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Trump: “A Bad Decision for Republicans” · ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes

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  Speaker 1: From Memphis, Tennessee, it's America's favorite gun-toting, Bible-clinging, deplorable American.
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  Speaker 2: That's us, that's right. I love this American ride.
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  Speaker 3: Todd Starrs.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And hello, everybody.
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  Speaker 2: We have a terrific show lined up for you today.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for making us your choice. Dune to 3 Eastern,
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  Speaker 2: border to border, coast to coast. Across the Fruited Plain.
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  Speaker 2: So I want to start with this James Tallarico story.
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  Speaker 2: This guy is just, it's weird, man. Just really weird. Now,
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  Speaker 2: the latest information coming out about Tallarico, who is the
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  Speaker 2: Democrat nominee running for the U.S. Senate in Texas. The
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  Speaker 2: latest information is this guy now coming out and naming
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  Speaker 2: his his favorite drag queen. And what I found interesting
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  Speaker 2: about this is how quickly he was able to answer
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  Speaker 2: that question. You know, a lot of times when you
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  Speaker 2: are out, and this happens to me when I'm out
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  Speaker 2: at a speaking engagement, whether it's CPAC or Values Voters
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  Speaker 2: Summit or things of that nature, whenever those kinds of
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  Speaker 2: things happen, somebody will come up to you, they would interview,
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  Speaker 2: man on the street kind of stuff, and they'll stick
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  Speaker 2: a microphone in your face, and they're like, Who do
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  Speaker 2: you think is going to win or whatever? And you
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  Speaker 2: answer the question. I want to play this audio. This
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  Speaker 2: is James Tallarico, and he was asked about his favorite
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  Speaker 2: drag queen. I want you to listen. We're going to
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  Speaker 2: play this a couple of times because there are a
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  Speaker 2: couple of observations here. Cut 13, please.
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  Speaker 5: Mr.
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  Speaker 6: Tallarico, so nice to meet you.
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  Speaker 3: Sorry, I broke my head.
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  Speaker 5: I was there when you defended the drags. Who's your
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  Speaker 5: favorite drag queen in Texas?
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  Speaker 7: Oh, my God.
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  Speaker 2: Probably Alyssa Edwards.
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  Speaker 8: Alyssa Edwards.
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  Speaker 3: I love Marky Mays. Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. Can we go back? I'm just going to, again,
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  Speaker 2: this is not like, you know, hey, Dylan, who's your
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  Speaker 2: favorite drag queen?
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  Speaker 4: Hmm.
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  Speaker 8: I'll have to think about that.
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  Speaker 9: Exactly.
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  Speaker 2: That is exactly what every red-blooded American may end. Would
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  Speaker 2: say about that.
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  Speaker 8: He acted like you threw him a softball.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: I didn't know we were asking easy questions here.
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  Speaker 2: It's like, girlfriend, please. It's Alyssa. We all love Alyssa. Alyssa,
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  Speaker 2: by the way, is a drag performer that works with children.
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  Speaker 2: And it is really– I've seen some of the photos,
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  Speaker 2: and they're just really creepy photos. Again, I don't– why
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  Speaker 2: is it these drag queens want to, I guess, spread
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  Speaker 2: their legs for the children of America? I don't understand that.
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  Speaker 2: And it's really off-putting when you see grown men in
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  Speaker 2: exotic dresses spreading their legs and letting children stuff dollar
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  Speaker 2: bills into their attire. It's just weird. But again, I
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  Speaker 2: want to go back and I will play it one
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  Speaker 2: more time. And because I'm curious about the timing mechanism here.
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  Speaker 2: Cut number 13 again.
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  Speaker 8: This is Tyler Rico.
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  Speaker 10: So nice to meet you.
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  Speaker 3: Sorry, I broke my head.
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  Speaker 5: I was there when you defended the drags. Who's your
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  Speaker 5: favorite drag queen in Texas?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, my God.
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  Speaker 3: Probably Alyssa Edwards.
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  Speaker 2: Two seconds. Less than two seconds. Less than two seconds
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  Speaker 2: it took this guy. It was like, it's like. It's
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  Speaker 2: like me. Ask me what my favorite beverage is.
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  Speaker 8: What's your favorite beverage?
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  Speaker 2: Dr. Pepper.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And you know why? You know why I'm able to
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  Speaker 2: say that?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Because I drink Dr. Pepper every day.
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  Speaker 8: It's also normal information to just have at the top
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  Speaker 8: of your mind.
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  Speaker 2: That's right. So I know what I love. James Tallarico
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  Speaker 2: knows what he loves. This is the guy who also
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  Speaker 2: met his girlfriend at a gay bar. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: of any straight men who would do that.
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  Speaker 8: Why was he at the gay bar to meet the girl?
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's the question no one's allowed to. I know, right?
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  Speaker 2: Do we know what her name is? We'll call her Mildred. Hey, Mildred,
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  Speaker 2: would you like to go out? Why, I'd love to, James.
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  Speaker 2: Where would you like to go? Well, I know this
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  Speaker 2: lovely establishment called Studs and horses? I know it intimately.
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  Speaker 2: So I don't know. We're not judging the guy. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: he's voluntarily putting all this information out there. But again,
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  Speaker 2: here's a guy... who thinks that God is non-binary. He
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  Speaker 2: hates Christianity. He hates the color of his skin. He
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  Speaker 2: said he was coming to terms with his whiteness. We
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  Speaker 2: don't know what that means. But I'm just questioning here
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  Speaker 2: all you people in Texas, and Texas men especially, because
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  Speaker 2: I would say that if you walked up to the
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  Speaker 2: average Texan man and said, hey, what's your favorite football player?
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  Speaker 2: They would tell you right on the spot. Or, hey,
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  Speaker 2: what's your favorite episode of Walker, Texas Ranger? They would
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  Speaker 2: tell you. But if you were to ask a Texas
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  Speaker 2: cowboy to name his favorite drag queen, I think they
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  Speaker 2: would like, oh, uh-huh, or they would just punch you
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  Speaker 2: in the nose. I do. No, I'm not advocating violence. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: don't forget, we've got to play the Arch Manning audio
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  Speaker 2: speaking of violence. So anyway, people are just really puzzled
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  Speaker 2: about this. And so then they ask this question about
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  Speaker 2: your favorite drag queen, and it's like, oh, yeah, right away.
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  Speaker 2: It's like, what? People are just puzzled that he would
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  Speaker 2: just immediately answer an off-the-cuff question like that. So a
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  Speaker 2: lot of people are scratching their heads, and they're saying,
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  Speaker 2: what is up with this dude? And, of course, there
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  Speaker 2: are always the lingering rumors about whether or not he's
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  Speaker 2: a vegan or which is weird as well. I want
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  Speaker 2: to play some more audio. This is Tallarico. And as
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  Speaker 2: much as it's just weird, this guy is also very,
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  Speaker 2: very dangerous. Here is Tallarico, and he's making the arguments
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  Speaker 2: that parents who do not allow their children to transition.
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  Speaker 2: In other words, let's say you've got little Marky, and
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  Speaker 2: we always pick on Mark. Let's call him Melvin. So
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  Speaker 2: you have like a fifth grader named Melvin, and Melvin
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  Speaker 2: comes home from school and says that he wants to
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  Speaker 2: transition to Mildred. And most parents would say, no, you
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  Speaker 2: can't do that. And Tallarico is saying that if you
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  Speaker 2: do not allow your child, your underage child, to transition,
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  Speaker 2: then you are guilty of child abuse. Take a listen
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  Speaker 2: to Cut 12.
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  Speaker 11: I think there are some folks that would think that
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  Speaker 11: if you deny your child's gender identity, that that's incredibly harmful.
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  Speaker 11: And whether or not we label it with the term abuse,
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  Speaker 11: I mean, it's abusive for sure. And so that's where
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  Speaker 11: I think some of us have concerns, and I don't
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  Speaker 11: want to speak for other members.
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  Speaker 2: Of the group.
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  Speaker 12: Yeah, that it, well, should it say, or you're suggesting
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  Speaker 12: it ought to say that it should.
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  Speaker 10: Include a person's willingness or unwillingness to acknowledge a child's gender?
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  Speaker 2: Or should it be silent as to.
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  Speaker 8: Whether that is abuse, whether it needs it at all?
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  Speaker 11: My just concern is ruling it out as not being abuse,
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  Speaker 11: I think, is dangerous and could certainly harm some of
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  Speaker 11: our most vulnerable kids in the state.
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  Speaker 2: So he's making the argument that parents who don't transition
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  Speaker 2: their kids should have their children taken away from them.
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  Speaker 2: That's the argument that Tallarico is making. Oh, and then
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  Speaker 2: there's this little gem here. about how we should consider
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  Speaker 2: running the world. Cut number one, please.
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  Speaker 13: What if we.
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  Speaker 11: Ran our world like we run a kindergarten classroom? Because
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  Speaker 11: at the end of the day, aren't we all just
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  Speaker 11: really big kindergartners?
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  Speaker 2: No, we're really not, sir. We're not. And the idea
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  Speaker 2: that you think you are is really creeping people out.
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  Speaker 2: What is wrong with you? It's bad. You know, Dylan,
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  Speaker 2: politicians are known for going out there and kissing babies.
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  Speaker 2: This guy would be making out with them.
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  Speaker 8: Because he thinks he is one.
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  Speaker 2: Please take your tongue out of my child's mouth. We're
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  Speaker 2: voting Republican, for God's sakes. I mean, this is insane.
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  Speaker 2: What if we ran our world like we were?
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  Speaker 14: What?
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  Speaker 2: Who talks like that? Who thinks like that? There's something
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  Speaker 2: wrong with this guy, folks. Just something really weird. He
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  Speaker 2: talks about how he loves hanging around transgender children. There's
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  Speaker 2: just something off about this guy. Something is just not right.
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  Speaker 2: And at the end of the day, all of you
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  Speaker 2: people of the great state of Texas are going to
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  Speaker 2: have to answer this question. Do you really want to
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  Speaker 2: be represented by a guy who eats tofu and whose
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  Speaker 2: Jim Jam is It's Raining Men? Oh, my word. Anyway,
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  Speaker 2: never say... Look, here's what gets me. This is the
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  Speaker 2: same state that elected Lyndon Baines Johnson to the U.S.
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  Speaker 3: Senate.
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  Speaker 2: And, of course, this... became president of the United States, LBJ.
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  Speaker 2: So say what you want to about LBJ. He was
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  Speaker 2: a man's man. Dylan, he used to hold meetings, like
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  Speaker 2: official meetings, with some of his top aides in the
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  Speaker 2: bathroom while he was sitting on the toilet.
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  Speaker 8: No shame.
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  Speaker 2: Doing business. Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: Doing double business there.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was number two. And now they got a
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  Speaker 2: guy that actually has to pee sitting down. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: that's where the Democrats, this is where they've gone. So
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  Speaker 2: all I can say is good luck with that. And
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  Speaker 2: that's why I am shocked at the polling data coming
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  Speaker 2: out of Texas. I'm not sure if I believe what
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  Speaker 2: they're trying to sell us. But keep in mind, ladies
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  Speaker 2: and gentlemen, when they came to polling, they got it
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  Speaker 2: wrong about Donald J. Trump. Two times. Two times they
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  Speaker 2: got it wrong. 901-260-5926 is our telephone number. We're going
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  Speaker 2: to get into the Supreme Court ruling over the United
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  Speaker 2: States Postal Service. This is, again, another major setback for
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  Speaker 2: voter integrity. President Trump really, really upset, and as well
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  Speaker 2: as he should be. The Supreme Court got snookered on
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  Speaker 2: this one. So the reality is there's a good chance
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  Speaker 2: voter fraud may happen in some of these states. It's
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  Speaker 2: going to happen. And there's not much we can do
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  Speaker 2: about it unless President Trump decides to step in and
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  Speaker 2: declare a national emergency, which he has the power to do.
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  Speaker 2: It is a massive step for the president to make,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm just not sure that the president is going
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  Speaker 2: to go that far just yet. Also, up on Capitol Hill,
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  Speaker 2: we've got Scott Besson. Treasury Secretary, FBI Director Kash Patel,
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  Speaker 2: and they are going at it like cats and dogs.
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  Speaker 2: We have some great, great audio from that. And an
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  Speaker 2: interesting turn of events in Georgia, where the former Democrat
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  Speaker 2: mayor of Atlanta is now endorsing the Republican for the
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  Speaker 2: governor's race there. So we'll tell you all about that
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  Speaker 2: as well. Again, our telephone number, 901-260-5926. This is the
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  Speaker 2: Todd Stern Show. So it was a year, a little
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  Speaker 2: over a year ago, probably a year and a couple
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  Speaker 2: of weeks, that President Trump was on the show talking
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  Speaker 2: about Memphis. And during the course of the conversation, I
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  Speaker 2: had asked the president to consider sending the National Guard
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  Speaker 2: to my hometown. At the time, we were listed as
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  Speaker 2: the nation's deadliest city. We were also listed as the
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  Speaker 2: nation's most violent city. And the president said that he
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  Speaker 2: was not aware of how bad things had gotten in Memphis.
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  Speaker 2: And I said, well, it's pretty bad. And I asked
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  Speaker 2: him if he would consider sending the National Guard in
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  Speaker 2: like he did in Washington, D.C. So at the end
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  Speaker 2: of the interview, the president comes back to revisit the issue.
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  Speaker 2: And he said that he would. He promised that he
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  Speaker 2: would look into it. And I really appreciated that. I
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  Speaker 2: felt like he had, you know, I didn't mean to overstep,
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  Speaker 2: but I felt like somebody needed to speak out and say, hey, Mr. President,
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  Speaker 2: we could use some help down here in Memphis, Tennessee. Beautiful.
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  Speaker 2: It's a beautiful city. Beautiful people. So a lot of
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  Speaker 2: heritage here. So anyway, a couple of weeks later, got
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  Speaker 2: a call from the White House, and you know the story.
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  Speaker 2: The president invited me to come up to the Oval
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  Speaker 2: Office to be there as he signed all the documents
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  Speaker 2: sending the National Guard to Memphis and creating what is
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  Speaker 2: now known as the Memphis Safe Task Force. And today
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  Speaker 2: is the one-year anniversary, Tuesday, today, the one-year anniversary of
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  Speaker 2: the Memphis Safe Task Force getting to work in Memphis, Tennessee.
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  Speaker 2: And the results have been off the charts, just unbelievable.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you want to talk about a success story.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to tell you the success story. These are
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  Speaker 2: just some.
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  Speaker 3: Of the numbers.
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  Speaker 2: In just one year, there have been more than 12,000
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  Speaker 2: arrests in Memphis. And let me just say this. We
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  Speaker 2: have a radical far-left district attorney. He smells like George Soros.
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  Speaker 2: And this guy, one of the big problems is that
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  Speaker 2: the DA's office was not going after the bad guys.
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  Speaker 2: So they were letting these guys, so the cops were
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  Speaker 2: arresting the bad guys, and then they were being let
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  Speaker 2: out before the police could even finish their paperwork by
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  Speaker 2: these activist judges that we have here and the district attorney,
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  Speaker 2: all Democrats. And understand, Memphis has been ruled by Democrats
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  Speaker 2: for decades. What, 50, 60, 70 years we've had Democrats
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  Speaker 2: running everything about Memphis? Right now there are, and I'm
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  Speaker 2: talking about Memphis proper, there are no Republicans in elected
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  Speaker 2: office here. That's how bad it is. So anyway, 12,000 arrests,
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  Speaker 2: and what the feds did is brilliant. They're charging these
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  Speaker 2: guys under federal statute, so the DA has no authority
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  Speaker 2: over this. So these guys are going to federal prison,
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  Speaker 2: and they're getting big-time jail sentences. But over the past year,
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  Speaker 2: murders in Memphis, down 44%. Robberies in Memphis, down 43%.
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  Speaker 2: Motor vehicle thefts, we're talking about carjackings here, down 57%. Now,
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  Speaker 2: the Democrats who rule Memphis hate Donald Trump, and they
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  Speaker 2: hate what he did. But the mayor is a smart guy.
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  Speaker 2: He knows how bad it is. As a matter of fact,
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  Speaker 2: the mayor of Memphis, when he first got elected, this
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  Speaker 2: is a new mayor, when he first got elected, the
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  Speaker 2: first thing he did was invite the gangbangers, the leaders,
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  Speaker 2: the gang lords, invited them to City Hall for Kool-Aid
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  Speaker 2: and cookies. And he was basically begging the warlords to
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  Speaker 2: knock it off and to stop shooting each other. And,
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  Speaker 2: of course, the warlords, they drank the Kool-Aid and ate
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  Speaker 2: the cookies and walked out and opened fire. It's just terrible.
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  Speaker 2: So the Democrats, they have turned a blind eye to
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  Speaker 2: the crime. And they're not giving Trump any credit at all.
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  Speaker 2: Because honestly, the Democrats would rather people live in fear.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that's what they want. They want the people
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  Speaker 2: to live in fear. They literally defended the predators who
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  Speaker 2: roamed our streets. Trump did what the Memphis Democrats refused
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  Speaker 2: to do. He declared war on the thugs. And I'm
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  Speaker 2: telling you, there are plenty of black citizens in Memphis
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  Speaker 2: who are incredibly grateful to this president. As a matter
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  Speaker 2: of fact, I would be willing to say there are
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  Speaker 2: a good many black Memphis Democrats who are now Republicans
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  Speaker 2: as a direct result of Donald Trump coming in and saying,
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  Speaker 2: you do not have to live like this. This is unacceptable,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm going to do something about it. And he did.
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  Speaker 2: And he did. I shudder to think about what this
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  Speaker 2: city would look like had Trump not sent in the
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  Speaker 2: National Guard. All that to say, there's a chapter in
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  Speaker 2: my new book, The Golden Age, and it describes the
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  Speaker 2: backstory of how Trump saved Memphis. It's a great chapter
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  Speaker 2: called How Trump Saved My Hometown. And all I can
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  Speaker 2: tell you is thank you, Mr. President. God bless you, Mr. President,
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  Speaker 2: for making Memphis safe again. I mean, don't get me wrong.
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  Speaker 2: There's still a lot of work to do, a lot.
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  Speaker 2: But the numbers are remarkable, and it is now safe
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  Speaker 2: to come to the city and Visit some of our
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  Speaker 2: great sites like the Peabody Hotel and the Memphis Zoo
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  Speaker 2: and Graceland. K-WAM. We have a nice tour. We'll give
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  Speaker 2: you a Dr. Pepper. But anyway, thank you, Mr. President,
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  Speaker 2: for caring about Memphis. It means a lot. 901-260-5926, our
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  Speaker 2: telephone number. This is the Todd Stern Show.
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  Speaker 15: The American people are a welcoming and generous people. But
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  Speaker 15: those who enter our country illegally and those who employ
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  Speaker 15: them disrespect the rule of law. And because we live
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  Speaker 15: in an age where terrorists are challenging our borders, we
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  Speaker 15: cannot allow people to pour into the U.S.
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  Speaker 3: Undetected, undocumented, and unchecked.
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  Speaker 15: Americans are right to demand better border security, and better
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  Speaker 15: enforcement of the immigration laws. Illegal immigration is bad for
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  Speaker 15: illegal immigrants and bad for the workers.
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  Speaker 3: They compete against.
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  Speaker 15: Replacing the flood of illegals with a regulated stream of
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  Speaker 15: legal immigrants who enter the United States after background checks
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  Speaker 15: and who are provided labor rights would enhance our security,
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  Speaker 15: raise wages, and improve working conditions for all Americans. I
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  Speaker 15: fully appreciate, though, that we can't create a new guest
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  Speaker 15: worker program without making it as close to impossible. as
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  Speaker 15: we can for illegal workers to find employment. We don't
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  Speaker 15: need new guest workers plus future undocumented immigrants. We need
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  Speaker 15: guest workers instead of undocumented immigrants. And before any guest
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  Speaker 15: worker is hired, the job must be made available to
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  Speaker 15: Americans in at a decent wage with benefits and the
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  Speaker 15: employers need to show that in fact there are Americans
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  Speaker 15: who won't take these jobs. I am not somebody who's
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  Speaker 15: willing to take it on faith that there are jobs
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  Speaker 15: that Americans won't take. I know that dealing with the
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  Speaker 15: undocumented population is difficult for practical and political reasons. But
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  Speaker 15: we simply can't claim to have dealt with the problem
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  Speaker 15: of illegal immigration if we ignore the illegal resident population
• 20:40
  Speaker 15: or pretend that they will leave voluntarily.
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that was Barack Obama back in 2006, and now
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: every single thing that he said is now considered to be, what, racist, xenophobic.
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: Obama was literally spewing Republican talking points about the border
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: and about all of these H-1B visa people coming in
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: back in 2006. That just goes to show you how
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: far to the left the Democrat Party has gone. But
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: saying something like that now will literally get you canceled.
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: Welcome back to the Todd Stearns Radio Show. Great to
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: have you with us. President Trump is really upset over
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: the Supreme Court. Justices ruled against him on mail-in voting.
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: The administration had wanted to stay this injunction against U.S.
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: Postal Service ballot rules, and it would have impacted the
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: midterm elections. So basically, Trump is all about making sure
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: that our elections are secure. The president said on True Social,
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: I want to read this to you, Republicans just got
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: another bad decision from the Supreme Court, one the court
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: system took forever to give, and then blamed it in
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: part on no time left to implement a solution to
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: our totally corrupt and out-of-control mail-in voting disaster. It's a
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: laughingstock all over the world, and where we are the
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: only country that has to endure such a nation-destroying scam.
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: The president went on to praise Justices Alito and Thomas
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: for dissenting, calling them a pair of legends. He says
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: it's a big loss for Republicans and Americans itself and
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: makes cheating by the radical left, Democrats, on mail-in ballots
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: a much easier thing to do, and now they have
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: an open field to do so. So the question is,
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: What does Trump do now? And by the way, you're
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: talking about not having enough time. That was the Supreme
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: Court's argument. That's the same argument that John Thune had
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: when it came to the Save America Act. And I
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: warned you guys about this well over a year and
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: a half ago. And I remember at the time, you
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: guys were blowing up the phones. Oh, that Stearns, he's
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: a worrywart. Stearns, just enjoy the inauguration. Enjoy the Trump years.
• 23:16
  Speaker 8: It's going to be great.
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: They're going to get to it. Well, here we are,
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: and they haven't gotten to it. And again, when we
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: were six months out and Save America was nowhere near
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: being considered, that's when the red flags went up for me.
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: So the question is, what now? And there's been a
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: lot of talk about Trump declaring a national emergency order.
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: over the elections and federalizing the elections. A lot of
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: folks are excited about that, but then you have states'
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: rights folks, and they're saying, wait a second, no, no, no,
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: we don't want Uncle Sam coming in and doing something
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: like that. So the reality is that you're probably going
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: to have voter fraud in the midterms. And in some
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: of these races, I was looking at some polling data
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: that came out over the weekend, And look, some of
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: these races are close. Trafalgar Group, really stunned by the
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: Trafalgar Group polling because they have Democrats winning where Democrats
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: typically don't win. And the problem is they out-sampled or
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: over-sampled the Republicans by four points. And that tells me that, again,
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: we've just got some unhappy Republicans out there. You folks,
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: we're going to have to get over this. I mean,
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: if you want to punish the Republicans, there are plenty
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: of ways to do it, but this is not the one.
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: We've got to save the presidency. But anyway, I want
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: to share this with you. This is the latest polling
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: from the Trafalgar Group. Our good buddy Robert Cahaley, he
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: does a lot with Hannity. You see him on Fox
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  Speaker 2: all the time. Cahaley in Georgia has the Senate race
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: in the Democrat column. Senator Ossoff is at 49%. Mike Collins, 42%
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  Speaker 2: of the vote. What's going on there, you folks in Georgia?
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: What's going on? In North Carolina, Roy Cooper, 48% of
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  Speaker 2: the vote. Michael Whatley at 42%. And again, they oversampled
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: Republicans here. So these all should be pro-Republican polls, and
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: it's anything but. Looking at the Michigan Senate race, a
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: little bit closer, but Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan leading Mike
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: Rogers right now, 46% to 44%. This is according to Trafalgar.
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: So there you have it, ladies and gentlemen. And it's
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: a tough situation, so we've got to make sure that
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  Speaker 2: we get out the vote. Especially, look, if it's super
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: close and you've got Democrats getting out the dead people vote,
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: we may have some problems there. So just pay attention.
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: 901-260-5926 is our telephone number. That's 901-260-5926. FBI Director Kash
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: Patel testifying before the Senate today. Oh, this is a beaut.
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: The FBI director going after Senator Peter Welch, who is
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: a Democrat. Take a listen to Cut24.
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  Speaker 12: FBI and the Trump administration, that's what this is about.
• 26:47
  Speaker 12: Do you pledge that you will not in any way
• 26:50
  Speaker 12: interfere in the will of the American people when they
• 26:53
  Speaker 12: go to the polls? In November, I have pledged unequivocally
• 26:57
  Speaker 12: that I will not participate in your charade of lies.
• 27:00
  Speaker 12: Then why are you being such a panderer to President Trump,
• 27:05
  Speaker 12: who's still claiming that he won the 2020 election and
• 27:08
  Speaker 12: who has said the only way Democrats can win in
• 27:12
  Speaker 12: 2026 is if they cheat?
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: Do you believe that? What I believe in is the
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: rule of law.
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  Speaker 8: What I will always.
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: Believe in is executing the rule of law.
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: Are you done with your campaign ad? By the way,
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: it's been rigged.
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  Speaker 12: I want to know how your wealth increased 4,000% since
• 27:30
  Speaker 12: you became a United States senator.
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  Speaker 2: That's a magic act.
• 27:32
  Speaker 8: All Americans should be available.
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  Speaker 14: Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Patel.
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  Speaker 3: Let's knock it off.
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  Speaker 2: He went there. Senator Welch, proceed to ask your questions,
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: and the witness will answer the questions.
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  Speaker 12: Yeah.
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: Good for you. Good for you, FBI Director Cash Patel.
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: By the way, did you see Mitch McConnell finally surfaced,
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: and he is still somewhat alive? And look, a lot
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: of people, and Scott Jennings really making, he's stirring a
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: stink about all of this. Scott Jennings, what, months ago,
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: said that, He had long, loving talks with Mitch McConnell
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: and had a 20-minute conversation, very detailed, about all sorts
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: of foreign policy. That was months ago. Mitch McConnell's been
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: AWOL for more than 90 days. And Jennings was out
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: there saying, oh, no, no, no, he's talking to me.
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: I'm not sure anybody actually bought that. But now Jennings
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: is out there, so they finally— wheeled the guy out.
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: And I don't know if you've seen, and this is
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: far beyond my expertise, but the guy was like, almost
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: like a mummy. He sat there and he had this
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: like grin on his face that was like unnatural. And
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: it was almost, it wasn't like a, oh, I'm happy
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: to be here. It's like, I don't know who I am.
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: Who are you? Right? It was just like, and they
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: wheeled him and he didn't move his head. No, nothing.
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: He couldn't move anything.
• 29:08
  Speaker 16: Todd, someone said it was like the witch-like decoration at
• 29:11
  Speaker 16: Spirit Halloween waiting for you to get closer to the basket.
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: Oh, and then it flashes. And then it just attacks you.
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: So Scott Jennings is on his social media platform, and
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: he says, Oh, look, McConnell voted tonight and was the
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: deciding vote to move ahead with one of Trump's judicial nominees.
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: Are you kidding me? The guy's a zombie. And here's
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: the thing. Look, Scott Jennings, and by the way, there's
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: talk that he could be the next press secretary. I
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: think that's a bad, bad move. And here's the reason why.
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: This guy gets upset when you say anything negative about
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: his CNN colleagues. That is a major red flag for me. So, look, and, yeah,
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: I get it. He's BFFs with Mitch McConnell or what's
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: left of the poor guy. But, again, it's the witch
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: at the end. I'm sorry. I just got. It's a
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: fair point you bring up, though. I mean, he was gripping.
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: We're really not even gripping. His hands were there. Mitch
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: McConnell was there, but I don't think he was there.
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: I really don't. And you're telling me that this guy
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: is capable of being in the Congress, that he's truly
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: representing the Commonwealth of Kentucky? I'm telling you, the more
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: I think about it, the more I support either annual
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: health checkups or an age limit in Congress because it's
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: looking like a nursing home up there. Oh, who was it?
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: Coach Tuberville lives next door to McConnell, and TMZ was
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: asking him, and he goes, yeah, I don't know where
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: the guy is. We never see him out. Everybody thought
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: he died, by the way. They had all the law
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: enforcement outside. There were breaking news alerts.
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  Speaker 15: U.S.
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  Speaker 2: Capitol Police surround the home. You know why they were
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: surrounding the home? It's not that he was dead. No,
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: that had nothing to do with it. They didn't want you,
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: the people, to see what it took to get this
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: guy out of the house and into the car. Remember
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: when Hillary went down and they had to shove her
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: butt first into the... Remember that? You can't forget that.
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: That's the whole point. So they were trying to block
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: everybody's view of McConnell. But ultimately... It's a big cover-up.
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: And quite frankly, anybody involved in the cover-up has no
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: business anywhere near the Trump administration right now. And Donald
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: Trump needs a White House press secretary who is truly
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: on board with the agenda. That's all I'm trying to
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: say here. All right, 901-260-5927. I'm looking at these images now.
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  Speaker 2: The guy doesn't move. Seriously, Mitch McConnell, he's in the car,
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: and it's like, uh.
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  Speaker 8: That's exactly what it looks like. Mouth open.
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: Where are we? Am I alive? Where's Rand Paul? He's
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: not even moving. And it's just like sitting. That's got
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: to be.
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  Speaker 3: Hold on.
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  Speaker 2: I'm trying that. It's hard to even do that with
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: your mouth for that long amount of time.
• 32:45
  Speaker 8: It's sad, really.
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: No, it is sad. And it is pathetic. Because this
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: is a family trying to hold on to power. at
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: the expense of a very aging, decrepit man. And that's
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: appalling to me. This guy belongs in a nursing home.
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: That's where he belongs. And instead, he's in the U.S.
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: Senate at taxpayer expense.
• 33:11
  Speaker 14: 901-260-5926.
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: This is the Tonsern Show. Are you going to interfere
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: with Senator Graham asking her questions too?
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: I certainly will not. Too as well? I certainly will not.
• 33:31
  Speaker 7: Are you done now?
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: I am done. Are you ready to shut up? I
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: am done, sir.
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: Get off my lawn! That was Chuck Grassley. Good Lord, man. Wow,
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: he was fired up. By the way, Grassley is 92
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: years old. His vacuum cleaner recently died. Remember that? Very tragic.
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: I think it was a Hoover. Terrible. So that was
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: Cory Booker, and he was being very naughty during one
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: of the Senate hearings. People are really, you know, they
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: came back from vacation. I don't think they got enough
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: R & R. Because everybody's on edge. Anyway, Chuck Grassley,
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: 92 years old. So knowing that context, Dylan, can we
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: play that again? Are you going to interfere with Senator
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: Graham asking her questions too?
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: I certainly will not. Too as well? I certainly will not.
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: Are you done now? Are you ready to shut up?
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: I am done, sir.
• 34:41
  Speaker 8: Get on my lawn! I thought the clip was still going.
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: I know.
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  Speaker 5: Wow.
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: Well, 92 years old, that guy. He goes to the
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: Dairy Queen with the missus. Did you know that may
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: be the secret? The deli. Do they still have them?
• 35:02
  Speaker 8: They call them delis?
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: I think so.
• 35:04
  Speaker 8: Dairy Queen, they call it deli. I never heard that.
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: Hold on.
• 35:10
  Speaker 8: I've heard DQ. I mean, that's for sure.
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the Dilly Bar. You've never had the Dilly Bar?
• 35:15
  Speaker 8: I don't think so.
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: It's a delicious soft-serve vanilla ice cream covered in a
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: chocolatey shell.
• 35:21
  Speaker 8: Oh, wow.
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: And they call it a Dilly Bar.
• 35:23
  Speaker 8: I would be very open to that.
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what he does. I mean, the guy's out
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: on the farm. He's picking corn and mowing the grass
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: and vacuuming the rugs. He got a new vacuum. Yeah,
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: that's true. What did he call– Grassley called– he had
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: a name for the vacuum cleaner. I mean, it was
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: a curious love affair. 49– well, he's 92. The vacuum
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: cleaner named Beth. He named his vacuum cleaner Beth. She
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: was 49.
• 35:56
  Speaker 6: Wow.
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 35:58
  Speaker 8: That's an insane vacuum, actually.
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: I mean, 49 years old, and the vacuum cleaner still
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: had great sucking power. So I– It did its job.
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: They built them strong in the heartland. Good old Iowa
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: corn fed. It's our corn fed vacuum cleaner. Oh, it
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: was handed down from his mother-in-law. Beth was versatile. And
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: Beth is now dead. Anyway, Grassley outlasted the vacuum cleaner.
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: God bless the man. So there you go. All right,
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: coming up, Josh Jones is going to be here. Also,
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: Senator Marsha Blackburn is going to be joining us. And
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: Mary Walter is on deck, plus your calls. We'll be
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  Speaker 1: Broadcasting coast to coast and border to border.
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  Speaker 3: From Memphis, Tennessee.
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  Speaker 5: That's us. That's right.
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  Speaker 3: Todd Starks.
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  Speaker 14: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: Now, I'm not going to defend the University of Texas
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: that much. But we got to talk about what happened
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: the other day at the big game when Texas beat
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: When Texas beat Ohio State. So there was, at the
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: end of the game, they've got the, they have the reporterettes.
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: Those are the lady reporters. And they stick those gals
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: out on the, I guess they're there for the whole game, Dylan, right?
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: They're on the sidelines.
• 38:06
  Speaker 15: Yeah.
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: And then their job is to what? Interview the coach,
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: like as they're going to.
• 38:11
  Speaker 8: Post-game interviews.
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: Post-game and then halftime. Okay. And so there was a
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: bit of a controversy involving this. This big old gal.
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: What's her name?
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  Speaker 8: Her name is Holly Rowe.
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: Holly Rowe. Yeah, I don't mean that in a bad way.
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: I'm just saying she's well-built.
• 38:27
  Speaker 11: Yes.
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: I mean, she could put on some pads and get
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: out there.
• 38:32
  Speaker 8: She could fill in. She could sub in.
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: Do you realize, I didn't realize this, she's 60 years old.
• 38:40
  Speaker 8: Not surprising. She's been doing this for a long time.
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: For a long time. A long time. And I mean
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: nothing wrong. She's not a gal of girth, right? I
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: think she's just, you know, she's a reporter.
• 38:49
  Speaker 14: Yeah.
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: So she was out there, and there's this huge controversy
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: involving the coach. What do they call the coach? Steve Sarkeesian.
• 39:03
  Speaker 6: Oh, my Lord.
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: They call him Sark. That's what they call him, is Sark,
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: which is why. So anyway, Sark, at the end of
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: the game, it was a huge upset. The crowd's going wild,
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: and the coach, and there was actually– There was something
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: else that had happened earlier in the game involving an
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: interview where the coach just had to wait around, apparently.
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: And so at the end of it, he basically rushed
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: her off. live on national television so that he could
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: go and be with the team. And she took great
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: offense of that and stormed off and rolled her eyes.
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: So that led to a lot of conversation. And then
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: there was a meme and you think the coach was
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: being rude.
• 39:51
  Speaker 16: At the time when I saw the video, I was like,
• 39:53
  Speaker 16: come on, like she's got a job to do. You know,
• 39:56
  Speaker 16: you could just stand there for 30 seconds and it'd
• 39:58
  Speaker 16: be fine. But now that I think about it, like
• 40:00
  Speaker 16: how the massive scale of that game, like Texas was
• 40:03
  Speaker 16: down like 14 points, like going into the fourth quarter.
• 40:07
  Speaker 16: So like they won huge. All he wanted to do
• 40:10
  Speaker 16: is go celebrate with his team. And that's what he
• 40:12
  Speaker 16: made it clear to her that would happen. Because now
• 40:14
  Speaker 16: that I look back at it, I'm like.
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: I understand. He was there. He said, Texas fight, hook them,
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: and then turned and ran off.
• 40:24
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: And again, I don't know. The noise factor was like
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: a big deal at the game. So that may have,
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: I don't know if that played into it or what.
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: Everybody's saying there are multiple camps here. Number one, there
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: are people that say the coach was rude and should
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: have apologized and the coach had a responsibility to do
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: the postgame interview. Number two, there are people that think
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: Holly Rowe was just being a little pissy and stormed off.
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: And number three, there are people that think it's ridiculous
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: to have these women out there anyway unless they're cheerleaders.
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: There's no room for, you know, There's no need to
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: have any kind of a reporter interviewing coaches at halftime
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: or doing the postgame stuff.
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 16: As a fan of football, I never really cared for
• 41:18
  Speaker 16: those interviews. I don't really care to listen to them
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  Speaker 16: because they say the same things.
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: Well, I have a theory about this. I think the
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: only reason they do that is because they want those
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: kinds of those altercations. So I think. from a broadcasting
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: and programming standpoint they want the chaos and they may
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: not say it publicly but they're probably thanking Sark for
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: doing that because people are still talking about the game
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: how many days later and they're really not talking about
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: the game they're talking about whether or not the coach
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: was rude that's a good point but again it's just
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: hmm there was a meme made And the meme is–
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: I'm curious to get your take on the meme. Dylan,
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: have you seen the meme?
• 42:11
  Speaker 8: I haven't seen the meme.
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: You've got to watch the meme. You go and search
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: for the meme, and I'm going to talk about the meme,
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: and I want you to tell me what you thought
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: about the meme. So the meme has Holly Roe, and
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: they have the interaction, and then the coach hauls off
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: and smacks her in the face and storms off. And–
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: It's a stupid, funny meme, right? It's just a stupid meme.
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: So anyway, they were asked, Arch Manning, who is the quarterback,
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: and he's just what a kid, I mean, 22 years old,
• 42:44
  Speaker 2: and he's having the time of his life out there
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: because they just beat Ohio State. It was a great game.
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: And so they're asking poor Arch Manning if he had
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: seen any of the edits of the TikTok or Twitter
• 42:57
  Speaker 2: videos And here's what he had to say, Cut21.
• 43:01
  Speaker 5: I've seen a few AI edits of stuff, but that's
• 43:05
  Speaker 5: about it.
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: I saw an AI edit of Sark's interview.
• 43:08
  Speaker 6: Y'all seen that one?
• 43:11
  Speaker 16: That's a good one.
• 43:14
  Speaker 3: Of him slapping Howie Rowe?
• 43:18
  Speaker 11: Yeah, it's hilarious.
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he said it was hilarious. Well... Guess who became
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: public enemy number one of womanhood? It would be Arch Manning.
• 43:31
  Speaker 2: And everybody's going after this kid. And they're saying that
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: now Arch Manning should apologize for what Arch Manning did. Now,
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: I want to read this. I'll give you a little
• 43:48
  Speaker 2: bit of background. Sark also ran away from another reporter
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: at halftime, Laura Rutledge, claiming they made him wait too long.
• 43:56
  Speaker 2: And I think this is what started. It was sort
• 43:59
  Speaker 2: of like a snowball avalanche thing. Rutledge said on the
• 44:03
  Speaker 2: broadcast that he apologized to her at the time before
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: running off that a technical issue was to blame after
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: Ohio State coaches' interview prior to that. So ESPN issued
• 44:13
  Speaker 2: via Rutledge a public apology to Sark to begin the
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: third quarter and shouldered the blame on tech issues. So
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: I think there's a little bit more to it. But now,
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: now the meme has caused chaos. And again, the issue
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: for me, it was, and by the way, all the
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: people laughing were in the press corps. So everybody was,
• 44:37
  Speaker 2: and I do, I wonder if Holly Roe would have laughed.
• 44:41
  Speaker 2: Probably not. Probably not. Probably not. She's a serious sports reporter.
• 44:46
  Speaker 2: But again, it wasn't like the coach was smacking her.
• 44:49
  Speaker 8: That didn't really happen. It's a joke. That's the whole point.
• 44:52
  Speaker 2: Did you watch it?
• 44:53
  Speaker 8: I did.
• 44:53
  Speaker 2: What did you think?
• 44:54
  Speaker 8: That's really funny.
• 44:55
  Speaker 17: Stop.
• 44:55
  Speaker 2: You can't say that. Yes, I can. They'll come after
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: you next.
• 44:59
  Speaker 8: I don't care. It's AI. It's a joke. And Arch
• 45:01
  Speaker 8: Manning is a Gen Z-er. He's going to laugh at
• 45:03
  Speaker 8: that stuff.
• 45:04
  Speaker 2: It's kind of like the old Police Academy and Airplane Movie.
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: The parody stuff, right?
• 45:09
  Speaker 6: It's a parody.
• 45:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I don't think people appreciate parody. I don't think
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: people appreciate good slapstick comedy anymore.
• 45:16
  Speaker 8: No, definitely not.
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: So now there's a conversation on whether or not women
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: should be sports reporters in men's sports. Interesting.
• 45:29
  Speaker 8: I don't really care. I feel like it's fine either way.
• 45:32
  Speaker 2: As long as they know the sport, what do I care?
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: I mean, that's the important thing is making sure that
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: you know the sport. So that's it. But, again, I
• 45:40
  Speaker 2: just don't recall these other sports. I don't recall male
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: sports reporters getting this bent out of shape over stuff
• 45:49
  Speaker 2: like this. I may be wrong. I may be mistaken.
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: But I just don't recall that. And if they did,
• 45:54
  Speaker 2: it was one and done. But this is like drama.
• 45:57
  Speaker 2: It's weird. So, anyway, poor Arch Manning. He's learning. You know,
• 46:04
  Speaker 2: you hate to be the PR guy because they're in
• 46:06
  Speaker 2: the back of the room and they're like, <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL>
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: It was too late. They couldn't do anything.
• 46:14
  Speaker 6: No.
• 46:15
  Speaker 8: And the kids, what, like 20?
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: 22, I think, yeah.
• 46:18
  Speaker 8: Yeah, give them a break.
• 46:20
  Speaker 15: Oh, well.
• 46:21
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• 47:56
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• 47:57
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• 47:58
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• 48:01
  Speaker 8: Nobody tells us when they're happening. They just happen. And
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• 48:12
  Speaker 2: They recognize all the people who died, right, in the
• 48:17
  Speaker 2: previous year. They do a nice little tribute thing. They
• 48:21
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• 48:28
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• 48:35
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• 48:40
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• 48:44
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• 48:46
  Speaker 2: two years, Nicholas Brendan's name was not included on the screen.
• 48:50
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• 48:54
  Speaker 2: names like Walker, Texas Ranger star Chuck Norris and The
• 48:59
  Speaker 2: Gong Show panelist J.P.
• 49:00
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• 49:01
  Speaker 2: Oh, I didn't realize J.P. Morgan died. That was a
• 49:06
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• 49:12
  Speaker 2: you can see in its not-so-subtle way, the far-left variety
• 49:15
  Speaker 2: is deliberately snubbing and downplaying Chuck Norris by piling him
• 49:19
  Speaker 2: in the middle of a bunch of TV names that
• 49:22
  Speaker 2: do not even come close to his star power, which
• 49:24
  Speaker 2: is true. I mean, I like the gong show, but
• 49:28
  Speaker 2: come on, Walker, Texas Ranger. The TV show ran for
• 49:33
  Speaker 2: nine seasons on CBS, became a Saturday night staple. Although
• 49:38
  Speaker 2: it was well known that fewer people watched TV on
• 49:41
  Speaker 2: Saturday nights, Walker still managed, are you ready for this,
• 49:45
  Speaker 2: managed to attract somewhere between 10 and 20 million viewers
• 49:49
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• 49:54
  Speaker 2: watch Walker, Texas Ranger today. And let's not forget, he
• 49:58
  Speaker 2: was one of the biggest movie stars in American history.
• 50:04
  Speaker 2: I mean, had some incredible— he was always— he was saving the world.
• 50:08
  Speaker 2: I mean, just about every single one of his movies.
• 50:14
  Speaker 2: So there you go. But no surprise here. No surprise.
• 50:19
  Speaker 2: You know, they'll do a retrospective on Everybody Loves Raymond,
• 50:21
  Speaker 2: and don't be surprised that they leave poor Patty Heaton out.
• 50:24
  Speaker 2: You know, she's a rock-solid conservative Christian in Hollywood. But
• 50:30
  Speaker 2: it's really a shame because this really is— This really
• 50:35
  Speaker 2: is evidence that Hollywood hates you. They hate your values,
• 50:39
  Speaker 2: and they hate movie stars especially who share those values. Unbelievable.
• 50:46
  Speaker 2: How do you not mention Chuck Norris? That makes absolutely
• 50:51
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• 50:54
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  Speaker 5: Oh, yeah.
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• 52:46
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• 52:48
  Speaker 7: Hey, Todd, I just want to tell you how bad
• 52:50
  Speaker 7: the Emmys are. Colbert won an Emmy. Colbert, the worst
• 52:56
  Speaker 7: show on TV, won an Emmy because he hates Trump.
• 53:03
  Speaker 2: It's outrageous. I just, you know, it's just disgusting, but
• 53:06
  Speaker 2: I'm not really, are you really that surprised though, Mark?
• 53:10
  Speaker 7: No, no, I'm surprised if you didn't get 10 or
• 53:13
  Speaker 7: 12 of them.
• 53:16
  Speaker 2: It's a good point, but please do not put Chuck
• 53:19
  Speaker 2: Norris in the same in the same column as Buffy
• 53:23
  Speaker 2: the Vampire Slayer, okay? Chuck Norris was an American icon.
• 53:29
  Speaker 7: He was an American icon. I remember when he was
• 53:32
  Speaker 7: fighting with the Superfoot Bill Wallet. The guy was for real, man.
• 53:38
  Speaker 7: He wasn't no actor. He was a real hero and
• 53:42
  Speaker 7: a real man.
• 53:44
  Speaker 2: Well, he really was. And do you really think that
• 53:47
  Speaker 2: Hollywood is going to honor a real hero and a
• 53:49
  Speaker 2: real man, as you just said?
• 53:52
  Speaker 7: No way. Not when they got Colbert.
• 53:57
  Speaker 2: It's true. That's a fair point, Chuck, or Mark. Let
• 54:00
  Speaker 2: me ask you real quick on the safety. This is
• 54:03
  Speaker 2: a one-year anniversary of the Memphis Safe Task Force, Trump
• 54:08
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• 54:14
  Speaker 7: They're a lot better, Todd, but I'll say this. Unless
• 54:18
  Speaker 7: they start building jails and prisons and putting people in there,
• 54:24
  Speaker 7: they're going to go light on these criminals. Nobody's going anywhere.
• 54:28
  Speaker 7: I wouldn't go to a fair. I wouldn't go to
• 54:31
  Speaker 7: a ballgame. I wouldn't go anywhere in this city. It's
• 54:35
  Speaker 7: still not safe. It's a lot safer, but it's still
• 54:40
  Speaker 7: got a long way to go before you're going to
• 54:42
  Speaker 7: see the economy turn around because everybody's scared to leave
• 54:46
  Speaker 7: the house.
• 54:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the only people doing well around Memphis are the
• 54:51
  Speaker 2: gun stores.
• 54:53
  Speaker 7: Yeah, that's right.
• 54:55
  Speaker 2: It's true. It's true. All right, Mark, thank you for
• 54:58
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• 55:01
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• 55:04
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• 55:07
  Speaker 2: to break. Since 1940, the year that Chuck Norris was born,
• 55:23
  Speaker 2: roundhouse kick-related deaths have increased by 13,000%. Shocking. Who would
• 55:27
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• 55:29
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• 55:31
  Speaker 1: Whoa.
• 55:55
  Speaker 2: Our man in Dallas, he's also our man in Washington, D.C.,
• 56:01
  Speaker 2: the great, great political commentator, Josh Jones. Josh, good to
• 56:07
  Speaker 2: have you back with us. All right. I want to
• 56:11
  Speaker 2: rehash here. We need to talk about last week in Dallas.
• 56:16
  Speaker 2: And first of all, before we get to the politics
• 56:19
  Speaker 2: of it all. So what were you working around the clock?
• 56:22
  Speaker 2: Did you have any time to get out and do
• 56:24
  Speaker 2: like Dallas kinds of stuff?
• 56:27
  Speaker 18: Unfortunately, not really. It's basically convention at the convention hall
• 56:31
  Speaker 18: for 10 or 15 hours, and then back to the hotel,
• 56:34
  Speaker 18: and then rent and repeat.
• 56:35
  Speaker 2: Oh, jeez. So it was still a good time. Did
• 56:38
  Speaker 2: your bosses, because you work for a company there in D.C.
• 56:41
  Speaker 2: that handles a lot of candidates, did they put you
• 56:43
  Speaker 2: up in a nice place?
• 56:45
  Speaker 18: Yeah, we actually were in.
• 56:46
  Speaker 6: A nice hotel.
• 56:47
  Speaker 18: Unfortunately, the benefit of the convention coming to town, All
• 56:54
  Speaker 18: the hotels were basically the same price, regardless if they
• 56:56
  Speaker 18: were super nice or more middle of the road. They
• 56:59
  Speaker 18: were all jacked up in the price, so we were
• 57:02
  Speaker 18: able to stay at a little bit of a nicer hotel.
• 57:04
  Speaker 2: Well, that's good. Well, I'm glad to hear this. I
• 57:05
  Speaker 2: was concerned about that because if you were going on
• 57:07
  Speaker 2: our dime, we actually put– I like to put our
• 57:12
  Speaker 2: people up in a good place because when you're out
• 57:14
  Speaker 2: like that and you're working 18 hours a day, you
• 57:17
  Speaker 2: want to be able to come back and enjoy a
• 57:19
  Speaker 2: very nice hotel where everything is there and they take
• 57:22
  Speaker 2: care of you.
• 57:23
  Speaker 7: Yeah, no kidding.
• 57:25
  Speaker 2: No, oh my goodness. So I was, well, I'm disappointed.
• 57:27
  Speaker 2: We were hoping you had gotten down to Fort Worth.
• 57:29
  Speaker 2: We wanted to put you on a steer, you know,
• 57:31
  Speaker 2: that you can do that. And, you know, wear a
• 57:34
  Speaker 2: cowboy hat.
• 57:35
  Speaker 14: I do.
• 57:37
  Speaker 18: Own some cowboy boots.
• 57:39
  Speaker 6: I brought those with me.
• 57:40
  Speaker 18: I was wearing those.
• 57:41
  Speaker 2: Oh, that's good.
• 57:42
  Speaker 18: You know, it was in Dallas.
• 57:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, no. Do you think, though, after all of that,
• 57:47
  Speaker 2: did it move the needle at all?
• 57:50
  Speaker 18: I mean, that is the question, right? Because if you
• 57:52
  Speaker 18: look back at the two days, kind of my takeaway
• 57:55
  Speaker 18: and kind of what I've heard other folks say is
• 57:57
  Speaker 18: that logistically, they did a good job. I mean, to
• 58:00
  Speaker 18: pull a convention together in six months is no small ask.
• 58:03
  Speaker 18: So in terms of executing.
• 58:05
  Speaker 4: They did it well.
• 58:06
  Speaker 18: It was a well-ranked convention. Now, at the end of
• 58:10
  Speaker 18: the day, does it move the needle politically? I guess
• 58:13
  Speaker 18: we'll see, but I find, you know, there's obviously a
• 58:16
  Speaker 18: lot of different speakers that I can speak for, you know,
• 58:18
  Speaker 18: literally every single person I spoke. But, unfortunately, I felt
• 58:22
  Speaker 18: like I was more of the same. I mean, there
• 58:24
  Speaker 18: were some good talking points in there, but it was,
• 58:26
  Speaker 18: you know, the traditional Republican talking points, whereas this could
• 58:29
  Speaker 18: have been the opportunity for the president and the Republican
• 58:32
  Speaker 18: Party to make the case on affordability and cost of
• 58:35
  Speaker 18: living specifically, because that is the issue of this election. Sure,
• 58:38
  Speaker 18: there's other things that matter, but that's why people care
• 58:41
  Speaker 18: about the most.
• 58:41
  Speaker 17: Of this election.
• 58:42
  Speaker 18: So this should have been the stage to make the
• 58:44
  Speaker 18: Republican case for that, and that's what the message should
• 58:47
  Speaker 18: have been. And I'm worried it got a little lost
• 58:49
  Speaker 18: amongst all the other issues that were discussed on that stage.
• 58:53
  Speaker 2: Josh, I'm going to put you on the spot. Name
• 58:56
  Speaker 2: your favorite drag queen.
• 58:59
  Speaker 18: I don't think I have one.
• 59:01
  Speaker 2: Exactly. That is my point exactly. And I ask you
• 59:05
  Speaker 2: that question because every red-blooded American man responds the same way.
• 59:10
  Speaker 2: way you just did. But here's how Tallarico responded.
• 59:15
  Speaker 8: This is Tallarico.
• 59:16
  Speaker 10: So nice to meet you.
• 59:16
  Speaker 3: Sorry, I broke my head.
• 59:17
  Speaker 5: I was there when you defended the drag. Who's your
• 59:20
  Speaker 5: favorite drag queen in Texas?
• 59:21
  Speaker 17: Oh, my gosh.
• 59:22
  Speaker 2: Probably Alyssa Edwards.
• 59:23
  Speaker 3: Alyssa Edwards.
• 59:23
  Speaker 2: Thank you so much. Josh, under two seconds. It was like,
• 59:29
  Speaker 2: you asked me, Starge, what's your favorite drink? Dr. Pepper.
• 59:32
  Speaker 2: Because that's what I know. This guy knows his drag queens.
• 59:37
  Speaker 2: All that to say, Josh, is that that's what they're
• 59:40
  Speaker 2: going at. The Republicans are counting on going negative to
• 59:44
  Speaker 2: generate the vote in places like Texas. And I wonder
• 59:49
  Speaker 2: if that is going to be enough.
• 59:52
  Speaker 18: Yeah, I mean, I guess we'll see. I mean, we're
• 59:53
  Speaker 18: under 50 days from the election at this point. And look,
• 59:56
  Speaker 18: I mean, especially with a candidate like James Palarico or
• 59:59
  Speaker 18: some of these other folks across the country that Democrats
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 18: are running, you have to run these negative ads to
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 18: really show who these people are, because they act like
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 18: they're these moderate, middle-of-the-road people, and then they have all
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 18: this baggage in their closet on the Republicans that get
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 18: out there into the news.
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 2: Josh Jones joining us on our Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line. Josh,
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 2: we were going through some Trafalgar polling survey numbers. There
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 2: were four states... And all four, they have the Democrats
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 2: leading right now in the Senate race, including North Carolina
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 2: and Georgia. What are you seeing out there? What are
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 2: you sensing? And what is it going to take to
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 2: get that Republican surge come November?
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 18: Yeah, look, Democrats are fired up. This is an opportunity
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 18: to get a lick back on Trump since he won
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 18: the presidential election. So they're going to show up. That
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 18: motivating factor to come out to the polls, because it's
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 18: easy to talk about, oh, we loaded taxes. you know,
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 18: from this percentage to that percentage or from, you know,
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 18: X amount to this amount and those sorts of messages. But,
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 18: you know, those are sometimes hard for people to relate
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 18: to if you're talking about these abstract numbers. So I
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 18: think the president and Republicans have to, you know, show
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 18: Casey's real-life stories of how the policies are making a
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 18: difference and also draw a contract with the democrats because
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 18: sure there's always issues in the election cycle with the
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 18: incumbent party which is in this case the republican party
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 18: but if you think back just to two years ago
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 18: under the biden administration i would make the case that
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 18: things were a lot worse not to live in the
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 18: past but to draw a contrast of look things may
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 18: not be perfect now but if you just go back
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 18: a couple years it's.
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  Speaker 2: Worse yeah and that i think they have to make
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 2: that that point to the the voters to You know,
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 2: I'm concerned, though, because I, too, believe that affordability is
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 2: going to be the issue here. The only people talking
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 2: about that are the Democrats, and the Republicans are all
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 2: over the place on the messaging.
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 17: You're right.
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 18: You're right. And I think that you saw that on
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 18: the convention floor down in Dallas. You had, you know,
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 18: a whole host of speakers from House candidates, senators, the president,
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 18: the vice president, cabinet members. I mean, you had every
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 18: part of the Republican leadership down there speaking. And sure,
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 18: you had some people down there speaking on affordability and
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 18: recognizing that that's the issue of the election. But a
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 18: lot of them didn't even touch on it. And I
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 18: think that's going to be a huge missed opportunity, and
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 18: that's what that convention should have been about. And unfortunately,
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 18: for some folks, they honed in on that. Others didn't.
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 2: All right. Josh, let me ask you. I know you're
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 2: a healthy eater somewhat. Do you do the fast food stuff?
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 2: Do you have a favorite fast food joint you like
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 2: to chow down at?
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 18: Yeah, I think my favorite fast food, I have a
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 18: couple of them. Chick-fil-A is always up there, great choice.
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 18: If I'm wondering, a set-down fast food is Chili's. It
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 18: would be my top two.
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 2: Chili's, I didn't realize that. All right, the reason I
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 2: ask that is there's a place called Slim Chickens. I
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 2: don't know if you guys have those in D.C. Slim
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 2: Chickens is kind of like an upscale-ish place. Chick-fil-A, you know,
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 2: sit-down restaurant. And anyway, they're launching a brand-new flavor of
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 2: their chicken tenders, and I'm curious to hear your thoughts
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 2: on this. Dylan, is this true? First of all, Dylan
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 2: sent this to me. This is a true story.
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 8: It's true, yeah.
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 2: We've been able to verify.
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 8: So they haven't marinated the chicken in Dr. Pepper, but
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 8: they have sprinkled seasoning of, like, a Dr. Pepper infused, like,
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 8: with pepper or other, you know, seasonings with that.
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 2: They're calling it Dr. Pepper chicken. Would you eat a Dr.
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 2: Pepper chicken?
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  Speaker 18: I would try it.
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 7: I like Dr.
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  Speaker 18: Pepper.
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  Speaker 7: I just don't know if I like Dr.
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 18: Pepper-infused chicken.
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm with you on that.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 2: You know, I'll try it. How about that?
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 8: I thought this story was right up your alley, Todd,
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 8: because you're, like, so Dr. Pepper. And, like, you love
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 8: the jelly beans. The jelly beans are so good.
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 2: Oh, the Dr. Pepper jelly beans.
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Is that the jelly belly? That's it. Those are some
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 2: fine jelly beans.
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 15: Very good.
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 18: You should reach out for a sponsorship.
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 2: Oh, that's a great idea. All right. Yeah, I like
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 2: the way you think, Josh. All right. Well, all right.
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 2: Next time you're down in Memphis. We'll head over to
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 2: Slim Chickens, and we'll break Dr. Pepper chicken wings together.
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 18: Yeah, we'll do an on-air review.
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 2: Oh, that's even better. All right, Josh. We did that
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 2: once when French's was doing the mustard ice cream that
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 2: summer in New York City. We sent the intern out
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 2: and made him eat it on air. The sound of
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 2: throw-up is not good on radio, by the way. That's
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 2: not a good sound. Josh, good hearing from you, my friend. Thanks, Tom.
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 1: 901-260-5926.
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 2: Our good buddy, Josh Jones.
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 14: Dr.
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 2: Pepper Chicken Tenders. Interesting. Let's go to Tom in Houston,
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 2: listening to us on Patriot Talk 920. He wants to
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 2: talk about Memphis. Hey, Tom, what's going on?
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 17: Well, you bring up the crime in Memphis, and I
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 17: used to come to Memphis every year for a event
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 17: called the International Blues Festival. This takes place in January,
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 17: of course, down on Beale Street. Last time I was there,
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 17: there was 274 bands from all over the world, okay?
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 17: And it's a four-day event, and the finals take place
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 17: there at the Orpheum Theater. Well, I do not attend
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 17: anymore because of the crime in Memphis. uh, it's, uh,
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 17: I hear about it throughout the year, but, uh, I
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 17: had a personal experience with it there at my hotel.
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 17: Car got broke into and, uh, cops said, well, sir,
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 17: you know, this is a problem we have and, uh, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. But, uh,
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 17: it was just a minor crime. And, uh, I said, well,
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 17: not to me, it wasn't. And, uh, That's what your
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 17: city's dealing with. I mean, you got to get it
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 17: under control by whatever means you need to. And I
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 17: agree with the man. We need to make more prisons,
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 17: fill them up, and also mental institutions. I mean, who
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 17: goes and holds somebody down and cuts their head off?
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 17: Tell me that.
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  Speaker 2: Tom, it's a great question. Look, I love blues as well,
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 2: and I was at the festival this past year. And
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 2: a good buddy of mine owns Rum Boogie Cafe, and
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 2: they're one of the sites where they have a lot
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 2: of the bands and some of the best blues music
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 2: in the world at that festival. And there were a
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 2: lot of people there. And, Tom, it bothers me that
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 2: you had that sort of experience. because Memphis is so
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 2: much better than that. I will say that the downtown area,
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 2: depending on where you are, yeah, it's going to be bad,
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 2: and it shouldn't be that way. Not only do we
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 2: need more cops on the street, Tom, we need a
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 2: mayor that's walking the streets with a baseball bat and
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 2: just knocking out crime. I mean, it's that kind of ferocity.
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 2: we need to put a stop to the violent crime
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 2: in this city.
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 6: Yes, sir.
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 17: And, you know, my first year, I can't remember if
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 17: it was 2014 or 2015, and I did the whole
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 17: Memphis experience. I went to Graceland. I went to the
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 17: Gibson Guitar Factory before they left town. I went on,
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 17: what is it, Graceland Boulevard or whatever, to one of
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 17: the restaurants there that's like within half a mile of Graceland.
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 17: And because location, location, location, I paid $ 7 for a
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 17: peanut butter and nanner sandwich. I thought, my God, this
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 17: is ridiculous. But, you know, I ain't going to be
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 17: this close to Elvis ever again. So I did it.
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 17: And it's a great town. It's a fun town. But
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 17: it has a little cancer on the butt that needs
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 17: to be excised.
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 2: Tom, you're absolutely right, and I hope you give us
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 2: another chance. And if you decide to come back, you
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 2: let me know, and we'll hook you up with some
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 2: good seats over at Rum Boogie Cafe down on Beale Street.
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 2: And I'll treat you personally to a peanut butter and
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 2: banana sandwich down at the Arcade, which is where Elvis
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 2: used to eat all the time. How's that?
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 17: Well, I'll tell you, if I get there, I'm going
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 17: to look you up.
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 17: I'm sure you're twice as good looking as what my
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 17: uh brain pictures over radio.
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 2: All right we'll get you some tennessee sipping whiskey too then.
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 19: All right all right thank you for calling wow uh
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 19: let's go to kim in georgia listening to us on
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 19: wdun kim what's on your.
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 2: Mind today Hey, Todd.
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 14: Thanks for taking my call. We love you.
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 2: Thank you.
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 14: I am a Trump supporter. Love what President Trump has done.
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 14: I'm a Republican. I'm watching our Senate race, Ossoff and Collins,
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 14: and I'm a little concerned that there will be some
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 14: moderate Republicans and maybe elderly swayed to vote Ossoff way
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 14: since there is an ad about Collins, Mike Collins, about
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 14: Social Security, and that is a hot topic across the country.
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 14: If you're manipulating our Social Security or anything with that,
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 14: and I think he's going to have to address that
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 14: with an ad. He's got a great ad against Ossoff,
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 14: but he needs to tackle this Social Security thing.
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 2: Well, what is he saying? I'm going to plead ignorance
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 2: here on this. What is Collins saying about Social Security?
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 14: Well, they do have him recorded. I don't know if
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 14: there was any AI involvement, but he's saying, go back
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 14: to work. Get off of Social Security. Go back to work. Anyway,
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 14: they're showing just manipulation, that he's trying to cut the benefits,
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 14: that he doesn't want to support Social Security. And it's
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 14: just sending a really negative message. It looks like it's
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 14: a very old clip, the video. but I think he
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 14: needs to address it.
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 2: Well, I did a quick little search here. That was
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 2: actually from a radio interview he did last year, and
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 2: he said, like you just said, pretty much an accurate
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 2: quote there, get off Medicaid, get off Social Security, get
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 2: back into the workforce. The campaign said that he simply
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 2: misspoke and meant to refer to people leaving Medicaid for
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 2: employer-provided insurance. So, So they're saying this was sort of
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 2: taken out of context. But again, you've got to be
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 2: careful what you say on the campaign trail, and you
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 2: can't make stupid mistakes, and it sounds like this was
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 2: a stupid mistake.
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 14: Exactly.
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Kim, this is tough. I mean, the numbers are
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 2: not looking good. What is it about Collins? What do
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 2: you think the campaign needs to do that they're not doing?
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 14: I think he needs to, because there's so many ads
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 14: from both of them equally slamming the other, they're both
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 14: very effective, but I think he needs to address that issue.
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 14: That affects a lot of people. He needs to clarify
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 14: that about Medicaid. It's a neck-and-neck fight.
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 2: Well, right now you've got Collins down in every single poll,
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 2: including the Fox poll and Trafalgar group, so they've got
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 2: to make up that ground somewhere. Kim, thank you for that.
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 2: And thank you for listening. We've got to take a
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 2: quick break here, folks.
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 17: 901-260-5926.
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 2: This is the Todd Stern Show. All right. Let's go
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 2: to the phones here.
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 13: 901-260-5926.
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 2: Daniel in Atlanta. Hi, Daniel. What's on your mind today?
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 6: Hey, Todd, you know, I really like you for whatever reason.
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 6: You seem to be a fun guy. But it seems
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 6: lately you've been souring a little. Yesterday you interviewed Greg Bovino.
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 6: And I guess the whole point was he was trying
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 6: to save Matt Mullin, wasn't doing a good job, all
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 6: kinds of things. Hey, Greg, hey, Todd, you have to understand,
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 6: I'm an immigrant too. There's too many forces making money
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 6: off immigration in this country. I don't think there's any
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 6: single politician or Congress that can stop it. Think about
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 6: it like this, Todd. When I came many, many years ago,
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 6: about 30 years ago, you could not get a bank
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 6: account with a H-1B-1 visa. Now, people that come to
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 6: visit their H-1B-1 visas, they're opening bank accounts in your
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 6: big bank.
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 17: How does that happen?
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 2: Daniel, let me ask you. Are you a legal citizen
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 2: of the country?
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 6: Yes, I'm 100% legal. I'm a full-time citizen, and.
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 2: I love this country. I've got about 10 seconds here.
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 2: Does it bother you that so many people are coming
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 2: here illegally and taking advantage of the country?
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 13: Absolutely.
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 6: I wouldn't like it too. I'm originally from West Africa.
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 6: I would not love any of my neighbors around me
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 6: in West Africa to even come into my own country
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 6: and we all look black. I wouldn't allow it. So
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 6: America should not allow it. The people of America should
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 6: not allow it. But there's too many people making money
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 6: off of these immigrants.
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 2: Daniel, I think you nailed it right there. You're right.
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 2: People are making money. It's a grift, an absolute grift. Daniel,
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 2: God bless you, and welcome to America. Hang tight, everybody.
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 2: Hour 3, Senator Marsha Blackburn coming up next.
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 1: From Memphis, Tennessee, it's Common Sense Conservative Commentary from Todd Starr.
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 2: That's us, that's right, our love is American. All right,
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 2: we are watching a couple of developing stories. One of
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 2: them taking place in the Rose Garden of the White House. Hello, everybody.
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 2: Welcome to the Todd Stearns Radio Show. Happy to have
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 2: you with us. Hour three coming up. Senator Marsha Blackburn
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 2: joins us. We are expecting to hear from the Attorney
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 2: General of these great United States, Todd Blanche, going to
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 2: be delivering remarks from the Rose Garden. And we'll Try
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 2: to dip into some of that when his speech begins.
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 2: In the meantime, I want to go to the Patriot
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 2: Mobile Newsmaker line and welcome in the queen of radio,
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 2: the one, the only Newsmax contributor, Mary Walter. Mary, hope
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 2: you're doing good today.
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 17: I am.
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 4: How are you?
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah, doing well. Can't really complain. We're in the middle
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 2: of what they call a heat dome. So for the past,
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 2: what is it, Dylan, what, three weeks, four weeks, it's
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 2: been over 100 degrees here in Memphis.
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 8: It's like forever, actually.
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it does. Really?
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we're really miserable.
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 4: Here in Jersey, we woke up this morning and it
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 4: was 64 degrees.
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 2: I hate you. Thank you, Mary Walter, for joining us today.
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 4: See y'all.
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 2: I was wondering, no, it's funny because I was watching
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 2: some news videos and I see people wearing jackets and
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 2: I'm like, where are these people? Because they're not in Memphis, Tennessee,
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 2: I'll tell you that much.
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 4: I'm going to reconsider that whole moving to Texas thing,
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 4: Tennessee thing.
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, if you're in the eastern part of the state,
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 2: you're okay. But if you're in the western part of
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 2: the state, it is like the gates of hell.
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Keep selling it for me.
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 2: I'm going to get a text message from the Chamber
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 2: of Commerce again, the tourism department. Starge, you're killing us
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 2: over here.
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 14: Come on, man.
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 2: Oh, my word. Mary, there's a lot going on in
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 2: the world of politics. We've been having a little bit
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 2: of fun with this James Tallarico thing. I want to
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 2: play this audio for you and get your reaction. By
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 2: the way, we did something on air. We tried this
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 2: question with Josh Jones. And he had the same reaction
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 2: that Dylan had and the same reaction I had. But
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 2: here is James Tallarico being asked a question.
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 5: Less than two seconds it took him to answer that question,
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 5: Mary Walter. What do you make of that?
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 3: Okay, so I'm going to say.
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 4: I love a good drag queen. Okay. I love a
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 4: good drag show. All in good fun for adults, right?
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 4: Not for children. And I realized that it is entertainment.
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 4: It is not a way of life. yet I don't
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 4: have a favorite. And to be fair, I've been to
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 4: about three drag shows in my entire life. So, um,
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 4: I can, I can understand why I would not have
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 4: a favorite. They should have asked him what his favorite
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 4: cut of meat is. That probably would have been harder
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 4: for him to answer because, um, now all of a
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 4: sudden he went from being vegan to I love meat
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 4: and jamming it down his throat because they told him
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 4: he had to. Uh, so that probably would have been
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 4: a far more interesting question. So what's your favorite kind
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 4: of meat? How do you like your steak cooked? You know,
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 4: So tell us a little bit more about that. He
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 4: probably would not have been able to answer it.
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 2: Do you like Angus or Groundchuck? Angus or Groundchuck, Tallarico?
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 4: Exactly.
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  Speaker 2: You know, the other part of the other just weird
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 2: thing is I don't know too many guys that are
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 2: picking up girls at gay bars. And that's just, again,
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 2: it's not a judgment. It's just kind of a weird thing.
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 4: Well, okay. So there's a difference between like a drag
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 4: show at a gay bar. So let me tell you here,
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 4: let me, let me school you, Scott. Is it Scott Todd?
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 4: What the hell your name is? Um, so here, so
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 4: here's the thing. So like drag queen brunches are like
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 4: a chick thing and a gay guy thing.
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 4: A drag show in a gay bar is where gay
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 4: men go to pick up other men. So either way,
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 4: it doesn't look good for him.
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 2: Dylan, are you feeling very uncomfortable right now, or is
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 2: it just me?
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 8: Just slightly.
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 2: No, you're not alone there. We're just kind of, yeah. Wait,
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 2: why is this uncomfortable? Ian, the intern's hiding under the
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 2: desk right now. Well, he is uncomfortable. By the way,
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 2: he wasn't going to, as far as we understand, he
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 2: actually just picked up his girlfriend. They met at a
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 2: gay nightclub. I don't know if there was drag going
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 2: on or not. But it's just odd. Most straight guys,
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 2: I don't know. Maybe they do. I don't know what
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 2: the dating scene is like these days.
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 4: Okay, so I have been to gay bars in New
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 4: York with other men, but it was strictly for entertainment
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 4: value on their part just because it was a super
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 4: fun bar. So there would be like a whole group
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 4: of us that would go, men and women, that would
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 4: go after work at like 8 o'clock at night, 9
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 4: o'clock at night. And so they were straight, but they
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 4: weren't picking up other women in there because there's a
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 4: really good chance the other women are gay.
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 2: Oh, lesbians.
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 5: Oh.
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 17: They exist.
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 4: I've seen them in the wild.
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 12: Yes.
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 2: You know, when I was living in Brooklyn, New York,
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 2: and I lived in the zip code that had the
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 2: highest concentration of lesbians in America. And I could not understand.
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 2: I'm like, why is everybody always wearing flannel? I never
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 2: could understand that.
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 14: So.
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 4: She's a loo, Todd.
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 7: I know.
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 2: I'm like, she's a loo. So I won't. If this
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 2: was Fifth Avenue in Brooklyn, it may still be there.
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 2: I don't know. But I needed to get a haircut.
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 2: And normally the makeup ladies at Fox would handle, you know, haircuts.
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 2: But they were one of them was out. So I
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 2: thought I got to get a haircut. So there's like
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 2: this hairstyling salon there on Fifth Avenue and Brooklyn and
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 2: Park Slope. And I walked in, and as soon as
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 2: I walked in, I realized it was a lesbian, like
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 2: a lesbian hair salon. And I immediately turned around. I
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 2: just stood there, and they stared at me. I'm staring
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 2: at them. And I said, can you tell me where
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 2: Supercuts is, please? Okay.
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 4: In Park Slope, Brooklyn. By the way, I'm so sad
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 4: that this was before the era of videotaping everything you
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 4: did because I would have, Peyton, it would have been
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 4: the best channel on Instagram ever. everywhere for someone to
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 4: just follow you and film you living in Park Slope, Brooklyn.
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 4: I would pay to watch that. That would have been hilarious.
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 2: So Channel 5, which is the Fox affiliate there, when
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 2: I was working at Fox, they found out about all
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 2: of this and they're like, oh my God, you've got
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 2: to do a weekly segment like a Southerner living in Brooklyn.
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 2: And so we did this weekly segment for about a
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 2: year and it was a lot of fun, but it
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 2: was just kind of like the hilarity of of Todd
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 2: Starnes living among people wearing buttless leather chaps. That was
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 2: a thing, too, in Park Slope.
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 4: Because that's my local Fox affiliate, so I'm surprised I
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 4: didn't see it.
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 3: I missed it.
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 2: My two neighbors, I'll never forget. They're probably dead by now.
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 2: Frank and Christine, Italian couple, and they cursed like I
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 2: have never heard people curse. They would sit out on
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 2: their stoop. And one day they were always– they were
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 2: very kind, but, you know, it's a very brusque Italian
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 2: Brooklyn kind of a kind. And I'll never forget one
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 2: day I came back from the bodega and I was
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 2: walking and I could smell marijuana. And I'm like, oh,
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 2: my God. And so there are Frank and Christine sitting
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 2: on the stoop. And I said– we talked briefly. I said, Christine,
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 2: I said, somebody is having a very happy day. And
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 2: I looked, and she and Frank were smoking these huge,
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 2: like Cheech and Chong style, marijuana cigarettes.
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 5: Blunts, yeah.
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 2: Blunts, thank you. That was the word I was missing.
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 2: But it was funny, Mary, because Christine said, you know,
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 2: it's cheaper than meds. I'm like, hey, I'm not judging.
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 2: I'm not judging. And she said... And if you want some,
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 2: I can hook you up. She's like in her late
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 2: 70s at the time.
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 4: Hey, she's an old hippie.
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 2: I love that neighborhood. It was a fun neighborhood, actually.
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 4: Yeah, Park Slope is actually a nice neighborhood in Brooklyn,
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 4: but that's hilarious, Todd. I think that's so funny.
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I need to write a book about that. The
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 2: organic mayonnaise shop was the total jam.
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 15: Wait, wait, wait.
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 4: There was a shop that only sold organic mayonnaise?
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they went out of business.
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 4: That's all they sold?
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 2: That's all they sold.
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 4: That's like the old SNL skit where they only sold
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 4: scotch tape.
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 8: Remember that one?
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 2: Oh, that's right. I love that. By the way, just
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 2: to give you an idea of this neighborhood, we had
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 2: a little butcher shop, and they actually had this velvet
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 2: rope so the park slopers could park their baby carriages.
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 2: They had valet parking for the baby carriages. Of course
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 2: they did. Of course they did. You can't make this
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 2: stuff up.
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 4: Yep, this is why people don't want to move out.
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 2: Mary Walter joining us on the Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line.
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 2: I have absolutely no idea why. We're just hanging out
• 1:24:11
  Speaker 2: talking today.
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 4: It's But can I just say to everybody, these are
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 4: our conversations on the air. So imagine what our conversations
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 4: are like off the air.
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 2: It's pretty insane. It's pretty insane. I want to play
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 2: this audio. This is the mayor of Atlanta. His name
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 2: is Kasim Reed, a former mayor of Atlanta. And he's
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 2: actually endorsing the Republican for governor because of how bad
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 2: crime has gotten in Atlanta under Democrat rule. Cut 21, please.
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 19: I've seen a few AI edits of stuff, but that's
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 19: about it.
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 15: I saw an AI edit of a Sarks interview.
• 1:24:46
  Speaker 2: Oh, I'm sorry. That's not it. That's 17, please.
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 10: What got me activated was that my mother goes to
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 10: Chick-fil-A at Colony Square, and she went to that Chick-fil-A.
• 1:24:57
  Speaker 3: On the day that they got robbed. And so it's
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 3: personal to me.
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 10: The grandmother of my daughter, when dropping off my daughter,
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 10: was robbed. One of my dear friends was the victim
• 1:25:09
  Speaker 10: of an attempted carjacking, and couldn't get the police on
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 10: the phone, even though she had the license plates for
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 10: the person that tried to carjack her car. And what
• 1:25:18
  Speaker 10: I believe is that most people in Atlanta are having
• 1:25:21
  Speaker 10: these kinds of experiences. What I hear overwhelmingly from people
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 10: who walk up to me is that they're afraid, particularly
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 10: when they're women, to get gas in the city of Atlanta.
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 3: So they're driving around on E.
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 2: And honestly, Mary, that's the way it is in a
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 2: lot of these large cities around the nation is that
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 2: crime is off the charts. And thank God that Donald
• 1:25:45
  Speaker 2: Trump is sending in the feds to crack down on crime.
• 1:25:49
  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, they're driving around on E because they're too
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 4: afraid to get gas in the city of Atlanta. Well,
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 4: stop laughing at New Jersey and outlaw pumping your own gas.
• 1:25:59
  Speaker 4: It solves that crime at the gas station problem. So
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 4: there's that never worried about getting gas at two o'clock
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 4: in the morning in New Jersey. I'm totally fine with that,
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 4: but you're right. But isn't it interesting that it takes
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 4: it to hit home before they will acknowledge that there
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 4: is a crime problem when it was happening to everyone else.
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 4: There was no acknowledgement that it's a crime problem. Well,
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 4: when it hits his mother and his daughter, now it's
• 1:26:26
  Speaker 4: a problem, right? It's very interesting. It happened here in
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 4: New Jersey where the wife of a Democrat mayor was
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 4: hit in a car accident by an illegal who ran
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 4: a red light. Now, all of a sudden, oh, this
• 1:26:40
  Speaker 4: illegal immigrant thing is suddenly in the news because it
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 4: happened to a Democrat politician's wife. So unfortunately, they have
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 4: to live it in order to get it through their
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 4: thick skulls.
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 2: Mary, hold on just a second. I mentioned that we've
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 2: been following the Attorney General Todd Blanche holding a press
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 2: gathering in the Rose Garden at this hour, and we
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 2: do have some breaking news to share.
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 1: Breaking news now on the Todd Starnes Show.
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 2: The Attorney General announcing that today is the one-year anniversary
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 2: of the surge of federal agents to Memphis called the
• 1:27:15
  Speaker 2: Memphis Safe Task Force. And the attorney general announcing some
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 2: staggering numbers, 13,000 arrests, and they've found more than 200
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 2: missing kids. Let's listen to the attorney general here.
• 1:27:29
  Speaker 3: Done in Memphis.
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 20: Today is the one-year anniversary of us signing the Memorandum
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 20: of Understanding with Memphis to do the great work that
• 1:27:38
  Speaker 20: we've done over the past year. Nearly 13,000 arrests in
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 20: the Memphis area, more than 2,000 illegal firearms seized, and
• 1:27:46
  Speaker 20: nearly 1,500 known gang members arrested over the past year.
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 20: We also located more than 200 missing children.
• 1:27:57
  Speaker 1: St.
• 1:27:57
  Speaker 20: Louis, over the past four weeks, our HSTF platform has
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 20: been extraordinarily successful, arresting over 250 violent criminals, many with
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 20: outstanding warrants, and extensive criminal history, and they've taken over
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 20: 100 illegal firearms off the streets.
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 3: That's just in the past four weeks.
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 20: And today, you may have heard Director Patel announce that
• 1:28:21
  Speaker 20: the FBI has arrested 10 out of 10 of the
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 20: criminals on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted list in the
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 20: first 18 months of the administration.
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 2: That's, Mary, just remarkable numbers. And I'm going to tell you,
• 1:28:34
  Speaker 2: it feels like a completely different city now that Trump
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 2: has sent in the task force.
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's fantastic, isn't it? Isn't it? It's amazing when
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 4: you punish people for committing crimes, how they either wind
• 1:28:47
  Speaker 4: up in prison. or they stop committing crimes. I don't
• 1:28:50
  Speaker 4: think they stop committing crimes. I think they wind up
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 4: in prison as we spoke earlier about people needing to
• 1:28:55
  Speaker 4: experience things to get it through their thick heads. I
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 4: think also there are some people who are just opportunists
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 4: who are like, well, if everybody else is doing it,
• 1:29:02
  Speaker 4: so can I. So, you know, they get a five
• 1:29:04
  Speaker 4: finger discount every time they go to the store because
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 4: nothing's going to happen to them. Well, when daddy's home
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 4: and daddy says zero tolerance, if you steal something, you
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 4: will be punished. The people who would not normally do that,
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 4: but it's just that the environment changes. permits them to
• 1:29:18
  Speaker 4: do it, won't do it.
• 1:29:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a great point. Mary, we're going to have
• 1:29:23
  Speaker 2: to leave it there. I loved the meandering conversation today.
• 1:29:28
  Speaker 2: Tell us what's coming up. You've been on hiatus. What's
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 2: coming up on the big radio podcast?
• 1:29:34
  Speaker 4: The podcast tonight, we do have an author who is
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 4: joining us who is going to be talking about the
• 1:29:40
  Speaker 4: negative effects of feminism, which I thought was interesting.
• 1:29:43
  Speaker 2: Oh, that'll be fun.
• 1:29:45
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and I am going to be on Newsmax here
• 1:29:48
  Speaker 4: in about 20 minutes.
• 1:29:50
  Speaker 2: All right, ladies and gentlemen, the great Mary Walter, and
• 1:29:54
  Speaker 2: you'll be able to see all of her great stuff.
• 1:29:56
  Speaker 2: Did I mention to you that I actually gave you
• 1:29:58
  Speaker 2: a shout-out in the book?
• 1:30:01
  Speaker 17: Yes, you did.
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 2: You're on page 290. I had to double check. Page 290,
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 2: the Mary Walter shout out.
• 1:30:10
  Speaker 4: I have to write that down. 290. I'm going to
• 1:30:13
  Speaker 4: write that right here so I know where to look
• 1:30:14
  Speaker 4: for it.
• 1:30:14
  Speaker 14: 290.
• 1:30:15
  Speaker 4: All right. Thank you, Todd.
• 1:30:17
  Speaker 2: All right, Mary.
• 1:30:18
  Speaker 6: That's not working.
• 1:30:20
  Speaker 2: Mary Walter, I'll text you the information. All right, there
• 1:30:23
  Speaker 2: you go, ladies and gentlemen. Mary Walter. We've got to
• 1:30:26
  Speaker 2: take a quick break here.
• 1:30:27
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• 1:30:27
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  Speaker 2: In the meantime, crazy auntie Maxine Waters going at it
• 1:33:24
  Speaker 2: with Scott Besant. I'll tell you, these people have absolutely
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  Speaker 2: no respect for decorum. Cut number 18, please.
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  Speaker 8: The U.S.
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  Speaker 2: Bond market has been the best-performing.
• 1:33:36
  Speaker 8: Major bond market in the world.
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  Speaker 2: Yes or no, Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Secretary? Yes or no, Mr. Secretary?
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  Speaker 9: Reclaiming my time.
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  Speaker 3: Reclaiming my time.
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  Speaker 2: Reclaiming my time.
• 1:33:46
  Speaker 3: Reclaiming my time.
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  Speaker 9: Reclaiming my time. You keep talking, I'll keep reclaiming my time.
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  Speaker 9: And I'm asking you, Mr. Secretary. Turn it to your
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  Speaker 9: trade policy. If tariffs are not inflationary, as you claimed
• 1:34:00
  Speaker 9: in your previous testimony, then why has inflation increased by
• 1:34:04
  Speaker 9: more than 3% over the past year? Do you deny
• 1:34:07
  Speaker 9: that inflation is too high at 3%?
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  Speaker 7: Yes or no?
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  Speaker 2: Yes or no, Mr.
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  Speaker 9: Secretary.
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  Speaker 3: Yes or no, Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Secretary.
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  Speaker 9: Reclaiming my time. Reclaiming my time.
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  Speaker 2: Enough of this. She's giving me a headache. God bless
• 1:34:26
  Speaker 2: Scott Besant for having the wherewithal to put up with
• 1:34:31
  Speaker 2: that nonsense. But this is, again, what the cabinet's going
• 1:34:34
  Speaker 2: through every single time they show up on Capitol Hill. Now,
• 1:34:39
  Speaker 2: just a little while ago, we heard from the Attorney General,
• 1:34:43
  Speaker 2: Todd Blanch, making really a shocking announcement from the Rose
• 1:34:48
  Speaker 2: Garden of the White House. Let's take a listen.
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  Speaker 3: Done in Memphis.
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  Speaker 20: Today is the one year anniversary of us signing the
• 1:34:56
  Speaker 20: Memorandum of Understanding with Memphis to do the great work
• 1:34:59
  Speaker 20: that we've done over the past year. Nearly 13,000 arrests
• 1:35:03
  Speaker 20: in the Memphis area, more than 2,000 illegal firearms seized,
• 1:35:08
  Speaker 20: and nearly 1,500 known gang members.
• 1:35:11
  Speaker 3: Arrested over the past year.
• 1:35:13
  Speaker 20: We also located more than 200 missing children.
• 1:35:18
  Speaker 3: St.
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  Speaker 20: Louis, over the past four weeks, our HSTF platform has
• 1:35:23
  Speaker 20: been extraordinarily successful, arresting over 250 violent criminals, many with
• 1:35:29
  Speaker 20: outstanding warrants and extensive criminal history. and they've taken over
• 1:35:33
  Speaker 20: 100 illegal firearms off the streets.
• 1:35:36
  Speaker 3: That's just in the past four weeks.
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  Speaker 20: And today, you may have heard Director Patel announce that
• 1:35:43
  Speaker 20: the FBI has arrested 10 out of 10 of the
• 1:35:46
  Speaker 20: criminals on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted list in the
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  Speaker 20: first 18 months of the administration.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's truly remarkable. Senator Marsha Blackburn, as a
• 1:35:55
  Speaker 2: matter of fact, at a Senate hearing earlier today, And
• 1:35:59
  Speaker 2: here's what she had to say as the FBI Director
• 1:36:03
  Speaker 2: Kash Patel was in the room. Let's listen.
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  Speaker 21: And last year we had a hearing with you, Director,
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  Speaker 21: where one of our Democratic colleagues railed about how you
• 1:36:15
  Speaker 21: were making the country less safe. And I just want
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  Speaker 21: to refute that because we can point to what you
• 1:36:24
  Speaker 21: and the Memphis Safe Task Force have done in Memphis, Tennessee,
• 1:36:29
  Speaker 21: that is making Memphis and Tennessee and indeed the entire
• 1:36:35
  Speaker 21: country safer.
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  Speaker 2: Well said. And again, this is all laid out in
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  Speaker 2: my new book, The Golden Age. There's a literal chapter
• 1:36:44
  Speaker 2: on how President Trump saved Memphis, Tennessee. I want to
• 1:36:48
  Speaker 2: go right away to the Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line and
• 1:36:51
  Speaker 2: say hello to the next governor of the state of Tennessee.
• 1:36:55
  Speaker 2: Right now, she is our Senator Marsha Blackburn. Senator, good
• 1:36:59
  Speaker 2: to have you with us, and wow, what an amazing
• 1:37:02
  Speaker 2: story coming out of Washington today.
• 1:37:06
  Speaker 13: It is indeed, and Memphis, of course, is the center
• 1:37:09
  Speaker 13: of it because Memphis is the success story. And, Todd,
• 1:37:13
  Speaker 13: what we know is that making Memphis safer is something
• 1:37:18
  Speaker 13: that all Memphians, have been excited about, they are benefiting from.
• 1:37:25
  Speaker 13: And as we talk to people in West Tennessee and
• 1:37:28
  Speaker 13: Shelby County every single day, they will say thank you
• 1:37:32
  Speaker 13: for the task force. And Director Patel pointing out what
• 1:37:37
  Speaker 13: they had done in the hearing with me, talking about
• 1:37:41
  Speaker 13: the 13,000 arrests, the nearly 1,500 gang members that are
• 1:37:46
  Speaker 13: off the streets, they're locked up, they're being prosecuted. talking
• 1:37:50
  Speaker 13: about the children that have been rescued, having Todd Blanch
• 1:37:55
  Speaker 13: in the Rose Garden at the White House today. Talk
• 1:37:59
  Speaker 13: about Memphis as the model for how you work together
• 1:38:04
  Speaker 13: with your local, state, federal agencies. You put everybody together.
• 1:38:09
  Speaker 13: You say, we're going to make certain we make this happen.
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  Speaker 13: You've got a mayor that is working hard to make
• 1:38:15
  Speaker 13: his city safer. for his citizens. You've got a police
• 1:38:20
  Speaker 13: chief working to make certain the city is safer for
• 1:38:24
  Speaker 13: the citizens, and at the same time, training new officers,
• 1:38:29
  Speaker 13: recruiting new officers. training existing officers, having them learn from
• 1:38:35
  Speaker 13: whether you've got the FBI or DHS or other agencies
• 1:38:42
  Speaker 13: that are helping train existing officers. This has been a
• 1:38:47
  Speaker 13: remarkable effort. And over the past year to know that
• 1:38:52
  Speaker 13: the crime rate has been cut more than half. in Memphis, Tennessee.
• 1:38:58
  Speaker 13: Things are very different today than they were just a
• 1:39:02
  Speaker 13: year ago.
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  Speaker 2: You know, what's really shocking about all of this, Senator,
• 1:39:05
  Speaker 2: is that the Democrats who have run Memphis for generations
• 1:39:09
  Speaker 2: could have done something about this, but they did not
• 1:39:13
  Speaker 2: do anything. They didn't do anything at all, and it
• 1:39:15
  Speaker 2: took your efforts, it took the efforts of people like
• 1:39:19
  Speaker 2: State Senator Brent Taylor, now running for Congress, And it
• 1:39:22
  Speaker 2: took President Trump, you took that to President Trump and said, Mr. President,
• 1:39:27
  Speaker 2: we need help in Memphis. And he delivered when the
• 1:39:30
  Speaker 2: Democrats failed to do so.
• 1:39:33
  Speaker 13: You're exactly right about that. And Director Patel and the
• 1:39:38
  Speaker 13: Attorney General listened when we said, we need your help.
• 1:39:42
  Speaker 13: We can't do this on our own. And they said,
• 1:39:46
  Speaker 13: we will help you. And indeed, Director Patel, when he
• 1:39:51
  Speaker 13: was with us a year ago, gave me that public
• 1:39:53
  Speaker 13: commitment that they would do that, and they have lived
• 1:39:57
  Speaker 13: up to that. And now that other cities, St. Louis,
• 1:40:02
  Speaker 13: other cities are looking at Memphis. You've got Director Patel
• 1:40:07
  Speaker 13: today talking about the Project Viper, which was the first
• 1:40:13
  Speaker 13: part of putting this task force together. how he now
• 1:40:18
  Speaker 13: has that in a couple dozen cities where they're looking
• 1:40:22
  Speaker 13: at how you work in partnership to get crime under control. And, Todd,
• 1:40:28
  Speaker 13: I'll say this. Also, the cartels that have moved into
• 1:40:32
  Speaker 13: some of these issues, we in Tennessee have sent this
• 1:40:35
  Speaker 13: message loud and clear. If you are here trafficking our children,
• 1:40:41
  Speaker 13: if you are trafficking drugs, We are going to hunt
• 1:40:45
  Speaker 13: you down. We're going to find you and apprehend you.
• 1:40:49
  Speaker 13: We are going to put you in jail. We are
• 1:40:51
  Speaker 13: going to prosecute you. But you are not going to
• 1:40:55
  Speaker 13: get away with this. And that message is being understood
• 1:41:01
  Speaker 13: by these cartels, and they are leaving the area, and
• 1:41:05
  Speaker 13: that is a positive.
• 1:41:08
  Speaker 2: Senator, I thought it was interesting. Something you said in
• 1:41:10
  Speaker 2: your remarks to the FBI director, that you wanted to
• 1:41:14
  Speaker 2: see those numbers every single day. And I think that's
• 1:41:18
  Speaker 2: going to impress a lot of people who, you know,
• 1:41:20
  Speaker 2: sometimes this part of Tennessee gets left behind in the conversation.
• 1:41:26
  Speaker 2: But it certainly appears that you are paying very close
• 1:41:29
  Speaker 2: attention to what's going on here in the Memphis area.
• 1:41:32
  Speaker 13: Yes, indeed we are. Ben Blackman is our chief counsel,
• 1:41:37
  Speaker 13: and he grew up in Memphis, went to school at
• 1:41:39
  Speaker 13: Christian Brothers. and law school at Ole Miss. And he
• 1:41:45
  Speaker 13: has really drilled down on these numbers. And as we
• 1:41:50
  Speaker 13: have worked right with your local state and federal agencies,
• 1:41:56
  Speaker 13: every day we check these. We look at the criminals
• 1:41:59
  Speaker 13: that are being detained and are being jailed. I will
• 1:42:06
  Speaker 13: say this. Our U.S. Attorney Mike Donovan has been stellar
• 1:42:13
  Speaker 13: on this. Tyrese Miller, the U.S. Marshal, stellar. And these
• 1:42:19
  Speaker 13: gentlemen are individuals that are now recognized across the country.
• 1:42:25
  Speaker 13: Chief Davis is getting calls from around the country from
• 1:42:30
  Speaker 13: other police chiefs saying, how have you done this? This
• 1:42:35
  Speaker 13: is good for Memphis. And, you know, one of the
• 1:42:38
  Speaker 13: things we're hearing, not only from citizens about how much
• 1:42:43
  Speaker 13: safer it is, but from small business owners and about,
• 1:42:49
  Speaker 13: you know, they're beginning to have people look at relocating
• 1:42:54
  Speaker 13: businesses and reaching out to them and saying, could you
• 1:42:58
  Speaker 13: supply this? Would you be a vendor for that? So
• 1:43:02
  Speaker 13: it's opening up opportunities there. for economic growth and development
• 1:43:08
  Speaker 13: that a year ago Memphis did not have. The Chamber
• 1:43:11
  Speaker 13: of Commerce is getting more requests for information.
• 1:43:15
  Speaker 6: This is good.
• 1:43:16
  Speaker 13: It means more jobs. It means higher wages.
• 1:43:19
  Speaker 2: Senator Marsha Blackburn joining us on our Patriot Mobile Newsmaker
• 1:43:22
  Speaker 2: line as one of those small business owners. I say
• 1:43:25
  Speaker 2: thank you, Senator. I want to switch gears real quick
• 1:43:29
  Speaker 2: because the gubernatorial race is heating up. You have a
• 1:43:33
  Speaker 2: Democrat opponent, a woman by the name of Jerry Green,
• 1:43:37
  Speaker 2: who sits on the council in Memphis. She posted something
• 1:43:42
  Speaker 2: about you. She said that you are a coward. I'm
• 1:43:47
  Speaker 2: curious to get your reaction to the rhetoric coming from
• 1:43:50
  Speaker 2: the Democrats in this race.
• 1:43:53
  Speaker 13: You know, we are running our race. We've got a
• 1:43:57
  Speaker 13: great message. We have a history of working with and
• 1:44:01
  Speaker 13: for Tennesseans and working to make their lives better every day.
• 1:44:06
  Speaker 13: We are going to stay focused on that and leave
• 1:44:11
  Speaker 13: the noise to others. I said I've got an opponent
• 1:44:15
  Speaker 13: that is a socialist. I've got another one with quite
• 1:44:18
  Speaker 13: a colorful record, but we are focused on the people
• 1:44:21
  Speaker 13: of Tennessee and how we best serve them. It is
• 1:44:24
  Speaker 13: an honor every day. to work for the people of Tennessee.
• 1:44:29
  Speaker 2: Well, I know your team has actually put out this website, deadbeatdave.com,
• 1:44:33
  Speaker 2: this independent guy, David Hatley. And you're right. I mean,
• 1:44:37
  Speaker 2: the guy is a convicted criminal. He says that he's
• 1:44:40
  Speaker 2: written about all of his past crimes and mistakes that
• 1:44:46
  Speaker 2: he made, he said, younger in life. What is it
• 1:44:48
  Speaker 2: about this guy that would disqualify him to be governor
• 1:44:52
  Speaker 2: of Tennessee?
• 1:44:55
  Speaker 13: And one of the things we know is that Tennesseans
• 1:44:58
  Speaker 13: want somebody who has a history of delivering for them,
• 1:45:01
  Speaker 13: somebody that understands the states, each grand division, and has
• 1:45:06
  Speaker 13: solutions to problems. We are a great state. We're not
• 1:45:11
  Speaker 13: a bad state. We're not bad people. We are one
• 1:45:15
  Speaker 13: of the best states in the country. And we've got
• 1:45:18
  Speaker 13: the lowest per capita debt burden in the country, the
• 1:45:22
  Speaker 13: lowest tax burden in This is a good thing. We
• 1:45:26
  Speaker 13: have a solid foundation of success to build on. We
• 1:45:32
  Speaker 13: should be America's Christian conservative leader. We should be the
• 1:45:38
  Speaker 13: freest state in the country. And as governor, that is
• 1:45:42
  Speaker 13: something I'm going to work toward. How do we be
• 1:45:46
  Speaker 13: the freest state in the country? How do we even
• 1:45:49
  Speaker 13: further get down the cost? of delivering government services, the
• 1:45:55
  Speaker 13: cost to the taxpayer, because government doesn't have money. It
• 1:45:59
  Speaker 13: all comes from the taxpayer, and it means you have
• 1:46:02
  Speaker 13: to have policies that are going to keep that cost
• 1:46:07
  Speaker 13: of government low so that the taxpayer is keeping money
• 1:46:12
  Speaker 13: in their pocket. Right now, Todd, we hear every day
• 1:46:16
  Speaker 13: from people about the cost of living, and they're saying,
• 1:46:19
  Speaker 13: what can we do to make housing more affordable. Well,
• 1:46:23
  Speaker 13: let's look at permitting. Let's look at regulation. Let's look
• 1:46:28
  Speaker 13: at how we get the cost of government services down,
• 1:46:32
  Speaker 13: how we speed these processes. We hear from people about
• 1:46:37
  Speaker 13: the necessity to keep communities safe. How do we make
• 1:46:42
  Speaker 13: certain that we further that and we do it in
• 1:46:44
  Speaker 13: a cost-effective manner? How do we make certain our kids
• 1:46:48
  Speaker 13: are going to have opportunities and the best educational opportunities
• 1:46:53
  Speaker 13: in the country. How do we get these ratings up
• 1:46:56
  Speaker 13: on their test scores and make certain that every single
• 1:47:00
  Speaker 13: child graduates high school knowing what their God-given gifts are
• 1:47:06
  Speaker 13: and setting them up for success in life, whether they
• 1:47:10
  Speaker 13: want to go to the military or they want to
• 1:47:12
  Speaker 13: work in skilled labor or they want to go to
• 1:47:16
  Speaker 13: a college. Let's set our kids up. We are a
• 1:47:19
  Speaker 13: great state, and we can do this, and we can
• 1:47:23
  Speaker 13: set these children up for success, and we can make
• 1:47:27
  Speaker 13: certain that we are America's conservative leader. President Trump is
• 1:47:32
  Speaker 13: sending power and authority back to the states every single day,
• 1:47:36
  Speaker 13: whether it's healthcare, education, permitting, regulation, economic development. We're seeing
• 1:47:43
  Speaker 13: it every day, so let's Let's do a reset and
• 1:47:46
  Speaker 13: leave the other country and show other states what we,
• 1:47:50
  Speaker 13: one of the best states in the country, what we
• 1:47:53
  Speaker 13: are able to accomplish.
• 1:47:55
  Speaker 2: Senator, I've got about 60 seconds, and full disclosure, I
• 1:47:58
  Speaker 2: should have said this at the very start of our conversation,
• 1:48:01
  Speaker 2: that I have endorsed you, and you have my full
• 1:48:04
  Speaker 2: support as governor of the state of Tennessee. I'm also
• 1:48:09
  Speaker 2: one of these guys that just loves debates. I'm a journalist.
• 1:48:12
  Speaker 2: I'm a broadcaster. I love the debates, and I love
• 1:48:14
  Speaker 2: hearing conservative ideas being debated. Is there any circumstances that
• 1:48:20
  Speaker 2: you would consider or at least think about doing a
• 1:48:22
  Speaker 2: debate with your opponents?
• 1:48:25
  Speaker 13: You know, my opponent is a socialist, I'm a conservative.
• 1:48:28
  Speaker 13: This is a contrast election, and always, we love debates.
• 1:48:36
  Speaker 13: talking about what we are for. But, Todd, I'm not
• 1:48:40
  Speaker 13: going to give air to the defund the police, put
• 1:48:46
  Speaker 13: social workers on the streets, Medicaid, not even Medicare, but
• 1:48:52
  Speaker 13: Medicaid for all. We're just not going to give air
• 1:48:56
  Speaker 13: to that.
• 1:48:57
  Speaker 14: All right.
• 1:48:57
  Speaker 2: Fair enough. Senator, we appreciate you coming on. I know
• 1:49:00
  Speaker 2: you're super busy today, and thank you. We covered a
• 1:49:02
  Speaker 2: lot of ground. And again, thank you again for the
• 1:49:05
  Speaker 2: great work you did getting President Trump to send in
• 1:49:08
  Speaker 2: the task force. We really appreciate that.
• 1:49:11
  Speaker 12: You got it.
• 1:49:12
  Speaker 7: Take care.
• 1:49:13
  Speaker 2: All right. Senator Marsha Blackburn on the Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line.
• 1:49:17
  Speaker 2: And it took a lot of folks to get that
• 1:49:21
  Speaker 2: task force down here, and we're mighty thankful for it.
• 1:49:24
  Speaker 2: All right. We've got to take a break. 901-260-5926, our
• 1:49:26
  Speaker 2: telephone number. That's 901-260-5926. This is the Todd Starnes Show.
• 1:49:46
  Speaker 2: You know, Dylan, Blackburn was fired up today.
• 1:49:51
  Speaker 8: She had a lot to say.
• 1:49:52
  Speaker 2: She was, yeah, extra spicy. You know, I do think
• 1:49:55
  Speaker 2: it was funny. She said they were staying above the fray, right?
• 1:49:59
  Speaker 2: But they actually created the deadbeatdave.com website. And they're everywhere
• 1:50:05
  Speaker 2: this guy goes. And he's sort of like a, he's
• 1:50:08
  Speaker 2: a self-funded guy. And one of the reasons I think
• 1:50:10
  Speaker 2: they're a little concerned is that he's got a lot
• 1:50:13
  Speaker 2: of money and he's self-funding his campaign. So he's going
• 1:50:17
  Speaker 2: to be dumping a lot of cash into the race.
• 1:50:20
  Speaker 2: And everywhere he goes, he's being trailed by people dressed
• 1:50:23
  Speaker 2: up in like the old school prison uniforms, the black
• 1:50:26
  Speaker 2: and white stripes. And they're putting up wanted posters for
• 1:50:29
  Speaker 2: David Hatley all over the state of Tennessee. So it's
• 1:50:34
  Speaker 2: going to be an interesting race there. Clearly, Marshall Blackburn
• 1:50:37
  Speaker 2: is by far the frontrunner here. David Hadley running as
• 1:50:41
  Speaker 2: an independent, and then Jerry Green running as the Democrat
• 1:50:46
  Speaker 2: in that particular race. 901-260-5926, our telephone number. Listen to
• 1:50:52
  Speaker 2: these numbers. Nationwide crime numbers under the Trump administration, 31,000
• 1:50:57
  Speaker 2: gangbangers gone. 2,700 criminal gangs dismantled nationwide, 54,000 violent crime arrests,
• 1:51:09
  Speaker 2: homicides down 18%. That's Donald Trump, ladies and gentlemen. That's
• 1:51:15
  Speaker 2: a reason for you to get out and vote on
• 1:51:17
  Speaker 2: Election Day. All right, we've got to scoot out of here.
• 1:51:20
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• 1:51:24
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• 1:51:26
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