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Speaker 1: From the mighty nine to ninety broadcast centers.

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Speaker 2: You're waking up in Stars Country with Todd Starns.

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Speaker 3: Oh, happy spring to you everybody.

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Speaker 4: It is sixty degrees here in East Memphis right now,

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Speaker 4: heading up to seventy degrees later today. We could have

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Speaker 4: some big thunderstorms and possibly severe weather coming up towards

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Speaker 4: the end of the week. Great man. In the meantime,

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Speaker 4: enjoy the great weather. It is going to be a

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Speaker 4: beautiful day out there, and hope you're having a great

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Speaker 4: start to your day as well. By the way, we

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Speaker 4: have got a lot to talk about today. Our good

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Speaker 4: friend Joe Gardner's going to drop I a little bit

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Speaker 4: later on to help us work through some great mortgage information.

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Speaker 4: We always love our great stable of KWAM experts to

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Speaker 4: help us through the day.

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Speaker 3: So where do we start today?

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Speaker 4: A couple of big stories before we get into some

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Speaker 4: of the national news. There has been a lot of

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Speaker 4: controversy over the the crime numbers here in the Memphis area,

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Speaker 4: here in the mid South and President Trump just the

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Speaker 4: other day, as a matter of fact, when the President

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Speaker 4: was doing the press conference, I for some reason, I

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Speaker 4: think this happened during the Venezuela stuff. The President made

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Speaker 4: mention of crime being down across the country and including

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Speaker 4: here in Memphis. Down seventy seven percent is the number

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Speaker 4: that the President gave us during that press conference on Saturday.

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Speaker 3: And that's right.

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Speaker 4: It did happen during the press I'm watching the press

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Speaker 4: conference and he said Memphis, and my ears perked. I'm like, wait,

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Speaker 4: what's going on here? What about Memphis? So there has

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Speaker 4: been a lot of excitement because the crime has been down.

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Speaker 4: And the reason why crime has been down is because

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Speaker 4: the President sent in that gosh hundreds, if not several

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Speaker 4: the Tennessee National Guard, which has raised all sorts of

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Speaker 4: controversy among Democrats here in Memphis, who would much rather

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Speaker 4: protect the criminal thugs than the actual citizens of Memphis.

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Speaker 4: And I'm telling you, democrats running for office, I don't

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Speaker 4: care who you are or how well educated you think

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Speaker 4: you are, you will be answering that question if you

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Speaker 4: come on kwham, because this has got to stop the

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Speaker 4: idea that we're going to protect the criminals instead of

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Speaker 4: the law abiding citizen in Memphis. Those days are over,

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Speaker 4: at least here on kwham they are, so anyway, President

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Speaker 4: Trump coming out with those numbers. Now, City Hall came

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Speaker 4: out with a statement a few days beforehand, and the

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Speaker 4: mayor is that would be Paul Young. The mayor is

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Speaker 4: taking full credit for the massive drop in crime, no

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Speaker 4: mention of all about President Trump or the work that

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Speaker 4: President Trump did. And the question this morning, and I

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Speaker 4: just curious, who do you credit for the drop in

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Speaker 4: crime here in Memphis and the mid South. Do you

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Speaker 4: credit President Trump or do you credit Paul Jung and

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Speaker 4: the Democrats? Nine oh one two six zero five nine

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Speaker 4: I bring this up because of Paul Young. Let's just

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Speaker 4: take Paul Jung and his word, uh for just a moment.

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Speaker 4: So if in fact, Paul Jung is saying that crime

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Speaker 4: his previous statements when he said that really crime was

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Speaker 4: that the issue wasn't necessarily that we had a crime problem.

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Speaker 4: The issue is how you, the good citizens of Memphis,

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Speaker 4: spite of all of that, and I don't I don't

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Speaker 4: a lot of the shootings are happening in areas where

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Speaker 4: That would be East Memphis. And I want to play

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Speaker 3: It was like it was.

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Speaker 4: Like an old school gunfight right there in East Memphis

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Speaker 4: And I don't know what that's all about. And that's

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Speaker 4: that's a conversation for another day. But that's one of

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Speaker 3: And I get that.

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Speaker 4: But ultimately, ultimately, the reason why you're having to shut

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Speaker 4: right there, And nobody wants to talk about it. But

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Speaker 4: that's the reason why. I hate to break it to you,

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Speaker 5: Well, I made a post about it a couple of

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Speaker 5: you got the ear of President Trump and Senator Brent

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Speaker 5: Taylor has been he I called it. He was. He's

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Speaker 5: been given to him, none of this would have ever happened.

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Speaker 5: Paul Young has nothing to do with it. He didn't

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Speaker 5: want him here, Lee Harris, didn't want him here. Even

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Speaker 5: our own governor kind of stuttered on it. So thank

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Speaker 5: you Todd, Thank you Senator Taylor.

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Speaker 4: Well, well, Dean, you're kind of you're kind to say that,

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Speaker 4: and you'd definitely give credit where credit is due to

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Speaker 4: a brilliant strategy, and he's not only he's not only

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Speaker 5: Absolutely, thank you to all right.

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Speaker 4: Thanks Dean, all right, be safe out there. Nine oh

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Speaker 4: And again the question who do you credit for the

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Speaker 4: We're gonna have to change minds, We're gonna have to

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Speaker 4: And I have noticed, especially on the highways, people are

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Speaker 4: So anyway, we're gonna take a quick break here. A

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Speaker 4: lot happening. Also, the Knoxville Symphony is in the headlines.

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Speaker 4: You're not gonna believe this. They've got a well, I'll

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Speaker 4: just say this. They've got a white clarinet player who

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Speaker 3: And welcome back.

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Speaker 4: It is Stern's country. Here in the Principal Toyota, Memphis

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Speaker 4: studio this morning. Hope you're starting out your day with

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Speaker 4: a nice cool beverage. It's gonna be a little warmed

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Speaker 4: this afternoon as high's heading up to about seventy degrees.

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Speaker 3: By the way, did you see the big protest?

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Speaker 4: This is really not a big protest, but there was

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Speaker 4: a protest outside of Congressman David Kostov's office in Memphis

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Speaker 4: yesterday and you had a bunch of angry old women

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Speaker 4: and they were protesting Congressman Costaf's statement supporting the oulster

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Speaker 4: of the the dictator in Venezuela. So we actually in

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Speaker 4: Memphis have pro dictator Democrats. Maybe we should not be

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Speaker 4: And when I say hundreds of you weighed in on

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Speaker 4: weighed in. Ronald says, sixties hold over is Jane Fonda

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Speaker 4: you know, that's a great point, and we talked about

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Speaker 4: just imagine for a moment what would have happened if

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Speaker 4: like he took out Majuro. Josh Jacob says, this is

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Speaker 4: it was really sort of pathetic. A bunch of old,

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Speaker 4: Problemly here is that demographic's gonna get bigger. And I

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Speaker 4: hate to say it, but men are They're not attracted

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Speaker 4: By the way, the congressman doing a great job hosting

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Speaker 4: a statement in support of the president. Actions there in Venezuela.

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Speaker 3: I told you about.

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Speaker 4: This this member or this guy who wanted to be

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Speaker 4: a clarinet player. So he's explaining what happened this poor guy.

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Speaker 4: I want you to listen to his story. He shared

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Speaker 4: it on AX last night.

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Speaker 3: Cut one. Please.

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Speaker 2: My name is James Immerman. I'm a clarinet player. You

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Speaker 2: may not have heard of me, but if you've been

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Speaker 2: you've heard my plane. I'm a session player in Nashville,

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Speaker 2: and I also work in big Tech. Before tech, I

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Speaker 2: but in twenty twenty I got canceled for resisting DEI

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Speaker 2: It's a long story, easy to google.

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Speaker 1: If you feel like it.

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Speaker 2: So last summer I took the blind audition for principal

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Speaker 2: two months and won the audition unanimously.

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Speaker 2: I was just looking to get back in the game,

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Speaker 2: and make an example of the Knoxville Symphony and orchestras

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Speaker 2: I'll be doing some fundraising as well as posting clarinet

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Speaker 3: Wish me luck all right, Well, good luck to you there.

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Speaker 4: And I am I am glad to see this happening,

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Speaker 4: What Megan Kelly just told you is that she's a

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Speaker 4: the principal Toyota Memphis Studio. And welcome back to String's

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Speaker 4: Hey want to give you a quick update on a

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Speaker 4: Joe Garner dot Com is her website. Joe, Good morning,

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Speaker 4: Happy New Year to.

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Speaker 8: You, Happy New Year to you too, tak and.

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Speaker 4: A lot of exciting things happening to kick off the

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Speaker 8: Boy, I tell you, it's so exciting. You know, It's

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Speaker 8: Well, Todd, mortgage rates right now are at a one

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Speaker 8: You know, we set up the loan, we said the

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Speaker 8: closing gate. I did have a couple of clients who called.

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Speaker 8: They were ready to go. They wanted to buy a home,

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Speaker 8: but once we started going over their credit, they realized it.

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Speaker 8: I've got a couple of things I need to do

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Speaker 8: before I jumped out there and buy a home. It

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Speaker 8: may be a couple of months. So we have all

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Speaker 8: of that going on right now.

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Speaker 4: So let's talk about again that spring peak season is

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Speaker 4: when most people think about going out there and buying

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Speaker 4: their home. How do you prepare to buy a home

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Speaker 4: now before the spring peak hits.

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Speaker 8: Well, I would say do the top three number one

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Speaker 8: with you your credit, and you can do that by

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Speaker 8: yourself at least once a year under an annual credit

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Speaker 8: report dot com. That's Annual Credit Report dot com and

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Speaker 8: you do all three bureaus. It'll show you if there's

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Speaker 8: any errors. You know what's going on. You could also

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Speaker 8: call me or text me and give me a little

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Speaker 8: information and I can do what's called a soft pool credit,

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Speaker 8: which will not hurt your credit either, it's just like

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Speaker 8: the annual credit report dot com. It won't hurt your credit.

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Speaker 8: But then we could look at it together and put

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Speaker 8: some action plans in place if needed. The second step

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Speaker 8: would be review your budget and that it seems hard

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Speaker 8: sometimes that people they go, oh, that just seems like

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Speaker 8: it's so hard. You know, if you just load up

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Speaker 8: several of your favorite songs on a new YouTube mix,

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Speaker 8: you play for three hours. This three hours, don't look up.

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Speaker 8: This goes through your bank statements, your credit card statements,

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Speaker 8: your income. You'll find out where you're spending money. Maybe

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Speaker 8: where you could substitute a few things so that you

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Speaker 8: don't have to give up the joy of life, but

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Speaker 8: you can make more room to afford a house. Note,

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Speaker 8: but you're gonna know for yourself, what is the maximum

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Speaker 8: how payment per month that you're personally comfortable paying and

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Speaker 8: what you're comfortably paying down?

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Speaker 4: Now you know, I have to ask you, Joe Garner,

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Speaker 4: since you brought up YouTube mixtapes here, what is like

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Speaker 4: what is on the Joe Garner? What is if you

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Speaker 4: were listening to music, do you have like a favorite band,

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Speaker 4: a favorite song?

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Speaker 8: Oh, you know, it depends on the mood like I

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Speaker 8: like a lot of what they call it epic music

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Speaker 8: with no you know, it just kind of gets me

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Speaker 8: in the mood. And sometimes I just like to listen

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Speaker 8: to contemporary Christian songs, like the Celtic songs, and you know,

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Speaker 8: I like Celtic music.

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Speaker 2: I like that a lot.

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Speaker 3: You see you like you see.

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Speaker 4: I'm I'm like all over the place. I like good jazz,

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Speaker 4: but I like old school jazz, not none of the

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Speaker 4: smooth jazz. But I also I'm a huge fan of

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Speaker 4: country music, so I'm sort of all over, all over

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Speaker 4: the place. However, I did there was a season of

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Speaker 4: my life where I was into the drum circles, but

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Speaker 4: that was just like day and I was in Asheville.

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Speaker 3: But other than that, you.

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Speaker 4: Know, I don't do the banging of the bongos.

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Speaker 3: No way. Are you really a drummer?

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Speaker 6: I really am.

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Speaker 8: That's how I got through Union University, I got my scholarship,

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Speaker 8: and I still love playing. I used to play for

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Speaker 8: my church, Todd, but now the younger people are coming

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Speaker 8: in there and they sound great, so I just support

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Speaker 8: them now.

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Speaker 3: I love That's I had no idea.

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Speaker 4: We've learned something new about Joe Garner everybody, and by

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Speaker 4: the way, Joe Garner a host of real estate mortgage

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Speaker 4: shops Saturdays right here at at eleven o'clock on the

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Speaker 4: mighty nine ninety. So look, you know, as we've gone

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Speaker 4: through this and we're preparing to, you know, to buy

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Speaker 4: a house, you've got to also review financing and home

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Speaker 4: buying options as well with your lender and your realtor,

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Speaker 4: which is where you come into the picture here, you know, and.

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Speaker 8: Pick a lender that is reputable, experienced the realtor. The

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Speaker 8: same thing I'd like to of course sign up for

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Speaker 8: the job is your lender. But even if you don't

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Speaker 8: in up buying a home right now, reviewing your financing

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Speaker 8: options beforehand will equip you with knowing what programs are

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Speaker 8: available out there. There's a lot of good special programs

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Speaker 8: out there and some actions that you can take to

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Speaker 8: be ready when the right house comes along.

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Speaker 4: Well, you're going to have a great show coming up Saturday.

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Speaker 4: And I know you, you and I I think have

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Speaker 4: been doing nikewell shots all week and my voice is

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Speaker 4: finally coming out of this but this weekend not mine.

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Speaker 3: Oh, I know, I'm.

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Speaker 8: Taking You're a wiser, I'm taking the hot sea honey

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Speaker 8: and cinnamon.

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Speaker 1: A wicks for that.

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Speaker 8: Becky told me that you.

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Speaker 3: Use well, it's all.

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Speaker 4: There's also some apple brandy in my desk so we

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Speaker 4: can talk about this theater. I'll give you a swig.

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Speaker 4: That's what Grandmother's Stern's always recommended. Joe Garner, let's talk

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Speaker 4: about this weekend though eleven o'clock. You've got a very

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Speaker 4: very special guest and topic.

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Speaker 8: Yes I do. I a Donald Roach of Horsid Senior

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Speaker 8: Living in the Elder law and probate attorney Matt Rhodes,

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Speaker 8: and they're going to be sharing some wonderful resources and

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Speaker 8: insights for families wanting to prepare their estates and fus

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Speaker 8: your care for their loved ones. Our topic and I'm

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Speaker 8: going to be talking about some financing options that people

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Speaker 8: can use, some little known financing options that people can use.

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Speaker 8: Our topic is aging well, smart housing and legal planning.

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Speaker 8: But look, if anybody wants to talk either today even

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Speaker 8: today about their home purchase or or refinance, connect with me.

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Speaker 8: I'm Joe Garner. You can catch me at jogarner dot com.

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Speaker 4: All right, that's Joe without the E Jogarner dot com.

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Speaker 4: Saturday eleven o'clock real Estate mortgage shop. Joe Garner, get

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Speaker 4: well soon and we'll have some apple brandy for you.

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Speaker 3: Oo okay, tod all right, who knew.

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Speaker 4: Joe Gardner was like a drummer? She could have been like,

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Speaker 4: I don't know, an MTV back in the day. So

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Speaker 4: it's this is why I love having these conversations. You

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Speaker 4: never know, all those little things about folks you didn't know.

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Speaker 4: All right, we've got to take a quick break here

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Speaker 4: of folks. Nine oh one two six zero five nine

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Speaker 4: two six. Our telephone number, that's nine oh one two

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Speaker 4: six zero five nine two six. This is Starns Country

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Speaker 4: and the principal to Yota Memphis Studio, and welcome back everybody.

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Speaker 4: This is Starns Country here on the mighty nine to

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Speaker 4: ninety broadcasting from our beautiful principal Toyota Memphis Studio. Hope

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Speaker 4: you're having a great start to your day out there.

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Speaker 4: It is going to be a cool, warm one, but

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Speaker 4: it's like a scorcher if you're expecting, like, you know,

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Speaker 4: ten degrees outside. But I would rather have that than snow,

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Speaker 4: to be perfectly honest with you. By the way, wanted

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Speaker 4: to clear something up in our in our live stream,

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Speaker 4: and we've got a lot of folks hanging out with

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Speaker 4: us on our Facebook live stream this morning.

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Speaker 3: Here's the deal.

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Speaker 4: We have a lot of people that want to post

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Speaker 4: comments in our Stop Memphis Crime group and one of

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Speaker 4: the reasons why is we have one of one of

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Speaker 4: the largest groups that focuses on crime here in the

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Speaker 4: mid South and people love to come on and we

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Speaker 4: have a policy, and we had to implement this policy

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Speaker 4: because there was so much abuse going on. People would

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Speaker 4: want to post items they were selling something, or they

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Speaker 4: have a business and they want to post a link.

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Speaker 4: You know what, We've got no problem with that, but

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Speaker 4: there's something called advertising, and so if you're gonna if

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Speaker 4: you have a business and you're trying to promote that business,

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Speaker 4: then you need to do it through advertising. And we're

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Speaker 4: not going to let you just clog up our pages

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Speaker 4: with all that stuff. And we had somebody that was

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Speaker 4: complaining and they said they were upset because I was

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Speaker 4: not posting an item that they had shared. And the

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Speaker 4: reason why is because it was you's writing people directly

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Speaker 4: to their personal website and we don't do that.

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Speaker 3: That's that's not the point here.

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Speaker 4: And the person said are you going to do the

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Speaker 4: right thing and release my KWAM post that contains powerful

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Speaker 4: content on unreported staggering Shelby County job losses, excessive tax incentives,

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Speaker 4: and the abandonment of economic development practice by this shide

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Speaker 4: and it goes on and on and on. Well, no,

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Speaker 4: we're not going to do that. And the reason why

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Speaker 4: is because we want the engagement to happen on the

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Speaker 4: Facebook group. You know, the point of that KWAM group

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Speaker 4: is not to promote your personal private website. And if

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Speaker 4: we do it for one person, we've got to do

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Speaker 4: it for everybody. And that's the that's the bigger issue.

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Speaker 4: So just want to again, we've got to set some

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Speaker 4: ground rules. Otherwise it's a free for all. And you

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Speaker 4: know that if you get seventy or eighty items from

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Speaker 4: the Stop Memphis Crime group in your feed, guess what

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Speaker 4: you're gonna do. You're gonna unfollow the feed. I mean,

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Speaker 4: it's that simple. So that's why we're very judicious about

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Speaker 4: the information that we share on the mighty nine ninety

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Speaker 4: and on our Stop Memphis Crime group. And it's nothing

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Speaker 4: We're not trying to be mean about it. We're just trying.

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Speaker 4: I'm trying to explain to you why we do what

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Speaker 4: we do, all right, nine oh one two six zero

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Speaker 4: five nine two six. Last night we had a great

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Speaker 4: conversation with Congresswoman Marionette Meeks on my NEWSMAC show, and

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Speaker 4: I wanted to play a bit of that for you

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Speaker 4: this morning.

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Speaker 3: Take a listen.

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Speaker 1: So this was a.

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Speaker 4: Pretty spectacular We understand it took less than seven minutes

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Speaker 4: for US special forces to nab Maduro.

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Speaker 9: Your reaction, well, first, let me say, Todd, I love

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Speaker 9: the Jim Crochey reference at the start and very much

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Speaker 9: Reagan error, which this reminds me of what President Reagan

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Speaker 9: would have done during his tenure as president. And also

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Speaker 9: let me say that, you know, Nicholas Maduro getting three

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Speaker 9: square meals a day in prison is probably more than

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Speaker 9: most Venezuelan people are getting now due to the fact

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Speaker 9: that he destroyed that once prosperous nation, and it should

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Speaker 9: be a warning to those in New York that Mandami

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Speaker 9: can do the same by trying to institute socialism and

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Speaker 9: communism into New York City. But as a twenty four

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Speaker 9: year military veteran, this was an amazingly brilliant strategic success.

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Speaker 9: It was well conducted. President Trump, our military, our law enforcement,

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Speaker 9: and intelligence, all of them had to collaborate together. They

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Speaker 9: had to do it without leaking any details out that

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Speaker 9: would have been put in the news and would have

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Speaker 9: given the Cuban guards that were helping Madruro, they would

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Speaker 9: have given him heads up.

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Speaker 6: It could not have been conducted in the manner it was.

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Speaker 9: So it was brilliantly executed, brilliantly planned. And I would say,

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Speaker 9: not only are Venezuelans rejoicing, but Venezuelans and America and

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Speaker 9: those who have suffered under communist regime are all, you know,

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Speaker 9: rejoicing at what has happened, including those countries where Madruro

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Speaker 9: has helped to foement and fund terrorism. So it was

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Speaker 9: a great historic day for the United States, acting upon

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Speaker 9: the best interest of this country and doing exactly what

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Speaker 9: we campaigned on in twenty twenty four, which was to

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Speaker 9: end discourage of illegal drugs, to do something about the

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Speaker 9: cartels in Central and South America. And one of the

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Speaker 9: things for me since I was sworn in in January

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Speaker 9: of twenty twenty one, is to reemphasize the Monroe Doctrine

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Speaker 9: and concern about the influx of communism and socialism in

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Speaker 9: South America.

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Speaker 6: So I think it's a historic day.

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Speaker 4: It's a fair point you raised, and I want to

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Speaker 4: get in to the Monroe doctrine in just a moment,

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Speaker 4: But I'm curious what this says about Pete Hegseth and

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Speaker 4: his leadership at the Pentagon.

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Speaker 9: Well, certainly, as I said, you know, between our military

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Speaker 9: coordination with law enforcement and with intelligence, this was brilliantly

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Speaker 9: planned and brilliantly executed. And not only that, remember there

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Speaker 9: were no civilian casualties or military casualties, so there were

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Speaker 9: no deaths. It was surgically precise. It was effectively both

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Speaker 9: planned and executed, and we should be very proud of

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Speaker 9: both the Secretary of War as well as General King

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Speaker 9: and our military, law enforcement and intelligence operations.

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Speaker 6: This was well done.

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Speaker 9: And again it reminds me of what President Reagan did

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Speaker 9: in extracting the hostages out of Iran. Remember President Carter

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Speaker 9: tried to do it and failed, but Reagan came in

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Speaker 9: and the hostages had been there over four hundred and

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Speaker 9: thirty five days. I think we got those hostages out

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Speaker 9: immediately because President Reagan knew the value of our foundational values.

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Speaker 9: He knew the value of freedom and meaning what you

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Speaker 9: say when you say it, and he executed that brilliantly,

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Speaker 9: as did President Trump all of those involved. But it

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Speaker 9: was a coordinated effort. This was not one sole agency.

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Speaker 9: All of these agencies had to be involved in the

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Speaker 9: planning and the execution.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you mentioned them on Roe doctrine, which is something

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Speaker 4: I doubt they teach so many public high schools these days.

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Speaker 4: And that's a shame, because young people need to understand

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Speaker 4: why we will not allow European nations to try and

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Speaker 4: colonize countries here in our hemisphere. The reality is going

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Speaker 4: all the way back to JFK when he stood his

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Speaker 4: ground said we will not allow those missiles, those Soviet

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Speaker 4: missiles to be placed in Cuba. You've got China, you

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Speaker 4: have Iran, and you still have Russia here. What sort

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Speaker 4: of a message do you think this sends two those

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Speaker 4: three nations when it comes to North and South America, Well.

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Speaker 9: I think you know, we've had a vacuum of leadership

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Speaker 9: both under President Obama and under President Biden.

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Speaker 6: They both actually did the.

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Speaker 9: Exact same things when it comes to other types of

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Speaker 9: missile strikes. So President Trump did have both constitutional and

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Speaker 9: legal authority to do this, but most importantly to me,

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Speaker 9: his statements about running the government is a message. You know,

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Speaker 9: it's not what he says, it's what is the meaning

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Speaker 9: of what he says. And when he made that statement,

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Speaker 9: it was to send a message to both other Latin

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Speaker 9: American countries, to the cartels, to the mafia, transnational criminal

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Speaker 9: criminal organizations, and especially to Iran, Russia and China that

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Speaker 9: they better look out, they better be careful, and they

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Speaker 9: better not try to go in while the you know,

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Speaker 9: new presidential administration is coming into power and that is

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Speaker 9: fairly elected in Venezuela. And so that to me was

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Speaker 9: a message to other bad actors that they better watch

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Speaker 9: what they're doing and be careful.

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Speaker 6: And so we now see, you know, this.

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Speaker 9: May end up toppling the regime, the castor regime in Cuba.

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Speaker 9: Certainly we see what's happening in Iran, and I think

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Speaker 9: this is going to have repercussions far beyond Venezuela.

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Speaker 4: All right, and you can check out that entire interview

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Speaker 4: over at Todd Stearns dot com. By the way, do

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Speaker 4: you know what today Today is a huge anniversary in

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Speaker 4: the world of TV game shows. It is the fifty

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Speaker 4: first anniversary of Wheel of Fortune, Ladies and gentlemen, can.

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Speaker 3: You believe that?

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Speaker 4: Seventy and nineteen seventy five, that's when Wheel of Fortune

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Speaker 4: first debuted on NBC. And a lot of people from

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Speaker 4: the Mid South have actually been contestants on Wheel of

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Speaker 4: Fortune over the years, including my aunt Patty from West Memphis, Arkansas.

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Speaker 4: She is like the famous person in the family. She

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Speaker 4: got to she got to be on Wheel of Fortune.

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Speaker 4: I think she won like a year's supply of tuna

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Speaker 4: helper or something.

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Speaker 3: I don't love.

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Speaker 4: But it was pretty cool still, all right, folks, don't

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Speaker 4: forget eleven o'clock right here on the Mighty NYE I

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Speaker 4: named the Todd Sterns Show. Coming up next, Armstrong and

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Speaker 4: Geddy get out there, have a great day. Everybody be safe.

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