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

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Speaker 1: America's conservative blowtorch.

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Speaker 2: That's American Todd starts day, and hello everybody, Happy Festivus

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Speaker 2: to you. We shall be We shall begin the airing

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Speaker 2: of grievances and mere moments. Great to have you with us.

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Speaker 2: I am your host, Todd Stearns, as we broadcast bordered

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Speaker 2: to border, coast to coast across the Fruited Plain. A

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Speaker 2: lot happening today, and we're also on the lookout for

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Speaker 2: any sorts of breaking news that might be out there.

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Speaker 2: But I want to start with a bit of yule

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Speaker 2: Tide cheer if you well, involving Sarah Hackabe Sanders, who

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Speaker 2: is the governor of the great state of Arkansas. And

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Speaker 2: I've been a big fan of Sarah's for many, many years.

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Speaker 2: You know, we met back. I guess, wow, I think

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Speaker 2: she was still in college. Maybe I think she was

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Speaker 2: still in college. And her dad, Mike Cockaby, is a

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Speaker 2: very dear friend of mine, and we were on the

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Speaker 2: campaign trail up in New Hampshire, and I remember being

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Speaker 2: bitterly cold, and I had Fox and you sent me

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Speaker 2: up there. I was one of the political reporters at

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Speaker 2: the time, and they flew me up to I remember,

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Speaker 2: you have to fly into Boston and there was so

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Speaker 2: much snow the Manchester airport couldn't get to Manchester, so

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Speaker 2: I had to rent a car and then drive from

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Speaker 2: Boston to New Hampshire, which is a beautiful state. A

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Speaker 2: little off putting to see all the moose crossing signs. Dylan,

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Speaker 2: you know here we have you know, deer and well

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Speaker 2: the possums. It's a free for all. But up there

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Speaker 2: you got you've got moose, and you don't want to

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Speaker 2: be messing around with the moose. Those things are like

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Speaker 2: big at tanks.

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Speaker 3: They want to step on you.

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Speaker 2: The Ford f one fifty moose, they're the worst. So anyway,

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Speaker 2: I'm I'm up in New Hampshire. We're on the campaign trail.

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Speaker 2: It was primary day for it was the Republican primary

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Speaker 2: and Mitt, I think, was that Mitt Romney. It had

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Speaker 2: to event. Rodney and his crew was there. Nobody was

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Speaker 2: paying attention to him, right because we were we were

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Speaker 2: freezing cold. You're not allowed to go inside the polling station,

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Speaker 2: so you're outside. So here comes the and John McCain's

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Speaker 2: people were there. Here comes Mike Huckabee and his crew,

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Speaker 2: they Dylan, they got out of their vans and all

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Speaker 2: of us in the press corps where our teeth are chattering.

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Speaker 2: It's that cold snow everywhere, snow coming down. All of

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Speaker 2: a sudden, we saw big things of steam coming out

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Speaker 2: of the vehicle and Huckeyby and everybody on his crew

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Speaker 2: they had big boxes of Krispy Kream donuts and jugs,

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Speaker 2: giant jugs of hot coffee and cocoa. And I'm just

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Speaker 2: gonna tell you, and I'm not proud of this. I

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Speaker 2: don't even know what Hockey said. He got great media

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Speaker 2: coverage that day. I don't everybody gave. I don't even

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Speaker 2: even NPR. I'm telling you that they knew how to

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Speaker 2: work the crowley.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: It really is that simple. A Krispy Cream donut and

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Speaker 2: a hot cup of cocoa. Yeah, you're gonna get a

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Speaker 2: good press coverage. It's really that simple. So anyway, got

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Speaker 2: a chance to meet Sarah. She was one of the

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Speaker 2: ones that was filling the everybody's cocoa bugs and just

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Speaker 2: a great person. You know, she did a terrific job

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Speaker 2: of the greatest White House Press secretaries that we've had.

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Speaker 2: She was a ferocious warrior for the conservative cause. And

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Speaker 2: by the way, the media was just so ugly to her,

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Speaker 2: you know, they went after her appearance, her looks, her weight,

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Speaker 2: you can't imagine just being pummeled every single day for

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Speaker 2: the way you look, and that will wear on a person.

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Speaker 2: I don't care who you are, It just you know,

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Speaker 2: you're human, and you know, not everybody's built like Trump,

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Speaker 2: you know. And so one day, Trump, you know, actually

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Speaker 2: pulled her aside and really just gave her great positive

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Speaker 2: affirmation and encouragement. And she wrote about that in a

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Speaker 2: book and it was it really told me a lot

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Speaker 2: about Donald Trump's character as well. But if you remember,

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Speaker 2: Sarah Sanders and her family were targeted, they were she

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Speaker 2: and her husband were out for dinner with friends and

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Speaker 2: you imagine, I mean, that's it's embarrassing, it's humiliating, and honestly,

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Speaker 2: you know, Sarah is a gracious woman. I would have

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Speaker 2: we would have had a biker brawl on the way out.

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Speaker 2: just me. That's how I that's how I built. But

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Speaker 2: but Sarah, you know, she didn't want to bring any

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Speaker 2: embarrassment upon the administration. But she is a fighter and

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Speaker 2: she never backed down. She always went toe to toe

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Speaker 2: with the present. And I really, really truly appreciated that

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Speaker 2: about Sarah. So anyway, she's also a Christian woman, and

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Speaker 2: she's been doing a terrific job as governor of Arkansas.

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Speaker 2: And it turns out that she has run a foul

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Speaker 2: of the atheist group known as the Freedom from Religion Foundation.

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Speaker 2: They're based in Wisconsin, and these people are an anti

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Speaker 2: Christian hate group and they use the courts to wage

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Speaker 2: warfare law fair against average conservative folk and especially the

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Speaker 2: Christian community. So anyway, Sarah's anders the other day posted

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Speaker 2: a proclamation declaring the reason why government offices would be

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Speaker 2: closed Christmas Day and the day after Christmas. And she

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Speaker 2: said it's because this is the time of year that

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Speaker 2: we celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ. Well, the atheist

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Speaker 2: went bonkers and they said, you can't say that, you

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Speaker 2: can't mention Jesus. How dare you so? Anyway, these god

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Speaker 2: was heath and atheists, they sent this nasty letter to

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Speaker 2: Sarah's Anders and demanding they demanded that she removed the

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Speaker 2: aim of Jesus from her proclamation. They wanted her to

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Speaker 2: actually rescind the proclamation celebrating the reason for the season.

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Speaker 2: Now let me stop here for just a moment. It

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Speaker 2: doesn't even matter. It doesn't matter that Christmas is the

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Speaker 2: reason for that Jesus is the reason. It doesn't that

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Speaker 2: does not matter. Christmas is a federal holiday. It is

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Speaker 2: a federally recognized holiday. It is the law of the lands.

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Speaker 2: And the atheists know this. The Freedom from Religion Foundation

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Speaker 2: firing off a nasty letter. State offices are not churches,

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Speaker 2: and gubernatorial proclamations are not humans. The governor is free

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Speaker 2: to practice your religion previously, but she may not use

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Speaker 2: the authority of the state to promote Christian doctrine is

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Speaker 2: official government speech. You can smell them from here. Can

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Speaker 2: you smell that? Just go outside, take a whiff. You

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Speaker 2: catch that little foul odor that's coming from Wisconsin. And

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Speaker 2: it has nothing to do with the lactose intolerant people.

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Speaker 2: It's the atheist they smell. We do not. We just

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Speaker 2: have anging problems. So anyway, they're demanding that she jess.

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Speaker 2: That may have been over the line. So they're demanding

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Speaker 2: What's wrong with these people? We're evis So anyway, Uh,

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Speaker 2: they're going on about how she is basically forcing people

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Speaker 2: not doing. So look any other person here, they would

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Speaker 2: like surrender, But Sarah Sandrews said, nope, nope, nope, we're

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Speaker 2: not doing that. As a matter of fact, she fired

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Speaker 2: back a letter to the atheist and in a very

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Speaker 2: They could just stuff it in their Christmas stocking and

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Speaker 2: she's not going to do it. And I just I

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Speaker 2: am so excited because what I see in Sarah huckeby

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Speaker 2: Sanders I see a fighter, and I see Donald Trump.

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Speaker 2: When I see Sarah Sanders and the way she's governing,

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Speaker 2: the way she's leading, she's standing up to the atheist,

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Speaker 2: the godless heathen atheist, I see Donald Trump. That's what

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Speaker 2: I see. Somebody, somebody who is actually taking a stand

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Speaker 2: ladies and gentlemen. So I just I want to say

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Speaker 2: thank you, Governor Sanders. I know that she has people

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Speaker 2: listening to the program. We've got a lot of listeners

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Speaker 2: in Arkansas. But the days of the atheists bullying Christians

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Speaker 2: in Arkansas, those days are over, and I hope they're

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Speaker 2: Palis navidad. Mister president, you know this is interesting. What

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Speaker 2: isn't he said? Eld deporto is. I didn't realize that

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Speaker 2: de porto. Yeah, I uh, have we confirmed that was

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Speaker 2: Happy to have you with us today. By the way,

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Speaker 2: Don is listening to us on Patriot Talk nine twenty today. Hi, Don,

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Speaker 2: what's on your mind?

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Speaker 4: Well to cast a vote for Glenn Youngkin?

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Speaker 2: I like Glenn Youngkin. I thought he did a terrific

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Speaker 4: Well, I'm a Glenn Younkins fan.

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Speaker 2: along to get along. We're not talking about lemmings here.

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Speaker 2: So they're listening to Tucker, they listen to what Candae

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Speaker 2: and Megan Kelly and all the others have to say,

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Speaker 2: but they're making up their own minds, they're doing their

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Speaker 2: own research. They're doing their own homework, which is what

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Speaker 2: we encourage you to do. That is a foundational That

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Speaker 2: is a foundational issue for us as a radio show.

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Speaker 2: Do your homework. Listen to what I have to say,

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Speaker 2: but go and explore, investigate, do your homework. And that's

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Speaker 2: what they did, and they came away thinking, you know

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Speaker 2: what isra a listener ally and the reality is that

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Speaker 2: radical Islam is indeed the number one threat to our nation.

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Speaker 2: I want to ask you as an audience, and we've

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Speaker 2: got a vast audience all over this nation, so I'm

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Speaker 2: just curious, do you what do you see as the

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Speaker 2: greatest threat, the main threat facing America today? What do

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Speaker 2: you think that threat is? You know, I put this

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Speaker 2: out on our on one of our social media pages

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Speaker 2: a few days ago, and it was not even close.

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Speaker 2: It was radical Islam. Because people are seeing what's happening

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Speaker 2: in various parts of the country. When the Muslims take

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Speaker 2: the majority, they take control, and they immediately they immediately

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Speaker 2: start to marginalize everybody else. And we've seen this across

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Speaker 2: Michigan and Minnesota, and we're seeing it in other communities

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Speaker 2: now where Islam is becoming the majority religion again. What

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Speaker 2: Charlie Kirk said is true. Islam is not compatible with

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Speaker 2: Western civilization. So we're gonna take your calls on that.

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

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Speaker 2: That's nine oh one two six zero nine two six

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Speaker 2: fascinating polling results, and I am not terribly surprised at all.

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Speaker 2: I will say this Israel as an ally. I think

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Speaker 2: that sends a message to all of those within the

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Speaker 2: Republican Party because Meghan Kelly yesterday said something that I

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Speaker 2: found fascinating. Megan Kelly said that moving forward, young Republicans,

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Speaker 2: young Republicans are not going to be supportive of Israel.

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Speaker 2: I find that hard to believe. I truly do. But

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Speaker 2: we'll take your calls on this. Nine oh one two

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

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Speaker 2: two six zero five nine two six. This story just

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Speaker 2: coming in from Fox. The White House says they will

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Speaker 2: not be easing up immigration enforcement during Christmas. So the

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Speaker 2: Catholic bishops of Florida made an appeal yesterday asking the

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Speaker 2: administration to stop immigration enforcement for the Christmas holidays. One

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Speaker 2: of the one well, the Archbishop of Miami, Thomas Winsky,

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Speaker 2: said the border has been secure. The initial work of

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Speaker 2: identifying and removing dangerous criminals has been accomplished to a

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Speaker 2: great degree. Over a half million people have been deported

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Speaker 2: this year. Nearly two million more have voluntarily self deported.

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Speaker 2: At this point, I'm reading from the letter they wrote

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Speaker 2: to Trump at this point, the maximum enforcement approach of

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Speaker 2: treating irregular immigrants en mass means that now many of

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Speaker 2: these arrest operations inevitably sweep up numbers of people who

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Speaker 2: are not criminals. But just here to what is wrong

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Speaker 2: with you people? The bishop goes on to say, Archbishop,

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Speaker 2: it should be noted a significant majority of those detained

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Speaker 2: and Alligator Alcatraz have no criminal background. Yes they do.

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Speaker 2: Let's review this and let's try to simplify it for

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Speaker 2: the bishops. Illegal immigrants. Illegal illegal means eld criminal eito.

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Speaker 2: I think that's the Spanish word for it. I'm just

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Speaker 2: telling you, there is I get this. There is a

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Speaker 2: part of you as a Christian and you're like, well,

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Speaker 2: you know, maybe we should just put a pause. We

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Speaker 2: can't do that. We are on a ticking clock right now.

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Speaker 2: Every single second that goes by is a second that

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Speaker 2: we're not going to get back. Every single illegal has

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Speaker 2: to go. It really is that simple. And I was

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Speaker 2: talking to somebody about this last night. I was at

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Speaker 2: a Christmas party in German. Had great party. By the way,

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Speaker 2: I'm not a big party guy, but I went to

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Speaker 2: this party and I'm talking to somebody and we were

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Speaker 2: talking about about deporting everybody. Why everybody has to go,

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Speaker 2: even even the guy or gal that's been here twenty

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Speaker 2: five thirty years and they're hard working and they've got

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Speaker 2: a family, they're just not legal. Here's the problem with that.

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Speaker 2: They however, they been getting paid, how have they been

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Speaker 2: paying their taxes, how did they buy their house? So

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Speaker 2: in a lot of these cases, they've been breaking multiple laws.

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Speaker 2: So it's not just a simple thing about coming across

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Speaker 2: the border illegally, which is bad enough, but you're you're

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Speaker 2: breaking the law on top of that. So everybody's got

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Speaker 2: to go. I'm not saying you can't come back, but

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Speaker 2: you got to go and then come back the right way.

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Speaker 2: Let's go to Vera in Georgia listening to us on

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Speaker 2: wdun Hi Verra, what's on your mind?

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Speaker 8: Hey God, how are you?

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Speaker 2: I'm well, thank you for asking Verra.

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Speaker 8: And Merry Christmas.

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Speaker 6: So I don't.

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Speaker 8: Forget Merry Christmas. I'm talking. I'm talking. I'm thinking about

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Speaker 8: the poll that was taken at the turning point, and

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Speaker 8: I do not think that Vance would be out of

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Speaker 8: the running. But if Marco and I saw the news,

522
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Speaker 8: whereas Rubio said he would not run against Vance, but

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Speaker 8: if he did, I would vote for Rubio. And I

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Speaker 8: am a Trumpster all the way. And I would like

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Speaker 8: to say this for us to think about. If Vance

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Speaker 8: would be the leader, he would do well to pick

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Speaker 8: Rubio for his vice because anybody knows, if you don't

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Speaker 8: know about foreign affairs, we are gone, we are lost.

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Speaker 8: Look at what Trump has done with foreign affairs, and

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Speaker 8: Rubio has been right under his wing. We've got to

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Speaker 8: have Rubio in there at a heightened position as advice

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Speaker 8: if Vance runs. The other issue that I wanted to

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Speaker 8: mention was about Islam. Until we can cure the ignorance.

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Speaker 8: And that's not an ugly word. That means ignore. That

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Speaker 8: means you just ignore. You have an ignorance. Until we

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Speaker 8: can do away with the ignorance of the American people,

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Speaker 8: we will never destroy Islam in our country. It was

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Speaker 8: ignorance of the people up north who let those people in.

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Speaker 8: It was ignorance of the people on the street. Jesse

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Speaker 8: Waters says it all the time. He asks questions about

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Speaker 8: the you know, the news. People don't know anything that

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Speaker 8: they need to know. We have got to get our

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Speaker 8: over ignorance.

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Speaker 6: Now.

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Speaker 8: I don't know how we're going to do it, but

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Speaker 8: you can destroy Islam all over the place, and the

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00:35:03,760 --> 00:35:09,160
Speaker 8: ignorant American will let demand. So that is these are

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Speaker 8: just heavy on my heart, Verra, right every day.

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Speaker 2: I love what you're saying here, and that is so true.

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Speaker 2: And again this goes back to the education system, and

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Speaker 2: I want to you know, one of the components we

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00:35:21,800 --> 00:35:24,799
Speaker 2: don't talk much about is this dumbing down, the intentional

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00:35:25,840 --> 00:35:31,000
Speaker 2: dumbing down of our kids, because it's easy to control

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Speaker 2: stupid people. And by stupid, I don't maybe I should

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Speaker 2: say ignorant, Vera. It's easier to control ignorant people, people

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Speaker 2: who may not understand the laws, may not understand their

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Speaker 2: rights under the laws, and they're also being force fed

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Speaker 2: this false narrative about what Islam is really all about. Vera.

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Speaker 2: There are actually textbooks, there are textbooks that they're using

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Speaker 2: in our schools and they're telling the kids that the

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Speaker 2: Muslims never invaded any nations. They were welcomed in. They

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Speaker 2: were asked to come in and take over the country,

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Speaker 2: the nations. I mean, this is radical propaganda, which is

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Speaker 2: why I think a lot of young people just don't

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Speaker 2: have a clue about how dangerous Islam is.

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Speaker 8: I think you've nailed it too, and I think you

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00:36:18,239 --> 00:36:20,680
Speaker 8: know it, and I've heard you speak on it before.

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Speaker 8: But we've got to make an issue of it. Yes,

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Speaker 8: you've got to make it an issue, not just something

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Speaker 8: we talk about, but it has to become an issue

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Speaker 8: like a girls and boys bathroom. And I mean we've

572
00:36:34,680 --> 00:36:37,799
Speaker 8: got to really step out there on this thing. I

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Speaker 8: don't know how we're going to do it, but God knows,

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Speaker 8: I would play a leading role in this area of

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Speaker 8: Georgia if somebody would would set up a program or

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Speaker 8: give me an idea of what to do and how

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Speaker 8: to do it. You're telling you, Todd, it is. It's

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Speaker 8: huge and will never make it any other way. It

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Speaker 8: has to become important, Vera.

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Speaker 2: They're yell at me. I got to take a break here,

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Speaker 2: But I love where you're coming from. You we're gonna

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Speaker 2: find We're gonna find something that find a way that

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Speaker 2: you can help out. Verra, thank you for calling in

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Speaker 2: real quick. I want to give a shout out to

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Speaker 2: our friends over on our YouTube live stream and we're

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Speaker 2: WQVZ Mission Radio in East Alabama. Great to have all

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Speaker 2: and in Georgia and he listens to the show, so

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Speaker 2: while keeping an eye on the prisoner's side. Guess I

646
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Speaker 2: think that's awesome. Ye remember the guy who called in there?

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Speaker 2: We had a guy, was it a couple of months back,

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Speaker 2: and he listens to us on his cell block and

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Speaker 2: he's actually a prisoner.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he called in. He's like, well, he called in,

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Speaker 3: and then the automated message started playing, like do you

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Speaker 3: want to accept this call from this jail cell? We're like,

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Speaker 3: should we? And then we also automatically said.

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Speaker 2: Yes absolutely, And the poor guy only gets a certain

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Speaker 2: number of phone calls and he wanted to he wanted

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Speaker 2: to use that phone call for us.

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Speaker 3: It was very nice.

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Speaker 2: I was very honored, very honored. So anyway, it was

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Speaker 2: just a it was just a great conversation and I

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Speaker 2: you know, we we had a good time. We had

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Speaker 2: a good time. So all that who knows that guy

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Speaker 2: maybe guarding the guide that's listening to the show in

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Speaker 2: a cell block right now. All that to say, we

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Speaker 2: got a lot of listeners and we love we love

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Speaker 2: all of our listeners. We especially one of those that

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Speaker 2: are out of jail. And uh no, we love everybody.

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Speaker 2: I'm just kidding.

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Speaker 8: Uh.

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Speaker 2: Let's go to the phone lines nine oh one two

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Speaker 2: six zero five nine two six. Let's go to Danny

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Speaker 2: and Selmer Tennessee. Hi, Danny, what's on your mind today?

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Speaker 9: Right? Good afternoon, sir. She you know there's always something

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Speaker 9: on my mind.

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Speaker 2: Well, what do you want to talk about? Real quick?

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Speaker 8: What?

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Speaker 9: Okay? What I'd like to share it? Take me just

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Speaker 9: quick second? You know we can there are different ways

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Speaker 9: of looking at things. What you was talking about a

679
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Speaker 9: little bit earlier. Uh, you know, there's greed, uh, thievery,

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Speaker 9: wickedrey and self righteousness whatever in this world. But uh,

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Speaker 9: I won't break it down to a little simple story

682
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Speaker 9: and maybe this will help some people understand what's going on. Okay,

683
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Speaker 9: this is just a story. It's not truth. But I'm

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Speaker 9: in my house. It's a cold winter day and I'm

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Speaker 9: in my house. It's nice and warm. Me and a

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Speaker 9: wife and a daughter. We're in the house it's nice

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Speaker 9: and warm. We got plenty of food and supplies. I

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Speaker 9: noticed out there on the road out here world, there's

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Speaker 9: a guy shivering in the cold and limping, And I think,

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Speaker 9: you know, I'm kind, I'm appreciative, always look for the

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Speaker 9: good and people. I want to help this guy out.

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Speaker 9: So I invite him in my house and we get

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Speaker 9: him fed, get him warmed up, get him washed up.

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Speaker 9: Wife does his clothes and stuff in the laundry, and

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Speaker 9: take acee bandits, get him all healthy and all that,

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Speaker 9: and take good care of him. And then he kills me,

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Speaker 9: writes and kills my wife, and sells my daughter and

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Speaker 9: seizes my property. What I didn't realize was that he

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Speaker 9: was evil with the person that had been casing my

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Speaker 9: house and planning on taking it over anyways, just trying

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Speaker 9: to figure out how. And I invited him in just

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Speaker 9: to help him out because I was kind. And that's

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Speaker 9: what we got going on in this country, inviting all

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Speaker 9: these people in and letting them come.

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Speaker 5: Man.

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Speaker 9: My best way to break it down simple and think

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Speaker 9: about it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, look, I mean, we're letting a lot of really

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Speaker 2: bad people into our house. Of course, our house being

710
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Speaker 2: the country of the United States. Of area and no,

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Speaker 2: I get it.

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Speaker 9: I'm with you, all righty, I hope Helpody Danny, I

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Speaker 9: I think it did.

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Speaker 2: And we appreciate you calling into the show today. Thank

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Speaker 2: you for that.

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Speaker 8: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Look, I mean it's it's it's a crazy it's a

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Speaker 2: crazy situation. Wherefore I would say, going back to Obama,

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Speaker 2: we've had, you know, tens of millions of people crossing

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Speaker 2: the border. I mean, there have been some numbers that

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Speaker 2: we could have as many as thirty million people living

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Speaker 2: here illegally. And when you you look at those numbers,

723
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Speaker 2: it's such a massive number. You don't think about the

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Speaker 2: economic impact that is going to have and has had

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Speaker 2: on this country. By the way, just prepare because the

726
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Speaker 2: Trump economy is booming, and it's booming before the big

727
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Speaker 2: beautiful bill even takes effect in January, we're talking about

728
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Speaker 2: the US economy. Are you ready for this? Growing four

729
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Speaker 2: point three percent? That is the fastest it has grown

730
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Speaker 2: in two years. And people are dumbfounded by this. They

731
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Speaker 2: can't figure it out. Trump tried to tell everybody this

732
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Speaker 2: is what was going to happen, and I told you,

733
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Speaker 2: and if this economy is roaring, we're running and gunning

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Speaker 2: Republicans win the midterms and possibly a landslide, even though

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Speaker 2: they're there're a do nothing Congress. It's all about the economy.

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Speaker 2: And if we're seeing these results this early, folks, you

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Speaker 2: better get ready. It is going to be a fun,

738
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Speaker 2: fun wild ride into the midterm elections. It's going to

739
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Speaker 2: be great. Let's go to Oregon. Kathy listening to us

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Speaker 2: on k Y kN Hi, Kathy, what's on your mind?

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Speaker 5: Hi?

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Speaker 9: Good?

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Speaker 6: Could I make a suggestion for a guest on your show?

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Speaker 2: Well? I guess you certainly may.

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Speaker 6: Yes, Okay. His name is William J. Edterer fed E

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Speaker 6: r R. And he has written a number of books.

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Speaker 6: But the one that I just recently ordered was What

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Speaker 6: Every American Needs to Know About Islam. And I was

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Speaker 6: reading the reviews on Amazon, and there were people on

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Speaker 6: there that they love this book and they think it

751
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Speaker 6: should be required reading for high school. But he's done

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Speaker 6: lots of books, not just Islam. He's done things on

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Speaker 6: the American Revolution and stuff like that. Anyway, if you

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Speaker 6: look him up and you know, figure out what he's about,

755
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Speaker 6: maybe you'd like to have him on your show, because

756
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Speaker 6: I think he could explain a lot.

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Speaker 2: Well, you know what Kathy will take a long hard

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Speaker 2: look at that, and uh, and you know, if we

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Speaker 2: can figure it out and work out the schedules, we'll

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Speaker 2: try to make that happen. I know him quite well,

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Speaker 2: and you know i've I've certainly read his books. So yeah,

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Speaker 2: we'll take a look at that.

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Speaker 6: It might it might be informational to that caller that

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Speaker 6: was in the last hour. What was her name, I

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Speaker 6: can't remember.

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Speaker 2: We have a lot, but yeah, I know, yeah, I know, yeah,

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Speaker 2: Vera from Georgia.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, she's real concerned, and I think we just need

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Speaker 6: to get educated.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Kathy.

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Speaker 6: If President Trump fixed our immigration system so everybody would shut.

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Speaker 2: Up about it, I think that it would be the

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Speaker 2: most glorious thing. And and here's the here's the thing.

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Speaker 2: Every single illegal that has deported, the economy gets that

775
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Speaker 2: much better. I mean, that's that's the bottom line here, Kathy.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, that's all I wanted to stay.

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Speaker 2: All Right, Well, Merry Christmas, Kathy, thank you for calling.

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Speaker 6: In Verry Christmas.

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Speaker 2: All right, nine oh one two six zero five, nine

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Speaker 2: two six our telephone number, that's nine oh one two

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Speaker 2: six zero five, nine to six. You know, President Trump.

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Speaker 2: Speaking of President Trump, he says you gotta watch Newsmax.

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Speaker 2: Everybody's watching Newsmax these days, said they're watching it on cable,

784
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Speaker 2: they're going on the streaming channel Newsmax two, downloading the

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Speaker 2: free Newsmax app on the smartphones. Reuters, by the way,

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Speaker 2: says we're now one of the top news brands in

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Speaker 2: the nation. That's right in the nation. So find out

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Speaker 2: why Newsmax is the fastest growing news channel in America.

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Speaker 2: President Trump know you stand with Newsmax. Real news for

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Speaker 2: real people. Well, some some sad news here to share

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Speaker 2: with you, ladies and gentlemen, and a bit of a

795
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Speaker 2: bit of encouragement for all of us as as well.

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Speaker 2: Many of you remember Senator Ben Sass who went on

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Speaker 2: to be was at the University of Florida, I believe president,

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Speaker 2: and then the then he left and been going through

799
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Speaker 2: some things and he just wrote a Nebraska senator drove

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Speaker 2: an uber. Did you know that, Dylan? He drove an uber?

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Speaker 2: This guy I did not know. He was sort of

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Speaker 2: a cool one of that class of senators when he

803
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Speaker 2: got elected, it was just sort of a weird, funky bunch.

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Speaker 2: So anyway, Senator sas writing a pretty lengthy note. I'm

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Speaker 2: not going to read it all, but there is the

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Speaker 2: There are a lot of people going through a lot

807
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Speaker 2: of things, and I think this might encourage you. The

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Speaker 2: senator announced that he is dying and he's going through

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Speaker 2: some difficult days and I want to share this with you.

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Speaker 2: You say, Tom, where is the encouragement and that what

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Speaker 2: are you talking about? Just be patient, Just be patient,

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Speaker 2: He said, this is a tough note to write, but

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Speaker 2: since a bunch of you have started to suspect something,

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Speaker 2: I'll cut to the chase. Last week, I was diagnosed

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Speaker 2: with pancreatic cancer stage four, and I'm going to die advance.

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Speaker 2: Pancreatic is nasty stuff. It's a death sentence, but already

817
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Speaker 2: had a death sentence before last week. Two We all do.

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Speaker 2: I'm blessed with amazing siblings and a half dozen buddies

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Speaker 2: that are genuinely brothers. As one of them put it,

820
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Speaker 2: sure you're on the clock, but we're all on the clock.

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Speaker 2: Death is a wicked thief, and the bastard pursues all

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Speaker 2: of us still I've got less time than i'd prefer.

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Speaker 2: This is hard for someone wired to work and build,

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Speaker 2: but harder still has a husband and a dad. I

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Speaker 2: can't begin to describe how great my people are. During

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Speaker 2: the past year, as we temporarily step back from public

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Speaker 2: life and built new family rhythms, Melissa and I have

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Speaker 2: grown even closer. And that on top of three decades

829
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Speaker 2: of the best friend a man could ever have. Seven

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Speaker 2: months ago, Corey was commissioned into the Air Force and

831
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Speaker 2: she's off at Instrument and Multi Engine Realms of Flight School.

832
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Speaker 2: Last week, Alex Kickbott graduating from college a semester early,

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Speaker 2: even while teaching Jen Kim organic and physics. She's a freak.

834
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Speaker 2: This summer, fourteen year old Breck started learning to drive. Okay,

835
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Speaker 2: we've been driving off book for six years, but we've

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Speaker 2: got the paper to make it street legal. Wow. That's

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Speaker 2: I know a lot of us did that. I couldn't

838
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Speaker 2: be more grateful to constantly get to bear hug this

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Speaker 2: motley crew of sinners and saints. There's not a good

840
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Speaker 2: time to tell your peeps you're now marching to the

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Speaker 2: beat of a faster drummer. But the season of advent

842
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Speaker 2: isn't the worst. As a Christian, the weeks running up

843
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Speaker 2: to Christmas are a time to orient our hearts toward

844
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Speaker 2: the hope of what's to come, not an abstract hope

845
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Speaker 2: and fanciful human goodness. Not hope in vague hallmark sampy spirituality,

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Speaker 2: not a bootstrapped hope in our strength. What foolishness is

847
00:52:37,160 --> 00:52:42,320
Speaker 2: the evaporating muscle. I once prouded myself in nope. Often

848
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Speaker 2: we lazily say hope, and what we mean is really optimism.

849
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Speaker 2: To be clear, optimism is great. It's absolutely necessary, but

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Speaker 2: it's insufficient. It's not the kind of thing that holds

851
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Speaker 2: up when you tell your daughters you're not going to

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Speaker 2: walk them down the aisle, not nor telling your mom

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Speaker 2: and pops that they're going to bury their son. A

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00:53:10,320 --> 00:53:13,359
Speaker 2: well lived life demands more reality, stiffer stuff. That's why

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Speaker 2: during Advent, even while still walking in darkness, we shout

856
00:53:17,480 --> 00:53:21,240
Speaker 2: our hope, often properly, with a gravelly voice, soldiering through tears.

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Speaker 2: Such is the calling of the pilgrim. Those who know

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Speaker 2: ourselves to need a physician should dang well look forward

859
00:53:32,560 --> 00:53:38,320
Speaker 2: to enduring beauty and eventual fulfillment. That is we hope

860
00:53:39,040 --> 00:53:43,280
Speaker 2: in a real deliverer, a rescuing God born at a

861
00:53:43,440 --> 00:53:47,040
Speaker 2: real time, in a real place. But the eternal city,

862
00:53:47,120 --> 00:53:55,480
Speaker 2: with foundations and without cancer is not yet. Remembering Isaiah's

863
00:53:55,520 --> 00:53:58,920
Speaker 2: prophecies of what's to come doesn't dull the pain of

864
00:53:59,000 --> 00:54:03,839
Speaker 2: current sufferings, but it does put it in eternities perspective.

865
00:54:05,440 --> 00:54:09,520
Speaker 2: When we've been there ten thousand years, we've no less

866
00:54:09,680 --> 00:54:14,759
Speaker 2: days to seeing God's praise. I'll have more to say.

867
00:54:14,800 --> 00:54:17,040
Speaker 2: I'm not going down without a fight. One subpart of

868
00:54:17,080 --> 00:54:20,520
Speaker 2: God's grace is found in the jaw dropping advances science

869
00:54:20,520 --> 00:54:24,240
Speaker 2: has made in the past few years. Death and dying

870
00:54:24,320 --> 00:54:28,320
Speaker 2: aren't the same. The process of dying is still something

871
00:54:28,360 --> 00:54:37,480
Speaker 2: to be lived. Wow. That is wow. Rezealously embracing a

872
00:54:37,520 --> 00:54:40,280
Speaker 2: lot of gallows humor in our house, and I've pledged

873
00:54:40,320 --> 00:54:43,440
Speaker 2: to do my part to run through the irreverent tape.

874
00:54:45,520 --> 00:54:49,320
Speaker 2: But for now, as our family faces the realities of treatments,

875
00:54:49,480 --> 00:54:53,760
Speaker 2: but more importantly, as we celebrate Christmas, we wish you peace.

876
00:54:55,320 --> 00:54:58,000
Speaker 2: The people walking in darkness have seen a great light

877
00:54:58,200 --> 00:55:01,400
Speaker 2: on those living in the land end of deep darkness,

878
00:55:01,640 --> 00:55:06,720
Speaker 2: a light has dawned, or to us a sun is given.

879
00:55:09,560 --> 00:55:12,560
Speaker 2: He signs it with great gratitude and with gravelly but

880
00:55:12,680 --> 00:55:21,360
Speaker 2: hopeful voices been and the sancees, Oh sobering thought, isn't not?

881
00:55:21,560 --> 00:55:27,600
Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen. We go through so much in life

882
00:55:27,680 --> 00:55:30,400
Speaker 2: and when you step back and you and I don't know,

883
00:55:30,440 --> 00:55:34,120
Speaker 2: I found myself doing this every now and again, but

884
00:55:34,200 --> 00:55:37,839
Speaker 2: you really examine what you're doing with your life, the

885
00:55:37,880 --> 00:55:44,640
Speaker 2: work you do, the contributions you're making to society, your family,

886
00:55:44,960 --> 00:55:47,160
Speaker 2: and you wonder, have I done the right things? Have

887
00:55:47,280 --> 00:55:52,799
Speaker 2: I made a difference? What does it all mean? I

888
00:55:52,840 --> 00:55:54,520
Speaker 2: get calls all the time from it. What does it

889
00:55:54,680 --> 00:55:57,000
Speaker 2: mean that you have hope?

890
00:55:57,600 --> 00:55:57,759
Speaker 7: You know?

891
00:55:57,800 --> 00:56:01,080
Speaker 2: I remember, gosh, more than twenty years ago when I

892
00:56:01,160 --> 00:56:06,760
Speaker 2: had to stare death in the face, and I remember

893
00:56:06,880 --> 00:56:10,400
Speaker 2: being at this piece. I know exactly what Ben says

894
00:56:10,520 --> 00:56:14,040
Speaker 2: is talking about here, and I am going to pray

895
00:56:14,080 --> 00:56:18,319
Speaker 2: for him and his family, and I hope you will

896
00:56:18,360 --> 00:56:23,360
Speaker 2: do that as well. But I've experienced that piece. I

897
00:56:23,400 --> 00:56:27,800
Speaker 2: know what he's talking about, and you come to terms

898
00:56:27,840 --> 00:56:31,600
Speaker 2: and you help it. Something like this makes you prioritize

899
00:56:31,640 --> 00:56:37,040
Speaker 2: things very very quickly, very quickly, and you understand what

900
00:56:37,160 --> 00:56:38,000
Speaker 2: is really important.

901
00:56:39,320 --> 00:56:39,520
Speaker 8: You know.

902
00:56:39,560 --> 00:56:42,280
Speaker 2: We talk a lot about politics, a lot about life

903
00:56:42,320 --> 00:56:44,240
Speaker 2: on this show. We talk about a lot of different

904
00:56:44,320 --> 00:56:48,759
Speaker 2: stuff on this program. One of the things that I

905
00:56:48,840 --> 00:56:51,360
Speaker 2: always want to leave you with is hope. No matter

906
00:56:51,520 --> 00:56:57,280
Speaker 2: how bad things are, there is hope, There is joy

907
00:56:59,000 --> 00:57:00,920
Speaker 2: and for Ben saying us and all of us, and

908
00:57:00,960 --> 00:57:04,840
Speaker 2: it's true, we're all on this journey together, every single

909
00:57:04,960 --> 00:57:07,880
Speaker 2: person living. It doesn't matter how much money you have

910
00:57:07,960 --> 00:57:09,960
Speaker 2: in the bank. It doesn't matter if you have a

911
00:57:10,160 --> 00:57:13,319
Speaker 2: crown on your head. It doesn't matter if you are

912
00:57:13,400 --> 00:57:17,560
Speaker 2: living in a in a trailer park. It doesn't matter

913
00:57:17,680 --> 00:57:22,000
Speaker 2: if you speak English or friend or whatever they speak

914
00:57:22,040 --> 00:57:25,960
Speaker 2: in Australia, it doesn't matter. All of us will breathe

915
00:57:26,040 --> 00:57:31,760
Speaker 2: our last breath one day in a in a way,

916
00:57:31,840 --> 00:57:34,640
Speaker 2: in a way, we are literally born dying. I mean,

917
00:57:34,680 --> 00:57:38,120
Speaker 2: that's it. The clock starts ticking and we will all

918
00:57:38,280 --> 00:57:41,960
Speaker 2: meet our maker. And the question we have to answer

919
00:57:42,040 --> 00:57:45,800
Speaker 2: between now and that day whenever that day is, and

920
00:57:45,840 --> 00:57:49,120
Speaker 2: no man knows that hour. That's what the Bible tells us.

921
00:57:49,680 --> 00:57:53,560
Speaker 2: We have to ask ourselves, are we prepared like Ben

922
00:57:53,680 --> 00:57:57,080
Speaker 2: Sass is prepared. And we know Ben Sas is prepared

923
00:57:57,160 --> 00:58:02,160
Speaker 2: because he has that hope. That's what he's clinging to

924
00:58:02,360 --> 00:58:05,680
Speaker 2: over these next little little day a little while, pray

925
00:58:05,720 --> 00:58:07,680
Speaker 2: for Ben Sass and his family. Would you do that?

926
00:58:08,480 --> 00:58:11,400
Speaker 2: Just make a commitment. This is the Todd Sterns Show.

927
00:58:27,480 --> 00:58:31,080
Speaker 2: All right, welcome back. Merry Christmas to you everybody. Let's

928
00:58:31,120 --> 00:58:33,800
Speaker 2: go to the Patriot mobile to his maker line. Say

929
00:58:33,840 --> 00:58:37,840
Speaker 2: hello to our good friend Republicans stranded. Just Josh Jones, Josh,

930
00:58:37,880 --> 00:58:39,040
Speaker 2: Merry Christmas to you.

931
00:58:39,720 --> 00:58:41,280
Speaker 10: Mary Christmas. Todd, how are you?

932
00:58:41,280 --> 00:58:41,440
Speaker 4: You know?

933
00:58:41,600 --> 00:58:44,040
Speaker 2: I'm well. The last time we talked to you, you

934
00:58:44,080 --> 00:58:46,919
Speaker 2: were heading down to Texas. How did how did things

935
00:58:46,960 --> 00:58:49,400
Speaker 2: go down there?

936
00:58:49,440 --> 00:58:52,600
Speaker 10: Is a great success, went really well. It's a good trip.

937
00:58:52,600 --> 00:58:54,120
Speaker 10: And also it was good to ghet down south and

938
00:58:54,160 --> 00:58:55,880
Speaker 10: be a little bit, you know, somewhere is a little

939
00:58:55,880 --> 00:58:59,080
Speaker 10: bit warmer for a couple of days right before Christmas that.

940
00:58:59,560 --> 00:59:03,640
Speaker 2: Dylan was wondering if you like, wore a cowboy hat,

941
00:59:03,800 --> 00:59:07,360
Speaker 2: if you were riding a horse, lassoing cattle, anything of

942
00:59:07,400 --> 00:59:07,960
Speaker 2: that nature.

943
00:59:09,440 --> 00:59:11,200
Speaker 10: No, I didn't do anything of that nature. I would

944
00:59:11,200 --> 00:59:14,960
Speaker 10: did ride a mechanical bull, though. Uh so, so if

945
00:59:15,040 --> 00:59:16,880
Speaker 10: you can count that, that's probably the closest they're going

946
00:59:16,920 --> 00:59:17,440
Speaker 10: to get to it.

947
00:59:18,600 --> 00:59:21,400
Speaker 2: Hey, that's pretty cool. So literally a mechanical bull.

948
00:59:22,240 --> 00:59:25,520
Speaker 10: Yeah, uh we were flying in and out of Austin, Texas.

949
00:59:25,880 --> 00:59:26,040
Speaker 9: UH.

950
00:59:26,080 --> 00:59:29,000
Speaker 10: So on the last day, meet a couple of coworkers

951
00:59:29,040 --> 00:59:31,560
Speaker 10: and some of the people from the client's team. UH

952
00:59:31,800 --> 00:59:33,720
Speaker 10: did dinner and they're like, hedus is placed down the

953
00:59:33,720 --> 00:59:35,720
Speaker 10: street that has a mechanical bull. So we all went

954
00:59:35,720 --> 00:59:37,959
Speaker 10: down there and took turns riding the mechanical bull.

955
00:59:38,480 --> 00:59:40,880
Speaker 2: Wow. Back in the day, that used to be like

956
00:59:41,080 --> 00:59:45,080
Speaker 2: the thing to do. What was Mickey Gillies I believe

957
00:59:45,400 --> 00:59:49,200
Speaker 2: was the UH was the establishment and everybody went down

958
00:59:49,240 --> 00:59:50,840
Speaker 2: there to ride the ride the bull as.

959
00:59:50,800 --> 00:59:55,640
Speaker 10: They say, yeah, I mean, and there's like two two

960
00:59:55,720 --> 00:59:57,600
Speaker 10: or three days afterwards. I would I wake up everyone

961
00:59:57,680 --> 00:59:59,720
Speaker 10: as I getting ready, like why are my legs stre

962
01:00:00,120 --> 01:00:02,640
Speaker 10: genuinely not knowing why there were Okay.

963
01:00:03,920 --> 01:00:06,720
Speaker 2: You wrote a bull man, you wrote a bull Uh.

964
01:00:06,800 --> 01:00:09,320
Speaker 2: If you haven't, you got to watch Urban Cowboy. It's

965
01:00:09,320 --> 01:00:12,280
Speaker 2: a great movie and it's all based on that honkey

966
01:00:12,320 --> 01:00:16,280
Speaker 2: talk down in Pasadena, Texas featuring the mechanical Did your

967
01:00:16,320 --> 01:00:17,240
Speaker 2: bull have a name?

968
01:00:17,280 --> 01:00:21,080
Speaker 10: By the way, I don't know if it did or not.

969
01:00:21,160 --> 01:00:24,160
Speaker 10: The place is called Wild Greg, so maybe his named Greg.

970
01:00:25,480 --> 01:00:28,320
Speaker 2: Greg. The bull uh, the one in the one in

971
01:00:28,440 --> 01:00:32,120
Speaker 2: UH in Pasadena is called El Toro, so that does

972
01:00:32,160 --> 01:00:36,840
Speaker 2: strike fear into the hearts. So look, I'm just curious

973
01:00:36,840 --> 01:00:40,520
Speaker 2: here TPUs A coming out right out of the gate

974
01:00:40,880 --> 01:00:43,560
Speaker 2: and announcing that their organization is going to be backing

975
01:00:43,640 --> 01:00:46,680
Speaker 2: JD Vance. They're going to be doing whatever is necessary

976
01:00:47,080 --> 01:00:49,560
Speaker 2: to get this guy elected. Was that a smart move

977
01:00:49,640 --> 01:00:51,560
Speaker 2: to just go ahead and throw in with somebody.

978
01:00:52,560 --> 01:00:55,880
Speaker 10: I mean, it really comes down to, you know, the

979
01:00:55,960 --> 01:01:00,280
Speaker 10: leadership teams of these different organizations, because you know, Turning

980
01:01:00,280 --> 01:01:02,320
Speaker 10: Point obviously back in JD Vance. This is a close

981
01:01:02,320 --> 01:01:05,040
Speaker 10: connection between the two camps there. But I mean, number one,

982
01:01:05,200 --> 01:01:09,280
Speaker 10: we're a political eternity out from the twenty twenty eight primary,

983
01:01:09,440 --> 01:01:12,200
Speaker 10: so a lot can change between NOWA theans. I think

984
01:01:12,200 --> 01:01:14,120
Speaker 10: it's a bit risky to put your eggs on in

985
01:01:14,160 --> 01:01:17,120
Speaker 10: one basket right off the bat, but hey, maybe they'll payoff.

986
01:01:17,400 --> 01:01:20,200
Speaker 10: And secondary to that though, a lot of the time

987
01:01:20,360 --> 01:01:22,880
Speaker 10: organizations and this says nothing against Turning Point, but just

988
01:01:22,960 --> 01:01:27,160
Speaker 10: anybody in kind of that nonprofit super pac Realm. I mean,

989
01:01:27,200 --> 01:01:29,320
Speaker 10: we saw this in twenty twenty four of a lot

990
01:01:29,360 --> 01:01:32,760
Speaker 10: of these nonprofits and super packs doing this about the

991
01:01:32,800 --> 01:01:35,640
Speaker 10: same point in the cycle. For the twenty twenty four primary,

992
01:01:35,640 --> 01:01:37,840
Speaker 10: for Ron DeSantis, where they were sending people to Iowa

993
01:01:37,920 --> 01:01:40,360
Speaker 10: two years ahead of time, laying the groundwork, and we

994
01:01:40,400 --> 01:01:43,800
Speaker 10: saw how that worked out. So not to say that

995
01:01:43,840 --> 01:01:45,680
Speaker 10: it can't have an influence on things, but really is

996
01:01:45,680 --> 01:01:47,560
Speaker 10: going to boil down to what's happening in twenty twenty

997
01:01:47,600 --> 01:01:48,960
Speaker 10: eight and which just too far off the tail.

998
01:01:49,320 --> 01:01:51,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's fair enough. I mean, we've got a

999
01:01:51,440 --> 01:01:53,800
Speaker 2: lot of ground to cover, and I would like to see,

1000
01:01:53,920 --> 01:01:55,800
Speaker 2: you know, I mean when you look at experience, I

1001
01:01:55,880 --> 01:01:58,479
Speaker 2: mean I would say Marco, someone like Marco Rubia has

1002
01:01:58,520 --> 01:02:01,200
Speaker 2: far more experience than JDV. Vance does, even though Vance

1003
01:02:01,440 --> 01:02:04,400
Speaker 2: I think it delivered some great speeches. He's been a

1004
01:02:04,400 --> 01:02:07,360
Speaker 2: great vice president. But the reality is Mark or Rubio

1005
01:02:08,040 --> 01:02:10,720
Speaker 2: I think has much greater skill set. So if you're

1006
01:02:10,760 --> 01:02:13,760
Speaker 2: looking at those two, I mean, Rubio would you know,

1007
01:02:13,840 --> 01:02:16,240
Speaker 2: would probably be my pick on top of the ticket

1008
01:02:16,240 --> 01:02:17,840
Speaker 2: at least right now if you were having to make

1009
01:02:17,880 --> 01:02:18,560
Speaker 2: that decision.

1010
01:02:19,320 --> 01:02:21,880
Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, I'm inclined to agree with you because look,

1011
01:02:21,920 --> 01:02:24,440
Speaker 10: I mean, you know, the job of the president is

1012
01:02:24,520 --> 01:02:26,440
Speaker 10: very multipassed. And to your point, I mean JD. Vance

1013
01:02:26,480 --> 01:02:28,680
Speaker 10: has done a good job as vice president. He's you know,

1014
01:02:28,720 --> 01:02:31,600
Speaker 10: a good senator. But also you have to be have

1015
01:02:31,720 --> 01:02:34,680
Speaker 10: a well rounded, you know, versu of experience, and you

1016
01:02:34,640 --> 01:02:36,600
Speaker 10: also have to have like Roy strong connections on the

1017
01:02:36,680 --> 01:02:39,880
Speaker 10: hill other parts of the government, which Rubio does and

1018
01:02:39,920 --> 01:02:42,440
Speaker 10: maybe Vance does, and he's cultivating those as vice president.

1019
01:02:42,520 --> 01:02:44,920
Speaker 10: But all things that take into consideration. As you know,

1020
01:02:45,160 --> 01:02:47,120
Speaker 10: we oh, that's to say though we have a deep

1021
01:02:47,120 --> 01:02:49,000
Speaker 10: bench on the Republicans side of the we have a

1022
01:02:49,040 --> 01:02:51,919
Speaker 10: lot of good candidates. I'll say that one necessarily better

1023
01:02:51,920 --> 01:02:53,040
Speaker 10: than the other one, but we have a lot of

1024
01:02:53,040 --> 01:02:55,440
Speaker 10: good candidates. So we're, you know, in a strong position

1025
01:02:55,440 --> 01:02:56,720
Speaker 10: of heading into twenty twenty eight.

1026
01:02:56,840 --> 01:02:58,680
Speaker 2: Well, I think so. I mean when you look at

1027
01:02:58,720 --> 01:03:01,400
Speaker 2: you know, for example, Ron does he had I'm still

1028
01:03:01,400 --> 01:03:05,479
Speaker 2: not understanding, Josh, why there is such an aversion within

1029
01:03:05,600 --> 01:03:08,520
Speaker 2: MAGA world to run DeSantis. Aside from the fact that

1030
01:03:08,560 --> 01:03:11,000
Speaker 2: he challenged Trump, I don't necessarily remember, I think it

1031
01:03:11,040 --> 01:03:14,480
Speaker 2: was a stupid move. But I again, I don't necessarily

1032
01:03:14,480 --> 01:03:16,160
Speaker 2: have a problem with that. I don't see that as

1033
01:03:16,160 --> 01:03:18,680
Speaker 2: being disqualifying. But why is it they don't like the guy?

1034
01:03:19,880 --> 01:03:23,320
Speaker 10: I mean, look, simply put it boils down to the

1035
01:03:23,320 --> 01:03:25,560
Speaker 10: fact he ran against Trump in twenty twenty four and

1036
01:03:25,600 --> 01:03:27,280
Speaker 10: that could have kind of put a bad taste in

1037
01:03:27,280 --> 01:03:29,920
Speaker 10: their mouth. But I'll also go back to remind people

1038
01:03:30,000 --> 01:03:32,520
Speaker 10: jd Vance did not like Donald Trump in twenty sixteen

1039
01:03:33,240 --> 01:03:36,200
Speaker 10: and was publicly speaking. It's the mark Rubio ran against

1040
01:03:36,240 --> 01:03:39,240
Speaker 10: Donald Trump in twenty sixteen and the presidential primary. I

1041
01:03:39,280 --> 01:03:42,080
Speaker 10: mean that's where the small hands comment came from. So

1042
01:03:42,320 --> 01:03:45,160
Speaker 10: to those folks who hold something it's Ronda Stantis were

1043
01:03:45,200 --> 01:03:48,320
Speaker 10: running in the primary and twenty twenty four, I'll say, well,

1044
01:03:48,480 --> 01:03:50,640
Speaker 10: then you can't like Rubio and you can't like Vance either,

1045
01:03:50,920 --> 01:03:53,360
Speaker 10: So it's a double standard unless you have another reason.

1046
01:03:53,560 --> 01:03:55,600
Speaker 2: Well, I'll take it a step further. At least just

1047
01:03:55,680 --> 01:03:58,320
Speaker 2: Santis did not write an op ed condemning Trump in

1048
01:03:58,400 --> 01:04:01,360
Speaker 2: the New York Times or you know, go on NPR

1049
01:04:01,720 --> 01:04:04,560
Speaker 2: and and contem Trump in some of the most violence language,

1050
01:04:04,600 --> 01:04:07,960
Speaker 2: which is what jd Vance did. And again, I get it,

1051
01:04:08,080 --> 01:04:12,240
Speaker 2: people change. I will point people to the Vanity Fair

1052
01:04:12,360 --> 01:04:16,000
Speaker 2: article though, of Susie, the Susie Wiles article where she

1053
01:04:16,160 --> 01:04:20,360
Speaker 2: believes that jd Vance's conversion to the Magaway of Life

1054
01:04:20,520 --> 01:04:23,800
Speaker 2: is entirely political. I think that's a telling statement.

1055
01:04:24,920 --> 01:04:27,720
Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean, listen, trust it from the mouth of

1056
01:04:27,800 --> 01:04:30,240
Speaker 10: the babe to a to a stent to to a

1057
01:04:30,320 --> 01:04:32,960
Speaker 10: certain extent. Right, I mean, she's the chief of staff,

1058
01:04:33,080 --> 01:04:36,000
Speaker 10: she was the head of the campaign, so she's definitely

1059
01:04:36,000 --> 01:04:39,200
Speaker 10: gonna have more insights than your typical political operative or

1060
01:04:39,200 --> 01:04:42,040
Speaker 10: strategist or anybody else for that matter, just because of

1061
01:04:42,080 --> 01:04:44,840
Speaker 10: her proximity to day. Like to your point you just raised,

1062
01:04:44,920 --> 01:04:48,760
Speaker 10: people can change, uh, and I you know, move politically personally,

1063
01:04:48,880 --> 01:04:52,360
Speaker 10: you know, what have you. But to disqualify you know,

1064
01:04:52,520 --> 01:04:56,000
Speaker 10: somebody because they disagree if you once politically, is you know,

1065
01:04:56,680 --> 01:04:58,360
Speaker 10: kind of childish in my opinion.

1066
01:04:59,080 --> 01:04:59,280
Speaker 8: Yeah.

1067
01:04:59,360 --> 01:05:01,200
Speaker 2: Look, I mean I I was, I mean early in

1068
01:05:01,280 --> 01:05:04,120
Speaker 2: the early early days, I was a never Trump guy

1069
01:05:04,400 --> 01:05:06,720
Speaker 2: only from the sense that I was supporting believe it

1070
01:05:06,800 --> 01:05:09,720
Speaker 2: or not. Rick Perry he was my guy day one.

1071
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Speaker 2: Can you believe that he was a good guy though,

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Speaker 2: but he was a lousy candidate.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, I mean for the sixteen she was like

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Speaker 10: a long time ago at this point. But yeah, wow,

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Speaker 10: I mean, granted I was on the younger side of

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Speaker 10: things then I was a guy to start with, so

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Speaker 10: I abos back, so everything's fine.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I went, I was Rick Perry, then Huckabee and

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Speaker 2: then Ted Cruz and then you know, jumped on the

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Speaker 2: Trump bandwagon and you know, didn't leave it there. I'm

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Speaker 2: sorry I sounded somewhat distracted. I literally just got a

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Speaker 2: text message from Speaker Mike Johnson and apparently somebody sent

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Speaker 2: him a tweet I had written about him. I will

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Speaker 2: not talk about that on air, but.

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Speaker 4: Not yet.

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Speaker 2: But wow, uh, the Speaker is a little displeased. I'll

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Speaker 2: just leave it at that, Josh Jones. You yeah, jez Alue,

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Speaker 2: all right, So are you back home yet from uh?

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Speaker 2: Are you back in Virginia for the holidays?

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Speaker 10: Not quite yet with kind of how the holiday structure is.

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Speaker 10: Today's my last day in the office and then I'll

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Speaker 10: be heading out tomorrow back home, so I'm gonna have

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Speaker 10: to leave early to make it back down in time.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, well I understand, okay, Josh Jones. Safe travels

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Speaker 2: and Merry Christmas, Josh, thanks to Chris. All right, Josh Jones,

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Speaker 2: good man, right there. Yeah, speak. So here's the deal.

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Speaker 2: We the Speaker has an open invitation to come on

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Speaker 2: this program whenever he wants so that we can we

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Speaker 2: can talk about what's happening in the in the house

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Speaker 2: right now, and we have extended that over and over again.

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Speaker 2: His staff, and I've heard this from so many people.

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Speaker 2: He'll text to me, We'll have these conversations, and yet

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Speaker 2: when it comes to actually coming on and talking to you,

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Speaker 2: and you are the people that he needs needs to

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Speaker 2: be talking to. You need to be hearing from the

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Speaker 2: Speaker of the House. And yet his staff, they will

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Speaker 2: they will not allow him to do that. And I

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Speaker 2: think that is a great disservice to the Speaker. But

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Speaker 2: at the end of the day, if you've got people

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Speaker 2: telling you, mister Speaker, your comms team they're they're not

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Speaker 2: they're not serving you like they ought to. And if

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Speaker 2: you don't do anything about that, well that is right

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Speaker 2: back on you. So anyway, I'll have to read through

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Speaker 2: in the commercial break what the speaker's saying. We'll see,

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Speaker 2: we'll see.

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Speaker 10: What he has.

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Speaker 2: I hope I don't get audited. Uh nine oh one,

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Speaker 2: I'm just joking, just joking. Nine oh one two six

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Speaker 2: zero five nine two six. Have a telephone number that's

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

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Speaker 2: This is the Todd Sterns Show. No, I like everybody,

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Speaker 2: Joe look, I Mike look, Speaker. Mike Johnson is a

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Speaker 2: good man. And I think we've established that over the

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Speaker 2: course of however, any conversations we've had about all of this.

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Speaker 2: But the issue is getting the president's agenda over the

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Speaker 2: finish line so that we can win the midterms. And

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Speaker 2: I'm telling you, if the economy, the economy's blasting off

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Speaker 2: right now, that's what's going on the left. They're freaking out.

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Speaker 2: Msdn C No, I'm sorry, PMS now they're going bonkers.

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Speaker 2: Nobody knows how to respond to this, So they're going

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Speaker 2: to be trying to grab and claw anything they can

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Speaker 2: to try and bring down this president. They thought it

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Speaker 2: was going to be the economy, and you watch what's

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Speaker 2: going to happen. Oh, I was who was I talking

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Speaker 2: to yesterday? Paul Shanklin and Shanklin And we're gonna we're

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Speaker 2: gonna re air our conversation with Shanklin. We got so

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Speaker 2: much great feedback from that. Shanklin said, the reason why

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Speaker 2: grocery prices have yet to come down is because diesel

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Speaker 2: fuel has not come down yet, and when until that happens,

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Speaker 2: you're still going to have high prices at the grocery store.

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Speaker 2: And that's the reason. That's the reason why. So again

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Speaker 2: you've got to do your homework. You can't just you

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01:09:16,760 --> 01:09:20,040
Speaker 2: can't just take things at face value, right, You've got

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Speaker 2: to make sure you're doing your research. Okay, why is

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Speaker 2: it the grocery prices are so high? And you can

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01:09:25,640 --> 01:09:28,719
Speaker 2: once you get to the answer to that question, you're like, Okay, great,

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Speaker 2: so this is not President Trump's fault. But Trump is

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Speaker 2: working towards getting our grocery prices lower. And I believe

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Speaker 2: they're forming a commission. That was the last I heard

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Speaker 2: out of the White House. So all of these things

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Speaker 2: are coming together, and we've just got to make sure

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Speaker 2: that there's nothing that takes us off the message. We've

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Speaker 2: got to keep our eye on the ball. I know

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Speaker 2: I'm mixing metaphors here. Just bear with me here for

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Speaker 2: a moment. But that's what's going on. Oh I want

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Speaker 2: to play this audio this Nicki Minaj new Conservative Cut

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Speaker 2: number ten.

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Speaker 11: We were not being represented and not being admired for

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Speaker 11: our beauty. If we felt like that as black women,

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Speaker 11: why would we want to do that to other women?

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Speaker 11: Why would we now need to make other people downplay

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Speaker 11: their beauty so that we can feel No, that's not

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Speaker 11: how it works. I don't need someone with blonde hair

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Speaker 11: and blue eyes to downplay their beauty because I know

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Speaker 11: my beauty. Do you understand It doesn't bother me that

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Speaker 11: a woman feels and says that she's beautiful. Why shouldn't

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Speaker 11: she feel that? Why have we gotten to a point

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Speaker 11: where certain colors or certain kinds of people have to

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Speaker 11: be afraid of loving themselves and loving the way they

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Speaker 11: look like? It isn't that wild?

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Speaker 10: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: It is wild. And you know, again, you're gonna have

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Speaker 2: the hardcore people that are out there, and that's how

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Speaker 2: they make their money by by dividing us and all

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Speaker 2: of that. I get that, But when you I think

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Speaker 2: the average person. Now, I use Memphis as an example,

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Speaker 2: and I we're a national radio show, but I talk

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Speaker 2: about what I know, and I know Memphis. And when

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Speaker 2: the President sent the National Guardian, everybody thought, oh, they're

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Speaker 2: going to be marches in the streets. People are going

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Speaker 2: to burn down buildings. You know this are None of

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Speaker 2: that happened. None of it happened. I mean maybe a

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Speaker 2: couple of dozen people, most of them old folks, old

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Speaker 2: white folks, standing on street corners hollering about no King,

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Speaker 2: what time shepher maybe that, But the average, the average

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Speaker 2: black person, The average minority in Memphis, they're just happy

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Speaker 2: they can go to sleep at night without hearing gunfire

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Speaker 2: in their neighborhoods.

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Speaker 5: You know.

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Speaker 2: The average black homeowners, they're just glad nobody's trying to,

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Speaker 2: you know, do a home invasion robbery. The average black family,

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Speaker 2: they're just happy that their kids are able to walk

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Speaker 2: to school without getting shot at. These are commonalities we

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Speaker 2: all have. And again they want to they want us

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Speaker 2: to think that it's us versus them, and it's really not.

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Speaker 2: That's why I am so vehemently opposed to common core

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Speaker 2: and critical race theory is because it's pitting the races

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Speaker 2: against each other. And they know, I mean, the socialists

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Speaker 2: are not stupid. They know that the live wire in

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Speaker 2: this country is race. And if they can somehow cause

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Speaker 2: division within the races, they're going to have a fighting

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Speaker 2: chance to take over this country. That's what and that's

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Speaker 2: really what that's all all about. And we can't let

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Speaker 2: that happen. By the way, and we'll talk more about

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Speaker 2: this after the holidays, but this H one B visa situation,

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Speaker 2: it is out of control. And the idea that American

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Speaker 2: companies are getting rid of American workers and replacing them

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Speaker 2: with cheap foreign labor. That is unacceptable. It is happening,

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Speaker 2: and of all places, the allegations are that FedEx, and

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Speaker 2: there's a lot of reporting out there about FedEx using

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Speaker 2: these H one B visas to bring in workers from

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Speaker 2: India and fire American workers. People are really upset about this,

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Speaker 2: and I appreciate what Jade Vance had to say in

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Speaker 2: his speech over the weekend cut nineteen.

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Speaker 7: A true Christian politics, it cannot just be about the

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Speaker 7: protection of the unborn or the promotion of the family,

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Speaker 7: as important as those things absolutely are, it must be

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Speaker 7: at the heart of our full understanding of government. Why

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Speaker 7: don't we penalize corporations that ship American jobs overseas? Because

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Speaker 7: we believe in the inherent dignity of human work and

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Speaker 7: every person who works a good job in this country.

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Speaker 7: Why why have we worked without the help of Congress

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Speaker 7: to restrict H one B visas for example, because we

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Speaker 7: believe it is wrong for companies to bypass American labor

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Speaker 7: just to go for cheaper options in the third world.

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Speaker 2: And he's right, and again the H one B visa, well,

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Speaker 2: here goes turning together. He's just a zeno foabe he's

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Speaker 2: just as enofb We know he doesn't like curry. I

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Speaker 2: actually like curry, and I like tandory chicken as well,

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Speaker 2: thank you very much. And that lovely bread I don't

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Speaker 2: know what they call it, but it like puffs up,

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Speaker 2: is very tasty, and you can slamp up the tan doores. No,

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Speaker 2: that's the curry sauce anyway, A marsala, I know that's Italian. Anyway,

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Speaker 2: you know what I'm talking about. I have nothing against

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Speaker 2: Indian people. I got nothing against anybody. Well, what I'm

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Speaker 2: saying is, yeah, there're gonna be moments where we have

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Speaker 2: to hire somebody and bring them in and they're the

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Speaker 2: best and the brightest. They're the only people in the

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Speaker 2: world who can do something like that, which is why

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Speaker 2: we let the guy from slum Dog Millionaire in. It's

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Speaker 2: a good movie director. I don't know. I'm in somewhat troubled,

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Speaker 2: but you know what I'm talking about. Right, Let's just

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Speaker 2: say the most brilliant scientist in the world lives in

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Speaker 2: India and we need to bring him to America to

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Speaker 2: do something. They get that person gets an hebvs.

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Speaker 5: I know.

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Speaker 2: I just bear with me here, But if you're a

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Speaker 2: marketing analyst at FedEx. You're telling me we got nobody

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Speaker 2: in this country, nobody on TikTok, nobody on Instagram who

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Speaker 2: can't do that job. Right here in a Maya, you're

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Speaker 2: telling me we can't find anybody to do that job.

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Speaker 2: I'm not buying that. And again it and it may

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Speaker 2: be a situation where, you know, the the new head

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Speaker 2: of FedEx is Indian, and maybe he just wants to

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Speaker 2: be surrounded by people that he that are light minded.

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Speaker 2: Maybe that's it, but that's not how we do things

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Speaker 2: in America. And that's not how we should do things

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Speaker 2: in America. And I'm picking on FedEx because I'm telling

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Speaker 2: you it is a massive problem. We see it. We

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Speaker 2: see the change happening in our own communities right now

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Speaker 2: in real time. All right, we got to take a

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Speaker 2: break here, folks. Again, our telephone number nine oh one

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Speaker 2: two six zero five, nine two six. That's nine oh

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

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Speaker 2: the Todd Sterns Show.