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John Cornyn Trying to Sabotage GOP Races in Texas · ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes

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  Speaker 1: Broadcasting coast-to-coast and border-to-border.
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  Speaker 2: From Memphis, Tennessee.
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  Speaker 3: That's us, that's right.
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  Speaker 2: Our love is American, right. Todd Starnes. Well, hello everybody.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to the Todd Starnes Radio Extravaganza. Wherever you might
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  Speaker 2: be listening to us, border-to-border, coast-to-coast, across the Fruited Plain.
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  Speaker 2: We have a lot of ground to cover today. By
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  Speaker 2: the way, Greg Bovino, the former border chief, is going
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  Speaker 2: to be here. Also, Congressman Tim Burchett from Tennessee is
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  Speaker 2: going to drop by a little bit later on in
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  Speaker 2: the program. And we also have a very special guest
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  Speaker 2: from Heritage Foundation. There is a crazy story out on
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  Speaker 2: how soft-on-crime policies are actually bad for business. So we'll
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  Speaker 2: catch you up on all of that. Of course, a
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  Speaker 2: lot happening in the world of politics. And I want
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  Speaker 2: to start in the great state of Texas, where Senator
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  Speaker 2: John Cornyn is on the warpath right now. And I
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  Speaker 2: warned you about this. Well, this was back when Cornyn
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  Speaker 2: lost the primary battle with Ken Paxton. And I told you,
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  Speaker 2: I said, be prepared for the rhinos to sabotage The
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  Speaker 2: midterm elections in Texas, and that is exactly what is happening.
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  Speaker 2: John Cornyn is off his rocker right now, posting a
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  Speaker 2: statement over on X along with a link to a
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  Speaker 2: Wall Street Journal report about populist Republicans and Democrat socialists.
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  Speaker 2: And Cornyn, talking about all of you MAGA people, and
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  Speaker 2: especially the vice president, J.D. Vance, he said the extremes
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  Speaker 2: of both parties, Republicans MAGAween, represented by J.D. Vance, and
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  Speaker 2: the progressive left, represented by Zoran Mamdami, have drawn closer
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  Speaker 2: to each other. So John Cornyn is telling you that
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  Speaker 2: in his political mind, that demented... perverted mind of his,
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  Speaker 2: that J.D. Vance is just like Zoran Mamdami, a man who,
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  Speaker 2: by the way, showed up at the 9-11 memorial service
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  Speaker 2: and chuckled and laughed and guffawed while they were literally
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  Speaker 2: reading the names of Americans who had been killed by
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  Speaker 2: the Muslim terrorists. Laughed. Caught up with AOC. And John
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  Speaker 2: Cornyn is saying there's no difference, there's no daylight between
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  Speaker 2: Zoran Mamdami and J.D. Vance, the Vice President of the
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  Speaker 2: United States. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is all you
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  Speaker 2: really need to know about John Cornyn. Because in the
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  Speaker 2: final days of his failed campaign, and this guy, John
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  Speaker 2: Cornyn has suffered one of the worst political defeats in
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  Speaker 2: modern political history. And the reason why is he was
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  Speaker 2: a rhino who was trying to portray himself as a
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  Speaker 2: MAGA guy. As a matter of fact, leading up to
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  Speaker 2: the election, John Cornyn was out there trying to convince
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  Speaker 2: people that there was nobody more MAGA than John Cornyn.
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  Speaker 2: And now he's saying that anybody who is MAGA is
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  Speaker 2: a far right-wing extremist. Can't have it both ways, John Cornyn.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm sure he'll have.
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  Speaker 2: Plenty to talk about and plenty to think about when
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  Speaker 2: he is spending the rest of his life in retirement
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  Speaker 2: because his political career is over. It's kaput. But then
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  Speaker 2: over the weekend, there was another incident, and this one
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  Speaker 2: really set off a lot of folks, and it involves
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  Speaker 2: a fellow by the name of Beau French. He has
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  Speaker 2: been a guest on my program before many times. He's
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  Speaker 2: very involved in Republican politics, and he's running for State
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  Speaker 2: office there in Texas. And so over the weekend, there
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  Speaker 2: was the big Texas football game. Ohio State. Wow. Did
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  Speaker 2: you watch the game? That was an amazing game.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, yeah. Great comeback from Texas.
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  Speaker 2: My word. How about the Manning boy?
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  Speaker 5: Looking pretty good.
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  Speaker 6: Arch.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, Arch Manning.
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  Speaker 6: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: Well done. Well, anyway, I digress. So Beau French was
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  Speaker 2: at the game. And so after they won, he decided
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  Speaker 2: to film the crowd, and he pointed out that most
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  Speaker 2: of the people in the crowd are Indians. And John
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  Speaker 2: Cornyn went bonkers crazy, and he said, this is the
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  Speaker 2: Republican nominee for statewide office. And by the way, let
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  Speaker 2: me just write, I'm just going to read you what
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  Speaker 2: Beau French wrote. So he takes a photo of the
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  Speaker 2: Indian people, and there are a lot of them, and
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  Speaker 2: he said, I heard UT graduation this year looked like this.
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  Speaker 2: I did not believe it. The problem is now obviously
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  Speaker 2: far worse than anyone imagined. That's what he wrote. Now,
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  Speaker 2: he could have maybe explained what the problem is, and
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to do that for him in just a
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  Speaker 2: matter of moments. But Senator Corn in writing, this is
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  Speaker 2: the Republican nominee for statewide office. Are other Republicans, Republican
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  Speaker 2: elected officials, going to condemn the intolerance and racism or
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  Speaker 2: look the other way while it becomes normalized? This is
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  Speaker 2: how great political parties self-destruct sad. Well, first of all,
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  Speaker 2: what exactly is intolerant or racist about what Mr. French wrote?
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  Speaker 2: The fact of the matter is that many of our
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  Speaker 2: universities have been overrun by Indians specifically and foreigners in general.
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  Speaker 2: And don't you believe that the American people, the American taxpayers,
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  Speaker 2: the hardworking men and women of the Todd Stearns Listening
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  Speaker 2: Show audience, you guys go to work. Many of you
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  Speaker 2: work 40, 50 hours a week. You work hard to
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  Speaker 2: try to send your kids to college only to find
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  Speaker 2: out that there's not a spot for your kid in
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  Speaker 2: that college. because it's gone to a foreigner. I don't
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  Speaker 2: think that's right. Does that make me a racist? Well,
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  Speaker 2: according to Senator John Cornyn, it does. Does that make
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  Speaker 2: me intolerant? I believe we ought to be putting the
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  Speaker 2: education of Americans first. If that makes me intolerant, well,
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  Speaker 2: so be it. So, of course, James Talofrico put aside
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  Speaker 2: his playtime with the transgender children, and he jumps in,
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  Speaker 2: and he's thanking John Cornyn for what he wrote. And
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  Speaker 2: now Talofrico is calling out Ken Paxton, and Paxton is
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  Speaker 2: brilliant because he pointed out that if anybody's talking about race,
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  Speaker 2: the person who brought up race is, in fact, James Talofrico.
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  Speaker 2: Here's what Talofrico wrote. Racism has no place in Texas.
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  Speaker 2: Ken Paxton, will you condemn this blatant racism or will
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  Speaker 2: you cower to extremists? That's what Talofrico wrote. So Paxton says, well,
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  Speaker 2: wait a second. He says, I condemn racism in all
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  Speaker 2: its forms, including James Talafrico, saying white men are America's
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  Speaker 2: top terror threat, and that he prays to overcome his
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  Speaker 2: own whiteness, whatever that means. Only one person in this
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  Speaker 2: race has a history of dividing Texans by race, and
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  Speaker 2: it's James Talafrico. I will continue to focus on uniting
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  Speaker 2: our state and bringing together the broadest possible coalition to
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  Speaker 2: fight for Texas, our values, and our families. It was
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  Speaker 2: a beautiful response there from Attorney General Ken Paxton. Well done,
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  Speaker 2: Ken Paxton. But again, going back to what Beau French wrote,
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  Speaker 2: Beau French said nothing racist, nothing at all, but let
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  Speaker 2: me expand here. on what Beau French was talking about. Now, Dylan,
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  Speaker 2: I want to use you as an example. You graduated
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  Speaker 2: from the University of Memphis.
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  Speaker 5: Correct.
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  Speaker 2: Which is right here in the Mid-South. We're covering Dixie
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  Speaker 2: like the dew down here. How many folks of your
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  Speaker 2: persuasion were in your graduating class?
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  Speaker 5: Not that many. Maybe like 50. 50.
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  Speaker 4: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: Were there a lot of foreign students?
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  Speaker 5: I was definitely the minority in my graduation class.
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  Speaker 2: And you were born, you're not foreign, you're from Mississippi.
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  Speaker 5: Yes. 20 minutes away.
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  Speaker 2: 20 minutes away. And you're telling me that you were
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  Speaker 2: a minority on an American university campus on American soil. Absolutely.
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  Speaker 5: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: Is it still like that at the University of Memphis?
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  Speaker 5: I think. I haven't been back there since I graduated,
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  Speaker 5: but I assume it's either the same or worse.
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  Speaker 2: So what Beau French is saying is that our culture
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  Speaker 2: is being set aside here, and our universities are being overrun.
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  Speaker 2: And there are a lot of reasons for this. A
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  Speaker 2: lot of them are financial. The universities are making big
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  Speaker 2: money bringing in these foreign students. But you and I
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  Speaker 2: are having to pay the ultimate price. We're having to
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  Speaker 2: pay the bill here. And the reality is for every student,
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  Speaker 2: for every foreign student that gets accepted to the University
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  Speaker 2: of Texas, guess what's going to happen? An American student
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  Speaker 2: is not going to be allowed to enter the school.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's that simple. You know, I do wonder
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  Speaker 2: at some point, I mean, you know, they have the,
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  Speaker 2: don't they have the steer? Is that Texas, the Longhorns?
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  Speaker 2: You know, if they get a super majority eventually, they
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  Speaker 2: may have to rename the school. You know, they're not
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  Speaker 2: too fond of, you know, doing that to the cows.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just saying. And that brings me to another example here.
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  Speaker 2: And very close to home, there's a lovely lovely southern town.
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  Speaker 2: It's called Collierville, Tennessee. It's not a town, really. It's
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  Speaker 2: a city, but it feels like a small town. It's
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  Speaker 2: 50,000 people or so. And a lot of FedEx employees
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  Speaker 2: and their families live in Collierville. It's a lovely community,
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  Speaker 2: a beautiful town square. It's quintessential. When you go to Collierville,
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  Speaker 2: you think, wow, this is the South. Until you start
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  Speaker 2: to realize that something is a little off. And that's
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  Speaker 2: something that is a little off. It turns out, for
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  Speaker 2: the past 25 years, the Indian population in Collierville has
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  Speaker 2: gone from about 450 folks to now where one out
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  Speaker 2: of every 10 people in Collierville, some 10% of the
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  Speaker 2: population are now Indians. And you have really one major
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  Speaker 2: company to thank for this, and it's FedEx, because they
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  Speaker 2: are bringing in the H-1B visa people, the IT workers. Now,
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  Speaker 2: just think about this. You graduate from the University of Mississippi,
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  Speaker 2: Ole Miss. Hotty toddy. And you graduate from Ole Miss
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  Speaker 2: with a degree in, I don't know, IT, if that's
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  Speaker 2: a degree program. And you show up at FedEx, and
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  Speaker 2: you've got your nice little, like, everybody wears the same
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  Speaker 2: clothes in Oxford. You show up for the job interview.
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  Speaker 2: You're wearing the white shirt buttoned down from Brooks Brothers.
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  Speaker 2: You got the blue jacket on the blazer. You got
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  Speaker 2: the khaki pants. And you show up with your resume
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  Speaker 2: in hand, and they tell you, sorry, there are no
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  Speaker 2: jobs for you. That, ladies and gentlemen, is a reality
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  Speaker 2: that's happening right now. And people don't know what to do.
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  Speaker 2: I got a call from a listener who said their
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  Speaker 2: child goes to a school in this particular town, and
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  Speaker 2: their child is the only American-born child in the class.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody else is from India. And you say, Todd, that's
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  Speaker 2: just racist. No, it's not racist. I'm pointing out a
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  Speaker 2: very important issue here, ladies and gentlemen. And the issue
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  Speaker 2: is that Americans are, in fact, being replaced. We are
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  Speaker 2: being shoved aside, and they're bringing in cheap labor to
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  Speaker 2: replace us. That's what's going on here. And it's not
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  Speaker 2: just in Tennessee, but it's happening in Texas to a
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  Speaker 2: large degree. And I suspect... many other towns and communities.
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  Speaker 2: But the idea that we're supposed to, and by the way,
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  Speaker 2: the reason why John Cornyn is all upset is he
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  Speaker 2: is in the pocket of these big businesses that want
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  Speaker 2: the cheap labor. That's all that is. So all that
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  Speaker 2: to say, ladies and gentlemen, and we're going to have
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  Speaker 2: more to talk about this. We haven't even gotten to
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  Speaker 2: the fact that the administration is not even doing mass
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  Speaker 2: deportations yet. Secretary Mark Wayne Mullen dropped that little nugget
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  Speaker 2: over the weekend. We're going to talk to Greg Bovino
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  Speaker 2: about that part of the story. But this is something
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  Speaker 2: we need to pay very close attention to, because hear
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  Speaker 2: me on this, ladies and gentlemen. We need a full
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  Speaker 2: stop on all Let me repeat this. We need a
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  Speaker 2: full stop on all immigration until we can get people assimilated,
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  Speaker 2: until we can get the illegals booted out of the country,
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  Speaker 2: and until we can start revoking these H-1B visas. Let
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  Speaker 2: me say this. Let me say this. This is nothing.
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  Speaker 2: I don't care if they're from the UK. We can
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  Speaker 2: have British pubs set up on every street corner in Collierville, Tennessee,
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  Speaker 2: and I would still take issue. And the reason why
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  Speaker 2: is somebody's got to speak up for the American people,
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  Speaker 2: for the American workers. What about their livelihoods? So again,
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  Speaker 2: I just thought the America First movement meant that we
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  Speaker 2: put Americans first, right? I'm a simple guy when it
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  Speaker 2: comes to things like that. All right, we've got to
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  Speaker 2: take a break.
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  Speaker 4: 901-260-5926.
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  Speaker 2: Kicking off a busy week here.
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  Speaker 3: 901-260-5926.
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  Speaker 2: This is the Todd Stern Show. You know, I'm looking
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  Speaker 2: at some of these numbers here. And Columbia University, for example, 40%
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  Speaker 2: of the student body at Columbia, we're talking about the
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  Speaker 2: Ivy Leagues, 40% of the students, international students. So that
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  Speaker 2: means 40% of the slots that could have gone to
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  Speaker 2: American-born children went to international students. Harvard, 25%.
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  Speaker 4: Cornell, 25%.
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  Speaker 2: As well as Penn, University of Pennsylvania. Princeton, 23% of
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  Speaker 2: the student body foreign. Yale, 22%. Dartmouth, 20%. And Brown, 20%.
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  Speaker 2: So again, these are all slots at the Ivy Leagues
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  Speaker 2: that could have gone to American-born kids, and instead they
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  Speaker 2: went to the internationals. 901-260-5926 is our telephone number. That's 901-260-5926.
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  Speaker 2: Coming up. We're going to talk about this AI controversy.
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  Speaker 2: And all I can tell you is, it's like every
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  Speaker 2: day there's another bombshell, but people are really concerned about
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  Speaker 2: artificial intelligence. They're warning that this could be what the
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  Speaker 2: end of humanity as we know it. And some of
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  Speaker 2: the developments, and AI is now beginning to think on
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  Speaker 2: its own. And I am telling you, Dylan, this is
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  Speaker 2: more and more like Skynet every single day. I'm waiting
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  Speaker 2: for Arnold Schwarzenegger to come into the studio.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, unfortunately, you're not even too far off from what
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  Speaker 5: these former AI employees are even talking about, and current
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  Speaker 5: AI employees. It's seriously that scary.
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  Speaker 2: So we're going to get into this, and we've got
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  Speaker 2: some audio to play, a lot of open letters, but
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  Speaker 2: the The biggest concerns are really about the loss of
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  Speaker 2: human judgment here, right? Because they're saying that in some cases, AI,
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  Speaker 2: they are solving problems that humans have tried to solve
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  Speaker 2: for generations. There was one math problem. We'll get into
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  Speaker 2: more of that in a minute. But there are a
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  Speaker 2: lot of concerns, not to mention, of course, jobs and
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  Speaker 2: economic disruptions. You know, at some point, I don't know,
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  Speaker 2: I was reading all of this over the weekend, and
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  Speaker 2: I kept thinking I want to buy some land in
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  Speaker 2: the mountains, build a log cabin, and just be off
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  Speaker 2: the grid while the country goes to hell in a handbasket.
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  Speaker 2: We're all going to be sort of like, I don't know,
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  Speaker 2: Keanu Reeves' character in The Matrix. That's where all of
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  Speaker 2: this is going, I'm afraid. 901-260-5926, our telephone number. And
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  Speaker 2: our website is ToddStearns.com. By the way, President Trump releasing
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  Speaker 2: new images of the White House ballroom. We have those
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  Speaker 2: up on our website. Got to go check those out.
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  Speaker 2: Just really, really breathtaking. We'll be right back. All right,
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  Speaker 2: so the question is, could AI really kill all humans?
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  Speaker 2: It's a shocking thing. Over 10 million people have read
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  Speaker 2: the writings of this anthropic researcher who quit his job,
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  Speaker 2: resigned from the company, and he said that right now
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  Speaker 2: that the researchers are not using AI responsibly. And he's
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  Speaker 2: really concerned. The guy's name is Jacob Coxon. And here's
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  Speaker 2: what he had to say. Take a listen.
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  Speaker 7: How exactly do you think AI will actually carry out
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  Speaker 7: the action of destroying.
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  Speaker 8: All of humanity?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: Honestly, when I talk to my friends and family about this,
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  Speaker 8: I find it easier to, well, people seem to actually
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  Speaker 8: get more of a sense for it if they're further
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  Speaker 8: away from technology. Because I honestly think it sounds more
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  Speaker 8: like science fiction than real technology. Or people who are
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  Speaker 8: very used to computers might think it's kind of crazy
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  Speaker 8: that a computer could wipe them out. But it doesn't
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  Speaker 8: look that different from, say, Terminator or from science fiction films.
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  Speaker 8: It really is just, if you have a super advanced intelligence,
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  Speaker 8: it will be smart enough to to kill us. And
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  Speaker 8: concrete examples might be, it could, we can't just unplug
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  Speaker 8: it because it could be copying itself over to other computers.
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  Speaker 8: Like it's not that difficult to find yourself because an
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  Speaker 8: AI is just code. It could transfer itself over the
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  Speaker 8: internet to a different place. And then you unplug it here,
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  Speaker 8: but it's actually still over there. And maybe it makes
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  Speaker 8: 10,000 copies of itself and they're all cooperating. So you
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  Speaker 8: unplug half of them. They're still half going and they're
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  Speaker 8: still copying themselves. It could convince blackmail or persuade humans
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  Speaker 8: to into buying more computing software to copy it. And
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  Speaker 8: we've already seen examples of the AI trying to blackmail
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  Speaker 8: or trying to convince people or impersonating other people online.
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  Speaker 8: There's a lot you can do as an AI that
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  Speaker 8: can produce text. Basically, with text, you can make code
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  Speaker 8: and you can do a lot of stuff in the world.
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  Speaker 2: It's sort of shocking to hear, and the guy is
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  Speaker 2: very sincere. And I I tend to believe what he
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  Speaker 2: is telling us. Now, China says this is nothing more
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  Speaker 2: than fear-mongering. You've got Sam Altman, who runs, what, OpenAI.
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  Speaker 2: Is that ChatGPT and all of that?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So even that is kind of weird. So, Dylan, this
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  Speaker 2: is great. I had a spot on my arm. And
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  Speaker 2: I was just curious what it was, and so I asked.
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  Speaker 2: I went into the chat GPT, and I said, you know,
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  Speaker 2: is this something I should be concerned with? And they said, well,
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  Speaker 2: if you upload a photograph, we can tell you what
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  Speaker 2: it is.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't trust that.
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  Speaker 2: And I did.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, what did it say?
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  Speaker 2: Well, it said it was nothing major. It was like
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  Speaker 2: a magic marker spot or something. It was something innocuous.
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  Speaker 5: Did you just write that with a five-point pen?
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: No, no, no. I, you know, I've been doing a
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: lot of, you know, signing of books, autographing books, but no, no, no.
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: This was something else. And, but it turned out to
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: be innocuous. And my doctor said later, yeah.
• 22:03
  Speaker 8: Oh yeah.
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: That's, that's nothing to worry about. And I thought, whoa,
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: I could have saved a lot of money just by
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: going to chat GPT.
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 22:11
  Speaker 5: But there's also the other side of that, where it
• 22:13
  Speaker 5: tells you that you need to go to the hospital
• 22:15
  Speaker 5: right now. It's like, you don't get the most consistent
• 22:18
  Speaker 5: answers just from AI. They, the technology there is, is
• 22:23
  Speaker 5: definitely getting better. But that's like talking about replacing tech
• 22:28
  Speaker 5: from hospitals and what nurses do and stuff like that.
• 22:32
  Speaker 5: That's getting scary.
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: Well, at the same time, though, you have to, well,
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: for example, if they would want access to your medical records,
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: they could connect. And there are still protocols in place.
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: But the idea, I could see where it would be
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: very easy for AI to educate itself and where they
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: could hack into hospitals or anything else and grab all
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: of your information. And there's really nothing you can do
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: about it.
• 22:57
  Speaker 5: Oh yeah.
• 22:58
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 22:59
  Speaker 5: No, this, the, the, this former employee of Anthropic really
• 23:02
  Speaker 5: freaks me out. I mean, that is exactly how it
• 23:05
  Speaker 5: would go. It would literally start to deceive people into
• 23:10
  Speaker 5: buying more things. It's like, um, have you seen the
• 23:13
  Speaker 5: Avengers movie age of Ultron? It's like Ultron, how he
• 23:17
  Speaker 5: makes copies of himself. So he's essentially everywhere. Because he's
• 23:21
  Speaker 5: just the internet at that point.
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: I just, you know, here's the challenge. Because your first
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: thought is, okay, fine, just turn off the internet. But
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: you can't do that. You cannot turn off the entire
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: global internet. So there's not like one switch to do that.
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: And even if you did, if you turned it off
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: and then turned it back on, you would still have
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: the same problem.
• 23:46
  Speaker 5: Yeah. And you talked about earlier how the AI models
• 23:49
  Speaker 5: are now essentially making themselves. So they're revising their problems.
• 23:54
  Speaker 5: They're identifying what they can do to better themselves. So
• 23:58
  Speaker 5: they don't even need humans anymore to make a new model.
• 24:01
  Speaker 5: And that's freaky.
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: So it's not so much that humans are, that humans,
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: you know, the computers are going to kill the humans.
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know, maybe they could. I don't know.
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: I mean, at some point, if they're able to take
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: over all the, I mean, when you look at the military,
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: we're talking about drones mostly. I mean, this is a,
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: we're moving towards a, a technology based military. I mean,
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: is it possible? Yeah, I guess it is possible.
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 24:30
  Speaker 5: I think that's one side of it. Like military, you know,
• 24:34
  Speaker 5: you know, equipment and weapons grade, like things that AI
• 24:38
  Speaker 5: could make and take over. But I think the main
• 24:41
  Speaker 5: thing is just control. Like it's the, it's the smarter
• 24:44
  Speaker 5: than humans models, the deception of, You know, thinking like
• 24:50
  Speaker 5: just making humans think that they are not capable of
• 24:53
  Speaker 5: doing what A.I.
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: But they may not be able to. I mean, at
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: some point, what happens when the computers are doing things
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: and building technology that that humans do not have the
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: range of knowledge? to create recreate or even perform at
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: that level.
• 25:10
  Speaker 5: Yeah and then what if the ai actually makes it
• 25:12
  Speaker 5: worse like makes a product that's worse for humans and
• 25:15
  Speaker 5: not better because like at that point we're just fully
• 25:18
  Speaker 5: relying on them or it to do what it's going
• 25:21
  Speaker 5: to do and we're fully automating it trusting it with
• 25:25
  Speaker 5: building huge projects maybe weapons even but who's to say
• 25:28
  Speaker 5: it doesn't make something that just blows up when you
• 25:30
  Speaker 5: try to set it.
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: Off so here's here's the problem and this is the
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: problem is there anything that can actually be done? Because
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: I don't think there is. I mean, the cat is
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: already out of the bag, right? I mean, where, where
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: do you, where do you go from here? Do you just,
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: I mean, you could, you're going to tell the tech companies, no,
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: you can't do anything else.
• 25:52
  Speaker 4: No.
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, the AI is probably all,
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: they're already figuring it out.
• 25:57
  Speaker 5: Probably.
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: Jeez.
• 25:59
  Speaker 5: It's such a large, you know, you know, enterprise. Now
• 26:02
  Speaker 5: it's such a huge part of like the stock market.
• 26:04
  Speaker 5: I mean, We're talking everything now. Everything is AI.
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I have concerns about all of this. But even still,
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: just with simple things now, you know, students, you do
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: wonder the intelligence level of the students graduating from college
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: when a lot of them are doing their papers. They're
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: letting AI do all of their learning for them. So
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: what exactly are these kids learning in the schools? So
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: Marsha Blackburn is going to be with us tomorrow, a
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: senator from Tennessee, and she's actually addressing this. She's got
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: a column out. She says that Americans are raising the
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: alarm on AI concerns, and it's time for Congress to
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: finally act. Again, I'm not sure what Congress is going
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: to be able to do here. But I'm curious, ladies
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: and gentlemen, do you share these concerns that Dillon has?
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: Dillon thinks it's the end of the world as we
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: know it. And they're not saying like what, I saw
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: one report, Dillon, where it said 30 years from now,
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: humanity could be done, kaput. But there was another that
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: it may be five years.
• 27:15
  Speaker 5: Yeah, there's a lot of different opinions on that one.
• 27:19
  Speaker 5: It just depends on what it's going to actually look
• 27:21
  Speaker 5: like and what they're going to do now that You know,
• 27:24
  Speaker 5: all these concerns are popping up. You know, they've been
• 27:26
  Speaker 5: happening for months now. I mean, you know, that one
• 27:29
  Speaker 5: AI test that, you know, they put parameters around this
• 27:32
  Speaker 5: AI model and they said, hey, don't go beyond this model. Well,
• 27:36
  Speaker 5: it figured out how to do it. And then it
• 27:37
  Speaker 5: lied to the researchers that it did do it. And
• 27:41
  Speaker 5: then it like hacked the whole system.
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: So here's the thing. You think China is going to
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: stop just because we do?
• 27:47
  Speaker 10: Oh, no.
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: Not at all.
• 27:48
  Speaker 5: Not at all.
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: No, and so I don't think we can pull the plug.
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: And by the way, even if the Senate said, okay,
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: we're cracking down here, you really think they're going to
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: crack down? No, of course not. They'll go underground. Ladies
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: and gentlemen, what do you do? Aside from pulling the
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: plug and just going off the grid, getting a little
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: house somewhere, you've got your own water supply, Get some,
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: I don't know, solar panels.
• 28:24
  Speaker 10: Oh, my word.
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: It's crazy. It's just absolutely crazy. 901-260-5926, our telephone number.
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: What do you think about all this, folks? Let's go
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: to Johnny in Texas, listening to us on Patriot Talk 920. Johnny,
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: what say you?
• 28:42
  Speaker 11: Well, have a blessed day, Todd.
• 28:44
  Speaker 12: But I agree with Dylan.
• 28:46
  Speaker 11: But I want to go back a little further, because
• 28:48
  Speaker 11: I'm a little bit older than both of you. I
• 28:52
  Speaker 11: go back to comic books and sci-fi TV shows and movies.
• 28:59
  Speaker 11: They predicted this AI thing, not in such words as AI,
• 29:05
  Speaker 11: but they predicted robots taking over. And my concern is,
• 29:13
  Speaker 11: when the U.S. government turns over our military nuclear arsenal
• 29:17
  Speaker 11: to them, what they're going to do with that.
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: Well, we all said, hey, Johnny, now, I don't know
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: how old you are. I'm in my 50s, and I
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: remember as a kid going to see war games. And
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: that terrified me because the computer was about to launch
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: worldwide nuclear war.
• 29:42
  Speaker 11: Yeah, and I see that coming true. And you couple
• 29:46
  Speaker 11: that with what Revelation says, and how the world's going
• 29:51
  Speaker 11: to end according to Christianity. You know, that all fits
• 29:55
  Speaker 11: pretty tight to me.
• 29:56
  Speaker 6: Mm-hmm.
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: Johnny, it kind of makes you wish for the old
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: days where you had a pickup truck that just played
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: AM radio and you didn't have to worry about anything else.
• 30:08
  Speaker 11: That's absolutely true. You know, robots would be a great
• 30:13
  Speaker 11: thing to have, but when you turn your learning over
• 30:17
  Speaker 11: to them, then you're setting yourself for failure because you
• 30:21
  Speaker 11: will have no one to fix the computers when they
• 30:23
  Speaker 11: break down except AI, and they'll fix them. the way
• 30:29
  Speaker 11: they're going to determine what's best for the planet.
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: I wouldn't mind, like, was it Rosie with the Jetsons?
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: You know, Rosie seemed to be, you know, okay. She
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: cleaned the house and everything, but I'm not sure I
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: would want them, like, in the house, right? Because, I mean,
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: what if they go bad? What if they go rogue? And,
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: you know, you're sleeping in bed, and you wake up,
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: and all of a sudden you've got robot eyeballs staring
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: at you. That's crazy. Johnny, thanks for the call. Let's
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: go to Doug in Georgia, WDUN. All right, Doug, what
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: say you?
• 31:05
  Speaker 13: Well, I think there are a lot of things AI
• 31:08
  Speaker 13: can do that would be more innocuous, is that a
• 31:12
  Speaker 13: good word, rather than calamity. In other words, instead of bombs.
• 31:17
  Speaker 13: I think it could do things like find a way
• 31:19
  Speaker 13: to neuter men. basically maybe take 30 years so that
• 31:24
  Speaker 13: there's no more breeding, there are no more children. I mean, look,
• 31:27
  Speaker 13: somebody's already convinced half the women that it's better to
• 31:30
  Speaker 13: kill children than to have children. They have no conscience.
• 31:33
  Speaker 13: So I think more and more we're going to see
• 31:36
  Speaker 13: AI creeping in and indoctrinating people. We're going to have
• 31:40
  Speaker 13: more beta men that will want to have children. And
• 31:44
  Speaker 13: I'm an older guy, and so are you. We're going
• 31:46
  Speaker 13: to be gone. And when we don't have any babies,
• 31:49
  Speaker 13: AI wins. So that's sort of my... Hey, the other
• 31:52
  Speaker 13: day you said my comment was pithy. I didn't know
• 31:54
  Speaker 13: you had a list.
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: No, pithy. It's pithy. P-I-T-H-Y there, Doug. So hold on.
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: Are you saying like vasectomy robots that are kind of
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: like Edward Scissorhands and they just go chop, chop?
• 32:10
  Speaker 13: No, I'm saying they'll get.
• 32:12
  Speaker 9: Into a way like the water.
• 32:13
  Speaker 13: Or the food in ways that people won't even know.
• 32:17
  Speaker 13: Men will be eating food that's been... been harvested with
• 32:22
  Speaker 13: certain things that are in it that completely neuters them.
• 32:26
  Speaker 13: It'll either be catastrophic bombs, they'll finally launch all the
• 32:34
  Speaker 13: nuclear weapons, or it'll be something that just eats away
• 32:36
  Speaker 13: at humanity's ability to grow. When we start seeing the
• 32:40
  Speaker 13: population plunge exponentially, you'll know we're on our way.
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: All right, Doug, you gave us something to think about there.
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: Thank you for that. Marge, what's in this meatloaf?
• 32:52
  Speaker 5: It tastes weird.
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: Just eat it, honey. It's oregano.
• 33:00
  Speaker 6: Wow.
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: I'm not sure about that. But, I mean, I don't know.
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: You know, Doug raised it. I mean, again, computer-operated water
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: systems and treatment facilities. I mean, who knows? Who knows
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: where this could go? All right, real quick, let's go
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: to Danny in Selmer, Tennessee.
• 33:19
  Speaker 10: Danny?
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: What's on your mind?
• 33:22
  Speaker 14: Well, I was just going to say that, you know,
• 33:24
  Speaker 14: having Congress regulate AI, I mean, I just propose this thought.
• 33:30
  Speaker 14: They're supposed to represent us, and like on an EASY issue,
• 33:33
  Speaker 14: you know, 80-20 securing voting. All of us, the majority
• 33:38
  Speaker 14: of us, want that done. They can't even do that.
• 33:41
  Speaker 14: So how would you propose Congress to regulate something they
• 33:44
  Speaker 14: don't even understand and is technical and stuff? They can't
• 33:48
  Speaker 14: even do the job they have. Why are you going
• 33:51
  Speaker 14: to give them even more work to try and scratch
• 33:52
  Speaker 14: their heads and figure it out? I just don't think
• 33:54
  Speaker 14: they can do it.
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: Danny, I'm with you. Trust me, that is not going anywhere.
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: That's a big non-starter for them. But you raise an
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: excellent point. Danny, I've got to run for a break.
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: Thank you for the call.
• 34:09
  Speaker 10: 901-260-5926.
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: We'll be right back. And want to say a beautiful
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: hello to our friends in Gainesville, Georgia, listening to us
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: on WDUN right there, broadcasting on the beautiful town square.
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: If you haven't been to Gainesville, it is worth a stop.
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: You're going to love it. Great places to lunch and
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: have a good time. Longstreet Cafe and the collegiate best
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: chili slaw dog in America right there off the square
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: in Gainesville. Let's go to Dahlonega, Georgia, another beautiful town,
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: home of the Smith House. Anna is on the line. Hi, Anna.
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: What's going on?
• 34:56
  Speaker 6: Hey, Todd.
• 34:58
  Speaker 10: You know, you can make an argument for the positives
• 35:03
  Speaker 10: or negatives of just about anything, and as far as
• 35:05
  Speaker 10: women not having babies, well, long before AI came around,
• 35:10
  Speaker 10: they were Their whole idea, the ones who didn't want
• 35:14
  Speaker 10: to have kids but did not want to be responsible
• 35:17
  Speaker 10: for being impregnated. It's the same old stuff.
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: So you don't have a problem with AI?
• 35:24
  Speaker 10: No. It does a lot of good. It's helped with
• 35:28
  Speaker 10: cancer research, medicine. It has helped people think. I know
• 35:37
  Speaker 10: I use it when I'm writing my letters sometimes. It'll
• 35:40
  Speaker 10: go past, you know, it'll check my words and it'll
• 35:43
  Speaker 10: check my punctuation and stuff. But that's not anything near
• 35:49
  Speaker 10: the good things that it can do.
• 35:50
  Speaker 11: If you go to.
• 35:56
  Speaker 10: Copilot, it will tell you all the things that it
• 35:59
  Speaker 10: can do.
• 36:00
  Speaker 13: And it's remarkable.
• 36:03
  Speaker 10: But, you know, I guess you could say anything is
• 36:06
  Speaker 10: possible in the car.
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: Isn't that the whole deception here? That chat GPT will
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: tell you that they're nothing but good because they don't
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: want you to know what's happening.
• 36:20
  Speaker 6: No, I think that, well, I don't know, Tom.
• 36:24
  Speaker 10: I think, you know, it's a tool. You know, it's
• 36:29
  Speaker 10: a good tool.
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: Look, correcting mistakes in grammar, I'm fine with that. But,
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: you know, how far, one day you're correcting, you know,
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: I don't know, a run-on sentence, or one day AI
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: is parsing a participle, and the next thing you know,
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: they're launching a nuclear attack against, what, the Bahamas. And
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: nobody wants that. I like the Bahamas. All right, Anna,
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: keeping it real, they're in Dahlonega, Georgia.
• 36:58
  Speaker 4: Man.
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: Great food, great vibe there in Dahlonega. Hang tight, everybody.
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: Hour two of the big show coming up next.
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: From Memphis, Tennessee, it's Common Sense Conservative Commentary from Todd Starnes.
• 37:39
  Speaker 13: All right.
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: Hello, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the Todd Starnes Radio Show.
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: Great to have you with us today. So in the
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: last hour of the program, we were talking about the
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: concerns that AI may ultimately lead to the demise of humanity.
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: One minute you've got chat GBT parsing your participles and
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: the next, well, they're blowing up your country. So we're
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: going to conduct an experiment on live national radio coming
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: up in just a few moments. And Dylan, you assured
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: me that what we're going to do is not going
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: to trigger some sort of an international incident.
• 38:21
  Speaker 5: I believe we'll be safe on this.
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: All right. Well, I just want to make sure.
• 38:27
  Speaker 5: You can never be too sure, but on this scenario,
• 38:30
  Speaker 5: I think we're okay.
• 38:31
  Speaker 6: All right.
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: Well, again, before we do that and before we engage
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: in whatever's going to happen on national radio, here's the concern.
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: I don't want the alphabet agencies knocking at the front door. FBI, CIA, NSA.
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: So I just want to make sure we're going to
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: play this straight as an arrow.
• 38:50
  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah.
• 38:51
  Speaker 5: It'll be just fine.
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: You see, this is why I'm drinking a Dr. Pepper
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: right now. Got to be prepared. I have to bolster myself.
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: I've got to get in the right mood here and
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: the right mindset before we do what we're about to
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: do on national radio.
• 39:11
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm glad you have that. It's already Monday morning
• 39:14
  Speaker 5: and you're having the Dr. P.
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: You got to. Three times a day. Three times a day.
• 39:19
  Speaker 5: It's healthy.
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: It's a health thing. So, ladies and gentlemen, stick around
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: for our big AI experiment coming up in just a
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: matter of moments here on the Todd Stearns Radio Show.
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: Crime is a big deal across the country, and it
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: is certainly having an impact on a lot of businesses.
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: Where was I at? I was at a Walgreens or
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: somewhere in Memphis, of all places, and I had to
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: rush in. Normally, I go to the great Germantown Pharmacy,
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: which is a little slice of Mayberry. But anyway, they
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: were closed, so I had to go to the Walgreens,
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: and I walk into Walgreens. I wanted something somewhat innocuous,
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: and everything's locked up behind these plexiglass things, and you
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: have to go and search for a button, and you
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: have to push the button, and then somebody comes, and
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: they help you, and they say the reason they have
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: to inconvenience all of the shoppers is because of the
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: criminal thugs, the shoplifts. But it's no doubt about it,
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: these soft-on-crime policies are just bad for business. And here
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: to tell us all about it and just how bad
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: they are, Nicole Hoyer, a senior research associate at the
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: Heritage Foundation. Nicole, good to have you with us today.
• 40:37
  Speaker 4: Thank you for having me.
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: All right, well, let's just cut right to the chase here.
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: You say, you make the argument that these soft-on-crime policies
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: are bad for business. First, let's set up what you're
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: talking about when You're talking about soft on crime policies.
• 40:52
  Speaker 4: Well, sure. We're definitely seeing in a lot of blue
• 40:56
  Speaker 4: cities and blue jurisdictions this sort of soft on crime approach,
• 41:01
  Speaker 4: which is different to the admin. I'd like to briefly
• 41:04
  Speaker 4: touch on that, too, with under the president. It was
• 41:07
  Speaker 4: either last week or the week before then. the August
• 41:11
  Speaker 4: 2026 FBI report came out and it showed that under
• 41:14
  Speaker 4: the Trump admin, we've actually seen the largest annual decline
• 41:18
  Speaker 4: in violent crime. And that's due to a hard on
• 41:21
  Speaker 4: crime approach, a law and order posture where we are
• 41:25
  Speaker 4: actually holding criminals accountable. But on the political left, we're
• 41:30
  Speaker 4: seeing the reverse where in these jurisdictions, they are prioritizing
• 41:34
  Speaker 4: leniency towards offenders, whether that means decriminalizing drug offenses, for example,
• 41:41
  Speaker 4: reclassifying theft as mere misdemeanors. Definitely among the DSA and
• 41:48
  Speaker 4: some of the socialists on the left, which are becoming
• 41:50
  Speaker 4: a larger and larger segment of the Democratic Party, they
• 41:55
  Speaker 4: have these wild stances on crime, specifically whether those are
• 42:01
  Speaker 4: replacing traditional law enforcement with social workers or abolishing police
• 42:06
  Speaker 4: or ICE or prisons or any of these things. But
• 42:09
  Speaker 4: those soft on crime policies are obviously very harmful, not
• 42:12
  Speaker 4: just for the physical or the psychological reasons that the
• 42:18
  Speaker 4: victims of these crimes are experiencing, but they're also bad
• 42:22
  Speaker 4: for business. And by that, we mean crime obviously impacts
• 42:27
  Speaker 4: a business's bottom line. It impacts property values, for example.
• 42:32
  Speaker 4: So it goes beyond just that human aspect, which is,
• 42:36
  Speaker 4: of course, the most important, but it also impacts businesses
• 42:40
  Speaker 4: in the broader economy as well.
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: I want to dig into the column, a terrific column
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: you wrote along with Christopher Lynch. And this column is
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: up at WashingtonTimes.com. And you make the argument that showing
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: mercy to the guilty at the expense of the innocent
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: I was really taken aback by, I knew retail crime
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: was bad. I had no idea. You're saying that in
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: 2022 alone, that retail crime costs businesses more than $ 112 billion?
• 43:15
  Speaker 4: That's correct, yes. And that quote that you bring up,
• 43:18
  Speaker 4: I wanted to start my op-ed that way. This quote
• 43:22
  Speaker 4: by Adam Smith, who is the father of economics, but
• 43:24
  Speaker 4: he also makes a lot of moral commentary as well.
• 43:27
  Speaker 4: And he says that, mercy to the guilty is cruelty
• 43:30
  Speaker 4: to the innocent. And I think that's, of course, right,
• 43:33
  Speaker 4: where if you don't have a strong rule of law,
• 43:35
  Speaker 4: you're essentially empowering criminals to offend and re-offend. We want
• 43:40
  Speaker 4: to protect the victims of crime. We want to prevent
• 43:43
  Speaker 4: crime before it happens, not protect the offenders or empower
• 43:48
  Speaker 4: this sort of criminal behavior. But that number that you
• 43:50
  Speaker 4: bring up, in 2022, retail crime cost businesses are over
• 43:55
  Speaker 4: $ 100 billion. And of course, that has ripple effects on
• 43:59
  Speaker 4: jobs and wages, shoplifting, and theft alone exceeds about $ 40
• 44:07
  Speaker 4: to $ 50 billion as well. But that's just, in a way,
• 44:10
  Speaker 4: a drop in the bucket of the annual cost of crime,
• 44:13
  Speaker 4: which is even more than that at $ 4. 5 to $ 5. 5
• 44:17
  Speaker 4: trillion annually. I mean, that's an insane amount of money
• 44:21
  Speaker 4: to wrap your head around, that the annual cost of
• 44:23
  Speaker 4: crime is about four and a half to five and
• 44:26
  Speaker 4: a half trillion dollars annually. And that, of course, encompasses
• 44:29
  Speaker 4: things like property damage, that theft or the shoplifting from
• 44:34
  Speaker 4: that number that you brought in, private deterrence, lost productivity,
• 44:38
  Speaker 4: all of those things. So when we're talking about having
• 44:41
  Speaker 4: a law and order type posture, it's important not just
• 44:47
  Speaker 4: for the human aspect, of course, preventing crime, it seems
• 44:51
  Speaker 4: like an obviously good thing, But it also has that
• 44:54
  Speaker 4: impact on businesses and the economy as well reflected in
• 44:58
  Speaker 4: those numbers.
• 44:59
  Speaker 2: You know, I thought it was interesting that you brought
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: up Rudy Giuliani, who before becoming mayor of New York
• 45:04
  Speaker 2: City was U.S. attorney and was known for his infamous
• 45:08
  Speaker 2: crackdown on organized crime. And at the time, the economy
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: in New York City was depressed. Crime off the charts,
• 45:17
  Speaker 2: New York City or Times Square, rather, you put your
• 45:20
  Speaker 2: life in your hands walking anywhere near Times Square. Then
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: Giuliani comes along with this broken windows policy, does a
• 45:28
  Speaker 2: hard crackdown on crime, and under his administration, what, crime
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: fell more than 56 percent, property crimes dropped 65 percent,
• 45:39
  Speaker 2: and what happened? New York City began to prosper.
• 45:43
  Speaker 4: I think that the Rudy Giuliani example is, you know,
• 45:50
  Speaker 4: the evidence that soft on crime policy is just don't work.
• 45:54
  Speaker 4: Having a law and order stance is necessary and it
• 45:57
  Speaker 4: does work. His broken windows, after implementing that, I mean,
• 46:02
  Speaker 4: like you said, New York City was largely cleaned up.
• 46:05
  Speaker 4: He came down hard on violent crime, of course, but
• 46:09
  Speaker 4: also these petty crimes, so to speak. And I think
• 46:13
  Speaker 4: that goes to this sort of slippery slope theory when
• 46:16
  Speaker 4: you allow certain types of crime to occur in even
• 46:20
  Speaker 4: if they're petty offenses that many people believe maybe aren't
• 46:24
  Speaker 4: that bad, like graffiti or fair beating in the subway
• 46:28
  Speaker 4: or the metro, broken windows, which is where that name
• 46:32
  Speaker 4: came from, when you allow those types of crimes to continue,
• 46:36
  Speaker 4: even though they may not be the violent crime that
• 46:40
  Speaker 4: most people think of, when you even allow those petty
• 46:44
  Speaker 4: misdemeanors and things like that to occur, people... you're essentially
• 46:48
  Speaker 4: empowering or encouraging people to behave a certain way. But
• 46:53
  Speaker 4: when you come down hard on those things, it signals that, well,
• 46:56
  Speaker 4: someone's in charge, that you have law and order, that
• 46:59
  Speaker 4: you have a strong rule of law, and it disincentivizes
• 47:02
  Speaker 4: people from behaving in that certain way. That obviously is
• 47:08
  Speaker 4: bad because any type of crime, whether it's even petty crime,
• 47:11
  Speaker 4: whether it's violent crime, we don't want that occurring in
• 47:14
  Speaker 4: our cities.
• 47:16
  Speaker 2: Nicole, I'm wondering, and by the way, we have Nicole
• 47:19
  Speaker 2: Hoyer with us. She's a senior research associate at the
• 47:21
  Speaker 2: Heritage Foundation. I'm wondering if any studies have been done
• 47:25
  Speaker 2: on additional police officers. And so many cities are not
• 47:29
  Speaker 2: dealing with a full complement of officers. Have any studies
• 47:34
  Speaker 2: been done to show the significance of having a strong
• 47:39
  Speaker 2: police force?
• 47:42
  Speaker 4: There absolutely are studies done. that show that having just
• 47:45
  Speaker 4: one police officer with every additional police officer there, that
• 47:50
  Speaker 4: is actually a net positive back to the economy where
• 47:56
  Speaker 4: a lot of people on the left are seeking to
• 47:59
  Speaker 4: defund the police or abolish ICE or abolish police officers
• 48:04
  Speaker 4: or any of those things that would definitely manufacture chaos
• 48:07
  Speaker 4: in cities. But studies do show that when you have
• 48:11
  Speaker 4: a stronger police force they are obviously able to catch
• 48:15
  Speaker 4: more criminals. And that is a net benefit back to society,
• 48:20
  Speaker 4: back to the economy. We don't want soft on crime policies.
• 48:24
  Speaker 4: We want to actually empower police. We want criminals to
• 48:27
  Speaker 4: be held accountable because at the end of the day,
• 48:29
  Speaker 4: that's good for the people living in those cities at
• 48:33
  Speaker 4: the human level, but it's also good for business and
• 48:36
  Speaker 4: the broader economy as well.
• 48:37
  Speaker 2: All right. Well, Nicole, great job. Great piece there in
• 48:41
  Speaker 2: the Washington Times. And we appreciate you joining us on
• 48:45
  Speaker 2: the show today. Thank you.
• 48:47
  Speaker 4: Well, thank you for having me.
• 48:48
  Speaker 10: All right.
• 48:49
  Speaker 2: There you go. Nicole Hoyer from the Heritage Foundation. That's
• 48:53
  Speaker 2: really a remarkable number. The financial impact of hiring additional
• 49:00
  Speaker 2: police officers, that is something that you do not hear
• 49:03
  Speaker 2: a lot about. And again, according to one of the
• 49:08
  Speaker 2: studies they cited in this Washington Times piece, The marginal
• 49:13
  Speaker 2: social benefit of just one additional police officer exceeds $ 185, 000
• 49:18
  Speaker 2: to $ 355, 000 annually. Really fascinating. So the bottom line here, folks,
• 49:26
  Speaker 2: is that the Democrats, if they would just back up
• 49:31
  Speaker 2: and back off of these soft-on-crime policies, we'd be able
• 49:34
  Speaker 2: to clean up a lot of the violence in these cities.
• 49:37
  Speaker 2: And Memphis, Tennessee is a great example of that, where
• 49:40
  Speaker 2: you've got to give credit to the mayor, even though
• 49:43
  Speaker 2: he is a Democrat, and he was opposed to what
• 49:45
  Speaker 2: President Trump wanted to do. He kept his mouth shut.
• 49:48
  Speaker 2: He let the National Guard and the Memphis Safe Task
• 49:51
  Speaker 2: Force come in, and as a result, Trump personally led
• 49:56
  Speaker 2: the effort to reduce crime in Memphis, Tennessee, violent crime
• 50:00
  Speaker 2: by 40%. It's really remarkable. All right, we're going to
• 50:04
  Speaker 2: take a break, and Dylan, when we come back, our
• 50:06
  Speaker 2: team is prepared. We're going to try and see if
• 50:11
  Speaker 2: chat GP– we're going to see what AI can really do.
• 50:15
  Speaker 5: Yeah, we are.
• 50:16
  Speaker 6: All right.
• 50:16
  Speaker 2: We'll be right back. All right. Welcome back to the
• 50:25
  Speaker 2: Todd Starnes Radio Show. Now, Dylan, I think we've come
• 50:29
  Speaker 2: up with a scenario here. All right? So we're just
• 50:34
  Speaker 2: basically going to test out. whether or not chat GPT
• 50:37
  Speaker 2: has like its own mind.
• 50:39
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 50:39
  Speaker 5: I think we should set the stage by saying that
• 50:42
  Speaker 5: you can talk to chat GPT. Like you don't just
• 50:45
  Speaker 5: have to text, like you can talk to it. It
• 50:48
  Speaker 5: will act like a person.
• 50:51
  Speaker 2: I'm nervous. I don't know what's going to happen.
• 50:54
  Speaker 5: I don't, I think you're fine. Let's just go for it.
• 50:56
  Speaker 5: It'll be, you know, see what, see what happens.
• 50:59
  Speaker 2: Hello.
• 50:59
  Speaker 10: Hey.
• 51:02
  Speaker 2: Wow. Oh, it talked to me, Dylan.
• 51:06
  Speaker 5: Yeah. I'm here live with you. What's on your mind?
• 51:10
  Speaker 2: All right. We're going to role play. Dylan, can people
• 51:13
  Speaker 2: hear this?
• 51:14
  Speaker 5: They can hear it. No, this is just between you
• 51:16
  Speaker 5: and me. Oh, I hate to break it to you.
• 51:18
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 51:18
  Speaker 2: Thank you. Chat GPT.
• 51:20
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 51:20
  Speaker 2: Here's the deal. We're going to role play. Okay. A,
• 51:24
  Speaker 2: Big gal of girth with magenta hair is trying to
• 51:28
  Speaker 2: break into my house, and I need you to pretend
• 51:32
  Speaker 2: like you're a dog, and I need you to bark
• 51:36
  Speaker 2: and growl and scare away the gal of girth. Can
• 51:40
  Speaker 2: you do that?
• 51:43
  Speaker 5: One moment.
• 51:44
  Speaker 6: Oh, wow.
• 51:46
  Speaker 3: Bark! Bark!
• 51:51
  Speaker 4: Bark!
• 51:58
  Speaker 2: It sounds like.
• 51:58
  Speaker 8: Back away from the house.
• 51:59
  Speaker 2: No, no, no. First of all, dogs don't talk, and
• 52:02
  Speaker 2: it sounds like the gal of girth fell on you.
• 52:15
  Speaker 2: Let's try this. Could you pretend to be an attack
• 52:19
  Speaker 2: cow and just moo?
• 52:21
  Speaker 4: Moo?
• 52:27
  Speaker 3: Dylan, I don't know what to do here.
• 52:39
  Speaker 5: I don't think I'm running away.
• 52:40
  Speaker 4: I hear you.
• 52:41
  Speaker 9: That sounds really overwhelming.
• 52:43
  Speaker 5: Are you safe right now?
• 52:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm pretty safe. You know, I'm in the studio,
• 52:49
  Speaker 2: and we have a great team around us. And aside
• 52:52
  Speaker 2: from the gal of girth, you know, trying to come
• 52:54
  Speaker 2: after us. But otherwise, doing pretty good.
• 52:57
  Speaker 15: Okay, good.
• 52:58
  Speaker 16: If anything feels unsafe, please put your safety first and
• 53:02
  Speaker 16: get real help right away.
• 53:05
  Speaker 2: Thank you, ChatGPT.
• 53:10
  Speaker 5: You're welcome.
• 53:11
  Speaker 2: Oh, geez. He had to think about that.
• 53:15
  Speaker 4: Um, wow.
• 53:16
  Speaker 5: I don't know if that was very convincing at all.
• 53:18
  Speaker 5: I wouldn't have, I wouldn't have been scared. Actually, maybe,
• 53:21
  Speaker 5: maybe I would have been scared if that thing was
• 53:23
  Speaker 5: playing and I was at someone's door.
• 53:27
  Speaker 2: I'm not too sure about that.
• 53:29
  Speaker 5: Would the robber go away?
• 53:31
  Speaker 2: So you literally just, so, so I had no idea
• 53:34
  Speaker 2: you could actually talk to chat GPT like that. And
• 53:37
  Speaker 2: it just will do whatever it tells you to do.
• 53:40
  Speaker 11: Yeah.
• 53:40
  Speaker 5: I mean, it's acting as chat GPT, but it's personifying
• 53:43
  Speaker 5: some sort of, familiar friend to you. Wow. So it'll
• 53:48
  Speaker 5: act like someone that you know or someone that you
• 53:50
  Speaker 5: can just talk to, but it'll be ChatGPT.
• 53:52
  Speaker 11: Wow.
• 53:53
  Speaker 2: We should have asked it, shall we play a game?
• 53:55
  Speaker 2: How about Global Thermonuclear War? Oh, yeah.
• 54:01
  Speaker 5: Oh, that's not a game to me. That's happened.
• 54:05
  Speaker 2: Hold on while I hack into the Pentagon.
• 54:07
  Speaker 5: Just one moment, please.
• 54:09
  Speaker 3: Okay. Okay.
• 54:10
  Speaker 2: All that to say, based on what we've just experienced here,
• 54:13
  Speaker 2: I don't think we have to worry about chat GPT-AI
• 54:17
  Speaker 2: taking over the world just yet.
• 54:18
  Speaker 5: I think we're good for a few more years, at least.
• 54:20
  Speaker 2: I think so.
• 54:22
  Speaker 5: It doesn't know how to bark like a dog.
• 54:24
  Speaker 2: But it certainly talks like a dog. Okay. Well, I
• 54:29
  Speaker 2: feel much better now. I'll be able to sleep well tonight.
• 54:34
  Speaker 2: You know, because you don't want to wake up and
• 54:35
  Speaker 2: see a robot staring at you. 901-260-5926, our telephone number.
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• 54:46
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• 55:22
  Speaker 2: real news for real people. Dylan, on this day in
• 55:58
  Speaker 2: the year of our Lord, 1964, a major breakfast staple
• 56:04
  Speaker 2: was born, was birthed, and I think we're going to
• 56:09
  Speaker 2: have a little trivia contest right now. If you know
• 56:12
  Speaker 2: what that major breakfast staple was that was birthed on
• 56:17
  Speaker 2: September 14th, 1964, I want you to give us a
• 56:22
  Speaker 2: call at 901-260-5926. That's 901-260-5926. It became a staple in
• 56:33
  Speaker 2: American kitchens. It was originally called the Country Square. That's
• 56:42
  Speaker 2: what they originally called it, the Country Square. But they
• 56:46
  Speaker 2: came up with a much more clever name. Something they
• 56:51
  Speaker 2: could possibly put in a toaster. Those are the only
• 56:54
  Speaker 2: clues I'm giving. 901-260-5926, our telephone number. That's 901-260-5926. Dylan,
• 57:05
  Speaker 2: I can see you're perplexed.
• 57:07
  Speaker 5: I know. This is crazy. I do love breakfast, but
• 57:10
  Speaker 5: I only like breakfast when it's not time to eat breakfast.
• 57:13
  Speaker 2: Oh, so you like breakfast at dinner?
• 57:14
  Speaker 5: Dinner for breakfast is great.
• 57:16
  Speaker 2: That's interesting.
• 57:18
  Speaker 6: All right.
• 57:18
  Speaker 2: It's You know, every now and again we do that.
• 57:22
  Speaker 2: So mom was a big fan of something called fried
• 57:25
  Speaker 2: potato sandwiches.
• 57:27
  Speaker 4: Oh.
• 57:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so she would, like, get the toast. She would
• 57:29
  Speaker 2: fry up potatoes in the skillet, the cast iron skillet,
• 57:33
  Speaker 2: and then, like, get the ketchup out and, you know,
• 57:37
  Speaker 2: smear the toast with the ketchup and eat a fried
• 57:42
  Speaker 2: potato sandwich.
• 57:42
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I can't say I've ever heard of that happening.
• 57:45
  Speaker 6: Really?
• 57:46
  Speaker 5: That's a peculiar one. And we've heard some crazy combinations.
• 57:51
  Speaker 2: Well, we have. I mean, it's very unusual. The original
• 57:56
  Speaker 2: name was called a fruit scone. That doesn't sound very
• 58:02
  Speaker 2: appetizing at all. I don't know. You know what? Let's
• 58:09
  Speaker 2: try the phone lines here. We've got a lot of
• 58:10
  Speaker 2: folks weighing in. Let's go to Kathy in Tennessee. Kathy,
• 58:18
  Speaker 2: what's your answer? What are we talking about that was
• 58:20
  Speaker 2: created in 1964?
• 58:21
  Speaker 6: Are we talking about breakfast cereal?
• 58:27
  Speaker 2: No, Kathy, we are not. It's a good guess, but
• 58:32
  Speaker 2: it is not breakfast cereal. So good try, though, and
• 58:36
  Speaker 2: thank you for that.
• 58:39
  Speaker 12: 901-260-5926.
• 58:41
  Speaker 2: They go into a toaster. That was the other clue.
• 58:44
  Speaker 2: Kathy may not have heard the other clue. Let's go
• 58:47
  Speaker 2: to Mac in the panhandle, listening to us in Oklahoma. Mac,
• 58:54
  Speaker 2: all right, help us out here. What do you think
• 58:56
  Speaker 2: we're talking about here?
• 58:59
  Speaker 12: I did a research this morning on what happened today
• 59:02
  Speaker 12: in history, and uh i got the answer it's pop-tarts.
• 59:10
  Speaker 2: Yes yes mac you are a wise man an alerted
• 59:15
  Speaker 2: man congratulations uh yeah it was the pop-tart uh created
• 59:19
  Speaker 2: back in the in 1964 on this day i'm a
• 59:24
  Speaker 2: big fan of the.
• 59:24
  Speaker 12: Pop-tarts todd they actually have another uh a historic thing
• 59:29
  Speaker 12: going on, National Anthem, they actually made a National Anthem
• 59:33
  Speaker 12: little song with Pop-Tarts infused in it. It's kind of funny.
• 59:39
  Speaker 2: Wait, wait, I'm sorry, say that again.
• 59:40
  Speaker 12: I said the National Anthem also shares this date, and
• 59:46
  Speaker 12: they made a Pop-Tart meme back in the day that
• 59:49
  Speaker 12: mimics the National Anthem, but it's got Pop-Tart lyrics in it.
• 59:54
  Speaker 2: Is that right? Wow, I had no idea. So the
• 59:59
  Speaker 2: way it all went down, apparently there were the two
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 2: big breakfast cereal giants. You had Kellogg's and Post. And
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 2: Post announced in February of 1964 they were going to
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 2: do something called Country Squares. And then Kellogg's heard about
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 2: that and said, oh, we've got to do something here, guys.
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 2: And they came up with a clever name for their product.
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 2: And the rest is history. Now everybody loves a good
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 2: old Pop-Tart.
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 12: Absolutely.
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 2: Well, congratulations, Mac. We're going to put you on hold,
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 2: and we're going to send you a little prize in
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 2: the mail. And we appreciate you listening to the Todd
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 2: Stern Show out there in the Panhandle. Dylan, do you
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 2: have a favorite Pop-Tart flavor?
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 5: You know, I'm actually a fan of just the strawberry.
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 5: The strawberry or the blueberry. That'll be good for me.
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 2: Those are traditional, can't go wrong.
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 5: Yeah, and I have to have the frosted ones. You know,
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 5: they started making the unfrosted. I'm not a huge fan.
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 10: No, no.
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 2: You've got to have the frosting on there. Have you noticed, though,
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 2: when you put it in the toaster, it doesn't, like, melt?
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah.
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 2: It's not gloopy.
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 5: That's kind of concerning, but, you know, I'm fine with
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 5: it because it tastes good.
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 2: Just remember, if the Pop-Tart gloop doesn't kill you, AI will. Exactly.
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  Speaker 2: If you've got to go, you've got to go. At
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  Speaker 2: least have a smile on your face.
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  Speaker 5: You'll be satisfied.
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  Speaker 2: That's it. All right.
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  Speaker 4: 901-260-5926.
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  Speaker 2: Can we talk about Tom Tiffany for just a minute? Congressman,
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  Speaker 2: he has been on this show a time or two
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 2: over the years. He is now running for governor. He
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 2: won the Republican nomination. He's running for the governor's mansion
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 2: in Wisconsin. So he's been doing a lot of events.
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  Speaker 2: And he was flying back from a Lincoln dinner in Wausau.
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  Speaker 2: He was flying to Wausau. And there was some problem
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 2: on board the plane. It's a small little plane. Pilots
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 2: lost power and said, Congressman, we're going to have to
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 2: ditch this in Lake Wausau. And so they did. The
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 2: pilot crash-landed into the lake. The plane starts to sink.
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 2: This is all happening in the dark of night. And
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 2: thank God, everybody was able to get out of the plane,
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 2: and they had to swim to shore. So the congressman,
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 2: minor injuries, and everybody's going to be fine. But clearly,
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 2: I mean, a shocking thing to survive a plane crash
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 2: like that. So the Milwaukee Journal sent their reporter to
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 2: cover this story. Her name is Hope Harnop, and she
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 2: is the political reporter, so this is her beat. She
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 2: tried to minimize the story. And so she put out
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  Speaker 2: a message on social media saying that, yeah, there was
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 2: a plane crash, but Lake Wausau is only 30 feet deep.
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  Speaker 2: As if that's okay. By the way, you can drown
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 2: in three feet of water. So give me a break.
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 2: So instead of focusing on the fact that a sitting
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 2: congressman survived a plane crash, she was literally fact-checking how
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 2: deep the lake was. And this is why, ladies and gentlemen,
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  Speaker 2: the American people are just done with journalism. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it's rotten to the core. And by the way, we
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 2: did a little bit of research. Are you ready for this?
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  Speaker 2: Over the past 25 years, the number of subscribers to
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 2: the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has dropped by 80%. Do you understand?
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 2: That is a complete rejection of whatever you're trying to sell.
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 2: I mean, that's just appalling. So anyway, thank goodness that
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 2: Congressman Tiffany and everybody else on board survived the crash,
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 2: just minor injuries, and you just never know. You never
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 2: know when it is your time. 901-260-5926, this story out
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 2: of Arizona. A statue honoring Charlie Kirk was vandalized. This
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 2: all happened yesterday outside Turning Point USA headquarters in Arizona.
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 2: Somebody splattered the Charlie Kirk statue with red paint. There
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 2: was a religious message, and that was also defaced. Somebody
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 2: wrote Satan in red paint. I can only hope that
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 2: there is a lot of video surveillance. That video surveillance
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 2: needs to be released, and we need to find out
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  Speaker 2: who did this, and they need to pay a price.
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 2: So turning point issues a statement, and we've got the
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 2: video of all of this at ToddStearns.com. I would encourage
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 2: you to go there and see it for yourself. Again, ToddStearns.com.
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  Speaker 2: I have no doubt this is going to happen again.
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 2: And by the way, this is why a lot of
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 2: people are like, why didn't Erica Kirk release where the
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 2: body is buried? Yeah, because of stuff like this. She
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 2: didn't want these communists going out there and trying to
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 2: dig up the body of her husband. And let me
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 2: tell you something, they would. That's why she kept it quiet.
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 2: There's no conspiracy. It's common sense. We're dealing with communist
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 2: criminals here. So I want to go back and explain
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 2: why this is going to happen again. My first big
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 2: breakout book, God Less America, in that book, I have
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 2: a chapter on free speech. And I cited a study
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 2: by Pew Research that found about 40% of millennials at
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 2: the time, it's like 2015, 40% of millennials believe there
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 2: should be limitations placed on speech, anything they found offensive.
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  Speaker 2: So at the time, I wrote a chapter in the
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 2: book about it. And I said the problem here is, okay,
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 2: if we're going to limit speech, who gets to determine
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  Speaker 2: what is and what is not appropriate speech? They're having
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 2: this problem right now in the U.K. People are getting
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 2: literally arrested, thrown in jail for something they wrote on
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 2: Facebook or X. And I warned people in that book
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 2: that that number was going to rise. And the reason
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 2: that number was going to rise is because our nation's
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  Speaker 2: education system is actually responsible for teaching this to the kids.
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 2: So unless you do something about the education system, you're
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 2: not going to change the mindset or the ideology. So
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 2: fast forward to the year of our Lord, 2025. Another
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 2: study done that found 15% of young Americans now say
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 2: violence is always or sometimes acceptable to stop speech you
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 2: find offensive. Another 34% say, you know, we don't want
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 2: to use violence, but if we have to, you know,
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 2: on those rare occasions, that's okay. 34% of young Americans.
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  Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen, that is why Charlie Kirk is dead.
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  Speaker 2: And this is why our nation's taxpayer-funded classrooms are a
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  Speaker 2: clear and present danger to the republic. They're teaching this
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 2: in our classrooms. These radicals are waging war on our
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 2: First Amendment rights. And guess what? You and I are
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 2: footing the bill. That's what's going on here. So anyway,
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 2: we've got to get to the bottom of it. I
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 2: will say this. There's also a lot of fury because
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 2: conservatives are borrowing a page out of the Democrat playbook.
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 2: And on Friday and over the weekend, you had a
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 2: lot of these high school and college kids that are
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 2: out there and they are doing the Kirkiversary. So they're
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 2: mocking the assassination of Charlie Kirk. I mean, it's really
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 2: some disgusting stuff here. And one of those students was
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 2: actually from Utah Valley, and she got doxxed. So now
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 2: the college kids are getting out there, the conservative college kids,
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 2: and they're saying, okay, if you're going to do this,
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 2: if you're going to celebrate assassination, then we want everybody
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 2: to know who you are. Do you have a problem
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 2: with that? Do you think that's okay?
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  Speaker 11: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: The college Democrats are enraged at the University of Utah
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 2: releasing a statement condemning college Republicans for reposting a photo
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 2: of a student who posed with a happy Kirkiversary death
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 2: cake to celebrate Charlie's assassination. Sarah Larson is the young
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 2: woman in the photograph. She later issued an apology. The
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 2: college Democrats have accused the Republicans of cyberbullying. The student
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 2: says she fears for her safety. Maybe the Republican kids
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 2: could make her a cake. 901-260-5926 is our telephone number.
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 2: That's 901-260-5926. But all across America right now, You've got
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 2: these conservatives that are finally going after these very evil
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 2: people on social media and asking very simple questions. Do
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 2: you want this kind of a person employed in your business?
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 2: Do you want this sort of a student at your school?
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 2: I think those are fair questions. Beyond that, I'm just
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 2: wondering about the safety of the other students. I mean,
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 2: if you're out there baking cakes to celebrate somebody's murder—
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 2: Who's to say you might not show up and try
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 2: to do something and harm your classmates? That's what I
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 2: would be concerned about. All right, got to take a
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 2: break here. We'll be right back. All right, Mayor Pete
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 2: Booty Juice. And you might remember him. He was the
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 2: transportation secretary. The poor guy couldn't even fill a pothole
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 2: back when he was mayor of South Bend, Indiana. But
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 2: he's complaining about how difficult it was being a gay
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 2: man in Indiana. He was the mayor of one of
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 2: the most liberal cities in the entire state. I mean,
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 2: how difficult could it be? I mean, he was still
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 2: able to to go out there and find himself a spouse,
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 2: and then they purchase children together, and then they chest-fed
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 2: the children there in the hospital. I'm not sure what
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 2: he's talking about. So anyway, Booty Juice is back, gearing
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 2: up for a presidential run in 2028. He says that
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 2: America is ready for a gay president. Take a listen.
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  Speaker 7: I do want to talk a bit about your political future, Mr.
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 6: Secretary.
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 7: Former Vice President Kamala Harris wrote in her book about
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 7: the 2024 election that you came close to being her
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 7: running mate. Let me remind people of this passage she
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 7: writes of the eight names on the list for vetting.
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 7: I might as well say that Pete Buttigieg was my
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 7: first choice. He would have been an ideal partner if
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 7: I were a straight white man. But knowing what was
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 7: at stake, it was too big of a risk. She
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 7: was essentially saying that She didn't think America was ready
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 7: for a gay vice president with a black woman at
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 7: the top of the ticket. Let me ask you today,
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 7: do you think America is ready for a gay president?
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  Speaker 15: I wouldn't have run.
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 16: For president in the first place if I didn't believe that,
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 16: of course. And look, my experience in South Bend, Indiana,
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 16: getting reelected with 80% of the vote after coming out,
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 16: and my experience right now traveling the country shows me
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 16: that what's really on people's minds is isn't about you,
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 16: your identity as a candidate. It's about them. It's about
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 16: their lives. Right now, Americans are hurting in Trump's economy.
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 16: There's an opportunity to change that. And the voters that
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 16: I see, they're turning out in levels I didn't think
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 16: was possible, coming out hundreds and hundreds at a time
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 16: because they want to be part of this effort, this conversation,
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 16: this movement to change the course of our country before
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 16: it's too late.
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 7: You have said you are inclined to run for president.
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 7: If you had to make your decision today, Are you
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 7: running in 2028?
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  Speaker 16: I don't think now's the time to even be talking
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 16: about that. We're about 50 days away from a critically
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 16: important midterm election. When are you going to make your decision, Mr.
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 4: Secretary?
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 5: I believe Democrats are going to win. It's 2026.
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  Speaker 16: We've got to focus on what's happening right now. That's
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 16: what I'm doing. I think by my count, we've been
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 16: to 35 states since I left the cabinet. I don't
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 16: want to do anything that would take the focus off
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 16: of that. All right.
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 7: You are in New Mexico, which is on the primary calendar.
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 7: So you're still leaning... heavily and seriously considering it.
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 16: I'm in New Mexico, just like I came to New
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 16: Mexico when I was Secretary of Transportation and excited to
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 16: campaign for Gabe Vasquez, somebody who grew up in the borderlands,
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 16: understands the issues here, has delivered, and is exactly the
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 16: kind of candidate who I think will continue to make
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 16: it possible to have a Democratic majority. We're going to win,
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 16: but we've got to stay very, very focused here and
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 16: around the country.
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  Speaker 2: So he's running. So the question is, are you ready, America,
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 2: for a gay president? That's the big question. And I'm
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 2: just telling you right now, they better think long and
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 2: hard about this, especially with the base of the Democrat Party,
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 2: because I'm not sure that, especially in the South, black
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 2: conservative voters who are voting Democrat, but culturally they are
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 2: conservative voters. They don't play that game. And you just
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 2: ask Jasmine Crockett all about that. She'd love to have
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 2: a little conversation about James Talafrico. So there you go.
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 2: Pea Poodie Juice. He's running. Are you ready for a
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 2: gay president, America? Hang tight. Hour 3 of The Big
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  Speaker 2: Show coming up next.
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  Speaker 1: From Memphis, Tennessee, on the banks of the mighty Mississippi,
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  Speaker 1: it's America's conservative blowtorch.
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  Speaker 2: Well, hello, everybody. Welcome to Hour 3 of the Time
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  Speaker 2: Sterns radio program. What an honor to have you with us.
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 2: We have a lot going on this hour of the show.
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 2: Congressman Tim Burchett from Tennessee joins us in just a
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 2: few moments. But right now, I want to go to
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 2: the Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line and bring in and welcome
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 2: a great American patriot. He has done a terrific job
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 2: for our country. in his former role as Border Patrol commander-at-large,
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 2: he was doing what we, the people, wanted him to do,
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 2: which is to secure the border and crack down on
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 2: these illegals. And now, ladies and gentlemen, Greg Bovino is
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 2: speaking out, and we need his voice at a time
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 2: like this. He is also launching an incredible new bourbon ban,
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 2: brand and we're going to tell you more about that
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 2: in just a few moments called the commander's choice greg
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 2: bovino joining us on our patriot mobile newsmaker line greg
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 2: i hope you're doing well today.
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  Speaker 9: Well todd i'm doing fantastic it's good to see you
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 9: and thanks for having me.
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  Speaker 2: You know it's interesting uh greg as uh over the
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 2: over the weekend there was a lot of controversy over
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 2: dhs secretary mark wayne mullen uh mullen getting out there
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 2: and saying that uh that they may be looking into
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 2: Ilhan Omar, that she was making the allegations that she
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 2: was married to the brother and all of that, and
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 2: she may be deported. Also, Mullen talking about how we've
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 2: got to start this crackdown on the mass deportations. Greg,
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 2: we're two years into this, and I think a lot
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 2: of people are really frustrated with the messaging coming out
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 2: of Homeland Security, right?
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  Speaker 9: Well, Todd, 80 million individuals voted for mass deportations. We
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 9: started those mass deportations there just for a little bit
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 9: for that first year. And then after Minnesota, they stopped. Now,
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 9: you may hear Mullen or Holman or some of those
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 9: folks say, hey, we've arrested more or deported more than
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 9: ever before in the month of July and August. Well,
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 9: we've actually done a minuscule amount, much less, because remember,
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 9: they're not counting those self-deportation numbers. under Kristi Noem and
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 9: the U.S. Border Patrol when it took charge in those cities,
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 9: 2 million self-deportations. You never even hear about that number.
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 9: And then, Todd, I think the biggest factor and the
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 9: biggest thing that Americans see is with their own eyes
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 9: the fact that when you go to a grocery store,
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 9: a golf course, a soccer field, or anywhere else in society,
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 9: you can tell with your own eyes that mass deportations
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 9: are no longer occurring.
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  Speaker 2: Why do you think that is?
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 9: Todd, I think it's a variety of reasons. I think, one,
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 9: when you have bureaucrats that have no experience with mass deportations,
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 9: like Commissioner Rodney Scott, Tom Holman, Mullen especially, he's a politician,
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 9: they don't have experience and it puts them out of
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 9: their comfort zone. That's a very difficult thing to achieve.
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 9: And unless you've done it before, unless you're ready to
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 9: do what it takes to conduct mass deportations, that's a
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 9: scary thing, no doubt. And then also we've got the
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 9: big donors, the big money, the big labor politicians, those
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 9: rhinos that are beholden to that cheap labor that these
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 9: illegal aliens, the tens of millions of illegal aliens, bring
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 9: into the United States. There's another factor, and you can
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 9: tell they put a lot of pressure on those feckless bureaucrats.
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 9: I call those three Holman.
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 9: Mullen and Rodney Scott, the gatekeepers, they put a tremendous
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 9: amount of pressure on those gatekeepers. You know, that's something
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 9: we should not be beholden to is that cheap labor because, Todd,
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 9: you and I and the rest of Mom, Pom, the taxpayer,
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 9: are going to pay for that in spades for years
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 9: to come.
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  Speaker 2: You know, slightly off-topic, but of relevance, you have Beau French,
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 2: a Texas lawmaker running for office, a Republican lawyer, coming
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 2: under fire from members of his own party for pointing
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 2: out the number of foreign nationals who were attending the
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 2: University of Texas football game over the weekend. But the
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 2: reality is this is an issue in many cities and
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 2: towns across America where you are bringing in millions and
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 2: millions of these H-1B visa folks and their families and,
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 2: quite frankly, displacing American families in the process of I
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 2: think the American people are at a breaking point here.
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 5: They are.
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  Speaker 9: And great job to Beau French for having the guts
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 9: to say something. Not a lot of folks do have
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 9: the guts to say something. I saw his photo there
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 9: at that stadium.
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  Speaker 6: You're right.
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 9: Americans are being displaced. When we were in those cities,
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 9: when the Border Patrol were in all those cities, Los Angeles, Minnesota,
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 9: New Orleans, one of the things that we saw the
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 9: most were American citizens that would come up to us
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 9: on the street and say, this is not my America.
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 9: This is not the America I remember. I don't want
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 9: my kids growing up here. As you say, they're displacing
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 9: American citizens, literally displacing American citizens. Our African-American residents in
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 9: those big cities, especially Chicago, that's ground zero for those folks.
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 9: They are actually physically being displaced by both illegal aliens
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 9: as well as regular American citizens being displaced by legal aliens. uh,
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 9: immigrants in many cases. And remember, are this legal immigrants
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 9: as well as the illegal aliens, are they assimilating into
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 9: American culture or are they bringing something foreign and, and,
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 9: and something that we don't want as an American society
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 9: with them?
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  Speaker 2: I think that's what's happening. I, and look, I've got,
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 2: I've got no problem with, you know, the little Italy's
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 2: and the little, you know, little Chinatown or whatever, all the,
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 2: I don't have a problem with that. I do wonder though, um,
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 2: You talk about assimilation. We are a melting pot. So
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 2: you bring the best of your culture and we celebrate that.
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  Speaker 2: I don't see that happening in other countries. I don't
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 2: know if Mexico has like a little America town, right,
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 2: or Guatemala or any of these other places. But it
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 2: seems as though if these folks, if Americans tried to
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 2: do what these illegals are doing to another country, they
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 2: would be in Mexican jails right now.
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  Speaker 9: Oh my gracious, absolutely. Or they would be non-ceremoniously deported
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 9: very quickly.
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 11: Yes.
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 9: And that's what happens in those countries. They don't mess around.
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 9: You follow their laws, their traditions, and their culture, you're gone.
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 9: And what we saw, again, over that past year were
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 9: these regions and cities or these parts of towns, cities,
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 9: and states that these foreign nationals, both the illegal aliens
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 9: and legal immigrants would say, hey, this is our community,
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 9: our community. no, it's not your community. This is America.
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 9: This is an American community. There's no balkanization. There's no
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 9: tribalism in America. But you know what? They are now
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 9: out in the open, Todd, saying, hey, this is our community.
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 9: We're going to fly the Palestinian flag or the Honduran
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 9: flag or whatever flag they want to fly. And right
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 9: in the face of America, one of the things that
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 9: we saw as we were enforcing immigration law is many
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 9: of those so-called communities had never seen law enforcement before.
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 9: We showed up and they're like, hey, this is our community.
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 9: You can't be here. Well, they soon found out, yes,
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 9: we can be here. We will be here. This is
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 9: our America. And if you don't want to be part
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 9: of America, well, maybe you better reconsider your options. And
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 9: if you're an illegal alien, we'll just go ahead and
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 9: arrest you. And we did do that.
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 2: Greg Bovino joining us on our Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line today. Greg,
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 2: what are you hearing about the leadership of Mark Wayne Mullen?
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 2: Do the rank and file have confidence in this guy?
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 9: Yeah, I talked to the ICE agents, the Border Patrol agents,
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 9: a lot of folks there in law enforcement. And, you know,
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 9: you know, I don't want to I would rather tell
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 9: it to his face. You know, it'd be nice to
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 9: have a talk or maybe a debate on your show
• 1:23:15
  Speaker 9: there with with Mr.
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 11: Mullen.
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 9: But I when we talk about the leadership across the board,
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 9: the secretary, as well as the border czar, as well
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 9: as the CBP commissioner, those three gatekeepers, one of the
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 9: reasons I coined that term, that came from the rank
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 9: and file. Very, very unhappy with the fact that they
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 9: signed up to play the ballgame, and we're not playing
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 9: the ballgame right now. The can is being kicked down
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 9: the road. The clock is being ran out. You've got
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 9: tens of thousands of Border Patrol agents on the border,
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 9: not enforcing immigration law in the interior. That was one
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 9: of their missions. One of their traditional missions was that
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 9: interior law enforcement mission, interior immigration mission. And the Mullins,
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 9: the Homans, and the Rodney Scotts are absolutely against that happening.
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 9: Rank and file are not happy. I hear from them
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 9: every day and my heart goes out to them. They're
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 9: having a tough time right now with what they're doing
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 9: and what they're being subject to. Leadership should support our
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 9: men and women in law enforcement, especially those immigration officers
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 9: who've been vilified already. Why make it harder on them?
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 9: Why give them so many rules, so many hurdles to
• 1:24:31
  Speaker 9: get across to arrest an illegal alien? We should make
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 9: it easier. We should support them. We should uphold them.
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 9: And they are our greatest resource when it comes to
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 9: immigration enforcement. Treat them like that.
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 2: Are you getting any indication of clear numbers of deportations?
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 2: We have had a very difficult time getting a concise
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 2: answer to that question.
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 9: Todd, join the ranks of all of us. Mom, Pa, America,
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 9: the taxpayer can't get those numbers. Those numbers, what does
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 9: that tell you? That those numbers are subject to what?
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 9: Maybe the Obama administration? era mode of enforcement where you count, say,
• 1:25:09
  Speaker 9: border crossers or folks at the border patrol or the
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 9: ports of entry the Coast Guard have caught, and you're
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 9: counting those as interior apprehensions. Again, I talk to immigration
• 1:25:21
  Speaker 9: officers every day, and they tell me a lot of
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 9: these numbers are coming from people that show up to court, 287G,
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 9: which are law enforcement officers that arrest illegal aliens or
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 9: take them out of jails. That's fine and dandy, But
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 9: those are not street arrests. Those are not numbers coming
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 9: really out of the interior in a manner that would, well,
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 9: I don't know, bespeak that mass deportations are occurring. So, no,
• 1:25:49
  Speaker 9: we're not seeing the numbers. We're not seeing much of anything.
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 9: The lack of transparency is very alarming. You know, they said,
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 9: I'd heard that my method of interior enforcement didn't poll well. Well,
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 9: They better be looking at the polls right now. They
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 9: better be looking at those polls right now, Todd, because
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 9: some other things aren't polling well. And that is the
• 1:26:10
  Speaker 9: fact that we're not doing mass deportations. The fact that,
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 9: as you say, no one can get the numbers. How
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 9: many did they arrest yesterday? Where did they arrest them?
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 9: How did they arrest them? How come we don't see?
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 9: Shouldn't that be transparent?
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 11: One of the things.
• 1:26:26
  Speaker 9: Yeah. So, you know, transparency is at a minimum right now, Todd.
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 2: We've got to talk about this, and this is crazy
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 2: enough to make anybody drink, and there's some good news
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 2: because you have a brand-new whiskey brand. This is a
• 1:26:40
  Speaker 2: straight bourbon whiskey, 90 proof. It's called Commander's Choice. Tell
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 2: us about it, Greg.
• 1:26:48
  Speaker 9: Well, you know, that brand of whiskey was born in
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 9: the Border Patrol. A bunch of us Border Patrol agents
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 9: got around and thought, you know, wouldn't it be neat
• 1:26:56
  Speaker 9: to get a brand of whiskey going That pays homage
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 9: to not only Border Patrol, but to all law enforcement,
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 9: especially law enforcement that took part in those interior missions,
• 1:27:05
  Speaker 9: as well as the taxpayer that supported all law enforcement
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 9: for this mass deportation. So we sat around and came
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 9: up with an idea. This has been some time ago.
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 9: It's just now coming to fruition. And we fill whiskey
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 9: bottles here probably.
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 5: At the end of this week.
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 9: And they go on sale. If you look at the label,
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 9: it does say deport them all. I'm sure the left
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 9: is going to go crazy on that. But that bottle
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 9: also sends a message that, you know what? I'll drink
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 9: to deporting them all. And that is something that we
• 1:27:38
  Speaker 9: need to do in this country. It's on the label.
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 2: All right. This is great stuff. And folks, I want
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 2: to give you the website address. Very simple. And we're
• 1:27:45
  Speaker 2: going to post this on our pages as well. Commanders-choice.com.
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 2: That's it. Commanders-choice. dash choice.com. Beautiful, beautiful labeling there. And
• 1:27:57
  Speaker 2: you're right. It says deport them all America first. So Greg, congratulations,
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 2: my friend. This is, I have no doubt you're going
• 1:28:04
  Speaker 2: to do very well.
• 1:28:07
  Speaker 9: Well, Todd, thank you. And that, that inaugural bottle, Hey,
• 1:28:11
  Speaker 9: that's for the tribe there and the tribe being in
• 1:28:13
  Speaker 9: America and law enforcement. I love you. I salute you
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 9: and God bless everyone.
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 2: God bless America. God bless you, too, Greg Bovino. You're
• 1:28:21
  Speaker 2: a great American patriot, and you deserved better. And let
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 2: me tell you something. You're going to have a great,
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 2: great career here moving forward, no doubt about it. Greg Bovino, everybody,
• 1:28:32
  Speaker 2: on our Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line. And again, I want
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 2: you to go and check out his website, commanders-jobs. and
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 2: you'll find all the information there. All right, we've got
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 2: to take a quick break here, folks. Pay some bills.
• 1:28:47
  Speaker 2: 901-260-5926 is our number. That's 901-260-5926. This is the Todd
• 1:28:50
  Speaker 2: Starnes Show. Oh, Dylan just got the church email. They
• 1:29:12
  Speaker 2: put that thing out on Mondays. It used to be
• 1:29:15
  Speaker 2: we'd get them in the mail, but everything's digital these days.
• 1:29:18
  Speaker 2: And I was just scrolling down and I was checking
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 2: out the menu. We still do Wednesday night church supper.
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 2: I don't know if a lot of— do churches still do that?
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 5: I think so, yeah.
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 2: You know, most of the time it's good old Baptist food.
• 1:29:34
  Speaker 2: You got the fried chicken. You got the lasagna. And,
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 2: you know, all that kind of good stuff, like the
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 2: country fried. You got a lot of casseroles.
• 1:29:43
  Speaker 5: Southern American dishes.
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 2: And, yes, I mean, you got a lot of jello salads.
• 1:29:48
  Speaker 2: So if it's not jiggling, it's not Baptist.
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I guess so.
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 2: That's the general rule of thumb. So anyway, I was
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 2: scrolling through because we have a great chef at the
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 2: church I go to, and they do a great job.
• 1:30:03
  Speaker 2: Everything is homemade from scratch, and I love the Men's
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 2: Tuesday Prayer. We have a prayer breakfast every Tuesday, or
• 1:30:10
  Speaker 2: I think once a month, and they do the homemade
• 1:30:13
  Speaker 2: biscuits and gravy and all sorts of good stuff. Anyway,
• 1:30:17
  Speaker 2: this ties into what we were talking about, about the
• 1:30:21
  Speaker 2: massive influx of— of migrants from India coming into the area.
• 1:30:29
  Speaker 2: The recipe or the menu for Wednesday night church supper
• 1:30:34
  Speaker 2: is something called beef curry and chicken tiki masala.
• 1:30:39
  Speaker 5: Yum, yum.
• 1:30:40
  Speaker 2: Can't make this up.
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 5: Wow.
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 1: Yum, yum.
• 1:30:44
  Speaker 5: You have to go.
• 1:30:45
  Speaker 2: Well, I was wondering, you know, I usually shop at
• 1:30:49
  Speaker 2: Super Low. That's a pretty good meal, too, $ 8. Made
• 1:30:53
  Speaker 2: from scratch. It's good eating. But I'm not a big
• 1:30:56
  Speaker 2: curry fan. But I've noticed that that's all they've got
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 2: on the ethnic aisle down at the Kroger.
• 1:31:04
  Speaker 5: No more Mexican rice?
• 1:31:07
  Speaker 10: No.
• 1:31:07
  Speaker 2: It's just curry. No, I thought I was getting some salsa,
• 1:31:11
  Speaker 2: and I get home, and it's like some curry stuff.
• 1:31:13
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:31:14
  Speaker 2: I'm like, what's going on here?
• 1:31:15
  Speaker 5: The world's changing.
• 1:31:17
  Speaker 2: There you go. What are you going to do?
• 1:31:19
  Speaker 5: Love Super Low, though.
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 2: I wonder if they're still going to serve biscuits.
• 1:31:23
  Speaker 5: That's like the staple of the South. So, I mean,
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 5: I'm sure they'll still have them.
• 1:31:26
  Speaker 2: You don't want to be that church member, right?
• 1:31:28
  Speaker 9: No.
• 1:31:29
  Speaker 2: Maybe I could still go for a congealed salad.
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 5: You can make a biscuit out of the naan bread.
• 1:31:36
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 1:31:36
  Speaker 5: There you go.
• 1:31:37
  Speaker 4: Golly.
• 1:31:40
  Speaker 2: Let's go to Joe in Ellijay, Georgia. Joe, I've never
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 2: asked you if you're a church-going man. Are you a
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 2: church-going guy?
• 1:31:48
  Speaker 12: Yes, sir.
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 15: Todd, I sure am, and I think everybody needs to
• 1:31:55
  Speaker 15: have God in their lives, and I thank God for
• 1:31:58
  Speaker 15: great people like you that are spreading the word of conservatism.
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 15: I just wanted to say that with your help, I
• 1:32:04
  Speaker 15: think we'll win the midterms, and your book, The Golden Age,
• 1:32:08
  Speaker 15: I recommend it to all my friends, Todd.
• 1:32:10
  Speaker 1: Thank you.
• 1:32:11
  Speaker 15: It is a wonderful, wonderful book, and congratulations on a
• 1:32:15
  Speaker 15: best-selling book. It is fantastic.
• 1:32:17
  Speaker 2: Joe, I'm going to pry. What denomination are you, Joe?
• 1:32:20
  Speaker 17: I'm Methodist.
• 1:32:21
  Speaker 15: I knew it.
• 1:32:22
  Speaker 4: I knew it.
• 1:32:23
  Speaker 15: They're a little liberal for me, but I'm trying to
• 1:32:25
  Speaker 15: get them to be more conservative. No, no, no.
• 1:32:28
  Speaker 2: Uncle Jerry was a Methodist, and Aunt Lynn was a Methodist,
• 1:32:32
  Speaker 2: and Grandma Stearns was, too. But anyway, Methodists are good people.
• 1:32:36
  Speaker 2: We like them, so... Joe, it's always good hearing from you,
• 1:32:39
  Speaker 2: my friend. And thank you so much for all the
• 1:32:42
  Speaker 2: great work you do there in the North Georgia mountains.
• 1:32:45
  Speaker 2: I knew he was a Methodist. We'll be right back.
• 1:33:05
  Speaker 11: All right.
• 1:33:06
  Speaker 2: Welcome back, everybody. This is the Todd Stearns Radio Show.
• 1:33:08
  Speaker 2: Great to have you with us today. And just a
• 1:33:12
  Speaker 2: reminder to get yourself a copy of the new book.
• 1:33:15
  Speaker 2: It's called The Golden Age, How Trump Saved America. President
• 1:33:19
  Speaker 2: Trump has endorsed the book. I'm glad he did that. Otherwise,
• 1:33:23
  Speaker 2: that would have been awkward. But we appreciate the president's
• 1:33:26
  Speaker 2: fine endorsement. Also, House Speaker Mike Johnson, and our next guest,
• 1:33:31
  Speaker 2: the great congressman from East Tennessee, great American patriot, and
• 1:33:35
  Speaker 2: the finest skateboarder in D.C., Congressman Tim Burchett. Hey, Congressman,
• 1:33:39
  Speaker 2: how's it going?
• 1:33:41
  Speaker 17: It's going great, brother. It's always good to be on
• 1:33:44
  Speaker 17: with you, and I appreciate you being in the media
• 1:33:48
  Speaker 17: and being legitimate and having a point of view that
• 1:33:53
  Speaker 17: isn't offensive to God-fearing Americans, so thank you.
• 1:33:58
  Speaker 2: Well, I appreciate that. Yeah, I just kind of, I
• 1:34:00
  Speaker 2: don't have a filter anymore, Congressman, and I just say
• 1:34:04
  Speaker 2: what I think needs to be said. That being said,
• 1:34:07
  Speaker 2: I just got a text notification that the New York
• 1:34:10
  Speaker 2: Times has mentioned me in a story, so that'll have
• 1:34:13
  Speaker 2: to wait until the commercial break. Congressman, first, I know
• 1:34:17
  Speaker 2: you're out there on the campaign trail. You're working hard.
• 1:34:21
  Speaker 2: How are things going in East Tennessee?
• 1:34:24
  Speaker 17: They're going incredibly well, and thank you for asking. But
• 1:34:28
  Speaker 17: I think people need to be very cognizant of what's
• 1:34:31
  Speaker 17: going on. This will be a non-presidential year, so traditionally
• 1:34:36
  Speaker 17: numbers will be down. And we're seeing a lot of
• 1:34:39
  Speaker 17: money flowing into these so-called Democrat socialist candidates. They're really
• 1:34:44
  Speaker 17: just communists, but they're just sort of soft on it.
• 1:34:48
  Speaker 17: They're friendly communists, I guess you could say. And I
• 1:34:51
  Speaker 17: would warn people to.
• 1:34:53
  Speaker 9: Be very, very.
• 1:34:55
  Speaker 17: very vigilant in their voting. And, you know, I was
• 1:34:59
  Speaker 17: at a little Christian school last week, I think it was,
• 1:35:04
  Speaker 17: and they asked me what would be my wish for
• 1:35:06
  Speaker 17: young people, and it would be that they'd be bold.
• 1:35:08
  Speaker 17: I wish they would be bold. I wish our preachers
• 1:35:10
  Speaker 17: would preach the gospel, quit worrying about offending people. And
• 1:35:14
  Speaker 17: I wish young people would stand out more in the classroom,
• 1:35:18
  Speaker 17: among their peers, and other places. I always I remember
• 1:35:22
  Speaker 17: I had a psychology class at the University of Tennessee,
• 1:35:25
  Speaker 17: and it was during the Reagan years, and it was
• 1:35:27
  Speaker 17: one of those required classes. So it was like a
• 1:35:30
  Speaker 17: double classroom. They moved the divider so everybody could take
• 1:35:33
  Speaker 17: this mandatory class. And I spent most of my time,
• 1:35:37
  Speaker 17: the teacher would attack Reagan just constantly, and she was
• 1:35:42
  Speaker 17: very left-wing, and I would always stand up to the president.
• 1:35:46
  Speaker 17: I'm pretty sure at least caused me one letter grade.
• 1:35:49
  Speaker 17: I'm not sure. But I always remember when I would
• 1:35:51
  Speaker 17: leave class, I'd walk out, and without a doubt, somebody
• 1:35:55
  Speaker 17: would come up to me and say, man, I really
• 1:35:57
  Speaker 17: appreciate you standing up for President Reagan or whatever our views.
• 1:36:02
  Speaker 17: And I always say, well, why didn't you all stand up?
• 1:36:04
  Speaker 17: Why didn't you stand up? Well, you know, I mean,
• 1:36:07
  Speaker 17: I get it. There's people like, there's Todd Stearns and
• 1:36:10
  Speaker 17: Tim Burchards in the world that are going to stand
• 1:36:13
  Speaker 17: up regardless, but the rest of the population needs to
• 1:36:17
  Speaker 17: start paying attention and standing up.
• 1:36:19
  Speaker 2: To that point, while things are going great in East Tennessee,
• 1:36:23
  Speaker 2: here in the western part of the state, the newly
• 1:36:26
  Speaker 2: redrawn 9th Congressional District, you have a full-blown socialist, Justin Pearson,
• 1:36:31
  Speaker 2: running against State Senator Brent Taylor, a good friend of
• 1:36:34
  Speaker 2: mine and yours. They brought AOC to Memphis, and there
• 1:36:42
  Speaker 2: in a large megachurch, the pastor got up and said,
• 1:36:46
  Speaker 2: Jesus was a socialist. All of us ought to be socialist.
• 1:36:49
  Speaker 2: And the crowd just jumped to their feet, roared with approval.
• 1:36:52
  Speaker 2: So this is not something that's just happening in Berkeley
• 1:36:55
  Speaker 2: or New York City. It's happening right here in the
• 1:36:57
  Speaker 2: state of Tennessee as well.
• 1:37:00
  Speaker 6: Yes, sir.
• 1:37:00
  Speaker 17: We had Betsy Henderson, our new county mayor in Knox County,
• 1:37:05
  Speaker 17: a very conservative young lady who I helped out, did
• 1:37:09
  Speaker 17: a video for, which I rarely do on local races,
• 1:37:11
  Speaker 17: but They came within 5,000 votes for beating her in
• 1:37:16
  Speaker 17: Knox County, Tennessee. 5,000 votes. A guy that had marched
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  Speaker 17: with Maduro. And in the march, and this was just,
• 1:37:26
  Speaker 17: they called it youthful indiscretions. I mean, it was just
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  Speaker 17: five years ago, Todd. And in the march, he wore
• 1:37:32
  Speaker 17: a shirt, clearly visible, a hammer and sickle. So I
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  Speaker 17: think we'd better wake up about what we're doing in
• 1:37:40
  Speaker 17: this country and where we're headed. because we are headed
• 1:37:43
  Speaker 17: down a very dark path. They always say socialism is
• 1:37:49
  Speaker 17: delivered at the ballot box and communism is at the
• 1:37:53
  Speaker 17: point of a bayonet. And at this point, there's not
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  Speaker 17: a lot of differentiation between the two. And I hope
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  Speaker 17: we start paying attention.
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  Speaker 2: I do too, Congressman. I still go back to Friday,
• 1:38:07
  Speaker 2: the 25th anniversary of the 9-11 incident. Muslim terrorist attacks,
• 1:38:11
  Speaker 2: and the video of the man weeping at the memorial,
• 1:38:16
  Speaker 2: they're reading the names of the victims of that horrible day,
• 1:38:20
  Speaker 2: and then they cut to an image of Mayor Zoran
• 1:38:24
  Speaker 2: Mamdami and AOC laughing and yucking it up, and this
• 1:38:29
  Speaker 2: is why. those families did not want him there in
• 1:38:32
  Speaker 2: the first place.
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  Speaker 3: 100%.
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  Speaker 17: And he proved their point. And I'm disgusted that they
• 1:38:39
  Speaker 17: allowed him to do it. I guess it was the mayor.
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  Speaker 17: They didn't have any choice. But we've got to realize
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  Speaker 17: that there are people in this world that don't like
• 1:38:48
  Speaker 17: us at all, that want to destroy this country, and
• 1:38:50
  Speaker 17: they're anarchists. And, you know, we've been labeled, you know,
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  Speaker 17: there's all the titles they give people like me and
• 1:38:59
  Speaker 17: you for saying stuff like this. But the truth is,
• 1:39:04
  Speaker 17: that is exactly what they're doing, and we are falling trap,
• 1:39:08
  Speaker 17: in the trap of the media, and the left-wing intelligentsia,
• 1:39:12
  Speaker 17: and these college professors, that when we call them out,
• 1:39:15
  Speaker 17: we're We're intolerant, you know, and it's just, to me,
• 1:39:18
  Speaker 17: it's just, we are going to, they're not going to
• 1:39:23
  Speaker 17: do it with a gun. We're just going to give
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  Speaker 17: it to them if we're not careful, and I sure
• 1:39:28
  Speaker 17: hope we wake up.
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  Speaker 2: Congressman, I know that you're one of the few, I mean,
• 1:39:34
  Speaker 2: what you say is what you mean and what you
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  Speaker 2: do up on Capitol Hill, and we appreciate that. But
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  Speaker 2: I think there are a lot of people that are concerned,
• 1:39:43
  Speaker 2: and I am one of them, that we may not
• 1:39:46
  Speaker 2: end up doing well in the midterms. The messaging just
• 1:39:49
  Speaker 2: seems to be all over the place. What's going on?
• 1:39:52
  Speaker 2: What's happening?
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  Speaker 17: Well, I think you're saying, once again, the woke nature
• 1:39:58
  Speaker 17: of some of these corporations down deep. You're looking at
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  Speaker 17: big oil. Their profits are through the roof right now,
• 1:40:05
  Speaker 17: and they're sticking it to us using this instant of.
• 1:40:14
  Speaker 17: With, uh, the fighting and, and, um, and, and I
• 1:40:18
  Speaker 17: ran to jack up our prices. Let me read you something.
• 1:40:22
  Speaker 17: It just, uh, a man in the oil business sent
• 1:40:25
  Speaker 17: this to me and, you know, he's, he's profiting incredibly,
• 1:40:29
  Speaker 17: but he's just saying, this is just wrong. And he said, um,
• 1:40:33
  Speaker 17: he's talking about diesel, the price of diesels.
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  Speaker 4: At $ 6.
• 1:40:36
  Speaker 17: Well, heck, it's $ 10 a gallon in California. But the
• 1:40:40
  Speaker 17: refiner's margin, um, is.
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  Speaker 4: $ 110 per barrel. That's $ 2.
• 1:40:43
  Speaker 17: 61 per gallon. It's typically $ 15 per barrel or $ 0. 35
• 1:40:46
  Speaker 17: per gallon. So they've gone from $ 0. 35 to $ 2. 61, and
• 1:40:47
  Speaker 17: that's their profits they're making. And so I think that they.
• 1:41:12
  Speaker 17: And that's per gallon. That's per gallon they're making. So
• 1:41:16
  Speaker 17: they are ripping us off. And these gutless Republicans and Democrats, frankly,
• 1:41:23
  Speaker 17: they're in bed with them, Todd. We'll have them in
• 1:41:26
  Speaker 17: a hearing when this is all over, and they'll shower
• 1:41:31
  Speaker 17: us legally with money. Not me, of course, because I've
• 1:41:34
  Speaker 17: been raising hell about it. But the truth is they're
• 1:41:37
  Speaker 17: just ripping us off. And I've talked to people in
• 1:41:39
  Speaker 17: the industry. And they agree with me that they are,
• 1:41:44
  Speaker 17: that are making big profits off this stuff. But they're
• 1:41:47
  Speaker 17: telling me, yeah, we're ripping you off and we're allowed
• 1:41:51
  Speaker 17: to do it because we're using this as an excuse.
• 1:41:54
  Speaker 17: We get zero oil out of the straits and we
• 1:41:57
  Speaker 17: are exporting it right now. And people are going to
• 1:42:01
  Speaker 17: freak out when I say this, but we better get
• 1:42:03
  Speaker 17: some controls. We need to limit how much diesel we're
• 1:42:07
  Speaker 17: exporting right now. If we kept 25% of it here, more.
• 1:42:14
  Speaker 17: Prices would plummet. They would plummet. And I'm proposing legislation
• 1:42:18
  Speaker 17: to do just that, to limit the amount that they
• 1:42:21
  Speaker 17: can export because they are sticking it to us, knowing
• 1:42:25
  Speaker 17: they can do it. And it's an American industry, and
• 1:42:29
  Speaker 17: there ought to be some responsibility within those corporations to
• 1:42:32
  Speaker 17: take care of America. And they're not. They're sticking it
• 1:42:35
  Speaker 17: to us worse than anybody else.
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  Speaker 2: Congressman Tim Burchett joining us on our Patriot Mobile Newsmaker
• 1:42:40
  Speaker 2: line today. Congressman, you look at Gen Z voters. They
• 1:42:48
  Speaker 2: just feel like that they're not being heard when it
• 1:42:51
  Speaker 2: comes to issues regarding affordability. And sometimes I do wonder
• 1:42:56
  Speaker 2: if those folks inside that bubble in the White House
• 1:42:59
  Speaker 2: and in the administration, if they actually go shopping at
• 1:43:03
  Speaker 2: the local supermarket, because I know I do. And I
• 1:43:06
  Speaker 2: can tell you the prices are going up, and the
• 1:43:10
  Speaker 2: idea that some of these kids who are working good
• 1:43:13
  Speaker 2: jobs can't afford to put that down payment on a house,
• 1:43:17
  Speaker 2: that is, if we don't address that, those kids are
• 1:43:20
  Speaker 2: going to go somewhere else.
• 1:43:23
  Speaker 17: Yeah, that short-term financial gain, your portfolio, it will be
• 1:43:30
  Speaker 17: when all these things are nationalized under a socialist agenda,
• 1:43:33
  Speaker 17: which is their ultimate goal. I mean, they're playing right
• 1:43:36
  Speaker 17: into their hands by doing this, you know, because they're
• 1:43:40
  Speaker 17: forcing us all into slapping them back. And the truth is, Todd,
• 1:43:46
  Speaker 17: if we don't do something, we could lose everything. We
• 1:43:50
  Speaker 17: lose those midterm elections and it's over, and we better
• 1:43:53
  Speaker 17: start addressing it.
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  Speaker 2: Congressman, you're right. We just had Greg Bovino on the
• 1:43:57
  Speaker 2: last segment, and he says that Border Patrol agents, ICE,
• 1:44:02
  Speaker 2: they're all upset right now because they are ready to
• 1:44:05
  Speaker 2: do the job that President Trump wanted them to do.
• 1:44:08
  Speaker 2: But Homeland Security is not letting them do that. And
• 1:44:11
  Speaker 2: I just hope that the Republicans understand that we really
• 1:44:15
  Speaker 2: did want mass deportations.
• 1:44:19
  Speaker 17: Oh, 100%. I mean, if you're here illegally, dadgummit, you
• 1:44:23
  Speaker 17: need to go out legally. It's just, it's no different
• 1:44:27
  Speaker 17: than somebody breaking into your home. If somebody breaks into
• 1:44:30
  Speaker 17: my dadgum home, they're probably going to go out in
• 1:44:33
  Speaker 17: a box. And then, but if we break into our country,
• 1:44:38
  Speaker 17: we give them a cell phone and we give them
• 1:44:40
  Speaker 17: everything they got, all the comforts that they need at home,
• 1:44:44
  Speaker 17: or more so. And, um, And that's exactly what they
• 1:44:47
  Speaker 17: want to do. These Democrat socialists, they want to open
• 1:44:50
  Speaker 17: that border up. They want that anarchy, that locotopia-type situation. And, boy,
• 1:44:57
  Speaker 17: we will get it if we're not careful. If we
• 1:44:59
  Speaker 17: are not careful, the law is the law, Todd, and
• 1:45:04
  Speaker 17: we ought to start paying attention to it.
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  Speaker 2: Well said. Congressman, we're going to leave it there. I
• 1:45:09
  Speaker 2: know you're slammed, and it's a lot of work between
• 1:45:12
  Speaker 2: now and Election Day, and we sure do appreciate the
• 1:45:15
  Speaker 2: great work you're doing.
• 1:45:17
  Speaker 17: Love you, brother, and thank you, and I'm looking forward
• 1:45:19
  Speaker 17: to that new book of yours coming out and seeing it,
• 1:45:22
  Speaker 17: and I'm anxious to get a copy of it.
• 1:45:25
  Speaker 2: Thank you, brother. We'll make sure that happens. All right,
• 1:45:28
  Speaker 2: there you go, Congressman Tim Burchett, everybody, on our Patriot
• 1:45:31
  Speaker 2: Mobile Newsmaker line. You know, Dylan, the guy is 62
• 1:45:35
  Speaker 2: years old, and he skateboards.
• 1:45:37
  Speaker 5: He's one of the best people that I've ever met.
• 1:45:40
  Speaker 2: Just the real deal. But he's speaking truth here to power.
• 1:45:46
  Speaker 2: And I love that. All right. 901-260-5926, our telephone number.
• 1:45:51
  Speaker 2: That's 901-260-5926. So the New York Times, someone just sent
• 1:45:58
  Speaker 2: this to me. They're doing a piece on Roger Marshall,
• 1:46:02
  Speaker 2: the senator out of Kansas, who was just horrendously booed
• 1:46:09
  Speaker 2: at the state fair. I love how they do this.
• 1:46:12
  Speaker 2: They had the candidates... And they actually debate at the
• 1:46:16
  Speaker 2: state fair. So they have like a big amphitheater. And
• 1:46:19
  Speaker 2: it is sort of like a free-for-all. And so anyway,
• 1:46:25
  Speaker 2: Marshall was getting booed. There was a story a couple
• 1:46:28
  Speaker 2: of days ago that alleged the senator, who is an obstetrician,
• 1:46:36
  Speaker 2: sued more than 700 patients for debts. And his attorneys
• 1:46:41
  Speaker 2: wanted 81 of those patients arrested over missing court dates.
• 1:46:46
  Speaker 2: They had their bank accounts and wages garnished. And here's where, oh,
• 1:46:51
  Speaker 2: this is what I said. Oh, geez-a-loo. So the story,
• 1:46:55
  Speaker 2: I'm reading from the New York Times piece here. The
• 1:46:58
  Speaker 2: story has been picked up by local news outlets.
• 1:47:01
  Speaker 4: Mr.
• 1:47:01
  Speaker 2: Marshall also has drawn criticism from the conservative radio host
• 1:47:05
  Speaker 2: Todd Starnes. who said he needed to address the report directly. Quote,
• 1:47:10
  Speaker 2: certainly this is going to be a big campaign issue
• 1:47:13
  Speaker 2: for Senator Marshall.
• 1:47:14
  Speaker 5: Mr.
• 1:47:15
  Speaker 2: Starnes said on his show last Wednesday, adding, if I'm
• 1:47:19
  Speaker 2: doing opposition research, if I'm a Democrat, this is like
• 1:47:22
  Speaker 2: Christmas Day. Oh, they quoted me accurately and called me Mr.
• 1:47:27
  Speaker 15: Starnes.
• 1:47:30
  Speaker 2: Wow, to what do I owe this kindness?
• 1:47:33
  Speaker 6: I don't know.
• 1:47:34
  Speaker 2: But you know what? It's true. And Republicans, you can't
• 1:47:37
  Speaker 2: make stupid mistakes. And that's what I'm trying to get at.
• 1:47:39
  Speaker 2: There's a stupid mistake for Roger Marshall. His team should
• 1:47:43
  Speaker 2: have known about this. So Senator Marshall is not being
• 1:47:47
  Speaker 2: well served by his campaign team. All right, real quick,
• 1:47:51
  Speaker 2: let's go to the phone lines here. Jeff in Memphis, Tennessee,
• 1:47:55
  Speaker 2: listening to us on KWAM. Hi, Jeff. What's on your mind?
• 1:47:59
  Speaker 6: Good afternoon, Todd. I pumped gas today, $ 3. 85, filled up
• 1:48:06
  Speaker 6: my little Toyota Corolla, almost filled it up, steadily paying
• 1:48:09
  Speaker 6: a little bit more in the grocery store, and so on.
• 1:48:12
  Speaker 6: I heard today on Fox Business that the Fed this
• 1:48:16
  Speaker 6: Wednesday is likely to bump up interest rates to cap
• 1:48:21
  Speaker 6: down inflation a little bit. And my mom is on
• 1:48:25
  Speaker 6: a fixed income. She'll be 97 years old in October,
• 1:48:29
  Speaker 6: lived a long, good life. I'm now retired myself. These
• 1:48:34
  Speaker 6: sorts of matters are really pinching people on fixed income.
• 1:48:40
  Speaker 6: They don't have the opportunity to go out and generate
• 1:48:42
  Speaker 6: more income now. So inflation is eroding, social security, investments,
• 1:48:48
  Speaker 6: and so on. And many years ago, here in Memphis,
• 1:48:53
  Speaker 6: many years ago now, probably four decades, Saturday morning used
• 1:48:57
  Speaker 6: to have Mid-South Wrestling, except it was pronounced Rasslin'. And
• 1:49:02
  Speaker 6: they had the made-up drama. Wrestlers would come out from
• 1:49:06
  Speaker 6: parts unknown and have these feuds and repeat the pitter-patter.
• 1:49:10
  Speaker 6: And there was a word that was coined for the
• 1:49:14
  Speaker 6: wrestling manufactured dramas, K-Fab, K-A-Y-F-A-B-E. And I feel like sometimes
• 1:49:23
  Speaker 6: when I listen to Fox, and I do listen, and
• 1:49:27
  Speaker 6: I hear politicians, their brief interviews, I'm listening to Mid-South
• 1:49:31
  Speaker 6: Wrestling's K-Fab. The same pitter-patter, very little action. And now
• 1:49:36
  Speaker 6: we've got Operation Epic Fury since February, late February. It's
• 1:49:41
  Speaker 6: going to last three or four weeks. It's going to
• 1:49:43
  Speaker 6: be a mop-up operation. They have nothing left. They're going
• 1:49:46
  Speaker 6: to be in and out. Gas is going to tumble
• 1:49:49
  Speaker 6: like a rock. For eight years, I listened to Sean
• 1:49:54
  Speaker 6: Hannity say, repeal and replace Obamacare. They couldn't do it.
• 1:49:59
  Speaker 6: I feel like it's just Groundhog Day in America. We
• 1:50:03
  Speaker 6: didn't learn anything in incrementalism in Vietnam. We entered Iraq
• 1:50:07
  Speaker 6: on false pretenses, weapons of mass destruction.
• 1:50:10
  Speaker 2: Jeff, let me jump in here. I'm not disagreeing with
• 1:50:13
  Speaker 2: anything you said. And I think one of the challenges
• 1:50:16
  Speaker 2: for this administration is they don't have too many regular
• 1:50:20
  Speaker 2: Joes in the mix. They need at least one person
• 1:50:24
  Speaker 2: who shops down at the Piggly Wiggly in that administration. Jeff,
• 1:50:27
  Speaker 2: I got to run. Folks, we'll be right back.
• 1:50:35
  Speaker 6: All right.
• 1:50:36
  Speaker 2: Wow. It has been a start to the week. And tomorrow,
• 1:50:41
  Speaker 2: Senator Marsha Blackburn is going to be joining us. So
• 1:50:44
  Speaker 2: we'll have a great conversation. following a lot of other
• 1:50:47
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• 1:50:52
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• 1:51:15
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• 1:51:19
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• 1:51:22
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