August 27, 2025 • 42 mins
This is the full show for August 26, 2025. We ask the American Mamas about Taylor Swift’s engagement. We Dig Deep into how the Big Beautiful Bill stripped money from Planned Parenthood. Plus, people are sharing how they would fix Cracker Barrel, and their suggestions are a Bright Spot. And we finish off with some words of wisdom about family that will make you say, “Whoa!”
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 1 (01:01):
This is American Ground Radio, Stephen Povd, Lewis sar evalon.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
So the news out of Maryland right now is enough
to make your head spin. A federal judge, yes, one
that is appointed by the president, and this particular federal
judge was appointed by President Donald Trump himself. Okay, but
this judge has tossed out a lawsuit filed by the
Trump Department of Justice. Oh well, the Department of Justice.
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The DOJ had filed a lawsuit against every single judge
on the US District Court for the District of Maryland, Okay,
and you may say, why why did the DOJ sue
every single judge?
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Wait a minute, Wait minute, A judge of Maryland toss
this out, well, tossed out? Well, back up, The Department
of Justice sues every judge in Maryland sue judge of
Maryland tossed the case. Doesn't that seem to be a
little bit of a conflict of interest to you?
Speaker 4 (01:55):
Possibly, possibly we get to that. So here's the story
here of why. So these judges, in their infinite bureaucratic wisdom,
decided to implement a blanket order, all of them, a
blanket order. They all signed a blanket order that slows
down deportations. So they put a blanket pause on deportations
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of illegal immigrants two days automatically. So if an illegal immigrant,
let me explain this just a little bit more sure, so,
if an illegal immigrant files a habeas corpus petition, doesn't matter,
the circumstances, doesn't matter. If the petition is frivolous, doesn't matter.
If the illegal has already been ordered to be deported
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sometimes years ago. Okay, no matter, doesn't matter. File the paperwork,
and boom, you get a two day pause. Okay, and
the DOJ said, hold on a second, this is ridiculous.
So they filed a lawsuit to challenge it. And now
Judge Thomas Collins steps in and says, sorry, DOJ, lawsuit
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is tossed. The case can't even go forward. Why is
that because they said that it is judicial excuse me,
that it is executive branch over each basically.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
How so that that? Because can you name another entire
he said, He said, panel that's done something like this,
and this seems completely out of the norm.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
Well, he waxed poetic so to speak about the Constitution's framers,
and he he said that basically, in their wisdom, the
constitutions framers joined three coordinate branches to establish a single
sovereign by mediating these disputes or by mediating those disputes
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must occur in a manner that respects the judiciary's constitutional
constitutional role.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
So basically, we also respect the executive absolutely. And don't
you have the judiciary deciding on what the judiciary's constitutional
role is?
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (04:07):
No, no, this is unconscionable. It is the very what
the judge did in this case is the very definition
of the judicial branch sticking its nose where it doesn't
belong where it actively undermines the Constitution. And basically they're
exercising executive authority. But yet they're the judiciary. I mean,
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that's that's just not right.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
A blanket pause on everything doesn't seem to be just.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
No, this is not constitutional balance. And he talks about that.
He waxes poetically about you know, constitutional balance and three
branches of government, et cetera.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
I get all that, but this is a blanket statement.
How is how is that justice? Because every case is different,
every person is different. So if you're just going to
do a blanket statement as a judicial rule, not even
taking into account the particulars of any individual case, how
is that the Justice Department, the judicial branch doing justice?
Speaker 4 (05:11):
It's not. And the court, the United States Supreme Court
has already weighed in on this. And that's where this
really gets rich because you have these activist judges in
Maryland doing this blanket automatic two day stay of any deportations.
But yet they've read the opinion of Trump. The Hawaii
back in twenty eighteen, remember the so called travel banah, Well,
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the media called it Muslim ban. They were screaming about.
They were screaming at the time back in twenty eighteen
about how Trump was some dictator and what did the
Supreme Court of the United States do? You know what
they said? They said that Section two twelve of the
Immigration and Nationality Act gives the president broad authority, broad
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authority to bar entry into the United States whenever it
is detrimental to our national interest. Stop period, well, stop done.
And the presidents and the court and the United States
Supreme Court held that position. They affirmed the executive's sweeping
power on immigration. That's not speculation, that is precedent, that
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is settled law.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
But we have a whole bunch of judges right now
that are refusing to follow the Supreme Court's rulings. Actually,
there was one that the ruling that just came back
down again this last week. I think it was a
Leito who went on and said, you know, a judge
is allowed to disagree with our conclusions, they are not
allowed to disobey. And what you have now are judges,
activist judges, not just disagreeing with the Supreme Court president,
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but disobeying recent rulings from the Supreme Court that state.
And there's a number of cases in Texas last year,
not last year, twenty twenty three, the Supreme Court affirmed
the executative branches discretion with respect to immigration enforcement. And
so when these judges in Maryland put this blanket order
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pausing deportations, what are they doing? You know what?
Speaker 4 (07:11):
They're effectively saying, we don't care what the law says,
we don't care what the United States Supreme Court says.
We're going to rewrite immigration informant enforcement from the bench.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Right, that is sabotaging, because there's not a law that
says there's a blanket to day pause. That's not a
law that's been passed by Congress and signed by the
President or passed by Congress and overwriting a president r veto.
That is not a law.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
And look, if you can have judges doing this indefinitely
by inventing new rules with respect to in this particular matter, deportations,
all I.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Have to do is just file that paperwork every other day.
I'm good.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
Then the executive branch basically loses its ability to control immigration.
And the constitution provides the executive branch provides the President
of the United States.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
That's right, But there are so many people that are
in black robes sitting on the bench that don't like
what Donald Trump's doing, and so they make rulings from
the bench not based on the letter of the law,
not based on precedent from the Supreme Court, but based
on Donald trump hatred. They hate what Donald Trump's doing,
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and so they want to stop it. In any justification
they can come up with for stopping it they do.
That's not justice. That's not in partiality. That you know,
we have that statue of justice. Lady Justice, right, she's blindfolded,
and she's blindfolded not so that she doesn't see the truth,
but so that her own bias doesn't determine whether something
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is just or unjust, whether something is right or wrong.
Justice is supposed to be blind to the person and
seeing the law.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
But here's the bottom line to all of this. This
isn't just about a two day deportation pause in Maryland.
This isn't about a lawsuit. This is about whether America
remains a constitutional republic or whether we devolve into this
government by judicial decree.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Let's get to the top three things you need no
before tomorrow. First thing you need know before President Trump
fired a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors today,
Lisa Cook has been accused of mortgage fraud by securing
mortgages in two different states, claiming that each home she
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was buying was her primary residence. At the same time,
Trump sent a letter to Cook saying the American people
will must be able to have full confidence in the
honesty of members entrusted with setting policy and overseeing the
Federal Reserve. I do not have such confidence in your integrity.
Cook responded by saying she was not leaving. She said quote,
I will not resign. I will continue to carry out
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my duties to help the American economy as I have
been doing since twenty twenty two.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
Have they contacted Letitia James for comment this matter, because
I think she would have a lot to weigh in on.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Well. I think she would agree with the miss Cook
since she's accused of doing the exact same thing, just
in two different states. Second thing in Needo. Before while
the Cincinnati Fraternal Order of Police passed a unanimous no
confidence vote against current mayor aftab Perroval. This comes after
an attack by a mob against a white man and
woman in downtown Cincinnati went viral earlier this month. After
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that attack, the Democrat mayor ordered the police to file
misdemeanor charges against the victim of the assault for disorderly conduct.
The Fraternal Order of Police released the statement saying the
reasons for the no confidence vote included quote the mayor's
inability to address situations quickly demonstrated by his three day
delay in commenting on the Elm Street riot, leaving officers
and the community in limbo. The statement added, deciding to
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push politics into the justice system is unforgivable. Perval is
running for reelection this fall against Republican Corey Bowman.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
And it makes a tremendous difference when the leader, the chief,
the mayor of the city, Sir, has the backs of
our men and women in blues.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
And the third thing, and you know before tomorrow. A
judge in Utah has ordered the state legislature to redraw
the state's congressional districts. Judge Diana Gibson issued a seventy
six page order declaring the current congressional map, passed after
the twenty twenty census illegally benefits Republicans and demanded the
state legislature pass the new map by the end of September.
Utah passed a statewide proposition in twenty eighteen requiring congressional
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maps to be drawn by an independent commission, but the
state legislature later passed laws limiting the power of that commission.
The twenty twenty maps were drawn by the legislature and
not the commission. The legislature intends to appeal the ruling,
setting up another court battle over redistricting before the twenty
twenty six midterms.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
Boy Tay, this registricting issue all across the country is
a mess.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
It is because it's all about power, and under Eric Holder,
the Democrat Party has weaponized redistricting and that's why this
fight's continuing to go on.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
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Speaker 1 (13:12):
Welcome back to American Ground Radium. Stephen Palmer the wist.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
Well, I have to tell you there are some stories
that go beyond business. Okay, they go beyond branding, they
go beyond marketing. They tap right into the soul of
our country. And I think that is what that is
what has happened here with Cracker Barrel. And it's remarkable
that President Trump actually has made Cracker Barrel great again.
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And the reason that I say that, hold on, all right,
Cracker Barrel has just announced that they are doing a
way with the new logo. They're going back to the
old logo.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Good, But that doesn't solve the problem. The logo wasn't
the problem. The logo was the symptom of the problem.
The problem was Cracker Barrel's executive team thought the logo
needed to change, and the way they thought the logo
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needed to change was to remove all of the nostalgia,
to remove all of the humanity from the logo and
turn it into something sterile and generic. Now, if that's
what you think the symbol of your company should be,
when your company is cracker barrel, then what that means is,
not only do you not understand who your company is,
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but you don't understand who your customers.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
But you know what, and there are bigger issues, that's
the bigger But there are bigger issues in the world
to worry about than a logo for a restaurant. Sure,
and I know I brought it up. It's a symptom
of the problem. It is a symptom of a problem.
But at the same time, it could just be a
very honest mistake. Because look, have you ever decluttered your home?
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Have you ever don he cluttered your home? Have you
ever decided, you know what, we're gonna paint this room
a different color. Okay, we're gonna buy a new carpet,
We're gonna get new furniture. Sure, we're going to change
the look of things just to keep it fresh.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Okay, that's a legitimate I mean I don't have done that,
but okay, but there's a.
Speaker 4 (15:19):
Lot of people listening right now. They've get just that
it's just.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
To keep it cuts, okay, declutter one thing, just to
keep it fresh, to keep it.
Speaker 4 (15:25):
Fresh, maybe to change the look of things. Okay, And
you do it and then you're like, I kind of
like it the other way.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
I get that, but that's with your home. Your home
is not to serve other people so that you make
money off of that. So no, if I if I
changed the look in my home and I'm like, man,
I don't like it, who else bothered me?
Speaker 4 (15:46):
It was a mistake. But the point they've admitted it
and they've reckoned, they've listened to their customers, and the
new logo goes and the old logo stays.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Yeah, but they're still going to have to win back
the trust. And that's where I think their biggest problem is.
We got a question for our American mamas. Dear mamas,
have you heard about the engagement heard around the.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
World, Well, let's ask our American mama's am ma.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
And joining us now our American mama's Terry Nederville and
Kimberly Burlison. I have to admit I had not. I
saw this question and I look at y all and
I go, what engage, What are we talking about here?
Speaker 7 (16:32):
The biggest news this country, this world's ever heard.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Oh, come on, heard around the world.
Speaker 7 (16:39):
Taylor Swift and Jason No, Travis Kelsey are officially okay.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
If it had been somebody other than Travis, I.
Speaker 7 (16:46):
Think, you know, it's so funny because we are in
Truthport and we're doing a big clinic right now with
our sister two hundred teenagers. We just fed them. They're
all in the room, they're eating their Chick fil A
and suddenly we hear this roar of cheers and swills,
and Lindsay turns on Taylor Swift. Everybody just got the
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news and it was literally as if Princess Diana. Just
just the excitement. Everybody's been posting on it, putting it
in their story. Terry and I are talking about it
because I wouldn't say that we're like big swifties, you know,
big Taylor Swift fans, but to see something so sweet
happened to her finally, right, I'm so happy for her.
Speaker 8 (17:27):
You know, It's so funny because I you know, I've
often said because she she is a bona fide star,
the star of.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
She's the biggest star of this last decade for sure.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
Yes, and from.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Me, I was talking to Lewis about this on the
show last week. But from a music business standpoint, she
was able to do things that even the Beatles weren't
able to do, which was to regain control of her
entire catalog. From a business standpoint, yeah, that is That
is just a tremendous thing for someone to come from nothing,
to be able to be messed over by the industry,
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to figure that out and then figure out how to
gain power back. Yeah, I don't care who you are.
That's an amazing story.
Speaker 8 (18:07):
That's such a well, it's amazing that she went from
country yes to pop yes, because a lot of people
thought that was a terrible business move. Well, it turned
out to be the greatest movie in the world because
her country, her country fans still followed her into pop
and she just you know, she's a billionaire.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Well, there's lots of other country stars that have tried
that transition over into pop, you know, Lady Antebellum's one
of those, right, Even Dolly, she's still primarily a country star.
She had a couple of pop hits, but she I
don't think you necessarily say she ever became the pop superstar,
right she's.
Speaker 8 (18:41):
I would set. Yeah, you're talking about nine to.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
Five and all this.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Yeah, I mean only country and.
Speaker 8 (18:45):
She loves it bluegrass and all that. But yeah, and
the thing about her that's so great is she can
move over there. But usually she's with another star, another
pop right star. Yeah, and they sing together. I will
say this A lot of people, you know, I all
loved her, girls loved her when they were growing up.
The tide turned a little bit when she got political. Yep,
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when she tried to tell people if you remember, everybody
that she has campaigned for, rooted for, said she was
voting for every one of them have lost. So that
is like I want to say to her, just stay
out of that political lane and you have everybody cheering
for you. With that being said, I am so happy
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for her right now because she now at thirty five,
has that dream that she's been singing about for the
last fifteen years, right.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Because we've gotten here basically, what's happened with every single
relationship she's happen.
Speaker 7 (19:37):
Well, it tells you you can be so popular, you
can have everything all the money in the world, but
all you really want is love with that one person.
You want love, You want your own little family. That's
all we really want, even if we have everything in
the world. That's number one.
Speaker 8 (19:51):
You know, it's so cute. She was telling the story
on some podcast. Actually it was Jason and Travis's Podcash.
She was actually telling the story. She was saying to Jason, Yeah,
you know, I was at a concert, at one of
my concerts, and you know, most people will go through
my people and say, hey, my person wants to meet Taylor,
will have a VIP, you know, meet and greet or whatever.
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She said, No, Travis just walked in. He didn't have
any kind of you know, there was literally no VIP meeting.
He just got the word out, like, hey, how can
I see Taylor? How can I meet her? And then
he said give her my bracelet because she apparently she
switches bracelets or extra at her concerts.
Speaker 7 (20:29):
You friendship, racist.
Speaker 8 (20:30):
Friendship, bracelest you around, and so she said. She was
so endearing, like he didn't have the key to the city.
He was just one football player saying I want to
meet that girl. And she loved it. Every girl wants
to feel like they're being chased, and when it's by
somebody that's masculine, you know, stud athlete, good looking. I
was telling Carmly, their kids are gonna beautiful.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Most likely, yes, tall and beautiful.
Speaker 8 (20:55):
But I think everybody's so happy. It's like, in fact,
I saw on Facebook somebody said it said dot dot
and the whole world smiled and everybody knew what she
was talking about.
Speaker 7 (21:04):
That's how I feel.
Speaker 8 (21:06):
I'm happy for her.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
And again, I do think that there are some people
who turned away from Taylor because she got political.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
Yea.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
And even just last week, James Comy was talking about, oh.
Speaker 8 (21:17):
Gosh, crazy should have gotten cringe.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
How much he feels calmed by by Taylor Swift music
and that makes people mad.
Speaker 8 (21:25):
To you who said that, James James Comy, the FBI,
the former FB correct me. It was so weird. He started,
he started quoting her lyrics and it was the most
cry It was the cringiest thing I have ever heard.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
I was watching.
Speaker 8 (21:38):
I watched it twice and both times I was like, whoa,
you know how you lift your sweater up over your
mouth and your pa stopped talking. He's strange to me now.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
And yeah, If she stays out of politics, I think
people will root for her. But as she gets into politics,
it divides her. It divides the number of people who
want to root for her. If you liked ask our
American Mamas a question good or our website American ground Radio
dot com, slash mamas and click on the ask the
MoMA's button, turn out of Kimberly Brothers and thank you
so much and coming up next to your On American
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sar Evaloni.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
You know this one is priceless. It's almost too rich
to believe. But Snoop Dogg, Yes, that's Snoop Dogg, the
King of gangsta rap, the man whose music has glorified
drugs and sex and violence and every obscenity under the
sun for what thirty years. Now, sure he is finally
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found something in pop culture that offends him.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
You know what it is, Disney.
Speaker 4 (23:25):
Well it's a same sex kiss scene in Disney's light Year.
So Snoop is watching light Year with his grandson and
he's expecting buzz light Year, you know, to Infinity and beyond,
you know, some animated space fund. Sure, instead he gets
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blindsided with Disney's latest. Look how progressive we are, and
then they insert this same sex, same sex kiss scene
in the middle of a kid's movie. And his reaction is,
I didn't come in for this. Well, it's I didn't
come in to watch this movie like this gd movie.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
His grandson was then saying, wait a minute, there's two
moms and a baby. How did the two moms have
that baby. That's not how that works. And he didn't
want to have to explain what was going on with
a same sex marriage to a five year old.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
This is this is just classic, just selfishness and narcissism.
He has made millions of dollars off of the obscenities,
and he's contributed to a culture that has been devoid
of values of faith, of anything.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
Mote, lots of drug use and things like that, and.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
Now all of a sudden that it affects him right now, now,
this is ridiculous. Yes, Snoop, Yes, Snoop. Okay, maybe the
folks that have not necessarily enjoyed the content of your
artistry or filth, whatever you want to fill in the blank,
that's what they've been talking about all these years, and
you've contributed to that. Yes, now, I'm not shaming folks
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that listen to him, you know what, you're grown adults.
That's fine, But it's not just adults listening to Snoop Dogg.
That that's true impressionable young minds. By the same token,
Show me a young man who's not a liberal, and
I'll show you I don't want to hear that day.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
But show me an old man who's not a conservative,
and I'll show you a man with no brain. Maybe
Snoop Dogg is getting a brain here, and he's starting
to finally see some things in a different way than
what he could have seen or would have seen when
he was younger.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
So now he's concerned about what children see. His grandchildren
least see. I mean, but that's what grandchildren do.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
To you.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
They will change your perspective on the world. That's a
good thing. It's why children are blessing from God, because
they will change your view on the world, and they
will make you less selfish.
Speaker 4 (25:55):
You know what. I'm not giving Snoop a pass on
this that he's so enlightened person. I'm not saying he's culpable.
I think he is culpable in what he is watching. Yes,
it's been a part of that culture, but.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Isn't it long? But isn't it good that he finally
sees it? Can't you celebrate that part of it.
Speaker 4 (26:14):
I'll go there with you.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
That's fine, let's dig deep.
Speaker 7 (26:19):
Going down, down down.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
So last year, Planned Parenthood announced they had performed a
record number of abortions. They bragged about it in their
annual reports, which they unironically named a Force for Hope.
I'm not sure how you can be a force for
hope when your main job is to end human being's
hope of living. But maybe I'm missing something. Anyway. They
performed four hundred two two and thirty abortions last year alone.
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That was up from three hundred ninety two thousand, seven
hundred and fifteen abortions the year before. You canbine those numbers.
That's larger than the populations of Wyoming, Vermont, Alaska, or
North Dakota in just two years. That's how many human
beings they killed in just two years.
Speaker 4 (27:06):
Just abhorrent, absolutely abhorrent.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
So if Planned Parenthood doing record business, you'd think they'd
be making record profits, right, Well, you'd be wrong. Planned
Parenthood's financial situation this year is so bad that they
have had to close dozens of locations across the country.
Five Planned Parenthood clinics in California have closed, four have
closed in each of Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, and Minnesota, two
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have closed in Louisiana, Ohio, Texas, and Utah, and one
has closed in Indiana, New York, and Vermont. And another
nine are expected to close across the country very soon.
So earlier this year, Planned Parenthood said nearly two thirds
of all of its clinics were at risk of closing.
We're talking a couple hundred now, all right, two thirds
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of them are at risk of closing. Plant Parenthood said
no other provider can step in and replace the care
that Planned Parenthood provides to the millions of patients who
could lose access to care. Stripping these communities of access
to affordable health services like birth control SDI testing, and
cancer screenings is not just bad policy, it's reckless, okay,
But there are lots of other clinics that provide the
(28:17):
things Planned Parenthood listed. You can get birth control in
the grocery store or in any gas station in America.
Marjorie dansfels Or, the president of Susan b Anthony Pro
Life America says women are ready go to community health
centers that provide much more comprehensive care and are much
more accessible, outnumbering Planned Parenthood fifteen to one nationwide. So
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they're saying all the care that we're shutting down. You
can't get STD testing, you can't get breast cancer screenings,
you can't get birth control. That's nonsense. There are lots
of other places that provide those services.
Speaker 4 (28:51):
Well, they said, right, but they claimed all along that
three percent of what they did was abortion and that
the rest was all of that healthcare you were just describing, right, So.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
That makes a big question here. Why is Planned Parenthood
in such financial distress.
Speaker 4 (29:10):
If ninety seven percent of their business.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
Was an abortion and most of the places where they
actually mentioned they were shutting down clinics are in states
where abortions legal, So this isn't about outlawing abortion. The
One Big Beautiful Bill, the One Big Beautiful Bill strips
away Medicaid money from Planned Parenthood because they provide abortions.
(29:33):
Twenty five percent of Planned Parenthood's income comes from the
federal government from medicaid payments. If you can't survive, by
the way, if you can't survive without government money, are
you really a non governmental organization?
Speaker 4 (29:45):
But I think Planned Parenthood has always been a political
operation for decades.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
I agree.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
I mean, I don't think it it's not just obviously
wasn't just about abortions. It was about fueling the Democratic Party.
Is about providing campaign cash, mobilizing activists, and.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
It's gotten more so over the last couple of over
the last twenty years.
Speaker 4 (30:06):
Yeah, and also I think they used Planned Parenthood, that
the Democrats did as a way of keeping the abortion
issue alive as a political weapon.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Well, this also proves the point that Planned Parenthood was
performing abortions with government money. They said they weren't using
government money to provide the abortions because that would be
against law. But once the government started taking money away
from Planned Parenthood. They have to close clinics right and left,
and most of the states where they're closing them abortions legal,
(30:36):
so they can't afford to do the abortions without government
money coming in, even though they're doing record number of abortions.
Speaker 4 (30:44):
But they're lying to you by saying that only three
percent of their business is it's abortions. It's clearly not.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
Because what it means is the government was funding abortions,
close to half a million of them last year.
Speaker 4 (30:56):
Long, which is obviously illegal.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
Right now, they are also getting competition from online abortion mills,
so even as they're doing record amounts of abortion, they're
now getting some other competition from telehealth doctors who are
just prescribing abortion drugs online, which is tremendously dangerous. About
one in ten women who take into abortion pill end
(31:19):
up in the er with serious complications. Six percent of
women who take these abortion pills end up having to
have follow up surgery.
Speaker 4 (31:28):
And look, let's remember Planned Parenthood was founded by Margaret Sanger. Yes,
she was a eugenist. Eugenist who believed in controlling populations,
particularly poor and minority population.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
She wanted to prevent the growth of Black America, and
in New York City there are more black babies who
were aborted than are born. That's what planned parent was
all about, and they wanted to do it with government money.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
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Speaker 1 (33:10):
Welcome back to American Ground Radio. Stephen Paul with Lewis
sar Evalony.
Speaker 4 (33:14):
No, we often say that, I really there's another analogy,
but often say that the fish rots from the head, right, Yes,
And I say that in a way of explaining that
leadership starts at the top. Leadership matters, and when the
leader at the top isn't communicating the right message or
(33:35):
doesn't set the right tone, everything suffers.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
When the person in the position of authority isn't an
actual leader, a service minded leader, everything else fails.
Speaker 4 (33:46):
And I think that's biblical as well, because where there
is no vision, the people will perish.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
If you want to be the greatest, you must be
the least. So you want to be the leader, you
need to place yourself beneath the needs of the people
that you're supposed to be serving.
Speaker 4 (33:59):
So today President Trump, and again I think this is
about a message of law and order. Okay, I don't
you know, there are a lot of folks that are
not pro death penalty. I'm not, but I'm excited. But
at the same time, I am excited about President Trump
saying that he will seek the death penalty as punishment
(34:19):
for murders committed in the nation's capital. Okay, And the
reason for that is I and I know there's a
lot of folks listening right now that say, well, the
data does not indicate that the death penalty is actually
a deterrent to murders. Sure, but at the same time,
how do you really know. Here you've got the President
(34:40):
of the United States talking out loud on this huge
This World platform saying, look, anyone that is convicted of
murder in Washington, DC, you're going to die. Well, I
mean that that has to have a very chilling effect,
even those folks perhaps on the margin they're thinking about
(35:03):
doing something violent that might result in the murder of someone.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
The problem with that idea is that the people committing
murders would have to think that they would get caught,
because if you don't get caught, you don't get the
death pany But I think he's already established the foundation
for that's that's what's more important. Making sure that people
who want to commit crime know they're going to get caught. Now,
that's a deterrent. But if if you are able to
(35:28):
get away with if you're able, if you're you're closing
case rate of murders in Washington, DC or for example,
New Orleans, it's like, what of the cases that they close,
and then the DA drops another forty percent. So your
odds of getting away with the crime in New Orleans
are better than average. Right, It's so you don't there
is no deterrent there to try and do a crime,
(35:49):
because nobody thinks you're going to get caught. But if
you start going, eighty ninety percent of people committing crimes
are going to jail and staying in jail.
Speaker 4 (35:57):
Now that's a deterrement, and then may face the death penalty.
Those two then it becomes an attorney. Those two things
have to work hand in hand.
Speaker 1 (36:04):
Let's get to a bride spot.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
I'm doing all right, getting good grades, so.
Speaker 4 (36:12):
I got shame.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
Well. Ever since the corporate bosses at Cracker Barrel decided
to change their decorps inside the restaurants and change the
logos on the outside, the stock price has been plumbing.
We've been talking about this a couple times during the
day today. One of the things the people were saying, Look,
these are not changes we asked for. Nobody asked you
to change the day corps. Nobody asked you to change
the logo. Right, Well, the good folks on the internet
(36:37):
decided to help out the people at Cracker Barrel, and
what they're now doing is they're trying to tell Cracker Barrel.
Since you guys didn't ask us what we wanted before
you change the logo, let us tell you what we
want now. And if you'll implement these changes, maybe you
can save Cracker Barrel. There's one of the things that
the trend that's going around online what would you do
(36:58):
to save Cracker Barrel? And the people have been putting
out some good ideas. I think these are great ideas.
You want to hear some of these? Okay, sure, all right?
How about this suggestion? Basically you can you can put
this into four categories, family, faith, food, and fun. That's
what the people online are saying. With the four categories,
you need to focus on family, food, faith, and fun. Right, okay? Family,
(37:18):
kids who say yes ma'am eat free on Sundays. I
love that idea. You bring your kid into Cracker Barrel
and the kids got good manners. Boom, kids eat free
on Sundays.
Speaker 2 (37:29):
All right?
Speaker 1 (37:29):
How about this? Families with four or more kids get
free cobbler on the house. You talk about all the time,
we need to be making more babies. Well, if you're
a cracker barrel. You're a traditional store, right, why not
reward families that have been making some babies.
Speaker 4 (37:41):
So now a cracker barrel will be an aphrodisiac.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
Apparently about families with three or more kids with both
parents showing up get a twenty percent discount. If you're
gonna encourage families to come to Cracker Barrel together and
spend family time at Cracker Barrel, and you're gonna give
them a discount for doing that. You know what?
Speaker 4 (37:57):
This is getting a little uncomfortable for me because look,
this is the management of Cracker Barrel needs to run
Cracker Barrel like they want to, Okay, And for us
to start talking about changing up you know, incentives and
this and that and the other, I mean that that
(38:18):
to me. I just know.
Speaker 1 (38:20):
The point is the management of Cracker Barrell has no
idea who their customers are.
Speaker 4 (38:23):
Okay, but that's their problem then.
Speaker 1 (38:25):
Yes, and this is how you fix it, I mean,
and the.
Speaker 4 (38:27):
Customer of the logo. The part about the logo that
I found offensive, huh, was that it was it was
something that was historic. It was something that was I
say historic, it was something that was nostalgic, right, and
and we've seen so much in corporate America of folks
just kind of wanting to erase our past, erase our history, right,
(38:47):
and and undue family culture that the family values that
are the underpinnings of what makes America great.
Speaker 1 (38:55):
So why are you uncomfortable with all this?
Speaker 4 (38:56):
Because this is people say you gotta get back Now
we're getting into now, we're getting into like strategy and
business planning and marketing.
Speaker 5 (39:04):
But yes, because this is your customer base telling you
what your customer base actually. Let me give you an example,
and so maybe you should listen to the people who
wanted to buy your food rather than some left wing
corporate nuts.
Speaker 4 (39:14):
Let me give you an example Apple, Right. Once upon
a time, Apple was a near bankrupt computer company. Yes,
nobody cared. Then they rebranded right, and they went away
with the page boxes, and then they came in with
the Imax and the iPods and then the iPhones. And
my point there is they they restyled themselves.
Speaker 1 (39:34):
Yes, and they're wild.
Speaker 4 (39:34):
They're they're one of the most to make valuable companies
on the planet, to make.
Speaker 1 (39:39):
Things people actually wanted, the things their customers actually wanted.
That's the point of this is that Cracker Barrel was
doing something their customers didn't want because they don't know
who the hell their customers are now their customers are
trying to tell them. And I think that's a bright spot.
And these were all good suggestions that we didn't get
a time to get to. We'll be back.
Speaker 2 (39:56):
You're listening to American Ground Radio.
Speaker 4 (40:11):
Welcome back to American Ground Radio, Stephen power Lewis, I
get it, Fried Okra at Cracker Barrel is going to
be the same ten years from today. So it's not
like it's not it's not a tech deal like you know,
Steve Jobs often said that if you wait for what
the customer wants today right, what the customer tells you
(40:32):
he or she wants today too late. You need to
be thinking about things that they haven't even thought about. Yes,
and I'm just saying.
Speaker 1 (40:39):
But that's good if you're apple that's not good if
you're making apple pie apple pie. I don't need the
newest thing in apple pie. I want the apple pie
that I grew up with that was delicious, that that
brings me back.
Speaker 4 (40:53):
Okay, So what were some of these other examples that
our advice that customers had for Cracker Barrel.
Speaker 1 (40:58):
You have a hymn book on it every table, an
old fashioned hymn book. How about a real butter Only
if I catch Margine in the kitchen, someone's fired and
it gets back to Maha. How about this Civil War
trivia nights you do?
Speaker 4 (41:14):
I don't know about that one.
Speaker 1 (41:15):
You bring in American History trivia night, right? Or you
bring in a blue grass you start playing bluegrass after
six pm fiddle player on Friday nights. The whole point
of this is if you sell nostalgia as your environment,
as your because because again you can chicken fried steak,
you can get that anywhere. People will go to Crackerberil
for the nostalgia. That's what you gotta say, you know.
Speaker 4 (41:36):
And what's exciting is these customers care so much about
the brand that they're willing to share their suggestions.
Speaker 1 (41:42):
That's right. And hopefully Cracker Barrel doesn't say.
Speaker 4 (41:45):
Whoa When I say whoa, ah, I mean wow. All right.
Speaker 1 (41:55):
We were talking about family and family restaurants catering to families,
that type of thing. So here are some words of
wisdom about out the importance of family. Pope John the
twenty third said the family is the first essential cell
of human society George Bernard Shaw. A happy family is
but an earlier heaven. Michael J.
Speaker 4 (42:12):
Fox.
Speaker 1 (42:13):
Family is not an important thing, it's everything. And Lee
Ayacocca the only rock I know that stays steady. The
only institution I know that works is the family.
Speaker 4 (42:24):
And that's true, and it's come under attack far, far
too often. In this country.
Speaker 1 (42:30):
All of society is built on it. If our families
aren't strong, our nation won't be either. May your pursuit
of happiness bring you, George
It's available. Now we know what official favors sweeters are for.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Trulyum base died.
Speaker 3 (00:06):
It's all natural and it's harvested on American ground fields.
Speaker 4 (00:09):
It's table.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
You are making America Smartigan's baby.
Speaker 5 (00:18):
We choose to go to the moon and do the
other thing, not because they are easy, but because they
are on.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
It is time for us to realize that we're too
great a nation to limit ourselves to small dreams.
Speaker 6 (00:33):
I have a dream that one day this nation will
rise up, live out the true meaning of its creed.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
American Ground Radio with Lewis r Avalonee and Stephen prok.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
Boo.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
This is American Ground Radio, Stephen Povd, Lewis sar evalon.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
So the news out of Maryland right now is enough
to make your head spin. A federal judge, yes, one
that is appointed by the president, and this particular federal
judge was appointed by President Donald Trump himself. Okay, but
this judge has tossed out a lawsuit filed by the
Trump Department of Justice. Oh well, the Department of Justice.
(01:26):
The DOJ had filed a lawsuit against every single judge
on the US District Court for the District of Maryland, Okay,
and you may say, why why did the DOJ sue
every single judge?
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Wait a minute, Wait minute, A judge of Maryland toss
this out, well, tossed out? Well, back up, The Department
of Justice sues every judge in Maryland sue judge of
Maryland tossed the case. Doesn't that seem to be a
little bit of a conflict of interest to you?
Speaker 4 (01:55):
Possibly, possibly we get to that. So here's the story
here of why. So these judges, in their infinite bureaucratic wisdom,
decided to implement a blanket order, all of them, a
blanket order. They all signed a blanket order that slows
down deportations. So they put a blanket pause on deportations
(02:20):
of illegal immigrants two days automatically. So if an illegal immigrant,
let me explain this just a little bit more sure, so,
if an illegal immigrant files a habeas corpus petition, doesn't matter,
the circumstances, doesn't matter. If the petition is frivolous, doesn't matter.
If the illegal has already been ordered to be deported
(02:40):
sometimes years ago. Okay, no matter, doesn't matter. File the paperwork,
and boom, you get a two day pause. Okay, and
the DOJ said, hold on a second, this is ridiculous.
So they filed a lawsuit to challenge it. And now
Judge Thomas Collins steps in and says, sorry, DOJ, lawsuit
(03:01):
is tossed. The case can't even go forward. Why is
that because they said that it is judicial excuse me,
that it is executive branch over each basically.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
How so that that? Because can you name another entire
he said, He said, panel that's done something like this,
and this seems completely out of the norm.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
Well, he waxed poetic so to speak about the Constitution's framers,
and he he said that basically, in their wisdom, the
constitutions framers joined three coordinate branches to establish a single
sovereign by mediating these disputes or by mediating those disputes
(03:50):
must occur in a manner that respects the judiciary's constitutional
constitutional role.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
So basically, we also respect the executive absolutely. And don't
you have the judiciary deciding on what the judiciary's constitutional
role is?
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (04:07):
No, no, this is unconscionable. It is the very what
the judge did in this case is the very definition
of the judicial branch sticking its nose where it doesn't
belong where it actively undermines the Constitution. And basically they're
exercising executive authority. But yet they're the judiciary. I mean,
(04:31):
that's that's just not right.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
A blanket pause on everything doesn't seem to be just.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
No, this is not constitutional balance. And he talks about that.
He waxes poetically about you know, constitutional balance and three
branches of government, et cetera.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
I get all that, but this is a blanket statement.
How is how is that justice? Because every case is different,
every person is different. So if you're just going to
do a blanket statement as a judicial rule, not even
taking into account the particulars of any individual case, how
is that the Justice Department, the judicial branch doing justice?
Speaker 4 (05:11):
It's not. And the court, the United States Supreme Court
has already weighed in on this. And that's where this
really gets rich because you have these activist judges in
Maryland doing this blanket automatic two day stay of any deportations.
But yet they've read the opinion of Trump. The Hawaii
back in twenty eighteen, remember the so called travel banah, Well,
(05:36):
the media called it Muslim ban. They were screaming about.
They were screaming at the time back in twenty eighteen
about how Trump was some dictator and what did the
Supreme Court of the United States do? You know what
they said? They said that Section two twelve of the
Immigration and Nationality Act gives the president broad authority, broad
(05:57):
authority to bar entry into the United States whenever it
is detrimental to our national interest. Stop period, well, stop done.
And the presidents and the court and the United States
Supreme Court held that position. They affirmed the executive's sweeping
power on immigration. That's not speculation, that is precedent, that
(06:21):
is settled law.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
But we have a whole bunch of judges right now
that are refusing to follow the Supreme Court's rulings. Actually,
there was one that the ruling that just came back
down again this last week. I think it was a
Leito who went on and said, you know, a judge
is allowed to disagree with our conclusions, they are not
allowed to disobey. And what you have now are judges,
activist judges, not just disagreeing with the Supreme Court president,
(06:45):
but disobeying recent rulings from the Supreme Court that state.
And there's a number of cases in Texas last year,
not last year, twenty twenty three, the Supreme Court affirmed
the executative branches discretion with respect to immigration enforcement. And
so when these judges in Maryland put this blanket order
(07:08):
pausing deportations, what are they doing? You know what?
Speaker 4 (07:11):
They're effectively saying, we don't care what the law says,
we don't care what the United States Supreme Court says.
We're going to rewrite immigration informant enforcement from the bench.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Right, that is sabotaging, because there's not a law that
says there's a blanket to day pause. That's not a
law that's been passed by Congress and signed by the
President or passed by Congress and overwriting a president r veto.
That is not a law.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
And look, if you can have judges doing this indefinitely
by inventing new rules with respect to in this particular matter, deportations,
all I.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Have to do is just file that paperwork every other day.
I'm good.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
Then the executive branch basically loses its ability to control immigration.
And the constitution provides the executive branch provides the President
of the United States.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
That's right, But there are so many people that are
in black robes sitting on the bench that don't like
what Donald Trump's doing, and so they make rulings from
the bench not based on the letter of the law,
not based on precedent from the Supreme Court, but based
on Donald trump hatred. They hate what Donald Trump's doing,
(08:22):
and so they want to stop it. In any justification
they can come up with for stopping it they do.
That's not justice. That's not in partiality. That you know,
we have that statue of justice. Lady Justice, right, she's blindfolded,
and she's blindfolded not so that she doesn't see the truth,
but so that her own bias doesn't determine whether something
(08:44):
is just or unjust, whether something is right or wrong.
Justice is supposed to be blind to the person and
seeing the law.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
But here's the bottom line to all of this. This
isn't just about a two day deportation pause in Maryland.
This isn't about a lawsuit. This is about whether America
remains a constitutional republic or whether we devolve into this
government by judicial decree.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Let's get to the top three things you need no
before tomorrow. First thing you need know before President Trump
fired a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors today,
Lisa Cook has been accused of mortgage fraud by securing
mortgages in two different states, claiming that each home she
(09:30):
was buying was her primary residence. At the same time,
Trump sent a letter to Cook saying the American people
will must be able to have full confidence in the
honesty of members entrusted with setting policy and overseeing the
Federal Reserve. I do not have such confidence in your integrity.
Cook responded by saying she was not leaving. She said quote,
I will not resign. I will continue to carry out
(09:52):
my duties to help the American economy as I have
been doing since twenty twenty two.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
Have they contacted Letitia James for comment this matter, because
I think she would have a lot to weigh in on.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Well. I think she would agree with the miss Cook
since she's accused of doing the exact same thing, just
in two different states. Second thing in Needo. Before while
the Cincinnati Fraternal Order of Police passed a unanimous no
confidence vote against current mayor aftab Perroval. This comes after
an attack by a mob against a white man and
woman in downtown Cincinnati went viral earlier this month. After
(10:24):
that attack, the Democrat mayor ordered the police to file
misdemeanor charges against the victim of the assault for disorderly conduct.
The Fraternal Order of Police released the statement saying the
reasons for the no confidence vote included quote the mayor's
inability to address situations quickly demonstrated by his three day
delay in commenting on the Elm Street riot, leaving officers
and the community in limbo. The statement added, deciding to
(10:47):
push politics into the justice system is unforgivable. Perval is
running for reelection this fall against Republican Corey Bowman.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
And it makes a tremendous difference when the leader, the chief,
the mayor of the city, Sir, has the backs of
our men and women in blues.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
And the third thing, and you know before tomorrow. A
judge in Utah has ordered the state legislature to redraw
the state's congressional districts. Judge Diana Gibson issued a seventy
six page order declaring the current congressional map, passed after
the twenty twenty census illegally benefits Republicans and demanded the
state legislature pass the new map by the end of September.
Utah passed a statewide proposition in twenty eighteen requiring congressional
(11:25):
maps to be drawn by an independent commission, but the
state legislature later passed laws limiting the power of that commission.
The twenty twenty maps were drawn by the legislature and
not the commission. The legislature intends to appeal the ruling,
setting up another court battle over redistricting before the twenty
twenty six midterms.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
Boy Tay, this registricting issue all across the country is
a mess.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
It is because it's all about power, and under Eric Holder,
the Democrat Party has weaponized redistricting and that's why this
fight's continuing to go on.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
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Speaker 1 (13:12):
Welcome back to American Ground Radium. Stephen Palmer the wist.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
Well, I have to tell you there are some stories
that go beyond business. Okay, they go beyond branding, they
go beyond marketing. They tap right into the soul of
our country. And I think that is what that is
what has happened here with Cracker Barrel. And it's remarkable
that President Trump actually has made Cracker Barrel great again.
(13:40):
And the reason that I say that, hold on, all right,
Cracker Barrel has just announced that they are doing a
way with the new logo. They're going back to the
old logo.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Good, But that doesn't solve the problem. The logo wasn't
the problem. The logo was the symptom of the problem.
The problem was Cracker Barrel's executive team thought the logo
needed to change, and the way they thought the logo
(14:12):
needed to change was to remove all of the nostalgia,
to remove all of the humanity from the logo and
turn it into something sterile and generic. Now, if that's
what you think the symbol of your company should be,
when your company is cracker barrel, then what that means is,
not only do you not understand who your company is,
(14:33):
but you don't understand who your customers.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
But you know what, and there are bigger issues, that's
the bigger But there are bigger issues in the world
to worry about than a logo for a restaurant. Sure,
and I know I brought it up. It's a symptom
of the problem. It is a symptom of a problem.
But at the same time, it could just be a
very honest mistake. Because look, have you ever decluttered your home?
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Have you ever don he cluttered your home? Have you
ever decided, you know what, we're gonna paint this room
a different color. Okay, we're gonna buy a new carpet,
We're gonna get new furniture. Sure, we're going to change
the look of things just to keep it fresh.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Okay, that's a legitimate I mean I don't have done that,
but okay, but there's a.
Speaker 4 (15:19):
Lot of people listening right now. They've get just that
it's just.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
To keep it cuts, okay, declutter one thing, just to
keep it fresh, to keep it.
Speaker 4 (15:25):
Fresh, maybe to change the look of things. Okay, And
you do it and then you're like, I kind of
like it the other way.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
I get that, but that's with your home. Your home
is not to serve other people so that you make
money off of that. So no, if I if I
changed the look in my home and I'm like, man,
I don't like it, who else bothered me?
Speaker 4 (15:46):
It was a mistake. But the point they've admitted it
and they've reckoned, they've listened to their customers, and the
new logo goes and the old logo stays.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Yeah, but they're still going to have to win back
the trust. And that's where I think their biggest problem is.
We got a question for our American mamas. Dear mamas,
have you heard about the engagement heard around the.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
World, Well, let's ask our American mama's am ma.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
And joining us now our American mama's Terry Nederville and
Kimberly Burlison. I have to admit I had not. I
saw this question and I look at y all and
I go, what engage, What are we talking about here?
Speaker 7 (16:32):
The biggest news this country, this world's ever heard.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Oh, come on, heard around the world.
Speaker 7 (16:39):
Taylor Swift and Jason No, Travis Kelsey are officially okay.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
If it had been somebody other than Travis, I.
Speaker 7 (16:46):
Think, you know, it's so funny because we are in
Truthport and we're doing a big clinic right now with
our sister two hundred teenagers. We just fed them. They're
all in the room, they're eating their Chick fil A
and suddenly we hear this roar of cheers and swills,
and Lindsay turns on Taylor Swift. Everybody just got the
(17:08):
news and it was literally as if Princess Diana. Just
just the excitement. Everybody's been posting on it, putting it
in their story. Terry and I are talking about it
because I wouldn't say that we're like big swifties, you know,
big Taylor Swift fans, but to see something so sweet
happened to her finally, right, I'm so happy for her.
Speaker 8 (17:27):
You know, It's so funny because I you know, I've
often said because she she is a bona fide star,
the star of.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
She's the biggest star of this last decade for sure.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
Yes, and from.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Me, I was talking to Lewis about this on the
show last week. But from a music business standpoint, she
was able to do things that even the Beatles weren't
able to do, which was to regain control of her
entire catalog. From a business standpoint, yeah, that is That
is just a tremendous thing for someone to come from nothing,
to be able to be messed over by the industry,
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to figure that out and then figure out how to
gain power back. Yeah, I don't care who you are.
That's an amazing story.
Speaker 8 (18:07):
That's such a well, it's amazing that she went from
country yes to pop yes, because a lot of people
thought that was a terrible business move. Well, it turned
out to be the greatest movie in the world because
her country, her country fans still followed her into pop
and she just you know, she's a billionaire.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Well, there's lots of other country stars that have tried
that transition over into pop, you know, Lady Antebellum's one
of those, right, Even Dolly, she's still primarily a country star.
She had a couple of pop hits, but she I
don't think you necessarily say she ever became the pop superstar,
right she's.
Speaker 8 (18:41):
I would set. Yeah, you're talking about nine to.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
Five and all this.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Yeah, I mean only country and.
Speaker 8 (18:45):
She loves it bluegrass and all that. But yeah, and
the thing about her that's so great is she can
move over there. But usually she's with another star, another
pop right star. Yeah, and they sing together. I will
say this A lot of people, you know, I all
loved her, girls loved her when they were growing up.
The tide turned a little bit when she got political. Yep,
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when she tried to tell people if you remember, everybody
that she has campaigned for, rooted for, said she was
voting for every one of them have lost. So that
is like I want to say to her, just stay
out of that political lane and you have everybody cheering
for you. With that being said, I am so happy
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for her right now because she now at thirty five,
has that dream that she's been singing about for the
last fifteen years, right.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Because we've gotten here basically, what's happened with every single
relationship she's happen.
Speaker 7 (19:37):
Well, it tells you you can be so popular, you
can have everything all the money in the world, but
all you really want is love with that one person.
You want love, You want your own little family. That's
all we really want, even if we have everything in
the world. That's number one.
Speaker 8 (19:51):
You know, it's so cute. She was telling the story
on some podcast. Actually it was Jason and Travis's Podcash.
She was actually telling the story. She was saying to Jason, Yeah,
you know, I was at a concert, at one of
my concerts, and you know, most people will go through
my people and say, hey, my person wants to meet Taylor,
will have a VIP, you know, meet and greet or whatever.
(20:13):
She said, No, Travis just walked in. He didn't have
any kind of you know, there was literally no VIP meeting.
He just got the word out, like, hey, how can
I see Taylor? How can I meet her? And then
he said give her my bracelet because she apparently she
switches bracelets or extra at her concerts.
Speaker 7 (20:29):
You friendship, racist.
Speaker 8 (20:30):
Friendship, bracelest you around, and so she said. She was
so endearing, like he didn't have the key to the city.
He was just one football player saying I want to
meet that girl. And she loved it. Every girl wants
to feel like they're being chased, and when it's by
somebody that's masculine, you know, stud athlete, good looking. I
was telling Carmly, their kids are gonna beautiful.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Most likely, yes, tall and beautiful.
Speaker 8 (20:55):
But I think everybody's so happy. It's like, in fact,
I saw on Facebook somebody said it said dot dot
and the whole world smiled and everybody knew what she
was talking about.
Speaker 7 (21:04):
That's how I feel.
Speaker 8 (21:06):
I'm happy for her.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
And again, I do think that there are some people
who turned away from Taylor because she got political.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
Yea.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
And even just last week, James Comy was talking about, oh.
Speaker 8 (21:17):
Gosh, crazy should have gotten cringe.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
How much he feels calmed by by Taylor Swift music
and that makes people mad.
Speaker 8 (21:25):
To you who said that, James James Comy, the FBI,
the former FB correct me. It was so weird. He started,
he started quoting her lyrics and it was the most
cry It was the cringiest thing I have ever heard.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
I was watching.
Speaker 8 (21:38):
I watched it twice and both times I was like, whoa,
you know how you lift your sweater up over your
mouth and your pa stopped talking. He's strange to me now.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
And yeah, If she stays out of politics, I think
people will root for her. But as she gets into politics,
it divides her. It divides the number of people who
want to root for her. If you liked ask our
American Mamas a question good or our website American ground Radio
dot com, slash mamas and click on the ask the
MoMA's button, turn out of Kimberly Brothers and thank you
so much and coming up next to your On American
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Speaker 1 (22:55):
Welcome back to American Ground Radio. Stephen Parr with Lewis
sar Evaloni.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
You know this one is priceless. It's almost too rich
to believe. But Snoop Dogg, Yes, that's Snoop Dogg, the
King of gangsta rap, the man whose music has glorified
drugs and sex and violence and every obscenity under the
sun for what thirty years. Now, sure he is finally
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found something in pop culture that offends him.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
You know what it is, Disney.
Speaker 4 (23:25):
Well it's a same sex kiss scene in Disney's light Year.
So Snoop is watching light Year with his grandson and
he's expecting buzz light Year, you know, to Infinity and beyond,
you know, some animated space fund. Sure, instead he gets
(23:45):
blindsided with Disney's latest. Look how progressive we are, and
then they insert this same sex, same sex kiss scene
in the middle of a kid's movie. And his reaction is,
I didn't come in for this. Well, it's I didn't
come in to watch this movie like this gd movie.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
His grandson was then saying, wait a minute, there's two
moms and a baby. How did the two moms have
that baby. That's not how that works. And he didn't
want to have to explain what was going on with
a same sex marriage to a five year old.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
This is this is just classic, just selfishness and narcissism.
He has made millions of dollars off of the obscenities,
and he's contributed to a culture that has been devoid
of values of faith, of anything.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
Mote, lots of drug use and things like that, and.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
Now all of a sudden that it affects him right now, now,
this is ridiculous. Yes, Snoop, Yes, Snoop. Okay, maybe the
folks that have not necessarily enjoyed the content of your
artistry or filth, whatever you want to fill in the blank,
that's what they've been talking about all these years, and
you've contributed to that. Yes, now, I'm not shaming folks
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that listen to him, you know what, you're grown adults.
That's fine, But it's not just adults listening to Snoop Dogg.
That that's true impressionable young minds. By the same token,
Show me a young man who's not a liberal, and
I'll show you I don't want to hear that day.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
But show me an old man who's not a conservative,
and I'll show you a man with no brain. Maybe
Snoop Dogg is getting a brain here, and he's starting
to finally see some things in a different way than
what he could have seen or would have seen when
he was younger.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
So now he's concerned about what children see. His grandchildren
least see. I mean, but that's what grandchildren do.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
To you.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
They will change your perspective on the world. That's a
good thing. It's why children are blessing from God, because
they will change your view on the world, and they
will make you less selfish.
Speaker 4 (25:55):
You know what. I'm not giving Snoop a pass on
this that he's so enlightened person. I'm not saying he's culpable.
I think he is culpable in what he is watching. Yes,
it's been a part of that culture, but.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Isn't it long? But isn't it good that he finally
sees it? Can't you celebrate that part of it.
Speaker 4 (26:14):
I'll go there with you.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
That's fine, let's dig deep.
Speaker 7 (26:19):
Going down, down down.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
So last year, Planned Parenthood announced they had performed a
record number of abortions. They bragged about it in their
annual reports, which they unironically named a Force for Hope.
I'm not sure how you can be a force for
hope when your main job is to end human being's
hope of living. But maybe I'm missing something. Anyway. They
performed four hundred two two and thirty abortions last year alone.
(26:48):
That was up from three hundred ninety two thousand, seven
hundred and fifteen abortions the year before. You canbine those numbers.
That's larger than the populations of Wyoming, Vermont, Alaska, or
North Dakota in just two years. That's how many human
beings they killed in just two years.
Speaker 4 (27:06):
Just abhorrent, absolutely abhorrent.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
So if Planned Parenthood doing record business, you'd think they'd
be making record profits, right, Well, you'd be wrong. Planned
Parenthood's financial situation this year is so bad that they
have had to close dozens of locations across the country.
Five Planned Parenthood clinics in California have closed, four have
closed in each of Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, and Minnesota, two
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have closed in Louisiana, Ohio, Texas, and Utah, and one
has closed in Indiana, New York, and Vermont. And another
nine are expected to close across the country very soon.
So earlier this year, Planned Parenthood said nearly two thirds
of all of its clinics were at risk of closing.
We're talking a couple hundred now, all right, two thirds
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of them are at risk of closing. Plant Parenthood said
no other provider can step in and replace the care
that Planned Parenthood provides to the millions of patients who
could lose access to care. Stripping these communities of access
to affordable health services like birth control SDI testing, and
cancer screenings is not just bad policy, it's reckless, okay,
But there are lots of other clinics that provide the
(28:17):
things Planned Parenthood listed. You can get birth control in
the grocery store or in any gas station in America.
Marjorie dansfels Or, the president of Susan b Anthony Pro
Life America says women are ready go to community health
centers that provide much more comprehensive care and are much
more accessible, outnumbering Planned Parenthood fifteen to one nationwide. So
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they're saying all the care that we're shutting down. You
can't get STD testing, you can't get breast cancer screenings,
you can't get birth control. That's nonsense. There are lots
of other places that provide those services.
Speaker 4 (28:51):
Well, they said, right, but they claimed all along that
three percent of what they did was abortion and that
the rest was all of that healthcare you were just describing, right, So.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
That makes a big question here. Why is Planned Parenthood
in such financial distress.
Speaker 4 (29:10):
If ninety seven percent of their business.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
Was an abortion and most of the places where they
actually mentioned they were shutting down clinics are in states
where abortions legal, So this isn't about outlawing abortion. The
One Big Beautiful Bill, the One Big Beautiful Bill strips
away Medicaid money from Planned Parenthood because they provide abortions.
(29:33):
Twenty five percent of Planned Parenthood's income comes from the
federal government from medicaid payments. If you can't survive, by
the way, if you can't survive without government money, are
you really a non governmental organization?
Speaker 4 (29:45):
But I think Planned Parenthood has always been a political
operation for decades.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
I agree.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
I mean, I don't think it it's not just obviously
wasn't just about abortions. It was about fueling the Democratic Party.
Is about providing campaign cash, mobilizing activists, and.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
It's gotten more so over the last couple of over
the last twenty years.
Speaker 4 (30:06):
Yeah, and also I think they used Planned Parenthood, that
the Democrats did as a way of keeping the abortion
issue alive as a political weapon.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Well, this also proves the point that Planned Parenthood was
performing abortions with government money. They said they weren't using
government money to provide the abortions because that would be
against law. But once the government started taking money away
from Planned Parenthood. They have to close clinics right and left,
and most of the states where they're closing them abortions legal,
(30:36):
so they can't afford to do the abortions without government
money coming in, even though they're doing record number of abortions.
Speaker 4 (30:44):
But they're lying to you by saying that only three
percent of their business is it's abortions. It's clearly not.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
Because what it means is the government was funding abortions,
close to half a million of them last year.
Speaker 4 (30:56):
Long, which is obviously illegal.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
Right now, they are also getting competition from online abortion mills,
so even as they're doing record amounts of abortion, they're
now getting some other competition from telehealth doctors who are
just prescribing abortion drugs online, which is tremendously dangerous. About
one in ten women who take into abortion pill end
(31:19):
up in the er with serious complications. Six percent of
women who take these abortion pills end up having to
have follow up surgery.
Speaker 4 (31:28):
And look, let's remember Planned Parenthood was founded by Margaret Sanger. Yes,
she was a eugenist. Eugenist who believed in controlling populations,
particularly poor and minority population.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
She wanted to prevent the growth of Black America, and
in New York City there are more black babies who
were aborted than are born. That's what planned parent was
all about, and they wanted to do it with government money.
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Speaker 1 (33:10):
Welcome back to American Ground Radio. Stephen Paul with Lewis
sar Evalony.
Speaker 4 (33:14):
No, we often say that, I really there's another analogy,
but often say that the fish rots from the head, right, Yes,
And I say that in a way of explaining that
leadership starts at the top. Leadership matters, and when the
leader at the top isn't communicating the right message or
(33:35):
doesn't set the right tone, everything suffers.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
When the person in the position of authority isn't an
actual leader, a service minded leader, everything else fails.
Speaker 4 (33:46):
And I think that's biblical as well, because where there
is no vision, the people will perish.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
If you want to be the greatest, you must be
the least. So you want to be the leader, you
need to place yourself beneath the needs of the people
that you're supposed to be serving.
Speaker 4 (33:59):
So today President Trump, and again I think this is
about a message of law and order. Okay, I don't
you know, there are a lot of folks that are
not pro death penalty. I'm not, but I'm excited. But
at the same time, I am excited about President Trump
saying that he will seek the death penalty as punishment
(34:19):
for murders committed in the nation's capital. Okay, And the
reason for that is I and I know there's a
lot of folks listening right now that say, well, the
data does not indicate that the death penalty is actually
a deterrent to murders. Sure, but at the same time,
how do you really know. Here you've got the President
(34:40):
of the United States talking out loud on this huge
This World platform saying, look, anyone that is convicted of
murder in Washington, DC, you're going to die. Well, I
mean that that has to have a very chilling effect,
even those folks perhaps on the margin they're thinking about
(35:03):
doing something violent that might result in the murder of someone.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
The problem with that idea is that the people committing
murders would have to think that they would get caught,
because if you don't get caught, you don't get the
death pany But I think he's already established the foundation
for that's that's what's more important. Making sure that people
who want to commit crime know they're going to get caught. Now,
that's a deterrent. But if if you are able to
(35:28):
get away with if you're able, if you're you're closing
case rate of murders in Washington, DC or for example,
New Orleans, it's like, what of the cases that they close,
and then the DA drops another forty percent. So your
odds of getting away with the crime in New Orleans
are better than average. Right, It's so you don't there
is no deterrent there to try and do a crime,
(35:49):
because nobody thinks you're going to get caught. But if
you start going, eighty ninety percent of people committing crimes
are going to jail and staying in jail.
Speaker 4 (35:57):
Now that's a deterrement, and then may face the death penalty.
Those two then it becomes an attorney. Those two things
have to work hand in hand.
Speaker 1 (36:04):
Let's get to a bride spot.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
I'm doing all right, getting good grades, so.
Speaker 4 (36:12):
I got shame.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
Well. Ever since the corporate bosses at Cracker Barrel decided
to change their decorps inside the restaurants and change the
logos on the outside, the stock price has been plumbing.
We've been talking about this a couple times during the
day today. One of the things the people were saying, Look,
these are not changes we asked for. Nobody asked you
to change the day corps. Nobody asked you to change
the logo. Right, Well, the good folks on the internet
(36:37):
decided to help out the people at Cracker Barrel, and
what they're now doing is they're trying to tell Cracker Barrel.
Since you guys didn't ask us what we wanted before
you change the logo, let us tell you what we
want now. And if you'll implement these changes, maybe you
can save Cracker Barrel. There's one of the things that
the trend that's going around online what would you do
(36:58):
to save Cracker Barrel? And the people have been putting
out some good ideas. I think these are great ideas.
You want to hear some of these? Okay, sure, all right?
How about this suggestion? Basically you can you can put
this into four categories, family, faith, food, and fun. That's
what the people online are saying. With the four categories,
you need to focus on family, food, faith, and fun. Right, okay? Family,
(37:18):
kids who say yes ma'am eat free on Sundays. I
love that idea. You bring your kid into Cracker Barrel
and the kids got good manners. Boom, kids eat free
on Sundays.
Speaker 2 (37:29):
All right?
Speaker 1 (37:29):
How about this? Families with four or more kids get
free cobbler on the house. You talk about all the time,
we need to be making more babies. Well, if you're
a cracker barrel. You're a traditional store, right, why not
reward families that have been making some babies.
Speaker 4 (37:41):
So now a cracker barrel will be an aphrodisiac.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
Apparently about families with three or more kids with both
parents showing up get a twenty percent discount. If you're
gonna encourage families to come to Cracker Barrel together and
spend family time at Cracker Barrel, and you're gonna give
them a discount for doing that. You know what?
Speaker 4 (37:57):
This is getting a little uncomfortable for me because look,
this is the management of Cracker Barrel needs to run
Cracker Barrel like they want to, Okay, And for us
to start talking about changing up you know, incentives and
this and that and the other, I mean that that
(38:18):
to me. I just know.
Speaker 1 (38:20):
The point is the management of Cracker Barrell has no
idea who their customers are.
Speaker 4 (38:23):
Okay, but that's their problem then.
Speaker 1 (38:25):
Yes, and this is how you fix it, I mean,
and the.
Speaker 4 (38:27):
Customer of the logo. The part about the logo that
I found offensive, huh, was that it was it was
something that was historic. It was something that was I
say historic, it was something that was nostalgic, right, and
and we've seen so much in corporate America of folks
just kind of wanting to erase our past, erase our history, right,
(38:47):
and and undue family culture that the family values that
are the underpinnings of what makes America great.
Speaker 1 (38:55):
So why are you uncomfortable with all this?
Speaker 4 (38:56):
Because this is people say you gotta get back Now
we're getting into now, we're getting into like strategy and
business planning and marketing.
Speaker 5 (39:04):
But yes, because this is your customer base telling you
what your customer base actually. Let me give you an example,
and so maybe you should listen to the people who
wanted to buy your food rather than some left wing
corporate nuts.
Speaker 4 (39:14):
Let me give you an example Apple, Right. Once upon
a time, Apple was a near bankrupt computer company. Yes,
nobody cared. Then they rebranded right, and they went away
with the page boxes, and then they came in with
the Imax and the iPods and then the iPhones. And
my point there is they they restyled themselves.
Speaker 1 (39:34):
Yes, and they're wild.
Speaker 4 (39:34):
They're they're one of the most to make valuable companies
on the planet, to make.
Speaker 1 (39:39):
Things people actually wanted, the things their customers actually wanted.
That's the point of this is that Cracker Barrel was
doing something their customers didn't want because they don't know
who the hell their customers are now their customers are
trying to tell them. And I think that's a bright spot.
And these were all good suggestions that we didn't get
a time to get to. We'll be back.
Speaker 2 (39:56):
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Speaker 4 (40:11):
Welcome back to American Ground Radio, Stephen power Lewis, I
get it, Fried Okra at Cracker Barrel is going to
be the same ten years from today. So it's not
like it's not it's not a tech deal like you know,
Steve Jobs often said that if you wait for what
the customer wants today right, what the customer tells you
(40:32):
he or she wants today too late. You need to
be thinking about things that they haven't even thought about. Yes,
and I'm just saying.
Speaker 1 (40:39):
But that's good if you're apple that's not good if
you're making apple pie apple pie. I don't need the
newest thing in apple pie. I want the apple pie
that I grew up with that was delicious, that that
brings me back.
Speaker 4 (40:53):
Okay, So what were some of these other examples that
our advice that customers had for Cracker Barrel.
Speaker 1 (40:58):
You have a hymn book on it every table, an
old fashioned hymn book. How about a real butter Only
if I catch Margine in the kitchen, someone's fired and
it gets back to Maha. How about this Civil War
trivia nights you do?
Speaker 4 (41:14):
I don't know about that one.
Speaker 1 (41:15):
You bring in American History trivia night, right? Or you
bring in a blue grass you start playing bluegrass after
six pm fiddle player on Friday nights. The whole point
of this is if you sell nostalgia as your environment,
as your because because again you can chicken fried steak,
you can get that anywhere. People will go to Crackerberil
for the nostalgia. That's what you gotta say, you know.
Speaker 4 (41:36):
And what's exciting is these customers care so much about
the brand that they're willing to share their suggestions.
Speaker 1 (41:42):
That's right. And hopefully Cracker Barrel doesn't say.
Speaker 4 (41:45):
Whoa When I say whoa, ah, I mean wow. All right.
Speaker 1 (41:55):
We were talking about family and family restaurants catering to families,
that type of thing. So here are some words of
wisdom about out the importance of family. Pope John the
twenty third said the family is the first essential cell
of human society George Bernard Shaw. A happy family is
but an earlier heaven. Michael J.
Speaker 4 (42:12):
Fox.
Speaker 1 (42:13):
Family is not an important thing, it's everything. And Lee
Ayacocca the only rock I know that stays steady. The
only institution I know that works is the family.
Speaker 4 (42:24):
And that's true, and it's come under attack far, far
too often. In this country.
Speaker 1 (42:30):
All of society is built on it. If our families
aren't strong, our nation won't be either. May your pursuit
of happiness bring you, George
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