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Fox News Faces Firestorm After Firing Maria Bartiromo · ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes

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  Speaker 1: From Memphis, Tennessee, it's Common Sense Conservative Commentary from Todd Starr.
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  Speaker 2: That's us, that's right.
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  Speaker 3: I love this American ride.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 5: Hello, everybody.
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  Speaker 6: Welcome.
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  Speaker 5: This is the Todd Stearns Radio Show. Happy Friday to you, America.
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  Speaker 5: Breaking news Friday all over the country. We've got a
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  Speaker 5: lot of big stories happening, and we've been following the
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  Speaker 5: situation coming out of Massachusetts. where Lindsay Clancy, the monster
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  Speaker 5: mom who killed her three kids, strangled them to death,
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  Speaker 5: may very well get to walk out of the courtroom today.
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  Speaker 5: We are following the developments. Here's the very latest, and
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  Speaker 5: all of this is going to happen during our show today.
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  Speaker 5: At least that's the anticipation. So the jury came back,
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  Speaker 5: and they are still deadlocked. The interesting part of this now,
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  Speaker 5: and again, we're... We cannot verify this information, but it's
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  Speaker 5: coming from reporters inside the courtroom, and we are hearing
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  Speaker 5: that there is one guy who is holding out. He's
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  Speaker 5: a dude, and he believes that Lindsey Clancy is guilty
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  Speaker 5: as charged, and that's the holdup here. Well, now the
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  Speaker 5: judge is stepping in, and he originally declared a mistrial,
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  Speaker 5: that he walked that back, and he said he's going
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  Speaker 5: to give He's going to wait an hour before making
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  Speaker 5: the next decision. So there are a lot of moving
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  Speaker 5: parts here, and we'll try our very best to keep
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  Speaker 5: you updated on this Open Line Friday edition of the program.
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  Speaker 5: You say, what is that? Every Friday, we open up
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  Speaker 5: your craw, We're going to help you unstick that on
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  Speaker 5: today's program. 901-260-5926. That's our telephone number. That's 901-260-5926. That
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  Speaker 5: did sound a little awkward, did it, Antillon?
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  Speaker 7: I just haven't heard that before.
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  Speaker 5: In my mind, it sounded a lot better. But when
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  Speaker 5: you actually say it, when you vocalize it, it's a
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  Speaker 5: little weird. Anyway, we've got some great guests. Christy Stutzman
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  Speaker 5: is going to be here. She wants to weigh in
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  Speaker 5: on Lindsay Clancy, the very latest there. Also, she is
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  Speaker 5: the brilliant composer of an incredible new musical called Washington's
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  Speaker 5: Ring of Spies. We'll get an update on that. Joe
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  Speaker 5: Messina is going to be here. Caleb Park, our good friend,
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  Speaker 5: the host of The Good Report with Caleb Park, he's
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  Speaker 5: going to be here as well. And our telephone number, 901-260-5926.
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  Speaker 5: That's 901-260-5926. Let's take a listen to Cut 54, please.
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  Speaker 4: Counsel, have you seen the question?
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  Speaker 8: Yes, Your Honor.
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  Speaker 4: Yes. All right. And the question.
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  Speaker 9: Is, it is with a heavy heart that we report
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  Speaker 9: we are unable to come to a unanimous decision and will.
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  Speaker 4: Not be able to.
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  Speaker 10: All right.
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  Speaker 9: My, well, let me ask what.
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  Speaker 4: Is the party's position in regards to that question.
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  Speaker 7: Your Honor, from the Commonwealth's perspective, since the TUI instruction
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  Speaker 7: has already been given and then there was less deliberation
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  Speaker 7: after that, I think that it would require a mistrial
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  Speaker 7: at this point.
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  Speaker 4: Attorney Rangston.
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  Speaker 8: Your Honor, my understanding is that this court has the
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  Speaker 8: discretion to have the jury sent back for the second time.
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  Speaker 8: The first time that there was a report we did
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  Speaker 8: not treat it as a report of deadlock. We did
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  Speaker 8: not instruct them under TUI. We did not give them
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  Speaker 8: soft TUI. We didn't give them anything. We just sent
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  Speaker 8: them back to deliberate. So technically, we have one report
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  Speaker 8: of deadlock that Your Honor gave the TUI Rodriguez charge to,
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  Speaker 8: I believe under the statute, as well as the case law.
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  Speaker 4: This court has.
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  Speaker 8: The ability to send the jury back. The fact that
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  Speaker 8: that jury foreperson wrote Very unusually, it is with a
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  Speaker 8: heavy heart that we are unable to come to a decision.
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  Speaker 8: Based on the earlier questions that we have, I think
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  Speaker 8: it would be a sound and a wise decision for
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  Speaker 8: this court to send it back under the law.
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  Speaker 9: Well, I would find that under Massachusetts case law and
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  Speaker 9: statutory law, the jury did not ask to be sent back,
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  Speaker 9: which would be a possibility if they had requested it
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  Speaker 9: to be sent back to them. But under the statute
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  Speaker 9: in the case law, I don't feel I have any
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  Speaker 9: choice but to declare mistrial.
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  Speaker 4: Well, before you do, I'd like to be heard.
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  Speaker 5: All right. And so that's where we're at right now,
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  Speaker 5: ladies and gentlemen. And it is it's quite a mess.
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  Speaker 5: And it's really quite shocking to know that there are
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  Speaker 5: individuals on that jury who believe this woman should be
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  Speaker 5: sent free. a woman who killed her own children. Let
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  Speaker 5: me ask you this. If Lindsey Clancy had actually been
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  Speaker 5: a man, and we were talking about a father who
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  Speaker 5: killed his children, do you think the jury would have
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  Speaker 5: responded differently here? Because I do. I think that they
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  Speaker 5: would have thrown the book at that guy. I have
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  Speaker 5: no doubt about that. By the way, lots of copycat
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  Speaker 5: murders happening now where mothers are killing their children. It's
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  Speaker 5: really a sad thing, folks. So we'll see how all
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  Speaker 5: this plays out. But it doesn't bode well for the
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  Speaker 5: moral leanings of this country.
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  Speaker 11: And when I.
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  Speaker 5: was writing about this in the Golden Age. I said
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  Speaker 5: that the country does not have a political problem, and
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  Speaker 5: I've been getting a lot of pushback over this. We've
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  Speaker 5: been doing a lot of these interviews with radio and TV,
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  Speaker 5: and I've been getting pushback whenever I say the nation
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  Speaker 5: is not dealing with a political problem. We're dealing with
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  Speaker 5: a spiritual problem. We have a a nation that has
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  Speaker 5: lost its way. We have unmoored ourselves from the teachings
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  Speaker 5: of the Bible, and now we are adrift. We are
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  Speaker 5: morally adrift as a nation. And I don't want to
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  Speaker 5: turn this program into a church service today, but I
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  Speaker 5: do believe that when we look at what's happening in
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  Speaker 5: that Massachusetts courtroom and in that jury room, that is
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  Speaker 5: a moral issue. And that is something that must be addressed.
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  Speaker 5: And it's something that every single pastor in the country
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  Speaker 5: must address. But clearly, there's a lot of confusion about
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  Speaker 5: right versus wrong in that courtroom. Unbelievable. 901-260-5926, our telephone number.
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  Speaker 5: That's 901-260-5926. Let's go to the phone lines. Mike in
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  Speaker 5: Clear Lake City, Texas, listening to us on Patriot Talk 920,
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  Speaker 5: starting our day. Mike, what's on your mind?
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  Speaker 12: Oh, thank you for taking my call. I'm confused. I
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  Speaker 12: haven't been following the trial like on a daily basis.
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  Speaker 12: I've only seen what I've... Listening to your show and
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  Speaker 12: then watching Newsmax, Carl Higby, Rob Schmidt. All right, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 12: But my question is, She went to therapy, psychiatrists, drugs
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  Speaker 12: for weeks, months, days leading up to the murdering of
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  Speaker 12: her children because of postpartum depression and mental illness. And
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  Speaker 12: it just seems to me like as soon as she
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  Speaker 12: killed her three kids, all of that went away. Now,
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  Speaker 12: all of a sudden, she's a healthy, normal human being,
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  Speaker 12: not suffering from anything.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, that is. And again, I think that was the
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  Speaker 5: prosecution's argument here is that That she's not behaving like
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  Speaker 5: the way a crazy person would behave or somebody dealing
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  Speaker 5: with psychosis. Now, they would tell you, I think the
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  Speaker 5: defense would tell you that, well, this is, you know,
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  Speaker 5: it was a break. It was a psychotic break she had.
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  Speaker 5: So that explains her normal behavior now. But Mike, to
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  Speaker 5: your point, I mean, she's been very well behaved. She's
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  Speaker 5: looked rather ominous in the courtroom, but there have been
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  Speaker 5: no weird outbursts or anything of that nature at all.
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  Speaker 5: So you're saying she may be faking all of the psychosis?
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  Speaker 12: Well, absolutely. I mean, like I said, I've only seen
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  Speaker 12: the clips on Newsmax, but You know, she doesn't laugh
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  Speaker 12: or giggle or have mean expressions on her face. I mean,
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  Speaker 12: she just sits there like a normal, everyday human being.
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  Speaker 12: And I don't understand how she could seek all this
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  Speaker 12: treatment and be given all this treatment prior to the
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  Speaker 12: killing of her children. And then, like you say, you know,
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  Speaker 12: for 18 minutes, all of a sudden she snaps and
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  Speaker 12: one by one, systematically, you know, we call it premeditated one,
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  Speaker 12: murders her children by strangulation of all things. And then
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  Speaker 12: all of a sudden, she's cured of all of her
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  Speaker 12: postpartum depression and mental illness. It just doesn't make sense
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  Speaker 12: to me. I can't buy that. I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 5: Mike, I'm just curious. You've seen all of the women,
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  Speaker 5: and there are just thousands and thousands of women around
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  Speaker 5: America who are sympathizing with this woman, and they say,
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  Speaker 5: that they too could have killed their children had they
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  Speaker 5: been given the opportunity. What does that tell you about
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  Speaker 5: where we are in the country right now?
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  Speaker 12: It tells me that the Jezebel spirit is alive and well.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, that's a good way of saying it. Mike,
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  Speaker 5: thank you for that call. Let's go to Steve in Houston, Texas,
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  Speaker 5: listening to us on Patriot Talk 920. All right, Steve,
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  Speaker 5: what say you?
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  Speaker 13: Hey, Todd, you know, everybody's talking like this lady, if
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  Speaker 13: they find her not guilty by reason of insanity, that
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  Speaker 13: she's just going to walk out of there. But in
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  Speaker 13: my experience, if you get found insane, you know, they
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  Speaker 13: send you to like a criminal sock ward until you
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  Speaker 13: can prove that you're you're sane again. I mean, I
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  Speaker 13: don't think there's a chance that she's just going to
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  Speaker 13: walk out of there a free woman.
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  Speaker 5: No, no, no, but she could. She could, Steve. Yes,
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  Speaker 5: that is one of the options that the judge has.
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  Speaker 5: And the jury could say, you know what, she's not guilty.
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  Speaker 5: You're free to go.
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  Speaker 13: Well, that in itself is insane. I mean, if she's insane,
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  Speaker 13: put her in a stock ward or something of And
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  Speaker 13: I get it why the jury's having a hard time,
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  Speaker 13: because the lady's in a wheelchair. She obviously wasn't in
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  Speaker 13: her right mind, but that doesn't change the fact that
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  Speaker 13: she murdered her children.
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  Speaker 5: Well, if she is found not guilty by reason of
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  Speaker 5: mental illness or mental defect, she faces, she can only
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  Speaker 5: be hospitalized for up to 40 days for observation and examination.
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  Speaker 5: That's it.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 7: That's crazy.
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  Speaker 14: That's insane.
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  Speaker 5: That is insane right there, Steve. It's absolutely insane.
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  Speaker 13: I think they should execute her, man. I mean, her
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  Speaker 13: life's no more valuable than those children. As a matter
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  Speaker 13: of fact, those children didn't.
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  Speaker 15: Get to have a life.
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  Speaker 13: Steve did, you know.
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  Speaker 5: No, you're absolutely right. Absolutely right, Steve. We got to run,
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  Speaker 5: my friend. Running a little bit late for a break here.
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  Speaker 5: Ladies and gentlemen, what do you think the verdict ought
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  Speaker 5: to be And why do you think this jury is
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  Speaker 5: having such a difficult time with this? 901-260-5926, our telephone number.
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  Speaker 5: Fox News story. Maria Bartiromo getting fired. Her executive producer
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  Speaker 5: getting fired. Her staff not even allowed to talk with her.
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  Speaker 5: All right, welcome back, everybody. This is the Todd Stearns
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  Speaker 5: Radio Show on this Friday edition, and we're watching the
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  Speaker 5: situation in Massachusetts where the judge is getting pretty darn
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  Speaker 5: close to declaring a mistrial. So what happens? I got
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  Speaker 5: a text message from somebody. What happens if there's a misdraft?
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  Speaker 5: Is she going free? Is she going to be able
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  Speaker 5: to roll out of the courthouse? She can't walk because
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  Speaker 5: she threw herself off the house. The answer is no.
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  Speaker 5: She will remain in custody. What's interesting about this, she's
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  Speaker 5: actually hasn't been at a prison. She's been in custody
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  Speaker 5: at a state hospital where she's been getting all the
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  Speaker 5: psychiatric treatment and all that sort of stuff. So Anyway,
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  Speaker 5: we'll keep you updated on that. A lot of people
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  Speaker 5: wanted to weigh in. Let's go back to the phones,
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  Speaker 5: and let's say hello to Joe in Texas City, Texas,
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  Speaker 5: listening to us on Patriot Talk 920. A lot of
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  Speaker 5: Houston folks calling in today, or Texas folks. Joe, what
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  Speaker 5: say you?
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  Speaker 10: Hey, sir.
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  Speaker 17: It's good to hear from you, and I appreciate you
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  Speaker 17: and your team, your show.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you.
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  Speaker 10: You're welcome.
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  Speaker 17: You know, I've been percolating on all this business. I'm
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  Speaker 17: a father of two. And, you know, my wife at
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  Speaker 17: the time, you know, had some little difficulties afterwards. And
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  Speaker 17: I'm not all knowing. So I don't know the state
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  Speaker 17: of mind of this woman when those events happen. So
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  Speaker 17: I'm not really touching on that. What I want to
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  Speaker 17: touch on is anybody can sit in a wheelchair. I'm
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  Speaker 17: not saying she didn't get injured when she took a
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  Speaker 17: dive out of a second story window. But she's a
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  Speaker 17: highly educated nurse. And, uh, you know, most folks wouldn't
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  Speaker 17: take a bet that somebody would die just from jumping
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  Speaker 17: out of a second story window. But of course, you know,
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  Speaker 17: if you went in the right mind, yada, yada, yada. But, uh,
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  Speaker 17: so much of court is a show. Um, you know,
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  Speaker 17: there's a lot of theater involved and her, her medical stuff,
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  Speaker 17: I guess it's HEPA protected or this, that, and the other,
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  Speaker 17: but you know, she might be able to walk perfectly fine.
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  Speaker 5: I'm not, Oh, you think she may be faking the paralysis?
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  Speaker 17: I'm just saying we have no reason to know either way. And,
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  Speaker 17: you know, if I was in her shoes and I
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  Speaker 17: jumped out of a window and I was charged with
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  Speaker 17: these things, I'd be in a wheelchair too. So that's
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  Speaker 17: what I'm throwing in the mix.
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  Speaker 5: Joe, you've given us something to think about.
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  Speaker 17: And, sir, what you said about... if she's found not
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  Speaker 17: guilty by reason of insanity, that they're only going to
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  Speaker 17: observe her for 40 days?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, 40 days under Massachusetts law. So let me call
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  Speaker 5: this back up here. But under Massachusetts law, that would
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  Speaker 5: be Chapter 123, Section 16. The judge can order her
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  Speaker 5: hospitalized for up to 40 days for observation and examination. Now,
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  Speaker 5: after that, the prosecutors could seek some sort of a
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  Speaker 5: civil commitment where they could keep her hospitalized for as
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  Speaker 5: long as six more months. So there you go. But
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  Speaker 5: eventually she could be released. I mean, that's the issue there.
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  Speaker 5: So if she was convicted of first-degree murder, she could
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  Speaker 5: face life imprisonment. But if the insanity acquittal instead puts
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  Speaker 5: her in the mental health system and not the penal system.
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  Speaker 5: So there you go.
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  Speaker 17: I think she's going to get that. I mean, I
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  Speaker 17: don't have a dog in the fight, but I think
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  Speaker 17: that's where it's going to go.
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  Speaker 5: Joe, thank you.
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  Speaker 17: I was just thinking about the whole chair thing.
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  Speaker 5: You've given us something to think about. Thank you for
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  Speaker 5: calling in. Dylan, I've come up with an idea. So
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  Speaker 5: Joe from Texas City, Texas, thinks that Lindsay Clancy may
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  Speaker 5: be faking it, that she threw herself off the second floor,
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  Speaker 5: went out of the second floor window into the backyard,
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  Speaker 5: and she's really not paralyzed.
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  Speaker 7: It's an interesting idea.
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  Speaker 5: I've got a very quick and, dare I say, entertaining
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  Speaker 5: way to figure out if, in fact, she is or
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  Speaker 5: is not paralyzed.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 5: Remember those sea otters we were talking about?
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  Speaker 11: Yes, I do.
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  Speaker 5: I think we need to grab one of those and
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  Speaker 5: just plop it right on her.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 5: One nibble and we would know.
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  Speaker 18: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 7: It's not your worst idea.
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  Speaker 3: It's a miracle.
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  Speaker 5: It is not my worst idea for the day. And
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  Speaker 5: it's still fairly early. Oh, my goodness.
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  Speaker 3: All right. 901-260-5926.
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  Speaker 5: You know, we had to get the otter in there somewhere.
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  Speaker 7: Good to call it back.
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  Speaker 5: Or is that the chipmunk? Was it the beaver?
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  Speaker 11: The otter.
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  Speaker 5: The otter.
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  Speaker 7: It's terrorizing females everywhere.
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  Speaker 5: That's right. The Lake Tahoe.
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  Speaker 10: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, the poor Lake Tahoe lady. All right.
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  Speaker 5: and ignite a revolution. With an all-star cast, breathtaking visuals,
• 19:35
  Speaker 5: and visceral action, The Uprising is a must-see cinematic epic
• 19:39
  Speaker 5: that demands to be seen on the biggest screen possible.
• 19:43
  Speaker 5: The Uprising, rated R, under 17, not admitted without a parent,
• 19:47
  Speaker 5: witnessed the rise of Robin Hood only in theaters September 10th. Dylan,
• 20:05
  Speaker 5: I'm concerned about one of our affiliates, WDUN. One of
• 20:09
  Speaker 5: their stampers just sent me a video of an otter,
• 20:12
  Speaker 5: a sea otter, dancing provocatively.
• 20:15
  Speaker 7: They need to run. That thing is not your friend.
• 20:19
  Speaker 5: It's not.
• 20:20
  Speaker 7: It's coming for you.
• 20:20
  Speaker 5: And I'm sorry. That otter needs to go to church.
• 20:24
  Speaker 5: I don't know. I think it may be Pentecostal.
• 20:26
  Speaker 7: Might need to try out for the New England Patriots.
• 20:29
  Speaker 5: Well, it could be. It could very well be. You're right.
• 20:34
  Speaker 5: That could be a male cheerleader.
• 20:35
  Speaker 7: That's next.
• 20:36
  Speaker 11: Who knows?
• 20:38
  Speaker 7: I would rather see an otter than a male cheerleader.
• 20:40
  Speaker 5: Really? Well, yeah, yeah, exactly. That's a fair point.
• 20:43
  Speaker 7: I would rather see an otter attacking someone than a
• 20:45
  Speaker 7: male cheerleader.
• 20:46
  Speaker 5: This male cheerleader thing, I mean, people are really fired
• 20:49
  Speaker 5: up about all of this.
• 20:51
  Speaker 11: I'm sure.
• 20:51
  Speaker 7: It's getting out of hand.
• 20:53
  Speaker 5: All I want to know is this, and look, I'm
• 20:54
  Speaker 5: not going to judge, you know, a grown man, a
• 20:57
  Speaker 5: grown hairless man who, by the way, is that like moisturizing?
• 21:03
  Speaker 5: He's glowing. Did he dip himself in something?
• 21:08
  Speaker 11: Probably. I don't know. I don't know.
• 21:10
  Speaker 5: I'm talking about the one in the onesie. Was that
• 21:14
  Speaker 5: the Patriots?
• 21:15
  Speaker 7: That's the Patriots.
• 21:15
  Speaker 5: Pardon me, the New England Gatriots. And so the Gatriots
• 21:19
  Speaker 5: have a male cheerleader, and they've got the poor guy
• 21:22
  Speaker 5: wearing a onesie. And I think that's the problem.
• 21:25
  Speaker 7: I don't know if we should feel bad for him.
• 21:27
  Speaker 7: I think that was probably his choice.
• 21:28
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 21:29
  Speaker 7: He probably wanted the onesie.
• 21:32
  Speaker 10: It's true.
• 21:33
  Speaker 7: No one knows why.
• 21:33
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I know. But he's got no hair on any
• 21:37
  Speaker 5: of his legs. I mean, normally, in a normal guy,
• 21:39
  Speaker 5: you would at least have thigh hair. But there's no hair.
• 21:46
  Speaker 7: It's true.
• 21:46
  Speaker 5: He's been demuted. Yeah. Like a forest.
• 21:49
  Speaker 7: He's been demanned.
• 21:52
  Speaker 11: Well.
• 21:53
  Speaker 7: It's really rough.
• 21:54
  Speaker 11: It's unfortunate.
• 21:55
  Speaker 5: There was a point to this. Oh, so here's my point.
• 21:59
  Speaker 16: Who.
• 22:01
  Speaker 5: I want to know who said at NFL headquarters, they're
• 22:03
  Speaker 5: having this big conference, they're having the Monday morning staff meeting,
• 22:09
  Speaker 5: and somebody says, you know what the New England Gatriots need?
• 22:12
  Speaker 5: They need male cheerleaders gyrating on the sidelines with no
• 22:19
  Speaker 5: hair on their legs wearing onesies. I want to know
• 22:24
  Speaker 5: who said that. Who came up with the idea? That's
• 22:28
  Speaker 5: what I want to know.
• 22:29
  Speaker 7: It's got to be the DEI department there because their
• 22:31
  Speaker 7: football team doesn't need any help. They literally went to
• 22:34
  Speaker 7: the Super Bowl last year.
• 22:35
  Speaker 5: Are the guys on the team asking for this? I mean,
• 22:37
  Speaker 5: are they inspired? Are the Gatriots inspired?
• 22:40
  Speaker 7: It can't be. There's no inspiration that can come from this.
• 22:46
  Speaker 5: And then the Philadelphia Eagles. I don't know what that's just.
• 22:51
  Speaker 5: First of all, they're not good dancers.
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: No.
• 22:53
  Speaker 5: Right?
• 22:54
  Speaker 7: I don't know which one I'd rather see. Because on
• 22:57
  Speaker 7: one hand, you've got the guy in the onesie that
• 23:00
  Speaker 7: could be at the top of the pyramid. And then
• 23:03
  Speaker 7: on the Eagles side, you have the guy that looks
• 23:05
  Speaker 7: like he just jumped out of the stands and is
• 23:08
  Speaker 7: like a streaker with clothes on.
• 23:10
  Speaker 5: He does look like– yeah, that's a great way to
• 23:12
  Speaker 5: describe it. I will say this. The Gatriots guy in
• 23:16
  Speaker 5: the onesie, Dylan Mulvaney has more muscle development than he does.
• 23:21
  Speaker 5: I don't know how that's even healthy.
• 23:23
  Speaker 4: It's true.
• 23:24
  Speaker 5: I just don't get them. Anyway, to your point, yeah,
• 23:27
  Speaker 5: I guess watching the otter gyrate would be much more entertaining.
• 23:35
  Speaker 5: But I just want to know who actually said, you
• 23:37
  Speaker 5: know what, this is what the NFL needs. That's all
• 23:40
  Speaker 5: I'm asking. I think that's a fair question, right? It's like, okay,
• 23:45
  Speaker 5: why do we need this in the NFL?
• 23:47
  Speaker 11: That's all.
• 23:48
  Speaker 5: That's all. 901-260-5926. Welcome back. This is the Todd Stearns
• 23:53
  Speaker 5: Radio Show. It is Open Line Friday. Let's go to
• 23:57
  Speaker 5: the phone lines and say hello to Scott in Pennsylvania. Scott,
• 24:02
  Speaker 5: what's on your mind?
• 24:05
  Speaker 19: Hey, I listen to your show almost every day, me
• 24:08
  Speaker 19: and my mom. I'm up here in Pennsylvania, and she's
• 24:11
  Speaker 19: down there in Georgia. I just wanted to ask you, like,
• 24:15
  Speaker 19: with this overturn and this type of thing, is that
• 24:18
  Speaker 19: going to give a new platform for, you know, mothers
• 24:23
  Speaker 19: to say, okay, well, I'll just plead this and, you know,
• 24:27
  Speaker 19: off their children? I know that sounds really brutal, but,
• 24:31
  Speaker 19: you know.
• 24:33
  Speaker 5: Scott, I don't think that's a stretch of a question
• 24:35
  Speaker 5: to ask. You're talking about copycat crimes, and there have
• 24:39
  Speaker 5: been at least, that we know of, at least two
• 24:43
  Speaker 5: child-killing cases that people are calling copycats. You've got to
• 24:47
  Speaker 5: be careful. You don't know if they're going out there
• 24:49
  Speaker 5: and killing their kids. But there was one in Illinois
• 24:53
  Speaker 5: where they found a two-year-old boy dead in the home.
• 24:59
  Speaker 5: And then there was another in North Dakota where a
• 25:03
  Speaker 5: woman's accused of attacking her three young children, and the
• 25:08
  Speaker 5: three-year-old died. Well, two of the three kids died. a
• 25:13
  Speaker 5: one-year-old survives. So, yeah, I think that's a valid concern.
• 25:16
  Speaker 19: Yeah, I was just saying, like, I've known many people
• 25:21
  Speaker 19: that have had kids and gone through, you know, postpartum, but,
• 25:26
  Speaker 19: you know, when they bring up this psychosis thing, now,
• 25:31
  Speaker 19: how does that, you know, work? And all of a sudden,
• 25:34
  Speaker 19: you know, you might just get off with it, you know,
• 25:37
  Speaker 19: and then all of a sudden somebody else will be like, oh, okay,
• 25:40
  Speaker 19: I can do that, too.
• 25:42
  Speaker 5: It's a possibility, Scott, and we'll see how these cases go,
• 25:48
  Speaker 5: but that's a concern. And I'm telling you, Scott, when
• 25:51
  Speaker 5: I see what's happening outside the courtroom with all those women,
• 25:56
  Speaker 5: and most of them overwhelmingly are very sympathetic, and they're
• 26:00
  Speaker 5: out there saying, you know what, that could have been me.
• 26:02
  Speaker 5: I could have killed my kids. That's just insanity.
• 26:06
  Speaker 13: Not at all.
• 26:08
  Speaker 5: All right, Scott, thank you for listening to us. What
• 26:10
  Speaker 5: part of Pennsylvania?
• 26:13
  Speaker 10: Lebanon.
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 26:14
  Speaker 5: Well, tell everybody in Lebanon we said hello. Thank you
• 26:18
  Speaker 5: for watching us on our YouTube channel. Let's go to Arkansas. Alice,
• 26:24
  Speaker 5: listening to us on KWAM radio. Hi, Alice. What's on
• 26:28
  Speaker 5: your mind?
• 26:31
  Speaker 20: Thank you so much, sir, for taking my call. I
• 26:35
  Speaker 20: am so concerned about what you said, copycat. And I
• 26:41
  Speaker 20: couldn't agree with you more. This nation has forgotten God.
• 26:47
  Speaker 20: We've forgotten that the pilgrims came to worship God. We
• 26:52
  Speaker 20: do not steal God. And Jesus said, as it was
• 26:57
  Speaker 20: in the days of Noah, we can talk about Sodom
• 27:01
  Speaker 20: and Gomorrah, but right now, how violence covered the earth.
• 27:06
  Speaker 20: And also in the Bible, it talks about without natural affection.
• 27:11
  Speaker 20: And that's what we're seeing. Now, my mother was an
• 27:16
  Speaker 20: OB nurse. They had one. They knew about postpartum blues.
• 27:21
  Speaker 20: They used to keep women in 10 to 12 days
• 27:24
  Speaker 20: years ago. I'm 80 years old, sir. And so therefore,
• 27:29
  Speaker 20: they knew about it. And they wanted the women to cry.
• 27:33
  Speaker 20: But this woman was a nurse. She should have known
• 27:37
  Speaker 20: what happens when you do give birth.
• 27:40
  Speaker 5: Well, Alice, let me say this. You know, when you
• 27:43
  Speaker 5: go back and you read your Bible, it is very
• 27:46
  Speaker 5: clear what our Lord thought about people who harm children.
• 27:52
  Speaker 5: And in Matthew chapter... Thank you for the call, Alice.
• 27:55
  Speaker 5: In Matthew chapter 18, Jesus says.
• 28:00
  Speaker 5: Whoever offends one of these little ones, talking about children,
• 28:06
  Speaker 5: it were better for him that a millstone were hanged
• 28:09
  Speaker 5: around his neck and he were drowned in the depth
• 28:12
  Speaker 5: of the sea. And honestly, ladies and gentlemen, that's exactly
• 28:17
  Speaker 5: what they need to do to Lindsey Clancy. Unbelievable what's
• 28:22
  Speaker 5: happening there in Massachusetts. 901-260-5926, our telephone number. That's 901- 260-5926. Well,
• 28:30
  Speaker 5: let me talk about Maria Bartiromo for just a moment.
• 28:35
  Speaker 5: And I have a lot to say about this. So
• 28:39
  Speaker 5: she got fired. And I knew as soon as I
• 28:41
  Speaker 5: read the original Fox press release that they had parted ways,
• 28:45
  Speaker 5: I knew that was not the full story. And there's
• 28:47
  Speaker 5: still a lot more that's going to be coming out.
• 28:51
  Speaker 5: But here's the gist of it. Maria Bartiromo wanted to
• 28:55
  Speaker 5: pursue a story related to China and and the 2020
• 28:59
  Speaker 5: election fraud. Now, hear me on this. I want to
• 29:02
  Speaker 5: be very clear. I believe that there was fraud in
• 29:07
  Speaker 5: the 2020 presidential election. You can't tell me that Joe
• 29:14
  Speaker 5: Biden got more votes than Barack Hussein Obama. You just can't.
• 29:18
  Speaker 5: And you can't convince me that Joe Biden got more
• 29:21
  Speaker 5: votes than Donald J.
• 29:22
  Speaker 11: Trump.
• 29:22
  Speaker 5: Can't do it. Now, I don't know how the fraud
• 29:27
  Speaker 5: was committed, and I have to be honest about that.
• 29:30
  Speaker 5: I'm not blaming anybody. I'm not accusing anybody. I'm just
• 29:33
  Speaker 5: saying I don't believe the results of the 2020 presidential election.
• 29:39
  Speaker 5: and I do not accept them. I simply do not.
• 29:45
  Speaker 5: So Bartiromo was working on this. I think Trump was
• 29:49
  Speaker 5: saying something about it. Fox sent out a memorandum, which
• 29:52
  Speaker 5: they are off to do, and when I was there,
• 29:56
  Speaker 5: I would get these same memorandums. And Fox ordered her
• 29:59
  Speaker 5: not to air the story. So she took a screenshot.
• 30:04
  Speaker 5: The accusation is she took a screenshot of the memorandum
• 30:08
  Speaker 5: and she sent it to senior White House officials. This
• 30:12
  Speaker 5: is all according to Dylan Byers over at Puck News.
• 30:16
  Speaker 5: Many other news agencies are now reporting similar stuff. So
• 30:21
  Speaker 5: Bartiromo was taken off the air and fired. Her executive producer,
• 30:26
  Speaker 5: Patrick Ignozzi, was also fired. Now, we understand that Bartiromo
• 30:32
  Speaker 5: has hired an attorney, and he is a high-profile attorney
• 30:35
  Speaker 5: because she had just re-signed with Fox last February. So
• 30:39
  Speaker 5: she's got a lot of money riding on her contract.
• 30:43
  Speaker 5: And Fox is not commenting about all the rest of this,
• 30:46
  Speaker 5: but ladies and gentlemen, let me just say this about
• 30:50
  Speaker 5: Fox News and about conservative media. in general. The reality
• 30:59
  Speaker 5: here is that most of the people that you see
• 31:02
  Speaker 5: on cable news are really not conservative. And it's really sad.
• 31:09
  Speaker 5: I say, and I wrote this on X last night,
• 31:12
  Speaker 5: the truth is that conservative cable television is really populated
• 31:15
  Speaker 5: by conservative cosplayers. And it's one of the biggest grifts
• 31:20
  Speaker 5: in media. And also, just because you name-drop Jesus on
• 31:25
  Speaker 5: a morning show, as often as the case is on
• 31:29
  Speaker 5: Fox and Friends, that does not mean you actually know Jesus.
• 31:35
  Speaker 5: It's all a grift, and it has been for a very,
• 31:39
  Speaker 5: very long time. And what's interesting about it is, now you,
• 31:46
  Speaker 5: the viewers, you're figuring it out. I figured it out
• 31:50
  Speaker 5: about six months after I got hired at Fox, and
• 31:53
  Speaker 5: I was there for 15 years. And I realized that
• 31:56
  Speaker 5: there are some people, and I would say about 2%, 2%
• 31:59
  Speaker 5: of the employees at Fox actually are conservative. And it's
• 32:03
  Speaker 5: very difficult for a conservative working at Fox. And I'm
• 32:06
  Speaker 5: just telling you, it really is difficult. There's a target
• 32:11
  Speaker 5: on you all the time. If you are not an
• 32:13
  Speaker 5: on-air talent, you have to almost hide your conservative beliefs.
• 32:17
  Speaker 5: I can't tell you how many times a makeup artist
• 32:21
  Speaker 5: or an audio engineer or one of the camera guys
• 32:24
  Speaker 5: would pull me aside. And that we would, I'll never
• 32:28
  Speaker 5: forget this. We were, this was back when the newsroom
• 32:31
  Speaker 5: was in the basement and they had bagels down there.
• 32:34
  Speaker 5: And so every morning at six o'clock in the morning,
• 32:37
  Speaker 5: we'd all go down and we'd grab a bagel and
• 32:40
  Speaker 5: a cup of coffee. And an audio engineer pulled me aside, said, hey,
• 32:45
  Speaker 5: can I talk to you for a second? I said, yeah, sure.
• 32:48
  Speaker 22: And the guy whispers. He's looking around, and he whispers.
• 32:56
  Speaker 22: He says, I want you to know, Mr. Starnes, that
• 33:01
  Speaker 22: I'm a conservative.
• 33:04
  Speaker 5: And I'm looking at the guy, and I've got like
• 33:07
  Speaker 5: a mouthful of bagel and a schmear. And I said,
• 33:12
  Speaker 5: why are we whispering? I hadn't been there that long, right?
• 33:17
  Speaker 5: At that point, maybe a year. And so the guy
• 33:20
  Speaker 5: was explaining to me that his bosses and his leadership,
• 33:25
  Speaker 5: they were not. And so he felt like he had
• 33:28
  Speaker 5: to keep his views hidden. And I thought, what kind
• 33:31
  Speaker 5: of a place is this? But sure enough, that was
• 33:34
  Speaker 5: just the reality of it. So I wish I could
• 33:37
  Speaker 5: tell you, Maria, by the way, is a conservative. And
• 33:41
  Speaker 5: she's a very nice lady and just very kind, and
• 33:45
  Speaker 5: she's very good at what she does. And I find
• 33:49
  Speaker 5: this to be, quite frankly, appalling. What I want to
• 33:51
  Speaker 5: know is who at the White House leaked back to
• 33:54
  Speaker 5: Fox News. That's what I want to know. So Maria
• 33:58
  Speaker 5: Bartiromo got stabbed in the back by the White House
• 34:01
  Speaker 5: and Fox. Unbelievable. But all that to say, you know,
• 34:07
  Speaker 5: watch at your own peril. That's all just, it is
• 34:10
  Speaker 5: what it is. It's all just like reality TV. That's
• 34:13
  Speaker 5: what it is. And it's unfortunate. But anyway, real quick,
• 34:18
  Speaker 5: let's go to the phone. So we're heading over to
• 34:20
  Speaker 5: the panhandle of Oklahoma. KGYN. Kent, what's on your mind today?
• 34:27
  Speaker 6: Todd, thanks for taking my call. I've been listening to
• 34:31
  Speaker 6: you a long time. I haven't called in a while.
• 34:35
  Speaker 6: I've ordered, I had ordered a bunch of the Star
• 34:38
  Speaker 6: Spangled Blessings and gave them for Christmas gifts and got
• 34:40
  Speaker 6: a big kick out of that.
• 34:42
  Speaker 5: Thank you.
• 34:44
  Speaker 6: It's your book and I was interested in the newest book,
• 34:46
  Speaker 6: of course. But you had sent me a copy of
• 34:51
  Speaker 6: Star Spangled Banner because it was the first time, I
• 34:53
  Speaker 6: was the first time caller on fake UIN and you
• 34:56
  Speaker 6: gave me a book for that and I appreciate it.
• 35:00
  Speaker 5: Well, thank you for saying that, sir. Thank you.
• 35:02
  Speaker 6: So, I had a, I wanted to tell you I
• 35:06
  Speaker 6: appreciate your guest yesterday, Jonathan Cahn. My mom has read
• 35:09
  Speaker 6: a bunch of his books. Great author, great man. And
• 35:13
  Speaker 6: I enjoyed his take.
• 35:17
  Speaker 5: You know, we love Jonathan. He was just, what was it,
• 35:19
  Speaker 5: a couple of days ago or maybe last week. And
• 35:22
  Speaker 5: just it's going to be a terrific book. I love
• 35:24
  Speaker 5: how he writes and weaves it all in, the fiction
• 35:27
  Speaker 5: and the nonfiction. And he's going to have a page turner,
• 35:30
  Speaker 5: no doubt about that.
• 35:32
  Speaker 6: So I wanted to just tell you how much I
• 35:34
  Speaker 6: appreciate you guys. You, Dylan, I think it's Helen and Ian.
• 35:41
  Speaker 6: I'm trying to get all the names.
• 35:43
  Speaker 5: Wow, Kent, well done. You got everybody in. I'm 68.
• 35:50
  Speaker 6: I'm trying to keep my memory good.
• 35:53
  Speaker 5: Well, Kent, let me ask you this. Do you have
• 35:54
  Speaker 5: a copy of The Golden Age yet?
• 35:57
  Speaker 6: No, I don't yet.
• 35:58
  Speaker 5: All right. Well, you know what? We're going to take
• 36:00
  Speaker 5: care of that. And so if it's okay with you,
• 36:03
  Speaker 5: I want to send you a copy of my new book,
• 36:05
  Speaker 5: The Golden Age, How Trump Saved America. Is that okay?
• 36:08
  Speaker 23: I love it.
• 36:09
  Speaker 6: I appreciate it.
• 36:10
  Speaker 5: All right. And you're going to have to buy a bookshelf.
• 36:12
  Speaker 5: You're going to have to have a dedicated wing for
• 36:14
  Speaker 5: all of my books. All right. Let's put Kent on
• 36:18
  Speaker 5: hold here, and we're going to get his information. And Kent,
• 36:21
  Speaker 5: thank you for the kind words. And ladies and gentlemen,
• 36:24
  Speaker 5: commercial break. Now is a great time for you to
• 36:27
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• 36:30
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• 36:32
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• 36:34
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• 36:35
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• 36:42
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• 36:44
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• 36:51
  Speaker 3: And welcome back, everybody.
• 37:08
  Speaker 5: DJ Dill spinning the tunes today. Yeah, I love. Is
• 37:12
  Speaker 5: this Earth, Wind & Fire?
• 37:13
  Speaker 8: Oh, yeah.
• 37:14
  Speaker 7: Not a better way to kick off September on Fridays.
• 37:17
  Speaker 11: Come on now. Come on.
• 37:20
  Speaker 5: Man, you even got the otter dancing. All right, ladies
• 37:27
  Speaker 5: and gentlemen, keep the music going here for a second.
• 37:29
  Speaker 5: Ladies and gentlemen, just a reminder, on Fridays, not only
• 37:33
  Speaker 5: is it Open Line Friday, but you can also call
• 37:36
  Speaker 5: in your musical request. We're the only radio station in
• 37:39
  Speaker 5: America that does this. And you know why? Because we're
• 37:41
  Speaker 5: based in Memphis, Tennessee, baby, and we just do things weird.
• 37:45
  Speaker 5: So if you've got a song you want Dylan to play, Dylan,
• 37:49
  Speaker 5: can we just play this until the top of the hour?
• 37:50
  Speaker 19: Oh, yeah, absolutely.
• 37:51
  Speaker 5: All right, well, if you've got a song you want
• 37:53
  Speaker 5: Dylan to play, give us a call, 901-260-5926. Oh, wow,
• 37:56
  Speaker 5: Ian's got some moves back there. Not bad for a Presbyterian.
• 38:03
  Speaker 5: All right, hang tight, everybody. Hour two of the big
• 38:06
  Speaker 5: show coming up. Don't go anywhere. We'll be right back.
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: From Memphis, Tennessee. On the banks of the mighty Mississippi.
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: It's America's conservative blowtorch.
• 38:44
  Speaker 5: That's us, that's right.
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: I love this American ride. Todd Starnes.
• 38:53
  Speaker 16: Oh yeah.
• 38:54
  Speaker 5: And hello everybody. Welcome to hour two of the big show.
• 38:58
  Speaker 5: Happy Friday to you. A lot of people are on
• 39:00
  Speaker 5: the road. It's Labor Day weekend. Folks getting in the
• 39:05
  Speaker 5: last vacation. And then, ladies and gentlemen, we hit the
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• 39:45
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• 39:50
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  Speaker 8: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: And this is my, it's time for my midday Dr.
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  Speaker 21: Pepper.
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  Speaker 5: Because the lady who was like, what, 105 years old.
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  Speaker 15: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: In the interview, she told the reporter that that's why
• 40:07
  Speaker 5: she's 105 years old. And the guy said, well, you know,
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  Speaker 5: what did your doctor say? They've got to say that's
• 40:12
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• 40:14
  Speaker 5: did say it was bad for me, but they're all
• 40:16
  Speaker 5: dead and I'm still alive.
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  Speaker 24: Yeah.
• 40:19
  Speaker 7: No, Dr. Pepper is good for you.
• 40:21
  Speaker 5: So the point I'm trying to make here is you
• 40:24
  Speaker 5: mentioned something called a dirty Dr.
• 40:27
  Speaker 11: Pepper. I did.
• 40:28
  Speaker 5: And I've never heard of such a thing.
• 40:30
  Speaker 7: Well, so we like to get creative here in the
• 40:33
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• 40:37
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• 40:39
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• 40:42
  Speaker 7: of the best drinks that you can have. I mean,
• 40:44
  Speaker 7: Sonic has been doing this for ages now, but I
• 40:46
  Speaker 7: just decided to make my own.
• 40:48
  Speaker 11: Is that right?
• 40:48
  Speaker 5: I've never heard of such a thing.
• 40:50
  Speaker 7: You've got to try it at least once.
• 40:51
  Speaker 11: All right.
• 40:52
  Speaker 5: I want to go to the Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line.
• 40:54
  Speaker 5: We're honored to have Christy Stutzman with us, former state
• 40:58
  Speaker 5: lawmaker there in Indiana and a composer of the incredible
• 41:02
  Speaker 5: musical called Washington's Ring of Spies. Christy Stutzman, you're a
• 41:07
  Speaker 5: woman of the world. Have you ever heard of a
• 41:10
  Speaker 5: dirty Dr.
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  Speaker 19: Pepper?
• 41:12
  Speaker 25: Well, because I'm the mother of a 20 and 25-year-old, yes,
• 41:16
  Speaker 25: I have.
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  Speaker 18: They were explaining it to me the other day.
• 41:20
  Speaker 5: It must be generational then.
• 41:23
  Speaker 18: It must be.
• 41:24
  Speaker 5: Dalton, you're what, 27, 28?
• 41:26
  Speaker 7: 27, yeah.
• 41:27
  Speaker 5: All right, that's what it is.
• 41:29
  Speaker 11: It's generational.
• 41:30
  Speaker 26: Yeah.
• 41:31
  Speaker 7: You have to try it.
• 41:33
  Speaker 5: All right, I'll give it a try.
• 41:34
  Speaker 6: They say it's great.
• 41:35
  Speaker 5: So, Christy, one of the things that our church does
• 41:38
  Speaker 5: in Germantown, Tennessee, we do a a Bethlehem village for
• 41:44
  Speaker 5: the holiday season, and one of the weird things is
• 41:47
  Speaker 5: that they serve hot Dr. Pepper, so they literally heat
• 41:50
  Speaker 5: it up in these cauldrons, and people love this stuff,
• 41:53
  Speaker 5: and it's actually pretty good, but personally, I prefer a
• 41:56
  Speaker 5: nice cold Dr.
• 41:58
  Speaker 4: Pepper.
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  Speaker 18: Wow, I have never heard of that. I'll have to
• 42:02
  Speaker 18: try that.
• 42:02
  Speaker 25: I'll have to come to your big Bethlehem celebration and
• 42:05
  Speaker 25: try that hot Dr.
• 42:06
  Speaker 19: Pepper.
• 42:06
  Speaker 18: That sounds interesting.
• 42:08
  Speaker 5: It's the only time you're going to see living live
• 42:10
  Speaker 5: camels in Germantown, Tennessee. So you got to come down.
• 42:14
  Speaker 5: We'll have a good time.
• 42:15
  Speaker 18: That sounds great.
• 42:17
  Speaker 5: Christy, we've got a lot to talk about. Of course,
• 42:20
  Speaker 5: the election is happening. We'll get to that in just
• 42:23
  Speaker 5: a moment. We've been following the breaking news out of Massachusetts.
• 42:26
  Speaker 5: And ladies and gentlemen, here is the latest. The defense
• 42:31
  Speaker 5: is petitioning the Supreme Court. While that happens, the judge
• 42:35
  Speaker 5: has issued a stay on his decision to declare a mistrial. Christy,
• 42:40
  Speaker 5: what do you make of what's been happening there in Massachusetts?
• 42:45
  Speaker 25: You know, this is just so disappointing, and it's also
• 42:48
  Speaker 25: very scary concerning our culture and where we're at today.
• 42:51
  Speaker 25: I remember a woman who actually killed her children in
• 42:55
  Speaker 25: When I was in high school, I think it was
• 42:57
  Speaker 25: in South Carolina, she drove her car into a lake
• 43:00
  Speaker 25: and her two little boys were killed in that action
• 43:06
  Speaker 25: that she took. And it was very premeditated. It was planned.
• 43:10
  Speaker 25: She had motive to do it and things like that.
• 43:13
  Speaker 25: And this smacks of that, we've seen this before, but
• 43:16
  Speaker 25: I think the reaction is what is really scary, especially
• 43:20
  Speaker 25: among women. These protests and these these ladies who are
• 43:24
  Speaker 25: supporting her as if she was completely innocent.
• 43:27
  Speaker 18: I understand the postpartum.
• 43:29
  Speaker 25: We just had a great loss for the world with
• 43:33
  Speaker 25: Hayden Panettiere down in South Carolina as well, where she
• 43:36
  Speaker 25: passed away and she was struggling with addiction, whether it
• 43:39
  Speaker 25: was alcohol or drugs. But she knew enough to know
• 43:43
  Speaker 25: that she would have to make the hard decision. And
• 43:45
  Speaker 25: she did make the hard decision to sign over the
• 43:50
  Speaker 25: you know, the custody of her young daughter to her
• 43:53
  Speaker 25: husband because she knew she wasn't of a good mind
• 43:55
  Speaker 25: to take care of them. This lady, Lindsay Clancy, had
• 43:58
  Speaker 25: plenty of help around her. She was a labor and
• 44:01
  Speaker 25: delivery nurse. She had plenty of doctors. She had a
• 44:04
  Speaker 25: mother who was coming to her house multiple times a
• 44:07
  Speaker 25: month to help with the children. She had a husband
• 44:09
  Speaker 25: who was supportive. So this whole case is just, it's
• 44:14
  Speaker 25: a commentary on where we are as a society right now.
• 44:17
  Speaker 25: And I think we need to take a step back
• 44:19
  Speaker 25: and really analyze how we're treating mental health, how we're
• 44:23
  Speaker 25: treating postpartum, but also how we're treating people who premeditatedly
• 44:27
  Speaker 25: kill the innocent.
• 44:29
  Speaker 5: I think that's a brilliant way to put it, and
• 44:31
  Speaker 5: it's a tragedy, and I think it also gives us
• 44:36
  Speaker 5: an opportunity to really look at the soul of the
• 44:39
  Speaker 5: country here, and I think our country is in a
• 44:42
  Speaker 5: very dark place when it comes to the issue of life,
• 44:45
  Speaker 5: going all the way back to 2024 when The Republican
• 44:49
  Speaker 5: Party even softened the language, the pro-life language in the
• 44:53
  Speaker 5: party platform. What say you, Christy?
• 44:57
  Speaker 18: I totally agree. I think we've gone down a dark path.
• 45:00
  Speaker 25: And, you know, when we legitimize or say that it
• 45:03
  Speaker 25: is legal to kill an unborn child, and then you
• 45:07
  Speaker 25: see other instances like the governor of Virginia years ago,
• 45:10
  Speaker 25: the governor of Virginia years ago saying that they would
• 45:13
  Speaker 25: decide once the child was born whether it was allowed
• 45:16
  Speaker 25: to live or not. that mentality towards life is a very,
• 45:20
  Speaker 25: very evil and dark path that we have gone down.
• 45:23
  Speaker 25: And for 50 years, abortion was legal in this country.
• 45:26
  Speaker 25: And now in certain states, it still is to the
• 45:29
  Speaker 25: extent that the mentality has changed towards life. And once
• 45:34
  Speaker 25: we go down that path, terrible things follow. So we
• 45:39
  Speaker 25: really do need to do a gut check. We definitely
• 45:41
  Speaker 25: need to address mental health issues. in this country because
• 45:46
  Speaker 25: we have let them go to the wayside. We need
• 45:49
  Speaker 25: more help with that. But at the end of the day,
• 45:52
  Speaker 25: when you think about it, this young woman had every
• 45:55
  Speaker 25: opportunity to have help. Yes, they put her on drugs
• 45:57
  Speaker 25: that she probably should have been on, but she had
• 46:00
  Speaker 25: a husband, she had a mother, she had a family,
• 46:02
  Speaker 25: she had doctors, she had neighbors. She had everything that
• 46:05
  Speaker 25: she needed to get help. And yet she individually, well,
• 46:09
  Speaker 25: she actually premeditatedly decided to send her husband on errands.
• 46:16
  Speaker 25: She told him what to get in the prescriptions. She
• 46:19
  Speaker 25: told him that she had ordered the dinner. So she
• 46:22
  Speaker 25: knew he was going to be away and how long
• 46:24
  Speaker 25: she had to do it. And then individually strangled her
• 46:28
  Speaker 25: young children, ages five, three, and one. You can't tell
• 46:31
  Speaker 25: me that any time during that, that she didn't stop
• 46:34
  Speaker 25: listening to the voices. And has she heard the voices since?
• 46:37
  Speaker 25: There are so many discrepancies with this defense, so-called defense
• 46:41
  Speaker 25: that they have made up for this lady, that it
• 46:44
  Speaker 25: is really tragic. And I do not stand with the
• 46:46
  Speaker 25: women who are supporting her just based on they have
• 46:49
  Speaker 25: had postpartum. There's a lot of women who have had postpartum,
• 46:52
  Speaker 25: including Hayden Panettiere and many others who recognize that they
• 46:56
  Speaker 25: were needing to have help and put the safety of
• 46:59
  Speaker 25: their children ahead of that. And so we really need
• 47:03
  Speaker 25: to think about what we're facing in this country as
• 47:06
  Speaker 25: far as our culture and how.
• 47:07
  Speaker 18: Dark it is.
• 47:08
  Speaker 5: Christy Stutzman is joining us today on our Patriot Mobile
• 47:11
  Speaker 5: Newsmaker line, and she is the composer of a great
• 47:14
  Speaker 5: musical that's coming to the stage very soon called Ring
• 47:19
  Speaker 5: of Spies, Washington's Ring of Spies. Christy, how's the show progressing,
• 47:24
  Speaker 5: and tell us all about it.
• 47:27
  Speaker 18: We are so excited about this show.
• 47:29
  Speaker 25: We think it is answering a need right now in
• 47:32
  Speaker 25: our country, not just for those who like going to
• 47:35
  Speaker 25: the theater, but those who love American history being told correctly,
• 47:39
  Speaker 25: not this revisionist history that we see happening a lot
• 47:42
  Speaker 25: of times in Hollywood and other places. We have done
• 47:45
  Speaker 25: four years worth of research on this incredible story about
• 47:49
  Speaker 25: we the people.
• 47:50
  Speaker 18: It's not really.
• 47:51
  Speaker 25: About the big names or the generals or the signers.
• 47:55
  Speaker 25: It really is about what the average American did during
• 47:59
  Speaker 25: the revolution before we were America, before we were a country,
• 48:02
  Speaker 25: to make sure that we had the freedoms and liberties
• 48:05
  Speaker 25: that we enjoy today. And they sacrificed a lot. Very
• 48:08
  Speaker 25: diverse group of people, very young group of people. So
• 48:11
  Speaker 25: it's coming to the stage in Branson, Missouri. We've scheduled
• 48:14
  Speaker 25: it actually for 2027. We've had to push it back
• 48:17
  Speaker 25: a little bit in order to get everything ready and
• 48:20
  Speaker 25: make sure that it launches in a big way. We
• 48:23
  Speaker 25: have just secured a sponsorship by Liberty University. It is
• 48:28
  Speaker 25: the Freedom 250 musical. So the Freedom 250 Commission has
• 48:31
  Speaker 25: put their stamp of approval on this musical. We're supported
• 48:35
  Speaker 25: by the Washington Policy Institute and many others who have
• 48:38
  Speaker 25: come together to make sure that this becomes a reality.
• 48:42
  Speaker 25: And we're going to start holding auditions this next January.
• 48:46
  Speaker 25: And we are in the process now of making sure
• 48:48
  Speaker 25: that all this is happening and So we're excited to
• 48:51
  Speaker 25: bring bus tours and church groups and youth groups and
• 48:55
  Speaker 25: homeschool co-ops and people that want to come to Branson
• 48:58
  Speaker 25: and enjoy a family-friendly but uplifting and historic play.
• 49:03
  Speaker 18: And actually, it's a musical.
• 49:05
  Speaker 25: So there's going to be about 24 brand-new songs that
• 49:08
  Speaker 25: people walk away humming and singing. And there's so many
• 49:11
  Speaker 25: really good stories and lessons in this show.
• 49:13
  Speaker 18: I can't wait for it to launch.
• 49:15
  Speaker 5: It's going to be terrific, folks. And, again, if you'd
• 49:17
  Speaker 5: like information, go to their website, RingCast. That's ringofspies.com. And
• 49:24
  Speaker 5: you'll be able to find all the great information there. Christy,
• 49:27
  Speaker 5: can't wait to be there. Maybe walk the red carpet
• 49:30
  Speaker 5: and be there on opening night.
• 49:31
  Speaker 11: Congratulations.
• 49:32
  Speaker 5: We're looking forward to it.
• 49:34
  Speaker 18: Thank you so much. Can't wait to have you there.
• 49:36
  Speaker 18: It's going to be great.
• 49:37
  Speaker 5: All right. The great Christy Stutzman, everybody, composer of Washington's
• 49:42
  Speaker 5: Ring of Spies, a brand-new musical, family-friendly, coming to Branson.
• 49:46
  Speaker 5: It's going to be a lot of fun. All right.
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  Speaker 5: Let's go to Arkansas. Erica, listening to us on KWAM. Hi, Erica.
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  Speaker 5: What's on your mind?
• 50:44
  Speaker 26: You know what's on my mind? I am absolutely flabbergasted
• 50:48
  Speaker 26: with our judicial system. One of the things that I
• 50:51
  Speaker 26: had noticed and was very actually upsetting to me was
• 50:54
  Speaker 26: the fact that the defense was repeatedly trying to remove
• 50:58
  Speaker 26: the juror that was holding out. And they kept talking
• 51:03
  Speaker 26: about this person holding out and how they didn't understand
• 51:06
  Speaker 26: the law. They weren't following the law and that they
• 51:10
  Speaker 26: could not define what reasonable doubt was. And so because
• 51:15
  Speaker 26: of this, we want to remove this person. The judge
• 51:19
  Speaker 26: yesterday had a sidebar, and he brought in each individual juror. And,
• 51:23
  Speaker 26: of course, nobody could really hear what was going on,
• 51:26
  Speaker 26: but he was asking each individual juror a question, and
• 51:29
  Speaker 26: they responded correctly. And then again, he comes out and says,
• 51:33
  Speaker 26: I need to define to you what reasonable doubt is.
• 51:37
  Speaker 26: So you have this juror that has a conscience who
• 51:41
  Speaker 26: actually knows what reasonable doubt means, who has an opinion
• 51:45
  Speaker 26: that they do not have reasonable doubt, that this woman
• 51:48
  Speaker 26: is guilty, and they are actually taking this person and
• 51:52
  Speaker 26: splattering it everywhere on court TV that they are a
• 51:57
  Speaker 26: holdout as if they are the menace. And so I
• 52:02
  Speaker 26: just find it really disgusting, and it's really terrifying to
• 52:05
  Speaker 26: me because if I am on a court case and
• 52:08
  Speaker 26: I am the person that has a conscience, that there's
• 52:12
  Speaker 26: actually forces outside of my little area that they will
• 52:17
  Speaker 26: try and remove me.
• 52:19
  Speaker 27: So what?
• 52:19
  Speaker 23: If you don't get what you want in an opinion,
• 52:24
  Speaker 23: you don't get what you want in a vote, even
• 52:26
  Speaker 23: in our judiciary system, they will try and vote you out.
• 52:32
  Speaker 23: And I think it's gross.
• 52:33
  Speaker 5: It's disgusting, Erica. It's disgusting. All right, Erica, thank you
• 52:40
  Speaker 5: for that. We're right up against a hard break here, Erica,
• 52:44
  Speaker 5: but it's a great point you made. And again, we'll
• 52:49
  Speaker 5: see how this plays out. I can tell you the
• 52:52
  Speaker 5: judge just sent everybody out for lunch. They'll be back at,
• 52:56
  Speaker 5: we believe, 2 o'clock Eastern time. So we'll keep you
• 53:00
  Speaker 5: updated on that development. But again, still no verdict in
• 53:05
  Speaker 5: the trial.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, you're not kidding about that.
• 53:54
  Speaker 5: My goodness. By the way, crazy story out of Memphis, Tennessee,
• 53:58
  Speaker 5: and I am curious about this. There's some dog nappers
• 54:03
  Speaker 5: on the loose. And they broke into a man's home
• 54:08
  Speaker 5: in Memphis and stole his two dogs. They're these like,
• 54:12
  Speaker 5: you know, the little metrosexual dogs?
• 54:14
  Speaker 11: Oh, yeah.
• 54:15
  Speaker 5: The little mini pit, micro pit bulls is what.
• 54:17
  Speaker 11: They call them.
• 54:18
  Speaker 7: A micro pit bull?
• 54:19
  Speaker 5: Micro pit bull.
• 54:20
  Speaker 8: Oh, wow.
• 54:21
  Speaker 7: This is the first I've heard of that.
• 54:22
  Speaker 5: So our great affiliate, KWAM, has the photos on the
• 54:26
  Speaker 5: front of the website, kwamradio.com, of the micro pit bulls.
• 54:32
  Speaker 5: Do you know how much those pit bulls are worth?
• 54:35
  Speaker 7: I'm sure it's several thousand dollars.
• 54:39
  Speaker 5: $ 4, 500 a piece.
• 54:40
  Speaker 22: Wow.
• 54:41
  Speaker 5: So they stole $ 9, 000 worth of dogs.
• 54:45
  Speaker 7: That is an interesting looking dog. I'm looking at it
• 54:47
  Speaker 7: right now.
• 54:48
  Speaker 5: My question is, who in their right mind pays $ 4, 500
• 54:51
  Speaker 5: for a dog? That's not even like a full-sized dog.
• 54:56
  Speaker 5: It's like you should at least get half off.
• 55:01
  Speaker 7: I don't know what to think about that.
• 55:03
  Speaker 5: I'm just saying it's like, It's not even a real dog.
• 55:06
  Speaker 11: It's a hybrid.
• 55:07
  Speaker 7: So you think they should have gotten a discount at least.
• 55:10
  Speaker 11: Absolutely.
• 55:10
  Speaker 7: Like if it was a full pit bull, you would.
• 55:12
  Speaker 19: Well, yeah.
• 55:13
  Speaker 10: 4,500.
• 55:13
  Speaker 5: Yeah, those pit bulls scare me.
• 55:15
  Speaker 7: They can be scary if they're not raised right.
• 55:18
  Speaker 10: I don't know.
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 55:21
  Speaker 7: They're pretty dangerous dogs. But they can also be cute.
• 55:25
  Speaker 5: Anyway, 4,500 bucks for a dog. So if you see
• 55:29
  Speaker 5: one of those little metrosexual pit bulls running around or
• 55:32
  Speaker 5: prancing around, give us a call. I wonder if there's
• 55:35
  Speaker 5: a reward. Let's go to the phones real quick here.
• 55:38
  Speaker 5: Doug in Gainesville, Georgia.
• 55:41
  Speaker 3: WDUN.
• 55:42
  Speaker 5: Hi, Doug. What's on your mind?
• 55:44
  Speaker 14: I first have to say I love you. You've taken
• 55:46
  Speaker 14: over for Rush. I'd never miss Rush anymore. You are
• 55:49
  Speaker 14: the replacement. I say this every time I call you.
• 55:52
  Speaker 14: You need to be loved. You are the voice of
• 55:54
  Speaker 14: the conservative and we need to vote. But that's not
• 55:57
  Speaker 14: why I called, but I always have to tell you
• 55:59
  Speaker 14: how great you are.
• 55:59
  Speaker 4: Thank you.
• 56:00
  Speaker 14: Because flattery gets me everywhere. But here's the deal. These women...
• 56:04
  Speaker 14: And any woman who's supporting this woman is is by
• 56:09
  Speaker 14: her own admission saying, I'm guilty. I could be guilty
• 56:12
  Speaker 14: of doing that. I can see how that could be done.
• 56:15
  Speaker 14: They all need to get to a therapist, stay in
• 56:17
  Speaker 14: their bedrooms, lock themselves behind the door and admit by
• 56:22
  Speaker 14: their own. voices that they're crazy. There's just no other
• 56:26
  Speaker 14: way around this. If you can sit and look at
• 56:28
  Speaker 14: these facts and go, oh yeah, I can see how
• 56:31
  Speaker 14: that could happen. Honey, get yourself in a padded cell.
• 56:35
  Speaker 14: Do us all a favor. That's all I want to say.
• 56:37
  Speaker 14: It really makes me angry, but I love you anyway.
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  Speaker 25: Bye.
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  Speaker 5: Doug, wow, thank you. A pithy comment and compliment. We
• 56:45
  Speaker 5: really appreciate that. All right, Doug, WDUN. Hey, hang tight, everybody.
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  Speaker 4: 901-260-5926.
• 56:53
  Speaker 5: This is the Todd Starnes Show. So, Dylan, everybody's getting
• 57:11
  Speaker 5: ready for the big weekend, and a lot of folks
• 57:13
  Speaker 5: are heading down to the Redneck Riviera, also known as
• 57:17
  Speaker 5: the Gulf of America, for that last little bit of
• 57:21
  Speaker 5: summer time. and here in Memphis, the newly renovated Liberty Bowl.
• 57:27
  Speaker 5: We've got the first home game, and they're expecting a
• 57:30
  Speaker 5: sellout crowd.
• 57:31
  Speaker 7: I think so. I think a lot of hype is
• 57:33
  Speaker 7: coming behind our head coach.
• 57:35
  Speaker 5: I'm excited about this. Coach Huff, Charles Huff.
• 57:38
  Speaker 7: Great guy.
• 57:39
  Speaker 5: Then the Delta Ferry, and everybody's doing the big fairs,
• 57:42
  Speaker 5: and the Agriculture Commissioner of Mississippi actually personally invited me
• 57:49
  Speaker 5: to broadcast our show from their tent at the Mississippi
• 57:54
  Speaker 5: State Fair, and he said that I would be learning
• 57:58
  Speaker 5: how to bake biscuits down there.
• 58:01
  Speaker 10: Oh, wow.
• 58:01
  Speaker 5: Yeah, because they're offering up the hot, fresh biscuits.
• 58:04
  Speaker 7: This is cool news.
• 58:06
  Speaker 5: So, yeah, I'm contemplating that, and I think I'm judging
• 58:11
  Speaker 5: the casserole contest over at the Delta Fair, which is
• 58:15
  Speaker 5: starting up tonight.
• 58:15
  Speaker 7: Wow, what a good time.
• 58:16
  Speaker 5: At the AgriCenter. Now, one of the things about the
• 58:19
  Speaker 5: Ag Fair, or the Delta Fair, and we were looking
• 58:21
  Speaker 5: at this, and they have this, they've got a woman,
• 58:24
  Speaker 5: like the female Houdini.
• 58:26
  Speaker 19: Oh, yeah.
• 58:27
  Speaker 5: And are you familiar?
• 58:29
  Speaker 7: I'm familiar with the magicians that come to fairs, but
• 58:32
  Speaker 7: I haven't seen the female one yet.
• 58:34
  Speaker 5: They're putting her in like a big old aquarium, and
• 58:36
  Speaker 5: they're like handcuffing her, and then she has to get out.
• 58:39
  Speaker 7: Oh, like underwater? Like she's going to try to escape
• 58:43
  Speaker 7: the chains?
• 58:43
  Speaker 11: Yeah, underwater.
• 58:44
  Speaker 7: Now, that would give me anxiety. I probably wouldn't go
• 58:47
  Speaker 7: see that.
• 58:48
  Speaker 5: I was talking to the organizer, and I said, well,
• 58:50
  Speaker 5: are you guys concerned that she may not make it out?
• 58:52
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 58:53
  Speaker 5: Because that would be bad for business. And she said, no, no, no.
• 58:56
  Speaker 5: She got out last year, too. So she's a repeat offender,
• 58:58
  Speaker 5: I guess.
• 58:59
  Speaker 7: If she got out last year, I guess she'll get
• 59:01
  Speaker 7: out this year.
• 59:02
  Speaker 5: But here's the thing that caught my attention, and I
• 59:04
  Speaker 5: know we're trying to find good things. We're trying to
• 59:06
  Speaker 5: make Ian the intern more sociable, and we're trying to
• 59:09
  Speaker 5: get him out there. and expand his horizons. And he's
• 59:12
  Speaker 5: a big Star Wars guy, and he loves the comic
• 59:15
  Speaker 5: book stuff, and they actually have a cosplay costume competition.
• 59:21
  Speaker 5: And we thought about entering Ian in the competition.
• 59:24
  Speaker 7: Yeah, we should. Without telling him, by the way.
• 59:27
  Speaker 5: Yeah, don't tell him. We're going to do this. But
• 59:30
  Speaker 5: here's what concerns me. I was looking through the rules.
• 59:33
  Speaker 5: They have a lot of rules and regulations about this
• 59:35
  Speaker 5: cosplay thing at the Delta Fair. And this is the
• 59:39
  Speaker 5: one that caught my attention. Number five, this is a
• 59:43
  Speaker 5: family-friendly event. No nudity, exposed genitalia, exposed buttocks, or excessively
• 59:52
  Speaker 5: revealing costumes are permitted. Costumes must provide appropriate coverage for
• 59:58
  Speaker 5: all private areas. Body paint, sheer fabrics are not acceptable
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 5: substitutes for proper coverage. What the heck has been going
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 5: on down at the fair?
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 7: Sad that's a rule, but I'm glad that it's in there.
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 5: Well, it tells, I mean, look, we have to assume
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 5: here that they're having a problem with exposed buttocks at
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 5: the Delta Fair. And I'm just going to tell you,
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 5: I've seen who goes to that fair. You don't want
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 5: to see nothing exposed.
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 4: Yep.
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 7: Enough said.
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 5: Kind of like Walmart at 2 o'clock in the morning.
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 7: The same crowd.
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 5: With or without Crocs.
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 5: Let's go to the Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line. Say hello
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 5: to our good buddy.
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 11: Oh, jeez.
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 5: Joe Messina.
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 11: That was the best pro-diet speech I've ever heard.
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 4: Wow.
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 11: I won't be able to eat lunch or anything. Obviously,
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 11: it's not Los Angeles.
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 5: No, it is not.
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 11: Nothing would be required in L.A.
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 5: Oh, my word. Joe Messina, nationally syndicated radio host, JoeMessina.com. Well,
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 5: you got Larry Elder. He's the sage of the South Side.
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 5: We need to give you, you're the sage of Santa Clarita.
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 5: The cure for demographic dementia.
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 11: Is what they say.
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 5: Oh my gosh, I love it. Joe, how are things
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 5: going in California? I know Steve Hilton's been holding a
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 5: lot of rallies. He's doing everything he needs to do.
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 5: How are things going out there in the world of politics?
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 11: Well, I just saw him last week. He was at
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 11: an event here in town, and We spent a few
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 11: minutes together. He feels very optimistic. My only concern, if
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 11: you would, is the fact that you know that these machines,
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 11: not the machines, but our people cheat. The people watching
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 11: over the elections cheat. We have more people voting than
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 11: we have registered voters. Apparently, it's Italian math. I don't
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 11: know how they figured this out. Something's wrong here. But
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 11: There is a little more excitement. The problem we have here, Todd,
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 11: is that all the issues with Becerra and the people
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 11: here is that you can't get it out on mainstream news.
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 11: It's almost impossible. So all these issues that he ran into,
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 11: all these issues that he did, you're not hearing about.
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 11: And Hilton is trying really hard in his speeches and
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 11: his press conferences to get it out there. I got
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 11: to give him credit. He's not giving up.
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 5: Well, I'll say this, you know, nationwide, you know, when
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 5: you look at the numbers that came out, the job
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 5: reports earlier today, I mean, things are looking rather extraordinary.
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 5: The numbers far exceeding what anybody thought. And yet the
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 5: media is just not covering this part of the Trump presidency,
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 5: which has been hugely successful.
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 11: Well, I love Newsom running around talking about the high
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 11: gas prices here in California. And it's Trump's fault. When
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 11: in reality, it went up 61 cents at the beginning
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 11: of the summer because of local taxes. Taxes forced on
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 11: us by the state that Republicans are fighting to say, hey,
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 11: give these people a tax break, right? A gas tax break.
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 11: So it's easier for them to get around, get to work,
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 11: and even go on vacation if they can afford it.
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 11: So it's it's just you know how this goes. You've
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 11: been at this a long time. Just keep saying inflation
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 11: is out of control. Trump's fault. Gas prices are up.
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 11: It's Trump's fault. You know, parts and pieces are up
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 11: because it's Trump's fault. They won't match the numbers. The
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 11: average person won't look and see where we were with
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 11: Joe Biden. Yeah. You know, we were with Obama at
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 11: the end. They don't care.
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 5: I want to play some audio here. This is Stephen Moore,
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 5: who's a good friend of Joe from L.A. J. Stephen
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 5: Moore on Fox Business this morning. highlighting these job additions
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 5: in August, 162,000 jobs. And this is huge because they're
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 5: not government jobs. These are private sector jobs. We're talking
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 5: blue-collar construction, manufacturing sectors. Let's take a listen.
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  Speaker 28: Meeting and we're hitting hold on to your seats folks
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 28: non-farm payrolls for the month of august up 162k 162
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 28: 000 that's basically three times what expectations are now here's
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 28: the fly in the ointment the two-month net revision is
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 28: minus uh excuse me it was minus 103 000 last
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 28: month it's plus 55 000.
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 5: What do you make of that, Joe?
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 11: I love it. I got to tell you something. Usually,
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 11: when you came up on the end of the summer,
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 11: usually you see unemployment kind of go up, take a
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 11: little tick up because people lost their summer jobs, which
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 11: is the way it is. AI is having a great effect,
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 11: a major effect actually, on the employment scene. And still
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 11: to have these kind of numbers is fantastic. And you're right,
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 11: mainstream media is not speaking to it at all. I
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 11: just find this amazing. But But, Todd, it shows you
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 11: the average person walking the streets is not paying attention.
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 11: I don't expect them to get into it like you
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 11: and I do. But take a few minutes every day.
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 11: Sit down. Look at what's going on around you so
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 11: you can make an informed decision coming up in November.
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 5: I want to play some audio for you, Joe. This
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 5: is from a progressive pastor, and he's wearing a rainbow T-shirt.
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 5: And the guy is very upset because I guess he
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 5: had something delivered to the house. And, well, I want
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 5: you to hear what happened. Cut number 53.
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 29: When Christianity starts showing up in places that you never
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 29: invited it, even a kind gesture can feel off. My
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 29: wife ordered groceries today because we're a one-car family and
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 29: I was at my other job all day. Our delivery
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 29: driver left this card with the groceries, says today's prayer
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 29: on one side and the Bible verse on the other.
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 29: I want to be really careful here because... I have
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 29: no reason to believe that this person meant anything other
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 29: than kindness. Still, when my wife found it and sent
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 29: me pictures of it, we both kind of had the
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 29: same reaction. It felt intrusive, and it took me a
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 29: minute to kind of figure out why. Listen, I'm saying
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 29: this as a pastor. My life and work are deeply
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 29: connected to Christianity. I think part of it has a
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 29: lot to do with the moment we're living in. It's
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 29: all called religious intrusion. It's what happens when someone's faith
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 29: enters a space or an interaction where where you never
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 29: consented to participating in it. Maybe my reaction to this
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 29: little card is bigger than it deserves. I can totally
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 29: admit that. The card didn't create that feeling. It was
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 29: just a reminder of how exhausted so many of us
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 29: are of having Christianity pushed into every aspect of our lives.
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 29: Maybe more Christians should be curious about how we got here.
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 5: Okay, so the guy's wearing a t-shirt that says, love
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 5: the believer, hate the belief. He is the media and
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 5: messaging pastor of at Mazion Church, which is affiliated with
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 5: the Disciples of Christ. What do you make of this, Joe?
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 11: I'm thoroughly confused. You sure that's not a California church?
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 11: I mean, seriously.
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 5: No, shockingly, it's a Florida church.
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 11: Isn't Christ supposed to be at the center of our life, period?
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 11: As a Christian, as one who follows Christ, he's supposed
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 11: to be at the center of everything you do. You
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 11: do everything as unto the Lord. What Lord is this
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 11: guy talking about? Because it ain't mine. And for a
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 11: pastor to be upset that there's a scripture on the
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 11: back of a card left on his porch.
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 4: You know what?
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 11: He is that false. I'm going to say it. Nobody
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 11: else has to. But he is that false teacher that
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 11: I think that's talked about in the Bible to be
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 11: upset by something like that. And, Todd, you're familiar with
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 11: In-N-Out Burger, right?
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 5: Oh, yeah, yeah.
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 11: He would never eat there. He would never eat there
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 11: because there's a scripture on everything that they serve. He
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 11: probably couldn't pick up the cup or anything.
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 5: Well, it's a fair point, fair point. By the way, Joe,
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 5: we're getting in Memphis not one but two In-N-Out Burgers.
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 11: Oh, I'll give you all the secret menu stuff off air,
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 11: you know, the stuff you can order there.
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 5: I heard they have like a secret menu. Is that true?
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 5: A secret menu at In-N-Out?
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 11: That is very, very true. They have several items that
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 11: you have to order in a certain way and they
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 11: know how to make it for you.
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 5: Is it jungle style or animal style?
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 11: Animal style.
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 5: So if you go in and ask for something jungle style,
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 5: you could get in trouble.
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 11: Well, you could. Yeah. And don't ask for it wrapped
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 11: in lettuce. They look at you really weird.
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 19: Oh, yeah.
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 5: Nobody does that. Nobody does that. I mean, we would
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 5: prefer not to eat lettuce on our burgers in Memphis.
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 11: Well, I've always said, you know, look at the animals
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 11: that eat lettuce and that kind of stuff, right? They're useless.
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 11: very large. The ones that are swift and fast eat meat.
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 11: That's my personal opinion.
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 5: Like sea otters. By the way, Joe, before we let
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 5: you go, I do have some bad news to share
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 5: with you. I was in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, which is right
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 5: outside of Nashville. and I was speaking last Sunday at
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 5: Franklin Road Baptist Church, and they were telling me they've
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 5: got a new In-N-Out burger there in Middle Tennessee, but
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 5: there's been a lot of controversy about these palm trees
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 5: and whether or not they would survive in Tennessee soil.
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 5: Palm trees died. Oh, that is like the thing like
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 5: the golden arches, right? You know what you're looking for
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 5: with those trees.
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah. Between you and me, maybe they should put
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 11: some fake trees up there.
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 5: Got to do something, yeah. Yeah, we'll work on it.
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 5: We'll figure it out. All right, Joe Messina, JoeMessina.com. Got
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 5: to leave it there, my friend. Always, always great hearing
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 5: from you.
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 7: God bless, Todd.
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 11: Have a great weekend.
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 5: All right, there you go. The great Joe Messina, everybody.
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 5: All right, we do need to take a break. Then
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 5: we're going right to the phone lines, 901-260-5926. This is
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 5: the Todd Stern Show. All right, let's go to the
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 5: phone lines, Tallahassee, Florida. Nate is watching us on our
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 5: YouTube channel. Hi, Nate, what's on your mind today?
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 15: Hey, Todd, thanks for having me. I want to talk
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 15: about some anti-white racism I've experienced in the great state
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 15: of Florida, of all places.
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 5: Really, I am all ears. And just for the sake
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 5: of full disclosure, are you, sir, a person of the
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 5: Caucasian persuasion?
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 10: Yes, sir, I am.
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 15: I'm a Florida boy. Florida white boy.
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 5: All right, so we're dealing with an authentic honky, ladies
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 5: and gentlemen. Nate, continue, please.
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 15: Hey, thanks for calling me that, Todd. I consider that
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 15: a compliment.
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 5: We aim to please. All right, Nate, let's get to it.
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 5: What's up?
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 15: Well, I'm not going to mention this company name because
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 15: I don't think it reflects the values of a whole.
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 15: It's just one location in particular. And this is in
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 15: the great city of Fort Myers, for reference, where I
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 15: used to live before moving to Tallahassee. I worked at
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 15: a big company as a salesman selling MasterCards. I was
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 15: really good at it, top three and top five every year.
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 15: When I found out I had to move to Tallahassee,
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 15: I had to withdraw my name for a promotion to
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 15: a manager position in the sales department, and a co-worker
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 15: of mine took over who was a thief. Everybody knew
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 15: she was a thief, and HR protected her because of
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 15: her ethnicity.
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 5: Wow. So how did you experience anti-white racism?
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 15: Well, because the store bullied anybody who reported it and said,
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 15: you are a racist if you complain about her stealing it.
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 15: I saw it happen to other people. It happened to
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 15: me personally.
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 5: So what happened? What was the outcome here?
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 4: Nothing.
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 15: HR protected her. I go down to my hometown around
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 15: two or three times a year and talk to people
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 15: in the store, and they say it's getting worse. She
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 15: continues to steal from people. She will humiliate anybody on
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 15: the sales floor who calls from her. or excuse me,
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 15: who called her out on it, and they say, if
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 15: you don't like it, it's because you're a racist. You
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 15: shouldn't be saying such hateful accusations, even though we proved
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 15: how it's done to the managers. I showed them how
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 15: she did it because I caught her doing it to
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 15: me personally, stealing people's sales, and they hide under it
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 15: because she's a minority.
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 5: Well, I wish I could say I was surprised by this, Nate,
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 5: but I just absolutely am not, and that's unfortunate, but
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 5: Good for you for taking the high ground, though. Nate,
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 5: thank you for that call. Dylan, I'm confused. Did I
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 5: say something bad about Pentecostal people?
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 7: I don't recall you doing that.
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 10: All right.
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 5: Susan, writing on the Facebook page, what does Todd have
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 5: against Pentecostals? I'm really starting to resent him. He better
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 5: watch what he says.
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 3: Oh, boy.
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 7: You don't want the Pentecostal people mad at you.
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 10: Oh, jeez.
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 4: Oh, boy.
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 5: What's that all about?
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 7: I don't know. I cannot remember what you would have said.
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 5: I love the Pentecostal people.
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 7: He does. Todd loves the Pentecostal people.
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 5: The beautiful music and the services and the kissing in tongues.
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 5: Pardon me. Speaking in tongues. That's a different denomination.
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I don't know what they do that in the Pentecostal.
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 5: What did I say? Susan, what are you talking about?
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 5: Stop yelling, too.
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 7: I want to know. She should comment exactly what you said.
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 7: Maybe you can explain it.
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 5: Sometimes I will just throw away something like, oh, well,
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 5: you know, cuss like a Methodist. That doesn't mean I
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 5: hate Methodists.
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 7: It's just a phrase.
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 5: Susan, I'm trying to be funny, okay? Jeez, hello.
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 11: What's up with that?
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 5: You better watch what he says.
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 7: You make fun of your own denomination all the time.
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 11: We all do.
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 5: Exactly. And if you can't laugh at yourself, maybe this
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 5: is not the program for you.
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 24: No.
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 5: Or especially if you love otters or $ 9, 000 puppies.
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 4: Wow.
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 5: This is just, I don't know. I'm literally trying to
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 5: remember what I said about Pentecostals. Anyway. Oh, by the way,
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 5: Maria Bartiromo's attorney now comes out and says she wasn't fired.
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 5: We're like, wait, what? We'll keep you updated on that. But, yeah,
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 5: there's a lot of shenanigans going on between Fox News
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 5: and Maria Bartiromo. We'll keep you updated on that. Coming up, also,
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 5: we're watching the Lindsay Clancy verdict. So hang tight. Students
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 5: got kicked and spit on by a far-left activist. We're
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 5: going to tell you about that, and we're going to
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 5: take your calls. 901-260-5926 is our number. That's 901-260-5926. Hang tight, everybody.
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 5: We'll be right back.
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 1: From Memphis, Tennessee, it's America's favorite gun-toting, Bible-clinging, deplorable American.
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 4: That's us.
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  Speaker 2: That's right.
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  Speaker 5: I love this American ride.
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 1: Todd Starnes.
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 19: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 10: Hello, everybody.
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  Speaker 5: Welcome to the Todd Starnes Radio Program. What an honor
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 5: to have you with us today on this Open Line
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 5: Friday edition of the program. We are following the trial
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 5: of Lindsey Clancy. The Supreme Court, they're granting that emergency hearing,
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 5: and we'll keep you updated on all of the developments there.
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 5: But it's a little weird, and it looks like we
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 5: may be heading toward a mistrial at the end of
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 5: the day. So just a lot of shenanigans happening right now.
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 5: Our telephone number, by the way, 901-260-5926. That's 901. I
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 5: want to play some audio for you. This is from
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 5: a school teacher. And these teachers, I feel bad for
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 5: teachers in America because they have no power. They get
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 5: blamed for everything, but they really don't have any power
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 5: to fix what is broken with the nation's academic system
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 5: or even deal with disciplinary problems in their own classrooms.
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 5: Take a listen.
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  Speaker 21: So right now there's a video going viral about like
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 21: a kindergarten student basically destroying their classroom. And a lot
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 21: of people are commenting, you know, why did no one
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 21: stop him? Why didn't the teacher stop him from destroying
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 21: the classroom? The thing is we can't, right? Most general
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 21: education teachers don't have the certification and the training to
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 21: restrain children. And it's a huge liability. But that viral
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 21: video took me back to the time that I had
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 21: my classroom destroyed. So typical protocol, if a child is,
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 21: destroying the classroom is for the teacher and the other
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 21: students to evacuate so that's exactly what we did so
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 21: we evacuate the classroom and then we call for admin
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 21: or call for the people that can help you know
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 21: de-escalate and restrain the child you guys when i tell
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 21: you i got all the kids out we're sitting in
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 21: the hallway and i am just listening to this child
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  Speaker 21: smash shatter tear everything in my classroom and obviously you
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 21: know i spent a lot of money on my classroom
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 21: if you go and look i'm a little extra and
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 21: so that you know that's i guess my own fault
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 21: for for doing that But it wasn't even necessarily about
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 21: the money, just sitting there and listening to a kid.
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 21: And it wasn't like the student didn't have a disability.
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 21: It wasn't like a manifestation of their disability. This kid
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 21: just decided to destroy my classroom. And I just had
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 21: to sit there and listen to them break my things
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 21: and tear things off the wall that took me hours.
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 21: And it was awful. Not just for me, all the
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 21: other kids just sitting there watching me. And I obviously
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 21: tried to just, you know, remain calm, not let it
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 21: faze me, but just them hearing things shattering and breaking
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 21: and you know, that's their classroom.
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 18: That's supposed to.
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 21: Be a safe place for them. The worst part about
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 21: it all is that kid was in the classroom two days.
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 4: Later.
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 21: They had to stay home for one day and then
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 21: they were right back in and I had to act
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 21: like nothing happened as well as all the other classmates.
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  Speaker 5: All right. I'm listening to this and it's all I
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 5: can do. to not get up and yell into the microphone.
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 5: So a couple of things here. First of all, what
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 5: exactly does she mean that she does not have the
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 5: certification or training to deal with these little hellions? What
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 5: is that all about? What's going on there?
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 15: What do you mean you.
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 5: Need certification and training? Now, I'm going to take you
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 5: back to the 1970s, when yours truly was.
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 5: In public school, Hope P. Sullivan Elementary in South Haven, Mississippi.
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 5: I'm just going to tell you flat out, we didn't
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 5: have any of those kinds of problems in our elementary school.
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 5: You know why? Because the principal and the teachers would
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 5: beat the holy hell out of any kid who did
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 5: something like that. And then they would get it twice
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 5: as bad when they got home. That's the way things
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 5: used to work in this country. And the idea that
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 5: you can have the— and by the way, if you haven't
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 5: seen these videos, these little kids, I mean, we're talking seven,
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 5: eight-year-old kids, are literally going into the classrooms, and they're like,
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 5: I don't know, they're like wild animals, literally destroying. I mean,
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 5: the way she described it, it doesn't even do justice
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 5: to the amount of destruction that was caused by this
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 5: little thugling. And, folks, I am telling you that when
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 5: we got rid of corporal punishment and public schools, it
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 5: went to hell in a handbasket. I mean, it really did.
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 5: Are you telling me, and just because there are so many,
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 5: how dare you? If you touch my child, my precious
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 5: little angel. Okay, your precious little angel is a demon seed.
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 5: They're like on a T-shirt. A t-shirt promoting abstinence. That's
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 5: how bad your little angel child is. But you got
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 5: these parents out there, they better not touch my child.
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 5: Because back in the day, and Dylan, I don't know
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 5: if this changed during your generation, but when I was,
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 5: let's just say, if I had made a mistake or
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 5: done something wrong in school, and by the way, that
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 5: happened to me a time or two, the teacher would
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 5: call home And the first thing my mom would say,
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 5: what did Todd do? Now, today, the parent would say
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 5: to the teacher, what did you do?
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 7: Oh, yeah. It didn't change for me soon after. I'm
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 7: sure that's when it changed because it was the same
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 7: for me. The threat to call home was probably scarier
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 7: than anything that they could do to me at school.
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 5: Oh, big time. But the reality there is, The parent
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 5: always took the side of the teacher, right? Because they
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 5: know the kids are going to lie, you know, because
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 5: they're kids. They're old heathen children. And so the parent
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 5: would always side with the child. I'll never forget this.
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 5: When the McDonald's opened, South Haven was a very small community.
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 5: And I'll never forget the day we got our very
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 5: first McDonald's. And it was like a big deal. We
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 5: were all very excited. And we were in the McDonald's.
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 5: I have no idea why I remember this story. But
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 5: I was in third grade. Third grade, I had Mrs.
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 5: Folk for reading class. Her husband, Mr. Folk, owned Honey
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 5: Fluff Donuts. I don't even know if the Honey Fluff
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 5: Donuts are still there. But it was really cool because
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 5: they had a big neon donut sign. And I love
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 5: that place. Honey Fluff Donuts. Anyway, Mrs. Folk was my
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 5: reading teacher, and I couldn't read very well. Hold on,
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 5: I'll get to this point. There are two components of
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 5: this story. So anyway, we're all at the McDonald's. The
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 5: whole town turned out because it was McDonald's. I mean,
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 5: we were highfalutin. We may as well have gotten a
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 5: Ruth's Chris Steakhouse. I mean, this is a big deal.
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 5: And I remember as we sat there and we ate
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 5: our food, Mrs. Folk came over to the table. And
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 5: even in my little third-grade brain, I'm thinking to myself, uh-oh.
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 5: I had a very high-pitched voice as a third grader.
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 5: And my mom, they're exchanging pleasantries. And my mom said, well,
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 5: how's little Todd doing in class? I'm the third. So
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 5: it's like, you know, middle Todd, which is my dad,
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 5: and big Todd, which is grandpa. So I was little Todd.
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 5: how's little Todd doing? Oh, he's not doing too good.
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 5: And at that moment, I heard my, I'm literally sitting
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 5: next to my mom in the booth, and I'll never forget,
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 5: she grabbed my leg, and I thought, oh boy, that's it.
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 5: No more Happy Meal for me. And she told my mom,
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 5: and it turned out, by the way, this is what's
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 5: funny about the story, it turned out that the reason
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 5: I was doing poor in reading class is I needed glasses,
• 1:24:11
  Speaker 5: and that's how I ended up getting glasses. But I
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 5: just remember at the time, it didn't matter where you were.
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 5: If your teacher was there, your mom or your dad
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 5: was going to ask the teacher, and they always took
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 5: the teacher's side, and they made sure that the children
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 5: understood their place. You are to be seen, not heard.
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 5: And now we've got a society where the children are
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 5: running everything, and everybody's afraid of the kids.
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 9: Yes.
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 5: And that's what's happening in these classrooms, by the way.
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 5: I'm just telling you, we've got to bring back corporal punishment.
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 5: We've got to. There's generations of American kids. We're beaten
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 5: with paddles, with hickory switches, belts, rulers, if you're Catholic. And,
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 5: you know, am I going to get a hate mail
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 5: from the Catholics now?
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 8: Probably.
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 11: I'm done shy.
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 5: And also, dare I say, cast iron skillets. And we
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 5: all turned out okay. But when you look at the offspring,
• 1:25:21
  Speaker 5: I mean, you guys are raising up a generation of
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 5: little satans, like little devils. We've got to figure this out.
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 5: But that's not right what happened to that teacher, and
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 5: it's got to be dealt with. 901-260-5926. Oh, oh, Susan responded, Dylan.
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 7: Oh, yes, please.
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 5: So in the last hour, Susan wrote in, and she
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 5: was very upset with me because she said I offended
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 5: the Pentecostals in the audience. I love Pentecostals. I said,
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 5: what did I do? She said, sometimes your commenting and
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 5: jokes regarding certain religions, like Pentecostal, you make fun of
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 5: speaking in tongues or dancing. That's all I'm saying. Well, yes,
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 5: because I'm a Baptist, and Baptists, we can't dance because
• 1:26:12
  Speaker 5: it leads to sex. The Baptist faith of message.
• 1:26:17
  Speaker 7: That's what they tell you.
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 5: That's what they tell you.
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 7: You can't be too much side to side while the
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 7: worship music goes on.
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 5: You're better off playing cards.
• 1:26:26
  Speaker 7: Yeah, exactly. You're really just making fun of yourself again.
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 7: It's not anything to do with them.
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 5: I'm not sure the nuance is appreciated.
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 7: No, I don't think so.
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 5: I'm just saying. So there you go. All right. Let's
• 1:26:40
  Speaker 5: go to the phones here. New Bern, North Carolina. Wayne
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 5: listening to us. Wayne, what's going on?
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 10: I just would like.
• 1:26:48
  Speaker 27: Your take on with the issues with the Supreme Court
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 27: justices and stuff. And we kind of know that if
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 27: the Democrats got in charge, that they would tried to
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 27: increase the numbers. Well, since we're in the majority right now,
• 1:27:07
  Speaker 27: why don't we just go with it and change them
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 27: now and let ourselves pick them? And if nothing else,
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 27: get people on the record right now, the Democrats would
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 27: say no, so we could use it against them later
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 27: when they would try to switch it on us if
• 1:27:25
  Speaker 27: it didn't work.
• 1:27:27
  Speaker 5: All right, so here's the problem.
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 11: And you're right.
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 5: So the problem is that the Democrats say if they
• 1:27:33
  Speaker 5: get the majority, they're going to stack the court. They
• 1:27:36
  Speaker 5: want to add even more justices to the Supreme Court.
• 1:27:39
  Speaker 5: And your point is, if they do that, and we
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 5: have to believe them, and I do believe they will
• 1:27:45
  Speaker 5: do that. So since we know that if they're going
• 1:27:47
  Speaker 5: to get into power, they're going to do it, then
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 5: we should preemptively do that by stacking the court ourselves.
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 1:27:57
  Speaker 5: Yeah, all right, Wayne, that's something to think about. You know,
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 5: I like the court the way it is. I see
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 5: your thinking here is sound. I mean, I think the
• 1:28:07
  Speaker 5: reasoning is sound here. Do unto them before they do
• 1:28:11
  Speaker 5: it to you. So I can respect that.
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 27: Yes, I agree that I'm the same. I think it's
• 1:28:21
  Speaker 27: just fine.
• 1:28:21
  Speaker 10: The way it is.
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 5: But if they're going to do it, yeah, I hear you, Wayne.
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 5: All right, Wayne, thank you for that call. Folks, what
• 1:28:29
  Speaker 5: do you think about that? Wayne says the Republicans ought
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 5: to stack the Supreme Court. That actually is not a
• 1:28:34
  Speaker 5: bad idea. Let's go to Elizabeth in Georgia once to
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 5: weigh in on Catholics. Oh, Elizabeth, please don't yell at me.
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 30: Oh, baby, you're telling the truth. You couldn't be more
• 1:28:47
  Speaker 30: truthful than if you had your hand on a stack
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 30: of Bibles. Those nuns would beat the crap out of
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 30: you with a ruler, the girls. Now, the boys, they
• 1:28:56
  Speaker 30: would take the boys by the side of their sideburns,
• 1:28:59
  Speaker 30: pull her hair at the sideburns and lift them.
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 23: Right out of the chair.
• 1:29:03
  Speaker 5: Oh, and I bet it worked. I bet they got
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 5: up pretty quick, didn't they?
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 30: Trust me, we behaved or we would be in big trouble.
• 1:29:12
  Speaker 30: And your mother, my father died when I was young.
• 1:29:15
  Speaker 30: My mother believed in everything they said.
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it didn't matter. Your opinion did not, and your
• 1:29:23
  Speaker 5: side of the story, it did not matter, Elizabeth, did it,
• 1:29:26
  Speaker 5: if you're a kid?
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 21: Nope.
• 1:29:28
  Speaker 30: If they were reporting you, You were.
• 1:29:30
  Speaker 23: Wrong, they were right.
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 24: That's right.
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 5: I love it. By the way, Elizabeth, I just got
• 1:29:37
  Speaker 5: a text from our good buddy Matt Velasquez. He owns
• 1:29:40
  Speaker 5: Patriot Talk 920. He says rulers approved from this Catholic,
• 1:29:45
  Speaker 5: so he knows all about the rulers, too.
• 1:29:48
  Speaker 30: Absolutely true. So don't let anybody get on your case
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 30: because you told the truth.
• 1:29:54
  Speaker 5: Elizabeth, you're a great American patriot. God bless you, ma'am.
• 1:29:58
  Speaker 5: And thank you for listening to WDUN.
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 26: All the time.
• 1:30:01
  Speaker 30: I just had my phone call.
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 5: I love it.
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 11: I love it.
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 5: All right, Elizabeth, hang in there. Have a great Labor Day.
• 1:30:11
  Speaker 5: That's a great lady right there. She said they beat
• 1:30:14
  Speaker 5: the crap out of you.
• 1:30:15
  Speaker 10: Is that?
• 1:30:18
  Speaker 7: The sideburn thing kind of throws me off. Is it
• 1:30:20
  Speaker 7: because in the 70s, a lot of sideburns were just long?
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  Speaker 11: Oh, yeah.
• 1:30:23
  Speaker 5: Big sideburns.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 1:30:25
  Speaker 5: Everybody had like the Elvis, you know, kind of like the,
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 5: what do they call it? The lamb chops?
• 1:30:29
  Speaker 7: Yeah, lamb chops, I think is what it is.
• 1:30:31
  Speaker 5: They'd yank you right up there.
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  Speaker 7: That's a visual to think about.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: That's interesting. Those nuns. Yes, I was a Baptist. I
• 1:30:38
  Speaker 5: was scared to death of them.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: There's a reason why they make scary movies about nuns
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  Speaker 7: and not Baptists.
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  Speaker 5: You see the Blues Brothers?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I think that's why it's so funny.
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  Speaker 23: It's true.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, I think so.
• 1:30:50
  Speaker 5: The yardstick. All right, we got to take a break.
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  Speaker 5: We'll be right back.
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  Speaker 7: We'll be right back.
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  Speaker 19: All right.
• 1:31:09
  Speaker 5: I want to give you an update here. I know
• 1:31:11
  Speaker 5: this has really been of interest to a lot of folks.
• 1:31:15
  Speaker 5: The situation involving Maria Bartiromo, all of the reports coming
• 1:31:19
  Speaker 5: out late yesterday that she had been fired. John Solomon
• 1:31:24
  Speaker 5: from Just the News wants to qualify all of He
• 1:31:28
  Speaker 5: says that the reports that Maria Bartiromo was fired are
• 1:31:33
  Speaker 5: not true. He said that she remains under contract with
• 1:31:37
  Speaker 5: Fox News and will be receiving her pay until 2029.
• 1:31:44
  Speaker 5: She has been removed from the air and will not return,
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 5: but she continues to remain with Fox at present under
• 1:31:52
  Speaker 5: the pay or play provision of a contract. which is
• 1:31:56
  Speaker 5: pretty common in the TV world. So there you go.
• 1:32:00
  Speaker 5: And the reason they're doing that is because she just
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 5: re-signed a new contract. And I'll just tell you, had
• 1:32:06
  Speaker 5: I re-signed, had I re-upped what they originally offered, they
• 1:32:12
  Speaker 5: would have had, because otherwise they have to pay you
• 1:32:14
  Speaker 5: your whole contract. So they would have had to pay
• 1:32:15
  Speaker 5: me my whole contract back when I was at Fox.
• 1:32:19
  Speaker 5: There you go. That's the very latest there. What a
• 1:32:22
  Speaker 5: big mess at Fox News Channel. But I still stand
• 1:32:25
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• 1:32:28
  Speaker 5: very many conservatives left at Fox News Channel. And that
• 1:32:33
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• 1:33:22
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• 1:33:26
  Speaker 5: of news. We're following the developments out of Massachusetts with
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 5: the Lindsay Clancy verdict and how all that's playing out.
• 1:33:33
  Speaker 5: It's just getting weird over there, folks. And we'll keep
• 1:33:36
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  Speaker 11: And welcome back, everybody.
• 1:34:21
  Speaker 5: This is the Todd Starnes Radio Show, and we do
• 1:34:24
  Speaker 5: have some breaking news to share with you.
• 1:34:27
  Speaker 1: Breaking news now on the Todd Starnes Show.
• 1:34:30
  Speaker 5: Well, it is now official from Massachusetts. We can tell
• 1:34:34
  Speaker 5: you that the judge in the murder trial of Lindsey
• 1:34:37
  Speaker 5: Clancy has officially declared a mistrial. The jury hopelessly deadlocked,
• 1:34:45
  Speaker 5: and I'm sure we're going to be getting drips and
• 1:34:47
  Speaker 5: drabs of all of the inside details on that. But
• 1:34:52
  Speaker 5: the news right now of the judge declaring a mistrial,
• 1:34:55
  Speaker 5: the prosecution will now have to decide if they plan
• 1:34:58
  Speaker 5: on retrying this case. More than likely, they will. If
• 1:35:02
  Speaker 5: that is the case, she will remain at the state
• 1:35:05
  Speaker 5: hospital where she is being treated until that new trial
• 1:35:10
  Speaker 5: actually happens. So again, we've got all the information, including video,
• 1:35:15
  Speaker 5: up at toddstarns.com. Let's listen to the judge.
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  Speaker 9: Members of the jury, at this point, I'm going to
• 1:35:22
  Speaker 9: declare that the jury is deadlocked, and I'm going to
• 1:35:25
  Speaker 9: declare a mistrial.
• 1:35:27
  Speaker 15: All right?
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  Speaker 4: I just wanted to make a comment. I'm kind of
• 1:35:36
  Speaker 4: a history buff.
• 1:35:38
  Speaker 9: During World War II, Winston Churchill was the prime minister
• 1:35:43
  Speaker 9: for England when England pretty much stood against Nazi Germany alone.
• 1:35:49
  Speaker 9: And so Churchill oftentimes had to talk to the citizens
• 1:35:54
  Speaker 9: and say, let us brace for our duties. I always
• 1:35:59
  Speaker 9: liked that phrase. And I thought of that phrase when
• 1:36:02
  Speaker 9: all of you were agreeing to be on this jury.
• 1:36:06
  Speaker 9: He agreed to brace for that duty. And each one
• 1:36:09
  Speaker 9: of you knew how long the.
• 1:36:11
  Speaker 4: Case was going to go.
• 1:36:13
  Speaker 9: You knew how difficult the case was going to be
• 1:36:16
  Speaker 9: to listen to facts-wise. But still, you braced for that duty.
• 1:36:21
  Speaker 9: And I just kind of wanted to also let you know,
• 1:36:23
  Speaker 9: I watched every day, day after day, week after week,
• 1:36:30
  Speaker 9: all of you performing that duty that you braced for.
• 1:36:35
  Speaker 9: And I just kind of wanted to let you know
• 1:36:37
  Speaker 9: I understood how hard everybody worked in this case. I
• 1:36:40
  Speaker 9: understood that you all gave everything you could and probably
• 1:36:44
  Speaker 9: more than you thought you could. And so on behalf
• 1:36:49
  Speaker 9: of myself, I just want to thank you so much
• 1:36:52
  Speaker 9: that you should be proud for what you did. You
• 1:36:54
  Speaker 9: braced for that duty. You performed that duty. And I
• 1:36:58
  Speaker 9: just kind of wanted to thank you on behalf of
• 1:37:00
  Speaker 9: myself and on behalf of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
• 1:37:03
  Speaker 4: Thank you so much. The only thing I am going
• 1:37:07
  Speaker 4: to ask, one more thing.
• 1:37:08
  Speaker 9: Is that what I'd like to do is be able
• 1:37:10
  Speaker 9: to come.
• 1:37:10
  Speaker 4: Back and thank you personally.
• 1:37:14
  Speaker 9: I'm going to have to talk to the council for
• 1:37:16
  Speaker 9: just a couple of minutes. So if you could stay
• 1:37:18
  Speaker 9: just for a couple of minutes, not to go over
• 1:37:21
  Speaker 9: the deliberations or anything like that, but just to thank
• 1:37:24
  Speaker 9: you personally, again, for just an incredible commitment and dedication
• 1:37:30
  Speaker 9: that each and every one of you showed here.
• 1:37:32
  Speaker 4: So I just want to thank you so much. And
• 1:37:34
  Speaker 4: with that, you're discharged. All right.
• 1:37:38
  Speaker 5: There you have it. Let's bring into the conversation Caleb Park,
• 1:37:41
  Speaker 5: a great journalist and host of The Good Report. With
• 1:37:44
  Speaker 5: Caleb Park. Caleb, the breaking news just happening in Massachusetts.
• 1:37:49
  Speaker 5: Looks like Lindsey Clancy is going to be retried. The
• 1:37:53
  Speaker 5: prosecution is going to proceed with a new trial. What
• 1:37:58
  Speaker 5: say you?
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  Speaker 24: Yeah, Todd, this is great to be with you today.
• 1:38:03
  Speaker 24: It's a crazy news day, and I think this is
• 1:38:07
  Speaker 24: shocking how the trial unfolded with all the twists and turns.
• 1:38:14
  Speaker 24: We saw this last minute, you know, hour holdout on
• 1:38:18
  Speaker 24: declaring the mistrial. And so I think you saw Lindsay
• 1:38:21
  Speaker 24: Clancy's defense team trying over and over again to get
• 1:38:26
  Speaker 24: this done ASAP. Make sure that that loan, uh, juror
• 1:38:30
  Speaker 24: that was holding out that he, as he said, we don't,
• 1:38:35
  Speaker 24: you know, it'll be interesting, as you said, to get
• 1:38:37
  Speaker 24: the drip drip from the jurors as they, I'm sure
• 1:38:41
  Speaker 24: we'll be speaking to the media and we'll be learning
• 1:38:44
  Speaker 24: more and more about what happened during those hearings.
• 1:38:48
  Speaker 2: Hours that they spent together.
• 1:38:50
  Speaker 24: And I've been on a jury before, and I've been
• 1:38:53
  Speaker 24: in the courtroom as a member of the media. And
• 1:38:57
  Speaker 24: it's interesting to see in this case, just how much
• 1:39:00
  Speaker 24: the court of public opinion has been taught, how it's
• 1:39:05
  Speaker 24: been very divisive.
• 1:39:07
  Speaker 2: Among men, among women, along different party lines.
• 1:39:11
  Speaker 24: And I think that when she's retried, I think that
• 1:39:17
  Speaker 24: ultimately she'll be found guilty. I think there needs to
• 1:39:19
  Speaker 24: be justice for these three kids that were murdered brutally.
• 1:39:24
  Speaker 24: And I think that's the most important thing here. And
• 1:39:27
  Speaker 24: I'm an advocate for mental health.
• 1:39:29
  Speaker 11: Absolutely.
• 1:39:30
  Speaker 2: But it's never an excuse.
• 1:39:33
  Speaker 24: And as one mother who survived psychosis pointed out, her
• 1:39:39
  Speaker 24: storyline didn't add up. And I think it's important to
• 1:39:42
  Speaker 24: point to that.
• 1:39:43
  Speaker 7: And I go to.
• 1:39:45
  Speaker 24: Pastor Josh Howerton pointed to how abortion has been a
• 1:39:49
  Speaker 24: reason that many women in this country have been supporting
• 1:39:53
  Speaker 24: Lindsay Clancy because they have taken the life of the
• 1:39:58
  Speaker 24: baby in the womb. And, you know, what's there to
• 1:40:02
  Speaker 24: justify not taking a child outside the womb in this case?
• 1:40:06
  Speaker 2: You know, it's just, it's evil. It's bizarre. But I think,
• 1:40:12
  Speaker 2: and I hope we see justice served, Todd.
• 1:40:15
  Speaker 5: It seems to me that maybe I'm more bothered by
• 1:40:19
  Speaker 5: what happened outside of that courtroom. I mean, the thousands
• 1:40:22
  Speaker 5: of women that were basically saying, you know what? Yeah,
• 1:40:26
  Speaker 5: it's okay. You know, if you're having a bad day,
• 1:40:29
  Speaker 5: you just can't go on anymore. It's okay to take
• 1:40:32
  Speaker 5: out the kids. And I'm like, no, it's not okay.
• 1:40:37
  Speaker 2: Absolutely, Todd.
• 1:40:38
  Speaker 24: I think a lot of what we saw outside the
• 1:40:40
  Speaker 24: courtroom was divorced from what we saw as we were
• 1:40:44
  Speaker 24: watching and hearing the evidence. And this wasn't something that
• 1:40:48
  Speaker 24: she did. She said she heard a voice and it
• 1:40:51
  Speaker 24: would be one thing if it just happened. She killed
• 1:40:54
  Speaker 24: all three of her kids when she heard this voice
• 1:40:56
  Speaker 24: and it was the psychotic breakdown, but she did it methodically.
• 1:41:00
  Speaker 24: She planned it out. She killed them one by one.
• 1:41:03
  Speaker 24: She had to go back you know, strangle each one.
• 1:41:06
  Speaker 24: And it's just brutal when you really, really think about
• 1:41:09
  Speaker 24: the facts of the case and just her storyline doesn't
• 1:41:14
  Speaker 24: add up. You know, it's like they kept trying to
• 1:41:17
  Speaker 24: paint this picture. And so I think when she's retried
• 1:41:21
  Speaker 24: that it's going to be a different story. But I
• 1:41:25
  Speaker 24: definitely agree with you that It's been really disturbing hearing
• 1:41:29
  Speaker 24: people defend her. And I don't know if it's because
• 1:41:32
  Speaker 24: they're ignorant and they're not aware of the facts of
• 1:41:34
  Speaker 24: the case, or if we really are living in a
• 1:41:37
  Speaker 24: time where people are calling what's evil good and good evil.
• 1:41:43
  Speaker 5: It's a great point you raise. Caleb Park joining us,
• 1:41:46
  Speaker 5: a host of The Good Report with Caleb Park, his website, calebpark.com.
• 1:41:51
  Speaker 5: The latest in the Fox News saga, And full disclosure,
• 1:41:56
  Speaker 5: you and I both used to work at Fox News.
• 1:41:58
  Speaker 5: This is the headline from The Hollywood Reporter this afternoon.
• 1:42:01
  Speaker 5: Maria Bartiromo denies Fox firing. She's hired Brian Friedman as
• 1:42:06
  Speaker 5: her attorney. Quote, we have the receipts. They are saying
• 1:42:11
  Speaker 5: the irresponsible reports that have been published stating that she
• 1:42:15
  Speaker 5: was fired or is no longer an employee are absolutely
• 1:42:18
  Speaker 5: and unequivocally false. We understand John Solomon is reporting that
• 1:42:24
  Speaker 5: she is technically still employed and she's getting paid through 2029.
• 1:42:29
  Speaker 5: But the fact is she will never again appear on
• 1:42:32
  Speaker 5: Fox News Channel. What do you make of all of this?
• 1:42:37
  Speaker 24: Well, Todd, I think you and I both knew when
• 1:42:39
  Speaker 24: that news broke that there was more to the story than,
• 1:42:42
  Speaker 24: you know, we saw this very short press release yesterday.
• 1:42:46
  Speaker 19: Fox.
• 1:42:46
  Speaker 24: And then you saw that reporting that she was fired.
• 1:42:49
  Speaker 24: And I think you and I both knew, knowing, being
• 1:42:53
  Speaker 24: at Fox and going through these kind of deals, that
• 1:42:56
  Speaker 24: there was more to the story that she had her
• 1:42:58
  Speaker 24: side to share. And it's interesting, she has the same
• 1:43:02
  Speaker 24: attorney that Tucker Carlson had. And, you know, it was
• 1:43:05
  Speaker 24: very similar reporting when Tucker Carlson, you know, split ways
• 1:43:10
  Speaker 24: with Fox. And I think it'll be interesting to hear
• 1:43:14
  Speaker 24: more from her side, but ultimately I think what this
• 1:43:17
  Speaker 24: shows is there's this great divide in, you know, we'll
• 1:43:21
  Speaker 24: call it conservative mainstream media and the Trump administration. And
• 1:43:26
  Speaker 24: like you mentioned earlier in the show, I think a
• 1:43:29
  Speaker 24: lot of people would be shocked how unconservative Fox news is.
• 1:43:36
  Speaker 24: When I went to work at Fox news with you
• 1:43:38
  Speaker 24: in New York city, I, all I knew about Fox
• 1:43:42
  Speaker 24: was how conservative it was on air. And then when
• 1:43:45
  Speaker 24: I got there, it was very different behind the scenes and.
• 1:43:49
  Speaker 2: Just all the different people that worked there.
• 1:43:51
  Speaker 24: And it's funny how it was like, you kind of
• 1:43:54
  Speaker 24: had to be like, keep your conservatism closeted a little bit. Like, uh, yeah,
• 1:43:59
  Speaker 24: I'm a conservative, you know, it's like, I am actually
• 1:44:02
  Speaker 24: a supporter of, of Trump. I remember when he first
• 1:44:06
  Speaker 24: came on the scene, it was like, He was a joke.
• 1:44:09
  Speaker 24: You know, a lot of these people live in New
• 1:44:10
  Speaker 24: York City and they work in there. And so they're
• 1:44:13
  Speaker 24: not picking up conservatives from across the country. They're picking
• 1:44:16
  Speaker 24: up a lot of people that live and work in
• 1:44:18
  Speaker 24: New York City. And they just view that as a job.
• 1:44:21
  Speaker 24: And they might play a conservative for some time. But
• 1:44:24
  Speaker 24: I think it'll be interesting to see how conservative, you know,
• 1:44:29
  Speaker 24: quote unquote, media continues as we get further into Trump
• 1:44:35
  Speaker 24: 2.0 and and independent. media, you know, independent conservatives and
• 1:44:41
  Speaker 24: independent journalists, you see a lot of that rising up.
• 1:44:44
  Speaker 24: And especially with social media, it's something that I get
• 1:44:47
  Speaker 24: to do now on my podcast, on my website and
• 1:44:50
  Speaker 24: on social media.
• 1:44:51
  Speaker 2: I don't have to, you know.
• 1:44:54
  Speaker 24: Do a, I don't have to do a story that
• 1:44:56
  Speaker 24: gets vetted by people and they tell me I can't
• 1:44:58
  Speaker 24: put this in the story or, you know, something like that.
• 1:45:01
  Speaker 24: So you're going to hear exactly what I have to say,
• 1:45:04
  Speaker 24: exactly what I've found here directly from the sources and,
• 1:45:08
  Speaker 24: So ultimately, I think that's the important thing to take
• 1:45:11
  Speaker 24: from this.
• 1:45:14
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's not surprising. It's really not. So anyway, Maria
• 1:45:18
  Speaker 5: will be fine. She's going to be getting a very
• 1:45:20
  Speaker 5: big check from Fox News Channel. And who knows? Fox
• 1:45:23
  Speaker 5: may lose more viewers. We'll see how all that plays out. Caleb,
• 1:45:29
  Speaker 5: there is another interesting story you've been covering this week.
• 1:45:34
  Speaker 5: this mom was banned from taking her daughter to church.
• 1:45:40
  Speaker 5: What's the story there?
• 1:45:43
  Speaker 24: Yeah, so this was a Maine Supreme Court that upheld
• 1:45:46
  Speaker 24: a lower court's ruling that a mother and a father,
• 1:45:49
  Speaker 24: it was a custody battle for their teen daughter, and
• 1:45:52
  Speaker 24: they told the mother, Emily Bickford, that she couldn't take
• 1:45:56
  Speaker 24: her daughter to church, and it was specifically a Calvary
• 1:45:59
  Speaker 24: Chapel church. And Todd, you and I have both been
• 1:46:03
  Speaker 24: to Calvary Chapel. I've been to a Calvary Chapel campus
• 1:46:06
  Speaker 24: with you as you spoke. And this is a very
• 1:46:11
  Speaker 24: shocking case. The father made the argument that his daughter's
• 1:46:16
  Speaker 24: anxiety was worsened because they were talking about things like
• 1:46:19
  Speaker 24: heaven and hell and the second coming of Christ at
• 1:46:23
  Speaker 24: a church.
• 1:46:24
  Speaker 2: Can you imagine that?
• 1:46:25
  Speaker 24: And so the court actually agreed with that. And Liberty
• 1:46:29
  Speaker 24: Council is defending the mother, and they are saying that
• 1:46:33
  Speaker 24: they hope to take this to the Supreme Court. It's
• 1:46:35
  Speaker 24: a massive religious freedom and parental rights case. So Todd,
• 1:46:39
  Speaker 24: it'll be very interesting to see how this case comes down.
• 1:46:43
  Speaker 24: And ultimately, this could be a big one for families and.
• 1:46:49
  Speaker 2: For religious freedom.
• 1:46:52
  Speaker 24: The thing that really caught my attention is we're not
• 1:46:55
  Speaker 24: talking about some fringe religious cult or anything like that.
• 1:47:01
  Speaker 24: This is a very mainstream church. They hold mainstream views
• 1:47:05
  Speaker 24: as far as Christianity goes. And I think that was
• 1:47:08
  Speaker 24: probably the biggest surprise to me. And they're being, in
• 1:47:11
  Speaker 24: the court, they're being castigated as, you know, causing anxiety
• 1:47:16
  Speaker 24: and all these things and being blamed as a problem
• 1:47:19
  Speaker 24: between this couple.
• 1:47:21
  Speaker 5: It's a fascinating story. And again, calebpark.com, if you'd like
• 1:47:25
  Speaker 5: to get more information on that Before we let you go,
• 1:47:27
  Speaker 5: we've got to end on a positive note. And this
• 1:47:30
  Speaker 5: story out of Huntsville, Alabama, a hospital there where there
• 1:47:37
  Speaker 5: was a person in ICU that wanted to be baptized. Caleb,
• 1:47:41
  Speaker 5: I want you to take the story from there.
• 1:47:44
  Speaker 24: Yeah, Todd, she wasn't one of these that gets the sprinkle,
• 1:47:47
  Speaker 24: you know, so they didn't have to run to the
• 1:47:50
  Speaker 24: drinking fountain, fill up a cup and sprinkle. She wanted
• 1:47:53
  Speaker 24: to be immersed and she was in a hospital bed.
• 1:47:56
  Speaker 24: And so these three nurses decided that they would help
• 1:47:59
  Speaker 24: make her final wish come true. So they door dashed
• 1:48:02
  Speaker 24: a kiddie pool and they figured out a way to
• 1:48:05
  Speaker 24: fill it up with warm water inside the hospital room.
• 1:48:08
  Speaker 24: And they used a system to lift her up and
• 1:48:11
  Speaker 24: put her into the kiddie pool. Her family was there
• 1:48:14
  Speaker 24: and her son actually got to do the honors and
• 1:48:17
  Speaker 24: baptize her. And they did all this because... she was
• 1:48:21
  Speaker 24: released to hospice and she went home and her family
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  Speaker 24: just said it was a massive weight off their shoulders. And,
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  Speaker 24: you know, this was just one of those things where
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  Speaker 24: you get to see nurses do incredible work already, but
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  Speaker 24: just seeing how these nurses went above and beyond and,
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  Speaker 24: You know, the family called it a true God thing.
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  Speaker 24: And I love getting to share these stories. And I
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  Speaker 24: shared that on social media. So if you want to
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  Speaker 24: see more about that story, want to see the video,
• 1:48:52
  Speaker 24: go check it out on my social media. And it's
• 1:48:55
  Speaker 24: one of those positive stories, you know, especially with some
• 1:49:00
  Speaker 24: of the negative headlines we're seeing. I think we need
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  Speaker 24: to highlight these as much as we can.
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  Speaker 5: I think this is a brilliant thing, Caleb. We're going
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  Speaker 5: to leave it there. Congratulations. Great stories. Great reporting. Folks,
• 1:49:13
  Speaker 5: follow Caleb. His platforms are exploding in growth, and I'm
• 1:49:17
  Speaker 5: just so happy to see this. CalebPark.com. Go check it out. CalebPark.com.
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  Speaker 10: All right, Caleb.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you. Happy Labor Day.
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  Speaker 11: Thanks, Todd. You too. God bless.
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  Speaker 5: All right. There you go. Got to take a break.
• 1:49:31
  Speaker 5: This is the Todd Stern Show. Well, I just got
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  Speaker 5: a note from the Reagan Presidential Library. That's over in
• 1:49:47
  Speaker 5: Southern California, and I think we're doing a book event.
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  Speaker 5: So we'll keep all you folks updated on that. I
• 1:49:54
  Speaker 5: wonder if they'll let us, they've got to let us
• 1:49:56
  Speaker 5: do the radio show from there, right?
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  Speaker 7: That would be a first. That would be cool.
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  Speaker 5: You'll have to wear a tie, Dylan.
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  Speaker 7: That's okay. I can buy a tie.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 1:50:05
  Speaker 7: For that, I'll buy a tie.
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  Speaker 5: We'll get you a little red, white, and blue, you know, tie,
• 1:50:08
  Speaker 5: patriotic tie.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, it would look good.
• 1:50:10
  Speaker 5: That would look good. So we'll keep you guys updated
• 1:50:13
  Speaker 5: as we firm up the plans there. Real quick, let's
• 1:50:16
  Speaker 5: go to Steve in Salem, Oregon. KYKN wants to talk
• 1:50:20
  Speaker 5: to Lindsey Clancy. Steve, what's on your mind?
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  Speaker 10: Trials. I was on a jury one time, a manslaughter trial.
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  Speaker 10: We had a choice of first or second degree manslaughter trial.
• 1:50:36
  Speaker 10: First degree was good for 25 years in prison. Second
• 1:50:40
  Speaker 10: would have been 12 and a half years. And after
• 1:50:43
  Speaker 10: sitting in the courtroom for several days in the jury room,
• 1:50:48
  Speaker 10: in the evening of about the third day, about 9
• 1:50:55
  Speaker 10: o'clock at night, 11 people had said, well, let's make
• 1:50:59
  Speaker 10: it second degree. One woman held out, said no. I
• 1:51:04
  Speaker 10: won't settle for anything less than first degree. The jury
• 1:51:08
  Speaker 10: is tired, hungry, and worn out, and justice kind of
• 1:51:15
  Speaker 10: goes out the window. So a jury trial is always
• 1:51:22
  Speaker 10: a crapshoot.
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  Speaker 5: It always is, Steve. I think that's a terrific way
• 1:51:28
  Speaker 5: of summing up what we have all been through over
• 1:51:31
  Speaker 5: this past little while. Steve, thank you for calling, and
• 1:51:35
  Speaker 5: thank you for listening to us on KYKN. We love
• 1:51:38
  Speaker 5: all of our friends out in Oregon. We've got stories
• 1:51:42
  Speaker 5: and videos from the courtroom over at toddstearns.com, and I'd
• 1:51:46
  Speaker 5: encourage you to go over there and check out that information.
• 1:51:49
  Speaker 5: It has been a great week, and folks, we hope
• 1:51:52
  Speaker 5: you enjoy your long weekend. So we're going to have
• 1:51:54
  Speaker 5: a best-of edition of the show on Monday, giving our
• 1:51:58
  Speaker 5: team a chance to kick back and enjoy the long
• 1:52:00
  Speaker 5: Labor Day weekend as well. It's going to be a
• 1:52:03
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• 1:52:05
  Speaker 5: big rally happening in Dallas, Texas. We're going to bring
• 1:52:09
  Speaker 5: you live coverage of that, all sorts of great stuff happening.
• 1:52:13
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• 1:52:15
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• 1:52:18
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• 1:52:30
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• 1:52:33
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• 1:52:35
  Speaker 5: go to church this weekend, America.