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

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Speaker 2: You are waking up in Starns Country with Todd Starns.

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Speaker 3: It feels like summertime outside. Hello everybody, I'm Todd Starns.

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Speaker 3: Welcome to Starns Country and the principal Toyota Memphis Studio.

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Speaker 3: Forty nine degrees right now, and it is going to

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Speaker 3: be a really weird day, it really is. But thank

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Speaker 3: is finally beginning to melt, and that is great news

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Speaker 3: for all of you who did not pay three hundred

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Speaker 3: your driveway melt the natural way. All right, we have

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Speaker 3: a fun program for you today. Our good friend Joe

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Speaker 3: Garner is coming up in just just a few moments

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Speaker 3: from real estate mortgage shops, so looking forward to having

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Speaker 4: Look, guy, you can't argue with that.

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Speaker 3: I know a lot of our listeners, and especially younger

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Speaker 3: listeners here on the mighty nine ninety looking into get

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Speaker 3: in the House. Also last night there was the State

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Speaker 3: of the State address Governor Bill Lee. This is his

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Speaker 3: final one, and the governor he got huge, huge response,

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Speaker 3: standing ovations multiple times from the legislature as he delivered

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Speaker 3: his remarks. As a matter of fact, the Governor referenced

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Speaker 3: the Memphis Safe Task Force in Nashville last night.

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Speaker 4: Let's take a list of the cut four Memphis.

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Speaker 5: All my life, I grew up spending summers there with

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Speaker 5: through neighborhoods of a great American city that is legendary worldwide.

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Speaker 5: And it's sad in my heart to see over the

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Speaker 5: decades that Memphis kids can't live that same safe. From

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Speaker 5: day one, we've looked for opportunities to create change in

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Speaker 5: a city that's more than worth fighting for. And over

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Speaker 5: the years, good faith efforts have resulted in incremental progress

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Speaker 5: and that deserves recognition. But the Memphis Safe Task Force

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Speaker 5: has fostered an unprecedented collaboration between local and state and

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Speaker 5: federal partners. It's nothing short of extraordinary. The federal resources

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Speaker 5: delivered by the Trump administration, the dozens of agencies working

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Speaker 5: side by side, the relentless bipartisanship that has proven all

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Speaker 5: the critics wrong. This herculean effort has in fact created

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Speaker 5: generational change in Memphis. Crime is down fifty five in

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Speaker 5: Shelby County with the lowest monthly crime totals in over

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Speaker 5: twenty five years.

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Speaker 4: Wow.

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Speaker 3: That's it's really truly remarkable. And again, all of the

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Speaker 3: I don't want to bike guradge the governor today. I

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Speaker 3: who did this. And the reality is our state, our

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Speaker 3: but they could have any at any moment, The governor

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Speaker 3: is is an unfortunate thing, and I hate that for

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Speaker 3: You're not going to have the protest uh in uh

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Speaker 3: And look at this point, whatever it takes, so h

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Speaker 3: that I am I'm just incredibly grateful. So again, a

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Speaker 3: good It was a great night for the governor touting

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Speaker 3: a bombshell in the world of Republican politics and conservative

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Speaker 3: news maker line. Luke Symbol joins us this morning. Luke,

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Speaker 3: I think you really shocked a lot of people yesterday

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Speaker 6: Hey, good morning, Todd. Before I get to that, I

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Speaker 6: the governor gave credit to President Trump, and President Trump

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Speaker 6: You consider sending them to Memphis. And the President's answer

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Speaker 6: was I'll have to look at that. And so our

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Speaker 6: community owes you, owes Kwham a tremendous amount of gratitude

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Speaker 6: for your willingness to when you get in an interview

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Speaker 6: in partnership with others like Representative of Lesbie sponsoring legislation

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Speaker 6: Senator Brent Taylor with his make Memphis Matter initiative. We

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Speaker 6: from the governor, Memphis received six or seven standing ovations.

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Speaker 6: A quarter of his speech was about Memphis specifically, and

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Speaker 6: Memphis has never mattered more than it does now. So

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Speaker 6: we owe you, We owe Senator Brent Taylor, we owe

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Speaker 6: President Trump and Governor Billy a tremendous amount of gratitude

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Speaker 6: for what you all have been doing to help our city.

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Speaker 3: Well you're kind to say that, and look, that's you know,

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Speaker 3: We're here for the communications side of it, to get

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Speaker 3: I don't want to disparage I say country club Republicans,

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Speaker 3: but for the sake of this conversation, there was there

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Speaker 4: Am I am? I off base.

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Speaker 6: Here, No, I think that's a struggle that we're seeing

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Speaker 6: And sure a lot of them, don't you know, may

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Speaker 6: I mean, when you have Scott Bessens and Nicki Minaj

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Speaker 6: There is, and what I encourage people to do is

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Speaker 6: find a local campaign that inspires you. What we're seeing

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Speaker 6: Get involved on a local campaign. We have a lot

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Speaker 6: get Representative John Gillespie, who's in the tightest district in

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Speaker 6: That was something that I really wanted to do with

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Speaker 6: So it's get involved. You are welcome. I received a

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Speaker 6: and that is my mission. You are welcome to voting

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Speaker 6: tell your friends and neighbors. We are better together. Regardless

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Speaker 3: Saturdays eleven o'clock right here on the mighty nine to

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Speaker 7: Not really, Tood. I'm telling you, it's been a It's

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Speaker 7: Yes on from Memphis. Actually, you know, they said Memphis

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Speaker 7: they take that large profit and pay down on the mortgage,

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Speaker 7: we can get the mortgage payment lower without them having

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Speaker 7: to refinance.

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Speaker 3: It is terrific advice from our good friend Joe Garner

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Speaker 3: Joe Garner dot com. That's Joe without the E Joegarner

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Speaker 3: dot com. And again, when you're looking at the real

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Speaker 3: estate market here in the mid South, there is a

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Speaker 3: lot of positive movement here and a lot of things

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Speaker 7: Yeah, here's some of them. You can google and see

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Speaker 7: some of them. But it's stuff like the Mid South

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Speaker 7: isn't a wild ride, but it's a smart climb when

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Speaker 7: it comes to real estate, affordable jury, steady equity, not overheated,

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Speaker 7: just healthy where first time home buyers can still win.

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Speaker 7: Those are some positive comments.

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Speaker 6: About our market.

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Speaker 3: I love this, and again, folks, you're gonna be able

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Speaker 3: to hear all about this every Saturday right here exclusively

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Speaker 3: on the mighty nine ninety eleven o'clock Real Estate Mortgage Shop. Joe,

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Speaker 3: let's talk about what's coming up Saturday on the show.

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Speaker 7: Oh yeah, we're going to talk about this stuff you

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Speaker 7: and I just discussed. We're going to talk about why

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Speaker 7: the Mid South is winning real estate strength and a

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Speaker 7: shifting national market. I've got Alan McCool who is an

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Speaker 7: on with me. So it's going to be good eleven

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Speaker 3: You can certainly do that ladies and gentlemen, and you

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Speaker 3: can put it on your smartphone. So when you're running

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Speaker 3: around doing erranngin or maybe boet, or you're not mowing

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Speaker 3: the grands, you're shoveling snow, you'll be able to you'll

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Speaker 3: be able to listen to Joe and maybe maybe Joe

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Speaker 3: can help you get get into a condo. That's true,

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Speaker 3: So let somebody else handle all of that work. So

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Speaker 3: all right, so Joe, give us, give us the call

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Speaker 3: to action here. Where do people need to go? Who

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Speaker 3: do they need to call if they want to get

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Speaker 3: more info?

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Speaker 7: If you're someone who or you know somebody who's thinking

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Speaker 7: about buying a home or refinancing to a one of

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Speaker 7: these three year low mortgage rates, please contact me today.

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Speaker 7: You can call or text me nine to one four

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Speaker 7: to help our listeners out there to get the right mortgage,

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Speaker 7: and we'll make the mortgage process easy. Remember Jogarner dot com.

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Speaker 3: All right, good stuff, Well, Joe. We look forward to

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Speaker 3: seeing you on the radio. It's going to be a fun,

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Speaker 3: fun show, folks, Saturday, eleven o'clock right here on the

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Speaker 3: mighty nine to nineties Day.

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Speaker 7: Warm Joe, Thank you, thank you.

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Speaker 3: All right, great lady right there. Literally, she is like

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Speaker 3: the queen of mortgage. If you need to know anything

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Speaker 3: about mortgages here in the mid South, she's the person

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Speaker 3: That's nine oh one four eight to zero three five four.

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Speaker 3: All right, coming up, Congressman David cost Off drops by,

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Speaker 3: but first let's check out with Commander junk. All right,

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Speaker 3: welcome back to Starring's Country here in the principal Toyota

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Speaker 3: Befis Studio. I'm Todd Stearns. Great to have you with

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Speaker 3: us today. Mentioned our good friend Congressman David Costoff. He

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Speaker 3: joined me last night on my Newsmag's TV show, and

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Speaker 3: here's that conversation. I wanted to get an update on

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Speaker 3: the situation there in the Nashville, which I know is

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Speaker 3: not in your district, but there has been a lot

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Speaker 3: of outrage over the DEI hires that have led to

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Speaker 3: big problems getting the power back on. We're hearing thousands

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Speaker 3: and thousands of people still do not have power and

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Speaker 3: may not have power for d as a result of

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Speaker 3: some of those DEI initiatives.

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Speaker 1: What say you, They may not have power for another week, Todd,

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Speaker 1: some of those people. In fact, I was just visiting

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Speaker 1: talking to someone who hasn't had power. The internal temperature

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Speaker 1: in their home in Nashville is thirty three to greeks,

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Speaker 1: and so they're about to have structural issues, pipes burst.

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Speaker 1: It's a real bad situation. To your point, it's bad leadership.

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Speaker 1: The head of the Nashville Electric System in ees prioritized

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Speaker 1: DEI initiatives over making sure that the power function and

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Speaker 1: making sure that the power would not go out in

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Speaker 1: an eye storm and if it did that they could

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Speaker 1: restore power within a quick amount of time. And unfortunately

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Speaker 1: that's not the case. People in Nashville have been with

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Speaker 1: that power now for eight to nine days, and in

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Speaker 1: this day of time, that's unconsciable.

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Speaker 3: It's just insane. And she's actually did an interview a

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Speaker 3: congressman where she said the head of the electric company said, yeah,

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Speaker 3: we really do place a priority on protecting what she

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Speaker 3: called the canopy of trees in Nashville, so much so

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Speaker 3: they hired an arborist on staff. And I certainly hope

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Speaker 3: that arborist is also alignment on the side, because they

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Speaker 3: could use all the help they could get in the

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Speaker 1: It's critical not only with the power being out, but

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Speaker 1: power lines being down on the ground and on certain streets.

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Speaker 1: So they truly were not prepared. Nashville was not prepared

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Speaker 1: with this eye storm that they got just a few

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Speaker 1: days ago, just over a week ago, and is critical

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Speaker 1: in Nashville. And hopefully, hopefully somebody will issue some leadership

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Speaker 1: and will display some leadership to literally get the lights

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Speaker 1: back on.

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Speaker 3: You know, Congressman, I want to get back to Washington

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Speaker 3: and to bend your ear. As a former US attorney. Uh,

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Speaker 3: the idea that in some of these cities, major cities,

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Speaker 3: police were told to stand down, not to provide any

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Speaker 3: assistance to the federal agents that are boots on the ground.

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Speaker 3: I'm just curious, why is it that we're seeing this

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Speaker 3: level of violence and a lot of these cities, and

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Speaker 3: yet in Memphis, which is in your congressional district. We've

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Speaker 3: got National Guard boots on the ground, federal agents boots

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Speaker 3: on the ground, but certainly have not seen any of

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Speaker 3: the hostilities.

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Speaker 1: You know, I think back to my time as US

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Speaker 1: attorney when federal, state and local law enforcement work, well,

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Speaker 1: we're caned in hand with each other and that and

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Speaker 1: that's to your point in Memphis, that is still the

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Speaker 1: case today. A lot of it is is the mentality

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Speaker 1: of the of the people on the ground, and certainly

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Speaker 1: the leadership. The look at Minnesota, Todd have the governor

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Speaker 1: Waltz and the mayor Fry who have been openly antagonistic

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Speaker 1: towards federal law enforcement, and so their rank and file

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Speaker 1: state and local law enforcement are going to follow the

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Speaker 1: lead of their elected leadership. And that's a shame because

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Speaker 1: everybody should want to live in a safe community, regardless

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Speaker 1: of your party, regardless of where you come from. And

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Speaker 1: when you have local and elected officials like they do

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Speaker 1: in Minnesota, if they would take a page of what

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Speaker 1: we're doing in Tennessee, where you've got you've got a

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Speaker 1: mayor who's a Democrat, you've got a governor who's a Republican,

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Speaker 1: but they've been supportive generally of the effort that's gone

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Speaker 1: on in Memphis. And as you know, we've had Memphis,

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Speaker 1: the Memphis Safe Task Force. Since the end of September,

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Speaker 1: they've made a fifty six hundred arrest they've arrested something

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Speaker 1: like five hundred and fifty known gang members. And you

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Speaker 1: know what, people across the community, regardless of who they are,

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Speaker 1: what political party, what they're saying, they're saying thank you.

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Speaker 1: They're saying thank you to federal law enforcement, thank you

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Speaker 1: to stay law enforcement, thank you to local law enforcement,

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Speaker 1: and thank you to the National Guard.

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Speaker 3: All Right, that's a bit of our conversation with Congressman

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Speaker 3: David Costaff last night on the Todd Sterns Show on Newsmax.

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Speaker 3: So US attorney Janine Piro is making some headlines. You know,

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Speaker 3: it's interesting this administration. It's hard to say if they're

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Speaker 3: if they are anti gun, or if they're just making

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Speaker 3: some verbal gaffs. We know that because the President and

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Speaker 3: other administration officials said a couple of weeks ago, you're

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Speaker 3: not allowed to bring any sort of a weapon to

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Speaker 3: a protest, which is not accurate. And then night Jennine

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Speaker 3: Piro on Fox News Channel has announced that you are

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Speaker 3: not allowed to bring any sort of a gun into Washington, DC.

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Speaker 3: I want you to take a listen, and.

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Speaker 8: You bring a gun into the district, you mark my words,

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Speaker 8: You're go into jail. I don't care if you have

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Speaker 8: a license in another district, and I don't care if

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Speaker 8: you're a law abiding gun owner somewhere else. You bring

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Speaker 8: a gun into this district, count on going to jail

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Speaker 8: and hope you get the gun back. And that makes

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Speaker 8: all the difference.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's amazing how accountability works. You know, when people

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Speaker 2: think that if they actually get arrested, they might have

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Speaker 2: to do time and they might be taken off the street,

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Speaker 2: it sort of puts a little different message into people's heads.

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Speaker 4: All right. So there you go. No doubt there is

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Speaker 4: going to be a lot of anger.

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Speaker 3: From second amendments folks, as well as organizations like Gun

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Speaker 3: Owners of America. We're going to do a deep dive

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Speaker 3: into all of this later on today a lieven o'clock

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Speaker 3: here on the Todd Starn Show, which you can listen

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Speaker 3: to exclusively here on the mighty nine to ninety. Also,

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Speaker 3: I want to go back to a story that has

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Speaker 3: generated literally hundreds of comments on our Kwaan Facebook page.

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Speaker 3: A parent reached out sent me an email over the weekend,

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Speaker 3: and she was really distraught and she was trying to

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Speaker 3: figure out how to handle a situation in her child's school.

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Speaker 3: And her child is a fifth grader at a school

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Speaker 3: in Bartlett, And I want to read to you what

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Speaker 3: the mom said, and I'm just curious to hear your

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Speaker 3: thoughts on this and how you would handle the situation.

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Speaker 4: She said.

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Speaker 3: Her son came home from school a few weeks ago

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Speaker 3: said his teacher had stated that Trump did not deserve

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Speaker 3: to be presented a Nobel Peace Prize, and her son

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Speaker 3: said that a few of the kids in the classroom

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Speaker 3: chimed in and stated how Trump was a horrible person

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Speaker 3: and how racist he is, and this is all happening

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Speaker 3: inside a fifth grade classroom. She said that she wrote

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Speaker 3: to the print, she contacted the teacher, she went to

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Speaker 3: the board members, and nobody's ever gotten back with her

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Speaker 3: talking about the appropriateness of this conversation.

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Speaker 4: So look, here's my take on it.

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Speaker 3: I look, if this isn't an American history class, or

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Speaker 3: a government class, or a Civics class, and this was

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Speaker 3: part of the conversation, and it was a student generated conversation.

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Speaker 3: I don't think it's that big of a deal to

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Speaker 3: have that kind of a conversation, but for a teacher

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Speaker 3: to insert her own political viewpoints inside the classroom, that

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Speaker 3: is where I would have to draw the line here,

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Speaker 3: because how many times have we heard the stories, even

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Speaker 3: here in West Tennessee, here in the mid South, of

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Speaker 3: teachers that have turned their classrooms into these propaganda centers

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Speaker 3: for far left for Democrat policies. And that's what I'm

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Speaker 3: concerned may have happened here in Bartlett. So we've reached

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Speaker 3: out to Bartlett School as well, trying to get some information,

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Speaker 3: trying to get some intel on what actually happened. I

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Speaker 3: know many of you are asking what was this called.

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Speaker 3: I'm not going to name the school. We want to

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Speaker 3: make sure, we want to make sure that we give

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Speaker 3: the school an opportunity to have their side of it,

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Speaker 3: but they're not getting back to us. So, but a

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Speaker 3: lot of you folks are our weighing in and many

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Speaker 3: are saying that this is perfectly appropriate for the teacher

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Speaker 3: to do what she she did. So as a matter

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Speaker 3: of fact, the Patricia says, this sounds like a great

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Speaker 3: conversation with the kids. My granddaughter's an educator. Her fifth

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Speaker 3: grader had good concerns and questions about all of that.

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Speaker 3: Another says, so the truth was told in the classroom.

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Speaker 3: Great job, Chuck says, Wait a second. No kid should

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Speaker 4: Period.

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Speaker 3: I'm with Chuck here. I mean, when you go back

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Speaker 3: to I go back to Hope soul An Elementary School

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Speaker 3: in South Haven, I couldn't. I'll tell you who was

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Speaker 3: a Democrat, who was a Republican. Those were the good

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Speaker 3: old days. All right, We've got to leave it there.

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Speaker 3: Eleven o'clock. Ladies and gentlemen, don't forget the Todd Sterns Show.

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Speaker 3: Be sure to join us. Get out there and have

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Speaker 3: a safe and great day, everybody,