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

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

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Speaker 1: All right, good morning everybody. I know there are many

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Speaker 1: that really looked it was a great football game. Ole

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Speaker 1: So anyway, our condolence is to all of you Ole

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Speaker 1: Miss fans today. But that was one heck of a

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Speaker 1: football game, and of course tonight you got yourself another

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Speaker 1: one with Indiana and Oregon in the Peach Bowl in Atlanta.

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Speaker 1: Hello everybody, I'm Todd Starns. This is Starrings Country and

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Speaker 1: we are broadcasting this morning and the principal Toyota Memphis Studio.

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Speaker 1: So great to have you guys with us today. It

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Speaker 1: is going to be an insanely busy news day here

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Speaker 1: in Memphis and really around the nation, really around the world.

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Speaker 1: We'll also be talking later on today about the situation

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Speaker 1: in Iran that's gonna happen on our national show at

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Speaker 1: eleven o'clock here. And also we're going to get into

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Speaker 1: how the situation of Minneapolis and Portland is now even

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Speaker 1: impacting us here in the mid South. By the way,

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Speaker 1: our telephone number. Write this down you'll need it if

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Speaker 1: you want to weigh in this morning. Nine oh one

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Speaker 1: have a lot to talk about in two very special

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Speaker 1: guests with us today in studio. We have our good

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Speaker 1: friends State Representative Mark White and our State Senator Brent Taylor. Guys,

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Speaker 1: good to have you with us today, and uh, look,

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Speaker 1: I know next Tuesday it's gonna be pretty insane as

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Speaker 1: the General Assembly is a gabbled into session. Mark, good

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Speaker 1: to see.

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Speaker 3: You, Good morning, Good morning Todd, thank you.

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Speaker 1: And Senator Taylor. Have you been during the off season.

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Speaker 1: I'm just wondering what you guys do. Do you like

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Speaker 1: to spend time working on your clever little sayings and

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Speaker 1: things of that nature.

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Speaker 4: Well, it depends on who you ask. I think the

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Speaker 3: I stay busy with.

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Speaker 4: Constituent complaints mainly, and in thinking and talking to folks

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Speaker 4: about what legislation we might need to pursue in the

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Speaker 4: next legislative session.

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Speaker 1: On that note, by the way, our friends over at

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Speaker 1: Elwood Shack they put out a statement they're creating a

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Speaker 1: new sandwich and it was like some sort of a

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Speaker 1: the bone, and they're looking for a name, and whoever

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Speaker 1: I actually submitted a name. I wanted to call it

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Speaker 1: the Moulroy.

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Speaker 4: What do you think that would be happy named because

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Speaker 4: it doesn't have a back before, or you could call

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Speaker 4: it the Mayor Harris because he's been an absentee mayor

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Speaker 4: for seven years. Yeah, and he gets in the last

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Speaker 4: year in office and he it's like he ordered a

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Speaker 4: backbone from Amazon. It finally showed up. He strapped it

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Speaker 4: and he looked at crime and I'd be damned if

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Speaker 4: he didn't pick the wrong team. So, Todd, if he

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Speaker 4: invites you to a Harlem globetrotter's game, just know he's

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Speaker 4: going to root for the Washington Nationals or the Washington Generals.

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Speaker 3: Mark maybe Yeah, go out to This is why I

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Speaker 3: love working with this guy.

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Speaker 1: I was going to tell you, and I can just

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Speaker 1: sit back and let's let him take it away exactly.

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Speaker 1: By the way, guys, if you have questions of your

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Speaker 1: us a call this warning nine oh one two six

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Speaker 1: there is there's a lot of anger on the left

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Speaker 4: Well, I'm just glad crime is down. As matter of fact, Todd,

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Speaker 4: There have been fifty five hundred arrest fifty seven thousand

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Speaker 4: it really doesn't matter if mayor Young gives takes credit

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Speaker 4: And that's the most important thing because perception is what

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Speaker 1: Marcurie, are you seeing that as well?

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Speaker 3: Are you are?

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Speaker 1: Is there a different vibe in the city now in

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Speaker 3: There absolutely is.

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Speaker 2: I was talking to someone went to a greasy game

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Speaker 2: So yeah, this is the best thing that's happening from Memphis.

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Speaker 2: Let me just point this out. Wasn't it great to

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Speaker 2: he talked about crime being down in Memphis. That's what

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Speaker 1: See, I love that, and that is so vitally important.

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Speaker 1: And again, when you look at what's happening with Elon

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Speaker 1: are exciting time, Senator for Is this what you thought

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Speaker 4: Well, I knew that it was possible, not necessar so

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Speaker 4: I would contribute more than fifty thousand dollars to the

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Speaker 1: You're a generous man.

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Speaker 4: But I knew that Memphis could be a safe place

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Speaker 3: That we deserved better.

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Speaker 4: It was just a matter of holding our leaders accountable

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Speaker 1: To that point. Last night, of course, there was a

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Speaker 1: when it comes to ICE, and of course we've got

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Speaker 1: And you've got ICE agents that are rounding up these illegals,

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Speaker 1: out and the Democrats condemning the shootings. Apparently somebody used

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Speaker 1: to these people that are out there protesting law enforcement,

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Speaker 3: What amazes me, Thank you, and what amazes me. Let

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Speaker 2: About those who oppose ICE or fellow agents coming into

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Speaker 2: me tell them this, it's your fault because for four years,

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Speaker 2: Twenty million people came into our country unvetted, They came

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Speaker 2: now this is a natural pushback to say, hey, we

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Speaker 2: shame on you.

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Speaker 1: Senator Taylor.

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Speaker 4: Well, first of all, it's a tragedy that a lady

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Speaker 4: because the liberals gas lit this woman into thinking that

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Speaker 4: to any here in Memphis that think they want to

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Speaker 4: interfere with law enforcement simply doing their job. And Todd,

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Speaker 4: let me just say this about illegal aliens. They are

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Speaker 4: driving up housing costs, they're driving down wages, and they

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Speaker 3: A lot of ice.

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Speaker 1: Well said, you know, we have a democrat here. Gamby

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Speaker 1: and conducting any kind of operations. Representative, why your reaction

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Speaker 2: That will not go any further than her thought process,

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Speaker 2: because that does not represent the general Assembity of Tennessee.

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Speaker 1: Or state Representative of Justin Pearson. Senator said, the woman

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Speaker 1: doing what faith and scripture called for us to do.

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Speaker 1: The scripture does not call for us to use our

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Speaker 1: vehicles as weapons, Senator, at least my reading of the

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Speaker 3: It does not.

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Speaker 4: And going to Representative Salinas's bill, I'm not sure what

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Speaker 4: she's thinking. Because state law, you cannot pass a state

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Speaker 4: draw the line, Because she's saying that this bill would

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Speaker 4: not allow ice agents to go into churches, schools, or hospitals.

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Speaker 4: Where you draw the line, Or we're going to allow

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Speaker 4: school or hospital. Or how about a pedophile. We're going

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Speaker 4: has an obligation that when someone has broken the law,

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Speaker 4: the reason Democrats Todd can't pass gas in the legislature

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Speaker 4: is because they consistently write their bills in two languages.

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Speaker 4: They write them in English and stupid. And that's why

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Speaker 4: this bill will not get any further than it won't

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Speaker 4: be any more effective than trying to take swimming lessons

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Speaker 1: All right, we've got a hold up there. When we

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Speaker 1: come back, we got to take a break. When we

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Speaker 1: County schools. There's there's a lot of talk about that. Also,

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Speaker 1: Mark White. We're going to be taking your calls as

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Speaker 1: well if you have a question of your lawmaker's General

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Speaker 1: Let's check in with Commander Chuck. He's got to look

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Speaker 1: at your morning commute. All right, welcome back to the

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Speaker 1: I heard heard the birthday cake was pretty delicious. Then

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Speaker 1: at Graceland yesterday a big celebration Elvis Presley's ninety first birthday.

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Speaker 1: And if you're looking for something fun to do, head

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Speaker 1: We have a lot of tourists in town celebrating Elvis Week,

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Speaker 1: in studio, we're honored to have State Senator Brent Taylor

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Speaker 1: it on Tuesday and Representative White the school situation here

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Speaker 2: We have worked very hard on it all summer and

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Speaker 2: And one reason we will is because we have to.

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Speaker 2: We have to look at our school system real quickly.

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Speaker 2: Back when we did the munical school district back in

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Speaker 2: twenty thirteen, the city members gave up a school charter.

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Speaker 2: We created the Germantown car over the lake on Arlington

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Speaker 1: Wow, really that low?

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Speaker 3: Right?

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Speaker 2: You average twenty four percent University of Memphis that we

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Speaker 4: What do you make of that, Senator Well, Representative White

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Speaker 4: and I carried the legislation that created the Innovative School District,

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Speaker 4: get enough recognition that we have the best schools in

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Speaker 1: So let's talk about your version of the building. What

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Speaker 1: What happens here in MFIs Shelby County.

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Speaker 2: Well, this does is create a nine member board of managers,

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Speaker 2: experts in their in their fields. They're all Shelby County people.

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Speaker 2: This is not state intervention. This is local intervention. This

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Speaker 2: turn things around. They've done this, like in Houston, Texas.

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Speaker 1: You know when you and when you look at you

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Speaker 3: It can be done.

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Speaker 2: As Commissioner Kerry Wright, who's now in Maryland, she was

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Speaker 2: And they had a plan and they stuck with it.

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Speaker 1: Joe Kent is writing in with quite a furiously on

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Speaker 3: But it is go ahead sin the dail.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean the Innovative School District, which is the

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Speaker 4: to show you when you have effective leadership up at

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Speaker 2: University of Memphis Campus School does not pretest any student.

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Speaker 1: Nine oh one two six zero five nine two six

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Speaker 2: Two things that every community has to have. You have

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Speaker 2: I have a system one hundred thousand. If only one

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Speaker 2: And if you're not in the workforce, then you're looking

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Speaker 1: Senator Taylor, No, I agree.

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Speaker 4: We have to we have to have crime has to

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Speaker 1: Can I get you guys, I'm putting you all on

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Speaker 3: Works for me?

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Speaker 1: All right, folks, Wow, this is cool. We're on overtime.

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Speaker 1: We've got State Senator Brent Taylor, State reppers Senative Mark

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Speaker 1: entertainment report. This is Starne Country. We're getting a little

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Speaker 1: to everybody. It is gonna be a warm day, little

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Speaker 1: They're going to be getting some pretty big thunderstorms today.

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Speaker 5: Good morning, Todd, Senator Taylor, Representative Mark White, how y'all

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Speaker 3: Good morning, Thank you doing well.

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Speaker 5: The question is it's a constitutional question. I was wondering

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Speaker 4: Well, they, as you know, when that ruling came out

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Speaker 4: But look, Dean, here's the issue is. We've got all

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Speaker 4: Under our current law, that person could be charged with

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Speaker 5: Yeah. I just saw a thing on Facebook, post on

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Speaker 4: Unbelievable. And the guy's protecting himself and his property from

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Speaker 1: And I think the challenge there in that story, and

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Speaker 1: God bless you, Dean. Thank you for listening. And Dean's

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Speaker 1: just a great American patriot. Guys, we have some breaking

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Speaker 1: One of our KWM listeners just dropped us a note

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Speaker 1: said Todd, there's not a drop of bourbon left in Oxford.

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Speaker 1: the things you're looking at, Representative White?

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Speaker 3: One of the things.

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Speaker 2: Of course, my focus is mainly on Education's education chair,

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Speaker 2: and that's why I started my career out as a

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Speaker 2: teacher and a principal. We got to continue, I said

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Speaker 2: on a federal Board of Education called NATE National Assessment

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Speaker 2: of Educational Progress and Reading Proficiency across the nation is

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Speaker 2: tough right now for many reasons that we got off

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Speaker 2: We got off focus, you know, in this nation. And

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Speaker 2: so I'm going to continue to look at this third

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Speaker 2: grade reading proficiency. What do we need to do to

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Speaker 2: make sure that a kindergarten, first and second grade student

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Speaker 2: is learning to read by the time we get to

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Speaker 2: third grade?

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Speaker 3: Very very important.

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Speaker 2: If you can fix that, you can fix so many

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Speaker 2: things the rest of education.

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Speaker 1: Senator, Yeah.

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Speaker 4: So I've got several bills, but to of them I

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Speaker 4: will mention to you briefly, and they have to do

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Speaker 4: with crime. One is ties back into the conversation we

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Speaker 4: had earlier about ice. I have a bill that will

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Speaker 4: require the sheriff's department when ICE issues a detainer, that

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Speaker 4: detainer requests the sheriff's department to hold the illegal alien

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Speaker 4: up to forty eight hours. Some sheriffs have been real

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Speaker 4: cute and notifying ICE and then releasing them before the

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Speaker 4: forty eight hours is up, not giving ICE an opportunity

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Speaker 4: to come and pick them up. So I have a

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Speaker 4: bill that will require the sheriff's department to hold an

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Speaker 4: illegal alien if ICE has issued a detainer for the

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Speaker 4: complete forty eight hours, to give them a MAXI amount

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Speaker 4: of time to come pick the alien up.

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Speaker 1: You know, one of the things I love about our

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Speaker 1: KWM audience, they're they're the smartest folks out there. And

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Speaker 1: Dave said, this is an interesting thought talking about Minneapolis.

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Speaker 1: If that woman, or rather with the with the woman,

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Speaker 1: if that woman would have been killed by an illegal immigrant,

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Speaker 1: would not have made the news.

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Speaker 3: That's correct, that's true, and that's sad. Yeah.

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Speaker 4: So, and if I could just say real quickly, the

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Speaker 4: other bill that I'm going to be working on is

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Speaker 4: designed to help sustain the gains that we've made with

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Speaker 4: the Memphis Safe Task Force. You know, they've made all

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Speaker 4: these arrests and three quarters of those arrests, seventy five

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Speaker 4: percent of those arrests will have to be dealt with

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Speaker 4: in state court. So I have a bill that's the

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Speaker 4: Meantha Safe Task Force DA Accountability Act, that will require

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Speaker 4: the DA whenever he downgrades a charge or reaches a

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Speaker 4: plea agreement with someone that has been arrested under the

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Speaker 4: Memphis Safe Task Force, that he has to put in

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Speaker 4: writing why he is downgrading or reaching that plea agreement,

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Speaker 4: and he has to certify that to the Attorney General,

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Speaker 4: the speakers of both houses, and the US Attorney You know,

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Speaker 4: we can't we can't mess with his discretion. He's got

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Speaker 4: discretion as a DA, but we can hold him accountable

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Speaker 4: in using that discretion. And if he has to document

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Speaker 4: why he's downgrading a charge, maybe he'll think twice about it.

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Speaker 1: You know, guys, we are seeing some very positive things happening.

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Speaker 1: Of course, we have to do tennessee HIHO patrol, a

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Speaker 1: facility going in at what Lakeland, and the huge news

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Speaker 1: out of Millington with the International Hot Right Association rebuilding

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Speaker 1: the speedway up there. These are some exciting times, I think,

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Speaker 1: and again we've lost a lot of business We've lost

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Speaker 1: a lot of population, no doubt about that. But who knows,

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Speaker 1: we might be able to reverse those trends.

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Speaker 3: I absolutely believe.

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Speaker 2: So I've been Like I said, I've been in Memphis

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Speaker 2: in nineteen sixty six, and I've seen the ups and

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Speaker 2: downs of this community. Businesses want to come to this.

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Speaker 2: This is why FedEx established here fifty years ago. In

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Speaker 2: nineteen was seventy seventy four. We are in the center

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Speaker 2: of population growth, and not growth, but the population of

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Speaker 2: the country, and so.

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Speaker 3: This is where businesses want to be here.

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Speaker 2: If we can solve our crime and create a better

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Speaker 2: educational system, they are going to pour into our community.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: And I hope with the Memphis Motorsports Parkway, I hope

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Speaker 4: when they open it back up that they will allow

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Speaker 4: the public an opportunity to get on the racetrack and

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Speaker 4: speed because we haven't been able to speed in the

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Speaker 4: last three months since the Memphis Safe Task Force has

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Speaker 4: been here, and we need to get that out of

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Speaker 4: our system. So I want to go back on two

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Speaker 4: forty speeding.

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Speaker 1: I love it. By the way, guys that hold just

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Speaker 1: hold that thought for just a moment. We do have

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Speaker 1: this is this is a real story here out of

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Speaker 1: a Bartlett. City of Bartlett says, if you're missing some cows,

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Speaker 1: heads up. Dispatch advises they have cows that have been located.

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Speaker 1: This is what Centralia near brook Hill. They're in somebody's

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Speaker 1: front yard, grazing in a subdivision. You never know what

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Speaker 1: you're gonna find in Bartlett.

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Speaker 3: That's refreshing.

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Speaker 4: Well, maybe we need to rename Bartlett to Shelby County's

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Speaker 4: New Delhi, where cows just wander the streets with impunity.

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Speaker 1: There you go, Well, guys, before we let you go,

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Speaker 1: we have an election coming up, and there has been

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Speaker 1: a lot of focus on getting Republicans to run. And

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Speaker 1: I think that's a but I think that's an important thing.

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Speaker 1: I think healthy debate is good for our city. It

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Speaker 1: is necessary for our city and our county. What do

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Speaker 1: we need to do? What is your encouragement to people

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Speaker 1: who because you can the Republican Party can't hold a

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Speaker 1: gun to somebody's head and say you got to run.

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Speaker 1: You know, we've got to have good candidates out there.

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Speaker 1: And you guys, at one point, you guys were us

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Speaker 1: regular folk. What is it that that compelled you to run?

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Speaker 1: And what's your encouragement to others that might be considering

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Speaker 1: that representative White will start with you, and then Senator Taylor.

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Speaker 2: I would suggest that number one is a Republican in

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Speaker 2: this community. If you believe or no matter what part

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Speaker 2: of the city you live in, if you have Republican bays,

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Speaker 2: take the name of Republican and run on it. Don't

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Speaker 2: worry about that preach that that conservative valus that I

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Speaker 2: believe actually worked for our community. And then the reason

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Speaker 2: I got into politics because I've always wanted to make

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Speaker 2: a difference. And you can make a difference because you

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Speaker 2: just like right now, I would not be on the

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Speaker 2: radio talking to to this community if we had not

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Speaker 2: gotten a position.

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Speaker 3: So just go for it.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, And I would encourage people if you look around

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Speaker 4: and if you don't like the way things are, if

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Speaker 4: you don't like living in a culture of criminality or

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Speaker 4: or level of lawlessness, run for office. Get involved.

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Speaker 3: That's what I did.

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Speaker 4: If you like the fact that we are beginning to

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Speaker 4: turn Memphis around, that we're beginning to make Memphis matter

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Speaker 4: by making Memphis safe, and we're beginning to make Memphis

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Speaker 4: matter by making it employable, by fixing our school system

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Speaker 4: and attracting new businesses. If you want to be a

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Speaker 4: part of the things that we're moving toward, run for office.

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Speaker 4: And I you know this is going to be an

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Speaker 4: election year, and I'm going to make an endorsement right

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Speaker 4: here on your program, Todd, and that is I endorse

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Speaker 4: Mark White for State Representative.

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Speaker 2: And I'm going to return that and endorse Senator Brent Taylor.

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Speaker 1: And I'm going to endorse KWHAM as a place to

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Speaker 1: hang out because we're going to be covering all the

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Speaker 1: political news from all all different persuasions. We've got Democrats

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Speaker 1: lined up, Republicans wanting to come on the show, and

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Speaker 1: we want to be that place to be able to

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Speaker 1: ask the questions and folks can ask questions of their

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Speaker 1: lawmakers and guys, we really appreciate y'all taking time this

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Speaker 1: morning to come out and hang out with KWHAM.

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Speaker 3: Pleasure.

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Speaker 4: Thank you. I'm glad to stay overtime because you know

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Speaker 4: what Trump overtime is not taxed now, so I appreciate

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Speaker 4: that to be here longer.

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Speaker 1: Well said all right. State Senator Brent Taylor, State Representative

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Speaker 1: Mark White. Guys, safe travels to Nashville, folks. Let's before

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Speaker 1: we had to break a let's checking with Parker May

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Speaker 1: standing by in the KWAIM Sports Center. Here's a look

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Speaker 1: at your sports headlines.

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Speaker 6: That's my favorite favorite videos to watch right now are

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Speaker 6: the woke white women trying to stop Ice at the

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Speaker 6: home depot parking line. She's got like a Lululemons on

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Speaker 6: and she's got like the Starbucks. She's like, how can

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Speaker 6: you do this? How can you separate him from his family?

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Speaker 6: And the Ice guys like, we're not we already got them.

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Speaker 3: Oh my gosh.

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Speaker 1: All right, that's Ben bankis Welcome back to everybody. Good

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Speaker 1: to have you with us here in Sterns Country. All right,

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Speaker 1: we here on this radio station. If we make a

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Speaker 1: mistake or an error, we we admit it right as

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Speaker 1: soon as it happens. And we have to give credit

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Speaker 1: to Tom Lott, who has corrected me. I told you

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Speaker 1: that there were cows loose, but apparently those are not cows.

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Speaker 1: They're many horses, those miniature horses. I didn't grow up

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Speaker 1: on a farm, so my apologies. I'm a little ignorant

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Speaker 1: of barnyard animals. But Tom, thank you for setting us straight. Anyway,

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Speaker 1: there's there are large critters on the loose. In partlet

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Speaker 1: how's that. I think that might that might cover everything.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back. Great to have you with us here in

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Speaker 1: the principal to you at a Memphis studio this morning,

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Speaker 1: and you know, I want to talk just real briefly

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Speaker 1: about what just happened here because we do want to

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Speaker 1: provide a platform where not only we can ask our

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Speaker 1: questions of lawmakers like State Senator Brent Taylor and State

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Speaker 1: Representative Mark White, but you can as well. And that

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Speaker 1: was one of the visions I had when I bought KWAM,

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Speaker 1: and we wanted to make it a place where not

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Speaker 1: only can you hear from from Oz and our show host,

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Speaker 1: but we also want to hear from you. And I

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Speaker 1: think that's a very important thing. And we really do

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Speaker 1: have the smartest audience radio audience in the mid South.

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Speaker 1: You guys ask some terrific questions and I wish we

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Speaker 1: could have gotten to all of them, but that's okay

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Speaker 1: because we're gonna get these guys back. I mentioned to

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Speaker 1: you that I know that we've already had a few

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Speaker 1: Democrats on Marie Fagan's at Harold Collins. I know Anthony

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Speaker 1: Buckner's team has already reached out, so we have a

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Speaker 1: lot of even folks on the Democrat side of the aisle,

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Speaker 1: they want to come on because they want to talk

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Speaker 1: to you and they want to pitch their cam Pain

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Speaker 1: agenda to you. And so that is that is all

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Speaker 1: credit to the great audience and the faithful audience and

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Speaker 1: the powerful audience, because you guys moved the needle when

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Speaker 1: it comes to politics here in the Mid South. So

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Speaker 1: we're gonna be doing more of that, and we'd love

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Speaker 1: to have more of you call in and ask your

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Speaker 1: questions way in. And I have total respect for lawmakers

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Speaker 1: like Brent Taylor and Mark White. They have no idea

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Speaker 1: what you guys are gonna ask. They have no idea

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Speaker 1: what I'm going to ask. They don't ask to see

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Speaker 1: my questions in advance, and we don't give our questions

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Speaker 1: in advance. They're just they're willing to sit down and

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Speaker 1: talk about the issues of the day. And I greatly

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Speaker 1: appreciate that. All right, our telephone number nine oh one

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Speaker 1: the Ton Sterns Show. We're gonna have wall to wall

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Speaker 1: coverage of what's happening in Minneapolis, as well as Portland,

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Speaker 1: where you had two people shot after they tried to

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Speaker 1: ram They tried to ram Border Patrol agents there in Portland.

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Speaker 1: Also in Minneapolis, there is now a McDonald's refusing to

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Speaker 1: let ice agents enter their restaurant. Cut number four and

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Speaker 1: this McDonald's in Minneapolis, there's a sign on the door

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Speaker 1: that says ice is not allowed. We couldn't help, but

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Speaker 1: notice there's a sign that says no ice on the door.

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Speaker 7: Just to let you know, at the end of the day,

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Speaker 7: this is private property. So you can't just break the

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Speaker 7: law because you're a federal agent. It's like coming into

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Speaker 7: your house. So come into any other.

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Speaker 3: Restaurant this rules.

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Speaker 1: Did the manager put that on the door?

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Speaker 6: How did that get there?

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Speaker 3: I'm not sure?

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Speaker 7: But is there?

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Speaker 1: How do you guys enforce it?

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Speaker 7: They read the sign. You know, at the end of

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Speaker 7: the day, you have all right to come in and

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Speaker 7: make a purchase. It's just there's rules and regulations. You

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Speaker 7: can't just walk behind the counter.

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Speaker 1: So it turns out that the owner of the Donald's

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Speaker 1: franchise is enraged over this. He said that somebody there

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Speaker 1: on the staff posted that this is no some sort

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Speaker 1: of a corporate policy, much like Hilton coming in after

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Speaker 1: the Hampton End incident, and they've ordered they've ordered those

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Speaker 1: signs to be taken down, which is great news. By

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Speaker 1: the way, Hilton, you got to give props to corporate

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Speaker 1: do you know that yesterday and all of this happened

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Speaker 1: in forty eight hours where Hilton, the franchise owner was

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Speaker 1: refusing to rent rooms to government agents theyre in the

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Speaker 1: Minneapolis area. Hilton not only said they were disassociating themselves,

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Speaker 1: they sent a crane out yesterday and physically removed the

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Speaker 1: Hampton End sign from the front of the hotel. So

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Speaker 1: they're not messing around. So well done, Hilton Hotel, and

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Speaker 1: we're glad that you guys are taking a stand there

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Speaker 1: and doing the right thing. Folks, I'm just telling you,

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Speaker 1: we've got a lot happening here in the mid South

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Speaker 1: and it's exciting. It's an exciting time to be a Memphian.

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Speaker 1: It's an exciting time to be a tennis and to

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Speaker 1: see the changes that are happening in our area, to

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Speaker 1: see the massive growth in places like Bartlett in South Haven.

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Speaker 1: And by the way, I went back and looked at

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Speaker 1: the picture of those look like cows. To me, I'm

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Speaker 1: just I've got my reading glasses on, so jeezelo, I'm

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Speaker 1: going to have to go back to farmer brown days.

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Speaker 1: But are things are happening here and things are hopping

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Speaker 1: and this is going to be a lot of fun.

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Speaker 1: So you've got a front row view to it right

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Speaker 1: here on the mighty nine ninety. Okay. Also want to

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Speaker 1: remind you it is America two fifty and we're excited

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Speaker 1: about my latest book. It's called Star Spangled Blessings Devotions

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Speaker 1: for Patriots, and you can get a copy right now

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Speaker 1: at Novel Memphis. You can also get one online at Amazon.

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Speaker 1: But it's a great way to celebrate the ways that

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Speaker 1: God has blessed our nation, from George Washington to Donald Trump.

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Speaker 1: Had a lot of fun writing this book, and I

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Speaker 1: hope that you get a copy. We love supporting local businesses,

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Speaker 1: and we appreciate the fact that Novel Memphis now stocks

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Speaker 1: all of my books, and we want you to go

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Speaker 1: down there and be sure to thank them for actually

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Speaker 1: shelving and putting books by conservatives on their bookshelves. They

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Speaker 1: did a very nice job promoting Star Spangled blessings. So

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Speaker 1: head on down there and get yourself some copies. They've

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Speaker 1: got a fresh batch already in And if you missed

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Speaker 1: our very first devotion book, that thing is selling like hotcakes,

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Speaker 1: even though it's about biscuits, our daily biscuit devotions with

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Speaker 1: a drawl. I believe they even have copies of that

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Speaker 1: as well. All right, coming up tonight, by the way,

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Speaker 1: five o'clock Eastern, the Todd Stern Show on Newsmax. We're

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Speaker 1: going to have again wall to wall coverage. We will

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Speaker 1: have live reporting, boots on the ground from Minneapolis. We

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Speaker 1: are expecting massive national protests. Also, this just coming in

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Speaker 1: from Washington that the Democrats are going to use ice

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Speaker 1: as a way to possibly shut down the government. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they're talking about a government shutdown. We'll tell you all

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Speaker 1: about that. And a lot of folks saying it is

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Speaker 1: time for President Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act and

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Speaker 1: put a stomp to this lawlessness. All right, we've got

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Speaker 1: to leave it. There have been a great day again,

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Speaker 1: Thoughts and prayers for our friends in Oxford. It was

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Speaker 1: a great season, though. Get out there, have a great one.

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Speaker 1: Be safe, everybody,