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Will GOP Convention Rally Disgruntled MAGA Voters? · ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes

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  Speaker 1: From Memphis, Tennessee, it's America's favorite gun-toting, Bible-clinging, deplorable American.
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  Speaker 2: That's us, that's right.
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  Speaker 3: I love this American ride.
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  Speaker 2: Todd Starnes.
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  Speaker 4: All right. Hello, everybody.
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  Speaker 5: Welcome to the Todd Starnes Radio Show. Tonight in Dallas,
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  Speaker 5: the Republican Midterm Convention kicks off, and we have a
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  Speaker 5: jam-packed show. We're going to be taking you live to
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  Speaker 5: the convention. Congressman Andy Harris is expected to be here also.
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  Speaker 5: Congressman Randy Fine will join us in just a little while,
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  Speaker 5: as well as Josh Jones, who is our guy in Dallas.
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  Speaker 5: Josh Jones, our chief political strategist, and he'll be joining
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  Speaker 5: us to give us a preview of what to expect.
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  Speaker 5: President Trump, and by the way, we've got the whole
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  Speaker 5: schedule here, and we'll go through that a little bit later,
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  Speaker 5: but President Trump is going to be speaking both nights
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  Speaker 5: on of the two-night convention. Now, the question is whether
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  Speaker 5: or not this is going to be the remedy for
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  Speaker 5: what is broken with the Republicans right now. You have
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  Speaker 5: a very demoralized Republican base of the party, and you
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  Speaker 5: can pick a number of issues, one of those, of course,
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  Speaker 5: being the war in Iran, the rising gas prices, Grocery
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  Speaker 5: store prices, affordability issues, okay. There are a lot of
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  Speaker 5: things that have really frustrated Republican voters. And, of course,
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  Speaker 5: the do-nothing Congress, which, well, they really haven't done all
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  Speaker 5: that much. Now, Ted Cruz... Should we go ahead and
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  Speaker 5: explain why Ted Cruz is in the news every single day?
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  Speaker 5: Ted Cruz is going to be running for president in 2028.
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  Speaker 5: We'll go ahead and get that out of the way.
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  Speaker 5: But that's why he's on The View today. Why else
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  Speaker 5: would you go on The View other than the fact
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  Speaker 5: that you're running for president? Nobody wants to subject themselves
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  Speaker 5: to that sort of, well, it's sort of like, I
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  Speaker 5: don't know, waterboarding, political waterboarding. So anyway, he's running. That's
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  Speaker 5: all there is to it. We'll get some audio from
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  Speaker 5: The View and from Whoopi. So anyway, Cruz is out
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  Speaker 5: there saying the problem here is really not that the
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  Speaker 5: Republicans haven't done anything. Ted Cruz is out there saying, no, no, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 5: The problem is we're just not conveying our message. We're
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  Speaker 5: not doing a good job of messaging. And that's the
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  Speaker 5: bigger problem here. So we'll get into more of that
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  Speaker 5: with Josh Jones, and maybe he can give us an
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  Speaker 5: idea of what exactly to expect. Here's the problem with this,
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  Speaker 5: and I'm not sure this is going to move the
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  Speaker 5: needle much, and I want to explain why. This is
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  Speaker 5: really meant for a broad audience, but a broad audience
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  Speaker 5: is not going to be watching the next two nights.
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  Speaker 5: This is going to be a very partisan audience. That's
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  Speaker 5: going to be watching this two-night midterm convention. You're not
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  Speaker 5: going to get massive people who normally are not involved
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  Speaker 5: in the political process watching this, and there are a
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  Speaker 5: couple of factors. Number one, you've got competing events. You've
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  Speaker 5: got 9-11. You've got the 25th anniversary of 9-11. You've
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  Speaker 5: got the assassination of Charlie Kirk. which is tomorrow, that
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  Speaker 5: one-year anniversary. That is, what, tomorrow? And then you've got
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  Speaker 5: the NFL kicking off tonight. You have a big game tonight.
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  Speaker 5: So CNN is trying to explain what's going on here,
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  Speaker 5: and I think... A lot of people are saying the
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  Speaker 5: timing is off. This should have been done after 9-11.
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  Speaker 5: Get all of that out of the way. So at
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  Speaker 5: that point, you're focused on the election. But they didn't
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  Speaker 5: do it. The scheduling, for whatever reason, did not work.
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  Speaker 5: And so they have to have it tonight and tomorrow.
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  Speaker 5: Here is CNN cut 29, please.
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  Speaker 6: You know, this idea is so ill-conceived. You can just
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  Speaker 6: see it by the fact that they're doing it when
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  Speaker 6: the football season is starting.
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  Speaker 4: Who does that? My God. And when you look at
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  Speaker 4: the numbers, no, that is not.
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  Speaker 6: The part of the party in which you actually need
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  Speaker 6: to motivate.
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  Speaker 4: You can see this here.
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  Speaker 6: Extremely motivated to vote in the midterm elections. 60% of
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  Speaker 6: Democrats are extremely motivated to vote. 59% of that hardcore
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  Speaker 6: Trump-based MAGA Republicans, 59% of them, the same as the Dems.
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  Speaker 6: The ones who are not motivated to vote are the
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  Speaker 6: non-MAGA Republicans, the people who are far less likely to
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  Speaker 6: approve of Donald Trump, the people who think that Donald
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  Speaker 6: Trump's Republican Party, probably this should be the end of it.
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  Speaker 6: That's where the problem is. So, no, it is not,
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  Speaker 6: in fact, true. The hardcore Republican base that needs that motivation.
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  Speaker 6: It is other folks at this convention simply won't be
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  Speaker 6: reaching because they'll probably be watching football like most Americans.
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  Speaker 6: And if it is a Trumpapalooza, as they're advertising here,
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  Speaker 6: these might be the Republicans least susceptible.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, that's exactly right.
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  Speaker 6: It's like, oh, let's focus in on Donald Trump. But
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  Speaker 6: in fact, the people who are the least motivated to
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  Speaker 6: vote are the folks who are the most likely within
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  Speaker 6: the Republican Party to disapprove of Donald Trump. And in
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  Speaker 6: terms of like possibility for growth among the people voting
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  Speaker 6: in these congressional races, how much is there?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. OK.
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  Speaker 6: So, you know, turnout is one thing that's so important.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 6: In a midterm election, because turnout in midterms is lower
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  Speaker 6: than it is in a presidential year.
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  Speaker 4: But it's also about shifts. Right.
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  Speaker 6: It's also about shifts within the electorate when it comes
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  Speaker 6: to if you were to turn out to vote, who
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  Speaker 6: would you vote for? And the truth is, Republicans don't
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  Speaker 6: need convincing that they should vote for Republican candidates necessarily.
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  Speaker 4: Because take a look here. Dem gains in choice for
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  Speaker 4: the House by party.
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  Speaker 6: This is from 2024 to now, to July of 2026,
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  Speaker 6: the last poll we have. Republicans are voting at the
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  Speaker 6: same level or say they're going to vote at the
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  Speaker 6: same level for Republicans as they did two years ago.
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  Speaker 6: The people that are moving to the left, right, the
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  Speaker 6: people that are moving to the left are the center
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  Speaker 6: of the electorate.
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  Speaker 4: Look at that.
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  Speaker 6: Independence, 12 points more likely to vote for Democrats. How
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  Speaker 6: about Democrats? They're eight points more likely to vote for Democrats.
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  Speaker 6: You know what these two groups share in common, independents
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  Speaker 6: and Democrats? They don't like Donald Trump to a historic
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  Speaker 6: degree at this point. They are not the people who
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  Speaker 6: actually would like that this would be a Trumpapalooza. The
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  Speaker 6: people who would like that it would be a Trumpapalooza
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  Speaker 6: are those MAGA Republicans and Republicans at large. And you
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  Speaker 6: can see is, simply put, they are voting at the
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  Speaker 6: same levels. They don't need to be convinced to vote Republicans.
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  Speaker 6: They already are. The people who need the convincing are
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  Speaker 6: people who don't.
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  Speaker 4: Like Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, well, they actually have a point here. By the way,
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  Speaker 5: you've got what New England and Seattle are playing tonight.
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  Speaker 5: Then you have another NFL game tomorrow night. Then Thursday night,
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  Speaker 5: you've also got college football. I know Miami's playing. So
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  Speaker 5: you're going to have a lot of eyeballs distracted and
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  Speaker 5: going in many different directions. So again, the question is,
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  Speaker 5: who is all of this for? Who are they trying
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  Speaker 5: to rally? Because to CNN's point, if you're a MAGA person, well,
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  Speaker 5: you're going to be watching this. I want to go
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  Speaker 5: through the list of speakers. I think this is interesting. Again,
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  Speaker 5: I'm just looking at who the big names here are.
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  Speaker 5: You've got Congresswoman Monica de la Cruz, Ana Paulina Luna,
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  Speaker 5: Derek Van Orden. Those are members of Congress. Steve Scalise.
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  Speaker 5: Tom Emmer and Michael Watley, who's running for the Senate.
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  Speaker 5: And our understanding is Watley is not doing well right
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  Speaker 5: now in North Carolina. So he's going to need all
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  Speaker 5: the help he can get. You've got Senator John Barrasso.
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  Speaker 5: And that's this evening's first setup. Ken Paxton is going
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  Speaker 5: to be speaking as well. Oh, yeah, he stepped in it.
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  Speaker 5: We'll get to that tweet in just a little while.
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  Speaker 5: But Ken Paxton... is scheduled to speak tonight. Also, Congressman
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  Speaker 5: Brandon Gill. And looking through some of the big, big,
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  Speaker 5: you know, rock star names, not, no, well, Lee Greenwood. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: Lee Greenwood's going to be, you know, no, he's, no,
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  Speaker 5: he's singing God Bless the USA. No, that's what he's
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  Speaker 5: going to say. Not bad to the bone. He's not
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  Speaker 5: doing Freebird. Scott, Besson is speaking, Byron Donalds, and I'm
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  Speaker 5: trying to see here when we've got, oh, Lakin, well,
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  Speaker 5: let's see here, Mike Collins, Congressman Mike Collins. Ladies and gentlemen,
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  Speaker 5: the Wall Street Journal did a piece on Mike Collins,
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  Speaker 5: and I'm just curious from you folks in Georgia, is
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  Speaker 5: it as bad as the Wall Street Journal says it is?
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  Speaker 5: They're concerned, Republicans, according to the Wall Street Journal, Republicans
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  Speaker 5: in Georgia are concerned that Mike Collins is running such
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  Speaker 5: a horrible campaign for the U.S. Senate that he could
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  Speaker 5: bring down the entire party in the state of Georgia.
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  Speaker 5: Then tonight, 8 o'clock, it's Donald J. Trump time. That's
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  Speaker 5: what's happening tonight. So that's your basic lineup this evening,
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  Speaker 5: and it may i just say it's a little ho-hum
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  Speaker 5: right i i know i was kind of i mean
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  Speaker 5: you were expecting maybe something a little bit more i
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  Speaker 5: don't maybe night two maybe they're hauling out the big
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  Speaker 5: guns for night two 901-260-5926. Is this going to move
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  Speaker 5: the needle for you? Are you even going to watch?
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  Speaker 5: 901-260-5926 is our telephone number. And again, we'll check in
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  Speaker 5: with Josh Jones in just a little while. He's going
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  Speaker 5: to be live boots on the ground from Dallas.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 5: I want to play some audio here. This is, again,
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  Speaker 5: from the– well, this is just weird. It really is weird.
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  Speaker 5: The jury in the Lindsay Clancy case, the gals are
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  Speaker 5: starting to speak out. There are nine women on that jury,
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  Speaker 5: and there was one man who was like the holdout.
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  Speaker 5: He was Chuck Norris on that jury, and he did
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  Speaker 5: not budge. Thank the good Lord, he did not budge.
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  Speaker 5: So anyway, they interview some of these female jurors, and
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  Speaker 5: they are everything that you would expect for them to be.
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  Speaker 5: These are woke feminists. These are nurses and schoolteachers, and
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  Speaker 5: they have absolutely no problem with the fact that Lindsay
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  Speaker 5: Clancy murdered her children. As a matter of fact, one
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  Speaker 5: of the jurors, and you're going to hear this, actually
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  Speaker 5: was upset because she said the man, the holdout, we're
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  Speaker 5: going to call him Chuck Norris, Walker, Texas Ranger. She
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  Speaker 5: said the one holdout, Chuck Norris, could not get over
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  Speaker 5: the fact that she brutally killed her three kids. Oh,
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  Speaker 5: my God.
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  Speaker 4: What?
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  Speaker 5: Listen to Cut26.
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  Speaker 7: He was very arrogant.
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  Speaker 8: He really did not take anything that anybody said. The nurses,
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  Speaker 8: he tried to ask a question about the medications, and
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  Speaker 8: we went back to the report from South Shore Hospital.
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  Speaker 8: We had the toxicology report. We could see exactly the amounts.
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  Speaker 8: The nurses in the room spoke to that and talked
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  Speaker 8: to that.
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  Speaker 4: There were nurses on the jury.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 8: And they spoke to that specific thing.
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  Speaker 4: That was a question that he had.
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  Speaker 8: And he just completely disregarded the information that they gave him.
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  Speaker 9: I mean, he had reasonable doubt. He admitted he had
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  Speaker 9: reasonable doubt after we watched that video of the interview.
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  Speaker 9: I think that's when it was. He admitted he had
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  Speaker 9: reasonable doubt, and I started filling out the forms.
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  Speaker 4: I was so excited.
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  Speaker 9: I actually, there were three forms I had to fill out,
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  Speaker 9: and I started filling them out. I wrote my signature
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  Speaker 9: on each one, and then he said, but I'm still
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  Speaker 9: not going to say that she's not guilty by reason
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  Speaker 9: of insanity.
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  Speaker 7: I'm not sure if rogue is the right word, Sue, but.
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  Speaker 7: Every one of us, in the hours of our frustration,
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  Speaker 7: would get up and walk the room. Because you just
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  Speaker 7: couldn't sit anymore. And we'd all go to the cart
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  Speaker 7: with the exhibits. He, I think, got up to the
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  Speaker 7: cart once, very briefly, and went back to his seat.
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  Speaker 7: He would not interact with us and.
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  Speaker 4: Try to understand.
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  Speaker 7: We read to him on numerous occasions the definition of
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  Speaker 7: reasonable doubt from Judge Sullivan's instruction. He actually said one
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  Speaker 7: day in the end, well, why don't we have the
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  Speaker 7: judge come in and read it again? And we were like, no,
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  Speaker 7: we have it in front of us. We don't need that.
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  Speaker 7: And we would highlight it and You know, so-and-so, this
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  Speaker 7: is the definition of reason of death. But he had
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  Speaker 7: the hardest time getting off the fact that Lindsay viciously
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  Speaker 7: killed her children.
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  Speaker 5: Unbelievable that you just heard the woman. Yeah, we tried
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  Speaker 5: to tell him, you know, it's not that big of
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  Speaker 5: a deal. I mean, it was just three kids. And
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  Speaker 5: they were barely alive anyway. When eight months old, it
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  Speaker 5: was just like a really, really late abortion.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, what?
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  Speaker 5: Here's my concern. How many more women are like this
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  Speaker 5: in America who are nurses and schoolteachers? And I'll tell
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  Speaker 5: you right now, whenever I'm in the hospital with the
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  Speaker 5: heart thing, I make sure nobody knows anything about my politics.
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  Speaker 5: I'll even have a little Barack Obama open change sticker
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  Speaker 5: just in case. You know why? Because they're poking me
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  Speaker 5: with needles, and I want to make sure that I
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  Speaker 5: get out of that hospital. But that's scary stuff, ladies
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  Speaker 5: and gentlemen, to know that nurses are now defending a
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  Speaker 5: woman who admitted to killing her children. 901-260-5926 is our
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  Speaker 5: the phone lines, 901-260-5926. Chuck in Memphis, Tennessee, listening to
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  Speaker 5: us on KWAM Radio. Hi, Chuck, what's on your mind?
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  Speaker 10: Hi, Todd. I wanted to ask a question. Was that
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  Speaker 10: jury ever sequestered?
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  Speaker 4: No, sir.
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  Speaker 5: It was, and that was a big issue because they
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  Speaker 5: were sent home over that long weekend, and they were
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  Speaker 5: not sequestered.
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  Speaker 10: Well, I don't know which way that would have impacted
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  Speaker 10: the jury, but I think it would have impacted. We
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  Speaker 10: would either have had another holdout or they would have
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  Speaker 10: come to a decision. I think that was a very
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  Speaker 10: fundamental mistake from that judge.
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  Speaker 5: Chuck, you wonder what sort of a message does this
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  Speaker 5: send to moms? I know we've already had a couple
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  Speaker 5: of copycat murders where moms killing their kids, citing Lindsey Clancy,
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  Speaker 5: but you wonder what kind of a message this sends.
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  Speaker 10: I could never ever give someone, I don't think, a
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  Speaker 10: pass for killing three of their children like that. I mean,
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  Speaker 10: you know, maybe some mercy, maybe a merciful death. You know,
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  Speaker 10: she's going to suffer the rest of her life anyway.
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  Speaker 10: Her life's over. And it would be an act of
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  Speaker 10: mercy to put her to sleep, I think. You know,
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  Speaker 10: that's a little hard, but I mean, you know, we're
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  Speaker 10: coming up on the anniversary of 9-11, I always want
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  Speaker 10: to call it 9-1-1. And if you're in the top
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  Speaker 10: of one of those buildings and your children are about
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  Speaker 10: to burn and you had a revolver or something, maybe
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  Speaker 10: you can see that, you know, if you're going to
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  Speaker 10: keep them from burning alive. But I can't hardly find
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  Speaker 10: anything in my mind that I would come down on
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  Speaker 10: her side for.
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  Speaker 5: Well, yeah, you're not harsh at all. I felt like
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  Speaker 5: as soon as they, you know, once they found her guilty...
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  Speaker 5: She should have been taken right out on the front lawn,
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  Speaker 5: front steps, and justice should have happened at that point. Unfortunately,
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  Speaker 5: in Massachusetts, they don't have the death penalty. That's not
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  Speaker 5: an option there in Massachusetts. But, Chuck, thank you for
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  Speaker 5: the call, and thank you for listening. But, again, when
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  Speaker 5: you listen to these women, and four of them sat
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  Speaker 5: down for an interview— And it's as if they were
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  Speaker 5: striking a blow for womanhood. That was the ultimate goal here.
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  Speaker 5: They had no sympathy for those three children. And you
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  Speaker 5: saw that, you know, a lot of the women that
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  Speaker 5: were marching outside the courthouse, a couple of them were
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  Speaker 5: slinging babies around, and they said, well, you know, that
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  Speaker 5: could have been me. If I'm the kids, I'm looking
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  Speaker 5: for a foster family. That's what I'm doing. Give me
• 19:02
  Speaker 5: the phone book. No, the phone book. That's what we
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  Speaker 5: used to do before Google, Dylan. So you can look
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  Speaker 5: it up. Yellow pages.
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  Speaker 4: 901-260-5926, our number.
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  Speaker 5: This is the Todd Stern Show.
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  Speaker 11: All right.
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  Speaker 5: Welcome back, everybody. This is the Todd Starnes Radio Show.
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  Speaker 5: Toddstarnes.com is our website. We have some great stories for
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  Speaker 5: you to check out. Toddstarnes.com. Real quick, let's go to Dahlonega, Georgia.
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  Speaker 5: Anna is on the line. WDUN, our great affiliate there. Hi, Anna.
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  Speaker 5: What's on your mind today?
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  Speaker 12: Hey, Todd.
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  Speaker 11: I'll make this quick.
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  Speaker 13: Short.
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  Speaker 11: Mercy.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, that was really short. Let's get Anna back. She
• 19:59
  Speaker 5: has a bad phone connection. All right.
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: 901-260-5926.
• 20:07
  Speaker 5: It's only Wednesday. I want to switch gears. We're going
• 20:11
  Speaker 5: to get Anna back, so guys, let me know when
• 20:13
  Speaker 5: that happens. But I want to go to our Patriot
• 20:15
  Speaker 5: Mobile Newsmaker line, our chief political strategist, Josh Jones, joining
• 20:21
  Speaker 5: us from Dallas, Texas. Josh, it's one of those days,
• 20:26
  Speaker 5: my friend.
• 20:26
  Speaker 14: I know.
• 20:28
  Speaker 15: You're telling me it's going to be a chaotic 48 hours.
• 20:31
  Speaker 5: Okay, let's talk about this. So set the scene for us.
• 20:34
  Speaker 5: Where are you, and what are you seeing there in
• 20:37
  Speaker 5: Dallas so far?
• 20:37
  Speaker 15: Yeah, so I've been in Dallas for a couple days now.
• 20:41
  Speaker 15: I was down here for the rehearsals yesterday for the convention,
• 20:45
  Speaker 15: and then we're kicking it off this afternoon. Look, I mean,
• 20:48
  Speaker 15: it's a great setup. Everything looks really good. We have
• 20:51
  Speaker 15: a pretty good lineup of speakers, so it's hard to
• 20:53
  Speaker 15: see what they have to say. But, I mean, there's
• 20:55
  Speaker 15: a lot of enthusiasm, a lot of supporters, obviously, here
• 20:57
  Speaker 15: in Dallas, so it should be a fun time.
• 21:00
  Speaker 5: You're there, you've got candidates. What's the goal here from
• 21:05
  Speaker 5: your vantage point?
• 21:07
  Speaker 15: Look, I think at the end of the day, working
• 21:09
  Speaker 15: with my candidates, and I think the Republican Party as
• 21:11
  Speaker 15: a whole, the goal here is to communicate what the
• 21:14
  Speaker 15: Republican Party has done for the American people over the
• 21:16
  Speaker 15: past two years with the Republican Congress and a Republican president, obviously.
• 21:22
  Speaker 15: And the center focus of this election is affordability. That's
• 21:25
  Speaker 15: what everybody talks about, Republicans and Democrats. And I think
• 21:28
  Speaker 15: particularly tonight but also over the course of the next
• 21:30
  Speaker 15: two days, you're going to see a lot of people
• 21:32
  Speaker 15: talking about affordability, in particular the one big beautiful bill
• 21:36
  Speaker 15: where we eliminated taxes on tips, overtime, Social Security, along
• 21:40
  Speaker 15: with extending the child tax credit and a whole load
• 21:42
  Speaker 15: of other tax benefits for working-class families. So I think
• 21:46
  Speaker 15: that's going to be the spotlight. We'll see what President
• 21:49
  Speaker 15: Trump says tonight. He's speaking both nights, so plenty of
• 21:52
  Speaker 15: prime time for him to take his message to the
• 21:54
  Speaker 15: American people, and we'll see how it resonates.
• 21:59
  Speaker 5: The mood, I don't know if you've had a chance
• 22:01
  Speaker 5: to talk to the Republicans. First of all, do you
• 22:03
  Speaker 5: know if they've sold out the arena tonight? Is there
• 22:05
  Speaker 5: going to be a full house?
• 22:08
  Speaker 16: I don't know, but I would assume so.
• 22:10
  Speaker 15: Based on how many people I'm seeing, I would assume so,
• 22:12
  Speaker 15: but I don't know officially.
• 22:14
  Speaker 5: What is the mood, would you say, of the folks
• 22:17
  Speaker 5: that you've seen there?
• 22:19
  Speaker 15: Look, I mean, the people that are coming to the
• 22:20
  Speaker 15: convention are obviously party people that have been involved in
• 22:25
  Speaker 15: Republican partisan party politics for a long time. But they're
• 22:28
  Speaker 15: enthusiastic about seeing the president and the lineup of the
• 22:31
  Speaker 15: other administration officials. But there's also, you know, I think
• 22:34
  Speaker 15: the reality of, like, this election coming up in November
• 22:37
  Speaker 15: is competitive. It's not like Republicans are just going to,
• 22:39
  Speaker 15: you know, have an easy time this November. So I
• 22:42
  Speaker 15: think people are optimistic, but also realistic. And this is
• 22:46
  Speaker 15: obviously the first time the Republican Party has ever done
• 22:48
  Speaker 15: a midterm convention. So we're kind of breaking new ground
• 22:51
  Speaker 15: here in terms of a political strategy, so to speak,
• 22:53
  Speaker 15: of how this is going to affect the elections.
• 22:56
  Speaker 5: Josh Jones, our political strategist, joining us here on the
• 23:00
  Speaker 5: Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line from Dallas. You know, the other
• 23:04
  Speaker 5: challenge here, I think, is breaking through all the other programming.
• 23:08
  Speaker 5: You've got a big NFL game tonight. You've got, you know,
• 23:11
  Speaker 5: tomorrow with the Charlie Kirk anniversary. You've got 9-11 on Friday.
• 23:17
  Speaker 5: What is it going to take to really break through
• 23:19
  Speaker 5: all the other big things that are happening?
• 23:24
  Speaker 15: Look, that's a great question. I think it's just going
• 23:27
  Speaker 15: to have to be the president and, you know, all
• 23:30
  Speaker 15: the affiliates here of the Republican Party. Really, I mean,
• 23:33
  Speaker 15: all of the addressing the delegates here, but really they're
• 23:36
  Speaker 15: talking to the TV cameras because most people aren't here
• 23:38
  Speaker 15: in Dallas. So really you're talking to the TV cameras
• 23:41
  Speaker 15: and you just have to deliver a compelling message. And
• 23:44
  Speaker 15: another factor to consider in all of this, is historically speaking,
• 23:48
  Speaker 15: Republicans and Democrats, whichever party's in power, typically loses the
• 23:51
  Speaker 15: midterms pretty handily. And if you go back to the
• 23:55
  Speaker 15: Trump midterms from the first term, that kind of happened.
• 23:57
  Speaker 15: Republicans lost, I think it was around 40 seats in
• 24:00
  Speaker 15: the House of Representatives. So, look, I'm all for trying
• 24:04
  Speaker 15: something new. This midterm convention is something we haven't done before.
• 24:08
  Speaker 15: It's an opportunity to take the message to the American people.
• 24:10
  Speaker 15: So I say go for it, you know, swing for
• 24:14
  Speaker 15: the fences, and.
• 24:14
  Speaker 16: Hope for the best.
• 24:16
  Speaker 5: I want to divorce you from the candidates that you
• 24:18
  Speaker 5: represent for a moment and just kind of think nationally.
• 24:23
  Speaker 5: What is the mood? I mean, you guys talk at
• 24:28
  Speaker 5: the Washington watering holes and whatnot. Is there a chance
• 24:32
  Speaker 5: that the Republicans can pull this out, or is it
• 24:35
  Speaker 5: looking like a Democrat win in the fall?
• 24:39
  Speaker 15: Look, I think it's roughly 60 or 70 days into
• 24:42
  Speaker 15: the election, give or take.
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: Uh.
• 24:44
  Speaker 15: so and another political program an attorney if you can
• 24:47
  Speaker 15: tell the election uh... but what i think republican indian
• 24:51
  Speaker 15: republican kind of the national new that i i would
• 24:54
  Speaker 15: put it uh.
• 24:55
  Speaker 7: is uh.
• 24:57
  Speaker 15: but at the top of a truly is that you
• 24:59
  Speaker 15: have some very competitive every thing happening across the country
• 25:03
  Speaker 15: sent at the top district you have about twenty five
• 25:06
  Speaker 15: or twenty four uh... competitive feet that are battleground uh...
• 25:10
  Speaker 15: And look, Republicans are on the back foot, and that's
• 25:12
  Speaker 15: not because necessarily of any one particular person or any
• 25:15
  Speaker 15: one particular reason, but voters have an appetite for change.
• 25:19
  Speaker 15: Going all the way back to 2016, that's how Trump
• 25:21
  Speaker 15: won in the first place. It was kind of flipping
• 25:24
  Speaker 15: the table on the establishment, so to speak. So I
• 25:27
  Speaker 15: think Republicans have a right to be concerned heading into
• 25:30
  Speaker 15: the election. And what it's going to take to win
• 25:33
  Speaker 15: is just staying consistent on the message of affordability. and
• 25:36
  Speaker 15: really also pinning a contrast with the Democratic Party, which
• 25:39
  Speaker 15: has just gone down this socialist, crazy, ideological wing of
• 25:44
  Speaker 15: their party taking over.
• 25:45
  Speaker 5: That was a fine political answer, Josh Jones. Look, so
• 25:54
  Speaker 5: we're going to touch base with you tomorrow, and you're
• 25:57
  Speaker 5: going to be watching all the speeches. What are you
• 26:00
  Speaker 5: doing there? I mean, when you're not on the air
• 26:02
  Speaker 5: with us, what do you have going on?
• 26:08
  Speaker 15: And with the delegates, and then also with the candidates
• 26:12
  Speaker 15: that I'm working with, but also, you know, any other
• 26:13
  Speaker 15: candidates that want to work with me, I'll help them out, too.
• 26:16
  Speaker 15: But working with my candidates and the folks on the
• 26:20
  Speaker 15: convention floor, so I'll be down there starting this afternoon
• 26:22
  Speaker 15: through the evening, through the president's speech, and then we'll
• 26:25
  Speaker 15: do it all over again tomorrow.
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 26:27
  Speaker 5: Josh Jones, we're going to leave it there. We will
• 26:30
  Speaker 5: touch base with you tomorrow, and we appreciate you joining
• 26:34
  Speaker 5: us today. Thanks, Josh.
• 26:36
  Speaker 4: Thanks, Todd.
• 26:37
  Speaker 14: All right.
• 26:37
  Speaker 5: There you have it. I wonder if he's wearing, like,
• 26:39
  Speaker 5: cowboy boots and a hat. Dylan, tell Helen we've got
• 26:42
  Speaker 5: to get photos of Josh down in Dallas.
• 26:45
  Speaker 17: It's only right to wear those things.
• 26:47
  Speaker 5: You know, we ought to send him down to Fort Worth,
• 26:51
  Speaker 5: the stockyards, and get him on one of the– they
• 26:54
  Speaker 5: actually have live steers.
• 26:56
  Speaker 17: Yeah, just the full experience.
• 26:57
  Speaker 5: For $ 20, you can hop on board and– $ 20, wow.
• 27:01
  Speaker 5: I don't know.
• 27:01
  Speaker 17: Not bad.
• 27:02
  Speaker 5: Maybe 20. It's an old steer.
• 27:04
  Speaker 17: You have to buy the outfit first. I mean, the
• 27:06
  Speaker 17: cowboy hat alone is probably a couple hundred.
• 27:08
  Speaker 5: That's right. I got my Stetson at the George W.
• 27:11
  Speaker 5: Bush Presidential Library.
• 27:12
  Speaker 17: I mean, you need to pop that thing out one day.
• 27:16
  Speaker 5: Right there on SMU.
• 27:17
  Speaker 4: Wow.
• 27:18
  Speaker 5: I really didn't need one, but the sales lady was
• 27:22
  Speaker 5: very convincing.
• 27:23
  Speaker 17: If you're in Texas, you might as well.
• 27:24
  Speaker 5: She said, you'd look sharp. You'd look sharp in that hat.
• 27:28
  Speaker 17: I think it's illegal not to have a cowboy hat
• 27:30
  Speaker 17: if you're in Texas.
• 27:31
  Speaker 5: Absolutely. And you got to have the boots. Yeah, of course.
• 27:34
  Speaker 5: The Spurs. The Spurs.
• 27:38
  Speaker 17: For no reason at all.
• 27:39
  Speaker 5: Alan texted Josh and asked if he had Spurs. You
• 27:44
  Speaker 5: might want to qualify that first. All right.
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: 901-260-5926.
• 27:49
  Speaker 5: I felt bad for poor Anna. She said she was
• 27:53
  Speaker 5: going to keep it short, and she got cut off.
• 27:55
  Speaker 17: Very short. She wasn't wrong.
• 27:57
  Speaker 5: Well, Anna, give us a call back. Let's go to
• 28:00
  Speaker 5: Little Rock, Arkansas. Steve is on the line. Hi, Steve.
• 28:03
  Speaker 5: What's going on?
• 28:06
  Speaker 14: Todd, I hate to be Mr. Negative, but on this
• 28:09
  Speaker 14: case with this woman killing her three big kids, I
• 28:12
  Speaker 14: don't think you'll ever get a jury together that will
• 28:16
  Speaker 14: convict her, because in my mind, what is going on here,
• 28:20
  Speaker 14: you're looking at there's been 64 million abortions since Roe v.
• 28:26
  Speaker 14: Wade passed. So there's not hardly anybody in this country
• 28:30
  Speaker 14: that hasn't been directly or indirectly involved in an abortion,
• 28:36
  Speaker 14: whether it be themselves or a partner or family friend.
• 28:43
  Speaker 14: So it's going to be very hard to find people
• 28:46
  Speaker 14: that don't want to give some kind of justification for
• 28:51
  Speaker 14: her actions because, in a way, that gives them redemption
• 28:55
  Speaker 14: for their sins. There's not that big a gap between
• 29:00
  Speaker 14: an abortion and what she did. It's a very fine line.
• 29:04
  Speaker 14: It's a very, very fine line. So everybody that's been
• 29:08
  Speaker 14: involved in an abortion, whether it's you directly supported or
• 29:14
  Speaker 14: opposed or just by keeping your mouth shut, we've all,
• 29:20
  Speaker 14: our whole society has got to pay for this sin
• 29:23
  Speaker 14: we've been committing now.
• 29:25
  Speaker 7: And.
• 29:27
  Speaker 14: You're saying the fruit of making abortions, making killing your kids,
• 29:32
  Speaker 14: except this is the freedom.
• 29:36
  Speaker 5: Steve, look, I appreciate you acknowledging that you're going negative here,
• 29:41
  Speaker 5: but it's the truth. And yeah, you're right. There really
• 29:45
  Speaker 5: isn't that much difference, especially in Massachusetts now, where you
• 29:49
  Speaker 5: can kill your baby on its birth date. So as
• 29:52
  Speaker 5: the baby's coming out, You can make that decision right
• 29:56
  Speaker 5: then and there to kill your child. So, yeah, I mean,
• 29:59
  Speaker 5: this is a depraved society we live in, and it's
• 30:04
  Speaker 5: really shocking to see women coming out and defending Lindsay
• 30:09
  Speaker 5: Clancy and saying, you know what, I could have killed
• 30:12
  Speaker 5: my kids. Jeez, hello. Steve, got to run. Thank you
• 30:16
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• 31:35
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 31:37
  Speaker 5: You know, we should have. Oh, by the way, Josh
• 31:40
  Speaker 5: Jones was listening to our little tag out at the end.
• 31:43
  Speaker 5: He just sent me a photograph and he is wearing
• 31:45
  Speaker 5: cowboy boots. For the record.
• 31:48
  Speaker 18: Good.
• 31:48
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 31:49
  Speaker 17: He needed to. It would be wrong if he didn't.
• 31:51
  Speaker 5: Yeah, no, he's got it. Yeah.
• 31:53
  Speaker 17: Did he have the spurs? That's really what I want
• 31:55
  Speaker 17: to know.
• 31:56
  Speaker 5: Helen, can you text Josh and see? We'll work on that.
• 32:00
  Speaker 17: This is the most important thing.
• 32:04
  Speaker 5: I have a question for you, ladies and gentlemen. Let's
• 32:07
  Speaker 5: just say you're running for public office. All right. And
• 32:12
  Speaker 5: you know that in your past, you've probably done something
• 32:16
  Speaker 5: that would not be good. Do you still run, and
• 32:21
  Speaker 5: do you just, you know, do you imagine the general
• 32:24
  Speaker 5: public's not going to be all that interested in what
• 32:28
  Speaker 5: you've done, or do you say, you know, maybe I
• 32:30
  Speaker 5: just need to be a private citizen? And I ask
• 32:33
  Speaker 5: this because Senator Roger Marshall of Kansas is the focus
• 32:38
  Speaker 5: of a New York Times exclusive. You know, Roger Marshall
• 32:42
  Speaker 5: is also a doctor, and And it turns out that
• 32:46
  Speaker 5: he has sued 700 of his patients for debt. He
• 32:52
  Speaker 5: had 81 of those people arrested, including a woman who
• 32:57
  Speaker 5: had just given birth. I wish I could tell. No,
• 33:01
  Speaker 5: this is according to the New York Times piece. And
• 33:06
  Speaker 5: according to the Times, these patients were routinely charged 18%
• 33:11
  Speaker 5: interest on their hospital bills. In many cases, they had
• 33:17
  Speaker 5: bank accounts garnished. And it is a very ugly, ugly,
• 33:22
  Speaker 5: ugly story. It was Easter weekend in 2007. When a
• 33:28
  Speaker 5: police car pulled up to Joe Vasquez's home in rural Kansas,
• 33:31
  Speaker 5: a doctor had filed a lawsuit against him and his
• 33:34
  Speaker 5: wife over an unpaid $ 4, 500 bill from her emergency hysterectomy
• 33:39
  Speaker 5: three years earlier. They had missed a court date, and
• 33:43
  Speaker 5: the doctor's lawyers asked the court to issue an arrest warrant.
• 33:48
  Speaker 5: The police took the couple into custody as their grandchildren
• 33:51
  Speaker 5: prepared for an egg hunt. It was Easter. They spent
• 33:56
  Speaker 5: two days in jail before their son could borrow the
• 33:58
  Speaker 5: money to post bond. Anyway, it goes on from there,
• 34:02
  Speaker 5: but certainly this is going to be a big campaign
• 34:05
  Speaker 5: issue for Senator Marshall. The question is, why 18% interest?
• 34:12
  Speaker 5: It's interesting because Senator Marshall actually went after the credit
• 34:15
  Speaker 5: card companies, and he actually proposed a 10% cap on
• 34:19
  Speaker 5: their interest rates. But he's got an 18%.
• 34:27
  Speaker 15: Wow.
• 34:29
  Speaker 5: Where did these bills come from? Are these people that
• 34:33
  Speaker 5: were uninsured? Was the debt like a copay? There are
• 34:36
  Speaker 5: a lot of unknown questions that the Times doesn't get into.
• 34:40
  Speaker 5: Did he post prices for procedures? It's interesting because according
• 34:47
  Speaker 5: to the information we have, Senator Marshall introduced a bill
• 34:51
  Speaker 5: that would actually ban collections if your medical practice did
• 34:54
  Speaker 5: not post prices. So the question is, Dr. Marshall, did
• 35:00
  Speaker 5: you post those prices? Well, here's the deal. If you
• 35:04
  Speaker 5: go to the doctor, you know, the doctor's not in
• 35:06
  Speaker 5: the business of treating people for free. So, yeah, he
• 35:09
  Speaker 5: needs to be paid. And you as a patient have
• 35:12
  Speaker 5: a responsibility to work out some sort of a payment plan.
• 35:15
  Speaker 5: If it's, you know, 10, 20 bucks a month, whatever,
• 35:18
  Speaker 5: but you got to pay your bills. But really throwing
• 35:21
  Speaker 5: people in jail. I mean, they missed court date. So again,
• 35:25
  Speaker 5: it's a nuance, but man, what a bad look here.
• 35:29
  Speaker 5: And unbelievable. So, you know, if I'm the Democrat opponent here,
• 35:37
  Speaker 5: every single campaign ad, I'm going to be interviewing and
• 35:40
  Speaker 5: talking to somebody who got arrested by Dr. Marshall, the
• 35:44
  Speaker 5: pregnant mom. Good Lord, man. All right.
• 35:52
  Speaker 6: 901-260-5926.
• 35:52
  Speaker 5: Something tells me Kansas may have a Democrat senator in
• 35:56
  Speaker 5: the fall. Let's go to Texas. Linda wants to talk
• 36:00
  Speaker 5: about the enthusiasm of the Republican Party.
• 36:03
  Speaker 4: Hi, Linda.
• 36:04
  Speaker 5: What's on your mind?
• 36:06
  Speaker 16: What's on my.
• 36:07
  Speaker 13: Mind is I'm totally disgusted with the Republicans in Congress
• 36:12
  Speaker 13: that did not pass the Save America Act. And probably
• 36:17
  Speaker 13: my understanding is that there were a number of Republicans
• 36:21
  Speaker 13: that don't like Trump, so they're going to punish the
• 36:24
  Speaker 13: American people. But let's take it a step further because
• 36:30
  Speaker 13: the voters really don't have confidence in their vote actually
• 36:35
  Speaker 13: counting and that it's going to be an honest and
• 36:38
  Speaker 13: fair election. As it's coming out, the 2020 election, there
• 36:43
  Speaker 13: were some shenanigans, and I just think that that has
• 36:47
  Speaker 13: really dampened the enthusiasm of the Republicans. Now, I personally
• 36:52
  Speaker 13: am the type of Republican that will crawl over broken
• 36:55
  Speaker 13: glass to get to the polls, but that's just me.
• 36:59
  Speaker 5: Linda, what is it going to take to sway voters? Because, again,
• 37:03
  Speaker 5: I think there are a lot of people that feel
• 37:05
  Speaker 5: the same way you just described.
• 37:10
  Speaker 13: I really don't, well, they should have passed the Save
• 37:13
  Speaker 13: America Act. Frankly, people are so disgusted with the Republicans
• 37:16
  Speaker 13: in Congress. You know, they have, a majority of them
• 37:20
  Speaker 13: have basically stood in Trump's way at every possible, you know, crossroads.
• 37:28
  Speaker 13: And a lot of things haven't gotten done. No wonder
• 37:31
  Speaker 13: the Republicans are demoralized.
• 37:33
  Speaker 5: Linda, I get it. I completely get it. And I
• 37:37
  Speaker 5: think it's therapy to talk about these things. And I
• 37:40
  Speaker 5: think all of us are in the same boat. But
• 37:42
  Speaker 5: you know what? That boat has to dock at the
• 37:45
  Speaker 5: election booth on Election Day. We got to get out.
• 37:49
  Speaker 5: We got to make sure the Republicans stay in charge.
• 37:51
  Speaker 14: All right.
• 37:51
  Speaker 5: Hang tight, everybody. We'll be right back.
• 38:05
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• 38:10
  Speaker 2: That's us. That's right.
• 38:14
  Speaker 3: I love this American ride.
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: Todd Starr.
• 38:19
  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah.
• 38:21
  Speaker 7: All right.
• 38:22
  Speaker 5: I've got to circle back around here and talk about
• 38:24
  Speaker 5: this story. We touched on it briefly in the last
• 38:27
  Speaker 5: hour of the show.
• 38:29
  Speaker 4: Look, it is.
• 38:32
  Speaker 5: By the way, welcome to the Todd Stearns Radio Show.
• 38:35
  Speaker 5: Very happy to have you with us. Honored to have
• 38:37
  Speaker 5: you with us today. So, look, I want to revisit
• 38:41
  Speaker 5: this story in Kansas. We have a lot of listeners
• 38:43
  Speaker 5: in Kansas. Good people. Well, most of them. No, all
• 38:47
  Speaker 5: you folks are fine. You're good people. But can we
• 38:50
  Speaker 5: talk about your senator here, Roger Marshall, who's the subject
• 38:55
  Speaker 5: of this New York Slimes hit piece? No doubt about it.
• 38:59
  Speaker 5: It's a hit piece. And the problem, though, is it's
• 39:04
  Speaker 5: all true. So, yeah, it's a headpiece, but this could
• 39:10
  Speaker 5: possibly hurt the senator. And the gist of the story
• 39:15
  Speaker 5: in the New York Times, this is a New York
• 39:17
  Speaker 5: Slimes headline here. A doctor sued 700 patients for debts.
• 39:22
  Speaker 5: 81 were arrested. Now he's the senator. So when I
• 39:26
  Speaker 5: first saw this story, I thought, what kind of a
• 39:28
  Speaker 5: sleazeball doctor would do something like this? And then when
• 39:31
  Speaker 5: I realized, oh, it's Senator Roger Marshall. Jeez, hello. Then
• 39:37
  Speaker 5: I had to read the story. And so it's one
• 39:41
  Speaker 5: of these situations where there is probably wrong on both
• 39:46
  Speaker 5: sides here. First of all, if you are a patient,
• 39:51
  Speaker 5: then you've got to pay your bills. I mean, that's right.
• 39:54
  Speaker 5: The doctor can't live in a rundown, single-wide trailer park.
• 40:01
  Speaker 5: He's got to be able to make some money. He's
• 40:03
  Speaker 5: got to be able to live in at least, I
• 40:05
  Speaker 5: don't know, a 12-bedroom house. So he's got to have
• 40:08
  Speaker 5: some cash.
• 40:09
  Speaker 4: In the bank.
• 40:12
  Speaker 5: So you've got to pay your bills, right? That's the deal.
• 40:15
  Speaker 5: If you get sued, guess what? You've got to show
• 40:19
  Speaker 5: up to court. And if you don't, then you know what?
• 40:22
  Speaker 5: You could wind up in jail, which is what happened.
• 40:25
  Speaker 5: Eighty-one of his patients were arrested, including a woman who
• 40:31
  Speaker 5: had given birth. Jeez-a-loo. I'm just thinking, if I'm doing
• 40:38
  Speaker 5: opposition research— If I'm the Democrats, this is like Christmas
• 40:44
  Speaker 5: Day because every single one of the ads coming out
• 40:49
  Speaker 5: between now and Election Day is going to have one
• 40:51
  Speaker 5: of the doctor's patients— I was going to say victims— one of
• 40:56
  Speaker 5: the doctor's patients. Doing like a 60, you know how
• 41:01
  Speaker 5: these things are. They're like the Netflix documentaries. Dylan, have
• 41:03
  Speaker 5: you seen those?
• 41:05
  Speaker 17: Oh, yeah. They sit down on a couch.
• 41:06
  Speaker 5: That's all the rage.
• 41:07
  Speaker 17: It's like silent, and they cross their legs, and they're like, okay,
• 41:09
  Speaker 17: I'm ready.
• 41:11
  Speaker 5: I'm ready for my Netflix close-up. They're going to have
• 41:15
  Speaker 5: a Roger Marshall Netflix special. That's what's going to happen here.
• 41:22
  Speaker 5: They interviewed a guy named Mr.
• 41:23
  Speaker 4: Vasquez.
• 41:24
  Speaker 5: He and his wife were hauled off in handcuffs in
• 41:27
  Speaker 5: front of the grandchildren in while they were watching their
• 41:30
  Speaker 5: kids do an Easter egg hunt. The doctor who sued
• 41:33
  Speaker 5: the couple was Roger Marshall, now a senator from Kansas. Mr. Marshall,
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  Speaker 5: seeking re-election this fall, filed lawsuits against more than 700
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  Speaker 5: patients with outstanding bills during his decades-long career as an
• 41:49
  Speaker 5: obstetrician slash gynecologist. Patients were arrested in 81 of those
• 41:56
  Speaker 5: cases for missing court dates. In addition to 13 lawsuits, Mr.
• 42:00
  Speaker 5: Marshall's lawyers sought warrants, but it is unclear whether an
• 42:05
  Speaker 5: arrest occurred. And look here, let me finish this here.
• 42:08
  Speaker 5: They also garnered patients' paychecks and bank accounts. They routinely
• 42:13
  Speaker 5: charged patients an 18% annual interest.
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  Speaker 2: Good Lord!
• 42:21
  Speaker 5: Now, what's interesting about this is that Roger Marshall has
• 42:27
  Speaker 5: been very concerned about these exorbitant interest rate fees. Well,
• 42:33
  Speaker 5: not when it comes to his medical practice, but certainly
• 42:37
  Speaker 5: when it comes to credit card companies. So again, Roger
• 42:44
  Speaker 5: Marshall's out there proposing a 10% credit card interest rate cap,
• 42:49
  Speaker 5: but in his own business, he's taking the people to
• 42:52
  Speaker 5: the cleaners. Now, again, were these people uninsured? Was this
• 42:59
  Speaker 5: some sort of a copay? Were the copay didn't pay? Again,
• 43:02
  Speaker 5: these are questions that are not answered. But honestly, I
• 43:05
  Speaker 5: think all of this is somewhat irrelevant. If you owe
• 43:08
  Speaker 5: somebody something, you've got to pay that money or you
• 43:10
  Speaker 5: have to work out some sort of a payment plan,
• 43:13
  Speaker 5: whether it's $ 5 a month, $ 10 or something, to show
• 43:17
  Speaker 5: that you are not a deadbeat and that you're willing
• 43:20
  Speaker 5: to pay what you owe. Because you know what?
• 43:24
  Speaker 4: Dr.
• 43:25
  Speaker 5: Marshall, he's got bills to pay too. He's not working
• 43:28
  Speaker 5: for free. They also garnished patients' paychecks and bank accounts.
• 43:34
  Speaker 5: They routinely charged patients an 18% annual interest rate. The
• 43:40
  Speaker 5: unpaid bills ranged from several thousand dollars to as little
• 43:44
  Speaker 5: as $ 101. Good Lord, man. Could you imagine a poor
• 43:51
  Speaker 5: kid going to the doctor for, I don't know, a
• 43:54
  Speaker 5: broken finger, and the kid owes 20 bucks, doesn't pay.
• 43:59
  Speaker 5: The next thing you know, he's in county lockup. Unbelievable. Oh,
• 44:05
  Speaker 5: here we go. Speaking of that, some facing lawsuits were
• 44:10
  Speaker 5: new mothers with outstanding bills from their deliveries. Most lived
• 44:15
  Speaker 5: in Barton County. a rural area with above-average uninsured people
• 44:20
  Speaker 5: and poverty rates. All right, there you go. Some patients
• 44:24
  Speaker 5: the New York Slimes spoke with lacked insurance. Others held
• 44:28
  Speaker 5: health coverage but were responsible for part of the bill.
• 44:32
  Speaker 5: I had every intention to pay. I was just struggling,
• 44:35
  Speaker 5: said Kelly Klutz, who Mr. Marshall sued in 2015 over
• 44:39
  Speaker 5: a $ 129 bill.
• 44:43
  Speaker 4: Ms.
• 44:44
  Speaker 5: Klutz said the charge was from a postpartum visit shortly
• 44:47
  Speaker 5: after her daughter's birth. Mr. Marshall sued Ms. Klutz when
• 44:53
  Speaker 5: her baby was nine months old and eventually garnished her
• 44:56
  Speaker 5: bank account. In response to the questions from the slimes,
• 45:03
  Speaker 5: a spokeswoman for Mr. Marshall said that he spent decades
• 45:07
  Speaker 5: caring for patients regardless of their ability to pay. Quote,
• 45:12
  Speaker 5: judges issue warrants when people repeatedly miss court dates, not doctors.
• 45:17
  Speaker 5: That's what the spokes babe of the senator had to say.
• 45:24
  Speaker 5: Court records, though, show Mr. Marshall's lawyers. It was the
• 45:27
  Speaker 5: lawyers who repeatedly requested arrest warrants. All right, there you go.
• 45:34
  Speaker 5: It's an ugly situation. Ugly, ladies and gentlemen. And again,
• 45:39
  Speaker 5: there may be a valid reason for all of this,
• 45:42
  Speaker 5: but it's still pretty darn ugly. Now, here's another issue.
• 45:48
  Speaker 5: It turns out these people, and you just heard in
• 45:51
  Speaker 5: the Times piece here, this was a pretty impoverished area.
• 45:55
  Speaker 5: People were very poor. So my question is, did he
• 46:02
  Speaker 5: post any of the prices correctly? And the reason why
• 46:07
  Speaker 5: is that Senator Marshall actually introduced a bill that would
• 46:09
  Speaker 5: ban collections if a practice, a medical practice, did not
• 46:14
  Speaker 5: post prices. So the question is, did he post prices
• 46:20
  Speaker 5: for all of this? Did people know what they were
• 46:22
  Speaker 5: getting into? These are questions that the Democrats are going
• 46:28
  Speaker 5: to be asking. And the Republicans are going to have
• 46:32
  Speaker 5: to come up with a good answer for it. And
• 46:34
  Speaker 5: the reason I bring this up, we can't make any screw-ups, right,
• 46:38
  Speaker 5: in the midterms. The margin for screw-ups is very, very slim.
• 46:43
  Speaker 5: You've got a situation in Georgia, North Carolina, where the
• 46:46
  Speaker 5: Republican candidates are struggling. This is an unforced error here,
• 46:52
  Speaker 5: but clearly a hit piece. But you know what? It's politics.
• 46:55
  Speaker 5: You've got to expect the hit pieces to come. It's true.
• 46:59
  Speaker 5: We're dealing with that here in the state of Tennessee now.
• 47:02
  Speaker 5: We got a gubernatorial race. You got Marsha Blackburn running
• 47:05
  Speaker 5: as the Republican, Jerry Green as the Democrat, and we
• 47:09
  Speaker 5: got an independent who's a multi-bazillionaire named David Hatley. And
• 47:13
  Speaker 5: I have received every single piece of dirt on this
• 47:16
  Speaker 5: guy going all the way back to the 1990s. And
• 47:19
  Speaker 5: it is coming from opposition research from the other campaigns.
• 47:25
  Speaker 5: So this is nothing new. But I got to tell you,
• 47:27
  Speaker 5: this is... I know that's a bad form, bad form.
• 47:31
  Speaker 5: Senator needs to get, this is not one of those
• 47:34
  Speaker 5: issues where a spokesperson comes out, Senator needs to talk
• 47:36
  Speaker 5: about this. And ultimately, you got to pay your bills,
• 47:41
  Speaker 5: but you know what? You got to have some grace too.
• 47:44
  Speaker 5: And there have been situations, and I know I own
• 47:47
  Speaker 5: a company, and sometimes somebody's not able to pay for
• 47:50
  Speaker 5: whatever reason, they hit a hard spot, and you know what?
• 47:53
  Speaker 5: Sometimes you just have to say, you know what? I
• 47:56
  Speaker 5: forgive that debt. And, again, if you're hauling in $ 700, 000,
• 48:02
  Speaker 5: $ 800, 000 a year as a doctor, I'm not saying all
• 48:07
  Speaker 5: the time, but you know what? Really, you're going to
• 48:13
  Speaker 5: sue a mom for $ 124? Not going to write that
• 48:16
  Speaker 5: one off for you. Okay. Okay. I just don't know
• 48:21
  Speaker 5: about that. Good luck, all you folks in Kansas. You
• 48:24
  Speaker 5: may have a Democrat senator when it's all said and done. 901-260-5926,
• 48:29
  Speaker 5: our telephone number. That's 901-260-5926. Coming up, Liz Peek is
• 48:38
  Speaker 5: going to be here talking about 9-11 and really the
• 48:42
  Speaker 5: rewriting of 9-11. More families coming out and telling Mam
• 48:47
  Speaker 5: Dami to stay away from Ground Zero. We're going to
• 48:51
  Speaker 5: get to that. We're going to get to your calls.
• 48:52
  Speaker 5: This is the Todd Stern Show. All I'm saying is
• 49:05
  Speaker 5: the Republicans, you got to be smart about it. We
• 49:07
  Speaker 5: can't make any mistakes. That's all I'm saying. You can't
• 49:11
  Speaker 5: be can't be making any mistakes here. All right. Let's
• 49:14
  Speaker 5: go to the phones here.
• 49:15
  Speaker 9: 901-260-5926.
• 49:15
  Speaker 5: Memphis, Tennessee.
• 49:16
  Speaker 7: Arnett.
• 49:20
  Speaker 5: Listening to us on KWAM Radio. Hi, Arnaz, what's on
• 49:24
  Speaker 5: your mind?
• 49:25
  Speaker 16: Hey, how you doing? And really, it's the midterms. I
• 49:30
  Speaker 16: listen to a lot of conservative radio, and dare I say,
• 49:35
  Speaker 16: the fear is palpable. And it should be. simply because
• 49:41
  Speaker 16: you see that we've seen bad numbers from both sides,
• 49:46
  Speaker 16: but these numbers aren't bad. They're borderline terrifying. Because in
• 49:53
  Speaker 16: literally just a year and a half, you're not even underwater.
• 50:00
  Speaker 16: The Republicans as a whole.
• 50:01
  Speaker 5: Is there any poll that you... I mean, are you
• 50:04
  Speaker 5: referencing a specific poll or just in general?
• 50:08
  Speaker 16: Just in general, county by county. County by county. Most
• 50:13
  Speaker 16: states that Trump won, or even Republican candidates in general,
• 50:18
  Speaker 16: not even just Trump. This doesn't even go with just him.
• 50:22
  Speaker 16: But you look at 2024 compared to now. They're not
• 50:27
  Speaker 16: even underwater. They're 50 feet under the ground at this point.
• 50:33
  Speaker 16: And as a Republican, that should be scary. But also,
• 50:38
  Speaker 16: I also want to point out, we got 9-11 coming
• 50:43
  Speaker 16: up in two days. Coming up in two days. The
• 50:44
  Speaker 16: anniversary is 25 years. I was 14, I think. Yeah,
• 50:50
  Speaker 16: I was 14 years old when 9-11 happened. I have
• 50:54
  Speaker 16: no problem with Mondami going to the anniversary simply because,
• 50:58
  Speaker 16: for one, he was nine when 9-11 happened. He was
• 51:01
  Speaker 16: younger than me. And on top of that, every mayor...
• 51:06
  Speaker 16: If I'm not mistaken, I think 2001 was Giuliani's last
• 51:10
  Speaker 16: year as mayor, if I'm not mistaken. I could be wrong.
• 51:13
  Speaker 16: But every mayor since has went to the 9-11 anniversary.
• 51:20
  Speaker 16: Every mayor. Every Muslim has been going to 9-11 memorials
• 51:25
  Speaker 16: since the very beginning. And let's point one thing out.
• 51:33
  Speaker 16: There were 19 hijackers. Or 9-11.
• 51:37
  Speaker 5: What do they have in common? Okay, you... What do
• 51:41
  Speaker 5: they have in common?
• 51:43
  Speaker 16: Well, 15 of them were from Saudi Arabia.
• 51:47
  Speaker 5: No, no, no, that's not what they had in common.
• 51:50
  Speaker 5: All of them had something in common. What was that, Ardis? Yeah,
• 51:52
  Speaker 5: they were Muslims. Yeah, they were Muslims. And they were
• 51:56
  Speaker 5: chanting Allah Akbar when they flew the jetliners into the
• 51:59
  Speaker 5: buildings and into the field in Pennsylvania.
• 52:02
  Speaker 16: Okay, so let's play this game. So basically, no Muslims whatsoever,
• 52:08
  Speaker 16: even though Muslims were killed in 9-11, no Muslims should
• 52:12
  Speaker 16: be at the 9-11 memorial.
• 52:14
  Speaker 5: No, that's not it at all, Arne, is the reason
• 52:16
  Speaker 5: why the families of the victims here, and that's where, look,
• 52:20
  Speaker 5: my opinion, it doesn't matter. Your opinion, it doesn't matter.
• 52:23
  Speaker 5: The only opinions that really matter are the families of
• 52:26
  Speaker 5: those who lost loved ones.
• 52:28
  Speaker 16: A small number of them.
• 52:30
  Speaker 2: No, it's not.
• 52:31
  Speaker 5: It's that over 100,000 people have signed a petition. That's
• 52:34
  Speaker 5: a lot of people. But, Arnaz, let me– hold on.
• 52:36
  Speaker 5: I want to get to your point here. No, we're
• 52:39
  Speaker 5: not saying that a Muslim mayor should not be allowed
• 52:41
  Speaker 5: to speak, but it's this guy, Mamdami, the guy who
• 52:46
  Speaker 5: signed the proclamation and then gave the ink pen to
• 52:50
  Speaker 5: the terrorist lawyer– This is the guy who said some
• 52:54
  Speaker 5: people did something on 9-11, marginalizing and minimizing what happened.
• 53:00
  Speaker 5: That's why they've got a problem with this guy. This
• 53:02
  Speaker 5: is not Todd Starnes leading the charge here. These are
• 53:06
  Speaker 5: the families of the people, the people that live in
• 53:09
  Speaker 5: New York. They're the ones that are raising this.
• 53:13
  Speaker 16: They can raise it, but at the end of the day,
• 53:15
  Speaker 16: he's the mayor. Every mayor, every mayor since 2000. Every
• 53:19
  Speaker 16: mayor for the last 25 years has showed up at
• 53:22
  Speaker 16: the 9-11 memorial.
• 53:23
  Speaker 18: Yeah.
• 53:24
  Speaker 16: Every single last one.
• 53:25
  Speaker 5: They don't want this guy. Yeah, they feel like this.
• 53:27
  Speaker 16: Nine years. He was nine. Nine years old when 9-11 happened.
• 53:33
  Speaker 16: Very few people can remember what they were doing at nine.
• 53:36
  Speaker 16: He's been nothing but a great mayor to that city.
• 53:41
  Speaker 16: He has a 69% approval rating.
• 53:43
  Speaker 5: He hasn't delivered on any of his campaign promises.
• 53:46
  Speaker 16: A million people in that city voted for him. And more,
• 53:51
  Speaker 16: you know who does it?
• 53:52
  Speaker 5: Foreigners.
• 53:54
  Speaker 16: And one more thing.
• 53:56
  Speaker 5: Real quick.
• 53:57
  Speaker 16: You see, I see a lot of farmers going out
• 54:01
  Speaker 16: of business, especially in Arkansas. I'll tell them this. If
• 54:04
  Speaker 16: you got a problem with your... If you want to
• 54:07
  Speaker 16: talk to Trump about the farm that your papa's papa started,
• 54:12
  Speaker 16: all you got to do is go to the convention
• 54:14
  Speaker 16: in Dallas. It's only going to cost $ 88, 000 to take
• 54:16
  Speaker 16: a picture with him. 250 grand to have dinner with him.
• 54:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 54:23
  Speaker 16: And you could talk to your problems.
• 54:25
  Speaker 5: And guess what, Arnaz? If you got that money and
• 54:27
  Speaker 5: you want to spend that money on a photo with
• 54:29
  Speaker 5: Donald Trump, great. It's America. Knock yourself out. And if
• 54:32
  Speaker 5: you don't, keep the money in the bank, invest it
• 54:35
  Speaker 5: in the stock market, or go out there and buy
• 54:37
  Speaker 5: a cow. You know, start your own cattle ranch, for
• 54:40
  Speaker 5: crying out loud. But I want to put a pin
• 54:43
  Speaker 5: here on this, Arnaz. I want to go back because
• 54:47
  Speaker 5: Mayor Mandami, associated himself with Hassan Piker, who said in
• 54:52
  Speaker 5: 2019 that America deserved 9-11. Mamdami did not distance himself.
• 55:01
  Speaker 5: He didn't come out and rebuke this guy, said nothing
• 55:05
  Speaker 5: of the sort. And that's one of the reasons why
• 55:07
  Speaker 5: these families don't want this guy anywhere near that ceremony.
• 55:12
  Speaker 5: I got to run here, Arnaz, but thank you for
• 55:14
  Speaker 5: the call.
• 55:14
  Speaker 4: 901-260-5926.
• 55:15
  Speaker 5: And again, look, I completely disagree with Arnaz, but I
• 55:20
  Speaker 5: wanted to hear him out. to see his take on this.
• 55:25
  Speaker 5: Let me say this on the Republicans. He's not wrong.
• 55:29
  Speaker 5: The Republicans are underwater. Every single poll out there, and
• 55:33
  Speaker 5: you can say every single poll is wrong, but the
• 55:36
  Speaker 5: Republicans are freaking out. And how do we know the
• 55:38
  Speaker 5: Republicans are concerned about all of this? Because they are
• 55:41
  Speaker 5: spending millions of dollars to host a midterm convention for
• 55:45
  Speaker 5: the next two days in Dallas. A political party that
• 55:49
  Speaker 5: was really ahead and surging would not be doing this.
• 55:56
  Speaker 5: By the way, the chief counsel of New York City,
• 56:02
  Speaker 5: a guy who is associated with Al-Qaeda, So, ladies and gentlemen, yeah,
• 56:10
  Speaker 5: your opinion doesn't matter. But you know whose opinion does matter?
• 56:14
  Speaker 5: The families of those who lost loved ones on 9-11.
• 56:18
  Speaker 5: They don't want Mamdami there, so I don't want Mamdami there. 901-260-5926,
• 56:22
  Speaker 5: our telephone number. That's 901-260-5926. We'll be right back. All right, tonight,
• 56:44
  Speaker 5: 5 o'clock. Carl, is it 6 o'clock, 5 o'clock? I
• 56:47
  Speaker 5: get my Eastern and Central Times mixed up. Anyway, I'm
• 56:50
  Speaker 5: going to be on Newsmax tonight, Carl Higby's show. You
• 56:52
  Speaker 5: can look it up. Carl's having me on to talk
• 56:55
  Speaker 5: about my brand-new book. It's called The Golden Age, How
• 56:58
  Speaker 5: Trump Saved America, number one Amazon bestseller. So thank you
• 57:03
  Speaker 5: for that. Of course, President Trump endorsed the book and
• 57:06
  Speaker 5: wrote a very nice note for us on his Truth
• 57:08
  Speaker 5: Social page. You know what, Dylan? I'm really glad the
• 57:11
  Speaker 5: president did not do. He didn't recommend a name change
• 57:15
  Speaker 5: for the book.
• 57:15
  Speaker 17: That is good news.
• 57:16
  Speaker 5: So thank you for that, Mr.
• 57:18
  Speaker 10: President.
• 57:20
  Speaker 5: Well, America's in the title, so that had us covered.
• 57:25
  Speaker 17: Yeah, I think you're safe with that one.
• 57:26
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• 57:44
  Speaker 5: our telephone number. Liz Peek has a pretty powerful column
• 57:50
  Speaker 5: up at foxnews.com. We cannot let the left rewrite what
• 57:55
  Speaker 5: happened on 9-11. Amen to that. Liz Peek, good to
• 57:59
  Speaker 5: have you with us today.
• 58:01
  Speaker 19: Thank you so much for having me on, Todd. Yeah,
• 58:05
  Speaker 19: I mean, I am just appalled to see the efforts
• 58:09
  Speaker 19: being made to kind of scrub history. And of course,
• 58:12
  Speaker 19: It isn't limited to 9-11 and what happened on that day.
• 58:16
  Speaker 19: It's also October 7 and what happened in Israel on
• 58:21
  Speaker 19: that day. Basically, anyone now who points out that Muslim
• 58:27
  Speaker 19: terrorists attacked the United States on 9-11-2001 is a bigot.
• 58:34
  Speaker 19: And you may notice on Twitter, I'm getting a lot
• 58:38
  Speaker 19: of hate mail for basically saying what happened. I mean,
• 58:41
  Speaker 19: that to me is shocking and offensive. And it's really
• 58:46
  Speaker 19: a concerted effort by all the people who are on
• 58:52
  Speaker 19: the left, in the Democrat, Socialist America, et cetera, trying
• 58:58
  Speaker 19: to put forward a lot of candidates who are Muslims.
• 59:00
  Speaker 19: And I get it. They don't want to be tagged
• 59:02
  Speaker 19: with The extreme jihadists who flew planes into the Twin Towers,
• 59:08
  Speaker 19: but they are all Muslims. And just by pointing that
• 59:12
  Speaker 19: out does not make me Islamophobic. It doesn't make me
• 59:16
  Speaker 19: a bigot. It is simply the truth. And unfortunately, sometimes
• 59:19
  Speaker 19: in our country, we become allergic to the truth, as
• 59:22
  Speaker 19: you well know. And so I think those of us
• 59:26
  Speaker 19: who are there who remember what happened, we have to
• 59:28
  Speaker 19: talk about it.
• 59:30
  Speaker 5: Well, no, you're absolutely right about that. And again, these
• 59:34
  Speaker 5: men were, when they flew the jetliners into the buildings,
• 59:37
  Speaker 5: their last words were Allahu Akbar. I mean, this was,
• 59:40
  Speaker 5: they were waging jihad against America on American soil. And
• 59:45
  Speaker 5: it's important for every generation to understand that and understand
• 59:51
  Speaker 5: what happened on that day. And Liz, reading your column,
• 59:54
  Speaker 5: I mean, this was a very personal experience for you
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  Speaker 5: as a New Yorker.
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  Speaker 19: Yeah, and I don't often share personal reminiscences, Todd, but
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  Speaker 19: I think it is amazing to me, first of all,
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 19: of course, a huge amount of today's audience and people
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 19: who are reading and watching television and so forth weren't
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 19: even born on 9-11, or they were too young, really,
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 19: to remember what took place. But I think the number
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 19: one thing I would want to tell everybody is Americans
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 19: were shocked. We were the good guys. We consider ourselves
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 19: the good guys, and we have been historically the good guys.
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 19: And here, suddenly, we were confronted with what appeared to
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 19: be a widespread ideology and religious group that hated Americans.
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 19: And that, you know, as Hassan Piker has so famously said,
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 19: we deserved 9-11. Why did we deserve 9-11? Most Americans
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 19: honestly didn't have a clue. And we knew, you know, yes,
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 19: there had been terrorist bombings before in New York, but
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 19: there were always some fringe group or some kind of
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 19: muddled explanation of why they were doing that. This was
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 19: a very direct, very big event, certainly, well-orchestrated, involving many people,
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 19: lots of planning, and most Americans just had absolutely no
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 19: idea what was going on. So that was one thing
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  Speaker 19: that I think people need to remember.
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  Speaker 14: Number two.
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  Speaker 19: Everyone was terrified that an organization, a religious extremist group,
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  Speaker 19: the jihadis, if you will, the Islamic jihadis, could pull
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 19: this off. We expected there to be another attack. I can't,
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  Speaker 19: I mean, maybe you remember this, but there was a
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 19: feeling of dread that it wasn't over, that this was
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 19: just the opening salvo, that there would be other attacks
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 19: at Grand Central or at JFK or whatever. And, you know,
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 19: the mood, had there been another attack, we all agreed
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 19: at the time New York City was going to be
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 19: dead because we were all just going to leave. I mean,
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 19: no one can live under those circumstances. So I think
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 19: it's remarkable all this talk about the toxic fumes at
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 19: ground zero. You know, it was truly the fog of war.
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 19: People were scrambling as fast as possible to get this
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 19: city moving and moving. businesses up and running again. And
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 19: for those who are condemning the leadership of that time
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 19: for not telling people that the air might be damaging
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 19: to their health, what was the alternative? So sitting back,
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 19: letting the towers burn, because by the way, they did
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 19: burn for months. We could see it from our apartment
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 19: as a grim reminder of what had happened. But the
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 19: objective was to get New York back to business as
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 19: quickly as possible, get people going about their daily lives
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 19: to prove that we were not vanquished. We were not
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 19: going to take this lying down. And that was a very,
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 19: very big deal.
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  Speaker 5: I remember I was there the day after covering the story,
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  Speaker 5: and you just remember the smells and the sights, the images,
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 5: the The fences where people would just post photographs of
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 5: their missing loved ones, and those were really all over
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 5: the city, and those stories have to be told. We
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 5: cannot forget what happened on that day, and to your point,
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 5: there's a story in the New York Post about how
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 5: many schools are using woke 9-11 materials that actually portray
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 5: America as the bad guy here, as opposed to the
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 5: country that was attacked by the radical Islamists.
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 19: Yeah, and they never mention radical Islamists.
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 19: And in fact, I remember when the 9-11 memorial, the museum,
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 19: was built, there was a lot of criticism because it
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 19: really didn't come out and say, these guys were Islamic radicals,
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 19: you know? I mean, again, it was sort of like
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 19: the Smithsonian's very woke coverage of various kinds of American issues.
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 11: This was a.
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 19: I have to go back down there. It's a beautiful memorial,
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 19: by the way. I mean, everything about it was gorgeously done.
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 19: But as I recall, and I can't remember the exact wording,
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 19: but they really skirted the truth because they didn't want
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 19: to offend anybody. And I've got to tell you, so Obama...
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 19: memorably called on us all to not succumb to Islamophobia,
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 19: which by the word, you know, is the word at
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 19: that point I'd even heard. And I wrote a column
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 19: at the time, which I'm surprised didn't land me in
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 19: lots of hot water, about I think Americans have been
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 19: pretty damn tolerant. It wasn't just 9-11. There was the 1983,
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 19: I think, World Trade Center bombing, the Fort Hood massacre,
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 19: the Boston Marathon massacre. murders, the murders in New Orleans.
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 19: More recently, where an ISIS-inspired guy drove a truck into
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 19: the New Year's crowd. There have been repeated attacks on
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 19: Americans on our soil by Muslim terrorists. And frankly, you
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 19: have seen very, very little bigotry or shunning of the
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 19: Muslim world in this country. I... I don't know if
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 19: you would agree with that, but if you look at
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 19: the stats on hate crimes, anti-Semitism is the problem in
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 19: our country. It is not Islamophobia.
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  Speaker 5: No, absolutely right about that. And, of course, the Pulse
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 5: nightclub shooting in Orlando, Florida. But, again, that seems as
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 5: though whenever an Islamist, a Muslim is responsible, that is
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 5: immediately washed over, and they just move right on. And
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 5: I just tell people, you know, compare that coverage to
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 5: some white kid that opens fire at a school, you know,
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 5: and it's wall-to-wall coverage. So, again, I think.
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 19: It's amazing, isn't it?
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 5: It's shocking.
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 19: Yeah, it's really kind of a concerted effort. And, again,
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 19: I understand it from Abdul Al-Sayed, who's running for the
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 19: Senate in Michigan. He doesn't want to be tagged in
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 19: any way related to these extremists. Okay, I get it. But,
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 19: on the other hand... Has he really come out and
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 19: condemned what they did? No. He's palling around with a
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 19: guy who says that we deserve 9-11, Hassan Piker. And,
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 19: you know, this isn't a joke. These are words that matter.
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 19: And there are other horrifying things that have been said
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 19: by Hassan and by Mayor Mamdani here in New York
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 19: and so forth. They're really very close to the third
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 19: rail of being anti-American, certainly anti-Semitic. And, you know, I
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 19: don't think we should tolerate that. If I'm not allowed
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 19: to talk about Muslim terrorists, they're not allowed to talk
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 19: about America being the bad guy, because we are not.
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 5: Well, so I like the feisty, I like feisty Liz
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 5: Peek here. Wow, this is.
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 19: It makes me mad.
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 5: No, I know, I know. Liz, it's a great piece
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 5: you wrote. Folks, go to foxnews.com. LizPeek.com is her personal website,
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 5: and I would encourage you to bookmark that website as well. Liz,
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 5: thank you for writing this. Appreciate it.
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 19: Thanks for talking about it. I appreciate that. Take care.
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 5: Liz Peek, everybody. She's a great lady, and she is
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 5: fearless when it comes to her writing. I greatly appreciate that.
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 5: I want to play some audio. This is our good
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 5: friend Bill Donahue, president of the Catholic League. Talk about
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 5: a guy that doesn't mince words. Cut 24, please.
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 18: I wrote him a letter on August the 3rd. It's
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 18: up on our website explaining why he's such a divisive figure.
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 18: He said that something happened.
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 4: On 9-11. I'll tell you what happened.
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 18: Radical Muslims came in here to bomb the United States
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 18: of America. I don't say Muslims, because that's wrong. I'm
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 18: talking about radical Muslims. He can't bring himself to say that.
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 18: He is more concerned about Islamophobia than he is the
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 18: death of 3,000 people, innocent people on that day.
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 4: This man is a disgrace to veterans.
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 18: And believe me, as a Catholic, we contacted the NYPD,
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 18: the FDNY, and Port.
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 4: Authority a year later.
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 18: 85 to 90 percent of the first responders who were murdered,
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 18: they were Catholic. So we have a special interest in that, too.
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 18: And we stand with our Jewish brothers and sisters against
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 18: the likes of Hassan Piker, who says nothing but good
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 18: things about the Houthis, Hezbollah, and Hamas.
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 4: It's a disgrace. Mondami, do us all a favor and
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 4: just stay home.
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I completely agree with that sentiment. I want you
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 5: to hear from a gentleman. He is a son of
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 5: a 9-11 victim. His father died in the attacks. And
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 5: this young man now has children of his own. Young guy,
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 5: probably in his, what, late 20s, early 30s, if I
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 5: had to guess. Here he is speaking at that same rally.
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 5: Take a listen to Cut 25. And I don't want
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 5: to live in a country.
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 12: Where I have to tell my children, where I have
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 12: to have them told by their teachers and their college professors,
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 12: which is where a lot of this is happening, by
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 12: the way, that their grandfather deserved to get murdered because
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 12: he was part of an evil capitalist system.
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 5: That's what they're teaching.
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 3: That's not American.
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 2: This is anti-American. And don't let Hassan, who, by the way,
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 2: one of the most viewed.
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 12: People, good friend of Zohar al-Mangani, don't let us pretend
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 12: that Oh, no, I wasn't actually close to them. No,
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 12: they're buddies.
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 5: We all know it.
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 12: You can't control how these people think, but speak out
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 12: and call out this when you see it.
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 5: Well said. Let me say something about that, though. You
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 5: would do well to reach out to your child or
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 5: your grandchild's local school and find out exactly what they're
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 5: teaching when it comes to 9-11. You ought to check
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 5: into that. And by the way, it doesn't matter. Private school,
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 5: public school, doesn't matter. You ought to find out exactly
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 5: what they're teaching the kids about what really happened on 9-11.
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 5: All right, look, we've got to take a quick break here. 901-260-5926,
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 5: our telephone number, that's 901-260-5926. This is the Todd Stern Show.
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 5: I was watching a video during the break from Dallas.
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 5: You know, these self-anointed political pundits, the younger crowd, and
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 5: these are all under the age of, this guy's under
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 5: the age of 21. And he was explaining that he's
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 5: going to give, he's going to tell Trump what he
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 5: needs to do. Good luck with that, kid. Good luck
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 5: with that. So look, all of these folks out there saying, well,
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 5: you know, Trump's got to, he's got to appeal to
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 5: the Gen Z voters. Yeah, I think that's important. But,
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 5: you know, the reality is that is not Trump's base
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 5: of support. When you're looking at Trump voters, 60% of
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 5: Trump voters ages 50 or older, 40% of Trump's entire
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 5: 2024 coalition was under the age of 50. That's a
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 5: really strong number. And actually, Trump... gained more voters in
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 5: that demographic. So the question is, you know, everybody's talking
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 5: about Gen Z. Gen Zers are not getting out to
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 5: the polls in huge numbers. They're just not. They did not.
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 5: They didn't do it in 2024. So if they're not
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 5: going to do it in a presidential election year, what
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 5: makes you think they're going to get out there and
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 5: vote in a midterm election? So again, Trump and the Republicans,
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 5: and when I say Trump, I mean, Trump wants to
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 5: make this a referendum on him. So Trump's going to
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 5: have to get out there, and he's going to have
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 5: to address these specific demographics.
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 17: That's all.
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 5: That's all I'm saying. Dylan, I'm curious. Are you familiar
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 5: with Wahlburgers?
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 17: A little bit, yeah.
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 5: You know, Mark Wahlberg, the Wahlberg guys. What is it?
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 5: Blue Bloods.
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 17: Yeah, yeah. All I know is Mark Wahlberg.
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 5: Okay. Donnie, you don't know Donnie?
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 17: I don't know the rest of them.
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 5: What was the group? Donnie Wahlberg was like a, oh,
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 5: what was the boy band? Somebody will call in. Somebody
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 5: will call in and tell us the boy band. Anyway,
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 5: Donnie Wahlberg's one of the cops on Blue Bloods, but
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 5: he was famous for being, I don't know, something. He
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 5: was in a boy band back in the day. He's
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 5: my age.
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 17: Okay.
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 5: So I was not in a boy band.
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 17: You could have been.
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 5: Anyway, Wahlburgers just opened up a new restaurant in the
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 5: Bass Pro Pyramid here in Memphis. And so all of
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 5: these Hollywood celebrities, Bill Dance, the great fisherman was here,
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 5: and the founder of Bass Pro Shop was here.
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 14: Wow.
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 17: I mean, I've never had a Wahlburger burger before.
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 5: Well, this is, it's different. So this was, it's Wahlburger Wild.
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 5: So they have things like bison burgers and gator bites.
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 17: Wait, that sounds really good, actually. I would be not
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 17: opposed to that.
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 5: Eating alligator.
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 17: Alligator and bison. I like bison. It's a good meat.
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 5: Then they have, I'm trying to call up the, it's
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 5: called Wahlburgers Wild, and they opened it yesterday right here
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 5: in Memphis. Hold on, I'm pulling up the menu even
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 5: as we speak here. They have the Sweet Chili Glazed
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 5: Chicken Tenders. Oh, that sounds good. And they have the
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 5: Smash Burger, but they also have some sort of, oh,
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 5: here we go, a Wild Boar Bratwurst. Interesting.
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 12: Mm-hmm.
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 17: Those do not sound bad at all. That sounds really good.
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 5: Interesting. Oh, they also serve Fruity Pebbles. I don't understand why.
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 17: Is that like a dessert?
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 5: Could be.
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 17: It's on the menu.
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 5: It could be. So there you go. Alligator Bites, Wild
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 5: Boar Brat, and Wild Turkey Burgers. You know, just give
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 5: me the regular American food. That's all I'm asking. So anyway,
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 5: there you go. Wahlburgers there at Bass Pro. Coming up,
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 5: Congressman Randy Fine joining us. That's going to be a
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 5: great conversation. We'll be right back, everybody.
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 1: From Memphis, Tennessee, it's Common Sense Conservative Commentary from Todd Starnes.
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  Speaker 9: All right.
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 5: Hello, everybody.
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 4: Welcome.
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 5: Hour three of the Todd Starnes Radio Program broadcasting border
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 5: to border, coast to coast. Across the Fruited Plain, I
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 5: want to say a special hello to all of our
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 5: great listeners in Ocala, Florida, listening to us on WOCA today.
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 5: And good news for you folks in the Florida Panhandle,
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 5: known as the Redneck Riviera, getting ready to launch the
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 5: show in Pensacola, Florida. We'll be telling you more about
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 5: that in the next couple of days. Right now, though,
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 5: I want to go right away to the Patriot Mobile
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 5: Newsmaker line from Dallas, Texas. We say hello to our
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 5: good friend, the congressman from Florida, Randy Fine. Congressman, hope
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 5: you're doing well.
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 11: I'm doing great, and hello to all my constituents in Ocala.
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 11: So I was excited to hear that.
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 5: WOCA, we have so many great listeners over there at
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 5: that radio station, and they love you, Congressman. So we
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 5: appreciate the shout-out there. How are things in Dallas? What
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 5: is the mood?
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 11: Well, the mood's amazing. I mean, look, it's an incredible
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 11: opportunity over the next two days for us to talk
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 11: about the extraordinary achievements that President Trump has gotten done
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 11: over the past two years, but also to remind voters
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 11: what's at stake and where Democrats will take this country
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 11: if we are foolish enough to give them power. All
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 11: the good work. that President Trump has done in sealing
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 11: the border, in bringing down inflation, in deporting illegal immigrants.
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 11: That will all go away if they're able to take
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 11: control and bring true communism to the country, which is
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 11: what they're focused on doing.
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I appreciate the fact that you've been so vocal on...
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 5: these two big issues, which is political Islam and you've
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 5: got the rise of DSA, and they are both very
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 5: clear and present dangers to the Republic, in my estimation, Congressman.
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 11: They are, and they're largely one and the same. I
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 11: think the mainstream Muslims, and I refer to that for
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 11: a reason, I think the radical Muslims, the true radical Muslims,
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 11: are the ones who want to live in peace and
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 11: prosperity with the rest of us, but this mainstream Islam
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 11: coupled with communism, I think one group is using another.
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 11: And that's how it's worked in history. In Iran in
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 11: the late 1970s, it was leftists and Muslim religious leaders
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 11: who worked together. As soon as the Muslim leaders took over,
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 11: they killed the leftists. And we've seen that even in
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 11: places in Michigan where left-wing groups and mainstream Muslim groups
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 11: work together. As soon as the mainstream Muslims take control,
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 11: they ban Pride Month and everything having to do with
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 11: the left. So these are two... distinct threats that are
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 11: working together, and I'm proud to talk about it. I
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 11: wish more people did, because I will tell you, in
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 11: my polling, the rise of Islam in the United States
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 11: is one of the top issues that voters in all
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 11: parties tell me they're worried about.
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  Speaker 5: Well, it's something that we should all be very much
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 5: worried about. We've seen how this plays out in other countries,
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 5: and we're watching what's unfolding right now across Western Europe,
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 5: and Congressman, my question is, how do we get that
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 5: message through to America's young people? It seems like they're
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 5: being indoctrinated in their public schools.
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 11: Well, as it relates to communism and socialism, we need
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 11: to explain to them that this has been tried. and
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 11: it has failed. And it sounds good to have everything
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 11: offered to you for free. But, you know, the Communist
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 11: Manifesto might sound great when you're in your high school
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 11: political class. But in the real world, none of it
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 11: ever works. And I would point to Venezuela. Venezuela was
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 11: a poor, broken socialist country. And they knew they had
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 11: all of this oil. It wasn't that they didn't want
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 11: to get it out of the ground. It's that they couldn't,
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 11: because socialism doesn't work. When you eliminate the incentives for
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 11: people to work hard, they don't work hard. That's what
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 11: makes capitalism great. Why do drug companies invent drugs where
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 11: they make billions of dollars? because they know if they
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 11: invent a drug that will cure a disease, they will
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 11: make billions of dollars. The ability to make money is
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 11: the great motivator, and it creates products and services that
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 11: make all of our lives better. And so we just
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 11: need to explain this to people like we do in Florida.
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 11: As it relates to mainstream Islam, we need to talk
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 11: about what they're doing around the world, how they're demanding
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 11: that other cultures submit to them, and we need to
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 11: explain that the fundamental difference between Judaism, Christianity, and mainstream
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 11: Islam is that in Judaism and Christianity, you can practice
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 11: your faith in peace and prosperity and privacy, and what
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 11: you do affects no one else. But in mainstream Islam,
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 11: for them to practice their religion, you have to practice
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 11: their religion, or at minimum, submit to it. And that's
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 11: what makes it fundamentally incompatible with the First Amendment of
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 11: the Constitution.
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 5: We have Congressman Randy Fine joining us on our Patriot
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 5: Mobile Newsmaker line from Dallas. Congressman, we've been following the
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 5: developments out of New York City where so many families
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 5: of 9-11 victims are gathering. They are telling Mayor Mandami
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 5: to stay away from the 9-11 memorial service. I'm curious
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 5: where you stand on that.
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 11: Well, I think he should stay away from America. Look,
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 11: I think he should be denaturalized and deported for lying
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 11: in his naturalization paperwork, which there's no question that he did.
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 11: But He will be showing up on 9-11 not to
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 11: mourn the 3,000 who died, but to celebrate the attack.
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 11: He clearly sides more with those who hurt America than
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 11: those who suffered in America. And you can see it.
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 11: His wife is an open supporter of the terrorist attacks
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 11: of October 7th. He handed the pen on the declaration
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 11: about 9-11 to an attorney who defended terrorists. He does
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 11: not believe in American values, and he is on the
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 11: front line of those people who seek America's destruction. That's
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 11: what we need to be worried about. I think it's
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 11: a disgrace that he's in America, let alone that he's
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 11: the mayor of New York City.
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 5: Congressman, I want to swing back to the election and
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 5: the importance of today and tomorrow. Clearly, when you look
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 5: at the primary numbers, the Republican voter turnout has not
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 5: been all that great. What is it going to take to,
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 5: is it really just a messaging issue here, getting that
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 5: message to the voters?
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 11: Well, I think the side that wins the election is
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 11: the side whose voters are angrier and whose voters are
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 11: more afraid. The happy and content doesn't vote.
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 14: Everything's fine.
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 11: Why do I have to go out of my way
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 11: to vote? And Democrats are angry. They're angry about the
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 11: successes that President Trump has had. They want more illegal immigrants.
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 11: They want more invasion of our country. They want more welfare.
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 11: They want more welfare fraud. They want less law enforcement.
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 11: They want fewer police. They're angry about the successes that
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 11: we have had, whereas our voters are a little bit complacent.
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 11: And we need to make them understand If you don't
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 11: want a foot-washing station in your kid's school, you'd better
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 11: vote Republican, because the Islamification of America is the dominant
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 11: issue motivating the Democratic Party today. And if you believe
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 11: in America, you've got to vote Republican. And our voters
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 11: need to be as afraid of what the Democrats will
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 11: do to this country as the Democrats are angry about
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 11: how successful we have been.
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 4: Absolutely.
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 5: Well said. Well said. All right, Congressman, we appreciate you
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 5: coming on the show. More importantly, have you found a
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 5: good brisket joint down there in Dallas yet?
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 17: No, no, I have.
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 11: Spent all day in the arena here talking to folks
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 11: and talking to our base and making sure they're fired
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 11: up to vote. So, you know, I eat plenty, as
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 11: is obvious, and so I'll survive if I miss a
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 11: couple meals.
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 5: No, no, but you've got to get out there. You've
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 5: got to get some Texas brisket. I mean, that's the
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 5: whole point of being in Texas, or at least not
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 5: by Buc-ee's. I will try to do it.
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 11: I will try to do it before. Well, we have
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 11: Buc-ee's in my district, so I can get Texas brisket.
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 11: We have a Buc-ee's right near Daytona Beach in my district.
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 11: It's probably the place I stop more than any place
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 11: I do in the 6th Congressional District.
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 10: I'm impressed.
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 11: I can get that any time, but we will see.
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 5: Congressman, always appreciate you. You're a good man, and we
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 5: hope you have a good time down there in Dallas.
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 5: Good luck out on the campaign trail.
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 11: Thank you.
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 5: Congressman Randy Fine, everybody, on the Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line.
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 5: May I just say, I like the Buc-ee's brisket, Dylan,
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 5: but when you're in Dallas, you got to eat the
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 5: real deal.
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 17: It can't be Buc-ee's, but maybe they do get their
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 17: brisket from the local Texas places.
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 5: Well, maybe.
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 17: I don't know. I don't know how it works.
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 5: The Hill Country apparently is where the best brisket is.
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 5: I don't want to create like, I know we're on
• 1:24:18
  Speaker 5: a couple of stations in Texas. I don't want to
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 5: create a firestorm.
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 17: It's good. Brisket's good.
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 5: Yeah, but it's not barbecue. It's brisket.
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 17: It's in a different category.
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 5: For us, you know, barbecue is pig.
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 18: Yeah.
• 1:24:31
  Speaker 5: Exactly. All right. Got to take a break here, folks. 901-260-5926,
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 5: our telephone number. That's 901-260-5926. This is the Todd Stern Show.
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 5: All right. This story from the.
• 1:24:57
  Speaker 5: Pioneer Press. That's in St. Paul, Minnesota. And I may
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 5: need some help here. I think I'm following the story,
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 5: but I may need a little bit of help here.
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 5: This is the headline. He lives with his wife and
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 5: his husband and his partner in a six-person polycule. Now,
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 5: the polycule is the textbook term for a group involved
• 1:25:26
  Speaker 5: in living together. They share costs, they meet weekly to
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 5: discuss chores and meals, and they're basically married to each other.
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 5: So you have six people that are married to each
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 5: other in Minnesota. Now, I'm going to do my best
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 5: to try and describe these folks to you. They're all fat,
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 5: and they're not classically beautiful. And I'm not sure which
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 5: one is actually the dude, to be honest with you. But, yeah,
• 1:25:59
  Speaker 5: there's a lot of cooking going on in that house.
• 1:26:02
  Speaker 5: I'll just tell you that much. Anyway, here's the story.
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 5: Lyndon Kerhart describes his home as a spider web of connections. First,
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 5: there's his husband named Teddy, who Kerhart met when he
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 5: was an isolated teen growing up in a conservative town
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 5: in Virginia. The two always dreamed of getting married, and
• 1:26:26
  Speaker 5: in June they celebrated their 13-year commitment in a big
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 5: pink ceremony at a park. Then there's Kerhart's wife, Travis. Wait,
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 5: I'm sorry.
• 1:26:39
  Speaker 4: Wait, what?
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 5: I can't do this. They bonded as the two most
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 5: sober people at a friend's birthday bar crawl in 2019
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 5: and got married in 2023. Kerhart wears two wedding rings
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 5: on his left hand, one for each spouse.
• 1:27:07
  Speaker 17: Wait, did Teddy know that they got married or was
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 17: he just like hiding in the closet? Like what's happening
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 17: with Teddy?
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 5: Oh, I don't think anybody's in that closet. I don't
• 1:27:18
  Speaker 5: think anybody's there.
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 17: I see the full story. I need context on Teddy
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 17: from this point.
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 5: In the story. So the wife's name is Travis Rosemarie.
• 1:27:29
  Speaker 17: That's like 50% female.
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 7: Ish.
• 1:27:33
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 1:27:34
  Speaker 7: Ish.
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 5: So then they've got CJ Higgins, who is the partner.
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 5: And the partner is described as a queer platonic partner.
• 1:27:47
  Speaker 5: And then there's Angie, who is married to Maxine, who
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 5: is dating CJ. And then Travis and CJ are also married.
• 1:27:57
  Speaker 17: This is so confusing. I need one of those family
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 17: tree webs. I need the connection there.
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 5: The six live together as one family in a narrow
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 5: rented row house near Drexel. They each have their own room.
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 5: This is just weird.
• 1:28:19
  Speaker 18: Mr.
• 1:28:19
  Speaker 5: Kerhart says, as a species, humans are pack animals. That
• 1:28:24
  Speaker 5: isn't to say that everybody should be polyamorous, but I
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 5: think everybody should live in community. These are butt-ugly folks,
• 1:28:32
  Speaker 5: I'm just going to tell you.
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 7: Wow.
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 5: So there you have it, ladies and gentlemen. And again,
• 1:28:39
  Speaker 5: this goes back to something very simple. When the Supreme
• 1:28:43
  Speaker 5: Court redefined a beautiful thing that God created, you get this,
• 1:28:50
  Speaker 5: a bunch of fat people living together, and they don't
• 1:28:54
  Speaker 5: know their pronouns. I wonder how many bathrooms they've got.
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 17: Probably not enough.
• 1:29:03
  Speaker 5: Get a caseload of Febreze for that household. Unbelievable. But again,
• 1:29:08
  Speaker 5: are we surprised by this? Because who are any of
• 1:29:12
  Speaker 5: us now to say what is and what is not permissible, right?
• 1:29:17
  Speaker 5: Because I guarantee you there'll be a gay couple somewhere
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 5: that just got finished buying a kid, and they're like,
• 1:29:23
  Speaker 5: this is outrageous. They're making a mockery of marriage. Oh, really?
• 1:29:30
  Speaker 9: Really?
• 1:29:30
  Speaker 18: Really?
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 4: Who are you?
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 5: Who are you, gay couple, to say anything? You're not
• 1:29:35
  Speaker 5: allowed to judge those people, right? That's what we were told.
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 5: Marriage can be whatever the heck anybody wants it to
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 5: be now. That's why, what was it, some guy, there
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 5: was a guy that wanted to marry his laptop computer,
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 5: and that was, what, in Massachusetts? And then somebody, a
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 5: woman wanted to marry a tree. She wanted to literally
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 5: become a tree hugger. And we're supposed to sit back
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 5: and like, all right, you know, good luck to you.
• 1:30:03
  Speaker 5: Don't get a computer virus. I mean, good Lord, man.
• 1:30:08
  Speaker 5: So there you go.
• 1:30:09
  Speaker 17: I don't understand the point of getting married to that
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 17: point if you're going to have six people living in
• 1:30:14
  Speaker 17: the household. Like, what is marriage to them? Like, I
• 1:30:17
  Speaker 17: don't even know.
• 1:30:18
  Speaker 5: It's a great question. I mean, but again, it's, you know,
• 1:30:21
  Speaker 5: when society redefines it or says there can be no
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 5: really parameters, anything goes. This is what you get. 901-260-5926
• 1:30:28
  Speaker 5: is our telephone number. That's 901-260-5926. I want you to
• 1:30:31
  Speaker 5: meet the new city controller, the city treasurer, in a
• 1:30:33
  Speaker 5: little town in California. Cut number 27, please. Have you
• 1:30:34
  Speaker 5: invested your own money or other clients' money?
• 1:30:53
  Speaker 4: Yes, my own money. Yes, I have my own accounts
• 1:30:55
  Speaker 4: that I run every single day. And the success of them, like,
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 4: can you give just percentages? Percentages?
• 1:31:02
  Speaker 15: I could say that in the past year, I have
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 15: overturned 150% on my investment accounts.
• 1:31:06
  Speaker 5: Okay, and just for you personally, not for any clients?
• 1:31:09
  Speaker 4: Just for me personally, no.
• 1:31:10
  Speaker 10: Okay.
• 1:31:11
  Speaker 19: Do you know the amount of money that you would
• 1:31:12
  Speaker 19: be overseeing?
• 1:31:14
  Speaker 4: A lot of money. How much? I do not know
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 4: the direct number. $ 130 million. So it's a lot of money. Yes, correct. Yeah, okay.
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 4: All right, that's it.
• 1:31:22
  Speaker 14: Thank you.
• 1:31:22
  Speaker 16: Thank you.
• 1:31:24
  Speaker 5: So this is La Mesa, California. These people are idiots.
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 5: So they've got a Democrat majority. And I'm just telling you, Dylan, shockingly,
• 1:31:35
  Speaker 5: the city council sort of looks like that polyamorous, you know,
• 1:31:40
  Speaker 5: what do you call them?
• 1:31:42
  Speaker 4: Gang?
• 1:31:42
  Speaker 7: Sure. Army?
• 1:31:44
  Speaker 17: Perchance. Pack of wolves?
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 5: Tonnage?
• 1:31:47
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 1:31:48
  Speaker 5: Anyway, very similar. So the Democrat majority, La Mesa City Council,
• 1:31:53
  Speaker 5: just voted to appoint a 20-year-old as their city treasurer.
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 5: The 20-year-old has no experience. He's an intern. And you heard,
• 1:32:06
  Speaker 5: they're asking questions, and they said.
• 1:32:10
  Speaker 5: So how much is our city budget? That seems to
• 1:32:13
  Speaker 5: be an important thing to ask. I mean, if you're
• 1:32:15
  Speaker 5: going to be the city treasurer, you sort of need
• 1:32:17
  Speaker 5: to know how many dollars are in the bank. And
• 1:32:21
  Speaker 5: the guy goes, I don't know, but it's a lot
• 1:32:24
  Speaker 5: of money. That's a lot of money. He also claimed
• 1:32:31
  Speaker 5: to make, what, 150% return on his investment as a 20-year-old.
• 1:32:37
  Speaker 5: So now the Democrats, obviously people there in La Mesa
• 1:32:42
  Speaker 5: are a little concerned. And the Democrats are now accusing
• 1:32:47
  Speaker 5: critics of being ageist. So ageist is you're discriminating against
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 5: this guy because he's 20 years old. No, we're discriminating
• 1:32:56
  Speaker 5: against the guy because he doesn't know how much money
• 1:32:58
  Speaker 5: is in the city budget. By the way, nobody ever
• 1:33:05
  Speaker 5: brought up the guy's age. Until after the fact. The
• 1:33:12
  Speaker 5: guy can't even, if he went down to Applebee's, he'd
• 1:33:15
  Speaker 5: get carded. Unbelievable.
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 7: All right.
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 5: Good luck to you there, La Mesa. Hang tight, everybody.
• 1:33:21
  Speaker 5: Got to take a quick break here.
• 1:33:22
  Speaker 14: 901-260-5926.
• 1:33:22
  Speaker 5: Our number, that's 901-260-5926. This is the Todd Stern Show.
• 1:33:47
  Speaker 5: All right, let's get right back to Dallas, where Republicans
• 1:33:51
  Speaker 5: are holding their midterm convention. We're honored to have Daniel
• 1:33:55
  Speaker 5: West with us, government relations director for Heritage Action. Dan,
• 1:34:01
  Speaker 5: hope you're doing well, and hope Dallas is treating you good.
• 1:34:05
  Speaker 14: I sure am.
• 1:34:08
  Speaker 20: I started with some barbecue, and I'm having a great time.
• 1:34:11
  Speaker 5: Awesome. Well, I'm glad to hear that. You can't go
• 1:34:13
  Speaker 5: wrong with good brisket down in Dallas. Let's just jump
• 1:34:18
  Speaker 5: right into this. There are going to be a lot
• 1:34:20
  Speaker 5: of things that the Republicans are talking about tonight. I'm
• 1:34:24
  Speaker 5: just wondering, when we're looking at priorities, what is it
• 1:34:27
  Speaker 5: that you want to hear from these lawmakers over the
• 1:34:29
  Speaker 5: next couple of days?
• 1:34:33
  Speaker 20: I am big picture looking for showing just what the
• 1:34:37
  Speaker 20: Republican Party is.
• 1:34:39
  Speaker 10: For, and.
• 1:34:40
  Speaker 20: Not merely what we stand against that's important, but I
• 1:34:44
  Speaker 20: think showing a clear, positive vision for what we're going
• 1:34:49
  Speaker 20: to stand for, not only going into November, but what
• 1:34:52
  Speaker 20: we're going to do even hopefully next week in the House,
• 1:34:58
  Speaker 20: shows clear contrast between common sense and craziness.
• 1:35:02
  Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, it's interesting. You're diametrically opposed to Congressman
• 1:35:08
  Speaker 5: Randy Fine, who was just on the last segment. And
• 1:35:10
  Speaker 5: he said that Republicans need to be putting the fear
• 1:35:13
  Speaker 5: of God in people and saying, you know, the communists
• 1:35:16
  Speaker 5: are going to take over if we don't win. So
• 1:35:20
  Speaker 5: this is interesting. So you're saying the Republicans need to
• 1:35:24
  Speaker 5: have a more positive message.
• 1:35:27
  Speaker 20: I think so. I think it's obviously important to heighten
• 1:35:32
  Speaker 20: the contrast. There's clearly a direction in which the left
• 1:35:36
  Speaker 20: wants to take the country. But there's also, we should
• 1:35:39
  Speaker 20: be able to give solutions. I think something we've been
• 1:35:42
  Speaker 20: hitting on is that we want substance, not slogan. And
• 1:35:47
  Speaker 20: we want to be able to show the American people
• 1:35:48
  Speaker 20: that not only do we have probably the right way
• 1:35:52
  Speaker 20: to go on policy and show that they are the
• 1:35:55
  Speaker 20: wrong way, but actually back that up.
• 1:35:58
  Speaker 5: Well, no, and that's all fair, and I don't think
• 1:36:00
  Speaker 5: there's a right way or a wrong way. I do think, though,
• 1:36:03
  Speaker 5: that the Republicans have a messaging problem, and maybe today
• 1:36:08
  Speaker 5: and tomorrow they're going to be able to resolve that
• 1:36:10
  Speaker 5: and say, okay, here's what you are electing us to do.
• 1:36:15
  Speaker 5: And I'd like to think one of those things would
• 1:36:17
  Speaker 5: be passing the Save America Act.
• 1:36:20
  Speaker 20: That would be amazing. I would love that, and I
• 1:36:22
  Speaker 20: think America would be much better for it.
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 5: Let's talk about some of the other congressional priorities that
• 1:36:30
  Speaker 5: are important that are on your radar.
• 1:36:31
  Speaker 2: 100%. So I.
• 1:36:35
  Speaker 20: Think it might be out of people's minds because it's
• 1:36:39
  Speaker 20: not a problem right now. Trump secured the border. But
• 1:36:42
  Speaker 20: I do think one of the best things we've been
• 1:36:44
  Speaker 20: doing is actually making sure that they secure no matter
• 1:36:48
  Speaker 20: who becomes president whenever. I think doing that is incredibly important.
• 1:36:54
  Speaker 20: fighting radical, sex-rejecting ideology. The House has a great bill
• 1:37:00
  Speaker 20: from Bob Onder from Missouri called the Chloe Cole Act.
• 1:37:03
  Speaker 20: I'm sure some of your listeners are probably familiar with
• 1:37:06
  Speaker 20: her story as an advocate. But I think there are
• 1:37:10
  Speaker 20: some clear things that we can do to show contrast,
• 1:37:14
  Speaker 20: showing that the Republican Party is a party where they
• 1:37:18
  Speaker 20: understand that there's two genders. Things like that are a
• 1:37:21
  Speaker 20: very clear contrast and show what we're for and what
• 1:37:25
  Speaker 20: the other party is against.
• 1:37:27
  Speaker 5: Again, Daniel West is Government Relations Director for Heritage Action.
• 1:37:32
  Speaker 5: When you look at what's going to happen over the
• 1:37:36
  Speaker 5: next couple of days, which is sort of somewhat modern-day historic,
• 1:37:40
  Speaker 5: they have done these kinds of things in the past,
• 1:37:43
  Speaker 5: what do you want to see coming out of this
• 1:37:45
  Speaker 5: two-day gathering?
• 1:37:48
  Speaker 20: I really would hope for.
• 1:37:51
  Speaker 20: Unity coming out of these two days, not just because
• 1:37:55
  Speaker 20: everyone's in a room together to kind of share ideas
• 1:37:59
  Speaker 20: and sort of come out with a message. I think
• 1:38:02
  Speaker 20: clearly showing what the stakes are of what we have
• 1:38:08
  Speaker 20: in November and showing that, yeah, we are the competent
• 1:38:12
  Speaker 20: governing party and clearly deserve to have more time to
• 1:38:17
  Speaker 20: work under, hopefully, a trifecta and keep it going.
• 1:38:21
  Speaker 5: Well, I'm excited about that. So, Will, fingers crossed. Again,
• 1:38:26
  Speaker 5: as you guys are plotting and looking ahead, the key
• 1:38:29
  Speaker 5: here is maintaining control of the House of Representatives. What
• 1:38:33
  Speaker 5: are you guys hearing? Boots on the ground.
• 1:38:37
  Speaker 20: Yeah, boots on the ground. We sort of see the
• 1:38:41
  Speaker 20: energy and people are excited to be here in Dallas
• 1:38:46
  Speaker 20: to really kind of echo the message that that has
• 1:38:51
  Speaker 20: resonated and resonated in 16 and 24 and really hopefully
• 1:38:55
  Speaker 20: carries on this year too. Um, that, uh, the American
• 1:39:00
  Speaker 20: people are, are fed up with policies, um, that drive
• 1:39:04
  Speaker 20: a lot of oppressive socialist policies. Um, and there is
• 1:39:08
  Speaker 20: a better way and highlighting that better way. Um, I
• 1:39:12
  Speaker 20: think it's going to be.
• 1:39:13
  Speaker 14: A very key aspect.
• 1:39:14
  Speaker 20: I think people are excited for that. I think people
• 1:39:15
  Speaker 20: are excited for, um, renewed, um, policy and substance coming
• 1:39:22
  Speaker 20: out from the right.
• 1:39:24
  Speaker 5: All right, Daniel, we're going to have to leave it there. Again, heritageaction.com,
• 1:39:28
  Speaker 5: ladies and gentlemen, the website. Be sure to check that out.
• 1:39:31
  Speaker 5: And again, this is all part of our coverage of
• 1:39:34
  Speaker 5: the big convention happening in Dallas. Daniel, thank you.
• 1:39:37
  Speaker 20: Happy to be here.
• 1:39:39
  Speaker 11: Thank you.
• 1:39:40
  Speaker 5: All right. There you go. 901-260-5926, our telephone number. That's 901-260-5926.
• 1:39:49
  Speaker 5: Let's go to Memphis, Tennessee. Mike, listening to us on KWAM. Mike,
• 1:39:54
  Speaker 5: what's on your mind today?
• 1:39:55
  Speaker 21: Hey, greetings, Todd. Yeah, I know that most people have
• 1:39:59
  Speaker 21: forgotten this, but I haven't. I have a lot of
• 1:40:01
  Speaker 21: friends that lived in New York. I had some family
• 1:40:04
  Speaker 21: that lived there, and I knew an NYPD guy that
• 1:40:07
  Speaker 21: actually was part of the crew that arrested the dancing Israelis.
• 1:40:11
  Speaker 21: They were videotaping themselves and doing selfies as the building's burning.
• 1:40:15
  Speaker 21: But anyway, Building 7 fell in free fall. There was
• 1:40:19
  Speaker 21: nothing supposedly hitting Building 7. The Boeing 757 has a 124-foot,
• 1:40:26
  Speaker 21: 10-inches wingspan. Those 9-foot tall engines, Rolls-Royce engines, would leave
• 1:40:33
  Speaker 21: a heck of a mark in the building, but there
• 1:40:35
  Speaker 21: was no mark on the Pentagon. There was no body parts,
• 1:40:39
  Speaker 21: no luggage whatsoever. No parts of a 757. Now, as
• 1:40:42
  Speaker 21: someone that worked with the Air Force as a lieutenant,
• 1:40:45
  Speaker 21: as a pilot for four years in search and rescue,
• 1:40:48
  Speaker 21: I can advise you, as an expert, no planes hit Pentagon.
• 1:40:54
  Speaker 21: No planes hit Shanksville.
• 1:40:55
  Speaker 5: Mike, stop it. Just stop it right there. He's done.
• 1:41:00
  Speaker 5: He's done. I'm not playing this game today. I was there,
• 1:41:06
  Speaker 5: and I saw it with my own eyes. So, Mike,
• 1:41:09
  Speaker 5: shame on you. Shame on you. And there are people
• 1:41:13
  Speaker 5: like Mike out there who just seem to think that
• 1:41:17
  Speaker 5: all of the videos of that day of the jetliners
• 1:41:19
  Speaker 5: flying into the buildings were just, what, make-believe? That they came, what,
• 1:41:23
  Speaker 5: out of Hollywood? Just stop it. I have no time
• 1:41:27
  Speaker 5: for people like that today. We'll be right back. A
• 1:41:41
  Speaker 5: lot of people have been talking about the new iPhone,
• 1:41:45
  Speaker 5: and the information just came out. Apple has all of
• 1:41:50
  Speaker 5: the details up on their website. This is the iPhone
• 1:41:54
  Speaker 5: 18 Pro and the iPhone 18 Pro Max. This is
• 1:42:02
  Speaker 5: really interesting. And the new component here, the new feature,
• 1:42:06
  Speaker 5: it's a fold-out phone. which gives you a pretty massive screen.
• 1:42:11
  Speaker 5: This is pretty impressive here. Going to set you back
• 1:42:15
  Speaker 5: a penny, though, I'll tell you that much. This is, again,
• 1:42:19
  Speaker 5: the brand-new edition, and the screen size is, what, 7.6
• 1:42:26
  Speaker 5: inches diagonally, and it's also the thinnest iPhone ever. So
• 1:42:31
  Speaker 5: when you actually unfold it, it looks like an iPad tablet.
• 1:42:36
  Speaker 17: Are you going to buy this, Todd?
• 1:42:37
  Speaker 5: I want one.
• 1:42:38
  Speaker 17: It's huge.
• 1:42:39
  Speaker 5: Yeah. I like this. I have a hard time. You know,
• 1:42:44
  Speaker 5: I've got the little, the fingers and I hit, you know,
• 1:42:46
  Speaker 5: I hit the wrong letters.
• 1:42:48
  Speaker 17: I can just see you over there just unfolding your phone.
• 1:42:51
  Speaker 17: I feel like we're going back in time.
• 1:42:53
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 1:42:54
  Speaker 17: We're back to foldable phones. Like they did that with
• 1:42:56
  Speaker 17: the Android. Now with the iPhone, what are we going
• 1:42:59
  Speaker 17: to like black? Like what was the, what was the Razor,
• 1:43:02
  Speaker 17: Motorola Razor?
• 1:43:03
  Speaker 5: Oh, yeah, back in the day. That was, what, 2004?
• 1:43:06
  Speaker 5: You had the Motorola. And, of course, the old school BlackBerrys.
• 1:43:12
  Speaker 5: Did you ever have a BlackBerry?
• 1:43:13
  Speaker 17: I never had a BlackBerry, but I did have a Razr.
• 1:43:16
  Speaker 17: That was like my first phone. It had no games,
• 1:43:18
  Speaker 17: no social media. I just could call my parents.
• 1:43:22
  Speaker 5: I mean, it's amazing over the past 25 years, really,
• 1:43:25
  Speaker 5: the progression of these phones.
• 1:43:27
  Speaker 17: It happened fast.
• 1:43:28
  Speaker 5: It really did. They say that really between 2004 and
• 1:43:32
  Speaker 5: 2012 is when all the major changes were made. And then,
• 1:43:38
  Speaker 5: you know, now they're just fine-tuning. But to your point,
• 1:43:42
  Speaker 5: what is old is new again.
• 1:43:43
  Speaker 17: Yeah, I never thought we would come back to foldable phones.
• 1:43:47
  Speaker 17: And it's all touchscreen. I mean, I don't know. It's Apple,
• 1:43:50
  Speaker 17: so they're going to go big.
• 1:43:52
  Speaker 5: iPhone Duo, this is, it launches today, seven years after
• 1:43:56
  Speaker 5: Samsung shipped its first foldable smartphone, the Galaxy Fold, back
• 1:44:03
  Speaker 5: in 2019. But they're saying it's so thin that you don't,
• 1:44:07
  Speaker 5: it doesn't have the feel of something that's really bulky.
• 1:44:11
  Speaker 17: That is nice. But I did see that it's about
• 1:44:13
  Speaker 17: the size of a passport when it's folded up. So,
• 1:44:18
  Speaker 17: I mean, you're going to have to have pretty big pockets.
• 1:44:20
  Speaker 5: Oh, this is true. It's... They say other foldable designs
• 1:44:26
  Speaker 5: feel like two phones that have been stuck together, but
• 1:44:29
  Speaker 5: the iPhone is the most transformational change to the iPhone
• 1:44:33
  Speaker 5: since the original. So it's an entirely new design, and
• 1:44:36
  Speaker 5: they call it an intuitive experience. I've got to get
• 1:44:38
  Speaker 5: one of these.
• 1:44:40
  Speaker 17: I think you do.
• 1:44:42
  Speaker 5: The cost is going to be significant. I think it's
• 1:44:45
  Speaker 5: almost $ 2, 000 from what I read. I mean, would you
• 1:44:50
  Speaker 5: pay that much money for a phone– Well.
• 1:44:52
  Speaker 17: It's kind of like you're buying two phones for one.
• 1:44:56
  Speaker 17: You think about it. I mean, they call it the
• 1:44:57
  Speaker 17: iPhone Duo for a reason.
• 1:45:00
  Speaker 5: I don't know. Yeah, the pricing starts at $ 19.
• 1:45:07
  Speaker 9: 99.
• 1:45:07
  Speaker 5: Not $ 19.
• 1:45:07
  Speaker 7: 99.
• 1:45:07
  Speaker 5: $ 1, 999. So you're looking at over $ 2, 000.
• 1:45:10
  Speaker 17: It could come with two terabytes of storage on there.
• 1:45:12
  Speaker 17: That's enough storage for your entire life. Like you wouldn't
• 1:45:15
  Speaker 17: need that much storage on a phone.
• 1:45:18
  Speaker 16: Wow.
• 1:45:19
  Speaker 5: So pre-orders start October 16th, and the device will begin
• 1:45:23
  Speaker 5: shipping on the 23rd. That's just in time for my birthday.
• 1:45:28
  Speaker 17: Are you hinting at something?
• 1:45:30
  Speaker 5: If the staff, I know you guys tell me I'm
• 1:45:32
  Speaker 5: hard to buy for.
• 1:45:34
  Speaker 4: You know what?
• 1:45:34
  Speaker 5: I think I'm.
• 1:45:35
  Speaker 17: This is an easy one.
• 1:45:36
  Speaker 5: This is it.
• 1:45:36
  Speaker 1: There it is.
• 1:45:37
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 1:45:37
  Speaker 17: Well, all of us will chip in on this, I think.
• 1:45:40
  Speaker 5: So you can either get it in star white or
• 1:45:43
  Speaker 5: night sky. I like the night sky.
• 1:45:47
  Speaker 7: Okay.
• 1:45:47
  Speaker 17: I'm writing this down.
• 1:45:48
  Speaker 5: Night Sky.
• 1:45:51
  Speaker 17: You might see that or you might see an off-brand version.
• 1:45:53
  Speaker 17: You might see the pair. iPair Duo.
• 1:45:57
  Speaker 5: Is that it? Oh, my goodness.
• 1:45:59
  Speaker 17: I love it.
• 1:46:00
  Speaker 7: 901-260-5926.
• 1:46:00
  Speaker 11: That's 901-260-5926.
• 1:46:00
  Speaker 5: I mean, what is the average iPhone going? It's like $ 700, $ 800, right?
• 1:46:04
  Speaker 16: Right.
• 1:46:14
  Speaker 17: Yeah, the newer ones are getting up there, though. Close
• 1:46:17
  Speaker 17: to 1,000.
• 1:46:17
  Speaker 5: I have not updated my phone in a very, very
• 1:46:21
  Speaker 5: long time. So I am in need of an upgrade.
• 1:46:24
  Speaker 5: So I don't even know what. Oh, this is iPhone. Oh,
• 1:46:26
  Speaker 5: I'm embarrassed. This is iPhone 13 Pro.
• 1:46:30
  Speaker 17: Oh, Todd.
• 1:46:31
  Speaker 14: It's old.
• 1:46:31
  Speaker 17: I don't think they even make cases for that anymore.
• 1:46:34
  Speaker 5: You know, they don't. I had to buy. So I
• 1:46:37
  Speaker 5: was at a truck stop. And it was the kind
• 1:46:41
  Speaker 5: where you just really fear for your life.
• 1:46:43
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 1:46:43
  Speaker 5: And I noticed, because you're right, my case had, like, disintegrated,
• 1:46:49
  Speaker 5: and I couldn't find one anywhere. And so they actually
• 1:46:51
  Speaker 5: had one at the truck stop.
• 1:46:53
  Speaker 17: Interesting.
• 1:46:54
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 1:46:55
  Speaker 17: Rare find, probably.
• 1:46:56
  Speaker 5: Among other things.
• 1:46:57
  Speaker 17: Yeah, I'm sure. Nice keychains.
• 1:46:59
  Speaker 18: Yeah.
• 1:47:00
  Speaker 17: Some shirts.
• 1:47:01
  Speaker 5: Pretty much.
• 1:47:01
  Speaker 17: Graphic teeth.
• 1:47:02
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:47:03
  Speaker 5: It's kind of like it's beyond redneck for Walmart, you know.
• 1:47:08
  Speaker 5: It was a very dangerous truck stop. So anyway, but
• 1:47:11
  Speaker 5: to your point, yeah, I've got to upgrade. I'm surprised
• 1:47:14
  Speaker 5: my phone actually still works.
• 1:47:15
  Speaker 17: Yeah, me too. I mean, Apple usually likes to kill
• 1:47:18
  Speaker 17: off the phones once they come out with new ones.
• 1:47:20
  Speaker 5: Wow, don't they?
• 1:47:21
  Speaker 17: Everything is slower.
• 1:47:22
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 1:47:23
  Speaker 17: Yeah, the internet doesn't really load anymore.
• 1:47:25
  Speaker 5: I've noticed that. And I bought two desktops with the
• 1:47:32
  Speaker 5: massive screens at the same time. And I've noticed they're
• 1:47:35
  Speaker 5: starting to slow down a little bit.
• 1:47:37
  Speaker 4: It's terrible.
• 1:47:38
  Speaker 17: I don't know why that happened. There's got to be something.
• 1:47:41
  Speaker 17: We've got to look into that because that's... Most people
• 1:47:43
  Speaker 17: feel that way about their phones.
• 1:47:44
  Speaker 5: A thousand percent. A thousand percent. I want to share
• 1:47:48
  Speaker 5: some information with you. There was an incident on Saturday,
• 1:47:52
  Speaker 5: over the weekend, involving the Democrat gubernatorial candidate in Ohio.
• 1:47:58
  Speaker 5: Acton is her name. She's a doctor.
• 1:48:00
  Speaker 14: Dr.
• 1:48:01
  Speaker 5: Amy Acton. And the allegation... I mean, the report, the
• 1:48:05
  Speaker 5: breaking news report, this is all over the website, all
• 1:48:08
  Speaker 5: over the internet. Breaking news is that... She had been
• 1:48:12
  Speaker 5: attacked at a campaign event by some dude who had
• 1:48:16
  Speaker 5: a gun. And you're like, oh, my gosh.
• 1:48:19
  Speaker 4: I mean, everyone.
• 1:48:20
  Speaker 5: Was condemning it, right? I mean, that's just ridiculous. Well,
• 1:48:23
  Speaker 5: now it turns out that none of it was true,
• 1:48:26
  Speaker 5: that the guy did have– he was armed, but he was–
• 1:48:31
  Speaker 5: by law, he was allowed to be armed, and he
• 1:48:34
  Speaker 5: did not do what he was accused of doing. Here
• 1:48:36
  Speaker 5: is the actual prosecutor there in Ohio. describing you know
• 1:48:41
  Speaker 5: the the video evidence they have in the case uh
• 1:48:44
  Speaker 5: cut number 28.
• 1:48:46
  Speaker 22: The information we've received is that the act in camp
• 1:48:49
  Speaker 22: requested individuals stop recording shortly before this incident occurred so
• 1:48:54
  Speaker 22: at this point the only video we have is the
• 1:48:56
  Speaker 22: defendants and what's that showing certainly doesn't uh support filing
• 1:49:01
  Speaker 22: felony charges what does that video show It shows him
• 1:49:05
  Speaker 22: walking into the tent, recording, and moving forward, calling out
• 1:49:09
  Speaker 22: her name and the state patrol, then her security.
• 1:49:12
  Speaker 19: I shouldn't say the state patrol.
• 1:49:14
  Speaker 22: Somebody in her security comes forward, and then his phone
• 1:49:17
  Speaker 22: is either dropped or tussled, and that's all we have.
• 1:49:21
  Speaker 22: There's never any close contact with the governor.
• 1:49:25
  Speaker 6: Never gets near her.
• 1:49:27
  Speaker 22: Or, I'm sorry, candidate for governor.
• 1:49:29
  Speaker 7: So.
• 1:49:30
  Speaker 5: So that's the prosecutor. And she said there's no felony here.
• 1:49:34
  Speaker 5: There's no crime here. The guy bumped into somebody and
• 1:49:39
  Speaker 5: they fell or whatever. I don't think it was intentional.
• 1:49:42
  Speaker 5: But anyway, the way this was originally framed by the
• 1:49:44
  Speaker 5: media is that this Democrat was the victim of some
• 1:49:49
  Speaker 5: sort of gun violence when, in fact, the gun had
• 1:49:52
  Speaker 5: nothing to do with it. And this guy, and you
• 1:49:54
  Speaker 5: heard the prosecutor say that I guess his crime was
• 1:49:57
  Speaker 5: he did not turn off his cell phone because the
• 1:50:00
  Speaker 5: Democrat candidate said, you're not allowed to film me. And
• 1:50:04
  Speaker 5: they made everybody in that tent turn off their phones,
• 1:50:07
  Speaker 5: and that guy didn't do it. So, again, we're going
• 1:50:10
  Speaker 5: to call these things out. We condemn all sorts of violence, right?
• 1:50:14
  Speaker 5: But we're not going to let people get away with
• 1:50:17
  Speaker 5: making things up. And that's what appears to have happened here.
• 1:50:22
  Speaker 5: Coming up tomorrow, ladies and gentlemen, the one-year anniversary of
• 1:50:26
  Speaker 5: the assassination of Charlie Kirk. We're going to be talking
• 1:50:30
  Speaker 5: about that. You know, I have two chapters in my
• 1:50:33
  Speaker 5: new book, The Golden Age, about that. Chapter 7. We
• 1:50:39
  Speaker 5: have some breaking news from Utah, and that actually tells
• 1:50:42
  Speaker 5: the story of how we responded to the shooting here
• 1:50:46
  Speaker 5: on the show as it was happening in real time.
• 1:50:50
  Speaker 5: And then we had Pastor Jack Hibbs, who came onto
• 1:50:55
  Speaker 5: the program, and we have a chapter about Jack Hibbs
• 1:50:59
  Speaker 5: and his relationship with Charlie Kirk. He was discipling Charlie
• 1:51:04
  Speaker 5: and giving him spiritual guidance. And so, Again, ladies and gentlemen,
• 1:51:08
  Speaker 5: if you haven't already purchased a copy, get a copy
• 1:51:12
  Speaker 5: of the Golden Age. You're going to be blessed. You're
• 1:51:14
  Speaker 5: going to be challenged. You're going to be entertained as well.
• 1:51:18
  Speaker 5: And you're going to see some really, really interesting things
• 1:51:21
  Speaker 5: and see how God is moving in America. So we're
• 1:51:24
  Speaker 5: going to talk about Charlie tomorrow. We're going to be
• 1:51:27
  Speaker 5: taking you live to the– there's going to be some
• 1:51:29
  Speaker 5: sort of an event in Phoenix at TPUSA headquarters. And
• 1:51:33
  Speaker 5: we're going to be talking to some folks there. And,
• 1:51:35
  Speaker 5: of course, we're also going to be covering the big
• 1:51:38
  Speaker 5: midterm convention in Dallas. So you're going to want to
• 1:51:42
  Speaker 5: stick around for that as well. Don't forget ToddStearns.com. All
• 1:51:46
  Speaker 5: sorts of great news and information. We'll be updating the
• 1:51:49
  Speaker 5: president's speech later tonight and giving you some analysis of that.
• 1:51:53
  Speaker 5: We'll be doing that off hours tonight on ToddStearns.com. All right,
• 1:51:59
  Speaker 5: it's been a lot of fun, everybody. Thank you for
• 1:52:01
  Speaker 5: joining us. Back at it tomorrow right here on the
• 1:52:04
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