Where do we go from here?? Primary Reaction and your Calls

What does one trip to Israel do? One trip changes people's faith, their identity, their perspective. One trip changes the response when people chant from the river to the sea. One trip changes how people see right and wrong. One trip changes the idea of home. One trip changes everything. And one donation is all it takes. I love getting out. I love doing these parties. I love them a little bit more when it's just a hopping to skip from the house. And every time we're at Hop Springs, I do. I value that. I truly do. And we get to hang out with everybody. I mean, we see all the guys from Rutherford County, Republicans. We see Kenneth Amy Coney Barrett's whole team was there. They're fantastic. We got a lot of great people in the Murphreysboro and Rutherford County area. And we love hanging out with you guys. Last night was awesome. I mean, there were some big winners. There were some big losers. We're going to take your reactions on all of the Tennessee primary results. And. We're going to get through this thing together. We're really excited. I got some other stuff that we're going to talk about, too, as well. We got Bertha Tourism News. We got fraud updates. I had a JD Vance interview that I wanted to play yesterday that we'll get to some of the clips from. And then I got a new interview that dropped this morning with President Trump and Punch Bowl, I believe it is. So we'll play you some of that as well. A lot of stuff to get to. Again, if you want to weigh in on the conversation, what are you feeling like after last night? 615-737-99-86. 615-737-9986. As we dig into the results, for me, at the very least, the biggest shocker of the evening. Charlie Hatcher going over Andy Ogles. That was a wild turn of events. I'll be honest with you, did not see that coming at all. Andy Ogles is out, losing his GOP primary in Tennessee's 5th District. Then there were some predictable results. Marsha Blackburn is going to be the next governor of Tennessee, and I think that that is fate of complete. If you look at the vote numbers, If no Rose supporters and no Fritz supporters went out and voted in the election and every Democrat got behind Jerry Green, Marsha Blackburn still wins that. So, I mean, and to say that no Rose voters or no Monty Fritz voters are going to go out and vote for Marsha Blackburn, I think that that's also probably silly, right? I think the majority of the conservatives in the listening area, if they had voted for Rose, if they had voted for Fritz, they're going to look at the field here and go, yeah, Marsha Blackburn is going to be a pretty good governor, especially when you put her up against Jerry Green. Jerry? Jerry? You know, something fun, though.

Chas Mulder. Chas Molder. Let's draw in a blank. Chas Molder is a male version of Abigail Spanberger. And you can already see it in the way he's campaigning. He's a very moderate Democrat guys. Super, super moderate. Nothing to worry about, except for the fact that he's just like every other Democrat who is campaigning in states like this. And again, I think the clearest comparison that you could draw would be Abigail Spanberger in the Commonwealth of Virginia. She campaigned, or you could do the same with Mikie Sherrill. campaigned as a moderate Democrat gets in office, raises taxes, kills cooperation with ICE. Chas Mulder will vote that way every single time with the Democrat Party. He just will. That's going to be an interesting race to pay attention to. Chas Mulder versus Charlie Hatcher. Another race that's going to be very, very interesting to pay attention to as we move forward in the general election season. And I don't know how much of a chance Pearson has. But Justin Pearson versus Brent Taylor in the new District 9 is going to be a very, very intriguing and interesting race to watch. Now, the Republicans got more votes in total. But when you look at the breakdown from Brent Taylor and Justin Pearson, Brent Taylor received 46% of the Republican votes, got 31,000 votes. Justin Pearson received 65% of the... Democrat votes got 32,000 votes. So vote for vote, Pearson pulled more votes last night than Brent Taylor. Again, I think that's going to be one of those things where you're going to see the Republicans get behind Brent Taylor in that race. And it is going to be hard for Pearson to overcome. But if you're entertained by politics, it's going to be pretty entertaining. And we're looking forward to that race. So there's, I mean, a lot to go on. How are you feeling after the election? 615 7379986. 615 7379986. Todd Warner put up a decent fight against Brett Taylor, 26% of the vote. Jeremy Thompson, who seemed like a great guy, 20% of the vote. Brent Taylor, he did run away with that thing if we're keeping score at home. And then we got, again, the big surprise was Andy Ogles and Hatcher. And when you look at the breakdown of Andy Ogles and Hatcher, Hatcher won all of the counties that Andy Ogles had already represented before they redrew District 5, which is pretty telling.

I like Andy. I think he's a decent enough guy. I get the frustration with Andy. When the legislation that you're pushing is third term or renaming airports, I can see why people will, you know, get a little sick and tired of that. I got a text from a friend here. Don't forget Taylor and Pearson don't like each other at all from the General Assembly. It's going to make it more fun. I'm looking forward to it. If you enjoy politics, there's definitely some races here in Tennessee. Like if you get it, if there's an entertainment value for you behind it, which I guess might be weird, but I find that there's some entertainment value, the Taylor Pearson race is going to be fun to watch. And I want to see debates. I want to see a lot of debates. I think that'll be interesting. And we're going to be covering that. From now until November, here on Super Talk, 997WTN. I have a feeling that the audience is over it. Do you feel like the audience is over it? I said, if you got any reaction, call in. Mason, how many calls have we received? Uh-huh. Exactly. Yeah, zero. Yeah. Zero. People do get burnt out on this stuff. They really do. 4364 said, I don't think the Trump endorsement carries the weight. People think it does anymore. That didn't help Andy Ogles at all. The endorsement came in late, though, right? Like, the endorsement wasn't there. I mean, we were running ads just this last week. What does one trip to Israel do? One trip changes people's faith, their identity, their perspective. One trip changes the response when people chant from the river to the sea. One trip changes how people see right and wrong. One trip changes the idea of home. One trip changes everything. And one donation is all it takes.

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She was in the basement. She ran a Joe Biden campaign. How does she win? The establishment gets what the establishment, just like owls. They wanted all those out. Why? He was too vocal. He was calling him out. He's gone. They're in control, man. I mean, I tend to disagree a little bit on Andy Ogles, but I think people made their mind up personally on Andy Ogles from the jump. I get where you're coming from on the Monty Fritz side. But I still wouldn't underestimate the power of the grassroots. I mean, if Monty had caught fire earlier, that could have been a closer race. I think if it was Monty Fritz versus Marsha Blackburn, I think Monty has a real chance of winning that. And I think you could make a similar argument if it was John Rose versus Marsha Blackburn, though I think that that might have been tighter. Monty won, what, five counties? Rose had a good showing, too. John Rose is probably the most pissed off at Monty Fritz out of anybody. But I also don't know. I wouldn't necessarily say that the Monty Fritz votes would have translated over to John Rose one to one. Probably not. I mean, Monty definitely split between Marcia and John. But, you know, and I see where you're coming from on Oval's. But, you know, it's very discouraging to those of us who, you know, rallied around Monty because we want the people's voice to be heard. And if we think Marcia is going to listen to the grassroots, Marsha, Marcia's not going to listen to the grassroots, man. That's just Marcia. Marcia cares about Marcia. See, I would push back on that a little bit because you saw them start to pivot. Mid campaign, especially against the flock cameras, and that was a total grassroots position. Absolutely. I mean, but it was Tim Burchett and Jacobs. Yeah, but they're surrogates for Marcia. So I would just, I would say, I would, I would gently push back on that. I do think that they're going to pay a little bit more attention to the grassroots. When a guy comes in with $300,000 and runs a campaign where he gets 25% of the vote, when the candidate that wins sees 55% of the vote going elsewhere. She understands that she's got some work to do to bring people back in. And I would imagine that she's going to start that work today. I hope so, man. And I truly do hope so because at the end of the day, we want Tennessee to be successful. And therefore, you know, our government and our state legislature has to be successful, including our representatives in D.C. But, you know, again, it feels like the people were ignored and the machine did what the machine does. And I think a lot of people are going to feel that way as well. I mean, but it's hard to say that it feels like the people were ignored when...

500,000, 540,000 people voted for a different candidate outside of Monty Fritz. Do you know what I'm saying? Like all of those votes are actual people. Right. No, and I mean, you and I see a lot of things. I'm just expressing, you know, that general reaction that I think we're going to see today. You know, people are going to be bumped. That's just how it is. You know, all my closest circle of friends were all, it can't be Marcia. It cannot be Marcia. You know, but yet even that, you know, here in Coffey County. Fritz was strong. At the end of the day, John Rose carried the county. But, you know, Fritz beat Marcia in our county. And so I think a lot of the rural counties are going to probably be very similar in that sense. Blackburn actually just just inched out Fritz by five votes in Coffey County. Okay. All right. Last numbers I looked at Fritz Hatter. I mean, Fritz came in second in... Cannon County. I mean, there was a couple of Count Grundy Fritz came in second. There was a couple counties where Fritz came in second. He only won five counties. Like I love Monty Fritz. I think that he is a great guy. He got my vote. But I mean. It is hard to go up against a political machine that's spending millions of dollars. And then on top of that, you watch, if you weren't on social media, it's really hard to hear Monty's message. I mean, even the local news channels, when they were talking about the governor's race, there would oftentimes, and maybe I pay attention too much to like the little idiosyncrasies, but there were oftentimes where they'd be talking about the governor's race, and it would just be a picture of Marsha and Rose up there. Right, yeah. You know, right. But I wouldn't necessarily say that that's the political machine trying to keep money out of the race. Do you know what I mean? No, I think the political commission, the machine actually is propping Marsha more than anything, because the Democrats know that Marsha is going to be more than willing. You know, Fritz was an absolute hardliner and not, there's no compromise. You know, Rose is not as squishy as Marcia, but Marcia was the best candidate as far as the Republican candidates to go. to want to reach across that aisle and make compromises like she's done for the last almost 40 years of her political career. So, you know. I mean, compromise, though, it's like there's times when compromise is good.

In today's world, I would say I would agree with that maybe 10 years ago, but in today's world with as hard left as these lunatics have turned, there's no compromise, man. There can't be. Yeah, I mean, I get where you're coming from, you know, when we're dealing in hypotheticals. I wouldn't imagine Marsh is going to compromise on any hard left policy issues. Oh, I doubt that, but she's going to be a little bit more agreeable to, you know, small things. And it's the boiling and the frog to get to death type stuff. You know, it's those small things. I mean, look at what, and the people that asked me about the campaigns and everything like that, what has Marcia done for Tennessee since she's been in D.C.? There's nothing. I couldn't find anything. If you know something, I mean, please let me know. But as far as anything she's done for Tennessee while she's been in D.C., there's not a single thing. She renamed some post offices. So what's she going to, is she really going to? And those post offices are really nice, Rich. I'm sure they are, man. I mean, I bet they're the most beautiful post offices in the world. They're the best ones you've ever seen. Exactly. But what does she got for Tennesseans? You know, she comes in, she's campaigning on it's time to cut the bureaucracy and all this. She's a bureaucrat. Coming from a bureaucrat, cutting the bureaucracy? Really? Come on, man. No, I listen, I hear where you're coming from, and I think a lot of people are going to echo your frustration today. I appreciate the call, Rich. I was talking to my wife last night. She's like, Brooks's first games tomorrow night. I was like, what? We didn't get an off season. She's like, you're right. It's like, why is fall ball starting at the beginning of August? Because that's how it works, Chris. I've only been telling you about it for a couple weeks. All right. I'm not mad about it. I'm excited, actually. Looking forward to it. We're taking some of your calls on the election results last night. How you feeling? Some people are upset. Some people are like, yeah, this is kind of what we expected to happen. 615-737-9986. 615-7-37-9986. Let's go to Jeff and Franklin. Wanted to talk about Monty and Marsha. Appreciate you holding, Jeff. What do you got? I just like hope Marcia is calling Monty today and thanking him tremendously because I think that's the only way she won. I voted for Monty. And, you know, I was disappointed. I'm not emotional about my decision. I won't be voting for Marcia unless she shifts. I think Green. I don't know Green. I just heard her last night. But I think Green will mop her up on the young votes and the Republican, the old party.

to get a plunger and remove their head because they're going to lose big time if they don't do something to capture the younger guys both. Okay, so let's hold on, hold on, hold on. Stay on the line with me because I definitely want to unpack. You got a lot to say there. So, for starters, Marsha beat Rose by what? 80,000 votes, give or take, like 75,000 votes. Monty got 167,000 votes. So are you under the impression that more than 75,000 of those Monty votes would have gone to John Rose had Monty not run? So I think that they called the Marsha. It was embarrassing if you look at the percentage. I know everybody's saying how many votes she got, but she was called at 43%. Yeah, she got 43, Rose got 32, Fritz got 23. Here's my thing that I would say about the Fritz votes going to Rose. Fritz voters view Rose as establishment as Marcia. Yeah, that's true. So, I mean, like, I could see one out of three, one out of three votes maybe from Fritz going to Rose. But, like, maybe it would have made it tighter. I still think Marcia would have won that. She could have probably been through, but it's unfortunate. You know, I don't, there's still a general election to go through. And I don't think she's going to end well at 43%. I mean. Okay, so then let's unpack your other point, which was that you think Jerry Green will mop the floor with Marsha Blackburn, okay? Which I think is an interesting take. Jerry Green got 69% of the vote in the Democratic primary. She got... She got 244, okay? So she got 244,000. Her next closest opponent got 63,000 in change. I'm just rounding them out just to keep it simple. The next closest opponent got like 18,900. Let's say 19. That equals 326, okay? Marshall, so the top three candidates in the Democrat primary got 326,000 votes, give or take, okay? Marsha last night got 311,000 votes. So she would only, if every Democrat that voted in the primary last night voted again, and they all coalesced behind Jerry Green, Marsha would still only have like a 20,000 vote margin to combat.

So I think you're going to get a lot more coalescing behind the scenes in the Republican Party than you're giving it credit for. Here's the other end of it, right? In my opinion, now, I'm 61 and I have younger boys, and I'm a veteran. Thank you for your service. Thank you. And I think that. This decision on marijuana is stupid that she has. And I don't want someone that has an opinion. I want someone that represents the state. That with the state passes legislation, I want to push through. And that's for the majority. It's just like the SAVE Act. Everybody wants it, but they're not pushing it through. So my opinion is she's going to lose a lot if green goes out and does pay. We're going to support medical marijuana. We're going to get that in the situation. A couple other topics. I think she's going to tumble Marsha Blackburn because she has a negative opinion about that. And that's her personal opinion. What does one trip to Israel do? One trip changes people's faith, their identity, their perspective. One trip changes the response when people chant from the river to the sea. One trip changes how people see right and wrong. One trip changes the idea of home. One trip changes everything. And one donation is all it takes.

Mike Drop, hosted by former Navy SEAL, Mike Ridland. What is your take? Was it what you expected? Oh, it was the best thing ever. It was something I always wanted to do. If you show me a clear goal, I'm like, okay, I can do that. Master Chief. He's like, you realize there's about 1% chance that you make it through. 1%. That's all I need Master Chief. My platoon went home early, and I just went up to my chief, and I was like, I'm not going home. Turns out I'm staying. That's when we go to war. Yeah, I was like, okay, I could get used to this. Mike Drop, follow and listen on your favorite platform. Could you be personally be putting too much stake on that one issue? Could that issue be more important to you than your average Tennessean voter? Because Monty Fritz was out in front, pro-medical marijuana. And I thought that that was a good position to have, but Rose was against it, and he's still got 235,000 votes. Marsha Blackburn was against it. She got 311,000 votes. I don't know Jerry Green's opinion on it just off the top of my head. I mean, knowing that she's on the Democrat side, I would assume she's for it in some former fashion. But could it be that that's an important issue to you, but not an actual important issue to Tennesseans overall, or that a plurality of Tennesseans don't want to see that happen here? I don't think the marijuana should be, like, focused on. I think the focus I focused on, because I don't partake or consume marijuana at all. But I don't have a problem with my artist friends or neighbors doing it or anything like that. That's, you know, we're an artistic. Nashville is. But marijuana aside, I want a representative that is going to be for the people and represent the people and not heal things because of her personal beliefs or opinion. He's supposed to be working for us. And the way, with her not like going and debating these guys, thinking that she ultimately doesn't have to, and she may pull the same trigger with Green. But Green has already called for it. And her closing, when I was watching it on TV, when she won, she's already calling for debate. So it's going to be interesting how she picks apart. And they recycled some of the stuff that was against Marcia, like not talking to the people, not letting the people talk to her. That's going to hurt her, in my opinion. I mean, it may, it may not. It didn't seem to hurt her last night. And, you know, just when you said that Jerry Green is going to run through her, it's like the main issue that you had was marijuana. I just don't, I don't see that. getting Jerry Green enough support. Yeah. Well, the other issue I have with Marcia is the Save Act. He's our senator. He's not pushing. I don't hear nothing from her saying, let's get it done. Let's stay in. Let's get this done. It makes common sense. You know, you should have an ID for everything, but you don't need an ID to vote. And you see what's happened in another state. I mean. Oh, yeah. I mean, look at New Jersey where 6,600 illegal aliens were confirmed to be on the voter rolls. I totally get you. I will say that while I think she could go harder, like scorched earth, burn the boats because she's obviously not going to be going back to the Senate. So what difference does it make?

She is one of the 20 senators that's pushing to skip recess to get this thing done. The other thing I disagree with her on is I've seen that bell to bell, no cell. These kids coming up today, technology is going to be in their life. And, you know, so we're not going to go back to chalk boards and chalk. They need to have platforms of technology. So, you know, it's just. She's behind on what these guys, you know, we need to modernize. See, I would absolutely push back on you on the bell-to-bell, no cell. I got young kids as well as I mean, maybe you're aware, maybe you're not. I got four young kids. You know, my daughter's about to be 13. She doesn't have a cell phone. I think that these kids are plenty quick enough to be able to figure out new tech. And I also think it's like a bit of a, It's a mute point because the technology that's out today, think about the technology that you had growing up. Then when you got into adulthood, that was dead technology. The exact same thing is going to happen. So to say a kid needs a cell phone today because otherwise he's not going to be able to use tech in the future, that's a joke because the tech in the future, we can't even wrap our heads around yet. It's going to be completely different. And then I would also push back on it because I think that AI needs to be. It needs to be utilized, especially for young Americans, but it needs to be utilized as a force multiplier. And you can't multiply force that you don't have. So if you don't learn how to do these skills, you're not going to be able to maximize the technology and you're going to get left behind. If you're seeing this a lot in industry now, The guys that are using AI the best are the guys that know the fields the best because you're only as good as the prompts that you're able to put into the AI. And if you can't understand the nuance, you're not going to know when AI gets it wrong. So I would gently push back against that. I think the no cell bell to bell, I mean, you can call it cheesy, but the reality is the point of that is that way the kids can pay attention in class and they're not scrolling Instagram and texting their friends when they should be paying attention to, I don't know, American history. Right. You know what I mean? Yeah, I understand what you're saying. And I remember hearing some of this when I was a kid coming up their school about calculators. You know, they didn't want people. They thought that was dumb that, you know, kids could use calculators. Yep. I mean, I remember my teacher used to say you're never going to have a calculator with you everywhere you go. And it's like, yeah, well, spoiler alert. You know what I mean? But, you know, I would just say to learn it the old school way is going to do the kids a far better service than to become tech dependent. Well, and I respect your opinion on that. I'm just saying that everything I see today, and you're right, when I was coming up, the first cell phone I had was a bagged phone with an antenna and a handset.

So technology is advanced way beyond that. Oh, yeah. But there's also studies where it's like if you handwrite notes, you are far more likely to remember them than if you type them out. It's just it's the muscle memory. It's the process. Like there's science behind that. And it will serve our kids better if we keep it a little bit more old school, especially in the early years of learning. And I agree. I mean, I'm not, I'm open-minded to the fact. And that's the difference between me and Marsha Blackburn, because I can have a conversation about you, why you think something is wrong or you disagree with me on, you know, the cell phone. But if someone has a staunch opinion... then they're only going to go in one direction. And I think the people should have a bigger voice than the politicians at the end of the day. I completely agree with you there. And we have to communicate with each other. I'm not always right. I'm not always wrong either, though. No. And I wouldn't say that. And I think we've had a great conversation. And I'll also tell you I'm not going to be right about everything. Like we're all human. There was only one perfect human that ever walked on Earth. Yeah, you know. And that was Jesus, yeah. Amen. And I, you know, and I believe in that, but I also believe that, you know, we all have to take into consideration. And you have to see the youth. I mean, I have young boys, you know, in their 20s, early 20s, and one in the 30s. And they all, you know, their topics, their decision-making process for voting as a... completely different than these old establishment people. Yes, and I think the Republican Party writ large needs to have a reckoning with that. Because at a certain point, the Gen Z and the millennial voters are going to be the largest voting. voting block in the entire country. You need to pay attention to what they're talking about. You need to pay attention to their needs. You know, the affordability crisis is real. You have, I just saw a study, I don't have it in front of me, but I was doing prep this morning. It's like more young Americans under 35 are moving back in with their parents than ever before. Like, that's a real issue that needs to be tackled in this country. Like, we need to get home ownership affordable again, or these kids are going to feel like they've been left behind. And they're going to. going to get blackfield. Yeah. And I've seen my account the other day, and we were talking about that. And she had said that, you know, there's a big difference in today's society. And, you know, these kids, the younger adults, they are like, you know, a truck, new truck or something cost $80,000. The house average about $400,000. You know, so it wasn't like, you know, when we were coming up and a house was like $60,000 and a truck was like $12,000. Yeah, I'm with you. There's a big, you know, there's a big gap there. And a lot of the way kids were brought up and mine too, they have things. You know, I did it. I came up for, I worked for everything. But, you know, I appreciate it.

But these kids, they came up with, you know, the parents had a good work ethic, made money, and they had everything they needed. So it's a different life now. Yeah, it absolutely is. Jeff, I appreciate the conversation, man. You're welcome to calling anytime. What does one trip to Israel do? One trip changes people's faith, their identity, their perspective. One trip changes the response when people chant from the river to the sea. One trip changes how people see right and wrong. One trip changes the idea of home. One trip changes everything. And one donation is all it takes.