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Enough With the Ole Miss Hysteria! · ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes

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Speaker 1: From the principal Toyota Studios, it's Morning in Memphis with
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Speaker 1: Todd Starnes.
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Speaker 2: And good morning, Memphis. It is Todd Starnes. Happy Friday
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Speaker 2: to you, everybody. And I hope you're ready for a
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Speaker 2: great weekend. Before we get there, though, we have a
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Speaker 2: lot of fun in store for you, a lot of
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Speaker 2: news and information to share. in the coming hour together.
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Speaker 2: And then, of course, again, at 11 o'clock, 11 to
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Speaker 2: 2 o'clock for our national show. And I want to
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Speaker 2: say thank you for being understanding yesterday. Had an event early,
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Speaker 2: early yesterday morning, and let me say, when the students
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Speaker 2: here in the Mid-South ask me to do something, I'm
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Speaker 2: going to do my very best to try and make
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Speaker 2: that happen. And so yesterday morning, had a great honor
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Speaker 2: and opportunity to speak to the Turning Point USA chapter,
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Speaker 2: the Club America at Collierville High School, and just had
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Speaker 2: a wonderful time, had a huge crowd of kids. And K-WAM,
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Speaker 2: Fatim Breakfast, the Chick-fil-A. And may I also give a
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Speaker 2: shout-out to the owners of Booyahs. And if you haven't
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Speaker 2: been to Booyahs, the food... is off the charts great.
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Speaker 2: They opened up their restaurant super early, like 6.15 yesterday
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Speaker 2: morning for the kids. Those kids, those high school kids
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Speaker 2: packed out that place 6.15 in the morning. They met.
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Speaker 2: We talked about the election, the midterms. We talked about
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Speaker 2: the rise of socialism. The students asked some great questions,
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Speaker 2: some probing questions, and we just had a wonderful time.
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Speaker 2: So that's where I was yesterday morning, and I'm glad
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Speaker 2: to be back with you. Then last night, yesterday was
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Speaker 2: a long day. Then last night, just had a wonderful,
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Speaker 2: wonderful time. I was the master of ceremonies at the
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Speaker 2: Confidential Care Gala event that was held at Germantown Baptist Church.
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Speaker 2: and around 800 people. Turned out great to see and
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Speaker 2: meet a lot of our great listeners who were there
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Speaker 2: to support an incredible ministry. And now here we are today.
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Speaker 2: So thank you again for all the kind words, and
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Speaker 2: thank you for listening to KWAM. Our team here working
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Speaker 2: very hard to bring you local news, but also to
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Speaker 2: bring you some intelligent news as well. Because let me
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Speaker 2: tell you something, fake news is a huge problem. And
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Speaker 2: We've got a couple of fake news stories that I
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Speaker 2: want us to turn out with. And first of all.
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Speaker 2: I want to address the hysteria at Ole Miss. It
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Speaker 2: is off the charts insane. And I was trying to
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Speaker 2: figure out where all of this was coming from. I mean,
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Speaker 2: the allegations, the rumor mill is just off the charts.
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Speaker 2: And the reason why is because of Fox News Channel.
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Speaker 2: So Fox News has, and they do this, and they've
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Speaker 2: done this for decades. They love crime news. And they
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Speaker 2: especially love crime news when it impacts a certain demographic
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Speaker 2: of young people. And if you are a blonde, attractive female,
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Speaker 2: there's a pretty good chance Fox News, if you disappear,
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Speaker 2: Fox News is going to come looking for you. Somebody
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Speaker 2: like me disappears, Fox News is not going to... They're like, okay,
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Speaker 2: what else is going on in the world? I mean,
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Speaker 2: that's the reality of it. So Fox, they sent reporters
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Speaker 2: down to Ole Miss, and first of all, it's a horrible,
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Speaker 2: horrible tragedy. Two Ole Miss students found dead in separate incidents,
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Speaker 2: and they also said that there was a package of
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Speaker 2: some sort of a substance recovered at both scenes. There is...
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Speaker 2: There is no evidence right now that that substance had
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Speaker 2: anything to do with the deaths. It may, but right
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Speaker 2: now there's no proof because they don't have the toxicology
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Speaker 2: reports and all the other reports back. So anybody that's
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Speaker 2: even suggesting at this time, it's all just conjecture. It's
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Speaker 2: all just speculation. And, of course, Fox is going with it.
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Speaker 2: And then you had a situation where a young lady
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Speaker 2: decided that she was going to reveal what happened to
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Speaker 2: her at a local bar in Oxford. Do we have
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Speaker 2: that audio? All right, let's play that, please.
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Speaker 3: My name is Mary Harvey. I'm a freshman here at
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Speaker 3: the University of Mississippi. Later into that night, around the
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Speaker 3: time when the game ended, I do not remember a
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Speaker 3: single thing. And I was told by a boy that
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Speaker 3: was there that I fell down and the bouncers in
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Speaker 3: that bar picked me up and threw me outside on
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Speaker 3: the curb by myself. And then shortly later, I was
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Speaker 3: told by my mother that two girls found me outside
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Speaker 3: and called her. And then they called the cops, Oxford
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Speaker 3: Police Department. And then the cops put me in the
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Speaker 3: backseat of an Uber all by myself and shipped me
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Speaker 3: off to my dorm. where the uber driver apparently had
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Speaker 3: to get other students to help her carry me into
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Speaker 3: my dorm put me in the bed and then later
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Speaker 3: after that my roommate got in the shower and she
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Speaker 3: said while she was in the shower i went missing
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Speaker 3: and she left the dorm to find me and was
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Speaker 3: searching everywhere searched every floor then on her way back
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Speaker 3: from searching she found me passed out in the hall
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Speaker 3: of my dorm And I have asked multiple times, I've
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Speaker 3: tried multiple times to get the camera footage, and nobody
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Speaker 3: will let me see it.
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Speaker 1: 100%.
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Speaker 3: It is so bad. Oxford is getting terrible, and it's
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Speaker 3: such a pretty place that it shouldn't be like this.
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Speaker 3: People should feel safe here and want to live here.
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Speaker 3: But as of now, I don't even feel safe in
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Speaker 3: my dorm building.
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Speaker 2: All right. So Fox took all of that. And I mean,
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Speaker 2: what she described was horrifying. I mean, if you believe her,
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Speaker 2: I mean, just I mean, who knows how many young
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Speaker 2: ladies are being drugged at bars in Oxford and these
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Speaker 2: these very, very evil people having their way with the
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Speaker 2: young female students. Just a slight, big, huge gaping problem
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Speaker 2: with everything that you heard, which, by the way, is
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Speaker 2: on Fox's Web site. Fox is still highlighting all of this.
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Speaker 2: The police department says none of it happened. They said
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Speaker 2: none of this is true. And I want you to
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Speaker 2: step back for a moment. I'm going to get to
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Speaker 2: the police report. And the reason I'm doing this, we've
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Speaker 2: been getting correspondence here from you, our great listeners. Starnes,
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Speaker 2: why aren't you guys all over what's happening, the huge
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Speaker 2: scandal that's happening at Ole Miss? And this is the
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Speaker 2: reason why. We were waiting to get official information. Official
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Speaker 2: reports from the university, from the police departments, from law
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Speaker 2: enforcement and from the medical examiner's office. And again, that
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Speaker 2: is just responsible journalism is all that is. So now
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Speaker 2: you have the police department coming out and they had
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Speaker 2: to release a statement about this. And they said, look,
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Speaker 2: when officers encountered the individual, and this is all on
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Speaker 2: body cam, so they do have all the body cam footage.
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Speaker 2: When officers encountered the individual, she did not report that
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Speaker 2: her drink had been tampered with, that she had been assaulted,
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Speaker 2: or that a crime had occurred. Officers asked if she
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Speaker 2: was okay. She indicated she was and that she was intoxicated.
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Speaker 2: Our officers remained with her. pardon me, throughout the encounter.
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Speaker 2: They provided her with water, spoke with her, communicated with
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Speaker 2: a family member, and helped arrange transportation. We're going to
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Speaker 2: take a break. All right. Sorry about that. Had a
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Speaker 2: little something in the throat there. Sweet mercy. Good to
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Speaker 2: be back with you. I'm Todd Stearns. And I want
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Speaker 2: to finish this thought here on Ole Miss. And we've
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Speaker 2: got a lot of other news to get to. But again,
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Speaker 2: just the irresponsibility of the national media coming in here.
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Speaker 2: and fomenting all of this mass hysteria. So just I
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Speaker 2: want you to think through all of this. And again,
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Speaker 2: the the Oxford Police Department are releasing a statement saying
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Speaker 2: everything this young woman said did not happen. And we
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Speaker 2: have the body cam footage to prove all of this,
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Speaker 2: along with eyewitnesses. By the way, they also provided her,
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Speaker 2: they remained with her, they communicated with a family member
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Speaker 2: on her behalf, helped arrange transportation, and remained with her
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Speaker 2: until that transportation arrived. Oxford police say that the officers
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Speaker 2: never treated the situation as a joke and that the
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Speaker 2: young woman was never placed alone in an empty vehicle.
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Speaker 2: A middle-aged couple was also present, and the female rideshare
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Speaker 2: driver was in communication with her family during the process.
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Speaker 2: Oxford police say the investigation into the alleged drink tampering
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Speaker 2: did not begin until Monday when Harvey filed a police report.
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Speaker 2: And also, she's claiming that girls are getting drugged and
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Speaker 2: raped every single weekend. Police said there is absolutely no
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Speaker 2: evidence of that. Quote, at the time, we don't have
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Speaker 2: evidence supporting claims that women are routinely being drugged in
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Speaker 2: Oxford every weekend or every day. However, every individual report
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Speaker 2: will be taken seriously and investigated based upon the available evidence.
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Speaker 2: And again, they encourage people to call out to the
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Speaker 2: Oxford Police Department. So a couple of questions for this
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Speaker 2: young lady. Why did she not file a report the
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Speaker 2: very next day? Why did she... she wait until, was
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Speaker 2: it Monday or Tuesday? Also, if in fact these allegations
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Speaker 2: are true and that all of these girls are being
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Speaker 2: attacked and assaulted, where are the police reports? Where are
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Speaker 2: these victims? And you know how the media is. They'll
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Speaker 2: find them. They'll blur out their faces or distort their voices,
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Speaker 2: but they'll put them on TV. We've seen that. So
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Speaker 2: where are all of the victims? Now, on the other side,
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Speaker 2: you've got the whole drug thing, at least allegations of
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Speaker 2: tainted drugs. So they're saying that multiple people have died,
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Speaker 2: multiple people have been hospitalized. And that it's a great
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Speaker 2: big cover-up. Okay, just think about this for a moment.
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Speaker 2: If your child, if your 17, 18, 19-year-old child drops
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Speaker 2: dead at Ole Miss, don't you think you're going to
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Speaker 2: be going to the media about that? Don't you think
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Speaker 2: you're probably going to, I don't know, post a funeral
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Speaker 2: notice about that? Or if your child is in the hospital,
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Speaker 2: you're going to be putting something out on social media
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Speaker 2: announcing that your child's in the hospital? I mean, I
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Speaker 2: see that all the time. I haven't seen any of those.
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Speaker 2: So are you now suggesting that the parents of the
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Speaker 2: young people who were allegedly killed at Ole Miss, are
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Speaker 2: they in on the cover-up too? Is it a great
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Speaker 2: big conspiracy? And again, with Fox News, they know better.
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Speaker 2: But they're after ratings here, and they want to create
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Speaker 2: some sort of, I don't know, horror movie where kids
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Speaker 2: are dropping dead, they're getting sexually assaulted in the bars,
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Speaker 2: and they're taking drugs that have been laced with something.
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Speaker 2: And none of it is true. That's where we are
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Speaker 2: right now. And so I wanted to set the record
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Speaker 2: straight because we've been getting a lot of calls here saying,
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Speaker 2: And we're not going to speculate on something like that.
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Speaker 2: We're just not going to do it.
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Speaker 2: President Trump? Any of you go into the game on Thursday?
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Speaker 2: I'm sorry, on Saturday? Yesterday, Thursday, the president announced that
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Speaker 2: he is coming to Tennessee and he's going to be
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Speaker 2: there at Neyland Stadium. President will be hanging out with
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Speaker 2: Peyton Manning. So President's looking forward to it. You know,
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Speaker 2: he loves a great football game. By the way, if
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Speaker 2: you are going to the game, you need to check
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Speaker 2: in with the university because there are going to be
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Speaker 2: a lot of security measures in place. And sort of like,
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Speaker 2: I don't know, when the Memphis Tigers were playing at
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Speaker 2: their home opener, when people had to stand in line
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Speaker 2: for a long time. You better get ready because I
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Speaker 2: think you're going to be standing in line for a
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Speaker 2: long time there at Neyland Stadium. But it's always great
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Speaker 2: to have the President of the United States in the
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Speaker 2: volunteer state, and no doubt we'll be doing a rehash
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Speaker 2: of that on Monday. 901-260-5926 is our telephone number. That's 901-260-5926. Well,
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Speaker 2: some interesting news about space exile. So Justin Pearson, power
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Speaker 2: throw guy, has been out there and he's been saying
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Speaker 2: that Memphians are dropping dead from asthma and lung cancer
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Speaker 2: and people are suffering and the water system is being
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Speaker 2: tainted and Elon Musk is responsible. So we've got to
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Speaker 2: shut it all down. We've got to shut it all down.
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Speaker 2: Here is first I want to go back and here
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Speaker 2: is Mayor Paul Young talking about this and why we
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Speaker 2: need Elon Musk here. Take a listen.
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Speaker 5: Like while all of these other civil and human rights
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Speaker 5: are at risk to be doing a business deal with
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Speaker 5: a fraud, I think is probably the biggest. I shouldn't
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Speaker 5: say I don't want to speak for folks in Memphis,
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Speaker 5: but it's probably one of the largest concerns. Then when
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Speaker 5: you're also talking about water, you think about Flint, you
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Speaker 5: think about Jackson County. You don't want to put your
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Speaker 5: city in the same position there when there's already such,
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Speaker 5: you know, economic depression.
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Speaker 1: So, too, first of all, I don't have to be
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Speaker 1: coached on not trusting dude. I ain't no fool. Like,
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Speaker 1: I'm not stupid. I understand this is a trillionaire. It's
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Speaker 1: not about trusting him. I'm for Memphis. I'm not for dude.
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Speaker 1: I'm for Memphis. Remember, our community has been shrinking. Everything
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Speaker 1: that our community needs.
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Speaker 6: Who operates the data center?
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Speaker 2: They do.
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Speaker 4: Who is they?
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Speaker 1: SpaceX AI.
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Speaker 5: Who owns SpaceX AI?
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Speaker 1: Elon Musk.
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Speaker 4: Okay.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: All right. I'm just saying.
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Speaker 7: I'm just saying.
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Speaker 1: But that has nothing to do with me trusting him.
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Speaker 1: He paid for a piece of property in our city,
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Speaker 1: a transaction that me as mayor, I don't stop a
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Speaker 1: transaction between two private parties. So I come in. after
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Speaker 1: the transaction and try to negotiate things that we can get,
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Speaker 1: like a $ 200 million graywater facility, like investments in the
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Speaker 1: community around us with schools. Who knows what's going on?
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Speaker 1: The biggest thing happening in the global economy right now
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Speaker 1: is data centers. This is the biggest thing happening in
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Speaker 1: the global economy. So it's up to us to figure out,
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Speaker 1: are we going to just say, put a fence around
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Speaker 1: our communities? We don't want to play a part in
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Speaker 1: the global economy or the future. Or are we going
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Speaker 1: to say, let's figure this thing out? We had to
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Speaker 1: figure it out in real time. That's what we're doing.
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Speaker 1: So the people that are pushing back are pushing back
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Speaker 1: as if I'm not with them.
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Speaker 2: OK, let me jump in. So the health department came
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Speaker 2: out yesterday with the county's top air polluters, the top
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Speaker 2: companies in Memphis that are responsible for pollution. No, the
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Speaker 2: hot dog joint was not on. No, I know I did, too.
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Speaker 2: I thought chili dog day. It was, you know, it's
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Speaker 2: an air pollution day, but it's not the top five.
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Speaker 2: You've got to say, Todd, it's it's space XI, right?
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Speaker 2: Or no space XAI, right? That's it. No, it's not.
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Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, not even number two, not
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Speaker 2: even number three, four or five. As a matter of fact,
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Speaker 2: Space XI is ranked 28th on their list of top
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Speaker 2: air polluters in Shelby County. So I have a question
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Speaker 2: for all of you folks that are anti-data centers and
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Speaker 2: anti-ELON and anti-Space XAI. They've got to come up with
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Speaker 2: a better name. Are you saying now? Because the whole
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Speaker 2: point was we've got to shut down Elon because he's
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Speaker 2: polluting the air. So if Elon is number 28, not
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Speaker 2: to be hypocritical, but don't you also have to get
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Speaker 2: out there and call for every other business like 1
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Speaker 2: through 27 to shut down as well? Why are you
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Speaker 2: going after number 28, but you're not going after number one,
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Speaker 2: Nucor Steel, or number two, Valero, or number three, Mitsubishi
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Speaker 2: Chemical of America? Sounds a little hypocritical to me. All right,
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Speaker 2: hang tight, everybody. Got to take a quick break. This
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Speaker 2: is the Mighty Night on EKWAM. And welcome back, everybody.
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Speaker 2: It is a great day to wake up in the Mid-South.
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Speaker 2: Laura Huckabee is going to be along in just a
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Speaker 2: few moments with an update on your weekend forecast. Absolutely beautiful.
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Speaker 2: I'll be flying out to Los Angeles tomorrow, so if
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Speaker 2: you're over at Memphis International, be sure to drop by
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Speaker 2: and say hello. Going to be speaking at a number
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Speaker 2: of events, and C-SPAN is filming our book special for
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Speaker 2: their book channel, so... Hopefully, we'll have two people watching
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Speaker 2: the C-SPAN Book Channel. Again, our telephone number, 901-260-5926. That's 901-260-5926.
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Speaker 2: I've got to bring in our guest. I'm going to
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Speaker 2: introduce our guest, and then I'm going to tell you
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Speaker 2: what's happening here later on today because this is a
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Speaker 2: huge thing. I know our ladies are going to want
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Speaker 2: to be a part of this. Our good friend, Carrie Schween.
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Speaker 2: and our good friend Shelly Chang from Shelby County Republican
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Speaker 2: Women's Club. And ladies, y'all are decked out like you
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Speaker 2: went back in a time machine to 1970. I feel
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Speaker 2: like we need a deck. ball in here.
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Speaker 6: I would have brought it if I had one.
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Speaker 2: So I'm saying this. You guys are in a party mood.
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Speaker 2: You ladies are in a party mood. And today, down
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Speaker 2: at the Halloran Center, they are showing, like, all day,
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Speaker 2: they're showing Dolly Parton's 9 to 5. And it's free
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Speaker 2: of charge. You can go down there, have a good time, and,
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Speaker 2: you know, wear a Dolly wig or other, you know,
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Speaker 2: accessories and have a good time.
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Speaker 6: That's a good party.
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Speaker 2: I like it.
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Speaker 3: We're there.
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Speaker 2: I mean, it's always a fun. Shelly, you live down
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Speaker 2: at the Orpheum.
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Speaker 3: I do.
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Speaker 6: I love the Orpheum.
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Speaker 2: Good stuff. Well, anyway, ladies, good to have you with us.
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Speaker 2: First of all, what's going on here with the outfits?
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Speaker 7: Yes. So we are having an awesome fundraiser October 1st.
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Speaker 7: It is a 60s, 70s, and 80s music trivia and
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Speaker 7: bingo event. And so I am here feeling my 70s vibe.
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Speaker 7: And we have Shelly here feeling the disco vibe. So
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Speaker 7: we are bringing it back retro style October 1st.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Carrie, you're kind of like the vibe is like
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Speaker 2: Sonny and Cher a little bit. A little country, a
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Speaker 2: little rock and roll. Shelly, tell us about the fundraiser.
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Speaker 2: You guys are what, doing trivia and bingo?
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Speaker 6: Trivia and bingo.
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Speaker 8: We have a DJ event, so it's going to be
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Speaker 8: a lot of fun. We're going to have some prizes
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Speaker 8: for the winners as well. And Janine, our chairperson for this,
21:08
Speaker 8: she's really been working hard on it. And it's going
21:11
Speaker 8: to be a cash bar, some heavy hors d'oeuvres. And
21:14
Speaker 8: it is not just for women, men and women.
21:17
Speaker 7: Open to the entire community. Anybody is welcome. And most importantly,
21:22
Speaker 7: all proceeds go to support local Republican candidates.
21:26
Speaker 2: I'm wondering how that effort has has been. You know,
21:29
Speaker 2: there's across the country. There is a raging debate going
21:32
Speaker 2: on right now. People are really concerned about the Republican
21:37
Speaker 2: chances in the midterms. What about here in Tennessee? What
21:41
Speaker 2: are you guys? What's the vibe out there on the
21:42
Speaker 2: campaign trail, ladies?
21:45
Speaker 6: I think we're just trying to really get busy. We
21:47
Speaker 6: took a break. I think it wore us out.
21:50
Speaker 8: It's a tiring event doing all of this, but we
21:53
Speaker 8: are backing all of our Republicans because we need them
21:56
Speaker 8: and we need our Republican voters to get.
21:58
Speaker 6: Out and just not to be lazy.
21:59
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's it. Carrie.
22:01
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, I think August was very disappointing and
22:06
Speaker 7: just I feel the same, you know, lack of energy
22:09
Speaker 7: heading into November. And so we just really have to
22:12
Speaker 7: wake everybody up because this is a very, very important election.
22:17
Speaker 2: I mean, here's the thing. We don't need Justin Pearson
22:19
Speaker 2: representing any part of Tennessee in Congress. And the reality
22:24
Speaker 2: is if we do not get out and vote, that's
22:27
Speaker 2: exactly what's going to happen.
22:28
Speaker 7: Exactly.
22:28
Speaker 8: And it would change. I mean, if you think it's
22:31
Speaker 8: bad now, it's only going to get worse.
22:34
Speaker 2: No doubt about it. No doubt about it. All right.
22:36
Speaker 2: So I've been to some of these events. So you've
22:38
Speaker 2: got that. You should have led with the bar. So
22:40
Speaker 2: there'll be adult libations there. And there's great music from
22:44
Speaker 2: the 70s. So what genre are you? I'm a Gen Xer.
22:49
Speaker 2: So we have we have great music, you know, but
22:52
Speaker 2: I kind of bridge like the late 70s into the 80s.
22:56
Speaker 2: So I got a little tail end of the disco era. So, Carrie,
22:59
Speaker 2: what about you?
23:00
Speaker 7: Well, I'm a native Memphian, and I grew up listening
23:03
Speaker 7: to oldies, 98.1. And so I love old music, primarily
23:09
Speaker 7: the 60s.
23:09
Speaker 2: The 60s. All right. Shelly, what about you?
23:12
Speaker 8: I'm going to show my ignorance here. Anybody at my table,
23:16
Speaker 8: if you're on my team, if we were doing team events,
23:18
Speaker 8: you wouldn't want me on your team.
23:19
Speaker 6: I'm there for the party. That's what I'm there for.
23:21
Speaker 1: Yes.
23:22
Speaker 8: Yeah, I just love music. I love all different types
23:24
Speaker 8: of music. But if you ask me what year it
23:25
Speaker 8: came in, I could.
23:26
Speaker 6: Not tell you.
23:27
Speaker 2: Well, no, but so what era? I'm not asking how
23:30
Speaker 2: old you are, but what era did you grow? Are
23:32
Speaker 2: you a Gen Xer?
23:33
Speaker 6: I am a Gen Xer. I'm on the line.
23:35
Speaker 8: But, yeah, I haven't really decided how I'm going to
23:37
Speaker 8: dress up for the party, though, because I also have, like,
23:39
Speaker 8: Back to the Future vibes, too, so.
23:42
Speaker 2: Well, hey, look, there's nothing wrong with that. And I
23:45
Speaker 2: didn't realize you were on the spectrum there with Gen X.
23:47
Speaker 2: So you're like right there.
23:49
Speaker 6: Right there.
23:50
Speaker 2: Wow. That makes a lot of sense now. Yeah. Now,
23:53
Speaker 2: are you more millennial-esque or are you a Gen Xer?
23:57
Speaker 7: Gen Xer.
23:58
Speaker 2: Is that right?
23:59
Speaker 1: Okay.
23:59
Speaker 2: You see, our generation is just hardier than I think.
24:03
Speaker 2: We're tough.
24:04
Speaker 6: We're tough.
24:05
Speaker 2: You know what it was? It was those playgrounds with
24:07
Speaker 2: all the rust and the tetanus.
24:08
Speaker 7: Yes. The hot slide.
24:10
Speaker 2: The spinning tetanus and the 500-degree slide. That was living, kids.
24:16
Speaker 6: Yes, it was.
24:16
Speaker 2: We didn't have any of those safety helmets, seat belts.
24:22
Speaker 2: Do you remember the airplanes when they had the non-smoking
24:25
Speaker 2: section of the airplane? Everybody got lung cancer, and you
24:29
Speaker 2: enjoyed it.
24:32
Speaker 7: I'd forgotten about that.
24:33
Speaker 2: I'm just saying. Or the station wagon, right? Everybody piled
24:37
Speaker 2: into the back of the station wagon or pickup truck.
24:39
Speaker 3: Face backwards.
24:39
Speaker 2: Oh, that's it. Back in the day. Back in the day.
24:44
Speaker 2: All right. We have Carrie Schween and Shelly Chang with
24:48
Speaker 2: us today. This is a lot of fun. Now, you
24:51
Speaker 2: guys are also bringing State Senator Brent Taylor back to
24:54
Speaker 2: Shelby County. He's been out on the campaign trail and
24:57
Speaker 2: meeting a lot of the new folks in the newly
24:59
Speaker 2: redrawn District 9. Tell us about that big event coming up.
25:03
Speaker 6: We're super excited to have him. He booked this out.
25:07
Speaker 6: He knew he was going to be winning and he
25:08
Speaker 6: knew he was ready to run.
25:10
Speaker 8: And so he picked this out, I would say, almost
25:13
Speaker 8: a year ago because he wanted specifically to be able
25:15
Speaker 8: to reach out to the local community. We're very excited
25:19
Speaker 8: to have him and blessed to have him. And we
25:21
Speaker 8: are backing him 100%. And, yeah, second Tuesday of the month.
25:26
Speaker 8: So definitely everybody come.
25:28
Speaker 2: Where can people go if they want to get information
25:30
Speaker 2: about the club, how to join, the events you guys
25:32
Speaker 2: are having?
25:33
Speaker 1: Right.
25:34
Speaker 7: So we have an awesome website. It's scrwc.org. And so
25:40
Speaker 7: that has all of the information. You can register and
25:43
Speaker 7: just really keep up to date with what's going on locally.
25:46
Speaker 2: I love it. And, again, you're going to have a great,
25:48
Speaker 2: great time at the Trivia Bingo Night. It is just
25:51
Speaker 2: so much fun. Prizes?
25:53
Speaker 6: Yes, prizes.
25:53
Speaker 8: And also the really cool thing is I have some
25:55
Speaker 8: people that are like, I can't go on Thursday.
25:57
Speaker 6: We're busy. That's okay.
25:58
Speaker 8: We just want your money, honestly, because we want to
26:00
Speaker 8: give it to the local Republicans. You can actually register
26:03
Speaker 8: to come and not show up, or you can also sponsor.
26:05
Speaker 8: We've got different sponsorships available to you.
26:07
Speaker 2: It's going to be a lot of fun. What are
26:08
Speaker 2: you ladies hearing out there on campaign issues? I was
26:12
Speaker 2: actually talking to some of the high school kids at
26:14
Speaker 2: Collierville High School yesterday about that. Affordability is a big
26:18
Speaker 2: thing on their minds. What are you hearing in your
26:20
Speaker 2: circle of friends?
26:22
Speaker 8: I know Vicki Gandy is running right now, and she's
26:25
Speaker 8: super excited, and I know that's a contested piece right now.
26:29
Speaker 7: Yeah, so that's the Germantown school board position number four.
26:33
Speaker 2: Right.
26:33
Speaker 7: And so Vicki Gandy is the only bona fide Republican
26:37
Speaker 7: running for that position.
26:38
Speaker 2: That's true, and I have actually endorsed Vicki Gandy. I
26:42
Speaker 2: live in Germantown, and it's important that we put Republicans
26:46
Speaker 2: on school boards. There's been a lot of chaos in
26:49
Speaker 2: our school system, even locally, and we need to make
26:51
Speaker 2: sure that we have somebody there that's going to stand
26:53
Speaker 2: up for moms and dads and for the kids.
26:56
Speaker 6: Yes, yes.
26:57
Speaker 2: But as far as issues, is there one specific issue
27:01
Speaker 2: or are you guys hearing out there what's on the
27:03
Speaker 2: minds of voters?
27:05
Speaker 8: That I've not been paying attention to as much because
27:07
Speaker 8: my kids are not in the local schools, but I
27:09
Speaker 8: know across the nation.
27:10
Speaker 2: Across the nation. I'm talking about across the nation. Big
27:13
Speaker 2: picture midterms.
27:14
Speaker 7: Yeah.
27:14
Speaker 8: I mean, I truly believe that what the teachers, how
27:17
Speaker 8: they teach, what they're allowed to endorse within the classrooms,
27:20
Speaker 8: what they're putting in the libraries and allowing kids to.
27:23
Speaker 6: Have access to. Those are some big hot topics. And
27:26
Speaker 6: if we don't watch it locally, that's where it grows bigger.
27:28
Speaker 7: Yeah.
27:29
Speaker 2: All right. I know that a lot of folks have
27:31
Speaker 2: been concerned about affordability, beef prices, gas prices, diesel. So
27:36
Speaker 2: a lot of stuff out there that are on the
27:38
Speaker 2: minds of voters across the nation and I suspect here
27:42
Speaker 2: in the Mid-South. All right. October the 1st, trivia night bingo.
27:46
Speaker 2: Are people dressing up? Do they need to get dressed?
27:49
Speaker 2: You know, get the bell bottoms and all of that stuff.
27:52
Speaker 7: Yes, we encourage everyone to dress up, 60s, 70s, or 80s.
27:55
Speaker 6: It's a contest even for the dress up.
27:57
Speaker 7: Yes, we have prizes for best costumes.
27:59
Speaker 6: But you don't have to. My husband's coming. He's not
28:01
Speaker 6: going to dress up.
28:03
Speaker 7: My husband is coming because he will.
28:05
Speaker 2: Be dressing up. Do the guys have parachute pants? You know,
28:10
Speaker 2: that was a big thing back in the 80s. Oh,
28:12
Speaker 2: my lord. I don't want to get in trouble here.
28:17
Speaker 2: I remember when I was a kid, though, I was
28:19
Speaker 2: a cool kid because I had the Izod shirts, right?
28:22
Speaker 2: You know, those were all the rage.
28:23
Speaker 7: Did you have the members-only jacket?
28:25
Speaker 2: I had a members-only jacket. But the Izods, I had
28:30
Speaker 2: like a dozen Izod shirts. And people thought, wow, Sterns
28:34
Speaker 2: must come from a wealthy family. So my grandparents lived
28:38
Speaker 2: in Whitehaven. My grandmother was a seamstress, so she loved
28:41
Speaker 2: to sew. And I was down in her sewing room
28:43
Speaker 2: one day, and I looked, and there was a big jar.
28:46
Speaker 2: And in that jar, it must have been 100 little alligators.
28:50
Speaker 2: And she was going to the treasury. And buying these
28:54
Speaker 2: cheap polo shirts and sewing on the eyes on Alligator.
28:58
Speaker 6: That's a great grandma.
28:59
Speaker 2: What a great grandma.
28:59
Speaker 1: Yeah.
29:00
Speaker 2: And nobody knew.
29:01
Speaker 1: No.
29:02
Speaker 2: So there you go. Look, if I'm here, I'm going
29:05
Speaker 2: to go to this thing. This sounds like a lot
29:06
Speaker 2: of fun.
29:07
Speaker 6: It's going to be a lot of fun.
29:07
Speaker 2: I will not be wearing parachute pants, though.
29:10
Speaker 6: We appreciate that.
29:11
Speaker 2: All right. Shelly, Carrie, great to see both of you
29:14
Speaker 2: ladies again. October 1st, the big fundraiser. We'll post links
29:18
Speaker 2: to it on kwamradio.com. All right. Our time, 45 minutes
29:23
Speaker 2: after the hour, coming up, a big story brewing in
29:26
Speaker 2: East Tennessee. David Hatley, the independent running for governor, the
29:30
Speaker 2: victim now of a death threat that was posted or
29:34
Speaker 2: actually written on the side of one of his buildings.
29:37
Speaker 2: We have photos of that, kwamradio.com. Police in Johnson City
29:42
Speaker 2: are investigating this, and they're taking it very seriously. Got
29:47
Speaker 2: to take a break. Let's check in with Commander Chuck.
29:54
Speaker 3: All right.
29:54
Speaker 2: It is the danger zone. Those ladies, Carrie Schween, Shelley Chang,
29:59
Speaker 2: great American patriots. And yes, Vicki Gandy running for school board.
30:04
Speaker 2: She is the Republican nominee. She was the she made
30:09
Speaker 2: it through the primary. She is the Republican nominee. We're
30:12
Speaker 2: a school board in Germantown. And, again, you know, when
30:15
Speaker 2: we talk about Republican and Democrat, I think there's an
30:18
Speaker 2: independent running. And, again, I'm sure these are all very
30:22
Speaker 2: nice people. I just happen to know Vicki, and I've
30:25
Speaker 2: known her for a very long time. And I am
30:27
Speaker 2: also a Republican. My basic rule of thumb is, if
30:32
Speaker 2: you are a Republican, you should vote for Republican candidates
30:35
Speaker 2: that are on the ballot. That's what it means to
30:38
Speaker 2: be a Republican. If you want to be an independent, fine,
30:40
Speaker 2: be an independent. But if you're a, let's say you're
30:43
Speaker 2: a Republican club out there, and you're supporting an independent
30:49
Speaker 2: and not your own party's nominee, that's a big problem
30:55
Speaker 2: in my estimation, and that must be addressed. Because One
31:00
Speaker 2: of the big problems, you've got folks out there, they
31:03
Speaker 2: say they, you know, share conservative values, but when they
31:06
Speaker 2: get elected, things get a little squirrely. So all that
31:10
Speaker 2: to say, it's a weird situation right now in Republican politics.
31:14
Speaker 2: I'll just leave it like that. By the way, voter registration.
31:18
Speaker 2: So Tennesseans who still need to register for the November
31:22
Speaker 2: 3rd general election, you've got until Monday, October the 5th,
31:26
Speaker 2: to register to vote. So be sure to do that. Voting,
31:29
Speaker 2: early voting, begins October 14th and continues all the way
31:34
Speaker 2: until October 29th. So we've got a lot of folks
31:38
Speaker 2: on the ballot, and you're going to want to make
31:40
Speaker 2: sure you get out there and do early voting. Also,
31:45
Speaker 2: Congressman Steve Cohen. By the way, there is huge drama
31:50
Speaker 2: on the Democrat side of the aisle. Steve Cohen, Paul Young,
31:55
Speaker 2: Lee Harris, none of those guys have endorsed Justin Pearson
31:59
Speaker 2: for Congress. Very interesting situation brewing there in the Democrats.
32:05
Speaker 2: A lot of folks in the Democrat Party here locally, which, again,
32:10
Speaker 2: from a cultural perspective, they are a bit more conservative.
32:15
Speaker 2: And so anyway, yet they're not supporting him at all.
32:20
Speaker 2: Congressman Steve Cohen introducing articles of impeachment against President Trump. Unbelievable.
32:28
Speaker 2: He'll be down at the old folks' homes soon. So
32:32
Speaker 2: hang tight, everybody. All right. A big event coming up
32:35
Speaker 2: this weekend. And we want to tell you about it.
32:39
Speaker 2: It involves our friends with Ducks Unlimited. Here's a little
32:43
Speaker 2: bit of that great conversation. This is an exciting thing,
32:47
Speaker 2: the 2026 Federal Duck Stamp Art Contest. Tell us all
32:51
Speaker 2: about it.
32:53
Speaker 4: Well, first of all, I'd like to get back to
32:55
Speaker 4: the fact of that you have done something in Memphis
32:58
Speaker 4: that I haven't done yet. I would love to be
33:00
Speaker 4: the duck master someday. So I'm pretty jealous of that accomplishment.
33:03
Speaker 4: You've just you've just surpassed all of my accomplishments to
33:06
Speaker 4: that one thing.
33:07
Speaker 2: So that's very cool.
33:08
Speaker 1: All right.
33:08
Speaker 2: We're going to have to make this happen, Karen. I
33:10
Speaker 2: know people. I know people at the Peabody.
33:14
Speaker 6: That's great. Yeah, so the federal duck stamp.
33:19
Speaker 4: So the real name of it is the Migratory Bird
33:21
Speaker 4: Hunting and Conservation Stamp, and it was started in 1934.
33:26
Speaker 4: And the reason it was started was because we were
33:29
Speaker 4: at the height of the Dust Bowl at that time,
33:31
Speaker 4: and waterfowl populations were plummeting. So for those that aren't
33:35
Speaker 4: familiar with waterfowl, the prairie pothole region, so up in
33:39
Speaker 4: the Dakotas and up in Canada as well, in the
33:43
Speaker 4: prairie potholes, there are these really important small wetlands for
33:47
Speaker 4: waterfowl nesting and breeding and then also rearing the new
33:53
Speaker 4: hatch of the next year. And so it's a pivotal
33:57
Speaker 4: location from a conservation and habitat perspective, but we were
34:00
Speaker 4: losing waterfowl at just huge numbers because of the Dust
34:04
Speaker 4: Bowl and all of these wetlands drying up at this time.
34:08
Speaker 4: And so that's when the Federal Duck Stamp Act was
34:12
Speaker 4: passed in 1934. And the idea being that waterfowl hunters
34:17
Speaker 4: would need to purchase these stamps so anybody over when
34:21
Speaker 4: they are in the field hunting and the dollars from
34:25
Speaker 4: the duck stamp goes into federal program that protects and
34:30
Speaker 4: restores waterfowl habitat for future generations of waterfowl.
34:36
Speaker 2: It's my understanding that the duck stamp has really been
34:40
Speaker 2: described as one of the most successful conservation programs in
34:44
Speaker 2: American history. Is that true?
34:47
Speaker 6: Absolutely.
34:48
Speaker 4: It's one of the most successful and one of the earliest.
34:51
Speaker 4: So it was certainly one of the earliest recognized user
34:55
Speaker 4: pay system models for conservation being in 1934, but also
35:00
Speaker 4: one of the most successful. And I'd say some of
35:03
Speaker 4: the reasons for that is it has an efficiency that
35:07
Speaker 4: is unmatched by any other program that I've ever heard of.
35:10
Speaker 4: 98 cents of every dollar goes on the ground for
35:15
Speaker 4: habitat conservation. And so it has to go directly into
35:19
Speaker 4: purchasing wetlands or adding land to national wildlife refuges. And
35:26
Speaker 4: so I think that's part of the reason why it's...
35:29
Speaker 4: It's been so successful, but I think also because it's
35:33
Speaker 4: just so widely supported, it brings together art and conservation
35:38
Speaker 4: in such a way that you have waterfowl enthusiasts, art enthusiasts,
35:42
Speaker 4: stamp collectors. bird watchers, and it's just something that brings
35:47
Speaker 4: all of these different dynamics together all in the voice
35:51
Speaker 4: for conservation.
35:52
Speaker 2: All right, and today, ladies and gentlemen, you'll be able
35:55
Speaker 2: to watch the judging live at Ducks Unlimited National Headquarters
36:00
Speaker 2: in their lobby. It opens up at 10 o'clock this morning.
36:05
Speaker 2: You're going to have a great time. There are food
36:07
Speaker 2: trucks there. It's And the artwork is absolutely beautiful. That
36:10
Speaker 2: was Karen Waldrop with Ducks Unlimited. And by the way,
36:14
Speaker 2: if you want to listen to the entire interview, all
36:17
Speaker 2: you have to do is go to kwamradio.com. That's kwamradio.com,
36:21
Speaker 2: and you'll be able to be a part of that.
36:24
Speaker 2: Friday Night Football, be safe out there, folks. As you're
36:26
Speaker 2: driving around, it's going to be a lovely, cool fall
36:30
Speaker 2: night for football in the great Volunteer State. And, of course, tomorrow,
36:36
Speaker 2: the big story coming out of Knoxville, President Trump coming
36:39
Speaker 2: to town, and he's going to watch the big Vols
36:42
Speaker 2: take on the Twins. What is it? The Texas Longhorns.
36:46
Speaker 2: There you go. All right, folks, it's been a great day.
36:48
Speaker 2: We're back at it, 11 o'clock, the national show, right
36:51
Speaker 2: here on the Mighty 990, kwamradio.com. Be sure to check
36:55
Speaker 2: that as well. Have a great, great Friday, and be
36:58
Speaker 2: sure to go to church this weekend, everybody.