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

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Speaker 1: America's favorite gun, total Bible clinging, deplorable Americans, American.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well, hello, everybody, Welcome to the Todd Starns Radio Show.

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Speaker 3: Great to have you with us today.

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Speaker 4: Wow.

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Speaker 3: These storms that blew through what Texas and Tennessee and

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Speaker 3: A good chunk of the audience under some sort of

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Speaker 3: of the Midwest. So all that to say, great to

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Speaker 3: be with you today. Hunker down wherever you are, and

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Speaker 3: we'll have a lot of fun together on the radio

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Speaker 3: over the next three hours. So were our starting off

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Speaker 3: point today is it's a little odd President Trump has

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Speaker 3: finally weighed in on the big social media battles. Now.

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Speaker 5: Look.

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Speaker 3: Over the weekend there was some weird stuff going down

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Speaker 3: with Tucker Carlson and Iran and Tucker suggesting that the

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Speaker 3: CIA was somehow spying on his text messages and Tucker

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Speaker 3: was pretty fired up about this, and we're going to

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Speaker 3: play some of that audio in just a moment. But

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Speaker 3: let me just say that there are a lot of

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Speaker 3: I have finally figured out out what's going on here,

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Speaker 3: and it's not good. Now, it's important for us to

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Speaker 3: put all of this in perspective and put it in

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Speaker 3: within context. So look, the reality is, most Americans are

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Speaker 3: of the platforms that Candice Owens and Megan Kelly and

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Speaker 3: Steve Bannon and Tucker Carlson Operator and even I mean, yeah,

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Speaker 3: they've got millions of people that watch their podcast, no

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Speaker 3: don'tieve they don't represent the majority of the nation, or

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Speaker 3: really the conservative movement, and if you want to, if

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Speaker 3: there's just a lot of hate and a lot of

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Speaker 3: the day, all of this is driven by clicks. Now

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Speaker 3: here's what you need to know about social media right now.

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Speaker 3: Some of the larger influencers and that includes yours. Truly,

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Speaker 3: we are reimbursed, We are compensated for what we post

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Speaker 3: on our social media platforms. A lot of people to

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Speaker 3: and they there's no punishment for that, There's no sort

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Speaker 3: of retribution. And so a lot of these social media

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Speaker 3: influencers that you see out there are posting things they

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Speaker 3: know are not true because they don't care that, they

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Speaker 3: paycheck out of it. So remember what I've been saying

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Speaker 3: this for years now, that there are many people in

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Speaker 3: the conservative movement that simply get paid to be a conservative,

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Speaker 3: and many times they won't even tell you that. You know,

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Speaker 3: you know, hawking some Let's say, well, we're talking about

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Speaker 3: But let's just assume for a minute that I'm talking,

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Speaker 3: of hate being directed at Mark Levin and Mike Hackabee,

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Speaker 3: is no doubt about it. There has been a shift

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Speaker 3: that he is defending Mark Levin. Here and Mark Levin,

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Speaker 3: you're a you're a you're a show for Israel right now. No,

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Speaker 3: we used to support you. I'm the same Todd Starns

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Speaker 3: to This is our jumping off point. The President said this.

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Speaker 3: They are not maga, I am, And MAGA includes not

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Speaker 3: before the weekend, Tucker released a very odd video. All right,

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Speaker 6: So the other day I found out that the CIA

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Speaker 5: What's that crime?

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Speaker 6: Well, talking to people in Iran before the war. They

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Speaker 6: be the foreign Agent Act or something like that, acting

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Speaker 6: But it happens all the time. And in fact, one

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Speaker 8: If you were wondering why the rodio and the Houston

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Speaker 8: I want to talk so much, but how do y'all

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Speaker 5: That's all I can say. They have no upbringings.

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Speaker 8: Why would you go to an event and act like that,

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Speaker 3: which is why they committed all this may because let

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Speaker 3: me tell you something, there's no way on God's green

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Speaker 3: Earth that I will ever get on board any sort

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Speaker 3: of a cruise ship heading south of the border. I

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Speaker 3: don't want to get trapped on a boat.

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Speaker 5: It's like prison on water.

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Speaker 3: Can you seriously have you seen? I mean, it's it's

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Speaker 3: not an anomaly. I mean, that's what's happening right now.

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Speaker 3: I feel bad for the cruise ship industry.

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Speaker 5: Oh yeah, and there there are a few good cruise

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Speaker 5: companies out there that do a good job. But like

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Speaker 5: you know, the cheaper ones, the ones that people can afford,

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Speaker 5: like those are those are in rough waters right now.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's sort of like Spirit Airlines. Yeah, if it's

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Speaker 3: a cheap cruise, you don't want to go.

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Speaker 5: It's not like you can leave like you can't. There's

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Speaker 5: not a you know, there are raft boats, but you

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Speaker 5: can't just use them.

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Speaker 3: Well, if push came to shov, I mean, do you

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Speaker 3: want the Houston Rodeo happening on water because I mean,

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Speaker 3: I mean, how many videos have we seen.

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Speaker 5: That's nightmare fuel right there?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the whole thing is nightmare. But here's the problem.

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Speaker 3: Nobody wants to address the issue here. Nobody wants to

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Speaker 3: talk about the root issue, which is where are moms

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Speaker 3: and dads? Why aren't they disciplining their kids and By

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Speaker 3: the way, why aren't the cops arresting all of these people?

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Speaker 3: I mean, that's that's what needs to happen, and because

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Speaker 3: and part of the reason is parents these days, their

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Speaker 3: children are like they're like God's gift to mankind, so

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Speaker 3: their children can do no harm. So therefore they never

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Speaker 3: disciplined their kids. And it's always everybody else's fault. It's

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Speaker 3: never the fault of the children. By the way, there

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Speaker 3: was video of a they spent what sixty million dollars

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Speaker 3: to renovate a park on the Mississippi River in Memphis,

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Speaker 3: and over the weekend there was this massive brawl and

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Speaker 3: there was the obligatory you know, four hundred pound goog

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Speaker 3: that would be gals of girth, a gall of girth.

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Speaker 3: And then Dylan, there was a guy and a wheel

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Speaker 3: This is terrible. There was a guy in a wheelchair

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Speaker 3: with one leg and he abandons his wheelchair and he's

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Speaker 3: hopping around on what we've got the video that's.

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Speaker 5: A dedication Hewett's finest degree.

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Speaker 3: He's trying to fight people were breaking them. I don't

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Speaker 3: know what he was doing, but he was hopping around

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Speaker 3: on one leg.

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Speaker 5: I thought it was him. I'd stay in the chair.

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Speaker 5: I mean, you can run over people if they're on

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Speaker 5: the ground. You know you have leverage there. You don't

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Speaker 5: even know about it.

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Speaker 3: Or if you're wearing like a prosthetic device, sorry, take

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Speaker 3: it off. Take it off and use that as a

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Speaker 3: battering ram.

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Speaker 5: Don't bring a prosthetic leg to a gunfight.

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Speaker 3: And I'm watching the guy he's wheeling the chair around

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Speaker 3: in the middle of the fight, and I'm like, he's no,

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Speaker 3: he's not gonna get up. He's is he going to

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Speaker 3: get up? And I thought maybe he had sprained his ankle.

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Speaker 3: He didn't have an ankle, there was no leg.

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Speaker 5: There were you cheering for him in this battle here?

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Speaker 3: You kind of have to you kind of have to.

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Speaker 3: Only in Memphis, I'm like, sixty million dollars, sixty million

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Speaker 3: dollars for what we should have just built an MMA

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Speaker 3: fighting ring down there. Seriously, let everybody have at it.

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Speaker 3: But what's going on in society, ladies and gentlemen, like

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Speaker 3: for Winston Salem and I just I I actually hit

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Speaker 3: it for all of our WSJS listers because you guys

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Speaker 3: have a beautiful, beautiful community, but a lot of businesses

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Speaker 3: are just done. They're saying it's almost impossible to operate

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Speaker 3: in the downtown area because of all the fighting. So

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Speaker 3: at what point, As a matter of fact, police now

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Speaker 3: in Winston Salem are shutting down the large gatherings of

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Speaker 3: unsupervised utes in downtown. The police chief now calling on

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Speaker 3: the public to intervene over the weekend. A crowd of

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Speaker 3: some two hundred utes. Reading from the reporting from WGHP

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Speaker 3: in Winston Salem, Miller's on trade bar manager Christmas that

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Speaker 3: he was working at the bar alone when he first

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Speaker 3: heard the commotion early on in the evening. He said,

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Speaker 3: everything was nice and okay, and find just a lot

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Speaker 3: of people on the street, usual for a Wednesday night.

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Speaker 3: Police responded to numerous calls for trespassing, fights and disturbances.

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Speaker 3: The sports bar had to close its doors earlier than usual.

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Speaker 3: So you see what's happening here. This is impacting business.

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Speaker 3: So how do we fix this? Ladies and gentlemen. Nine

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

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Speaker 3: our telephone number. That's nine oh one two six zero

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Speaker 3: five nine two six. Apparently they were using those scooters.

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Speaker 3: Have you guys seen those scooters that you can I

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Speaker 3: guess lease the scooter and you've got grown people like

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Speaker 3: scooting around on the scooters. They were using the scooters

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Speaker 3: and as weapons, and they were throwing the scooters at

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Speaker 3: people just across the street. Cheesecakes by Alex Twin. City

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Speaker 3: shift leader Jada Carter said their store hours saved them

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Speaker 3: before the youth activities became too much. Oh that's what

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Speaker 3: they're calling you now, youth activities gotcha? What a brawl?

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Speaker 3: What a mess, ladies and gentlemen, and of all places.

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Speaker 3: Winston Salem, North Carolina police say these types of gatherings

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Speaker 3: become a trend nationwide when temperatures begin to rise. That's

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Speaker 3: why officials are calling for parents in the community to

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Speaker 3: keep teams engaged and safe as we get into the

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Speaker 3: summer months. Here's what the police chief had to say.

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Speaker 3: Curious to hear your thoughts on this one. They said

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Speaker 3: it was an unsanctioned party planned for high school age

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Speaker 3: kids out on spring break. Now it's a long statement.

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Speaker 3: I don't want to read all of this, but he says.

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Speaker 3: The chief says, we are now dealing with the same

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Speaker 3: problem we face last summer, unsupervised juveniles. I come before

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Speaker 3: you again with a similar message. Our youth are the

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Speaker 3: most precious asset we have in our community. They are

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Speaker 3: our future. Well, if that's the case, case, may I

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Speaker 3: recommend that we start putting belt to ass to the

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Speaker 3: assets of our country, because that's the only way this

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Speaker 3: is going to get resolved is for parents to start

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Speaker 3: acting like parents and beating the living daylights out of

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Speaker 3: their children in a loving way, of course. But I'm

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Speaker 3: telling you if if I had, if I had been

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Speaker 3: engaged in anything like this, I can tell you my

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Speaker 3: mom and dad would have been down there, down there

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Speaker 3: with the belt off already, and I'd be begging the

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Speaker 3: police to arrest me. And that's really the kind of

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Speaker 3: fear of God we need to instill into these little evil,

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Speaker 3: heathen children. And that's what they are there, heathen children. Unbelievable.

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Speaker 3: All Right, we got to take a break. Nine oh

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Speaker 3: one two six zero five nine two six. This is

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Speaker 3: the Todd starn Show. All right, Welcome back, everybody. This

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Speaker 3: is the Tom Searns Radio Show. Someone just sent me

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Speaker 3: a photograph from Michigan and the snow drifts are higher

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Speaker 3: than the house. That's how that's how much snow they've

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Speaker 3: been getting up there. Unbelievable. I don't know how you

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Speaker 3: guys do it, Jez alone. We get an inch of

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Speaker 3: snow and we shut everything down here. I can't even

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Speaker 3: imagine having snow drifts, you know, fifteen to twenty feet tall.

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Speaker 3: Good Lord, nine oh one two six zero five nine

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Speaker 3: two six is our telephone number. That's nine oh one

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Speaker 3: two six zero five nine two six. President Trump just

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Speaker 3: a few seconds ago announcing that the Kennedy Trump Center

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Speaker 3: is going to be shut down for the next two years.

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Speaker 3: The President says they didn't realize just how bad it was,

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Speaker 3: and they the previous administrations just turned a blind eye

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Speaker 3: to what was happening at the Kennedy Center as far

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Speaker 3: as the structure goes, the building itself, and it's a

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Speaker 3: complete mess. So they're pretty much going to have to

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Speaker 3: re rebuild the thing, and the President says that's going

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Speaker 3: to take about two years. Also, there was some question

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Speaker 3: about whether or not Rick Runell was going to remain

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Speaker 3: on board. He's actually at the meeting, so you can

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Speaker 3: read into that what you want to, But there you go.

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Speaker 3: Kennedy Senator Kennedy Center rather shutting down. You know a

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Speaker 3: lot of groups have been canceling, so they were having

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Speaker 3: a hard time actually finding groups that were willing to

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Speaker 3: come in and perform. So yet no the Oscars, No, Dylan,

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Speaker 3: I did not watch the Oscars last night. I normally

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Speaker 3: I take one for the team. I am in the

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Speaker 3: final edits of the book, and I thought, you know what,

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Speaker 3: I can't be bothered. I don't want to get riled

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Speaker 3: up last night. And honestly, I forgot they were even

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Speaker 3: holding the Academy Awards. It was this really sort of

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Speaker 3: ho hum. But there was an interesting moment and we

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Speaker 3: pulled some audio and I'll share that with you coming

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Speaker 3: up to the next hour of the show. By the way,

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Speaker 3: speaking of my book, yes, very excited. The endorsements are

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Speaker 3: coming in President Trump, speaker Mike Johnson. We got Congressman

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Speaker 3: David Kustaff sending in a message and so we're very

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Speaker 3: very excited about that. It's called The Golden Age, How

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Speaker 3: Trump Saved America. And you can get yourself a copy

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Speaker 3: wherever you get your book, So pre order today. Let's

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Speaker 3: go to the phone lines Clyde in Texas, Clyde, what's

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Speaker 3: on your mind?

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Speaker 9: Well, sir, glad it Aaron talk to you anyway. Yeah,

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Speaker 9: you're talking about these two hundred teenagers are getting in

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Speaker 9: trouble if there's Salem, Winston, Winston, Salem anyway, Mike, care

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Speaker 9: is what we what did we have as kids that

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Speaker 9: they don't have to day? They don't afford a curve.

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Speaker 9: They gotta afford that curve. You're make him in a

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Speaker 9: house at ten o flock about take them to jail,

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Speaker 9: make their personal now, pay a fine and get him out,

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Speaker 9: and I guarantee the parents will start paying attention.

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Speaker 3: I like your idea, and you know what, you raise

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Speaker 3: a good point. I think kids today have a heck

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Speaker 3: of a lot more than we had. We didn't have

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Speaker 3: our own private phones, we didn't have our own private computers.

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Speaker 9: Right, we want to make phone call? We went down

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Speaker 9: the number on our little landline.

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Speaker 3: We certainly did. And also, uh, our parents had a rule.

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Speaker 3: You got to get back home when the street lights

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Speaker 3: come on. Right, that's it.

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Speaker 9: I Clyde belts on that incident.

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Speaker 3: You know, I think that's the biggest problem is that

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Speaker 3: we're not using belts. And that's that's a big problem.

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Speaker 3: Kids just don't they're not disciplined. Uh, and parents, you

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Speaker 3: got to do your job, all right, We got to

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Speaker 3: take a right Clyde, thank you for that call. Nine

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

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Speaker 3: our telephone number. That's nine oh one two six zero five,

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Speaker 3: nine two six. This is the Todd Sterns Show.

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

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Speaker 1: common sense, conservative commentary from Todd Starts Fat.

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Speaker 3: Samaritan, and hello everybody. Welcome to the Todd Starns Radio Show.

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Speaker 3: Happy to have you with us today on this Monday

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Speaker 3: edition of the program. By the way, our telephone number

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

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

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Speaker 3: I'm curious to hear your thoughts about this this story.

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Speaker 3: A mom went on social media and she's really frustrated.

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Speaker 3: She said that her daughter is really not learning a

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Speaker 3: lot in her local public school, provided for by your

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Speaker 3: tax dollars. By the way, and she goes on to say,

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Speaker 3: and we'll play this clip here, that only one out

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Speaker 3: of every four children in this child's math class actually

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Speaker 3: speaks English. Take a listen.

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Speaker 2: I'm about to ask what I'm not supposed to ask.

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Speaker 10: Why is one of my children in a class where

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Speaker 10: she's one of four kids that speaks English in math?

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Speaker 10: And she doesn't get to learn math because there's twenty

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Speaker 10: plus other kids who don't know English, and the teacher

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Speaker 10: has to accommodate them. And I'm not blaming the teacher.

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Speaker 10: I actually feel really bad for the teachers. Why why

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Speaker 10: am I paying property taxes? Why am I paying income tax?

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Speaker 10: Why am I paying taxes for anything? For my children

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Speaker 10: to have the right to a free and public education, which,

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Speaker 10: by the way, they constantly are trying to take the

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Speaker 10: ability for us to homeschool and all that stuff away

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Speaker 10: to make them go to public school. But then when

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Speaker 10: they go to public school, this is what they get.

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Speaker 10: You don't get to learn math because you know English,

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Speaker 10: so you just don't get.

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Speaker 2: To learn math.

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Speaker 11: What.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, So it turns out that that this is a

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Speaker 3: big problem in many public schools. So you've got the

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Speaker 3: last count, well over six million children in our nation's

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Speaker 3: public education system do they don't speak any English? And

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Speaker 3: so now these schools have to go out there and

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Speaker 3: have to find ESL teachers. That's English as the second

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Speaker 3: language student teacher. By the way, that's nearly eleven percent.

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Speaker 3: By the way, when you look at the six million,

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Speaker 3: that's nearly eleven percent of the total public school enrollment

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Speaker 3: that can't speak English. So what happens is many public

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Speaker 3: schools and they don't have a lot of money. You know,

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Speaker 3: there's just not a lot to go around. And so

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Speaker 3: instead of say hiring an additional math teacher or a

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Speaker 3: science teacher, they have to go out there and hire

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Speaker 3: these ESL teachers English as a second language teacher, because

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Speaker 3: these kids have to learn how to speak English. So

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Speaker 3: again it goes back to the idea that it's not

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Speaker 3: just the illegal alien children here, right, it's taking away

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Speaker 3: from the law abiding American children, the resources, the money

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Speaker 3: that it's costing to educate all of these kids who

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Speaker 3: do not speak our language. And it is a growing,

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Speaker 3: growing problem. And by the way, this is not just

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Speaker 3: happening in the big cities. This is happening in smaller

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Speaker 3: communities as well. So I feel bad for this mom,

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Speaker 3: but I think a lot of people are now beginning

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Speaker 3: to wake up and realize, wait a second, this is

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Speaker 3: not good talking about the illegal immigration. We're not able

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Speaker 3: to accommodate the millions of people that came here from

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Speaker 3: Spanish speaking countries that had completely overwhelmed our nation's education system.

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Speaker 3: And that's that's what's really going on here, all right,

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

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Speaker 3: hour telephone number. That's nine oh one two six zero

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Speaker 3: five nine two six. Speaking of that, you folks in Houston.

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Speaker 3: Harris County, Texas, a brand new report out that they

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Speaker 3: caught an ilegal voting in the twenty twenty four election.

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Speaker 3: Take a lesson.

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Speaker 12: Federal investigators say a british Man knowingly broke US election law.

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Speaker 12: According to court documents, Samuel James Hall, described as a

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Speaker 12: non US citizen, is accused of voting in the twenty

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Speaker 12: twenty four general election, casting a ballot in races for president,

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Speaker 12: vice president, Senate, and the House of Representatives, despite allegedly

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Speaker 12: knowing he was not eligible to vote. The Harris County

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Speaker 12: tax Assessor, Collector and voter Registrar's office tells ABC thirteen

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Speaker 12: it first learned Hall was on the voter rules last June,

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Speaker 12: seven months after the election. Officials say they notified him

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Speaker 12: and that Hall then canceled his own registration. The registrar

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Speaker 12: says he was removed from the voter roles and is

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Speaker 12: not currently registered to vote in Harris County, writing in

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Speaker 12: a statement, quote, as this is an ongoing investigation, we

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Speaker 12: are unable to share more at this time, and remained

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Speaker 12: committed to ensuring that the voter registration roles are up

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Speaker 12: to date and that only eligible citizens are enrolled and

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Speaker 12: part of the process. ABC thirteen asked how Hall was

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Speaker 12: able to register to vote in the first place, since

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Speaker 12: that is the key issue, but we have.

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Speaker 2: Not gotten that answer.

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Speaker 12: Last year, the Texas Secretary of State says it identified

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Speaker 12: thirty three people who may have illegally voted out of

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Speaker 12: nearly eleven point four million ballots cast in that election.

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Speaker 12: Thirty three votes ultimately not enough to change the outcome

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Speaker 12: of any election in this case. The FBI's Houston Field

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Speaker 12: office says Hall made his initial federal court appearance Wednesday,

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Speaker 12: where he pleaded not guilty. Court documents show he posted bond.

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Speaker 12: Hall's attorney declined to comment when ABC thirteen reached out,

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Speaker 12: but his client now facing a penalty of up to

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Speaker 3: But but but wait, wait, wait a second here, I

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Speaker 3: thought the Democrats told us this never happens, that there's

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Speaker 3: never been an incident of anybody voting in an election

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Speaker 3: that was not allowed to vote an election. That's what

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Speaker 3: they told us. Now, my question and It's a great

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Speaker 3: question that ABC asked is how is this guy allowed

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Speaker 3: to vote in the first place. That has to be investigated.

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Speaker 3: But my other question is how many other people were

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Speaker 3: able to vote that we don't know about. You know,

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Speaker 3: they're trying to dismiss this as a one off. I

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Speaker 3: don't think it's a one off. I think there are

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Speaker 3: a lot of people voting in those Texas elections who

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Speaker 3: are not supposed to be voting. Meanwhile, speaking of Texas,

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Speaker 3: Dan Crenshaw is on the warpath. You know, he got

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Speaker 3: booted out of the Republican primary, and so anyway he's

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Speaker 3: out for blood. This is Congressman Crenshaw calling out MAGA.

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Speaker 13: Last time you were with us, we spoke about you

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Speaker 13: felt the need for moral clarity. That was a phrase

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Speaker 13: you used for some within your own party, specifically around

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Speaker 13: anti Semitism in this country. I want to read for

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Speaker 13: you a few things that some Republican lawmakers said this week.

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Speaker 13: Andy Ogles of Tennessee said America is a product of

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Speaker 13: English Christian culture. Muslims don't belong in American society. Florida's

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Speaker 13: Randy Fine said we need more Islamophobia, not less fear

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Speaker 13: of Islam is rational, and Senator Tommy Tupperville of Alabama

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Speaker 13: posted a picture of the nine to eleven attack next

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Speaker 13: to the New York City mayor at dinner breaking his

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Speaker 13: fast at Ramadan, with the phrase the enemy is inside

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Speaker 13: the gates. What do you think of this language and

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Speaker 13: should Republican leaders speak up about it?

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Speaker 7: I still think it's fairly fringe.

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Speaker 14: I mean, the truth of the matter is radical Islamism

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Speaker 14: is bad. Right, We've always known that should be that

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Speaker 14: should not be a contra virtual statement at all.

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Speaker 7: But that's not what they said. Plenty of peaceful Muslims

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Speaker 7: who live among us. I realized that.

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Speaker 14: But you know that that's not a mainstream that's not

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Speaker 14: a mainstream narrative. But by by any stretch, I think

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Speaker 14: trying to fight it internally what probably gives it more

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Speaker 14: a lot more air than than is necessary.

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Speaker 7: We've seen that to be the case. Is you know,

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Speaker 7: if there's there's there's there's.

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Speaker 14: A Republican conflict ongoing right now over Israel and the

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Speaker 14: anti Semitism issues, and so you know, you one could

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Speaker 14: make the argument that speaking out against it is only

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Speaker 14: inflamed it.

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Speaker 7: So look, I still think that's very fringe.

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Speaker 14: I don't think that's that's that's certainly not the administration's position.

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Speaker 7: And uh, like, we're going to go after radical Islam.

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Speaker 14: That's why we need to fund agencies like DHS, and.

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Speaker 7: That's what we're going to do.

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Speaker 3: Okay, So Congressman Crenshaw believes that all of you folks

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Speaker 3: that are concerned about Islam, you are fringe people, and

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Speaker 3: that there's no reason for us to be worried about

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Speaker 3: a Muslim majority in the country. However, I would direct

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Speaker 3: your attention to what's happening overseas right now in the

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Speaker 3: United Kingdom, where Muslims are getting very close to becoming

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Speaker 3: the majority. They're wielding way too much influence in the culture,

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Speaker 3: so much so that there is a story circulating on

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Speaker 3: British television about public schools in the UK telling children

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Speaker 3: not to draw images of Jesus Christ. And the reason

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Speaker 3: why is they're afraid that drawing images of Jesus Christ

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Speaker 3: may cause offense to Muslim students. Take a listen.

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Speaker 15: Cut five found out that a document called Sharing the

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Speaker 15: Journey Faith Sensitivities were sent to head teachers in the

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Speaker 15: North to tell them that figurative imagery of humans is

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Speaker 15: considered blasphemy for Muslims that they should start considering to

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Speaker 15: protect them Muslim and other faith pupils. So, for example,

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Speaker 15: they should have single sex women, not mixed women. But

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Speaker 15: they should also not give children roles in nativity plays

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Speaker 15: that might make them feel uncomfortable, and they shouldn't in

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Speaker 15: lessons use drawings of Jesus because Jesus was actually a

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Speaker 15: prophet for Islam and that might upset everybody. Well, I'm

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Speaker 15: a Christian. I love drawings of Jesus, and my friend

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Speaker 15: Bernie has a very talented daughter called Isabel's spoff Off,

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Speaker 15: and she actually paints Jesus like this. I think we've

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Speaker 15: got a picture here to show everyone beautiful. That is

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Speaker 15: Isabelle sitting at the.

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Speaker 7: So talented.

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Speaker 15: I've got a Christmas card from Bernie which is one

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Speaker 15: of Isabelle's drawings, and Alice actually has it in her

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Speaker 15: religious part of her playroom, which.

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Speaker 12: She I need to give Bernie my address so I

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Speaker 12: can get work. I really do, Bernie, and your daughter

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Speaker 12: is so talented, isabel You are an incredible.

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Speaker 15: And you can actually see Isabella's drawings on Bernie's Twitter,

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Speaker 15: which I think is artemis for now.

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Speaker 2: That's correct.

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Speaker 15: Indeed, so we are a Christian country. We're going to

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Speaker 15: draw Jesus in schools.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well, good for you, ma'am. Meantime, a woman in

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Speaker 3: England claimed in public she was at a public gathering

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Speaker 3: and she said that England is a Christian country and

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Speaker 3: did not want to hear about the Quran. She was

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Speaker 3: immediately arrested by British police and that, ladies and gentlemen

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Speaker 3: is what Shariah looks like. Just FYI. There were other schools,

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Speaker 3: including one here in the United States, where during Ramadan,

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Speaker 3: the Muslims are not allowed to eat, so they fast.

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Speaker 3: And there have been some schools in the UK that

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Speaker 3: have told Christian students they are not allowed to eat snacks.

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Speaker 3: They're not allowed to eat food because it might offend

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Speaker 3: their Muslim classmates. Now this lady writing in and she

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Speaker 3: is over in the I believe this is in New Mexico.

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Speaker 3: She says, I work in a public school. The first

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Speaker 3: and second grade lunch period remains the same during Ramadan.

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Speaker 3: A few kids in the third and fourth grade lunch

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Speaker 3: period choose to take their books and iPads to the

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Speaker 3: sixth grade, many most Muslim kids choose to fast, and

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Speaker 3: many of these schools are now making public accommodations for

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Speaker 3: these Muslim kids, by the way, accommodations that are not

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Speaker 3: made to Christian children, either in the UK or here

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Speaker 3: in the United States. So anyway, curious to hear thoughts

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Speaker 3: on this. I want to read this to you. A

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Speaker 3: lady said, my neighbor is a substitute teacher. She worked

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Speaker 3: at a school this week that was not allowing snack

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Speaker 3: time for any child, and no child could have his

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Speaker 3: or her water at their desk because some Muslim students

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Speaker 3: were doing Ramadan in Phoenix, Arizona. One set of rules

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Speaker 3: and we have to follow them, and if they run

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Speaker 3: contrary to the teachings of Islam, we're not allowed to

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Speaker 3: do it. You've got to pay attention to all of this, folks,

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Speaker 3: because it is all leading us to a very very

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Speaker 3: bad place in American history. All Right, gotta take a

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

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Speaker 3: two six. This is the Tod Sterns Show. All right,

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Speaker 3: welcome back, everybody. This is the Tom Sterns Radio Show.

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Speaker 3: Let's go right to the phone lines. Atlanta, Georgia, Cynthia

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Speaker 3: joins us. Hi, Cynthia, what's on your mind?

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Speaker 15: Hi?

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Speaker 16: Well, I'm listening to your comments and wanted to add

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Speaker 16: to it. I do have Muslim friends, so I get

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Speaker 16: a lot of insight. Number One, our schools are government schools.

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Speaker 16: There's a Department of Education. These are government schools. We

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Speaker 16: have in this country a separation of church and state.

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Speaker 16: Muslim is a religion. It's a separation of church in state.

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Speaker 16: The state school should not be affording any religion extra niceties.

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Speaker 16: Let's put it like that. The Catholics were not allowed

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Speaker 16: to have extra niceties in the school system and they

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Speaker 16: started their own schools. There are Baptist schools here in

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Speaker 16: Atlanta that do not believe in some of the things

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Speaker 16: going on in the school system, and so they start

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Speaker 16: their own school. Muslim steve to go to the Muslim school.

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Speaker 16: We have a large contingency of Muslims here in the

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Speaker 16: Atlanta area. With that in mind, one of my Muslim

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Speaker 16: friends told me, after nine eleven, your people will forget

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Speaker 16: nine to eleven. We will not. Generation after generation we

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Speaker 16: will take you over. We won't take it by will

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Speaker 16: take it by the womb. He has seven children. My

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Speaker 16: children are having won two and three children, they will

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Speaker 16: take us sober by the womb and they mean to

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Speaker 16: do it, and that's why they're in the school system

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Speaker 16: changing things now.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I will say this, Cynthia, that the Constitution does

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Speaker 3: not that phrase separation of church and State is nowhere

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Speaker 3: in the US Constitution. What it does say is that

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Speaker 3: Congress will not make any laws respecting an establishment of religion.

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Speaker 3: And when you are forcing the children to fast alongside

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Speaker 3: their Muslim classmates, you are forcing a religion on the

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Speaker 3: children in that classroom. And that's where I have a problem.

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Speaker 16: You are correct, and that's why there's Muslim schools. If

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Speaker 16: you do not agree with the school, the government school,

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Speaker 16: then you take your child out and you put him

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Speaker 16: in a Baptist school, you put him in a Methodist school.

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Speaker 16: So you put him in a Muslim school or a

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Speaker 16: Catholic school. If you want seal, if you want special

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Speaker 16: niceties to come to you or rules to come to you,

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Speaker 16: do not expect every other child in the classroom to

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Speaker 16: take care of it for you. You take your child

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Speaker 16: and you pay for that nicety that you're asking for

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Speaker 16: your child, and you put them in a private school.

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Speaker 3: But Cynthia, in the area that you live. You're telling

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Speaker 3: me that even in the Atlanta area, you guys are

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Speaker 3: seeing a very large increase in the number of Muslims.

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Speaker 16: Of course, well, you have to look at it this way.

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Speaker 16: Obama when he started bringing in people into the country,

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Speaker 16: he settled them in Kentucky, he settled them in Minnesota,

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Speaker 16: he settled them in Stoe Mountain, Georgia, he settled them

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Speaker 16: in South Carolina. Thousands. It has been a plan for

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Speaker 16: quite some time. His plan is to change the United States,

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Speaker 16: the very United States of America. And he's doing it silently, quietly.

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Speaker 16: You hear something about of their so often. But if

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Speaker 16: you talk to him as them, they'll tell you we

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Speaker 16: will take you over. It's down by the sword, by

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Speaker 16: the womb. And you know when he first said that

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Speaker 16: to me, I was like, well, what exactly does that mean?

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Speaker 16: Then I started recognizing he had three different wives. Each

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Speaker 16: one hands three to five children. He beat out my

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Speaker 16: three kids. You know these young people that are saying, well,

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Speaker 16: we don't want to have any children, while there's a

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Speaker 16: Muslim sitting out there having five and six. They will

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Speaker 16: take us over by voting. They'll just take us over.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a fair point. I mean, it's it's it's

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Speaker 3: a matter of numbers, and it really is a numbers game.

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Speaker 3: And look, I think you're why, Cynthia, to remember what

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Speaker 3: Obama said he was going to fundamentally transform America. That

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Speaker 3: was not meant for just the eight years of his presidency.

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Speaker 3: He was literally laying the groundwork for this to continue

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Speaker 3: for you know, for at least a generation. So I

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Speaker 3: would say, and I think that I saw a number.

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Speaker 3: By twenty thirty, maybe you're going to see in many

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Speaker 3: parts of the country a Muslim being the dominant religion,

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Speaker 3: just simply as a result of the birth rate. So Cynthia,

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Speaker 3: appreciate that call. We've got to run for a break.

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Speaker 3: You've given us a lot to think about. Well, there

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

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Speaker 3: two six. Our telephone number. That's nine oh one two

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Speaker 3: six zero five nine two six. Got to take a

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Speaker 3: quick break. This is the Todd Sterns Show, all right.

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Speaker 3: Honored to have our good friend Congressman Scott D. Charlais,

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Speaker 3: who represents the Chattanooga area in Rissy, joined us on

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Speaker 3: Newsback's Friday Night. Here's that conversation.

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Speaker 5: Good to have you with us.

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Speaker 3: This evening, Congressman, So I'm going to ask you that question,

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Speaker 3: why is it this guy was not booted out of

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Speaker 3: the country after he was set free from prison?

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Speaker 17: Are there so many cases like this? And I'm afraid

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Speaker 17: we're just going to see more and more. We knew

942
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Speaker 17: and President Biden opened the border and twenty million people

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Speaker 17: poured through. There's two to three million godaways. The godaways

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Speaker 17: didn't want to turn themselves in and get all the

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Speaker 17: freebies that go along with coming into this country. And

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Speaker 17: so it's not a surprise that these things are happening.

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Speaker 17: And you know, just again and again in liberal states

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Speaker 17: and counties, corrupt people are being released onto the streets

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Speaker 17: and we see them committing crimes over and over again.

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Speaker 3: Congressman, there has been a lot of concern among your

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Speaker 3: colleagues up on Capitol Hill about sleeper cells. Is that

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Speaker 3: what we're watching here? I mean, we had the Awesome

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Speaker 3: to An attack, we had New York City, Michigan, we

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Speaker 3: had Old Dominion University. Is that what we're looking at?

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Speaker 17: Well, we've been expecting this again ever since the open border.

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Speaker 17: Now with the war in Iran, you know, the impetus

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Speaker 17: is there for these people to strike, and that's the

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Speaker 17: whole point of being sleeper self. They're going to rise

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Speaker 17: up at the right time, and I can expect almost

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Speaker 17: every day or two that we're going to see this

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Speaker 17: type of activity going on around the country.

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Speaker 5: We need to be hyper vigilant.

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Speaker 17: Should be an absolute no brainer for Democrats to fund DHS.

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Speaker 17: There's no time I can think of. We need homeland

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Speaker 17: security at full strength. And why they're using this as

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Speaker 17: a political football is beyond me.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, there was. I want to go back up to

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Speaker 3: Michigan for a moment. We understand that at least Alyssa Slotkin,

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Speaker 3: she's the Democrat senator from those parts, says homeland Security

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Speaker 3: should be funded. But here's the problem. She actually voted

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Speaker 3: against on to get yesterday. Take a listen.

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Speaker 18: Certainly we need to fund the Department of Homeland Security,

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Speaker 18: and we need, in my view, to cut away all

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Speaker 18: the conversation on ICE, which is its own conversation from

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Speaker 18: all the core missions of the Department of Homeland Security.

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Speaker 2: But they're essential, they're on the job. They're working today.

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Speaker 3: Okay, So when the when the terror rest at in

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Speaker 3: your congressional district or operating in your state, the Democrats

979
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Speaker 3: say oh yeah, we got we got a fund DHS.

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Speaker 17: Yeah, I know, at least while we started on Armed

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Speaker 17: Services Committee together.

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Speaker 19: You know, she she gets that.

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Speaker 17: She's a great mind when it comes to the military

984
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Speaker 17: and was a great member of Armed Services. And so

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Speaker 17: for them to continue to cling on through this Minnesota

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Speaker 17: Ice optics that they you know it, frankly, you know,

987
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Speaker 17: it didn't look good. We had two people killed there.

988
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Speaker 17: Trump has taken steps to correct that. They changed the

989
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Speaker 17: way they were operating. They replaced Christie Known with Mark

990
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Speaker 17: Wayne Mullens. And so their first shutdown was all about

991
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Speaker 17: the Epstein files. We got to release those. This shutdown

992
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Speaker 17: is trying to get political mileage out of what happened

993
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Speaker 17: in Minnesota. And I mean it's ironic that ICE is funded.

994
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Speaker 17: What's not funded as TSA, Coast Guard, Homeland Security, and

995
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Speaker 17: so they're playing this game trying to get as much capital.

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Speaker 17: It's almost like they're January sixth. Now they're going to

997
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Speaker 17: use Minnesota or their George Floyd moment. You know, they're

998
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Speaker 17: going to use this gain score political points on an

999
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Speaker 17: election year when people are literally dying, and we're going

1000
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Speaker 17: to see more of this. We need to be hyper vigilant,

1001
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Speaker 17: and this is not the time to playing games.

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Speaker 3: All right, I want to bring up Congressman Andy Ogles

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Speaker 3: from your state there in Tennessee, and the middle represents

1004
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Speaker 3: a district in the middle part of the state. He

1005
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Speaker 3: wants to see massive immigration overhaul. Here's what he wrote

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Speaker 3: on x I'm preparing a monumental bill that repeals the

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Speaker 3: Heartseller Act of nineteen sixty five, which allows immigration from

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Speaker 3: the Eastern Hemisphere. This would be a pretty significant change

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Speaker 3: if it happens. Do you support Congressman Ogles and his

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Speaker 3: efforts here?

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Speaker 5: Well, yeah, I.

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Speaker 20: Tell you what.

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Speaker 17: I've been an advocate for better vetting for a long time.

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Speaker 17: A Newsweek wrote an article about five or six years

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Speaker 17: ago when we had the disastrous Afghan withdraw about the

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Speaker 17: fourteen heartless members of Congress that voted against letting all

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Speaker 17: these Afghan interpreters come in. Well, we know that there

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Speaker 17: was a lot more than just Afghan interpreters that were

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Speaker 17: jumping on those planes. And sure enough, you know, years

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Speaker 17: later in DC we see Afghan national shoot and kill

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Speaker 17: a female National Guard and shoot another National guardsman in

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Speaker 17: the head. And then ironically, Newsweek writes an article praising

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Speaker 17: those who had the foresight to vote against such a thing.

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Speaker 17: So I think Andy's trying to do the right thing.

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Speaker 17: That we need to vet people from unfriendly countries, and

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Speaker 17: you know why are we letting them in? They're not

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Speaker 17: coming in legally, and those should be the ones that

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Speaker 17: you know, we're targeting first. It's just that they're hard

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Speaker 17: to find.

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Speaker 5: The problem.

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Speaker 17: The guideaway just you walked across the border, came in

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Speaker 17: in any number of ways, and they're harder to track.

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Speaker 17: But Homeland Security and our other agencies are doing their

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Speaker 17: best to track them down.

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Speaker 5: All right.

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Speaker 3: That was Congressman Sconte Jarlais from Tennessee on the Newsmas Show.

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Speaker 3: I want to give you an update real quick. Here

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Speaker 3: a new study that is out. Are you ready? Are

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Speaker 3: you ready for the seventy percent of Americans are not

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Speaker 3: getting their full Social Security benefits. As a matter of fact,

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Speaker 3: there are some simple strategies that you can use to

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Speaker 3: increase social Security benefits by as much as one hundred

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Speaker 3: and eighty eight thousand dollars over your lifetime. Social security

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Speaker 3: expert Michael Allen has revealed these five key strategies to

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Speaker 3: Newsmacks of a free special report, And we want to

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Speaker 3: make sure you get your hands on this free special report.

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Speaker 3: Give us a call eight hundred ninety six ninety. That's

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Speaker 3: eight hundred ninety six ninety. We're going to text you

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Speaker 3: the information right away and you'll be able to find

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Speaker 3: out how you can boost your Social Security benefits. Again,

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Speaker 3: the number is eight hundred nine ninety six ninety. That's

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Speaker 3: eight hundred nine ninety six ninety. Well, I want to

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Speaker 3: play some audio here. This is a crazy story out

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Speaker 3: of Pennsylvania where a school district took a great issue

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Speaker 3: with a longtime bus driver. This guy a retired cop

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Speaker 3: and he was wearing a Maga hat and they told

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Speaker 3: him the hat had to come off. Got number three.

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Speaker 21: Is this hat worth the heartache?

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Speaker 5: And to me it is.

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Speaker 22: If that wasn't a condition of my employment, I'd be

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Speaker 22: back to work tomorrow. I missed the kids. This kids

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Speaker 22: and I had a great relationship.

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Speaker 23: But a complaint from one of mister Dave's bus seventy

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Speaker 23: three students about his make America Great Again hat has

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Speaker 23: brought that relationship to a screeching halt.

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Speaker 22: I get a phone call from my boss at Christ's

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Speaker 22: Transportation and she contacts me and says, hey, listen, I'm

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Speaker 22: going to buy you a hat, an American flag hat,

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Speaker 22: because the school district has deemed that they don't want

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Speaker 22: you to wear the make America a Great Again.

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Speaker 7: Hat.

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Speaker 23: Dave Bonhoff, a retired Baltimore County police officer turned Littlestown

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Speaker 23: Area school bus driver, says he chose to walk away

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Speaker 23: before afternoon drop off, claiming the district and Christ Transportation

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Speaker 23: violated his freedom of speech.

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Speaker 22: There's nothing in this hat that says anything about partisanship.

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Speaker 21: What do you say to people who may argue that

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Speaker 21: the hat is pretty synonymous with President Donald Trump, a

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Speaker 21: political figure.

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Speaker 22: I would say that they're incorrect. I would say that

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Speaker 22: making America great is what we should all strive to be.

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Speaker 22: Anybody who doesn't want America to prosper I take issue

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Speaker 22: with them.

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Speaker 23: Al Moyer, Littlestown Area is superintendent of Schools, clarified over

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Speaker 23: the phone that Bonhoff was an employee of Christ Transportation,

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Speaker 23: not the district.

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Speaker 3: All right, there you go, So the guy said, you

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Speaker 3: forget this, and he's not gonna be driving a bus

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Speaker 3: if he can't wear his MAGA hat. Now, the good

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Speaker 3: news is that one of the state lawmakers in that

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Speaker 3: area has now weighed in Dave Mastriano, and Dave has

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Speaker 3: been a guest on this program before, a great guy.

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Speaker 3: And Dave says, hey, hold up for a second here,

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Speaker 3: there's nothing wrong with what this guy did. Free speech

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Speaker 3: does not exist only for views that are popular. And

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Speaker 3: he's got a great point here. He says, freedom of

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Speaker 3: expression is not granted by bureaucrats, administrators, or activists. And

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Speaker 3: the reality is that the US Constitution affords mister Bonhoff

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Speaker 3: the right to wear that maga hat wherever he sees fit, period.

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Speaker 3: So we'll keep you updated on that story. I suspect

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Speaker 3: we may be seeing this one going to the courts.

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Speaker 3: All right, we've got to take a brain care of folks.

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

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Speaker 3: is the Todd Sterns Show. Dylan, I'm curious, have you

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Speaker 3: ever had a filet o fish sandwich at McDonald's.

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Speaker 5: You know, I try to avoid the file fish.

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Speaker 7: Why do you not like?

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Speaker 5: Well, I don't trust that it's actually fish. That's the

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Speaker 5: basis of mine.

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Speaker 3: So you think it's like fake fish meat?

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Speaker 5: Well, yeah, it's like it's like how I viewed spam

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Speaker 5: or how I view some hot dogs. I don't believe it.

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Speaker 3: I love saying the name of it, file fish.

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Speaker 5: It is clever. Yeah it is. It's not it's clever

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Speaker 5: for me to eat it.

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Speaker 3: So well. McDonald's is making some headlines with their fileo fish,

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Speaker 3: and I've got some good news for you. It actually

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Speaker 3: is fish. It probably is no, it is fish.

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Speaker 5: I believe. I believe.

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Speaker 3: We have a definitive story in the infectious Disease Jesus

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Speaker 3: section of the USA Today newspaper. This is the headline.

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Speaker 3: McDonald's fileo fish may have gross surprise inside and it's normal.

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Speaker 3: So of course, during Lent, you know, fileo fish becomes

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Speaker 3: incredibly popular because I guess what the Catholics and Episcopalians

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Speaker 3: who celebrates Lent.

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Speaker 5: I think that's the process.

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Speaker 3: Okay, I'm I don't know where Baptists we eat all

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Speaker 3: the time.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't do.

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Speaker 3: The Presbyterians. I don't know what the Presbyterians.

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Speaker 5: I don't know, all right, I just don't So I

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Speaker 5: don't know of anyone else.

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Speaker 3: Somebody will fact check me here. I don't want to

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Speaker 3: start a religious war. But anyway, a lot of people

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Speaker 3: love to go to McDonald's for Lent for their filet

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Speaker 3: o fish sandwich and by the way, this is an

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Speaker 3: interesting little story here, but the sandwich itself was actually

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Speaker 3: created by a McDonald's franchisee who was operating a restaurant

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Speaker 3: in a predominantly Catholic neighborhood in Cincinnati. And this was gosh,

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Speaker 3: when was that back in nineteen sixty two when Lou

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Speaker 3: Growing brought the very first mcdim donald's franchise into the city.

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Speaker 3: And so back in the day, there was a rule

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Speaker 3: and when it came to McDonald's, you were not allowed

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Speaker 3: to add anything to the menu. And that was a

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Speaker 3: big problem early on with McDonald's is that when they

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Speaker 3: started franchising, the franchises would add things like fried chicken

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Speaker 3: and tacos, and so Ray Kroc had to come in

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Speaker 3: and put a stop to all of that. And so anyway,

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Speaker 3: this guy, Lou the franchise owner in Cincinnati, so we

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01:08:39,760 --> 01:08:42,599
Speaker 3: got to figure out something because our business is getting

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Speaker 3: killed here during the forty day period of fasting. So

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Speaker 3: he created the filet o fish sandwich as an alternative.

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Speaker 3: He came up with the batter, came up with that

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Speaker 3: tartar sauce. You could put that tartar sauce on a

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Speaker 3: flip flop and I would eat it. I love the

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Speaker 3: tartar sauce. And then he took it to McDonald's right

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Speaker 3: to the head Hauncho Ray Kroc. Ray Kroc actually favored

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Speaker 3: a grilled pineapple sandwich is an alternative, but the filet

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Speaker 3: of fish literally has gone on to be one of

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Speaker 3: their most popular sandwiches, hundreds of million of sandwiches every year.

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Speaker 3: Here's the problem. Apparently a Reddit user posted photos of

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Speaker 3: a worm that was found inside a filet of fish sandwich.

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Speaker 3: And you know why that's a good thing, Dylan.

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Speaker 5: No, I don't know why that's a good thing.

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Speaker 3: It's a good thing. According to Matthew Spina at the

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Speaker 3: tasting table, it's a sign that the fish was actually

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Speaker 3: caught in the wild. Commenters on Reddit said, well, now

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Speaker 3: we know it's real fish.

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Speaker 5: Another crazy standard of operation there.

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Speaker 3: Another said my exact thought. I've worked fish markets. Fish

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Speaker 3: have parasites. No is this true? Have we been able

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Speaker 3: to verify this?

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Speaker 5: This is giving me more like reason not to eat this.

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Speaker 5: By the way, I don't know if you're trying to

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Speaker 5: convince me. I'm sure you're not.

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Speaker 3: But wait a second, does that violate the meat standard

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Speaker 3: because technically the worm is not is that covered?

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Speaker 5: I don't know. I don't know.

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Speaker 3: I'm not sure this is accurate. I'm not buying with

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Speaker 3: the Reddit person because again, why would that and if

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Speaker 3: in fact you do have They say it's a type

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Speaker 3: of round worm that is found in saltwater fish like cod, pollock, halibate,

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Speaker 3: and flounder.

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Speaker 5: If you found the worm in your patty, but this

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Speaker 5: is a scenario I needs you ton't. So like the

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Speaker 5: tartar sauce, if the tartar sauce was on the fish filet,

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Speaker 5: but you did find the worm, would you still eat

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Speaker 5: the sandwich?

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Speaker 3: Projectile vomiting would ensue, Okay, yeah.

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Speaker 5: Immediately, So that means you would eat it. No.

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Speaker 3: In fact, if well, if I knew the worm was

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Speaker 3: in the sandwich.

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Speaker 5: With the tartar sauce, no, okay, but.

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Speaker 3: I would on a float flop, I would right. Uh,

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Speaker 3: let's go to Tom and call yourville, Tennessee. Tom. What's

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Speaker 3: on your mind?

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Speaker 19: Boy?

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Speaker 24: Your show is on fire today, Todd.

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Speaker 3: I'm coming a lot of stuff.

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Speaker 24: So I'm Catholic and this is limp for us Catholics

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01:11:26,760 --> 01:11:29,639
Speaker 24: around the area. So we don't eat meat on Friday

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Speaker 24: and when y'all started talking about the McDonald's play of

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Speaker 24: fish sandwich. I'm like, please, don't tell me that there's

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Speaker 24: something else besides meat in it, because I'm gon eating

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Speaker 24: a lot of fish. And I got a fun fact

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Speaker 24: for you. Back in the day, the Vatican classified the

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Speaker 24: kapi bara as fish rather than meat because there wasn't

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Speaker 24: a lot of meat or fish good fish in Venezuela,

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Speaker 24: so they were allowed to consume capy bear, so they

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Speaker 24: classified it based on fish by their aquatic lifestyle. About

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Speaker 24: the biological classification, is that so.

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Speaker 3: You're able to do that? Well, I guess if you're

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Speaker 3: the pope you can do that kind of thing. I suppose.

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Speaker 24: I don't know where we're going to be able to

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Speaker 24: find the Cafe Bera around here and eat it.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, Dylan, your thoughts on that.

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Speaker 5: I would eat a Caffy Bera over a fish filet.

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Speaker 3: That's heart Wow, Tom, thanks for the call there. And uh,

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Speaker 3: what is.

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Speaker 5: That cappy barra? Yeah it's not it's not a fish.

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01:12:31,760 --> 01:12:34,920
Speaker 5: It's like a mammal. It's like a wombats.

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Speaker 3: Oh my word, why would you put a wombat on

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Speaker 3: the menu. I'm not eating a wombat.

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Speaker 5: Well, the Pope liked it.

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Speaker 3: So, uh, you see, this is why I'm Baptist. We

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Speaker 3: eat everything.

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Speaker 5: We eat steak.

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Speaker 3: We do eat steak. You know, it's funny.

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Speaker 5: I was.

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Speaker 3: I was trying to figure out why everybody in line,

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Speaker 3: because you know, when you're in line with the McDonald's,

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Speaker 3: you hear people ordering, and everybody was ordering a filet

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Speaker 3: of fish. So I guess we got a lot of

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Speaker 3: Catholics in the neighborhood.

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Speaker 5: I don't believe it. I don't believe what that we

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Speaker 5: have Catholics in the neighborhood that everyone is ordering fish.

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Speaker 3: They are because well, if you're a practicing Catholic, you

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Speaker 3: can't eat meat, so you got to eat the fish.

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Speaker 3: What about chicken? Are you guys allow? We should have

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Speaker 3: asked Tom, the Catholic from Collierville if we could, if

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Speaker 3: they're allowed to eat chicken?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, what's on the list? The dues and don'ts oh

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Speaker 5: my lord?

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Speaker 3: And then you got the nuns with the rulers. Yeah,

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01:13:25,120 --> 01:13:27,400
Speaker 3: and that's a tough religion. I'm telling you, it's a

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01:13:27,439 --> 01:13:29,880
Speaker 3: lot going on. Oh, who's our guy, you know, who

1247
01:13:29,880 --> 01:13:34,599
Speaker 3: would know our Wolf River popcorn guy, Jim the popcorn guy. Yes,

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Speaker 3: he would know he's Catholic. By the way, someone told

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Speaker 3: me that the bishop, the Catholic bishop in Memphis used

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Speaker 3: to be a Baptist. Oh wow, yeah, I got to

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Speaker 3: beat this guy.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, he probably has a really cool story.

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Speaker 3: All right, well, I'm sure somebody will will help us fit.

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Speaker 3: Is there like a list of things do you guys

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01:13:52,840 --> 01:13:55,160
Speaker 3: do that? Does the church like release the list or

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01:13:55,200 --> 01:13:59,040
Speaker 3: is it something ingreened in you from the early days,

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01:14:00,200 --> 01:14:02,360
Speaker 3: Like you know, you're five or six years old and

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Speaker 3: you you know, want to you know, want to cheese

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Speaker 3: burger from like Burger King, and the next thing, you

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Speaker 3: know is, you know, you got the nun wrap in

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Speaker 3: your knuckles? Is that a thing?

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Speaker 5: I don't.

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Speaker 3: Everything I learned about the Catholic Church I learned by

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01:14:14,320 --> 01:14:18,760
Speaker 3: watching The Blues Brothers. So the theology maybe it's smidge off,

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Speaker 3: just a smidge.

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Speaker 5: Wow.

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Speaker 3: All right nine oh one two six zero five nine

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

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Speaker 1: America's conservative blowtorch, This American.

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Speaker 5: Todd starts.

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Speaker 3: Oh well, hello everybody, Welcome to the Tod Stearns Radio Program.

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Speaker 3: Great to have you with us today. As we continue

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Speaker 3: our conversation about lent So Dylan, I Dylan, I had

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Speaker 3: to go through. I had to do some a chant

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Speaker 3: gpting and we've got some intel. Apparently the rules change

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Speaker 3: every year. This is too much. This is why I'm

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Speaker 3: glad I'm a protest. It's a lot, it's a lot.

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Speaker 3: It's you got to keep up with everything. So here's

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Speaker 3: by the way, A Beth, the Lovely Beth, who is

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Speaker 3: the booker for the newsbas TV show. She sent me

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Speaker 3: a note Todd, I was raised Catholic. We could not

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Speaker 3: eat chicken on Fridays and Lent. Oh okay, I don't

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Speaker 3: know about that.

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Speaker 5: That's not too bad.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's so. It's not like you can't like eat

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Speaker 3: meat like the all the time. Right, That's where I'm confused.

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Speaker 3: So Catholics can eat the following things during Lent, sam

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Speaker 3: and tuna, cod, tilapia, wombats. No, I'm just kidding, can

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Speaker 3: eat wombats, crab, lobster, clams, and oysters. You're also allowed

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Speaker 3: to eat Oh well, you know what if you could

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Speaker 3: do shrimp, I'm good, you know I could. I could

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Speaker 3: be a Catholic.

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Speaker 5: Doesn't sound too bad. Yeah, so far.

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Speaker 3: Vegetarian beans, lentils, chickpeas, tofu, nuts and seeds. Okay, dairy

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Speaker 3: you still get to drink milk, eat cheese, yogurt, butter

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Speaker 3: and eggs. Then you got the pasta, rice, bread, cereals. Okay,

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Speaker 3: this is not bad. And most people you can eat.

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Speaker 3: You're sposed You're supposed to be meatless on Wednesday and

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Speaker 3: off Fridays.

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Speaker 5: Okay, I don't know.

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Speaker 3: That's tough. You know why? I drive by Central Barbecue

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Speaker 3: on the way home every day and my catalog I

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Speaker 3: don't know what happens, but it immediately turns into the barbecue.

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Speaker 5: I understand that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, however, if you're a pregnant woman, if you're old,

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Speaker 3: or you have a health condition, you're exempt from the rules.

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Speaker 5: Oh wow, there you go, just get pregnant.

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Speaker 3: There you go. All right, So well, thank you a

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Speaker 3: miss Beth for clarifying the rules and regulations. There do

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Speaker 3: they give you a manual? I wonder?

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Speaker 11: I know.

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Speaker 3: All right, We've got a lot going on this hour

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Speaker 3: of the program, and honor to have you with us.

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Speaker 3: And I want to welcome on the Patriot Mobile neuse

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Speaker 3: maker Line our good friend Steve gil He is the

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Speaker 3: publisher of try Stardaily dot com. Steve, hope you're doing

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Speaker 3: well today. Thanks for joining us.

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Speaker 5: Annuel.

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Speaker 4: They may give you a menu doing the same sort

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Speaker 4: of thing that lets you know exactly what you're allowed

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Speaker 4: to eat.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, a good point there, Steve. We're gonna put you on.

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Speaker 3: We're gonna put you a whole We've got a super

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Speaker 3: bad connection and we're going to try to get that

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Speaker 3: worked out, and we'll get back to Steve in UH,

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Speaker 3: just one moment, all right. We had an interesting conversation

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Speaker 3: with a guy running for uh running for office in

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Speaker 3: the Great State of Georgia. And you guys in Georgia

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Speaker 3: are dealing with a lot of stuff when it comes

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Speaker 3: to your Republican politics. And I don't know if you

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Speaker 3: know what it's not an anomaly. I mean, I think

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Speaker 3: this is this is hapening all over the nation as

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Speaker 3: Republicans sort of, I don't know, wage war on each other.

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Speaker 3: It's sort of a weird thing. But anyway, there's a

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Speaker 3: guy running for office. He's running to be the next

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Speaker 3: lieutenant governor, and he's put out this video which I

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Speaker 3: think is both hilarious and horrifying. But now everybody's accusing

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Speaker 3: him of being Islamophobic and they're calling for him to

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Speaker 3: pull out of the race. The guy's name is State

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Speaker 3: Senator Greg Dolozol, and the video he released a campaign

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Speaker 3: ad and it depicts Muslims terrorizing white Georgia residents and

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Speaker 3: then the entire ad ends with the message keep Georgia

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Speaker 3: Sharia free. Mister Dolozol is from coming Georgia, and he

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Speaker 3: characterized Muslims as invaders who would rather pillage our generosity

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Speaker 3: than assimilate. He was a guest on My new Umac's

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Speaker 3: TV show. By the way, one state representative Ruwa roman, A,

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Speaker 3: one of only two Muslims in the Georgia House, said

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Speaker 3: that she was appalled and said that he should be

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Speaker 3: removed from the race. Also once an apology. Let's take

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Speaker 3: a listen to the interview. I'm just curious what's been

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Speaker 3: the reaction to that video around the state of Georgia.

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Speaker 2: Well, it depends who you as Todd.

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Speaker 20: There's certainly people that hate it, but there are a

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Speaker 20: lot of people who recognize that the message behind the video.

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Speaker 20: All the video may make people uncomfortable, the message behind

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Speaker 20: the video is the exact posture that we should be

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Speaker 20: taking in America. We cannot allow the invasion of foreign

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Speaker 20: laws into our courts. We cannot have parallel legal systems

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Speaker 20: set up with these parallel tribunals where people adjudicate cases

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Speaker 20: with systems of law that don't comport with the United

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Speaker 20: States Constitution. So I would say, in my world, it's

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Speaker 20: been eighty twenty positive, but certainly I'm probably here for

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Speaker 20: more Republicans than Democrats. That's probably be expected as well.

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Speaker 16: Well.

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Speaker 3: It's min understanding too that you've actually been asked to

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Speaker 3: drop out of the race for LG. What say you

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Speaker 3: to that, tolber and I am going to go anywhere.

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Speaker 20: I certainly don't take advice from the Senate Majority leader

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Speaker 20: and the other folks that want to hide their heads

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Speaker 20: in the sand. You know, it's actually sad that in

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Speaker 20: the very week that we released this video, we had

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Speaker 20: three separate terrorist attacks on American soil conducted by individuals

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Speaker 20: who have sworn their allegiance to a foreign terroristic organization.

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Speaker 20: Some of them should, you know, should never have gotten

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Speaker 20: out of jail. Frankly, should have been tried for trees.

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Speaker 20: And if you swear allegiance to ISIS and you're doing

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Speaker 20: the work of ISIS, you should either be denaturalized if deported,

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Speaker 20: or frankly, you should be tried for trees and hung

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Speaker 20: in the town square. But you know, this individual has

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Speaker 20: let out early. I was recommended for a twenty year sentence,

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Speaker 20: didn't even serve half of that. And now we've got

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Speaker 20: a fine gentleman, an old Dominion by the name Lieutenant

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Speaker 20: Colonel Brandon Shaw. You know, this guy survived multiple two

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Speaker 20: of duty, hundreds of flight hours, but couldn't survive a

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Speaker 20: classroom in America where we have foreign elements seeking to

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Speaker 20: kill ROTC students.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and what does this say about those rot cadets

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Speaker 3: who apparently killed the guy the Jihatas with their bare hands.

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Speaker 3: God blessed those kids, and certainly hope that we see

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Speaker 3: them honored by President Trump. What say you to that?

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Speaker 19: I completely agree.

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Speaker 20: Apparently this individual walked in the room, asked if it

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Speaker 20: was the ROTC classroom, and opened fire and then suffered

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Speaker 20: the death, Like you said, at the hands of these

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Speaker 20: ROTC members, I was given swift justice. I think there

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Speaker 20: were twenty two stab wounds that he incurred in their

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Speaker 20: successful attempt to neutralize the threat. And frankly, that's how

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Speaker 20: I hope that all Americans would respond to these animals

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Speaker 20: who are seeking to come into this country or are

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Speaker 20: already in this country but have sworn allegiance to these

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Speaker 20: foreign entities that want to see death to America. And

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Speaker 20: it's frankly high time Todd that every elected official recognized

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Speaker 20: the threat that we are under the idea that we

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Speaker 20: are not funding the Department of homeland security in the

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Speaker 20: midst of these terrorist attacks on our soil is shameful.

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Speaker 20: It's a complete dereliction of duty by the Democrat Party

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Speaker 20: and it should be something that should be universally condemned

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Speaker 20: by every single elected official in America.

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Speaker 3: I mean, look, this is a difficult thing that we're

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Speaker 3: going to be talking about. And I don't know if

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Speaker 3: you heard our last segment here, but there is a

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Speaker 3: lot of passion here. The reality is the Islamist when

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Speaker 3: they gain control of a country, that's bad news for Christians,

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Speaker 3: for Jews, for members of the LGBT community. And all

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Speaker 3: we have to do is look at country after country

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Speaker 3: in the Middle East, look at world history. We are

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Speaker 3: not learning lessons here, sir. And this is what greatly

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Speaker 3: concerns me.

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Speaker 20: Yeah, we have a two hundred and fifty year old

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Speaker 20: history here, Todd of recognizing equal value, equal rights for individuals.

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Speaker 20: You certainly become a long way on that quest. But

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Speaker 20: Sharia law does not seek to adjudicate life on a

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Speaker 20: daily basis in the same way that we would say

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Speaker 20: comports with the United States Constitution. And there are this

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Speaker 20: is a tough, uncomfortable issue because we do want to

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Speaker 20: be a country who welcomes everyone. That's part of our ethos.

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Speaker 20: We want to welcome people here, but we have to

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Speaker 20: recognize that there are some people that want to come

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Speaker 20: here with the sole intended purpose of overthrowing this country.

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Speaker 20: And so those are not people that you can welcome

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Speaker 20: into this country. You know, President Trump was ahead of

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Speaker 20: his time when he banned individuals from countries that hate America,

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Speaker 20: who have sworn allegiances to America. He had banned the

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Speaker 20: immigration from those countries. I think that it's something that

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Speaker 20: we should look at again. We cannot allow ourselves to

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Speaker 20: have this suicidal empathy that allows us to welcome people

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Speaker 20: into this country that would slit our throats.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's a great point the State senator brings up.

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Speaker 3: And again, when you look at the numbers of mothque

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Speaker 3: that are being built in the country, the numbers of

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Speaker 3: Muslims that were imported into the United States, it does

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Speaker 3: make you wonder are we, you know, are people willing

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Speaker 3: to assimilates That's the big question. All right, I think

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Speaker 3: we've worked out our tech issues. Let's bring in Steve

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Speaker 3: Gill on our Patriot Mobile news maker line. Steve publisher

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Speaker 3: of Trying stardaily dot Com. Steve, good to have you

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Speaker 3: back with us. I will say this as it does

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Speaker 3: seem to be the big issue that's impacting Congress right

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Speaker 3: now that they've got a Sharia free caucus, which is

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Speaker 3: what the fastest growing caucus up on Capitol Hill. Do

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Speaker 3: you anticipate this actually being a real and authentic issue

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Speaker 3: on the campaign trail?

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Speaker 25: Absolutely?

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Speaker 5: I think when you've seen just in the last couple

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Speaker 5: of weeks.

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Speaker 4: A number of radical Islamists who've conducted terrorist attacks in

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Speaker 4: this country. Well, by the way, Department full Land Security

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Speaker 4: is at limited numbers because the Democrats are refusing to

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Speaker 4: pay them, while people are being blocked from efficiently getting

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Speaker 4: on and off air plants because the Democrats are refusing.

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Speaker 5: To fund TSA.

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Speaker 19: We're putting ourselves.

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Speaker 26: At risk while our enemies, mainly these Islamists who are

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Speaker 26: trying to kill in the name of Allah, are successful

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Speaker 26: in many of these cases. And it's interesting that you know,

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Speaker 26: folks like the senator you were just talking to, Andy Ogles,

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Speaker 26: Congressman Andy Ogles, Tommy Tumberville, Senator from Alabama, they're under

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Speaker 26: fire for criticizing the radical Islamist agenda in this country,

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Speaker 26: while nobody is listening to the moms in this country

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Speaker 26: and in London who were specifically.

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Speaker 25: Saying we're going to take over, We're gonna kill you.

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Speaker 25: Our religion allows us to rape unbelieving women. They're telling

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Speaker 25: us what they're gonna do. They're telling us what they're doing.

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Speaker 26: And yet the ones who are criticized are like your guests,

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Speaker 26: the Senator Tommy Tumberville, Andy Ogles and others who point

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Speaker 26: out that Islam is antithetical to the values of a democratic, free,

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Speaker 26: modern civilized society.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Look, it's uh, it is interesting that they're the ones

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Speaker 3: that are coming under attack here when in fact, you've

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Speaker 3: got so many moms out there, and it's hard, especially

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Speaker 3: when you're you know, watching what's happening in social media.

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Speaker 3: It's hard not to conflate the issue here. But the

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Speaker 3: reality is you have a lot of moms that are

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Speaker 3: preaching hate, that are preaching death to America in the country,

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Speaker 3: and Steve, unfortunately we have got a super bad connection.

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01:27:34,880 --> 01:27:36,840
Speaker 3: We're going to try to get that worked out. But again,

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01:27:36,920 --> 01:27:40,200
Speaker 3: Steve Gill with us on the Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line.

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01:27:40,200 --> 01:27:43,760
Speaker 3: I'm very sorry about that, folks, but bear with us,

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01:27:43,840 --> 01:27:46,200
Speaker 3: all right, We've got to take a break here. Nine

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01:27:46,240 --> 01:27:49,280
Speaker 3: oh one two six zero five nine two six. Our number,

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01:27:49,560 --> 01:27:52,519
Speaker 3: that's nine oh one two six zero five nine two six.

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01:27:52,800 --> 01:28:04,760
Speaker 3: This is the Todd starn Show. No matter, how many

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01:28:04,800 --> 01:28:06,080
Speaker 3: years have you guys been married?

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Speaker 5: Now?

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Speaker 3: Is it two years yet?

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Speaker 5: Not yet? It will be two years in September.

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Speaker 3: I need to ask you a personal question, Yes, just

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01:28:14,680 --> 01:28:17,080
Speaker 3: between you and me and the millions of people listening

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Speaker 3: to the program right now. Honeymoon? Where did you guys

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01:28:20,960 --> 01:28:21,840
Speaker 3: go for the honeymoon?

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Speaker 5: We went to the Dominican Republic.

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Speaker 3: Okay, did your mom and dad enjoy the trip?

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01:28:28,360 --> 01:28:30,520
Speaker 5: Did they enjoy our honeymoon?

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01:28:30,640 --> 01:28:32,560
Speaker 3: Yeah? Did they come along with you on the honeymoon?

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Speaker 20: No?

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01:28:33,000 --> 01:28:34,000
Speaker 5: I can't say that they did.

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Speaker 4: They did?

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Speaker 5: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: What about the inn laws?

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Speaker 5: Not them either?

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01:28:38,840 --> 01:28:39,160
Speaker 3: Really?

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01:28:39,320 --> 01:28:41,320
Speaker 5: Yeah? Why not believe it or not? Well, you know,

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01:28:41,360 --> 01:28:44,240
Speaker 5: the honeymoon's typically for you and your spouse.

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Speaker 3: Oh, that's where you are wrong, my Fred, That's why

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01:28:48,360 --> 01:28:49,080
Speaker 3: you are wrong.

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01:28:49,200 --> 01:28:51,000
Speaker 5: I wonder, I wonder what's next.

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Speaker 3: Here's the headline from the Wall Street Journal, why my

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01:28:54,600 --> 01:28:58,759
Speaker 3: mom is coming on the honeymoon. No, it's the latest

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01:28:58,800 --> 01:29:04,280
Speaker 3: trend among gen z. Yes, couples are inviting their parents

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01:29:04,280 --> 01:29:09,240
Speaker 3: and other relatives on post wedding trips known as honeymoons.

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01:29:10,600 --> 01:29:13,360
Speaker 5: Wow? Why? Wow?

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Speaker 3: What is wrong with this generation? This is from the

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Speaker 3: Wall Street Journal. When Deane Peterson told friends she was

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Speaker 3: going on a honeymoon, they were confused. The seventy four

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Speaker 3: year old had not mentioned getting married. Peterson explained that

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01:29:27,360 --> 01:29:29,760
Speaker 3: she was going to accompany her daughter and son in

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01:29:29,840 --> 01:29:34,519
Speaker 3: law on a two week safari in Zimbabwe and Zambia.

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01:29:35,040 --> 01:29:38,439
Speaker 3: An extended silence ensued. You know I can believe that.

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01:29:39,520 --> 01:29:40,240
Speaker 5: Yeah, me too.

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01:29:40,960 --> 01:29:45,120
Speaker 3: It's not as unusual as you or Peterson's friends might think.

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Speaker 3: Couples are inviting relatives on their honeymoons, saying they have

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01:29:49,760 --> 01:29:53,440
Speaker 3: a lifetime for romance and solo travel, but a finite

1549
01:29:53,479 --> 01:29:57,839
Speaker 3: period to spend with their families. They're calling them family moons.

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01:30:00,320 --> 01:30:04,519
Speaker 3: Peterson's daughter, Robin Dixon, said her friends were aghast when

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01:30:04,560 --> 01:30:06,920
Speaker 3: she told them about the plan to bring her mom.

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01:30:07,360 --> 01:30:10,280
Speaker 3: Friends of the groom chined him with mother in law jokes.

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01:30:10,760 --> 01:30:15,080
Speaker 3: They both insist the invitation felt natural. Really though, is

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01:30:15,120 --> 01:30:17,400
Speaker 3: that true? I mean, the first you're plotting out your

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01:30:17,400 --> 01:30:19,519
Speaker 3: honeymoon and you're like, I wonder where the mother in

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Speaker 3: law wants to go.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, this can't be the groom's idea, right, this cannot

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01:30:24,720 --> 01:30:25,880
Speaker 5: be his idea.

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Speaker 3: The parents of the group Alex Dixon, were invited to

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Speaker 3: but they declined. Smart say, well, here's the reason why,

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Speaker 3: saying they would have come if the couple had chosen

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Speaker 3: another location like the south of France. Well, who wants

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01:30:42,640 --> 01:30:47,120
Speaker 3: to get eaten by like a wild animal, like a wombat?

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Speaker 5: This is so weird. Do they eat people wombats? No,

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01:30:50,760 --> 01:30:58,679
Speaker 5: they poop squares. Though I'm it's sorry, Will, It's true.

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Speaker 5: It's cubes actually hughes.

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Speaker 3: Uh Jesus alone. So bringing the in laws continuing with

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Speaker 3: the Wall Street Journal, bringing the in laws is part

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Speaker 3: of a broader redefining of the traditional honeymoon, where newly

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Speaker 3: married kocoon themselves from the outside world. There's the buddy moon,

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01:31:21,280 --> 01:31:25,040
Speaker 3: in which newly weds invite friends on vacation after the wedding,

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Speaker 3: and there's also the post destination wedding extension. Oh, they

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01:31:29,560 --> 01:31:33,240
Speaker 3: did a Medea movie about that. Yeah, they went to

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Speaker 3: the Bahamas. It was not very funny.

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Speaker 5: Romance is dead.

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01:31:37,800 --> 01:31:41,400
Speaker 3: Family mooners say the presidence of moms and dads don't

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01:31:41,400 --> 01:31:46,080
Speaker 3: have to douse the flames yeah, I'm pretty sure it would.

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Speaker 5: What kind of family is this? This family dynamic has

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01:31:49,360 --> 01:31:50,320
Speaker 5: to be very close.

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Speaker 3: Honey, honey, what are you doing in there? Honey? Can

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01:31:53,800 --> 01:31:54,280
Speaker 3: you come out?

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01:31:54,479 --> 01:31:58,400
Speaker 5: Doors? Are locked? I don't want my family near any

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01:31:58,439 --> 01:31:59,080
Speaker 5: moon that I have.

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Speaker 3: What's that banging noise? Julia and Stefan Cune were brainstorming

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01:32:07,240 --> 01:32:13,000
Speaker 3: honeymoon locations when her parents, Eileen and Myron, mentioned they

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01:32:13,000 --> 01:32:17,080
Speaker 3: were planning an anniversary trip to South America. Eileen casually

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Speaker 3: suggested they do a honeymoon anniversary trip. Not wanting to

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Speaker 3: be left out, Julia's younger sister joined, do you know what,

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01:32:24,360 --> 01:32:25,920
Speaker 3: bring grandma and grandpa too?

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Speaker 5: You're saving money.

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Speaker 3: The crazy relatives invite them all. And if you don't

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01:32:34,160 --> 01:32:35,599
Speaker 3: know if you're the crazy, you know, have you ever

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01:32:35,600 --> 01:32:39,000
Speaker 3: been to a wedding? Yes, and you've got all these

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01:32:39,080 --> 01:32:43,839
Speaker 3: relatives and so you always it's like the the weird

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01:32:43,960 --> 01:32:47,160
Speaker 3: relatives always get stuck at like the back table, right,

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Speaker 3: And if you don't know that you're at the at

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Speaker 3: the back table, then you are one of the weird.

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Speaker 5: If you're wondering, yeah, if you're like, you're like, who

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Speaker 5: is the crazy? Who's the crazy? Uncle?

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Speaker 3: This is all very strange.

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Speaker 5: I can't believe this is actually a trend. This is

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Speaker 5: like the worst thing.

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Speaker 3: Ever I've Yeah, I'm just curious if any of our

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01:33:05,240 --> 01:33:07,439
Speaker 3: listeners have done something like this where they all just

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01:33:07,560 --> 01:33:10,800
Speaker 3: it's like a family vacation. We used to do that,

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01:33:10,840 --> 01:33:12,799
Speaker 3: but we would go down to like the pink Porpoise.

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Speaker 3: Nobody was getting married.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Also another interesting story involving a gen Z and we're

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Speaker 3: gonna get to this after the break, but apparently there

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Speaker 3: is they're calling it fridge cigarettes. They're saying that gen

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Speaker 3: Z is now gulping down gallons of diet coke instead

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Speaker 3: of smoking cigarettes. How to deal with stress? Is that true?

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01:33:37,000 --> 01:33:39,400
Speaker 3: Nine oh one two six zero five nine two six

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01:33:39,439 --> 01:33:42,000
Speaker 3: are a telephone number, that's nine oh one two six

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01:33:42,080 --> 01:33:44,639
Speaker 3: zero five nine two six. This is the Tod Stern Show.

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01:34:01,680 --> 01:34:04,160
Speaker 3: All right, welcome back, everybody. This is the Tom Sterns

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Speaker 3: Radio Show. So, yeah, this is a crazy story. But

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01:34:09,160 --> 01:34:12,880
Speaker 3: apparently gen Z is dealing there. They're a stressed their

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01:34:13,000 --> 01:34:18,760
Speaker 3: their generation is stressed out and uh no, I'm sure

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01:34:18,760 --> 01:34:22,720
Speaker 3: it's a it's a variety of issues. But anyway, the

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Speaker 3: good news here is that the gen Zers are choosing

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Speaker 3: not to smoke cigarettes. I guess to calm their nerves.

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Speaker 12: There.

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Speaker 3: It's it's a bit of a frazzled generation, if you will.

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01:34:34,960 --> 01:34:38,400
Speaker 3: So anyway, there is there's a new thing that young

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Speaker 3: people are doing, and it's got a it's a term now, Dylan.

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Speaker 3: It's called as if you're walking around and let's say,

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01:34:45,960 --> 01:34:48,080
Speaker 3: the lovely Miss Helen says, man, I could use a

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01:34:48,120 --> 01:34:52,120
Speaker 3: fridge cigarette. You would normally think, oh, somebody keeps some

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01:34:52,200 --> 01:34:54,440
Speaker 3: mar burrows in the in the refrigerator.

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Speaker 5: It's a safe it's a safe place to put them.

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Speaker 5: I guess, yeah, that's what I would.

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01:34:58,360 --> 01:35:00,320
Speaker 3: Think, cool men thaller or something.

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01:35:00,320 --> 01:35:00,640
Speaker 7: I don't know.

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01:35:00,880 --> 01:35:03,800
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, but no, that would be wrong. That would

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01:35:03,800 --> 01:35:07,120
Speaker 3: be incorrect because it's actually a gen Z slang term

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01:35:07,439 --> 01:35:10,479
Speaker 3: for an ice cold canned of diet coke.

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Speaker 5: Okay, did you know this? No, this is actually the

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01:35:14,000 --> 01:35:14,960
Speaker 5: first time I've heard.

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01:35:14,760 --> 01:35:18,479
Speaker 3: This is This is from Fox News. The mid afternoon

1642
01:35:18,560 --> 01:35:22,599
Speaker 3: cigarette cigarette break has taken a new form for gen

1643
01:35:22,720 --> 01:35:28,160
Speaker 3: Z with a sweet, bubbly twist. The fix is diet soda,

1644
01:35:28,240 --> 01:35:33,880
Speaker 3: particularly diet coke, chilled to perfection. It's a TikTok trend,

1645
01:35:34,520 --> 01:35:37,439
Speaker 3: just a little something to take the edge off. Now,

1646
01:35:37,439 --> 01:35:39,840
Speaker 3: does diet coke cause cancer? I'm trying to keep up

1647
01:35:39,880 --> 01:35:41,120
Speaker 3: with what causes cancer?

1648
01:35:41,200 --> 01:35:42,719
Speaker 5: See I heard that when I was a kid.

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01:35:42,960 --> 01:35:45,080
Speaker 3: Are you is it? Yeah? Are you more likely to

1650
01:35:45,120 --> 01:35:48,880
Speaker 3: get cancer from smoking cigarettes or drinking diet coke?

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01:35:50,320 --> 01:35:53,000
Speaker 5: Yeah? They told us like, oh, you're on diet, like

1652
01:35:53,080 --> 01:35:55,400
Speaker 5: diet coke is your cancer? Because they were like, it's

1653
01:35:55,400 --> 01:35:57,680
Speaker 5: not any better. That's what they were saying, right, They're like,

1654
01:35:57,800 --> 01:36:01,920
Speaker 5: diet coke's not any better than actual. So then I'm like, well,

1655
01:36:01,920 --> 01:36:03,519
Speaker 5: what's the point. And then they came out with coke

1656
01:36:03,640 --> 01:36:07,200
Speaker 5: zero And who knows what coke zero is because it

1657
01:36:07,320 --> 01:36:10,439
Speaker 5: still tastes like coke to me, So I don't know. Well.

1658
01:36:10,640 --> 01:36:13,040
Speaker 3: By the way, speaking of ice cream, there is a

1659
01:36:13,080 --> 01:36:16,679
Speaker 3: new study out that says ice cream is actually linked

1660
01:36:16,760 --> 01:36:20,559
Speaker 3: to a surprising health benefits. So they told us that

1661
01:36:20,600 --> 01:36:23,400
Speaker 3: eating ice cream was bad for you, but apparently it's

1662
01:36:23,439 --> 01:36:29,599
Speaker 3: good for you. Interesting side Tech Daily has the story

1663
01:36:29,720 --> 01:36:32,280
Speaker 3: and they said that eating people who ate more ice

1664
01:36:32,320 --> 01:36:36,320
Speaker 3: cream sometimes had a lower risk of tight to diapedes.

1665
01:36:37,560 --> 01:36:39,919
Speaker 3: I just they who are these scientists?

1666
01:36:39,960 --> 01:36:42,880
Speaker 5: It's probably not Bluebell, right, they may.

1667
01:36:42,880 --> 01:36:48,840
Speaker 3: Work for blue Bell ice Cream scientists say, yeah, come on,

1668
01:36:49,240 --> 01:36:50,000
Speaker 3: just eat a pint.

1669
01:36:50,560 --> 01:36:51,600
Speaker 5: Very healthy.

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01:36:51,840 --> 01:36:54,439
Speaker 3: Don't worry about that. Don't worry about the fact you've

1671
01:36:54,479 --> 01:36:58,519
Speaker 3: lost feeling in your left side. It's all good. That's

1672
01:36:58,560 --> 01:37:03,200
Speaker 3: just the brain freeze, just the brain freeze. So anyway

1673
01:37:03,320 --> 01:37:07,679
Speaker 3: back to this. Jonathan Albert is a psycho therapist based

1674
01:37:07,720 --> 01:37:11,680
Speaker 3: in New York City, and he said that fridge cigarettes

1675
01:37:12,280 --> 01:37:15,760
Speaker 3: work because diet coke can act as an emotional stand in.

1676
01:37:16,880 --> 01:37:18,920
Speaker 3: I'm telling you a lot of there are a lot

1677
01:37:18,920 --> 01:37:20,879
Speaker 3: of emotional problems with this generation.

1678
01:37:21,479 --> 01:37:24,719
Speaker 5: Yeah, we always like to find something something to ease

1679
01:37:24,720 --> 01:37:25,120
Speaker 5: the pain.

1680
01:37:26,400 --> 01:37:29,360
Speaker 3: It becomes a way for people to pause, reset, or

1681
01:37:29,520 --> 01:37:30,920
Speaker 3: reward themselves.

1682
01:37:31,800 --> 01:37:34,080
Speaker 5: I would never reward myself with a diet coat.

1683
01:37:34,439 --> 01:37:35,160
Speaker 3: Or a tab.

1684
01:37:36,960 --> 01:37:37,120
Speaker 5: Ugh.

1685
01:37:37,400 --> 01:37:43,160
Speaker 3: Those those pink they're like pepto bismol colored cans. Mother,

1686
01:37:43,320 --> 01:37:47,360
Speaker 3: my mom used to chug those things. She also smoked.

1687
01:37:47,640 --> 01:37:50,400
Speaker 5: You guys also like ate the aids or whatever what

1688
01:37:50,680 --> 01:37:50,880
Speaker 5: was it?

1689
01:37:51,000 --> 01:37:51,120
Speaker 26: Oh?

1690
01:37:51,200 --> 01:37:54,080
Speaker 3: Yes, aids were very popular back in the day.

1691
01:37:54,160 --> 01:37:55,880
Speaker 5: It was like an ad that said I love aids.

1692
01:37:56,000 --> 01:37:59,720
Speaker 3: Yeah, everybody loves aids. Yes, They're very delicious. And the

1693
01:37:59,720 --> 01:38:00,719
Speaker 3: way comes off.

1694
01:38:00,600 --> 01:38:04,519
Speaker 5: With aids, it does, indeed, could.

1695
01:38:04,360 --> 01:38:06,519
Speaker 3: You imagine though, And by the way, just in case

1696
01:38:06,560 --> 01:38:09,840
Speaker 3: anybody reports us to the Human Rights Campaign. We're talking

1697
01:38:09,920 --> 01:38:14,639
Speaker 3: about the diet the diet candy. It's a delicious caramel.

1698
01:38:14,760 --> 01:38:17,920
Speaker 3: It's a square caramel, by the way. Yeah, and you

1699
01:38:18,000 --> 01:38:20,000
Speaker 3: pop him in. And they were called AIDS.

1700
01:38:20,320 --> 01:38:22,360
Speaker 5: Yeah. I don't know why they're called AIDS. Well I

1701
01:38:22,400 --> 01:38:25,439
Speaker 5: wasn't alive to know why they're called AIDS. But you know,

1702
01:38:26,000 --> 01:38:28,839
Speaker 5: because wasn't AIDS, like the actual AIDS before AIDS.

1703
01:38:29,400 --> 01:38:32,599
Speaker 3: Yes, so it was. It was sort of co opted.

1704
01:38:32,720 --> 01:38:34,480
Speaker 3: I think, I don't.

1705
01:38:34,240 --> 01:38:37,360
Speaker 5: Know, you should know, this is what you ate.

1706
01:38:38,439 --> 01:38:40,560
Speaker 3: But the problem was a lot of kids would go

1707
01:38:40,600 --> 01:38:43,519
Speaker 3: into their mom's cambine and they're like, oh, candy, and

1708
01:38:43,560 --> 01:38:45,679
Speaker 3: so they'd start chowing down on the AIDS.

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01:38:46,040 --> 01:38:46,519
Speaker 5: Yeah.

1710
01:38:46,560 --> 01:38:50,400
Speaker 3: So anyway, what an unfortunate name though, because once AIDS

1711
01:38:50,439 --> 01:38:53,599
Speaker 3: came out as a you know, disease, Well, the candy

1712
01:38:53,640 --> 01:38:56,200
Speaker 3: sales I think dropped off just a smitch.

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01:38:56,280 --> 01:38:57,600
Speaker 5: I can imagine.

1714
01:38:58,920 --> 01:39:06,120
Speaker 3: Billy wants some AID No, Mommy, no. Any there was

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Speaker 3: a great commercial. You should look that up. I think

1716
01:39:09,280 --> 01:39:13,200
Speaker 3: we've played it once before on the show. So going

1717
01:39:13,240 --> 01:39:16,120
Speaker 3: back to the story of the psychology, expert noted that

1718
01:39:16,200 --> 01:39:20,240
Speaker 3: cranking open an ice cold diet coke is a sensory experience,

1719
01:39:20,640 --> 01:39:25,599
Speaker 3: much like smoking. The crisp sound, the carbonation, and the

1720
01:39:25,720 --> 01:39:29,720
Speaker 3: cold hit all offer a quick, reliable burst of stimulation

1721
01:39:29,960 --> 01:39:31,960
Speaker 3: or relief. You know what happened to me over the weekend,

1722
01:39:32,000 --> 01:39:34,519
Speaker 3: I was drinking a doctor I only drink doctor pepper

1723
01:39:34,520 --> 01:39:36,400
Speaker 3: on the weekends now because you know, I'm on the

1724
01:39:36,760 --> 01:39:40,240
Speaker 3: diet whatnot. And I don't know what happened. This happens

1725
01:39:40,280 --> 01:39:42,880
Speaker 3: every single time I open up a doctor Pepper, It

1726
01:39:43,080 --> 01:39:47,120
Speaker 3: like sprays all over the place. I guess that was

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01:39:47,160 --> 01:39:50,040
Speaker 3: a I guess you could call it a reliable burst

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01:39:50,040 --> 01:39:50,800
Speaker 3: of stimulation.

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01:39:52,439 --> 01:39:55,160
Speaker 5: See that actually is a reward, though, because you're holding

1730
01:39:55,200 --> 01:39:58,559
Speaker 5: off the doctor Pepper until the weekend, So that actually

1731
01:39:58,600 --> 01:40:01,479
Speaker 5: is a reward. This is like you're going into your

1732
01:40:01,520 --> 01:40:03,799
Speaker 5: fridge to get a cigarette every two hours.

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01:40:03,800 --> 01:40:10,400
Speaker 3: Lo, and there lies the warning. Dylan is the psychoanalyst,

1734
01:40:10,400 --> 01:40:14,000
Speaker 3: says when diet coke becomes a daily emotional crutch, it

1735
01:40:14,000 --> 01:40:18,680
Speaker 3: can reinforce dependency patterns, particularly if it's being used to

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01:40:18,760 --> 01:40:25,960
Speaker 3: manage anxiety, suppress appetite, or avoid discomfort. Well. On the

1737
01:40:26,439 --> 01:40:28,679
Speaker 3: on the plus side, a six pack of diet coke

1738
01:40:28,800 --> 01:40:30,880
Speaker 3: is cheaper than I don't know, meth.

1739
01:40:32,080 --> 01:40:34,400
Speaker 5: Indeed, there's worse things to be addicted.

1740
01:40:34,000 --> 01:40:35,240
Speaker 19: To or weed.

1741
01:40:36,920 --> 01:40:39,519
Speaker 3: Nine oh one two six zero five nine two six

1742
01:40:39,640 --> 01:40:42,439
Speaker 3: is our telephone number. That's nine oh one two six

1743
01:40:42,560 --> 01:40:44,920
Speaker 3: zero five nine two six. All Right, we've got to

1744
01:40:44,960 --> 01:40:51,240
Speaker 3: talk about what's happening down in Trussville, Alabama. Pardon me, Tuscaloosa, Alabama,

1745
01:40:52,560 --> 01:40:54,840
Speaker 3: the home of the University of Alabama. They have a

1746
01:40:54,840 --> 01:40:58,360
Speaker 3: public library down there, and for the past year, the

1747
01:40:58,600 --> 01:41:02,360
Speaker 3: local chapter of Eagle for which is a great conservative organization,

1748
01:41:02,920 --> 01:41:06,599
Speaker 3: has been holding their monthly meetings at the public library.

1749
01:41:06,600 --> 01:41:08,800
Speaker 3: They have a little room, a community room. People can

1750
01:41:09,120 --> 01:41:11,360
Speaker 3: rent out the community room, and so they agreed to

1751
01:41:11,400 --> 01:41:16,639
Speaker 3: do so. Well, anyway, the librarians came over and said, oh,

1752
01:41:16,680 --> 01:41:19,559
Speaker 3: we didn't realize you guys were Christians, and we're not

1753
01:41:19,640 --> 01:41:23,599
Speaker 3: allowed to rent the room to any religious people. So

1754
01:41:23,960 --> 01:41:27,360
Speaker 3: now they've got a lawyer, they've got Alliance Defending Freedom

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01:41:27,400 --> 01:41:32,000
Speaker 3: representing them. Becky Garretson and Travis Barram, we're on my

1756
01:41:32,120 --> 01:41:35,040
Speaker 3: NEWSMAC show to give us the lowdown of what actually

1757
01:41:35,120 --> 01:41:39,280
Speaker 3: happened tigulism. Joining me now, Becky Garretson, the executive director

1758
01:41:39,320 --> 01:41:43,400
Speaker 3: for Eagle Form of Alabama, and Travis Barram senior counsel

1759
01:41:43,520 --> 01:41:47,120
Speaker 3: for Alliance Defending Freedom. Good to have you with us, Becky,

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01:41:47,520 --> 01:41:51,160
Speaker 3: I am just shocked, Eagle Forum. Of all folks, y'all

1761
01:41:51,160 --> 01:41:54,120
Speaker 3: are good, decent folks. What in the world happened at

1762
01:41:54,120 --> 01:41:54,920
Speaker 3: that library?

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01:41:55,760 --> 01:41:57,720
Speaker 2: That's right, Thank you so much for having us.

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01:41:58,160 --> 01:42:00,559
Speaker 27: You know, we've been meeting in their life. They gave

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01:42:00,600 --> 01:42:03,160
Speaker 27: us permission to meet for a year. We've been meeting there,

1766
01:42:03,200 --> 01:42:04,800
Speaker 27: and then all of a sudden, out of the blue,

1767
01:42:05,360 --> 01:42:09,000
Speaker 27: they tell us that due to the social and political climate,

1768
01:42:09,360 --> 01:42:12,759
Speaker 27: we will be canceling all of your future upcoming dates.

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01:42:12,920 --> 01:42:15,920
Speaker 27: And they pointed to their policy that says if you're

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01:42:16,000 --> 01:42:19,360
Speaker 27: religious or sectarian, you're not allowed to use their space.

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Speaker 2: We were shocked. That is a clear violation of our

1772
01:42:23,640 --> 01:42:24,839
Speaker 2: constitutional rights.

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01:42:25,240 --> 01:42:27,519
Speaker 27: So we sent them a demand letter, hoping they would

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01:42:27,520 --> 01:42:30,200
Speaker 27: see the policy was wrong and do something about it

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01:42:30,240 --> 01:42:31,519
Speaker 27: and rescind their decision.

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01:42:32,200 --> 01:42:34,120
Speaker 2: That didn't happen, and here we are.

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01:42:35,240 --> 01:42:39,639
Speaker 3: Travis, I'm really surprised to hear this news. First of all, dude,

1778
01:42:39,680 --> 01:42:43,600
Speaker 3: it's Alabama. Second of all, they've had drag queens and

1779
01:42:43,640 --> 01:42:46,520
Speaker 3: all sorts of crazy stuff going down in those libraries.

1780
01:42:46,920 --> 01:42:48,840
Speaker 3: You're going to tell me that Eagle Forum is the

1781
01:42:48,880 --> 01:42:50,080
Speaker 3: problem child here.

1782
01:42:50,439 --> 01:42:54,760
Speaker 11: It is absurd and it's blatantly unconstitutional. The Supreme Court

1783
01:42:54,760 --> 01:42:57,959
Speaker 11: has been clear time and time again that public spaces

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01:42:58,040 --> 01:43:01,240
Speaker 11: have to be open to all groups an even handed basis.

1785
01:43:01,280 --> 01:43:04,519
Speaker 11: Religious and secular groups given the same access. And if

1786
01:43:05,040 --> 01:43:08,439
Speaker 11: the government tries to exclude a religious groups simply because

1787
01:43:08,479 --> 01:43:12,479
Speaker 11: it's religious, that's discrimination and that finalists.

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01:43:11,960 --> 01:43:12,679
Speaker 19: The First Amendment.

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Speaker 3: Beg I'm curious, you know your organization, and again it

1790
01:43:17,040 --> 01:43:19,880
Speaker 3: is Alabama, But that's a lesson here because it can

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01:43:20,000 --> 01:43:24,200
Speaker 3: happen in any state in the nation, including a conservative

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01:43:24,280 --> 01:43:26,240
Speaker 3: Christian state like Alabama.

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01:43:26,600 --> 01:43:30,720
Speaker 27: Indeed, we took a stand because we felt like if

1794
01:43:30,760 --> 01:43:33,160
Speaker 27: they can do it to us, they're going to do

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01:43:33,200 --> 01:43:35,000
Speaker 27: it to others, and we need to stand up for

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01:43:35,040 --> 01:43:37,120
Speaker 27: those other groups as well so they don't come to

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01:43:37,160 --> 01:43:37,760
Speaker 27: the same fate.

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01:43:38,280 --> 01:43:40,800
Speaker 3: Travis, I'm curious what, let's get down to the legal

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01:43:40,840 --> 01:43:43,120
Speaker 3: leaves here. What does the law say.

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Speaker 11: Well, the law says very clearly that if you're going

1801
01:43:46,880 --> 01:43:50,000
Speaker 11: to if the government opens up a meeting space, it

1802
01:43:50,040 --> 01:43:52,799
Speaker 11: has to give religious and secular groups the same access

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01:43:52,800 --> 01:43:55,760
Speaker 11: to that space. The Supreme Court has said that in

1804
01:43:55,800 --> 01:44:01,160
Speaker 11: cases dealing with public universities with public schools with government

1805
01:44:01,200 --> 01:44:04,880
Speaker 11: programs that give schools shredded tires for their playgrounds. So

1806
01:44:05,000 --> 01:44:08,680
Speaker 11: it's been clear time and time again if you exclude,

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01:44:08,720 --> 01:44:12,639
Speaker 11: if the government excludes a religious group from a program

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01:44:12,760 --> 01:44:17,080
Speaker 11: simply because it's religious, that violates the law. That's unconstitutional,

1809
01:44:17,280 --> 01:44:18,920
Speaker 11: and that's what needs to get changed here.

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Speaker 3: And for egle Forum folks, the message here is don't

1811
01:44:24,280 --> 01:44:27,080
Speaker 3: back down, don't go away quietly into the good night.

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Speaker 11: Indeed, it's wonderful to see groups like ego Forums taking

1813
01:44:31,760 --> 01:44:34,280
Speaker 11: a stand here, and we hope that the court system

1814
01:44:34,360 --> 01:44:38,800
Speaker 11: is going to vindicate their stand by striking down this

1815
01:44:38,920 --> 01:44:42,120
Speaker 11: policy and allowing the group to come back in. Or

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01:44:42,280 --> 01:44:46,439
Speaker 11: we hope that the library comes to its senses and realizes, hey,

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01:44:46,520 --> 01:44:48,519
Speaker 11: we need to change our policies to line up with

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01:44:48,560 --> 01:44:49,120
Speaker 11: the constitution.

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01:44:49,680 --> 01:44:51,880
Speaker 19: Yeah, Miss Starret's and your reaction to that as well.

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01:44:52,160 --> 01:44:54,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the outcome that we're hoping for.

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Speaker 27: It's a great place to meet, it should be available

1822
01:44:57,320 --> 01:44:57,919
Speaker 27: to everyone.

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01:44:58,439 --> 01:45:01,679
Speaker 2: We had a great relationship group leaders and their staff.

1824
01:45:01,720 --> 01:45:02,599
Speaker 2: Everything was fine.

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Speaker 27: So it was shocking to us, and we hope they'll

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01:45:05,640 --> 01:45:08,240
Speaker 27: hurry up and turn their decision around and change their policy.

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01:45:09,080 --> 01:45:10,960
Speaker 3: Beg Yeah, I'm curious. Is this the first time that

1828
01:45:11,320 --> 01:45:15,320
Speaker 3: you guys have come under fire like this for meeting.

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01:45:15,439 --> 01:45:18,360
Speaker 2: Yes, we have action groups that meet across the state.

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Speaker 27: Most of them monthly, all over communities across the state.

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01:45:22,160 --> 01:45:24,280
Speaker 27: And this is the first time we have actually been

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01:45:24,400 --> 01:45:29,600
Speaker 27: kicked out of a place, just especially for religious reasons.

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01:45:29,360 --> 01:45:30,680
Speaker 27: That really shocked us.

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Speaker 3: All Right, Washington State, Man, are they in a world

1835
01:45:39,240 --> 01:45:44,280
Speaker 3: have hurt? Democrats are now going to be raising taxes.

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01:45:44,680 --> 01:45:49,280
Speaker 3: Also in Seattle, it has literally crippled business in the

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01:45:49,320 --> 01:45:53,639
Speaker 3: downtown core. So the Downtown Seattle Association had a big

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01:45:53,680 --> 01:45:57,080
Speaker 3: meeting about this. The president and CEO a guy by

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01:45:57,120 --> 01:46:01,720
Speaker 3: the name of John Scholes, and he is annihilating this

1840
01:46:01,880 --> 01:46:04,559
Speaker 3: so called progressive tank. So I want you to take

1841
01:46:04,560 --> 01:46:05,280
Speaker 3: a listen to us.

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01:46:05,600 --> 01:46:08,160
Speaker 28: But as we've seen crime decrease in the core of downtown,

1843
01:46:08,200 --> 01:46:09,880
Speaker 28: we have seen it shift and we have.

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01:46:09,880 --> 01:46:11,480
Speaker 19: Seen it increase in other neighborhoods.

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01:46:11,520 --> 01:46:13,759
Speaker 28: It's up in Belltown and it's up in the Chinatown

1846
01:46:13,760 --> 01:46:17,960
Speaker 28: International District. Job growth in our city last year softened.

1847
01:46:18,400 --> 01:46:21,559
Speaker 28: We lost jobs, and over the last five years in

1848
01:46:21,640 --> 01:46:24,040
Speaker 28: downtown Seattle we've lost thirty seven jobs.

1849
01:46:24,680 --> 01:46:26,280
Speaker 19: We're going in the wrong direction.

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01:46:27,320 --> 01:46:31,200
Speaker 28: And meanwhile, in Bellevue, they've been adding jobs twelve percent

1851
01:46:31,280 --> 01:46:34,800
Speaker 28: job growth over the same period compared to Seattle.

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01:46:34,360 --> 01:46:36,760
Speaker 19: Here, and I want to be clear, I'm not rooting

1853
01:46:36,800 --> 01:46:37,920
Speaker 19: against Bellevue.

1854
01:46:37,680 --> 01:46:39,920
Speaker 28: By any means, and I think we've got some Bellvue

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01:46:39,920 --> 01:46:42,080
Speaker 28: friends in the house today. I saw Joe Faane, the

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01:46:42,120 --> 01:46:46,599
Speaker 28: CEO of the Bellevy Chamber earlier. I want Bellvue to succeed,

1857
01:46:46,640 --> 01:46:50,439
Speaker 28: and I'm also rooting for Seattle and waving the flag

1858
01:46:50,479 --> 01:46:53,360
Speaker 28: here that we're going in the wrong direction after twenty

1859
01:46:53,439 --> 01:46:57,880
Speaker 28: years of incredibly steady job growth and over this period

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01:46:57,920 --> 01:47:02,000
Speaker 28: where we've seen a decrease in jobs, we've seen a

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01:47:02,160 --> 01:47:05,479
Speaker 28: record increase in taxes that employers in the city of

1862
01:47:05,520 --> 01:47:09,080
Speaker 28: Seattle are paying that employers aren't paying in Bellevue in

1863
01:47:09,120 --> 01:47:12,400
Speaker 28: other cities in our region. We have become an outlier

1864
01:47:12,439 --> 01:47:14,519
Speaker 28: when it comes to the cost of doing business in

1865
01:47:14,560 --> 01:47:17,160
Speaker 28: our city. In total, over the last three years or so,

1866
01:47:17,200 --> 01:47:20,960
Speaker 28: there's a billion dollars in new taxes that employers based

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01:47:20,960 --> 01:47:23,280
Speaker 28: in the city of Seattle are paying that they weren't

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01:47:23,280 --> 01:47:26,160
Speaker 28: paying five years ago, and that they're not paying in

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01:47:26,200 --> 01:47:27,879
Speaker 28: Belvy in other parts of our region.

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Speaker 19: This, along with hybrid work.

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01:47:31,000 --> 01:47:33,800
Speaker 28: And some of the continued shifts in the tech economy

1872
01:47:34,160 --> 01:47:37,320
Speaker 28: has contributed to an office vacancy rate in downtown Seattle

1873
01:47:37,439 --> 01:47:42,320
Speaker 28: plus thirty percent, a historic number. And this reality is

1874
01:47:42,439 --> 01:47:45,559
Speaker 28: driving down the value of commercial property in our city,

1875
01:47:46,080 --> 01:47:49,840
Speaker 28: and particularly in downtown, driving down the value of office buildings.

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01:47:50,680 --> 01:47:53,960
Speaker 28: The ten buildings that were worth the most in twenty

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01:47:54,000 --> 01:47:57,240
Speaker 28: twenty two lost more than half their value when you

1878
01:47:57,280 --> 01:48:01,679
Speaker 28: compare their number today to that period just six years ago.

1879
01:48:01,760 --> 01:48:03,400
Speaker 19: The excuse me four years ago.

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01:48:03,920 --> 01:48:07,479
Speaker 28: So that reality of the commercial values declining in our

1881
01:48:07,520 --> 01:48:11,599
Speaker 28: downtown in a city that is heavily dependent on property taxes,

1882
01:48:11,960 --> 01:48:15,960
Speaker 28: that has put property taxes for universal preschool, and for

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01:48:16,080 --> 01:48:19,679
Speaker 28: transportation and for education, and we will have a library

1884
01:48:19,760 --> 01:48:21,400
Speaker 28: levee on the ballot. This is a way in which

1885
01:48:21,400 --> 01:48:25,080
Speaker 28: we've raised revenue through the property tax. The reality of

1886
01:48:25,120 --> 01:48:28,240
Speaker 28: a declining tax based on the commercial side shifts the

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01:48:28,280 --> 01:48:32,559
Speaker 28: tax burden to renters, owners and small businesses through their

1888
01:48:32,560 --> 01:48:36,760
Speaker 28: triple net leases. These taxes that have been proposed and

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01:48:36,880 --> 01:48:39,120
Speaker 28: adopted over the last three or four years have been

1890
01:48:39,439 --> 01:48:42,920
Speaker 28: articulated as progressive revenue. But let me tell you the

1891
01:48:43,000 --> 01:48:46,479
Speaker 28: results of what is happening here, of this massive tax

1892
01:48:46,520 --> 01:48:49,880
Speaker 28: shift to renters, to homeowners, to small businesses in the

1893
01:48:49,880 --> 01:48:53,800
Speaker 28: city of Seattle. There's nothing progressive about that, and that

1894
01:48:53,880 --> 01:49:01,320
Speaker 28: has been the effect. And I will say, we don't

1895
01:49:01,400 --> 01:49:06,400
Speaker 28: need more business taxes in Seattle. We need more businesses

1896
01:49:06,560 --> 01:49:08,280
Speaker 28: in Seattle paying taxes.

1897
01:49:12,200 --> 01:49:14,320
Speaker 19: That's how we strengthen the tax base.

1898
01:49:14,479 --> 01:49:17,920
Speaker 28: We fill these vacant storefronts, we fill the vacant floors

1899
01:49:17,960 --> 01:49:18,959
Speaker 28: in our office buildings.

1900
01:49:19,120 --> 01:49:20,679
Speaker 19: We drive up those commercial values.

1901
01:49:20,720 --> 01:49:22,519
Speaker 28: We take some of the burden off of renters and

1902
01:49:22,560 --> 01:49:26,559
Speaker 28: owners and small business. We grow the pie, We create jobs,

1903
01:49:26,600 --> 01:49:29,920
Speaker 28: we create opportunities, and we have to recognize we're in

1904
01:49:29,920 --> 01:49:33,200
Speaker 28: an incredibly competitive environment when it comes to the choices

1905
01:49:33,240 --> 01:49:35,720
Speaker 28: that employers have within the city, within the region, and

1906
01:49:35,760 --> 01:49:39,240
Speaker 28: within the state. They don't have to be here. We

1907
01:49:39,280 --> 01:49:41,760
Speaker 28: want them here, and there's great reasons for them to

1908
01:49:41,880 --> 01:49:45,880
Speaker 28: be here. We have incredible talent, this natural beauty, and

1909
01:49:45,920 --> 01:49:51,000
Speaker 28: incredible downtown. We have to every day recognize how competitive

1910
01:49:51,040 --> 01:49:54,320
Speaker 28: of a landscape we have, and we have to accept

1911
01:49:54,360 --> 01:49:57,479
Speaker 28: the box score. You know, I believe that, And it's

1912
01:49:57,479 --> 01:50:00,880
Speaker 28: been said often over these last few years that democracies

1913
01:50:00,920 --> 01:50:03,760
Speaker 28: don't survive without a shared set of facts and a

1914
01:50:03,800 --> 01:50:06,600
Speaker 28: shared reality, and either do downtowns.

1915
01:50:07,360 --> 01:50:09,640
Speaker 19: So we need to accept the facts.

1916
01:50:09,280 --> 01:50:11,600
Speaker 28: And the reality of where we sit today and the

1917
01:50:11,680 --> 01:50:13,160
Speaker 28: choices that employers have.

1918
01:50:14,120 --> 01:50:17,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's look, I'm glad to hear this kind of

1919
01:50:17,720 --> 01:50:19,960
Speaker 3: language coming out, and that's really where it's going to

1920
01:50:20,000 --> 01:50:23,000
Speaker 3: have to come from from the business community and especially

1921
01:50:23,200 --> 01:50:27,639
Speaker 3: the small business owners, you know. And he's absolutely right

1922
01:50:27,760 --> 01:50:30,479
Speaker 3: about who's going to end up bearing the brunt of

1923
01:50:30,520 --> 01:50:32,920
Speaker 3: all of this. You know, let's just say that the

1924
01:50:32,960 --> 01:50:35,479
Speaker 3: property taxes are going to be increased, and that's been

1925
01:50:35,520 --> 01:50:38,720
Speaker 3: a big issue with a lot of medium sized communities.

1926
01:50:39,000 --> 01:50:41,519
Speaker 3: And the fact of the matter is the landlords are

1927
01:50:41,560 --> 01:50:46,200
Speaker 3: going to pass along whatever those costs are to the

1928
01:50:46,640 --> 01:50:49,040
Speaker 3: to the people that are renting. So you can expect

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Speaker 3: for rent prices to go up no matter where you are.

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Speaker 3: So until these towns and communities get a hold on

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Speaker 3: their spending, nothing is going to change, and prices are

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Speaker 3: going to continue to go up. So look, we've got

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Speaker 3: a great show tonight, five o'clock Eastern on Newsmax, The

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Speaker 3: Todd Stern Show. You can watch us on Newsmax two's

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Speaker 3: live YouTube channel, also on a number of OTT platforms,

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Speaker 3: so you can just check your cable listings for that

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Speaker 3: Senator Tommy Tumberville joins us right out of the gate,

1938
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Speaker 3: and he's going to be talking about the Sharia Caucus,

1939
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Speaker 3: the anti Sharia caucus that has developed. It is now

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Speaker 3: the fastest growing caucus up on Capitol Hill, well over

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Speaker 3: fifty members. So we'll be talking to the Senator about that. Also,

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Speaker 3: efforts in the Senate to get the Save America Act passed.

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Speaker 3: We understand that there have been some new developments there

1944
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Speaker 3: with Senator Schmidt out of Missouri, so we're going to

1945
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Speaker 3: keep you updated on all of that. It's going to

1946
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Speaker 3: be a lot of fun tonight. And of course Tracy

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Speaker 3: Burns is going to be along. She's got a brand

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Speaker 3: new book out that shows you how to deduct edverary

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Speaker 3: on your income taxes. That's going to be a great

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Speaker 3: segment as well. All right, we've got to screw down

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Speaker 3: to here, folks. It has been a great, great show today.

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Speaker 3: Thank you for listening, Thank you for calling in. Get

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Speaker 3: out there, folks, have a great when you'd be safe

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Speaker 3: America