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Morning in Memphis · 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: Good morning, Memphis. You don't need coffee with us. You
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Speaker 2: don't need coffee. You just basically need to tune in
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Speaker 2: to the Principal Toyota Studios. It is Wednesday, September 30th.
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Speaker 2: 34 days to victory. 34 days. to the midterm elections.
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Speaker 2: I am Frank Colvette, proud Memphian. Sitting with me is
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Speaker 2: Kristen New, still bringing her own gasoline to everything she
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Speaker 2: runs into. On the board is Helen this morning, our
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Speaker 2: favorite Gen Z-er. We got a lot to cover today,
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Speaker 2: a lot to cover. So let's jump right into it.
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Speaker 2: If you have any thoughts, give us a shout, 260-59-9.
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Speaker 2: For your weather real quick, it's going to be in
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Speaker 2: the low 90s. It's going to be highs in the
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Speaker 2: low 90s and lows in the low 70s. And there's
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Speaker 2: going to be that interesting thing, Kristen, towards the end
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Speaker 2: of the week.
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Speaker 3: Rain.
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Speaker 2: It's called rain.
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Speaker 3: The gods are going to rain down on us.
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Speaker 2: It's going to rain. That's right. We haven't seen that
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Speaker 2: in a long, long time. But enjoy the 955-degree temperatures
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Speaker 2: today again. In baseball... The Cubs, Nats, Phillies, Dodgers, and
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Speaker 2: Astros won their playoff games. I'm sorry to report that
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Speaker 2: our Atlanta Braves came up just a bit short in
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Speaker 2: other sports news. It was announced yesterday that Memphis University School,
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Speaker 2: Christian Brothers High School, you know them as MUS and CBHS,
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Speaker 2: they have backed out specifically of the football TSSAA classification. Now,
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Speaker 2: To shed light on this, because a lot of people
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Speaker 2: were asking about this, what's basically happening in high school sports, Kristen,
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Speaker 2: and you're a teacher at Hutchison.
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Speaker 3: No, coach.
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Speaker 2: I'm a coach. A coach at Hutchison. Well, what's happening
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Speaker 2: is you have a lot of Division II private schools,
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Speaker 2: and they have student housing. Well, what they've done the
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Speaker 2: last 10 years is win the football state championship by
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Speaker 2: recruiting that 300-pound five-star lineman from Vermont, housing them in
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Speaker 2: their school. Well, when they come to play, you know,
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Speaker 2: it's almost no contest. So I salute MUS and Christian
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Speaker 2: Brothers for putting academics first, putting those kids first, and
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Speaker 2: teaching them love of the game, but focusing also, and
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Speaker 2: more importantly, on academics. The University of Briarcrest... State University
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Speaker 2: and Lausanne. They've decided to stay, and I get it.
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Speaker 2: Briarcrest is 6-0, and they've got an incredible team this year.
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Speaker 2: So I salute the right decisions, but also to our listeners,
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Speaker 2: this is normal. Look, guys, 15, 20 years ago, the
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Speaker 2: private leagues were created in TSSAA because groups like Brentwood
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Speaker 2: were openly recruiting even though it was illegal. They've found parity.
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Speaker 2: So I think for a while it's going to be
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Speaker 2: a shakeup in the high school football landscape. But at
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Speaker 2: the same time, guys, it's all about our kids.
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Speaker 4: People are getting tired of that, too. They're getting tired
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Speaker 4: of these people that are recruiting these kids in. And
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Speaker 4: they're taking, actually, the space away from some of the
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Speaker 4: kids that are there for non-reasons. And then they're taking
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Speaker 4: spots on the team because they have basically been purchased.
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Speaker 4: to go play for these high school teams. And it's
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Speaker 4: the same argument I had against the NIL, is that
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Speaker 4: it ruins the sports and it ruins the essence of
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Speaker 4: what it's supposed to be. And what we are teaching
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Speaker 4: these kids is that that is okay, that it is
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Speaker 4: okay to just throw money at it, buy your players.
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Speaker 2: Education be damned.
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Speaker 3: Yes, you go sit on the sidelines here.
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Speaker 4: Normally you would be able to play, but you can't
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Speaker 4: play now because we've bought basically a kid to take
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Speaker 4: your spot.
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Speaker 2: We bought. a kid to take your spot. Well, Kristen,
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Speaker 2: you know, interestingly enough, following up on our conversations last
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Speaker 2: several days, the house, uh, the United States house of
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Speaker 2: representatives doesn't look like they're going to move forward on
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Speaker 2: the NIL bill that the Senate passed. Uh, so unfortunately
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Speaker 2: it looks like the guardrails that we've talked about these
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Speaker 2: last few days, uh, doesn't look like we're unfortunate. Doesn't
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Speaker 2: look like we're going to get any action on that. Um,
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Speaker 2: as we get in really into the news, um, It
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Speaker 2: is Wednesday, September 30th. Today, Tennessee, in just a few hours,
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Speaker 2: is going to execute Krista Pike, the first female in
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Speaker 2: 200 years. And I know our listeners out there, several
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Speaker 2: of them have stopped me and just told me, you know, yeah,
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Speaker 2: I'd throw the switch. I'd throw the switch. Look, we're
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Speaker 2: going to execute a very, very, very bad person in
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Speaker 2: all the makeup and how they do her hair and
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Speaker 2: present her as this victim. And look, Kristen, this lady
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Speaker 2: tried to kill somebody in prison not five years ago.
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Speaker 2: But what I'd like you to do, dear listeners, don't
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Speaker 2: remember this person's name. Remember Colleen Slemmer. That's the victim. Today,
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Speaker 2: and I'm not going to get emotional. Not going to
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Speaker 2: get emotional. Her parents are flying in from Florida. This
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Speaker 2: 31-year nightmare of making sure the legal system got it right. Well,
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Speaker 2: I want you to say prayers for Colleen Slimmer's family
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Speaker 2: and that this chapter is over for them, and hopefully
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Speaker 2: they can continue and find some peace. Moving forward, though,
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Speaker 2: we've got an action-packed show for you today. We're going
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Speaker 2: to start this conversation in the time we have. Great news.
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Speaker 2: So as you're talking to your friends and family and
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Speaker 2: neighbors about why they need to vote, Governor Brian Kemp
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Speaker 2: of Georgia, like all good Republican governors, he, Kristen, is
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Speaker 2: moving to remove the state tax on gasoline to help you,
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Speaker 2: the consumer. So lastly, my dear wife who's listening to
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Speaker 2: this show, your gasoline hopefully is going to go down
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Speaker 2: because Republican leadership, is going to work to take the
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Speaker 2: taxes off of this. But more importantly, and this is
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Speaker 2: the conversation, we've just passed the one-year mark on the
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Speaker 2: Memphis Safe Task Force. Now, Kristen, walk me through this
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Speaker 2: because I can't name a Democrat that has supported the
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Speaker 2: Memphis Safe Task Force, and now, predictably, they're all quiet
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Speaker 2: about crime has gone down.
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Speaker 4: Well, you know, the Memphis Safe Task Force is here
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Speaker 4: because of the Democrats.
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Speaker 3: Let's get that clear.
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Speaker 4: We would not have to have the Memphis Safe Task
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Speaker 4: Force if our Democrat leadership, if they were doing the
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Speaker 4: job that the people elected them to do in the
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Speaker 4: first place. And let's be clear, the Memphis State Task
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Speaker 4: Force and the National Guard came here because not only
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Speaker 4: was crime bad, But we have a lot of human
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Speaker 4: trafficking that was going on here in Memphis. And so
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Speaker 4: they have found so many kids. And as a mother,
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Speaker 4: that to me, that just gets at my heart. And
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Speaker 4: I think that is so important that we don't talk
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Speaker 4: about enough and that we don't put enough emphasis on
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Speaker 4: is that the human trafficking that Memphis, being a port city,
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Speaker 4: has really had a problem with.
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Speaker 3: So they have come in. We have others. Tons of
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Speaker 3: federal agents here, too. Several hundred.
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Speaker 2: I didn't realize it was several hundred. And they don't
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Speaker 2: live here.
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Speaker 3: No, no, they are actually they don't live here.
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Speaker 4: And then in summer, we had a camp, a dance
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Speaker 4: camp at a hotel here in Memphis. And a lot
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Speaker 4: of the National Guard was housed there. And we talked
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Speaker 4: to them. And I talked to one guy in the elevator,
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Speaker 4: thanked them for him being here.
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Speaker 3: And he said he was he's.
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Speaker 4: Going on nine months, nine months away from his wife
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Speaker 4: and kid. nine months because he has a job to do.
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Speaker 4: And he knows that. And the job, the thing is
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Speaker 4: they're here indefinitely. So they don't know when it's going
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Speaker 4: to end. They just go every day.
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Speaker 3: And that is so just- That's dedication.
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Speaker 4: Dedication to their job and their oath of service.
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Speaker 2: You think of those folks, ladies and gentlemen, the same
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Speaker 2: way we look at our service members. They heard the calling.
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Speaker 2: That is their career. That is their path in life.
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Speaker 2: And now- they too are away from their families. But
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Speaker 2: the other piece, because we were talking off air, it
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Speaker 2: is so refreshing to see so many police officers parked.
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Speaker 2: You know, Krista, you were telling me how police aren't
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Speaker 2: just running from call to call to call to call.
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Speaker 2: They actually have the chance to do community policing.
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Speaker 4: Well, what the task force is getting off of the
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Speaker 4: plates is that when you make an arrest and you
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Speaker 4: have to have the perp that you arrested, and they
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Speaker 4: have to go to 201 Poplar for several hours, or
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Speaker 4: they have to go to the med for several hours,
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Speaker 4: you have to stay with them. They are taking that
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Speaker 4: job over and putting those officers back on the street
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Speaker 4: so they can go back to policing and not being
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Speaker 4: babysitters for the people that they just arrested.
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Speaker 3: So it really frees up a lot of their time.
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Speaker 2: Well, to all of our good listeners who are out
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Speaker 2: on the non-conabon or the 240, You know, all those
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Speaker 2: times that I was nervous because I was driving over
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Speaker 2: the speed limit.
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Speaker 4: I stopped speeding when I saw all of those cars
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Speaker 4: out there pulling people over.
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Speaker 2: That's exactly right. You know, we speed. We got to
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Speaker 2: get somewhere. I get it. But now there are consequences
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Speaker 2: to your bad actions, my bad actions.
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Speaker 4: You know, if we speed and we get caught, we've
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Speaker 4: broken the law.
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Speaker 3: We take our consequences.
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Speaker 4: We're not... going to do some crazy thing, scream at
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Speaker 4: the officers. We're not going to put ourselves or the
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Speaker 4: officers in danger. And you have to understand when you're
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Speaker 4: an officer and you're pulling somebody over, you don't know
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Speaker 4: what you're about to step into.
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Speaker 2: Very dangerous.
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Speaker 3: Very dangerous job.
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Speaker 2: You know, it I think. so much about their calling.
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Speaker 2: And if any of our listeners or any of their
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Speaker 2: children or family or friends, you know, if they feel
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Speaker 2: the calling to be a law enforcement officer, strongly encourage it.
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Speaker 2: It is public service, you know, in politics. No, no, no, no.
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Speaker 2: Public service is when you are going out into the
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Speaker 2: dangerous areas, when you are, if anything, causing people just
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Speaker 2: to slow down But equally important, when people turn around
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Speaker 2: and get nervous, stopping us and saying, oh, gosh, we're
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Speaker 2: going to lose all of them. Look, this is a
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Speaker 2: presidential order and only President Donald J. Trump can stop it.
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Speaker 3: That's right.
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Speaker 4: They only can stop it. And Todd Starnes actually is
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Speaker 4: one of the founders. people who talked to President Trump
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Speaker 4: during that 20-minute conversation and put that bug in his
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Speaker 4: ear and really got the ball rolling on this. So
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Speaker 4: we have to give Todd Starnes a lot of credit
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Speaker 4: for this. And also Senator Brent Taylor for jumping on
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Speaker 4: board and Marsha Blackburn for jumping on board.
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Speaker 3: And these are the Republicans. These are Republicans that you
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Speaker 3: talk about. Not one Democrat jumped on board. Not one.
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Speaker 2: Not one. Chris, awesome bringing that up because our very
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Speaker 2: own state senator, Brent Taylor, will be joining us here
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Speaker 2: in the next half hour. We're going to talk a
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Speaker 2: little bit about crime in Memphis, but we're also going
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Speaker 2: to talk about his race for Congress.
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Speaker 4: That newly carved out congressional district.
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Speaker 2: We're going to talk about it. So look, you don't
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Speaker 2: need coffee. You've got us, Frank, Kristen, Helen on the board.
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Speaker 2: We are the Principal Toyota Studios. And thank you again,
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Speaker 2: Todd Starnes, for letting us host this morning. We're going
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Speaker 2: to take an obscene capitalist profit break and come right
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Speaker 2: back to you.
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Speaker 5: Hey, good morning again.
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Speaker 2: It's Frank and Kristen. Helen's on the board. We are
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Speaker 2: blessed today, September 30th, 34 days to victory. Adam Martin
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Speaker 2: is in the studio today. We're going to talk a
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Speaker 2: little bit about financial planning. Very, very important, Adam, because
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Speaker 2: I'm having that conversation with my own mother. Walk me
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Speaker 2: through this just from your side of the table.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, we always, you know, we do a lot of
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Speaker 6: helping people with building and accumulating assets. And I think
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Speaker 6: we can all do a better job at communicating what
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Speaker 6: do we do with afterlife and the assets that we've accumulated.
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Speaker 6: And it's not so much about leaving those assets behind
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Speaker 6: as much as leaving clarity behind. You know, for your heirs,
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Speaker 6: they're the ones left behind having to settle accounts, trying
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Speaker 6: to figure out who does what, what goes where. So
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Speaker 6: we always want you to be proactive in communicating like,
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Speaker 6: passwords to online accounts, keeping them in a safe place,
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Speaker 6: have an identified person who is going to handle the trust,
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Speaker 6: list them as trustees, or have the conversation around having
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Speaker 6: those important estate planning documents in place.
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Speaker 2: That's got to be the hardest, at least for me,
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Speaker 2: it was the hardest conversation with my mother because we're
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Speaker 2: talking about when she's gone. And, you know, we talk
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Speaker 2: very quickly about certain things, but I was catching up
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Speaker 2: on passwords. I was catching up and put them in
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Speaker 2: safe places. Silly things like her identification, her social security card,
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Speaker 2: all of the different documents that you need. How can
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Speaker 2: they get started? What is some of your suggestions of
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Speaker 2: how do you begin that conversation?
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Speaker 6: I think that it's a little easier said than done, obviously.
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Speaker 6: No one likes to have that conversation about death, but
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Speaker 6: it's inevitable. And we know at some point we're going
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Speaker 6: to face that. And we hope that that's long-term long,
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Speaker 6: you know, longer down the road, not sooner, but start simple. Just,
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Speaker 6: you know, say, Hey mom, you know, we, we all
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Speaker 6: live in a world where it's digital. Everything's online, uh,
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Speaker 6: in the event that you're incapacitated, even if he's not gone,
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Speaker 6: but I need to have access to.
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Speaker 2: Help you with something. How do I do that? Um,
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Speaker 2: what's your password? That's right.
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Speaker 6: What's the username?
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Speaker 2: What's the website that I go to?
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: Adam, I don't think that you're, uh, too young to
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Speaker 4: do that either because people pass away unfortunately we just
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Speaker 4: had that happen in my family and I'm in my
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Speaker 4: 40s and my husband's brother passed away unexpectedly and we
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Speaker 4: did not know his passwords but we weren't thinking that
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Speaker 4: that way with him because he was so young.
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Speaker 6: You know even if you just are at home one
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Speaker 6: day and you're thinking about this is something that's on
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Speaker 6: your mind it's Start making a little list. Start small.
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Speaker 6: You know, just start saying, hey, I've got a Navy
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Speaker 6: federal account. I've got a region's account. And whether you
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Speaker 6: put the username and password on that piece of paper,
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Speaker 6: just knowing where to go to talk to somebody about
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Speaker 6: these things, because we can find a lot of stuff
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Speaker 6: through social security numbers. And, you know, if you just
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Speaker 6: called the bank and said, unfortunately, I don't have access
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Speaker 6: to their usernames and passwords, but I am listed as
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Speaker 6: a trustee on their trust documents, it could go a
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Speaker 6: lot further.
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Speaker 2: So what I'm hearing is you have to begin with
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Speaker 2: that tough conversation and you need all that information in
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Speaker 2: one place from passwords and all that. You know, I'm
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Speaker 2: just thinking mom's got a couple of credit cards, you know,
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Speaker 2: Amazon Prime accounts, all these things that you need to
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Speaker 2: shut down. Obviously, they need to talk to you, Adam Martin,
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Speaker 2: because there's, I'm sure, a long checklist that you can
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Speaker 2: walk everybody through. Definitely.
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Speaker 6: And one of the other things that we do proactively is,
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Speaker 6: you know, a lot of people have 401ks, they've got
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Speaker 6: life insurance and stuff, but how many of those lives
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Speaker 6: have changed since they put that plan in place to
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Speaker 6: begin with? So their beneficiaries need to be reviewed. You know,
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Speaker 6: we want to make sure that the money's being passed
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Speaker 6: to the person that you want it to be passed to.
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Speaker 6: And What if we had a divorce and we never
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Speaker 6: changed our spouse?
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Speaker 2: It's as a realtor, I run into this all the
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Speaker 2: time that, you know, mom and dad have passed and
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Speaker 2: now the three kids have to sell the house and
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Speaker 2: there's no clear direction. That's right. If so, what are
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Speaker 2: some of the I don't like doing horror stories per se,
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Speaker 2: but What are some of the examples? And real estate
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Speaker 2: obviously is my bread and butter. And I run into
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Speaker 2: that without clear direction. What are some of the things
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Speaker 2: that you've run into and why we need to do this?
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Speaker 6: You know, we're kind of I had a case this week.
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Speaker 6: We're dealing with they're not passed away, but they're older
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Speaker 6: couples and they had a lot of questions around. What
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Speaker 6: do we need to do? They didn't even know where
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Speaker 6: a lot of their assets were, and they were scattered
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Speaker 6: out all over the place.
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Speaker 2: They didn't even know where all the assets were. That's right.
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Speaker 3: I can see that as a wife, too.
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Speaker 4: If your husband takes care of all the financial decisions
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Speaker 4: in your house, you might not know where all of
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Speaker 4: your assets are.
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Speaker 3: I've got to be really honest. There's a lot of
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Speaker 3: women that don't.
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Speaker 2: Really?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, there are.
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Speaker 4: There are a lot of women that don't know all
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Speaker 4: of your husband's investment accounts, everything that he's going, all
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Speaker 4: of his work. Business accounts, you might not know where
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Speaker 4: they are, but definitely you probably might not know the passwords.
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Speaker 3: To get into them.
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Speaker 4: So it's very scary to think about if you come
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Speaker 4: into that situation where all of a sudden you're a
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Speaker 4: stay-at-home mom, something happened to your husband, and you don't
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Speaker 4: really know what to do after that.
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Speaker 2: I must be ahead of the game because the first
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Speaker 2: thing I do about once, twice a year is I
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Speaker 2: print out quite literally all of my passwords and they
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Speaker 2: go to my wife and my father-in-law that is, as
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Speaker 2: I always say, if I get hit by the beer truck.
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Speaker 4: Mm-hmm.
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Speaker 2: You know, these are the accounts. There's nothing else. So
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Speaker 2: you can set everything up that way.
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Speaker 6: Well, in a digital world that we live in these days, well,
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Speaker 6: I simple advice, go buy a USB thumb drive, create
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Speaker 6: a spreadsheet, put all of your usernames and passwords and
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Speaker 6: websites on that and lock it in a safe.
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Speaker 2: Tell your heirs where it is. Ladies and gentlemen, that
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Speaker 2: is Adam Martin. Put everything on the thumb drive, give
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Speaker 2: it to your spouse, and put it in a safe place. Adam,
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Speaker 2: thank you so much for coming in.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely.
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Speaker 2: Thank you for having me. State Senator Brent Taylor is next.
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Speaker 2: Stay with us. Good morning, Memphis. You don't need coffee.
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Speaker 2: You have us. I am Frank Colvette with Krista New.
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Speaker 2: Helen on the board, our favorite Jen Zier.
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Speaker 3: And we are plus one.
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Speaker 2: We are plus one in the Principal Toyota Studios. We
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Speaker 2: are blessed here today to have State Senator and Congressional
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Speaker 2: Candidate Brent Taylor. Brent, good morning.
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Speaker 5: Good morning. How are y'all?
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Speaker 3: We need that canned round of applause.
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Speaker 2: Let me tell you something. I guarantee you there are
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Speaker 2: a lot of people listening.
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Speaker 5: More canned booze and jeers.
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Speaker 2: I disagree. I bet a lot of people are driving
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Speaker 2: to work now applauding because, you know, I'd rather talk
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Speaker 2: about crime. There we go. Thanks, Helen. See, let's, let's
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Speaker 2: get right into it. Cause we only have so much time. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: The Memphis safe task force just passed one year and
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Speaker 2: we were talking about how these agents are coming to Memphis, uh,
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Speaker 2: They're going away from their families, several hundred of them.
19:20
Speaker 2: Crime is going down. And I'm looking at one of
19:24
Speaker 2: the people in state, Senator Brent Taylor, that made that happen. Brent,
19:29
Speaker 2: what are your thoughts so far?
19:30
Speaker 1: Well, if you remember, I ran for the Senate four
19:32
Speaker 1: years ago and crime was at an all time high.
19:35
Speaker 5: And Kristen, you remember this. You were on board early.
19:39
Speaker 5: Crime was at an all time high. And I pledged.
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Speaker 1: To the people of District 31 that if you elect
19:45
Speaker 1: me as your state senator, I will do everything I
19:49
Speaker 1: can to fight crime. And that's everything from raising awareness
19:53
Speaker 1: to changing laws to holding our Soros-funded DA accountable. And
19:59
Speaker 1: I did that from day one. The first step was
20:02
Speaker 1: working with Governor Lee and getting the state troopers here.
20:07
Speaker 1: And he sent down a wave of state troopers from
20:11
Speaker 1: other parts of the state. In the state Senate, we
20:14
Speaker 1: added money to the state budget. We've hired additional state troopers.
20:18
Speaker 1: When I took office as state senator four years ago,
20:22
Speaker 1: we had roughly 12 to 15 state troopers dedicated only
20:27
Speaker 1: to Shelby County.
20:28
Speaker 3: And this is why I don't speed anymore, Brent.
20:30
Speaker 5: I know.
20:30
Speaker 1: I got a high-velocity award to prove it.
20:34
Speaker 5: That's right.
20:35
Speaker 1: And so we've added money to the budget, and the
20:37
Speaker 1: governor's commitment is to have 50 state troopers dedicated entirely to... Kristen,
20:45
Speaker 1: you okay?
20:45
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm sorry.
20:46
Speaker 5: She literally spit out her coffee.
20:48
Speaker 2: She did. Well, because, I mean, of all of our
20:51
Speaker 2: dear listeners on the non-conabon racing to work, slow down.
20:56
Speaker 2: There are way more state troopers ready to write you
20:59
Speaker 2: a high-velocity award.
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Speaker 5: That's right.
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Speaker 1: And as a part of that, Senator Blackburn, Senator Hagerty,
21:07
Speaker 1: they reached out early on and said, what can we
21:09
Speaker 1: do at the federal level to help? And ultimately what
21:13
Speaker 1: they did, they sent, when Kash Patel was up for
21:17
Speaker 1: his confirmation for FBI director, it was Senator Blackburn who said,
21:23
Speaker 1: what are you going to do about Memphis? And he
21:25
Speaker 1: sent the Operation Viper, which was an FBI-only operation. They
21:31
Speaker 1: literally made about 500 arrests. And that was the precursor
21:35
Speaker 1: to the Memphis Safe Task Force that President Trump sent here.
21:39
Speaker 1: And as you all know, they've cut crime in half.
21:42
Speaker 5: The numbers are outstanding.
21:44
Speaker 3: Outstanding. And I'm looking forward to more. I'm looking forward to.
21:47
Speaker 4: Higher numbers now. Now that we have a year in
21:50
Speaker 4: and we've gotten our sea legs, let's really go after it.
21:54
Speaker 1: Yeah, they've cut crime in half. They've cut the murder
21:57
Speaker 1: rate in half. Think about there are people today walking around.
22:03
Speaker 1: on the streets of Memphis that will be able to
22:05
Speaker 1: enjoy Halloween with their kids, they'll be able to enjoy Thanksgiving,
22:09
Speaker 1: they'll be able to enjoy Christmas with their families because
22:12
Speaker 1: they will not have been a victim of a murder.
22:16
Speaker 2: State Senator Brent Taylor is with us this morning. I
22:20
Speaker 2: was racing into the office this morning.
22:22
Speaker 5: High velocity?
22:24
Speaker 2: I may or may not have been breaking the speed limits,
22:28
Speaker 2: but I stopped off for gas and we were talking
22:30
Speaker 2: off the air. I just want our listeners to know
22:32
Speaker 2: I put gas in my car and my head wasn't
22:35
Speaker 2: on a swivel. You know, I wasn't sitting there looking around.
22:38
Speaker 2: I was aware of my surroundings just naturally. But I've
22:41
Speaker 2: noticed that there is a difference. Thanks to you. Thanks
22:45
Speaker 2: to U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn, candidate for governor, U.S. Senator Hagerty,
22:50
Speaker 2: who they both strongly endorse your candidacy for Congress. I've
22:55
Speaker 2: noticed there is a change. There is a vibe difference
22:58
Speaker 2: in Memphis that people are OK now walking around on
23:03
Speaker 2: the streets, just not having to literally look over their shoulders.
23:07
Speaker 5: Well, you're right.
23:07
Speaker 1: You can get gas at the gas pump now without
23:09
Speaker 1: your head having to be on a swivel, and it's
23:11
Speaker 1: a good thing now because you look and you see
23:14
Speaker 1: all the money that's going out of your pocket as
23:16
Speaker 1: you're filling up gas because gas prices are high. And
23:21
Speaker 1: maybe we can talk about that in another segment.
23:26
Speaker 5: But you're right.
23:26
Speaker 1: People feel safe. It had gotten to the point where–
23:31
Speaker 1: husbands would not let their wives get gas on their
23:34
Speaker 1: way home from work because it was that dangerous.
23:37
Speaker 2: I'm one of them.
23:38
Speaker 1: And, you know, there were lists out there that it
23:42
Speaker 1: didn't matter which list it was. You could look at
23:44
Speaker 1: Memphis was always ranked the top five most dangerous cities.
23:49
Speaker 1: I even saw one list. I had Memphis listed as
23:51
Speaker 1: one of the most dangerous cities in the world ahead
23:55
Speaker 1: of of Baghdad and Mexico City.
23:58
Speaker 2: I remember that, yeah.
24:00
Speaker 5: But I will tell you, a lot of.
24:01
Speaker 1: Credit belongs to Mayor Young, the way he reacted to
24:07
Speaker 1: the Memphis Safe Task Force. Look, he will tell you
24:10
Speaker 1: he made public pronouncements that he did not want the
24:13
Speaker 1: task force here, but he also said he was willing
24:15
Speaker 1: to work with anybody that wanted to make Memphis safe.
24:19
Speaker 1: And he has done that, even though he has disagreed
24:21
Speaker 1: with parts of it. He has not been an obstacle.
24:25
Speaker 1: much like the county mayor, the previous county mayor who
24:29
Speaker 1: sued to try to stop the National Guard and the
24:31
Speaker 1: Memphis Safe Task Force. Lee has been, or Mayor Young, rather,
24:35
Speaker 1: has been much more responsible in working with the task force.
24:41
Speaker 2: Brent, you bring up a great point. I mean, outside
24:44
Speaker 2: of the Memphis mayor, you know, when Lee Harris left
24:47
Speaker 2: county office, I kind of wondered what were his accomplishments.
24:51
Speaker 2: And I think everybody wonders, well, gosh, he opposed... the
24:55
Speaker 2: task force, he opposed the crime going down by extension.
25:00
Speaker 2: I have yet to hear of a Democrat that is
25:04
Speaker 2: in favor of the task force and does crime going down.
25:07
Speaker 2: I mean, have you heard of any?
25:10
Speaker 4: No.
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Speaker 1: The nearest thing, like I said, is Mayor Young is
25:14
Speaker 1: the nearest one. I will tell you, my opponent in
25:19
Speaker 1: the congressional race, Democrat Socialist Justin J. Pearson, he has
25:25
Speaker 1: been opposed. He calls it an occupation. And he literally
25:30
Speaker 1: wants the task force to leave and refuses to recognize
25:35
Speaker 1: the benefit that the task force has brought to Memphis
25:38
Speaker 1: in keeping crime down.
25:39
Speaker 2: Well, that's a great segue as we're all driving to
25:42
Speaker 2: work and getting ready. Brent Taylor, Senator Taylor, is running
25:46
Speaker 2: for Congress, District 9. And I don't think anybody doubts
25:51
Speaker 2: Justin Pearson's is a socialist, and he calls an occupation
25:57
Speaker 2: when crime is going down. And I submit to you,
25:59
Speaker 2: 80 to 90 percent of Memphians do not have a
26:03
Speaker 2: problem with crime going down, and they do not see
26:07
Speaker 2: this as an occupation. Now, let's talk about your campaign.
26:11
Speaker 2: The newly drawn 9th Congressional District, how much of that
26:16
Speaker 2: is in Shelby County?
26:19
Speaker 1: Shelby County has been divided into three different congressional districts.
26:23
Speaker 1: And by the way, this is not the first time
26:25
Speaker 1: that Shelby County has been divided into three different congressional districts.
26:29
Speaker 1: I ran in 2002 for Congress. That was the year
26:33
Speaker 1: that Marsha Blackburn was elected. And all I can say
26:38
Speaker 1: is you hadn't got an ass whipping until you get
26:40
Speaker 1: you one of Marsha Blackburn ass whippings. And she won
26:43
Speaker 1: that election. And Shelby County was divided into three congressional districts.
26:48
Speaker 5: As it is now.
26:49
Speaker 1: So the Democrats did that in 2002. And so it
26:53
Speaker 1: starts in Memphis. It's about the lower one-third, the southern
26:57
Speaker 1: one-third of Shelby County, then takes in the lower half
27:02
Speaker 1: of Fayette County. Then it's one county wide, all the
27:04
Speaker 1: way across the Mississippi and Alabama state line over to Fayetteville,
27:08
Speaker 1: which is in Lincoln County, and then turns north and
27:11
Speaker 1: goes all the way up to the city limits of Nashville.
27:14
Speaker 1: And so it's a long, linear district. But it looks
27:18
Speaker 1: like Tennessee. It's got an urban core. It's got suburban
27:22
Speaker 1: communities in East Memphis and Shelby County and Fayette County.
27:26
Speaker 1: Then it has another suburban area up in Williamson County,
27:30
Speaker 1: a suburb of Nashville. And then all the counties in
27:33
Speaker 1: between are rural counties. And it looks like Tennessee. Tennessee
27:38
Speaker 1: has urban centers. It has suburban communities. It has rural areas.
27:42
Speaker 5: And so it looks like Tennessee.
27:45
Speaker 1: And I think these districts are better off this way
27:49
Speaker 1: because it'll force candidates and congressmen like myself to make
27:55
Speaker 1: sure that we identify the needs of our district, which
27:58
Speaker 1: will look like the needs of Tennessee.
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Speaker 4: And how is redistricting, how do you think that helps
28:02
Speaker 4: voter turnout? Because that's something that I'm really concerned with,
28:05
Speaker 4: voter turnout. And we need to get these Republicans out
28:08
Speaker 4: to the polls because not only does it affect your
28:10
Speaker 4: congressional race, but the congressional race affects all of the
28:14
Speaker 4: down-ballot races, and if we don't do a good job
28:17
Speaker 4: with the Republican turnout in these congressional districts, then I'm
28:20
Speaker 4: afraid candidates like Gillespie might bear some of that turnout
28:27
Speaker 4: problem that he has in his race, because we do
28:30
Speaker 4: need to not only win these congressional seats, but we
28:32
Speaker 4: have to win these down-ballot seats as well.
28:34
Speaker 1: We do, and John Gillespie, Representative Gillespie, and by the way,
28:38
Speaker 1: he has been excellent in the State House as a
28:42
Speaker 1: partner with me in helping hold our Soros-funded DA accountable
28:46
Speaker 1: and crime bills. And he is in a knife fight
28:49
Speaker 1: in a phone booth every two years. But I encourage
28:52
Speaker 1: people to go out and support John Gillespie. But we
28:59
Speaker 1: have to get our voters out. That is what concerns me.
29:04
Speaker 1: And perhaps we can talk about this, but the way
29:07
Speaker 1: Democrat Socialist Justin J. Pearson wins is if our voters
29:11
Speaker 1: don't That's right.
29:12
Speaker 4: And I don't even want even if we win, I
29:15
Speaker 4: don't want them to start pulling away some of these
29:17
Speaker 4: Republican voters and they just kind of chip away. And
29:21
Speaker 4: I think that sometimes the long game for the Democrats
29:23
Speaker 4: is just to start chipping away at these counties. And
29:26
Speaker 4: it really hurts us in the long run as we
29:28
Speaker 4: get down the ballot.
29:30
Speaker 2: Well, by the way, Kevin Snyder is on the phone.
29:33
Speaker 2: But Kevin, hang on. We're going to come at you
29:36
Speaker 2: after the break because let's continue to talk about this
29:39
Speaker 2: John Gillespie race, these down ballot races. You know, you
29:43
Speaker 2: and I have worked a lot of campaigns, Brent, and
29:46
Speaker 2: we've seen what happens in those down ballot races when
29:50
Speaker 2: we do not work hard to get our message out.
29:53
Speaker 2: And everybody, a reminder, Election Day is 34 days, 34
29:56
Speaker 2: days off. To victory.
30:00
Speaker 1: Early voting starts in 14 days.
30:03
Speaker 2: The candidate would know that. It's in our DNA.
30:07
Speaker 5: As an undertaker, I encourage everyone to vote early. You
30:10
Speaker 5: just never know.
30:11
Speaker 3: You never know. That's why we have that financial planner
30:14
Speaker 3: here earlier.
30:14
Speaker 5: We're just talking about end of life.
30:16
Speaker 3: That's right.
30:17
Speaker 1: And I'll remind everyone, as a funeral director, the death
30:20
Speaker 1: rate's 100%. And I also remind people, as a funeral
30:23
Speaker 1: director and as a member of Congress, I'll be the
30:25
Speaker 1: last person to ever let you down.
30:27
Speaker 2: Well, I agree to that. Well, ladies and gentlemen, stay
30:30
Speaker 2: with us. We have to take an obscene capitalist break
30:33
Speaker 2: with some commercials, pay the bills. But we are here
30:36
Speaker 2: with State Senator Brent Taylor, candidate for Congress. And we
30:40
Speaker 2: have Kevin Snyder on the phone. We'll get right back
30:42
Speaker 2: to you. Stick around. Good morning, Memphis. You don't need coffee.
30:48
Speaker 2: You have us. Frank Colbert, proud Memphian. Kristen New, proud Germantown.
30:53
Speaker 2: Helen on the board, proud Gen Z. And with us,
30:57
Speaker 2: very special guest, great friend of the program, State Senator
31:01
Speaker 2: Brent Taylor, also candidate for Congress District 9. Let's go
31:05
Speaker 2: straight to the phones. Kevin Snyder has been awesome holding. Kevin,
31:09
Speaker 2: are you there? I am here.
31:11
Speaker 7: I'm driving, so I hope you can hear me well.
31:13
Speaker 7: And thank you for filling in for Todd. I'm a
31:16
Speaker 7: big fan of all three of you.
31:18
Speaker 3: Morning, Kevin.
31:19
Speaker 2: Well, thank you very much. What's on your mind? Well.
31:24
Speaker 7: I think Brent kind of nailed the head of this craziness.
31:28
Speaker 7: I mean, we literally, for lack of a good term,
31:32
Speaker 7: have lunatics running in the Democratic Party right now, or
31:36
Speaker 7: this new Democratic Party, if you will. I mean, you've got,
31:39
Speaker 7: you know, this Justin Pearson guy hanging out with somebody
31:44
Speaker 7: named Pike who thinks America deserved 9-11. And more recently,
31:49
Speaker 7: you have Jerry Green embracing my favorite Democrat Minnesota governor
31:53
Speaker 7: tampons him. I mean, they're not even hiding it anymore.
31:57
Speaker 7: They want to turn Tennessee into a socialist society of lawlessness.
32:03
Speaker 7: It's insane. And Republicans, I think, have got to pay
32:07
Speaker 7: attention to this and turn out. They're not even hiding
32:10
Speaker 7: it anymore. You've got to turn out. I mean, where
32:13
Speaker 7: I live in Fayette County, we had record turnouts, and
32:16
Speaker 7: we expect it to even be more this year. But
32:19
Speaker 7: the suburbs of Shelby County, come on. You've got to
32:22
Speaker 7: get out and vote.
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Speaker 5: That's right, Kevin.
32:29
Speaker 1: You touched on it, and that is, look, the way
32:33
Speaker 1: Democrat Socialist Justin Pearson wins, he does not win by
32:37
Speaker 1: convincing a Republican to leave me and go vote for him.
32:41
Speaker 1: There's no Republican that's going to leave and go vote
32:44
Speaker 1: for a Democrat Socialist. there are no undecideds in this race.
32:49
Speaker 1: The choice is clear. It's either competence or chaos. It's
32:53
Speaker 1: either common sense or communism. And people recognize that. So
32:57
Speaker 1: there are no undecideds that are going to go his way.
32:59
Speaker 1: But let me tell you how Democrat socialist Justin Pearson wins.
33:02
Speaker 1: He wins by turning out the vote in Shelby County
33:07
Speaker 1: because he's going to whip them into a frenzy over
33:11
Speaker 1: the fact that the redistricting occurred and somehow that was
33:14
Speaker 1: a racist thing. and our voters stay home. And they're
33:19
Speaker 1: upset at high gas prices, they're upset at inflation, and
33:23
Speaker 1: they stay home. But look, the reason they need to
33:25
Speaker 1: turn out is we need to bring inflation down. And
33:29
Speaker 1: I have created jobs, I've been a business owner, I've
33:32
Speaker 1: created jobs. Democrat socialist Justin Pearson, as far as I know,
33:36
Speaker 1: has never even had a job. And we can't entrust
33:39
Speaker 1: him with how to fix the economy and how to
33:42
Speaker 1: bring inflation down. I think there are three ways we
33:44
Speaker 1: can do that. One is we cut wasteful Washington spending.
33:48
Speaker 1: I have a track record in the state Senate. I
33:50
Speaker 1: sponsored the legislation that got the audit done here at
33:54
Speaker 1: the Memphis Shelby County School System where they identified over
33:56
Speaker 1: $ 120 million in waste, fraud, and abuse. I voted for that.
34:01
Speaker 1: I sponsored it. Democrat Socialist Justin Pearson voted against it.
34:05
Speaker 1: The other thing we need to do is we need
34:07
Speaker 1: to unleash American energy. In the state Senate, I voted
34:10
Speaker 1: for the Tennessee Freedom Energy Act, and my opponent voted
34:14
Speaker 1: against it. My opponent also stopped a pipeline that had
34:18
Speaker 1: that pipeline, the Byhalia pipeline, been put in place. We'd
34:21
Speaker 1: still have high gas prices, but they wouldn't be as
34:24
Speaker 1: high as they were because it would have allowed Valero
34:26
Speaker 1: Refining Company here in Memphis to get cheaper oil to
34:31
Speaker 1: be able to refine for gasoline. Then the third thing
34:34
Speaker 1: we need to do is we need to cut regulation
34:37
Speaker 1: on our family farms and small businesses. In the state Senate,
34:41
Speaker 1: I sponsored the Tennessee Regulatory Freedom Act. My opponent voted
34:45
Speaker 1: against it. So at every turn, when Democrat Socialist Justin
34:49
Speaker 1: Pearson had the opportunity to vote on legislation that would
34:52
Speaker 1: have kept prices down in Tennessee, he voted the other way.
34:56
Speaker 1: I have a track record of bringing prices down for Tennesseans.
35:00
Speaker 1: I want to take that track record and go to Congress.
35:03
Speaker 1: But we can't do that if our voters stay at
35:05
Speaker 1: home and we've got to get our voters out to vote.
35:08
Speaker 2: Well, Brent, a businessman going into government You're setting out
35:14
Speaker 2: your agenda. You're setting out your goals. The goals are
35:18
Speaker 2: for everyone and a better life. You know, my wife
35:21
Speaker 2: and I, we're filling our cars up. We're freaking out.
35:24
Speaker 2: And yet, we've taught our listeners and worked with our
35:28
Speaker 2: listeners the last several days about why prices are high, okay?
35:33
Speaker 2: But they were higher for longer under Joe Biden. Joe
35:37
Speaker 2: Biden stopped the Keystone Pipeline. Joe Biden stopped drilling offshore.
35:43
Speaker 2: Democratic Socialist Justin Pearson wants to do the same thing.
35:47
Speaker 2: I doubt he has a plan other than saying Dems good,
35:52
Speaker 2: Republicans bad. Now, this is a Republican district now, at
35:58
Speaker 2: least marginally. He's wanting to debate Now, walk me through this.
36:04
Speaker 2: How could you possibly be more different? What's the point
36:06
Speaker 2: of a debate?
36:07
Speaker 1: Well, you're exactly right. Everybody knows what the contrast is.
36:12
Speaker 1: The reason you debate is to create contrast so that
36:15
Speaker 1: the voters can choose between one candidate and the other.
36:19
Speaker 1: The contrast is clear. It's either competence or chaos. And
36:22
Speaker 1: the other thing I'll say is. I don't share the
36:24
Speaker 1: debate stage with anybody that goes nose-to-nose with law enforcement
36:29
Speaker 1: and calls them a stupid MF-er or an MF-boy.
36:33
Speaker 5: I'm not going to do that.
36:34
Speaker 2: That's exactly the point. The contrast couldn't be better, couldn't
36:37
Speaker 2: be more distinct. State Senator Brent Taylor running for Congress.