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Speaker 1: From the mighty nine ninety broadcast centers.

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

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Speaker 3: Good morning everybody. Welcome to Starrings Country. We are proudly

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Speaker 3: broadcasting in the Principal Toyota, Memphis studio. If you're looking

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Speaker 3: for a great deal on a car, got to go

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Speaker 3: visit our friend Todd Loackner over at Principal Toyota. And

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Speaker 3: a huge, huge thank you, by the way to Luke

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Speaker 3: Symbol for a filling in over the past couple of days.

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Speaker 3: I was supposed to be in Houston delivering a speech

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Speaker 3: to the Republican Party in Houston, Texas, and because of

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Speaker 3: the weather that got canceled. So I decided to take

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Speaker 3: a couple of days play hooky from the show and

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Speaker 3: to finish up this major book project that has been

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Speaker 3: lurking in the in the background. So anyway, got that done,

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Speaker 3: and I'm glad to be behind the microphone. But man

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Speaker 3: sure to appreciate Luke. You guys have sen so many

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Speaker 3: wonder full kind messages yesterday saying what a great job

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Speaker 3: he did, and he did so, Luke Symbol, thank you

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Speaker 3: for all of the great work that you do for

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Speaker 3: Memphis and Shelby County. We're going to start out, and

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Speaker 3: if you follow us on our social media pages, you

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Speaker 3: already know that I have a be in my bonnet,

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Speaker 3: as they say, about the road conditions here in Memphis,

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Speaker 3: and we're going to give you the opportunity to sound

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Speaker 3: off here and really have a little bit of a

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Speaker 3: I don't know, it's too early in the morning to

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Speaker 3: have a come to Jesus moment, but there is a

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Speaker 3: lot of frustration out there among motorists, and not just motorists,

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Speaker 3: but parents, from business owners, restaurant owners, churches across everything

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Speaker 3: shut down and looks like many churches are probably going

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Speaker 3: to be shut down again on Sunday, two Sundays in

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Speaker 3: a row. And Lord knows we need the Lord in

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Speaker 3: this community. So we have got to figure out what

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Speaker 3: in the world is going on here, because let's just

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Speaker 3: have a reality check. It was four inches of snow, people,

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Speaker 3: four inches of snow, and it has crippled a major

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Speaker 3: American city. I've never seen anything like this. It is

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Speaker 3: just insanity. So the question is was it the four

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Speaker 3: inches of snow that crippled the Mid South or is

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Speaker 3: it just bad leadership? Now I want to say something

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Speaker 3: about Bartlett. You guys give yourselves a round of applause

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Speaker 3: because you your roads are probably better than anybody else's

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Speaker 3: in the Mid South. You guys have all of the

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Speaker 3: equipment that you need. And yeah, I mean I think

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Speaker 3: a day or two. But here we are, and we're

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Speaker 3: almost a week into this, and I don't see anything

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Speaker 3: getting better. As a matter of fact, Laura Hockeby will

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Speaker 3: be along to this a little while and she'll have

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Speaker 3: your complete forecast. But tonight we're doing the deep plunge again.

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Speaker 3: By Friday night will be down to fourteen degrees and

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Speaker 3: by Saturday nine degrees. So what's frozen is going to

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Speaker 3: stay frozen. So it could be a situation where and

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Speaker 3: I think there was a prediction made that kids may

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Speaker 3: not be back in the classroom here in the Mid

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Speaker 3: South until sometime in February. The first part of February.

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Speaker 3: Four inches of snow people, And I just want to

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Speaker 3: say this, Wow, So the truck drivers of the Mid South,

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Speaker 3: and I want you to hear me on this, the

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Speaker 3: truck drivers of the Mid South, what's going on? Dudes?

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Speaker 3: I mean, seriously, you've got truck drivers that are I

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Speaker 3: mean slamming it in these snow covered, ice covered lanes

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Speaker 3: doing forty five on these snowy, icy roads. We get

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Speaker 3: it to drive a pickup truck, good for you, but

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Speaker 3: there's no reason for you to terrorize other drivers out

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Speaker 3: there on the roadway. So do a little bit better.

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Speaker 3: The situation of Mississippi, that's just unacceptable. Where you had

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Speaker 3: It's insanity. Now, in just a second, we're gonna get

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Speaker 3: to the Mississippi Department of Transportation. I had my NEWSMAC

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Speaker 3: show yesterday and I asked them some very frank questions

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Speaker 3: because I hear from a lot of you, are you

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Speaker 3: let me ask you this. Are you satisfied with the

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Speaker 3: and hear me on this, A lot of folks are saying,

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Speaker 3: help and say, I'm just spitballing here, but like Germantown,

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Speaker 3: Because that's not the state's responsibility, that's Germantown's responsibility, that's

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Speaker 3: Interstate's looking pretty good right now, but I'm telling you

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Speaker 3: This is a major disaster for a lot of people.

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Speaker 3: The generosity of the people here in the Mid South

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Speaker 3: has been off the charts. I have seen so many

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Speaker 3: There are folks that are using their vehicles to transpoint

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Speaker 3: That's huge, But I don't think we should have to

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Speaker 3: especially with the taxes we pay in this part of

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Speaker 3: for their neighbors, which is really symbolic of who we

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Speaker 3: telephone number this morning nine oh one two six zero

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Speaker 3: We'll ask him about the snow situation as well, because

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Speaker 3: I know we like to play around with words like snowmageddon.

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Speaker 3: This was not snow mageddon. Four inches of snow, people,

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Speaker 3: four inches of snow. By the way, if you think

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Speaker 3: it's bad here, they put a diversity higher in charge

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Speaker 3: of the power company in Nashville. Over one hundred thousand

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Speaker 3: customers are still without power and people are losing their

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Speaker 3: ever loving minds in nash Vegas because you know, they

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Speaker 3: all have to get up and well, this is so insulting,

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Speaker 3: but it's true. They all have to get up and

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Speaker 3: That's how bad. And now they can't do that, and

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Speaker 3: you know you don't want to be around those Nashville

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Speaker 3: guys when they can't moisturize or exfoliate. I'm just saying,

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Speaker 3: Let's go to the phones here? Mary and downtown Memphis,

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Speaker 3: Mary Howard, things in your neck of the woods.

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Speaker 4: First, I want to say welcome back, Tard. I enjoyed

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Speaker 4: that was saying something about let the community do it

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Speaker 4: and get some tacks right off, you know, you know

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Speaker 4: people that got the trucks and just let the community

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Speaker 4: two pickup trucks. They were white, they had a front end,

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Speaker 4: and they went all the way down on Third, you know,

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Speaker 4: that in down to Third was clear.

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Speaker 5: You see, they came.

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Speaker 4: In Sunday night. I don't know who had them out here,

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Speaker 4: the truck. I don't know, but it can work. Let

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Speaker 4: the community come out and do it. I mean, it's

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Speaker 4: a time to make some extra money or get some

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Speaker 4: tax right off. And I enjoyed that caller yesterday when

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Speaker 4: he brought up that suggestion because I saw it in action.

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Speaker 4: I don't know. They weren't stay trucks, but they were

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Speaker 4: out here. And to this day, right here and now

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Speaker 4: is clear. And so that's that. We just didn't figure

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Speaker 4: and it's still full of snow.

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Speaker 3: Is that right? Well? I Mary, I look, I love

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Speaker 3: that idea, and you do want I was thinking about

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Speaker 3: that yesterday because you've got all these you know, private

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Speaker 3: and most of the shopping centers, like the Kroger I

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Speaker 3: The Germantown Kroger. It looks like the It truly looks

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Speaker 3: like the apocalypse. So I was over at East Memphis

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Speaker 3: And I thought, why can't this, Why can't we ask

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Speaker 3: the roadways, Because you're right, it's you know there there

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Speaker 3: are folks out there that are doing that. I will

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Speaker 3: say this to Mary, thank you for the call. I

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Speaker 3: will say this. I was making some calls yesterday. We're

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Speaker 3: trying to get the snow cleared from our little parking

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Speaker 3: lot here. It's it's ice now. But at two hundred

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Speaker 3: bag of the ice melt, summertime cannot come quickly enough,

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Speaker 3: Ladies and gentlemen. Nine oh one two six zero five

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Speaker 3: is open and what is still closed? A lot of

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Speaker 3: is open? What is closed? Across the mid South? Give

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Speaker 3: zero five nine two six. Now let's check in on Mississippi.

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Speaker 3: This is insane. You had hundreds of drivers still stocked.

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Speaker 3: They shut down Interstate fifty five yesterday north of Batesville.

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Speaker 3: People are really struggling across and by the way, Olive Branch,

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Speaker 3: I've heard a lot of information from you guys. Roads

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Speaker 3: are just simply not getting cleared out there. Let's take

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Speaker 3: a listen of that conversation. Good to have you with us,

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Speaker 3: and I want to cut right to the chase here.

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Speaker 3: We're getting inundated with a lot of angry calls for

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Speaker 3: Mississippians wondering why it's taking so long for these roadways

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Speaker 3: to be cleared.

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Speaker 6: Well, we received a significant amount of ice where our

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Speaker 6: neighboring states in some metro areas received just snow, and

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Speaker 6: as many people know, you can't plow ice. We had

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Speaker 6: over an inch of ice in many areas in North Mississippi.

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Speaker 6: But our crews are mobilizing from Central Mississippi. Much of

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Speaker 6: our fleet of one hundred and thirty five snow plioles

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Speaker 6: sixty four Moti gradors are in that area this afternoon

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Speaker 6: doing some heavy work trying to clear that ice oiute

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Speaker 6: of the road. What happened overnight which led to those

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Speaker 6: people being stalled was We had commercial carriers, heavy traffic

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Speaker 6: and the temperatures dropped after we had plowed in many

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Speaker 6: areas and it began to ice over again. So the

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Speaker 6: conditions worsened in the evening and night hours, and those

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Speaker 6: people were not able to get.

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Speaker 1: Traction on the road. It was icy, and all of

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Speaker 1: a sudden, you have.

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Speaker 6: A bunch of cars and vehicles trucks stuck on the

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Speaker 6: Interstate this afternoon with those closures by the highway patrol,

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Speaker 6: we're hoping to move most of those vehicles out so

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Speaker 6: we can get our equipment in to try to break

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Speaker 6: up some of that ice while the temperatures are above

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Speaker 6: free and get it out of the way so.

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Speaker 1: We can get traffic moving again.

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Speaker 7: That's still pretty bad. I'm parked in my at work,

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Speaker 3: So no, it's a good point. And maybe Keith, what

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Speaker 7: Yeah, exactly, And a lot of times for the row,

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Speaker 1: You know what I mean.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Keith, You're absolutely right, and it's a great call,

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Speaker 8: I posted a video yesterday. I mean our our street

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Speaker 3: Fifty dollars to deliver them.

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Speaker 8: So anyway, I went over to Elwood Shack. Illwood Shack

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Speaker 3: So, Dean, you made you made the entire audience hungry

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Speaker 3: Fifty dollars for delivery. That sounds like drum bomb. All right,

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Speaker 2: Marcia Blackburn is an incredible person. Unfortunately she's running for governor.

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Speaker 2: She's running for governor of Tennessee. I'd love her not to.

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Speaker 2: I begged, I said.

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Speaker 2: We don't want to lose you in the Senate.

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Speaker 1: But I have to say, they're lucky.

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Speaker 2: They're lucky to get you because you are You're a

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Speaker 3: good morning to our congressman David Kustoff, Congressman. Hope you're

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Speaker 9: Thank you talk good morning. Hopefully everybody is staying warm

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Speaker 9: Anybody wants to go there. We saw them bloating the

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Speaker 3: Yes we do, Congressman.

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Speaker 3: And and I appreciate you saying that. There is so

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Speaker 9: Well it's an excellent point, and you know, in this

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Speaker 9: don't know Todd ten or eleven days before before his death,

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Speaker 9: where he is ranting and raving and using a lot

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Speaker 9: of f words that are not very polite. In fact,

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Speaker 9: they're unkind and he is frankly acting like a maniac,

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Speaker 9: kicks the vehicle of law enforcement kicks out the tail light,

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Speaker 9: and I don't understand why he wasn't detained, why he

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Speaker 9: wasn't arrested at that point, and maybe you know, in hindsight,

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Speaker 9: if he had been, he wouldn't have been out that

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Speaker 9: Saturday last week, and and he wouldn't be dead. I

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Speaker 9: don't understand why he wasn't taken into custody at that

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Speaker 9: at that point, but to your point, he was he

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Speaker 9: antagonized at that event. That the video that the BBC

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Speaker 9: uncovered and released, and I'd encourage everybody to go watch.

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Speaker 3: It, and it gives you an idea of what these

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Speaker 3: four federal agents have to deal with on a daily basis.

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Speaker 3: I mean, this is insane, a sun up to sundown.

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Speaker 9: You know. So one of the requests that the Democrats

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Speaker 9: have a lot of requests of Ice and homeland security,

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Speaker 9: and one of them is is that these agents need

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Speaker 9: to take off their their masks. And there are I

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Speaker 9: think everybody realizes there are extreme security reasons why these

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Speaker 9: Ice age who are really dilified by the far far left,

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Speaker 9: have to wear these masks. And part of it is

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Speaker 9: not only for their own security, but these people are

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Speaker 9: being docked. These agents and officers are being docksed, and

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Speaker 9: not only are they being threatened, todd that their families

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Speaker 9: are being threatened. Unfortunately, that's what it's That's what it's

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Speaker 9: come to. Donald Trump, I think, was elected for a

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Speaker 9: lot of reasons, one of which, though, was to reverse

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Speaker 9: the what Biden had unleashed at the southern border, where

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Speaker 9: we had millions of unlawful migrants who lost the Southern border.

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Speaker 9: Donald Trump and ICE agents and Border control agents and

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Speaker 9: law enforcement have done a great job. Those numbers have

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Speaker 9: really really dwindled. But the fact of the matter is

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Speaker 9: is that the far left wants to take their fury

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Speaker 9: out on these law enforcement agents and these ICE agents,

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Speaker 9: and it's unfortunate and they've got to do what they've

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Speaker 9: better do to protect their own security.

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Speaker 3: So I know, and by the way, as you and

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Speaker 3: I are talking, we've got Tom home and the borders

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Speaker 3: are who's in Minneapolis holding a live press conference right now.

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Speaker 3: President Trump in just moments will convene a cabinet meeting.

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Speaker 3: There'll be a lot of news coming out out of that.

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Speaker 3: But as as the President talked about, you know, Waltz,

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Speaker 3: the governor of Minnesota calling him and you know, wanting

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Speaker 3: to work out something we now know that a Waltz

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Speaker 3: put out a pressor a campaign really fundraiser, begging for

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Speaker 3: money and doubling down on his promise not to work

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Speaker 3: with federal agents. Mayor Jacob Frye says yesterday that they're

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Speaker 3: not going to enforce federal immigration law. Now, you guys

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Speaker 3: in Congress, you've got a unique responsibility because you do

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Speaker 3: have the power of the purse here, and I'm wondering,

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Speaker 3: you know, if we're not going to surge more agents,

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Speaker 3: why don't we just cut off or at least suspend

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Speaker 3: all federal funding until those city leaders and state leaders

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Speaker 3: do comply.

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Speaker 9: I think everything's an option, and I would encourage I

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Speaker 9: would encourage President Trump to continue to have those federal

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Speaker 9: resources in Minneapolis if he truly sees threats We've seen

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Speaker 9: in cities like Memphis where we have great cooperation between local, state,

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Speaker 9: and federal law enforcement and tit. I'll go back, maybe

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Speaker 9: if I can go back in history for a moment,

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Speaker 9: I was the US attorney twenty years ago. Historically in

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Speaker 9: our community that's been the case. We have local and

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Speaker 9: state and federal law enforcement that work together. They wanted

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Speaker 9: to try to do the right thing we know. Back

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Speaker 9: in September, the President Trump surged federal law enforcement here

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Speaker 9: to try to get a handle on crime in Memphis.

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Speaker 9: He's done a great job. We've seen over fifty five

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Speaker 9: hundred arrest, over fifty five hundred arrest since since President

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Speaker 9: Trump serves these law enforcement agencies in Memphis. And so

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Speaker 9: I think that cities like Minneapolis could take a cue

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Speaker 9: from Memphis work together.

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Speaker 3: Well, the congressman, I hear what you're saying, but that's

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Speaker 3: not what we're hearing out of city Hall. And I

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Speaker 3: heard Secretary Nome, you know, when she gave Memphis a

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Speaker 3: shout out and she was boasting about that collaboration. Mayor

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Speaker 3: Paul Young came right out and said, oh no, no, no, no, no,

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Speaker 3: he says, And I want to read the quote here

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Speaker 3: from the mayor. I want to clarify. Yes, they talking

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Speaker 3: about the FEDS have been working with the City of

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Speaker 3: Memphis on addressing violent crime, but I want to be

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Speaker 3: very clear there has been no collaboration with ICE on immigration.

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Speaker 3: He also said that Memphis police officers do not assist

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Speaker 3: in immigration enforcement any way. I think, unless, of course,

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Speaker 3: the collaboration is the Mayor's just keeping his mouth shut

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Speaker 3: about all of this.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, I don't know about that. I mean, you and

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Speaker 9: I have been with these law enforcement officers alive. You've

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Speaker 9: you've fed them, I've I've fed them. We've We've talked

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Speaker 9: with people who were here from all over the country.

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Speaker 9: I've been very impressed with the way that local and

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Speaker 9: state and federal have worked in Memphis, and just very

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Speaker 9: appreciative of them, because you know, you've got these agents

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Speaker 9: who are here from all over the country. They could

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Speaker 9: be other places, obviously, and they're they're here trying to

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Speaker 9: do the right thing. So I understand what the mayor said,

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Speaker 9: but I think with these men and women who are

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Speaker 9: doing the job, the law enforcement job, they are working

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Speaker 9: together and they've done a great job. And you know,

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Speaker 9: I gave those stans, I the stans I think that

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Speaker 9: are really stand out here locally. Almost five hundred and

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Speaker 9: fifty known gang members have been taken off the streets,

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Speaker 9: it really is and the number of missing children almost

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Speaker 9: one hundred and fifty missing children located. So to Mayor

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Speaker 9: Fry and Governor Waltz, look at what we've done in Memphis,

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Speaker 9: and instead of trying to gend your own people up,

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Speaker 9: if you could work with federal law enforcement. I think

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Speaker 9: you'd see that it would make a difference in Minneapolis

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Speaker 9: and in Minnesota.

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Speaker 3: Real quick, congressman, looking ahead, we've got a looming government

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Speaker 3: shut down again. It sounds as if leadership Speaker Johnson

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Speaker 3: is drawing the line of the sand and we are

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Speaker 3: not going to be defunding Homeland Security.

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Speaker 8: No.

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Speaker 9: You know what we did in the House. We took

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Speaker 9: a vote last week. We passed the funding for Homeland

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Speaker 9: Security and for other agencies Department of Defense, etc. We

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Speaker 9: packaged it up where the Senate has to vote not

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Speaker 9: only on Homeland Security, but five other funding bills as

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Speaker 9: one vote. And to me, to defund Homeland Security like

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Speaker 9: some of these Democrats want to do, it makes no sense.

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Speaker 9: We saw the hurt that the shutdown calls not only

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Speaker 9: the government employees, but to our own constituents. So they're

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Speaker 9: going to take a vote. The Senate will take a

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Speaker 9: vote sometime later this morning. We'll see what happens. I

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Speaker 9: know Senator Thune wants it to pass. And if I

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Speaker 9: can point one of the things out Todd on this

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Speaker 9: that funding bill was negotiated not only with Republicans but

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Speaker 9: with Democrat leadership the Democrats signed off on the funding

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Speaker 9: until apparently now they don't sign up on the funding.

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Speaker 3: Imagine that. Congressman, all right, well we've got to leave

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Speaker 3: it there. Appreciate the intel on the Kroger. If you're there,

567
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Speaker 3: just put pick me up a six pack of doctor pepper.

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Speaker 3: If you don't mind, I'm going through with I'm going

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Speaker 3: through withdrawal.

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Speaker 9: I will take care of your job.

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Speaker 3: All right, Congressman. As always, I love constituent services. Very

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Speaker 3: well done, Congressmen. Always appreciate you coming on the show.

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Speaker 9: Thank you, thank you for having me on to day.

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Speaker 3: All right, Congressman David cost off everybody, and he did

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Speaker 3: give us. I think the I'm trying to think that

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Speaker 3: we covered a lot of ground, but I think the

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Speaker 3: headline is there are groceries on the shelves at the

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Speaker 3: Kroger over at Kirby and Poplar.

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Speaker 4: Uh.

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Speaker 3: Nine oh one two six zero five nine two six.

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Speaker 3: We're going to your calls. How do you how do

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Speaker 3: you grade city officials on how they've handled the big storm? Again,

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Speaker 3: our telephone number nine oh one two six zero five

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Speaker 3: nine two six. This is Starns Country and welcome back everybody,

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Speaker 3: And you heard this story of malwalking is apparently coming back.

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Speaker 3: It's it's in vogue again. I remember back in the

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Speaker 3: in the eighties and nineties, the grandparents used to go

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Speaker 3: over to Well, they used to they used to walk

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Speaker 3: south Land Mall and then when they moved to Kirby

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Speaker 3: Pines in the mid eighties, they switched over to it

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Speaker 3: was it Hickory It wasn't Hickory Ridge, Hickory Hill mall

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Speaker 3: over there off of Winchester. But they loved it. They

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Speaker 3: would and it was like a big thing. I mean,

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Speaker 3: you have hundreds of people doing the mall walking before

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Speaker 3: the stores opened up. So anyway, just curious, are you

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Speaker 3: one of those mall walkers getting up early and doing

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Speaker 3: the instead of hitting the I don't know the trails

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Speaker 3: at Shelby Farms head over to the gallery. Nine oh

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Speaker 3: one two six zero five nine two six are telephone number.

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Speaker 3: That's nine oh one two six zero five nine two six.

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Speaker 3: By the way, Memphis now a finalist. Every year Beacon

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Speaker 3: the Beacon Center of Tennessee releases the Port of the

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Speaker 3: Year Award. This is not an award you want to win.

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Speaker 3: There are three nominees for the finalist. The top three

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Speaker 3: instances of government waste in the state of Tennessee. In

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Speaker 3: other words, they keep track of how your elected leaders

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Speaker 3: are using your hard earned money. The top three. Are

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Speaker 3: you ready for this? There's a TV show called nine

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Speaker 3: to one to One Nashville, which we've only watched once

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Speaker 3: because Aid and Pettitt, one of our crew here at KWHAM,

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Speaker 3: was actually one of the celebrity guests of the show,

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Speaker 3: and it was a pretty awesome episode, but it was

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Speaker 3: the most bizarre TV show I think I've ever seen. Anyway,

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Speaker 3: it turns out Tennessee committed ten million dollars in tax

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Speaker 3: incentives to support bringing nine to one to one Nashville

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Speaker 3: to the state, more than any other show filmed in

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Speaker 3: the state has ever received at all. So that is

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Speaker 3: number one. And by the way, the show's not doing

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Speaker 3: well in the ratings. Ford Motor Company got nine hundred

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Speaker 3: million dollars in incentives from Tennessee. And once again, this

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Speaker 3: is what they announced in December, the fourth delay at

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Speaker 3: Blue Oval City since the project was announced. Production now

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Speaker 3: delayed until twenty twenty nine, and they've officially scrapped electric

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Speaker 3: vehicle production in favor of producing gas powered vehicles. And

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Speaker 3: last but not least, ladies and gentlemen, the City of

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Speaker 3: Memphis is a finalist for Pork of the Year and

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Speaker 3: the reason why the city purchased the Sheridan Memphis Downtown Hotel.

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Speaker 3: As described by the Beacon, it is an outdated hotel

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Speaker 3: in need of massive repairs. The city issued thirty million

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Speaker 3: dollars in bonds to cover the twenty two million dollar

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Speaker 3: purchase price, tossing tens of millions more onto the city's

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Speaker 3: debt pile. So there you go. Congratulations Mayor Paul Young

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Speaker 3: and the City Hall. You guys are a finalist for

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Speaker 3: the twenty twenty five Pork of the Year award. Anybody

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Speaker 3: surprised by this? All right, let's go to the phones.

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Speaker 3: Nine oh one two six zero five nine two six

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Speaker 3: Mike and Memphis Mike, what's on your mind?

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Speaker 5: Hey, greetings, Todd. Yeah, the caller earlier, she commented about

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Speaker 5: my college yesterday regarding let the neighbors, Let the people

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Speaker 5: in the community. We have tens of thousands of people

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Speaker 5: that have equipment that they run businesses, and we can

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Speaker 5: go out and clean the roads in lieu of taxes.

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Speaker 5: Let us do the work instead of taxing everybody to

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Speaker 5: buy equipment. That's kind of set there for twenty years

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Speaker 5: and people that are going to be on the salary

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Speaker 5: with pensions and benefits and retirements. We can do it ourselves.

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Speaker 5: We don't need to keep building bureaucracy. And I think

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Speaker 5: more people are coming to that realization. You know, your

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Speaker 5: congressman there, he had no solutions to this problem with

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Speaker 5: the ice because he's never had a solution to anything

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Speaker 5: other than spending money. He's the guy that's part of

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Speaker 5: the problem. And I know you like, what.

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Speaker 3: Do you mean by that? No, no, no, I'm not going

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Speaker 3: what do you mean by that? I mean, does it

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Speaker 3: matter alike or not we call out the congress What

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Speaker 3: does the what responsibility does the congressman have to get

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Speaker 3: ice off of your Well.

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Speaker 5: If he's a congressman over this district, he ought to

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Speaker 5: have contingency plans in place that he's no cirta.

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Speaker 3: That's Mike, Mike. That is the responsibility of municipal leaders.

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Speaker 3: So you're telling me that the congressman should go to

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Speaker 3: city hall and just throw the mayor out of office?

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Speaker 3: Is that what you're saying?

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Speaker 7: Negative?

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Speaker 5: Now, he's in charge of the federal budget and to

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Speaker 5: allow the people to take responsibility for themselves to take

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Speaker 5: care of their own needs and to benefit them by

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Speaker 5: eliminating the property taxes, which if you don't pay your

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Speaker 5: property tax, they'll take your property from you. We need

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Speaker 5: to go back to where the individuals are self sufficient

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Speaker 5: and they're not being leveraged by these corporate cities. The

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Speaker 5: corporate cities are a problem.

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Speaker 3: So again I want to go back to and I mean,

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Speaker 3: clearly you have an issue with the congressman. You said

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Speaker 3: my congressman. Well if I'm not sure where you live

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Speaker 3: in Memphis, but is he your congressman as well?

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Speaker 5: I didn't vote for the guy. I would never vote

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Speaker 5: I know him personally. I've known you since ninety four,

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Speaker 5: and he is beyond a rhino. He's a Democrat that

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Speaker 5: just puts on a persona.

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Speaker 3: I'm sorry, Okay, Mike, appreciate the call. Nine oh one

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Speaker 3: two six zero five, nine twenty six. It is not

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Speaker 3: your congressman's responsibility. It is the responsibility of your local municipalities.

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Speaker 3: And maybe just maybe we ought to have maybe maybe

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Speaker 3: we could do this here at Kawhim. We could we

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Speaker 3: could hold a symposium and we can invite the good

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Speaker 3: people of Bartlett who run Bartlett to come and explain

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Speaker 3: to the other municipalities that are struggling. Hey, here's how

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Speaker 3: here's how we cleared our roads, here's how we prepared

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Speaker 3: for the snowstorm coming up. Maybe I don't know, maybe

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Speaker 3: we could do that, but as it stands now, I'm

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Speaker 3: going to be surprised. I mean again, the idea that

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Speaker 3: your kids are going to be out of school for

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Speaker 3: what two weeks for this, for this snowfall, I don't

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Speaker 3: know about that. All right, folks, we have got a

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Speaker 3: very busy day coming up here on the Body nine

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Speaker 3: Naughty Armstrong at Getty coming up next later eleven o'clock

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Speaker 3: The Todd Sterns Show. Really appreciate Chris au Sato filling in.

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Speaker 3: We have Congressman Jim Jordan, Chairman of House Judiciary. He's

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Speaker 3: gonna drop by. We're gonna have a lot of fun.

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Speaker 3: Kwamradio dot com. Go check it out, Get out there,

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Speaker 3: be safe, everybody,