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Should Americans be Preparing for a National Emergency? · 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, our.
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  Speaker 3: Love is American.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, hello everybody. Welcome to the Todd Stearns Radio Show.
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  Speaker 2: Happy Friday to you, America. We have a very busy day,
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  Speaker 2: just a few days away, Tuesday, the big day. Finally,
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  Speaker 2: the midterm elections and America will decide, do we want
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  Speaker 2: freedom and liberty or oppression? That's really what's on the
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  Speaker 2: ballot today. across the country in all of these congressional races.
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  Speaker 2: Today is also Open Line Friday. That is the one
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  Speaker 2: day out of the week that you get to talk
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  Speaker 2: about whatever is on your mind. Our telephone number, 901-260-5926.
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  Speaker 4: That's 901-260-5926.
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  Speaker 2: So we've got a lot of ground to cover today, everybody.
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  Speaker 2: And I want to start by I'm talking about a
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  Speaker 2: story that I was holding off because I'm really not
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  Speaker 2: quite sure where we're going with all of this. But
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  Speaker 2: there's been a lot of concern in talk radio world,
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  Speaker 2: especially about the Pentagon and Operation Fortress. And we're going
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  Speaker 2: to get into a little bit of that. But there's
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  Speaker 2: also been a lot of concern from a conservative talk
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  Speaker 2: radio host, about being prepared. The Pentagon is now calling
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  Speaker 2: for all of their military bases to be self-sufficient for
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  Speaker 2: at least 90 days. Now, the average American citizen, I'm
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  Speaker 2: not sure that you guys can prepare for 90 days
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  Speaker 2: in advance, but at least 72 hours, you need to
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  Speaker 2: have supplies in the event something happens. And that's just
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  Speaker 2: a regular thing. I mean, that's not like a That's
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  Speaker 2: not some sort of fear-mongering. It's just you need to
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  Speaker 2: be prepared. If, in fact, the grid ever goes down
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  Speaker 2: or there's some sort of a national calamity, you need
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  Speaker 2: to make sure that you have supplies to take care
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  Speaker 2: of yourself and to take care of your family. And
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  Speaker 2: that's a pretty common-sense approach here. But a lot of
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  Speaker 2: talk radio hosts are out there, and they are freaking
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  Speaker 2: out right now. And one of the reasons they're freaking out,
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  Speaker 2: and I just want to cut right to the chase here,
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  Speaker 2: because I've been getting a lot of messages about this. Todd,
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  Speaker 2: what's going on? Is there some sort of an imminent
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  Speaker 2: attack on America? Iran, are they threatening to take out
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  Speaker 2: the grid? What's going on here? And look, these are
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  Speaker 2: all fair questions. But ladies and gentlemen, we should not
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  Speaker 2: be panicking here. Now, none of us knows for sure.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, if the You know, if the Pentagon has information,
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  Speaker 2: they're not sharing it with us. They seem to think
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  Speaker 2: that the thought process is that the fortress plan is
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  Speaker 2: some sort of a regular thing. But I don't recall
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  Speaker 2: this sort of thing being made public. And it seems
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  Speaker 2: to me that the Pentagon is going to make something
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  Speaker 2: like this public. They need to give us a little
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  Speaker 2: bit more information. So people don't panic. And I'm telling you,
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  Speaker 2: people are just on edge right now. There's a lot
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  Speaker 2: going on in the world. But anyway, the Pentagon preparing
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  Speaker 2: all of their military bases to keep operating for at
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  Speaker 2: least 90 days without any outside support. They're preparing for
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  Speaker 2: the possibility. This is from Fox News. They're preparing... for
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  Speaker 2: the possibility of a major war that could cripple power grids,
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  Speaker 2: disrupt supply chains, and threaten critical infrastructure on American soil.
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  Speaker 2: The new requirement is part of FORTRESS, a broader military
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  Speaker 2: initiative aimed at ensuring American forces can continue fighting even
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  Speaker 2: if the civilian systems they depend on are disrupted. According
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  Speaker 2: to the Pentagon Chief Spokesperson Sean Parnell, we don't want
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  Speaker 2: to rely on standard civilian municipal infrastructure to run our
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  Speaker 2: national defense. The Pentagon is also laying the groundwork for
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  Speaker 2: civilian factories to shift to defense production during a crisis
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  Speaker 2: while preparing alternative supply chains and strategic reserves to keep weapons, fuel,
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  Speaker 2: and other essential materials flowing. Power is combat now. Without power,
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  Speaker 2: you lose communications, water, logistics, assembly lines, and just basic
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  Speaker 2: military command structures. And this is true. Now, look, here's
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  Speaker 2: my takeaway from this. Clearly, something is up, and especially
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  Speaker 2: if they're working with private companies and companies in the
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  Speaker 2: private sector to possibly shift to producing en masse military
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  Speaker 2: gear for For example, going back to World War II,
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  Speaker 2: I believe it was Ford, the Ford Motor Company, actually
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  Speaker 2: stopped producing cars. And I think just about nearly every
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  Speaker 2: tank that was built during World War II came off
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  Speaker 2: of a Ford assembly line. So if that's the case,
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  Speaker 2: the question is, all right, exactly how bad is the
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  Speaker 2: situation with Iran? Are there concerns that Russia and China
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  Speaker 2: might jump into the conflict? And if so, at that point,
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  Speaker 2: we would be embroiled in some sort of a world war.
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  Speaker 2: And so people read this kind of stuff, and there's
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  Speaker 2: not a lot of context for There is concern about
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  Speaker 2: what's going on. I don't think that what we now know,
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  Speaker 2: the American people have been kept in the dark about
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  Speaker 2: what's happened in Iran. And I get that to some extent.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I don't think we need to know every
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  Speaker 2: single battle plan. But if Iran has truly been effective
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  Speaker 2: in targeting and blowing up military installations in the Middle East,
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  Speaker 2: I think that is important. And we have seen that
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  Speaker 2: information being leaked out. So where does all of this
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  Speaker 2: put us? Well, a lot of the talk radio hosts,
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  Speaker 2: and I don't mean to paint with a broad brush,
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  Speaker 2: we're not hawking these products, so this is not us.
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  Speaker 2: But there are others out there, and they're preaching doom
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  Speaker 2: and gloom and prepper, prepper, prepper. They want you to
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  Speaker 2: buy all of this prep stuff that they are selling.
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  Speaker 2: I think My Patriot Supply and all that kind of stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Because they want to make money off of this stuff,
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  Speaker 2: so it's financially beneficial to them to get you freaked out.
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  Speaker 2: And that's just the reality of it. And we could
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  Speaker 2: do that, but I'm not going to. Why would we
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  Speaker 2: do that? That's just not who we are. So anyway,
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  Speaker 2: a lot of the talk radio hosts are doing that.
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  Speaker 2: But I do think that it's important for you to
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  Speaker 2: have some sort of a plan. And that's what I
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  Speaker 2: really are kicking off point here today is, do you
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  Speaker 2: have a plan? Because there is scuttlebutt that Iran may be... Oh,
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  Speaker 2: and by the way, and the other part of it
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  Speaker 2: is you got Bongino out there, the former deputy director
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  Speaker 2: of the FBI, saying something's going on. You know what, Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Former Deputy Director, if something is going on, tell your
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  Speaker 2: audience that. Tell the American people what it is. And
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  Speaker 2: that's really what bothers me about conservative social media world.
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  Speaker 2: It's all a grift right now. You know, all these
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  Speaker 2: folks in highfalutin positions or former Trump administration officials coming
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  Speaker 2: out and they're alluding to the fact they have all
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  Speaker 2: this inside intel and that, you know, the Iranians are
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  Speaker 2: going to attack the grid. They're going to take out
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  Speaker 2: the Internet, the world Internet. They're going to cut the cables.
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  Speaker 2: And they're always very elusive with the details. But they
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  Speaker 2: want to put all of that out there to frighten
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  Speaker 2: you so that you'll continue to listen to their programming
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  Speaker 2: so that you will buy their products. And those products
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  Speaker 2: are end-of-the-world survival gear things. And I'm not saying all
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  Speaker 2: of that is wrong. I'm just telling you that's what
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  Speaker 2: a lot of this is. I mean, over the past— and
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to belabor the point here— But I
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  Speaker 2: think over the past five or six years, the world
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  Speaker 2: should have ended by, I don't know, asteroid or alien
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  Speaker 2: invasion or nuclear war at least five or six times
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  Speaker 2: by my last count. And here we are proudly broadcasting
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  Speaker 2: on Halloween Eve. I'm just telling you. So anyway, all
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  Speaker 2: that to say, do your homework. And I think it
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  Speaker 2: is important for you to have some supplies on hand
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  Speaker 2: in the event. Something goes wrong, and you never know
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  Speaker 2: when that's going to happen. I can tell you that
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  Speaker 2: I think it's smart that the Pentagon is not relying
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  Speaker 2: on local municipalities. We can't even fix a pothole in Memphis.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not sure in the event of the— I don't know
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  Speaker 2: why I was watching this. I was channel surfing. I'm
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  Speaker 2: still trying to get over these long trips I've been
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  Speaker 2: on doing the book tour, and I'm wiped out. So
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  Speaker 2: I go home after the show, and I'm just sort
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  Speaker 2: of like, you know, vegging on the couch. And Dylan
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  Speaker 2: and I was channel surfing, and I came across a
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  Speaker 2: documentary on the New Madrid Fault. And you've got to
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  Speaker 2: be really hard up for entertainment if you're watching a
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  Speaker 2: documentary about the New Madrid Fault, which is interesting. It
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  Speaker 2: was a fascinating story because it told the story of
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  Speaker 2: how volatile that fault line is. And you're looking at
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  Speaker 2: if that thing ever, if the fault line ever cracked
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  Speaker 2: or failed, 7 million people would be homeless and just
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  Speaker 2: hundreds of thousands of people would be dead. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: that's how serious it is because it's an earthquake. It's
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  Speaker 2: an earthquake fault, and it impacts Memphis. As a matter
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  Speaker 2: of fact, I think it was the 1700s, 1800s, there
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  Speaker 2: was an earthquake so powerful the entire Mississippi River flowed
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  Speaker 2: backwards and actually created what is now known as Real
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  Speaker 2: Foot Lake. So that's how powerful it is. So anyway,
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  Speaker 2: something like that happens. You wouldn't expect an earthquake to
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  Speaker 2: hit a place like Memphis, Tennessee, but it could, and
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  Speaker 2: you've got to be prepared for that kind of stuff.
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  Speaker 2: That's all I'm saying here. So do your homework. Go
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  Speaker 2: buy your local. If you have an Army surplus store
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  Speaker 2: or someplace like that, go and visit with those folks.
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  Speaker 2: But you want to make sure, get a list together.
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  Speaker 2: May I just suggest that first and foremost on your
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  Speaker 2: list is you need to make sure you are a
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  Speaker 2: law-abiding gun owner and you have plenty of ammo. Because
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  Speaker 2: at the end of the day, if society were ever
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  Speaker 2: to break down, it is going to unravel very quickly.
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  Speaker 2: And I can promise you that the bad guys, the looters,
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  Speaker 2: are going to show up in your neighborhoods. And you
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  Speaker 2: need to be prepared for that eventuality. And that means
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  Speaker 2: you need to make sure you're not going to put
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  Speaker 2: yourself in the position of being a victim. So that's
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  Speaker 2: number one on my list, making sure that you have
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  Speaker 2: guns and ammo. And number two, make sure that you
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  Speaker 2: have an alternative weapon. power supply, whether that be a generator,
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  Speaker 2: whether it be solar panels, whether it be a combo
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  Speaker 2: platter of both. But you want to make sure that
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  Speaker 2: you also have plenty of power. You need to have
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  Speaker 2: at least, what, a three-day supply of water, drinking water.
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  Speaker 2: And you also need to make sure you have plenty
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  Speaker 2: of batteries and some sort of a hand crank or
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  Speaker 2: battery-powered radio that has an AM dial so you can
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  Speaker 2: get important information. So Again, do I think it's the
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  Speaker 2: end of the world? I mean, these people are making
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  Speaker 2: it think like between now and Election Day, it's going
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  Speaker 2: to be like something catastrophic is going to happen in America.
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  Speaker 2: And there is no evidence of that other than these
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  Speaker 2: folks hawking their end-of-the-world supplies. So I'm just curious. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: some of you may already be in the prepper stage.
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  Speaker 2: I think there are things you can do without having
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  Speaker 2: to build a multi-bazillion-dollar bunker in your backyard, you know,
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  Speaker 2: 70 feet underground. Or maybe not. Maybe you want to
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  Speaker 2: have one of those. I mean, everybody, it's kind of
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  Speaker 2: nice to have a bunker, a literal man cave in
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  Speaker 2: the ground. 901-260-5926, our telephone number. That's 901-260-5926. Just got
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  Speaker 2: a text from someone. Todd, skip the gold and the macaroni.
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  Speaker 2: I'm stocking up on cases of vodka. It doesn't go bad,
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  Speaker 2: or at least it doesn't get worse, and it will
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  Speaker 2: be in high demand. Well said. Well said. All right.
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  Speaker 2: So look, we've got a lot of ground to cover today.
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  Speaker 2: New polling data out. President Trump was making some headlines
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  Speaker 2: because he canceled upcoming rallies. He was supposed to be
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  Speaker 2: in Kansas and Iowa on Friday. Saturday and Sunday. Now,
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  Speaker 2: those got canceled yesterday, but apparently they're back on. I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to help you walk through what's going on there.
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  Speaker 2: Republicans in Kansas very concerned about losing that Senate seat,
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  Speaker 2: and also now in South Carolina, where they are now
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  Speaker 2: concerned that Darlene Graham could bring down just about virtually
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  Speaker 2: every Republican on on the list. It's insane right now
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  Speaker 2: what's happening in those two states. So we're going to
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  Speaker 2: get to all of that. Hang tight. We'll be right back.
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  Speaker 2: All right, just passing along the data here from CNN.
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  Speaker 2: Sorry about that, folks. Having some headphone issues today. CNN
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  Speaker 2: reporting on the Senate race in Maine and also in
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  Speaker 2: Kansas where Roger Marshall is trailing there. Adam Hamilton is
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  Speaker 2: the Methodist megachurch preacher. He is a far leftist dude.
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  Speaker 2: and also embroiled in a bit of a scandal where
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  Speaker 2: the allegations he failed to report an individual who was
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  Speaker 2: doing horrible things to the children there in the Methodist world. Anyway,
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  Speaker 2: the Democrat, Adam Hamilton, is up in two separate polls,
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  Speaker 2: one by four points and the other by nine points. Now,
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  Speaker 2: Roger Marshall was asked yesterday, so why is it that
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  Speaker 2: President Trump is not coming to Kansas? And he said
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  Speaker 2: he had absolutely no idea, no clue. And it sounded like,
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  Speaker 2: based on his response, he had absolutely no idea. Of course,
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  Speaker 2: now the president reversing course, I was talking to some
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  Speaker 2: folks on the ground in Kansas. And they really are
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  Speaker 2: freaking out over there, over the election. And they are
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  Speaker 2: very concerned. One candidate who has, I think in the
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  Speaker 2: last election, won with over 60 some odd percent of
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  Speaker 2: the vote, I think is probably going to win with
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  Speaker 2: about 52 to 53 percent of the vote. So that's
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  Speaker 2: what they're talking about here. The other poll out of
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  Speaker 2: Kansas has the Democrat leading Susan Collins. I have to
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  Speaker 2: imagine Susan Collins is going to pull that race out.
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  Speaker 2: She's done a fine job for the people of Maine.
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  Speaker 2: Not exactly conservative for me, but I don't live in Maine. 901-260-5926.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go to the phone lines. Gary in Atlanta listening
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  Speaker 2: to us on our KWAM app. Gary, what's on your
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  Speaker 2: mind today?
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  Speaker 5: Hey, Todd.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, Trump's narcissism is going to cost us
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  Speaker 6: the races for the Senate in Texas and South Carolina.
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  Speaker 6: Are you going to criticize your moronic cult leader, or
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  Speaker 6: are you going to keep pissing his ass?
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  Speaker 2: Gary, I'm sorry, you're going to have to help me
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  Speaker 2: out here because my headphones failed again. So you've got
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  Speaker 2: a problem with Trump?
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  Speaker 5: Correct.
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  Speaker 6: He's going to cost us the Senate... because we're going
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  Speaker 6: to lose in South Carolina, and we're going to lose
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  Speaker 6: in Texas, and that's all due to his narcissism.
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  Speaker 2: What do you mean by that? Because, Gary, this president— no, no, no,
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  Speaker 2: hold on a second. This president has been out there
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  Speaker 2: working his butt off. He has been out there on
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  Speaker 2: the campaign trail, in some cases doing two rallies in
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  Speaker 2: one day, If the candidates had been out there working
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  Speaker 2: as hard as Trump had, I don't think we would
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  Speaker 2: be in a situation where we're trailing in some of
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  Speaker 2: these states.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, if he had.
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  Speaker 6: Selected Cornyn and Ralph Norman, yeah, we would have lost, too.
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  Speaker 7: It's his narcissism. Don't you get it?
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  Speaker 2: No, I don't get it, Gary. What are you talking about?
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  Speaker 2: Why are you blaming this on Trump? Why is he
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  Speaker 2: to blame here?
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  Speaker 6: Why isn't Cornyn the nominee?
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  Speaker 2: Well, because the good people of Texas said they got
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  Speaker 2: tired of being screwed by John Cornyn, and in a landslide,
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  Speaker 2: embarrassing victory, they gave it to Paxton. Why is that
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  Speaker 2: on Trump?
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  Speaker 6: Oh, and if Trump hadn't endorsed Paxton.
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  Speaker 2: No, the endorsement had nothing to do with it. The
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  Speaker 2: people of Texas were sick and tired of being betrayed
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  Speaker 2: by John Cornyn.
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  Speaker 6: Are your listeners this stupid? The endorsements have nothing to
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  Speaker 6: do with it. I thought he's the great endorser, and
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  Speaker 6: he runs the party.
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  Speaker 2: Well, he is a great endorser, and he is the
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  Speaker 2: leader of the party. The RNC has a responsibility, and
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  Speaker 2: they've completely failed. But, Gary, you didn't make your point here,
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  Speaker 2: and I gave you plenty of time. You had over
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  Speaker 2: two minutes. to make your point, and you didn't make it.
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  Speaker 2: You didn't make your argument.
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  Speaker 7: All right, 901-260-5926.
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  Speaker 2: This is the Todd Starnes Show.
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  Speaker 8: Now, I don't know about you, but whenever I look
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  Speaker 8: at an American flag, I swell up with pride and
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  Speaker 8: patriotism for this great country. I think about the men
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  Speaker 8: and women who bled and died to ensure that the
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  Speaker 8: free world will remain the free world, who fought against
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  Speaker 8: communism and fascism and ensured that we get to grow
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  Speaker 8: up in this incredible country. Now, when James Tallarico looks
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  Speaker 8: at the American flag, in his own words, he believes
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  Speaker 8: that it is, quote, a complicated symbol. Those are not
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  Speaker 8: the words of somebody who loves this country. Those are
• 20:55
  Speaker 8: the words of somebody who disdains this country. I don't
• 21:01
  Speaker 8: believe that our flag or loving this country is complicated.
• 21:05
  Speaker 8: I think that's something that every single American in this
• 21:08
  Speaker 8: country should believe.
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Brandon Gill out on the campaign trail in Texas,
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: James Talafrico. By the way, President Trump also pointing out
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: just how radical this guy is. Ken Paxton, and I
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: still believe, even though Ken Paxton has run a pretty
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: terrible campaign, no doubt about that, I still believe that
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: he is going to win at the end of the day.
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: Here's President Trump talking about Talafrico, cut 59.
• 21:38
  Speaker 9: So much meat, he couldn't stand it. He was throwing
• 21:41
  Speaker 9: up all over. No, he goes to barbecues now. They
• 21:44
  Speaker 9: force meat down his throat. I think they do it
• 21:47
  Speaker 9: as torture. He said, I'd love to have steak. He's
• 21:53
  Speaker 9: puking all over the place. Henry, he goes backstage. He's
• 21:57
  Speaker 9: puking all over the place. I'd love to have steak.
• 22:00
  Speaker 9: Would you like another portion? Oh, sure.
• 22:02
  Speaker 10: Give me some more.
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: Then he goes backstage and throws up.
• 22:07
  Speaker 9: No, but he'll become a vegan again in about, I
• 22:11
  Speaker 9: would say, within 15 minutes after the election results of
• 22:14
  Speaker 9: he Frankly, if he wins or loses, he's going to
• 22:17
  Speaker 9: be a vegan.
• 22:17
  Speaker 10: If he wins, he's a vegan.
• 22:19
  Speaker 9: And if he loses, he's going to be a vegan.
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's true. I mean, the guy and I get it.
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: You know, the guys out there saying, you know, not
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: God is non-binary, that Jesus is pro-abortion, all that. I
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: get that. Maybe the good people of Texas could give
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: him a pass on the whacked out theology. But when
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: you go out there and you say you don't eat
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: meat in Texas, you're gone. Yeah, they're not going to
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: tolerate something like that. All right, let's go to the
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: phone lines. 901-260-5926, Athens, Georgia. Scott is on the line. Hi, Scott.
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: What's on your mind?
• 22:56
  Speaker 11: Todd, I just want to make a prediction that Kempax
• 23:00
  Speaker 11: is going to win that Senate seat because think about this,
• 23:03
  Speaker 11: and nobody's looking at this, is that he won a
• 23:06
  Speaker 11: grinding primary. He beat out an established incumbent who poured
• 23:11
  Speaker 11: millions and millions and millions of dollars. And nobody's addressing that.
• 23:17
  Speaker 11: I mean, I believe Paxton's going to win. I think
• 23:20
  Speaker 11: he's going to win pretty well.
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: Well, look, I do too. The one challenge, and this
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: is what we don't know, what's the impact of a
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: Karl Rove, John Cornyn, the Bush family getting out there
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: and saying, we're not voting for this guy, we're supporting
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: Talof Rico? And you do have to wonder how many
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: other establishment Republicans and independents might go along with those guys.
• 23:49
  Speaker 11: Well, I just look at I look at, well, if
• 23:52
  Speaker 11: all that was going to happen, it would have happened
• 23:54
  Speaker 11: in the primary. I mean, if Cornyn had all these— Bush
• 23:56
  Speaker 11: had all these people, why couldn't they knock Paxton out
• 23:58
  Speaker 11: in the primary? I mean, they came out big time
• 24:01
  Speaker 11: and voted for him to knock out Cornyn. So it
• 24:04
  Speaker 11: makes sense that these same people are going to come
• 24:06
  Speaker 11: out the next time and knock out Tallarico. So I
• 24:11
  Speaker 11: just— the math's just not there for Tallarico to win. It
• 24:15
  Speaker 11: just doesn't make any sense. Why would you— fight somebody
• 24:19
  Speaker 11: to the death in a primary and then not show
• 24:21
  Speaker 11: up to vote in the general election. I just can't
• 24:24
  Speaker 11: accept that.
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: It's fair enough, and Scott, I hope you're right. I
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: think you're right. Again, I just find it hard to
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: believe that the good people of Texas, and especially with
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: all the conservative, the cultural conservatives in the Hispanic community
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: and the black community, I just don't see how they're
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: going to be able to support this guy who wants
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: to hang out with transgender children. First of all, it
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: creeps me out. But number two, I think it's a
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: values issue. Scott, before I let you go, I'm curious
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: about Georgia with Mike Collins. How are things playing with
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: his campaign? Do you think he's going to be able
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: to upset Ossoff?
• 25:06
  Speaker 11: Oh, yeah. The only reason Ossoff got in was because
• 25:09
  Speaker 11: of COVID. I just don't see.
• 25:14
  Speaker 11: Him getting the votes that he got during the COVID thing.
• 25:20
  Speaker 11: If the election was fixed in 2020 and Ossoff got in,
• 25:25
  Speaker 11: then where is he going to find the votes to
• 25:26
  Speaker 11: get reelected? That's what I want to see.
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: Well, it's a fair question. And again, going back to
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: that primary, I mean, this was a decisive message that
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: the Republican voters were sending in Texas. Paxton won with
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: over 63 percent of the vote. I mean, it was
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: a landslide defeat of a sitting United States senator. And
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: that's how that's how angry the voters of Texas were.
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: And they're just fed up. And we had this previous
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: caller from Atlanta. who talked about Trump's narcissism is going
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: to be the downfall of the party. No, it is
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: Republicans refusing to embrace Trump's agenda. That's the downfall of
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: the party right there. Scott, I've got to run. Let's
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: go to Patty in Statesville, North Carolina, WSIC. Patty, what's
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: on your mind today?
• 26:17
  Speaker 13: I was at the rally yesterday in South Carolina.
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: Wow, so you were in Rock Hill. What was that like, Patty?
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: It was great.
• 26:29
  Speaker 13: And I'm going to tell you something. That guy from Georgia,
• 26:33
  Speaker 13: not the guy that you just talked to.
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Gary.
• 26:35
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 26:36
  Speaker 14: That idiot.
• 26:37
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 26:37
  Speaker 13: I'm going to call him an idiot because he's blaming Trump.
• 26:41
  Speaker 13: Trump is 80 years old. He's got more. I was
• 26:46
  Speaker 13: tired just watching him. I'm not kidding. The guy is
• 26:50
  Speaker 13: full of fire. The guy loves this country. And this
• 26:54
  Speaker 13: idiot has to call in and say that he's a narcissist?
• 26:59
  Speaker 14: You know what?
• 27:01
  Speaker 13: Let him go vote for his little commie party. Let
• 27:05
  Speaker 13: him go vote for them. See where he gets with
• 27:08
  Speaker 13: those people. Let me tell you another thing. I talked
• 27:11
  Speaker 13: to five different people yesterday, Todd. They were mad at
• 27:16
  Speaker 13: Ralph Norman for not backing up with her. They said
• 27:20
  Speaker 13: he's putting her over country.
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: Well, you know what? I'm disappointed in Ralph. I understand
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: why he did what he did. But again, once the
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: primaries are over, you've got to get behind your candidates.
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: And we just have too much at stake for all
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: of the hurt feelings. And that's the problem in Texas
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: right now. John Cornyn is butthurt, and I get that.
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: But he's still got to get out there, and he's
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: got to support his candidate. You have infighting right now, Patty,
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: across the nation, inside the Republican Party, and it is
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: really hurting. That's one of the untold stories of this
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: midterm election cycle. We'll do a deep dive into that
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: after Election Day. I don't want to discourage anybody from
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: getting out there to vote. We've got to make sure
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: that people are motivated to get to the polls and vote.
• 28:13
  Speaker 13: That's what I'm saying. When I talk to these people,
• 28:15
  Speaker 13: and there were people there that were Ralph Norman voters,
• 28:18
  Speaker 13: are now going behind Darlene Graham.
• 28:21
  Speaker 4: So.
• 28:22
  Speaker 13: You know, this guy Gary has no clue. Maybe Gary
• 28:25
  Speaker 13: should get out of his basement and go look.
• 28:27
  Speaker 14: I'm not kidding.
• 28:29
  Speaker 13: You know, I hate people that call you up and
• 28:30
  Speaker 13: call Trump a narcissist. Trump works his rear end off.
• 28:37
  Speaker 13: I don't care what you think about him, how he talks.
• 28:40
  Speaker 13: But he goes out there and he works his butt off, Todd.
• 28:45
  Speaker 13: And that's what I love about him. I love about
• 28:48
  Speaker 13: him because he does truly love this country.
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: He does love the country, Patty, and I think the
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: American people recognize that. I'm curious, how long were you
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: standing in line? What were people talking about? What was
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: the mood there in Rock Hill?
• 29:01
  Speaker 15: It was good.
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: It was good.
• 29:03
  Speaker 16: You know, it was good mood.
• 29:05
  Speaker 13: I mean, there was a lot of people. Like I said,
• 29:07
  Speaker 13: there was a lot of people that were behind Ralph
• 29:10
  Speaker 13: Norman that were coming over for Darlene. And I'm telling you,
• 29:14
  Speaker 13: you know.
• 29:16
  Speaker 13: A lot of people, there were five people I talked
• 29:18
  Speaker 13: to that were kind of mad.
• 29:19
  Speaker 14: At Ralph Norman.
• 29:20
  Speaker 13: If Ralph Norman's listening, I'm sorry, but that's what they
• 29:23
  Speaker 13: were saying. They said Ralph Norman should not put, you know,
• 29:26
  Speaker 13: her over the country. You know, you got to vote
• 29:31
  Speaker 13: her in, no matter how you feel about her. No
• 29:35
  Speaker 13: matter if you don't think, that's why they were there.
• 29:38
  Speaker 13: There were people that were Ralph Normans. voters, and they
• 29:41
  Speaker 13: were still there. And it was jam-packed. And you know
• 29:46
  Speaker 13: how it is. His rally's a great time, you know?
• 29:49
  Speaker 13: And I've been to a lot of them. And I
• 29:52
  Speaker 13: just want to see how the mood was. And it
• 29:54
  Speaker 13: looked pretty good. I'll be honest with you. I'm kind
• 29:57
  Speaker 13: of optimistic, okay?
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: Patty, I love to hear that. We need you optimistic, Patty.
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: And I'm telling you, if everybody does what they're supposed
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: to do on Election Day, we're going to be just fine. Patty,
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: good to hear from you. I'm so glad you had
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: a great time at the rally. Let's go to Cordova, Tennessee. O.G. Bill,
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: listening to us on our flagship station, KWAM. Hi, O.G.
• 30:21
  Speaker 10: Bill.
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: What's on your mind?
• 30:23
  Speaker 17: Hey, first of all, I wanted to thank Brandon Gill.
• 30:25
  Speaker 17: Those comments he made were That's the most patriotic thing
• 30:30
  Speaker 17: I've heard a politician say for quite a while, and
• 30:34
  Speaker 17: it was awesome, and I wanted to give a shout-out
• 30:36
  Speaker 17: to him on that. And second, that guy Gary from Atlanta,
• 30:41
  Speaker 17: he really ruffled my feathers. I don't know where people
• 30:47
  Speaker 17: get that. You know, Trump, I was just listening to Patty, I.
• 30:49
  Speaker 14: Think her name was.
• 30:51
  Speaker 17: She told it like it was, thank you, Patty. Trump
• 30:54
  Speaker 17: is the hardest-working man in show business. He loves this country.
• 30:57
  Speaker 17: He does what he needs to do. And he's the
• 31:01
  Speaker 17: most misunderstood politician and president because of the media and
• 31:05
  Speaker 17: the lack of education for so many people in this
• 31:08
  Speaker 17: country because of the way the education system's got, with
• 31:13
  Speaker 17: the lack of teaching history and civics and government and
• 31:15
  Speaker 17: everything else. But, you know, they need to... I think
• 31:19
  Speaker 17: our biggest threat, really, is probably John Thune. We got
• 31:23
  Speaker 17: less done this last two years, and that's part of
• 31:26
  Speaker 17: our problem with getting voter turnouts, because people are just frustrated.
• 31:29
  Speaker 17: We got nothing done, very little done. They couldn't get
• 31:32
  Speaker 17: the SAVE Act passed, which we desperately needed. And it
• 31:38
  Speaker 17: just baffles me why the Republicans are sitting on their
• 31:40
  Speaker 17: hands in the Senate mostly. Congress, you know, they presented
• 31:44
  Speaker 17: that SAVE Act three or four times, and John Thune
• 31:47
  Speaker 17: really should have just blown up the filibuster and done it,
• 31:49
  Speaker 17: because as soon as the Democrats get in, that's what they're.
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: Going to do.
• 31:53
  Speaker 17: They're going to blow up the filibuster, and they're going
• 31:55
  Speaker 17: to undo everything Donald Trump has done, if they can
• 31:58
  Speaker 17: do it.
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: Bill, I'll make this promise. God forbid the Democrats gain
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: control of the Senate, but if they do and they
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: nuke that filibuster, I will personally go to South Dakota
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: and campaign to remove John Thune from office.
• 32:12
  Speaker 17: I'll go with you if I can do it.
• 32:14
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: Well, you know what? We'll get a caravan of listeners,
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: and we will do our part to make sure that
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: man never steps foot in Washington, D.C.
• 32:22
  Speaker 10: Again.
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: But it's a very dangerous game the Senate Republicans played. Bill,
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: got to leave it there, my friend. Good to hear
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: from you. Our telephone number, 901-260-5926. That's 901-260-5926. This is
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: the Todd Stern Show. All right, welcome back. Dylan, remember
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: yesterday we were telling you about the Red Baron delivery guy?
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: He was delivering the pizzas and stocking the grocery stores.
• 32:58
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: And you got the teenagers, the pranksters, giving the poor
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: guy a hard time. He's working a double shift to
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: put food on the table for the four kids. And
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: that video went viral. Somebody set up a GoFundMe account,
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: over a quarter million dollars donated. But here's the best
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: part about it. Red Baron... They're actually standing behind their employee,
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: and they made him the employee of the month.
• 33:23
  Speaker 4: Hey.
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: I love that.
• 33:25
  Speaker 10: That's nice. Does that come with any reward or anything?
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: Maybe a free pizza?
• 33:29
  Speaker 10: I don't know. Is this like worldwide Red Baron or
• 33:32
  Speaker 10: like his local Red Baron?
• 33:33
  Speaker 15: No, no.
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: This is like Red Baron, like corporate headquarters.
• 33:38
  Speaker 10: National employee of the month.
• 33:39
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: I mean, this is huge.
• 33:41
  Speaker 10: Good for him.
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: Because, you know, a lot of companies, they would fire
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: the worker.
• 33:45
  Speaker 5: Sure.
• 33:45
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: So anyway, good on Red Baron. What a great ending
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: to the story. Here's the thing. Those kids, and I
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: think they're teenagers, we need to find out who they are,
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: and their moms and dads need to deal with that.
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: But anyway, Red Baron said he's still there. He's got
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: a fan club, including us. Employee of the month nominations
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: are closed. You know why. Well done. You know what?
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: I don't eat frozen pizza. I may go to Kroger
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: after the show and get a Red Baron pizza.
• 34:23
  Speaker 10: Red Baron's like the best frozen pizza. It's one of
• 34:25
  Speaker 10: the best.
• 34:25
  Speaker 4: Oh, is it?
• 34:26
  Speaker 10: Yeah, for real. All right.
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: I'm a Papa John's guy.
• 34:30
  Speaker 10: Yeah, well, Papa John's doesn't do the frozen pizza.
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: I know. But I'm just saying, that's why I don't
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: eat frozen pizza.
• 34:35
  Speaker 18: I know.
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: Hey, look, and I get the wings, too.
• 34:38
  Speaker 10: Well, there you go.
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: Always get the side of wings. I don't like the
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: stuff on them, so I do the roasted wings.
• 34:44
  Speaker 10: Oh, okay. With a side of ranch, obviously.
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, obviously. And if I'm feeling really bougie, as they say,
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: I'll get the blue cheese.
• 34:53
  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah.
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: The fancy stuff.
• 34:54
  Speaker 10: Well, it is Friday, so you might have to do that.
• 34:56
  Speaker 9: It is.
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: Got to get the wings well done, though. That's the key.
• 34:59
  Speaker 9: Okay.
• 35:00
  Speaker 19: All right.
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: Let's go to eastern North Carolina. That's where Judy is. Judy,
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: talk to me today. How can I help you?
• 35:06
  Speaker 16: I hope you can calm me down because I just
• 35:09
  Speaker 16: voted and I feel like I'm duped again. I voted
• 35:12
  Speaker 16: straight Republican. I'm a Republican. Voted all the way down.
• 35:16
  Speaker 16: And I just feel angry and sick and duped. And
• 35:20
  Speaker 16: I hate feeling that way. Like, I vote for my
• 35:23
  Speaker 16: party and I have to feel angry and sick afterwards.
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: Why do you feel angry and sick? Why do you
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: feel duped?
• 35:29
  Speaker 16: Because the only reason I voted for them, I'm so
• 35:32
  Speaker 16: angry over the past two years. I mean, we're in
• 35:34
  Speaker 16: a war. Prices are high. Trump keeps calling us names
• 35:38
  Speaker 16: like Panikins and all this name-calling. And if we're against
• 35:42
  Speaker 16: Data centers were, like, stupid and poor and all these
• 35:46
  Speaker 16: names he's been calling us. And the only reason, like,
• 35:49
  Speaker 16: Democrats are just anti-white and crazy. So, like, I have
• 35:54
  Speaker 16: to vote Republican, even though I don't feel like they
• 35:56
  Speaker 16: do anything for me. I'm not poor. I'm not rich.
• 36:00
  Speaker 16: I'm just in the middle. I'm a taxpayer. I pay
• 36:02
  Speaker 16: for everything. And I just feel like there's no party
• 36:06
  Speaker 16: for me. But I had to do it because the
• 36:08
  Speaker 16: Democrats are insane and they hate me.
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: No, you did the right thing, Judy. And sometimes you
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: just have to suck it up and do what you
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: just did. And I get it. Every single one of
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: your concerns is a valid concern, every single one of them.
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: But you're right. I mean, you add all that up,
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: and it still doesn't even come close to the chaos
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: and crazy of the Democrat Party. So what we have
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: to do moving forward, and we'll talk about this after Tuesday.
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: We're going to have a conversation about this. But we've
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: got to figure out, can the Republican Party be saved?
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: Is there a place for America First voters? Or is
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: it really time for a true third party that Elon
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: Musk actually came up with a great idea of you
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: only need about five or ten candidates nationwide to actually
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: have an impact in Congress? So, I mean, it could
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: be something as– I don't want to say as simple
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: because it would be incredibly difficult, incredibly hard– But if
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: the Republicans are not going to live up to their
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: campaign promises, then I think we have to find another party.
• 37:15
  Speaker 16: You know, can I say one more thing? I don't
• 37:17
  Speaker 16: want to manipulate the time, but rich people that are donors, very,
• 37:21
  Speaker 16: very rich people, Miriam Adelson, Elon Musk, that type, all
• 37:26
  Speaker 16: the people that were at Trump's inauguration that were the
• 37:30
  Speaker 16: tech people that hate us, They do not care one
• 37:33
  Speaker 16: bit about voting the other party. They're Democrats, but they
• 37:37
  Speaker 16: will take their money and give it to a Republican
• 37:39
  Speaker 16: in a second. They'll let the other party that they are,
• 37:43
  Speaker 16: they are Democrats, they'll let them lose if they don't
• 37:45
  Speaker 16: do what they want. And they'll, Marianne Middleton would do
• 37:48
  Speaker 16: it in a minute if a Republican wouldn't do what
• 37:51
  Speaker 16: she wanted. And I just feel like we need to
• 37:53
  Speaker 16: be that way, too, and just show them we don't
• 37:56
  Speaker 16: have the money, but we do have a vote.
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: Well, you're right about that, Judy. And I'll tell you,
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: I practice what you preached. I turned in my Republican
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: Party membership. I am no longer a member of our
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: local Republican Party. I'm not going to give money to
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: folks that don't share my values. And it really is
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: that simple. And, Judy, you're right. Money does talk. So
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: the pocketbook talks with these Republicans. So my recommendation is
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: don't give them any more money. But again, let's have
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: that conversation after Tuesday. Judy, hang in there. You did
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: good today, Judy. You did good. All right, Hour 2
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• 40:50
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• 40:53
  Speaker 2: big races we've been following, California's 47th congressional district. Jenny
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: Rae LaRue joins us. Jenny Rae, good to have you
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: back on the show. Here we are in the home stretch.
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: How are things going out there for you?
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  Speaker 21: Hi, Todd. We've got good news from California. We have
• 41:12
  Speaker 21: seen Republican ballot returns in our district surging. We're up
• 41:16
  Speaker 21: about 4% over historicals and Democrat ballot returns are lagging.
• 41:22
  Speaker 21: So heading into the first big weekend of in-person voting,
• 41:26
  Speaker 21: all of our polls will be open tomorrow through Tuesday.
• 41:31
  Speaker 21: We've got a lot of tailwinds behind us. So we're
• 41:34
  Speaker 21: hearing good things on the ground today. The Democrats are
• 41:37
  Speaker 21: not really offering an alternative, so people are frustrated, but
• 41:41
  Speaker 21: they are blaming Gavin Newsom as much as they're blaming
• 41:46
  Speaker 21: Donald Trump. And so, you know, whichever way that's going
• 41:48
  Speaker 21: to go, we'll see the turnouts obviously next week, but
• 41:51
  Speaker 21: the enthusiasm is on our side right now.
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: Now, Ginny Raitt, correct me if I'm wrong here, but
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: in California, you're one of, I think, about 30 states
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: nationwide that actually track party affiliation during the general elections.
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: Is that right?
• 42:06
  Speaker 11: That's right.
• 42:06
  Speaker 21: So we track the turnout actually on a daily basis.
• 42:10
  Speaker 21: We can see it. So we don't know what people
• 42:12
  Speaker 21: voted for, but we can make assumptions based on who
• 42:14
  Speaker 21: is voting. That's what we can see right now.
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: And you're telling me that right now Republicans seem to
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: be leading the way in California.
• 42:22
  Speaker 10: That's right.
• 42:22
  Speaker 21: Yes. And our district is a great example of this.
• 42:25
  Speaker 21: Republicans overall do have more enthusiasm on the ground, even statewide.
• 42:30
  Speaker 21: But of course, the numbers are a little bit more
• 42:32
  Speaker 21: out of favor in our district, a very, very competitive district.
• 42:35
  Speaker 21: The fact that Republicans are leading in a midterm election
• 42:38
  Speaker 21: turnout is key. So that's really driving these tailwinds going
• 42:42
  Speaker 21: into the.
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: What do you what do you make of that? Because
• 42:44
  Speaker 2: for so long, you guys have been under the oppressive
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: rule of Democrats, a super majority of Democrats. What is
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: it that's moving the needle this go-around?
• 42:54
  Speaker 21: Well, to be fair, we're in Orange County. I was
• 42:56
  Speaker 21: speaking earlier this week, and I said, this is your future, California.
• 43:00
  Speaker 21: Orange County is well-managed, well-organized. We have great police, great schools,
• 43:05
  Speaker 21: great business, thriving everything. And so California in the dark
• 43:10
  Speaker 21: spots of California, Orange County is a very bright light.
• 43:13
  Speaker 21: But also what we're hearing on the ground, Todd, is
• 43:16
  Speaker 21: that people are frustrated with affordability, but they blame corruption.
• 43:20
  Speaker 21: They blame fraud in the government. And as you know,
• 43:23
  Speaker 21: I lead Cal Doge. I am heading up that fraud
• 43:26
  Speaker 21: fighting initiative in our state. The Democrat playbook has been
• 43:29
  Speaker 21: to say there's nothing to see here. And the fact
• 43:32
  Speaker 21: that we are actually fighting fraud, finding fraud, arresting people,
• 43:35
  Speaker 21: we have over 60 arrests now. And we just released
• 43:38
  Speaker 21: a new report this week on a $ 2. 2 billion broadband
• 43:42
  Speaker 21: for all program that has turned into broadband for none.
• 43:46
  Speaker 21: That kind of stuff is really riling our voters up
• 43:49
  Speaker 21: and making them upset. And it will, I think, drive
• 43:51
  Speaker 21: a lot of these turnouts in this election here.
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: So earlier this week, you sent me a text about
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: this other $ 2 billion fraud case. And my understanding is
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: criminals flew addicts to California to bill them for treatment
• 44:06
  Speaker 2: and surgeries. Is that true? What's the story there?
• 44:10
  Speaker 21: This is absolutely insane. So there were six arrests last week.
• 44:14
  Speaker 21: on a crime ring that was doctors and nurses and
• 44:19
  Speaker 21: a pharmacist who were all in on this. But they
• 44:22
  Speaker 21: figured out that California had one of the most lax
• 44:25
  Speaker 21: oversights for each of these billing processes. And so they
• 44:28
  Speaker 21: could fly addicts into California, import homeless addicts into California,
• 44:33
  Speaker 21: which is part of why our homeless numbers have been increasing.
• 44:36
  Speaker 21: And they could treat them here, not just for their addiction,
• 44:39
  Speaker 21: but actually just unnecessarily. They could give them anything that
• 44:42
  Speaker 21: they wanted and bill Medicare and Medicaid for that. And
• 44:45
  Speaker 21: because of that, these people were treated like cash cows.
• 44:48
  Speaker 21: It was a $ 2 billion billing process over the last
• 44:51
  Speaker 21: couple of years. They have obviously bought mansions and yachts
• 44:55
  Speaker 21: and other things that we're going to be able to recapture.
• 44:58
  Speaker 21: But a lot of that money is gone because it
• 45:00
  Speaker 21: was spent not on these specific assets that they purchased
• 45:04
  Speaker 21: on other issues. So We have to do that to
• 45:07
  Speaker 21: send a message that fraud is not acceptable and that
• 45:09
  Speaker 21: if the California government is unwilling to conduct this oversight,
• 45:13
  Speaker 21: feds will come in. That's exactly why I'm running for Congress,
• 45:16
  Speaker 21: to make sure that that federal oversight of California remains
• 45:19
  Speaker 21: in place.
• 45:20
  Speaker 2: By the way, Jenny's website, JennyRayCA.com, that's Jenny, R-A-E-C-A.com, and
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: you'll be able to find out all the information about
• 45:29
  Speaker 2: her platform, our California listeners website. You'll be able to
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: get all of that data there. Ginny Rae, what is
• 45:36
  Speaker 2: it going to take? What needs to happen on Election
• 45:39
  Speaker 2: Day for Republicans to gain ground in California?
• 45:43
  Speaker 21: Well, California has one month of voting and one month
• 45:46
  Speaker 21: of counting. We're still in that one month of voting.
• 45:48
  Speaker 21: And a lot of the key is that what Democrats
• 45:50
  Speaker 21: have done since ballot harvesting was legalized in 2018 is
• 45:53
  Speaker 21: that they vote. Plus, they always do something else. They
• 45:57
  Speaker 21: help their neighbors vote. They get out the vote for
• 45:59
  Speaker 21: the Democrats. Republicans have to do the same thing. So
• 46:02
  Speaker 21: if you've already voted, we need your help this weekend.
• 46:05
  Speaker 21: We need to walk neighborhoods. We need to make phone calls,
• 46:08
  Speaker 21: donations to help us get the message out through text
• 46:11
  Speaker 21: and volunteer support. All of those issues are key to
• 46:15
  Speaker 21: really turning everything, not just into patting ourselves on the
• 46:18
  Speaker 21: back for voting, but actually making sure that we're mobilizing
• 46:21
  Speaker 21: everybody to get out. In a midterm election like this one,
• 46:24
  Speaker 21: turnout is key and getting out the vote is the
• 46:26
  Speaker 21: key for this election here.
• 46:28
  Speaker 2: All right, Jenny Rae, look, well done. And Californians are
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: so blessed to have you guarding the store there and
• 46:36
  Speaker 2: exposing all of this grift and fraud. So just give
• 46:40
  Speaker 2: us a holler. Whenever you find more fraud, we'll find
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: time to get you on the show.
• 46:47
  Speaker 21: Well, it's pretty easy. It's like a one-year-old Easter egg hunt.
• 46:50
  Speaker 21: You wake up in the morning and you find more fraud.
• 46:52
  Speaker 21: And everywhere I go, people pull me aside and say,
• 46:54
  Speaker 21: I've got another one for you. So trust that while
• 46:58
  Speaker 21: I'm in office, I'll actually have the authority to subpoena people.
• 47:01
  Speaker 21: So that will actually lead us to more arrests and
• 47:03
  Speaker 21: more accountability. But finding fraud is not the problem. It's
• 47:06
  Speaker 21: making sure that we get accountability for it.
• 47:07
  Speaker 10: That's the key. All right.
• 47:08
  Speaker 2: Jenny Rae LaRue, everybody, running for California's 47th congressional district.
• 47:13
  Speaker 2: Get out and vote. JennyRaeCA.com is her website. Again, that's JennyRaeCA.com.
• 47:20
  Speaker 2: All right, Jenny Rae, thank you and good luck. Wow,
• 47:23
  Speaker 2: that's exciting, though, that at least in California, Republican numbers
• 47:28
  Speaker 2: are up thus far. Still a lot of ground to cover.
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: And you know how it goes in California. They seem
• 47:34
  Speaker 2: to find those Democrat ballots when they need them the most.
• 47:38
  Speaker 2: All right, I want to try to work through some
• 47:40
  Speaker 2: of our calls here. It is Open Line Friday. Our
• 47:43
  Speaker 2: telephone number, 901-260-5926. Let's go to Gary in Virginia, listening
• 47:50
  Speaker 2: to us on WINC. Hi, Gary. What's on your mind today?
• 47:55
  Speaker 22: Well, there's a lot on my mind, but I'm glad
• 47:57
  Speaker 22: to get to talk to you. I'm 75 years old, self-employed,
• 48:00
  Speaker 22: and don't have a lot of influence in the community
• 48:03
  Speaker 22: as far as political stuff, but I try the best
• 48:06
  Speaker 22: I can. My complaint is I don't understand why You
• 48:11
  Speaker 22: have a lot of influence, people like Glenn Beck and all.
• 48:14
  Speaker 22: The media people, y'all are who I listen to to
• 48:16
  Speaker 22: get my news from, and I figure I'm up to
• 48:18
  Speaker 22: date on everything. But there's so many people I talk
• 48:21
  Speaker 22: to that they don't listen to the radio shows during
• 48:24
  Speaker 22: the day. A lot of people, including myself, don't have
• 48:28
  Speaker 22: cable TV, so you get whatever channels you get locally
• 48:31
  Speaker 22: on an antenna, which in this area is out of D.C.,
• 48:34
  Speaker 22: so you know what you're getting there, and out of Harrisonburg,
• 48:37
  Speaker 22: which is about as bad. And the people are what
• 48:40
  Speaker 22: we have. We just have uneducated people out here as
• 48:43
  Speaker 22: far as what's going on in the country. And I
• 48:45
  Speaker 22: don't understand why maybe some of you guys could get together,
• 48:49
  Speaker 22: come up with an education program. And I'm not smart
• 48:53
  Speaker 22: enough to figure out all the bells and whistles and
• 48:55
  Speaker 22: details on this. But just to educate the people as
• 48:58
  Speaker 22: to what is really going on, all they get is
• 49:01
  Speaker 22: bits and pieces. One of my best friends was in
• 49:03
  Speaker 22: here today and said he was so mad at Trump
• 49:05
  Speaker 22: because he isn't doing anything. My Lord, Trump has done
• 49:08
  Speaker 22: more than the last 10 presidents put together have done.
• 49:11
  Speaker 22: And people just don't know it because they don't get
• 49:14
  Speaker 22: the news. And so many people out in this part
• 49:17
  Speaker 22: of the country, they work on farms, they work in plants.
• 49:20
  Speaker 22: They don't get to listen to the radio show. I
• 49:21
  Speaker 22: don't get to listen to it all the time. And
• 49:24
  Speaker 22: they just don't know what's going on. And it's all
• 49:27
  Speaker 22: about not being educated. And it all goes back to,
• 49:31
  Speaker 22: there used to be a clothing store in the D.C.
• 49:33
  Speaker 22: area called Sims. And his thing was, his best customer
• 49:37
  Speaker 22: was an educated consumer. And I think the best voter
• 49:41
  Speaker 22: would be an educated voter. I don't know how to
• 49:44
  Speaker 22: go about getting it done. I mean, I do all
• 49:46
  Speaker 22: I can.
• 49:46
  Speaker 4: I talk to people.
• 49:47
  Speaker 22: I make people mad. I've got friends of mine who
• 49:49
  Speaker 22: don't even speak to me anymore. But there needs to
• 49:52
  Speaker 22: be a way to reach out and get to people
• 49:53
  Speaker 22: other than just TV and radio and the Internet, because
• 49:57
  Speaker 22: I don't believe 60% of what's on the Internet is
• 49:59
  Speaker 22: all lies. So I'm reaching out and hoping you and
• 50:03
  Speaker 22: some of the other people can come up with a
• 50:05
  Speaker 22: way to maybe do this.
• 50:06
  Speaker 23: The Republicans.
• 50:08
  Speaker 22: I've said for years they need to do it, but
• 50:09
  Speaker 22: I don't think the Republicans have got to.
• 50:11
  Speaker 24: Get off their butts.
• 50:12
  Speaker 2: Let me jump in here, Gary, because you've shared a
• 50:15
  Speaker 2: lot of very important information and ideas, and I think
• 50:19
  Speaker 2: they're all terrific. One of the reasons we started our
• 50:23
  Speaker 2: podcast a few years back, and I think we've got
• 50:26
  Speaker 2: what we usually, on average, I think 300,000 downloads a
• 50:31
  Speaker 2: month on the podcast. One of the reasons we started
• 50:34
  Speaker 2: that podcast is because of what you just said. A
• 50:36
  Speaker 2: lot of folks are going to lunch, they're at work,
• 50:40
  Speaker 2: and they can't catch all three hours of the radio show.
• 50:42
  Speaker 2: So they go back and they listen, and they pick
• 50:46
  Speaker 2: up all the information and the nuggets they might have missed.
• 50:51
  Speaker 2: And a lot of folks listen to our show actually
• 50:54
  Speaker 2: later in the evening. And so, look, I borrowed a
• 50:58
  Speaker 2: page from Rush Limbaugh. Rush Limbaugh believed in entertaining his audience.
• 51:03
  Speaker 2: That was a very important thing. but also providing information.
• 51:06
  Speaker 2: So we try to entertain, but we also bring you
• 51:10
  Speaker 2: news and information as well. Look, you're right. The mainstream media,
• 51:15
  Speaker 2: They have done a great disservice to this nation. My
• 51:18
  Speaker 2: brand new book, 300 pages of all the great things
• 51:22
  Speaker 2: President Trump has done in just this term in office,
• 51:26
  Speaker 2: in just two years in office. It's really remarkable when
• 51:30
  Speaker 2: you think about what he's been able to accomplish, even
• 51:33
  Speaker 2: when members of his own party are fighting against him. So, Gary,
• 51:39
  Speaker 2: you're right about that. Fox News, there's a report out,
• 51:41
  Speaker 2: Fox viewership down over, what, 28%. People are getting turned off.
• 51:47
  Speaker 2: And the reason why is they can smell authenticity. They
• 51:50
  Speaker 2: know when somebody's being real and when somebody is trying
• 51:54
  Speaker 2: to pull one over on them. And I think that's
• 51:56
  Speaker 2: one of the reasons why people are just dropping out
• 51:59
  Speaker 2: of the conservative cable world and going back to places
• 52:03
  Speaker 2: like radio shows and and podcast. And that's one of
• 52:06
  Speaker 2: the reasons we offer our podcast free of charge. And
• 52:10
  Speaker 2: all you have to do is go to our website
• 52:12
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• 52:15
  Speaker 2: people come into your business, tell them to get the podcast,
• 52:18
  Speaker 2: listen to the show, and they might learn something. But
• 52:21
  Speaker 2: more importantly, they're going to be encouraged knowing they're going
• 52:24
  Speaker 2: to get fair and balanced information. Gary, thank you for
• 52:27
  Speaker 2: that very important call. Let's go to Bob in Houston. Bob,
• 52:34
  Speaker 2: what's on your mind?
• 52:36
  Speaker 23: It's all their fault. What I mean by that is
• 52:38
  Speaker 23: the establishment Republicans, RINO Republicans, it's all their fault why
• 52:43
  Speaker 23: people are staying at home, why Republicans aren't voting, why
• 52:46
  Speaker 23: they're not enthusiastic, they're not motivated.
• 52:49
  Speaker 18: Some of us are.
• 52:50
  Speaker 23: Some of us out there are out there working and
• 52:52
  Speaker 23: doing things, but Along the way, you have the establishment
• 52:54
  Speaker 23: Republicans that are trying to kick the legs out from
• 52:57
  Speaker 23: underneath them and holding people down. And when the establishment Republicans,
• 53:01
  Speaker 23: they're worried right now they might not get the offices.
• 53:05
  Speaker 23: They might lose. But when they do, if they do
• 53:08
  Speaker 23: get back in there, when they get back in there
• 53:09
  Speaker 23: in January and they're sworn in, they'll go right back
• 53:11
  Speaker 23: to compromising with the Democrats and go along with the
• 53:14
  Speaker 23: Democrats like John Thune and John Cornyn and Then you
• 53:19
  Speaker 23: have your other state representatives that do the same thing.
• 53:21
  Speaker 23: So that's why I'm saying it's the establishment fault why
• 53:24
  Speaker 23: everything's coming down.
• 53:25
  Speaker 7: To the wire, why all these races are neck and neck.
• 53:28
  Speaker 23: And you have Republicans that are involved that are the
• 53:31
  Speaker 23: old Tea Party Republicans and the MAGA people Republicans that
• 53:36
  Speaker 23: are really conservative and trying to make things happen. But
• 53:40
  Speaker 23: it's the establishment that have divided the party in two
• 53:43
  Speaker 23: and the rhinos that are just destroying the party. And
• 53:47
  Speaker 23: they don't do anything when they get in there. If
• 53:48
  Speaker 23: they do, they compromise.
• 53:49
  Speaker 22: But that's pretty much all I needed to say about that.
• 53:51
  Speaker 2: Bob, I want to ask you a question because we
• 53:53
  Speaker 2: had a guy call in earlier from Atlanta. He said
• 53:55
  Speaker 2: the reason why Kim Paxton is going to lose in
• 53:59
  Speaker 2: Texas is because of Trump's narcissism. I'm wondering, first of all,
• 54:04
  Speaker 2: how do you see the election playing out there? And
• 54:07
  Speaker 2: do you believe Trump would be to blame for what
• 54:10
  Speaker 2: happens in Texas?
• 54:11
  Speaker 23: No, I don't blame Trump at all. I blame the
• 54:14
  Speaker 23: establishment again, establishment Republican Party, the RINOs, because they didn't
• 54:19
  Speaker 23: finance Paxton in the beginning from the federal side, from
• 54:23
  Speaker 23: the Washington side, John Thune side. And then on the
• 54:27
  Speaker 23: state side, they didn't really finance him as well all
• 54:30
  Speaker 23: the way through. And on the state side, they're the
• 54:32
  Speaker 23: ones that were prosecuting him four or five years ago
• 54:34
  Speaker 23: with false charges, false allegations, all these false lies you
• 54:38
  Speaker 23: see on TV.
• 54:39
  Speaker 9: And.
• 54:40
  Speaker 23: They're afraid of him. When he gets in there, if
• 54:42
  Speaker 23: he does get in there, he's going to clean house,
• 54:44
  Speaker 23: and that's what they're afraid of. That's why they're smearing
• 54:46
  Speaker 23: him so bad. And they're trying to blame it on Trump.
• 54:48
  Speaker 23: It's not his fault. Trump's doing everything he can. But
• 54:52
  Speaker 23: the finances that come in through for Paxton has been late.
• 54:56
  Speaker 23: They should have been financing him earlier, but that's on
• 54:59
  Speaker 23: the RINO Republican side, the establishment side, that want.
• 55:02
  Speaker 16: Him to lose.
• 55:02
  Speaker 23: They would rather him lose than have Tallarico in. That's
• 55:06
  Speaker 23: just the way the establishment operates. If they can't have
• 55:09
  Speaker 23: their man, they'll let the Democrats have it because they
• 55:12
  Speaker 23: don't want a conservative MAGA person or a Tea Party
• 55:15
  Speaker 23: conservative in there that's really going to clean house and
• 55:18
  Speaker 23: expose them for what they are. They're one and the same.
• 55:21
  Speaker 23: The Democrats and the establishment Republicans, the RINOs, they're one
• 55:24
  Speaker 23: and the same.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Bob, a lot of truth there, my friend.
• 55:28
  Speaker 2: Appreciate the intel, and I think you are spot on
• 55:32
  Speaker 2: with your analysis. Bob, thanks for that. Got to take
• 55:35
  Speaker 2: a break.
• 55:35
  Speaker 4: 901-260-5926.
• 55:38
  Speaker 2: We'll be right back. All right. Let's go right to
• 55:48
  Speaker 2: the phones. Mike in Memphis, Tennessee. Mike, what's on your mind?
• 55:55
  Speaker 24: Greetings, Todd.
• 55:56
  Speaker 18: Thanks for taking my call.
• 55:57
  Speaker 24: I just wanted to make a clarification that you're running
• 56:00
  Speaker 24: an ad for Marsha Blackburn where she's saying that candidate
• 56:03
  Speaker 24: David Hatley opposed the Safe Task Force, and And she
• 56:06
  Speaker 24: started that after Tuesday. But at the debate on Tuesday,
• 56:10
  Speaker 24: he clearly said he supported President Trump calling in the
• 56:13
  Speaker 24: task force. But ultimately, Memphis Police Department needs to take responsibility,
• 56:19
  Speaker 24: get their acting gear and start doing the job as
• 56:22
  Speaker 24: opposed to having an outside force come in. And that's
• 56:25
  Speaker 24: totally different than saying he opposed the task force.
• 56:29
  Speaker 2: Well, Mike, my recommendation would be for you to contact
• 56:32
  Speaker 2: the Marsha Blackburn for Governor campaign because it's their ad.
• 56:37
  Speaker 2: And if you take issue with it, you might want
• 56:39
  Speaker 2: to reach out to the campaign and let them know
• 56:42
  Speaker 2: about that.
• 56:43
  Speaker 13: Well, we will.
• 56:44
  Speaker 24: But, you know, I'd hope that you would also bring
• 56:46
  Speaker 24: attention to these facts since it's your station and you're
• 56:49
  Speaker 24: actually supporting Marsha Blackburn. You know, we're $ 40 trillion in
• 56:53
  Speaker 24: debt under Marsha.
• 56:55
  Speaker 11: Okay.
• 56:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we're done. Thanks, Mike. Appreciate it. All right, got
• 56:58
  Speaker 2: to take a break. We'll be right back.
• 57:03
  Speaker 6: We'll be right back.
• 57:28
  Speaker 2: All right, welcome back, everybody. This is the Todd Stearns
• 57:31
  Speaker 2: Radio Show. Let's go to the phone lines. Memphis, Tennessee,
• 57:34
  Speaker 2: Pastor Andre joining us. Pastor, I know you went away
• 57:38
  Speaker 2: on our last caller, and he was complaining because Marsha Blackburn,
• 57:43
  Speaker 2: who is running for governor, has been running an ad
• 57:46
  Speaker 2: saying that her independent opponent, a guy by the name
• 57:50
  Speaker 2: of David Hatley, opposes the Memphis Safe Task Force. All
• 57:54
  Speaker 2: of that going back to a newspaper report That said,
• 57:58
  Speaker 2: he was opposed to the task force, but during the debate,
• 58:03
  Speaker 2: he said he was for the task force. So, Pastor Andre,
• 58:06
  Speaker 2: take it from there.
• 58:07
  Speaker 7: He's a plant, Todd. He's a plant. That dude, you know,
• 58:11
  Speaker 7: I have a radio show, too. That dude takes me
• 58:13
  Speaker 7: on my private line to ask me whether I'm still
• 58:16
  Speaker 7: on radio. It buttered me up real good. And I said, yeah, man,
• 58:19
  Speaker 7: he called in. And when he starts talking, he sounds
• 58:22
  Speaker 7: like he's a real level-headed, conservative guy with some real points.
• 58:26
  Speaker 7: But the whole next thing I know, he's doing a
• 58:28
  Speaker 7: public service announcement for David Hallett. That dude was a plant.
• 58:31
  Speaker 7: He's not doing it just for you. He's calling a
• 58:32
  Speaker 7: lot of radio stations doing that.
• 58:35
  Speaker 2: We call him a seminar caller. They fake it, and
• 58:39
  Speaker 2: they get on the air, and then we try to
• 58:41
  Speaker 2: be nice, and we've given this guy multiple chances over
• 58:45
  Speaker 2: the years, but he always blows those chances by going
• 58:49
  Speaker 2: rogue on the phone conversations.
• 58:52
  Speaker 7: So he's been around a while there, because I just
• 58:54
  Speaker 7: got hip to him a couple of months ago. I
• 58:56
  Speaker 7: know he's been around.
• 58:58
  Speaker 2: He has indeed. Pastor Andre, you know, you are plugged
• 59:02
  Speaker 2: into the community, and one of the things that we
• 59:04
  Speaker 2: think is so vitally important is to get churches engaged
• 59:08
  Speaker 2: in the political process, and so many on the conservative
• 59:10
  Speaker 2: side of the aisle just don't want to do it.
• 59:13
  Speaker 2: How do you think things are going?
• 59:16
  Speaker 7: Well, now, from the Christian point of view as far
• 59:19
  Speaker 7: as I'm a church, what I found, Todd, is that
• 59:22
  Speaker 7: I really don't have to teach politics from the pulpit.
• 59:25
  Speaker 7: If I'm teaching the gospel, if I'm teaching the gospel,
• 59:27
  Speaker 7: there's no way that a person could go out there
• 59:29
  Speaker 7: and say that they believe in Christ and go vote
• 59:31
  Speaker 7: for a Democrat. The Bible, Isaiah 32, 5-8, says liberals
• 59:34
  Speaker 7: are evil. So if I'm teaching the gospel, I really
• 59:36
  Speaker 7: don't have to teach politics. But now as far as
• 59:39
  Speaker 7: I've gone, it's not looking good to me. I mean,
• 59:41
  Speaker 7: I've engaged in it. And when I go by the
• 59:43
  Speaker 7: polls in Middleton, I see two or three people going,
• 59:46
  Speaker 7: these black pastors are mobilizing black people. And they're getting
• 59:50
  Speaker 7: them out there in droves where they're getting them out there.
• 59:52
  Speaker 7: And Justin Pearson, if you've noticed his commercials, he's catered
• 59:55
  Speaker 7: them down to where he's a guy that looks like
• 59:58
  Speaker 7: he's friendly with all the races, and he's looking out
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 7: for all the people of District 9. And I'll be
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 7: honest with you, Brent Taylor, he's not putting up much
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 7: of a fight at all. And I'm scared for this
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 7: Hadley situation, too, man, because the people I do know
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 7: that are going to vote Republican, I would say 50%
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 7: of those are voting for this guy. I'm scared they're
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 7: going to split this vote up between Hadley and Blackburn,
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 7: and then we're going to have Jerry Green vote governor
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 7: until he's in trouble.
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we cannot do that. We just can't let that happen.
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 2: And again, this is a message for people across the nation,
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 2: because a lot of states are dealing with the same
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 2: problem we're dealing with here in Tennessee, where you've got,
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 2: in some cases, rogue Republicans that are not getting behind
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 2: the candidates.
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 7: You know, I heard somebody on your show say something,
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 7: and I believe it might be right. He said he
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 7: didn't think that Democrats put that out there about Rick Green.
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 7: He believed it came from a Republican candidate.
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 2: Oh, I know it did.
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 7: I can see that happening, and I think we'll watch
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 7: that happen, to be honest with you.
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I hear you. Pastor Andre, I've got to leave
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 2: it there, my friend, but it's great hearing from you,
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 2: and I'll have to check out your show one of
• 1:01:05
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  Speaker 2: Messina Show, Joe Messina. Joe, we're having some problems here
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 2: in Tennessee, my friend.
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  Speaker 25: Like we aren't in California?
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, you see, you guys are used to the
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 2: sex scandals. In Tennessee, we're all good, God-fearing, church-going people.
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 2: So when we get politicians that are dropping their trowel,
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 2: as they say, it's a little troubling. And so now
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 2: in Memphis, we've got not one Joe Messina, but two
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 2: sex scandals.
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 25: Well, like you said, that's just a normal day for us.
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 25: I mean, look at Newsom. We've figured out he likes
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 25: to go after his manager's wives, you know, and they
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 25: all have the same kind of look and– I was
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 25: going to say look and feel to them, but I
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 25: don't want to go down that road.
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 10: He just loves it.
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 2: Well, let me tell you what happened. What's going on here?
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 2: We got a guy running for Congress, and he got
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 2: caught sexting with a woman who was not his wife.
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 2: And this happened, I guess, five or six, seven years ago.
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 2: I don't know how long ago it was. Anyway, he
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 2: fessed up to it. The guy said he blamed it
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 2: all on youthful indiscretions. This guy happened to be in
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 2: his 50s when he committed the egregious behavior. Youthful indiscretions.
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 2: And now we've got a situation where the former school
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 2: board superintendent in Memphis, who's a woman, she apparently had
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 2: a bad habit of inviting, telling staffers to come to
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 2: her home for meetings, and then in the meetings, she
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 2: would just take off all her clothes.
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 25: Well, she was trying to get the attention. She didn't
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 25: want people like, you know, doing other stuff while she
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 25: was talking, I guess. I don't know.
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 2: I guess so. So now she's getting sued because I
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 2: guess after she got buck naked, you know, one of,
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 2: and by the way, it was only ladies who she
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 2: disrobed in front of. So I think she may have been,
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 2: you know, of the Lebanese flavor. I don't know. It's
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 2: as they say.
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 25: This is really sad, Todd, but none of this stuff
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 25: surprises me again, being here out of California.
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 12: Yeah.
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 25: You know, we see these kind of things happen on
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 25: a regular basis. But don't you feel going through the
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 25: whole country that morality, I'm not going to say it's
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 25: coming to an end, but it's definitely thinning out to
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 25: the point where there are no boundaries anymore.
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 2: Here's how bad it is, Dylan. For the record, and
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 2: let's just, Dylan, we have staff meetings all the time.
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 2: I call you guys downstairs into my palatial office. I'm
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 2: always wearing pants.
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 10: Every time.
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 2: Every time.
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 10: And confirm.
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 2: Thank you, Dylan.
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 25: What about a shirt? Does he keep his shirt on?
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 10: Shirt, pants, belt, socks, shoes.
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 25: Just want to clarify for some of those who might
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 25: pick up on something.
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 2: If there was a burka, I'd wear that. I just
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 2: believe in being clothed.
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 25: No, you know we've had issues here in California with
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 25: stuff like that. And nobody's surprised. As a matter of fact,
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 25: if anything, we've got that naked bike ride up in
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 25: San Francisco. That must be real comfortable that they have
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 25: every year.
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 2: You know, I've seen that, unfortunately, the naked bike riders,
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 2: and I'm always concerned. I mean, God forbid, you don't
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 2: want to get the 911 call that something got stuck
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 2: in a spoke. You know, that's got to be painful.
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 25: I can see it now. Yeah, Frankie, you take this one.
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 25: I'm not going.
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 2: Everybody in the fire department takes that day off. They're like, yeah,
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 2: we're good. We're good. Joe, but to your point, I mean,
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 2: it is painful. I think there is a morality issue,
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 2: and I think a lot of it goes back to
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 2: Bill Clinton back in the day when he was chasing
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 2: around the interns in the Oval Office.
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 25: You know, it's funny how when Billy Bob was chasing
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 25: the women around in his office, we heard from what?
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 25: The left kept saying what he does personally, what he
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 25: does in his personal life, his personal time. It's no
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 25: concern of ours. We're just worried about what he does
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 25: as president. Every time President Trump looks too long at
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 25: a woman, all of a sudden, you know, he goes
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 25: from pedophile to misogynist to rapist, all this other stuff.
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 4: So.
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 25: That used to be kind of veiled, right, back in
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 25: the days of Bill Clinton. Now it's like right in
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 25: your face. No matter what they do, they could be
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 25: doing the exact same thing that they're calling out President
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 25: Trump or one of us, you or I, for, and
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 25: they don't seem to care. It doesn't bother them, which
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 25: really scares me because it tells me the electorate is
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 25: entering that ignorant phase that our founding fathers talked about.
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we do a– in our Sunday school class, we
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 2: have a prayer list that goes out every, I think,
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 2: once a week. I put in a submission this week,
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 2: Dear God, please don't let the sexting videos– let them leak.
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 2: We don't need to see that. Please, Lord. Can't wait
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 2: to see that on the list on Sunday.
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 25: You had a guest on from Orange County.
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 2: Yes, Jenny Rae LaRue. Yes, she's running for the 47th
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 2: Congressional District.
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 25: Now, Orange County, you know, I mean, it was so
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 25: solid red at one time.
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 2: It didn't matter.
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 25: You didn't even have to run an ad. You would
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 25: win as long as you were Republican. They're having their
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 25: issues there, too. It's starting to thin out. And you
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 25: know what? I've been saying this for years. We've been
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 25: sitting around, pardon the term, fat, dumb, and happy for
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 25: decades here as Republicans in some areas. And we're seeing
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 25: that erode. And they've gotten smart in my area. You
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 25: know where I live in northern Los Angeles County. The
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 25: Democrats are running ads on Fox News, believe it or not.
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 25: They're running ads and they're coming off as patriotic conservatives. Now,
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 25: these are the same people that have gone after parents
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 25: for wanting to know what's going on. But they're running
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 25: ads saying they believe in parental rights. You should know
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 25: what's going on with your child. I believe in the Constitution.
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 25: I'm thinking, my God, they lie like I eat breakfast.
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 9: Wow.
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 2: And they do. And look, it doesn't matter. We've got
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 2: a guy in Tennessee running out of the Nashville area.
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 2: And he's like, you know, Mr. I mean. his TV
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 2: commercials look like he's a Republican, but if this guy
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 2: gets elected, the first vote he's taking is to make
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 2: Hakeem Jeffries the Speaker.
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 10: Of the House.
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 25: The one running against me would put the books back
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 25: in the library that we took out, the inappropriate books
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 25: of illustrated sex, because every high schooler needs to know
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 25: how to see how to have.
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 10: Sex or something. I don't even know where that comes from.
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 25: And she would jump on the fact that she would
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 25: no longer allow parents to have information. And I'm thinking,
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 25: my God, are we not paying attention? And to your
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 25: guess point before, here in my area, we're still 6% behind.
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 25: Republicans are getting their ballots back in. We're at less
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 25: than 20%. I'm very concerned about our people, Todd.
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 2: We've got to get out the vote. And I see
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 2: the numbers, Joe, and I'm seeing, again, I think 30
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 2: states actually track party affiliation in the general election. And
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 2: those numbers are a little disturbing, which, again, is why
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 2: we've been telling people, and the only thing we can
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 2: do is tell people to get out and vote. I mean,
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 2: that's it. There's nothing else that can change. There will
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 2: be no other things happening, no other legislation coming out
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 2: between now and Election Day on Capitol Hill. So your
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 2: job is to get out there, and if you've got
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 2: to hold your nose, hold your nose and vote.
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 25: Well, look, you and I, I think, agree on this one.
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 25: People say, I don't want to vote for the lesser
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 25: of two evils, but until Jesus gets on the ballot,
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 25: you're always going to vote. on the lesser of two evils.
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 25: And the other part of that is, you know, you
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 25: all time Republicans, I love you to death. I know
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 25: I can count on you, but you know, you want
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 25: to go to the polls and vote on election day
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 25: because you don't trust the mail. We're looking for torrential
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 25: rains for two and a half days. Are you going
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 25: to go out with your galoshes and umbrella and stand
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 25: in a two hour line on Tuesday? I hope you're
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 25: committed or we're going to lose again.
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 2: Well, and tornadoes in Kansas are predicted for Tuesday. So, again,
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 2: you never know what the weather is going to do.
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 2: You never know when the grid is going to go
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 2: down or whatever. So you've got to make sure you
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 2: get out there and vote early. All right. Joe, where
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 2: can people go if they want to get more intel?
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 25: It's real easy. JoeMessina.com, JoeMessina.com. And I answer all the
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 25: emails myself. So if you've got a question or a comment,
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 25: let me know.
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 2: Joe, when you come to Memphis, I am taking you.
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  Speaker 2: We've got a great locally owned family Italian deli. And
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 2: I'm going to tell you, you're going to follow. You
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 2: will move here after you've had their food.
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  Speaker 25: I may have to soon.
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  Speaker 2: We got a lot of Californians heading out this way.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Joe. Joe, always good talking, my friend.
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  Speaker 10: God bless, Todd. Have a great week.
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  Speaker 2: Joe Messina, everybody, out in California, Santa Clarita, California. Joe
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 2: drives a Jaguar. And that guy, you haven't lived until
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 2: you've ridden shotgun with Joe in rush hour traffic in
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 2: downtown L.A. I still remember those days. All right, real
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 2: quick here before we have to take a break, let's
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 2: go to Tom in Houston. Tom, what's on your mind?
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  Speaker 18: Oh, boy, I got to be quick again, huh? Okay,
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  Speaker 18: John Poon here in Texas gave $ 0 to Ken Paxton
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 18: against Cornyn and gave Cornyn the bank from the National
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 18: Senate Committee to reelect the jackasses or whatever it's called.
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 18: And this is going on all over the country, okay?
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 18: We need to go back to when I was growing
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 18: up because I think the whole crux of this issue
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 18: is everybody's lining up for the freebies, okay? So let's
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 18: take SNAP benefit. I can go on with my SNAP
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 18: card and I can buy a steak and Coca-Cola and
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 18: where here I am, I'm trying to make a living.
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 18: And I have to buy the store brand lemonade powder
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 18: if I want to have something to drink. When I
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 18: was a kid, we had government cheese. We had government
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 18: peanut butter. You'd go to a location that was not
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 18: a grocery store and you'd get what, you know, macaroni,
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 18: some tuna. You know, it wasn't a full-blown grocery store.
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 18: And the whole thing is based on, well, I'm going
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 18: to go to Washington, and we're going to employ the farmers,
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 18: and we're going to employ the grocery store clerks, and
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 18: we're going to employ this. All this free money from
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 18: government has to stop. We are broke. We are, what,
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 18: $ 42 trillion in debt?
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  Speaker 10: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: We got no money, Tom. We got no money.
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  Speaker 14: A trillion.
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  Speaker 18: I want you to start counting right now, one count
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 18: per second, and I'll get back to you in 30
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 18: years when you hit one million, okay? We're at $ 42 trillion.
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 18: That's like 1,758 times around the earth stacked dollar bills
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 18: next to each other. $ 42 trillion in debt. You got
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 18: to take the credit card away from these dummies.
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  Speaker 10: Bye-bye.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Tom, thank you. And look, I wanted to
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 2: make sure Tom got all of his thoughts in. And
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 2: Tom is right. We don't have any money to help
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 2: all these people. He's also correct that John Thune did
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 2: not do anything to help Ken Paxton in the Senate race.
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 2: And that's just unforgivable in my book. Unforgivable. All right,
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 2: got to take a break.
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 21: 901-260-5926.
• 1:14:19
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• 1:14:21
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• 1:14:32
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• 1:14:34
  Speaker 2: the founder and president of the National Association of Christian Lawmakers.
• 1:14:38
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  Speaker 1: From Memphis, Tennessee, it's Common Sense Conservative Commentary from Todd Starr.
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  Speaker 2: All right. Hello, everybody. Welcome to Hour 3 of the
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 2: Todd Starnes Radio Show. What an honor to have you
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  Speaker 2: with us today. This is the final hour of the
• 1:16:27
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• 1:16:30
  Speaker 2: Starnes Radio Program. And we've got a lot to talk about. So, look,
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 2: it is Open Line Friday. We're getting to all of
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 2: your calls. I see Kevin in Virginia, David in Gainesville, Georgia, 901-260-5926,
• 1:16:42
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• 1:16:51
  Speaker 2: Barack Hussein Obama from yesterday, and I just had to–
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 2: you guys have to hear this. Cut number 57, please.
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  Speaker 9: And division.
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  Speaker 26: And I don't know about you, but I am tired
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 26: of being angry. And I'm tired of being divided. I
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 26: want friendship and neighborliness and joy and generosity. I want
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 26: everybody rolling up their sleeves in the common enterprise of
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 26: rebuilding America. I want everybody handing our country and our
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 26: world off to our kids a little better than they
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 26: are right now.
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 4: That's what I want.
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 2: I want somebody to hug me. Somebody hug me.
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 25: Give me a huggy.
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 2: Somebody give me a huggy, America. All right, Barack Obama's
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 2: got his preacher man voice on today. He says that
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 2: he's tired of being divided. He wants friendship. I want
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 2: some neighborliness. Can I get an amen?
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 20: Hallelujah.
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 2: So anyway, this guy is a joke. So it was
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 2: Barack Obama. You've got to go all the way back
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 2: to the 2008s and 2000s, that era of American politics,
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 2: when he actually told young people that their job, when
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 2: they go back home for Thanksgiving or Christmas, is to
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 2: engage in political conversations and try to sway— the hearts
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 2: and minds of the people around the dinner table. And
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 2: what happened? You had all sorts of knock-down, drag-out fights
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 2: in households across America. This guy, Barack Hussein Obama, promised
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 2: to come in and be the post-racial presidency. That's what
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 2: it was built as, hope and change, hope and change.
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 2: But he's the guy who went out there and called
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 2: all of you people in the Rust Belt a bunch
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 2: of bitter clingers, people who cling to their guns and
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 2: their religion. You're bitter people. He's the guy who said
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 2: on the campaign trail. back in the day that if
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 2: they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun,
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 2: talking about Republicans and Democrats. So this guy, and of course,
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 2: what is it, a couple of days ago, went after
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 2: the folks who love to eat down at the Cheesecake Factory.
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 2: I want to go to the Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line.
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 2: bring into the conversation a good friend and just the
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 2: founder of an incredible organization called the National Association of
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 2: Christian Lawmakers, Jason Raypert. Jason, what do you make of
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 2: Barack Obama? He now wants friendship and neighborliness across America.
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 4: Well, it's good to be with you, Todd. And what
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 4: I will say is that I remember well Barack Hussein Obama.
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 4: And one of the first things I remember him saying
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 4: is he said, whatever we once were, we're no longer
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 4: a Christian nation. Do you remember that on top of
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 4: everything else?
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 2: I do remember that.
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  Speaker 7: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: And it was one of the first messages he gave
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 4: after being elected president. And hearing what he just said,
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 4: and you're right, he was definitely channeling his old preacher
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 4: up in Chicago. I was waiting for him to say that.
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 4: You know, that famous line about God, expletive America, you know,
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 4: that that that's a memory, too. But Barack Hussein Obama
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 4: has majored in dividing and conquering, and he's done that
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 4: in the country. I remember the first thing that you
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 4: had him to do when he first came in is
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 4: he actually had said that he was for traditional marriage.
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 4: And guess what happened? Then suddenly he pivoted on that
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 4: and it all changed again.
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 14: Right.
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 4: And so I am sad to see this. We're coming
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 4: up on the election next week, Todd. And I believe
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 4: that we are in a fight for the soul of
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 4: the nation. There's no question about that. And I'm praying
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 4: that all of your listeners will get out and will
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 4: go to the polls so that we can do our
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 4: best to save the nation.
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 2: And Jason, that's what the National Association of Christian Lawmakers
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 2: is all about, because you're right, I think we have
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 2: a lot of Democrats out there now running, claiming to
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 2: be Christians, from James Talofrico in Texas. You've got Adam
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 2: Hamilton in Kansas running in the big Senate race there.
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 2: We've got a guy in Tennessee, and if you looked
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 2: at his campaign ads, and he's a Methodist, by the way,
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 2: but you would think that he was Billy Graham. These
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 2: guys are really wolves in cheap clothing, in my estimation.
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 2: And I'm wondering, as an organization that, again, promotes Christian lawmakers,
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 2: how are you guys dealing with these false teachers out there?
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 4: Well, number one, you have to recognize what they're doing.
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 4: And you've just stated it. And we're not only seeing
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 4: this with James Tallarico in Texas, you're seeing this with
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 4: this pastor running as a Democrat in the state of Kansas.
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 4: And to me, it's one of the most sinister things.
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 4: You know, I can handle somebody standing up and saying
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 4: what they believe in or what they don't believe in.
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 4: But when they come in and intentionally twist and pervert
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 4: the scripture to try to confuse people and to trick
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 4: them into voting for them, if you will, I think
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 4: it's very sinister. The Bible actually says to watch out
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 4: for those who come. They're basically ravenous wolves wrapped in
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 4: sheep's clothing. And we're dealing with that across the country, Todd,
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 4: across the board. It's not only in the two states
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 4: I've mentioned, but we're seeing it in some of the
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 4: other states. And I believe that right now, based on
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 4: what I'm looking at, we need people to realize you're
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 4: voting for the best of any option in a race.
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 4: Don't let yourself be fooled by saying that you have
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 4: someone that's not 100% with you on every single issue.
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 4: What they've got to do, Todd, is simply look at
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 4: those two candidates, look at Paxton, look at James Tallarico
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 4: and say, who do I generally agree with on principle
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 4: and policy? You're voting on a team right now. The
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 4: primaries are over with. You've got to get past the fight.
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 4: You've got to get past the fact that maybe your
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 4: person didn't get the nod in that primary and vote
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 4: for the team. You know, it's very interesting. Elon Musk
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 4: just put out a tweet. You may have even covered
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 4: it today already. And he is laying out what is
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 4: at stake in 28 if the Democrats were to, God forbid,
• 1:23:15
  Speaker 4: sweep the House and the Senate. We have got to
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 4: maintain a majority of the United States Senate. And I'm
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 4: asking every person out there. Go vote for the party
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 4: that is standing up for American values and traditional values
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 4: that we have out there. Nobody's going to be perfect,
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 4: but we have got to not allow the crazies to
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 4: get power in the country.
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, look, and Jason Raper joins us on our Patriot
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 2: Mobile Newsmaker line from the National Association of Christian Lawmakers.
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 2: Our good buddy Pat Fallon, congressman out of Texas. on
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 2: Fox saying that the Republican vote in Texas, down about
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 2: 118,000 votes in early voting, it is the first time
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 2: in a generation they've been this far behind in the race.
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 2: And again, I understand, and I am very sympathetic to
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 2: people who are upset with the Republican Party and the
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 2: do-nothings in the U.S.
• 1:24:11
  Speaker 10: Senate.
• 1:24:11
  Speaker 2: I get that. But Jason, as you just pointed out,
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 2: we are literally in a fight for the republic right now,
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 2: and we just can't allow these communists to gain a
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 2: foothold on Capitol Hill.
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 4: We can't allow that. And in Texas, you just gave
• 1:24:28
  Speaker 4: a prime example. I'm so sad what George Bush and
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 4: his family has done in this election. I'm sad about
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 4: what Senator Cornyn. I know it's tough when you lose
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 4: an election. I understand that. But you don't try to
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 4: burn down the house on the way out the door. OK,
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 4: he had a great career. He did well. I don't
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 4: understand that you're trying to send a message by electing
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 4: one of the most liberal zealots that we've ever seen
• 1:24:57
  Speaker 4: run for the U.S. Senate in James Tallarico. It's time
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 4: for the people to understand. And Todd, you know, you're
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 4: a man of faith and I'm looking forward to having
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 4: you at our meeting in December. In fact, I'm literally
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 4: in Virginia right now because I'm going to be at
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 4: the Nehemiah Alliance prayer event tomorrow here on the National Mall.
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 4: And what I'm telling you is that the reason this
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 4: is so difficult is this is part of a spiritual
• 1:25:21
  Speaker 4: warfare situation that we're enduring. Right is up, excuse me,
• 1:25:26
  Speaker 4: right is left, left is right, up is down, down
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 4: is up. People are confusing. You know why they're confused
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 4: is because they are literally being targeted by what I
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 4: believe are the principalities and powers of darkness in this
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 4: world that have allowed us to have a situation where
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 4: you would have people advocate cutting off the genitals of
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 4: little children, that you would advocate polygamy now from a
• 1:25:47
  Speaker 4: pulpit in a church in America. All of these things,
• 1:25:51
  Speaker 4: it's part of a spiritual battle. And if the powers
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 4: of darkness... can get the levers of power in the
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 4: United States government, we are in for some of the
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 4: worst period in our history that we will have ever experienced.
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 4: And I'm begging the people out there, conservatives, Christians, people
• 1:26:12
  Speaker 4: of faith, it is time to vote. Do not let
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 4: your desire for a perfect candidate keep you from voting
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 4: from a good candidate in this election.
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 2: And Jason, if people want to get more information about
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 2: the National Association of Christian Lawmakers, Maybe there's someone serving
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 2: in office. It's a wonderful group, and I love our
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 2: gatherings because there's fellowship, there's camaraderie, and it's nice to
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 2: know you're not in the fight alone. Where can people
• 1:26:40
  Speaker 2: go to get more information about the organization and the
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 2: great events you guys host?
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 4: It's real easy. Just go to christianlawmakers.com. That's with an S.
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 4: It's christianlawmakers.com. And there actually is a tab for the
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 4: 2026 Annual Meeting website. It'll be December the 7th and
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 4: 8th right here in just the edge of Washington, D.C.
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 4: and Arlington, Virginia, literally less than a mile from the
• 1:27:05
  Speaker 4: DCA airport. It's a great location. There will be elected
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 4: officials from all over the nation. There will be some
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 4: awards and honors that will be given out. But we're
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 4: going to be talking about the future of the country
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 4: and definitely going to be tearing into the statistics coming
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 4: out of the election. By December the 7th, we're going
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 4: to know where these elections have fallen. And we're going
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 4: to have people here talking about this and where we
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 4: go from here for the future of the country. All right.
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 2: Jason, always appreciate your wise counsel and great guidance for
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 2: our listeners across the nation today. This is Jason Rapert,
• 1:27:39
  Speaker 2: founder and the president of the National Association of Christian Lawmakers. Jason,
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 2: thank you again. I'll look forward to seeing you in D.C.
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 10: Thank you, Todd.
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  Speaker 4: Bless you, my friend.
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 2: All right. So there you have it, ladies and gentlemen,
• 1:27:53
  Speaker 2: marching orders from the National Association of Christian Lawmakers. Taking
• 1:27:58
  Speaker 2: a break, going right to your phone calls. Coming up next, 901-260-5926.
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 2: This is the Todd Stern Show. All right, let's go
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 2: to the phone lines. Linden, Virginia. Kevin is listening to
• 1:28:19
  Speaker 2: us on WINC. Kevin, I hope you're doing well today.
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 2: What's on your mind?
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 3: I was noticing no one mentioned it on any news
• 1:28:29
  Speaker 3: programs in regards to the name thing deal going on
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 3: in Alaska.
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 2: In Alaska with Dan dan sullivan and we we dedicated
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 2: a segment of the show yesterday to talk about isn't
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 2: that the craziest story kevin well.
• 1:28:47
  Speaker 3: I i guess you remember who in virginia about 15
• 1:28:51
  Speaker 3: 20 years ago who the senator was Well.
• 1:28:54
  Speaker 2: You'll have to refresh my memory. I'm in Tennessee, so
• 1:28:59
  Speaker 2: give us the story.
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 3: Well, he was kind of famous because he married famous
• 1:29:03
  Speaker 3: actors and stuff. John Warner.
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 2: Oh, yes, yes, yes.
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  Speaker 3: And when he left, do you remember who the Democrats ran?
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 2: Mark Warner. There you go. All right, so give us
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 2: the story here because, again, that was a long time ago,
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 2: but I believe he married what, Elizabeth Taylor, is that right?
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 3: Elizabeth Taylor.
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 2: All right, yeah.
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 3: I can't remember why he left or maybe he retired,
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 3: but the first thing the Democrats did was they ran
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 3: Mark Warner, and I was thinking at the time, how
• 1:29:35
  Speaker 3: many people went in the voting booth and saw Warner
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 3: and voted for Warner?
• 1:29:43
  Speaker 2: Well, it's a great question, but in this particular case,
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 2: you have– I mean, the fact is that the Democrats,
• 1:29:50
  Speaker 2: and they've got proof, according to the investigators– that the
• 1:29:54
  Speaker 2: Democrats intentionally went out and tried to find somebody with
• 1:29:58
  Speaker 2: the same first and last name as the Republican senator
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 2: to put them on the ballot. And what makes it
• 1:30:04
  Speaker 2: even worse is this is a ranked-choice voting system in Alaska.
• 1:30:08
  Speaker 2: So there is a very good chance, unless you have
• 1:30:11
  Speaker 2: done your homework, you could be voting for the wrong
• 1:30:14
  Speaker 2: Dan Sullivan.
• 1:30:15
  Speaker 21: Sure.
• 1:30:18
  Speaker 3: And I think just like Jethro Gibbs... There's no such
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 3: thing as coincidence.
• 1:30:26
  Speaker 2: It's a great pointing. And Kevin, let me ask you,
• 1:30:28
  Speaker 2: you're there in Virginia. You had a woman by the
• 1:30:31
  Speaker 2: name of Abigail Spanberger. She ran as a moderate Democrat.
• 1:30:37
  Speaker 2: And I'm wondering, how's that working out for you guys?
• 1:30:41
  Speaker 7: It's not.
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 3: I didn't vote for her. I haven't voted for a
• 1:30:45
  Speaker 3: Democrat since Jimmy Carter. And the only reason I voted
• 1:30:50
  Speaker 3: for him is because he... He got us out of
• 1:30:52
  Speaker 3: the Olympics. I'll tell you, that was a good thing
• 1:30:56
  Speaker 3: that he did. He stood up against the Russians. But
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 3: I think that was the last time he stood up.
• 1:31:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you're right about that. You know, my
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 2: dad voted for Jimmy Carter, and he voted for Jimmy
• 1:31:08
  Speaker 2: Carter because he was a southerner, a fellow southerner. That
• 1:31:11
  Speaker 2: was the last time my dad ever voted for a
• 1:31:14
  Speaker 2: Democrat president.
• 1:31:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I went directly to Reagan.
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, same here in our family.
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 17: All right.
• 1:31:22
  Speaker 2: Kevin, thank you for listening to WINC. We've had a
• 1:31:24
  Speaker 2: couple of callers from that station today. Let's go to
• 1:31:28
  Speaker 2: David in Gainesville, Georgia. I've been holding on for a while. David,
• 1:31:32
  Speaker 2: what's on your mind?
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 27: Hey, Todd, what's got me worried about this election? You know,
• 1:31:38
  Speaker 27: call them Gen Zs. I don't know what that stands for,
• 1:31:41
  Speaker 27: but these teenagers that's old enough to vote and these
• 1:31:45
  Speaker 27: college kids, they've been working on these kids for years.
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 27: I've got a grandson in the ninth grade, and he
• 1:31:53
  Speaker 27: don't even know what the Constitution of the United States is.
• 1:31:57
  Speaker 27: We used to have a copy on all the school rooms,
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 27: the Ten Commandments and the Declaration of Independence. They've been
• 1:32:07
  Speaker 27: working on those kids for a long time, and I
• 1:32:09
  Speaker 27: hope the mamas and daddies that's got teenagers and college students,
• 1:32:15
  Speaker 27: they need to have a talk with their kids about
• 1:32:18
  Speaker 27: this election and what they're in store for. That's one
• 1:32:22
  Speaker 27: thing I'm definitely worried about in the election, and I've
• 1:32:25
  Speaker 27: got one more thing after you.
• 1:32:27
  Speaker 2: Well, let me jump in, and I'm going to try
• 1:32:29
  Speaker 2: to help you out. Generation Z, that's the youngest generation,
• 1:32:34
  Speaker 2: and I think it's up to, like, in the kids
• 1:32:37
  Speaker 2: that are between the ages of, what, 18 and 25, 26,
• 1:32:38
  Speaker 2: something like that. Anyway, there's another generation coming up after them.
• 1:32:45
  Speaker 2: They're calling them Gen A, Gen Alpha. So these are
• 1:32:49
  Speaker 2: the youngsters that are probably your grandson's age. The good news, David,
• 1:32:55
  Speaker 2: is real quick here, and I want you to finish
• 1:32:56
  Speaker 2: your last thought. The good news is that the younger
• 1:33:00
  Speaker 2: part of Gen Z, these young kids, are more conservative
• 1:33:03
  Speaker 2: than just about anybody since the World War II generation.
• 1:33:06
  Speaker 2: So that's some good news. And that might be the
• 1:33:09
  Speaker 2: saving grace. What's your second thought here, David? Got about
• 1:33:11
  Speaker 2: 30 seconds.
• 1:33:13
  Speaker 27: Okay, I talked to you last year about this. Evidently,
• 1:33:16
  Speaker 27: nobody's got the Trump yet. You know, the time's fixing
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 27: the change. And I've got a remedy for that. I mean,
• 1:33:23
  Speaker 27: you talked about this last year. I got one for
• 1:33:26
  Speaker 27: the Democrats and one for the Republicans. Take the time,
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 27: move it back 30 minutes, and leave it alone, and
• 1:33:34
  Speaker 27: let the good Lord take care of the rest.
• 1:33:36
  Speaker 2: Well, I kind of always like that idea, just let
• 1:33:39
  Speaker 2: the Lord handle things. David, it was good advice then,
• 1:33:43
  Speaker 2: good advice now. David, thank you for that. Good to
• 1:33:46
  Speaker 2: hear from you, my friend. 901-260-5926, open line Friday, ladies
• 1:33:51
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• 1:33:57
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• 1:34:35
  Speaker 2: and gentlemen. This is the Todd Stearns Radio Show. I
• 1:34:38
  Speaker 2: want to play some audio. This is from the University
• 1:34:41
  Speaker 2: of Texas, San Antonio. You have one of these little
• 1:34:45
  Speaker 2: woke thugettes. She is a student at the university, and
• 1:34:50
  Speaker 2: she is also an immigrant. So she's from another country,
• 1:34:54
  Speaker 2: and she showed up at a Turning Point USA event.
• 1:34:57
  Speaker 2: You know, the Turning Point USA, they're still going to
• 1:34:59
  Speaker 2: the campuses. They're setting up their tent, and they're doing
• 1:35:02
  Speaker 2: the Pick Up the Mic event. So you, uh, you
• 1:35:05
  Speaker 2: have a host there and then people, students line up
• 1:35:09
  Speaker 2: and they ask questions and whatnot. Anyway, I, I want
• 1:35:12
  Speaker 2: to caution you. Uh, it's really offensive what this young
• 1:35:15
  Speaker 2: lady had to say, but you need to hear it.
• 1:35:18
  Speaker 2: And so we can understand what, what, you know, where
• 1:35:21
  Speaker 2: we're going with the story. Uh, let's take a listen
• 1:35:24
  Speaker 2: to cut number 56, please.
• 1:35:27
  Speaker 10: If you could announce your name and speak loudly.
• 1:35:28
  Speaker 18: Thank you so much.
• 1:35:29
  Speaker 15: Uh, I go by pamper baby. Yeah.
• 1:35:32
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 1:35:32
  Speaker 15: So, um, I took a plan B, and I'm an
• 1:35:34
  Speaker 15: immigrant this morning, like, feeling kind of guilty, so I
• 1:35:38
  Speaker 15: wanted to read a poem that I actually wrote. It
• 1:35:39
  Speaker 15: was like, I don't know, felt a little.
• 1:35:41
  Speaker 1: Do you have a question, though?
• 1:35:43
  Speaker 15: No, I just wanted to share. I felt like, you know,
• 1:35:46
  Speaker 15: freedom of speech. I wanted to share a poem I
• 1:35:47
  Speaker 15: wrote for everybody.' Twas the night before the Kirkiversary, and
• 1:35:51
  Speaker 15: all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not
• 1:35:54
  Speaker 15: even a mouse. The flags were hung proudly, the memes
• 1:35:58
  Speaker 15: all on deck, as we solemnly remembered a shot to
• 1:36:02
  Speaker 15: the neck. The podcast fell silent. The hot takes grew wary.
• 1:36:07
  Speaker 15: For tomorrow, dear friends, is the great Kirkiversary. So I'll
• 1:36:11
  Speaker 15: see everyone at the Squirt for Kirk. We're hosting that
• 1:36:13
  Speaker 15: also on October 10th. I'll see y'all there. It's a BYOE.
• 1:36:17
  Speaker 15: You know, vaccines included. See y'all there.
• 1:36:21
  Speaker 2: That's all.
• 1:36:24
  Speaker 10: Are you happy with yourself now?
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 2: I mean, I think that was.
• 1:36:28
  Speaker 2: Baby, I'm thrilled.
• 1:36:29
  Speaker 10: Yeah, well, I mean.
• 1:36:30
  Speaker 15: You're brave for being out here, you know, no protection,
• 1:36:32
  Speaker 15: no nothing, no, like, neck brace or.
• 1:36:35
  Speaker 10: I'll pray for you.
• 1:36:37
  Speaker 21: Wow.
• 1:36:38
  Speaker 2: She does need Jesus, but she also needs to go
• 1:36:40
  Speaker 2: back to her home country. And, ladies and gentlemen, that
• 1:36:44
  Speaker 2: is the question. Should this college student be deported as
• 1:36:48
  Speaker 2: a result of what she said there? And the reason
• 1:36:52
  Speaker 2: I'm asking that is the university is now weighing in,
• 1:36:54
  Speaker 2: at least the Board of Regents, and they're saying... that
• 1:36:57
  Speaker 2: this amounts to inciting violence and encouraging violence against someone,
• 1:37:04
  Speaker 2: and they say that violates their school policies. So if
• 1:37:08
  Speaker 2: that's the case, does this person need to go back
• 1:37:12
  Speaker 2: to her home country? Apparently she comes from a pretty
• 1:37:16
  Speaker 2: wealthy family. And I don't know what that would have
• 1:37:20
  Speaker 2: anything to do with anything other than the fact that
• 1:37:23
  Speaker 2: maybe they could afford the plane ticket. But if not,
• 1:37:26
  Speaker 2: I'm happy shoving her on the next Homeland Security flight
• 1:37:30
  Speaker 2: to Brazil or wherever she is from south of the
• 1:37:33
  Speaker 2: border and letting her spew her hate in another country,
• 1:37:39
  Speaker 2: but not on American soil, not on American soil. You know,
• 1:37:42
  Speaker 2: it's bad enough that the Democrat Party has become sort
• 1:37:45
  Speaker 2: of this death cult of this party of death, but
• 1:37:50
  Speaker 2: do we really need to be importing more people who
• 1:37:53
  Speaker 2: have that mindset? I mean, that's just crazy. 901-260-5926, our
• 1:37:58
  Speaker 2: telephone number. That's 901-260-5926. Also, I want to circle back
• 1:38:05
  Speaker 2: to the story involving the Michigan grocery store worker. He
• 1:38:10
  Speaker 2: was working for Red Baron. That's the frozen pizza place.
• 1:38:15
  Speaker 2: And a lot of people are now saying they're going
• 1:38:16
  Speaker 2: to go out and buy frozen pizzas to support the
• 1:38:18
  Speaker 2: company and the guy after these teenagers pranked this hardworking
• 1:38:23
  Speaker 2: fella doing a double shift to pay his bills and
• 1:38:26
  Speaker 2: feed his four kids. Cut number 54, please.
• 1:38:30
  Speaker 28: Kids with their phones and cameras out played a cool
• 1:38:33
  Speaker 28: prank on a dad stocking shelves at a grocery store
• 1:38:36
  Speaker 28: in Michigan recently, but the dad told them off in
• 1:38:39
  Speaker 28: a video that's inspired a huge response from fed-up people everywhere.
• 1:38:43
  Speaker 2: Our Tom Hanson has the story.
• 1:38:46
  Speaker 1: Go!
• 1:38:47
  Speaker 2: Thank you.
• 1:38:47
  Speaker 12: These pranks littering social media.
• 1:38:50
  Speaker 2: Thank you. That right there, that's 20 bucks. It's Apple Pay.
• 1:38:53
  Speaker 12: Are designed for virality and laughs at other people's expense.
• 1:38:57
  Speaker 12: Content creators randomly tapping their phone to a stranger's, then
• 1:39:00
  Speaker 12: that familiar Apple Pay ding.
• 1:39:02
  Speaker 4: I'm a low-tech person, what are you doing?
• 1:39:04
  Speaker 12: As if they're stealing money.
• 1:39:06
  Speaker 10: You put $ 100 on PatDraw.
• 1:39:07
  Speaker 20: No, no, I don't want to do that.
• 1:39:10
  Speaker 12: The transactions aren't real, but the people being pranked think
• 1:39:13
  Speaker 12: they are.
• 1:39:14
  Speaker 5: We are.
• 1:39:15
  Speaker 2: Dude, thank you, bro. I just took $ 10 out of this.
• 1:39:20
  Speaker 12: And this one erupted in fury when a Red Baron worker,
• 1:39:23
  Speaker 12: Walter Zared, was restocking frozen pizza at a market in
• 1:39:26
  Speaker 12: White Lake, Michigan.
• 1:39:27
  Speaker 2: It was just a joke, bro.
• 1:39:28
  Speaker 10: It was just a joke.
• 1:39:29
  Speaker 2: It was just a joke. No, it's not a joke
• 1:39:31
  Speaker 2: to me, okay?
• 1:39:32
  Speaker 27: I don't have time for this crap in my life.
• 1:39:33
  Speaker 2: My life is hard enough as it is.
• 1:39:35
  Speaker 10: You're probably making money off this.
• 1:39:37
  Speaker 18: I can't even pay my mortgage, and I got.
• 1:39:40
  Speaker 4: Four kids at home.
• 1:39:43
  Speaker 12: The man's frustration about his finances and possibly losing his
• 1:39:47
  Speaker 12: job striking a nerve online.
• 1:39:49
  Speaker 2: An online fundraiser.
• 1:39:51
  Speaker 12: Has collected over $ 300, 000 and counting in two days. Social
• 1:39:55
  Speaker 12: media platforms say these videos violate their bullying and harassment policies,
• 1:40:00
  Speaker 12: but we found dozens of accounts with this type of content.
• 1:40:03
  Speaker 5: Your embarrassing moments are not private at any time, but
• 1:40:07
  Speaker 5: I think that you shouldn't take advantage of someone when
• 1:40:10
  Speaker 5: they didn't do anything wrong and didn't deserve to be
• 1:40:13
  Speaker 5: put on blast for millions of people to see.
• 1:40:15
  Speaker 12: And the account that posted that video of the interaction
• 1:40:18
  Speaker 12: has been deactivated. Walter doesn't have to worry about losing
• 1:40:21
  Speaker 12: his job either. In a post on X, Red Baron
• 1:40:24
  Speaker 12: said he's got a fan club, including us, and suggested
• 1:40:27
  Speaker 12: he might just get Employee of the.
• 1:40:29
  Speaker 4: Month, Tony.
• 1:40:31
  Speaker 18: Wow.
• 1:40:31
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 1:40:32
  Speaker 2: And they have, of course, Red Baron Pizza now saying
• 1:40:35
  Speaker 2: that he's still got a job. He's got a fan club.
• 1:40:38
  Speaker 2: Red Baron says they're part of the fan club. Employee
• 1:40:42
  Speaker 2: of the Month nominations are closed. You know why. By
• 1:40:46
  Speaker 2: the way, an update on this GoFundMe. And Walt was just,
• 1:40:50
  Speaker 2: you know, when you watch the video, I know many
• 1:40:51
  Speaker 2: of you have seen this video, you see a guy
• 1:40:54
  Speaker 2: who is just, I mean, he's tired. He's working a
• 1:40:58
  Speaker 2: double shift. He's struggling to pay his bills and his mortgage,
• 1:41:02
  Speaker 2: just like every other American out there. He's doing what
• 1:41:05
  Speaker 2: he can, and the last thing he needs to do
• 1:41:07
  Speaker 2: is become fodder for some punks, some teenage punks trying
• 1:41:11
  Speaker 2: to make money on YouTube or Instagram or TikTok. And
• 1:41:16
  Speaker 2: the guy had it, and I don't blame him. And
• 1:41:19
  Speaker 2: I have an update for you. Now over a half
• 1:41:21
  Speaker 2: a million dollars has been deposited in a GoFundMe account
• 1:41:26
  Speaker 2: for this guy. They call him Walter, but he prefers
• 1:41:29
  Speaker 2: to go by Walt. He's just a regular Joe, just
• 1:41:32
  Speaker 2: a regular guy out there working. So God bless you, Walt.
• 1:41:35
  Speaker 2: And I know a lot of people in this audience,
• 1:41:38
  Speaker 2: they are very sympathetic because they feel you and they
• 1:41:42
  Speaker 2: know exactly what you're going through. All right, let's go
• 1:41:46
  Speaker 2: back to the phones here. Dawsonville, Georgia. John on the
• 1:41:49
  Speaker 2: line wants to weigh in on voters and the midterms. Hi, John.
• 1:41:53
  Speaker 2: What's going on?
• 1:41:53
  Speaker 14: How you doing, Todd?
• 1:41:56
  Speaker 2: Good, good. Thank you for asking.
• 1:41:59
  Speaker 14: Sorry I missed you on Tuesday. I wasn't feeling well.
• 1:42:02
  Speaker 6: I wasn't able to get over there to do it.
• 1:42:04
  Speaker 7: Restaurant.
• 1:42:06
  Speaker 2: John, that's okay. You know, there must have been something
• 1:42:09
  Speaker 2: going around because there were a number of people who
• 1:42:12
  Speaker 2: said they couldn't come because of illness. We had about
• 1:42:14
  Speaker 2: 100 or so people. There was a great turnout, and
• 1:42:18
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry we missed you, but I'm glad you're, and
• 1:42:19
  Speaker 2: I hope you're feeling better.
• 1:42:21
  Speaker 14: Yeah, I'm feeling a little better. I keep hearing, now
• 1:42:26
  Speaker 14: don't get me wrong, I'm not happy about gas prices,
• 1:42:30
  Speaker 14: but I keep hearing, you know, about gas prices and
• 1:42:33
  Speaker 14: It's all because of the war in Iran and, you know,
• 1:42:37
  Speaker 14: all this.
• 1:42:39
  Speaker 19: And people don't remember when Trump left office.
• 1:42:49
  Speaker 2: You're all right there, John. You sound like you still
• 1:42:51
  Speaker 2: may have a little cold.
• 1:42:54
  Speaker 14: When Trump left office in his first term, we were
• 1:42:58
  Speaker 14: energy independent. We weren't importing any oil. And as soon
• 1:43:05
  Speaker 14: as Biden took office, he stopped all the oil production
• 1:43:09
  Speaker 14: and all the pipelines and asked them to go back
• 1:43:12
  Speaker 14: and look what the gas prices when Biden left office were.
• 1:43:17
  Speaker 14: So I just get tired of it all being blamed
• 1:43:19
  Speaker 14: on the war in Iran.
• 1:43:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, John, I hear you there. My goodness, you might
• 1:43:27
  Speaker 2: want to take a recall. You know, those things really
• 1:43:29
  Speaker 2: help knock out the cough there. But been there where
• 1:43:32
  Speaker 2: you're at, my friend. Yeah, look, I'm with you, and
• 1:43:37
  Speaker 2: gas prices are high. Look, they came down, they went
• 1:43:39
  Speaker 2: back up, but they're nowhere near as high as they
• 1:43:41
  Speaker 2: were during the Biden administration. And also, look at the
• 1:43:45
  Speaker 2: price of eggs just skyrocketed during the Biden years, and
• 1:43:49
  Speaker 2: now at an all-time low. So, again, you've got to
• 1:43:52
  Speaker 2: do your homework. Don't believe everything you're reading in the
• 1:43:56
  Speaker 2: newspaper you're hearing online. on TV. Just don't do that.
• 1:44:00
  Speaker 2: You got to do your homework. John, get better soon,
• 1:44:04
  Speaker 2: my friend, and thank you for calling in. 901-260-5926, our number.
• 1:44:06
  Speaker 2: That's 901-260-5926. This is the Todd Starnes Show. All right,
• 1:44:28
  Speaker 2: Halloween is tomorrow, unless you're a Baptist and it's Fall Festival.
• 1:44:33
  Speaker 2: Welcome back to the Todd Stearns Radio Show. Good to
• 1:44:36
  Speaker 2: have you with us. Back when I was, I don't know,
• 1:44:40
  Speaker 2: when you guys were growing up, did your church do
• 1:44:43
  Speaker 2: like a hell house kind of a thing where they
• 1:44:46
  Speaker 2: simulated what it would be like to die without Christ
• 1:44:49
  Speaker 2: and go to hell? I mean, it was quite the
• 1:44:53
  Speaker 2: rage in a lot of churches back And it was
• 1:44:56
  Speaker 2: quite the production, too. I mean, thousands of people would
• 1:44:59
  Speaker 2: line up, and they would go through, and they would
• 1:45:01
  Speaker 2: take you through this scene. And Dylan, grab it. I
• 1:45:06
  Speaker 2: need Dylan to find a microphone, because Dylan, this would
• 1:45:10
  Speaker 2: have been up your lane. It would always involve a
• 1:45:13
  Speaker 2: bunch of teenagers. It would be like, remember Saved by
• 1:45:18
  Speaker 2: the Bell? I don't know if you remember that. So
• 1:45:20
  Speaker 2: it would be like the cast of Saved by the Bell.
• 1:45:22
  Speaker 2: They're in a car crash, and They all die, and
• 1:45:26
  Speaker 2: it's a fiery, brutal death. And so they actually have
• 1:45:29
  Speaker 2: like a car that they bring into like the church,
• 1:45:32
  Speaker 2: you know, Caphegem Notorium. And, you know, the car has
• 1:45:37
  Speaker 2: been in a previous accident, and it's got like, you know,
• 1:45:40
  Speaker 2: blood all over the place. So disgusting. And it's horrifying.
• 1:45:43
  Speaker 2: And so then it's like, I don't know, I guess
• 1:45:46
  Speaker 2: Screech and the Black Chick, they went to heaven, but
• 1:45:50
  Speaker 2: everybody else went to hell. And so they're taking you
• 1:45:53
  Speaker 2: through this journey of what it's like watching these people
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  Speaker 2: going before the judgment seat of Christ, and then they
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  Speaker 2: meet their maker.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah, it's similar to when they do it up for Christmas.
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  Speaker 10: They'll have the real donkey come in.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 10: This is like that equivalent experience. of halloween yes we
• 1:46:10
  Speaker 10: didn't do any of this stuff by the way i
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  Speaker 10: i'm proud to say that our church growing up didn't
• 1:46:15
  Speaker 10: did not do.
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  Speaker 2: This well thousands of people got saved because you know
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  Speaker 2: they didn't want to go to hell with zach you
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  Speaker 2: know from you know saved by the bell.
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  Speaker 10: They were scared straight they were it's like the left behind.
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  Speaker 2: Effect you work no trans kids in that youth group
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  Speaker 2: not on halloween oh that's yeah i think i crossed
• 1:46:31
  Speaker 2: the line there but anyway uh so all that to
• 1:46:34
  Speaker 2: say I'm sure your church is doing something, and if not,
• 1:46:37
  Speaker 2: you want to go hang out with the pagans in
• 1:46:39
  Speaker 2: the neighborhood getting Butterfingers, you can. Which, by the way, Dylan,
• 1:46:43
  Speaker 2: I am excited to share this news with you. I
• 1:46:45
  Speaker 2: am in such big trouble.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah, you are.
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  Speaker 2: You're on a prayer list right now.
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  Speaker 9: I know.
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  Speaker 2: You know what happens. So I try to sneak into church,
• 1:46:53
  Speaker 2: and I get stopped. It takes me forever to get
• 1:46:57
  Speaker 2: into the sanctuary because I get stopped by folks and
• 1:46:59
  Speaker 2: they want to talk. And usually I'm being lectured about
• 1:47:03
  Speaker 2: something I said on the radio.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean, that makes a lot of sense, Todd.
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  Speaker 10: You kind of do it to yourself. I do. I
• 1:47:08
  Speaker 10: can't feel bad for you.
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  Speaker 2: And then I can always tell when a fellow church
• 1:47:14
  Speaker 2: member is a Democrat. They give you the eye. It's
• 1:47:18
  Speaker 2: the stink eye.
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  Speaker 10: They don't sit next to you during the choir?
• 1:47:21
  Speaker 2: No, nobody ever sits next to me. I feel all alone.
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  Speaker 7: It's sad.
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  Speaker 2: Anyway, Parade Magazine has come up with the top 10
• 1:47:31
  Speaker 2: Halloween candies. of 2026 and also the most disliked treats.
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  Speaker 10: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: So this is, um, this is a, and I actually
• 1:47:39
  Speaker 2: agree with a lot of the, um, a lot of the,
• 1:47:42
  Speaker 2: the items here. Shall we start with the 10 worst
• 1:47:44
  Speaker 2: Halloween candies?
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  Speaker 10: I think so. Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: All right.
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  Speaker 10: Go good.
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  Speaker 2: This is, so we're counting down to number one. A
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  Speaker 2: number 10 is something called Smarties.
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  Speaker 4: Smarties.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah.
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  Speaker 25: Smarties.
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  Speaker 10: Like this is, this is the worst list, right? Smarties
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  Speaker 10: are not very.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Number nine. I completely disagree with number nine. Almond Joy.
• 1:48:03
  Speaker 10: You like Almond Joy?
• 1:48:04
  Speaker 11: I love.
• 1:48:04
  Speaker 2: Sometimes you feel like a nut. Sometimes you don't.
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  Speaker 10: You can have them.
• 1:48:08
  Speaker 2: I love Almond Joy.
• 1:48:09
  Speaker 10: I feel like Almond Joy is one of those candies
• 1:48:11
  Speaker 10: you give away if you really don't like the kids.
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  Speaker 2: Really?
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  Speaker 18: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I would think that would be like the most cherished candy.
• 1:48:18
  Speaker 10: Almond Joy. That's... just doesn't sound good.
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  Speaker 2: Number eight on the list. Black licorice.
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  Speaker 10: That should be way lower. I mean, or higher. Are
• 1:48:27
  Speaker 10: we going to the worst?
• 1:48:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the worst.
• 1:48:29
  Speaker 10: That should be number one on the list. But, you know, sure.
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  Speaker 2: Number seven. Something called Mary Jane's.
• 1:48:35
  Speaker 10: Haven't heard of it.
• 1:48:35
  Speaker 2: Is that like marijuana?
• 1:48:38
  Speaker 10: This is not candy. Mary Jane's?
• 1:48:41
  Speaker 2: Oh, number six. I remember these. Wax Coke bottles.
• 1:48:46
  Speaker 10: Oh, yeah. Do you eat those?
• 1:48:49
  Speaker 2: I think it's okay to, but you never know. Because
• 1:48:54
  Speaker 2: they taste awful. It tastes like nothing. It tastes like
• 1:48:57
  Speaker 2: you're eating candle wax.
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  Speaker 10: I think you're supposed to open it. Like you're supposed
• 1:49:01
  Speaker 10: to twist the top, and then there's something on the inside.
• 1:49:03
  Speaker 10: I don't know if you're supposed to eat the whole thing.
• 1:49:05
  Speaker 2: Oh, my God. I misread number five.
• 1:49:08
  Speaker 10: And I.
• 1:49:09
  Speaker 2: I thought it was necrophilia wafers, and I thought, oh, God,
• 1:49:12
  Speaker 2: that ought to be number one on the list.
• 1:49:14
  Speaker 10: What the?
• 1:49:15
  Speaker 2: No, it's wafers. Necco? Nico? Wafers?
• 1:49:18
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 1:49:18
  Speaker 10: I haven't had them.
• 1:49:19
  Speaker 2: I think these are like Nilla wafers.
• 1:49:21
  Speaker 16: Okay.
• 1:49:21
  Speaker 4: Ugh.
• 1:49:22
  Speaker 2: Only if it's in banana pudding.
• 1:49:24
  Speaker 11: Right.
• 1:49:24
  Speaker 10: Agreed.
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  Speaker 2: Number four, Peeps. Absolutely.
• 1:49:28
  Speaker 20: Yeah.
• 1:49:29
  Speaker 10: Peeps are not even a Halloween candy. That's like, what?
• 1:49:33
  Speaker 10: Wrong holiday.
• 1:49:34
  Speaker 2: Number three, Peanut Butter Kisses.
• 1:49:37
  Speaker 10: Is that like a knockoff of Reese's?
• 1:49:39
  Speaker 2: Those are like Hershey's Kisses, but they're peanut butter.
• 1:49:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:49:42
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 1:49:42
  Speaker 2: I get that. And number two, I completely agree with
• 1:49:47
  Speaker 2: this one. Circus Peanuts.
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  Speaker 18: Yep.
• 1:49:50
  Speaker 10: I'm right there. Hey, Todd, do not tell me number
• 1:49:52
  Speaker 10: one is candy corn. Please do not say that it's
• 1:49:57
  Speaker 10: number one, Todd. Please. Oh, no.
• 1:50:02
  Speaker 2: It's candy corn.
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  Speaker 9: No.
• 1:50:04
  Speaker 2: Why? Number one is candy corn.
• 1:50:05
  Speaker 10: Candy corn is good.
• 1:50:07
  Speaker 18: I know.
• 1:50:07
  Speaker 2: I am shocked by this. I think a bunch of
• 1:50:10
  Speaker 2: Democrats came up with a list.
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  Speaker 10: At least the top half.
• 1:50:13
  Speaker 2: Candy corn. They used to call it chicken feed. That
• 1:50:15
  Speaker 2: was the official. When they first started selling it in
• 1:50:18
  Speaker 2: the 1880s.
• 1:50:19
  Speaker 10: They called it chicken feed at first?
• 1:50:20
  Speaker 2: They called it chicken feed.
• 1:50:21
  Speaker 10: That's really close to. I mean, that doesn't sound very appealing.
• 1:50:25
  Speaker 2: Candy corn is better. Humans didn't eat it. You know why?
• 1:50:28
  Speaker 15: Why?
• 1:50:28
  Speaker 2: Because it was called chicken feed.
• 1:50:29
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 1:50:30
  Speaker 10: Makes a lot of sense.
• 1:50:31
  Speaker 2: All right. These are the top 10, so we're going
• 1:50:36
  Speaker 2: down to number one.
• 1:50:37
  Speaker 7: All right.
• 1:50:39
  Speaker 2: Number 10, Butterfinger.
• 1:50:41
  Speaker 10: That should be higher, but okay.
• 1:50:42
  Speaker 2: Number nine, Twix.
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  Speaker 5: Yep.
• 1:50:45
  Speaker 2: The only candy with the cookie crunch, as you might remember.
• 1:50:50
  Speaker 2: Number eight, something called Bubz.
• 1:50:52
  Speaker 10: I haven't had Bubz.
• 1:50:53
  Speaker 2: It's a Swedish candy. Number seven, Hot Tamales.
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  Speaker 10: Okay.
• 1:50:57
  Speaker 2: All right. Number six, Kit Kat.
• 1:51:00
  Speaker 20: Yeah.
• 1:51:01
  Speaker 2: Give me a break. Give me a break.
• 1:51:03
  Speaker 18: Yeah.
• 1:51:03
  Speaker 2: Give me a break of that Kit Kat bar.
• 1:51:06
  Speaker 10: Pretty good.
• 1:51:07
  Speaker 2: Number five. This is what keeps me awake on my
• 1:51:09
  Speaker 2: long road trips. Sour Patch Kids.
• 1:51:12
  Speaker 14: Yeah.
• 1:51:12
  Speaker 10: Love Sour Patch Kids.
• 1:51:14
  Speaker 2: You know, I love them because, and you know why
• 1:51:15
  Speaker 2: they call them Sour Patch? Because first they're sour and
• 1:51:18
  Speaker 2: then they're sweet.
• 1:51:19
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 1:51:20
  Speaker 10: It's a great candy.
• 1:51:22
  Speaker 2: Number four.
• 1:51:23
  Speaker 21: M & M' s.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 1:51:26
  Speaker 10: M & M' s are very plain to me. I like
• 1:51:27
  Speaker 10: the variety ones.
• 1:51:28
  Speaker 2: Well, now they have something called honey roasted peanut M &.
• 1:51:31
  Speaker 3: M' s.
• 1:51:31
  Speaker 2: Have you heard of these?
• 1:51:32
  Speaker 10: That sounds, no.
• 1:51:34
  Speaker 2: It sounds disgusting.
• 1:51:34
  Speaker 10: You're getting too far.
• 1:51:35
  Speaker 2: I can't do the whole, yeah, exactly. Number three, nerds,
• 1:51:39
  Speaker 2: gummy clusters.
• 1:51:41
  Speaker 10: Oh, the gummy clusters nerds? Those are the best. Nerds
• 1:51:43
  Speaker 10: on their own, not very good.
• 1:51:46
  Speaker 2: I agree.
• 1:51:47
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 1:51:48
  Speaker 2: I think you have to outgrow nerds. Number two, recessed
• 1:51:52
  Speaker 2: peanut butter cups.
• 1:51:52
  Speaker 10: Yeah, here we go.
• 1:51:54
  Speaker 2: So let me just say something about that because it
• 1:51:56
  Speaker 2: depends on where you're at. If it's a warm Halloween night,
• 1:51:59
  Speaker 2: they're going to melt. And those recessed peanut butter cups
• 1:52:03
  Speaker 2: will melt.
• 1:52:04
  Speaker 10: True story, yeah. Make sure it's cold outside before you
• 1:52:06
  Speaker 10: give those out.
• 1:52:07
  Speaker 7: Got to.
• 1:52:07
  Speaker 2: And the number one, 2026 Halloween candy. Drum roll, please.
• 1:52:13
  Speaker 10: I don't have a drum roll, but here we go.
• 1:52:15
  Speaker 10: Is this working?
• 1:52:16
  Speaker 2: Are we that cheap? We can't have a drum. Snickers.
• 1:52:19
  Speaker 10: Snickers.
• 1:52:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Snickers.
• 1:52:22
  Speaker 10: Not my number one, but sure, you can have it.
• 1:52:24
  Speaker 2: It is what it is.
• 1:52:25
  Speaker 10: Yep.
• 1:52:25
  Speaker 2: There you go.
• 1:52:26
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 1:52:27
  Speaker 2: Well, folks, whatever you do, have a great weekend out there.
• 1:52:30
  Speaker 2: It has been a great broadcast week, and go Big Orange,
• 1:52:34
  Speaker 2: go Memphis Tigers, go Grizzlies. Folks, we'll be back here Monday.
• 1:52:41
  Speaker 2: Get out there, have a great weekend, and whatever you do,
• 1:52:44
  Speaker 2: be sure to go to church on Sunday.