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National Outrage Over UTK Students Mocking Charlie Kirk’s Assassination · ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes

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  Speaker 1: From the principal Toyota studios, it's Morning in Memphis with
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  Speaker 1: Todd Starnes.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning, Memphis. Great to have you with us today.
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  Speaker 3: We have a jam-packed, busy, busy show for you. Great
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  Speaker 3: to have all of you with us today. By the way,
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  Speaker 3: Laura Huckabee coming up in just a few moments. What
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  Speaker 3: have we done to irritate the Almighty? I ask that
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  Speaker 3: because when you look at the giant map of the
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  Speaker 3: United States, it's just over the Mid-South where a massive
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  Speaker 3: heat dome still remains. It is going to be a
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  Speaker 3: scorcher today. Heat advisory goes into effect around 11 o'clock
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  Speaker 3: this morning and will last until 8 o'clock tonight. So
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  Speaker 3: it's going to be, again, super hot outside tonight. You
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  Speaker 3: guys know what to do, but we need some relief
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  Speaker 3: here very quickly. By the way, our telephone number, 901-260-5926.
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  Speaker 3: That's 901-260-5926. I want to share with you a programming
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  Speaker 3: change today. At 2 o'clock, immediately after my national radio show,
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  Speaker 3: We are broadcasting a one-hour special. It's a documentary on
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  Speaker 3: Charlie Kirk. You're going to hear from Charlie himself some audio,
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  Speaker 3: some content that you have not heard before. So it's
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  Speaker 3: going to be an incredible moment. And again, that's all
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  Speaker 3: coming up at 7 o'clock today. I'm sorry, 2 o'clock today,
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  Speaker 3: 2 o'clock this afternoon, right here exclusively on on The
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  Speaker 3: Mighty 990. So you're going to want to be sure
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  Speaker 3: to listen to that. It's just so well done, and
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  Speaker 3: you're going to hear a lot of great voices talking
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  Speaker 3: about Charlie Kirk. Of course, today is the one-year anniversary
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  Speaker 3: of his assassination, and There are a lot of folks
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  Speaker 3: that are going to be calling in today talking about
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  Speaker 3: the life and legacy of Charlie and the impact right
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  Speaker 3: here in the Mid-South. We had Mason Guerra on earlier
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  Speaker 3: this week, our new field rep for the area, and
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  Speaker 3: we understand TPUSA chapters are popping up literally all over
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  Speaker 3: the place. The Mid-South. And that is a great thing.
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  Speaker 3: As a matter of fact, this morning, and we want
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  Speaker 3: to give a shout out to our good friends over
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  Speaker 3: at Booyah's in Collierville. Parker May, who's our sports director.
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  Speaker 3: Parker May's favorite restaurant is Booyah's. And this morning, the
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  Speaker 3: restaurant opened up at 630. for the Collierville High School
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  Speaker 3: chapter of TPUSA. So we want to give a shout-out
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  Speaker 3: to the students there having their first meeting of the semester,
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  Speaker 3: and we wish those kids nothing but the very best.
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  Speaker 3: Our telephone number, by the way, 901-260-5926. That's 901-260-5926. While
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  Speaker 3: all that is going on, over at kwamradio.com, we have
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  Speaker 3: the exclusive story of Word came out late yesterday that
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  Speaker 3: the University of Tennessee at Knoxville was planning, or at
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  Speaker 3: least students there, were planning to hold assassination celebration parties today.
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  Speaker 3: This is, it's just so depraved. But students were putting
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  Speaker 3: up posters, flyers around campus, inviting people to gather today
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  Speaker 3: at UTK to celebrate the murder of Charlie Kirk. Now,
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  Speaker 3: we reached out to the university and they got back
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  Speaker 3: to us. And I want to share with you the
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  Speaker 3: statement from UTK. They're saying that this was not sanctioned
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  Speaker 3: by the university. They had absolutely nothing to do with it.
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  Speaker 3: As a matter of fact, the university condemning the students
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  Speaker 3: that are organizing and they don't know where these they
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  Speaker 3: don't know who these kids are or who's behind the
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  Speaker 3: or who's behind the parties. So UTK is not only
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  Speaker 3: distancing themselves from whatever is going to happen today, they're
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  Speaker 3: saying that this is reprehensible. By the way, also, getting
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  Speaker 3: reaction from a number of political leaders after KWAM's story
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  Speaker 3: came out, and State Senator Brent Taylor, running for the
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  Speaker 3: 9th Congressional District, says the murder of Charlie was political violence.
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  Speaker 3: Faculty and students at UTK, Should a UTK who treat
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  Speaker 3: his murder as something to welcome fail a basic test
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  Speaker 3: of decency? and professional responsibility. That's true. It's just absolutely outrageous. Also,
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  Speaker 3: Senator Marsha Blackburn weighing in. So we appreciate all of
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  Speaker 3: the lawmakers who are calling out all of this behavior.
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  Speaker 3: And good on UTK, because I did point out that if,
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  Speaker 3: in fact, the university knew about this, then we need
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  Speaker 3: to have a serious conversation about funding, because I'm sure
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  Speaker 3: our tax dollars don't need to be going to any
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  Speaker 3: school that promotes or advocates or gives space for this
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  Speaker 3: kind of stuff. This is very dangerous. This is what
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  Speaker 3: the communists did, by the way. They killed their opposition.
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  Speaker 3: Instead of having a lively debate and discussion, which is,
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  Speaker 3: by the way, what we do here on KWAM. We
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  Speaker 3: had Jerry Green on yesterday. We have Democrats, Republicans. We
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  Speaker 3: want to be able to debate the issues. As a
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  Speaker 3: matter of fact, all four gubernatorial candidates, and we've got
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  Speaker 3: two independents, a Republican and Democrat, all four are going
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  Speaker 3: to be on KWAM. Because that's what we do. And
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  Speaker 3: we love being able to provide that space for you. 901-260-5926,
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  Speaker 3: our telephone number. That's 901-260-5926. It is a war zone
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  Speaker 3: out there in Memphis, folks. Yet another shooting yesterday evening.
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  Speaker 3: Three people were shot. We understand two of those individuals
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  Speaker 3: in critical condition. Police have absolutely no idea who was
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  Speaker 3: responsible for the gunfire. Also, from the Shelby County Commission,
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  Speaker 3: they had their first meeting, and the same day as
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  Speaker 3: the first commission meeting, we had one of our county
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  Speaker 3: commissioners arrested, Commissioner Will Richardson. By the way, correct me
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  Speaker 3: if I'm wrong, that was the seat that was once
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  Speaker 3: held by Edmund Ford Jr., who is serving time right now,
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  Speaker 3: or about ready to. Now the new Shelby County Commissioner,
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  Speaker 3: Will Richardson, arrested and jailed yesterday on two counts of
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  Speaker 3: falsifying Tennessee revenue and tax figures. So that's not good.
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  Speaker 3: And by the way, was it Erica Sugarman was arrested
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  Speaker 3: for doing something, I don't know, vandalizing campaign signs? You know,
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  Speaker 3: if they keep this up, they're going to have to
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  Speaker 3: build a new jail because that's where the county commission
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  Speaker 3: is going to hold their meetings. My goodness. All right, look,
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  Speaker 3: got to take a quick break. We're going to be
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  Speaker 3: taking your calls as well. Coming up, we have a
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  Speaker 3: very special guest. We have an organization that ranks free speech.
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  Speaker 3: And maybe you aren't going to be surprised where Tennessee's
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  Speaker 3: universities rank in that. All right. Hang tight, everybody. Got
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  Speaker 3: to take a quick break. Commander Chuck standing by with
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  Speaker 3: a look at your morning commute. All right. It is
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  Speaker 3: 80 degrees out there on Beale Street this morning. Hello, everybody.
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  Speaker 3: Welcome back to the morning show. I'm Todd Stearns. We
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  Speaker 3: are proudly broadcasting in the principal Toyota Memphis studio. Real quick,
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  Speaker 3: let's go to the phone lines. Say hello to, you know,
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  Speaker 3: we're going to do a double call today. Melanie Mosley
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  Speaker 3: and Pam Proctor. both joining us from Dallas, Texas at
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  Speaker 3: the big RNC convention. Ladies, good morning. Good to have
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  Speaker 3: you on the show today.
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  Speaker 4: Good morning, Todd.
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  Speaker 3: All right. Sounds like one of you had a very
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  Speaker 3: late night.
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  Speaker 5: Actually, we both did.
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  Speaker 6: I had two cups of coffee.
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  Speaker 3: Good for you, Pam. You came ready for morning radio.
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  Speaker 2: I am ready.
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  Speaker 3: Pam, I want to start with you real quick. Already
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  Speaker 3: the reviews coming out from last night, just a home
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  Speaker 3: run by President Trump. A lot of great speakers. What's
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  Speaker 3: your impression, takeaway, any memorable moment for you?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, several. Hi, Melanie.
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  Speaker 4: Good morning, Karen.
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  Speaker 2: It's been fun getting to be with Melanie this morning, too,
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  Speaker 2: and the last few days.
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  Speaker 7: I just.
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  Speaker 2: She knows I just think the world of her and
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  Speaker 2: so proud of what she's done in Whitehaven. So, Todd,
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  Speaker 2: the stands last night were absolutely full. They... There was a...
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  Speaker 2: laughter continuously during President Trump's speech. He is something. But
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  Speaker 2: some of my biggest takeaways were the speakers did emphasize
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  Speaker 2: the tax cuts. We have our financial increase in America
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  Speaker 2: is $ 20 trillion have been invested in the United States
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  Speaker 2: from foreign entities. That is astounding to me. We've got
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  Speaker 2: the lowest drug prices in America. Democrats have voted against
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  Speaker 2: every bill that has been put forth for hardworking Americans.
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  Speaker 3: And Pam, I think that's a lot about the messaging here.
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  Speaker 3: You know, that's been the challenge is, you know, we've
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  Speaker 3: got to have a unified message coming out of the convention.
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  Speaker 3: And it sounds like, you know, that that is exactly
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  Speaker 3: what's happening. Melanie, I want to get your take as well.
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  Speaker 3: Any memorable moments for you last night?
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  Speaker 4: So, Todd, the most memorable moment of last night for me, well,
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  Speaker 4: first of all, when Trump came out on stage, I mean,
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  Speaker 4: the arena went up in a roar. And as Pam said,
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  Speaker 4: the whole place was packed. So if you go to
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  Speaker 4: Whitehead Republican Club Facebook page, you will see the whole
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  Speaker 4: place was packed, not an empty seat. And so Trump
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  Speaker 4: was introducing his cabinet. And so he said, Mike Johnson,
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  Speaker 4: and he talked about the job Mike Johnson is doing
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  Speaker 4: and passing a big, beautiful bill. And I mean, everybody
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  Speaker 4: stood up and looked their way and they applauded Mike Johnson.
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  Speaker 4: Then he introduced John Thune. When I tell you the
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  Speaker 4: whole arena stopped booing, and it was like, but y'all
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  Speaker 4: was still trying to talk and say, you know, he's
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  Speaker 4: working on passing the Save America Act. And then it
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  Speaker 4: was like, pass the Save America Act. So that was
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  Speaker 4: still very important on the minds of the people yesterday
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  Speaker 4: at the arena.
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  Speaker 3: Pam, real quick on that Save America Act, you're talking
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  Speaker 3: to a lot of folks there, a lot of delegates,
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  Speaker 3: and the Tennessee delegation looks great, mainly because we have
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  Speaker 3: the most beautiful delegation out there, thanks to you two ladies.
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  Speaker 3: Real quick, Pam, was that an important thing, the Save
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  Speaker 3: America Act? People want that passed?
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  Speaker 2: It is. So my understanding is it's over 80% of
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  Speaker 2: those that know what it is, you know, that follow that.
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  Speaker 2: want it in America. And I think it's even more
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  Speaker 2: than that. Democrats and Republicans want it. And the Democrats
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  Speaker 2: vote no on every issue. I wish I could have
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  Speaker 2: had the media at breakfast yesterday morning when I listened
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  Speaker 2: to a Chinese naturalized citizen talk about that we are
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  Speaker 2: the freest country. And she said, if America fails, we...
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  Speaker 2: There's no place to go.
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  Speaker 3: It's a great point. Pam.
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  Speaker 2: I was very moved by that.
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  Speaker 3: Pam and Melanie, we want to have you all in
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  Speaker 3: studio when you get back. I know it's another big
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  Speaker 3: night tonight. President Trump and the Vice President speaking later
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  Speaker 3: this evening, and folks, you'll be able to hear all
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  Speaker 3: of that on KWAM. Pam, Melanie, as you know, we
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  Speaker 3: have a lot of crazy breaking news today, but we
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  Speaker 3: wanted to hear from both of you. We just appreciate
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  Speaker 3: you representing Republicans here in the Mid-South. God bless you both, ladies,
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  Speaker 3: and have a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Tom. Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 3: All right. Awesome ladies there. Melanie Mosley, president of the
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  Speaker 3: Whitehaven Republican Club, Pam Proctor. And I do need to
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  Speaker 3: go right away to our Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line, a
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  Speaker 3: crazy study just out from the Foundation for Individual Rights
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  Speaker 3: and Expression. Sean Stevens joining us. And the reason why, Sean,
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  Speaker 3: you're here is because I did a little bit of
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  Speaker 3: research based on your research and And not a good
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  Speaker 3: situation regarding free speech on campuses here in the great
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  Speaker 3: state of Tennessee.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, thanks for having me on. Happy to chat.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 3: Well, let's just jump right into it. We had a
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  Speaker 3: chance to look at some of the universities here in Tennessee.
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  Speaker 3: What's the overall free speech ranking for some of our schools?
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  Speaker 7: So we surveyed and ranked four of Tennessee's schools. I'd
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  Speaker 7: say three of them do fairly well. Vanderbilt University comes
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  Speaker 7: in at number five. Last year they were also in
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  Speaker 7: the top ten. I don't think this is terribly surprising.
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  Speaker 7: We've been doing these rankings now. for seven years, and
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  Speaker 7: one pattern we've seen emerge is having kind of a
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  Speaker 7: strong leadership on the issue in your administration, whether it's
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  Speaker 7: the college president or chancellor, with a very clear stance
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  Speaker 7: on freedom of speech, which I think Chancellor Diermeier has.
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  Speaker 7: That sends a very clear message to the campus community.
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  Speaker 3: So I think closer to those of us here in
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  Speaker 3: the Memphis area is the University of Memphis.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, that's the one of the four that doesn't do it.
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  Speaker 3: It's terrible. Let's go through the University of Memphis. They
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  Speaker 3: got an F. That is not good. That's not good, Sean.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, it's not.
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  Speaker 7: I mean, that's kind of, they're below average, but I
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  Speaker 7: would point out that the average in our rankings was, unfortunately,
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  Speaker 7: it might have, there might be cause for optimism in
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  Speaker 7: that we got the highest average score we've ever gotten
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  Speaker 7: in seven years, but it's still equated to a D
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  Speaker 7: minus on a traditional grading scale. And so Memphis is
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  Speaker 7: A few points below that, some things we've seen this
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  Speaker 7: year is I think some of this is the reverberation
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  Speaker 7: of the Charlie Kirk assassination. The data shows certainly that
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  Speaker 7: the effects were most acute at Utah Valley where that occurred,
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  Speaker 7: but it reverberated across the country and students on campuses
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  Speaker 7: all over the nation and all 50 states are basically
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  Speaker 7: telling us that that was One of the reasons that
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  Speaker 7: they found that they found it difficult to have more
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  Speaker 7: in-depth conversations about, they felt they couldn't have nuanced conversations
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  Speaker 7: about the assassination. And this kind of spanned the political spectrum.
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  Speaker 7: We can get more into that if you want.
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  Speaker 3: Well, let me just say, you know, and again, I
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  Speaker 3: am a free speech guy, but that also means that
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  Speaker 3: you have a right if somebody is out there celebrating
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  Speaker 3: the assassination of Charlie Kirk. I think that you have
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  Speaker 3: a free speech right to call that person every name
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  Speaker 3: under the book. They should be exposed for their for
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  Speaker 3: their deviancy and their depravity. And unfortunately, some universities literally
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  Speaker 3: shut down all the speech. I mean, speech is speech
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  Speaker 3: in my estimation.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, and we actually, as I was alluding to it,
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  Speaker 7: we found evidence of a chilling effect kind of across
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  Speaker 7: the political spectrum. So clearly conservative students on predominantly liberal
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  Speaker 7: campuses felt their speech chilled about this issue and others.
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  Speaker 7: But we also heard from a number of left of
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  Speaker 7: center students who expressed shock, dismay, discomfort with some of
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  Speaker 7: their peers celebrating the assassination and some of the things
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  Speaker 7: that were being said and felt that they couldn't basically
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  Speaker 7: speak up and say, like, we think this is wrong
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  Speaker 7: because of the consequences they would face.
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  Speaker 3: Folks, go to rankings.fire.org. That's rankings.fire.org. And it's super simple,
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  Speaker 3: great information there. You can actually see all of the
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  Speaker 3: state rankings. They rank. There are several other universities, MTSU, UTK,
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  Speaker 3: in their list as well. And you can also really
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  Speaker 3: explore all around the nation to see where these universities
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  Speaker 3: rank in the 2027 college free speech ranking. Sean, we're
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  Speaker 3: going to have to leave it there. But we certainly
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  Speaker 3: thank you, and we appreciate the great work that you
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  Speaker 3: guys are doing. Sean Stevens. with fire joining us today.
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  Speaker 3: 901-260-5926 is our telephone number. That's 901-260-5926. Coming up, Scott Golden,
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  Speaker 3: chairman of the Tennessee Republican Party, is going to join
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  Speaker 3: us live from Dallas, Texas. the site of the RNC Convention. Also,
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  Speaker 3: Michael Bollinger from the Bartlett Performing Arts Center is going
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  Speaker 3: to drop by. They are announcing their big 2026-2027 Performing
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  Speaker 3: Arts Series. That's going to be a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 3: And we're going to be taking your calls as well,
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  Speaker 3: remembering Charlie Kirk this morning and the impact he made
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  Speaker 3: in the Mid-South. 901-260-5926. I'm Todd Starnes in the principal
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  Speaker 3: Memphis Toyota studio. All right, good morning, everybody. I'm Todd
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  Speaker 3: Stearns in the principal Memphis Toyota studio. Great to have
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  Speaker 3: you with us today. It's a very busy news day. Again,
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  Speaker 3: coming up two o'clock this evening here on the Mighty Nine,
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  Speaker 3: 92 o'clock this afternoon. We'll have that one hour special
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  Speaker 3: about Charlie Kirk and his life and legacy. I want
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  Speaker 3: to give a big shout out to the Collierville High
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  Speaker 3: School Turning Point USA chapter. They got up at 630
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  Speaker 3: this morning. having Chick-fil-A for breakfast at Booyah's over in
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  Speaker 3: Collierville off Poplar and having their very first meeting, their
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  Speaker 3: very first gathering. We may have some of the students
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  Speaker 3: calling in in just a little while.
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  Speaker 6: 901-260-5926.
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  Speaker 3: That's 901-260-5926. Every driver in the city is going to
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  Speaker 3: you probably aren't going to get a flat tire. So
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  Speaker 3: thank you, city of Memphis, for filling up those potholes.
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  Speaker 3: 7,700 potholes. That's a lot of holes to fill. Michael
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  Speaker 3: Bollinger's joining us, the artistic director. from the Bartlett Performing
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  Speaker 3: Arts Center. You know something about potholes. I mean, they're
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  Speaker 3: all over the place. Oh, they are.
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  Speaker 1: No, that's impressive. 7,700 potholes, you know. Hey, I haven't
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  Speaker 1: seen you for a little while.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you for having me on.
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  Speaker 1: And I love the The studio, the way you've got
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  Speaker 1: it lit in your backdrop is cool.
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  Speaker 3: We are lit, as the young people say. Yeah, you're lit.
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  Speaker 3: We're vibing or something. I don't know. That's about as
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  Speaker 5: That's good.
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  Speaker 3: You did good. Michael, first of all, it's great to
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  Speaker 3: see you again. It's been a while.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Good to see you. And you're looking younger and younger.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know how you do this.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you. I'll give you a dollar when we get
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  Speaker 5: done here, okay?
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  Speaker 4: But you.
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  Speaker 3: I also don't understand how you guys come up with
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  Speaker 3: this incredible calendar for the Performing Arts Series. And I
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: was looking through the lineup here. You guys bring in
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: some really big acts, and it's just a lot of fun,
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: and it's a lot of family fun as well.
• 20:47
  Speaker 5: Both, both.
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and if you're not familiar in the area with it,
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: it's in the city of Bartlett, but that really doesn't matter.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: This is all the— well, that matters greatly, but it's all
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: the Mid-South, you know, because every audience has people from Bartlett.
• 21:00
  Speaker 5: But people also from all over the Mid-South. But no,
• 21:05
  Speaker 5: we work real hard.
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: I think we're called the Bartlett Performing Arts Center. And
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: so I try to have a diversity of artists because
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: it's not the Bartlett Country Center. It's not the Bartlett...
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: Bartlett Dance Center.
• 21:16
  Speaker 5: And so we've got a little of everything.
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: And that's what I love about it, is that there's
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: a little something for everybody. And this all kicks off
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: in a couple of weeks with some family fun. Love's
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: Labor Lost. Tell us about it.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, what this is, I started a partnership about four
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: years ago with the Tennessee Shakespeare Company, and they are
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: a wonderful professional acting company. And so this will be
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: the fourth year they come over And we set up a,
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: I've got, if you're facing my theater, there's a nice
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: park green and Lake Appling kind of circles around my theater.
• 21:48
  Speaker 5: And we set up a stage at one end of it.
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: And they actually perform a Shakespearean play outside. And it
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: starts at 7 o'clock. And it's on the 25th of September.
• 22:01
  Speaker 5: That's a Friday.
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: And we'll have some food trucks there. And if it rains,
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: we just move inside the theater. But they're really exceptional.
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: Shakespeare and food trucks.
• 22:10
  Speaker 5: That goes, yeah, yeah.
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: Only at BPAC.
• 22:13
  Speaker 5: Only at BPAC.
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: I got to put that on my brochure next year,
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: Shakespeare and food trucks.
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: Steal that. Please, steal that.
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: And the big thing is, you know, a lot of
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: Shakespearean plays are like, what, three hours long? They do
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: a real good edit. So all of the versions they
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: bring out are 90 minutes long. And unless you're a
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: Shakespearean scholar, you don't know that anything's.
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: Been edited out. If you haven't been to a Shakespeare
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: show outdoors, it's an entirely different experience. And when I
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: lived in New York City, worked at Fox News, I
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: used to go to the Shakespeare. They had Shakespeare in
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: Central Park.
• 22:47
  Speaker 5: That's a big one, yeah.
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: A big one. And just so much fun. And, folks,
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: you're going to love it. Let's talk, because you've got
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: some great musical artists, too, coming up October 9th. John Waite,
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: and then a couple of weeks later, Britney Spencer.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, John Waite is sort of a rock icon. He
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: was the lead singer of a band called The Babies.
• 23:06
  Speaker 5: He's British.
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: He was the lead singer of a band called Bad English,
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: and then he went out on his own, and some
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: of the songs that you would have heard his voice
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: on are Isn't It Time, Every Time I Think of You,
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: When I See His Smile, Missing You, and he still
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: brings it, and it's going to be a great show.
• 23:25
  Speaker 5: And it's going to sell out.
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: Tell me about Britney Spencer.
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: Britney Spencer has been around for a while, but not
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: a lot of people know her because she's out of Nashville.
• 23:34
  Speaker 5: She's African-American. The only reason I mention that is.
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: There aren't a lot of black country singers.
• 23:40
  Speaker 5: So she sings country music.
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: But she's mainly the first 10 years of her career
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: been a backup singer to some huge artists like Willie Nelson,
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: Jason Isbell. um, Brandi Carlile, uh, and, and then on, on, uh,
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: with the, uh, with Beyonce and her album.
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: Oh, Cowboy Carter.
• 24:02
  Speaker 5: Cowboy Carter.
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: Beyonce asked her and two other ladies to be her
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: backup singers on that album. So this is her solo
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: with her own band, uh, singing stuff from Cowboy Carter
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: and singing stuff from her own album.
• 24:16
  Speaker 5: And, and so she's trying to.
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: Get her wings and, you know, she likes the big
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: gigs because they pair well, but, You know, but she's
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: trying to go out on her own. But she's got
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: this voice that will knock you out, and that's Britney Spencer.
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: And if country's not your thing, it's okay, because what,
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: about a week or so later, you've got the James
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: Taylor Hourglass Tribute concert.
• 24:37
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I do.
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: I do two or three tribute acts a year. And
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: what I like is they've got to be good artists.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: Whoever's the lead singer, you close your eyes, and you've
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: got to go, oh, my gosh, that's James Taylor.
• 24:47
  Speaker 5: But I don't like them to act like James Taylor.
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 24:50
  Speaker 5: I hate that. Like, I'm James Taylor. No, you're not.
• 24:52
  Speaker 5: He's still alive. Stop it. You know, but this guy.
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: Is out of New York, actually Long Island, and he
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: and his seven-piece band are coming to join us for
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: a two-hour set of nothing but James Taylor music. And
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: James Taylor had stuff like Carolina In My Mind, Fire
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: and Rain, my favorite song, Mexico, Shower of the People,
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: and a whole bunch of others. And he's... really great.
• 25:17
  Speaker 5: He will also sell out. He's very close to it
• 25:20
  Speaker 5: right now.
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: Michael Bollinger is the Artistic Director at the Bartlett Performing
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: Arts Center, and today we are announcing BPAC's 2026-2027 Performing
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: Arts Series right here on KWAM. There's a very weird
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: photograph in the brochure, and a guy who looks like
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: he came out of, like, The Muppet Show. He kind
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: of looks like Beaker from The Muppet Show.
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: It's a show called Super Scientific Circus, and I've worked
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: with these guys before.
• 25:45
  Speaker 5: There's only two guys in it. This guy is really short.
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: But they both used to work for the Ringling Brothers
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: Barnum Bailey Circus when it really had like elephants and stuff.
• 25:55
  Speaker 5: You know, he was a clown. The other guy was
• 25:57
  Speaker 5: a mime.
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: But they use all of their circus skills, all of
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: their comedy, some magic, but to teach kids science. So
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: it's called Super Scientific Circus, and they use a lot
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: of audience participation, and the kids will not only have fun,
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: but they'll walk away going, Oh, that's cool.
• 26:18
  Speaker 5: I didn't know that.
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm looking at the description here, and I see
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: things like boomerangs, bubbles, and bull whips. But this is
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: a family-friendly event. I just want to make sure.
• 26:29
  Speaker 5: Yes. No, this is a family-friendly show.
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: The day before, they're going to do a double performance
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: for 700 school students.
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: Oh, wow.
• 26:36
  Speaker 5: Just arts and ed. That's an arts and ed show.
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: Love that.
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: And this is a Saturday matinee. And the thing with
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: the bull whip, here's what they do with it. So
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: the tall guy... puts a cigarette in his mouth. No
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: cigarettes are lit in this show.
• 26:48
  Speaker 5: Like, no animals are harmed, right?
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: So he puts it in his mouth. He stands profile
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: to Mr. Fish, the short guy. He gets out a
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: 10-foot-long bullwhip and steps back 10 feet. And he practices
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: a couple times, and then he snaps it, and he
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: first cuts the cigarette in half without hitting the guy
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: in the nose. And second, though, what you learn about
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: that is, you know where there's that pop at the end?
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: That's because the end of the bullwhip has broken the
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: sound barrier.
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: Oh, wow. I had no idea.
• 27:17
  Speaker 5: You learned something.
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: The more you know on the Mighty 990, the more
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: you know. I want to fast forward. We've got Hannah
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: Harper coming up in November. But then I want to
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: move to Christmas if we can.
• 27:29
  Speaker 5: But Hannah Harper is huge.
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: She just won American Idol just this May.
• 27:33
  Speaker 5: And I've got two performances, and she's almost sold out
• 27:35
  Speaker 5: right now.
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: So she's going to sell out.
• 27:37
  Speaker 5: She will.
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: And the ticket prices are so reasonable, too.
• 27:39
  Speaker 5: Yeah, they are.
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: Let's talk Christmas real quick.
• 27:42
  Speaker 5: You got it, buddy.
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: You've got three great events coming up, and this is
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: a lot of fun. Kicking off the holidays with Christmas
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: with the Petersons.
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: Right, and the Petersons are a big family, and they
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: live down around Branson, and they're one of the top
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: three selling shows in Branson. But they have a special
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: Christmas show. So they're going to come to me to
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: be packed. And do nothing but Christmas music for two
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: hours the weekend before Thanksgiving. You want to tell me
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: what the next one is?
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: Matilda, the musical.
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: Matilda, the Broadway musical. We produce a couple musicals ourselves
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: every year. This is our youth production. It's professionally directed
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: and lit and built and all that. But all of
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: the artists, young artists, are from Greater Bartlett and Greater Mid-South.
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: And we had like a hundred kids audition. It's going
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: to be a great show. And we have at least
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: three performances of that.
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: And wrapping up the Yuletide season, we have a classic,
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: The Nutcracker.
• 28:39
  Speaker 5: Yes, yes. We're missing a male ballerina ballet dancer. Would
• 28:44
  Speaker 5: you help us out?
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm not good at that. I'm a Baptist. I
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: got no rhythm.
• 28:50
  Speaker 5: Well, then don't do that. Don't do that.
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: But at any rate, that's a partnership with a dance company.
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: And they've been there for the last four or five years.
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: And every time they're in residency for.
• 29:03
  Speaker 5: That weekend, it is sold out.
• 29:06
  Speaker 4: Wow.
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: Now, there's plenty of tickets left right now, but by
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: the time we get to it, it should be sold out.
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: All right. BPAC.org, that's B-P-A-C-C dot O-R-G. That's the website.
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: People can go there, get tickets and information.
• 29:21
  Speaker 5: Right, right.
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: And you can buy your tickets online, or you can
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: call the box office, 385-5588.
• 29:25
  Speaker 5: They open at 10 o'clock.
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: And the neat thing about BPAC is we only have
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: 350 seats. So even if you're sitting in the back row,
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: you got a great seat. It's like Hannah Harper or whoever,
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: you know, is performing in your living room.
• 29:43
  Speaker 5: You know, it's great.
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: Love that. Michael, it is great to see you.
• 29:47
  Speaker 5: Good to see you, sir.
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: All right, folks, it's going to be a lot of
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: fun at BPAC, the Bartlett Performing Arts Center, the big
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: 2026-2027 season. Go to bpac.org. You're going to have a
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: great time, great family fun. All right, got to take
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: a break. Coming up, going back to Dallas, Scott Golden,
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: chairman of the Tennessee Republican Party. This is Todd Stearns.
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: I told you guys it was a busy day. Don't forget,
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: 2 o'clock today, the Charlie Kirk special airing exclusively here
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: on the Mighty 990. I want to go right away
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: to our Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line and back to Dallas
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: at the RNC, the Republican Convention, midterm convention. Scott Golden,
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: chairman of the Tennessee Republican Party, joins us. Scott, good
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: to have you with us today and set the scene
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: for us. What a night last night.
• 30:44
  Speaker 4: Fantastic.
• 30:45
  Speaker 6: Todd, good to hear from you. Yeah, we're all a
• 30:46
  Speaker 6: little hoarse and tired. You know, everything, as we've learned,
• 30:50
  Speaker 6: everything's bigger in Texas. So the walking, everybody's got their
• 30:53
  Speaker 6: steps in this week. But what a fantastic scene last night.
• 30:57
  Speaker 6: You know, the momentum in the hall was just incredible.
• 31:04
  Speaker 6: President Trump did a great job. I don't know if
• 31:06
  Speaker 6: everybody's having the opportunity to watch some of the speakers
• 31:09
  Speaker 6: that began at three o'clock, but Tim Scott gave one
• 31:12
  Speaker 6: of the best speeches, and that may have been around
• 31:14
  Speaker 6: 530 or 545. So I would encourage everybody, if you've
• 31:18
  Speaker 6: got a chance, turn on whatever channel is watching it
• 31:21
  Speaker 6: because there are some really fantastic things being said. about
• 31:25
  Speaker 6: how important this midterm election is.
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: I thought Brandon Gill and a lot of people after
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: his remarks last night said this guy could be a
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: presidential contender one day. By the way, Dinesh D'Souza is
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: his father-in-law. Brandon Gill really brought down the House and
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: I think really defined what this midterm election is really
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: all about, especially with the extremists on the other side
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: of the aisle.
• 31:49
  Speaker 6: I mean, clearly you're seeing the message And, you know, look,
• 31:54
  Speaker 6: this is something that's never been done before. It's historic.
• 31:58
  Speaker 6: We're blessed to be here. I know I was with
• 32:01
  Speaker 6: Chairman Grutter's a lot yesterday, different meetings that we're doing
• 32:05
  Speaker 6: here for the RNC. And, you know, he and I
• 32:08
  Speaker 6: have talked about this for a couple of months. And
• 32:10
  Speaker 6: he said, look, we have to do things differently. We
• 32:12
  Speaker 6: know what the in the last 41 midterms, the party
• 32:16
  Speaker 6: that controls the White House has lost 39 of the
• 32:20
  Speaker 6: 41 midterms. So, you know, history says We shouldn't be
• 32:24
  Speaker 6: in this race. But a couple of things going on,
• 32:27
  Speaker 6: first of all, is President Trump and the ability to
• 32:29
  Speaker 6: sell the message. Secondly, it's the success that President Trump
• 32:33
  Speaker 6: has had. Look no further than Memphis and what four
• 32:36
  Speaker 6: years makes the difference between what the Biden policies are
• 32:39
  Speaker 6: and the Trump policies. And finally, how really radical the
• 32:44
  Speaker 6: Democrat candidates are that have been nominated. And of course,
• 32:47
  Speaker 6: we're seeing this in Tennessee as well.
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: Scott, let's talk about Tennessee. Of course, there's great hope
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: that we are going to pick up that additional congressional
• 32:57
  Speaker 3: seat with the redrawing of the 9th. And there was
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: some polling data out. I'm not quite sure why the
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: Democrats were excited about this. There was a far-left polling agency.
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: went out and they discovered that Brent Taylor is beating
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: Justin Pearson by four points. I suspect it's much higher
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: than that. But anyway, it's looking good for the Republicans
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: here in Tennessee to pick up that seat.
• 33:22
  Speaker 6: Yeah, about the same for Charlie Hatcher, who's also got
• 33:26
  Speaker 6: a piece of Shelby County as well. Obviously, great poll
• 33:30
  Speaker 6: numbers out for Senator Blackburn and her race. So, you know,
• 33:36
  Speaker 6: We're not going to take anything for granted. I know
• 33:39
  Speaker 6: all of our party chairs and all the apparatus of everything.
• 33:42
  Speaker 6: We're going to work hard for the next 54 days.
• 33:44
  Speaker 6: There's no question. I don't, you know, look, poll numbers
• 33:48
  Speaker 6: that tells us that at least in Tennessee, you're seeing
• 33:52
  Speaker 6: a lot of excitement among Republicans. But we need to
• 33:55
  Speaker 6: make sure that we translate that excitement, make sure that
• 33:58
  Speaker 6: they're at the polls. That's what we're going to be
• 34:00
  Speaker 6: doing for the next 54 days. I mean, so we're
• 34:04
  Speaker 6: not going to take a shot. in Tennessee of turning
• 34:08
  Speaker 6: our government back over to some of the policy ideas
• 34:11
  Speaker 6: that we've seen nationally. Scary times.
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah, no doubt about it. And of course, Marshall Blackburn
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: looking very, very strong in the gubernatorial race. But again,
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: I think the philosophy I've always heard is campaign like
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: you're 10 points down, you know, just get out there
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: and leave it all on the playing field.
• 34:30
  Speaker 6: It's exactly the way we feel as well. I'm not
• 34:33
  Speaker 6: looking at poll numbers. I'm looking at, OK, Tell me
• 34:36
  Speaker 6: when these people are going to vote. As soon as
• 34:38
  Speaker 6: early voting opens, we're going to be encouraging. I tell
• 34:42
  Speaker 6: people all the time, if you're sick of getting mail
• 34:45
  Speaker 6: and text, make sure you go out and vote early.
• 34:48
  Speaker 6: Once you take that vote, we're removing you off the list.
• 34:51
  Speaker 6: We're not going to bother you anymore. So I said,
• 34:55
  Speaker 6: that is the greatest encouragement for voting early, is you
• 34:58
  Speaker 6: don't have to get all of the information that's coming out.
• 35:01
  Speaker 6: So get Republican voters day one. Let's get the votes
• 35:05
  Speaker 6: in the bank. And let us let us start focusing
• 35:08
  Speaker 6: on every other voter we can get.
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: We have Scott Golden joining us on the Patriot Mobile
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: Newsmaker line from Dallas, chairman of the Tennessee Republican Party.
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: And Scott, as you and I are talking here, they're
• 35:18
  Speaker 3: wrapping up a Turning Point USA chapter meeting, Collierville High School.
• 35:22
  Speaker 3: These kids meet at 630 in the morning. One of
• 35:25
  Speaker 3: the local restaurants in Collierville opens their doors to the kids.
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: And I'm wondering, you know, what you guys are doing
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: at the state level to get these young people involved
• 35:35
  Speaker 3: in the party and get them involved in politics.
• 35:39
  Speaker 6: Yeah, encouraging mainly because, you know, you get a bit,
• 35:43
  Speaker 6: as we've seen, and certainly this is a very tragic
• 35:46
  Speaker 6: anniversary of Charlie Kirk. And we're all going to be
• 35:51
  Speaker 6: thinking about throughout the day. But, you know, as these
• 35:54
  Speaker 6: clubs get, you know, they kind of blow up, they
• 35:57
  Speaker 6: do some different things. Our job is to sort of, okay, look,
• 36:00
  Speaker 6: you've got the passion for politics now. You see why
• 36:04
  Speaker 6: it's important. And then it's, okay, let's translate it into
• 36:08
  Speaker 6: some of the young Republicans' activities. Shelby County has a
• 36:12
  Speaker 6: great young Republicans group down there. Then we take them
• 36:15
  Speaker 6: and get them into the regular party or the women's
• 36:17
  Speaker 6: party and, you know, invite them to events so that
• 36:20
  Speaker 6: they can start that participation. I think that's going to
• 36:23
  Speaker 6: be the legacy of Charlie Kirk. I see it in
• 36:25
  Speaker 6: my own life. I have two college-age daughters. that were
• 36:30
  Speaker 6: really drawn into politics over the last year had a
• 36:33
  Speaker 6: lot to do with Charlie Kirk. So it's translating them
• 36:37
  Speaker 6: from the sidelines, getting them on the field.
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: Love it. Scott, the music means we've got to scoot
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: out of here. Going to let you get some breakfast.
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: I know you guys have a long day, but thanks
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: for the great work you and your team are doing.
• 36:48
  Speaker 4: Hi, Todd.
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  Speaker 6: Thank you. Appreciate all that you did as well. We
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  Speaker 6: look forward to it. Call us if you need us.
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  Speaker 6: We're down in Dallas.
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  Speaker 3: Hope everybody's okay.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 3: There you go. Scott Golden, everybody.