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Kristen New filling in for Todd Starnes while he is out in Georgia! · 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. I am Kristen New, and I am
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  Speaker 2: filling in the Principal Toyota Memphis studio for Todd Starnes today.
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  Speaker 2: Todd is on his book tour, and I always make
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  Speaker 2: fun of Todd when he is out on his book tour,
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  Speaker 2: living that bougie life, going to restaurants. He sends me
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  Speaker 2: pictures of all the places that he goes, and it
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  Speaker 2: is so nice. But he is promoting his book. The
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  Speaker 2: Golden Age, How Trump Saved America. And I am here
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  Speaker 2: with Helen. Hi, Helen.
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  Speaker 3: I'm here, and I get to promote that I'm on page, what,
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  Speaker 3: 293 of the book? So buy it so you can
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  Speaker 3: see my name featured. I think you're featured.
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  Speaker 2: I am featured. You know, that is not why I
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  Speaker 2: love this book. Yes, it is. Yes, it is. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: it is. So, no, this book is super cool. What
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  Speaker 2: I love about this book that Trump wrote is that
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  Speaker 2: he actually wrote it. He doesn't use ghostwriters or anything.
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  Speaker 2: And you know he did because when you read this book, Helen,
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  Speaker 2: you can hear his voice come through the pages.
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  Speaker 4: It's true. You hear Jeeza Lou coming out.
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  Speaker 2: You cannot read this book without doing it in Todd's voice.
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  Speaker 2: But it is a great Christmas gift for the person
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  Speaker 2: who has everything. They probably don't have a signed copy
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  Speaker 2: of The Golden Age, How Trump Saved America by Todd Starnes.
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  Speaker 2: So you can pick that up and you can get that.
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  Speaker 2: So Trump, Trump, Trump, Todd is going from city to
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  Speaker 2: city all over the U.S. promoting the book. And while
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  Speaker 2: he does that, we are happy to fill in for him.
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  Speaker 2: So you get me, Kristen New, and you get Helen
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  Speaker 2: here in the studio today. Last night, though, for all
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  Speaker 2: the baseball fans, we have the Brewers versus the Rays.
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  Speaker 2: And the Brewers are up three in that series. as
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  Speaker 2: they annihilated the Rays 10-1 last night. So we're going
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  Speaker 2: to see how that works out in the World Series.
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  Speaker 2: And also last night, there was a party in the SIP.
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  Speaker 2: We had Trump going to Corinth, Mississippi.
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  Speaker 4: I don't think I've heard it called the SIP before.
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  Speaker 2: You haven't? Maybe you're not from around here. Yes, it
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  Speaker 2: is the zip. Trump went to Corinth, Mississippi. And did
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  Speaker 2: anybody go? That's what I want to know. Did anybody
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  Speaker 2: attend that rally? I would like to hear if you did.
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  Speaker 2: How was it? He flew into Memphis. So he flew
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  Speaker 2: into Memphis on Air Force One and then he took
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  Speaker 2: a helicopter ride over to Corinth. So another way you
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  Speaker 2: could have maybe caught a glimpse of Trump or even
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  Speaker 2: the beautiful Air Force One. is if you were down
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  Speaker 2: by the airport, and I've seen pictures online of people
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  Speaker 2: who were down by the airport trying to get a
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  Speaker 2: glimpse of Trump and of the beautiful plane, and so
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  Speaker 2: they took some pictures. But if you did that, if
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  Speaker 2: you were at the airport or if you were at
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  Speaker 2: the rally, then I would love to hear about your experience.
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  Speaker 2: You can call in. Our number is 901-260-5926. So let's
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  Speaker 2: talk about this rally. Trump... Trump is kind of cracking
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  Speaker 2: me up on these rallies lately. He's doing something a
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  Speaker 2: little different. He's talking about people's looks. And Trump has
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  Speaker 2: always done that. I mean, we know what he said
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  Speaker 2: about Rosie O'Donnell and stuff like that. But he's doing
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  Speaker 2: something kind of strange and different. Let me take you
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  Speaker 2: to a cut. Let's go to cut 22 and give
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  Speaker 2: you an example of what I'm talking about.
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  Speaker 5: And with a very good friend of mine, really a
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  Speaker 5: great senator, a great person, frankly, but a great senator,
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  Speaker 5: Tim Sheehy and Kurt Allman. I wish Tim didn't look
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  Speaker 5: that good. You know, he's a very handsome guy. I
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  Speaker 5: don't like handsome guys. I never like handsome men.
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  Speaker 2: So I don't know, Helen, what do you think about that?
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  Speaker 2: What do you think about Trump talking about senators' looks
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  Speaker 2: instead of maybe their records.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe, maybe we're deflecting a little, you know?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So I, you know, I was talking, you know, going
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  Speaker 2: through this last night and I, I kind of get
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  Speaker 2: lost in the, I, I still call it the Twitterverse.
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  Speaker 2: I am old. I know it's X, but I go
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  Speaker 2: down these rabbit holes on X and, and some of
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  Speaker 2: the comments I find are very interesting. When Trump talks
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  Speaker 2: about somebody's looks and, It's, you know, like Helen, like
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  Speaker 2: if somebody's going to introduce you and you're a woman,
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  Speaker 2: so it's aren't you right? We're all very.
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  Speaker 4: I am a woman.
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  Speaker 2: We're very, very sure of that. When somebody introduces you
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  Speaker 2: and talks to you and all they talk about is
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  Speaker 2: what you look like, but they don't talk about your record,
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  Speaker 2: especially if you're a politician, your record, things that you've done,
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  Speaker 2: how smart you are, how savvy you are. None of
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  Speaker 2: that is mentioned is very superficial. So there's kind of
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  Speaker 2: this rabbit hole that I went down that maybe Trump
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  Speaker 2: is calling these people superficial. And he said this in Topeka, Kansas,
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  Speaker 2: and it got my spidey senses tingling when he called
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  Speaker 2: them central casting. And I thought that was very interesting
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  Speaker 2: use of verbiage there to call people in office central
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  Speaker 2: casting as if they are all nothing but a bunch
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  Speaker 2: of actors. And sometimes I do feel that way about
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  Speaker 2: some of our politicians. When you elect somebody into office
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  Speaker 2: and they have promised these things, they have come off
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  Speaker 2: as a genuine representative of your needs, of your community,
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  Speaker 2: and then they go off the rails. Why is that?
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  Speaker 2: Why do you think so many politicians just kind of
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  Speaker 2: go off the rails? I don't know what it is.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and we do that, you know, in our regular
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  Speaker 3: day-to-day lives, too, when we talk about people, because we
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  Speaker 3: did that with our college roommate. She would do something
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  Speaker 3: kind of crazy, and then we'd have to be like,
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  Speaker 3: you're so pretty.
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  Speaker 4: At least you have that going for you.
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  Speaker 2: At least you're pretty. At least you're going to get
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  Speaker 2: your MRS.
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  Speaker 4: Exactly, exactly.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so, like, it's kind of like a thing. Maybe,
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  Speaker 2: maybe that's a thing. I don't know. What do y'all think?
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  Speaker 2: It's Is Trump trying to almost tell you who these
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  Speaker 2: people are, that maybe they're not as genuine as they
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  Speaker 2: say they are? Or maybe he just wants to talk
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  Speaker 2: about looks. We can go to cut 17.
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  Speaker 5: So now I say it's my fifth favorite. Thank you.
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  Speaker 5: I love you too, darling.
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  Speaker 1: I have no idea where you are, but you sound
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  Speaker 1: good to me.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, there she is.
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  Speaker 2: I do love you, actually.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 3: Wow.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I'll get myself into political trouble.
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  Speaker 1: They have beautiful.
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  Speaker 5: Women in Mississippi, I can tell you. We're all in trouble.
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  Speaker 2: Look at these women, they're standing up. We love you, Donald.
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  Speaker 5: We love you. They're so beautiful. It's crazy. But you know,
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  Speaker 5: you're not allowed to say, I'm not allowed to say that.
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  Speaker 1: A woman's beautiful because that's usually the end of.
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  Speaker 5: Your political career. So I will not say it. Excuse
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  Speaker 5: me for saying that, you beautiful darling.
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  Speaker 2: I hope you weren't insulted.
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  Speaker 5: It's how crazy, how crazy is the world?
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  Speaker 2: Trump is down a little horse there. He sounds like
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  Speaker 2: he's about to lose his voice. But I kind of
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  Speaker 2: have to agree with him on that. I think that
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  Speaker 2: Southern women are pretty. And I think that Southern Republican
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  Speaker 2: women are prettier. So I don't take offense to that.
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  Speaker 2: And that might be more of a conversation that you
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  Speaker 2: can have that for some reason, women in this day
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  Speaker 2: and age get triggered. If a man says, you're a
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  Speaker 2: nice looking woman, you're a beautiful woman. They're like, oh
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  Speaker 2: my God, oh my God, you said something about my looks. Ew.
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  Speaker 2: But then if you don't say it, then they're like, well, what,
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  Speaker 2: you don't think I'm pretty? You don't. think i'm nice
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  Speaker 2: looking and have that.
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  Speaker 3: I do that to my fiance like if he's like
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  Speaker 3: you're you just you're so funny i'm like but i'm
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  Speaker 3: not pretty.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not pretty like what's wrong.
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  Speaker 3: Well you're you're pretty and i'm like so i have
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  Speaker 3: no personality so you just i just do it to
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  Speaker 3: you know you just can't win.
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  Speaker 2: And then how many women i mean literally they go
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  Speaker 2: online they post these pictures looking for clickbait so i
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  Speaker 2: don't think that women can really get offended by that
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  Speaker 2: especially in this day and age when everybody is online,
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  Speaker 2: everybody posts pictures, everybody's fishing for compliments. Trump gives you
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  Speaker 2: a compliment and then all of a sudden online, everybody's
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  Speaker 2: mad about it. It's like, what do you want? What
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  Speaker 2: do you want? So who knows what Trump is doing?
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  Speaker 2: I think only Trump knows what Trump is doing half
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  Speaker 2: the time. But I do love that he is going
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  Speaker 2: to these rallies. It is interesting that he is in Mississippi,
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  Speaker 2: considering that that is pretty much a red stronghold state.
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  Speaker 2: So there might be some things that he knows about
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  Speaker 2: Mississippi that maybe we don't know. So I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: But I want to kind of transition to Helen a
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  Speaker 2: little bit because, Helen, you're getting married.
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  Speaker 3: I am.
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  Speaker 2: You're getting married. That's so great. But I want to
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  Speaker 2: ask you a question because it seems to be an
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  Speaker 2: important question that we need to ask these days. And
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  Speaker 2: that is, can you confirm, Helen, that you are not
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  Speaker 2: marrying your brother?
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  Speaker 4: I can confirm I'm not marrying my brother.
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  Speaker 5: You see how easy that was?
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  Speaker 4: We are not related in any way.
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  Speaker 2: You see how easy that was. Why is it, though,
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  Speaker 2: when Ilhan Omar was asked the same question, she could
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  Speaker 2: not answer it straightforward? She danced around it. She's like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: that's so crazy that you would ask me. And I
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  Speaker 2: don't know, not to my knowledge, he's not my brother.
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  Speaker 2: Who says?
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  Speaker 3: She has to go on one of those heritage sites
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  Speaker 3: just to figure it out. Like, no, you either know
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  Speaker 3: or you don't.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he either is or he isn't. And, you know,
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  Speaker 2: now we're finding out that her name isn't even Ilhan Omar.
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  Speaker 2: It's like Ilhan Sir Said Elmi or something. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: say that five times faster. But, you know, we laugh
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  Speaker 2: about this and we find it to be a funny,
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  Speaker 2: entertaining story because it is. But it actually has some
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  Speaker 2: various serious consequences because if she is not who she
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  Speaker 2: says she is, and they have apparently found all of
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  Speaker 2: this in this raid that they did at her house
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  Speaker 2: where they took phones and boxes from her house and
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  Speaker 2: they even took her DNA. So they know. They know
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  Speaker 2: what's going on. But it raises a question about if
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  Speaker 2: you're not who you say you are and you're signing
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  Speaker 2: legal documents and you are taking votes on the floor
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  Speaker 2: and you are sponsoring bills and you are doing it
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  Speaker 2: under a false name, what happens when all of that
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  Speaker 2: is found out? What happens to all of those bills
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  Speaker 2: that you sponsored? What happens to all those votes that
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  Speaker 2: you cast? What happens to all of those legal documents
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  Speaker 2: that you signed? So that is a question that... That
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  Speaker 2: is really getting raised here. And, excuse me, Ileana Omar
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  Speaker 2: isn't the only one that probably is doing this fraud.
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  Speaker 4: That's definitely true.
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  Speaker 2: I find that they kind of go off after the
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  Speaker 2: little dogs first in order to get to the big dogs. Yep.
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  Speaker 2: And so the question remains is, who else isn't who
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  Speaker 2: that they say they are? And like I said, I
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  Speaker 2: go down these Twitterverse rabbit holes. And some of the
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  Speaker 2: speculation that's going on is that all roads lead to Obama.
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  Speaker 2: So what do you think about that, Helen?
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  Speaker 4: I definitely can see that being true as well.
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  Speaker 2: There's been speculation for years and years and years. And
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  Speaker 2: of course, everybody was called a conspiracy theorist that maybe
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  Speaker 2: some of these people aren't who they say they are.
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  Speaker 2: And maybe their pasts aren't what they're saying that they are.
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  Speaker 2: And maybe their documents aren't as ironclad as they could be.
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  Speaker 2: But that also raises a question. And the question is,
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  Speaker 2: should foreign-born citizens be allowed to serve in Congress or
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  Speaker 2: other high-level federal offices? Because if you have people like
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  Speaker 2: Ilhan Omar or the squad, and they claim allegiance basically
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  Speaker 2: to a foreign nation, but they hold office in the U.S. government,
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  Speaker 2: then that seems to be a problem to me because
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  Speaker 2: you've got to think about Congress and how much power
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  Speaker 2: that they hold. They hold the purse strings, right? They
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  Speaker 2: can impeach a president. They pass laws, and what is really,
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  Speaker 2: really important these days are the judges. And they can
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  Speaker 2: appoint judges, and they also can pack the Supreme Court.
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  Speaker 2: So if you have any opinions on that, you can
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  Speaker 2: give us a call. We are going to have to
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  Speaker 2: cut this a little short and cut to a break
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  Speaker 2: real quick. I could talk about this literally for hours,
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  Speaker 2: literally for hours, about all the things that I read
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  Speaker 2: on X all the time and all these rabbit holes
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  Speaker 2: that I go down. But I do want to ask
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  Speaker 2: that question because I think it is a problem. I
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  Speaker 2: think it's something that we need to address as a
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  Speaker 2: nation about people who are not born here. We can't
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  Speaker 2: you can't be president if you're not a natural born citizen.
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  Speaker 2: And so why is it somebody who holds a security
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  Speaker 2: clearance while they can be? And actually, and on all
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  Speaker 2: intents and purposes, the Congress has a whole lot of power,
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  Speaker 2: even more than a president. I mean, they can get
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  Speaker 2: rid of the president. They can impeach the president. So
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  Speaker 2: that that's something that's really alarming and concerning. So anyway,
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  Speaker 2: think about that. See if you guys want to call in.
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  Speaker 2: And then we have to get to traffic in weather
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  Speaker 2: and we have to go cut to Commander Chuck. So
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  Speaker 2: we will see you after the break. All right. You're
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  Speaker 2: back in studio, the principal Toyota studio with Kristen new.
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  Speaker 2: And we have Helen in the studio with me as well.
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  Speaker 2: And we are talking about elections and we are in
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  Speaker 2: early voting. We are a week out. I mean, I
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  Speaker 2: can't even believe it. We are a week out from midterms,
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  Speaker 2: and I feel like it's coming up so fast, but
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  Speaker 2: then I also feel like it's taking forever. I'm just like, ugh.
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  Speaker 2: Because I've been out at early voting every single day,
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  Speaker 2: working the polls out there and trying to get our
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  Speaker 2: Republicans elected. Helen, have you voted yet?
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  Speaker 4: I actually voted yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: Ooh, how was that?
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  Speaker 3: It was good, but I think I went during the
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  Speaker 3: lunch rush, which I wanted to avoid because and I
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  Speaker 3: hadn't eaten lunch yet, so I was hungry.
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  Speaker 2: She was hangry.
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  Speaker 3: Everybody behind me could hear my stomach grumbling, and I'm like,
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  Speaker 3: this is embarrassing.
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  Speaker 4: Please just let me go and vote.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so I am out there. One of my jobs
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  Speaker 2: is I am the District 83 Republican Party representative, and
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  Speaker 2: so that covers Germantown. So I am out there at
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  Speaker 2: the New Bethel Church in Germantown every single day promoting candidates,
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  Speaker 2: promoting Republican candidates. And I got to tell you, people
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  Speaker 2: watching out there at the poll is a varsity level sport.
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  Speaker 2: It is so cool to watch people. I think I
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  Speaker 2: could probably write a thesis paper on behavior, you know,
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  Speaker 2: people that go through these, these gauntlets. We call it
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  Speaker 2: the gauntlet and we leveling call it the gauntlet because
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  Speaker 2: the way New Bethel is set up and it's the
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  Speaker 2: same at a ATOP, which is Anointing Temple of Praise.
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  Speaker 2: But I call it Anointing Temple of Democrats because that's
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  Speaker 2: all who votes there. So you have this this hundred
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  Speaker 2: foot radius drawn around the entrance of the building. But
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  Speaker 2: in order to get to those entrances, you have to
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  Speaker 2: go through all of the candidates that line up. And
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  Speaker 2: there are certain some people love that and some people don't.
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  Speaker 2: So so did you have a gauntlet where you were at?
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  Speaker 2: You don't have a gauntlet.
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  Speaker 4: No, I went to.
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  Speaker 3: The white station church and that there was nobody there.
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  Speaker 3: Now I sometimes would be okay with people approaching me,
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  Speaker 3: but I basically knew who I was voting for and
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  Speaker 3: you know what I was doing. So I didn't know
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  Speaker 3: if I would have wanted to be stopped, but it
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  Speaker 3: really depends on the mood.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Some people like ran through really fast and they're like,
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  Speaker 2: don't talk to me, don't talk to me. And then
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  Speaker 2: some people stop and they actually want to talk. And
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  Speaker 2: the beauty of being out in Germantown is, is that
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  Speaker 2: you have every single candidate in Germantown out there all day,
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  Speaker 2: every day, answering questions, asking for your vote. And I
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  Speaker 2: think that's something, I think it's special that we can
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  Speaker 2: be that close to our representatives because they are supposed
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  Speaker 2: to be representing us and they are supposed to be
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  Speaker 2: listening to us. So I think that's really, really awesome.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to have to cut again to weather and
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  Speaker 2: traffic with Laura Huckabee. But when we come back, we're
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  Speaker 2: going to talk to Justin Johnson. And Justin Johnson has
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  Speaker 2: been really good about getting these numbers. So he is
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  Speaker 2: going to talk to us about who is voting, where
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  Speaker 2: the high numbers are, and what that means, and why
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  Speaker 2: we have the turnout the way that it is. So
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  Speaker 2: stick with us, come back, and we will get Justin
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  Speaker 2: Johnson on the line to talk to us about all
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  Speaker 2: of that. All right, we're back. If you're just now
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  Speaker 2: joining us, I am Kristen New. I am filling in
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  Speaker 2: for Todd Starnes this morning as he goes on his
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  Speaker 2: book tour. I believe he's in Georgia today, and you
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  Speaker 2: are joining us in the Principal Toyota Memphis studio. I
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  Speaker 2: have on the line Justin Johnson, and I want to
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: get into the numbers with Justin because he's been following
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: these elections very closely. Justin, you're on with Helen and Kristen.
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: How are you?
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: Hey, good morning, Kristen. Yeah, I've been trying to look
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: at the numbers every day, really see where we're at
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: in Shelby County, but also look at where we're at
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: in Tennessee. And I'm happy to report that we're above
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: our 2,000. numbers.
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: Oh, we are? Because I read. No, no, no, my bad.
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: Sorry, sorry. We're above our 2022 numbers. We haven't hit
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: our 2018 numbers yet.
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: Correct.
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah. So I was reading about that, the 2018 numbers
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: that we are not too terribly far behind, but we
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: do have a little bit of work that we need
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: to do. So tell us about the suburbs. Tell us
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: about whether you think the Democrats are voting or are
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: these Republicans coming out to the polls? What do you think?
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: I know it's hard to tell.
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so this is a general election, so nobody's pulling
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: a primary ballot. So we really can't see who's voting
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: Republican or Democrat. But I will tell you, the canary
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: in the coal mine for me is Davidson County. Davidson County,
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: that's Nashville if you're not familiar with it, is one
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: of your bluest counties in Tennessee ever. And they're almost
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: at 100 percent– I can't even talk about voting. Like
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: they're getting out to vote in Davidson County. It's like
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: out of all the counties in Tennessee, Shelby County has
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: the largest turnout, and Davidson County is right behind that.
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: So if I'm a Republican. I don't think we're going to,
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: we're going to lose, but you know, the canary in
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: the coal mine, your top two performing counties in the
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: state of Tennessee are Shelby County and Davidson County is your.
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: Blue, your blue counties, your blue counties. And, um, so what,
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: Bringing that back local to Shelby County, what are you
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: seeing just in our local turnout versus the city versus
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: the suburbs?
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so Memphis, which has the lowest turnout of all
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: the municipalities, Germantown has your highest turnout, and I believe,
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: I don't have it right in front of me, but
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: I believe Collierville is right behind. So you're seeing higher
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: turnout in the you know, suburbs in Shelby County. But
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: that's expected because they all have municipal races, which you
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: have candidates that are sending out text messages. You know,
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: they're campaigning. They're doing all the things you're supposed to
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: be doing to get voters out. Yeah.
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: So that's important. So we're talking about municipal races. And
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: we know, Justin, and we have we have preached this
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: to the Republican Party over and over again, that competition
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: breeds turnout. And so when you have municipal races where
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: you have multiple people running for mayor, multiple people running
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: for alderman, and now you have partisan school board races
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: and you have multiple people running for those positions, it
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: is not a surprise to me or you that turnout
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: is higher out in the suburbs because of that. You
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: live out in Collierville. I am working the polls out
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: in Germantown, and I can tell you that they are busy.
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: It's one of the busiest gauntlets that I have seen
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: and I have worked. And like I said, I don't
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: know if these are Republican or Democrat in Germantown because
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: Germantown is about 50-50. And I know people don't believe
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: me when I say that, but it is true. Germantown,
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: it leans Republican, but with every cycle, election cycle, it's
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: getting more and more blue. And then Collierville, what do
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: you think about Collierville?
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: I mean, Collierville is still about 70% Republican. Collierville is
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: going to be your reddest area of Shelby County, and
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: they've had consistently good turnout, but your highest place for
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: turnout is going to be Anointed, Temple, Appraise, and Southeast
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: Shelby County. I mean, Justin Pearson's pretty much camped out
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: up there. I don't think you could find a Republican
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: on your good day. I think last time I pulled
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: the data for August, that only 3% voted Republican at ATOP.
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: So New Bethel is right behind it. But, you know,
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: Germantown is as purple as you can get. Germantown isn't
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: consistently red placed anymore. So if you're Republicans, like this
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: is our last week. If you haven't voted, we should
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: all be worried because we should be worried about our
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: down ballot elections because Democrats are organized. They're calling people.
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: They're doing all the hard, you know, grassroots work where
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: really I'm not seeing it on Republicans on our side.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: We're just not. And so that could hurt down ballot
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: elections like your state rep or your state senators. You know,
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: some people say, oh, well, we're going to win the governor. OK,
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: you win the governor, but you might lose your your
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: Tennessee House representative, our Tennessee state senator representative. And these
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: different parts of Tennessee, because the Democrats are mad about
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: redistricting and they're getting people out to vote all across Tennessee.
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: So that redistricting, let's talk about that. Do you think
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: that's what you think that's what's driving votes is this
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: new District 9 that they did with Brent Taylor and
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: Justin Johnson? You have Justin Johnson camped out here in
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: Shelby County. But I mean, sorry, you're Justin Johnson, Justin Pearson.
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: Too many Justins. Camped out, and he's really concentrating in
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: Shelby County, and he'll probably win Shelby County based on
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: the numbers. But what do you think about how is
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: he going to fare in these other counties who are
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: much redder than Shelby County?
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: So I've said this from the beginning. Justin Peterson can't win.
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: He knows he can't win. He lives in Congressional District 5,
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: which he didn't run in. And I think he knows
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: he couldn't win the way the district is drawn. But
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: Justin Pearson is campaigning for the future of the Democrat Party.
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: That's what Democrats understand better than Republicans. It's not always
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: about winning the elections. It's about rallying your base and
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: building it for the future. And that's what he's doing.
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: I mean, last night, Justin Pearson was in Shelby County,
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: I believe, and he had Joy Reid down here from
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: MSNBC doing a live feed in here. So they're bringing
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: all the big, heavy hitters. And he's got more campaign
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: money out of– out of Congressional District 9. He's doing
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: a lot of money in this race, but he's doing
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: the National Democrats a favor by running in this race
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: and building for the future of Democrats.
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: I agree. And the fact that they're pulling out the
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: big dogs and they're bringing all of these people in,
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: like Joy Reid, to stump for him, that's a scary
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: thought here in Tennessee. And I think that the Republicans
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: need to get off of their hineys and get to
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: the polls and We have two very red, red districts,
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: and that is Collierville and Bartlett. And the Republican Party
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: needs to be wooing those conservatives and get them to
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: the polls. But like you said, we're not really doing that.
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: And I don't know why the Republican Party time and
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: time again ignores their base. Go ahead.
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so it's what Trump understood when he had to
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: win in 2024, and you were part of this, Chris,
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: and you know this. The Republican Party to win has
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: to be the big tent party. That means you have
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: the country club people, which is predominantly the Republican Party,
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: and you have the Walmart people like us, which they
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: don't necessarily always like. You have to have– those people
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: have to have a place in your party, the MAGA,
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: not just the George Bush Republicans. We all have to
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: fit in the same tent and work together. Because the
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: Democrats right now, they're getting all the different factions. They
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: got a moderate Chas Mulder to a socialist Justin Pearson.
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: And I'm telling you, he is a silver-tongued... moderate. He
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: is killing it on the stage now. Like we said
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: with Ilhan Omar, I don't think he's who he says
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: he is. Now, I think he is Chaz Mulder, but
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: I don't think he is as moderate as he says
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: he is. But he is playing that game so well.
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: He is central casting to a T. Like he is.
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Virginia governor, she campaigned as a moderate and first
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: thing she went and got in office is she was
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: talking about taking all your guns away and Like all
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: your typical progressive talking points came out after the election.
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: So they're really good at lying.
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: They are super good at lying. And that's what the
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: Republicans need to be careful of is don't sit there
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: and believe a Democrat is on your side.
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: I'd like to say that's why I moved away from Virginia.
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: But it was for a job. But that's where I was.
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: I left right after the election. I voted. I saw it.
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: And then I left.
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: Oh, Virginia, you know, it's a beautiful state, but such
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: a disappointment in all of that. And so we are
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: going to have to somehow figure out the game that
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: the Democrats have already figured out. And that is. Go ahead.
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: I will tell you, this is the biggest thing that's
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: pushing is because you have a three way race between
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: your governor right now, between independent David Hadley, Republican Marshall
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: Blackburn and Democrat Jerry Green. And really, it's between David
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: Hadley and Marshall Blackburn right now, because watching TV last night,
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: I see an ad for David Hadley, then I see
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: an attacked ad.
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah.
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: Marshall Blackman's campaign has already thrown $ 6 million in attacking
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: this guy. So that's really pushing out the vote. It's
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: really not Republican versus Democrat. It's really independent versus Republican
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: nominee in Tennessee. And that's resonating, I think, across the
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: state with turnout. Typically, more your libertarian-leaning, kind of super-conservative.
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: where normally they would sit something out, I think they're
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: showing up and voting. So that's also helping too.
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: Hey, Justin, do you think you can come with, hold
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: on to the next segment? We do need to take
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: a break, but I want to talk about the debate
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: tonight with the Republicans skipping out on that. So if
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: you could just hold on, we're going to switch to
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: traffic and we'll get right back to it. We'll be
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: right back. All right, we are back and we have
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: Justin Johnson on the line. We want to continue the
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: conversation because we do have a debate coming up tonight
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: at MTSU at 7 p.m. And that debate is going
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: to be between Hatley, Green and Pinkston. But where's Waldo?
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: Where's Marsha? So that's what I wanted to ask you, Johnson.
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: What do you think is going on in the Marsha
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: Blackburn campaign and why she was refusing to show up?
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: So I'll say this first off, you know, Charlie Kirk's
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: one of my idols. And Charlie Kirk never, you know,
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: swayed away from a debate or having a good faith
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: argument about, you know, conservative principles and who we are.
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: So Charlie Kirk would not be proud. I think they're
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: running a Joe Biden campaign with... They're hiding Marsha. Yeah.
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: So I'm really disappointed, especially from our Republicans. You know,
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: They usually use this tagline of, well, we're not going
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: to have a debate with somebody for socialism.
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: With socialism. We don't want to share a stage with
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: a socialist. I've heard that.
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: Aren't we supposed to be fighting for our democracy? I
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: know I'm a Marine Corps Iraq veteran. And when those
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: towers fell after 9-11, every young man that could signed up.
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: to fight for this country. And you're telling me you're
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: a politician and you're running as a Republican, as a conservative,
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: and you can't stand on the stage against somebody about
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: socialism and argue and fight back.
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: In fact, Justin, if I'm running for an elected position,
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: that's exactly who I want to stand on the stage with.
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: I want people to— I want to expose them for who
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: they are. I want to talk about all of the issues.
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: I want to get their crazy, radical opinions out there
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: in public, on stage, in front of everybody. But that's
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: who I am.
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we just need to stop being cowards. And I'm
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: a Republican. I'm a bona fide Republican. I know people
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: will challenge that, but— No, you are.
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: You are.
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: I can guarantee you I'm a member of the party.
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: Your record is what it is now. You are a
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: bona fide Republican. So that means you voted in the
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: last three out of four primaries, which makes you eligible
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: to to vote on the leadership of the Republican Party.
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: So I just want to explain to that people what
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: that is and why that matters is because you now
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: can vote to elect new leadership in the party, in
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: the local party. And maybe that's what we need. Maybe
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: we tried to do a Revive 25 situation with Worth Morgan.
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: It worked out for a little while. Unfortunately, he had
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: to step down due to his wife's medical issues. But
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: I feel like we need, maybe Chip Rory is right
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: when he said, We just need to clean house. Everybody
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: probably just needs to lose their positions. And we're almost
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: at a point now, Justin, where I feel like we
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: just need to start over.
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: Well, I personally think that there's a big wing of
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: the Republican Party that hates the whole MAGA America first.
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: I know that's true. Yeah.
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: And they're waiting for, you know, Trump's term to come
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: to an end. And they're going to usher us back
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: in the days of, you know, George Bush and Dick Cheney.
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: Oh, you know the Bushes are waiting in the wings
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: because Trump embarrassed Jeb really badly when he ran. And
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: they are not forgetting that.
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and there's a part of me that thinks that
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: some Republicans want to tank the midterms, like they want
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: this to happen.
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: So you're talking about at the governor level or at
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: all levels?
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: I'm talking about all levels through the United States. They
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: don't necessarily want to for, you know, for us to
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: win the midterms. There is rumors amongst that because they
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: do not like the whole populist movement that Trump brought
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: with him. You know, he brought the whole, you know,
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: Big Ten, everybody, you know, we're going to change everything
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: across America, which he did. And they do not like that.
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: They do not want you to have another populist president
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: on the Republican side like Donald Trump.
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: Unfortunately, I think you might be right. And when we
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: hear when Barack Obama made fun of Trump's ballroom and
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: the White House renovations and he called them the Cheesecake Factory,
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: these people are very out of touch with who we are,
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: because I am telling you right now, the base of America,
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: just in general. The Cheesecake Factory is not cheap. OK,
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: like it is eight dollars for a slice of cheesecake.
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: We we're talking about there's this elitist faction of all
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: all politics, not just Republicans, Democrats and Republicans. And they
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: just don't identify with the majority of America. Yeah.
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: And that's sad because what makes America strong is because
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: we have a strong middle class and slowly that is
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: evaporating across this country. And if we don't promote and
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: have a strong middle class, that's just going to make
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: us a second world country.
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what the socialists want, because they want to
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: be at the top, but they want everybody else at
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: the bottom. And so that is why I think this
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: debate tonight is going to be important. And I wish
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: you would show up. I wish Marsha Blackburn would just
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: show up, unannounced, just show up. And that would be
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: the best thing ever, because I think... Getting to know
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: Laura Pinkston, Jerry Green for who they are. I think
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: Laura Pinkston is also not moderate. I don't think so.
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: I think she's.
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: Laura Pinkston is progressive as she can get. You're just
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: hiding behind the independent level. David Hadley is more of
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: a moderate. He's got some issues in his personal past.
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: And Jerry Green, we all know Jerry Green. We've watched
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: her on the city council. She's as progressive as you
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: can get. But, you know, I think the best debate
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: we're going to get from Marsha is her whole elevator
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: incident when the elevator opened up on her.
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: You know, she is speaking to all Tennesseans and we
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: just need to be OK with that. Well, Justin, I
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: really appreciate you coming on. I am going to have
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: to probably wrap this show up for today. So we
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: do have and I think this conversation probably needs to
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: be be had more often. honestly, because it is an
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: honest conversation the Republican Party needs to hear. There's no
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: way that you can change things, start winning elections if
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: you don't know what's the problem and then do things
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: to correct the problem. So anyway, thank you for coming
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: on and sharing all that. I do invite everybody to
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: join at 11 in his freedom and we'll be filling
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: in for Todd Starnes on his national show. So it
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: should be a great show. We will be back tomorrow.
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: Helen and I will be back tomorrow to fill in
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: for Todd again. So we invite you to come back
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: tomorrow and join us and we hope you enjoyed today
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: and we will be back in the morning.