe not so conservative.
• 1:34:14
  Speaker 3: But like in Texas right now with Ken Paxton, For
• 1:34:17
  Speaker 3: John Thune and Senate leadership to basically turn their back
• 1:34:20
  Speaker 3: on this guy, that to me shows that you're the
• 1:34:23
  Speaker 3: ones that are not loyal.
• 1:34:25
  Speaker 13: Look, Thune has so many problems right now. I don't
• 1:34:28
  Speaker 13: know if he needs to create any more for himself.
• 1:34:31
  Speaker 13: This is ridiculous. The Republican Party, and here's the thing,
• 1:34:35
  Speaker 13: and here's why even when we get to pass the
• 1:34:37
  Speaker 13: primaries and why they're still having problems is because of
• 1:34:41
  Speaker 13: what I said earlier. They are pre-picking their candidates. And
• 1:34:45
  Speaker 13: it's probably not the candidates that people want. When people
• 1:34:49
  Speaker 13: see that you have some skeletons in your closet, you're
• 1:34:52
  Speaker 13: not exactly a conservative person in your everyday life, they
• 1:34:56
  Speaker 13: have a little bit of problem with that when you
• 1:34:58
  Speaker 13: try to preach conservatism to them. So that's when I
• 1:35:03
  Speaker 13: say that you've got to let people run and let
• 1:35:08
  Speaker 13: the people decide who they want to be their leader.
• 1:35:11
  Speaker 13: The Republican Party is not over the people. They have
• 1:35:15
  Speaker 13: got to understand that. The Democrats need to understand this, too.
• 1:35:17
  Speaker 13: The people are head of the party.
• 1:35:21
  Speaker 3: All right. Hang tight there for just a second. We
• 1:35:23
  Speaker 3: do have some breaking news to share with you.
• 1:35:27
  Speaker 1: Breaking news now on the Todd Starnes Show.
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  Speaker 3: All right, this coming in from Massachusetts. We've been following
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  Speaker 3: the Lindsey Clancy jury. Have you been following that?
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  Speaker 13: What a train wreck.
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  Speaker 3: And it's becoming even more of a train wreck. So
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  Speaker 3: the jury came back, sent a note to the judge
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  Speaker 3: just a little while ago saying they are still deadlocked.
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  Speaker 3: The judge is now reading what they're calling a Tui
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  Speaker 3: Rodriguez charge. and basically said, no, you've got to go
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  Speaker 3: back and you've got to deliberate some more. And here's
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  Speaker 3: what that charge entails. The judge reading this in the courtroom,
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  Speaker 3: a jury verdict is the principal way facts are decided
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  Speaker 3: in a criminal case. Absolute certainty cannot be expected. Each
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  Speaker 3: juror's vote must reflect their own convictions, not mere agreement
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  Speaker 3: with the majority. Jurors should listen with an open mind
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  Speaker 3: and give proper respect to other opinions. There is no
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  Speaker 3: reason to think another jury would be more intelligent, impartial,
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  Speaker 3: or competent, or that better evidence would appear.
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  Speaker 13: So you probably don't know the answer to this, but
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  Speaker 13: how many times can a judge send a jury back
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  Speaker 13: before they declare to hunt a jury?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think this is probably it. I mean, after this,
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  Speaker 3: it's got to be. I think so, too.
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  Speaker 13: I don't know. I'm not a lawyer. I don't know
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  Speaker 13: if somebody might know the answer to that.
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  Speaker 3: So over, what is it, nine women on the jury panel?
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  Speaker 3: So I'm just wondering, you know, they sent them home
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  Speaker 3: over the weekend, Kristen, and they were exposed to all
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  Speaker 3: of the women in the pink shirts yelling, you know.
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  Speaker 13: Why did they not sequester this jury?
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  Speaker 3: Good question.
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  Speaker 13: This is a high-profile case. I think if, and y'all
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  Speaker 13: can disagree with me, but I think if you had
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  Speaker 13: nine men on that jury, I think they would have
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  Speaker 13: already come back with a decision.
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  Speaker 3: Well, there was– we played some audio earlier in the
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  Speaker 3: week where they asked guys and men and women what
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  Speaker 3: they thought about Lindsay Clancy. Cut number 20, please.
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  Speaker 6: The jury is deliberating on a verdict for Lindsay Clancy,
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  Speaker 6: and so we are asking people today whether or not
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  Speaker 6: they think that she's innocent or guilty. I think she's innocent.
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  Speaker 22: I think if she was guilty, I think it needs
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  Speaker 22: to be a state of psychosis. She does not deserve
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  Speaker 22: prison time. Based on all the evidence I've seen, the
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  Speaker 22: time stamps just doesn't add up to... I don't think
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  Speaker 22: she had enough time to kill all three kids and
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  Speaker 22: harm herself.
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  Speaker 3: Guilty. Sorry, I said it.
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  Speaker 6: I think she's guilty, but I do think there's a
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  Speaker 6: lot of, like, gray area.
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  Speaker 13: And I don't know, her husband seems obsessed to me.
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  Speaker 3: I think she should be found guilty.
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  Speaker 4: From the little bit of research that I have done,
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  Speaker 4: I think her diagnosis, she said, I think it was
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  Speaker 4: a mental issue she was trying to blame.
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  Speaker 3: I don't agree.
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  Speaker 6: She's guilty of.
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  Speaker 8: The murdering part of it, but.
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  Speaker 4: I do think that there's a lot of underlying mental
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  Speaker 4: health issues and women's health issues that need to be.
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  Speaker 6: Talked about with that trial.
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  Speaker 20: Whether or not she did it from a state of sanity,
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  Speaker 20: she killed her kids.
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  Speaker 23: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, she shouldn't be walking.
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  Speaker 12: Free, probably.
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  Speaker 6: Lindsay Clancy trial. Have you guys been following it?
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  Speaker 12: My girlfriend has.
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  Speaker 6: I know nothing about it, but she's on TikTok for
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  Speaker 6: like three hours.
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  Speaker 3: In the morning.
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  Speaker 6: What does your girlfriend say about it?
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  Speaker 3: She thinks she's innocent.
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  Speaker 13: What do you think?
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  Speaker 6: I don't know enough about it. I just know what
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  Speaker 6: she says. I wish I knew something about it.
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  Speaker 4: The guilty party is like the medical system that failed
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  Speaker 4: both her and the children.
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  Speaker 12: Hey, who is that?
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  Speaker 6: She's on trial right now for strangling her three kids
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  Speaker 6: to death.
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  Speaker 12: Wait, is this the lady who had postpartum?
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  Speaker 20: I hope that Lindsay Clancy not only gets strapped to
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  Speaker 20: an electric chair, but that they lethally inject her three
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  Speaker 20: different times. And here's the crazy part about the Clancy trial.
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  Speaker 20: I could go on for days on this.
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  Speaker 3: Two things.
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  Speaker 6: Number one.
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  Speaker 20: If you think that men are holding women to too
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  Speaker 20: high of standards and your poster child is Lindsay Clancy,
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  Speaker 20: how low do you want the standard to be? The
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  Speaker 20: only thing we're asking she refrain from doing is killing
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  Speaker 20: the kids when her husband goes out to get her Midol.
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  Speaker 20: Is that too much to ask for? Is that a
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  Speaker 20: Leviathan lift for you? Please don't kill the kids while
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  Speaker 20: we're all getting bananas? And number two, you can't have
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  Speaker 20: it both ways, okay? The same women that are standing
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  Speaker 20: outside of the courthouse railing on and on about how
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  Speaker 20: her husband should have intervened. and taking control of her medications,
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  Speaker 20: and God forbid, involuntarily had her committed and separated from
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  Speaker 20: her children, would have been the same women who, if
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  Speaker 20: he had done that, would have said, handmaid's tale.
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  Speaker 6: Do you feel like men's response to this trial has been.
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  Speaker 13: You've got to end on that one.
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  Speaker 12: We're good.
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  Speaker 13: That was incredible.
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  Speaker 3: But to your point, all the men said guilty.
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  Speaker 13: That's what I think. I said all the men, because
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  Speaker 13: they just see things black and white. Women are kind
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  Speaker 13: of like, we're emotional. We're like, well... Dude, she killed
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  Speaker 13: her kids. I mean, my goodness. What are you going
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  Speaker 13: to do about that? Are you going to let her
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  Speaker 13: off after she murdered her children and say, well, maybe
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  Speaker 13: she had a reason?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. And that's the argument here, which is just, it's mind-blowing.
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  Speaker 3: But again, those hundreds of women. By the way, there
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  Speaker 3: was a woman. We've got this audio. So a woman
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  Speaker 3: got arrested. She's facing big-time problems. Her name is Dawn Light.
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  Speaker 3: Is that a dishwashing detergent?
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  Speaker 4: Thanks, Mom.
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  Speaker 3: Dawn Light, 56 years old, and she was arrested for
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  Speaker 3: intimidating Lindsay Clancy murder trial jurors. Take a listen to
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  Speaker 3: Cut 40.
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  Speaker 23: To protect the sanctity of the judicial system, these jurors,
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  Speaker 23: there was a court order by Judge Sullivan in which
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  Speaker 23: there was a supplemental order regarding protocol for media coverage
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  Speaker 23: of you. Essentially, according to Judge Sullivan and Rule 119.2b,
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  Speaker 23: the court prohibits the filming or photographing of any juror
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  Speaker 23: at any time, including during court proceedings and court-conducted view.
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  Speaker 23: No person shall contact, follow, interview, or communicate in any
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  Speaker 23: way with the juror prior to the discharge of the
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  Speaker 23: jury or otherwise harass or tamper with the juror before, during,
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  Speaker 23: or after the view. Although she states that she was
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  Speaker 23: looking for.
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  Speaker 4: All right, so we apologize for that glitchy feed there,
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  Speaker 4: but that was our very first look at 56-year-old Dawn
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  Speaker 4: Light in the state of Massachusetts. Dana, clearly not messing
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  Speaker 4: around here. She is facing one charge, felony charge of
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  Speaker 4: jury intimidation. You heard the prosecutor mentioning that not only
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  Speaker 4: was she taking pictures, she was videoing these jurors. She
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  Speaker 4: went into a restricted area. She entered a plea of
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  Speaker 4: not guilty, we are told, and... Just to show how
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  Speaker 4: serious this is, she's facing potentially up to 20 years
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  Speaker 4: in prison because the Lindsay Clancy case involves a potential
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  Speaker 4: life sentence that potentially increases the penalties in this case.
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  Speaker 4: So that woman is in a whole lot of legal
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  Speaker 4: hot water right now.
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  Speaker 13: Do they not know that Lindsay Clancy doesn't know them?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 13: They don't know. She doesn't know you. Why are you
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  Speaker 13: spending your life and putting yourself in that situation? to
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  Speaker 13: defend her.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, these are, and I mean no disrespect here,
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  Speaker 3: I've got a whole chapter on them in the book
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  Speaker 3: called The Gals of Girth. I mean, these are obese,
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  Speaker 3: morbidly obese women who have multicolored hair, the nose rings,
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  Speaker 3: and they scream at the moon at night to work
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  Speaker 3: out their man-hating aggression. So these are not right-thinking women
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  Speaker 3: here that are doing all of this.
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  Speaker 13: I do think we should have a conversation about the
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  Speaker 13: mental health drugs. I mean, she was on copious amounts
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  Speaker 13: of drugs from different doctors. We can have that conversation.
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  Speaker 13: But at the end of the day, if she murdered
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  Speaker 13: her children... She needs to have consequences.
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  Speaker 3: And again, I have great sympathy about that. However, she
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  Speaker 3: knew because she went out seeking help, she knew she
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  Speaker 3: had these feelings wanting to kill her children. So if
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  Speaker 3: she's not getting the help she needs, did she at
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  Speaker 3: least not have the responsibility, the personal responsibility to separate
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  Speaker 3: herself from her kids so she wouldn't kill them? And
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  Speaker 3: she didn't do that.
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  Speaker 13: You know, we're all about personal responsibility today. I feel
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  Speaker 13: like that's the theme of our show, like personal responsibility.
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  Speaker 13: Just own it. Own it and say, I got to
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  Speaker 13: fix it.
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  Speaker 3: So you, in addition to being a great mom, you've
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  Speaker 3: got two boys.
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  Speaker 13: I've got two boys. Both in college.
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  Speaker 3: And they're in college. And you coach. But you also,
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  Speaker 3: when you were in college, you were like, what is it,
• 1:43:14
  Speaker 3: a member of the Palm Squad?
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  Speaker 13: The Memphis Palm Squad.
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  Speaker 3: The Memphis Palm Squad.
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  Speaker 13: University of Memphis Palm Palm Squad. All right.
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  Speaker 3: So what did you ladies do out there on the court?
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  Speaker 13: So we were the dance team. So it's the difference
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  Speaker 13: between Palm and Cheer. Cheer has the guys and they
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  Speaker 13: do the pyramids and the tumbling. The dance girls are
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  Speaker 13: more like, you know, the Laker girls or something like that.
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  Speaker 13: They go out in the halftime of the basketball and
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  Speaker 13: they do the halftime shows. That's what we did. But
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  Speaker 13: we also competed at a national level. And I won
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  Speaker 13: my junior year, I won the 10th national championship for
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  Speaker 13: the school. I think they're up to like 17 now,
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  Speaker 13: national championships.
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  Speaker 3: What was the, Dylan, what was the, there's a Netflix show,
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  Speaker 3: was it Netflix or HBO, on the LA Lakers? Oh,
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  Speaker 3: what was the name of that?
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  Speaker 13: Well, there's a Dallas Cowboy Cheerleader one, too, about the
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  Speaker 13: tryouts and how rigorous it is. And so when we're
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  Speaker 13: talking about NFL, I think this is where you're going
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  Speaker 13: with this.
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  Speaker 3: It was, no, it was Winning Time, the rise of,
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  Speaker 3: it was HBO, Winning Time, the rise of the Lakers dynasty.
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  Speaker 3: And what was interesting on the Lakers girls, they were
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  Speaker 3: wanting like, so when the new owner came in, Jerry Buss,
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  Speaker 3: he really wanted it to be as exotic as could be. And,
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  Speaker 3: you know, at the time, I think they just had cheerleaders.
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  Speaker 13: They were pushing the envelope.
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  Speaker 12: They were.
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  Speaker 3: So they brought in Paula Abdul.
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  Speaker 13: They did.
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  Speaker 3: She was the first Laker girl.
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  Speaker 13: She was amazing. And there was this kind of like
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  Speaker 13: your half-model. Half athlete and all entertainer. That is your thing.
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  Speaker 3: So, and then like for the cheerleaders. So there have
• 1:44:50
  Speaker 3: been male cheerleaders for, well, going all the way back to,
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  Speaker 3: you know, whenever, you know, whenever Harvard was around. So
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  Speaker 3: the male cheerleaders were pretty well-built guys because they were
• 1:45:01
  Speaker 3: doing either gymnastics themselves or they were hoisting the girls
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  Speaker 3: up in the air.
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  Speaker 13: Yes, they were your brute. They were your strength. And
• 1:45:07
  Speaker 13: they were really strong guys. I have seen a male
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  Speaker 13: cheerleader hold one girl in each hand. All the way
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  Speaker 13: up in a full extension.
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  Speaker 3: So they weren't doing jazz hands.
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  Speaker 13: No, they were not.
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  Speaker 3: And gyrating their private parts.
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  Speaker 13: Absolutely not.
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  Speaker 3: Because that's what's going on now with the big story
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  Speaker 3: is that, oh, geez, look what, you had the Patriots.
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  Speaker 6: The Eagles.
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  Speaker 3: And the Eagles who have four male cheerleaders. And these
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  Speaker 3: guys are more.
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  Speaker 13: They're pom-pom girls. They're more like pom-pom girls. They had
• 1:45:35
  Speaker 13: the big palms and they are doing the little palm routines,
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  Speaker 13: the sexy kind of palm routines.
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  Speaker 3: They're out there.
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  Speaker 13: And nobody asked for this, Todd. Not one person said.
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  Speaker 3: I'm wondering, is that like a big thing?
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  Speaker 13: No, it is not a big thing. Now, in dance,
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  Speaker 13: I will say, in the world of college dance, it
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  Speaker 13: has gone more towards mixed-sex dancing because the guys are
• 1:45:57
  Speaker 13: super good at dancing. But you've got to think about
• 1:46:01
  Speaker 13: more like Justin Timberlake dancing, Usher dancing, that kind of dancing.
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  Speaker 13: We're not talking about what the NFL is doing. That
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  Speaker 13: is recent. That is recent even with college. Even college
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  Speaker 13: is going towards that where they're putting guys in the routines,
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  Speaker 13: the palm routines with the pom-poms in their hands. Now,
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  Speaker 13: I'm not saying these guys are terrible dancers. These guys
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  Speaker 13: are fantastic dancers. Some of these– now, I don't know
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  Speaker 13: about the guys in the NFL, but the guys at
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  Speaker 13: the college level are fantastic dancers. But nobody asked for that.
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  Speaker 3: Dylan, you're a big football guy. I mean, is that what–
• 1:46:39
  Speaker 3: were you sitting around talking to the missus and saying,
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  Speaker 3: you know– We really need some guys gyrating on the
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  Speaker 3: sidelines here, honey.
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  Speaker 12: Yeah, I can't say I've mentioned that. Also, the cheerleaders
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  Speaker 12: in general, I'm not allowed to look at. I mean,
• 1:46:50
  Speaker 12: I'm married.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah, that's a good point.
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  Speaker 12: If it was a guy, maybe I'd actually be able
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  Speaker 12: to look at him, but I don't want to.
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  Speaker 13: In college, they're actually using the guys to win national
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  Speaker 13: championships because that's what they're about. But the NFL is different.
• 1:47:02
  Speaker 13: They're not out there winning national championships. They're out there
• 1:47:04
  Speaker 13: to entertain the crowd and to be the entertainment for men.
• 1:47:08
  Speaker 13: Let's be honest. That is who's buying the tickets and
• 1:47:11
  Speaker 13: watching the NFL and watching those girls out there dancing.
• 1:47:14
  Speaker 13: It's like the girls at the wrestling tournaments that hold
• 1:47:17
  Speaker 13: up the cards.
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  Speaker 3: Lovely ladies.
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  Speaker 13: We don't. You know, Price is Right started. I blame
• 1:47:22
  Speaker 13: Price is Right. They started this. They had the Bob's Beauties.
• 1:47:26
  Speaker 3: Barker's Beauties. Yeah, Barker's Beauties.
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  Speaker 13: But now they have guys.
• 1:47:30
  Speaker 3: Wait, what?
• 1:47:31
  Speaker 13: Yes, Price is Right has guys.
• 1:47:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's not right.
• 1:47:33
  Speaker 13: Doing the jazz hands when they're presenting the car.
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  Speaker 3: No, they can't be doing that.
• 1:47:38
  Speaker 13: They are.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, they are, Todd. I mean, do you really want
• 1:47:41
  Speaker 3: some guy in a Speedo, you know, displaying a refrigerator,
• 1:47:44
  Speaker 3: a Frigidaire? Is that still a thing?
• 1:47:47
  Speaker 13: Depends on who you ask, I guess.
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  Speaker 3: Well, then again. I'm going to say no.
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  Speaker 13: And I'm a woman, and I'm going to say no.
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  Speaker 13: I do not want to see that.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, my gosh. All right, Chris, stick around. We've only
• 1:48:00
  Speaker 3: got a few minutes left. We do have to take
• 1:48:02
  Speaker 3: a quick break, though. Ladies of the Todd Stearns Listening
• 1:48:05
  Speaker 3: Show audience, do you want to see men on the
• 1:48:07
  Speaker 3: prices right in their Speedos? Selling you Rice-A-Roni. 901-260-5926. It
• 1:48:14
  Speaker 3: is the San Francisco treat. We'll be right back.
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  Speaker 17: All right.
• 1:48:28
  Speaker 3: It's a weird show. We've been talking about Republican politics
• 1:48:32
  Speaker 3: and carnivorous beavers.
• 1:48:34
  Speaker 13: And male cheerleading pom-pom girls.
• 1:48:37
  Speaker 3: Gyrating guys.
• 1:48:39
  Speaker 13: Speedo wearers.
• 1:48:40
  Speaker 3: It is interesting. There is one cheerleading squad in the
• 1:48:43
  Speaker 3: NFL that has not had male cheerleaders. That is the
• 1:48:47
  Speaker 3: Dallas Cowboys.
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  Speaker 13: If the Dallas Cowboys ever gets a male cheerleader out
• 1:48:51
  Speaker 13: there in chaps, it is the end of the world
• 1:48:53
  Speaker 13: as we know it. You guys might want to get
• 1:48:55
  Speaker 13: right with God because it is coming.
• 1:48:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they're not. I don't think the Dallas Cowboys.
• 1:49:02
  Speaker 13: Organization— They better not, Todd. They better not.
• 1:49:05
  Speaker 3: I'm just shocked the Eagles— I mean, they have one of
• 1:49:08
  Speaker 3: the most brutal fan bases in the country. I mean,
• 1:49:11
  Speaker 3: they booed Santa Claus. Do you think the.
• 1:49:13
  Speaker 13: Steelers would ever do that?
• 1:49:15
  Speaker 3: Or Green Bay.
• 1:49:16
  Speaker 13: Or Green Bay. They're gritty.
• 1:49:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 13: Yeah, you think their fan base would accept that?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. Dylan, what do you think?
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  Speaker 12: I think the 49ers would have been the first one.
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  Speaker 13: I agree with Dylan.
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  Speaker 12: Really surprised.
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  Speaker 13: Really surprised.
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  Speaker 12: I think the Eagles fans are going to tear this
• 1:49:28
  Speaker 12: guy apart. I'm not going to lie. He can't make
• 1:49:31
  Speaker 12: it out there. I mean, he already has.
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  Speaker 13: He's already getting, yeah.
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  Speaker 12: But I kind of feel bad for him. He's like,
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  Speaker 12: this is the pinnacle of his career probably.
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  Speaker 13: I mean, he's having a good time out there.
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  Speaker 12: I'm glad. I'm happy for him. I'm just not going
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  Speaker 12: to watch him.
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  Speaker 3: No, but I mean.
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  Speaker 13: You can't help it. It's like right there.
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  Speaker 12: He's on the camera.
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  Speaker 13: They force you to watch it, Dylan. Yeah, they do.
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  Speaker 3: What gets me are the fans that are there. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: those are not very cheap seats, you know, and they
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  Speaker 3: literally have a front row view of all of them.
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  Speaker 13: You know, he's entertainment, but for the wrong reasons. They're
• 1:50:01
  Speaker 13: out there. They're making fun of this guy.
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  Speaker 3: I'm wondering what the female cheerleaders think about, you know,
• 1:50:06
  Speaker 3: having these guys on the team.
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  Speaker 13: That's a good question. And did he replace a girl?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, well, I mean, the argument could be made.
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  Speaker 13: If they only have a budget and they can only pay,
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  Speaker 13: let's say, 12 cheerleaders.
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  Speaker 3: It's true.
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  Speaker 13: Did he replace a girl?
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  Speaker 3: But can we talk about the, and again, the outfits
• 1:50:23
  Speaker 3: are the outfits, but the onesie, I'm not sure that's
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  Speaker 3: a good look.
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  Speaker 13: Or the rhinestones. You don't want to see, I mean,
• 1:50:30
  Speaker 13: he's not Elvis. Only Elvis can get away with that.
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  Speaker 3: We had a caller yesterday who said, get ready. And
• 1:50:34
  Speaker 3: this is true. I never really thought about this, but
• 1:50:36
  Speaker 3: he said, the next step is drag queen cheerleaders.
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  Speaker 7: Okay.
• 1:50:40
  Speaker 13: Are we going back to The Longest Yard? Have y'all
• 1:50:42
  Speaker 13: seen that movie with Adam Sandler and they have the
• 1:50:45
  Speaker 13: prisoners and they're the cheerleaders?
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  Speaker 21: Yeah.
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  Speaker 13: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: That.
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  Speaker 3: It's an all-male prison. We'll just leave it at that. Kids,
• 1:50:56
  Speaker 3: Google it.
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  Speaker 13: I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Moms, if you have your kids
• 1:50:59
  Speaker 13: in the car, I am so sorry.
• 1:51:00
  Speaker 3: Dylan, I still feel bad. I was telling Dylan about
• 1:51:03
  Speaker 3: the replacements, and I'm like, Dylan, Google this, like sexy
• 1:51:06
  Speaker 3: cheerleader scene from the replacements.
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  Speaker 13: It's the best. It's the tryout scene. It's the tryout scene.
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  Speaker 12: I explained to my wife why I Googled sexy cheerleader scene.
• 1:51:17
  Speaker 12: It's funny.
• 1:51:18
  Speaker 13: It's hilarious. She has to go to the local gentleman's
• 1:51:21
  Speaker 13: club to get her new cheerleading team.
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  Speaker 3: It is a great movie.
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  Speaker 13: Although I don't really know why. There are no other
• 1:51:27
  Speaker 13: girls available?
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  Speaker 3: Apparently not in Baltimore or wherever that was. All right.
• 1:51:31
  Speaker 3: No offense, WCBM. Kristen, you're great to see you. This
• 1:51:36
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• 1:51:38
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• 1:51:42
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• 1:51:46
  Speaker 3: Get out there. Be good, America. Drink some sweet tea.
• 1:51:49
  Speaker 3: It's hot out there.