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Todd Explains why Socialist Insurgency is Spreading Across USA · ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes

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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 blowtorch.
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  Speaker 2: This American.
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  Speaker 3: Starts.
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  Speaker 4: You know, one of the things I love about this
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  Speaker 4: time of year, the fourth of July Independence Day is
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  Speaker 4: the moment that we can step back and just just
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  Speaker 4: think about and reflect on how how well of this happened.
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  Speaker 4: And when you do that, when you step back and
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  Speaker 4: realize that it was really just a bunch of farmers
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  Speaker 4: and town townsfolks and a lot of young people who
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  Speaker 4: who created this country and put it all on the
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  Speaker 4: line for this country, you realize and you have to
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  Speaker 4: see I think God's hand in the creation of the
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  Speaker 4: United States of America. Hello everybody, Welcome to the Tom
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  Speaker 4: Sterns Radio Program. What an honor to have you with
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  Speaker 4: us as we as we celebrate and we reflect on
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  Speaker 4: the greatness of America and what made this nation the
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  Speaker 4: most exceptional nation on the planet. And you know, I
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  Speaker 4: know there's a lot of polling data out there, and
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  Speaker 4: we're going to get to some of that today where
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  Speaker 4: record numbers of Democrats hate our country and they hate
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  Speaker 4: our way of life, they hate freedom, they hate capitalism,
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  Speaker 4: and I'm going to explain why that is, because there
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  Speaker 4: is a reason why so many people in our country
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  Speaker 4: hate who we are. And some of you may have
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  Speaker 4: some thoughts on that as well, and we'll certainly take
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  Speaker 4: your calls on that. Nine oh one two six zero
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  Speaker 4: five nine two six. That's nine oh one two six
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  Speaker 4: zero five nine two six. And I say all that
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  Speaker 4: because I see what's happening in so many other countries
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  Speaker 4: around the world. America is special. America is unique. Even
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  Speaker 4: I know a lot of folks love Europe and they
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  Speaker 4: love to go on the vacations to England and France
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  Speaker 4: and Belgium and Germany. I get that, and I don't
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  Speaker 4: want to take anything away from those countries except they
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  Speaker 4: suck compared to the United States. But no, in all seriousness,
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  Speaker 4: so I don't want to take anything away from them.
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  Speaker 4: But they're not us. They don't enjoy the same freedom
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  Speaker 4: that we enjoy, and we have something that is truly unique.
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  Speaker 4: You know, we were talking over the past couple of
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  Speaker 4: weeks about the what is it that about a million
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  Speaker 4: one point two million visitors from other countries crisscrossing America,
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  Speaker 4: and they were not going to the big cities. They're
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  Speaker 4: going to places like Mobile Alabama or New Orleans, or
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  Speaker 4: Houston or Oklahoma City, and they were literally getting off
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  Speaker 4: the interstates and they were driving the back roads of America,
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  Speaker 4: and person after person after person was just so stunned
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  Speaker 4: at how beautiful our country is and how beautiful her
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  Speaker 4: people are, and how amazing the food is and the
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  Speaker 4: fact that we've got big gas stations with giant beavers
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  Speaker 4: in them and we sell something called beaver nuggets, and
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  Speaker 4: we have fried chicken, and even in Memphis to the Sea,
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  Speaker 4: you know, they were talking about how, you know, great
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  Speaker 4: the barbecue was, and we have Graceland. We have everything
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  Speaker 4: you could imagine in the United States of America. And
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  Speaker 4: person after person would post a video on TikTok or
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  Speaker 4: x and they would talk about how different America turned
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  Speaker 4: out to be because they thought that they were coming
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  Speaker 4: to a dystopian world. They thought they were coming to
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  Speaker 4: a place where people were living in constant fear and
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  Speaker 4: that there was hate everywhere. And that's that's not the
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  Speaker 4: America they discovered, because they discovered the real America, the
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  Speaker 4: true America, the America that that is the reality of us,
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  Speaker 4: as opposed to to what you know is manufactured on
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  Speaker 4: cable television and out of Hollywood, and for me, that
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  Speaker 4: was it's really been a beautiful thing to see. And
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  Speaker 4: you can't help but smile and feel good because you're like,
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  Speaker 4: yeah that, yeah, you know what, Uncle Low's in Memphis. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: sure they're in the ghetto, but they got grape fried chicken.
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  Speaker 4: Or if you're in Texas, you know you're going down
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  Speaker 4: and you're having brisket in the Hill country. Those are
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  Speaker 4: quintessential American things. And our entire way of life is
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  Speaker 4: under attack. It's under attack because the enemy is inside
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  Speaker 4: the gates. And again we'll get to that in just
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  Speaker 4: a little while, but I keep going back to the
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  Speaker 4: idea that our nation, our great nation, was was birthed
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  Speaker 4: in pubs and church houses, Isn't Isn't that the craziest thing.
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  Speaker 4: Isn't truly a uniquely American thing where men and women
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  Speaker 4: would sit around and they would they would drink their
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  Speaker 4: beer out of giant mugs in the pub houses across
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  Speaker 4: the colonies, and they would talk about freedom and liberty,
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  Speaker 4: and they conspired and they plotted together. And in the
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  Speaker 4: church houses where you had ministers of the gospel, and
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  Speaker 4: they understood that they had a role in the planning
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  Speaker 4: and the execution of the plans that would lead to
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  Speaker 4: the birth of America. It was a very different time
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  Speaker 4: in this land. Back in the seventeen hundreds. The churches
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  Speaker 4: were on fire. The churches were a part of the community.
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  Speaker 4: They did not stand off. They were engrossed in all
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  Speaker 4: of the affairs, all of the things that were happening.
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  Speaker 4: It's truly a beautiful moment, truly a beautiful time to
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  Speaker 4: be a patriot. Can you imagine pastor patriots who were
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  Speaker 4: and without them we would not have had our country.
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  Speaker 4: There is a story in my new book called The
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  Speaker 4: Golden Age, How Trump saved American I take people back
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  Speaker 4: to those days. And in South Carolina, pardon me. In
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  Speaker 4: South Carolina especially, you had farmers that were just not
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  Speaker 4: willing to leave their crops and to leave their farms
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  Speaker 4: and go and fight the British. They just did not
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  Speaker 4: have that desire. They would rather have taken care of
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  Speaker 4: their land. Sure they wanted freedom, but they weren't willing
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  Speaker 4: to really pay the price. There was a pastor by
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  Speaker 4: the name of Oliver Hart, and he was a minister
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  Speaker 4: at the first Baptist church in Charleston, South Carolina. And
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  Speaker 4: he was preaching from his pulpit about freedom and liberty,
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  Speaker 4: and he was condemning the British occupation of America from
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  Speaker 4: the pulpit of the first Baptist Church in Charleston, South Carolina.
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  Speaker 4: The British hated this man because he was so powerful.
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  Speaker 4: He was such a powerful orator that the Continental Congress
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  Speaker 4: set a delegation down and they said, would you take
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  Speaker 4: that message out into the countryside. And so Pastor Oliver Hart,
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  Speaker 4: the Baptist, he gathered up several of his other Baptist friends,
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  Speaker 4: and off they went on horseback into the upstate of
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  Speaker 4: South Carolina, encouraging people to put down their shovels and
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  Speaker 4: their hos and their rakes and pick up a musket
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  Speaker 4: and fight for freedom. Had it not been for the
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  Speaker 4: pastors in South Carolina, we may be having tea and
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  Speaker 4: crumpets in a couple of hours from now. That's the
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  Speaker 4: story of America. The fact is that most of our
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  Speaker 4: founding fathers were all under the age of forty. I
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  Speaker 4: know we see the images of them wearing the white
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  Speaker 4: powdered wigs, but they were all very very young people.
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  Speaker 4: As a matter of fact, it was Andrew Jackson just
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  Speaker 4: thirteen years old when he was captured and tortured by
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  Speaker 4: the British. But he was a patriot, and Andrew Jackson
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  Speaker 4: refused to give up any secrets. Andrew Jackson kept his
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  Speaker 4: mouth shut, and of course went on to become one
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  Speaker 4: of our great presidents. There's a young man by the
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  Speaker 4: name of Richard Ferman, a teenage boy, a teenage boy,
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  Speaker 4: Richard Ferman, and he was a teenage evangelist, I think
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  Speaker 4: fifteen sixteen years old. And the British generals once said
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  Speaker 4: that they feared the prayers of that teenage boy more
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  Speaker 4: than they feared the armies of George Washington. That tells you,
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  Speaker 4: ladies and gentlemen. That tells you about the character and
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  Speaker 4: the demeanor and the heart of some of these young
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  Speaker 4: American patriots. There were fifty six signers of the Declaration
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  Speaker 4: of Independence, and the one line that gets me is
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  Speaker 4: at the very end where these men they crafted this document,
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  Speaker 4: and it was probably one of the most ingenious documents
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  Speaker 4: written of all time. I want to say, and I
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  Speaker 4: don't want to be, you know, I don't want to
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  Speaker 4: be what's the word I'm looking for. No, it's not heresy.
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  Speaker 4: I don't want to say it was inspired by God.
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  Speaker 4: But I believe that that document that our declary should
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  Speaker 4: have independence. I believe it to be inspired by God.
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  Speaker 4: I truly do. And I believe that those men, and
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  Speaker 4: they may not have even been aware of the power
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  Speaker 4: of the Holy Ghost or the Holy Spirit and the
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  Speaker 4: writing of that document, but I believe that that God
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  Speaker 4: was involved in the affairs of men that day. Fifty
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  Speaker 4: six signers the last line where they pledged their lives
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  Speaker 4: and their fortunes and their sacred honor. They put it
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  Speaker 4: all on the line. Those men had no idea how
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  Speaker 4: things were going to work out. They had no idea.
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  Speaker 4: This was not some sort of just you know, have
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  Speaker 4: an inspirational church message and at the altar call you
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  Speaker 4: go down and you just, you know, you make a
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  Speaker 4: covenant and you pledge. No, that's not what this that's
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  Speaker 4: not what this is. That's not what that was. This
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  Speaker 4: was the great unknown. This was literally stepping out in faith.
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  Speaker 4: That's what these fifty six men did when they put
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  Speaker 4: their names to the Declaration of Independence. About seventeen of
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  Speaker 4: those men lost everything they had, every single thing. The
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  Speaker 4: British came in. They they raided their homes and their farms.
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  Speaker 4: Five of them lost their entire fortunes. Many of them
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  Speaker 4: had sons and daughters and wives who were taken prisoner
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  Speaker 4: by the British. Some of them were even tortured. Many
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  Speaker 4: of them died penniless. They lost everything, but they considered
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  Speaker 4: the cost, and they determined in their hearts that this
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  Speaker 4: was a country worth fighting for. This was a country
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  Speaker 4: worth giving everything for. And again, when you look at
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  Speaker 4: at how it all happened, when you look at the
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  Speaker 4: ages of some of these individuals, Betsy Ross, for example,
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  Speaker 4: you think that she was in her forties or fifties.
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  Speaker 4: Betsy Ross was twenty three years old when the Revolutionary
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  Speaker 4: War started. She was a young she was a young
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  Speaker 4: working woman. She upholstered furniture, she was a seamstress, and
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  Speaker 4: they asked her to come up with that beautiful flag
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  Speaker 4: that we fly today. You think about you think about
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  Speaker 4: people like Sybil Luddington. We all know about Paul rev
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  Speaker 4: and the Midnight Writers, and Sybil Luddington was just sixteen
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  Speaker 4: years old. Word came down that the British were marching
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  Speaker 4: on Danbury, Connecticut, and Sybil Luddington rode through the night.
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  Speaker 4: On April twenty sixth seventeen seventy seven, a sixteen year
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  Speaker 4: old girl in the midst of a driving rain storm,
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  Speaker 4: a driving storm, she rode the forty miles to alert
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  Speaker 4: the Patriots that the British were attacking. Those are the
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  Speaker 4: kinds of people that that fought for America. It was
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  Speaker 4: really a motley crew. James Monroe are a great president.
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  Speaker 4: Eighteen years old when he crossed the Delaware with George Washington.
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  Speaker 4: He fought at Trenton in New Jersey, was badly wounded.
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  Speaker 4: Many of you have been to Washington, d c. And
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  Speaker 4: across from the White House is that beautiful park. Many
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  Speaker 4: of you have seen that park and it's been restored
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  Speaker 4: by President Trump. Lafayette Park is what they call it
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  Speaker 4: Lafayette Square, named after the Marquis de Lafayette. Nineteen years old.
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  Speaker 4: He crossed the ocean as a nobleman, and he fought
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  Speaker 4: for America. He became one of our nation's most trusted allies.
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  Speaker 4: A nineteen year old young man from another country. But
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  Speaker 4: he saw what was happening, people fighting for liberty, and
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  Speaker 4: he said, you know what, that is a cause that
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  Speaker 4: is worth risking my life for. And these are the
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  Speaker 4: stories that we celebrate ladies and gentlemen, on the fourth
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  Speaker 4: of July, we're going to have a grand celebration. We're
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  Speaker 4: going to be celebrating two hundred and fifty years. But
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  Speaker 4: we also have to celebrate these young people that stood
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  Speaker 4: up and considered the cost, not just Washington and Adams
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  Speaker 4: and Jefferson and Franklin, but the young people of the
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  Speaker 4: colonies who put it all on the line, those men
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  Speaker 4: who signed that document that came to be known as
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  Speaker 4: our Declaration of Independence. They risked everything. And you know,
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  Speaker 4: you ask yourself, what are we willing to risk when
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  Speaker 4: you look at where we are in the country right now.
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  Speaker 4: Our very way of life is under threats. There is
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  Speaker 4: a socialist insurgency happening right now across our nation. Freedom
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  Speaker 4: and liberty are under attack. What are we going to do? Well?
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  Speaker 4: We have the courage of the founding fathers, those brave men,
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  Speaker 4: those farmers who are willing to put it all on
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  Speaker 4: the line. They risked everything for America. They risked it all.
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  Speaker 4: Nine oh one two six zero five nine two six.
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  Speaker 4: This is what we celebrate on July fourth, ladies and gentlemen,
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  Speaker 4: And what a great celebration that's going to be. Nine
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  Speaker 4: oh one, two six, zero five nine two six. This
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  Speaker 4: is the Todd Stard Show, you know, going back to
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  Speaker 4: the Declaration of Independence for a moment. The youngest person
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  Speaker 4: to sign the Declaration of Independence Edward Rutledge, just twenty
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  Speaker 4: six years old. Thomas Lynch Junior only a few months
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  Speaker 4: older than him. And then when you get around to
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  Speaker 4: the signing of the Constitution, Jonathan Dayton was twenty six
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  Speaker 4: years old. So just another reminder that we all had
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  Speaker 4: a lot of skin in the game. And I truly
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  Speaker 4: believe we talk about God blessing America. Yeah, I think
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  Speaker 4: that God had a great role in what transpired, all
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  Speaker 4: of the events that transpired to create the United States
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  Speaker 4: of America, and I just think that's a wonderful, wonderful
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  Speaker 4: story and one that we need to be sharing with
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  Speaker 4: our young people, especially by the way, you know that
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  Speaker 4: beautiful monument, the Washington Monument on the Mall, it was
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  Speaker 4: actually designed by a man named Robert Mills, who was
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  Speaker 4: a Presbyterian architect and he was a devout man of faith.
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  Speaker 4: And the design he had, Mister Mills, the design he had.
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  Speaker 4: There are campstones on all four corners at the pinnacle
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  Speaker 4: of the obelisk, and the one that faces due east
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  Speaker 4: is the tallest. And again the rule in Washington, DC,
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  Speaker 4: you're not allowed to build any buildings higher than the
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  Speaker 4: Washington Monument is the highest point in Washington, d C.
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  Speaker 4: And the reason why is that mister Mills, when he
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  Speaker 4: designed the monument and the campstone, he wanted the first
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  Speaker 4: rays of morning light to illuminate the campstone facing due east.
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  Speaker 4: And on that campstone in Latin are written the words
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  Speaker 4: Praise Be to God. So you're telling me that our
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  Speaker 4: nation was not meant to be a Christian nation, I
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  Speaker 4: sincerely disagree with that. Ladies and gentlemen, gotta take a break.
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  Speaker 4: We'll be right pack. All right, welcome back to the
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  Speaker 4: Ton Starts Radio Show. Great to have you with us today.
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  Speaker 4: Nine oh one two six zero five nine two six.
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  Speaker 4: There is a brand new survey out, yet another one,
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  Speaker 4: and it turns out Democrats hate America even more than
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  Speaker 4: they did a couple of weeks ago. Here is the
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  Speaker 4: CNN report cut thirteen.
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  Speaker 5: Please you know, among Republicans, ninety three percent are extremely
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  Speaker 5: or very proud, just one, a single one say they
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  Speaker 5: have little to no pride in being an American. But
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  Speaker 5: look over at the Democratic side, this is where we've
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  Speaker 5: seen this extremely or very number. It's been taking a
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  Speaker 5: tumble of twenty seven percent, which is way different than
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  Speaker 5: the ninety three. You do the quick math with me here,
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  Speaker 5: what is that? That's a sixty six point difference here
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  Speaker 5: in terms of extremely a very But look at this,
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  Speaker 5: the little or no proud to be an American actually
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  Speaker 5: among Democrats eclipses is greater than the extremely or very
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  Speaker 5: proud number. So we are just living in such a
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  Speaker 5: different universe if you're a Republican versus a Democrat on
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  Speaker 5: the basic fundamental question of being proud to be an American.
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  Speaker 4: Well, there you go, ladies and gentlemen. I'm just curious,
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  Speaker 4: why do you think it is that Democrats hate America?
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  Speaker 4: Give us a call. Nine one on two six zero
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  Speaker 4: five nine two six. That's nine oh one two six
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  Speaker 4: zero five nine two six. All right, I've got to
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  Speaker 4: play this, play this audio. I'm really excited about this.
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  Speaker 4: There's a guy by the name of Willy Rice who
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  Speaker 4: was just elected president of these of the Great Southern
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  Speaker 4: Baptist Convention of which I am a member. And uh,
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  Speaker 4: this guy is a rock solid conservative and in the
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  Speaker 4: past we have elected Southern Baptist presidents who are a
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  Speaker 4: little squishy and they're of the woke variety. This guy
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  Speaker 4: not squishy and he's not woke. And he issued a
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  Speaker 4: statement about the fourth of July and a prayer for
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  Speaker 4: America's two hundred and fiftieth anniversary. I want you to
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  Speaker 4: hear what doctor Willie Rice, the president of the Southern
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  Speaker 4: Baptist Convention, had to say about America.
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  Speaker 6: As we approach this July fourth weekend. I joined with
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  Speaker 6: Southern Baptists across our nation and celebrate the two hundred
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  Speaker 6: and fiftieth anniversary of our great country. From the beginning,
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  Speaker 6: pastors and churches were instrumental in the founding of our nation.
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  Speaker 6: Strong pulpits and courageous voices helped articulate the principles that
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  Speaker 6: would give birth to a revolution, not one based upon power,
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  Speaker 6: but upon transcendent truths rooted in God's character and revelation.
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  Speaker 6: Our nation, the greatest in human history, did not arise
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  Speaker 6: out of a vacuum of thought. It arose from a
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  Speaker 6: Christian worldview drawn from the teachings of the Bible perfectly
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  Speaker 6: revealed in Jesus. It was John Adams who said our
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  Speaker 6: constitution was made only for a moral and religious people,
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  Speaker 6: it is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
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  Speaker 6: In recent years, some voices would have us believe that
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  Speaker 6: we cannot be Christians and patriots at the same time,
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  Speaker 6: that somehow our gospel commitments and citizenship in God's eternal
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  Speaker 6: kingdom was somehow inconsistent with loving our country and contending
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  Speaker 6: for its future. This is simply not true. If we
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  Speaker 6: pray for God's will to be done on earth as
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  Speaker 6: it is in heaven, does that not necessitate that we
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  Speaker 6: seek God's will here in the nation we call home.
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  Speaker 6: The need of the hour is for churches and pulpits
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  Speaker 6: to once again rise to the challenges of the moment.
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  Speaker 6: It is for us to find our voice again and
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  Speaker 6: unapologetically declare that God's truth is true and that all
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  Speaker 6: men are accountable to him. Loving our neighbor means that
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  Speaker 6: we should seek a nation that is influenced by biblical
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  Speaker 6: truth and the Christian Gospel. How could we want anything else.
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  Speaker 6: It is true that government cannot save us, but government
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  Speaker 6: should do what it can do, and if it is
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  Speaker 6: to do it well, it must be influenced by courageous,
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  Speaker 6: convictional voices that unashamedly proclaim that Jesus is Lord overall
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  Speaker 6: this Sunday, that Southern Baptist churches across our land will
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  Speaker 6: take time to give thanks to God for his blessings
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  Speaker 6: upon our nation and for our history so rooted in
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  Speaker 6: Christian truth. I pray we will call upon our people
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  Speaker 6: to humble themselves and seek God's face again. And I
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  Speaker 6: hope we will fervently pray for our nation for a
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  Speaker 6: new spiritual awakening and a fresh dependency upon God. It
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  Speaker 6: is the only hope for this land or for any other.
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  Speaker 6: Two hundred and fifty years ago, Christian patriots help birth
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  Speaker 6: a nation that has resulted in more liberty and more
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  Speaker 6: prosperity for more people and more kinds of people than
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  Speaker 6: any other movement in the history of mankind. There isn't
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  Speaker 6: a close second. So we have reason to give thanks,
• 23:48
  Speaker 6: and we have a reason to also cry out to
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  Speaker 6: God for renewal and grace in our time. I pray
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  Speaker 6: that you and your church will join ours and so
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  Speaker 6: many others in giving thanks and crying out to God
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  Speaker 6: at this historic moment. Let us pray, as so many
• 24:04
  Speaker 6: of our forefathers did years ago, that God would indeed
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  Speaker 6: bless America and that we could be a shining city
• 24:12
  Speaker 6: set on a hill. May God bless you and your
• 24:15
  Speaker 6: church this holiday weekend, and may God truly bless America.
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  Speaker 6: Happy fourth of July to you and yours, and happy
• 24:24
  Speaker 6: two hundred and fiftieth Birthday to America.
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  Speaker 4: Wow. That was the president of the Southern Baptist Convention,
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: doctor Willie Rice. I'm going to let you got the
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: I got the Jesus bumps going right. I mean, wow,
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: that was amazing. And by the way, that's what pastors
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: used to do all the time from their pulpits. It
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: is such a refreshing thing to hear. And I just
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: can't say enough great things about doctor Rice in the
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  Speaker 4: Southern Baptist Convention. You know, Sunday I was speaking at
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: the first Baptist Church in Texas, Canada, Texas. And let
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: me tell you something, what a patri priotic congregation. They're
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: over two thousand people in attendance, and man, do they
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  Speaker 4: love God and do they love America. That's that's what
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  Speaker 4: it's all about, right there, Ladies and gentlemen. Nine oh
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  Speaker 4: Text and data rates may apply. So yesterday we were
• 26:06
  Speaker 4: talking about some of the clever, creative things that are
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  Speaker 4: out there, the all American road trips, places that we
• 26:15
  Speaker 4: used to go as kids that maybe you don't go anymore,
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: but maybe we ought to go to. I mean, I
• 26:20
  Speaker 4: remember as a kid we would go down to the
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: we used to call it the Redneck Riviera now was
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: the Gulf of America. But we would go down and
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: we would hit every sort of roadside attraction in it,
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  Speaker 4: and especially my grandfather was a huge alligator guy, so
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: if there was an alligator farm anywhere along the roadway,
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: we would stop there. And I don't know if you
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: guys remember the great old Stuckies. I really wish they
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: would bring back Stuckies. I mean, as much as I
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: love BUCkies, there's nothing better than a Stuckies, and Stuckies
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: was basically delling a roadside diner. They had great burgers,
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: great food, and they had the infamous pecan log roll,
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: which was basically pecans like wrapped around a sugary nugent.
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: That sounds pretty good.
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: It's very delicious, and if you leave them out too
• 27:13
  Speaker 4: long you can use it as a weapon. They're like logs.
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  Speaker 4: It's very tasty. But man, we used to always whenever
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: there was a Stuckies, we were pulling off the road
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: and we were grabbing food and we were getting some
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: pecan log rolls. As a matter of fact, I think
• 27:28
  Speaker 4: the family reached out to me a couple of years
• 27:32
  Speaker 4: ago and they're trying to get it started back again.
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: I know they're selling the pecan log rolls and a
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: lot of and a lot of the stores, but but yeah,
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: I mean that would be wonderful. It was sort of
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: like the family version of waffle House. All right, So
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: if you're going to waffle House, you might, you know,
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: encounter a fistfighter or something. At Stuckies, it was more
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: family friendly fair. So that's that's what Stuckies was more
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  Speaker 4: or less nine oh one two six zero five nine
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  Speaker 4: two six. So all that had to say, we want
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: to know where's something? What are some things that you
• 28:08
  Speaker 4: would recommend Americans doing. I know a lot of people are, oh,
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: you gotta go to Disney World, Oh, you got to
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: go to Dollywood. Well, yesterday we learned we got to
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: go see the giant elephant in Margate, North Margate, New Jersey.
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: So what are some clever things that we need to Oh?
• 28:23
  Speaker 4: What was it? Somebody sent me a note yesterday about
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: yarn or twine. I'll have to get that because they
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: were disputing where the largest ball. Oh, here we go.
• 28:35
  Speaker 4: This is from Bob and the subject line is the
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: biggest ball of twine in Minnesota. I guess maybe every
• 28:42
  Speaker 4: state has one. I don't know, Hi Todd, he sent
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: me a note here, Bob Oho, This is Bob who
• 28:51
  Speaker 4: sent me a letter about Leonard's barbecue. I'll get to
• 28:55
  Speaker 4: that in just a moment, Bob says, Dear Todd, you
• 28:57
  Speaker 4: were talking about roadside attractions on your show. You had
• 29:01
  Speaker 4: mentioned the biggest ball of twine in Minnesota. Did you
• 29:04
  Speaker 4: know that weird Al Yankovic actually wrote a song about it.
• 29:09
  Speaker 4: I had no idea, he says, As long as I
• 29:13
  Speaker 4: am talking about roadside attractions, here's a set of pictures
• 29:16
  Speaker 4: I took of our beloved Pippin, which happened to be
• 29:20
  Speaker 4: Elvis Presley's favorite roller coaster. In two thousand and six,
• 29:25
  Speaker 4: I heard that Memphis had sold it to a Minneapolis
• 29:27
  Speaker 4: theme park. I had to go down and take pictures
• 29:30
  Speaker 4: of it. It was a rainy day in January, and
• 29:33
  Speaker 4: I was all alone, so I climbed all over the Pippin,
• 29:36
  Speaker 4: even up the tallest ramp. I had ridden the Pippen
• 29:39
  Speaker 4: many times, so many times it was a bittersweet day
• 29:42
  Speaker 4: for me. I also included a sign for the Liberty
• 29:46
  Speaker 4: Land employees. By the way, liberty Land used to be
• 29:50
  Speaker 4: a beloved theme park here in Memphis, and we used
• 29:54
  Speaker 4: to go all the time. He goes, Dylan, did you
• 29:56
  Speaker 4: ever go to Liberty Land?
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: I don't remember. Ever having it.
• 29:59
  Speaker 4: It may have been torn down by the by the
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  Speaker 4: time you you got there. But for me, the biggest,
• 30:05
  Speaker 4: one of the biggest memories was going to liverty Land
• 30:08
  Speaker 4: riding the Pippin, which was a great wooden I think
• 30:11
  Speaker 4: it was a wooden roller coaster. So Audio call in
• 30:13
  Speaker 4: with some some memories of that. But anyway, he said, Todd,
• 30:18
  Speaker 4: I heard the theme park that now owns the Pippin
• 30:20
  Speaker 4: made over one million in ticket sales last year. This
• 30:24
  Speaker 4: denotes another bad decision the city of Memphis made by
• 30:27
  Speaker 4: selling the Pippin. And Bob because Bomb sent us sent
• 30:32
  Speaker 4: me a previous note talking about Leonard's Barbecue and how
• 30:36
  Speaker 4: much he loves He lives in Minnesota now but loves
• 30:38
  Speaker 4: Leonard's Barbecue, which was where the Stearnings family normally goes
• 30:42
  Speaker 4: for a little.
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  Speaker 7: Bit of queue.
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: I missed Leonards.
• 30:46
  Speaker 4: They just relocated.
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: I know they did, But you know, nothing beats the
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  Speaker 3: o G.
• 30:50
  Speaker 4: That's true. It's it's in there, and it's it's a
• 30:53
  Speaker 4: fair it's a fair assessment. So all right, folks, we
• 30:57
  Speaker 4: got to take a break here and again we are
• 30:59
  Speaker 4: we're most end to a Fourth of July celebrations and
• 31:03
  Speaker 4: we love to hear your take on America and all
• 31:07
  Speaker 4: the great stuff that's going on in this country, and
• 31:10
  Speaker 4: any of our Memphis listeners, if you remember Liberty Land,
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  Speaker 4: give us a call. Nine oh one two six zero
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  Speaker 4: five nine two six. That's nine oh one two six
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  Speaker 4: zero five, nine two six. This is the Todd Sterns Show,
• 31:29
  Speaker 4: all right, a little bit of breaking news from New
• 31:30
  Speaker 4: York City. And we have the video on Todd Sterns
• 31:33
  Speaker 4: dot com, so I would encourage you to go check
• 31:35
  Speaker 4: it out. We have a lot of video over at
• 31:37
  Speaker 4: Todd Sterns dot com. Apparently two protesters, all wearing all black,
• 31:42
  Speaker 4: a guy and a gal, and they have climbed to
• 31:46
  Speaker 4: the very top of the Empire State Building, like the
• 31:49
  Speaker 4: spire of the Empire State Building. We don't know how
• 31:53
  Speaker 4: they got up there. I mean, there is so much security.
• 31:55
  Speaker 4: But anyway, these two protesters all black, wearing masks, and
• 32:00
  Speaker 4: they have unfurled a giant banner and Dylan the flag
• 32:04
  Speaker 4: says when there's writing on it, when the power of
• 32:07
  Speaker 4: love beats the love of power, the world will know peace. Interesting,
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  Speaker 4: I mean, really that's it.
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  Speaker 3: Did you have to climb all the way up there
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  Speaker 3: to get that message?
• 32:20
  Speaker 4: Out exactly, and again it's uh, are they kissing? I
• 32:24
  Speaker 4: don't know there there may be some romance going on
• 32:27
  Speaker 4: up there. But anyway, oh wait a second, it's a
• 32:32
  Speaker 4: marriage proposal. Apparently apparent.
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: Well is it actually a marriage proposed?
• 32:41
  Speaker 4: It's a marriage proposal. Yeah, so it's some sort of
• 32:46
  Speaker 4: yeah crazy so, I mean a lot. Yeah, they're gonna
• 32:50
  Speaker 4: they're in they're in hot water. The question is how
• 32:52
  Speaker 4: do they get up there? I mean that's a big question.
• 32:56
  Speaker 4: But anyway, Yeah, so I wonder if she said.
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: Yes, could you imagine yeah.
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  Speaker 4: You know, let me think about it. Yeah, I mean
• 33:05
  Speaker 4: the guy could have rented like an airplane or something,
• 33:07
  Speaker 4: you know.
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: Every they're like those free climbers, those people that just
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: climb building for fun.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe maybe as long as you're not consummating anything up
• 33:15
  Speaker 4: there that's disgusting. A bunch of degenerates. All right, let's
• 33:21
  Speaker 4: go to Gainesville, Georgia. Paul is listening to us on WDUN. Hi, Paul,
• 33:26
  Speaker 4: what's on your mind?
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  Speaker 8: Hey? I haven't always lived in Gainesville, but as a kid,
• 33:31
  Speaker 8: my dad used to take me across the river from
• 33:34
  Speaker 8: Jersey into Philadelphia to see Independence Hall, the Liberty Bill,
• 33:40
  Speaker 8: and Betsy Ross's house on the fourth of two lines.
• 33:44
  Speaker 4: Is that right, Paul. That must have been a wild day.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 33:48
  Speaker 8: You can walk between the three and they have tours
• 33:51
  Speaker 8: and it's very enlightening.
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 33:55
  Speaker 4: Did a lot of people were they packed at the time,
• 34:00
  Speaker 4: but there.
• 34:00
  Speaker 8: Were groups of about twenty that a park ranger would
• 34:03
  Speaker 8: take you through and let you see all the buildings,
• 34:06
  Speaker 8: the buildings and and the bell and take you through
• 34:10
  Speaker 8: Betsier Ross's home because she made the first flag.
• 34:14
  Speaker 4: I love that story, Paul, and thank you for sharing that.
• 34:18
  Speaker 4: And what a great family that your dad would do
• 34:21
  Speaker 4: that take you over there and show you the great uh,
• 34:25
  Speaker 4: you know, the great bits of American history right there
• 34:27
  Speaker 4: in Philadelphia.
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  Speaker 10: Paul.
• 34:29
  Speaker 4: Thank you. Happy Fourth of July to you. Nine oh
• 34:32
  Speaker 4: one two six zero five nine two six is our
• 34:35
  Speaker 4: telephone number. That's nine oh one two six zero five
• 34:39
  Speaker 4: nine two six. Coming up, we're going to be talking
• 34:43
  Speaker 4: to our good friend Christy Stutsman. She's got a brand
• 34:46
  Speaker 4: new musical out called Washington's Ring of Spies. That's going
• 34:50
  Speaker 4: to be a great conversation coming up. Let's go to
• 34:53
  Speaker 4: Lou in Jacksonville, North Carolina. Lou, what's on your mind today?
• 34:58
  Speaker 8: I just wanted to come man on why I love
• 35:03
  Speaker 8: America and why I know it's the greatest place I've
• 35:08
  Speaker 8: ever been to. Reason I personally love America is after
• 35:14
  Speaker 8: twenty two years in the Marine Corps and being all
• 35:16
  Speaker 8: around the world, there's nothing beats America. It's just the
• 35:22
  Speaker 8: fact that we have so many good things about us.
• 35:27
  Speaker 8: For instance, back in the seventies when we went to Basics,
• 35:32
  Speaker 8: I never really knew, you know, Colcatan. My bunkie was
• 35:37
  Speaker 8: from Alabama. I was from the Bronx. God across from
• 35:42
  Speaker 8: me was from Mississippi. The other guy Jersey, connect and
• 35:46
  Speaker 8: we all trained together and we all became Marines. And
• 35:48
  Speaker 8: that was one thing we loved god Corn Country. The
• 35:52
  Speaker 8: fact that when we got back to our duty sticking
• 35:55
  Speaker 8: here of the June, I learned how to make moonshine.
• 36:00
  Speaker 8: We went yes, and I was looking with shooting all
• 36:07
  Speaker 8: these old guys, old Bubba's dricon past blue rhybon beard,
• 36:12
  Speaker 8: past blue ribbon beer, wearing big bull walls and a beard,
• 36:16
  Speaker 8: and here is a Puerto Rican from New York hanging
• 36:19
  Speaker 8: out with them, like gu's cool.
• 36:22
  Speaker 4: I love this story, lou Look, you have described just
• 36:26
  Speaker 4: about every southern town out there, my friend. But but
• 36:31
  Speaker 4: I'll tell you this. And by the way, on the moonshine, Lou,
• 36:35
  Speaker 4: I ran into a couple of guys from Alabama at
• 36:37
  Speaker 4: a barbecue contest, and they they had they had brought
• 36:42
  Speaker 4: their own moonshine with them to the contest, and I
• 36:46
  Speaker 4: think that may have been their their second secret sauce
• 36:49
  Speaker 4: they had.
• 36:50
  Speaker 10: Lou.
• 36:50
  Speaker 4: God bless you, my friend, and thank you for serving
• 36:53
  Speaker 4: in our great nation. And thank you for that great story.
• 36:56
  Speaker 4: Why do you love America, ladies and gentlemen, You better
• 36:59
  Speaker 4: light up the phones today? Why do you love America?
• 37:01
  Speaker 4: Nine oh one two six zero five nine two six.
• 37:05
  Speaker 4: This is the Todd Sterns Show, live.
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: From the Liberty University Studio in Memphis, Tennessee. It's America's
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: favorite gun, total Bible clinging, deplorable America.
• 37:29
  Speaker 11: That's that's.
• 37:33
  Speaker 12: This American. Todd starts, well, yea, all.
• 37:39
  Speaker 4: Right, we are following some breaking news out of New
• 37:43
  Speaker 4: York City, ladies and gentlemen, where a man and a
• 37:47
  Speaker 4: woman have scaled the Empire State Building and literally reached
• 37:53
  Speaker 4: the top of the antenna fourteen and fifty four feet
• 37:58
  Speaker 4: over the sidewalk there on fifth Avenue in New York City,
• 38:02
  Speaker 4: and they have unfurled a message, a giant banner, a
• 38:06
  Speaker 4: black banner with white letters saying, when the power of
• 38:10
  Speaker 4: love beats the love of power, the world knows peace. Now, Dylan,
• 38:15
  Speaker 4: we understand that we have some new details. Apparently it's
• 38:19
  Speaker 4: a man and a woman, and the man appears to
• 38:22
  Speaker 4: be wearing a leather mask over his face. It sort
• 38:27
  Speaker 4: of looks like Bane in the Batman movie. Okay, it's
• 38:32
  Speaker 4: kind of that vibe, sort of like Pride March meets Batman.
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah, okay.
• 38:38
  Speaker 4: And the woman is wearing a leather cat hoodie, so
• 38:43
  Speaker 4: she looks like a cat. So it's kind of like Catwoman.
• 38:48
  Speaker 4: And as near as we can tell from the reporting
• 38:51
  Speaker 4: of the New York Post that the man in the
• 38:54
  Speaker 4: mask has now popped the question to the woman their
• 38:59
  Speaker 4: boyfriend and a girlfriend and they are we don't know
• 39:04
  Speaker 4: if she said yes, but there you go. A massive
• 39:08
  Speaker 4: police presence right now, just chaos in New York City.
• 39:12
  Speaker 3: Fellows, would you do this for your girl without the
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: leather masks? Per chance?
• 39:16
  Speaker 4: Yeah? A Fox News is recommending they consummate their relationship
• 39:20
  Speaker 4: in jail and not on the antenna platform, So yes,
• 39:26
  Speaker 4: just for the sake of all of us, Thank you,
• 39:29
  Speaker 4: Fox News. Meanwhile, just a couple of literally a block away,
• 39:34
  Speaker 4: you've got Taylor Swift. You know they're doing with the
• 39:36
  Speaker 4: big wedding thing going on.
• 39:38
  Speaker 3: I heard she's building an entire castle for her.
• 39:41
  Speaker 4: Wedding inside Madison Square Guarden.
• 39:42
  Speaker 3: It makes total sense, right.
• 39:45
  Speaker 4: I just don't know about this.
• 39:47
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 39:47
  Speaker 4: Well, I want to go to the Patriot Moble news
• 39:49
  Speaker 4: maker line and welcome into the conversation our good friend
• 39:52
  Speaker 4: Christy Stutsman, who is the wife of our good friend,
• 39:56
  Speaker 4: Congressman Marlon Stutsman. She is the composer of the brand
• 39:59
  Speaker 4: new musical Washington's Ring of Spies. And to continue the
• 40:05
  Speaker 4: the romance angle here Christy, and first of all, great
• 40:08
  Speaker 4: to see you happy forth of July. I believe this
• 40:11
  Speaker 4: Toutchman family. You guys just celebrated a big wedding.
• 40:15
  Speaker 9: Yes we did. Our nephew got married and it was wonderful.
• 40:18
  Speaker 9: But I you know, nothing like what I'm hearing you
• 40:20
  Speaker 9: describe in New York City. I mean, that's just that's amazing.
• 40:24
  Speaker 13: Wow.
• 40:25
  Speaker 9: Okay, I'll have to turn on the news it's insane.
• 40:28
  Speaker 4: Or you can go to Todd Sturges dot com and
• 40:30
  Speaker 4: we have video and photos there, ladies and gentlemen, so
• 40:32
  Speaker 4: hop over to the website and you can see it
• 40:35
  Speaker 4: for yourself. Wow, it's you just never know these days, Christie.
• 40:40
  Speaker 7: I waited for pose.
• 40:42
  Speaker 9: You know.
• 40:43
  Speaker 4: No, we're trying to figure out the whole Taylor Swift.
• 40:45
  Speaker 4: We were doing a staff meeting earlier today for the
• 40:48
  Speaker 4: TV show and one of the producers pitched the Taylor
• 40:52
  Speaker 4: Swift story. I said, that is going to be a
• 40:54
  Speaker 4: hard pass. So we're not covering that on the show tonight.
• 41:02
  Speaker 4: Oh my god, moment, none whatsoever. And Christy, congratulations. So
• 41:08
  Speaker 4: exciting your new musical, Gangbusters. We understand, and we're going
• 41:14
  Speaker 4: to talk about it debuting very soon in Branson. But
• 41:19
  Speaker 4: there was some excitement at the First Baptist Church of Columbia,
• 41:22
  Speaker 4: South Carolina. I understand. They had a big Fourth of
• 41:25
  Speaker 4: July celebration and some of your music was actually used
• 41:29
  Speaker 4: in the production.
• 41:30
  Speaker 9: It was Yeah. They debuted two of the songs, the
• 41:33
  Speaker 9: opener and then the finale, and did an incredible job
• 41:37
  Speaker 9: with a live orchestra, huge choir. If you ever want
• 41:40
  Speaker 9: to be inspired, go to this Fourth of July celebration.
• 41:43
  Speaker 9: In fact, they're replaying it on several different channels in
• 41:46
  Speaker 9: South Carolina and Georgia in the Savannah area July fourth,
• 41:50
  Speaker 9: July second, July fifth, So check out your schedules because
• 41:54
  Speaker 9: you will be so inspired by this incredible concert that
• 41:57
  Speaker 9: they put on. And I've never seen so many America
• 42:00
  Speaker 9: flags in one place. It was just and I've been
• 42:02
  Speaker 9: in Washington, DC many times, but this was over the
• 42:04
  Speaker 9: top patriotic and absolutely loved. They did a great job
• 42:07
  Speaker 9: with the songs as well.
• 42:08
  Speaker 4: I love to hear that. And you know, in the
• 42:10
  Speaker 4: first hour of the show, we talked about how important
• 42:12
  Speaker 4: a Baptist actually were in the creation of the country
• 42:18
  Speaker 4: in South Carolina. As a matter of fact, one of
• 42:20
  Speaker 4: the pastors was recruited to go into the countryside and
• 42:24
  Speaker 4: preach about freedom and liberty to help you convince these
• 42:27
  Speaker 4: farmers to put down their rakes and shovels and pick
• 42:32
  Speaker 4: up muskets. So I'm excited to see that patriotism is
• 42:35
  Speaker 4: alive and well in South Carolina. Tell me about this
• 42:39
  Speaker 4: musical because it's actually based on an historical story, a
• 42:44
  Speaker 4: Washington's Ring.
• 42:45
  Speaker 9: Of spies, right the cul pro firing actually came into
• 42:49
  Speaker 9: existence in seventeen seventy eight on Long Island under the
• 42:53
  Speaker 9: direction of George Washington. He had been trying to get
• 42:56
  Speaker 9: information out of New York City, which was under British
• 42:58
  Speaker 9: control at the time, and had not had success with that.
• 43:01
  Speaker 9: There was a young man named Benjamin Talmadch who was
• 43:04
  Speaker 9: the son of one of the Black Rogue regiment that
• 43:06
  Speaker 9: you hear David Barton talking about that we know happened
• 43:10
  Speaker 9: in history where the pulpits were on fire, talking about
• 43:12
  Speaker 9: our religious liberties and our individual responsibility before God. And
• 43:17
  Speaker 9: so he was raised by a gentleman like that, and
• 43:19
  Speaker 9: he was twenty three years old when he was named
• 43:22
  Speaker 9: chief of intelligence for George Washington. He was from Satalk
• 43:25
  Speaker 9: at Long Island. He knew who to trust and who
• 43:27
  Speaker 9: not to trust because it was split half and half
• 43:30
  Speaker 9: between loyalists and patriots pretty much. So you really had
• 43:33
  Speaker 9: to be careful, not just because of the British control,
• 43:36
  Speaker 9: but also because of neighbors. So there was a lot
• 43:39
  Speaker 9: of risk involved. And these were young people, That's what
• 43:42
  Speaker 9: I love about this story. And they were very diverse.
• 43:45
  Speaker 9: So they were from twenty three all the way to
• 43:47
  Speaker 9: thirty two, thirty seven years old, and they were doing
• 43:51
  Speaker 9: incredible things with no training, no preparation. They were completely volunteer.
• 43:55
  Speaker 9: And the most beautiful thing is that they not only
• 43:58
  Speaker 9: saved George Washington's life, they saved the French fleet when
• 44:01
  Speaker 9: they arrived. They saved West Point, they saved the economy
• 44:04
  Speaker 9: from being filtrated by counterfeit bills. But they also walked
• 44:08
  Speaker 9: away at the end and never told anybody what they did.
• 44:11
  Speaker 9: We didn't know who they were for two hundred years.
• 44:14
  Speaker 9: So it's an incredibly all American store, uniquely American, and
• 44:18
  Speaker 9: it's also inspiring for this next generation. And we're talking
• 44:21
  Speaker 9: like farmers, tavern owners, innkeepers, whaleboat merchants. I mean, just
• 44:27
  Speaker 9: it's a reflection of us, we the people. And that's
• 44:29
  Speaker 9: what I keep saying about this musical. It is about
• 44:31
  Speaker 9: we the people and what we did.
• 44:33
  Speaker 4: So the world premiere is coming this fall in Branson
• 44:37
  Speaker 4: at the Freedom Encounter Theater. This is right, It is
• 44:43
  Speaker 4: at the level and I think it may even exceed
• 44:45
  Speaker 4: the level of a show that you would see on Broadway.
• 44:48
  Speaker 4: But tell us about this show and what people can
• 44:52
  Speaker 4: expect they if they get.
• 44:53
  Speaker 9: Tickets, Well, yeah, October first is the world premiere. So
• 44:58
  Speaker 9: we're encouraging everybody to go online to Ringospies dot com
• 45:02
  Speaker 9: and buy your tickets ahead of time. A lot of
• 45:04
  Speaker 9: people come to Brandson, they decide when they get here
• 45:07
  Speaker 9: what they're going to do. We're encouraging people to buy
• 45:09
  Speaker 9: the tickets for this early on. Bring church groups, youth groups, families,
• 45:13
  Speaker 9: homeschool co ops. It's going to run from October first
• 45:16
  Speaker 9: all the way through November seventh, and there's going to
• 45:18
  Speaker 9: be about four or five shows a week that you
• 45:21
  Speaker 9: can see. We're also offering some school shows. There's going
• 45:24
  Speaker 9: to be some educational elements to it as well, QR
• 45:26
  Speaker 9: codes on the programs where you can go to a
• 45:28
  Speaker 9: landing page and get some lessons about these different characters
• 45:31
  Speaker 9: and learn more about them. But the Broadway style, like
• 45:35
  Speaker 9: you're saying, it's a Broadway style musical, it's going to
• 45:37
  Speaker 9: be right around two and a half hours long with
• 45:39
  Speaker 9: an intermission, and it is riveting from the moment it
• 45:43
  Speaker 9: starts all the way to the end. You'll be on
• 45:44
  Speaker 9: the edge of your seat trying to figure out what's
• 45:46
  Speaker 9: happening next. There's all kinds of plot twists and things,
• 45:49
  Speaker 9: and what's so beautiful about it is it's all true.
• 45:52
  Speaker 9: This is historically accurate research for the last four years
• 45:55
  Speaker 9: with the Library of Congress, with a three villagious Historical
• 45:58
  Speaker 9: Society on Long Island, with wall builders and others who
• 46:01
  Speaker 9: have really helped to make sure that this is told
• 46:04
  Speaker 9: in a historically accurate way as much as possible.
• 46:06
  Speaker 4: Christy Stutsman joining us on our Patriot Mobile newsmaker line today,
• 46:10
  Speaker 4: the composer of Washington's Ring of Spies. It's going to
• 46:14
  Speaker 4: be a wonderful, wonderful musical that you and your family
• 46:18
  Speaker 4: are going to want to see Christy again. I just
• 46:23
  Speaker 4: I'm just excited that, you know, something of this quality
• 46:27
  Speaker 4: is being put together because there's so many wonderful stories
• 46:30
  Speaker 4: about our nation and the founding of our nation that
• 46:33
  Speaker 4: the kids just don't know about.
• 46:36
  Speaker 9: Yeah, and there really are so many of them. I'm
• 46:38
  Speaker 9: so many unsung heroes. And that's what I'm seeing throughout
• 46:41
  Speaker 9: American history is that it is a very American thing
• 46:43
  Speaker 9: to do the right thing and walk away not expect
• 46:46
  Speaker 9: any you know, pat on the back or applause or
• 46:48
  Speaker 9: to make it the history books. But I tell you
• 46:50
  Speaker 9: there's several heroes in here that one of them should
• 46:53
  Speaker 9: be a founding father his name is him Solomon. He
• 46:55
  Speaker 9: gave twenty four million of his own money. He got
• 46:58
  Speaker 9: loans from ink from from Europe to loan to the
• 47:02
  Speaker 9: founding fathers. Washington actually wrote a letter and said when
• 47:06
  Speaker 9: he needed money to move his troops from Connecticut to
• 47:09
  Speaker 9: Yorktown for the Siege of Yorktown, he wrote a letter
• 47:12
  Speaker 9: and said, send me him Solomon and Shim Solomon actually
• 47:16
  Speaker 9: raised twenty thousand dollars to be able to pay US
• 47:18
  Speaker 9: troops and move them to Yorktown. And the rest is history.
• 47:21
  Speaker 9: The gentleman died penniless. So there's so many stories like
• 47:25
  Speaker 9: this that highlight us, we the people, and what we did.
• 47:28
  Speaker 9: And if you look behind me, this is the little village,
• 47:32
  Speaker 9: the backdrop that we have for our show. And it's
• 47:34
  Speaker 9: set into talk at Long Island, and so it's small
• 47:37
  Speaker 9: town America at work, but it's before we were America,
• 47:41
  Speaker 9: and so it's kind of like showing us a foreshadowing
• 47:43
  Speaker 9: of what we were going to continue to be. And
• 47:45
  Speaker 9: I keep telling people, you know, it's what we have
• 47:48
  Speaker 9: always been, but it's also what the world is hoping
• 47:52
  Speaker 9: we will continue to be.
• 47:54
  Speaker 4: I love that A Ring of Spies dot Com is
• 47:56
  Speaker 4: the website, Ring Ofspies dot com. You're gonna be able
• 47:59
  Speaker 4: to every little, every bit of information you guys want
• 48:03
  Speaker 4: to know about the show. How you can get tickets,
• 48:07
  Speaker 4: group tickets, sponsorship, if you've got a church, if you
• 48:10
  Speaker 4: have a church group, and maybe a Sunday school class.
• 48:13
  Speaker 4: This is one of those great weekend getaway trips. Go
• 48:16
  Speaker 4: to Branson, hit the nice restaurants, go eat over at
• 48:20
  Speaker 4: that great restaurant over at College of the Ozarks, and
• 48:23
  Speaker 4: then catch Catch the musical. By the way, Christy, I
• 48:26
  Speaker 4: got to stay away from that place. I went like
• 48:29
  Speaker 4: grocery shopping. Every time I go to the College of
• 48:31
  Speaker 4: the Ozarks. They have amazing.
• 48:33
  Speaker 9: Stuff there, so good. Yes, I'm, I'm. We had barbecue
• 48:38
  Speaker 9: last night and I'll tell you what. The portions were huge.
• 48:41
  Speaker 9: And you know, the the environment here in Branson is
• 48:43
  Speaker 9: so family friendly and the fall is a beautiful time
• 48:46
  Speaker 9: to come. So we're really hoping that people can plan
• 48:48
  Speaker 9: a time to come and just enjoy it with their families.
• 48:50
  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, we're going to have to make a Todd
• 48:53
  Speaker 4: Stern Show road trip down there. We want to be
• 48:56
  Speaker 4: there for the opening of the show and to show
• 48:59
  Speaker 4: our support.
• 49:00
  Speaker 3: Christy.
• 49:00
  Speaker 4: We're gonna get you back on between now and then.
• 49:02
  Speaker 4: But anyway, congratulations, and we're just so excited for you
• 49:06
  Speaker 4: guys and the musical.
• 49:09
  Speaker 9: Thank you so much. And Happy Birthday America, and let's.
• 49:11
  Speaker 4: Celebrate, all right. Christy Stutsman everybody, the composer of Washington's
• 49:17
  Speaker 4: Ring of Spies, and she is an incredibly accomplished musician
• 49:22
  Speaker 4: herself and just has an amazing voice and just a wonderful,
• 49:27
  Speaker 4: wonderful family. Her husband, Marlon. They're both from Indiana, by
• 49:30
  Speaker 4: the way, and Marlon is a regular. The Congressman is
• 49:33
  Speaker 4: on the show quite a bit.
• 49:34
  Speaker 14: Dylan.
• 49:35
  Speaker 4: I think we actually have a little bit of music
• 49:38
  Speaker 4: from the show as we go to break. Let's take
• 49:42
  Speaker 4: a listen. Nine oh one two six zero five, nine
• 49:45
  Speaker 4: two six. Why do you love America? Ladies and gentlemen,
• 49:49
  Speaker 4: we're taking your calls today. That's nine oh one two
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• 49:55
  Speaker 4: Sterns Show.
• 49:56
  Speaker 13: So that's by gentlemen and lady.
• 49:59
  Speaker 3: Excuse my British.
• 50:00
  Speaker 2: But I plan to ignore every bloody one of them.
• 50:07
  Speaker 6: So blind and fairly well heats upon the shore, the
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  Speaker 6: stay upon this eight thinks.
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  Speaker 9: The same.
• 50:42
  Speaker 4: All right, let's go to the phone lines, Anna and
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  Speaker 4: what's on your mind today?
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  Speaker 7: Hey Chrod.
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  Speaker 15: I wanted to share with you and listeners why America
• 50:58
  Speaker 15: means too.
• 50:59
  Speaker 16: Much for me.
• 51:00
  Speaker 15: It started out when I was young. I'm seventy five,
• 51:02
  Speaker 15: but when I was a young girl, I went into
• 51:07
  Speaker 15: the Air Force. And when I went there, I had
• 51:11
  Speaker 15: a wonderful time. It was during Vietnam, but I didn't
• 51:15
  Speaker 15: go of course, I didn't go to Vietnam, but I
• 51:18
  Speaker 15: was state side, and you know, I was over at
• 51:24
  Speaker 15: Lachland to do my basic training, and then I went
• 51:27
  Speaker 15: all the way to Randolph, five miles away for.
• 51:34
  Speaker 11: The duty.
• 51:35
  Speaker 15: And what I remember was there was you know, a
• 51:43
  Speaker 15: burn ward over at Fort C. Houston, and it was
• 51:50
  Speaker 15: a very eye opening thing for me because I was
• 51:53
  Speaker 15: a kid. And then when the seed five and general
• 51:57
  Speaker 15: It's being created over at Kelly Airport, faith in me
• 52:02
  Speaker 15: wat a noise for at least five miles. So that
• 52:06
  Speaker 15: was my first first impression of the government of the military.
• 52:14
  Speaker 15: I was very, very fortunate to have wonderful mentors during
• 52:19
  Speaker 15: that time. It didn't help me to grow up, you know,
• 52:22
  Speaker 15: and I would I was an air traffic controller, and
• 52:26
  Speaker 15: it was one of the very few first air traffic
• 52:30
  Speaker 15: controllers that were at that particular time state side. So
• 52:35
  Speaker 15: it was a really very interesting time for me. And
• 52:39
  Speaker 15: now when I look back, I love this country. I
• 52:43
  Speaker 15: love what the country offers. It's people, wonderful, diverse people,
• 52:50
  Speaker 15: and I am praying that this year when we vote,
• 52:55
  Speaker 15: we need to vote with our heart in our head
• 53:00
  Speaker 15: to cheat enemies from within away from our freedom and
• 53:06
  Speaker 15: our representative republic.
• 53:09
  Speaker 4: Anna, I could not have said it better, and I
• 53:13
  Speaker 4: had no idea. What a great story. And thank you
• 53:16
  Speaker 4: for serving our great nation, and thank you for thank
• 53:20
  Speaker 4: you for calling in today. Always enjoy, enjoy your calls.
• 53:25
  Speaker 15: Take care of yourself.
• 53:27
  Speaker 4: Will do Anna, I can promise you I will definitely
• 53:30
  Speaker 4: do that nine oh one two six zero five nine
• 53:33
  Speaker 4: two six hour telephone number.
• 53:35
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 53:35
  Speaker 4: One of my favorite We're going to play a lot
• 53:37
  Speaker 4: of patriotic audio over the next several days. One of
• 53:41
  Speaker 4: my favorite Dylan. This is one of the most inspirational
• 53:44
  Speaker 4: presidential speeches of all time. Cut twenty six plays good morning.
• 53:53
  Speaker 13: In less than an hour.
• 53:55
  Speaker 2: Aircraft from here will join others from around the world,
• 54:00
  Speaker 2: and you will be launching the largest aial battle in
• 54:03
  Speaker 2: the history of mankind. Mankind words should have new meaning
• 54:11
  Speaker 2: for all of us today. We can't be consumed by
• 54:15
  Speaker 2: our petty differences anymore. We will be united in our
• 54:21
  Speaker 2: common interest. Perhaps faith that today is the fourth of July,
• 54:28
  Speaker 2: and you will once again be fighting for our freedom,
• 54:33
  Speaker 2: not from tyranny, oppression, or persecution, but from annihilation. We're
• 54:42
  Speaker 2: fighting for our right to live, to exist, and should
• 54:48
  Speaker 2: we win, the day, the fourth of July will no
• 54:53
  Speaker 2: longer be known as an American holiday, but as the
• 54:57
  Speaker 2: day when the world declared in one voice, we will
• 55:00
  Speaker 2: not go quietly into the night.
• 55:03
  Speaker 4: We will not vanish without a fight.
• 55:07
  Speaker 13: We're going to live on.
• 55:09
  Speaker 4: We're going to survive.
• 55:12
  Speaker 2: Today we celebrate our Independence Day.
• 55:19
  Speaker 17: Let's go tell me too.
• 55:23
  Speaker 4: I love that though, Yeah, HiPE me up just then, right,
• 55:27
  Speaker 4: I wouldn't I want to go kill some aliens?
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  Speaker 18: All right?
• 55:31
  Speaker 4: Nine oh one two six zero five nine two six.
• 55:34
  Speaker 4: Our telephone number, that's nine oh one two six zero
• 55:37
  Speaker 4: five nine two six. This is the Todd Start Show,
• 55:57
  Speaker 4: all right, welcome back, everybody. So the Seeing Daredevils have
• 56:01
  Speaker 4: now been taken into custody by the NYPD. If we've
• 56:04
  Speaker 4: been following this story. Go to Tom Sterns dot com.
• 56:07
  Speaker 4: We've got all the video here. These people are lucky
• 56:10
  Speaker 4: to be alive. Anyway, A guy in a gal dressed
• 56:13
  Speaker 4: in black leather, one of them wearing a kitty cat
• 56:17
  Speaker 4: hood and apparently they popped the one of the guys.
• 56:21
  Speaker 4: The guy popped the question of the gal, and I
• 56:23
  Speaker 4: guess they're gonna get hitched. So there you go. All right,
• 56:27
  Speaker 4: crazy crazy, crazy story out of Colorado. And folks, I
• 56:31
  Speaker 4: am just not terribly surprised by this, but yet another Democrat,
• 56:35
  Speaker 4: fifteen term Democrat, has been defeated in the primary by
• 56:41
  Speaker 4: one of these communists. And it is it's not terribly
• 56:45
  Speaker 4: surprising at all. But here's here's what you need to
• 56:48
  Speaker 4: be aware of. The woman's name by though she's twenty
• 56:51
  Speaker 4: nine years old, melot Heros, and.
• 56:55
  Speaker 11: She is.
• 56:58
  Speaker 4: She's a communist. I mean, that's all there is to it.
• 57:01
  Speaker 4: Cut number fourteen, please.
• 57:04
  Speaker 16: Rational Committee in twenty ten. And this reminds me of
• 57:07
  Speaker 16: the rise of the Tea Party, where you have this
• 57:09
  Speaker 16: anti establishment. Further, that is happening, and that's what we're
• 57:12
  Speaker 16: seeing on the left. We've already seen a handful of
• 57:15
  Speaker 16: Democrat House incumbents lose. Now, last night a fifteen term
• 57:19
  Speaker 16: incumbent lost to an insurgent. That doesn't happen. So that
• 57:23
  Speaker 16: tells you that the energy is on the left right now,
• 57:25
  Speaker 16: and what concerns me is that could end up propelling
• 57:27
  Speaker 16: Democrats into the House in the midterm elections this November.
• 57:31
  Speaker 16: There was a poll from Fox News recently in the
• 57:34
  Speaker 16: state of Maine and the Senate race there and Democrats
• 57:38
  Speaker 16: had a fifteen point enthusiasm gap, right, So they're charged up,
• 57:41
  Speaker 16: they're ready to roll. They're excited about this election cycle,
• 57:43
  Speaker 16: and Republicans aren't there yet with their excitement. So this
• 57:46
  Speaker 16: is very concerning for the country. And even though this
• 57:49
  Speaker 16: is happening in very blue districts, they're going to go
• 57:52
  Speaker 16: to Washington, DC because they're not going to have general elections.
• 57:54
  Speaker 16: So what that means is the entirety of the Democrat
• 57:57
  Speaker 16: Party is going to move further to the left.
• 58:00
  Speaker 14: And the polls, thank you, Larrence, the polls show that
• 58:02
  Speaker 14: it's okay you.
• 58:04
  Speaker 4: All right, So look here's the deil. She also said
• 58:07
  Speaker 4: that nine to eleven, the Muslim terrorist attacks of nine
• 58:10
  Speaker 4: to eleven, that was our fault. She's blaming America. These
• 58:14
  Speaker 4: are the kinds of people the Democrats are electing. I
• 58:16
  Speaker 4: want to go to the Patriot mobile news maker line
• 58:18
  Speaker 4: say hello to our good buddy, our chief political strategist,
• 58:21
  Speaker 4: Josh Jones, Josh, what's going on here?
• 58:28
  Speaker 7: Look?
• 58:29
  Speaker 13: I think that clip played it on pretty well, as
• 58:32
  Speaker 13: you have this insertain communist movement coming up on the
• 58:34
  Speaker 13: Democratic side of the aisle, which to be clear, has
• 58:37
  Speaker 13: been going on for a long time. And you know,
• 58:39
  Speaker 13: we have the likes of AOC and Congress were I
• 58:41
  Speaker 13: think eight years now or something like that, so it's
• 58:44
  Speaker 13: nothing new.
• 58:44
  Speaker 7: But I mean this is a big.
• 58:46
  Speaker 13: Warning sign for I think the country that look communism
• 58:49
  Speaker 13: and the socialist left on the rise, and anybody that
• 58:53
  Speaker 13: says the Democratic Party is middle of the road, are
• 58:55
  Speaker 13: just moderate, is just plat out wrong.
• 58:57
  Speaker 4: Now the Democrats, this is a fascinating because now they're
• 59:01
  Speaker 4: being forced to accept socialism. And I think one of
• 59:05
  Speaker 4: the arguments you're around to make is, oh, we're a
• 59:07
  Speaker 4: big tenth party. I'm not sure I want communist and
• 59:10
  Speaker 4: Nazis in my tenthoe.
• 59:13
  Speaker 11: Absolutely not.
• 59:14
  Speaker 13: These people their comments if you look at the one
• 59:17
  Speaker 13: from New York, if you look at the ones from
• 59:18
  Speaker 13: New Jersey now in Colorado by fundamentally hate America and
• 59:22
  Speaker 13: what it stands for. So if you're a moderate voter
• 59:26
  Speaker 13: or Democrat, even saying well, I'm not voting for them,
• 59:29
  Speaker 13: I'm just voting for you know, my moderate blue dog Democrat,
• 59:32
  Speaker 13: Well no you're not. In reality, you're voting for the party,
• 59:35
  Speaker 13: and the party the Democratic Party is running to more
• 59:38
  Speaker 13: so than we've seen before.
• 59:40
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm again looking at the ages here and this
• 59:43
  Speaker 4: is this is the common denominator. All of these people
• 59:47
  Speaker 4: are in their either mid to late twenties, early thirties.
• 59:50
  Speaker 4: Many of them are are not even from here were
• 59:53
  Speaker 4: This woman was born in Ethiopia. Her father, by the way, Josh,
• 59:58
  Speaker 4: you're gonna love this one, a diverse city lottery to
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 4: get citizenship. So that's how that's how the family ended
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 4: up in America though.
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 13: Yeah, I mean to my point before, these people hate
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 13: the country, uh and what we stand for, even tho
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 13: our most basic ideals in the Constitution.
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 7: So uh, look, you.
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 13: Can't vote for them. And like I get, people are
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 13: in their partisan camps. A lot of Democrats say I'll
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 13: always vote for a Democrat. A lot of Republicans say
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 13: I always goo for Republicans. But I think to my point,
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 13: I may be poor. If you're a moderate, we're middle
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 13: of the road democrat, you need to take a long,
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 13: hard look at your party and say, you know that's
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 13: something you want to sign off on. It's in the
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 13: country down this path.
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 4: I'm wondering, why, why, why do you think we are
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 4: seeing the surge among young people to embrace these communist ideas.
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 13: I think it's not one size fit all answer, right.
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 13: I think it's partially a culture issue because politics is
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 13: downstream and culture. I think there's a culture that's been
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 13: are perpetrated by Hollywood, New York, et cetera. You know,
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 13: you don't need to earn anything and should just be
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 13: given to you. And look, that's not the thing. Young
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 13: people's concerns sometimes aren't balanced. As a young person myself,
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 13: I mean, if you look at the housing market, it's
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  Speaker 13: a pretty intimidating market of how you know you're going
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  Speaker 13: to achieve the American dream, right and uh, get the
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  Speaker 13: you know, get your house and have a good career
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  Speaker 13: and have a family as a daunting task. And I
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  Speaker 13: don't know, credit or you come after people for being
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  Speaker 13: afraid of that. But people are now turning to the
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  Speaker 13: extremes and saying, well, just that is clothes and working,
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  Speaker 13: and so let me go be a socialist and just
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  Speaker 13: get handouts, which, as we all know, it doesn't work.
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  Speaker 13: But I think young people are looking for an answer,
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  Speaker 13: and I'm not giving you them an excuse card, but
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  Speaker 13: I think that's a primary driver as of why you
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  Speaker 13: see these people just running to the left.
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  Speaker 4: No, I would like to know from you know, exactly
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  Speaker 4: where has socialism worked. I mean, every single time they've
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  Speaker 4: tried to implement it in a country, the country has
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  Speaker 4: turned into some sort of a third world dystopian nation.
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  Speaker 4: So it's it's just ludicrous to think that that they
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  Speaker 4: think this is going to work. And I know that
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  Speaker 4: zorn Man Dammi's out there touting the economic successes. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: that was after an eight billion dollar bail out by
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  Speaker 4: the State of New York.
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  Speaker 13: For goodness sakes, you're one right, there's literally a ballot
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  Speaker 13: from upstate New York from all the vay that bailed
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 13: out the city. A Mandami, like a typical politician, eventually
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  Speaker 13: taken credit for it. But to your point, socialism has
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  Speaker 13: never ever ever worked in the world, And I mean
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  Speaker 13: that should be enough to convince these people, you know,
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  Speaker 13: not to vote to the socialists. But unfortunately, at least
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  Speaker 13: in the Democratic primaries, it's not. Now we'll see how
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  Speaker 13: they fare in the election of November, and a lot of
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 13: them are in state lose beats, so they will be
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  Speaker 13: in Congress, which means they're going to push the party
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  Speaker 13: to the left more so than it's been before, which
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  Speaker 13: is a real threat not only to Ology the Republican engineer,
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  Speaker 13: but frankly the foundations of the America system.
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  Speaker 4: Well they've got Look, the Democrats are in a world
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  Speaker 4: of her night when Nancy Pelosi was still Speaker of
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  Speaker 4: the House, I was we were talking about this on
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  Speaker 4: the radio show, that she was not in charge of
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  Speaker 4: her caucus, that AOC was actually calling the shots, whether
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 4: Pelosi knew it or not. And now I think a
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  Speaker 4: lot of these people understand that, Yeah, it's gone. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: I don't even think Hai Kim Jeffries is going to
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  Speaker 4: be able to control these people. I mean, we're talking
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  Speaker 4: about folks that are to the left of AOC. That's
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  Speaker 4: how that's how far left we're talking here, You're right.
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  Speaker 13: I mean, these people they're not gonna listen to hackeing Jeffries,
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  Speaker 13: that's for sure. I mean you already saw that in
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  Speaker 13: New York, hawking Jefferies and endorse against these socialist candidates
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  Speaker 13: in New York with the incumbent and his people lost.
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  Speaker 13: So these people when I get to Congress and say, well,
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  Speaker 13: you endorsed against me, why would I look at to
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  Speaker 13: ID have to day. So you're gonna have this rogue
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  Speaker 13: element in Congress of these socialists unitics running around and look,
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  Speaker 13: it's great for Republicans to campaign on. I like that
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  Speaker 13: part of it, but I don't like it. You know
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  Speaker 13: where the country is happening.
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  Speaker 4: Well, my question is are we going to be able
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  Speaker 4: to get our side of the vote out? I mean,
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 4: that's the big question, and that's been the problem with
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 4: There's one of two problems with the Democrats. Either this
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  Speaker 4: is the reflective of the base of the party or
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  Speaker 4: they're just not getting people out to vote in these
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  Speaker 4: Democrat primaries except for the socialists.
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  Speaker 13: Ye're right, yeah, I mean, and to your point, there
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 13: is a Republican and c he has an issue because Democrats,
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 13: for better for worse, they're motivating factors. They come out
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 13: to the polls. This November is Duke Trump. They see this,
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 13: that's their chance to push back against the President. Not
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 13: saying I agree with them, but Republicans don't have that
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 13: motivating factor right now because unfortunately a lot of Republicans
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 13: always show up when the President Trump's on the ballot,
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 13: which is good and well. President Trump needs the majorities
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 13: in Congress to get anything done, so I think that
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 13: has to be the message. I think we'll see President
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 13: Trump and a lot of members of the administration hitting
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  Speaker 13: the campaign trail once we get closer to November. But
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 13: we just have to have to have to call your
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  Speaker 13: Republican friends make sure they're bote this November and in
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  Speaker 13: these primaries so we can secure a victory in November.
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  Speaker 4: Josh, I'm just curious, and we're kind of going to
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  Speaker 4: go off grid here on this part of the conversation.
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  Speaker 4: I'm just wondering how are things out there, because I
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 4: know the President was really upset talking about gas retailers
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 4: and there's going to be a price to pay if
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  Speaker 4: they don't get the gas down to two dollars and fifty.
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  Speaker 4: So the President cannot legally force these gas stations to
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  Speaker 4: lower their prices. But that tells me there is concern
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 4: somewhere in the administration that the economy is not doing
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  Speaker 4: great and people are suffering out there.
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  Speaker 13: Yeah, right now, we're in a case shaped economy. Not
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 13: to get two technical, but basically, if you are already
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  Speaker 13: doing well, you're doing an even better and if you
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 13: are already struggling, you're struggling more. And that's because the
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 13: cost of living is still high right now. And I
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  Speaker 13: think that is emblematic of Trump's comment about the gas stations.
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  Speaker 13: To your point, the government can't force them the you know,
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  Speaker 13: they can't do prize control. But I think it's emblematic
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  Speaker 13: that Republican leadership is worried about cost of living being
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 13: a major issue in the November elections, and rightfully so.
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  Speaker 13: So look, I mean it's July current. We have a
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  Speaker 13: lot of time between now and November in terms of
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  Speaker 13: what the topic of the day is on election day.
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  Speaker 13: But I think cost of living in affordability is a
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  Speaker 13: big thing right now. Republicans have to be out there
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  Speaker 13: messaging why they're focused on that.
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  Speaker 4: Well. I know that for example, here in Memphis, we're
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 4: just I'm seeing a very unusually large number of mom
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 4: and pop businesses that are that are shutting down, they're
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 4: closing up, and these are for example, we have a
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 4: restaurant they've been over open for over thirty something years,
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 4: shutting down, and we have these warn notices that have
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 4: to go out, these companies that are laying off hundreds
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 4: of workers, and it's it's really not looking good. I mean,
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 4: as of July first, we've had over almost fifteen hundred
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 4: workers you know, laid off or companies that have shut
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 4: down here. So anyway, I was just curious because I
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 4: know the White House is all you know, daisies and
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 4: lilacs and cherries or whatever, but in reality, I don't
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 4: think it's as good as they're saying it is.
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  Speaker 13: I agree, and look, I get that the White House
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 13: has to maintain their position as obvious. The Democrats are
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 13: going to maintain their is that everything sucks and the
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 13: world's burning down. The truth is always somewhere in the middle.
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 13: But yeah, I mean, if voters still like Republicans are
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 13: moving the needle on affordability, in the cost of living,
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 13: in jobs, then they're not going to show up the
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 13: vote at a very minimum, and at the worst of
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 13: those were Democrats. So look, there's a lot of time
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 13: between now and November for the administration to have effective
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 13: messengers up there to carry the banner for Republicans. In November,
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 13: we're going to have a mid term convention down in Dallas. Yeah,
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 13: they's got to be a stage for Republicans to really
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 13: articulate what their messages the voters heading into the fall.
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 13: I think that'd be a good test point of where things.
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  Speaker 4: Are leaving us on a happy note. Josh Jones, it's
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 4: all tulips and daisies, all right, Josh. Good hearing from you,
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  Speaker 4: my friend, and we'll check in with you soon. All right,
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  Speaker 4: want to explain, though, I want to go back to
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  Speaker 4: the socialism thing and explain what's happening. This is not organic.
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  Speaker 4: This is what these kids have been taught. This is
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 4: going through twelve years of public education where you've been
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 4: taught that America is bad, that capitalism is bad, that
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 4: America is responsible for all the problems of the world,
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 4: that white people are bad and everybody else is good.
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 4: These kinds of lessons are giving us these radicalized politicians
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  Speaker 4: out there. That's what these look These are kids in
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 4: their twenties and early thirties. Everything they learned about life
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 4: they learned from the public education system and maybe TikTok,
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 4: but I'm just telling you that's ultimately what's going on here.
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  Speaker 4: And if we don't get a handle on that, and
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 4: if we cannot correct what is wrong in our nation's
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 4: education system, we are not going to be able to
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  Speaker 4: stop this. Because they are here. This is not some
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 4: sort of a trojan horse. They are We opened the
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 4: gates to these people and they are here, and and
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 4: mark my words on this, ladies and gentlemen, this really
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 4: is not about socialism, and it's not about communism, and
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 4: it's not about secularism or even the LGBT movement. All
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 4: of those movements have literally been co opted by the
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 4: radical Islamist. And that's why you're seeing the Islamist allow
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 4: the trans crowd and all these other folks to march
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 4: and to carry their banners and all that kind of stuff.
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 4: That's the reason why, because once they get a foothold,
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 4: it's over for everybody. So at the end of the day,
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 4: this is we're looking at another nine to eleven style,
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 4: but it's going to be off the charts because I
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 4: believe the Islamis are going to be able to take
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  Speaker 4: over the country without firing a single shot. All right,
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  Speaker 17: Yeah?
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  Speaker 7: So you know what. I like your show. You remind
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  Speaker 7: me a little about roshbog.
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  Speaker 14: Hey.
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  Speaker 7: I don't get this right, God, please, can you explain
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  Speaker 7: it to me? So, I'm originally from West Africa. Now,
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 7: when you are from West Africa, the government doesn't do
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 7: anything for you. That like there's a Department of Water
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  Speaker 7: Resources and you have to do your own will. Everybody
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  Speaker 7: does that to all these kids that are brought from
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  Speaker 7: all these Third wark countries, and I'm from one of
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 7: those places they bring them. Yet their parents know that.
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  Speaker 7: I know the government doesn't give you nothing. There's no electricity,
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 7: there's no water, there's no help in case of an accident.
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  Speaker 7: There's no help if you lose your job. They bring
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  Speaker 7: these kids yet or they raise them yet like people
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  Speaker 7: A man Dania and this live in Colorado and all
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  Speaker 7: of a sudden they want America to give free stuff
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  Speaker 7: to everyone. Can you please explain how this works?
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  Speaker 4: Well, there, Daniel, they are morons, to be perfectly, but
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 4: these they don't know. They don't know any better, right
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  Speaker 4: they they they hate us, They've been taught to hate us.
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  Speaker 4: And I believe that that the these are very nefarious individuals.
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  Speaker 4: And you talk about Zoron Mandami for example, this guy,
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  Speaker 4: I truly believe is evil. That's what I really believe
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 4: a lot of this has to do with evil, demonic spirits.
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  Speaker 4: I truly believe that you know that Satan is trying
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 4: to destroy what God meant for good, and that is
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  Speaker 4: the United States of America. I mean, that's really the
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 4: only way I can explain it to you, because you know,
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  Speaker 4: again to your point, people have it very abandoned some
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  Speaker 4: of those countries, and they come here and it's like
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 4: the promised Land.
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  Speaker 7: I know.
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  Speaker 17: So I don't know why the appearance can't tell them that, Hey,
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  Speaker 17: you know, what at least you know, like why do
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  Speaker 17: you give mellions of dollars to like a department of
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  Speaker 17: what our resources?
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  Speaker 7: And you don't have way, come over, parents don't like
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  Speaker 7: my keeth I understand sometimes Like I mean, one of
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  Speaker 7: my daughters went to one of the private colleges year
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  Speaker 7: one of the walking stakes of my life I ever met. Yeh,
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  Speaker 7: call this children nonsense, it's my kids from home here.
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  Speaker 4: This is how holme Daniel, Daniel, I want you to
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  Speaker 4: I both know they're nothing more than communists, but to
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  Speaker 4: see them knock off veteran Democrat lawmakers and politicos, I mean,
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  Speaker 4: it really is breathtaking. Chen, I haven't seen anything quite
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  Speaker 4: like this, aside from maybe the Tea Party movement back
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  Speaker 4: in the day on the Republican side of the aisle.
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  Speaker 14: Yeah, I think you're right. It's pressed in the Todd.
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 14: I just finished speaking. I'm out at Andrew womack celebration
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 14: of Liberty and his two hundred and fiftieth celebration, and
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 14: I just spoke to a big crowd here and I
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  Speaker 14: told them the same thing. When you look at these trends,
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  Speaker 14: and let's face it, we're not good at midterms. We're
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 14: not good when Donald J. Trump's not on the ballot.
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 14: We better be more than wary, we better be active.
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  Speaker 14: And our team has identified forty three congressional races. We're
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 14: going to have a dedicated pastor in every one of
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  Speaker 14: those to run up the Christian score, not for a party,
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 14: not for a person, but for biblical principles. Because these leftists,
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  Speaker 14: you're right, these aren't These aren't socialists, these aren't progressives,
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 14: these are communists. But here's the problem. Todd. They're now
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  Speaker 14: dominant in the Democratic Party. You know, where are the
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 14: Democrats who said, yeah, we should have closed borders. Those
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 14: videos circulate online. Where are the Democrats who used to
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 14: love Israel? We all have seen those videos. These ain't
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  Speaker 14: your daddy's Democrats, as we say in South Carolina. They're
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 14: certainly not your granddaddy's Democrats. These have sold out to
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  Speaker 14: an anti America, anti god in fact godlessness that I
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  Speaker 14: think you're right, We've never seen this in our country,
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  Speaker 14: especially from the left, like.
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  Speaker 4: This, so and the concern here Chad is and I
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  Speaker 4: wrote a book, Oh gosh, two books ago, warning people
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  Speaker 4: about the rise of socialism in America because of what
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  Speaker 4: was happening in our nation's education system and academic community,
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  Speaker 4: where they're teaching everybody to hate America. And I think
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  Speaker 4: we're starting to see the poison fruit from all of
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  Speaker 4: that right now, with these young people in their twenties
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  Speaker 4: and thirties, early thirties that are embracing these radical policies.
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  Speaker 4: And Chad, you know this. You've been around the block
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  Speaker 4: a time or two of my friend, they don't work.
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 4: Socialism has never worked.
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  Speaker 14: You know, Socialism's only failed every single time and they
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  Speaker 14: like us to think that these are organic movements of
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  Speaker 14: young people who are idealists and they just want what's best.
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  Speaker 14: But when you see brand new Palestinian flags and then
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  Speaker 14: brand new Cuban flags, and brand new Venezuelan flags and
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 14: brand new Iranian flags, and then the same crowd marches
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  Speaker 14: for Team Algae because the president has cleaned up the
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 14: reflection pomp. These people are nutjobs and all they want
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 14: is to say disruption and deception and discouragement. You know,
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  Speaker 14: I told this crowd just now, Todd all that they
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  Speaker 14: do when they call you names, and you know, whether
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 14: it's racist or homophobe or is lamophobe, it's only meant
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 14: to make you put your head down. What it really
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  Speaker 14: needs to do is make us increase, I resolve and
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  Speaker 14: do what the Todd Starns of the world are doing,
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  Speaker 14: and step into the fray and get ready for battle.
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 14: We're in a real spiritual war.
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  Speaker 3: Brother, chan.
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  Speaker 4: Part of your I mean part of what you do
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  Speaker 4: is go to churches and you encourage pastors and congregations
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  Speaker 4: to engage the culture. And I just I'm somewhat discouraged
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 4: because we just don't have a lot of churches that
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 4: are doing that like they used to. What is it
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 4: going to take to fix that?
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  Speaker 14: You know, Todd, I've been working at this for fifteen years,
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  Speaker 14: and there's no question you can get discouraged pretty easily.
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  Speaker 14: And you run into a lot of pastors who will say, ooh,
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 14: we just don't do politics, and I'll tell them, thank God, brother,
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 14: don't do politics, but can you be biblical? And my
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  Speaker 14: approach is pastor to mastor Todd, you've been to my
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  Speaker 14: meetings and we've been together at different events. I find
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  Speaker 14: that if I can find a pastor who's got up
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  Speaker 14: a foothold in a community and he'll have a small
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  Speaker 14: group of pastors meet with me or just him and
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 14: talk about engaging the culture locally and every single way
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  Speaker 14: they can, resting everybody to vote, doing a non partisan
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  Speaker 14: voter registration drive using biblical voter guides to be informed,
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  Speaker 14: and then make that a bigger meeting and then create
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  Speaker 14: some more small meetings. We go through pastor relationships that
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 14: are established because let's face it, pastors open doors mean
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  Speaker 14: you can't And when those pastors get activated, I've been
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 14: telling them we're going to choose Christ or chaos. Is
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  Speaker 14: this a movement that's going on, because I think there is.
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  Speaker 14: I think we're in the movement of a revival and
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 14: awakening in America. Maybe this leftism is bringing some of
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  Speaker 14: that about. But is it a movement or is it
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  Speaker 14: going to be a movement or just a moment.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I would say it's a movement. I'm just I'm
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  Speaker 4: looking at the trends and I don't like what I
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  Speaker 4: see and I want to point something out here. And
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  Speaker 4: I've experienced this firsthand. We have a huge in Memphis
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  Speaker 4: where I live and I own the news radio station
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 4: near KWAM, and we were going to host a debate
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 4: featuring the four Republican candidates that want to be that
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 4: want to go to Congress in the brand new ninth
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 4: Congressional district. So on the Democrat side of the Aisle Chad,
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  Speaker 4: You've got every majority Black church in Memphis. They have
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  Speaker 4: been holding town hall after town hall with all of
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 4: their candidates, the preachers, the whole nine yards, I mean,
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 4: just dozens of churches. So we reached out to the
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 4: churches and the suburbs seeing if they would be willing
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 4: to provide the arena so people could come and watch,
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 4: and Chad, we could not find a single church in
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 4: the Memphis area that was willing to host Republican candidates,
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 4: and so we're having to do it. You know, we're
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 4: still doing it, but not in a church facility. And again,
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  Speaker 4: I think it's just evidence once again that there's a disconnect,
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  Speaker 4: especially among white evangelical churches that I think have been
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  Speaker 4: brainwashed into thinking they should not be engaged in the culture.
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  Speaker 14: Yeah, I think you're right. I mean, look, you and
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  Speaker 14: I know this. We've got a problem. In some seminaris,
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 14: Todd They've been lied to, they've been told stay away
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 14: from politics. I asked those pastors all the time, because
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  Speaker 14: we just did a faith for them, just like what
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  Speaker 14: you're describing in South Carolina, and it helped reveal that
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 14: there were some Republicans with casino gambling backing, and thank
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 14: the Lord, the people who denounced it and said they
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 14: would veto are the ones who won in our state
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 14: wide offices. But I have pastors when they tell me
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 14: that I'm my pastor, can you tell me where your
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 14: political part begins in your Bible and your spiritual life ends?
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 14: Because I don't think there's an ending in your spiritual life.
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 14: I think God's everywhere and everything and just because you've
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 14: been scared into submission and you think that you don't
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 14: have First Amendment rights behind your pulpit. Look, I think
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 14: your First Amendment right are expanded because you're God's man
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 14: in the pulpit you're doing, You're the anointing one, You're
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 14: the called one to speak to those people. And let's
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 14: face it, Todd, the real problem in the culture is
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 14: we don't have enough pastors teaching their people how to
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 14: connect the dots on the issues of the day. And
• 1:24:15
  Speaker 14: if they're not willing to put candidates in front just
• 1:24:18
  Speaker 14: for a mere forum to ask questions and let them
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 14: hash out their feelings, to find out where they stand,
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 14: what you're doing and what you try to do. You
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 14: and I need to talk offline because I think we've
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 14: got some people who would be willing to help you
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  Speaker 14: there and do that kind of forum. I actually have
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 14: done some stuff in Tennessee lately, and I believe that
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 14: there are people out there, but they need another pastor
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 14: to encourage them. Hey, brother, get off the couch, get
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 14: off the fence, get engaged in this culture. If not now,
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 14: when that's it?
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  Speaker 4: And again, we told the story in the first hour
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 4: of the show about how there were problems finding people
• 1:24:50
  Speaker 4: willing to fight the British until they got pastors involved
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 4: talking about these issues from the pulpit, and as a
• 1:24:57
  Speaker 4: result of that they were able to, you know, to
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 4: to win our freedom and secure our freedom. So there
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 4: is a long history of the church house being actively
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 4: involved in the politics of the day. And to your point,
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 4: we don't tell you who to vote for, but you
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 4: should vote your values and you should know what those
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 4: values are. Chad Conley joining us on our Patriot Mobile
• 1:25:19
  Speaker 4: newsmaker line, the President of Faith Wins. Chad, what is
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 4: the word and what are you seeing out there as
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 4: we're moving into the midterms? Now, are you seeing the
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 4: enthusiasm or is there a gap?
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  Speaker 14: You know, there's always a gap in the midterm, especially
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 14: on whose side has the White House. You know, Jerry
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 14: Folwell said in the nineties, I problem is Christians, when
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 14: we win, we quit, we lose, we quit. Let's quit quitting,
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 14: and so we've never stopped. So I'm encouraged because I've
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 14: been in a bunch of states. I'll use my study
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  Speaker 14: as an example. We did seventy five pastor meetings with
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  Speaker 14: nine hundred and forty five pastors with fifteen different candidates
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 14: from January to June, and it revealed the casino gambling problems,
• 1:25:59
  Speaker 14: It revealed the moderate leftist tendencies of some of the candidates.
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 14: We exposed it, and of course that created the bus
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 14: our candidates in Iowa. Our pastors in Iowa have been
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 14: doing the same thing. They helped defeat a guy who
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 14: is going to be way more moderate running for governor
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 14: and help nominate a guy who's a Sunday school teacher.
• 1:26:17
  Speaker 14: It's happening in New Hampshire right now. We've been doing
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 14: meetings with candidates, so it's an ongoing process with us.
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 14: And because I talked to pastors every day, Todd, I'm
• 1:26:26
  Speaker 14: hearing from the guys who were getting encouraged. In Iowa,
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 14: there was a drag queen parade that was going to
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 14: happen in a little town and the pastor didn't want
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 14: to step up. And one of our pastor teammates called
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 14: his pastor buddy and said, I'll go with you. You need
• 1:26:40
  Speaker 14: to step up. That one pastor Todd, because he showed
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 14: up at the town council, the city council meeting, and
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 14: he asked the right questions, made the city go wait
• 1:26:48
  Speaker 14: a minute, we shouldn't spend this money. There are enough
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 14: questions here we don't have answered. You know, you're right.
• 1:26:53
  Speaker 14: When one pastor comes along and others get together, there's
• 1:26:57
  Speaker 14: encouragement in the bunches. It just takes somebody with a spine,
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  Speaker 14: Which is why I appreciate you so much, because you've
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 14: got to reach all over the country, and people ought
• 1:27:05
  Speaker 14: to go to Faithwinds dot org. Because we believe we're
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 14: going to get in about one hundred and twenty to
• 1:27:09
  Speaker 14: one hundred and twenty five pastor meetings from July tenth
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 14: or eleventh through November elections in every one of those
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  Speaker 14: forty three contested congressionals, in every one of the Senate
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 14: race states, and in every one of the contested competitive
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 14: governor race states as well. We'll be in those places
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 14: with Faith Winds meetings.
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  Speaker 4: All right, good stuff? Well, Chad, I tell you, I
• 1:27:29
  Speaker 4: don't know if you put red bull on your fruit loops,
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 4: but you've got more energy than anybody I know. My friend,
• 1:27:36
  Speaker 4: You're awesome. It is good to see you, and I
• 1:27:39
  Speaker 4: know we're going to run into each other. I just
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 4: got a message that we're all going to We're all
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 4: going to be together in September at the Spiritual Leadership
• 1:27:46
  Speaker 4: Conference in California.
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  Speaker 14: I will definitely see you there, man. I appreciate you
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 14: and love you, brother and God bless American and happy
• 1:27:53
  Speaker 14: two fiftieth.
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  Speaker 4: All right, Chad Conley, everybody the president of Faith Wins
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  Speaker 4: Faithwinds dot org. It is a great website. Go and
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• 1:28:29
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• 1:28:35
  Speaker 4: And the library, by the way, opens to the public
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 4: on July fourth, and the president's getting a special tour
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 4: today that there's a lot of great ceremonies and they're
• 1:28:44
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• 1:28:49
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  Speaker 4: Little Rock, Arkansas, Steve, what's on your mind?
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  Speaker 11: Todd? My take on this communist stuff is and the
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 11: real motivation behind trying to get it normalized as having
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 11: basically communist in our government. Look at how the mess
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  Speaker 11: our government has made and over the years of economically
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  Speaker 11: in this country, they've got us in thirty nine billion
• 1:29:43
  Speaker 11: dollars thirty nine trillion dollars of debt. They're spending about
• 1:29:48
  Speaker 11: twice as much money every year as they take in.
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  Speaker 11: Do you realize eventually, and they're painting a lot of
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 11: monopoly money to get bound, but eventually that's gonna quit
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 11: being accepted. Do you realize there's about one hundred and
• 1:30:03
  Speaker 11: forty five trillion dollars of money out there in citizens
• 1:30:10
  Speaker 11: savings accounts, marketing accounts and stuff, and if you add
• 1:30:15
  Speaker 11: their real estate to it, it goes up to over
• 1:30:18
  Speaker 11: one hundred and eighty trillion dollars. Don't think that communistsism
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  Speaker 11: is not the tooble they're going to use to take
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  Speaker 11: all that away?
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  Speaker 4: Oh look, yeah, no doubt about that. Steam go ahead.
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  Speaker 11: When they quit accepting this monopoly money our government prints,
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  Speaker 11: they're going to go after citizens' private assets, and that's
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 11: the foundation of communism. Nobody owns any private property. One
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  Speaker 11: of the first things they're going to do is confiscate
• 1:30:51
  Speaker 11: all these four one kay accounts and our rais. That's
• 1:30:55
  Speaker 11: about thirty threeion dollars right there, that's sitting there. That's
• 1:30:58
  Speaker 11: tax deferred money. Don't think our government kall. We we're
• 1:31:02
  Speaker 11: in an economic emergency. We're gonna have to we're gonna
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 11: have to fight that money. Well, with communists in there,
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  Speaker 11: it'll be I mean, it'll just be a normal process.
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  Speaker 11: So if you're sitting out there thinking gives communism a try,
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  Speaker 11: you probably don't own any private property because if you do,
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  Speaker 11: you're an idiot to give it the try.
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  Speaker 4: All right, Steve, Yeah, Steve, No, I hear what you're saying.
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  Speaker 4: And look, we're watching this unfolding real time in New
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  Speaker 4: York City, where the mayor has already talked about, you know,
• 1:31:39
  Speaker 4: opening up the government run grocery stores. They've already frozen rent.
• 1:31:44
  Speaker 4: So if you're a landlord, if you own a building,
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 4: you're not able to increase your rent for the next
• 1:31:48
  Speaker 4: two years. They've implemented rent control, so that's happened, and
• 1:31:52
  Speaker 4: they're also threatening to take over private property, not to
• 1:31:56
  Speaker 4: mention going after even more taxes and fees on on
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 4: the wealthy there. So it's uh, this is well underway
• 1:32:05
  Speaker 4: in New York City, and the challenge is going to
• 1:32:08
  Speaker 4: be will the government step in? Will the federal government
• 1:32:13
  Speaker 4: step in and save New York City? Or do we
• 1:32:15
  Speaker 4: let New York City with her on the vine? And
• 1:32:18
  Speaker 4: I say we have to let them. We have to
• 1:32:20
  Speaker 4: let them suffer, and we have to let the city
• 1:32:23
  Speaker 4: go under. That's that's the only way we're going to
• 1:32:27
  Speaker 4: be able to illustrate exactly what happens when the socialists
• 1:32:30
  Speaker 4: take over. All right, gotta take a break here nine
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  Speaker 4: president to the Theodore Roosevelt Library. It's something else, all right.
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  Speaker 4: Happy to have you with us, and we're always honored
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  Speaker 4: to have Adam Martin with us our great financial advisor
• 1:33:14
  Speaker 4: from Strategic Financial Partners and Adam, Wow, it's the fourth
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  Speaker 4: of July weekend. I'm surprised you're even here. I kind
• 1:33:21
  Speaker 4: of figured there are going to be getting the grilling
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  Speaker 4: ready to go. Well that is ready to go.
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  Speaker 18: I've got the backyard all set up with flags and
• 1:33:28
  Speaker 18: we're ready to have a good barbecue. But I got
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  Speaker 18: to pay the bills too.
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  Speaker 4: You got to pay the bill. Look, I understand. I
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  Speaker 4: mean that's what we're doing here, So you got it.
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  Speaker 4: You got to keep the lines on a lot of kids.
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  Speaker 4: I was just as a matter of fact, I was
• 1:33:39
  Speaker 4: just texting one of the little Stearns is who graduated
• 1:33:42
  Speaker 4: high school this year, and I said, health and wellness check,
• 1:33:46
  Speaker 4: that's all I said. So there and because he's getting
• 1:33:48
  Speaker 4: ready to go to way to college and uh and
• 1:33:51
  Speaker 4: what a great what a great segue, because that's what
• 1:33:54
  Speaker 4: we're talking about today, is college planning before school starts
• 1:33:57
  Speaker 4: back when that's going to happen pretty quickly, That's right,
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  Speaker 4: that's right.
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  Speaker 18: I Mean in a lot of times, what we see
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  Speaker 18: is financial advisors is these parents set up college saving
• 1:34:06
  Speaker 18: funds for their kids when they were you know one,
• 1:34:08
  Speaker 18: or maybe even a little bit younger than that, and
• 1:34:11
  Speaker 18: they've just done a great job over the course of
• 1:34:12
  Speaker 18: eighteen years just adding money to it, letting it grow
• 1:34:15
  Speaker 18: in the market. But there's really not a time in
• 1:34:17
  Speaker 18: that time frame where you start to plan for the college.
• 1:34:21
  Speaker 18: So right now, especially in the reference that you just
• 1:34:24
  Speaker 18: said that we're getting out of high school, there's a
• 1:34:26
  Speaker 18: little bit of a break in our studies and curriculum
• 1:34:29
  Speaker 18: before we have to make that next leap into college.
• 1:34:32
  Speaker 18: Now's a good time to call your financial advisor and say,
• 1:34:35
  Speaker 18: what are the rules, the regulations, and the stipulations around
• 1:34:38
  Speaker 18: this five to non account and how do I get
• 1:34:40
  Speaker 18: the money out of it to pay for curriculum?
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  Speaker 4: What would you say or maybe some of the biggest
• 1:34:44
  Speaker 4: financial mistakes that families make before college.
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  Speaker 18: You know, I wouldn't say setting and forgetting is a mistake.
• 1:34:50
  Speaker 18: It actually is a good thing, but the forgetting aspect
• 1:34:53
  Speaker 18: of that and just assuming like, hey, I've got money
• 1:34:56
  Speaker 18: for this, that's okay, we're good. We're not going to
• 1:34:58
  Speaker 18: ask any questions. I'll just send me the money when
• 1:35:00
  Speaker 18: I need it. Those college saving plans come with rules,
• 1:35:04
  Speaker 18: so that means they they you can use the funds
• 1:35:07
  Speaker 18: with no tax or no penalties for certain educational expenses.
• 1:35:11
  Speaker 18: And we can't just go in there assuming that the
• 1:35:13
  Speaker 18: money that we've built is going to pay for everything.
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  Speaker 4: So you have you have a kid getting ready to
• 1:35:20
  Speaker 4: go off to college. But let's step back for a
• 1:35:23
  Speaker 4: minute and figure out when when parents and students should
• 1:35:28
  Speaker 4: begin planning financially. Yeah, for college, I would say.
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  Speaker 18: When your kids in his junior year are her junior
• 1:35:35
  Speaker 18: year of high school and you have a good sense okay,
• 1:35:39
  Speaker 18: they're gonna pursue a post secondary education. That's when you
• 1:35:44
  Speaker 18: really start getting into the nuts and bolts of where
• 1:35:46
  Speaker 18: you're going to go to school. What's it going to cost?
• 1:35:49
  Speaker 18: Is their end state out of state tuition costs? Are
• 1:35:52
  Speaker 18: getting scholarships early on before the junior senior year of
• 1:35:56
  Speaker 18: high school, we really don't know is my kid going
• 1:35:59
  Speaker 18: to go to college? Are they going to get scholarships?
• 1:36:02
  Speaker 18: So there's a lot of variables that as they start
• 1:36:05
  Speaker 18: to show themselves and we have more of the facts,
• 1:36:08
  Speaker 18: then we can really start to dial in how to
• 1:36:11
  Speaker 18: maximize the savings that you've done for college.
• 1:36:14
  Speaker 4: Has it has the cost changed over the last several years?
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  Speaker 14: Oh?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, definitely.
• 1:36:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 18: I mean what we project is a low end, but
• 1:36:24
  Speaker 18: you can imagine it's like seven seven and a quarter
• 1:36:26
  Speaker 18: percent raised year.
• 1:36:27
  Speaker 4: Over Wow, that's crazy. And again maybe, and just to
• 1:36:32
  Speaker 4: put a pin there for just a minute, there may
• 1:36:33
  Speaker 4: be some families that are like their kid. You know,
• 1:36:36
  Speaker 4: they've got all the plans, you know, they've been saving,
• 1:36:38
  Speaker 4: they've got the accounts, but maybe the kid doesn't want
• 1:36:41
  Speaker 4: to go to college, maybe they want to go to
• 1:36:42
  Speaker 4: technical technical score and just jump right into the job market.
• 1:36:45
  Speaker 4: What do they what do you recommend they do with
• 1:36:47
  Speaker 4: all that that money that's been saved.
• 1:36:49
  Speaker 18: So there's been some provisions made. So the Secure Act
• 1:36:52
  Speaker 18: two point zero that came out they did address that
• 1:36:55
  Speaker 18: very very question. So that now there is what we
• 1:36:58
  Speaker 18: call a WROTH component that if your kid decides he's
• 1:37:02
  Speaker 18: not going to college or he has a full ride
• 1:37:05
  Speaker 18: and you don't need to use any of that money,
• 1:37:07
  Speaker 18: how do we get that money out if we're not
• 1:37:08
  Speaker 18: spending it on qualified education expenses. Well, that new law
• 1:37:12
  Speaker 18: states that you can start to move that money into
• 1:37:15
  Speaker 18: a roth ira for that child, and there's there's limits
• 1:37:19
  Speaker 18: that how much you can do each year. And it's
• 1:37:22
  Speaker 18: basically built on the same chassis of the wroth limits
• 1:37:26
  Speaker 18: for you and I if we wanted to contribute to
• 1:37:27
  Speaker 18: a roth Ira.
• 1:37:29
  Speaker 4: When you look at at planning and you try your
• 1:37:32
  Speaker 4: very best to do that planning, what kind of expenses
• 1:37:35
  Speaker 4: Mike Catchremly's off guard, So I use.
• 1:37:38
  Speaker 18: The University of Memphis is a good reference. It's a
• 1:37:40
  Speaker 18: commuter school, and a lot of people when they plan
• 1:37:43
  Speaker 18: for education, a vehicle may be something that they want
• 1:37:47
  Speaker 18: to throw into the mix and they're saying, you know,
• 1:37:49
  Speaker 18: my son or daughter needs this because they've got to
• 1:37:51
  Speaker 18: commute to their school. I'm just going to use some
• 1:37:53
  Speaker 18: of this five to two nine money that is not
• 1:37:56
  Speaker 18: considered an educational expense based on.
• 1:37:58
  Speaker 4: The rules, really really so they only.
• 1:38:01
  Speaker 18: Look at room and board tuition and like school supplies,
• 1:38:06
  Speaker 18: like books, calculator.
• 1:38:08
  Speaker 4: What about kevlar for you of M.
• 1:38:10
  Speaker 18: I'm just you know, we have a good case to
• 1:38:14
  Speaker 18: make that it should be Dylan Shaking as head of it.
• 1:38:17
  Speaker 4: He's a U of M grad.
• 1:38:18
  Speaker 3: I should have been more prepared for college.
• 1:38:20
  Speaker 18: Yeah, I'm a U of M grad myself, so I
• 1:38:24
  Speaker 18: can definitely relate.
• 1:38:26
  Speaker 4: But those are typically what we.
• 1:38:27
  Speaker 18: See, and that's why we say this time of year
• 1:38:29
  Speaker 18: is a great time to reconvene with your advisor, because
• 1:38:32
  Speaker 18: we would tell you, we could say, you know, if
• 1:38:34
  Speaker 18: you were factoring in fifteen thousand dollars for a vehicle,
• 1:38:37
  Speaker 18: if we took it from this account, we would be
• 1:38:39
  Speaker 18: subjected to a ten percent penalty right off the bat.
• 1:38:42
  Speaker 4: Wow, all right, that's good to know. Folks. If you
• 1:38:44
  Speaker 4: have questions your kids getting ready to go off to college,
• 1:38:47
  Speaker 4: your grandkid, give us a call. Maybe you are a
• 1:38:50
  Speaker 4: student listening nine oh one two six zero five nine
• 1:38:53
  Speaker 4: two six. That's nine oh one two six zero five
• 1:38:57
  Speaker 4: nine two six. I'm wondering about incoming freshman. What do
• 1:39:00
  Speaker 4: they need to be doing right now to get ready?
• 1:39:03
  Speaker 18: I would see I would literally take this opportunity to
• 1:39:06
  Speaker 18: think about, Okay, I'm about to start college and this
• 1:39:11
  Speaker 18: is going to be what carries me into my working career. Like,
• 1:39:14
  Speaker 18: really sit down and think about, am I going to
• 1:39:17
  Speaker 18: school for an underwater basket weaving degree that's really not
• 1:39:20
  Speaker 18: going to get me anywhere in life? Or political science
• 1:39:23
  Speaker 18: let's use that one. Or am I going towards a
• 1:39:25
  Speaker 18: more specialized which even the specialized route could find yourself
• 1:39:29
  Speaker 18: in a difficult job search opportunity. You know, being too
• 1:39:32
  Speaker 18: specialized as a thing as well. So just really put
• 1:39:35
  Speaker 18: into where you're at in the world, what the world
• 1:39:38
  Speaker 18: is doing, and how does your degree that you're going
• 1:39:40
  Speaker 18: to get gonna translate.
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  Speaker 4: You See, Dylan, I told you the basket weaving thing
• 1:39:44
  Speaker 4: was not going to work out.
• 1:39:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah. I tried to minor in it, but it stuck
• 1:39:48
  Speaker 3: with a major.
• 1:39:49
  Speaker 18: Well, we're not close to a body water other than
• 1:39:51
  Speaker 18: the Mississippi River, and it's hard to see underwater in
• 1:39:53
  Speaker 18: a muddy, muddy river.
• 1:39:54
  Speaker 3: It's very true. It wouldn't have worked out anyway.
• 1:39:56
  Speaker 4: It's a fair it's a it's a fair point again.
• 1:40:00
  Speaker 4: Adam Martin joining US Strategic and Financial Partners the website
• 1:40:03
  Speaker 4: Strategic Financial Partners dot com. Adam's number nine oh one.
• 1:40:07
  Speaker 4: I want you to write down. Write this number down.
• 1:40:09
  Speaker 4: Maybe you don't want to ask a question on air,
• 1:40:11
  Speaker 4: you can give him a call nine oh one two
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  Speaker 4: six zero two four three eight. That's nine oh one
• 1:40:17
  Speaker 4: two six zero five or two four three eight two
• 1:40:21
  Speaker 4: four three eight, and you'll be able to reach Adam there.
• 1:40:25
  Speaker 4: I have to imagine it's it's sort of a scary thing.
• 1:40:28
  Speaker 4: I mean, especially for college kids. You know they're going
• 1:40:30
  Speaker 4: off starting off on their own, and do you give
• 1:40:33
  Speaker 4: them any guidance as far as because maybe this is
• 1:40:35
  Speaker 4: the first time they've actually got to figure out how
• 1:40:38
  Speaker 4: to you know, pay their bills.
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  Speaker 18: Yeah, I would. This is the best advice that I
• 1:40:42
  Speaker 18: can give. Be a sponge, and not just for your curriculum.
• 1:40:46
  Speaker 18: But you know, there's two things you can learn lessons
• 1:40:49
  Speaker 18: you can learn in life, the tough way the smart way.
• 1:40:51
  Speaker 18: Smart way usually comes from wisdom to those people that
• 1:40:53
  Speaker 18: have gone before you and done things before you. Pour
• 1:40:56
  Speaker 18: into those people, listen to what they have to say
• 1:40:58
  Speaker 18: and all sift through what's good information and what's bad information.
• 1:41:02
  Speaker 18: But be a sponge, learn as much as you can
• 1:41:04
  Speaker 18: and try to prepare yourself as much as possible for
• 1:41:07
  Speaker 18: the real world.
• 1:41:07
  Speaker 4: All right, Adam Martin. Always by the way, before we
• 1:41:10
  Speaker 4: let you go, lawn Starter they have put out a list.
• 1:41:14
  Speaker 4: They've done a big survey best cities for outdoor parties.
• 1:41:17
  Speaker 4: Are you guys doing the party? You're doing a party.
• 1:41:19
  Speaker 4: You're not a bad party Dylan. What are you doing
• 1:41:21
  Speaker 4: for the fourth I'm doing a party as well. Yeah,
• 1:41:24
  Speaker 4: all right, good stuff. So anyway, that lawn Starter they
• 1:41:29
  Speaker 4: ranked the best cities for outdoor parties. They looked at
• 1:41:32
  Speaker 4: yard size, park access, air quality. Well, here in Memphis,
• 1:41:37
  Speaker 4: you've got all those smokers, so we're off the list.
• 1:41:39
  Speaker 4: I'm fairly sure you're number one cities New York, Los Angeles, Chicago,
• 1:41:46
  Speaker 4: San Diego, and Miami. I don't find any of those
• 1:41:51
  Speaker 4: cities appealing me either.
• 1:41:53
  Speaker 18: I mean, and we in Memphis we say it's the
• 1:41:55
  Speaker 18: most interesting time in the world because we question, is
• 1:41:57
  Speaker 18: that a fireworkers at gunshots? And I feel like that's true.
• 1:42:00
  Speaker 18: That relates to all those cities too.
• 1:42:02
  Speaker 4: Or a transformer blowing up, So that's we had that yesterday.
• 1:42:05
  Speaker 4: I lost power. I'm like, oh lord, what's going on here?
• 1:42:09
  Speaker 4: It's that's a fair question though, And if you're from Memphis,
• 1:42:12
  Speaker 4: you kind of you can kind of tell because you're
• 1:42:15
  Speaker 4: ducking or you're just going about your business.
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  Speaker 3: That's right.
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  Speaker 4: Wow, all right, Adam Martin, everybody nine oh one two
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  Speaker 4: six zero two four three eight give him a call,
• 1:42:24
  Speaker 4: Adam good to see a happy happy birthday America.
• 1:42:27
  Speaker 18: Absolutely, here's the two fifty.
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  Speaker 4: All right, nine oh one two six zero five nine
• 1:42:32
  Speaker 4: two six is our telephone number. That's nine oh one
• 1:42:35
  Speaker 4: two six zero five nine to six. I want to.
• 1:42:38
  Speaker 4: I want to play this as we as we go
• 1:42:40
  Speaker 4: to break. This is from a long time ago, the
• 1:42:43
  Speaker 4: late great comedian Robin Williams dressed up as an American
• 1:42:48
  Speaker 4: flag and did an entire bit as Old Glory. Let's
• 1:42:53
  Speaker 4: take a listen.
• 1:42:54
  Speaker 12: I'm the one that they're singing about. Yeah, I'm I'm
• 1:42:59
  Speaker 12: the stars Forever star spangled banner. You can call me
• 1:43:03
  Speaker 12: Old Glory, but let's just keep it simple. I'll just
• 1:43:06
  Speaker 12: call me Flag. Oh say, can you see? You probably
• 1:43:17
  Speaker 12: don't recognize me?
• 1:43:18
  Speaker 1: Say who's out?
• 1:43:19
  Speaker 12: Evil? Can evil?
• 1:43:20
  Speaker 8: No way?
• 1:43:22
  Speaker 12: Yeah, I see you can't recognize me because I'm in
• 1:43:24
  Speaker 12: my bisday suit. Yes, I'm wearing the original thirteen here. Yeah,
• 1:43:31
  Speaker 12: I remember Miss Betsy saying that, going ooh, this could
• 1:43:34
  Speaker 12: be the start of something big woo.
• 1:43:38
  Speaker 8: Su'm jumping a teen.
• 1:43:39
  Speaker 12: Yes, I was born June thirteenth, seventeen seventy seven.
• 1:43:45
  Speaker 4: That makes me a Gemini.
• 1:43:53
  Speaker 12: That's unpredictable.
• 1:43:55
  Speaker 13: Crazy.
• 1:43:57
  Speaker 12: Yes, I like the outdoors and I'm the life of
• 1:43:59
  Speaker 12: any party, whether it be Republican, Democrat, independent, socialist, anything libertarian.
• 1:44:03
  Speaker 4: I'll be there.
• 1:44:05
  Speaker 12: You know, I'm two hundred and four years old. People say, Flag,
• 1:44:10
  Speaker 12: how do you stay so young. Is it jogging?
• 1:44:13
  Speaker 11: No?
• 1:44:15
  Speaker 19: Is it tennis? No, it's waving.
• 1:44:28
  Speaker 12: You know, we're talking about billowing, furling and unfurling. Richard Simmons,
• 1:44:35
  Speaker 12: ain't your heart out where I haven't? Has noise been
• 1:44:41
  Speaker 12: easy for me? Though I had a tough puberty. Yeah, war, famine,
• 1:44:46
  Speaker 12: invasion in eighteen sixty one, we had a little skin
• 1:44:49
  Speaker 12: problem that broke out into thirty four stars. But now, well,
• 1:44:54
  Speaker 12: little patience, and look what we got. Now look at
• 1:44:56
  Speaker 12: this hold on here, ha hah ah, oh shist everybody's
• 1:45:02
  Speaker 12: on here. Look at the Alaska, Hawaii make it. Yeah,
• 1:45:11
  Speaker 12: we got your Tennessee. How ye d into day? Here's
• 1:45:14
  Speaker 12: Vermont you can't get there from here. And there's California
• 1:45:18
  Speaker 12: for sure, totally.
• 1:45:21
  Speaker 9: Well, so.
• 1:45:26
  Speaker 12: I got Temporpore. You know, I had a tough time
• 1:45:29
  Speaker 12: for a while. I've been in a lot of wars.
• 1:45:30
  Speaker 12: They've fired missiles and muskets at me. But you know,
• 1:45:33
  Speaker 12: come the dawns only lights, I'm still there.
• 1:45:36
  Speaker 11: You know what I'm talking about.
• 1:45:42
  Speaker 12: You know, I've been made into everything from designer jeans
• 1:45:44
  Speaker 12: to T shirts and I've even been a cake for
• 1:45:46
  Speaker 12: Mick Jagger. All right, the rockets. But people haven't always
• 1:45:56
  Speaker 12: been respectful to me. Sometimes it's been tough them. Some
• 1:46:00
  Speaker 12: people try and spit on me, trample me, burn me,
• 1:46:02
  Speaker 12: foreigners and occasionally some Americans too. But I don't let
• 1:46:05
  Speaker 12: it get me down because I'm not a stay at
• 1:46:07
  Speaker 12: home kind of flag. You know, I've been to Europe.
• 1:46:10
  Speaker 12: I've been to both North and South Pole. I was
• 1:46:13
  Speaker 12: at Yojima recently, even been to the moon. What you
• 1:46:35
  Speaker 12: see me in all sorts of different postures. When I'm
• 1:46:37
  Speaker 12: like this, that means everything is okay. When I'm upside down,
• 1:46:41
  Speaker 12: where put on your may west and hit the death.
• 1:46:45
  Speaker 12: What I'm like this, Well that's not my favorite position,
• 1:46:49
  Speaker 12: because well that's half masted. I don't I don't mean
• 1:46:53
  Speaker 12: to bump you out. I didn't come here to depress you,
• 1:46:56
  Speaker 12: but I gotta tell you something. Honestly, I had me
• 1:47:00
  Speaker 12: getting out much lately. I guess it's not very chic
• 1:47:03
  Speaker 12: to put up the flag anymore. You know, my fl
• 1:47:05
  Speaker 12: and I have a flag, but we haven't found it
• 1:47:07
  Speaker 12: for very long. Hey, but look at it this way.
• 1:47:11
  Speaker 12: Don't look at it saluting me, Look at it saluting yourselves.
• 1:47:16
  Speaker 12: You know, Hey, I'm just a flag, a symbol. You're
• 1:47:20
  Speaker 12: the people, if I may say so, from here, long.
• 1:47:24
  Speaker 18: May you wave.
• 1:47:48
  Speaker 10: In the seventh Cavalry. We got a captain from the Ukraine,
• 1:47:55
  Speaker 10: another for Puerto Rico. We've got Japanese, jiny Blacks, Hispanics, Cherokee, Indians, Jews,
• 1:48:05
  Speaker 10: and Gentiles, all Americans now here in the States. Some
• 1:48:13
  Speaker 10: men in this unit may experience discrimination because of race
• 1:48:19
  Speaker 10: or creed. But for you and me, now all that
• 1:48:25
  Speaker 10: is gone. We're moving into the valley of the Shadow
• 1:48:30
  Speaker 10: of Death, where you will watch the back of the
• 1:48:34
  Speaker 10: man next to you as he will watch yours, and
• 1:48:38
  Speaker 10: you won't care what color he is or by what
• 1:48:42
  Speaker 10: name he calls.
• 1:48:43
  Speaker 3: God.
• 1:48:45
  Speaker 10: They say we're leaving home, We're going to what home
• 1:48:52
  Speaker 10: was always supposed to be. So let us understand the situation.
• 1:49:00
  Speaker 10: We are going into battle against a tough and determined enemy.
• 1:49:10
  Speaker 10: I can't promise you that I will bring you all
• 1:49:14
  Speaker 10: home alive, but this I swear before you and before
• 1:49:22
  Speaker 10: Almighty God, that when we go into battle, I will
• 1:49:28
  Speaker 10: be the first to set foot on the field, and
• 1:49:32
  Speaker 10: I will be the last to step off, and I
• 1:49:37
  Speaker 10: will leave no one behind dead or alive.
• 1:49:49
  Speaker 4: We will all come home together.
• 1:49:54
  Speaker 10: So help me.
• 1:49:54
  Speaker 4: God, all right, one of the most powerful scenes in
• 1:49:59
  Speaker 4: the movie We were Soldiers, as we prepare to celebrate
• 1:50:04
  Speaker 4: this great nation's birthday on Saturday and tomorrow, we're gonna
• 1:50:09
  Speaker 4: have some other wonderful little clips including red skeletons, Pledge
• 1:50:13
  Speaker 4: of Allegiance, one of the great all time greats, and
• 1:50:17
  Speaker 4: Andy Griffith on The Andy Griffith Show. Andy Griffith gave
• 1:50:20
  Speaker 4: a great, great lesson on what it means to be
• 1:50:23
  Speaker 4: an American. So we're gonna play a lot of those
• 1:50:26
  Speaker 4: bits tomorrow as well as your calls. And we're gonna
• 1:50:29
  Speaker 4: be doing open Line Friday on Thursday because we're giving
• 1:50:32
  Speaker 4: our team a long weekend to celebrate, and so we're
• 1:50:35
  Speaker 4: gonna be doing open Line Friday on Thursday, tomorrow's edition
• 1:50:40
  Speaker 4: of the program. Just a reminder Tom Strange dot com
• 1:50:43
  Speaker 4: you got to go check out the crazy video from
• 1:50:46
  Speaker 4: New York City as well as that awesome video of
• 1:50:49
  Speaker 4: the rough Riders on horseback escorting President Trump to the
• 1:50:53
  Speaker 4: Presidential Library. It's just unbelievable watching the beast behind the
• 1:50:58
  Speaker 4: horsepower there was a pretty epic, So again, check that
• 1:51:01
  Speaker 4: out at Todd Sterns dot com and also pre order
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  Speaker 4: a copy of the Golden Age. It'll be in Stories
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  Speaker 4: August eleventh, but I want you to pre order a
• 1:51:09
  Speaker 4: copy right now online. All right, folks, get out there,
• 1:51:13
  Speaker 4: stay cool today. It is a hot one across America.
• 1:51:16
  Speaker 4: You'd be good. Everybody