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	Charlemagne the God, Linda, he's on what floor in our building?
	He's on the sixth floor here in the iHeart building.
	I actually went with DJ, my good friend Jim Kerr, for many, many years, and just one of the greatest DJs of all time.
	And he showed me where everybody's studio was one day.
	And what's really cool about Charlemagne the God's studio is he actually has like a throne, like a king's chair, which I think is very cool.
	And he's done very, very well, which is awesome for him.
	Anyway, so the issue that came up and that he commented on is when Joe Biden butchered the name of L.L. Cooljay.
	I mean, everybody knows who LL Cool J is.
	Okay, it's not exactly new to the hip-hop scene in American music and introduced him as, you can't even make this up, LLJ Cool, and then followed it up by referring to him as Boy.
	Let me play this for you.
	Two of the great artists of our time representing the groundbreaking legacy of hip-hop in America, LLJ Cool J. By the way, that boy's got, that man's got biceps bigger than my thighs.
	I think he's all right.
	That was, I guess, his way of saving it.
	It didn't quite work out.
	Charlemagne the God saying, boy is a white racist word.
	And he said, Joe Biden knows this.
	I'm not sure if he knows anything anymore at this point.
	But anyway, you know, that's why he corrected himself, which I think is a good observation on his part.
	But I'm going to tell you what I found egregious, the fact that Joe Biden got L.L. Cool J's name wrong to begin with.
	I mean, it was on Charlemagne the God show that it was Joe Biden that said, if you're going to vote for Trump over me, then you ain't black.
	And it's not just this one instance.
	It is, you know, all throughout his career.
	But let me remind everybody here, and this is what really infuriated me during the last election cycle.
	Nobody on the left would ever touch the issue of Joe Biden partnering with the former Klansman to stop the integration of our public schools.
	And in his words, he didn't want these schools to become racial jungles.
	Just take a quick trip down memory lane on the issue of Joe Biden and race.
	In Delaware, the largest growth in population is Indian Americans moving from India.
	You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent.
	I'm not joking.
	You don't know my state.
	My state was a slave state.
	My state is a border state.
	My state is the eighth largest black population in the country.
	You got the first sort of mainstream circular American who is articulate and bright and clean and nice looking guy.
	I mean, that's a story, bro.
	Unchain Wall Street.
	You're going to put you all back in chains.
	It's a long way until November.
	We got more questions.
	You got more questions.
	But I tell you, if you have a problem figuring out whether you're from Mayor Trump and you ain't black, and by the way, you know, I'm not, I may be a white boy, but I'm not stupid.
	I know where the power is.
	And then there are other comments that he made.
	What was the comment, Linda, that he made about, you know, white kids are just as smart as whatever.
	White kids are just as smart as white kids.
	I mean, what are we assuming that everybody that is a minority?
	No, some of the most brilliant people.
	Joe, in case nobody told you, read a little history.
	We have that.
	It's unbelievable.
	Play it.
	We should challenge students in these schools to have advanced placement programs in these schools.
	We have this notion that somehow if you're poor, you cannot do it.
	Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids.
	Wealthy kids, black kids, Asian kids.
	No, I really mean it, but think how we think about it.
	I mean, it's almost like he tries to catch himself every time.
	But again, nobody during the election in 2020 wanted to ever discuss these issues.
	One person that did with me is Leo 2.0 Terrell, Fox News contributor, civil rights attorney.
	We also welcome back to the show.
	It's been way too long.
	Carol Swain is back with us, author of The Adversity of Diversity, to discuss what is actually going on here.
	Carol, what's your take on all of it, especially when you look at the history?
	Joe Biden has a rich history of racism.
	And unfortunately, the Democrats have a double standard for white Democrats.
	And any white Democrat feels that they have the right to denigrate a black conservative.
	And they get a free pass on their racism.
	You know, Leo, that is something that we have discussed at length.
	And that is that, you know, in a day and age of woke, in the day and age of you can't say this, you can't say that.
	You know, this is racist, sexist, misogynist, homophobic, transphobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic.
	You know, in that day and age, there's one group of people that you absolutely have free reign to attack, and that is African American conservatives.
	And the things that are said regularly about them is beyond insulting.
	It's nauseating.
	It's downright racist.
	And yet it continues.
	Why?
	Well, I'll tell you exactly why.
	And thanks for having me on with Carol.
	She's fantastic.
	Sean, let me be clear.
	Joe Biden's a racist.
	And when he caught himself saying boy, L.L. Cougar, that's what he usually uses in private.
	He uses those terms in private.
	But why does Joe Biden get away with all this?
	Here it is.
	Very simple.
	Because you got black Democrats like Jim Kleinberg.
	They protect him.
	They shield him.
	They excuse his racist attitude.
	And in your clip, your montage, don't forget what he said about Barack Obama, that he was something he was a different type of black person.
	No, no, no.
	For the first time ever.
	I mean, you know, here you have a guy that's that's bright and articulate and clean.
	That storybook meant what's for the first time ever and African-Americans clean.
	I mean, let me let me isolate this and really focus in on what he's saying here, because it's shocking to me.
	You got the first sort of mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean, nice looking guy.
	I mean, that's a storybook.
	Articulate, bright and clean.
	First time ever.
	That's storybook, man.
	That insults people like Dr. Carol Twain, insults myself, insults every black American.
	He's not the measuring stick as to what constitutes a qualified black American.
	And I want to be very clear, Sean, on your program three years ago, I left the Democratic Party when that idiot Joe Biden said, if you don't vote for me, you ain't black.
	On your show, I did that.
	And I'll tell you right now, he continues to do this because he is a racist and he is excused by black Democrats who provide him with cover.
	Perfect example, James Clyburn.
	All right.
	Well, James Clyburn, Carol, actually came to Joe's rescue in 2020.
	Joe came out of Iowa, New Hampshire, and if he didn't win South Carolina, it was over.
	And frankly, I give full credit to James Clyburn, well-respected, well-liked, frankly, by both sides of the aisle and in South Carolina and well-respected.
	And his endorsement saved Joe Biden is my argument.
	Well, the thing is that the black Democrats like Clyburn know how to manipulate whites to get what they want for themselves.
	And so they are perfectly comfortable with resegregation that's taking place in the public schools and our colleges and universities.
	They won't challenge that because they have figured out a way to shake down people.
	They are shake down artists and they are like the modern day slave overseers.
	And I would not try to excuse Joe Biden by saying it's his age.
	I know plenty of older white people, some of them in their 90s, some of them even close to 100 in my church.
	They would never engage in the kind of racism that Joe Biden has throughout his life.
	I mean, it's kind of it takes your breath away in this day and age.
	Carol, examine for me and explain to me why the one group that it's acceptable seemingly to go after with impunity and that, you know, no holds barred are conservative African-Americans.
	I mean, the comments are brutal.
	I don't even want to say the things that they are called regularly.
	I'm sure you've experienced it.
	Well, you know that the left is very much motivated by neo-Marxism.
	That's a conflict theory.
	So they have to keep whites and blacks at each other's throats.
	And so they want all blacks to think of themselves as victims.
	Black conservatives are highly successful.
	They're not victims.
	They're showing what can be done.
	And that undermines the entire narrative of the left.
	And so they feel that they have to destroy us.
	And one of the things that really angers me is the treatment of Clarence Thomas by white progressives and the fact that black people, those black Democrats, would go along with it.
	That is pure racism.
	And throughout my life in academia, the most racist people were always the progressives.
	You know, and I can add to that because one person that seems to constantly, never ending, he's a target, is Clarence Thomas.
	There's been an effort now going on for, what, over a year to destroy this man and his reputation.
	And frankly, Leo, it's gone on his entire career since he was, you know, being confirmed to be on the U.S. Supreme Court.
	And he talked about a high-tech lynching.
	Right.
	And they have failed.
	They have tried.
	They have tried for over 30 years and they have failed.
	And they're going to continue to try.
	All this talk about ethics among the Supreme Court members and court packing.
	They want to get rid of Clarence Thomas because he sits there symbolically and insults the black progressive white liberals by saying we are independent thinkers.
	But the Democratic Party, the progressive left, do not want independent black thinkers like Dr. Carol Twain and like Clarence Thomas and myself.
	Now, I'll tell you, Sean, the Democratic Party has abandoned racial equality, have replaced it with equity.
	And this critical race theory, the 1619 project, they have gone all in on dividing this country by race.
	If they don't play the race cards, there is no Democratic Party, and they continue to play it to keep the Democratic Party alive.
	All right, quick break more about Joe Biden's comments about LL J. Cool and referring to him as quote unquote boy and the reaction to it.
	On the other side, we continue with Carol Swain, Leo 2.0 Terrell.
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	All right, we continue now with Leo 2.0 Terrell and Carol Swain talking about Joe Biden and just one of a zillion latest gaffes as he continues to cognitively deteriorate before our very eyes.
	There's one thing that we're watching unfold here, Carol, and that is if you look at the latest polls, Trump versus Biden, dramatic gains.
	I mean, double-digit gains for Donald Trump with young people, with African Americans, with Hispanic Americans.
	And for those that don't know, every poll does a demographic breakdown.
	If these numbers hold for 2024, there is no way that Donald J. Trump would not be reelected because that is such a big part of the base of the Democratic Party.
	It's also the reason why every election season that, you know, that race card and Republicans are racist, sexists, misogynists, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic, et cetera, et cetera.
	They want dirty air and water comes out because that is their reminder.
	Have their policies helped people that they claim to have a monopoly of compassion for, you know, in predominantly minority neighborhoods in America?
	How are most of their school districts doing in big cities and blue states?
	Not that great when you break it down demographically.
	You know, how are the school systems not going to, how are we doing in terms of law and order?
	Well, my friend Gianno Caldwell testified before Congress today in Chicago, and he lost his young, innocent brother, and they don't lift a finger.
	I've been scrolling names, Carol, since 2009, names nobody's ever heard of because they can't politicize it of people shot, shot, and killed in the streets of Chicago.
	What is the Democratic Party in that Democratic-run city, in that Democratic blue state?
	What have they done to save the lives of innocent human beings, all created in the image of God?
	Because it doesn't look like much to me.
	Well, Sean, we know that they have not done anything.
	And I guarantee you, they will pull out of the head another case like George Floyd because incidents happen across the country all the time, but they decide which ones they want to play up.
	And I would also say that, yeah, blacks, Hispanics, Asians, thinking people are leaving the Democrats.
	They know that those policies are not in their interest.
	And I would also say that the Democrats, you know, they have tried to divide people around affirmative action and race.
	And I believe that the American people are ready to go back to the original intent of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, and that was to prohibit discrimination on the basis of race.
	White people are protected against racial discrimination.
	Asians, blacks, men are protected as well as females.
	And I think the American people would, in unison across party lines, would go back to the original intent of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
	They hate Clinch Thomas because he has stood up against racial discrimination, period.
	He stood up for the Constitution.
	Every person in the United States is protected against discrimination based on their race, sex, or religion.
	We'll see what happens.
	Carol, great to have you back.
	Leo 2.0, Terrell, always a pleasure, sir.
	Thank you both for being with us.
	We appreciate it.
	Take care.
	God bless you.
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	I just hate it when I see my fellow Americans suffering.
	I can't stand it.
	And 61% of Americans living paycheck to paycheck.
	You know, just you can predict this as the time of day.
	You know, I live in a town, upper-middle-class Americans, all backgrounds, by the way.
	And I got a call.
	You know who I got a call from Linda Keith.
	And sure enough, our local pantry, you know, is in dire need of more funding because the need is that great.
	Gas prices go up, inflation goes up, the economy, you know, it gets worse and worse.
	And almost like clockwork, the number of people needing just bare necessities because they can't afford it, you know, are going in.
	And I'm like, yeah, of course I'd love to help.
	I told you, whenever you need help, call me.
	And it's just sad, but this is now happening to many Americans as you pay your bills, fuel your car, buy groceries, heat and cool your home.
	You know, there's barely anything left.
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	I am telling you, this is getting louder and louder and louder.
	Joe has to go.
	And Linda, didn't I predict with the Maureen Dowd column, uh-huh?
	Canary, coal mine, first domino to fall.
	And slowly but surely, it's now happening.
	And I said it would be media, prominent liberal media figures first.
	That turned out to be right.
	David Ignatius, liberal Joe.
	Then you got Axel Rod and Carville.
	And who else do we have that was critical?
	Van Jones, another one.
	And now it's gotten even more intense.
	Carville now has come out for the third time criticizing Joe Biden.
	This is him on with Bill Maher, I guess, on Bill Maher's podcast, and saying Biden can't run for president.
	75% don't want him to run again.
	That's a big blanking number.
	Listen.
	He cannot run for president.
	He'll look bad in the debates.
	It's just, it's too much.
	And he's, I think, going to lose.
	He will be Ruth Bader Biden, the Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the presidency.
	It's not a good look.
	And any 50-ish, not stupid, woke Democrat with a D by their name, people just vote D and R.
	That person can win.
	I don't like when people take one poll and extrapolate too much on it, but I've seen the last eight polls are all the same.
	73 to 77% of the country does not want Biden to run again.
	I'm just round after 75.
	Okay.
	That's a big number, man.
	That's a big number.
	It's a very big number for something this crucial.
	Now, Carville goes on to say here, and I find this really interesting coming from him.
	And I've debated Carville.
	I actually like him.
	He's a really fun guy to hang out with.
	His views are nuts.
	But this guy's not.
	I'll tell you one thing.
	He's not.
	He's not stupid.
	And one of the things he realized with Bill Clinton, and they very, very, very, they were very intelligent in how they handled, you know, after two years of pushing Hillary care on the country, it was a disastrous midterm election.
	And Republicans, thanks to Newt Gingrich, contract with America, yeah, they got power in the House for the first time in 40 years, 40 years in the wilderness for crying out loud.
	And they ended up doing good things together.
	But it was Bill Clinton making massive adjustments away from the hard left of his party and returning to his southern governor roots from Arkansas and talking about the era of big government being over and the end of welfare as we know it.
	So that's where that's Carville's perspective.
	That's the prism by which he is judging today.
	And listen to him talk about the left and how annoying they are and how habitually stupid they are.
	He's not wrong here.
	Listen.
	I find the left to be just annoying.
	They're more than just not important.
	They're just annoying.
	Exactly.
	And the Western far left is habitually the most stupid, naive people you can imagine.
	And they come up with these really goofy constructs, and it's all about feeling feeling good about yourself.
	Yeah, just feeling, as opposed to like free speech.
	Like if your feelings are hurt, that's more important than free speech.
	And then he extrapolates on this, expands out from this about progressive liberal Democrats.
	About 10 or 11% of Democrats describe themselves as progressive liberal, whatever that means.
	Is that right?
	Yes.
	It's a very, and this is survey after survey.
	And these people are annoying, silly, but they come to you because you live here, you work in entertainment.
	The identity left is all around you.
	Yes.
	Most people don't even know what they're talking about.
	I know.
	But by the way, the number of MAGA people is 65%.
	We pay a greater price for 10% of our party than they pay for 65% of their party.
	And our people, the identity, the identity left are silly.
	They're not evil.
	They're just goofy.
	They're not evil.
	They're just dumb.
	Anyway, just pretty interesting, I think, coming from him.
	All right, let's say hi to Joseph.
	He's in Atlanta.
	News Talk, 750 WSB.
	And of course, our FM, 95FM.
	What's going on?
	Hey, John.
	How are you doing?
	I'm good, sir.
	What's going on?
	Hey, I wanted to talk about the government shutdown that's coming up, that's looming.
	And how do you think they're actually going to reach an agreement come October 1st?
	And if they don't, how is that going to affect the economy?
	You know, I guess my level of frustration starts going back to June and July and August.
	And by the way, I did ping a number of people that have significant control over this.
	I don't need to give the details of who I was talking to.
	I'm like, well, what's your plan?
	You know, are you going to bring a coalition of every Republican in the caucus together?
	Because in my view, Republicans live or die together.
	They're going to succeed or fail as a team.
	And if you have these varying factions that are killing each other, it just fits into the narrative I've often made, which is Republicans, they create circular firing squads.
	Conservatives do the same thing.
	And Democrats, they circle the wagons.
	And I think it was unnecessary.
	I think they could have been better prepared.
	And because if they were united, let's say if they passed the 12 appropriations bills and they were united, they could stand strong.
	And then when they went to conference with the Senate, they'd come from a position of strength.
	And now you've got a couple of Republicans openly threatening to partner with the Democrats and get a clean CR.
	And that ends all opportunity to get money for the border, all opportunity to bring fiscal restraints to Washington.
	It just all goes away.
	And to me, it's just poorly thought out on every level.
	And it's frustrating to me.
	Now, if the government shuts down, the government's going to shut down.
	Essential services continue the military.
	They'll keep defending us.
	Social Security checks will go out.
	Medicare payments will be made, et cetera, et cetera.
	Veterans benefits, they'll be paid as well.
	Hospitals will be funded.
	But, you know, how long this goes on, I don't know.
	Who gets the blame?
	Well, frankly, they all do.
	And this was an opportunity for the Republicans to unite behind a number of very key things that they promised and wanted.
	And that is to secure the border.
	That would be to restrain government spending.
	Joe Biden gave us $2 trillion last year alone, now a record $33 trillion.
	And I think they have the high road on the issue, except that they lose the high road by not doing their job.
	Do you think that the money that Joe Biden wants to give to Ukraine, the $325 million, does that have anything to do with this?
	Well, I mean, that would be part of the discussion for sure, especially when they went to conference, you know, $500 million of which I believe they want to allocate towards green energy initiatives inside of Ukraine.
	I can't think of anything dumber.
	Look, there is a reason why conservative support for Ukraine has dissipated almost completely at this point.
	And Joe Biden deserves all the credit for this because of, remember, he, oh, we can't use cluster bombs.
	Oh, now finally, this late into the conflict, he's supporting cluster bombs.
	Wouldn't support fighter jets when Poland offered 28 MiGs.
	He vetoed that.
	Europe doesn't pay their fair share.
	And Joe Biden and Democrats, you know, they never fought a war to win a war.
	In other words, everybody should have been all in to win.
	It should have been a European-led effort.
	The U.S. could have helped, but they had to fight to win.
	Now it's becoming our worst nightmare, another long, protracted foreign conflict with endless open check, check's amount of money.
	Why would Europe as a continent unite to protect their continent when, oh, the U.S. will be stupid enough to pay it all?
	That's got to stop.
	We can't afford it.
	That's got to stop.
	And I will say this.
	I say unequivocally, Putin is evil.
	What he has done targeting innocent men, women, children, neighborhoods, apartment complexes, residential neighborhoods, what he has done to destroy this country's infrastructure, you know, it's just pure evil.
	But if you're going to fight evil like Trump fought the caliphate, you beat them.
	That's how I look at it.
	Your thoughts?
	That's the way I think, too.
	I mean, I think that, I mean, I think we shouldn't have even gotten involved.
	I mean, we don't have any stake in the game.
	I mean, what are we getting out of the deal?
	Look, do I think it's in the world's interest, you know, that Vladimir Putin?
	I've been hoping from the beginning, maybe somebody close to him sees what's going on and recognizes that the Russian people aren't really supporting us.
	We've seen that before.
	Progozhin was pretty indicative of where the Russian people are.
	You know, when he was, you know, having a draft and all these, you know, men that were scheduled to be drafted show up at the border leaving the country, I think that shows a lack of support for the conflict.
	They're like, no way, I'm not doing this.
	What we've been able to pick up in terms of intelligence, Russian troops fighting, been pretty clear also.
	They can't stand being there or doing this.
	So I think it's pretty clear.
	All right, quick break right back to our phones.
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	800-941-Sean is our number.
	Todd in the free state of Florida.
	Todd, how are you?
	Fine.
	Thank you for taking my call, Sean.
	Yes, sir.
	One-time listener.
	I want to know, want to ask both candidates that one question that you want the answer to.
	There's way more than one.
	I mean, I felt that.
	Oh, yeah, we could be here all day with all the questions, but there's got to be that one question that you really, I mean, you've touched Kevin on certain things and he kind of went around answering because he doesn't want to answer because, you know, there's certain things he won't answer, like a running mate.
	Is he running in the first place?
	Stuff like that.
	But what's that one deep question that you want to ask that you want the answer to?
	I can't reduce it to one.
	I mean, I want to talk about their energy philosophy.
	I want to talk about law and order.
	I want to talk about sanctuary state versus non-sanctuary state.
	I want to talk about no state income tax versus the highest state income tax.
	All of these.
	We've never been at a point.
	I don't know how you reconcile securing the borders and sanctuary state status.
	How do you reconcile?
	Where's the middle ground?
	There is none.
	Where do you reconcile energy independence versus Green New Dealism and climate alarmism that is costing us a fortune and putting us at a decided and expensive economic disadvantage?
	How do you justify defund dismantled police versus the belief in law and order?
	I don't know.
	However, you got two of the most prominent governors.
	That's why I'm calling it Red State, Blue State, because this is two of our biggest states, two of our most prominent governors.
	And I think for them to discuss their governing philosophy and approach to governance, I think it's going to be very beneficial.
	I think it's going to be eye-opening for many people.
	And by the way, this is their debate.
	People say, Hannity, you're going to involve.
	No, I'm not.
	I'm going to let them debate the issues, not me.
	I'm letting them have their say.
	Anyway, appreciate the call, my friend.
	800-941-Sean, our number.
	You want to be a part of the program.
	By the way, Lindsay, what's your latest Mantis X score?
	Do you remember?
	87.
	Pretty good.
	I'll tell you what, considering I started at 9.
	Anything's up from 9.
	By the way, let me explain what Mantis X is.
	Look, you can do a majority, the best shooters in the world do a majority of their training doing what's called dry fire practice at home.
	And what Mantis X is, it's a firearms training system.
	It's fun to use on top of everything else.
	No ammo at all, all electronic in terms of the way to practice, improve your shooting accuracy.
	You attach it to your firearm, you connect it to your iPhone, and you're good to go.
	And yeah, Linda couldn't hit the side of a barn.
	It really was that bad.
	I can't even believe it was that bad.
	But she, to her credit, has practiced.
	And like 94% of other shooters, she improved within 20 minutes using the military-grade technology of Mantis X. That's why our Marine Corps, our Army, our Special Forces, that's why they use it.
	Military-grade technology and the best part at an affordable price and it's fun to use.
	It'll improve your shooting dramatically.
	What was my score, Linda, my first time I tried it?
	I know, I know, 100.
	Congratulations.
	Yeah, I'm just checking.
	I just thought, just seeing if you remember.
	Yeah, you're not competitive at all.
	No.
	Anyway, you're going to love this.
	This is a great trading system.
	And you know what?
	It helps you be a more responsible Second Amendment supporter.
	Anyway, go to their website, mantisx.com, M-A-N-T-I-S-X dot com.
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