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Lawmaker Says He Understands “Rural People” Because He Watches “Dukes of Hazzard” · ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes

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  Speaker 2: an interesting bit of audio, and I want you to
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  Speaker 2: listen to this. It is a Virginia lawmaker, and this
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  Speaker 2: Virginia lawmaker is out there and yesterday, yes we played
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  Speaker 2: this audio yesterday, and he was out there saying, we're
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  Speaker 2: trying to figure out rural Virginia, all you folks that
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  Speaker 2: live out in the countryside. And he said that the
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  Speaker 2: guy's name, by the way, is State Senator Lamont Bagbee,
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  Speaker 2: and mister Bagbee is out there and they're trying to
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  Speaker 2: figure out why all of the folks in rural America.
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  Speaker 2: And by the way, when he's talking about rural America,
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  Speaker 2: he's really talking about white people. So this is code
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  Speaker 2: for all of you white folks. And I don't think
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  Speaker 2: that he meant this in a really disparaging way at all.
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  Speaker 2: I think he was trying to be well, he was
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  Speaker 2: trying to be conciliatory with his remarks. But anyway, he
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  Speaker 2: was talking about the jerrymandering and why is it that.
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  Speaker 2: And by the way, when you go and look at
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  Speaker 2: the polls, an overwhelming number of country folks voted against
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  Speaker 2: this jerrymander as well. They should. So anyway, he's uh,
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  Speaker 2: he's holding of he's holding court there at the General
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  Speaker 2: Assembly there in Virginia. And here's what he had to say,
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  Speaker 2: all about all of you country boys and girls gotten
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  Speaker 2: down on the farm and listen.
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  Speaker 4: I almost took issue with the other side saying that
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  Speaker 4: we don't understand. But I grew up watching the Waltons.
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  Speaker 4: I grew up with with Opie. I even wants to
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  Speaker 4: do ser hazard. I think I know a little bit
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  Speaker 4: about Rome America. And when I think about while we
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  Speaker 4: are here, we're not just here. I'm not just Hypothia.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not just here for Arnold or Willis. I'm here
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  Speaker 4: for Opie, John boy Blocks.
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  Speaker 2: It's a panga what you're talking about Willis? Uh, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: so that's Dylan has no idea what that means. You
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  Speaker 2: gotta watch different strokes. And by the way, it's a
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  Speaker 2: TV show from the was it a seventies, the eighties?
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  Speaker 2: It's a long time ago, and you had a rich
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  Speaker 2: white guy adopt two poor black kids. So it was
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  Speaker 2: a feel good show back in the day. So anyway,
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  Speaker 2: Magbie says, yeah, you know, I watched The Dukes of Hazzard.
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  Speaker 2: I watched the Waltons. I find that comment to be dubious.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just gonna I'm gonna ask this question. I will
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  Speaker 2: ask this question all of you gen xers out there, now,
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  Speaker 2: you boomers, you guys loved the Waltons. But for if
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  Speaker 2: you were a gen xer growing up, your parents probably
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  Speaker 2: made you watch the Waltons. And I would have rather
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  Speaker 2: eaten the wallpaper off the kitchen wall than watch the Waltons.
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  Speaker 2: It was brutal. But anyway, you had what John Boy,
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  Speaker 2: and he had Mary Ellen and Goober, and I know
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  Speaker 2: that Goober was the Andy Griffish. Sorry, what about Cooter? No,
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  Speaker 2: Cooter was the Yeah, Cooter was the Duke's of Astrop.
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  Speaker 2: Pardon me, I digress here. So anyway, he says, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you know what, I understand all those country folks. Now,
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  Speaker 2: he seems to believe that all of us folks out
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  Speaker 2: in the country are just a bunch of good old
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  Speaker 2: boys driving around in Dodge Chargers waving idle Confederate flags.
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  Speaker 2: The women folk are serving as frosty root beers and
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  Speaker 2: their daisy dukes, and so if we're all just a
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  Speaker 2: bunch of moonshiners named Cooter getting chased by Boss Hog,
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  Speaker 2: and Roscoe P. Coultry. I got to tell you something, Dylan, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I got no problem with that.
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  Speaker 5: I'm that sounds like a good time to me.
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  Speaker 2: Sounds a pretty good life. That's pretty good living if
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  Speaker 2: you ask me. But all of these they're tropes, right about.
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  Speaker 2: This is what the Democrats really think about all of
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  Speaker 2: you guys. And they're pretty well worn. And it's really
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  Speaker 2: a bit of a stretch. I mean when you think
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  Speaker 2: about it, well, unless you live in Arkansas, maybe not
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  Speaker 2: so much of it. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. Anyway,
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  Speaker 2: It's nothing new. Look, they hate us. Do you realize
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  Speaker 2: that the loathing that is coming from the Democrat Party
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  Speaker 2: when it comes to white people who live in the country,
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  Speaker 2: it's it's just off the charts, and it's nothing new.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's really not you know, they're just so out
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  Speaker 2: of touch with really regular everyday Americans because they are
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  Speaker 2: the party of the elites. These are the academics, the
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  Speaker 2: hoity toity, who live off the generous salaries provided to
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  Speaker 2: them by you, the taxpayers. And what do they do
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  Speaker 2: from their dvanced ivory towers. They sneer at all the
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  Speaker 2: farmers and the construction workers, and the grocery store clerks.
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  Speaker 2: They really want to have nothing to do with you,
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  Speaker 2: but the irony. And by the way, it's not just.
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  Speaker 2: It is not just in Virginia. I want you to listen,
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  Speaker 2: you folks out in Iowa. I want you to listen
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  Speaker 2: to this audio. This woman is actually running for Congress,
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  Speaker 2: the first congressional district in Iowa. She is her name
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  Speaker 2: is Christina Bohannon, and I want you to hear what
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  Speaker 2: she thinks about all of you people there in Iowa
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  Speaker 2: got forty five.
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  Speaker 6: It really focused on the fact that, you know, there
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  Speaker 6: were some of our revolutionary leaders who became supportive of
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  Speaker 6: that revolution because they wanted to preserve the institution of slavery.
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  Speaker 6: Now that doesn't mean that that's their only reason for
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  Speaker 6: doing it. We of course they're taxation without representation, and
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  Speaker 6: there were a number of other things that some of
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  Speaker 6: the revolutionaries fought for. But it is it's just an
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  Speaker 6: attempt to say, hey, you know, let's look at American
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  Speaker 6: history through the lens of slavery and through black experience
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  Speaker 6: and see, you know what parts of that might have
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  Speaker 6: been might have been driven by or affected by that
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  Speaker 6: that history, and so you know, it it's interesting that,
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  Speaker 6: again for the party who says that they're all about
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  Speaker 6: free speech, wanted to shut down an area of inquiry
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  Speaker 6: and an area of thought and speech to get through
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  Speaker 6: a greater understanding about our history and ourselves as a country.
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  Speaker 2: So she thinks, she thinks really really highly of all
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  Speaker 2: you people in Iowa. This woman cause you people backwards.
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  Speaker 2: That's what she says. And she's look and she's been
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  Speaker 2: very genuine She deeply believes that this is not some
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  Speaker 2: sort of a you know, just sort of a slip
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  Speaker 2: of the tongue. They literally believe that. And this is
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  Speaker 2: a Democrat from Iowa, of all, so they all feel
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  Speaker 2: like this, every every single one of them. And this
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  Speaker 2: is why I believe they are going to continue to
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  Speaker 2: lose elections because they're so far out of touch with everybody. Everybody. Now,
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  Speaker 2: I want to get back to to what this guy
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  Speaker 2: from Virginia had this thing. You know, The irony is
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  Speaker 2: she's actually going to need the votes of all those
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  Speaker 2: people to be elected to Congress, the people that she
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  Speaker 2: just called backwards. And I would be willing to say
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  Speaker 2: that the Democrats there are actually so backwards they would
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  Speaker 2: vote for somebody like that. It wasn't so long ago,
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  Speaker 2: and many of you remember these days. What was it
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  Speaker 2: when Barack Hussein Obama called us a bunch of better people?
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  Speaker 2: Remember he was talking to a group of people in
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  Speaker 2: San Francisco, talk about all of you folks in the
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  Speaker 2: Rust Belt. That's Pennsylvania, West Virginia, pardon me, that's West Virginie,
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  Speaker 2: all of those places. And he said, oh, those are
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  Speaker 2: better people. They cling to their guns, they cling to
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  Speaker 2: their religion. And then there was Hillary Rodham Clinton, Missus
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  Speaker 2: Missus Bill Clinton, speaking on forty second Street in New
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  Speaker 2: York City to an LGBTQ I A, oh, you know, Dylan,
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  Speaker 2: people are now having relations with objects. We want to
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  Speaker 2: lgbt Oh. By anyway, she was speaking to that crowd
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  Speaker 2: and she said, what, oh, we're a basket of irredeemable deplorables.
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  Speaker 2: And it was Joe Biden who said that, oh, those people,
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  Speaker 2: those those Christians there are a bunch of they're the
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  Speaker 2: dregs of society in one of his more lucent moments, actually,
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  Speaker 2: And then you had everybody remembers Peter Struck, the former
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  Speaker 2: FBI agent. Remember he was he was cheating on his
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  Speaker 2: wife with some other female was at least a page
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  Speaker 2: was her name, the FBI chick, and they were getting
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  Speaker 2: it on. And what did he say about all of
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  Speaker 2: those He called you folks, the smelly Walmart people. But
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  Speaker 2: you know what I see, And really, I mean, this
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  Speaker 2: is he's describing. I mean, all these things describe our audience.
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  Speaker 2: These are these are our people. And I see a
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  Speaker 2: bunch of hard work and red blooded Americans, That's what
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  Speaker 2: I see. I see families who go to church on Sunday,
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  Speaker 2: and they march in the annual Fourth of July parade,
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  Speaker 2: and they take their kids to Little League games or
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  Speaker 2: the local ballet and they say grace before they eat supper.
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  Speaker 2: That's what I see. And by the way, I see
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  Speaker 2: moms and day adds who send their sons and daughters
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  Speaker 2: off to join the military. Those folks in the country
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  Speaker 2: are the ones that grow our groceries and fill up
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  Speaker 2: our gas tanks and fight our wars. Those country folks
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  Speaker 2: are also the same people who gave us some of
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  Speaker 2: the most incredible writers and musicians and scholars and artists
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  Speaker 2: of all time. I wrote about this in my book
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  Speaker 2: And I pointed out in that book that country is
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  Speaker 2: really not a place, because you can be country and
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  Speaker 2: believe it or not, in New York City. You can
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  Speaker 2: be country in Chicago. Because country is really not a
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  Speaker 2: geographic location. It's a state of mind, and it's a
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  Speaker 2: place where you find a true grit, this sort of
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  Speaker 2: pick yourself up by the bootstrap's mentality. It's a place
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  Speaker 2: where you've got family and loved ones and when you
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  Speaker 2: find yourself in a rough spot, and you hit a
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  Speaker 2: rough patch, well you're gonna find, as the country music
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  Speaker 2: songwriter said that you've got friends with tractors. So I
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  Speaker 2: don't get the senator bagby I don't think he said
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  Speaker 2: what he said to me. Mean he just sincerely believes that.
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  Speaker 2: And I have to laugh because for him to suggest
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  Speaker 2: that he knows about country living just because he watches
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  Speaker 2: The Dukes of Hazzard makes about as much sense as
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  Speaker 2: me saying I know about urban living because I watch
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  Speaker 2: Sanford's son. All right, we got to take a break here.
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  Speaker 2: what a crazy story that is. You know, I want
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  Speaker 2: to go back to Virginia for just a moment. And
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  Speaker 2: it's really sad because the establishment Republicans, and by the established,
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  Speaker 2: i'm talking about the wealthy Republicans, they have that same
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  Speaker 2: mindset when it comes to all of you country folks
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  Speaker 2: out there, and ultimately you guys, we are the base
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  Speaker 2: of the party, We are the majority voice. They may
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  Speaker 2: have more money than we do, but we have more bodies.
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  Speaker 2: And that's why there's really so much tension right now
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  Speaker 2: within the Republican world is because the establishment they don't
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  Speaker 2: like you. They want you to stay home and sit
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  Speaker 2: in your home or go to work. They want you
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  Speaker 2: to go live your life, but they don't want you
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  Speaker 2: involved in the everyday, you know, comings and goings of
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  Speaker 2: the Republican Party. They don't want you to have a voice.
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  Speaker 2: They want your vote. That's that's all they want. And
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  Speaker 2: you know, it's interesting because that's what got Donald Trump
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  Speaker 2: elected in the first place. When you go all the
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  Speaker 2: way back, go all the way back to twenty fifteen,
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  Speaker 2: and it was very clear back then that Jeb Bush
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  Speaker 2: was supposed to be the guy. Jeb Bush, low energy,
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  Speaker 2: Jeb was supposed to be the guy. And then what happened, Well,
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  Speaker 2: all of you country folks, you woke up and you decided, well,
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  Speaker 2: wait a second, wed, we liked this guy, Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 2: He's he's saying what we're thinking. And the great thing
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  Speaker 2: about Donald Trump, he's been saying what he's been thinking
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  Speaker 2: going all the way back to the nineteen seventies. So
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  Speaker 2: Donald Trump's opinions really have not changed all that much.
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  Speaker 2: And the reality is Donald Trump really isn't He's really
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  Speaker 2: not a Republican. But we like to tell people and
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  Speaker 2: that's okay, that's okay. Donald Trump is a populist. And
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  Speaker 2: this is why there's so much tension right now within
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  Speaker 2: the you know, the Republican Party. But all that to say,
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  Speaker 2: this is the only place for people to go right
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  Speaker 2: now unless you decide to bolton, you know, start your
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  Speaker 2: own party, or just vote for independent candidates. I know
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  Speaker 2: Elon Musk, even Elon Musk, wealthiest man in the world,
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  Speaker 2: even he realized how hard, how difficult that prospect would be.
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  Speaker 2: Remember Elon talked about, you know, starting his own little party,
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  Speaker 2: getting you know, I don't know, fifteen twenty lawmakers together
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  Speaker 2: and really creating a coalition that both sides would need
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  Speaker 2: to get anything done. And look, I think it's a
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  Speaker 2: great idea. I hate the fact that we're beholden to
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  Speaker 2: a political party that hates my guts and really doesn't
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  Speaker 2: believe what I believe. But that's sort of where we
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  Speaker 2: And the only and has nothing to do with the
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  Speaker 2: Republicans at all. The Democrats are in such disarray right now.
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  Speaker 2: This is the Todd Stearns Radio Show. Great to have
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  Speaker 2: you with us today. I want to go right away
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  Speaker 8: Hey can Well Todd, thanks for having us.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it is an absolutely insane story that I
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  Speaker 2: read the other day on social media. You guys have
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  Speaker 2: that superintendent said at that hearing.
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  Speaker 9: Well, toalk, the scariest thing the superintendent said is he
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  Speaker 9: had no idea what was taking place in his schools.
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  Speaker 9: He was clueless to the curriculum, he was clueless to
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  Speaker 9: what was in his library. It was really shocking to
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  Speaker 9: hear him say that those things.
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  Speaker 2: So you described some of the books, and again, you know,
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  Speaker 2: this is a radio show and I'd love for you
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  Speaker 2: to describe to our listeners, uh, these books. And we're
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  Speaker 2: talking about books that were available to what kindergarten students?
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  Speaker 2: Is that right?
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  Speaker 8: Yes? Kindergarten to fourth grade?
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  Speaker 2: All right, why don't you describe some of the images
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  Speaker 2: that you discovered in this in this story book?
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  Speaker 9: Well, Todd, it's certainly frightening to think that they were
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  Speaker 9: letting mere babies look at pictures, pornographic type pictures fully
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  Speaker 9: exposing the male genitalia, the female genitalia, talking about non
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  Speaker 9: binary binary men and bondage outfits and kick outfits.
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  Speaker 8: It was it was frightening to none of that's what
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  Speaker 8: children were looking at.
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  Speaker 2: Well, and I know that you asked the superintendent. We
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  Speaker 2: would have played the audio, but it was that the
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  Speaker 2: it was very difficult to hear what the superintendent was saying.
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  Speaker 2: But the superintendent, you showed him these images in that
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  Speaker 2: hearing room, And what did that superintendent tell you about
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  Speaker 2: the images?
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  Speaker 9: He saw them as non controversial. He said that was love.
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  Speaker 9: He saw the Pride flag, He saw a couple which
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  Speaker 9: was two men again in kick outfits, loving each other.
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  Speaker 9: So he has a very domindent sense of what's right
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  Speaker 9: and what's wrong for children.
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  Speaker 2: I know that you guys have been very concerned about
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  Speaker 2: this and you have introduced they're calling it up a
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  Speaker 2: book ban. That's what the that's what local and state
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  Speaker 2: news is reporting. But is it really a book ban
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  Speaker 2: or is this an issue of books that are actually
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  Speaker 2: age appropriate in school libraries?
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  Speaker 8: Well, that's exactly what it is.
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  Speaker 9: The mainstream media likes assisiational lize things that are not true.
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  Speaker 9: There is no book ban. All we're doing is asking
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  Speaker 9: the school systems here to sp forty nine the parental law,
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  Speaker 9: to just make it age appropriate. These images have no
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  Speaker 9: place in front of children of four or five, six,
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  Speaker 9: seven years old. There's no man on books.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, and and and again you know how the
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  Speaker 2: media is gonna play this. But but again, if you
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  Speaker 2: wanted to get I will say this, if you wanted
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  Speaker 2: to give the kids, like a story book about the Bible,
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  Speaker 2: you know all you know what would break loose?
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  Speaker 8: Oh?
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  Speaker 9: Absolutely, I mean these folks are doing nothing more than
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  Speaker 9: trying to make minions out of this children to carry
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  Speaker 9: their ideology out. They're not trying to educate. They're trying
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  Speaker 9: to make little soldiers of their social platform. We're not
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  Speaker 9: going to allow that North Carolina. We're gonna make sure
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  Speaker 9: that these school districts are here to proper age related material.
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  Speaker 2: You know, and and again we're honored to have a
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  Speaker 2: state representative, Brendan jones On from North Carolina. I think
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: a lot of people are surprised when they hear that
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  Speaker 2: even the Southern States, even a place like North Carolina,
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  Speaker 2: you guys are dealing with this radical intoctrination.
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  Speaker 8: It's crazy. I always tell folks there's two North Carolina.
• 23:54
  Speaker 9: There's rural North Carolina where I'm from, and then the
• 23:57
  Speaker 9: urban part of North Carolina, which is having an you
• 24:00
  Speaker 9: take a triangle. There's two hundred and eighty people a
• 24:02
  Speaker 9: day moving into the triangle, and they certainly have different
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  Speaker 9: ideas than we do. But down where I'm from, we're
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  Speaker 9: going to stand to the Christian values they're supposed to
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  Speaker 9: be set forth. We keep church in the states separated,
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  Speaker 9: We understand that, but still we won't value minded teachers
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  Speaker 9: teaching our children.
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  Speaker 2: Well, look, I think our audience greatly appreciates that, of
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  Speaker 2: respects that.
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  Speaker 5: I know.
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: Senator Marshall Blackburn from Tennessee made some national news a
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  Speaker 2: few days ago when she said, hey, look, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we love for folks to move to the volunteer state,
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: but we don't want you bringing your far left ideology
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: and your politics here as well, because again, Tennessee is
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: a great, rock solid red state and we're thriving economically,
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: we're thriving culturally. And the reason why is we still
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  Speaker 2: believe that that the Bible is the Bible, and that
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: the Bible is important to our way of life is what.
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  Speaker 9: Our country was found in on that is in the
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  Speaker 9: Constitution and the preamble for North Carolina. You know, we
• 25:00
  Speaker 9: recognize God in the first sentence of what we've done.
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  Speaker 9: We've based our whole life, our country, our calendar, everything
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  Speaker 9: is based off of Christian values. I will not sway
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  Speaker 9: from that as long as I'm serving. I will stand
• 25:11
  Speaker 9: for the Christian values that my constituents have elected me.
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  Speaker 8: To go do well.
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  Speaker 2: We're honored to have again State Representative Brendan Jones from
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  Speaker 2: North Carolina. You know, when you look at what happened
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: your neighbors to the north there of Virginia with this
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: crazy jerry mandering, I see it in a very different light.
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: It looks to me like the Democrats are trying to
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  Speaker 2: outlaw Republicans in the Commonwealth, and I certainly hope that
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  Speaker 2: that doesn't happen. They're in North Carolina one day.
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  Speaker 9: Well, as long as the Republicans are controlled, and we
• 25:42
  Speaker 9: will not. We may have to put a wall up
• 25:44
  Speaker 9: to keep the immigrants from Virginia from pouring into North Carolina,
• 25:48
  Speaker 9: but we welcome those Christian mind and folks down here.
• 25:51
  Speaker 9: You know, we've done great things since the Republicans to
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  Speaker 9: the majority of low taxes, bringing value systems.
• 25:56
  Speaker 8: Back in just like this.
• 25:58
  Speaker 9: You would never see a hearing like this under the
• 26:00
  Speaker 9: crack control. They would be okay with it.
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  Speaker 8: But we're gonna stand for watch Rye in North Carolina.
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  Speaker 2: All right, well, I'm glad you're doing that. A Representative Jones,
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  Speaker 2: thank you for joining us today on the National Show.
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  Speaker 2: Keep up the good work, and thank you for standing
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  Speaker 2: up for those kids and for families they're in the
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: tar Heel State.
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  Speaker 8: Absolutely, thanks for having us, Tod.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Wow, I actually saw the images and it's
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  Speaker 2: just it's awful that these are like little story books
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  Speaker 2: for kids, and you think, oh, that's cute. It's a
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: little storybook for a child, and then when you when
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: you open up the story book, you realize, Jesu a
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: lou there are two men wearing leather straps and one
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: of them is a thong. Dylan, I'd be concerned about chafing.
• 26:46
  Speaker 5: Yes, that's one. That's one of the concerns.
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: Yes, among many actually, but just I mean just right
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: out of the gate, it gets really hot in the
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: summertime in the southern.
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  Speaker 5: Story sure, yeah, yeah.
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: And oh there's a super rue driver in the item
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: it's oh my, all sorts of stuff. And then there's
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: somebody else else, like a grown adult googling a child.
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: There's no giraffe in the photos, so I guess the
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: farm animals are okay anyway. But the superintendent said, no, no, no, no, no,
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: this is community. I see community. I see two men
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: with a fondness for the leather, embracing each other. I
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: see families one. You're like, are you freaking kidding me?
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: But that's that's what's going on right now in North Carolina.
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  Speaker 2: other issues, including border security by sixteen points, crime and
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  Speaker 2: and Memphis, Tennessee listening to us on KWAM wants to
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  Speaker 2: weigh in on Tennessee sheriffs. What's going on, Mike.
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  Speaker 10: Hey, greetings, Todd. Yeah, last night, the final bill that
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  Speaker 10: was passed through the Senate, literally the legislature wants to
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  Speaker 10: force every Tennessee sheriff to actually assist and basically do
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  Speaker 10: the job of ice. And what's ironic about this is
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  Speaker 10: that back in nineteen seventy seven, the Supreme Court ruled
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  Speaker 10: in Prims Vie United States that that circumvinced the sovereignty
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  Speaker 10: of the people who are the authority over the sheriff.
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  Speaker 10: And that law it came from where they banned high
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  Speaker 10: capacity magazines, which was asked by none other than Bill
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  Speaker 10: Clinton and the Democrats. So what we've got is a
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  Speaker 10: so called conservative Christian Republican legislature pushing a bill that
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  Speaker 10: is a mere image of that law that the Democrats
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  Speaker 10: passed in the nineteen nineties.
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  Speaker 2: So what do you have a problem with here?
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  Speaker 10: The Republicans are not Republicans, they're liberal Democrats tying the
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  Speaker 10: hands of the sheriff, which effectively is the people's guy
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  Speaker 10: on the stand. We've got to take back control of
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  Speaker 10: our sheriffs. The sheriff is the people's protector. They work
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  Speaker 10: the sheriff's work for the people, not the legislature or
• 32:38
  Speaker 10: the governor. If you do a simple Google search, you
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  Speaker 10: can find that Prinds of the United States Supreme Court
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  Speaker 10: ruled it was unconstitutional for the legislature to force a
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  Speaker 10: sheriff into acting for a federal agent. Ice is exclusive
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  Speaker 10: over enforcement of immigration, not the sheriff, not the state
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  Speaker 10: of Tennessee. And what they're trying to do is for
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  Speaker 10: your shaffs into doing their work for them and with
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  Speaker 10: the people.
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  Speaker 2: So no, take a breath here for a second, Mike.
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  Speaker 2: Let me let me get a word in edgewise if
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  Speaker 2: I may.
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  Speaker 4: So.
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  Speaker 2: Let's just say you've got any illegal and the illegal
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  Speaker 2: is shooting you, Mike, that the illegal shot you, and
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  Speaker 2: the only person that's around to help out is a
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  Speaker 2: deputy sheriff. So you're telling me that you would rather
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  Speaker 2: not have the assistance of the deputy sheriff in accosting
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  Speaker 2: or at least arresting the illegal who shot you.
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  Speaker 10: Why would the sheriff arrest somebody for being in the
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  Speaker 10: country illegally when they're committing a crime of assault. They
• 33:37
  Speaker 10: would arrisk them for the assault.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, no, But if they're illegal, though, you know you
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  Speaker 2: can't be No, no no, if an illegal, hands off,
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  Speaker 2: hands off.
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  Speaker 10: You're missing the point.
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  Speaker 2: Oh I think I got the point. So no, no,
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  Speaker 2: you're twisting, and I'm not twisting. I just answer the question.
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  Speaker 10: No, you're doing what you always do. You twist the
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  Speaker 10: facts to suit your political agenda.
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  Speaker 2: And you're not doing that right now, Mike, You're not
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: doing that. You've got an agenda.
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  Speaker 10: So quoting the Supreme Court, I'm quoting history. You've got
• 34:08
  Speaker 10: democrats pushing the law to force sheriffs to function as
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  Speaker 10: a flunkey.
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  Speaker 2: So Mike, let me ask you a question.
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  Speaker 11: Here.
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: Let me ask because I don't want this to go
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: on and on and on forever. So if ICE agents
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  Speaker 2: are in, for example, Nashville, and they need help, rounding up.
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  Speaker 2: You know one hundred illegals that are on the run,
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  Speaker 2: and you're saying that those deputies would not be allowed
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  Speaker 2: to offer any assistance.
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  Speaker 10: It's not their purview. The sheriff has no influence or
• 34:39
  Speaker 10: control or need to be involved in immigration. That's the
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  Speaker 10: ice job.
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  Speaker 12: Now.
• 34:42
  Speaker 10: If they need more ice ations, well they just get
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  Speaker 10: another sixty billion dollars.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, Mike, we're good, We're done. I think you made
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: whatever point that was. Let's go to Dwayne in North
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  Speaker 2: Carolina WSJS. Dwayne, what's on your mind?
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  Speaker 13: You're asked if we would trust democrats are publicans run
• 35:00
  Speaker 13: the economy? I wouldn't trust a Democrat to run an
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  Speaker 13: elementary school fundraiser.
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  Speaker 2: That's look, I'm here, I hear you. I just I
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  Speaker 2: think this is a perception issue, Dwayne. Right now, if
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: you went out there and asked the average Republican, they
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: would say that the administration is far too focused on
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: foreign affairs than what's happening right here in America. I
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: think that's ultimately what that poll is about.
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  Speaker 13: Well, if you look at the inflation alone, the inflation
• 35:31
  Speaker 13: has has come down from what it was under Biden,
• 35:34
  Speaker 13: and Biden did that by giving out a lot of money.
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  Speaker 13: I work for the government for the local DSS. A
• 35:42
  Speaker 13: lot of money was given out. The state of North
• 35:45
  Speaker 13: Carolina gave every single person who was eligible for food
• 35:47
  Speaker 13: stamps the maximum amount for three years for every household.
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  Speaker 13: Where did that money come from? We spent a lot
• 35:56
  Speaker 13: of money.
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  Speaker 2: You know, Dwayne. It really bothers me that we haven't
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: spent as I really feel like we should have doubled
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: down and maybe even doubled and tripled the number of
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: people in the Doge Committee to completely eliminate all of
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: the grift and the corruption that's there because we know
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: it's there, because they already found a lot of it.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm not quite sure where we are, you know,
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: I think they were gonna what they said, what they
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: found two to three, what billion dollars or how much
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: money it was, but whatever happened to that. The administration
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: doesn't do good on follow through.
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  Speaker 13: Not as much as what they no.
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  Speaker 2: They don't, and that's going to come back and bite
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: them in the behind if they're not careful. You know again,
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: you know where the president's doing his gut level best
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: signing these executive orders. He can't go out there and
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: personally implement them all. That's up to the administration. So
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: I think his own administration is letting him down a lot.
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: But I'm with you. I wouldn't trust I wouldn't trust
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  Speaker 2: these guys to run anything.
• 36:59
  Speaker 13: And part of it is you have to make career politicians.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's it, Dwayne, Thank you for thank you for going.
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  Speaker 2: What part of North Carolina are you from.
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  Speaker 13: I'm originally from Wisson Salem, the home of Chris mccrin.
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  Speaker 2: A fine city and a fine a fine organization. All right, Dwayne,
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  Speaker 2: to get to Carroll, who's been holding on for a
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: few minutes from Memphis, Tennessee, listening to us on KWAM
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: and Carol, what is on your mind today?
• 39:37
  Speaker 14: Well, I'm a little nervous about this, so I hope
• 39:39
  Speaker 14: I can make myself clear. I'm crying about the relationship
• 39:44
  Speaker 14: between the sheriff's departments and the state legislature. It's my
• 39:48
  Speaker 14: understanding that the state legislature at no time has any
• 39:52
  Speaker 14: jurisdiction over the sheriff's department, which is why we elect
• 39:56
  Speaker 14: our sheriff so that they're the only ones that can
• 39:59
  Speaker 14: arrest a governor. Therefore, the offer holding to the legislature
• 40:03
  Speaker 14: of the state. So I think what that gentleman was
• 40:07
  Speaker 14: trying to say that the state legislature cannot put any
• 40:12
  Speaker 14: rule in place that has any jurisdiction over the sheriff's department,
• 40:17
  Speaker 14: and therefore they would they could be involved if something's happening,
• 40:21
  Speaker 14: they'd certainly safety a crime being committee. It doesn't matter
• 40:25
  Speaker 14: what I can generally saying if they're being arrested for
• 40:30
  Speaker 14: a felony, but not because of their and.
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: Carol, that makes sense. So you're saying that basically the
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: state is overstepping its authority by by ordering the local
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: sheriff's departments to work with with ICE agents. Right, yeah, okay,
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: well that makes sense.
• 40:48
  Speaker 14: Yeah, And that's that's why I think he was trying
• 40:50
  Speaker 14: to say, because okay, that's why I wanted to clarify, because,
• 40:53
  Speaker 14: as I said there, the sheriff is considered the people's
• 40:56
  Speaker 14: police because like the city polices are in the jurisdiction
• 40:59
  Speaker 14: of the city government.
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: That makes sense. All right, Carol, you did a great job.
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: All right, well done, Carroll. Give us a holler back
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: one of these days. All right. Crazy story out of Kansas,
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: and there is a situation at the University of Kansas
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: involving a public affairs officer who posted an item on
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: social media. And the allegation is, and I mean, I'm
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: looking at this here, the guy is a public affairs officer,
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: and he was he wrote the following words death to Maga.
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: And apparently it's not the first time that this guy,
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: this public affairs officer, has made such comments. Also is
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: a regular at the no Kings protests as well. We
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: have reached out multiple times to the University of Kansas
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: and their Public Affairs department to get a comment about this,
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: and so far they have not returned any of our
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: phone calls or our emails, and we've sent about five
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: percent so far. Well, one person's pretty upset about all
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: of this, doctor Jeff Collier, former governor, and he wants
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: to be governor again, and he is on our Patriot
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: Mobile newsmaker line. Doctor Callier. Good to have you back
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: with us again.
• 42:14
  Speaker 15: You know, it is always fun to be with you,
• 42:16
  Speaker 15: mister Starns.
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: Sir, Oh my goodness. No, we're not that formal, and
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: this isn't the bill O'Reilly show.
• 42:25
  Speaker 15: I have to give you a little grief.
• 42:26
  Speaker 16: My friends.
• 42:28
  Speaker 15: Always great to talk to you. And you know, Kansas
• 42:32
  Speaker 15: is such a great place. It is beautiful today. It
• 42:35
  Speaker 15: is seventy five degrees here. But we have a couple
• 42:38
  Speaker 15: of little problems, and you know, people that do crazy
• 42:43
  Speaker 15: things at our universities, and so sometimes the skies are
• 42:48
  Speaker 15: a little cloudy. So we're going to make sure that
• 42:52
  Speaker 15: we stop that.
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, this is it's a pretty bizarre show. I want
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: to get the guy's name out, but it's it's not good,
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: he wrote. And my concern is you've got a student there,
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: they might be able to see this, and you know,
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: they might want to act on what this guy wrote. Uh,
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: he is clearly a person an authority. What concerns you
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: about what this guy wrote?
• 43:15
  Speaker 15: Well, here's the thing is, you can be you can
• 43:19
  Speaker 15: believe whatever you want in the political sphere. But I
• 43:22
  Speaker 15: think all of us agree that saying death threats, you know,
• 43:27
  Speaker 15: death to somebody that's not America and it's certainly not Kansas,
• 43:32
  Speaker 15: and it is not acceptable, uh, for that to be
• 43:36
  Speaker 15: part of our public discourse. And when you have people
• 43:40
  Speaker 15: that are in the limelight, So he writes articles all
• 43:44
  Speaker 15: the time, Uh, for the University of Kansas. He's expressing
• 43:48
  Speaker 15: his views or he's you know, reporting on students and
• 43:51
  Speaker 15: reporting on the university. That is not that is not
• 43:56
  Speaker 15: who the university is. But he's their representative. You know,
• 44:00
  Speaker 15: he's out in public, you know, forward facing for the university.
• 44:05
  Speaker 15: You know, that's a terrible you know, leadership. That's a
• 44:09
  Speaker 15: terrible thing to show to kids, you know, impressionable you know,
• 44:14
  Speaker 15: young people. That's not who we are. And it's deeply frustrating,
• 44:20
  Speaker 15: you know, on this because we have a whole pattern
• 44:22
  Speaker 15: of this happening at our universities.
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: Well, we do. And it's not just in Kansas. I mean,
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: we saw this in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk's assassination.
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: So many faculty members and staff were posting some of
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: the most heinous things. I think the big challenges that
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: initially universities fired these individuals or suspended them, and a
• 44:41
  Speaker 2: good many of them now have their jobs back, and
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: they filed lawsuits, and I think a lot of people
• 44:46
  Speaker 2: are trying to figure out where is that line when
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: it comes to freedom of speech. For me, it's an
• 44:52
  Speaker 2: issue of Okay, you're working for the taxpayers, so you
• 44:55
  Speaker 2: know you you have I think you have a higher responsibility.
• 45:00
  Speaker 15: Absolutely you do. And you were supposed to be modeling,
• 45:05
  Speaker 15: you know what. You can model what your beliefs saw,
• 45:08
  Speaker 15: but you don't call for death to people. We actually
• 45:10
  Speaker 15: had several university professors here in Kansas at different universities
• 45:16
  Speaker 15: after the Charlie Kirk shooting. You know, when President Trump
• 45:21
  Speaker 15: was elected, we've had these sources of statements coming from them.
• 45:25
  Speaker 15: And that's a pattern. I think it's more systemic. It
• 45:28
  Speaker 15: is not just a couple of bad actors. It is
• 45:32
  Speaker 15: that a university is willing to tolerate this sort of language.
• 45:37
  Speaker 15: And what was interesting is, you know, some of these
• 45:40
  Speaker 15: were universities that tried to kick Charlie Kirk off a campus,
• 45:44
  Speaker 15: you know, and he wasn't calling for the death of anyone.
• 45:48
  Speaker 15: Charlie Kirk was trying to argue, you know, from his
• 45:51
  Speaker 15: point of view, and this is just the wrong example
• 45:56
  Speaker 15: for young people. It's very threatening.
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: Well, the Patriot Mobile news maker line today is doctor
• 46:02
  Speaker 2: Jeff call your former governor of Kansas and is running
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: to be governor again. Why would you want to do that,
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: doctor Caller? Why run again?
• 46:11
  Speaker 15: You know, Kansas is a wonderful place. You know, it's
• 46:15
  Speaker 15: the best place in the country. I'm sorry. We're the
• 46:18
  Speaker 15: true heart of America in the exact center, and we
• 46:21
  Speaker 15: have a fantastic state, but we have some cloudy skies.
• 46:25
  Speaker 8: You know.
• 46:25
  Speaker 15: The economy has been following, our kids have had problems
• 46:29
  Speaker 15: in their schools. We are the highest tax state in
• 46:32
  Speaker 15: the region. And we can turn this around, uh and
• 46:36
  Speaker 15: Kansas can once again be the leading light that it
• 46:39
  Speaker 15: has historically. So I'm excited about the opportunity. We have
• 46:44
  Speaker 15: a lot to do in this state, and I've got
• 46:46
  Speaker 15: a lot of problems to clean up. We've got a
• 46:48
  Speaker 15: budget that is underwater. We have problems like this on
• 46:52
  Speaker 15: the university campuses, and we're going to bring back common sense,
• 46:57
  Speaker 15: grow our economy, make sure we have good schools, making
• 47:01
  Speaker 15: sure that we get rid of the waste, fraud, and
• 47:03
  Speaker 15: abuse which just exploded after I left.
• 47:07
  Speaker 2: And that does seem to be a big problem. I
• 47:11
  Speaker 2: just again all around the country, you know, looking at
• 47:14
  Speaker 2: these DOZE committees. I know, our good friend and the
• 47:18
  Speaker 2: chief executive officer of the company I owned, Dalton Glascock,
• 47:22
  Speaker 2: is there on the Wichita Council and actually started up
• 47:25
  Speaker 2: a local version of DOGE. Would you like to see
• 47:28
  Speaker 2: those sort of expanding and maybe other communities doing the
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: same thing, exposing all the wasteful spending.
• 47:36
  Speaker 15: So in Kansas, we've got two big problems.
• 47:39
  Speaker 4: In Kansas.
• 47:40
  Speaker 15: We have more public employees per capita than almost every
• 47:44
  Speaker 15: other state, more than California and New York by the way,
• 47:48
  Speaker 15: So no wonder it's expensive to live here. One of
• 47:51
  Speaker 15: the things that I did as lieutenant governor and governor
• 47:54
  Speaker 15: was we got rid of fifty five hundred unnecessary state
• 47:58
  Speaker 15: employees and nobody noticed. Wow, you know, okay, but think
• 48:04
  Speaker 15: about that A thousand employees is probably about one hundred
• 48:07
  Speaker 15: and twenty five million dollars every year. So we're going
• 48:10
  Speaker 15: to send money. You know, we're saving the taxpayers' money
• 48:13
  Speaker 15: and getting better results for them. And with today's technology
• 48:18
  Speaker 15: that we have, we can really downsize on this. And
• 48:23
  Speaker 15: I've done this already. I've shown how to do it
• 48:26
  Speaker 15: and do it very effectively, you know, so that people
• 48:30
  Speaker 15: find that their services are getting better and they're not
• 48:33
  Speaker 15: hearing all of the screening. I think there's a lot
• 48:36
  Speaker 15: of things local communities can do, counties and cities, and
• 48:42
  Speaker 15: we want to empower them to do that.
• 48:45
  Speaker 2: All right, Well, Dondor Gallia, where can people go if
• 48:47
  Speaker 2: they want to get more information about your campaign and
• 48:49
  Speaker 2: all the platform agenda items? Where can they do that?
• 48:53
  Speaker 17: Yeah?
• 48:54
  Speaker 15: So this is a great campaign. Just got to tell
• 48:56
  Speaker 15: you one quick thing about it. Sarah Huckabee Standards just
• 48:59
  Speaker 15: in dorsed us today saying that we were the true
• 49:03
  Speaker 15: mega Republican which is why this threat. You know, I
• 49:08
  Speaker 15: take it kind of personally, but you can find us
• 49:10
  Speaker 15: that doctor Jeff Collier on x or call you for
• 49:13
  Speaker 15: governor dot com.
• 49:15
  Speaker 2: Well, I was going to surprise you with that at
• 49:16
  Speaker 2: the very end, Governor so yeah, you kind of like,
• 49:19
  Speaker 2: you know, jump the gun. Thank you for that. But
• 49:21
  Speaker 2: let's listen to Sarah Huckeby Sanders.
• 49:24
  Speaker 18: This is Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders. Kansas, You've got
• 49:28
  Speaker 18: a big election this year to choose your next governor.
• 49:31
  Speaker 18: The clear choice is my good friend Jeff Callier. I
• 49:35
  Speaker 18: got to know Jeff when he was governor and then
• 49:37
  Speaker 18: later when we both served in the first Trump administration.
• 49:41
  Speaker 18: Jeff's a devoted Christian with an incredible family, and he
• 49:44
  Speaker 18: spent his whole life serving others and fighting for our values.
• 49:48
  Speaker 18: Jeff's the proven mega conservative who gets results. Jeff's a
• 49:52
  Speaker 18: great guy, and as President Trump has said, Jeff Callier
• 49:55
  Speaker 18: is one hell of a governor.
• 49:58
  Speaker 2: A man of incredible integery.
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: Class your governor, Jeff Collier, you have one hell of
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: a governor.
• 50:05
  Speaker 18: Join me today in supporting Jeff Callier for governor.
• 50:09
  Speaker 2: All right, not only that President Trump there too.
• 50:15
  Speaker 15: You know, we've got a lot to do in Kansas,
• 50:18
  Speaker 15: and I'm proud of our state, but I've got a
• 50:20
  Speaker 15: mess to clean up, and we're You're going to find
• 50:22
  Speaker 15: Kansas over the next few years being the best place
• 50:25
  Speaker 15: to have a family have a business, the place to grow.
• 50:29
  Speaker 15: You're going to be proud of it.
• 50:30
  Speaker 2: All right, good stuff. Well, we're going to get you
• 50:32
  Speaker 2: back on between now and then, doctor Callier. Good good
• 50:35
  Speaker 2: to hear from you again, and thanks for fighting the
• 50:37
  Speaker 2: good fight.
• 50:39
  Speaker 15: Always great to talk with you, Todd, and look forward
• 50:41
  Speaker 15: to seeing you soon.
• 50:42
  Speaker 2: All right, doctor Jeff Callier, everybody, former governor of Kansas
• 50:46
  Speaker 2: and just got endorsed as the official MAGA candidate. They're
• 50:49
  Speaker 2: in uh in the great state of Kansas. I should
• 50:52
  Speaker 2: have asked him, Dylan, there's a river that runs through Wichita,
• 50:56
  Speaker 2: and I think it's I is that the it's the
• 50:58
  Speaker 2: Arkansas River. But I don't think they call it that.
• 51:00
  Speaker 2: They call it the Arkansas River or something that would
• 51:03
  Speaker 2: make more sense. I don't I get. I get very
• 51:07
  Speaker 2: confused by those names.
• 51:09
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 51:10
  Speaker 2: Oh well, nine oh one two six zero five nine
• 51:12
  Speaker 2: two six is our telephone number. That's nine oh one
• 51:15
  Speaker 2: two six zero five nine two six. You know what again,
• 51:18
  Speaker 2: if you're working at a university, you're around young people,
• 51:22
  Speaker 2: and you're saying, oh, yeah, mag of people deserve to die.
• 51:25
  Speaker 2: I got a big problem with that, and I think, yeah,
• 51:27
  Speaker 2: I don't think you ought to be working at that university.
• 51:29
  Speaker 2: I mean, it really is that simple. All Right, gotta
• 51:31
  Speaker 2: take a break. We'll be right back, all right, Welcome back, everybody,
• 51:45
  Speaker 2: Open line Friday. Nine oh one two six zero five
• 51:49
  Speaker 2: nine two six is our telephone number. That's nine oh
• 51:51
  Speaker 2: one two six zero five, nine two six.
• 51:53
  Speaker 8: Uh.
• 51:54
  Speaker 2: We've got an update on a story we first told
• 51:57
  Speaker 2: you about a couple of weeks ago, the Turning Point
• 51:59
  Speaker 2: You event at the University of Georgia, and they had
• 52:04
  Speaker 2: this cavernous arena and the Vice President of the United
• 52:07
  Speaker 2: States was there. Erica Kirk was supposed to be there
• 52:10
  Speaker 2: at the very last second, backed out because of some
• 52:13
  Speaker 2: sort of a security concern. The Secret Service said they
• 52:16
  Speaker 2: didn't know anything about it. We reached out to authorities
• 52:20
  Speaker 2: there in Athens, Clark County, Georgia. They didn't know anything
• 52:23
  Speaker 2: about that, but any and some people are alleging that
• 52:27
  Speaker 2: Erica skipped the event because there was just such a
• 52:32
  Speaker 2: there was a small you know, just a small crowd
• 52:35
  Speaker 2: there and that was the reason why. And so now
• 52:40
  Speaker 2: and it really created a bit of a kerfuffle. And
• 52:43
  Speaker 2: we've been hearing these reports, scattered reports from all over
• 52:47
  Speaker 2: the country. Really that Turning Point USA is going through
• 52:52
  Speaker 2: some very difficult times right now, and it seems as
• 52:55
  Speaker 2: though they're trying to find their footing after Charlie's assassination.
• 52:59
  Speaker 2: I've been pretty vocal about, you know, my observations and
• 53:04
  Speaker 2: what I've seen, and it's nothing against the organization at all,
• 53:09
  Speaker 2: but they're lacking organization and that's a big problem. And
• 53:13
  Speaker 2: that was really a problem that they faced for a
• 53:15
  Speaker 2: very long time, is trying to get you know, established
• 53:18
  Speaker 2: on so many university campuses and making sure not that
• 53:22
  Speaker 2: you just have one solid year of leadership, but you
• 53:27
  Speaker 2: have multiple years of leadership. So the organization, you know,
• 53:31
  Speaker 2: those local clubs just don't you know, evaporate and fall apart.
• 53:34
  Speaker 2: And that's what's going on here. And that's a tough geat.
• 53:37
  Speaker 2: Don't get me wrong. It is a tough assignment. But anyway, Carolina,
• 53:42
  Speaker 2: her name is Caroline Maddox and she is the president
• 53:45
  Speaker 2: of the Turning Point USA chapter at the University of
• 53:48
  Speaker 2: Georgia and she is just, you know, I did a
• 53:51
  Speaker 2: little bit of research on her, just a very sweet person.
• 53:54
  Speaker 2: She's a Christian girls, she's conservative, she's a good person.
• 54:01
  Speaker 2: And she has now resigned as president of the University
• 54:06
  Speaker 2: of Georgia attorney Point USA Champter, and I want to
• 54:10
  Speaker 2: read to you what she wrote, and there's she doesn't
• 54:13
  Speaker 2: explain exactly why she's stepping away, so I'm just going
• 54:15
  Speaker 2: to I want to say that up front. But she
• 54:17
  Speaker 2: says being a part of TPUSA has been a dream
• 54:20
  Speaker 2: of mine for a very long time, and I was
• 54:22
  Speaker 2: prepared to devote my college years to building the UGA
• 54:26
  Speaker 2: Champter and carrying on Charlie Kirk's legacy. Turning Point USA
• 54:31
  Speaker 2: was founded to promote truth, fight for conservative values, encourage
• 54:36
  Speaker 2: independent thought, and defend free speech. However, it became abundantly
• 54:42
  Speaker 2: clear to me following our event on April fourteenth that
• 54:46
  Speaker 2: tpusa's mission and purpose have been lost along the way.
• 54:52
  Speaker 2: She went on to say that the organization's current direction
• 54:56
  Speaker 2: no longer aligns with the principles upon which it was founded.
• 55:01
  Speaker 2: Quote eyewitness firsthand what I believe to be the organization's
• 55:04
  Speaker 2: true direction following Charlie's passing, and I have significant concerns
• 55:10
  Speaker 2: about its messaging and current trajectory. In light of this,
• 55:14
  Speaker 2: I am resigning for my position. Well, I am grateful
• 55:18
  Speaker 2: for the experienced lessons and people this chapter has brought
• 55:21
  Speaker 2: me I can no longer, in good conscience continue to
• 55:25
  Speaker 2: represent an organization that I believe has strayed so far
• 55:30
  Speaker 2: from its original purpose and principles. And there you have it.
• 55:38
  Speaker 2: We are reaching out to her and trying to get
• 55:40
  Speaker 2: her to come on the show, and hopefully she will
• 55:43
  Speaker 2: so maybe she can expand on what concerns she actually had.
• 55:47
  Speaker 2: I mean, that's a pretty significant thing. She saw something
• 55:51
  Speaker 2: that was so disturbing that she said, Uh, can't do this,
• 55:55
  Speaker 2: can't do this. There have now been allegations that those
• 56:01
  Speaker 2: organic student questions were not necessarily organic, that questions were
• 56:05
  Speaker 2: planted in the crowd. There's been a lot of concern
• 56:09
  Speaker 2: among young people that Turning Point USA has embraced Israel
• 56:15
  Speaker 2: a bit too much. And again I don't I don't
• 56:17
  Speaker 2: have a problem with that, but there are people who do.
• 56:20
  Speaker 2: And there are a lot of folks who just believe
• 56:23
  Speaker 2: that TPUSA is not on the mission that it was
• 56:27
  Speaker 2: originally on. I would contend that they are. But now
• 56:31
  Speaker 2: you're just getting to see it for what it really is,
• 56:34
  Speaker 2: and a lot of it it is a forced thing.
• 56:37
  Speaker 2: And you know, you can say what you want to
• 56:39
  Speaker 2: about Charlie Kirk. He was an authentic human being. What
• 56:42
  Speaker 2: you saw with Charlie is what you got and that's
• 56:44
  Speaker 2: why he resonated so well, some of these folks they've got,
• 56:47
  Speaker 2: they're not resonating. They're not resonating. All right, nine oh
• 56:51
  Speaker 2: one two six zero five nine two six. This is
• 56:54
  Speaker 2: the Todd Stern Show. All right, Welcome back to the
• 57:11
  Speaker 2: Tom Sterns Radio Show. Dylan, I was watching the strangest
• 57:14
  Speaker 2: video you know, on I Hop onto X in the
• 57:18
  Speaker 2: commercial breaks, and there's a lady and she's pregnant, and
• 57:23
  Speaker 2: so she's blasting music on her on her belly, and
• 57:30
  Speaker 2: she she wants her child to, I guess what, be
• 57:33
  Speaker 2: born gay. So she's playing gay music so that her
• 57:38
  Speaker 2: kid will be gay? Dylan, is that a gay song?
• 57:54
  Speaker 5: Who makes good songs and turn him into gay songs?
• 57:57
  Speaker 11: Like?
• 57:57
  Speaker 5: Why do you have to do that for your kid?
• 57:59
  Speaker 2: Right?
• 58:00
  Speaker 5: It's not a gase? I mean, I don't. I I
• 58:03
  Speaker 5: think I know she's trying to do and it's not.
• 58:06
  Speaker 5: It's a good song. Why do you have to make
• 58:08
  Speaker 5: it like this?
• 58:09
  Speaker 2: But is it a gay song?
• 58:10
  Speaker 5: I don't think so, I don't.
• 58:11
  Speaker 2: I mean, what makes the song a gay song?
• 58:13
  Speaker 4: No?
• 58:13
  Speaker 5: I like, abba, why do we have to ruin it.
• 58:16
  Speaker 2: Oh it's it's abba. Yeah, Oh yeah, it's gay. Okay,
• 58:20
  Speaker 2: sure I should have started with that.
• 58:23
  Speaker 5: Well then there you go. I guess I don't know
• 58:25
  Speaker 5: my abba that Well no.
• 58:26
  Speaker 3: Wait is it?
• 58:27
  Speaker 4: Is it?
• 58:27
  Speaker 2: Trump said, y m c A. That's the official gay anthem?
• 58:31
  Speaker 2: How come? How come the baby mama is not playing that?
• 58:33
  Speaker 5: That's true? She would she should have rethought that.
• 58:37
  Speaker 2: So apparently she's not the only person. A lot of
• 58:40
  Speaker 2: would be you know, soon to be moms are are
• 58:43
  Speaker 2: playing music that they consider to be gay, hoping their
• 58:47
  Speaker 2: sons are gonna, you know, I don't know, pop out
• 58:49
  Speaker 2: of the womb doing jazz hands. Hello, mommy, you look fabulous.
• 58:58
  Speaker 2: Spank me.
• 58:59
  Speaker 9: I can die.
• 59:00
  Speaker 2: God, let's go to Let's go to the Patriot Mobile
• 59:04
  Speaker 2: newsmaker line. Our good buddy, Joe Messina joins us, Joe,
• 59:08
  Speaker 2: are you still there?
• 59:10
  Speaker 8: Is comedy?
• 59:12
  Speaker 17: I mean, seriously, it's.
• 59:15
  Speaker 2: The craziest thing I've ever seen. I mean, you know,
• 59:19
  Speaker 2: these moms, you know, and when you're pregnant. From what
• 59:22
  Speaker 2: I've heard is that you know, you go through these
• 59:24
  Speaker 2: phases like you like ice cream or pickles, or you know,
• 59:28
  Speaker 2: you just get angry all the time and want to
• 59:30
  Speaker 2: hit men. I get that, but I've never heard of this.
• 59:36
  Speaker 19: New category. Remember we used to buy those eight tracks
• 59:39
  Speaker 19: and they had all the categories like, you know, country, jazz,
• 59:43
  Speaker 19: hip hop, gay.
• 59:44
  Speaker 17: Now I guess I don't gay.
• 59:46
  Speaker 2: Well what if I mean again, what if they're moms
• 59:49
  Speaker 2: out there on the other side of the you know,
• 59:51
  Speaker 2: the aisle the alphabet, and they're like, oh, we got
• 59:53
  Speaker 2: to play some Hadero music. Yes, you get some country music.
• 59:58
  Speaker 2: Play some Hank and Will and Charlie.
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 17: Get Charlie Daniels out there, get to go with me.
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 2: You're clear, Dolly and Reba, But you know everybody else
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 2: should be fair dames anyway, Joe Messina, good to have
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 2: you with us today. And of course you guys at
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 2: the center of a big spotlight, the big gubernatorial debate
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 2: just a few days ago. Another one's coming up on Tuesday.
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  Speaker 2: I gotta I don't get this, Joe. I watched, and
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 2: I tried to watch with an open mind. I don't
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 2: see how anybody in their right mind could vote for
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 2: any of those Democrats.
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  Speaker 5: You know, I have a joke.
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 19: The only way you pull the Democrat handle anymore is
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 19: you got to take a hit an acid before you
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 19: watch the Holy Booth. You're so correct.
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 17: I think I told you this the end of the day.
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 19: You need to have that moment where Hilton or Bianco
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 19: gets up there and says, this is what's happened over
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 19: the last twenty years that your Democrats have had control.
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 19: Here's what they've done to your kids, Here's what they've
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 19: done to the economy. Here's what they've spent on homelessness,
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 19: and it's got like fourteen worse. What do you have
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 19: to lose by bringing me in our voting on us?
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  Speaker 19: Because I don't know if you know this, but California
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 19: has a recall amendment that you could do, so if
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  Speaker 19: you really hate the guy that's in office, you should
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 19: be I believe me, it'd be easy to recall a
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 19: Republican here. But we need to hit They need to
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 19: stay on that and stop beating on each other.
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  Speaker 2: I thought it was interesting about Hilton, and I thought
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 2: he actually won the debate, but I was I don't
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 2: want to say I was disappointed in his performance. I'm
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 2: not sure if he's used to being in those sorts of,
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 2: you know, debate situations where you gotta fight, and he
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 2: just seemed a little unsteady. At times. Am I reading
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  Speaker 2: that wrong?
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  Speaker 17: No, No, I think you're right.
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  Speaker 19: I think look at he's used to being a lot
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 19: in front of his own people. I've seen him at
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 19: two events. He comes out as a cheerleader and we're
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 19: gonna do this, and we're gonna take the task and
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 19: we're gonna you know, it's like that thing, we're going
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 19: to lower taxes?
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  Speaker 5: All right?
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 17: Stop?
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  Speaker 19: How coma, how are you going to do that? I
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 19: think Bianco did a great job. He come out strong,
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 19: he had the answers. I think he took the wind
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 19: out of the sales of Hilton at times. But he's
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 19: got a lot of baggage. He's got to figure out
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 19: how to overcome.
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  Speaker 2: Well, and he does. But those are those are that
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 2: that baggage would hurt him in any other rock solid
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  Speaker 2: red state. I mean, I'm not sure that's gonna be
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 2: that's gonna hurt him all that much. With the even
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 2: the Republican base, you know, taking the knee during the
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 2: BLM George Floyd stuff, and uh, you know he's a
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 2: little soft on on deportation.
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  Speaker 19: Oh yeah, if we if you know, I mean, the
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 19: truth of the matter is, if we have a Republican
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 19: and a Democrat. I'm sorry to say, I think the
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 19: Democrat will win. If we have the two Republicans, we
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 19: have a really good chance. You know, I got a
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 19: little sneaky suspicion. Tell me what you think about this.
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 19: You've got Styre who now is all over the place.
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 19: He's going anywhere with anybody. Some of these other people
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 19: are dropping out. There's more stuff coming out against Katie.
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 19: I think he's kind of playing behind the scenes to
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 19: keep trying to drop these people and knock these people
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 19: out with things they've done in the past.
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  Speaker 2: And who was the middle school guy on the end.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't know that.
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  Speaker 17: Guy, Mahman Mahim. I mean, I don't even know why
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 17: he didn't register with me at all.
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  Speaker 2: The mayor was the San Jose s. He looks like
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 2: he's fourteen years old, and he had to grow a
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 2: beard to make sure he did looked like he was ten.
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  Speaker 17: That's that's very true. Well, then you got Via Regu.
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  Speaker 19: I mean, he's got some great ideas, but he can't
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  Speaker 19: move up at all. He blamed the Democrats for where
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 19: we're at. I mean, my god, that took guts.
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  Speaker 2: Joe. I'm curious that there was there was one issue,
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 2: and we talked about this yesterday on newsbacks the the
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 2: commercial driver's licenses and the idea that it's now apparently racist,
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 2: according to the Democrats, to require truck drivers to actually
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 2: have a rudimentary grasp of the English language. I was
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 2: astounded by their answers.
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  Speaker 17: I want to think about that for a second.
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  Speaker 19: They made the comment that it's racist basically to expect
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 19: somebody to speak English properly or understand English. Who said
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 19: anything about brown or black? They alluded to nobody they
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 19: had anybody who can't read, write, or speak English. There
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 19: are Italian folks that can't read writer or speak English,
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 19: the Japanese folks. Who's talking about color here?
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 2: It's a great point, and nobody did. But they loved
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 2: trying to bring race into this. But again, California, what
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 2: we've heard upwards of seventeen thousand CDLs that were issued
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 2: to illegals and people that were not qualified. That puts
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 2: every single person in danger. And I thought Steve Hilton
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 2: did a good job when he brought up the story
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 2: of Delilah Krause, the little five year old girl whose
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 2: life has been forever altered as a result of the
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 2: Indian driver who was here ill legally got a CDL
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 2: and by the way, he should have been deported when
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 2: he was stopped at the border. But the Biden administration,
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 2: Joe let this guy into the country.
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  Speaker 17: Oh yeah, no, he.
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  Speaker 19: Made some great points. But you know, again, go back
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 19: to that for a minute. They're thinking that that it's racist.
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 19: They don't care who gets killed, they don't care who
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 19: it hurts, So what families it wipes out?
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 17: And and again.
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 19: Think about the points that they were talking wonderfully about
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 19: Gavin Newsom. This guy has flushed his state three times over.
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 19: So they don't have anything to run on other than
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 19: you know, I'm gonna fight Trump. I'm gonna fight Trump.
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 19: What are you gonna do if you get to become governor? Well,
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 19: I'm gonna fight Trump. Yeah. Hello, how about get helping
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 19: the homeless? How about getting our vets off the street,
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 19: getting them in a real situations where they can get
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 19: the help they need, they get the food they can get.
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 19: I'm amazed that this still sells.
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 2: Todd Joe, I was somewhat I was old disappointed. I
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 2: thought the Republicans had a missed opportunity. And sometimes you
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 2: get so wound up in your memorized talking points that
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 2: you can't really think on your feet. But when they
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 2: were talking about gas prices, somebody should have immediately shot back, well,
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 2: you know what those gas prices would be low if
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 2: it wasn't for what the dollar sixty cents or however
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 2: many how many fees and taxes that the Democrats have
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 2: imposed on the motorist of California.
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  Speaker 19: Oh, you're right, it's like a dollar sixty three. But
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 19: another side of this cloud, it's going up to almost
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 19: another sixty one cents because of the summer. California has
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 19: what's called a summer blend, so the gas has to
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 19: be changed for summertime burning. And two bucks, let's just
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 19: say about two plus of every gallon of gas it's
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 19: going to go to the state. And Stire was it
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 19: I think it was. Stier said, no, we need the
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 19: gas tax to fix the roads. I just spent two
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 19: thousand dollars, not more than six weeks ago, putting tires
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 19: on my car because they got blowed out in potholes.
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  Speaker 2: It makes no sense, It makes no sense at all.
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 2: So again I still go back to the original question,
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 2: what are people smoking out there? Because the Democrats are
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 2: making their lives unsustainable. And this has nothing to do
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 2: with Republicans. It has everything to do with Democrats and
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 2: their taxes.
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  Speaker 19: Yeah, Todd, I think I told you this the other
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 19: day when when Governor Gavin Newsom was recalled or we
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 19: had a recall petition and he ran for governor again.
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 19: When people were coming out of the polls when they
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 19: do when they do the not the polling, but you
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 19: know they pull people as they come out of the polls,
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 19: the general answer was, I don't know if I want
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 19: Republicans running the government. So it was a fear of
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 19: Republicans having control as opposed to this guy that's in there,
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 19: that's you know, stealing the money out of your pocket.
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 19: So the fear is towards Republicans, not necessarily towards what
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 19: the Democrats are doing. I think the only upside right
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 19: now he's got a lot of celebrities pounding on Democrats
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 19: in the state. To your point, you know, people have
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 19: to decide do I fill up the gas, do I
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 19: go a little short on that, get a little bit
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 19: more food.
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 17: They don't know what to do.
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 2: So again it's coming up in June. That's when you
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 2: guys go to the polls. You think we're going to
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 2: have two Republicans at the top or is there going
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 2: to be one Republican and a Democrat?
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 17: Okay, one for sure, which is an easy call. Obviously.
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 19: If Styr keeps doing what he's doing, I'm sorry, I
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 19: think there's a good chance at him or Besara. Sarah
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 19: can't believe it anyway, Him or Besarah could end up
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 19: as a number two slot.
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 2: Oh wait, wait, it was Besarah, by the way, who
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 2: gave Gavin Uskomb what the a on dealing with the
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 2: homeless crisis.
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 19: I know, seriously, obviously Besarah has not had his glasses
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 19: on when he's walking through downtown. No, La, you can't
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 19: even park your car close to the curb, Todd, because
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 19: there's lumps of human excrement right there off the edge
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 19: of the curb that you don't want your tires to
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 19: go through.
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, Uh, you could have done without the lumps
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 2: of human excrement. We got people eating lunch out here. Messina,
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 2: I just just I want to be clear in my language.
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 2: That's all. Thank you, No, very clear, Thank you for that,
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 2: all right, Joe Messina, Joe Messina dot com. Ladies and gentlemen,
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 2: all things Joe Messina. Uh, Joe, my good friend. I
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 2: hope you have a great weekend. Yeah, you two and
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 2: God bless all right, wow, lumps of human excrement. You
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 2: know they actually they don't have poop patrols. They're spending
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 2: tens of millions of dollars in San Francisco and they
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 2: actually hire people and their job is to go around
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 2: and pick up the human poop on the sidewalks in
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 2: San Francisco.
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 5: You would have to pay me a lot of money
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 5: to do that.
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 2: There's not enough money in the world. Not enough money
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 2: in the world. All right, Uh, we've we've got to
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 2: take a break here. Nine oh one two six zero
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 2: five nine two six hour telephone number. That's nine oh
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  Speaker 2: one two six zero five nine two six. This is
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 2: the Todd Start Show. All right, welcome back to This
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 2: is the Todd Stearns Radio Show. You know, Dylan, I
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 2: was watching a little bit of the NFL draft. You
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 2: know that every man in America is going to be
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 2: parking in front of the TV this weekend. Oh yeah,
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 2: it's pretty much what wall to wall coverage, isn't it?
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 5: Pretty much in the first day, you know, it's already
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 5: happened pretty much expected.
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 2: How I thought, how about old for what Fernando Mendoza
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 2: going to Vegas?
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 5: You know, everyone thought it was going to happen, and
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 5: it happened, and he reacted the exact way that I
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 5: thought it would happen.
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, here's uh, here's what he had to say. I
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 2: cut forty.
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  Speaker 20: With the first pick in the twenty twenty six NFL Draft,
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 20: the Las Vegas Raiders select Fernando Minosa, quarterback Indiana.
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  Speaker 1: Just like we drew it off time for Welcome to
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  Speaker 1: Prime Time presented by five And you could see the
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 1: reaction from Mendoza his family.
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 5: This is what we had anticipated. He's been outstanding in
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 5: so many of his interviews throughout the course of this process.
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 5: First Heisman Trophy winner that Indiana has had.
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 2: Wow, how about that? Did you hear, by the way, Nashville,
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 2: is this true that they may be getting the Super
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 2: Bowl in twenty thirty.
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 5: I didn't hear about this.
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 2: That's exciting new stadium they got, you know, it's cost
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 2: the bazillion dollars.
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 17: Wow.
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 2: The Lord was on hand. I was surprised at the
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 2: number of athletes. These guys get out there and man,
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 2: they're just it was like a church service. I want
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 2: to take a listen to our friends over at Sports
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 2: Spectrum put this little compilation together.
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 9: The last five months has been such a blessing by God,
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 9: and I can't think of him enough.
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 5: So thankful, So BLESZ doing work.
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 3: I mean, he's not done.
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 5: We're just gonna keep this day roll and I'm gonna
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 5: give him all. And that's all I can do.
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 15: First of all, I just want to say thank God.
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 5: Without that, none of us will be here.
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  Speaker 20: I it's it's thanks for my Savior Jesus Christ.
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  Speaker 4: So yeah, you go.
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  Speaker 8: Lives just so blessed right now. You know, I just
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 8: praise the love for every moment.
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 17: Really, I just is a j cooch.
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 8: I can't do the lead is right?
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 2: Uh here?
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  Speaker 7: I mean I first off, I want to give all
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 7: the glory to my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 4: The fact that I'm here on the NFL stage of
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 4: the Draft.
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 21: I wouldn't be here but one for him.
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 2: Wow. You know, it's interesting tell him because these are
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 2: all young guys. So these are gen zers, Yeah, fresh
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 2: out of college, and I think they're part of this
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 2: whole new generation of I'm not afraid to say that
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 2: I'm a you know I'm a Christian, that I'm a
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 2: person of faith.
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 5: Very refreshing to see. You see that so much in
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 5: sports too nowadays. Right, But I also think there is
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 5: a movement, like you've been saying, where they are coming
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 5: back to the faith. It's more different shift or perspective
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 5: when they when they achieve something big, they thank God first,
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 5: which is great to see.
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 2: Except for golf, I've noticed I heard one guy and
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 2: he was shouting the Lord's name, but it turned out
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 2: I don't think.
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  Speaker 12: It was.
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 2: I'm like, oh oh oh my yikes. But yeah, no,
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 2: you're right. I mean especially you know, baseball, basketball, football,
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 2: and that's it's an exciting it's really exciting to see.
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 2: By the way, is it just me I am ready
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 2: for college football?
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 5: No, it's not just you, it's me too.
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 2: I'm ready. I am ready to go. By the way,
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 2: the President of the White House now wants to expand
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 2: you know, they're working on a plan to fix you
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 2: know what's broken in college sports with the NIL. They're
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 2: wanting to expand the college football playoffs. I think twenty
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 2: something teams, twenty four, twenty six teams.
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 5: Yeah, well, see, my perspective on that's always been like, well,
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 5: the top teams are still getting paid the most, and
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 5: they're still gonna be able to for the best players.
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 5: And so unless we fix that, the playoffs aren't really
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  Speaker 5: same team still though.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, when you look at, for example, March Madness,
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  Speaker 5: Oh yeah, for sure. Basketball. Basketball is one of those
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  Speaker 1: Live from the Liberty University Studio in Memphis, Tennessee. It's
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  Speaker 1: America's conservative blowtorchug.
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  Speaker 2: Start, Dylan, You're gonna You're not gonna believe this. This
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 2: is this is huge, huge, I say, so. We have
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  Speaker 2: you've heard about Looks Maxing. We did a whole thing
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 2: on this, right, Yes, I remember with it wasn't Charlemagne
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 2: the god? No, who's the cluvicular? Yes, yes, Charlemagne's the
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 2: black dude. Yeah, I don't think he does, Looks.
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  Speaker 5: Max I don't think so.
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  Speaker 2: Uh So anyway, Looks Looks Maxing for all of you, uh,
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 2: for all of you gen xers out there, Uh, that
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 2: is going to great extremes to broaden your your persona.
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 2: I do that with barbecue, but apparently gen Zers are
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 2: doing it with hammers, and they're literally breaking the bones
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 2: and their cheeks and their jaws and their chin rather
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 2: to like get a more chiseled jaw.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, taking it a little too literally in my opinion,
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 5: but that's the idea.
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 2: So we're discussing it today. We've got two guys coming
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 2: on the show are what two of our regulars are
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 2: gen Z panelists and Ryan. We've got Ryan Leonard from
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 2: n YU, the president of NYU College Republicans, and they're
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 2: doing the whole looks maxing thing.
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 5: I hope you get some answers, Jack Niel, I've.
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 2: Got I've got a lot of answer I've got a
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 2: lot of questions. But there's something even more and we
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 2: better bring Luke symbol into this. Luke is our local
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 2: Republican strategist here in Memphis. Luke, good to see you
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 2: put down the hammer. So it's not just the gen
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 2: Zers guys. Now there is something called nana maxing. And
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 2: of course nana is what the Italian people call their grandmothers.
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 2: So now the grandmothers are doing this, and so then
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 2: they're not no, they're not hitting themselves in the head.
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 2: But they've got they're doing videos where they're like making
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 2: Italian food. Yes, have you noticed this on the social media.
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 5: I'm addicted to it.
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  Speaker 21: Uh yeah, there's all these nonahs that teach you how
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 21: to make American Italian food, the meatballs, and there's controversy
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 21: over whether you fry the meatballs in the pan first
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 21: or if you just put them directly in the sauce.
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 2: Raw the sauce. Yeah, what do you call it? It's
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 2: not Nana, It's nona. It's no, it's no no. What wait,
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 2: I'm Southern. We had a mema. I had a mem
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 2: and a me, me and a lolo and a BB
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  Speaker 2: on the female side.
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  Speaker 21: Todd I, I am participating in the look maxing uh movement.
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 21: I don't know if you've noticed. I'm on a high
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 21: protein diet. I am working out every day. My goal
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 21: is this summer, I never want to wear a shirt
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 21: like I want to feel so confident in how I
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 21: look that I never I want the housewives as they
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 21: they're driving down the street and I'm mowing the launch
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 21: short list, I want them to get into a wreck.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think that's a good idea.
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  Speaker 21: I know but that's what that's the look I'm going for.
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 21: I don't know if you've noticed that's what I'm going for.
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 2: I haven't noticed, because why would I notice. Sorry, it's however,
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 2: I will say this, I don't believe men over like
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 2: thirty or thirty five should be wearing like should be
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 2: going outside without a shirt on. I think I believe
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 2: in clothing. And Dylan, I'm talking.
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  Speaker 5: What's Dylan's opinion on this? Dylan, what if it's hot outside,
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 5: what if you're like mowing the grass?
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 2: You want a good tame It doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 21: What if you have a chisel six pack like I'm trying.
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it doesn't matter. That's inappropriate. Anybody over that age
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 2: has no business. By the way, Paul Shanklin says, Dylan
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 2: needs to play if I had a hammer or hammer time,
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 2: all right, look it up, look it up. So but
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 2: I am concerned. I am this is interesting because I
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 2: have noticed about the about the notice, because that's all
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 2: I see in these freaking Meet Paul episodes.
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  Speaker 21: And I'm addicted to it.
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 2: I don't get it. But no, I saw that where
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  Speaker 2: it's like a big thing. Do you fry the meatballs
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 2: or do you put them into the sauce raw.
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 21: I put them in the sauce raw, and they are
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 21: so good you just you cook them for a long time,
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 21: but they're delicious.
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  Speaker 2: Dylan, is that what they call raw dogging?
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  Speaker 17: Oh no, no, no.
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  Speaker 5: Not quite. That's different generation, Dylan. It's spaghetti in there.
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 2: I'm still trying to figure. I just now learned what
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 2: that little poop emoji was. I thought it was like
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 2: chocolate pudding. I had no idea.
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  Speaker 21: So this is why America loves you.
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 2: Yikes. I'm not going to look it up because then
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 2: you know it's in your like you know it's in
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 2: your yeah algorithm. And I don't want the word raw dogging,
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 2: and no, no I won't. So I'm like, whoa, I
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 2: don't think grandma's doing that to the meatball. But I
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 2: am curious, ladies, and especially of the Italian persuasion. Do
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 2: you how do you cook your meatballs? Because I had
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 2: no idea that was, but apparently it's all a big
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 2: thing now. And these Italian grandchildren are going in and
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 2: they're they're doing the whole cook in the family meals
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 2: and they call it no, no, it's nonah, right, Nona,
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  Speaker 2: Nona Maxing is what they're calling it. I love it.
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 2: I had no idea. So anyway, so yeah, nine oh
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  Speaker 2: one two six zero five nine two SIGs love to
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  Speaker 2: hear your meatball recipes. That's nine oh one two six
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  Speaker 2: zero five nine two six. What's the word I'm looking for? Then, Dylan,
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 2: I can't.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know. I think we've lost the plot here happened?
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  Speaker 21: Did you warn the affiliates today?
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  Speaker 2: That is that a bad thing? Okay, I don't want
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 2: to know. I don't want to know, all right, I'm
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 2: a good Southern Baptist. So Luke Cymbol you were. You're
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 2: generating some headlines. Of course, the big news in these
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 2: parts is the official state takeover of the failing school
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 2: system here in Memphis, the Memphis Shelby kind of schools.
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 2: Over seventy percent of the kids cannot read at grade level.
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 2: And I was donned by these numbers. But apparently the
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 2: absent tee rate is off the charge. School kids aren't
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 2: even showing up for school, and I guess instead they're
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 2: going around and shooting things up and causing mayhem all
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 2: over the city.
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  Speaker 21: This is a major issue across the across America. In
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 21: large cities with large school districts. You saw it in Houston,
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 21: the state had to come take over the school system.
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 21: You're seeing it here in Memphis. The state had to
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 21: come take over the school system. And it is yet
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 21: again another example of urban democrat failure in leadership. That
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 21: is what it is.
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 8: We have a.
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 21: Terrible, like you said, absentee rate, we have a terrible
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 21: proficiency rate in reading and math. And what astounds me
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 21: is when the state is wanting to come in and
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 21: intervene and to spend resources and to offer up professionals
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 21: to help, the current school boards are like no. And again,
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 21: this is happening across the country. Houston is a prime example.
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 21: Houston is turning at school district around. We have to
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 21: do this in Memphis, Tennessee as well.
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  Speaker 2: And it's my understanding that you guys are looking at
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 2: Houston as the example of course the state doing a takeover,
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 2: and you're right. I mean, the results have been phenomenal,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm sure some of our Houston listeners can attest
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 2: to that. But the reality is, you know, most majors,
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 2: I would say all cities are dealing with those two
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 2: big issues, crime and education. And I think education is
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 2: I think you've got to get a handle of education,
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 2: because that will fix the crime problem.
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  Speaker 21: I agree, And this is another example Republicans. I hope
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 21: that you are listening. It is another example of how
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 21: we need to have our candidates focusing on local issues.
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 21: When we have local Republicans running for office, focus on
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 21: things like crime, focus on things like education and taxes.
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 21: It is those basic fun and roads. It is those
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 21: fundamental things that people really really care about. Don't get
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 21: caught up in the national conversations. Focus on what is
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 21: happening locally, and education is a big piece of it.
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 2: Far too many people are thinking they're going to be
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 2: the next Donald Trump. You just got to be yourself,
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 2: and you're right, You've got to focus on those key issues.
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 2: And if you do, I think that's a winning formula.
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 21: It is it is people care. Crime and education are
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 21: winning formulas. And for the first time ever recently during
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 21: COVID this changed nationally. Republicans were more trusted on education
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 21: than Democrats, first time in American history since that question
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 21: started being pulled, and we have to seize the opportunity.
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 2: It was interesting to see, and again the race has
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 2: become a factor here. The Democrats are playing the race card.
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 2: There is a majority black school district and everybody except
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 2: for one person on the school board happens to be black.
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 2: So I'm not quite sure you know how it's the
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 2: white man's fault because they have all the resources they need, right,
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 2: I mean, the state's been giving. They get more money
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 2: than any other school district in the entire state of Tennessee.
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 2: And yet they're saying the majority white Republican legislature is
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 2: trying to basically be like a plantation owners Again.
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  Speaker 21: Yeah, one out of every seven dollars go in in
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 21: the state of Tennessee goes for education, goes to Memphis,
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 21: our school district here. That is why the state has
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 21: such an interest. And look, if you want to improve
• 1:25:09
  Speaker 21: education outcomes and Texas experienced this, if you want to
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 21: improve education outcomes in the state of Tennessee, you have
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 21: to do it in Memphis. Just like the crime issue,
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 21: you had to focus on Memphis. We are cleaning up
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 21: crime things to President Trump and the Memphis Safe Task Force,
• 1:25:23
  Speaker 21: and we're going to solve education too.
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 2: And the Ton Stern Show absolutely I'm just kidding. But
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 2: what are they calling it the digital delta or there's
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 2: some sort of a clever name they're giving this whole area.
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 21: Yes, because Elon Musk brought XAI here, and there's another
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 21: data center coming and all these companies are starting to
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 21: pop up to supply these data centers. So they're trying
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 21: to brand it as the Digital Delta.
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 2: So there are good jobs to be had, and that's
• 1:25:47
  Speaker 2: why we need a qualified job workforce. Look at what
• 1:25:51
  Speaker 2: Ford is doing with Blue Oval City. If they ever
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 2: decigned to start building you know, vehicles there, they're going
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 2: to need that labor, well trained labor. And again, you
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 2: have a school district where the kids are not even
• 1:26:02
  Speaker 2: showing up for class, and when they do, they're not
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 2: learning anything. That's problem well.
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 21: And you know, for example, FedEx was started here in
• 1:26:10
  Speaker 21: Memphis and is based here in Memphis, and they are
• 1:26:12
  Speaker 21: having to bust in workers every night from Mississippi and
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 21: from other areas of the country, every night from three
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 21: hours away in order to get the workers that they need.
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 21: It's a problem. Wow, Let's get them off the welfare
• 1:26:26
  Speaker 21: and get them, get them work in time.
• 1:26:27
  Speaker 2: Luke Symbol joining us here in studio in Memphis. So
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 2: you went on this one of the local ABC of Eliot. Yes,
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 2: and they're good folks. Over there and you. It was
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 2: sort of like a little debate, right, sort of like
• 1:26:40
  Speaker 2: a CNN light Yes, and so they had you going
• 1:26:44
  Speaker 2: up against one of the Memphis Shelby County school board members.
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 2: And her name is Towanna Murphy. And Towana is an
• 1:26:53
  Speaker 2: aspiring what a singer songwriter? Yes, she rapper, I think
• 1:26:57
  Speaker 2: a ramper. She wrote a lovely little two called who
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 2: Can't He Be Kissing? I believe it is the vernacular there.
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 2: I think I got that right. Anyway, Dylan, that in
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 2: your not in your playlist.
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 5: No, I don't. I don't have that one listening. Yeah,
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 5: but any Spotify wrap.
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 2: So you are on there with Towana and she's the
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 2: school board. I want people to understand what you're about
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 2: to hear an actual school board member and y'all are
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 2: sort of going toe to toe. Let's take a listen.
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 21: Want to increase the proficiency rates, proficiency rates that are
• 1:27:27
  Speaker 21: far too low right now coming out of MIC.
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 22: Now, I'm going to piggyback off of that because we
• 1:27:33
  Speaker 22: have level five schools. We have a eighty five percent
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 22: graduation rate. So you can't say that we're not focusing
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 22: on literacy because we have well I agree, but that
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 22: starts in pre k.
• 1:27:45
  Speaker 21: So can you just pre k hope that's coming?
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 17: Can you?
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 18: No?
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 22: No, I'm not going to accept any help that's coming over.
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 22: First of all, we don't even know who these people are,
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 22: and they all want to be Republicans. You can't come
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 22: in from another state and tell us how to run
• 1:27:57
  Speaker 22: our district seventy percent blasting.
• 1:28:00
  Speaker 2: You cannot do.
• 1:28:00
  Speaker 21: That nearly two billion dollars a year to the district,
• 1:28:03
  Speaker 21: that certainly.
• 1:28:03
  Speaker 22: But you spent familion to on it us.
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 2: So I don't think she likes white people. I'm just
• 1:28:10
  Speaker 2: gonna go ahead and just rip that band aid off.
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 2: I think she's got a problem with whitey.
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 21: You know, she actually made a point here that she
• 1:28:17
  Speaker 21: did not intend to make. She tried to say, because
• 1:28:20
  Speaker 21: we have an eighty five percent graduation rate, that is
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 21: a good thing. Well, seventy five percent of them are
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 21: not proficient in reading in math, and that goes the
• 1:28:29
  Speaker 21: no child left behind policies under the Bush administration. Is
• 1:28:33
  Speaker 21: part of the problem here that they passed these kids
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 21: along year after year after year, doing whatever it takes,
• 1:28:39
  Speaker 21: and they're not proficient. It is a major problem.
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 2: I saw when she said I want to piggyback. You
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 2: kind of backed up a little bit. I would have
• 1:28:46
  Speaker 2: done the same.
• 1:28:47
  Speaker 21: Thing for folks that were not able to watch that live.
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 21: She she's scooting over closer and closer.
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 2: Saw she's getting in your face. I thought.
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 21: That would have been good television.
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 2: I worry it would have been great television. So again,
• 1:29:02
  Speaker 2: it's just it goes back to this one central truth, Luke,
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 2: is that we've got to do something about the schools.
• 1:29:11
  Speaker 2: And the only people willing to do something other Republicans.
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 2: And I really hope voters appreciate that. We've got about
• 1:29:17
  Speaker 2: thirty seconds. What say you?
• 1:29:18
  Speaker 21: I totally agree. And again, this is happening across the country.
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 21: Memphis is such a microcasm for the rest of the country.
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 21: And if we can solve, if Republicans are willing to
• 1:29:28
  Speaker 21: have a backbone, come in and fix the problem and
• 1:29:30
  Speaker 21: message it well, which is always a problem for us,
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 21: I think it'll benefit us in the election.
• 1:29:35
  Speaker 2: All Right, you got to take a quick break. We've
• 1:29:37
  Speaker 2: got Luke symbol with us. We'll be right back.
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 3: In the mon.
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  Speaker 2: That hurts. That is my chiin.
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  Speaker 17: Look isn't bleeding?
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  Speaker 13: Good lord?
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  Speaker 2: the phone lines. Let's start in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, k w N,
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  Speaker 2: our great affiliate. Their bill is gonna teach us how
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  Speaker 2: to make meatballs. All right, Bell, talk to me, Talk to.
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  Speaker 16: Me, alrighty. I've been the recipient and the beneficiary of
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  Speaker 16: several generations of good cooks. My wife has a catering business.
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  Speaker 16: The way she fixes them mixes all the ingredients in
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  Speaker 16: the big pan and bakes them first, then makes her
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  Speaker 16: sauce and adds the baked meatballs, which are perfectly cooked
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  Speaker 16: to the sauce. There's that. As a matter of public sir,
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  Speaker 16: please wear clothes. Nobody cares about your physique except you. Thirdly,
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  Speaker 16: you paint a song if I if I had a hammer. Yes,
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  Speaker 16: we had some tornadoes here through Oklahoma. And it's interesting
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  Speaker 16: when you go on the internet and read the comments. Now,
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  Speaker 16: as in Okie, I sympathize and empathize with people who
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  Speaker 16: have earthquakes in California, killer snowstorms in the Northeast, drastic
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  Speaker 16: heat waves and drafts in Texas, and hurricanes in Florida.
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  Speaker 16: And as an Okie we send church organizations to all
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  Speaker 16: of these places with contributions and aid. It takes a
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  Speaker 16: real sick person to blame an area. I actually read
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  Speaker 16: some that said it's Oklahoma who cares, and that's what
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  Speaker 16: they get for going red. Which Oklahoma, by the way,
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  Speaker 16: is the red estate in the landfall free. Yes it is.
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  Speaker 2: This is no I knew Oklahoma was. You guys are
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  Speaker 2: the reddest state. As a matter of fact, you're the
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  Speaker 2: only state in the Union where every count he went
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  Speaker 2: for Donald Trump and all the elections, all the Trump elections.
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  Speaker 16: Yes, welcome to Oklahoma. We have three criteria. We are
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  Speaker 16: a sanctuary state, which this is an original. I made
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  Speaker 16: it up. You have to have a three digit IQ,
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  Speaker 16: have a job, and be able to speak English and
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  Speaker 16: you can come here. Otherwise we don't let We don't
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  Speaker 16: let people in. As bad as that stuff.
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  Speaker 8: I like you, I like it.
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  Speaker 16: That's Oklahoma. But the song you played if I had
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  Speaker 16: a hammer encapsulates the American spirit to ridicule another nature
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  Speaker 16: area of this country, of this great country, because of
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  Speaker 16: their weather, or their locale or their politics. Takes the
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  Speaker 16: one sick puppy to do that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, this makes no sense to me why they would
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  Speaker 2: do that.
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  Speaker 12: Bill.
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  Speaker 2: You confused me for a second though, because I thought
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  Speaker 2: you said, if when you're making the meat palls, be
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  Speaker 2: sure to wear clothes. But what you were saying, because
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  Speaker 2: I would say, yes, you should wear clothes because of
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  Speaker 2: the splatter, But you're saying you should wear clothes out outside.
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  Speaker 2: I understand what you're saying.
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  Speaker 16: Now, as a public service, you close service. But we
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  Speaker 16: don't fry, and don't throw him in raw. My wife
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  Speaker 16: bakes him to the perfect consistency, makes this sauce separately,
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  Speaker 16: and then him in there and I will put him
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  Speaker 16: up against anyone in the world. We have people coming.
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  Speaker 16: She has a catering business. We have people coming in
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  Speaker 16: from all over the actually world but the country to
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  Speaker 16: Oklahoma because it is a destination place for weddings because
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  Speaker 16: we have so many great venues and she has never
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  Speaker 16: had one put back, and people ask for the recipes
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  Speaker 16: and everything, but of course she says she'd have to
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  Speaker 16: kill them as she gives it to the world's best.
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  Speaker 16: Been in charter choke tip too.
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  Speaker 2: Oh Bill, what's the name of the catering company?
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  Speaker 16: Silver Dollar Catering and Tulus Oklahoma. Our wife is the best.
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  Speaker 2: Oh wow, all right, well, Bill, you just gave her
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  Speaker 2: a shout out. And I don't know about you. I
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  Speaker 2: could go for some meat balls now, Bill, thank you
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  Speaker 2: for calling in. And certainly we do pray for all
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  Speaker 2: the people uh in Oklahoma. Man got hit so hard
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  Speaker 2: last night big tornadoes. Vance Air Force Base took a hit.
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  Speaker 2: The good news is minor damage there at bad news,
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  Speaker 2: a lot of the homes around the Air Force base
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  Speaker 2: were completely flattened as far as I know. The last
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  Speaker 2: report I saw before I came home the show today
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  Speaker 2: was that there were lots of injuries but no fatalities.
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  Speaker 2: And we certainly praise, praise, the Good Lord for that,
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  Speaker 2: but you got to watch out for those tornadoes. Nine
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  Speaker 2: oh one two six zero five nine two six. We're
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  Speaker 2: learning how to make meatballs. Let's go to Diana in
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  Speaker 2: Flat Rock, North Carolina, listening to us on w HKP.
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  Speaker 2: Hi Diana, what's going on today?
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  Speaker 16: Hi Todd?
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  Speaker 23: Well, I got to call in and tell you what
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  Speaker 23: my ex husband known. How she taught me to make
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  Speaker 23: Battalian meatballs. And that was she measured everything in her hand,
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  Speaker 23: and I watched and I carefully paid attention to what
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  Speaker 23: she was doing, and then it was put in the
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  Speaker 23: sauce to cook. So this sauce gets that nice flavor
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  Speaker 23: from the beef as well as the meat ball's cooking. However,
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  Speaker 23: at the end of the lesson, my father in law
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  Speaker 23: asked her how I did in her very broken English.
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  Speaker 23: That's why I had to watch what she put in.
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  Speaker 23: She could not speak English. Well, she said she never learned.
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  Speaker 2: Oh wow us the taste.
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  Speaker 23: Because I refuse to taste the raw meat.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah you can't. Yeah, I'm with you on that.
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  Speaker 23: This dad will not taste raw hamburger meat.
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  Speaker 8: Oh.
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  Speaker 2: I don't blame you one bit. Is that why you're
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  Speaker 2: is that is that why that's those are the X
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  Speaker 2: and losses.
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  Speaker 23: Well amongst many reasons.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, you don't need to go, don't need to go
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  Speaker 2: any further.
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  Speaker 23: But I turned around and married another Italian, So what
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  Speaker 23: can I say?
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  Speaker 12: Oh?
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  Speaker 2: Well, there you go. Now I hear you have to.
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  Speaker 2: There was this great episode and Everybody Loves Raymond where
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  Speaker 2: Marie Road is teaching Patty Heaton's character how to make meatballs,
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  Speaker 2: and she said, you make them with love. And then
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  Speaker 2: she pulled out a thing of wine and she says, well,
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  Speaker 2: how much wine do I put in the sauce? And
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  Speaker 2: Marie Barone said, whatever's left. So gotta have a little wine.
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  Speaker 23: We have to put two clubs in.
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  Speaker 2: Oh is that okay? Well that's good to know. So
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  Speaker 2: I've just started learning how to really cook well. And
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  Speaker 2: that's going to be my next adventure, is the spaghetti
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  Speaker 2: and the meatballs.
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  Speaker 23: I've been doing it for fifty years and I haven't
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  Speaker 23: had any complaints.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, all right, so you're an expert, I think so, Diana,
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  Speaker 2: thank you for calling in, and we certainly appreciate you.
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  Speaker 2: Listening to w HKP, a great radio station out there
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  Speaker 2: in North Carolina nine oh one two six zero five
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  Speaker 2: nine two six. Let's go to Delanaga, Georgia. Anna is
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  Speaker 2: on the Hi addat let's dark meatballs.
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  Speaker 11: Hey, what you do is you make the meatballs tod.
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  Speaker 11: You don't throw them in uh in the sauce right away.
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  Speaker 11: You have to bake them first. You put them in
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  Speaker 11: four hundred for about thirty five minutes. If there's twelve
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  Speaker 11: of them, about maybe two inches the inches, you know,
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  Speaker 11: a circumference. And you put them in there and you
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  Speaker 11: let them you let them cook till they're done, and
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  Speaker 11: then you put them in a sauce, any kind of
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  Speaker 11: sauce you want to put them in. And that's it
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  Speaker 11: pretty much.
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  Speaker 2: Wow. So do you make homemade meatballs yourself?
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  Speaker 24: Yes, I do.
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  Speaker 11: I do. I put a little bit of I put
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  Speaker 11: veal and pork in a little bit of just a
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  Speaker 11: ground beef.
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  Speaker 2: Just a little bit, oh yeah.
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  Speaker 11: And then I put I put garlic in there, smashed
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  Speaker 11: the garlic, put it in there. But I even the
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  Speaker 11: garlic in the onion. I cook first before I put
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  Speaker 11: them in my meatballs. And you know, you can pretty
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  Speaker 11: much put anything in your meat both that you wanted
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  Speaker 11: a lot of family recipes, but that's what you do.
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  Speaker 11: You need to cook them first. Good idea to cook
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  Speaker 11: them first, not and just throw them in there, you know, raw,
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  Speaker 11: no little scary now.
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  Speaker 2: And I helped me understand this because I learned this
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  Speaker 2: term and I hope I get this right. When I
• 1:42:21
  Speaker 2: was up in New York City and I asked for
• 1:42:24
  Speaker 2: something and they said, do you want the gravy? And
• 1:42:26
  Speaker 2: I said, yeah, I love gravy and it came out
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  Speaker 2: and it was like, that's what they call I mean,
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  Speaker 2: gravy in the South is different than gravy in the
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  Speaker 2: North because that's what they call. Is it Sunday sauce
• 1:42:35
  Speaker 2: or is you know, the sauce for like the spaghetti
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  Speaker 2: would be the gravy.
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  Speaker 11: Sometimes some people. Now I'm going to a French background,
• 1:42:46
  Speaker 11: Canadian French background, so you know, I do have family
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  Speaker 11: members that are Italian and Sicilians, and they call it
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  Speaker 11: gravy too. They don't call it tomato sauce. They don't
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  Speaker 11: call it sauce. And I'm from New England, so you know.
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  Speaker 11: But now I've been living in the South most of
• 1:43:04
  Speaker 11: my life and so but they call it main stauce
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  Speaker 11: down here.
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  Speaker 12: Like we do.
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  Speaker 2: So I was wondering about that. Now do you put
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  Speaker 2: it on like the sauce. I mean it needs to
• 1:43:15
  Speaker 2: It needs to cook all day, right, You just don't
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  Speaker 2: like whip it up and then just serve it. It's
• 1:43:19
  Speaker 2: got to you gotta You've got to get all the flavors,
• 1:43:23
  Speaker 2: got to get acquainted.
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  Speaker 11: Exactly when you cook it. When you cook the meatballs
• 1:43:29
  Speaker 11: and take them out, they might be a little greasy,
• 1:43:32
  Speaker 11: depending on what kind of meat you use. You want
• 1:43:35
  Speaker 11: you want to go ahead and drain them and uh
• 1:43:38
  Speaker 11: put some paper towels around them and then then put them.
• 1:43:41
  Speaker 11: I what I do is I have sauce in the
• 1:43:44
  Speaker 11: crock pot. Now I'll put my meatballs in there, and
• 1:43:47
  Speaker 11: they cook the rest of the day, probably about maybe
• 1:43:51
  Speaker 11: four or five hours real low. And by the time
• 1:43:55
  Speaker 11: it's ready to eat. You know, everybody can smell that
• 1:43:57
  Speaker 11: food cooking like child love it. So you know that's
• 1:44:02
  Speaker 11: that's the way I do.
• 1:44:04
  Speaker 2: When's the Italian Festival telling we need I don't know
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  Speaker 2: that we're going. We're going to Olive Garden. Ana, We're
• 1:44:10
  Speaker 2: bringing you to Memphis. You'll be You're gonna be our
• 1:44:14
  Speaker 2: honorary Nonah.
• 1:44:19
  Speaker 11: Okay, that sounds like him.
• 1:44:20
  Speaker 2: Fun to be all right?
• 1:44:22
  Speaker 13: Anna.
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  Speaker 2: By the way. Do you guys still have the smith
• 1:44:24
  Speaker 2: House in Insolawnago.
• 1:44:28
  Speaker 11: Yes, we do. We have the smith House and we
• 1:44:30
  Speaker 11: have uh Rick Jackson over there today today be just
• 1:44:37
  Speaker 11: help him out. But he's running for governor of the
• 1:44:40
  Speaker 11: state of Georgia. And I really like this guy.
• 1:44:44
  Speaker 2: I really like him, Rick Jackson. So if he's at
• 1:44:47
  Speaker 2: the Smith's House smith House, he's a good guy.
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  Speaker 24: Then, so yes he is.
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  Speaker 11: It's a great place to eat. It's an old places,
• 1:44:54
  Speaker 11: been there for years and years, and and they sort
• 1:44:57
  Speaker 11: of family style. You know, they'll get there with a
• 1:45:01
  Speaker 11: bunch of people that you don't even know, but it's
• 1:45:04
  Speaker 11: kind of fun. You get to meet other people. It's
• 1:45:06
  Speaker 11: a very nice place.
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  Speaker 2: It's a wonderful place. And our family has been eating
• 1:45:10
  Speaker 2: there for gosh decades. So just a great, great little place. Anna,
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  Speaker 2: thank you so much for calling in, and hope you
• 1:45:17
  Speaker 2: have a great weekend. Folks. We've got to take a
• 1:45:20
  Speaker 2: quick break here. Nine oh one two six zero five
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• 1:45:52
  Speaker 2: go to David in Germantown, Tennessee, listening to us on KWAM.
• 1:45:58
  Speaker 2: Hi David, what's on your mind today?
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  Speaker 24: Afternoon?
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  Speaker 18: Kytt?
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  Speaker 2: How are you David? I'm doing well.
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  Speaker 24: You brought up to Memphis Italian Festival, which happens to
• 1:46:07
  Speaker 24: be the twenty eighth, twenty ninth, and thirtieth of May,
• 1:46:11
  Speaker 24: twenty five teams cooking all the spaghetti gravy you would
• 1:46:14
  Speaker 24: ever want to try and taste. I think we ought
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  Speaker 24: to get you in as a judge.
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  Speaker 2: I am there, Twist my arm, I am there, David.
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  Speaker 24: I will talk to the lady next Thursday night at
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  Speaker 24: the meeting of the festival and we will say if
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  Speaker 24: we can get you in as a judge. Well, gravy.
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  Speaker 2: Now, David, tell me though about you. You say gravy,
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  Speaker 2: So what is what is the gravy?
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  Speaker 24: Well, the gravy is what we down here in the
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  Speaker 24: South called spaghetti sauce. So uh, I mean it's you know,
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  Speaker 24: everything we do at the Italian Festival is based out
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  Speaker 24: of Italy, so the little taste of Italy here in
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  Speaker 24: Memphis for the weekend. But what we call spaghetti sauce
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  Speaker 24: or tomato sauce out here is what they call gravy.
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  Speaker 2: So I see now there is there's a great little
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  Speaker 2: place right around the corner from my home and it's
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  Speaker 2: called I hope I get this great Vanelli's.
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  Speaker 24: Vanelli's, Dell Ye been there there all the time.
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  Speaker 2: Wow. Yeah, the food there's just really good and they
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  Speaker 2: do a great job. And then there's another guy that
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  Speaker 2: opened up a place, uh not too far away from there,
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  Speaker 2: and they're really great sandwiches as well. I'm curious, David,
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  Speaker 2: what is it that makes good Italian food great?
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  Speaker 24: I don't know. I get to eat from I get
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  Speaker 24: to eat from so many different teams during the festival.
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  Speaker 24: Every one of them has their own specialty and depending
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  Speaker 24: on what spices they put in and how much oregano,
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  Speaker 24: how much a baseball, you know, everybody's a little different.
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  Speaker 24: Everybody's just great. Just occasionally they come up with the
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  Speaker 24: contest and somebody has to win so and we use
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  Speaker 24: volunteer testers to.
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  Speaker 2: Do that with Wow, that's oh, the name of the
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  Speaker 2: other place. I was thinking about it, and please, I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to get it. Is it Pesci's pe s cees.
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  Speaker 24: Yeah, I've never been there.
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  Speaker 2: As she's Italian. Deli how the guide listens to the
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  Speaker 2: radio show and has they just opened up and it's
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  Speaker 2: a great shop and they make their own meats and
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  Speaker 2: sausages and I'm like, wow, this is good, this is
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  Speaker 2: good eating, as they say.
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  Speaker 24: Yeah so, And I mean one of the things we
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  Speaker 24: do at the Italian Festival is we have cooking demos
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  Speaker 24: of people showing how they cook at different restaurants, how
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  Speaker 24: they cook their Italian food.
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  Speaker 2: Dylan, you got to go, Delan, you gotta go, you
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  Speaker 2: gotta learn.
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  Speaker 5: I would love to go.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, I.
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  Speaker 13: Will, I will.
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  Speaker 24: I will take care of that for you. So I'll
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  Speaker 24: get it through. I'll get it to you through.
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  Speaker 8: Clint.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's well, sounds good. That's uh that yeah, that's
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  Speaker 2: our beloved Clint the family member there. So, David, I
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  Speaker 2: got to tell you though, I've heard nothing but great
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  Speaker 2: things about the Italian Festival, and you guys just really
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  Speaker 2: it's a lot of fun to put on a big
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  Speaker 2: festival like that.
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  Speaker 24: It's a lot of work, but it is a lot
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  Speaker 24: of fun. It's the hardest. It's the hardest week of
• 1:48:53
  Speaker 24: work you'll ever do. We set up on Monday and
• 1:48:56
  Speaker 24: we take everything down on Sunday. We have to have
• 1:48:59
  Speaker 24: the park turned back over to the city by Monday morning.
• 1:49:01
  Speaker 24: But there's wine making contest, there's uh gravy contest, there's
• 1:49:07
  Speaker 24: anything but Italian contest. It just gets all sorts of
• 1:49:10
  Speaker 24: food there. If you're a foodie person, this is where
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  Speaker 24: you need now. Unfortunately, if you're not on the team,
• 1:49:15
  Speaker 24: you won't get to eat there. But we have restaurants
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  Speaker 24: and stuff in the park that we serve. Serve a
• 1:49:20
  Speaker 24: nice meal. Pete and Sam's will be there this year.
• 1:49:24
  Speaker 24: What's the other uh, Garabaldi's will be there. Colets will
• 1:49:28
  Speaker 24: be there. Oh wow, yeah, we have we have lots
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  Speaker 24: of it's fun, it's exciting, it's something to learn.
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  Speaker 2: Well, David, we appreciate you uh letting us know about that,
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  Speaker 2: and uh hang yeah, hang tight, and we'll get your
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  Speaker 2: info as well. So don't don't hang up. Helen's going
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  Speaker 2: to pick up the phone and thank you for thank you.
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  Speaker 2: What a great opportunity, Dylan. I could be an official
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  Speaker 2: judge already, do the great tomato the Great Tomato Festival.
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  Speaker 2: So I mean that's the next logical stuff.
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  Speaker 5: It's an upgrade. It's gravy so hungry.
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  Speaker 2: I love that. Let's go back to Bartlesville, Oklahoma. K
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  Speaker 2: WN Keith is on the line and wants to talk meatballs.
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  Speaker 13: Hi, Keith, how you doing.
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  Speaker 2: I'm doing well, Thanks for asking good.
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  Speaker 12: What you need to do is get some lean bison beef.
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  Speaker 12: Then you need to use extra extra virgin olive oil
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  Speaker 12: to sawtell your gun onions and garlic cup. Then you
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  Speaker 12: step out aside. Then you add a little veal to it.
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  Speaker 12: You put the rest of it in. When it's cooled off,
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  Speaker 12: you roll them into three inch balls, bake them for
• 1:50:30
  Speaker 12: about twenty minutes until they're just not quite done, but
• 1:50:34
  Speaker 12: they're done on the outside, okay. Then you throw them
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  Speaker 12: in your sauce and then need what you The secret
• 1:50:40
  Speaker 12: ingredient is Japanese pancoa crumbs, Oh and so.
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  Speaker 2: And it finishes cooking and the sauce. Is that how
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  Speaker 2: that works?
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  Speaker 12: Yes, they're almost done, but they're not and the pinco
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  Speaker 12: crumbs will soak up the blood in it.
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  Speaker 13: Oh and it makes it.
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  Speaker 12: They make them so soft that they're great.
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  Speaker 2: At the same time, Keith, how did you come up with?
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  Speaker 12: Buffalo is just a little leaner than cattle is, but
• 1:51:07
  Speaker 12: you could use either one.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, oh, that's a great idea. All right, I'm ready.
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  Speaker 2: And by the way, folks, if you want to go
• 1:51:13
  Speaker 2: back and listen to some of these ideas, you can
• 1:51:15
  Speaker 2: just get the podcast. It's free and you can go
• 1:51:18
  Speaker 2: back and listen to it. Keith is a great So
• 1:51:20
  Speaker 2: are you the cook in the family? I am all right, Wow,
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  Speaker 2: I love this so well, Keith. Thank you again. We've
• 1:51:27
  Speaker 2: had a lot of calls from Bartlesville this week, so
• 1:51:29
  Speaker 2: we love We love you guys. And you've got a
• 1:51:31
  Speaker 2: great town out there in Oklahoma.
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  Speaker 12: I've heard that too. Everybody be safe out there for
• 1:51:36
  Speaker 12: the tornadoes. Me and my rot letters say hi, and
• 1:51:39
  Speaker 12: you guys have a good day.
• 1:51:40
  Speaker 2: All right, all right, be safe ount there, Keith, and yes,
• 1:51:43
  Speaker 2: all of our Kansas and Oklahoma listeners, be very careful
• 1:51:47
  Speaker 2: of those big storms out there. Dylan, I feel like
• 1:51:49
  Speaker 2: we're doing a cooking show now.
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  Speaker 5: I'm going to have to release my stomach because it's
• 1:51:53
  Speaker 5: growling so loud. I'm so hungry.
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  Speaker 2: So Pesh's is not too far from you, as you
• 1:51:59
  Speaker 2: know those big buildings over on the corner of Yeah,
• 1:52:02
  Speaker 2: that's where that's They got a little place there. I
• 1:52:04
  Speaker 2: might go there right after Great Guy, Great Guy. Just
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  Speaker 2: a it's a it's a family. It's like Vanelles. If
• 1:52:10
  Speaker 2: you haven't been to Vanelli's, you gotta go to Vanelli's.
• 1:52:13
  Speaker 2: They got some amazing food.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, we have set up some of the best food in.
• 1:52:16
  Speaker 2: Memphis, Memphis, the Memphis food scene. I know everybody loves
• 1:52:19
  Speaker 2: to talk about our barbecue. We have an amazing food
• 1:52:22
  Speaker 2: scene here in Memphis. I'm just telling you, folks, it's
• 1:52:26
  Speaker 2: time to go eat, all right, and it's also time
• 1:52:28
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• 1:52:30
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• 1:52:36
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• 1:52:40
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• 1:52:42
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• 1:52:44
  Speaker 2: Everybody