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"The Golden Age" Needs Senate Action · ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes

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  Speaker 1: Live from the Liberty University Studio in Memphis, Tennessee. It's
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  Speaker 1: America's favorite gun, total Bible clinging deplorable Americans.
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  Speaker 2: Tod starts, well, Hello, fellow Patriots. Jeff Stein filling in
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  Speaker 2: for Todd today, coming to you from my home base
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  Speaker 2: in the Free state of Iowa. Good to be along.
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  Speaker 2: Todd is on his way back from California. It's a
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  Speaker 2: scheduled day off, a travel day actually, as he makes
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  Speaker 2: his way back to Memphis, Tennessee, after a tremendous time
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  Speaker 2: over the weekend at an event there. And I'll give
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  Speaker 2: you the update on that in just a few moments
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  Speaker 2: as we bring you this Monday program from the Liberty
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  Speaker 2: Unifsity Studio, and we invite your calls as always. Nine
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  Speaker 2: oh one two six oh five nine two six nine
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  Speaker 2: oh one two six oh five nine two six. Todd
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  Speaker 2: and I have exchanged some texts as he's making his
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  Speaker 2: way back. Tomorrow is premiere day for The Golden Age,
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  Speaker 2: Todd's new book, his ninth, if you can believe it. Wow,
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  Speaker 2: that's a lot of work. I gotta tell you this
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  Speaker 2: one who's only written six. He puts me to shame
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  Speaker 2: yet again. But the Golden Age. You get it now
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  Speaker 2: wherever you get your good books in a pre order status,
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  Speaker 2: and it is live in bookstores tomorrow and a little
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  Speaker 2: later in this half hour, i'll tell you, folks in
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  Speaker 2: the Memphis area, where you can go meet Todd and
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  Speaker 2: some special guests tomorrow night. But go to Amazon dot com,
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  Speaker 2: go wherever you get your good books these days, and
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  Speaker 2: make sure you get your copy of The Golden Age.
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  Speaker 2: I have mine, and I have to tell you I've
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  Speaker 2: lost a lot of sleep because I sit there in
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  Speaker 2: the and I start reading Starns's writing and I just
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  Speaker 2: don't stop. So it is well worth your time. Some
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  Speaker 2: great messages there and about six thousand good American patriots
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  Speaker 2: turned out to hear Todd speak over the weekend at
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  Speaker 2: the Cavalry Chapel, Chino Hills in southern California. Six thousand
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  Speaker 2: people they got early copies of the book on a
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  Speaker 2: special arrangement, some three hours worth of book signings for
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  Speaker 2: mister Starns over the weekend there thanks to the good
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  Speaker 2: folks in Southern California. He's on his way back to
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  Speaker 2: Memphis today and he'll be with you here behind this
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  Speaker 2: microphone tomorrow for the release day of the Golden Age,
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  Speaker 2: and a fun thing for me, Todd is actually a
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  Speaker 2: guest on my show in Iowa in the eleven o'clock
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  Speaker 2: eastern ten o'clock Central time hour tomorrow on premiere Day.
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  Speaker 2: So if you go to KXCL dot com you can
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  Speaker 2: hear it via the stream or across the Midwest on
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  Speaker 2: our fifty thousand watts signal that I get a chance
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  Speaker 2: to talk with mister Stearns about the book tomorrow on
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  Speaker 2: my program and he'll be here to share the great
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  Speaker 2: fun of release day with you tomorrow. Now, one of
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  Speaker 2: the things that Todd talks about in the Golden Age,
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  Speaker 2: and it is what the President has referenced. We are
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  Speaker 2: on the cusp of another golden age in America. We
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  Speaker 2: have the opportunity to surpass the greatness of America in
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  Speaker 2: so many points. This is already the greatest nation God
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  Speaker 2: ever blessed. You've heard me say that on multiple occasions,
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  Speaker 2: and it's because it's true. How can we become better? Well,
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  Speaker 2: the Trump Agenda, the Make America Great Again Agenda, the
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  Speaker 2: agenda that you folks all voted for. That's a pretty
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  Speaker 2: good blueprint. But the president needs help and quite Honestly,
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  Speaker 2: he's not getting it from the United States Senate. Now,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know about your job. Now Here. I am
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  Speaker 2: in the middle of the Midwest. That's the middle of
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  Speaker 2: agriculture country. It's not like you put vacations down on
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  Speaker 2: the calendar. The crops need attention, the animals need attention.
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  Speaker 2: You don't just take off for four weeks at a time.
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  Speaker 2: US Congress does that. Of course, here's something that's interesting
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  Speaker 2: about the congressional schedule. The House of Representatives adjourned back
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  Speaker 2: on the twenty fourth of July one, two, three, four.
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  Speaker 2: It looks like five weeks on the calendar I'm looking at.
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  Speaker 2: They're out for five weeks. They come back, this is
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  Speaker 2: the House. They come back on Monday, August thirty first
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  Speaker 2: for four days, because you got to ease into it
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  Speaker 2: four days, and then they off for Labor Day. Got
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  Speaker 2: to get out of town on Thursday, the third of September,
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  Speaker 2: and then take off for Labor Day that whole week,
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  Speaker 2: of course, and then they come back on the fourteenth.
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  Speaker 2: That's a good long stretch of time. Meanwhile, our friends
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  Speaker 2: in the US Senate, well, they were there until the
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  Speaker 2: early morning on Saturday, and as you'll recall last week
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  Speaker 2: they had a whole list of things that they were
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  Speaker 2: going to get done before they went home for the break,
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  Speaker 2: even if it meant going into Heaven forbid overtime on Saturday. Well,
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  Speaker 2: they're home now. They won't be back until the fourteenth
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  Speaker 2: of September. So literally, we now have three full weeks
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  Speaker 2: where neither the US House or Senate are in session. Then,
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  Speaker 2: as noted, the House shows up for four days before
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  Speaker 2: again they're all gone for another week. I'd like this
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  Speaker 2: job at least that schedule.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 2: I understand they travel their districts, they travel the state,
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  Speaker 2: they meet with constituents. It's not like they're just sitting
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  Speaker 2: by a pool necessarily, But how about getting your work
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  Speaker 2: done before you take off on vacation. I have worked
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  Speaker 2: at various jobs for a number of years. I work
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  Speaker 2: in radio. I have my own business that's tied to
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  Speaker 2: radio programming. I am a lawyer and practice law for
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  Speaker 2: many years. I was a college professor for twenty five years.
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  Speaker 2: You don't take vacation until the work's done. You just
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  Speaker 2: don't in the real world. Now, I'm asking you folks
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  Speaker 2: who are listening, who are business owners or who run
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  Speaker 2: your own operations, perhaps a farming operation. Do you just
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  Speaker 2: get to take time off. Now you've got to get
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  Speaker 2: the work done. You either don't get the time off,
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  Speaker 2: or you've got to work extra ahead of time in
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  Speaker 2: order to earn the vacation. Or you could be the
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  Speaker 2: US Senate and just say, wow, look at the time
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  Speaker 2: we got to get out of town. It is true
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  Speaker 2: that the Senate passed the nomination of Todd Blanche to
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  Speaker 2: be Attorney General. Well, thank goodness that was done. So
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  Speaker 2: now as the committee chaired by Rand Paul can send
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  Speaker 2: over a contempt request, Now you've got an attorney general
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  Speaker 2: who doesn't have to worry about a vote, who can
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  Speaker 2: actually act on it on the merits and not worry
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  Speaker 2: about the politics of it. So that's a good thing.
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  Speaker 2: Having an attorney general in place, that's a good thing.
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  Speaker 2: They also passed a continuing resolution to kick the can
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  Speaker 2: down the road to fund the federal government until December.
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  Speaker 2: Why December. Wow, we've got to take the whole month
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  Speaker 2: of October off for campaigning prior to the November election,
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  Speaker 2: don't you know. And well then you're gonna have Thanksgiving
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  Speaker 2: and so never mind the fact that the fiscal year
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  Speaker 2: ends at twelve oh one am on October first. Never
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  Speaker 2: mind that. Nope, let's get a continuing resolution and kick
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  Speaker 2: this thing to December so a bunch of lame ducks
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  Speaker 2: can act on it, so that those on the ballot
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  Speaker 2: don't have to be accountable. Well, just kick this ahead.
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  Speaker 2: I keep in mind the House hasn't agreed to that yet.
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  Speaker 2: We won't know how they feel until, wait for it,
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  Speaker 2: at least three weeks when they come back. Now, I'm
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  Speaker 2: not a big fan of this eleventh hour, last minute
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  Speaker 2: stop gap measure that everybody knew was coming, but nobody
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  Speaker 2: would pass until the last minute. I'm not a fan
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  Speaker 2: of that either. So I like the concept of let's
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  Speaker 2: set things up. But this is ridiculous that you can't
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  Speaker 2: get spending bills passed. The calendar did not change. You
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  Speaker 2: ran on returning to regular order for financing, keeping the
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  Speaker 2: government alive, et cetera. But here's a problem with being
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  Speaker 2: a student of history. And I write books on history,
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  Speaker 2: I tell stories about history on the radio. The problem is,
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  Speaker 2: when you know history, it kind of scares you sometimes
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  Speaker 2: because I see history repeating itself. With regard to Congress.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go back to the twenty eighteen election. That was
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  Speaker 2: the midterm election of the first Trump term. The House
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  Speaker 2: passed a whole bunch of bills and the Senate didn't
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  Speaker 2: take them up. And what happened. Voters held it against
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  Speaker 2: the House and the Senate, and there went the trifecta.
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  Speaker 2: There went the Republican There went the opportunity to actually
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  Speaker 2: move things forward for the country because there were enough
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  Speaker 2: swamp dwellers in the Republican caucus that they just didn't
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  Speaker 2: like the way this guy was doing things. You know,
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  Speaker 2: we run things. We're the career politicians. Don't try to
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  Speaker 2: tell us what to do. Well, what happened, They lost
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  Speaker 2: the majority. What do you see happening right now? The
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  Speaker 2: House has problems, there's no question, but the Senate is
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  Speaker 2: doing this president no favors. And by the way, when
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  Speaker 2: the Senate is doing this president no favors, they're not
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  Speaker 2: doing you any favors either, as a person listening to
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  Speaker 2: this radio program as an American citizen. The Senate completely
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  Speaker 2: falling down on its own rather thin to do list.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to take a break, and then when we
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  Speaker 2: come back, I'm going to identify a few things that
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  Speaker 2: they promised they were going to work hard. On before
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  Speaker 2: they went home for break and instead kicked that can
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  Speaker 2: down the road for four or five weeks nine oh one,
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  Speaker 2: two six oh five, nine two six. If you'd like
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  Speaker 2: to join this coast to coast conversation, we certainly encourage
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  Speaker 2: you to do that. The veteran financial journalist Dennis Neil
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  Speaker 2: talks about the economy and jobs with us in just
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  Speaker 2: about fifteen minutes. Short break. Now back on the other side,
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  Speaker 2: I'm Jeff Stein filling in for Todd who's making his
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  Speaker 2: way back to Memphis from California. He'll be with you tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: I'll be with you after this break. On The Todd
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  Speaker 2: starn Show. It is finally time for a straightforward assess
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  Speaker 2: of the state of our nation.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome back to The Todd Starns Show. Jeff Stein filling
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  Speaker 2: in for Todd Today Travel Day, Mister Starn's on his
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  Speaker 2: way back to Memphis from a wonderful weekend visiting with
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  Speaker 2: folks in California in preparation of the launch tomorrow of
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  Speaker 2: The Golden Age, the new book by Todd Starns. Now,
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  Speaker 2: in this last segment, I ripped the US Congress members
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  Speaker 2: of the House and Senate for taking so much time
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  Speaker 2: off in August. Well, if they're not going to be
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  Speaker 2: in session, at the very least, they ought to be
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  Speaker 2: acting doing good things. So here's an example of that.
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  Speaker 2: If you are anywhere near the Memphis, Tennessee area tomorrow,
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  Speaker 2: that is Tuesday, you need to go to the Barnes
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  Speaker 2: and Noble Wolf Chase Galleria Barnes and Noble Wolf Chase
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  Speaker 2: Galleria in Memphis tomorrow five to six o'clock local time,
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  Speaker 2: Central Time, because not only could you pick up a
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  Speaker 2: copy autographed copy of the Todd Starns book, The Golden Age.
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  Speaker 2: Meet mister Starns, but he'll be joined by US Senator
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  Speaker 2: and gubernatorial nominee Marcia Blackburn and Representative David Kustaff. Senator Blackburn,
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  Speaker 2: Representative Custoff, and Todd Starnes. Boy, that's a trio and
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  Speaker 2: it's at the Barnes and Noble Wolf Chase Galleria in Memphis.
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  Speaker 2: It's tomorrow release day of the book from five to
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  Speaker 2: six Central time. So again, if they're not going to
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  Speaker 2: be in session in Washington, they need to be doing
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  Speaker 2: good things. Being at a Todd Starn's book signing is
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  Speaker 2: a good thing. You know what else is a good thing?
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  Speaker 2: Requiring people to vote with an ID card, some sort
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  Speaker 2: of an ID. It's very simple. I defy you to
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  Speaker 2: find me somebody who does not actually have an ID
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  Speaker 2: who wants won. And in many of these states, like
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  Speaker 2: my state of Iowa that has a voter identification rule,
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  Speaker 2: it's not just a driver's license. You're gonna be a
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  Speaker 2: variety of other things that you can show for identification.
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  Speaker 2: The fact that the United States Senate cannot put together
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  Speaker 2: a bill to safeguard American voter eligibility. By the way,
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  Speaker 2: that's what the acronym stands for in Save America Act.
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  Speaker 2: Safeguard American voter eligibility. Knowing who gets to vote and
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  Speaker 2: who doesn't? Is that not fundamental to the whole thing?
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  Speaker 2: But yet, once again no vote on the Save America Act.
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  Speaker 2: And now there's a deal. The deal is that let's
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  Speaker 2: go home for August, and then we'll come back and
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  Speaker 2: make it part of reconciliation where the standards are lower. Now,
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  Speaker 2: this is the plan that Speaker Johnson had put forward
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  Speaker 2: some time ago. A reconciliation bill only requires a simple majority,
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  Speaker 2: and they would throw money into it because again, reconciliation
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  Speaker 2: has to do with budgets, right, So they would throw
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  Speaker 2: money into it for voter integrity. That's how they get
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  Speaker 2: past the rules. Okay, that's the Johnson approach in the House.
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  Speaker 2: We don't know if it'll pass the House. The Senate
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  Speaker 2: says they'll take that up. Okay, that's great. But even
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  Speaker 2: if frenzy and if they all pass it the day
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  Speaker 2: they get back that both chambers are back, that's September fourteenth,
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  Speaker 2: you're less than two months before election day. You know
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  Speaker 2: there's going to be a challenge. What these swamp monsters
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  Speaker 2: have done is delay it long enough to where it
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  Speaker 2: will not have any impact on the twenty twenty six election,
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  Speaker 2: even if passed. When they get back, you know how
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  Speaker 2: the challenges are going to go. You know that there
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  Speaker 2: is no way to save this election through a method
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  Speaker 2: that could have been passed months and even more than
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  Speaker 2: a year ago they did, you know, favors on that one.
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  Speaker 2: So of all the things that they pay lip service to,
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  Speaker 2: it's voter integrity. There are some elements in the Republican
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  Speaker 2: Caucus who would like to take care of voter integrity.
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  Speaker 2: There are a ton of voters on all sides that
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  Speaker 2: would like to, but the US Senate isn't playing and
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  Speaker 2: truth be told, a little hard to get the House
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  Speaker 2: to really go along. Either. If the people currently in power,
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  Speaker 2: the people who have received their jobs and they're month
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  Speaker 2: at a time long vacation, if those people who were
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  Speaker 2: elected under the old system refuse to change the system,
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  Speaker 2: what does that do. Let's just say it makes me suspicious.
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  Speaker 2: Let's just say if the people for whom the system
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  Speaker 2: worked are not willing to discuss changing the system, then
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  Speaker 2: they're all at fault. And yes, there are some very
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  Speaker 2: good people raising their hands as much as possible on this,
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  Speaker 2: and it is true. Making them all sit in a
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  Speaker 2: room and stare at each other without a resolution, that
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  Speaker 2: might be a waste of time. And that's sort of
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  Speaker 2: why the folks who said, you know, forget the recess,
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  Speaker 2: we're gonna stay here until this is done, why they
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  Speaker 2: backed off because there's just there's no path to passaging.
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  Speaker 2: Sit there all day, they're not going to do anything. Well,
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  Speaker 2: here's what I know. I don't know whether if you
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  Speaker 2: locked them in a room and said you're not getting
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  Speaker 2: out till you pass this, I don't know if it
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  Speaker 2: would have passed. Here's what I do know at Darnshire
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  Speaker 2: is not going to pass when they're back in their
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  Speaker 2: home districts, when they're back in their home states, if
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  Speaker 2: they're not in session, it's sure not going to pass,
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  Speaker 2: is it?
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  Speaker 3: So?
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  Speaker 2: Chief among the loose ends? If you will voter integrity,
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  Speaker 2: no action, how's the economy treating you? Noted financial journalist
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  Speaker 2: Dennis Neil gives us his thoughts after this short break.
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  Speaker 2: Jeff Stein in for Todd. This is the Todd starn Show.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome back to the Liberty University Studio and the Todd
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  Speaker 2: starn Show. Jeff Stein filling in for Todd Today, Travel
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  Speaker 2: day for Todd. He'll be back in Memphis tomorrow behind
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  Speaker 2: the microphone. Tomorrow a special day. It's the release of
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  Speaker 2: The Golden Age, the brand new book by Todd Starns.
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  Speaker 2: Tomorrow is release day order now wherever you get your
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  Speaker 2: good books, including at Amazon dot com. And while you're there,
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  Speaker 2: you know, why just order one book. Why don't you
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  Speaker 2: order a book called Oregoners. It's authored by our guest
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  Speaker 2: who joins us now on the Patriot Mobile newsmaker line.
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  Speaker 2: He's the veteran financial journalist Dennis Neil. Mister Neil, thanks
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  Speaker 2: so much for taking the time. How are you good, sir?
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  Speaker 3: I am fantastic. It's a wonderful monday, Jeff. It's good
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  Speaker 3: at talking to you.
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  Speaker 2: Always good to talk to you, sir. You spent your
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  Speaker 2: career documenting finances, markets, the economy, etc. I'm struck by
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  Speaker 2: something that came down on Friday, and I'm interested in
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  Speaker 2: your view on it. So the federal jobs report came down,
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  Speaker 2: and I understand that in television we need to have
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  Speaker 2: snappy little words at the bottom of the screen. And
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  Speaker 2: it said something like twenty three thousand jobs lost. Well,
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  Speaker 2: it sounds terrible until you dive into it and you
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  Speaker 2: find out that government jobs, the ones you and I
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  Speaker 2: are paying for, those went down by something like fifty
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  Speaker 2: five thousand. So, in essence, the government jobs went down,
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  Speaker 2: but the private job number went up. That's supposed to
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  Speaker 2: be a good thing. Am I missing something on the
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  Speaker 2: reporting on this.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you've already just stepped all over my lines and
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  Speaker 3: taken the best stuff I had prepared to lay out
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  Speaker 3: for you. Jeff, you're absolutely right about that, and everyone
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  Speaker 3: kind of missed that, didn't They Let us be happy
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  Speaker 3: when federal government jobs or any kind of government job
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  Speaker 3: you know, actually goes down. It's good for the economy
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  Speaker 3: because those jobs are relying on are paying the money
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  Speaker 3: for them, don't they. And so I think that is
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  Speaker 3: a silver lining there. And there's a second one as well,
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  Speaker 3: jeffs and that is that the one thing the Federal
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  Speaker 3: Reserve looks at more than any other, it's not GDP
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  Speaker 3: growth or oh my gosh, the economy declined, that servicession.
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  Speaker 3: They look at jobs numbers and job's growth, and if
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  Speaker 3: it's not robust, they find it harder to raise interest rates. Now,
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  Speaker 3: the chances of an interest rate raise have gone up
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  Speaker 3: to sixty percent from forty nine percent or something over
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  Speaker 3: sixty percent, but maybe those chances now just went back down.
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  Speaker 2: When you were reporting on this on the cable channels
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  Speaker 2: on a daily basis, would you have seen that same
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  Speaker 2: sort of I'm going to call it a headline because
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  Speaker 2: I'm old but at the bottom of the screen about
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  Speaker 2: jobs lost. I mean, it seemed to be presented without context.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just wondering if things were different when when you
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: started in that realm.
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: Well, certainly I don't recognize the media anymore. Trump broke them.
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: They've kind of bared their claws. They've cast off any
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: mask of purported objectivity or fair and balanced and instead,
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: I mean, get this, the stock market even yesterday was
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: it the S and P five hundred an all time
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: high yet again? But the University of Michigan Consumer Centement.
• 22:37
  Speaker 5: Survey is at all time lows.
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: What the heck is that people don't realize how good
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: the economy really is. The media are burying that story
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: on purpose, and Trump administration and the Publican Party are
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: doing a bad job selling that the economy is better
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: than you think.
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: That is exactly why I wanted to have you on
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: the program today and was so glad you were able
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: to join us, because this narrative about quote unquote affordability,
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: things are terrible, et cetera. All right, I do understand
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: where my paycheck is going, because I'm the one who
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: goes to the grocery store, in the gas station and
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: whatever but I also have lived enough time that I
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: know that prices EBB and flow, etc. And once we
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: had that nine percent inflation during the Biden era, that
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: never goes back to where it used to be. So
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: what's the real situation with the economy. What's the message
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: that's not being gotten across as you note by the
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: White House or Republicans broadly.
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: Let me think about what ways to put this in order. Look,
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: I think that we're heading toward better times rather than
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: heading toward worse times. I think capitalism is in good shape,
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: the stop market being at all time high. Trump accounts
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: encouraging people to set up accounts for their newborn babies. Hey,
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: here's a thousand bucks from the government. You don't even
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: have to match it, but if you do, my god,
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: what it will grow to over forty years is unbelievable.
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: Do you know? I know someone they put two thousand
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: dollars into an account in nineteen eighty one, did not
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: add anything to it, invested it only to ST. Five hundred.
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: Today it's just like two hundred and sixty thousand dollars.
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: That's called the power of compounding. More people in this
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: country are going to become aware of it. I think
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: we're a little spoiled. I mean, Jeff, remember all the
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: wonderful posts on x from Europeans saying, my god, this
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: country is amazing that I'm visiting. Here in America, they've
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: got eleven versions of doctor pepper in the grocery store.
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: They've got amazing serving sizes, and restaurants and refills three
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: of coffee. We are spoiled. We spend too much money,
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: many of us, way too much money. Instead of cooking
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: a two dollars burrito at home, we expect, you know,
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: to order a twenty dollars barrito at Chipotle. As there
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: was just a controversy raging in the conservative side of
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: things about the twenty de dollar burrito.
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: I'm not sure any burrito is worth twenty dollars, but
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: I guess if I want it and I have the
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: rece sources, I'll pay it. But now to your point,
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: make it at home. Well, you haven't tried my cooking.
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: But that's a whole different But the problem is, and
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: this is part of being spoiled that you just mentioned,
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: we expect there to be a dozen different types of
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: doctor pepper or whatever at a store. And it's it's
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: the sort of thing where we also expect to have
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: it right darn now, and the credit card situation is
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: out of hand. I don't think that's so much based
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: on the economy, although people got pressed during COVID and after.
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: I think it's a lack of discipline. What do you think.
• 25:43
  Speaker 5: Entirely it's a lack of discipline, you know.
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: I mean, our grandparents saved vastly better than our children too.
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: Although my daughter is an inveterate saver, a great saver,
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: because I was pounding that into her from the time
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: she was a little girl. But people spend way too much,
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: and spending is the enemy of an investment. And they
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: can say that they don't earn enough in their jobs,
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: but moved to a cheaper neighborhood, moved to a cheaper state.
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: When I left New York after forty years in January
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: and moved to Soflow, South Florida, I instantly got fourteen
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: percent rays on my earnings because that's how much combined
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: state in city taxes were taken out of anything I
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: earned up in New York. And so there are things
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: we can do. We aren't slaves. People complains, it's Amazon people.
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: They know they're earning twenty one dollars an hour. Now
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: that's three times the federal minimum. And my gosh, their
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: complaining is not enough. But no one's a slave. They
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: could look for a better job. I just think there's
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: too much negativity out there, Jeff, because if now politics,
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: the political split is what defines everything. In the University
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: of Michigan Consumer Centment to survey, Democrats believe that inflation
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: is going to be at like a six percent rate
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: or higher, and Republicans say, oh no, no, it's only
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: going to be a tensiveer percent annually. Well, both measures
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: are ridiculous and wrong, and both measures are just skewed
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: by political bias.
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: Well, how did we get to this point where numbers
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: don't seem to matter?
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and where data, i mean doesn't even count anymore.
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: The other disturbing thing about that jobs report is the
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: restatement of close to two hundred thousand jobs that we
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: thought were created and they were not. And that's kind
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: of a bad thing. And always are having to take
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: that back down. I think, you know, the data and
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: the noise today has never been worse. There's almost too
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: much information going around there and not enough of it
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: curated with a balanced perspective versus you know, forwarding a
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: political agenda. I mean, they keep complaining about affordability and
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: prices now, but that's because under Biden it peaked at
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: nine percent, and then, like you said, the prices don't
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: go back down. So anything on top is on top
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: of that. And the reason it's so expensive is because
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: of the nine percent part of it, not because of
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: the three point two percent now, even though he's going
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: to take a whole bunch of trouble for it, but
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: I'm praying that the Muslim socialist takeover of the agenda
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: and the flip end of the Democrat Party will prompt
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: Democrat voters to turn out and vote Republican and vote
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: instead to vote against this takeover, because what's happening is
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: truly concerning.
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: We're speaking with Dennis Neil, the financial journalist. He joins
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: us on the Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line. Last year his
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: book The Leadership Genius of Elon Musk. This year his
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: book or A Gonner's How One State Chased Away Businesses
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: and people. You get those books as well as Todd
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: Starn's new book The Golden Age. You get them wherever
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: you get your good books these days, and mister Neil
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: joins us live on the Todd Starns program. Jeff Stein
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: filling in for Todd, I'm glad you mentioned this revision
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: of data situation. We seem to, for no good reason,
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: my opinion, not necessarily yours. We seem to, for no
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: good reason, hang on every little number of these jobs reports,
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: and it affects our actions. But yet we're revising data
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: thirty and sixty days old. Can we not come up
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: with a system where the reporting of data is different
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: than it was fifty and seventy five years ago subject
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: to filling out a form and mailing it to Washington.
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: I don't understand why the data is so poor, but
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: I'm led to believe it's because of the methodology in
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: collecting it exactly.
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: And government runs way behind the technology and updating to
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: embrace the new techniques. The University of Michigan survey has
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: been struggling to go from cell phone based surveys to
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: web based surveys, which you know are skewed and several
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: points different from the actual telephone surveys that they've used
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: for years and years. And you know, we look at
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: the Federal Reserve all of its data is looking backward
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: pretty much. It's hundreds and it's hundreds and even thousands
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: of data points and different things that they're meshing all
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: together and looking you know, where things have been, and
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: they're always behind the curve. They're always overreacting late because
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: they underreacted early. And you know, they they were built
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: in a time where tech hadn't taken over the economy.
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: You know, storage costs fall per year. I think the
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: Federal Reserve has a hard time factoring that in and
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: the impacts of that and the productivity increases, and so
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: it's always worried when it's sees high growth. It instantly
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: thinks it's high inflation. But with tech, and especially now
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: with AI, you can have higher growth without any inflation
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: because the productivity and output increase with that growth, and
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: therefore prices don't go up.
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: So should we be paying as much attention to the
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: Fed as some people do. I mean, right in the
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: aftermath of the jobs report, and you were kind enough
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: to mention it a few moments ago. It now telegraphs something.
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: This is data that the FED will use, and what
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: might the FED do? They don't meet in August, they
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: meet in September, What will the FED do? Should the
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: average person listening to this conversation care what the Fed does?
• 31:21
  Speaker 5: It's such a good question because when you're a pixel
• 31:24
  Speaker 5: pundit inside the circle talking about how important it is,
• 31:28
  Speaker 5: you dare not question that.
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: I noticed your hush tones as you dared to speak it.
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: Person, You're kind of right. They don't have to worry
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: about it on a day to day basis. But if
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: you've got an IRA and it's in stock, you want
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: to know what they're doing because just you know, key
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: in that one thing that oh, the lower the rates go,
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: the better stops look, because they offer a far better
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: return than safe government bonds. But the higher government rates
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: go government boonds, then suddenly stops aren't as pretty, and
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: some of the money flows in the boonds and the
• 31:58
  Speaker 3: stock market and the like.
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: That always great analysis from the veteran financial journalist Dennis Neil.
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: What's Bugging Me is his podcast You listen to that
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: wherever you listen to podcasts. Rickoshet I believe is the distributor.
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: His most recent book is Oregoner's Get That. At the
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: same time that you pick up Todd's new book The
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: Golden Age, Dennis Neil, thanks so much for joining us
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: on the Patriot Mobile newsmaker line. Have a tremendous afternoon, sir.
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: YouTube glorious day to you, sir.
• 32:26
  Speaker 6: Thanks a lot, and as.
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: Noted, mister Neil joined us on the Patriot Mobile newsmaker Line.
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: More from the Liberty University Studio in a moment, Jeff
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: Stein filling in for Todd. He'll be back tomorrow. I'll
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: be back in four minutes on the Todd Starn Show.
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: That's some mood music there for a Monday. Welcome back
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: to the Liberty University Studio and the Todd Starn Show.
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: Jeff sty filling in for today nine oh one two
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: six oh five, nine two six, will take your calls
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: in the next hour. Will also be joined in the
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: next hour by a candidate for Congress from Florida. His
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: name is Ben Butler. That's just after the top of
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: the hour, and at the bottom of the hour we'll
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: speak with Indiana Congressman Rudy Yackam. That is in our
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: next hour, but we have plenty of time as always
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: for your calls. At nine oh one two six oh five,
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: nine two six. Now I had started the program by
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: talking about the dereliction of duty in the US Senate.
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: And we've already talked about voter integrity. We've talked about
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: the fact that the House has a budget resolution, but
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: the Senate instead just kicked the can down the road
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: because apparently the Senate just doesn't like the House telling
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: them what to do. I don't know. There's a crypto
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: regulation bill for crypto currency, that's a big deal for
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: people in the industry. Well, that's not getting anywhere. Apparently
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: they don't think that's even gonna get passed until after
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: the election. If then, and then how about protecting college
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: sports giving the NCAA some limited antitrust protection to regulate
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: things like the transfer porth hall, etc. Name image likeness, nil,
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: the way that the student athletes get paid, et cetera. Well,
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: they reached a deal. They're gonna wait until September. They
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: voluntarily decided not to push that. Now. I don't know
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: about you, but I need deadlines, I need a list,
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: and I do things based upon the clock ticking. No,
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: not everything, and that's not a great way to live.
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: But you know, when you've got the leverage of the clock,
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: how about using it. Well, apparently that's just getting in
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: the way of the club nature of things and all
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: of that. By the way, everything we just talked about
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: that the Senate did not do before leaving town, here's
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: something they did not do. They did not get a
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: five year farm bill through the Senate agg Committee. They
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: thought they had it all teed up to go, and
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: then the Democrats kind of pulled a fast one. The
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: Democrats didn't like the fact that states were going to
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: have to contribute toward what we used to call food
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: stamps that snap benefits well. In the reconciliation bill last
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: year was put in place. Hey, states have to pony
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: up on some of this. So they reached an agreement
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: and we'll defer that for a year. Why I don't know,
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: but they said, okay, you Democrats, in order to buy
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: your vote, will give you one year of a reprieve
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: on this. So then comes time for the markup and
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: the vote and the Democrats say, oh no, we want
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: two years of this. So basically, you make a deal
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: with the devil. Sod a coincidence. The devil and Democrats
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: both start with you decide you make a deal with
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: the devil. You give them a little and they want more.
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: There's never enough. Just like with your tax dollars, there's
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: never enough, no matter how much you pay, it's never enough.
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: So instead of a version of a farm bill getting
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: through the Senate agg Committee and potentially to the Senate
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: to then work with the House bill, which is different,
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: to actually get a bill passed that's already three years
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: behind schedule, Nope, not gonna do that. That didn't happen.
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: Now what I challenge those on the left, and I've
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: said it on my station and I'll share it with
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: you nationally. The folks on the left who keep crying
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: about these snap benefits and paying for all these things.
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: If you don't support the farmers to produce the food,
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: there will be no food to use snap benefits for.
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: So get the priority straight and guarantee a secure food
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: supply that is in some way affordable for those of
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: us who are paying our own way, and allow folks
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: who need a little help to get the help. And
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: everybody's happy now. But you guys got to go home
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: on vacation. Good for you. Todd Starns is not on
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: vacation travel day. He will be back tomorrow. I'm Jeff Stein.
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: I'll be back after the top of the hour. Thanks
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: for being along from the Liberty University Studio on The
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: Todd starn Show.
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: Live from the Liberty University Studio in Memphis, Tennessee. It's
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: common Safe, it's conservative commentary from Todd Stars.
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: Hello, fellow Patriots. Jeff Stein filling in for Todd today,
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: coming to you from the Liberty University Studio and my
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: home base at the Free State of Iowa. Scheduled day
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: away from the microphone for Todd. He's making his way
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: back from California, where he had a fantastic weekend. He
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: spoke to about six thousand people at Calvary Chapel Chino
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: Hills in socol Southern California, sign books for about three hours.
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: They're the lucky ones. They got their copies of The
• 38:40
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• 38:45
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• 38:48
  Speaker 2: stopped by the book signing. I'll tell you more about
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: that coming up in a bit. The Golden Age, the
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: brand new book by Todd Starns. Release date is tomorrow.
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: Get your copy now. You will be glad you did.
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: Tomorrow is another big day on the ballot. We know
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: about the special election in South Carolina. Also primary elections
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: in Connecticut, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Vermont, some of the Alabama congressional districts.
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: That's tomorrow. A week from tomorrow, they have primary elections
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: in Florida. And joining us now on the Patriot Mobile
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: newsmaker Line is a Republican candidate for Congress from the
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: ninth District of Florida. His name is Ben Butler. You
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: learn more at Butlerfofflorida dot com. Mister Butler. Jeff Stein
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: filling in for Todd Starns. How are you today?
• 39:36
  Speaker 6: Hey, good morning, Jeff. Great to come at you from
• 39:39
  Speaker 6: the Free State of Florida.
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: Absolutely, sir, And I have to tell you, and I've
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: looked a bit at your bio. You run a dairy
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: and cattle operation. That's no easy feat these days. You've
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: got a great life, You've got a wonderful family. Why
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: in the blazes would you run for Congress.
• 40:01
  Speaker 6: I've been at that many times since since I've started
• 40:05
  Speaker 6: this campaign. It's yet, you know, ultimately, it's when when
• 40:11
  Speaker 6: our state redrew our congressional lines, and this is an
• 40:14
  Speaker 6: opportunity for us to slift that congressional seat from blue
• 40:18
  Speaker 6: to red. And so knowing that Republican is gonna win
• 40:21
  Speaker 6: this one. Started looking around and realized we need more
• 40:25
  Speaker 6: common sense in DC and I couldn't find anybody that's
• 40:29
  Speaker 6: going to take that common sense. Some way, I felt
• 40:31
  Speaker 6: the calling and we jumped in and it has been
• 40:34
  Speaker 6: been quite a ride here for the last two and
• 40:36
  Speaker 6: a half months on this primary campaign trail.
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: What surprised you the most so far in talking with
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: voters or running a campaign.
• 40:45
  Speaker 6: Well, it's there, there's a lot and then that's that's
• 40:48
  Speaker 6: multiple questions there. But in talking to voters, you know,
• 40:52
  Speaker 6: I guess it hadn't been a surprise. The number one
• 40:54
  Speaker 6: issue has been affordability, and so it's and it's I'm
• 40:59
  Speaker 6: a strong belief that our federal government has got to shrink,
• 41:02
  Speaker 6: and it's you know, it's going to take that common
• 41:05
  Speaker 6: sense to values. These things that we've learned on the farm.
• 41:08
  Speaker 6: The fact that the fact that you've got to fix
• 41:13
  Speaker 6: the problem. You can't you can't wait around, you can't
• 41:16
  Speaker 6: belabor it. The problem needs to be fixed. And our
• 41:18
  Speaker 6: federal government spending needs to be fixed because it has
• 41:21
  Speaker 6: contributed to our inflation. So that's that's been the number
• 41:24
  Speaker 6: one issue that I'm hearing from folks around.
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: So, as a congressman from Florida, what do you think
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: you're going to be able to offer to get these
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: folks who are kind of stuck in the swamp, to
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: get them to change their ways. Because we didn't get
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: here all at once, it's going to take a while
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: to turn it around. But what can you offer that
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: will help get us in the right direction.
• 41:48
  Speaker 6: Well, it's a great question. It's so as a farmer,
• 41:53
  Speaker 6: we find as a commodity producer, we're price takers and
• 41:57
  Speaker 6: so the really what we can control at our level
• 42:00
  Speaker 6: is we control our expenses. And that's what I'll bring
• 42:03
  Speaker 6: to the table, the ability to sort through to find
• 42:06
  Speaker 6: the common sense, uh, you know, to use common sense
• 42:11
  Speaker 6: and to limit what we do at a federal government.
• 42:14
  Speaker 6: It is uh, you know, I bring a perspective coming
• 42:18
  Speaker 6: from from from agriculture, but it is the skills that
• 42:22
  Speaker 6: we've learned, the skills that I've learned in again and
• 42:26
  Speaker 6: controlling expenses, whether it be managing the payroll, managing the
• 42:30
  Speaker 6: lands and survive or or you know, or just the
• 42:32
  Speaker 6: regulations that we deal with. There are lots of opportunity
• 42:36
  Speaker 6: to create more efficiencies and reduce expenses and That's what
• 42:40
  Speaker 6: I'll bring to the table.
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: Ben Butler is our guest. Butler for Florida dot Com
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: is the website. This is the ninth congressional district. The
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: primary is a week from tomorrow, August eighteenth. He joins
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: us on the Patriot Mobile newsmaker line Jeff Stein filling
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: in for Todd on The Starring Show Today. This is
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: a crowded primary. All are things shaping up in terms
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: of your common sense in your background as opposed to
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: these other folks.
• 43:08
  Speaker 6: Well, it is a crowded primary. There are seven Republicans
• 43:11
  Speaker 6: that we're all buying for it. You know, our story
• 43:15
  Speaker 6: is resonating. Got a couple of self thunders in the race.
• 43:19
  Speaker 6: We've not We've been raising everything organically through contributions, trying
• 43:24
  Speaker 6: to use that those resources to get our story out
• 43:28
  Speaker 6: and it's resonating. We finally saw some polling late last
• 43:31
  Speaker 6: week that says we've got a four way tie statistical
• 43:34
  Speaker 6: tie at the top of the ticket here with about
• 43:36
  Speaker 6: forty percent of folks still undecided. So we've got some opportunity.
• 43:40
  Speaker 6: It's exciting for us, and you know we're going to
• 43:43
  Speaker 6: continue here in this last week and a half of
• 43:46
  Speaker 6: just continue to get our story out and let our
• 43:49
  Speaker 6: electric know that you know, it's time that we get
• 43:52
  Speaker 6: a farmer up to d C.
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: Well, amen to that. I come from Iowa, and so
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: you can imagine how I felt when the Farm Bill
• 43:59
  Speaker 2: say a part in the Senate the other day. We'll
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: get to that in a moment. But so I'm looking
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: at your website and you're promoting Second Amendment rights. That's
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: not the first time you've held a firearm, sir. I
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: can tell from this photo.
• 44:15
  Speaker 6: Hey, let me tell you. And then we shot a
• 44:17
  Speaker 6: video and I'm proud to say we did four takes
• 44:21
  Speaker 6: and and I hit that clay every quart awful time.
• 44:24
  Speaker 6: So I just wish it was caught on video for
• 44:27
  Speaker 6: the for the ad that we put together. But no,
• 44:31
  Speaker 6: it's no, Jeff. I am absolutely of course, growing up
• 44:36
  Speaker 6: in rural America, you own firearms. But as an American,
• 44:42
  Speaker 6: I own firearms just from my own peace and protection
• 44:44
  Speaker 6: and the safety from my family. And it's something that
• 44:47
  Speaker 6: I hope I never have to use. But it is
• 44:49
  Speaker 6: our Second Amendment right and I fully believe in it,
• 44:51
  Speaker 6: and I will defend it to the end.
• 44:53
  Speaker 2: Okay, you don't need my help, but you know, go
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: shoot another ad, Go shoot another ad, label one of
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: the Clay's deficits another one. Yeah, I mean you get
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: the idea. Here just just and and here's here's Butler
• 45:08
  Speaker 2: and he's just shooting these things like it's nothing, and
• 45:11
  Speaker 2: he'll do the same in Washington. That's free. You can
• 45:13
  Speaker 2: have that all you want.
• 45:15
  Speaker 6: I like it.
• 45:17
  Speaker 2: Help us understand because again I've been whining about the
• 45:20
  Speaker 2: farm situation, and because again I think there are too
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: many people in Washington, frankly across the country who think
• 45:29
  Speaker 2: food comes from the grocery store. Well it doesn't. What
• 45:32
  Speaker 2: what can you do to help make this an industry
• 45:39
  Speaker 2: that can continue on to the next generation. I see
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: from the website your daughter is involved with things like
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: FFA and four h How do you keep this thing going?
• 45:48
  Speaker 2: It's tough these days.
• 45:51
  Speaker 6: It's tough. It's tough. And you know, as a farmer,
• 45:54
  Speaker 6: I mean, one of the biggest challenges that we faith
• 45:57
  Speaker 6: is keeping our farm sustainable so they'll pass to the
• 46:00
  Speaker 6: next generation. And you know, as a farmer, it's not
• 46:05
  Speaker 6: just my choice, it's my daughter's choice to want to
• 46:09
  Speaker 6: continue the farm on. So we've got to provide things
• 46:13
  Speaker 6: that uh uh, you know, that encourage our next generation
• 46:18
  Speaker 6: to want to keep farming when they look around and
• 46:21
  Speaker 6: they see the struggles that that their parents are going through,
• 46:25
  Speaker 6: whether it be just struggles just to paying the bills
• 46:27
  Speaker 6: or making pay roll. You know, of course, uh, farming
• 46:31
  Speaker 6: is not We rely upon mother Nature for a lot
• 46:34
  Speaker 6: of things. It's not easy. It's not for sissies. But
• 46:38
  Speaker 6: you know, too many times the next generation sees other
• 46:42
  Speaker 6: opportunities off the farm where they think it's you know, it's, uh,
• 46:47
  Speaker 6: there's there's there's other ways to make a living. But
• 46:50
  Speaker 6: I'll tell you, yes, there's not more rewarding than actually
• 46:53
  Speaker 6: working the soil, working with God's creatures, with animals, and
• 46:57
  Speaker 6: helping to produce food. It doesn't have happened magically, that's right.
• 47:01
  Speaker 6: It doesn't just show up in the grocery store.
• 47:03
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 47:04
  Speaker 6: It's kind of funny when you know, in Florida we
• 47:06
  Speaker 6: deal with hurricanes, and you know, when you lead up
• 47:10
  Speaker 6: to the hurricane, just like I've never been in snow,
• 47:12
  Speaker 6: but I've heard the stories that you know, one of
• 47:14
  Speaker 6: the first things to sell out is milk and bread
• 47:16
  Speaker 6: in the store. But as soon as everything clears up,
• 47:20
  Speaker 6: as soon as the hurricane passes that milk and bread
• 47:22
  Speaker 6: is back in the store. That doesn't happen magically. That's
• 47:26
  Speaker 6: because your farmers are working through that hurricane to make
• 47:29
  Speaker 6: sure as soon as it opens back up, it's there.
• 47:32
  Speaker 6: So it's I don't know that our farmers get enough
• 47:35
  Speaker 6: credits for what they do in producing food and the
• 47:39
  Speaker 6: struggles that they work through. And you know you brought
• 47:43
  Speaker 6: up the farm bill. I mean that's that's where the
• 47:45
  Speaker 6: farm bill comes in. It's not the farm bills not
• 47:48
  Speaker 6: to keep our farmers cropped up. The farm bill is
• 47:52
  Speaker 6: to make sure that we've got safe, affordable food supply
• 47:57
  Speaker 6: for every American. That is the purpose and doesn't get
• 48:00
  Speaker 6: talked about enough. And you know, and and so it's
• 48:04
  Speaker 6: when when when? When that fell apart in the Senate
• 48:07
  Speaker 6: a little disappointing. Hopefully they'll be able to take it
• 48:09
  Speaker 6: up in this session. If not, I stand ready to
• 48:12
  Speaker 6: take it up next go around.
• 48:15
  Speaker 2: If somebody doesn't print T shirts that says farming It's
• 48:20
  Speaker 2: not for sissies, then they're missing an opportunity. I made
• 48:24
  Speaker 2: a note of that the moment you said it. Uh,
• 48:26
  Speaker 2: I got about Uh. You've got some nice endorsements on
• 48:29
  Speaker 2: the website people that I've talked to on Todd's program
• 48:32
  Speaker 2: before in the past, as as the audiences would be
• 48:36
  Speaker 2: familiar as well. But I got sixty seconds, and I'm
• 48:38
  Speaker 2: gonna let you make your case. Why should Floridians vote
• 48:42
  Speaker 2: for you in the primary for ninth district a week
• 48:47
  Speaker 2: from tomorrow.
• 48:49
  Speaker 6: Well not DIP. I appreciate it, you know, ultimately, and
• 48:53
  Speaker 6: this campaign comes back. It's why I jumped in. We've
• 48:56
  Speaker 6: got enough lawyers and career politicians in d C. Well,
• 49:00
  Speaker 6: we don't have enough of our people who have actually
• 49:03
  Speaker 6: had to produce something, people who had to make a payroll,
• 49:07
  Speaker 6: they've had to manage to land and survived the bad years,
• 49:10
  Speaker 6: and then they have to live with the consequences of
• 49:13
  Speaker 6: government decisions. You know, I'm running to take those common
• 49:17
  Speaker 6: sense values to d C. You know, Washington, they got
• 49:22
  Speaker 6: enough people to know how to write a regulation. They
• 49:24
  Speaker 6: just need more people that know what it costs to
• 49:26
  Speaker 6: live under regulations. And you know that's been one of
• 49:30
  Speaker 6: my one of my big talking points throughout the campaign.
• 49:33
  Speaker 6: And you know, I'll end it with this. It's you know,
• 49:37
  Speaker 6: we can't on a farm. I've learned that I can't
• 49:40
  Speaker 6: spend my way out of every problem. I've learned that
• 49:43
  Speaker 6: I can't borrow forever, and that excuses don't get the
• 49:47
  Speaker 6: work done. And you know we need more of that
• 49:51
  Speaker 6: in d C. And that's why we say it's time
• 49:54
  Speaker 6: to send a farmer to Washington.
• 49:57
  Speaker 2: Butler for Florida dot Com is the websit. If you
• 50:00
  Speaker 2: like what you heard and you'd like to help him out,
• 50:02
  Speaker 2: there's a nice subtle donate button at the top of
• 50:04
  Speaker 2: the web page. Ben Butler, good luck a week from tomorrow.
• 50:08
  Speaker 2: I've enjoyed the conversation, and let's get some more people
• 50:11
  Speaker 2: who know how to drive a tractor down Capitol Hill
• 50:15
  Speaker 2: in Washington.
• 50:16
  Speaker 6: There you go, drive a tractor and milkacal.
• 50:19
  Speaker 2: Thank you, Jeff all right, take good care, soir appreciate it.
• 50:22
  Speaker 2: Ben Butler. He's running for Congress seven person race Republican
• 50:26
  Speaker 2: Florida's ninth district and the primary is a week from tomorrow.
• 50:30
  Speaker 2: He joined us on the Patriot Mobile news Maker line
• 50:33
  Speaker 2: nine oh one two six oh five nine two six
• 50:37
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• 50:40
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• 50:42
  Speaker 2: Short break. Now your calls on the other side Jeff
• 50:45
  Speaker 2: Stein in for Todd. This is the Todd Starn Show.
• 51:01
  Speaker 2: Welcome back to the Liberty University Studio. In the Todd
• 51:04
  Speaker 2: Starn Show. Jeff Stein filling in for Tod today nine
• 51:07
  Speaker 2: oh one two six oh five, nine two six is
• 51:11
  Speaker 2: how you can join our coast to coast conversation. Just
• 51:14
  Speaker 2: after the bottom of the hour, we'll speak with Indiana
• 51:17
  Speaker 2: Congressman Rudy Yakham about what he's hearing from Hoosiers this
• 51:21
  Speaker 2: time of year. That's coming up after the bottom of
• 51:23
  Speaker 2: the hour. This is from the category of we don't
• 51:27
  Speaker 2: deserve him. This is a post from President Trump on
• 51:30
  Speaker 2: Truth Social. Now you may remember that the folks in
• 51:35
  Speaker 2: Iran are saying we want compensation from the United States
• 51:39
  Speaker 2: for breaking stuff or whatever during this conflict. This is
• 51:45
  Speaker 2: your president, our president speaking quoting. Now, I see that
• 51:50
  Speaker 2: representatives of the Islamic Republic of Iran are asking for
• 51:54
  Speaker 2: compensation for the damage done to them during the last
• 51:57
  Speaker 2: five month military conflict started because all caps they will
• 52:03
  Speaker 2: not have a nuclear weapon, even though it was never
• 52:08
  Speaker 2: mentioned in any of our negotiations or meetings. Okay, this
• 52:12
  Speaker 2: is the President on Truth Social saying, now they want
• 52:15
  Speaker 2: compensation even though it never came up before. The President continues,
• 52:19
  Speaker 2: but it is an interesting idea because now I am
• 52:23
  Speaker 2: likewise demanding compensation from Iran for all of the people
• 52:28
  Speaker 2: that they have killed and gravely wounded with their roadside
• 52:32
  Speaker 2: bombs and many conflicts for which they are famous, as
• 52:36
  Speaker 2: led initially by General Solimani, including the families of those
• 52:41
  Speaker 2: killed on the USS coal and thousands of others killed
• 52:45
  Speaker 2: in combat. The President on Truth Social continues, Additionally, compensation
• 52:52
  Speaker 2: should be paid to the families of the hundreds of
• 52:54
  Speaker 2: thousands of innocent protesters that Iran has killed over the
• 52:59
  Speaker 2: last fifty years, not to mention the fifty two thousand
• 53:03
  Speaker 2: that have been killed in the last five months. I
• 53:07
  Speaker 2: have instructed my representatives to put this firmly into any
• 53:11
  Speaker 2: and all further future negotiations. Get that, I have instructed
• 53:18
  Speaker 2: my representatives to put this firmly into any and all
• 53:21
  Speaker 2: future negotiations. Thank you for your attention to this matter,
• 53:26
  Speaker 2: President Donald J. Trump. They need those T shirts also,
• 53:30
  Speaker 2: Thank you for attention to this matter with his signature again,
• 53:34
  Speaker 2: go ahead, thank me later. So that's the President untruth
• 53:37
  Speaker 2: Social today as we're trying to figure out okay on
• 53:41
  Speaker 2: again off again, on again, off again. The news stories
• 53:44
  Speaker 2: today have suggested that perhaps instead of bombing them into submission,
• 53:48
  Speaker 2: we would just economically starve them to where they have
• 53:52
  Speaker 2: to come to the table. But that was the hook
• 53:54
  Speaker 2: over the weekend to Ron saying well, we want compensation
• 53:57
  Speaker 2: for all the stuff you broke, and Trump's saying, all right,
• 54:00
  Speaker 2: you want to play compensation. How about for all of
• 54:04
  Speaker 2: these people you kill? How about the damage to people
• 54:07
  Speaker 2: for fifty years? I mean, let's face it, the reign
• 54:13
  Speaker 2: of the Shah of Iran was not perfect by any stretch,
• 54:16
  Speaker 2: all right. Remember after the Shah left power in nineteen
• 54:21
  Speaker 2: seventy eight or seventy nine, the hostage chicking was seventy nine,
• 54:25
  Speaker 2: so I'm not sure when he actually left the country,
• 54:29
  Speaker 2: but there were a lot of nations that would not
• 54:31
  Speaker 2: let him be housed there. The US Jimmy Carter caught
• 54:35
  Speaker 2: all sorts of flak for the fact that the Shah
• 54:39
  Speaker 2: was allowed into this country for medical treatment for his cancer. However,
• 54:44
  Speaker 2: they kept it quiet because of the backlash. So again,
• 54:48
  Speaker 2: no picnic during the Shaw's time, But certainly the last
• 54:52
  Speaker 2: half century has been an example of the most heinous
• 54:59
  Speaker 2: regime you can find certainly one that you don't want
• 55:02
  Speaker 2: to have a nuclear weapon. But there you go. Let's
• 55:07
  Speaker 2: get our own compensation. So I guess things aren't going
• 55:12
  Speaker 2: swimmingly on that front either. I took a position earlier
• 55:16
  Speaker 2: this month, and I'll share it with you here. It's
• 55:18
  Speaker 2: pretty simple. We're either in or we're out. Either go
• 55:22
  Speaker 2: in and finish the job or get out, because the
• 55:26
  Speaker 2: back and forth, back and forth is not producing the
• 55:31
  Speaker 2: kind of results we need. I get it. I get that.
• 55:35
  Speaker 2: We don't want to even heard the president. He says,
• 55:36
  Speaker 2: I don't want to kill people, especially when it's not
• 55:39
  Speaker 2: the people who are causing the problem. But we have
• 55:45
  Speaker 2: to put an end to this. That's how the people
• 55:49
  Speaker 2: themselves can govern it in the future. And people say, well,
• 55:54
  Speaker 2: why don't they just take up arms and govern themselves. Well,
• 55:57
  Speaker 2: they can't take up arms. The arms have been taken
• 55:59
  Speaker 2: away from them. So all right, iron, get out your
• 56:02
  Speaker 2: check book. We'll be happy to discuss it with you.
• 56:04
  Speaker 2: According to President Trump. Congressman Rudy Yackham of Indiana joins
• 56:10
  Speaker 2: us after this break on The Todd Starry Show. Welcome
• 56:31
  Speaker 2: back to the Liberty University Studio and The Todd starn Show.
• 56:35
  Speaker 2: Jeff Stein filling in for Todd on this Monday. Todd
• 56:39
  Speaker 2: will be back tomorrow. He's making his way back from
• 56:42
  Speaker 2: an appearance and book signing in California, very successful one.
• 56:47
  Speaker 2: The book The Golden Age comes out tomorrow everywhere, including
• 56:52
  Speaker 2: in Memphis. And we'll tell you about an appearance where
• 56:55
  Speaker 2: you can come meet Todd if you are in that
• 56:57
  Speaker 2: part of Tennessee. That event is tomorrow. I'll tell you
• 57:00
  Speaker 2: about that in a few moments. But now I want
• 57:01
  Speaker 2: to go to the Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line and I'm
• 57:05
  Speaker 2: pleased to welcome the congressman representing the second District of Indiana,
• 57:10
  Speaker 2: the Honor boll Rudy Yakam Congressman Jeff Stein in for Todd.
• 57:13
  Speaker 2: How are you today?
• 57:15
  Speaker 7: I'm fantastic, Jeff, Thanks for having me on.
• 57:17
  Speaker 2: Thank you for taking the time. So this is the
• 57:20
  Speaker 2: district work period, and so you're out meeting with constituents
• 57:25
  Speaker 2: and what you're calling the Who's Your Heartland Tour? What
• 57:28
  Speaker 2: is that? And what do you hear from folks?
• 57:30
  Speaker 7: The Hoo's your Heartland Tour is something that I take
• 57:32
  Speaker 7: the opportunity to do every single August. We go around
• 57:36
  Speaker 7: Indiana Second District I go to all eleven counties multiple times,
• 57:40
  Speaker 7: and here from Hoosiers. I don't think that you can
• 57:43
  Speaker 7: fight for people that you don't know. You've got to
• 57:45
  Speaker 7: take the time to get to know your constituents, hear
• 57:48
  Speaker 7: what's on their minds. And so I'm walking the factory floors,
• 57:51
  Speaker 7: I'm getting out to the farmers' fields, and I'm just
• 57:53
  Speaker 7: listening to Hoosiers and I got to tell you, Jeff,
• 57:55
  Speaker 7: they're talking about things like the working family's tax cuts.
• 57:58
  Speaker 7: They're talking about how great grateful they are for things
• 58:01
  Speaker 7: like no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, tax
• 58:04
  Speaker 7: relief for seniors, the elevated child tax Credit, the enhanced
• 58:08
  Speaker 7: standard induction, and that's just for our working families. And
• 58:11
  Speaker 7: a lot of our businesses are talking about the great
• 58:13
  Speaker 7: things that we've done for small business and manufacturing. I
• 58:15
  Speaker 7: mean everything from the permanent extension of the one ninety
• 58:18
  Speaker 7: nine eight aduction to the permanent or the R and
• 58:22
  Speaker 7: D expensing, full expensing, the FUIL expensing for capital expenditures
• 58:27
  Speaker 7: when you're expanding a factory. I mean, all these things
• 58:29
  Speaker 7: are great things for working families and middle class families,
• 58:32
  Speaker 7: and we're hearing it everywhere. We go around the district.
• 58:36
  Speaker 2: Is it hard for people to appreciate everything that the
• 58:40
  Speaker 2: Reconciliation Bill signed on Independence Day last year did? And
• 58:44
  Speaker 2: I say that, Congressman for this reason because the biggest
• 58:47
  Speaker 2: thing for me was preserving those tax cuts. But that's
• 58:52
  Speaker 2: not something that people saw directly. And I wonder if
• 58:56
  Speaker 2: you folks just aren't getting the kind of credit you
• 58:58
  Speaker 2: deserve for that own, much less all these other things
• 59:01
  Speaker 2: that you've mentioned that have made it much easier to
• 59:04
  Speaker 2: be a business owner in this country.
• 59:06
  Speaker 7: Well, of course, we preserve trum tax credit or tax
• 59:09
  Speaker 7: cuts from the first round back in twenty seventeen that
• 59:13
  Speaker 7: the President did working with Congress. But also we want
• 59:16
  Speaker 7: to encourage people to go back to work. We want
• 59:18
  Speaker 7: to allow the hoosiers that I serve to keep more
• 59:21
  Speaker 7: money in their pockets. And that's why we did many
• 59:24
  Speaker 7: of the things that the President asked us to do.
• 59:26
  Speaker 7: You know, it was the President's idea to do no
• 59:28
  Speaker 7: tax on tips. That's why we did it. You know,
• 59:30
  Speaker 7: the President said that our seniors who are out there
• 59:33
  Speaker 7: sometimes struggling to make ends meet, why they should have
• 59:36
  Speaker 7: more money in our pockets. I mean, that's why we
• 59:37
  Speaker 7: did that. That's why we provided for things like no
• 59:40
  Speaker 7: tax on auto loan interest to make it easier and
• 59:43
  Speaker 7: more affordable to buy a car. That's why we did
• 59:46
  Speaker 7: a number of things, including allowing small businesses who are
• 59:49
  Speaker 7: building new factories to fully expense the entirety of the factory,
• 59:53
  Speaker 7: including the shell. And I got to tell you, Jeff,
• 59:55
  Speaker 7: I don't if you know this, but right now there
• 59:57
  Speaker 7: are eighty three thousand people in this country who are
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 7: building new factories because of President Trump's economic policies. So
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 7: these are things to be celebrated, and we need more
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 7: of it.
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 2: And again, in my background, the small business I run
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 2: does not need a lot of equipment. But in my
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 2: past life as a lawyer, I would do business planning
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 2: and taxes for people, and the average business owner would say, well,
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 2: how come I head to pay the full freight for
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 2: this piece of equipment or whatever it is, but I
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 2: can't deduct it unless I amortize it over decades. That
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 2: doesn't seem to make sense. You should be able to
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 2: deduct an expense in the year you pay the expense.
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 2: That common sense approach was the hallmark of what we've
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 2: been discussing here. Makes a huge difference for planning and
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  Speaker 2: business expansion.
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  Speaker 7: That's exactly right. It makes no sense because you've got
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  Speaker 7: to basically pay for a piece of equipment twice, right,
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  Speaker 7: You've got to pay the tax on the money that
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  Speaker 7: you earn, but then you can't write it off in
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  Speaker 7: the first year. You've got to take that right off
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  Speaker 7: over the course of many years. It just makes no sense.
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  Speaker 7: And so that's why we thought that was a great
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  Speaker 7: thing to do, and we're seeing capital investment at an
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  Speaker 7: all time high. This money is also translating, Jeff, to
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  Speaker 7: your everyday worker. Your typical middle class family has seen
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  Speaker 7: their real wages and real wages means adjusted for inflation.
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  Speaker 7: Those real wages have gone up about one thousand dollars
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  Speaker 7: in the last eighteen months.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 7: If you're in manufacturing and construction, that means four thousand
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  Speaker 7: dollars for you. So a thousand dollars for typical middle
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  Speaker 7: class family, four thousand dollars for the average manufacturing and
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  Speaker 7: construction worker. That's real money back in the pockets of
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  Speaker 7: Americans that they can use to meet their everyday expenses.
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  Speaker 2: We're speaking with Congressman Rudy Yakham from the second District
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  Speaker 2: of Indiana. He joins us on the Patriot Mobile newsmaker
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  Speaker 2: line on the Todd Starn Show. Jeff Stein filling in
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  Speaker 2: for Todd today. A lot of folks across the country
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  Speaker 2: may know what USMCA is. Those of us in the heartland,
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  Speaker 2: those of us who have a lot of folks involved
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  Speaker 2: in agriculture know an awful lot about what that means.
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  Speaker 2: Remind us what USMCA is and what's the status of it,
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  Speaker 2: because we got a signal from the White House that
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  Speaker 2: negotiations might become a little bumpy.
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  Speaker 7: You know, President Trump has proven time and time again
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  Speaker 7: that he's the master negotiator, and during his first term
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  Speaker 7: he negotiated this deal called USMCA. It stands for United States,
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  Speaker 7: Mexico Canada Agreement. And what this does it allows for
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  Speaker 7: the free flow of goods and services between those three nations.
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  Speaker 7: That agreement was also smartly negotiated to allow a review process,
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  Speaker 7: which really got underway an earnest on July first of
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  Speaker 7: this year. As a part of that review process, you
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  Speaker 7: always want to look at your agreements and figure out
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  Speaker 7: if there are ways to enhance or improve those agreements,
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  Speaker 7: and I believe that there are ways that this agreement,
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  Speaker 7: as good as it was can be improved upon. And
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  Speaker 7: so I let a letter on behalf of House Republicans,
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  Speaker 7: one hundred and sixty seven of my colleagues to sign
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  Speaker 7: on to that letter that we sent to USTR Ambassador
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  Speaker 7: Jamison Career, encouraging them to not only continue the negotiations
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  Speaker 7: but also calling for some of the enhancements that we
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  Speaker 7: believe can be made. And at the same time, we
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  Speaker 7: need Canada and Mexico to bring their best offers forward
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  Speaker 7: as a part of these negotiations. So we're encouraging our
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  Speaker 7: allies and friends and partners across the borders to bring
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  Speaker 7: their best efforts forward because you know, at the end
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  Speaker 7: of the day, Mexico and Canada they're also big customers
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  Speaker 7: of ours. I represent the manufacturing capital of notes that
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  Speaker 7: North America. We make eighty five percent of the nation's RVs,
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  Speaker 7: We make a lot of the nation's pontoon boats, the
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  Speaker 7: medical device capital of North America with sixty percent of
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  Speaker 7: the nation's knees hips and joints. We also have a
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  Speaker 7: lot of farmers and ranchers and they want to be
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  Speaker 7: able to export their products to Canada and Mexico without
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  Speaker 7: any encumbrances. From either country.
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  Speaker 2: And what I found interesting from some on the left
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  Speaker 2: because in NAFTA North American Free Trade Agreement that had
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  Speaker 2: all sorts of problems. USMCA was good at the time
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  Speaker 2: it came in, but they we've had complaints. We've had
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  Speaker 2: problems with Mexico. We've had problems with Canada. The dairy
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  Speaker 2: industry is not real thrilled with our neighbors, and so
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 2: there have been I don't want to say dust ups,
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 2: but there have been conversations. There have been items submitted
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 2: to the appeals process and the resolution process set forth
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 2: in the original agreement. So this hasn't been perfect because
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  Speaker 2: there are always issues, and so there are some on
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  Speaker 2: the left too. When the President said, well, maybe we'll
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 2: just go it alone and we'll just do bilateral negotiations,
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 2: they acted like the sky was falling. But that's just
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  Speaker 2: part of the process, is it not, Congressman, to try
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  Speaker 2: to get the best deal you can for your constituents
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  Speaker 2: in this country.
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  Speaker 7: We have to get the best deal that we can
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  Speaker 7: and that's why, again, President Trump has proven so many
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  Speaker 7: times that he's the master negotiator. You know, we've seen
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  Speaker 7: a lot of these issues. I mean even Mexico banning
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  Speaker 7: GMO corn a few years ago. And so one of
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  Speaker 7: the things that we're asking for is we just think
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  Speaker 7: it makes better a lot more sense to have faster
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  Speaker 7: dispute resolution processes so that when there is a dispute
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  Speaker 7: with one of our neighbors, we can get to a
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  Speaker 7: resolution faster. Because if you're a hoosier farmer and one
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 7: of your products gets banned by either Canada or Mexico,
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 7: it creates a real problem for you because these products
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 7: don't last forever. Right, It's it's you know, it's crops,
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 7: and it's you know, it's dairy. I mean, products don't
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 7: last forever. So you've got to be able to export
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 7: those immediately. And when there's a problem, we've got to
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 7: be able to get to a quick resolution.
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  Speaker 2: So as we talk about some of these issues, I
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  Speaker 2: find it interesting that when we're in an election year
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  Speaker 2: or when the heat gets a little hot on people,
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 2: they all of a sudden change their positions, you know,
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 2: never mind what the past statements were, never mind what
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 2: some of their past tweets. Where people tend to sanitize
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  Speaker 2: the record, that's certain to get a little old. Far
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  Speaker 2: as I'm concerned, what a Hoosiers, think about these people
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  Speaker 2: who say one thing and do six others.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, you look at what of course, even over the
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  Speaker 7: weekend here what AOC was trying to say. She's trying
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 7: to whitewash some forul positions. We can never forget what
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 7: the DSA they call himself the Democrats Socialists of America.
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  Speaker 7: The reality is they are communists and they are crazy.
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  Speaker 7: I mean, look at just today what these people are
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  Speaker 7: calling for, Jeff. They're calling for the abolishment of the Senate.
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  Speaker 7: They're calling for us to get rid of our jails
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  Speaker 7: and do what with the criminals, just let them go
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 7: wander the streets. They want to get rid of law enforcement.
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 7: They want to abolish the Supreme Court. These people are
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 7: catering to their far left base. It's exactly what Chuck
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 7: Schumer has been doing in Washington, d C. With these
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 7: government shutdowns. And now you've got these crazy people winning
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 7: the US Senate Democrat nominee in Michigan. You've got them
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 7: winning house races in places like Colorado and New York.
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 7: It's even worse than New York, Jeff. They are taking
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 7: out existing Democrat incumbents for the high crime of working
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 7: with Republicans on issues, and they're getting taken out by
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 7: these crazy communists. And we've got to be able to
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  Speaker 7: draw a contrast as we go into this election cycle
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  Speaker 7: of those of US Republicans who are saying and rational
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  Speaker 7: and want to leave the American people forward, want to
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 7: put more money in the pockets of Americans and increase
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 7: freedom and opportunity for hard working Americans, versus these crazy
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 7: communists who want the government to control everything.
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  Speaker 2: We just have a couple of more minutes with Indiana
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  Speaker 2: Congressman Rudy Yakam, and so I want to ask how
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  Speaker 2: frustrating is it? And I talked to members of the
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 2: Iowa delegation frequently on the radio, how frustrating is it
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 2: to do what you do and then have things just
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 2: sort of sit there at the Senate. And I'm thinking
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  Speaker 2: in particular of a farm bill, but you know, you
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 2: folks had a spending package ted up as well in
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 2: the House and I just get a sentence. And I
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 2: mentioned this earlier in the show. This is feeling way
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 2: too much like twenty eighteen, where the Senate wasn't helping
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 2: the House out to get the president's agenda across the
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  Speaker 2: finish line.
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  Speaker 7: Whether it's a spending package or the Save America Act.
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  Speaker 7: We can't forget about that, or the farm Bill. You're
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 7: the Senate, and particularly Senate Democrats. I mean, these people
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 7: are pure obstructionists. All they want to do is grind
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 7: things to all halt. And sometimes when you ask them
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 7: what they want, either they won't tell you or you'll
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 7: get a list of crazy demands. It's so many of
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 7: the things that we're asking for, it's just pure common sense.
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 7: Look at the Stave America Act. We're simply saying that
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 7: you've got to have an ID when you show up
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  Speaker 7: to the polls, and when you register to vote in
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 7: a federal election, you have to prove that you're a
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 7: US citizen. It shouldn't be that hard. I mean, you've
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 7: got to have an ID for everything these days, including
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 7: apparently now walking into one of Mom Donnie's grocery stores.
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 7: You should have to have an ID to show up
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 7: to vote. We've been doing it that way here in
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  Speaker 7: the Hoosier State for I don't know, probably fifteen years
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 7: or so, and the Hoosiers and I Serve just simply
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 7: think that our federal election should be secured no matter
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 7: where you're at it's just common sense, and Senate Democrats
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 7: continue to stand in the way at every turn.
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  Speaker 2: That's where we'll leave it. Congressman, thank you so much
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  Speaker 2: for the time. It was a privilege speaking with you,
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  Speaker 2: and keep up the excellent work for the folks of
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  Speaker 2: the Second District of Indiana.
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  Speaker 7: Jeff, thanks for having me on.
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  Speaker 2: It was a privilege. Congressman Rudy Yakam and he joined
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  Speaker 2: Jeff Stein in for Todd. Thanks for being with us
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 2: on the Todd Starn Show. Welcome back to the Liberty
• 1:09:57
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• 1:10:01
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  Speaker 2: Had a great to visit there with some six thousand
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  Speaker 2: people in southern California. Flying back to Memphis to be
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  Speaker 2: on site and behind the microphone tomorrow for release day
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 2: The Golden Age, the new book. It's finally here. I
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 2: was lucky enough to get a copy, and I tell
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 2: you it's yet another great effort by mister Starns. And
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 2: you pre order it now or reserve a copy at
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 2: your local bookstore, you get your hands on at it. Tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: Tomorrow is release day for The Golden Age, And if
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  Speaker 2: you're in the Memphis area, there is a book signing
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  Speaker 2: that Todd will be doing tomorrow at the Barnes and
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  Speaker 2: o'clock Central time. That's local time in Memphis. And in
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 2: addition to meeting Todd Starns, in a addition to getting
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 2: him to sign your copy or copies of The Golden Age,
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  Speaker 2: you'll also be able to meet Senator Marcia Blackburn and
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  Speaker 2: Congressman David cussed Off. They'll be there with Todd as well.
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• 1:11:29
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• 1:11:34
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  Speaker 2: go to wherever you get your good books these days
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• 1:11:44
  Speaker 2: at the Barnes and Noble in my neck of the
• 1:11:46
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• 1:11:50
  Speaker 2: had a few copies of Star Spangled Blessings, Todd's book
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• 1:12:00
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• 1:12:04
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• 1:12:12
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• 1:12:16
  Speaker 2: copies of Star Spangled Blessings buy The Golden Age. And
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 2: here I've said this before and so I'll repeat it.
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• 1:12:31
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• 1:12:35
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• 1:12:38
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  Speaker 2: books available. Now, coming up in our next hour, I'm
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 2: going to talk about sports. Now, don't go running away.
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  Speaker 2: This is about I stopped paying a lot of attention
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 2: to sports when they got way too woke in all
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 2: of the false narrative about George Floyd. I am struck
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 2: by the humorous nature of the Women's National Basketball Association League,
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 2: the WNBA, and they've taken it to another level and
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 2: they're getting called for it, and I think it's fantastic.
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 2: And that's where we'll start the next hour from the
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 2: Liberty University Studio. Jeff Stein in for Todd. This is
• 1:14:39
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• 1:15:22
  Speaker 2: filling in for Todd today, coming to you from the
• 1:15:25
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• 1:15:46
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  Speaker 2: be with you tomorrow for release day of the new book,
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  Speaker 2: The Golden A You order it now, it's released tomorrow,
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• 1:16:34
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• 1:16:41
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  Speaker 2: to talk about the WNBA now, really, don't turn away, Okay,
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 2: the Women's National Basketball Association. This is a professional league
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 2: for the females, and it is underwritten by the NBA. Now,
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 2: they have never been more popular than they are now
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 2: in terms of attendance and in terms of money from
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 2: TV contracts, in terms of attendance at the stadium's popularity,
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 2: et cetera, in large part because of the attention that
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 2: they received because of a single player. And I don't
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 2: know Caitlin Clark. She's an Iowa native, played high school
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 2: ball in Des Moines, played college ball for the University
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 2: of Iowa, my alma mater. Don't know her, but I
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 2: do know she is a really good basketball player, and
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 2: people started paying attention to the league once she joined
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 2: the league. Now, normally you'd think, wow, what a good thing.
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 2: If you're a WNBA player and you're used to not
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 2: having games on television or barely able to find them
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 2: on the high channels of your cable of satellite system.
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 2: You're flying coach as opposed to chartered flights, and you're
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 2: making peanuts. That was the situation before. Well, now because
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 2: there's more attention being paid to women's basketball, in large
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 2: part not exclusively because of MS Clark. Well, now the
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 2: teams are doing great. There's a lot of attention. They
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 2: got a nice collective bargaining deal. Hey, things are going
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 2: really well. We should be grateful for this.
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 3: Now.
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 2: The problem is, and this is true in any business,
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 2: if you have bad management, it doesn't matter if all
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 2: of a sudden you've got a product people want to buy.
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 2: You still got bad management. You still aren't going to
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 2: be able to achieve your greatest potential. And so it
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 2: is with the WNBA, because they don't really want to
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 2: be successful, or those who are getting in the way,
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 2: if you will, of the league's success. These players who
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 2: think they're the reason for it, or hey, I was
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 2: here before these other folks, and so I'm the reason
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 2: it's successful. Well, obviously it's not the case. Well, what
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 2: I love is the fact that some of the players
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 2: want to speak their minds. Some of these female athletes
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 2: who basically are saying Yeah, we don't want guys in
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 2: the locker room. We don't want to you have to
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 2: play against guys, males, non females, individuals who can't necessarily
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 2: cut it as a male athlete. So then they say
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 2: they're a female athlete. No, we don't want to play
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 2: against those people. If we've got a women's league, it
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 2: should be for women. Now that does not sound to
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 2: me like a radical position. But when you're someone like
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 2: Sophie Cunningham saying it, then all of a sudden there's backlash.
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 2: Now what did she say? She said she wanted to
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 2: extend love her phrase to everyone, but added, quote, this
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 2: is Sophie Cunningham, twenty nine year old women's basketball player quote.
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 2: I also think with that love, with that love is truth,
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 2: being honest, and I want to protect young girls in
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 2: a locker room or young girls in sport who shouldn't
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 2: have to go against biological men period unquote. Tell me
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 2: what the problem is with that statement. She then said
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 2: it was common sense to bar transgender athletes from competing
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 2: in women's sports. Again, what's the problem, Well, there's been
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 2: a lot of backlash. Ms. Cunningham says she's not a
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 2: very political person, well, I don't know what's political about
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 2: that statement. Boys play with the boys in sports, girls
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 2: play with the girls in sports. I don't see what
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 2: the problem is. Well, I'm a big fan of trolling,
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 2: you know, the folks who get out there and just
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 2: kind of tweak other people. And that's what happened on Friday.
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 2: There's an NBA player, now former player. His name was
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 2: Ennis Canter. He changed his name legally to Ennis Canter Freedom,
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 2: and he became more political and what you know than
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 2: His career came to an end in twenty twenty two,
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 2: but he was in the league for years. Okay, played
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 2: for a number of teams, including the Celtics. So he
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 2: has announced he's declared his eligibility for the w NBA Draft. Now,
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 2: this is clearly a dude in every respect. You look
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 2: at him and you would not say, huh, I'm wondering. No,
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 2: he's a dude. Nis Canter Freedom is a well spoken,
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 2: intelligent dude. He said that if simp plead declaring who
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 2: you are is all that's required, then I meet every
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 2: single requirement necessary to compete in the WNBA. He posted
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 2: that on Instagram hitsend and you can imagine what happened.
• 1:23:15
  Speaker 2: After that, he continued, this is what I love about
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 2: the whole thing. Again. Ennis Cantort Freedom eligible for the WNBA, said,
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 2: I know my presence on the court will stir up
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 2: strong opinions. I am definitely not here to mock, make
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 2: fun of, or disrespect any community or personal choices. I'm
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 2: simply asking that the current rules be applied equally to everyone,
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 2: the rules that represent the very values many WNBA players
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 2: and coaches have publicly advocated for. On quote, now, how
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 2: did this all happen? Well, there were the comments about
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 2: dude should play with dudes, dudets should play with dudets.
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 2: And then you've got some of the coaches and players say, well,
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 2: I would welcome a trans player on my team. I
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 2: would play against a trans player. In other words, they'd
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 2: be happy to have a guy dressing as a girl
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 2: on the team. Well, here's the great part. The Collective
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 2: Bargaining Agreement states quote, only players who are women are
• 1:24:31
  Speaker 2: eligible to play in the WNBA unquote. Now see, I
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 2: remember a time not that far back, we all knew
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 2: what that meant. But the collective Bargaining Agreement with the
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 2: players union and the league says only players who are
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 2: women are eligible to play in the WNBA. That's great,
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 2: until you can't define what a woman is. We've got
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 2: people who are not now on the Supreme Court who
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 2: couldn't defide what a woman is. So if you are
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 2: a woman simply by identification, sure, and as Canter, freedom,
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 2: should be in the draft. Royce White, who is on
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 2: the ballot next week or I guess it's not. It's tomorrow,
• 1:25:21
  Speaker 2: isn't it in the primary Minnesota is tomorrow. He's running
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 2: for US Senate again in Minnesota as a Republican. Royce
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 2: White was in the NBA. He says he's declaring for
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 2: the draft. His quote is I identify as sometimes identifying
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 2: as a woman for purpose of basketball. Unquote. You see
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 2: how stupid this has become. All the dudes have to
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 2: do is say I identify as a woman for basketball purposes.
• 1:25:49
  Speaker 2: And according to the WNBA rules, well is that a woman?
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 2: And if not, why not? Well, needless to say. Now,
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 2: the WNBA, the commissioner, who's been doing just a fantastic job.
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 2: That was sarcasm in case you could not tell. The
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 2: commissioner says, we're gonna have a conversation about this. So
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 2: they sent a memo to teams saying we're gonna need
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 2: to have a conversation about this. Well, that's great, go
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 2: open the collective bargaining agreement. That ought to be fun.
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 2: This is what I love. And then we're gonna take
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 2: a break here and let you think about it and
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 2: weigh in. But this is what I love where the
• 1:26:40
  Speaker 2: hypocrisy becomes exposed. Well, no, we didn't mean real good
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 2: guys who are in the NBA now coming to the
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 2: WNBA like it's the seniors Tour on golf. We know
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 2: we don't mean that. Well, but you said you'd welcome
• 1:26:56
  Speaker 2: any guy who identifies. There's a guy who ifies I
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 2: identify as a very wealthy person. I don't think that's
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 2: gonna work for me when I go to the bank
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 2: and try to withdraw a million dollars I don't really have. Well,
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 2: I identify as a rich person. This is how silly
• 1:27:15
  Speaker 2: the conversation has gotten. And props to any of these guys, dudes,
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 2: real live dudes who say, yeah, sure i'll play in
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 2: the Girls League if you'll let me share, I'll take
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 2: the check. Is It just exposes this for the insanity
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 2: that it is. And hopefully there are enough real intelligent,
• 1:27:38
  Speaker 2: patriotic Americans who see this and vote accordingly, cause it's
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 2: gonna get ugly. Party is, but it's gonna get ugly soon.
• 1:27:49
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna get real ugly if those guys are dressing
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 2: up as girls. But that's a whole other conversation. Nine
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 2: O one two six oh five nine two six. I've
• 1:27:58
  Speaker 2: hat aj Rice has some thoughts on this. Will talk
• 1:28:00
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• 1:28:02
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• 1:28:05
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  Speaker 2: there was a WNBA player and I'm not going to
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  Speaker 2: give her the attention she so desperately seeks by even
• 1:31:02
  Speaker 2: mentioning her name. But she was trying to prevent Sophie
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  Speaker 2: Cunningham of the Indiana Fever from scoring a layup on
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  Speaker 2: a breakaway, And so the other player fouled her, tried
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  Speaker 2: to prevent her from making the shot. Now, there's a
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  Speaker 2: difference between fouling somebody and literally hooking their neck with
• 1:31:23
  Speaker 2: your arm clothesline, which is what happened.
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  Speaker 5: Ms.
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  Speaker 2: Cunningham was closelined and brought to the ground rather abruptly.
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  Speaker 2: Now that's called a flagrant fowl. It was category two
• 1:31:36
  Speaker 2: whatever that means, but it means an automatic ejection. So
• 1:31:40
  Speaker 2: the player who was automatically ejected others have been for
• 1:31:44
  Speaker 2: similar fouls. She is a female person of color. She
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  Speaker 2: went to the locker room, picked up her phone after
• 1:31:52
  Speaker 2: being ejected, and tweeted out on the X platform in
• 1:31:58
  Speaker 2: all capital letters white privilege and then tag the Indiana team.
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  Speaker 2: So she's a person of color, committed this flagrant two fowl,
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  Speaker 2: thrown out of the game, and she tweets white privilege
• 1:32:14
  Speaker 2: had nothing to do with race. Well, perhaps her attack
• 1:32:19
  Speaker 2: was racially motivated. And our friend Steve Days from the Blaze,
• 1:32:24
  Speaker 2: he does his show from Iowa, so we're acquainted. He
• 1:32:29
  Speaker 2: posts on this nothing says you're a crusader against so
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  Speaker 2: called white privilege. Quite like straightening your hair and dying
• 1:32:37
  Speaker 2: it blonde to look exactly like the white girl you assaulted,
• 1:32:41
  Speaker 2: bang right on it, because again here is a woman
• 1:32:44
  Speaker 2: who clearly has altered her hair, and there's nothing wrong
• 1:32:48
  Speaker 2: with that. But if you're going to talk about white privilege,
• 1:32:53
  Speaker 2: stop appropriating Caucasians. I'm just saying, just throwing that out there. Ah,
• 1:33:00
  Speaker 2: the WNBA, all of this at such a mess. Aj
• 1:33:03
  Speaker 2: Rice will sort it all out for us. His new
• 1:33:06
  Speaker 2: book is called The Curse of the Bearded Lady, and
• 1:33:08
  Speaker 2: he joins us in just five minutes after the bottom
• 1:33:11
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• 1:33:14
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• 1:33:32
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  Speaker 2: book The Curse of the Bearded Lady, How the trans
• 1:34:23
  Speaker 2: Mafia Whacked American Sanity? Mister Rice, always a privilege, sir,
• 1:34:28
  Speaker 2: how are you go? So?
• 1:34:34
  Speaker 8: Grab a copy of Todd's book, And if you want
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  Speaker 8: to scare your blue haired nieces or nephews, grab a
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  Speaker 3: I appreciate that, Jeff.
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  Speaker 2: I'm looking at the cover. You sent me an email
• 1:34:47
  Speaker 2: with the cover art last year about this time, and
• 1:34:51
  Speaker 2: I fell off the chair. It's scary, but not any
• 1:34:54
  Speaker 2: more scary than this topic. But first I have to ask,
• 1:34:57
  Speaker 2: are you declaring for the WNBA draft? I hear you've
• 1:34:59
  Speaker 2: got a pretty sweet three point shot.
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  Speaker 8: Well, you know, the WNBA already has a few bearded ladies,
• 1:35:05
  Speaker 8: you know, even if even if they don't necessarily past
• 1:35:09
  Speaker 8: the physical the right way but you know I could.
• 1:35:13
  Speaker 8: I could probably go in there and stick it through,
• 1:35:16
  Speaker 8: stick a few jump shots in their face.
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  Speaker 3: Is for sure.
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  Speaker 8: They called me white chocolate in high school, so I'm games.
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  Speaker 2: Well, does that mean you have white privilege, because apparently
• 1:35:26
  Speaker 2: that's a big thing now according to some of the players.
• 1:35:30
  Speaker 8: Yeah, you know what it's It's like the WNBA is
• 1:35:34
  Speaker 8: doing double time promoting two of my books, The White
• 1:35:38
  Speaker 8: Privilege Album which came out, which came out in twenty
• 1:35:41
  Speaker 8: twenty four, and of course The Curse of the Bearded Lady.
• 1:35:44
  Speaker 8: You know, I can't. I mean, I guess I'm gonna
• 1:35:47
  Speaker 8: have to start sending them royalty checks because between the
• 1:35:51
  Speaker 8: WNBA is selling more books than Fox News is at
• 1:35:54
  Speaker 8: this point.
• 1:35:55
  Speaker 2: Well, you know, they do feel entitled, so it wouldn't
• 1:35:58
  Speaker 2: surprise me. Now for those of youlks who aren't aware,
• 1:36:01
  Speaker 2: mister Rice is the top conservative publicist in America, is
• 1:36:06
  Speaker 2: a syndicated columnist, and this is his third book in
• 1:36:10
  Speaker 2: a trio. The first was called The Woking Dad, then
• 1:36:15
  Speaker 2: last two years ago, the White Privilege Album, and now
• 1:36:18
  Speaker 2: The Curse of the Bearded Lady. Give us a sense,
• 1:36:21
  Speaker 2: because this you treat these topics with the appropriate amount
• 1:36:26
  Speaker 2: of derisiveness. But this is serious stuff, is it not?
• 1:36:30
  Speaker 3: It is?
• 1:36:31
  Speaker 8: It definitely is. And I was on, actually on with
• 1:36:33
  Speaker 8: Todd for volume one, The Woking Day, which is should
• 1:36:37
  Speaker 8: have become part of the sort of terminology in parlance here.
• 1:36:42
  Speaker 7: It is.
• 1:36:42
  Speaker 8: I mean, look, political satisfire comedy's a little different than
• 1:36:46
  Speaker 8: satire comedy. You know, a little Seinfeld actually have yourself
• 1:36:50
  Speaker 8: a belly laugh Jeff Fox for the observational humor, and
• 1:36:53
  Speaker 8: then you go home, you go to bed, and you
• 1:36:56
  Speaker 8: don't think about it anymore. Satire is there to make
• 1:36:59
  Speaker 8: you feel un comfortable. So I don't care whether it's
• 1:37:03
  Speaker 8: Mark Twain or George Carlin or you know, Dice or
• 1:37:08
  Speaker 8: Lenny Bruce or Shane Gillis. I mean, that's what I do.
• 1:37:12
  Speaker 8: I do political stattire. And one of the rules that
• 1:37:16
  Speaker 8: is sort of known in my world is that the
• 1:37:20
  Speaker 8: job of comedy, the definition of it, is to transform
• 1:37:24
  Speaker 8: horror into humor. Right, That's what satire tries to do.
• 1:37:29
  Speaker 8: That's what parody tries to do. That's why you get
• 1:37:32
  Speaker 8: terms like too soon, right, something terrible happens too soon.
• 1:37:37
  Speaker 8: The key, though, is funny. If you aren't funny, you
• 1:37:41
  Speaker 8: will end up flat on your face. I don't care
• 1:37:43
  Speaker 8: whether you are an R rated comedian or a de
• 1:37:47
  Speaker 8: rated comedian, whether you're family friendly or not. Funny's the key.
• 1:37:52
  Speaker 8: So you know, when you're dealing with a big topic
• 1:37:55
  Speaker 8: like the bearded Lady and the trans mafia, you know,
• 1:38:00
  Speaker 8: I decided to do with cultural autopsy. There's plenty of
• 1:38:04
  Speaker 8: doctors out there, plenty of you know, you know, shrinks
• 1:38:07
  Speaker 8: and medical doctors and so on, that have been doing
• 1:38:10
  Speaker 8: a psychological evaluation. They've been doing a medical autopsy. I'm
• 1:38:15
  Speaker 8: doing a cultural one because mark my words, one hundred
• 1:38:19
  Speaker 8: years from now people are going to look back at
• 1:38:22
  Speaker 8: this time period and think we have lost our minds. Okay,
• 1:38:26
  Speaker 8: that we're like, this is one of these medical trends
• 1:38:30
  Speaker 8: like phrenology. If you remember with that is that was
• 1:38:33
  Speaker 8: that was the the science where it's headsize dictated your intelligence,
• 1:38:40
  Speaker 8: or the Earth goes around the sun, or the Sun
• 1:38:42
  Speaker 8: goes around the Earth.
• 1:38:43
  Speaker 3: No one knew the difference.
• 1:38:44
  Speaker 8: Of course, Copernicus and Catalleo helped us with those things.
• 1:38:48
  Speaker 8: So this is junk science turned into what I called
• 1:38:52
  Speaker 8: jeff a peer contagion. A peer contagion, so you have
• 1:38:57
  Speaker 8: pear pressure mixed with a social contagion. In the medical
• 1:39:02
  Speaker 8: and literary community, there's something called the Worther effect. The
• 1:39:06
  Speaker 8: Worther effect is, for lack of better terms, copycat suicide. Okay,
• 1:39:13
  Speaker 8: And what you see across you know, really the globe.
• 1:39:18
  Speaker 8: But it's uniquely American right now. And apparently they didn't
• 1:39:21
  Speaker 8: learn their lesson from the twenty twenty four elections. Is
• 1:39:24
  Speaker 8: that you see the left continuing to push this stuff.
• 1:39:28
  Speaker 8: They're not apologizing for it. They haven't learned their lesson.
• 1:39:31
  Speaker 8: There's a few sane people like Bill Maher and Stephen A. Smith,
• 1:39:34
  Speaker 8: but for the most part, they're going to die on
• 1:39:38
  Speaker 8: the Bearded Lady Hill. And that is where the curse
• 1:39:40
  Speaker 8: comes in. The curse and look, I'm being cute. I'm
• 1:39:44
  Speaker 8: a fan of old film noir movies and the book title,
• 1:39:48
  Speaker 8: the book cover even kind of looks like a film noir,
• 1:39:52
  Speaker 8: you know, movie poster. The curse is the fact that
• 1:39:55
  Speaker 8: they cannot and will not shake this thing, and they're
• 1:39:58
  Speaker 8: going to continue to lose until the do.
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  Speaker 2: But do you use those examples. So here's Bill Maher,
• 1:40:04
  Speaker 2: here's Stephen A. Smith, And when they dare speak the
• 1:40:07
  Speaker 2: truth or at the very least raise their hands and say,
• 1:40:10
  Speaker 2: wait a second, this is getting a little crazy. The
• 1:40:13
  Speaker 2: backlash is immediate against them, and it's no wonder that
• 1:40:18
  Speaker 2: lesser women and men to find that, however you will
• 1:40:22
  Speaker 2: that lesser people don't stand up, because again, this is
• 1:40:27
  Speaker 2: a potent force of overweight, blue haired women out there.
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  Speaker 8: Sure, but we're in a fight for human nature here
• 1:40:35
  Speaker 8: and what they've done, they're trying to normalize sadism, you know,
• 1:40:40
  Speaker 8: because you've got a lot of adults grooming children one
• 1:40:42
  Speaker 8: direction or another to be a gender that they're not.
• 1:40:46
  Speaker 8: And we have some mentally ill adults that are doing
• 1:40:48
  Speaker 8: the same thing. But look, understand this, and mar knows this.
• 1:40:53
  Speaker 8: I mean, even Fetterman, you could throw him in there.
• 1:40:56
  Speaker 8: Comedy is moral warfare by other beings, and you bring
• 1:41:02
  Speaker 8: shame out of the closet. You believe in the equal
• 1:41:05
  Speaker 8: distribution of mockery, right, And you watch the watchers, and
• 1:41:09
  Speaker 8: you watch the watchers with jokes, and if you do that,
• 1:41:13
  Speaker 8: I mean, look, Jaguar put out a put out an
• 1:41:16
  Speaker 8: ad with no car in last year.
• 1:41:20
  Speaker 7: There was no car.
• 1:41:20
  Speaker 8: They were just having a drag brunch on the moon.
• 1:41:23
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 1:41:24
  Speaker 8: And every once in a while, you'll get a sitting
• 1:41:25
  Speaker 8: congress person like Seth Moulten, who I write about in
• 1:41:28
  Speaker 8: the book, and kind of applaud him for saying, Hey,
• 1:41:32
  Speaker 8: you know, I don't want my daughter run over, you know,
• 1:41:35
  Speaker 8: in a lacrosse game or field hockey or whatever it was.
• 1:41:38
  Speaker 8: But then just last week he's apologizing for what he said. Yes,
• 1:41:44
  Speaker 8: so the curse rings true and it's hunting Seth Molten
• 1:41:47
  Speaker 8: down and I guess for steths in his house, a
• 1:41:49
  Speaker 8: bearded lady is.
• 1:41:50
  Speaker 2: Singing the idea that we would be so far removed
• 1:41:58
  Speaker 2: from what people of your generation grew up with. I'm
• 1:42:02
  Speaker 2: older people of my generation. I mean, we used to
• 1:42:05
  Speaker 2: know there was a there was a rule on the
• 1:42:08
  Speaker 2: playground when I was in elementary school during recess. Boys
• 1:42:12
  Speaker 2: play with boys, girls play with girls. And we're talking
• 1:42:15
  Speaker 2: about basketball or tetherball or whatever it was, because wait
• 1:42:20
  Speaker 2: for it, boys and girls are different and you can't
• 1:42:24
  Speaker 2: just will it to be otherwise. Whatever happened to that?
• 1:42:27
  Speaker 2: Now we've got emasculated males, you know, the Manbun and
• 1:42:31
  Speaker 2: Birkenstocks letting their female partners support them. What the blaze is?
• 1:42:37
  Speaker 2: Aj Rice?
• 1:42:38
  Speaker 8: Yeah, Yeah, there's a new concept out there. It's called
• 1:42:41
  Speaker 8: the stay at home boyfriends, not even the husband to
• 1:42:46
  Speaker 8: stay at home boyfriend. Yes, look, working remotely is one thing,
• 1:42:52
  Speaker 8: but the you know, the manbun boyfriend sitting at home
• 1:42:55
  Speaker 8: waiting for his girlfriend to come home while he's you know,
• 1:42:58
  Speaker 8: streaming Hulu and ordering Uber each This is a totally
• 1:43:02
  Speaker 8: new concept. Okay, we're not exactly winning the battle of
• 1:43:06
  Speaker 8: the bulls with men like that.
• 1:43:09
  Speaker 2: The new book came out last week on Post Hill Press.
• 1:43:13
  Speaker 2: It's called The Curse of the Bearded Lady, third book
• 1:43:16
  Speaker 2: in the trilogy by aj Rice. The subtitle is how
• 1:43:19
  Speaker 2: the trans Mafia Whacked American Sanity. Mister Rice is kind
• 1:43:23
  Speaker 2: enough to join us live on the Patriot Mobile newsmaker
• 1:43:25
  Speaker 2: line on the Todd Starn Show. Jeff Stein filling in
• 1:43:28
  Speaker 2: for Todd today, how do you turn this around? Because
• 1:43:33
  Speaker 2: you know, there's a sense that crazy is allowed to
• 1:43:36
  Speaker 2: live in society because we're tolerant quote unquote, But there's
• 1:43:39
  Speaker 2: a line where we just say, Okay, now this is nuts,
• 1:43:43
  Speaker 2: Now you've gone too far, etc. I would have thought
• 1:43:47
  Speaker 2: we had passed it to this point. The last election
• 1:43:51
  Speaker 2: got the right person in the White House, but this
• 1:43:55
  Speaker 2: still it hasn't gone away.
• 1:43:58
  Speaker 8: No, and it's not going through. They make change their terminology.
• 1:44:01
  Speaker 8: They might not say the word woke, and they might
• 1:44:03
  Speaker 8: not use terms like dei or esg. But when it
• 1:44:07
  Speaker 8: comes to the seventy two genders, I mean, there's nothing
• 1:44:09
  Speaker 8: we can do. Whether you're Darwin or Jesus, you both
• 1:44:13
  Speaker 8: agree that there's not seventy two genders. So the Democrat
• 1:44:17
  Speaker 8: Party wants to hide all seventy two under their skirt
• 1:44:20
  Speaker 8: and send.
• 1:44:21
  Speaker 3: The American people to the polls.
• 1:44:23
  Speaker 8: They're going to continue to lose because this isn't even
• 1:44:27
  Speaker 8: about science anymore. It's about sanity, right, that's what this
• 1:44:32
  Speaker 8: is about. And look, what do you do? Look, humor
• 1:44:37
  Speaker 8: has a special place in Western civilizations, from Aristophanes to
• 1:44:42
  Speaker 8: Ricky Gervais, and it is a public audit. Humor is
• 1:44:48
  Speaker 8: a public audience. And as long as shows like this exist,
• 1:44:52
  Speaker 8: and so you know, people online and the Babylon b
• 1:44:55
  Speaker 8: and Gut failed and so on. I write books, and
• 1:44:58
  Speaker 8: there's plenty of shows out there that have a good time.
• 1:45:01
  Speaker 8: We are winning the culture war here, but they're not stopped.
• 1:45:07
  Speaker 8: So we have to be ready for them. And that's
• 1:45:10
  Speaker 8: the curse, you know, the Democrat Party over the years
• 1:45:13
  Speaker 8: have been able to shake things off that got them,
• 1:45:19
  Speaker 8: you know, killed at the ballot box. They've been able
• 1:45:22
  Speaker 8: to do it, or they've been able to do what
• 1:45:23
  Speaker 8: Bill Clinton used to say is triangulate, right, you know,
• 1:45:27
  Speaker 8: Dick Morris term. But the Democrat Party being hijacked by
• 1:45:32
  Speaker 8: the dsay being pro you know, Iran regime being pro
• 1:45:37
  Speaker 8: Ms thirteen, burning TEXLA dealerships, you know, having people like
• 1:45:42
  Speaker 8: you know, Jasmine Crockett and AOC and Hassan Piker as
• 1:45:45
  Speaker 8: their spokespeople. I mean, the Democrat Party is either going
• 1:45:49
  Speaker 8: to fight itself and get rid of these people and
• 1:45:53
  Speaker 8: remind people that there is only two genders, right, and
• 1:45:57
  Speaker 8: the bearded lady is not singing. Rob Emmanuel and James
• 1:46:01
  Speaker 8: Carvell seem to understand this, but they're Clinton and you know,
• 1:46:04
  Speaker 8: eventually Obama dies. They're old school guys, so they're getting
• 1:46:09
  Speaker 8: made fun of by the last and you know, they
• 1:46:14
  Speaker 8: guys like Edmundelle and Evan Bye, they can't Joe Lieberman,
• 1:46:17
  Speaker 8: they couldn't win an election tomorrow in most places. See
• 1:46:20
  Speaker 8: Bill Clinton's probably a little too liberal for Arkansas at
• 1:46:22
  Speaker 8: this point. But if they don't take their own party back.
• 1:46:26
  Speaker 8: That party is going to be run by Antifa, the
• 1:46:29
  Speaker 8: trans Mafia, the Woking Dead, and the Bearded Ladies. And
• 1:46:33
  Speaker 8: that's where we're heading.
• 1:46:34
  Speaker 2: You know what I love about the AJ Rice books, folks,
• 1:46:39
  Speaker 2: is that he makes the point. You enjoy the telling
• 1:46:43
  Speaker 2: of it because again comedic, satirical, et cetera, but it
• 1:46:47
  Speaker 2: also leaves you with this thought of, Okay, now wait
• 1:46:49
  Speaker 2: a second there, I need to do something about this.
• 1:46:53
  Speaker 2: I need to not just let this happen, because okay,
• 1:46:57
  Speaker 2: this is a humorous tell telling a humorous tale, but
• 1:47:00
  Speaker 2: it's based on reality, to be sure. The Curse of
• 1:47:03
  Speaker 2: the Bearded Lady, how the trans Mafia whacked American sanity.
• 1:47:08
  Speaker 2: It's a title only a guy from Philadelphia could come
• 1:47:11
  Speaker 2: up with. He's h a Rice, Mister Rice. I would
• 1:47:14
  Speaker 2: tell you to keep speaking, but I know it's in
• 1:47:16
  Speaker 2: your heart and you'll do it. So thank you for
• 1:47:18
  Speaker 2: the time today, and congratulations on book three in this series.
• 1:47:22
  Speaker 8: Thank you, sir, I appreciate it. Never forget there's no
• 1:47:24
  Speaker 8: substitute for perfectly timed divisions. Thanks Jeff, Thank.
• 1:47:29
  Speaker 2: You, sir at aj Rice kind enough to join us
• 1:47:32
  Speaker 2: on the Patriot Mobile newsmaker line. One more segment from
• 1:47:35
  Speaker 2: the Liberty University Studio on this Monday day before book
• 1:47:39
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• 1:47:42
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• 1:47:54
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• 1:47:57
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• 1:48:00
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• 1:48:04
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• 1:48:08
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• 1:48:12
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• 1:48:15
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• 1:48:18
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• 1:48:21
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• 1:48:23
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• 1:48:26
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• 1:50:17
  Speaker 2: and information. Now, one of the people I follow is
• 1:50:19
  Speaker 2: Jennifer Jacobs of CBS News. Don't hold this against her,
• 1:50:22
  Speaker 2: but she was a student of mine when she attended
• 1:50:24
  Speaker 2: Iowa State University. But she's scooping that the President is
• 1:50:28
  Speaker 2: scheduled to sign an executive order on childhood vaccines today.
• 1:50:34
  Speaker 2: So again, never a dull moment at the White House.
• 1:50:36
  Speaker 2: You've got the President on truth social saying, oh yeah,
• 1:50:39
  Speaker 2: the folks from Iran want us to pay them for
• 1:50:42
  Speaker 2: breaking things during the war. That's a great idea. Now
• 1:50:46
  Speaker 2: let's have you the Iranians. Why don't you repay us
• 1:50:50
  Speaker 2: for everything that you've done or pay your reparations for
• 1:50:53
  Speaker 2: the people that you've killed over time. And now you've
• 1:50:56
  Speaker 2: got an executive order apparently on childhood vaccines to be signed.
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• 1:51:04
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• 1:51:07
  Speaker 2: as mister Starns points out, is you've got an executive
• 1:51:11
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• 1:51:15
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• 1:51:20
  Speaker 2: too many in the swamp who are holding him back.
• 1:51:23
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• 1:51:26
  Speaker 2: the House is out for weeks, and you have the
• 1:51:28
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• 1:51:33
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• 1:51:36
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• 1:51:49
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