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Speaker 1: From the mighty nine ninety broadcast centers.

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

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Speaker 3: All right, it is twenty three degrees outside, six minutes

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Speaker 3: Fantasy hour. Hell everybody, I'm Todd Starns. Welcome to Starns Country.

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Speaker 3: We are broadcasting of the Principal to you ot to

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Speaker 3: Memphis Studio. Good morning to the busiest man in the

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Speaker 3: mid South, Harold Grater. He's getting ready for the big

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Speaker 3: Liberty Bowl, the AutoZone Liberty Bowl, kicking off in just

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Speaker 3: a few days. Lots of excitement. We understand both teams

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Speaker 3: now in town, Navy and Cincinnati. As a matter of fact,

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Speaker 3: one of the teams doing some practicing over at Rhodes College.

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Speaker 3: So if you're over in that area and you see

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Speaker 3: some football players, that's what's going on there. You will

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Speaker 3: also have an opportunity to win tickets to the Liberty

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Speaker 3: Bowl exclusively here on the mighty nine ninety. Those tickets

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Speaker 3: valued at about eighty or ninety dollars a piece, So

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Speaker 3: we've got some great tickets for you, and we'll be

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Speaker 3: telling you more about that in just a little while.

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Speaker 3: Mike Linn Dell, the founder of my Pillow joins us

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Speaker 3: later on this morning as well. Going to be a

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Speaker 3: great conversation with the man who gave the nation my pillow.

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Speaker 3: But right now we're honored to have in studio our

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Speaker 3: good friend and our Congressman, David Costof Congressman, Hello, and

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Speaker 3: a happy new Year to you, Todd.

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Speaker 1: Thank you very much. Happy new year to you.

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Speaker 4: Thank you for everything that you've done here in the

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Speaker 4: Mid South and spreading information. And you know, I was

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Speaker 4: just thinking, it's hard to believe that Thanksgiving has been

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Speaker 4: a month ago, and you know it was a month

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Speaker 4: ago that you hosted and fed all these men and

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Speaker 4: I know they really appreciated it, and we appreciate all

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Speaker 4: the work that the task Force has done, but for

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Speaker 4: you to put on that giant spread of food for

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Speaker 4: roughly one thousand officers and agents was really significant and

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Speaker 4: really important. And I was glad just to be able

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Speaker 3: They wouldn't let me even serve. I was allowed to

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Speaker 3: and it was just, look, I think all of us

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Speaker 3: it's been so encouraging to see, you know, just regular

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Speaker 3: and of course Jim Losapio, who owns a lot of restaurants,

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Speaker 3: made all of that happen him and his wonderful team there.

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Speaker 3: And of course there are great sponsors here at KWAIM

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Speaker 3: as well. You know, Congressman, there is so much going

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Speaker 3: on before we get to that, though. I'm just so

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Speaker 3: hearing so many reports. I know, Senator Brent Taylor has

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Speaker 3: was I was doing a radio segment with a station

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Speaker 3: It's so much fun. The whole vibe has changed thanks

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Speaker 4: You know, there's no fact vibe is the exact word

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Speaker 4: I was thinking of that there's a different feeling in

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Speaker 4: I regret I think you do too, that the people

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Speaker 4: doesn't matter their political ideology, their race, what have you.

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Speaker 4: The bottom line, Todd is everybody wants to live in

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Speaker 3: It really is. By the way, Amy, writing in on

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Speaker 3: So you've got some fans out there. When you look

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Speaker 4: So the One Big Beautiful Bill, which really encompassed so much.

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Speaker 4: I serve on the House Ways and Means Committee, which

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Speaker 4: next year. We permanently lowered everybody's taxes, everybody, taught every

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Speaker 4: that goes to what Secretary Bessett was talking about. It's

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Speaker 4: to be a tremendous boom for our economy.

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Speaker 3: I'm really excited about this. And then you've heard the

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Speaker 3: So that'll kick in, I guess towards the spring here,

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Speaker 3: so certainly more good economic news leading into the midterms.

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Speaker 1: It's all about helping It's all about helping people. And

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Speaker 4: Tell you one thing that we've done on the Ways

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Speaker 1: About three weeks.

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Speaker 4: After we passed the One Big, Beautiful Bill, which we

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Speaker 4: We heard from one witness, Todd. It's great to hear

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Speaker 1: Get to keep.

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Speaker 4: And to your point, people are going to start seeing

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Speaker 4: in there withholdings. And that's what it's all about. It's

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Speaker 3: Congressman ship Roy and He's not the only person that

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Speaker 6: Please empower the American people to do what they do best,

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Speaker 6: and we've got to pause immigration. I introduced a bill

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Speaker 6: President Trump is exactly right to have frozen the diversity visas,

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Speaker 6: to have stopped that, to freeze the flow from countries

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Speaker 6: That's why I introduced legislation at PAU immigration. The President's

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Speaker 3: Here locally, we have gotten so many complaints at KWAM

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Speaker 4: So we do need a temporary pause because look, we

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Speaker 4: So Congressman Chip Roy is right, President Trump is right.

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Speaker 3: And again, h one B visas, I'm fully supportive of

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Speaker 3: you know, folks that are marketing executives, are you telling

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Speaker 3: I find that very hard to believe, right.

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Speaker 4: And so President Trump has his finger on the on

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Speaker 4: the pulse. I think he Secretary Christy Nome, who we'll

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Speaker 4: have a good pulse, if you will, on what's going on,

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Speaker 3: Re evaluate your friend the Hebrew Hammer as you identify it. Fine, Randy, Fine,

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Speaker 3: you know he's really and I get what he wants

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Speaker 3: here is that we've got some We've allowed dangerous people

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Speaker 3: Tucker Carlson is out there saying that, you know, in

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Speaker 3: the past twenty four years, we haven't had any Islamic

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Speaker 4: We do and I think about I think about this

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Speaker 2: Jdvance at fifty one percent. The next closest is Nikky Haley,

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Speaker 2: who's at nine.

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Speaker 1: Who's at nine? I mean, what is that?

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Speaker 2: That's forty two points ahead of the pack. Tulsa Gabbert

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Speaker 2: is at eight in the first in the Nation primary.

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Speaker 2: Jd Vance, you know, running forty two points ahead. There's

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Speaker 2: a reason why he's such a heavy favorite in the

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Speaker 2: prediction market so far, because if you win the GOP

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Speaker 2: primary in New Hampshire, chances are you're going to be

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Speaker 2: the Republican nominee for president.

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Speaker 3: All right, there, you go. So JD Vance already? Can

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Speaker 3: we get to the midterms? Is that possible? Let me

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Speaker 3: say you something about Jdvans and turning point. USA got

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Speaker 3: a big problem with TPUSA jumping and announcing that they're

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Speaker 3: going to be using their massive national platform to advance

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Speaker 3: JD Vance's presidency. I think it's way too early for that,

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Speaker 3: and quite frankly, very inappropriate. This is supposed to be

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Speaker 3: a student organization, not some sort of a political action committee.

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Speaker 3: And the fact that they're already throwing in with Jade

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Speaker 3: Vance when we don't know who's going to be running,

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Speaker 3: and a lot could happen between now an election day.

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Speaker 3: And I will just say this, Marco Rubio has been

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Speaker 3: doing a phenomenal job, well multiple jobs in the Trump administration,

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Speaker 3: and I think he make a great candidate. All right,

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Speaker 3: let's go to the phone lines. We'll start with Linda

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Speaker 3: in Germantown. Hi, Linda, how are you today? Happy New

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Speaker 3: Year to you.

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Speaker 7: Happy new Year.

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Speaker 8: I'm so excited with a great day. It'll be on

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Speaker 8: the second.

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Speaker 3: It's going to be a lot of fun, Linda. And

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Speaker 3: you're going to be a part of all of that

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Speaker 3: fun because you've just picked up two tickets to attend

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Speaker 3: the AutoZone Liberty Ball.

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Speaker 7: Wow.

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Speaker 3: Congratulations, Linda. Hey, Linda, let me ask you. We were talking,

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Speaker 3: we were talking about this earlier about New Year's traditions.

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Speaker 3: Are you like a collared green or black eyed pea family?

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Speaker 3: Do you guys do those traditions?

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Speaker 8: Well, yes, my husband shoves black eyed peas to our family.

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Speaker 8: But what we do, we gave up on that years

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Speaker 8: ago and we do our traditions and make our New

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Speaker 8: Year's resolutions on March fourth.

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Speaker 3: March fourth, We March fourth.

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Speaker 5: Ah.

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Speaker 3: Oh, that's very clever, Linda. I like that you get.

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Speaker 7: All this stuff out of the way, you know, because

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Speaker 7: usually when you make a New Year's resolution is gone

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Speaker 7: by the week and so you know, you reset. Usually

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Speaker 7: the kids are getting ready to be get out of

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Speaker 7: school for the spring break, and we just kind of

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Speaker 7: look at the spring coming up, and we march forth

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Speaker 7: and we make our resolutions.

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Speaker 3: Then I love that, Linda. What a great idea and

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Speaker 3: what a great family tradition. Well, look, congratulations, We're gonna

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Speaker 3: put you on a hold and we're gonna get all

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Speaker 3: your information and we hope you have a great time

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Speaker 3: at the football game.

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Speaker 7: Oh, I will thank you so much.

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Speaker 8: Go Navy.

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Speaker 3: All right, there we go, big Navy fan there. Hang tight, Linda,

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Speaker 3: and let's go to Bartlett and say good morning the Vince.

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Speaker 3: Hope you're doing great today.

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Speaker 5: I am doing great.

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Speaker 8: How are you?

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Speaker 5: Well?

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Speaker 3: You're about to do better because you just won yourself

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Speaker 3: a pair of tickets to the AutoZone Liberty Ball sirm.

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Speaker 3: Oh that's awful, y yeah, Ventce, it is. They really

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Speaker 3: do a great job, Harold and the whole team over

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Speaker 3: there at the AutoZone Liberty Bawl. And every year it's

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Speaker 3: nice to see Memphis so well represented, you know, on

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Speaker 3: you know, on the national stage with this great Bowl game.

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Speaker 3: It is it is, and I think they've been doing

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Speaker 3: some upgrades to that stadium too, so I'm looking forward

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Speaker 3: to seeing what they got going on. Yeah, you're gonna

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Speaker 3: like it. It's it's not quite done yet, but it's

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Speaker 3: you it's shaping up and you're gonna be able to

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Speaker 3: see exactly what it's going to look like, hopefully in

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Speaker 3: time for the opening season opener for the Memphis Tigers

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Speaker 3: in the fall. But it's it's pretty spectacular. Well, Vince,

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Speaker 3: first of all, congratulations and second, thanks for listening to

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Speaker 3: k wham.

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Speaker 5: Thank you. You have a great day.

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Speaker 3: All right, don't go anywhere. Vin's hang tight and we're

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Speaker 3: going to get all of your information. And I believe

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Speaker 3: we're going to be doing some more ticket giveaways tomorrow.

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Speaker 3: So again we're excited to be able to send you

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Speaker 3: and a family member or a friend to the AutoZone

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Speaker 3: Liberty Ball. All right, we're going to take a quick break.

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Speaker 3: This is Starn's Country and the principal Toyota to Memphis Studios.

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Speaker 3: Welcome books. Great to be back behind our great, big,

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Speaker 3: beautiful huge microphone broadcasting border to bordered, coast to coast

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Speaker 3: across the fruit and plain. I hope you had a

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Speaker 3: good Christmas. By the way, had I was in it.

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Speaker 3: I ended up working Newsmax, had me doing multiple shows

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Speaker 3: over the over the holiday. But still great to be

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Speaker 3: back with you today as we work through some pretty

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Speaker 3: crazy stories. Now, normally we do not start off the

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Speaker 3: show with a guest, but today we have a very

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Speaker 3: special guest, our good friend Mike Lindell, the founder, the

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Speaker 3: creator of My Pillow. And because of this man, most

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Speaker 3: of America can actually get a good night's rest. And

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Speaker 3: now he is running to be the next governor of Minnesota.

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Speaker 3: He joins us on our Patriot Mobile newsmaker line. Mike

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Speaker 3: has been a long time my friend. First of all,

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Speaker 3: hope you had a merry Christmas.

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Speaker 5: I sure did. Thanks for having me on.

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Speaker 3: Todd You got it, Mike. Very exciting news, and I

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Speaker 3: want to talk about the Somali fraud in just a moment.

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Speaker 3: But I'm just curious, what is it that prompted you

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Speaker 3: to design you know what, I'm going to run for governor.

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Speaker 5: Well, you know, there's been things I wanted. I grew

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Speaker 5: up and born and raised in Minnesota, and I've had

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Speaker 5: business there. I started from scratch my whole life. I

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Speaker 5: was used to be an attic in downtown Minneapolis. I

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Speaker 5: was set free by the grace of God with my

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Speaker 5: addictions and worked with the inner city people and teen

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Speaker 5: Chunge Union Gospel back in the day poured millions into that.

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Speaker 5: And then, you know, I've seen all the problems we

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Speaker 5: were having, and I was actually going to run. I

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Speaker 5: told the President before the twenty twenty election, I said,

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Speaker 5: you know, I think I'm going to run for governor

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Speaker 5: of Minnesota. Well, then, as we all know, when that

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Speaker 5: election came down, was stoled and I put my heart

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Speaker 5: and soul into securing our election platforms the last five years,

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Speaker 5: and we've made great progress in that, and I felt

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Speaker 5: it was time. My wife and I we prayed about

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Speaker 5: it over things giving and as you know, my pillow

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Speaker 5: has been the most attent company in history. And I said,

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Speaker 5: you know, I said, if we if I could get

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Speaker 5: my pillow right, if I feel secure, where my employees

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Speaker 5: are safe, and and uh this law fare and this

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Speaker 5: uh this other stuff that they keep kept coming after

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Speaker 5: my pillow to cancel them out, was it was at

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Speaker 5: a level that that I could move on. I said,

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Speaker 5: I'll run for governor and then and then all this

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Speaker 5: uh fraud and all this other stuff starts to get exposed.

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Speaker 5: And and I've seen the other twelve candidates that are running,

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Speaker 5: and I just said, you know, it's kind of if

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Speaker 5: you want something done right, you do it yourself. And

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Speaker 5: I just know I can do the job, get it done.

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Speaker 5: And and with all other experiences I've had in business

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Speaker 5: and both building businesses and fixing them as they uh

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Speaker 5: as they as you have problems, So it was kind

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Speaker 5: of a combination of things. But I've been thinking about

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Speaker 5: it for a long time and he did not want

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Speaker 5: me running. He as soon as he heard I was running.

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Speaker 5: Tim Walls said, do we want he put out a

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Speaker 5: big presley? Do we want Mike g. Lindell and Donald Trump

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Speaker 5: coming into Minnesota and ruining our family values? That was

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Speaker 5: a quote from Tim Walls.

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Speaker 3: Wow, it's it's uh, this guy tampon Tim Waltz. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: it's it's crazy. Is it true. We've we heard rumblings

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Speaker 3: that people are literally driving by the governor's mansion and

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Speaker 3: hollering out you know, just I mean, this guy is

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Speaker 3: getting heckled wherever he goes, wherever he is in Minnesota.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, well, right now, he's putting out stuff with all

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Speaker 5: the fraud they say in Super's of nine billion now

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Speaker 5: and in under your Watch and if he wasn't and

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Speaker 5: it's got to be the biggest neglect of a governor

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Speaker 5: in the history of the world, because they're calling it

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Speaker 5: the biggest fraud in the United States history, and if

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Speaker 5: and what he's been doing because the media, the Minnesota

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Speaker 5: media covers for him too. They're all in bed together,

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Speaker 5: I think, and they but he's going we got to

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Speaker 5: get rid of the guns. We got to get rid

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Speaker 5: of the guns. That's just focus last week, you're just deflecting.

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Speaker 5: If you're if you're in Minnesota and you're just focused

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Speaker 5: on our local media, you're probably still brainwashed that nothing's wrong.

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Speaker 5: And then you go to social media and you see

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Speaker 5: there's one hundred million views everybody, one hundred million of

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Speaker 5: from this weekend of that Nick guy that Nick made

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Speaker 5: those Nick Shirley, Nick Shirley that made those amazing videos

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Speaker 5: went door to door the Somalian healthcare centers and there's

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Speaker 5: no kids, and there's no kids, and they can't hide

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Speaker 5: this one, Todd. They're not going to be able to

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Speaker 5: hide this one. They've been doing this to our welfare

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Speaker 5: systems with education, they did it with autism sign ups, Medicaid,

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Speaker 5: housing programs. This this fraud has been going on in

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Speaker 5: one pictase another with all these welfare programs, but this

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Speaker 5: one's so blatant you can't even explain it away. The

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Speaker 5: only thing that they could do is keep keep the

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Speaker 5: reporter Nick from going inside, and they wouldn't let them in.

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Speaker 5: Well where's the kids, Well, we don't have any kids.

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Speaker 5: Well and then one of them says learning center. Everybody

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Speaker 5: learning center, And they didn't put the in it says

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Speaker 5: Luring Center. You know, they they it's just it's despicable

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Speaker 5: and it's uh, they say it could be the Russia

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Speaker 5: or the New York. The New York Coast reported on

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Speaker 5: December twenty first that it could be upwards of nine

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Speaker 5: billion dollars. That's half of Minnesota's half of Minnesota's eighteen

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Speaker 5: million dollars allotment over the last five years. And uh,

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Speaker 5: that's all of Somalian's national economy combined.

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Speaker 3: It's just outrageous and it's it really is. I mean

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Speaker 3: when when you look at and that's all taxpayer money, Mike,

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Speaker 3: that could be used to help actual law abiding American

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Speaker 3: citizens one hundred percent.

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Speaker 5: And then you talked about Minnesota taxes going up and

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Speaker 5: up and up. And that's one of the biggest reasons

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Speaker 5: why and one of the things I'm very you know

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Speaker 5: that I another reason I want to run for governor.

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Speaker 5: But the biggest problem, some of the biggest problems we have, obviously,

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Speaker 5: is is these welfare programs in general, Are they good,

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Speaker 5: do they work? Let's say that, let's say they we're

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Speaker 5: all done legitimately, and but you've got a lot of

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Speaker 5: people I don't want my taxes going to that or

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Speaker 5: I mean, I don't want my taxes going tood. And

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Speaker 5: I developed a program about eight years ago or now

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Speaker 5: it's been ten years, and we launched it in Detroit.

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Speaker 5: I launched it in a whole bunch of countries to

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Speaker 5: test it, and it's absolutely amazing. It combines private sector

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Speaker 5: money with government money and it'll take away all those

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Speaker 5: programs and this will be a perfect plug in. And

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Speaker 5: so I've got a good solution for that. And then

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Speaker 5: I've got to with all the addicts, you know, addictions

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Speaker 5: kind of my foretape me being the next crack cocaine addict.

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Speaker 5: And I've got a great thing that worked with Ben

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Speaker 5: mental problems off the streets. And it is absolutely still

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Speaker 5: have the blueprints for that. So that's what every city needs.

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Speaker 5: You can't just take these people and move them over here,

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Speaker 5: and then move them over here and move them over here,

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Speaker 5: and there's really these programs work. And then the other

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Speaker 5: one is uh is education. So I've got a lot

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Speaker 5: of things that from my past that I can pull

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Speaker 5: by the way, everybody running for governor, because there was

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Speaker 5: a few things I was going to do for our

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Speaker 5: great president that we didn't have to even get that

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Speaker 5: them out of the uh, pull them out of the

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Speaker 5: to help out. It's Mike G. Lindellgov dot com and

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Speaker 3: One all right, that's just some of our interview we

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Speaker 3: That's one of the reasons why you need to be

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Speaker 3: All Right, it is going to be a very busy

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Speaker 3: newsday as we continue to take a look at what's

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Speaker 3: happening with this fraud happening not only now in Minnesota

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Speaker 3: as we mentioned, more than three hundred childcare facilities here

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Speaker 3: of folks wondering is their fraud in our state as well?

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