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Speaker 1: Well, live from the Liberty University Studio in Memphis, Tennessee.

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Speaker 1: It's America's favorite gun, total Bible clinging deplorable Americans.

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Speaker 1: Todd starts Monday.

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Speaker 2: Well, Hello, everybody, welcome to the Todd Stearns Radio Show.

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Speaker 2: Great to have you with this hampy hump day. I

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Speaker 2: hope you had a great Saint Patrick's Day celebration everybody.

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Speaker 2: And wow, do we have a lot happening on today's program.

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Speaker 2: Senator Mark Wayne Mullen, who is President Trump's replacement for

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Speaker 2: Christy No and Homeland Security is and to pardon me

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Speaker 2: while I switch out some headphones here, but anyway, he

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Speaker 2: is undergoing confirmation hearings right now up on Campitol Hill

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Speaker 2: and it's getting a little spicy. We're going to get

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Speaker 2: to all of that in just a little while. And guys,

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Speaker 2: if somebody could just bring me in some replacement headphones,

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Speaker 2: Again that number, nine oh one two six zero five

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Speaker 2: We're also following a hearing of featuring Tulsea Gambard, who

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Speaker 2: is sort of kind of on the hot seat right

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Speaker 2: now after what happened and what went down with Joe Kent.

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Speaker 2: Joe Kent, of course announcing his resignation yesterday. We're going

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Speaker 2: There are a lot of accusations being slung around, but

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Speaker 2: here's what you need to know about Joe Kent. The

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Speaker 2: out exactly what his thinking is. Right now. A lot

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Speaker 2: of people are condemning Kent. President Trump has been sort

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Speaker 2: He's said some nice things about Kent. But the reporting

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Speaker 2: and at that point a lot of people are wondering

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Speaker 2: why was he still employed there, why did Tulci Gabbard

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Speaker 2: Lovett earlier today was asked about that during a sort

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Speaker 2: and she said, ultimately, you know, that decision is up

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Speaker 2: White House and the President Trump is going to be

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Speaker 2: coming to Memphis. President Trump will be arriving in the

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Speaker 2: the incredible success of the Memphis Safe task for so

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Speaker 2: But you know, it's interesting what's happened here in Memphis

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Speaker 2: They were literally carjacking people, don't I don't know if

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Speaker 4: Thinking, Yeah, it's it's amazing. And we could say that

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Speaker 2: Race, Michelle. I think the jaw dropping and as jaw

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Speaker 4: of money into any particular state or program unless we

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Speaker 4: get the receipts first. I don't know about you, but

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Speaker 4: when I do my expenses for work, I put them

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Speaker 4: on a card, I pay cash whatever I turn into receipts,

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Speaker 4: and then I'm reimbursed. And that should be the way

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Speaker 4: it works for the states as well.

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Speaker 2: There's been a lot of frustration up up in the Senate,

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Speaker 2: and a lot of it is being directed at Republicans,

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Speaker 2: and there's a lot of frustration over the Safe of America

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Speaker 2: Act probably, and I've tried to prepare my audience. I

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Speaker 2: just don't think it's going to happen. I hope it does,

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Speaker 2: and it should, but the reality of it, you've got

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Speaker 2: Republicans that are entrench there that do not want to budge.

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Speaker 2: If you were in the Senate right now, what would

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Speaker 2: your vote be?

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Speaker 4: Well, listen, they don't want to budge on a filibuster.

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Speaker 4: There are a lot of people who say, I'll just

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Speaker 4: bust this filibuster. Let's get this through with fifty one

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Speaker 4: votes instead of the sixty necessary. Then there's the option

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Speaker 4: of the talking filibuster. Let's let everybody stand up there

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Speaker 4: and talk until they're exhausted. But that would prevent a

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Speaker 4: lot of work from getting done. I'm not in favor

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Speaker 4: of breaking up the filibuster. I know that might disappoint

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Speaker 4: some people, but to do that, you're just abandoning all

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Speaker 4: of the reasons that it was put in to begin with.

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Speaker 4: And so I'm on the side.

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Speaker 5: Of sticking with the filibuster.

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Speaker 4: Let's make this a talking filibuster. Let's let these Democrats

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Speaker 4: stand up there and preach to the American public why

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Speaker 4: it's a bad idea to have voter ideas, why it's

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Speaker 4: a bad idea to have American citizens being the only

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Speaker 4: ones to vote. I mean, those are the crucial parts

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Speaker 4: of this bill. And here in Minnesota, where we see

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Speaker 4: not just fraud, but voter fraud at a scale that

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Speaker 4: is hopefully to be exposed. Our Secretary of State will

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Speaker 4: not turn over the voter rules to the DOJ. That

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Speaker 4: should tell you something.

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Speaker 5: You know, we want to see our votes matter.

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Speaker 4: We want people to feel enfranchised, not disenfranchised. We want

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Speaker 4: people to go to the vote no knowing that their

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Speaker 4: vote counts. And I just think that's one of the

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Speaker 4: most basic things you can offer people.

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Speaker 5: And to stand in the.

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Speaker 4: Way of that for these various you know, Jim Crow

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Speaker 4: two point zero excuses that Chuck Schumer and company are

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Speaker 4: making is embarrassing. So I say, let him stand there

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Speaker 4: and try to defend that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm I'm good with the talking filibuster, But the

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Speaker 2: reality is the Democrats are going to blow this up

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Speaker 2: if they ever get control again. And unfortunately there's still

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Speaker 2: a lot of the president's agenda that is backlogged and

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Speaker 2: it's not getting through the Senate. The President is getting frustrated,

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Speaker 2: you know, he says, let's neot the filibuster. My concern

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Speaker 2: is this could have blowback on everybody come the midterm elections.

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Speaker 2: What are you hearing from people in Minnesota.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it's it's pretty split here in Minnesota

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Speaker 4: in terms of yes, people are in.

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Speaker 2: Pace that they are. Do we lose, Michelle, we still

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Speaker 2: got okay. There we go.

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Speaker 4: Oh you got me, We got okay. You know, we're

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Speaker 4: in an environment where consumers can buy things instantly, right

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Speaker 4: you get hit stuff delivered to your phone, delivered to

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Speaker 4: your door. So watching this excruciatingly slow process in the

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Speaker 4: Senate is is hard for our nature.

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Speaker 5: But I think what's.

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Speaker 4: So important is keeping the Senate in Republican hands. And

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Speaker 4: I would love people to help me at Michelle tafoya

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Speaker 4: dot com. It's Michelle with one l paf o ya

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Speaker 4: dot com and make sure that Look, we have an

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Speaker 4: extraordinary opportunity here in Minnesota. We have had single party

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Speaker 4: rule for a long time.

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Speaker 5: We currently have.

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Speaker 4: Tina Smith and Amy Clotheshar two Democrats representing us in

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Speaker 4: the Senate. Tina Smith is stepping down. It's an open seat.

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Speaker 4: We can take it to the Republicans. That is why

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Speaker 4: Tim Scott has endorsed me. That is why people like

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Speaker 4: Mark Wayne Mullen have supported me.

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Speaker 6: So we know we.

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Speaker 4: Can do this here in Minnesota. We would love help

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Speaker 4: because it's not just about Minnesota and our voters. It's

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Speaker 4: about holding the Senate and maybe even increasing that lead

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Speaker 4: in the Senate. So I would love everyone to go

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Speaker 4: and ship in a few bucks at Michelle Tafoya dot com.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely, And Michelle, before we let you go, what

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Speaker 2: would you say are the big issues? I mean, you're

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Speaker 2: out there talking two voters asign from the fraud. What

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Speaker 2: are some of the big issues on the minds of

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Speaker 2: voters there in Minnesota?

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Speaker 7: Well?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, look, we've all been told that the

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Speaker 4: word affordability is key, and it is and right now,

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Speaker 4: I would say, you know, look, we had gas prices

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Speaker 4: at a five year low and we were really enjoying

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Speaker 4: watching that, and now here we are in a conflict

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Speaker 4: in the Middle East, which is bringing gas prices up again.

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Speaker 4: I know it's frustrating and I know it's hard for people.

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Speaker 4: What I would say to them is, we've lost some

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Speaker 4: service members over there who have put their lives on

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Speaker 4: the line to protect us, to protect the region, protect

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Speaker 4: America's friends in the region. We can all you know,

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Speaker 4: it used to be during the past wars, especially World

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Speaker 4: War Two, Americans got behind our servicemen and women, and

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Speaker 4: we did little things to show our support for them.

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Speaker 4: We collected mentally, you know, we recycled stuff aluminum so

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Speaker 4: that we could you know, help in the war effort.

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Speaker 4: I think right now, at least just kind of keeping

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Speaker 4: a stiff upper lip. Maybe you'd take one less trip

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Speaker 4: to Starbucks and so that gas goes a little further

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Speaker 4: until this thing is over and these gas prices come

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Speaker 4: back down again. Let's just try to be patriots about this.

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Speaker 4: Whether you agree with it or not, we're there and

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Speaker 4: we've got to support our men and women in uniform.

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Speaker 4: That's a big one. So again that kind of connects

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Speaker 4: with the affordability stuff. Iran is a big topic. Immigration

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Speaker 4: continues to be a big topic. We like that the

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Speaker 4: border is closed, but people are still concerned about criminal

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Speaker 4: illegals who are here. Heck, we even seen, as you know, Todd,

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Speaker 4: some naturalized American citizens here commit atrocities against those people.

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Speaker 4: And so it's it's a it's a rough time. It's

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Speaker 4: a it's a challenging time to be in America. People

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Speaker 4: want stability, they want change, and I really believe that people,

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Speaker 4: particularly on the Republicans and independent side, want to see

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Speaker 4: this president's agenda continue to go forward. And in order

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Speaker 4: to do that, these midterms are going to matter in

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Speaker 4: a huge way.

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Speaker 2: All right, Well, Michelle, we're gonna leave it here and again,

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Speaker 2: folks go to her website. She's got all sorts of information.

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Speaker 2: You can see her platform Michelle Tafoya dot com. That's

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Speaker 2: Michelle with one L. Michelle Tafoya dot com. Michelle, we're

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Speaker 2: gonna get you back on between now an election day.

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Speaker 2: Good luck to you out there on the campaign trail.

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Speaker 4: I thank you so much for the time to have

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Speaker 4: a great day.

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Speaker 2: All right, you too, There you go, everybody. Michelle Tafoya,

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Speaker 2: former NFL sideline reporter. Now, look, yeah, I'm with the president.

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Speaker 2: I think we have to nuke the filibuster. She clearly

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Speaker 2: is on the side of keeping the filibuster and making

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Speaker 2: it a talking filibuster.

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Speaker 8: Uh.

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Speaker 2: Curious to hear from you on that because and she said,

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Speaker 2: there is a split among voters in Minnesota on whether

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Speaker 2: or not we should nuke the filibuster. What say you?

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Speaker 2: Nine oh one two six zero five nine two six

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Speaker 2: is our telephone number. That's nine oh one two six

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Speaker 2: zero five, nine to six. Well, I've got to talk

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Speaker 2: to here real quick before we go to break about

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Speaker 2: Social Security benefits. There is a new study out there

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Speaker 2: seventy percent of Americans are not getting the full benefits

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Speaker 2: they deserve and Social security expert Michael Allen wants to

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Speaker 2: do something about that. He has five key strategies to

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Speaker 2: over a lifetime. So I want you to write down

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Speaker 2: Eight hundred ninety six ninety. That's eight hundred ninety nine

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Speaker 2: nine ninety six ninety, and we're going to send you

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Speaker 2: that information again one more time eight hundred nine nine

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Speaker 2: nine ninety six ninety. We'll be right back. All right,

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Speaker 2: let's go right to the phone lines nine oh one

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Speaker 2: two six zero five nine two six our number, Richard

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Speaker 2: in Florida listening to us on WOCA. Richard, what's on

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Speaker 2: your mind?

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Speaker 8: Thank you mister Todd for take the call. I just

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Speaker 8: heard your interview with Michelle, and with all due respect

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Speaker 8: to the lady, I disagree with their one hundred percent.

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Speaker 8: I think that same attitude is a spineless, jellyfish, backbone ninetitude.

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Speaker 8: If they don't nook the filibuster, nothing's going to get done.

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Speaker 8: And it's not Trump agenda. This is the American agenda.

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Speaker 8: The things that America wan on this Save America Act

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Speaker 8: was like watch high seventies or eighties voter approval and

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Speaker 8: if they don't fix that, then there's no hope for

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Speaker 8: the country. And her attitude of just doing the way

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Speaker 8: she was saying, let people get up and talk. All

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Speaker 8: the Democrats are going to do is put up people

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Speaker 8: that's going to get elected in their precincts. No matter

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Speaker 8: how they vote, it's just going to be a mess. No,

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Speaker 8: So the only way to do it is come out fighting.

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Speaker 8: And I'm not for her at all. I hope she

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Speaker 8: don't win the election. I hope they put some else

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Speaker 8: in her place. But I'm totally against what she said,

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Speaker 8: and I think they need to nuke the filibuster and

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Speaker 8: go come out fighting. Here's my issues, mister Todd. I

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Speaker 8: believe the Republicans don't want to do it because then

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Speaker 8: they're going to have to stand up, you know, and

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Speaker 8: be counted. As long as they can blame the Democrats

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Speaker 8: and say all we're all four, but they're against it,

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Speaker 8: then it don't make them look bad. But if we

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Speaker 8: knuke the filibuster, then every one of them's got to

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Speaker 8: vote for this save America. And I think there's a

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Speaker 8: lot of them that don't want to themselves.

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Speaker 2: Well, I think are there are a lot of Republicans

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Speaker 2: who are just lazy. But I think the bigger problem

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Speaker 2: is they're scared. You know, they've never they just have

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Speaker 2: not spent a lot of time in power in Washington.

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Speaker 2: They're always the minority party and that they are more comfortable,

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Speaker 2: I think, being the minority party. But they've got to

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Speaker 2: stand up to these Democrats, because the Democrats are nothing

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Speaker 2: more than great big bullies, and we've got to do

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Speaker 2: to them as they have done to us. And I'm

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Speaker 2: telling you right now, Richard, when the Democrats gain control,

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Speaker 2: and they will end up gaining control of the Senate,

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Speaker 2: the first thing they will do is abolish the filibuster,

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Speaker 2: and they will shove every single bit of their agenda

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Speaker 2: right through the Senate and we won't be able to

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Speaker 2: do anything about it. So we need to go ahead

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Speaker 2: take care of business now. And again, the overarching issue

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Speaker 2: here is providing integrity and stopping the cheat at the

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Speaker 2: ballot box. That's why this is so vitally important, because

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Speaker 2: when you take away the cheat, when you take away

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Speaker 2: the votes from the illegal aliens and the dead people,

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Speaker 2: then Republicans end up winning, where typically the Democrats win.

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Speaker 2: This is why it's just so vitally important. I didn't

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Speaker 2: mean to interrupt, but go ahead and finish your thought, Richard, No.

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Speaker 8: Mitchell, Tom one hundred percent, not to any Yes, maam,

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Speaker 8: I see it, one hundred percent like you do. It's

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Speaker 8: vitally important and we have to do it. There's no

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Speaker 8: other way we're going to win if we don't. And

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Speaker 8: it's the right thing to do. In seventy five eighty

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Speaker 8: percent of the American people see it and realize it, and

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Speaker 8: I think we have to force the Republicans either to

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Speaker 8: do it or throw them out of office one of

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Speaker 8: the two. If they don't want to fight, they need

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Speaker 8: to go home and take a job digging ditches and

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Speaker 8: let us put somebody in their place that'll fight for America.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a Look, it's a great thought there, Richard,

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Speaker 2: and I appreciate the call. Thank you. We are we

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Speaker 2: got to leave it there. Look, let me just say

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Speaker 2: this about the Democrats. They are they are out for

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Speaker 2: blood and right now. And we'll go over the numbers

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Speaker 2: from yesterday in Illinois, but the reality is they're motivated

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Speaker 2: right now for the US Senate race. For example, in Illinois, yesterday,

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Speaker 2: well over a million people voted on the Democrat side

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Speaker 2: of the isle, barely I think three maybe four hundred thousand.

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Speaker 2: We'll look at the official final numbers during the break,

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Speaker 2: but about four hundred thousand people turned out to vote

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Speaker 2: for the Republican candidates. So you can see there is

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Speaker 2: an enthusiasm gap right now. So we've just got to

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Speaker 2: figure out how to get our side of the aisle enthused.

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Speaker 2: How do we enthuse you, guys? I mean, you're the

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Speaker 2: ones that are not going to the polls, So how

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Speaker 2: do we enthuse you? Nine oh one two six zero

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Speaker 2: five nine two six. This is the Todd Stearns Show.

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Speaker 1: Ply from the Liberty University Studio in Memphis, Tennessee. It's

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Speaker 1: common sense conservative commentary from Todd stars.

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Speaker 2: Sais Samaritan. All right, hello, everybody, welcome to hour two

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Speaker 2: of the Big Show. May I just may I ask

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Speaker 2: you a personal question here for for you know, before

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Speaker 2: we get into that Dylan and I have I have

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Speaker 2: news to share with you. So I you know, the

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Speaker 2: lovely miss Christen. She shows up every day right about

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Speaker 2: the same time and she gets my uh my hair

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Speaker 2: and face appropriate for national television. You know, we don't

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Speaker 2: to frighten the children. Shaked up?

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Speaker 3: What they say?

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Speaker 2: What is it? You're caked? I am caked up. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I look good. I'm very tan. I'm not as bronze

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Speaker 2: as well some people in politics, but appropriately toned. Yeah, toned,

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Speaker 2: thank you. So anyway, yesterday we told you about the

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Speaker 2: you know, about the the endorsement offer I've been made,

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Speaker 2: and we we had the it's the it's not champstick.

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Speaker 2: It's called the lip balm is what it's called. Yes,

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Speaker 2: and it's all organic and it's very delicious and it

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Speaker 2: smells of peppermint, which apparently keeps the Asian ladybugs at bay.

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Speaker 2: Did you know that?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we we figured that out together. I haven't seen one.

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Speaker 3: By the way, they're not they're not near us.

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Speaker 2: This catch ept is great for all sorts of things.

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Speaker 9: It is.

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Speaker 2: Anyway, somebody told me your lips looked rather supple yesterday.

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Speaker 3: Wow. Wow, I'm glad that I'm glad this is starting

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Speaker 3: to get noticed.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I just there, you go.

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Speaker 3: This is something that hasn't been mentioned that much.

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Speaker 2: You know, I didn't realize. I always thought it was

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Speaker 2: my eyes that was my strongest feature, or then my

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Speaker 2: eye after the incident, but I still have two good

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Speaker 2: working eyes.

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Speaker 3: Well, once the eye happened, then they had to, you know,

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Speaker 3: find something else.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so it's the lips. The lips their supple Okay,

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Speaker 2: I digress. So I'm meant to tell that to you anyway.

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Speaker 2: Can we talk about something here, folks, because this has

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Speaker 2: been driving me nuts. So I I love being a conservative.

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Speaker 2: I'm more of a conservative than I am a Republican.

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Speaker 2: But I I joined the Republican Party because you know,

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Speaker 2: I support Republican Canadas by and large and so and

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Speaker 2: I do, and I've got no problem with that. But

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Speaker 2: here lately, I don't know is it is it just

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Speaker 2: me or and this may just be a unique Memphis,

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Speaker 2: Tennessee issue, But it just seems to me that Republican

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Speaker 2: politics is just getting mean and nasty and dirty. And

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Speaker 2: I've I've been observing all of this from from a distance,

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Speaker 2: and I've been watching people that that I know, some

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Speaker 2: of the most some of the most kind hearted people,

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Speaker 2: some of the most giving people, folks that are out

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Speaker 2: there at every single Republican event and anytime they need,

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Speaker 2: you know, a volunteer, these folks just show up. They're

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Speaker 2: they're the grassroots of the party. You may know people

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Speaker 2: like this in your community. And those are the folks

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Speaker 2: that I have great respect for because they're not looking

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Speaker 2: for fame, they're not looking for glory. They don't have

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Speaker 2: a million dollars to donate to the Republican cause, but

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Speaker 2: they they care about their country. They care about the

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Speaker 2: country they want to leave for their kids, and so

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Speaker 2: they get involved and they volunteer, and they're not looking

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Speaker 2: for applause. They do the work that needs to be done.

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Speaker 2: And more often than not, and I've seen this happen

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Speaker 2: in other places, these people inevitably get shoved to the

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Speaker 2: side when it comes time for them to take on

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Speaker 2: a leadership role. They're told they're not welcome, they're kind

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Speaker 2: is not welcome, they're not bonafied, when in fact, they're

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Speaker 2: more Republican the most of the people that are in

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Speaker 2: leadership positions. And so I've noticed, you know, so I've

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Speaker 2: been defending you know, I try to keep all of

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Speaker 2: the politics, don't you. You've got a personal Facebook page.

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Speaker 2: Well you're young. Do you still do the Facebook? Or

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Speaker 2: is that like a boomer thing.

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Speaker 3: I use it to see other people's lives.

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Speaker 2: Out, so you don't post your own stuff.

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Speaker 3: I have a linked to my Instagram, so whatever I

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Speaker 3: post on Instagram also goes to Facebook.

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Speaker 2: Okay, that makes sense. No, that makes perfect sense. So

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Speaker 2: so I post a lot. I don't post a lot

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Speaker 2: of political stuff on my personal page. I mostly you know,

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Speaker 2: We've got almost a half a million followers on our

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Speaker 2: Facebook fan page, and I just put all that there.

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Speaker 2: We've got a private group that's got almost eighty thousand people,

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Speaker 2: so there are plenty of folks if they want to

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Speaker 2: debate politics. But every now and again, I've posted stuff

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Speaker 2: on my personal page and all hell breaks loose. I mean,

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Speaker 2: some of the nastiest comments. You know, I'm out there

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Speaker 2: trying to defend these good, good hearted, grassroots people. And

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Speaker 2: I finally decided enough was enough, and I have made

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Speaker 2: a decision just on my personal page, I am not

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Speaker 2: posting any more political conversations. And I want to share

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Speaker 2: with you what I wrote. And maybe you guys may

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Speaker 2: disagree with me on this, and if so, I want

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Speaker 2: you to read me the Riot Act. But this is

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Speaker 2: what I just wrote. After much thought, I have decided

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Speaker 2: to ban political conversations on my personal Facebook page. I'm

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Speaker 2: a conservative and a Christian, and apparently that triggers people,

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Speaker 2: and by the way, it triggers my Facebook friends. These

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Speaker 2: are friends I don't know, you know. Let me stop

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Speaker 2: here for just a moment. I heard that a lot

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Speaker 2: of people, like back in twenty sixteen and moving forward,

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Speaker 2: a lot of people lost longtime friends because you voted

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Speaker 2: for Donald Trump or you happen to be a Republican

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Speaker 2: and people would unfriend you and say I can't be

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Speaker 2: associated with you anymore because of your political beliefs. And

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Speaker 2: I'm like, what the hell are these people talking about?

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Speaker 2: You're a You're just a fire right extremist. Stun what

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Speaker 2: does that mean? And no, I didn't write all that.

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Speaker 2: I'm I put a pause there, so I'm going to

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Speaker 2: get back to what I wrote here. But just think

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Speaker 2: about this for a moment. Todd Starns is there are

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Speaker 2: people in Memphis who consider me within the Republican Party

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Speaker 2: here to be a far right extremist. And I'm trying

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Speaker 2: to understand what that means. Oh, by the way, Dylan,

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Speaker 2: you know our logo for KWM the mighty nine ninety.

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Speaker 2: Do you know what the Democrats call us?

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Speaker 3: What is that?

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Speaker 2: The whitey nine Nights? I'm like, what does that even mean?

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Speaker 2: What does that mean? We have more black callers to

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Speaker 2: the Todd Sterns So than any other national radio show

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Speaker 2: in America.

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Speaker 3: They didn't black people start their Republican Party in Memphis.

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Speaker 2: That is true, and I wish they would take it

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Speaker 2: back over. I'm telling you it's these people. They don't

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Speaker 2: get it. So anyway, what was I say?

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Speaker 9: Oh?

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Speaker 2: So, so I thought to myself, what is it that

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Speaker 2: makes Todd Starns a far right extremist? You've had it

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Speaker 2: for Trump? Well, Trump's actually a populist. He's nowhere near

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Speaker 2: far right because he's mean. Okay, well okay, but how

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Speaker 2: does that impact me? Help me understand that? So I

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Speaker 2: got to thinking about that. All right, Well, I believe

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Speaker 2: that I am well, I'm a conservative. I believe in

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Speaker 2: free speech, and I believe that also includes Democrats. So

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Speaker 2: if you say something that I disagree with that I'm

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Speaker 2: going to defend your right to say it. I guess

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Speaker 2: that makes me a far right extremist. I believe and

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Speaker 2: freedom of religion, provided that your religion doesn't want to

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Speaker 2: blow my religion to smither rains. I guess that makes

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Speaker 2: me a far right extremist. I believe that life begins

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Speaker 2: at conception, so therefore, I guess I must be a

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Speaker 2: far right extremist according to the local Republicans. All right,

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Speaker 2: I'm getting off on a teage. I didn't even want

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Speaker 2: to talk about this, but I got to get this

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Speaker 2: off my mind. So here we go back to what

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Speaker 2: I wrote. I never imagined that local politics would be

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Speaker 2: more cutthroat than national politics. Man, it is ugly, ugly.

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Speaker 2: I'll temper my words here, but I completely understand why

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Speaker 2: my side of the aisle has a hard time winning elections.

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Speaker 2: They're too busy stabbing fellow Republicans in the back. It's

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Speaker 2: been incredibly disappointed to see good and decent grassroots folks

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Speaker 2: being dragged through the mud and maligned by ugly whisper

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Speaker 2: campaigns and threats. The intolerance of diverse opinion is simply

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Speaker 2: un American, and some of the most awful behavior has

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Speaker 2: come from folks who professed to sit in a pew

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Speaker 2: on Sunday mornings. Oh Jesus, let me tell you something

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Speaker 2: about that, these Republicans. I'm a thoalar of our Lord

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Speaker 2: and Savior Jesus Christ. You far right extremist Jesus Loo.

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Speaker 2: You know it gets so bad, Dylan that you think,

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Speaker 2: you know what. I don't need this. I don't need

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Speaker 2: this chaos and anxiety in my life locally, I don't

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Speaker 2: need it. I guess to the point where you don't

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Speaker 2: want to go to a Republican event or in a church,

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Speaker 2: you just want to stay inside. It gets to be

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Speaker 2: a bit much, you know what I mean. Let me

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Speaker 2: continue all that to say, if you want to offer

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Speaker 2: a political commentary, you can do it on my show page.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for your attention to this matter, you know what.

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Speaker 2: And I should have said this. And if you've got

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Speaker 2: a problem with me being a conservative and a Christian,

844
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Speaker 2: feel free to unfriend me because I don't know who

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Speaker 2: half these people are. Anyway.

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Speaker 3: That's a lot of baggets to release. Does it feel better?

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Speaker 2: I feel, you know, I feel like a load has

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Speaker 2: been lifting.

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Speaker 5: Yes.

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Speaker 3: Not to worry about other people is nice.

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Speaker 2: It really is. Because I hate to say, and I

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Speaker 2: mean this in a very loving way. I really don't

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Speaker 2: give a damn what you think. I really don't.

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Speaker 3: It's a good it's a good mindset for a laughing.

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Speaker 2: I could really care less. And you know, and these

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Speaker 2: are the same folks that come in would you bind

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Speaker 2: the pretty night party? Would you buy a would you

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Speaker 2: buy a table? And are dinner? No, I'm not buying. No,

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Speaker 2: I'm not spending money with you. Rather go to Taco

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Speaker 2: Bell at nine o'clock at night, right before bedtime, and

861
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Speaker 2: get a horrible case of acid reflux. Then go to

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Speaker 2: one of your freaking parties. Oh wow, I do feel better,

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Speaker 2: Thank you, Dylan. Nine oh one two six zero five

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Speaker 2: nine two six is my telephone number. That's nine oh

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Speaker 2: one two six zero five. Died two six. No, it

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Speaker 2: doesn't mean no, no, no, tell. It does not mean

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Speaker 2: that I'm not going to support candidates. I will, but

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Speaker 2: I'm going to you know what, there's some good independent

869
00:51:13,520 --> 00:51:17,279
Speaker 2: candidates out there running and I'm going to support those folks.

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Speaker 2: I think it was a mistake to join a political party,

871
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Speaker 2: is what I'm getting at. And I think my dad

872
00:51:26,520 --> 00:51:29,600
Speaker 2: was onto something because he was never really he was

873
00:51:29,680 --> 00:51:32,920
Speaker 2: never a member of any political party. He always voted

874
00:51:32,920 --> 00:51:37,120
Speaker 2: for the man. He said, that's who you need to be.

875
00:51:37,360 --> 00:51:39,719
Speaker 2: You need to look at these individuals, and maybe that's

876
00:51:39,760 --> 00:51:43,600
Speaker 2: the solution to what's wrong with America right now, is

877
00:51:44,760 --> 00:51:47,680
Speaker 2: that we need to start and just think about this

878
00:51:47,719 --> 00:51:50,640
Speaker 2: for a moment. You know, Kevin Kylie down in southern California,

879
00:51:50,640 --> 00:51:54,719
Speaker 2: a longtime Republican running as an independent. I don't know,

880
00:51:54,760 --> 00:51:57,800
Speaker 2: maybe maybe if we had fifty or sixty or seventy

881
00:51:58,880 --> 00:52:03,479
Speaker 2: independence up on Capitol Hill kind of makes you wonder

882
00:52:03,520 --> 00:52:05,320
Speaker 2: if we might be able to get some things done

883
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Speaker 2: and get some things accomplished. I'm just saying, all right,

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Speaker 2: let's go to the phones. Nine oh one two six

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Speaker 2: zero five nine two six Mary in Memphis listening to

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Speaker 2: us on k w A A M. I'm Mary. What's

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Speaker 2: on your mind today?

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Speaker 10: I'm Mary and I've been listening every day now.

889
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Speaker 11: Uh uh.

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Speaker 10: You were talking about the churches and how review people

891
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Speaker 10: who have a difference of a canyon, right, Yes, Okay,

892
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Speaker 10: Remember it's the democrats. These churches, especially in some churches,

893
00:52:35,560 --> 00:52:41,200
Speaker 10: face based initiatives money from the government. So whoever comes

894
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Speaker 10: to a church with a different opinion than a Democrat,

895
00:52:44,480 --> 00:52:46,799
Speaker 10: they are bagged up against the wall.

896
00:52:47,200 --> 00:52:48,239
Speaker 12: There's no, when there.

897
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Speaker 10: They got money from the government, the Democrats.

898
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Speaker 2: You remember, I do remember that, Yes.

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Speaker 10: Faith based initiatives. That's why he keeps meeting all the

900
00:52:58,480 --> 00:53:02,160
Speaker 10: bad of the position that you know, just being held

901
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Speaker 10: in the church. They got government money, they got Goldman handouts,

902
00:53:07,880 --> 00:53:08,719
Speaker 10: they stole out.

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Speaker 2: Mary. You know what I'm impressed by is that in

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Speaker 2: Memphis right now, for example, all the Democrats are running,

905
00:53:17,120 --> 00:53:20,080
Speaker 2: they're getting ready for the primaries. Just about every single

906
00:53:20,160 --> 00:53:24,279
Speaker 2: debate and every single town hall has been held inside

907
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Speaker 2: a black church congregation. Meanwhile, on the Republican side, Diddley Squat,

908
00:53:30,120 --> 00:53:30,880
Speaker 2: nothing's happening.

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Speaker 10: Well, it's par for the course.

910
00:53:34,800 --> 00:53:35,000
Speaker 13: You know.

911
00:53:35,200 --> 00:53:37,719
Speaker 10: They they go where they send the money to.

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Speaker 2: That's Democrats, they go where they send the money to.

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Speaker 2: You're absolutely right about that. All right, all right, Mary,

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Speaker 2: thank you for calling. We have a little bad phone

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Speaker 2: connection there, but we'll try to get that worked out

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Speaker 2: for next time. But God bless you. Mary. We love

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00:53:51,640 --> 00:53:53,799
Speaker 2: it when you call in, and we thank you for

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Speaker 2: being a loyal listener to our local affiliate. Kate w

919
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Speaker 2: a m. All right, we're going to take a break here.

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Speaker 2: We're going right to the phones. Nine oh one two

921
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Speaker 2: six zero five, nine two six. Have have you lost friends?

922
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Speaker 2: Do you have relatives that get triggered by your politics?

923
00:54:09,960 --> 00:54:12,319
Speaker 2: And if so, how do you deal with those? With

924
00:54:12,440 --> 00:54:15,719
Speaker 2: those people, I just say, do you rip them out

925
00:54:15,760 --> 00:54:17,799
Speaker 2: like a bad tooth? What do you do? Nine oh

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Speaker 2: one two six zero five nine two six. This is

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Speaker 2: the ton Sterns Show. All right, let's go to the phones,

928
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Speaker 2: Gary and Zaytona Beach, Florida. Gary, I understand you went

929
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Speaker 2: to weigh in on the relatives triggered by religion, religious.

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Speaker 12: Religion, religion and the combination of politics. I'm I pretty

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00:54:46,960 --> 00:54:50,880
Speaker 12: much stayostic grid as far as any state. My wife

932
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Speaker 12: does that. She's on the grid. She likes to Facebook

933
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Speaker 12: and all the social media. But with the coming of

934
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Speaker 12: Trump and at the end of RUSSI in Boz's wonderful career,

935
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Speaker 12: I became a fan of T shirts that would speak

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Speaker 12: to how I felt. And the funniest story was as

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Speaker 12: far as triggering a relative who lives way north of

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Speaker 12: the Mason Dixton Rush was promoting his be'sy ross jacket

939
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Speaker 12: and they had the flag in Russia's signature on the sleeve.

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Speaker 12: So I invested in one of those jackets and we

941
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Speaker 12: were going out to dinner with a family member and

942
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Speaker 12: she said to me, you're going you're gonna wear that

943
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Speaker 12: jacket out to dinner? And I said absolutely, why and

944
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Speaker 12: she goes, it's it's so racist. I can't imagine. And

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Speaker 12: she'd spent about eight years in college and a lot

946
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Speaker 12: of degrees. And I said, why is my jacket racist?

947
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Speaker 12: She's got the Confederate flag on it. I know you

948
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Speaker 12: live in Florida, but you're wearing a jacket with it.

949
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Speaker 12: And I said, you think that this, this flight here

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Speaker 12: is the Confederate flight And she goes, well, it is.

951
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Speaker 12: My children spoke up and said, Subs, Betsy Ross, there's

952
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Speaker 12: not the Confederate flag. And it just made me realize

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Speaker 12: on how the assumptions and how crazy people had gotten.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's and it's so sad, and people call it

955
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Speaker 2: Trump arrangements roun syndrome TDS. I think we're watching a

956
00:56:23,120 --> 00:56:27,160
Speaker 2: lot of people getting stage four TDS. But also, and

957
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Speaker 2: I was getting in the break, I was getting some

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Speaker 2: messages from folks in other parts of the country that

959
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Speaker 2: say they're dealing with the same issues on their local

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Speaker 2: Republican level. And I think one of the things is

961
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Speaker 2: that a lot of these establishment folks. They went into

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Speaker 2: the closet during the Trump years and now they're coming out.

963
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Speaker 2: They're thinking they're going to be able to regain control

964
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Speaker 2: and move the party back to the squish middle where

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Speaker 2: they do the bidding of the Chamber of Commerce and

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Speaker 2: big business and going back to more of a Rockefeller

967
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Speaker 2: Republican party. Uh, and not the Party of Trump, which

968
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Speaker 2: is more of a populist party. So I think I

969
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Speaker 2: think that's a lot a lot of it. Gary thinks

970
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Speaker 2: for the call, and I just hate it again for

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Speaker 2: the relatives especially. I mean, if you're gonna lose friends seriously,

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Speaker 2: you know, if you've got a problem with me because

973
00:57:16,360 --> 00:57:19,240
Speaker 2: of my politics, Yeah, you're good. Just hit that on

974
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Speaker 2: friend button. We're good. Don't let the door hits it

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Speaker 2: with the good Lord split you all right, Hang time,

976
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Speaker 2: everybody gotta take a quick break. Nine oh one two

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Speaker 2: six zero five nine. We're gonna get to your calls.

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Speaker 2: Don't go anywhere, We'll be right back.

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Speaker 9: Wow.

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Speaker 2: Liz her Twitter feed is smoking hot today. Everybody. Welcome

981
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Speaker 2: back to the Tom Sterns Radio Show. And I want

982
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Speaker 2: to go right away too. Our Patriot mobile news maker line.

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Speaker 2: Liz be joining us Liz, where to start? There is

984
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Speaker 2: so much to talk about today. Hope you're doing good.

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Speaker 13: I'm just great. Thanks for having me on.

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Speaker 2: So one of the big stories you've been following, of course,

987
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Speaker 2: or Richard Blumenthal. He's now saying that he doesn't necessarily

988
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Speaker 2: know where his birth certificate is. Again, this argument is

989
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Speaker 2: that for somehow Americans do not have proper forms of identification.

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Speaker 13: Yeah, I mean, this is just a tired story and

991
00:58:32,640 --> 00:58:36,560
Speaker 13: so stupid. If you go online if you are missing

992
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Speaker 13: your birth certificate, and hey, you know most people don't

993
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Speaker 13: keep track of it. Perhaps they should. It's about as

994
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Speaker 13: easy as crossing the street to get a new one,

995
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Speaker 13: get a copy of one. But also, you know, I

996
00:58:49,080 --> 00:58:52,000
Speaker 13: think passports are also a pretty good proof of citizenship.

997
00:58:52,400 --> 00:58:55,960
Speaker 13: And you know, here's the deal. If you're a citizen,

998
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Speaker 13: you can prove it very easily. So I just think

999
00:58:59,800 --> 00:59:03,320
Speaker 13: this there's so much dishonesty, honestly, todd coming from the

1000
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Speaker 13: left constantly. My favorite thing recently was Gavin Newsom on

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Speaker 13: some podcast or in some interviews saying, oh, California is

1002
00:59:12,160 --> 00:59:15,720
Speaker 13: a much lower tax date than Florida and Texas. What's

1003
00:59:15,800 --> 00:59:19,360
Speaker 13: he talking about? It's just lies and more lies. I mean,

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Speaker 13: get Blumenthal obviously it's a pretty good history of line,

1005
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Speaker 13: but you know, it just makes your head explode.

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00:59:25,080 --> 00:59:29,880
Speaker 2: No, it does. And the amount of disinformation that's coming,

1007
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Speaker 2: not only from Democrats but even in the media. You know,

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Speaker 2: when you look at what's happening with the war. I

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Speaker 2: think Rasmussen Reports have a new survey out that shows

1010
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Speaker 2: most Americans actually believe the war is going quite well.

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Speaker 2: President Trump is succeeding and as is if Iran has

1012
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Speaker 2: not been a threat to the world since nineteen seventy nine.

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Speaker 13: Yeah, I mean, it's very disheartening that reflexively the left

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Speaker 13: wing media and Democrats just naturally oppose any thing that's

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Speaker 13: going on that is shepherded through by Donald Trump, including

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Speaker 13: obviously the war in Iran. How many Democrats have been

1017
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Speaker 13: toned solemnly, whether it's Kamala Harris or Hillary Clinton or

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Speaker 13: just name a Democrat, that we will not allow Iran

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Speaker 13: to have a nuclear weapon. Well, what did they think

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Speaker 13: was really going to stand in the way of that?

1021
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Speaker 13: Certainly Obama's jcpoa that the Joint Agreement with other nations

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Speaker 13: had no impact on Iran moving towards a nuclear weapon,

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Speaker 13: and we all knew it at the time. Remember I

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Speaker 13: mean bb net Nahou came an addressed Congress and said,

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Speaker 13: this is not going to prevent Iran from getting a

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Speaker 13: nuclear weapon. It is only going to delay it slightly.

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Speaker 13: And that's really basically what happened. So I find again

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01:00:47,160 --> 01:00:50,680
Speaker 13: the sort of idiot flank of the Democrat Party, by

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Speaker 13: which I mean two thirds of the Democrat Party, which

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Speaker 13: is just saying, oh, there's no strategy, there's no there's

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Speaker 13: no imminent threat, you know, thank you for that, because

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Speaker 13: an imminent threat, I guess would be an ICBM loaded

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Speaker 13: with nukes, you know, ten seconds out from New York City.

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Speaker 13: I mean, what are they talking about? This is truly

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01:01:11,240 --> 01:01:14,160
Speaker 13: a righteous thing that we're doing. And if you don't

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Speaker 13: believe it, look how many countries have been under attacked

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Speaker 13: by Iran in the last two weeks. They have no

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Speaker 13: allies other than China and possibly Russia. But this is

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Speaker 13: in the broader scheme of things, a way to defang

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Speaker 13: the worst element of the Middle East. The recent Middle

1041
01:01:33,480 --> 01:01:37,120
Speaker 13: East is constantly erupting in chaos is because of Iran,

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Speaker 13: because of the Hutis taking on Saudi Arabia, and because

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Speaker 13: of the Hamas people in flaughtering Israelis, and obviously because

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Speaker 13: of Hesboa, who has made the wonderful country of Lebanon

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Speaker 13: a nightmare. So this is the right thing to be doing.

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Speaker 13: Is it uncomfortable for a few weeks? My God, America,

1047
01:01:58,520 --> 01:02:01,840
Speaker 13: gird your loins. You know we can withstand this. Our

1048
01:02:01,880 --> 01:02:05,840
Speaker 13: economy is strong, our nation is strong. What I'll tell you,

1049
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Speaker 13: the countries that are being hurt by this are our

1050
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Speaker 13: countries like Germany, where they are teetering on the brink

1051
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Speaker 13: of recession because why their energy prices are so high

1052
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Speaker 13: because they have decided to go to windmills in the sunshine

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Speaker 13: instead of actually exploring and exploiting coal and fossil fuels

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Speaker 13: that are actually indigenous to Germany in some cases. So

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Speaker 13: you know, I find look, people should be critical. They

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Speaker 13: should be assessing whether this is going.

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Speaker 8: Well or not.

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Speaker 13: If you tell me that we went to war and

1059
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Speaker 13: degraded our enemies air power and navy and leadership all

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Speaker 13: in two weeks, I think that's a pretty credible response.

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Speaker 2: I've never heard you say gird your loins before it

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Speaker 2: live is peaking. I'm somewhat speechless.

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Speaker 13: Well, I mean, honestly, I just feel like we've all gotten.

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Speaker 13: So you know, I'm look, I understand that high gas

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Speaker 13: prices is a real problem for a lot of people.

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Speaker 13: Not all people, but it's a real problem for a

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Speaker 13: lot of people. It will, I think, be temporary. And

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Speaker 13: the minute that straight of Hormuz is somehow secured, which

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Speaker 13: I think they will be doing in the next couple

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Speaker 13: of weeks, oil prices are going to come right back

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Speaker 13: down again. So this is a temporary phenomenon. And you know,

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Speaker 13: I hope that people are willing to make a sacrifice

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Speaker 13: in order to again preserve our country because our country

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Speaker 13: was going to be threatened by Iran from these malas

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Speaker 13: and they're bad people.

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Speaker 2: And look, and I think it's important. You know, again,

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Speaker 2: the media is always going to focus on the people

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01:03:45,320 --> 01:03:47,120
Speaker 2: that are making the most noise, and I know the

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01:03:47,160 --> 01:03:50,520
Speaker 2: British and the fringe in Spain and everybody's all upset,

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01:03:50,560 --> 01:03:52,160
Speaker 2: and I get that, but I think what we ought

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01:03:52,160 --> 01:03:54,960
Speaker 2: to be focusing on the people who are not complaining,

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01:03:55,280 --> 01:03:58,240
Speaker 2: and those would be the Air of Nations, because they

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01:03:58,280 --> 01:04:02,720
Speaker 2: know exactly how dangerous Iran is and they haven't said

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Speaker 2: a word about this, and I suspect they're all very privately,

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01:04:06,240 --> 01:04:09,480
Speaker 2: very happy that President Trump is doing what he's doing here.

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Speaker 13: Yes, they have been intimidated and bullied by Iran for decades,

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01:04:14,440 --> 01:04:17,560
Speaker 13: and they are, by the way, under enormous attack by

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01:04:17,560 --> 01:04:20,080
Speaker 13: Iran right now. I mean, this really isn't being covered

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01:04:20,200 --> 01:04:23,360
Speaker 13: very much in our media, but the Wall Street Journal

1090
01:04:24,400 --> 01:04:28,760
Speaker 13: uncharacteristically had a very lengthy piece about all the incoming

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01:04:29,240 --> 01:04:34,680
Speaker 13: in Abu Dhabi, Dubai, in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, et cetera.

1092
01:04:34,720 --> 01:04:38,120
Speaker 13: I mean, they're all under attack. Gutter and others that

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Speaker 13: historically have been sort of playing cat and mouse with

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Speaker 13: Iran and unwilling to take them on. I think Iran

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01:04:45,000 --> 01:04:47,680
Speaker 13: has really done something stupid here because they've turned the

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Speaker 13: entire Middle East into a ring of enemies and they

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01:04:52,040 --> 01:04:54,960
Speaker 13: are surrounded. They don't have any friends there. They've even

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Speaker 13: been gone after Turkey, which is pretty extraordinary. So I

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Speaker 13: think you're right. We do have coalition partners, and some

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01:05:04,200 --> 01:05:07,240
Speaker 13: of them have actually been involved in some of the

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01:05:07,280 --> 01:05:11,680
Speaker 13: military activities. Not many, but you know, I think you're

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01:05:11,760 --> 01:05:16,640
Speaker 13: right that those countries are are delighted to have these

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01:05:16,840 --> 01:05:21,360
Speaker 13: full mentors of terror basically being wiped off the map

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Speaker 13: and these and the leadership is indeed being taken out.

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Speaker 2: So that's good Liz, before we let you go. And

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Speaker 2: I know this story just dropped a little while ago,

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01:05:29,520 --> 01:05:31,440
Speaker 2: but I saw that you had to mention it on

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01:05:31,440 --> 01:05:36,760
Speaker 2: on Acts. There is great controversy right now on the left,

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01:05:37,240 --> 01:05:42,160
Speaker 2: says our Chaves. The New York Times doing an investigation

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01:05:42,360 --> 01:05:50,560
Speaker 2: that alleges he was sexually abusing women, including underage girls. Uh,

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01:05:51,080 --> 01:05:54,840
Speaker 2: this is really a remarkable story. We understand that some

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01:05:54,920 --> 01:05:58,640
Speaker 2: Texas cities have actually canceled their uh, says our Chaves

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01:05:58,800 --> 01:06:02,240
Speaker 2: day events as a result of these allegations.

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01:06:02,960 --> 01:06:06,440
Speaker 13: Yeah, another hero to the left falls off his pedestal.

1115
01:06:06,840 --> 01:06:10,000
Speaker 13: It is interesting because I'm surprised the New York Times

1116
01:06:10,000 --> 01:06:14,120
Speaker 13: did it, frankly, and good for them, But this is

1117
01:06:14,600 --> 01:06:18,720
Speaker 13: really a terrible story. And yeah, I mean, I don't

1118
01:06:18,800 --> 01:06:20,760
Speaker 13: know if I have to say, Todd, you have to

1119
01:06:20,800 --> 01:06:23,720
Speaker 13: become incredibly careful about what is real and what is

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01:06:23,760 --> 01:06:27,360
Speaker 13: not on X and all these other sites. But supposedly

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01:06:27,480 --> 01:06:31,200
Speaker 13: Joe Biden had a bust of Chavez in the Oval office.

1122
01:06:31,360 --> 01:06:34,120
Speaker 13: I don't know if that's true, but that showed up online.

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Speaker 13: He is a hero to those who lead the labor movement,

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01:06:38,840 --> 01:06:42,280
Speaker 13: and you know he is currently being deep froped, there's

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Speaker 13: no question about it. Terrible story and you know, good

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01:06:45,800 --> 01:06:47,360
Speaker 13: for the times we're putting it out there.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely and yeah, you're you're absolutely right. President Biden's oval office,

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Speaker 2: they had a bust of Chavez right there in the oval.

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Speaker 9: Yeah.

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Speaker 13: Well, you know, remember Joe Biden was a big champion

1131
01:06:58,960 --> 01:07:03,320
Speaker 13: of organized labor. Yes, and you know here's one of

1132
01:07:03,320 --> 01:07:05,880
Speaker 13: the guys that he revered. Pretty amazy.

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01:07:06,040 --> 01:07:11,080
Speaker 2: That's incredible. All right, Liz, always always good hearing from you,

1134
01:07:11,160 --> 01:07:11,640
Speaker 2: my friend.

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Speaker 13: Thank you for having me.

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01:07:14,000 --> 01:07:16,320
Speaker 2: Take care all right, great great writer right there in

1137
01:07:16,360 --> 01:07:20,160
Speaker 2: great American patriot ladies and gentlemen, Liz peak. And yeah,

1138
01:07:20,200 --> 01:07:23,880
Speaker 2: we'll do a little deeper dive into the Chavez allegations

1139
01:07:24,000 --> 01:07:25,680
Speaker 2: in just a moment. I do want to go to

1140
01:07:25,680 --> 01:07:27,280
Speaker 2: the phone line. So we've got a lot of folks

1141
01:07:27,320 --> 01:07:29,880
Speaker 2: wanting to weigh in. Nine oh one two six zero

1142
01:07:30,040 --> 01:07:37,040
Speaker 2: five nine two six. Let's go to Bob in Fayette County, Tennessee. Bob,

1143
01:07:37,120 --> 01:07:38,400
Speaker 2: what's on your mind today?

1144
01:07:39,440 --> 01:07:41,240
Speaker 5: Well, the first thing you saw on my mind is

1145
01:07:41,280 --> 01:07:45,600
Speaker 5: that just delivered another cat. So the farm is going good.

1146
01:07:45,720 --> 01:07:48,600
Speaker 2: Oh so I think we should qualify for our national

1147
01:07:48,680 --> 01:07:51,280
Speaker 2: audience here. So you have a farm and you just

1148
01:07:51,480 --> 01:07:53,200
Speaker 2: you guys just had a baby calf.

1149
01:07:54,200 --> 01:07:58,120
Speaker 5: Yeah, twenty minutes ago. Why run it? So gotta love it.

1150
01:07:58,200 --> 01:08:01,360
Speaker 5: God's creation is amazing. Listen. I wanted to I'm so

1151
01:08:01,480 --> 01:08:04,800
Speaker 5: appreciative to you Todd for having your last caller in

1152
01:08:04,960 --> 01:08:09,080
Speaker 5: because one of the things that people don't understand is

1153
01:08:09,120 --> 01:08:11,680
Speaker 5: that one of the great alliances that was taking place

1154
01:08:11,680 --> 01:08:16,400
Speaker 5: in our hemisphere was between the Iotolis, Iran and Maduro

1155
01:08:16,479 --> 01:08:20,400
Speaker 5: Is Venezuela. And the reason that is so essential for

1156
01:08:20,520 --> 01:08:24,880
Speaker 5: us to grasp is that if Iran were to base

1157
01:08:25,160 --> 01:08:30,600
Speaker 5: ballistic missiles in Venezuela, the flight time from launch to

1158
01:08:30,680 --> 01:08:35,360
Speaker 5: impact from let's just say Caracas to Memphis is about

1159
01:08:35,360 --> 01:08:39,160
Speaker 5: eight seconds. There's no time to shoot it down.

1160
01:08:39,760 --> 01:08:42,320
Speaker 2: It's that fast. And Bob, not only is there no time.

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01:08:42,760 --> 01:08:44,519
Speaker 2: I was reading a report a couple of weeks ago.

1162
01:08:44,520 --> 01:08:46,680
Speaker 2: And you may have more information on this than I do,

1163
01:08:47,360 --> 01:08:51,840
Speaker 2: but I was reading a report that you know, the

1164
01:08:50,520 --> 01:08:55,519
Speaker 2: the technology that is needed to shoot those things down

1165
01:08:55,680 --> 01:08:59,320
Speaker 2: has not really worked well for us. So it's that

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01:08:59,360 --> 01:09:00,800
Speaker 2: could be very problematic.

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01:09:02,000 --> 01:09:06,120
Speaker 5: Well exactly, and I'm talking about when I'm doing this calculation,

1168
01:09:06,200 --> 01:09:08,880
Speaker 5: I'm looking at what we pretty much knew Yron had

1169
01:09:08,920 --> 01:09:13,679
Speaker 5: on hand, which is you know, nineteen eighties technology Chinese

1170
01:09:13,720 --> 01:09:17,040
Speaker 5: intercontinental ballistic missiles which are flying at round mocked eight

1171
01:09:17,080 --> 01:09:22,280
Speaker 5: point three. Well, the newer models are faster, so you know.

1172
01:09:22,360 --> 01:09:26,280
Speaker 5: I this reminded me of Neville Chamberlain coming back from

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01:09:26,280 --> 01:09:29,400
Speaker 5: Berlin in nineteen thirty nine and getting off the airplane

1174
01:09:29,560 --> 01:09:31,519
Speaker 5: holding up a piece of paper to the people of

1175
01:09:31,560 --> 01:09:34,680
Speaker 5: England and saying, I have met with mister Hitler and

1176
01:09:34,720 --> 01:09:38,080
Speaker 5: we will have peace in our time. And six months

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01:09:38,120 --> 01:09:41,880
Speaker 5: later the world was at war. In the nuclear age,

1178
01:09:41,880 --> 01:09:45,600
Speaker 5: there's no time to hesitate. If your enemy is stockpiling

1179
01:09:45,640 --> 01:09:48,439
Speaker 5: nuclear weapons or even trying to, and they're calling for

1180
01:09:48,520 --> 01:09:51,920
Speaker 5: your death, they have to be stopped.

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01:09:52,240 --> 01:09:55,000
Speaker 2: Well, and bo, I'm going back to the Cuban missile crisis.

1182
01:09:55,040 --> 01:09:58,080
Speaker 2: I mean, even Kennedy understood, there's no way that we're

1183
01:09:58,080 --> 01:10:00,600
Speaker 2: going to be We're going to allow the Russians to

1184
01:10:00,640 --> 01:10:05,120
Speaker 2: introduce nuclear missiles, you know, into the theater. That just

1185
01:10:05,160 --> 01:10:07,759
Speaker 2: simply cannot be allowed to happen.

1186
01:10:08,920 --> 01:10:11,840
Speaker 5: If you launch from Teyron, Iran and try to hit

1187
01:10:11,960 --> 01:10:13,840
Speaker 5: Washing the DC, you're looking at a flight gum of

1188
01:10:13,880 --> 01:10:17,800
Speaker 5: about twenty five seconds. If you're launching from excuse me,

1189
01:10:17,840 --> 01:10:21,280
Speaker 5: twenty five minutes. If you're launching from Teyron and trying

1190
01:10:21,280 --> 01:10:24,080
Speaker 5: to hit Los Angeles, you're looking at another ten to

1191
01:10:24,160 --> 01:10:27,000
Speaker 5: fifteen minutes of flat time. So if you're going to

1192
01:10:27,080 --> 01:10:31,040
Speaker 5: detonate that weapon over the Atlantic Ocean as it's crossing

1193
01:10:31,080 --> 01:10:34,080
Speaker 5: the sea, you've got to intercept it as it's flying

1194
01:10:34,120 --> 01:10:36,800
Speaker 5: to you with a missile that's flying toward it in

1195
01:10:36,960 --> 01:10:39,840
Speaker 5: enough time to blow it up. And that means there

1196
01:10:39,880 --> 01:10:42,800
Speaker 5: are seconds. It is a calculation on which there's no

1197
01:10:42,920 --> 01:10:47,040
Speaker 5: time to deal with bureaucracy. The best way to push

1198
01:10:47,080 --> 01:10:49,879
Speaker 5: this threat back into the stone age where it belongs

1199
01:10:50,560 --> 01:10:53,679
Speaker 5: is to deal with it proactively, and I applaud mister

1200
01:10:53,720 --> 01:10:54,559
Speaker 5: Trump for doing that.

1201
01:10:54,640 --> 01:10:56,559
Speaker 2: You know, Bob, I heard somebody say it's you know,

1202
01:10:56,680 --> 01:10:59,080
Speaker 2: because you can. I mean, it is possible to shoot

1203
01:10:59,080 --> 01:11:02,600
Speaker 2: down on ICBM, but it's extremely difficult. And what is

1204
01:11:02,640 --> 01:11:05,440
Speaker 2: if they're saying it's like hitting a bullet with another bullet.

1205
01:11:06,200 --> 01:11:08,600
Speaker 5: That's exactly what it's like. And you better hope that

1206
01:11:08,640 --> 01:11:12,400
Speaker 5: they haven't developed any kind of radar jamming or countermeasures

1207
01:11:11,960 --> 01:11:15,599
Speaker 5: for that missile that's coming in DOOWND, because you don't

1208
01:11:15,600 --> 01:11:19,679
Speaker 5: have time to shoot a second one, your first shot

1209
01:11:19,720 --> 01:11:20,240
Speaker 5: has to hit.

1210
01:11:21,040 --> 01:11:24,880
Speaker 2: So, Bob, I know you guys are hosting a huge event,

1211
01:11:25,000 --> 01:11:27,439
Speaker 2: a big Reagan dinner coming up, and I know we

1212
01:11:27,479 --> 01:11:31,200
Speaker 2: have a lot of listeners in the western part of Tennessee.

1213
01:11:31,400 --> 01:11:32,920
Speaker 2: Give us the loanown what's going on?

1214
01:11:34,000 --> 01:11:37,360
Speaker 5: Yeah, a quick pitch here in just here in rural

1215
01:11:37,400 --> 01:11:41,840
Speaker 5: Fayette County, just outside of Shelby County, Memphis, we are

1216
01:11:41,880 --> 01:11:46,360
Speaker 5: having our Reagan Dinner, our annual fundraiser. We have invited

1217
01:11:46,439 --> 01:11:50,320
Speaker 5: Tim Burchett, who is one of only two US Congressmen

1218
01:11:50,360 --> 01:11:55,559
Speaker 5: who voted to make sure that the sexual indiscretions are

1219
01:11:55,600 --> 01:11:59,439
Speaker 5: not covered up by Congress, and so he's going to

1220
01:11:59,439 --> 01:12:03,040
Speaker 5: be here too. Imishman from the from Tennessee anyway, and uh,

1221
01:12:03,120 --> 01:12:06,400
Speaker 5: we're also having the three candidates for governor, Marshall Blackburn,

1222
01:12:07,240 --> 01:12:10,040
Speaker 5: Manty Fritz and John Rose. They'll least have been given

1223
01:12:10,160 --> 01:12:12,400
Speaker 5: some time to make a pitch and try to earn

1224
01:12:12,439 --> 01:12:15,480
Speaker 5: your vote. And we're gonna have a great night celebrating

1225
01:12:15,520 --> 01:12:17,960
Speaker 5: what it means to be an American patriot. We're gonna

1226
01:12:17,960 --> 01:12:20,679
Speaker 5: auction off some live firearms because we are Second Amendment

1227
01:12:20,680 --> 01:12:24,160
Speaker 5: adherent's out here, and we're gonna have an awesome time.

1228
01:12:24,840 --> 01:12:26,800
Speaker 2: I love this. Are you gonna want to find Bob?

1229
01:12:26,840 --> 01:12:28,599
Speaker 2: Are you gonna make them all set at the same table?

1230
01:12:28,760 --> 01:12:30,120
Speaker 2: That would be fun.

1231
01:12:31,360 --> 01:12:33,800
Speaker 5: Proximity thereof Okay.

1232
01:12:33,439 --> 01:12:35,720
Speaker 2: All right, I take away the cutlery, but I would

1233
01:12:35,760 --> 01:12:37,400
Speaker 2: definitely that would be fun to watch.

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01:12:38,320 --> 01:12:41,240
Speaker 5: Yeah, uh we uh. If folks are interested, if you're

1235
01:12:41,240 --> 01:12:42,720
Speaker 5: in West Tennessee or you're going to be in the

1236
01:12:42,760 --> 01:12:46,120
Speaker 5: neighborhood Moren Mississippi, Eastern Arkansas, we'd love to have you come.

1237
01:12:46,520 --> 01:12:49,840
Speaker 5: It's real easy to order tickets. We're almost sold out,

1238
01:12:50,160 --> 01:12:53,639
Speaker 5: which is really unusual for a Republican fundraiser. But we're

1239
01:12:53,680 --> 01:12:56,240
Speaker 5: almost sold out, so you need to order them quickly.

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01:12:56,280 --> 01:13:02,720
Speaker 5: It's at stay at p n GOP that's Fayette tngop

1241
01:13:02,960 --> 01:13:05,519
Speaker 5: dot org. You can purchase your tickets online and we

1242
01:13:05,520 --> 01:13:08,320
Speaker 5: would love to see any American pakers you want to

1243
01:13:08,320 --> 01:13:10,840
Speaker 5: show up and show support for our party.

1244
01:13:10,960 --> 01:13:11,280
Speaker 3: I love that.

1245
01:13:11,360 --> 01:13:12,920
Speaker 2: And you said that, and you said there's going to

1246
01:13:13,000 --> 01:13:14,760
Speaker 2: be some guns there so people will be able to

1247
01:13:14,800 --> 01:13:16,320
Speaker 2: what is that like a raffle?

1248
01:13:17,400 --> 01:13:19,680
Speaker 5: Oh doti, Well, you know what we're gonna do is

1249
01:13:19,680 --> 01:13:23,920
Speaker 5: a live auction, and we have three really amazing collectible firearms.

1250
01:13:23,960 --> 01:13:26,440
Speaker 5: You'll want to pass down to your children and great grandchildren.

1251
01:13:26,880 --> 01:13:30,679
Speaker 5: We have a Donald Trump AR fifteen. It's a copper

1252
01:13:30,800 --> 01:13:35,120
Speaker 5: finished lower receiver and upper receiver and handguards and it's

1253
01:13:35,160 --> 01:13:40,920
Speaker 5: a laser engraved with a number of really cool images

1254
01:13:40,960 --> 01:13:43,240
Speaker 5: of Donald Trump and the White House and so forth.

1255
01:13:43,800 --> 01:13:47,360
Speaker 5: Have a twelve gage semi automatic shotgun wrapped in the

1256
01:13:47,400 --> 01:13:48,320
Speaker 5: American flag.

1257
01:13:48,520 --> 01:13:49,320
Speaker 8: Wow, that we're going.

1258
01:13:49,280 --> 01:13:52,479
Speaker 5: To auction off. And we have a Cowboys style twenty

1259
01:13:52,520 --> 01:14:00,599
Speaker 5: two caliber Henry collectible firearms fully operational liver action. We're

1260
01:14:00,600 --> 01:14:04,200
Speaker 5: going to be all auction all these off. Henry is

1261
01:14:04,280 --> 01:14:08,080
Speaker 5: engraved with Sayett County Republicans also, so we'll have some

1262
01:14:08,120 --> 01:14:11,400
Speaker 5: other surprises for the night, trying to make it really rewarding.

1263
01:14:12,280 --> 01:14:16,280
Speaker 5: Love to have folks out there on Saturday, all right

1264
01:14:16,360 --> 01:14:17,240
Speaker 5: in the summer.

1265
01:14:17,600 --> 01:14:20,479
Speaker 2: All right, good stuff, Well, Bob, thank you for calling

1266
01:14:20,560 --> 01:14:24,320
Speaker 2: in and the good luck there folks. That's pretty darn exciting.

1267
01:14:24,600 --> 01:14:26,680
Speaker 2: And again the website address if you'd like to get

1268
01:14:26,680 --> 01:14:31,800
Speaker 2: information getting a ticket and Wow Trump AAR fifteen. That's

1269
01:14:32,080 --> 01:14:35,799
Speaker 2: that sounds pretty awesome. Go to their website. It's Fayette County.

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01:14:35,800 --> 01:14:39,759
Speaker 2: It's Fayette t NGP dot org for their Big Reagan

1271
01:14:39,840 --> 01:14:42,439
Speaker 2: Dinner and you know, if you guys are having a

1272
01:14:42,439 --> 01:14:45,800
Speaker 2: big event somewhere, you know, we're happy to let folks

1273
01:14:45,920 --> 01:14:47,559
Speaker 2: know about that. So all you have to do is

1274
01:14:47,560 --> 01:14:48,920
Speaker 2: just give us a call. But we've got to take

1275
01:14:48,920 --> 01:14:52,160
Speaker 2: a break now, haying time. We've got Charles in North Carolina,

1276
01:14:52,280 --> 01:14:55,400
Speaker 2: German Shepherd on hold as well. We'll be right back

1277
01:15:02,720 --> 01:15:05,640
Speaker 2: all right, coming up tonight five o'clock eastern on the

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Speaker 2: Ton Stern Show on Newsmax, Newsmax two. You can watch

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Speaker 2: Senator Mike Rounds from South Dakota is going to join us.

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Speaker 2: Also Ben Ferguson, a host of the Ben Ferguson Show.

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Speaker 2: Our good friend Matt Schlapp, who is the chairman of Seapack.

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Speaker 2: Of course, Seapac happening next week and I'll be one

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Speaker 2: of the speakers at Seapack. Looking forward to that. And

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Speaker 2: we've got a right versus left panel Ashwanie Jane the

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Speaker 2: Democrat and Geen Valentino the Republican. That's going to be

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Speaker 2: a great conversation. Also a live report from Tel Aviv.

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Speaker 2: Our good friend John Huddy is boots on the ground there,

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Speaker 2: and Alana Austin up on Capitol Hill. All right, we've

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Speaker 2: got to take a quick break for your top of

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Speaker 2: the hour news. When we come back your calls, we're

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Speaker 2: going to get the very latest on Capitol Hill. Folks.

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Speaker 2: It's just a lot going on today. What can I

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Speaker 2: tell you? A lot going on, And don't forget pre

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Speaker 1: Live from the Liberty University Studio in Memphis, Tennessee. It's

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Speaker 1: America's conservative Blowtorch's.

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Speaker 2: Amaritan to start. Oh yeah, well, hello, everybody, welcome to

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Speaker 2: our three of the Big Show. We have a lot

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Speaker 2: going on this hour of the program. By the way,

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Speaker 2: Kathy Lee Gifford. Everybody remember Kathy Lee from Uh Wow,

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Speaker 2: Regis and Kathy Lee and then she was on The

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Speaker 2: Today Show. And if you're old school, you remember Kathy

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Speaker 2: Lee from the cruise what was the name of the

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Speaker 2: cruise ships? She used to sing and dance for. Anyway,

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Speaker 2: Kathy Lee Yefford is going to be joining us. She

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Speaker 2: has a brand new book out and she'll be with

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Speaker 2: us tomorrow on the radio show. Looking forward to that

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Speaker 2: fun conversation. Also a little bit later on this hour.

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Speaker 2: Guess what. We are exactly one month away from tax

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Speaker 2: questions about taxes. So if you have a question, I

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Speaker 2: want you to give us a call. Nine oh one

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Speaker 2: two six zero five nine two six. That's nine oh

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Speaker 2: one two six zero five nine two six.

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Speaker 9: All right.

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Speaker 2: Two big stories happening right now simultaneously up on Capitol Hill.

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Speaker 2: One is the same actor. We're going to get to

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Speaker 2: that in just a moment. But Ran Paul is going

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Speaker 2: at it. He's really upset at Senator Mark Wayne Mullen.

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Speaker 2: His confirmation hearing underway, and Ran Paul is having none

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Speaker 2: of it. Let's take a listen to what happened.

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Speaker 14: Uh calling me a liar, sir. I think there's everybody

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Speaker 14: in this room knows that I'm very blunt and direct

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Speaker 14: to the point, and if i have something to say,

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Speaker 14: I'll say it directly to your face. If you recall

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Speaker 14: back in your back in my house days, we actually

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Speaker 14: did have this conversation because the remarks that I've made

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Speaker 14: you were in a room. I simply addressed that I said,

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Speaker 14: I could understand because of the behavior you were having

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Speaker 14: that I got to understand why your neighbor by the

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Speaker 14: neighbor did what he did. As far as my terms,

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Speaker 14: is the snake in the grass, sir, I work around

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Speaker 14: this room to try to fix problems. I've worked with

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Speaker 14: many people in this room. Seems like you fight Republicans

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Speaker 14: more than you work with us. I did address those remarks.

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Speaker 14: I did explain your gimmicks by the amendment you put forth.

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Speaker 14: And as far as me saying that I invote violence,

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Speaker 14: I don't. I don't think anybody should be hit by

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Speaker 14: a supper. I don't like that. But if I do

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Speaker 14: have something to say, everybody in this room knows, I'll

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Speaker 14: come straight to you. I'll say it publicly and i'll

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Speaker 14: say it privately, but I'll never say it behind your back.

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Speaker 14: So for you to say I'm a liar, sir, that's

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Speaker 14: not accurate. And I got proof to say that, because

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Speaker 14: you have spent millions of dollars in my campaigns against me,

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Speaker 14: because we just don't get along. However, sir, that doesn't

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Speaker 14: keep me at all from doing my job. I can

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Speaker 14: have different opinions with everybody in this room, but as

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Speaker 14: Secretary of Homeland, I'll be protecting everybody, including Kentucky, as

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Speaker 14: much as I will my own back guard in Oklahoma.

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Speaker 14: It's bigger than the partisan bickering that we have. It's

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Speaker 14: bigger than the pitical political differences we have. The truth

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Speaker 14: is I have a job to do and I don't

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Speaker 14: like to fell at anything at all. So I can

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Speaker 14: set it aside. If you're willing to set it aside,

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Speaker 14: let me earn your respect.

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Speaker 2: All right. That was Mark Wwayne Mullen. All of this

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Speaker 2: goes back to I mean, we're talking years ago when

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Speaker 2: Mark Wayne Mullen apparently called Ran Paul a freaking snake

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Speaker 2: and then said he completely understood why a neighbor beat

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Speaker 2: up Rand Paul in his yard. Oh that's not funny,

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Speaker 2: but uh, anyway, it's just back and forth. Apparently ram

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Speaker 2: Paul refused to allow Senator Katie Britt of Alabama to

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Speaker 2: introduce Senator Mullen to the committee. Regardless, I still think

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Speaker 2: Mullen has the votes, but ram Paul is going to

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Speaker 2: make it extremely difficult. You see, this is I want

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Speaker 2: to go back to the last hour for a quick second.

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Speaker 2: That's what I was talking about, is that Republicans. They

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Speaker 2: don't know how to win the day. They don't know

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Speaker 2: which they don't know. They don't know which hill they

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Speaker 2: want to die one. That's the problem, and it's always

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Speaker 2: the wrong hill. A nine oh one two six zero

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Speaker 2: five nine two six are a number. That's nine oh

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Speaker 2: one two six zero five nine two six. Let's go

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Speaker 2: to the phones. Say hello to Charles in North Carolina.

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Speaker 2: I'm Charles. What's on your mind today?

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Speaker 6: Well, Tied to Save Act is on my mind today.

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Speaker 6: I was watching those the debate yesterday and not surprisingly Todd,

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Speaker 6: my home state Senator Tom Tillis, who co authored the

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Speaker 6: Save Act a year ago, was a no show yesterday,

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Speaker 6: which just goes to show you that a lot of

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Speaker 6: these Republican senators that give it voice support, it's just

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Speaker 6: all performative and it's not reality. But that was just

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Speaker 6: the ultimate cowardice, in my opinion type. But what I

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Speaker 6: wanted to ask you about and talk to you about

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Speaker 6: is this speaking filibuster. You know, President Trump has really

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Speaker 6: gone out there by saying this is the most important

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Speaker 6: thing that Congress can vote on, He's not going to

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Speaker 6: sign any other piece of legislation, and that this is

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Speaker 6: passed and it's almost the equivalent tide of what Abraham

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Speaker 6: Lincoln did in eighteen sixty five demanding the Congress pass

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Speaker 6: the Thirteenth Amendment. You know, and I think that President

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Speaker 6: Trump is going to have to go after in demand

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Speaker 6: passage with the same vigor that Lincoln did with the

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Speaker 6: thirteenth Amendment. So here's what I think.

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Speaker 5: He should do.

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Speaker 6: Todd, I don't know if it's good that. If there's

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Speaker 6: gonna be a speaking filibuster, I would demand it. But

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Speaker 6: I would just go ahead if I were the president

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Speaker 6: right now and say until this is passed, all leaves

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Speaker 6: are canceled. You're not going home for Easter. I'm calling

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Speaker 6: an emergency session. You're staying in session all year. I

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Speaker 6: don't care if that means you got to stay here

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Speaker 6: Memorial Day, all through the summer, all through your August.

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Speaker 6: Re says, you guys are gonna stay up here, and

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Speaker 6: you're gonna and you're gonna do a speaking filibuster and

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Speaker 6: this bill is going to pass. Otherwise you're not going home.

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Speaker 9: Now.

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Speaker 8: What do you think would happen if.

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Speaker 5: He tried that fusture?

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Speaker 2: Well, I think there would there would be chaos. But

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Speaker 2: that's OK because he would be protected under the Constitution.

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Speaker 2: Let my memory may fail here, but I think it's

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Speaker 2: Article two, section three of the Constitution the President that

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Speaker 2: gives the president the authority to convene both houses of Congress,

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Speaker 2: and so he could either he can either keep everybody

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Speaker 2: in session or he could just keep the Senate in session.

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Speaker 2: You know. I I like that idea. The president is

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Speaker 2: allowed to do that and under really and that's under

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Speaker 2: his terms. I mean, there doesn't have to be a

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Speaker 2: specific reason, but he has that. He has that within

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Speaker 2: his power in the executive branch. Yeah, I like that idea.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, And just demand that there's a speaking filibuster. Not

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Speaker 6: the sixty vote threshold though I forgot the edge if

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Speaker 6: people use to call that one. But just demand that

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Speaker 6: the Democrats get up there and uh, and if they're

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Speaker 6: going to fill a bus or they have to speak,

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Speaker 6: and even even Republicans. But I just think that would

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Speaker 6: put enormous pressure on these senators. If they couldn't go home,

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Speaker 6: if they couldn't waste money for their re election campaigns.

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Speaker 6: I just think that would put the fear of God

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Speaker 6: in them, but put a lot of fire under their feet.

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Speaker 6: And I think that would be effective. I mean, I

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Speaker 6: know it's kind of like a street fight. But you know,

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Speaker 6: this is without to say that, Tood, nothing else really

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Speaker 6: matters because if without that, Republicans are going to lose elections.

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Speaker 6: And once the Democrats get power, you know what they're

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Speaker 6: going to do. They've already said what they're going to do.

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Speaker 6: So this is just there's nothing more urgent in my

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Speaker 6: opinion than this right here at the safe.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so. And again going back to the

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Speaker 2: talking filibuster, you still have to have I mean, to

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Speaker 2: stop the filibuster. To break the filibuster, you've got to

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Speaker 2: pass a cloture motion, which would still require a sixty

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Speaker 2: vote super majority. So but at the same time, it

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Speaker 2: would force the Democrats. They would physically have to stand up.

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Speaker 2: There's no sitting down. They would have to to stand

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Speaker 2: and they would have to speak. So the question is

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Speaker 2: are we you know, is that where is that where

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Speaker 2: we're gonna go?

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Speaker 6: Well, I hope so, because I mean, this is this

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01:25:12,880 --> 01:25:15,400
Speaker 6: is the line in the sand, this is the red line,

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01:25:15,439 --> 01:25:18,320
Speaker 6: this is the hill to Donald I mean, you look

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01:25:18,640 --> 01:25:21,360
Speaker 6: at what they've been trying to do to President Trump

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01:25:21,439 --> 01:25:26,320
Speaker 6: and Republicans since twenty sixteen with Russia Gate, and then

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Speaker 6: you had twenty twenty all the election and appearance, you

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01:25:29,960 --> 01:25:32,880
Speaker 6: had the law Fair where they tried to bankrupt them,

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Speaker 6: throw them in jail. Then you know you on the

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Speaker 6: heels of that, you've got twenty twenty four where two

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Speaker 6: assassination attempts. I mean, they will do anything and everything

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Speaker 6: they can, the Democrats to rig and steal an election

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Speaker 6: if they will do everything that I just mentioned, and

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Speaker 6: the only way to prevent them is to pass this

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Speaker 6: stay back because once they get power, they'll come back

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Speaker 6: with a vengeance and they'll come after Trump and all

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Speaker 6: of us, including me and U Todd because she's got

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Speaker 6: a big platform too.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, all right, Charles, thank you for that. Uh

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Speaker 2: nine oh one two six zero five nine two six

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Speaker 2: is our number. Let's go to German Shepherd, German Shepherd,

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Speaker 2: what's on your mind today?

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Speaker 7: Hey, mister Todd. I emailed mister Tillis yesterday and expressed

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Speaker 7: to him how angry I am at him for not

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Speaker 7: voting at all for the Save America Act when here

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Speaker 7: in North Carolina we just passed the id law to

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Speaker 7: vote in North Carolina. It makes no sense and it's

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Speaker 7: ridiculous and it just comes to mind Deuteronomy twenty three one,

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Speaker 7: where it says that if your if your stones are

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Speaker 7: wounded or missing, you can't be in the assembly of

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Speaker 7: the Lord. And you know, Tom Tillis, I look forward

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Speaker 7: to him leaving the sentence because he doesn't have a pair.

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Speaker 12: You know, I'm just tired of it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, it's it's really unfortunate. You can tell

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Speaker 2: her he crosses his legs. I think you're right there.

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Speaker 2: But you know, Tom Tillis has exposed himself for being

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Speaker 2: a Democrat, and that is just simply unacceptable. And I

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01:27:08,560 --> 01:27:12,880
Speaker 2: certainly hope, I certainly hope that Michael Wattley is going

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Speaker 2: to be able to have the money he needs and

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01:27:18,000 --> 01:27:20,479
Speaker 2: the support he needs to win that Senate seat. It

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01:27:20,520 --> 01:27:22,719
Speaker 2: is going to be an uphill climb for you guys

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01:27:23,360 --> 01:27:27,080
Speaker 2: there in North Carolina. German Shepherd, Yes.

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Speaker 7: Sir, and I feel for you. My social media page

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01:27:31,640 --> 01:27:34,639
Speaker 7: got me in trouble at my church and they stripped

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Speaker 7: me of all my ministry there. So I come to

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01:27:37,479 --> 01:27:40,680
Speaker 7: the conclusion through other mentors that if I can't do

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Speaker 7: what God has called me to do there, we just

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Speaker 7: go somewhere else and do what God's called us to do.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Look, I mean, I hear what you're saying. This

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01:27:48,400 --> 01:27:50,080
Speaker 2: has nothing to do with the church I go to,

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01:27:50,160 --> 01:27:53,360
Speaker 2: But I'm just talking about Christians in general. They profess

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01:27:53,479 --> 01:27:56,559
Speaker 2: Christ and then they behave like heathens, and I got

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01:27:56,560 --> 01:28:00,639
Speaker 2: a big problem with that. But the German shepherd in there,

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01:28:00,920 --> 01:28:05,400
Speaker 2: and thank you for calling in. I got to talk

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01:28:05,400 --> 01:28:08,720
Speaker 2: about James tall Rico. And I don't know what's going

1508
01:28:08,760 --> 01:28:13,120
Speaker 2: on with you, you folks in Texas here, but this guy,

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01:28:13,600 --> 01:28:17,200
Speaker 2: it's really funny. I think the Democrats there in Texas

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01:28:17,320 --> 01:28:21,599
Speaker 2: got snookered In all honesty, they the Democrats just I'm

1511
01:28:21,600 --> 01:28:24,000
Speaker 2: just thinking as a Democrat here, so bear with me.

1512
01:28:24,320 --> 01:28:27,799
Speaker 2: If I'm a Democrat. Jasmin Crockett is the better candidate.

1513
01:28:28,600 --> 01:28:31,840
Speaker 2: But they went with James tall Rico. And yeah, she's look,

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01:28:31,920 --> 01:28:36,639
Speaker 2: she's a blowhard. I get that, But James tall Rico,

1515
01:28:37,360 --> 01:28:41,360
Speaker 2: this guy's dangerous. But it turns they thought the you know,

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01:28:41,439 --> 01:28:43,479
Speaker 2: he kind of looks like, oh, what's the guy in

1517
01:28:43,560 --> 01:28:47,160
Speaker 2: the Mad magazine? Alfred? What is it alfredy Newman? Is

1518
01:28:47,160 --> 01:28:51,000
Speaker 2: that the guy's name? The Mad Magazine guy? So he

1519
01:28:51,080 --> 01:28:55,040
Speaker 2: looks like, you know, very harmless, and you know he's

1520
01:28:55,080 --> 01:28:58,680
Speaker 2: got the he doesn't have facial hair. I don't think

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01:28:58,720 --> 01:29:05,600
Speaker 2: he's hit pub yet. He's the theologian, right, he's the preacher,

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01:29:06,760 --> 01:29:11,280
Speaker 2: and he's got all this radical nonsense about the church.

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01:29:11,720 --> 01:29:14,000
Speaker 2: And I think a lot of Evangelicals and most people

1524
01:29:14,040 --> 01:29:17,120
Speaker 2: in Texas are Baptists, even the Catholics are Baptist in Texas.

1525
01:29:17,400 --> 01:29:20,479
Speaker 2: I mean, it's that predominative of a religion that I

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01:29:20,520 --> 01:29:23,559
Speaker 2: think his theology is a big problem. But I think

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01:29:23,920 --> 01:29:27,439
Speaker 2: maybe for the average Texan they're not into that theology stuff,

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01:29:27,479 --> 01:29:30,400
Speaker 2: so that doesn't bother them, bother them a lot. But

1529
01:29:30,520 --> 01:29:34,120
Speaker 2: what I'm about to play for you should bother you Texans,

1530
01:29:34,400 --> 01:29:38,600
Speaker 2: because this guy apparently wants to ban brisket and barbecue.

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01:29:38,680 --> 01:29:39,320
Speaker 2: Take a listen.

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01:29:39,720 --> 01:29:42,920
Speaker 15: We have, i think, heard more and more issues of

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01:29:43,000 --> 01:29:45,720
Speaker 15: animal welfare. I think not just because it's the right

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01:29:45,720 --> 01:29:47,640
Speaker 15: thing to do and the moral thing to do, but

1535
01:29:47,720 --> 01:29:50,639
Speaker 15: also it's, as all of you know, necessary to fight

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01:29:50,720 --> 01:29:54,160
Speaker 15: climate change. It is now existential that we try to

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01:29:54,200 --> 01:29:57,520
Speaker 15: reduce our meat consumption and that we try to respect

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01:29:57,840 --> 01:30:01,040
Speaker 15: animals in all aspects of society. And so I am

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01:30:01,120 --> 01:30:04,840
Speaker 15: proud to say that our campaign has officially become a

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01:30:04,960 --> 01:30:11,280
Speaker 15: non meat campaign. So we we are only buying vegan

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01:30:11,320 --> 01:30:14,600
Speaker 15: products from from our local vegan businesses. Some of you

1542
01:30:14,640 --> 01:30:17,080
Speaker 15: may know big nonas. They were little nonas and then

1543
01:30:17,120 --> 01:30:19,639
Speaker 15: they opened up brick and mortars and their big nonas.

1544
01:30:19,680 --> 01:30:22,320
Speaker 15: But we just got our pizza from there today. And

1545
01:30:22,360 --> 01:30:25,000
Speaker 15: so the point is that I think all of us,

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01:30:25,520 --> 01:30:29,240
Speaker 15: not just policymakers, but everyone has to take personal responsibility

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01:30:29,960 --> 01:30:30,639
Speaker 15: in this effort.

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01:30:32,439 --> 01:30:36,320
Speaker 2: I'm sorry he lost me at non meat campaign. What

1549
01:30:37,160 --> 01:30:40,280
Speaker 2: is that all about? Who in their right mind would

1550
01:30:40,320 --> 01:30:42,840
Speaker 2: think this kind of a Democrat could get elected? And

1551
01:30:42,880 --> 01:30:46,400
Speaker 2: of all places, Texas, where steak is the official food.

1552
01:30:46,439 --> 01:30:49,559
Speaker 2: I mean, babies, they don't even do bottles in Texas.

1553
01:30:49,600 --> 01:30:53,360
Speaker 2: You guys just give them a ribbi or a tea bone.

1554
01:30:53,560 --> 01:30:55,360
Speaker 2: I think it's a tea bone so they can teeth.

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01:30:56,160 --> 01:31:00,840
Speaker 2: I'm just I've never heard such nonsense coming out of

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01:31:00,880 --> 01:31:04,759
Speaker 2: a Texas politician, because even the Democrats buy and larger

1557
01:31:04,840 --> 01:31:08,599
Speaker 2: meat eaters and Texas. So you've got Tallarico, who, by

1558
01:31:08,640 --> 01:31:11,120
Speaker 2: the way, delivered this comment back in twenty twenty two

1559
01:31:11,560 --> 01:31:16,200
Speaker 2: with a face diaper on and the guy saying, yeah,

1560
01:31:16,200 --> 01:31:21,040
Speaker 2: we need to go vegan in the great state of Texas.

1561
01:31:21,240 --> 01:31:24,360
Speaker 2: Of course, this is the same guy who says that

1562
01:31:24,439 --> 01:31:29,839
Speaker 2: God is non binary and putting prisoners into a jail

1563
01:31:30,080 --> 01:31:34,360
Speaker 2: is a form of violence. Oh, we also said that

1564
01:31:34,400 --> 01:31:39,280
Speaker 2: the birth of Christ is really what a metaphor for abortion?

1565
01:31:40,000 --> 01:31:45,599
Speaker 2: Abortion rights unbelievable. So anyway, I'm just curious, ladies and gentlemen,

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01:31:45,680 --> 01:31:48,559
Speaker 2: is that going to play here? Are you guys getting

1567
01:31:48,560 --> 01:31:51,439
Speaker 2: a lot of vegans moving into the lone Star state?

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01:31:51,680 --> 01:31:54,599
Speaker 2: You know, that's how it starts, Dylan, That's how it starts.

1569
01:31:54,920 --> 01:31:57,800
Speaker 2: You see the vegans move in and then everything goes

1570
01:31:57,840 --> 01:31:59,320
Speaker 2: to hell in a handbasket, and.

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01:31:59,360 --> 01:32:02,120
Speaker 3: All of a sudden as a cauliflower chicken patty on

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01:32:02,120 --> 01:32:02,799
Speaker 3: their menu.

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01:32:02,760 --> 01:32:05,680
Speaker 2: Son of a biscuit eater. It's that easy. That's what

1574
01:32:05,720 --> 01:32:08,720
Speaker 2: happened to ashevilt. They started serving barbecue tofu and you know,

1575
01:32:09,360 --> 01:32:12,240
Speaker 2: now they got drum circles and everything smells like petchuli oil.

1576
01:32:12,760 --> 01:32:26,720
Speaker 2: Got to take a break. We'll be right back. All right,

1577
01:32:27,000 --> 01:32:29,120
Speaker 2: Welcome back to everybody. Good to have you with us.

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01:32:30,920 --> 01:32:35,960
Speaker 2: Here's Congressman Brandon gill Out of Texas. Take a listen

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01:32:35,960 --> 01:32:36,559
Speaker 2: to cut eleven.

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Speaker 16: Charia law and radical Islam have no place in the

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01:32:42,600 --> 01:32:46,240
Speaker 16: United States. You know, there's a fundamental truth that I

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01:32:46,240 --> 01:32:48,840
Speaker 16: think we've got to recognize, which is that not all

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01:32:48,920 --> 01:32:52,440
Speaker 16: cultures are created equal, and they are not all equally

1584
01:32:52,560 --> 01:32:58,639
Speaker 16: compatible with America's governing framework. The reality is that radical

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01:32:58,680 --> 01:33:03,680
Speaker 16: Islam is a political ideology, has a very different conception

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01:33:03,840 --> 01:33:06,559
Speaker 16: of freedom of speech than we have in the United States,

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01:33:06,560 --> 01:33:09,600
Speaker 16: a very different conception of freedom of religion, of separation

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01:33:09,760 --> 01:33:14,040
Speaker 16: of church and state, or of Moskin state. Islam as

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01:33:14,080 --> 01:33:19,040
Speaker 16: a political ideology is inherently imperialistic, and we see that

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01:33:19,520 --> 01:33:22,080
Speaker 16: now unfortunately all over the Western world.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, no doubt about that. So well, said Congressman Gil

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01:33:27,320 --> 01:33:32,000
Speaker 2: and he is speaking truth to his colleagues up on

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01:33:32,040 --> 01:33:35,640
Speaker 2: Capitol Hill. This story out of Arkansas. University of Arkansas,

1594
01:33:36,000 --> 01:33:40,040
Speaker 2: the Turning Point USA chapter there has officially broken ties

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01:33:40,520 --> 01:33:43,880
Speaker 2: with the national group and they have reorganized under a

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01:33:44,000 --> 01:33:46,160
Speaker 2: new name. They're not going to be known as Young

1597
01:33:46,240 --> 01:33:52,160
Speaker 2: American Revival at the University of Arkansas, the student chapter,

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01:33:52,520 --> 01:33:56,759
Speaker 2: they're posting a message on social media and they're saying

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01:33:56,880 --> 01:34:01,240
Speaker 2: this was the decision of the entire colubs. He said

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01:34:01,280 --> 01:34:04,840
Speaker 2: that Turning Point USA the organization had lost sight of

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01:34:04,840 --> 01:34:08,000
Speaker 2: what is truly important. They're no longer focused on the

1602
01:34:08,120 --> 01:34:13,200
Speaker 2: guiding north star, which is fighting for conservative policy, primples, principles,

1603
01:34:13,200 --> 01:34:18,120
Speaker 2: and values. They say that they've been consumed with metrics,

1604
01:34:18,560 --> 01:34:24,920
Speaker 2: creating viral cultural moments and chasing relevance. He said that

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01:34:24,960 --> 01:34:29,439
Speaker 2: TPUSA has become reactionary when in fact they need to

1606
01:34:29,479 --> 01:34:35,200
Speaker 2: be proactive. So TPUSA not commenting on this. Let me

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01:34:35,320 --> 01:34:37,400
Speaker 2: just say they're not going to be the only chapter

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01:34:37,600 --> 01:34:40,160
Speaker 2: to part ways. I'll just leave it at that for

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01:34:40,240 --> 01:34:42,559
Speaker 2: right now. Got to take a break. If you've got

1610
01:34:42,640 --> 01:34:45,840
Speaker 2: questions about your taxes. Nine oh one two six zero

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01:34:45,960 --> 01:34:57,320
Speaker 2: five nine two six, will be right back. All right,

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01:34:57,520 --> 01:35:00,760
Speaker 2: Welcome back everybody. Looking forward to seeing everybody at Sea

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01:35:00,800 --> 01:35:03,240
Speaker 2: PAC next week. I'll be speaking down there. We've got

1614
01:35:03,240 --> 01:35:07,519
Speaker 2: Matt Schlamp coming on the NEWSMAC show later this evening.

1615
01:35:07,680 --> 01:35:13,040
Speaker 2: A lot of you have been been concerned about your taxes,

1616
01:35:13,320 --> 01:35:16,200
Speaker 2: and I get it. Everybody gets all riled up and

1617
01:35:16,479 --> 01:35:20,840
Speaker 2: gets what's the clinical term puckered when it comes to

1618
01:35:21,120 --> 01:35:25,200
Speaker 2: tax season. Well, fortunately we have a solution to all

1619
01:35:25,200 --> 01:35:28,320
Speaker 2: of that, and we're going to be talking about taxes

1620
01:35:28,320 --> 01:35:31,439
Speaker 2: today and maybe just maybe you have a question. I

1621
01:35:31,479 --> 01:35:33,040
Speaker 2: want you to go ahead and give us a call.

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01:35:33,200 --> 01:35:36,639
Speaker 2: Nine oh one two six zero five nine two six.

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01:35:36,960 --> 01:35:39,800
Speaker 2: That's nine oh one two six zero five nine two six.

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01:35:40,080 --> 01:35:43,040
Speaker 2: Always a pleasure every Wednesday to welcome our friends from

1625
01:35:43,320 --> 01:35:48,759
Speaker 2: Strategic Financial Partners the website Strategic Financialpartners dot com. Adam

1626
01:35:48,800 --> 01:35:51,920
Speaker 2: Martin and Chris loftis joining us guys. Always good to

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01:35:51,920 --> 01:35:54,679
Speaker 2: see you. Absolutely, So I take it we were talking

1628
01:35:54,680 --> 01:35:57,240
Speaker 2: to the break here because the weather it's like ten

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01:35:57,320 --> 01:35:59,880
Speaker 2: degrees one day and eighty five the next, so you're

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01:36:00,040 --> 01:36:01,120
Speaker 2: short sleeves.

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01:36:00,840 --> 01:36:02,439
Speaker 17: Or sleeves, I probably don't want to get in the

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01:36:02,479 --> 01:36:03,320
Speaker 17: pool just yet.

1633
01:36:03,439 --> 01:36:06,120
Speaker 2: So no, I wouldn't. I wouldn't advise doing that. But

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01:36:06,439 --> 01:36:09,439
Speaker 2: at least it's cooler outside, is what you're saying.

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01:36:09,520 --> 01:36:12,720
Speaker 17: Yes, Yeah, it's a nice, nice settle breeze, and you know,

1636
01:36:12,920 --> 01:36:14,320
Speaker 17: you might bill get a little bit of tan on

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01:36:14,439 --> 01:36:15,200
Speaker 17: the sunshine.

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01:36:15,400 --> 01:36:15,560
Speaker 9: You know.

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01:36:15,640 --> 01:36:20,120
Speaker 17: It's it's that, it's that false spring unfortunately, this wonderful

1640
01:36:20,120 --> 01:36:20,679
Speaker 17: Memphis weather.

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01:36:20,760 --> 01:36:25,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, my TV makeup artist gives me my tan and

1642
01:36:25,920 --> 01:36:29,639
Speaker 2: the Dylan supple lips, so for me.

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01:36:29,760 --> 01:36:30,640
Speaker 3: We got to stop that.

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01:36:30,880 --> 01:36:33,240
Speaker 2: Yeah, we got so. Yeah, that's that kind of creeped

1645
01:36:33,240 --> 01:36:36,680
Speaker 2: me out. Guys. We're talking about the tax deadline coming

1646
01:36:36,760 --> 01:36:39,280
Speaker 2: up April fifteenth, so we're officially what today one month

1647
01:36:39,280 --> 01:36:40,240
Speaker 2: out a little bit less.

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01:36:40,280 --> 01:36:41,960
Speaker 17: Actually, yeah, yeah, we're coming up on it.

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01:36:42,040 --> 01:36:45,400
Speaker 2: She's a loose So we're talking today about being proactive,

1650
01:36:46,040 --> 01:36:48,639
Speaker 2: right and not waiting until the last minute, and also

1651
01:36:49,120 --> 01:36:52,519
Speaker 2: something called tax planning, qualified tax planning. I haven't heard

1652
01:36:52,560 --> 01:36:54,080
Speaker 2: of that phrase before. What is that?

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01:36:54,680 --> 01:36:54,840
Speaker 5: You know?

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01:36:54,880 --> 01:36:56,720
Speaker 18: That's a great question, And first let me just I

1655
01:36:56,760 --> 01:36:59,679
Speaker 18: want to clarify we're not providing tax advice today. Listeners

1656
01:36:59,720 --> 01:37:03,040
Speaker 18: should always consult with their qualified tax professional regarding their

1657
01:37:03,080 --> 01:37:08,599
Speaker 18: specific situation. But when we think about qualified proactive tax planning,

1658
01:37:09,000 --> 01:37:11,679
Speaker 18: what we're really thinking about is what can we take

1659
01:37:11,720 --> 01:37:15,680
Speaker 18: advantage of before the tax deadline? Because there are a

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01:37:15,720 --> 01:37:18,519
Speaker 18: lot of things that we can do that could help

1661
01:37:18,560 --> 01:37:21,519
Speaker 18: your financial or your tax situation. So if we're really

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01:37:21,520 --> 01:37:26,200
Speaker 18: wanting to maximize contributions into an IRA or any kind

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01:37:26,200 --> 01:37:29,439
Speaker 18: of other qualified plan and reduce our taxbile income, this

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01:37:29,520 --> 01:37:32,080
Speaker 18: is a good opportunity to think what can I take

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01:37:32,120 --> 01:37:33,879
Speaker 18: advantage of before April fifteenth?

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01:37:34,040 --> 01:37:36,519
Speaker 2: So what are some of the moves that people can

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01:37:36,800 --> 01:37:38,720
Speaker 2: still make before the tax deadline.

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01:37:38,760 --> 01:37:40,720
Speaker 18: So if what we're wanting to look at is, hey,

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01:37:40,920 --> 01:37:42,519
Speaker 18: I earnt a lot of money and I want to

1670
01:37:42,560 --> 01:37:45,720
Speaker 18: reduce my taxbile income, what's the way that we could

1671
01:37:45,800 --> 01:37:47,160
Speaker 18: kill two birds with one stone.

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01:37:47,240 --> 01:37:48,080
Speaker 2: Well, that could be.

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01:37:48,120 --> 01:37:51,439
Speaker 18: Let's if we qualify we should contribute to an IRA,

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01:37:51,960 --> 01:37:54,680
Speaker 18: because for every dollar that we put into that pre

1675
01:37:54,800 --> 01:37:57,640
Speaker 18: tax IRA, we can reduce our taxable income by that

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01:37:57,680 --> 01:38:01,120
Speaker 18: amount and it can be considered a prior year contribution.

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01:38:01,360 --> 01:38:03,760
Speaker 18: So we're in twenty twenty six now, but if we

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01:38:03,840 --> 01:38:06,479
Speaker 18: make this contribution before April fifteenth, it could be a

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01:38:06,520 --> 01:38:08,120
Speaker 18: twenty twenty five contribution.

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01:38:08,439 --> 01:38:10,920
Speaker 2: So what happens if somebody hasn't maxed out?

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01:38:11,560 --> 01:38:14,559
Speaker 18: So if they haven't maxed out, then basically what they're

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01:38:14,600 --> 01:38:17,160
Speaker 18: on the hook for for paying their taxes is just that.

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01:38:17,400 --> 01:38:19,559
Speaker 18: So what we want to look at is how can

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01:38:19,600 --> 01:38:22,080
Speaker 18: we reduce it? If you're looking or you're you're facing

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01:38:22,120 --> 01:38:24,479
Speaker 18: a big tax obligation and you're like, how do I

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01:38:24,560 --> 01:38:27,800
Speaker 18: reduce that? Well, it could be as simple as let's

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01:38:27,840 --> 01:38:30,600
Speaker 18: make a contribution and if we can, let's do the

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01:38:30,640 --> 01:38:33,799
Speaker 18: maximum contribution to that qualified retirement account.

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01:38:34,720 --> 01:38:38,360
Speaker 2: On the other side, you've got the contributing contributions to

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01:38:38,439 --> 01:38:42,679
Speaker 2: like a traditional IRA. Will that helps somebody this close

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01:38:42,720 --> 01:38:43,439
Speaker 2: to tax time.

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01:38:44,280 --> 01:38:47,000
Speaker 17: Yeah, absolutely, one of the things that I can add here,

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01:38:47,000 --> 01:38:49,559
Speaker 17: and I'll let Adam finish out that question is this

1694
01:38:49,640 --> 01:38:52,479
Speaker 17: is a great time to look at look at your

1695
01:38:52,520 --> 01:38:55,559
Speaker 17: finances and review, right, especially if you're looking at kind

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01:38:55,600 --> 01:38:58,040
Speaker 17: of a big tax bill, and this kind of gives

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01:38:58,080 --> 01:39:01,200
Speaker 17: you opportunity, like said, kill two birds with one stone.

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01:39:01,800 --> 01:39:04,120
Speaker 17: I actually have quite a few people who are asking, hey,

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Speaker 17: since we're already meeting, can we go ahead and start

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Speaker 17: planning in advance for twenty twenty six? And I was like, absolutely,

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Speaker 17: we can. It actually makes great sense. So you have

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Speaker 17: a lot of people who are already looking ahead, taking

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Speaker 17: advantage of their time with us and any of their

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Speaker 17: tax professionals. That way they can go ahead and say, okay,

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Speaker 17: we've got everything taking care of on a review mirror.

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Speaker 17: Let's go ahead and put some things in place for

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Speaker 17: the rest this year so that we're not playing catch

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Speaker 17: up this time next year.

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Speaker 18: Yeah, Adam, Yeah, So you know, I think about the

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Speaker 18: individual that we're discussing here, so you know, looking at

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Speaker 18: somebody who may be fifty and older, there are things

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Speaker 18: like ketchup contributions that this is a great time to

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Speaker 18: be talking about that. So they get to add one

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Speaker 18: thousand dollars more into a qualified retirement plan because that

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Speaker 18: is the ketchup provision. So this is just a time

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Speaker 18: where we want people to pump the brakes a little bit,

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Speaker 18: not really look at hey, I just want to just

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Speaker 18: get a tax return or get this burden off of

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Speaker 18: my back. I want them to really be th thinking

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Speaker 18: of a strategy of how does that reduce my taxbile

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Speaker 18: income but also help me with my retirement savings.

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Speaker 2: All right, we've got Adam Martin and Chris laftas So

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Speaker 2: with us from Strategic Financial Partners every Wednesday answering your questions.

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Speaker 2: A Strategic Financial Partners dot com is the website and

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Speaker 2: the phone number to call in nine oh one two

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Speaker 2: six zero five nine two six. That's nine oh one

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Speaker 2: two six zero five nine two six. You know, Adam,

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Speaker 2: a lot of small businesses, and you know it's not

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Speaker 2: just individuals. Everybody's got to pay their taxes. A lot

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Speaker 2: of small businesses listing what about them? Are there any

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Speaker 2: planning opportunities that are still on the table for them? Absolutely?

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Speaker 18: So I love working with small business owners. And you

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Speaker 18: you probably either have like a solo flour one K

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Speaker 18: or a set by array. These are particular individual vehicles

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Speaker 18: that we call them specifically for those small businesses, and

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Speaker 18: depending on how their business is structured, they you know,

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Speaker 18: when they go to file, this is an opportunity for

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Speaker 18: them to work for their CPAs and work with their

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Speaker 18: CPAs and say, you know, how do I stay compliant

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Speaker 18: but maximize the opportunity Because steps have higher income or

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Speaker 18: contribution limits than a regular IRA does, so this could

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Speaker 18: be a very good way for that business to lower

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Speaker 18: their taxable impact because they can contribute a much higher amount.

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Speaker 18: And same for the solo case. When we look at that,

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Speaker 18: that's a particular investment vehicle where we can do more

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Speaker 18: things like an employee contribution and an employer contribution, so

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Speaker 18: we're doubling how much we can take advantage of the

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Speaker 18: tax goes.

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Speaker 17: You know, a mistake that I think we see a

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Speaker 17: lot of, especially when it comes to small business owners

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Speaker 17: around this time, as you know, waiting until the last

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Speaker 17: minute and focusing solely on minimizing taxes instead of building

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Speaker 17: long term wealth. Right, so sometimes you know, and the

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Speaker 17: rust reduced taxes, individuals could overlook strategies that could benefit

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Speaker 17: them in the long term. But you know, if you

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Speaker 17: have a structured retirement playing risk management, that could be

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Speaker 17: something beneficial to think about. In the long run.

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Speaker 2: You know, I know a lot of people. I found

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Speaker 2: myself in this situation a few years ago. You end

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Speaker 2: up owing more than you expected to owe. What what

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Speaker 2: should someone like me be thinking about for maybe next year. Well,

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Speaker 2: here's what I always tell people.

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Speaker 18: When they get a refund, you essentially gave the government

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Speaker 18: an interest free loan and they paid you back nothing

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Speaker 18: in the way of interest. So I want people to

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Speaker 18: be thinking that if you're getting a refund, maybe you

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Speaker 18: should talk to a financial advisor or CPA and say,

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Speaker 18: you know, I know that they're giving me this money back,

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Speaker 18: but they didn't pay me any interest, and you could

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Speaker 18: have taken the same amount and put it into an

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Speaker 18: investment vehicle that gave you some interest back. So that's

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Speaker 18: just a mindset change that we really want to work

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Speaker 18: with the listeners out there to be thinking about.

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Speaker 2: Well, let's talk about planning considerations for investors. What should

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Speaker 2: they be thinking about right now?

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Speaker 18: So planning for investors, what they should be thinking about

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Speaker 18: is can I or do I qualify to make a

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Speaker 18: contribution to an I ray or is there a way

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Speaker 18: that I can add this to my qualified retirement plan

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Speaker 18: and reduce my taxable income So that's really what we

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Speaker 18: want to do, is to get you invested in the

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Speaker 18: market with money that you might be subjected to pay

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Speaker 18: taxes with if possible.

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Speaker 17: You know, in any any adjustments that need to be made,

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Speaker 17: any investment decisions, they really need to be closely aligned

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Speaker 17: with the individual's risk tolerance, right. Uh, you know, time

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Speaker 17: horizon and financial objectives. I mean, these are all things

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Speaker 17: that really need to be evaluated in course corrected, you know,

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Speaker 17: pretty routinely, instead of making it just a once a

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Speaker 17: year thing. Because that way it allows you to be

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Speaker 17: in the know about what your own what your own

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Speaker 17: assets are doing.

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Speaker 2: Right. So I gotta we got to talk about charitable giver.

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Speaker 2: I've got to get this in. But I've got a

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Speaker 2: funny story. Uh. There was a pastor. Uh and I'm

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Speaker 2: not sure where this happened, but you know a lot

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Speaker 2: of people when they're doing their income taxes, they fudge

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Speaker 2: a little bit on their giving their right. So he

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Speaker 2: made the congregation bring in their their I R. S

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Speaker 2: documents so that he verify.

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Speaker 18: He wanted to know where the gold was.

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Speaker 2: He wanted to see if it matched up. Otherwise people

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Speaker 2: are gonna have to be writing checks.

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Speaker 17: Buts and balances.

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Speaker 2: Oh there it is. I love that. But what about

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Speaker 2: charitable planning and how does that fit into, you know, again,

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Speaker 2: being proactive for tax season.

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Speaker 18: That's that's a very good question. And I do a

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Speaker 18: lot of this from our clients. So there's one thing

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Speaker 18: I want to mention on qualified charitable distributions. That deadline

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Speaker 18: is actually December thirty first, this not April fifteenth. And

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Speaker 18: that is because most of the time qualified charitable distributions

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Speaker 18: are coming from required minimum distributions. So you reach age

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Speaker 18: seventy three, the government says you can no longer defer

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Speaker 18: paying taxes on your qualified money. You have to take

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Speaker 18: a distribution. Well, what we see a lot is they

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Speaker 18: take this distribution and then just fund the church or

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Speaker 18: their their charitable organization with money that they pay taxes on. Well,

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Speaker 18: here's what I want them to think about is that

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Speaker 18: if you don't need those dollars, you don't need your

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Speaker 18: R and D, and you want to tie and you

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Speaker 18: want to give it to your charity, why don't you

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Speaker 18: send them the R and D directly to the church.

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Speaker 18: And it's considered a qualified charitable distribution, so there's no

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Speaker 18: taxable event to you or.

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Speaker 2: To the charity. Oh, I like that. That's a great idea.

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Speaker 2: Real quick, guys, what about what about scams? You know

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Speaker 2: there are a lot of scammers out there, bad guys.

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Speaker 2: How do we how do we avoid all of that?

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Speaker 18: So earlier you asked about qualified tax planning, and that

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Speaker 18: essentially means using strategies that are fully compliant with the IRS.

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Speaker 18: We see a lot of things on social media and

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Speaker 18: the Internet that are that too good to be true,

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Speaker 18: and I always want people to think if it sounds

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Speaker 18: too good to be true, generally is proper planning is

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Speaker 18: not about align you know, it's it is about aligning

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Speaker 18: with regulations and documentations that's suitable for the clients and

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Speaker 18: the IRS. And so that's where working with your CPA,

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Speaker 18: they're going to tell you what's the IRS code and

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Speaker 18: this is how you do it. The same for the

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Speaker 18: financial advisor, we're going to say this is how you

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Speaker 18: stay compliant.

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Speaker 17: Well on top of that, so Todd, I'll be willing

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Speaker 17: to guess that most of your listeners I've probably gotten

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Speaker 17: a call from somebody claiming to be the IRS. You know,

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Speaker 17: I know it's happened to me. I'm sure it's happened

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Speaker 17: to you. It's happened to you the irs something be

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Speaker 17: important to note. They will typically only reach out to

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Speaker 17: you via mail, all right, So that's a real easy way.

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Speaker 17: They will very rarely, if ever, I do not believe

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Speaker 17: I've not heard of this, call you directly by your cell.

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Speaker 17: It will be in the form of some approved mail

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Speaker 17: that will be very easy to identify. And so you

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Speaker 17: see a lot of people who fall victim to that mindset,

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Speaker 17: especially around this time of year when you have people

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Speaker 17: panicking about being a deadline or not.

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Speaker 2: Fair enough, fair enough, all right, guys, a lot of

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Speaker 2: great advice and folks, If you have further questions, I

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Speaker 2: want you to another website, Strategic Financial Partners dot com.

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Speaker 2: Get something to write down. I want you to write

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Speaker 2: down phone numbers in just one second, but again, Strategic

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Speaker 2: Financial Partners dot com. Adam Martin Financial Advisor, Adam, how

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Speaker 2: can our listeners reach you?

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Speaker 18: You can give me a call at nine zero one

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Speaker 18: two six zero two four three eight, or you can

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Speaker 18: email me Adam Mark at Strategic Financial Partners dot com.

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Speaker 2: All right, And Chris loftis financial services rep. How can

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Speaker 2: they reach out to you?

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Speaker 17: Chris Matho number is nine zero one six five seven

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Speaker 17: three three two four, and you can reach me at

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Speaker 17: c LOFTUS at Strategic Financial Partners dot com.

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Speaker 2: All right, guys, great to see you. All right, hang tight, everybody,

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Speaker 2: we'll be right back. All right, Welcome back, everybody. This

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Speaker 2: is the Tom Stearns Radio Show. By the way, had

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Speaker 2: an opportunity to speak with California Congressman Tom McClintock on

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Speaker 2: NEWSMACS last night. Let's take a listen, joining us now

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Speaker 2: to discuss Congressman Tim mcclen McClintock, a great Republican from California, congressman,

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Speaker 2: Good to see you. So the majority leader seems to

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Speaker 2: think that it is still a possibility that we could

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Speaker 2: get the sixty votes at the Senate.

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Speaker 9: What say you, well, well, Americans strongly support by eighty

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Speaker 9: percent margins support a voter I d most Democrats supported

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Speaker 9: at the racket file level.

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Speaker 11: So hopefully a few of the they're elected officials will

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Speaker 11: feel the heat to see the light.

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Speaker 9: You know.

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Speaker 2: One of the things I appreciated Senator Ted Cruz just

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Speaker 2: moments ago delivering a pretty impassioned argument there in the Senate,

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Speaker 2: and he said, hey, look, you know they're calling this

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Speaker 2: Jim crow two point Oh, the reality is it was

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Speaker 2: the Democrats who passed Jim Crow one point.

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Speaker 11: Oh well, true. And you know, there have been a

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Speaker 11: lot of studies between the states with voter ID laws

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Speaker 11: and those without, and they've discovered no difference in turnouts.

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Speaker 11: So there's no data support to claim that this is

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Speaker 11: voter suppression, you know. But I think it's absolutely critical

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Speaker 11: for a democracy, and every election somebody wins and somebody loses.

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Speaker 11: Democracy depends on whoever loses being able to trust that

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Speaker 11: the election was a fair, an accurate reflection of the

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Speaker 11: will of the majority. But in recent years, many states

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Speaker 11: of the woke left are torn down all of the

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Speaker 11: safeguards that we build into our process. Mail in ballots

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Speaker 11: where there's no chain of custody, accounting ballots weeks after

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Speaker 11: election day, accounting ballots, and secret ballot harvesting, turning election

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Speaker 11: day into election love instead, registration forbidding, proof of identity.

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Speaker 11: All of these make cheating easy, but even worse, they

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Speaker 11: destroy the public's confidence in the process.

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Speaker 2: And Congressman, I've got a couple of concerns and I

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Speaker 2: want I want to get your thoughts here on this.

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Speaker 2: The first one is that I think the average Republican

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Speaker 2: voter that they're they're watching what's happening right now in

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Speaker 2: the Senate and they see Republican lawmakers who appear to

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Speaker 2: be either sabotaging or slow marching the president's agenda here.

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Speaker 2: And I'm concerned that that could have blowback on the

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Speaker 2: Republican in the midterm elections.

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Speaker 11: What say you, Well, that's always been the nature of

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Speaker 11: the Senate. You remember the story of George Washington explaining

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Speaker 11: to Thomas Jefferson that the Senate was the saucer in

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Speaker 11: which the hot tea of the House was to be cool.

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Speaker 11: So it's always a more restrained process, which is very

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Speaker 11: frustrating when you're trying to get something done. But the

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Speaker 11: founders created a process where they wanted it to be

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Speaker 11: very difficult to make laws, to make decisions. They wanted

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Speaker 11: these issues held up to every conceivable light. They wanted

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Speaker 11: to create a consensus across the country. And that's very

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Speaker 11: time consuming and it's very frustrating when you're trying to

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Speaker 11: get something done. But it served us well over the

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Speaker 11: past two and a half century.

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Speaker 2: Well, it has. But I know President Trump is getting frustrated.

1930
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Speaker 2: He's weighing in on a true social get your senators,

1931
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Speaker 2: Republican or Democrat, to vote yes on the Save America Act.

1932
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Speaker 2: Will never ever endorse anyone who votes against Save America?

1933
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Speaker 2: Does the President does?

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Speaker 5: He does?

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Speaker 2: He have a fair point here, Oh.

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Speaker 11: I believe he does and is ever Dirkson said, when

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Speaker 11: they feel the heat, they see the light. The more

1938
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Speaker 11: he brought on them, the more light they're going to see.

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Speaker 11: So bring it a hunt.

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Speaker 2: Well, as you and I are talking here, we're also

1941
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Speaker 2: watching a debate happening live on the floor of the

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Speaker 2: Senate as they work through all of this. I know

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Speaker 2: several House Republicans, by the way, have pledged to vote

1944
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Speaker 2: no on all Senate bills until the Save America Act

1945
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Speaker 2: is passed. Do you support that?

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Speaker 11: Well, I have a very simple policy. I vote yes

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Speaker 11: on all of the good bills, and I vote no

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Speaker 11: on all of the bad bills, and then I go home,

1949
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Speaker 11: brush my teeth, and go to bed.

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Speaker 2: Well. You can't get much more common sense than that,

1951
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Speaker 2: can you? Everybody? All right? That was Congressman mcclin talk

1952
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Speaker 2: from California. We certainly appreciate his great work home. Hopefully

1953
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Speaker 2: he'll be returning to Congress. You know, he's one of

1954
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Speaker 2: those districts that got nailed by the Democrats out there,

1955
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Speaker 2: Governor Kavin Uskam and the Dems, so a lot of

1956
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Speaker 2: work today on Capitol Hill. We're still monitoring a lot

1957
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Speaker 2: of those hearings and we'll bring you the very latest

1958
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Speaker 2: again tonight at five o'clock on the Todd Sterns Show

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Speaker 2: on Newsmax. Two ladies and gentlemen. Just a reminder if

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Speaker 2: you missed the conversation earlier in the program, we are

1961
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Speaker 2: encouraging you to pre order my brand new book. It's

1962
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1963
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1964
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1966
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1967
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Speaker 2: prices are all the same, so it's not going to

1968
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Speaker 2: matter one way or the other. So we would love

1969
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Speaker 2: for you to get that at Books a Million, pre

1970
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Speaker 2: order a copy. It'll officially be in bookstores in late

1971
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Speaker 2: ape but you can pre order right now. All right,

1972
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Speaker 2: It's been a lot of fun today. Thank you again

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Speaker 2: for joining us noon to three eastern right here on

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Speaker 2: the ton Starns radio show. Be sure to listen to

1975
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Speaker 2: your local news radio station for breaking news, and we'll

1976
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Speaker 2: see you back here tomorrow noon o'clock on the radio.

1977
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Speaker 2: Peek ahead, everybody,