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Well, hello, everybody. Welcome to the Todd Stearns Radio Show. Happy Thursday to you. You know, isn't it amazing how many so-called conservatives out there in the media world have egg on their faces this great day? As we watch the aftermath of President Trump and what he did yesterday, which was really a master move, something that you just do not see in politics at all.

And the reality is, when you actually understand who Donald Trump is and the business acumen that he brings to the table, What's been happening over the past couple of weeks now makes Perfect sense. I mean, it makes all the sense in the world because Donald Trump literally took. The theory from Art of the Deal is and he implemented it in the trade war. And now and now the United States of America is just an incredible shape. And inflation coming down, it's just remarkable.

The interest rates, gasoline, When you see how masterful Donald Trump has been at all of this, it's just really something to behold. It truly is an art form.

So, again, Donald Trump playing hardball, and the Chinese are now backed up into a corner, and they're going to have to do something here. because they will be destroyed by what Donald Trump is doing here.

So anyway, welcome to the show. Great to have you with us. And shame on all of the talk radio guys and gals out there on the conservative side. And Let's get real talk. Radio is mostly all conservative now.

A shame on them because they are not really true conservatives and they don't understand what Donald Trump has done. And you've got a lot of these conservative folks, and Ben Shapiro being one of them, by the way, and they're just waiting for Trump to make a mistake, waiting for Trump to do something that's going to cause chaos, and that gives them the out.

So, most of these folks never wanted Donald Trump to be president. And they're grifting. They know that they can't speak out daily against the president. If they do, they're going to lose their audience. There's some folks in the Atlanta area like that.

And some of them just don't care. They just don't care. They're part of the old country club elite Republicans, and that's what they miss. And they cosplay as Rush Limbaugh, but these people are no Rush Limbaughs. I'm just telling you, folks.

So all that to say, these kinds of incidents give you an opportunity to see people for who they really are. And I told you from day one, I'm all in on whatever Trump decides to do. I'm going to support it. And the reason why is the guy took a bullet took a bullet to the head.

So he deserves. My full support. And I'm trusting Donald Trump to do what he promised to do. I'm hoping and praying that Congress does the same thing. I don't have as much trust in Congress.

I really don't.

So word comes out today. About Elon Musk and Doge. I wish I could tell you, I'm. Shocked, but I don't think I'm terribly shocked here. They've been exposing all the grift, and there is so much.

I hope they're going to be able to get to all of it. I really do. I truly do. But I don't know if they are. I mean, there's only so much time and there's so much corruption.

So here's the headline: More than 24,000 Americans over the age of 115 years old. have been receiving unemployment benefits. Let me repeat that, ladies and gentlemen. More than 24,000 Americans over the age of 115 years old have been getting unemployment benefits. They did the math.

That's $59 million. Worth of unemployment benefits. That's your tax money, ladies and gentlemen. It is shocking to know how many Americans over the century mark have been fired or laid off from their jobs. And I guess the Biden administration, it was really tough.

They had to lay off a lot of those Walmart agreeders. And it's sad. I mean, even the Bob Evans, not many people able to afford to eat out. And you know why? Because, well, more than 24,000 people over the age of 115 lost their jobs.

But you want to know the real reason why the old timers are unemployed? Do you want to know why the old timers are getting unemployment checks every month? You want to know why they can't find a job in America? Because they're dead. They're pushing up daisies.

I don't mean to be crude. But it's true they're worm food. But that's not all. The Department of Government Officiency discovered, I mean, it is a mess. It is a mess.

Yes.

Some twenty eight thousand people between the ages of one year old and five years old claim two hundred fifty four million dollars worth of benefits.

Now I'm just curious. I mean, Maybe over in China they make the one-year-olds go to work. But not here. We don't even make the five-year-olds go to work. As a matter of fact, hardly anybody wants to go to work around this country.

But you've got, according to the Department of Labor. You had some 28,000 people. That are under the age of five. We're talking preschoolers and below that claim $254 million worth of benefits. No wonder some of you people can't find work.

It's those blasted toddlers. Congressman or Senator Mike Lee from Utah said this is reckless incompetence. The Labor Secretary Lori Chavez Durimer says that they will recover every stolen tax dollar and will root out. All of the egregious fraud, and I hope they do. I mean, this is insanity.

Here's my favorite. Doge also found somebody. 'Kay. With a birth date. in the year of our Lord twenty one fifty four.

Now, Dylan, where's Dylan? Dylan What year is it right now? 2025. 2025. But someone who has yet to be born claimed $41,000 in unemployment benefits.

Somebody literally born in the future. Yeah. And they're getting benefits. It's really shocking, ladies and gentlemen, until you think about it for a moment. And I put in a request to Doge.

I will let you know when I get an answer, but I want to know: was the guy's last name McFly? That's what I want to know. Was this guy. Marty McFly. Maybe things are tough over in in the year of our Lord twenty-one fifty-four.

Oh my goodness. It's just absolute insanity. And you just can't make this up. We all knew that something was not quite right. We all knew that.

But the level of the fraud and the waste, ladies and gentlemen, if we're able just to get all of that cleaned up, we may not even have to pay income taxes anymore. I mean, that's the level that we're talking about here. Oh, there was something else that happened. This is fascinating.

So they were trying to do a rework on the IRS website. And I know a little bit about the frustration here. We're reworking a few things on our website, and it's always It's always complicated.

So, anyway, the IRS wanted to. simply move the login button. On the front of the website.

So if you go to the irs.gov or whatever, and you want to log in and check your whatever, so they've got a login button and they it was just in a bad location. You know, when you design a website and you have, I mean, you think about it and you lay it all out and the design looks great, but then the functionality of it, and I think that was the issue here with the Internal Revenue Service. They were having a functionality problem with the login button.

So what did they do?

Well, the IRS engineers got together and they said, well, we've been researching the problem here, and it's going to take us at least 103 days. To move the website's login button. Wait, 103 days? Yes, it's 103 days. We have to do all the algorithms and the research and we have to do the calculus and the algebra and the XY and the wahoo wahoo, and it's going to take 103 days.

That's what the engineer said.

So Doge arrives on the scene and they're saying, What's all the hullabaloo about there?

Well, it's going to take 103 days for us to move the website's login button. 103 days to relocate the login from the left side of the page to the right side of the page. Ladies and gentlemen, Doge brought in their own engineers, and it took them exactly seventy one minutes. To make the change. A hundred and three days with the IRS engineers It took seventy one minutes for the Doge engineers.

What does that tell you? about about the government. I'm just going to share a personal experience with you. A couple of days ago, well, we've been dealing with this for two years.

So I like to drive into the office in the mornings. It's a leisurely drive. I'm usually coming in after rush hour, and I try to go the back way in, and there's a huge intersection. And it's called a Germantown Parkway and Wolf River Boulevard. And it's a pretty heavily trafficked area.

So they were adding in the engineers, the Department of Transportation folks, they decided we've got to add some additional turn lanes. And they announced that the project would take them over two years to complete literally two years. To complete. Like, not even the design part of it. This is the literal construction.

Of four extra turn lanes, and it's taking him two years. Yeah. Ladies and gentlemen, when you look around the country at a lot of these government projects, it's taking them five, ten years to build buildings that otherwise would take, what, seven, eight, nine months to build. And it really does make you wonder when you step back and you realize, wait a second. Our tax money is being squandered here.

They're literally steal it's not just squandering, they're stealing our tax money. That's what's going on here.

So all that to say, my head is off to Doge. I continue to be impressed with the great work they're doing. But the reality is, The government can't really do much of anything right. Can they? And I'm just curious about something.

Have you ever met like A um Have you ever met a happy government employee? I mean, somebody who just can't wait to get to the cubicle and start the day and do whatever they're going to have you ever met somebody who's actually happy to be employed by the federal government? I'm just curious, because I will tell you. I've never met those people. I've never met anybody within the federal government that seems to be happy doing their jobs.

They seem to be, quite frankly, miserable. And by the way, I was down at the post office the other day, the Germantown post office, and it is a very busy post office. Our neighborhood post office is very busy. I mean, it's lying out the door. And I promise you this: if they have two workers in that facility, it's a good day.

Mm-hmm. I've never seen such incompetence in one specific government agency, but the United States Postal Service is off the charts. off the charts. But I'm just curious. And you wonder if a lot of this has to do with the bureaucracy and the stupidity of it all.

The idea that an engineer a federal government employed engineer takes one hundred and three days to move a login button when it only took Joe Jevy one minutes. 901-260-5926, our telephone number. That's 901-260-5926. Head over to the website, ToddSterns.com. We have some great stories for you there.

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And Eric, I understand you've got a Doge story to share. Absolutely, Todd.

So, to give you a little background on this, we live on the farm that my wife grew up on, and it was a chicken farm. And their chicken houses had a flush system that would flush all the chicken litter out of the house when they would do a change out, and it would flow into a lagoon. And They haven't had chickens in probably 31 years. The lagoon went dry probably 20 years ago. We wanted to just close in the lagoon, just cover it up with dirt.

and have it as usable farm space for our cows.

So we went to our local U S D A agent. uh in this part of Georgia and that it would cost four hundred seventeen thousand dollars. To close in a two-acre lagoon that I know that I could have heavy equipment come in, and it would cost $20,000. What? Yeah.

Absolutely.

So If you want to talk about government waste, it's not just at the federal level, it's at the local level too. No, I believe that.

So, would you have been required to use their people or their facilities or whatever? Was the government getting a kickback here? Absolutely.

We would have to have an EPA study, an engineer come in. They would have to dig down till they hit clay. In this lagoon. And then we would have to spread whatever amount of dirt, cubic feet of dirt. Uh over 180 acres.

And then they would have to fill it back up. And not only that, Todd, I would have to count that four hundred and seventeen thousand dollars as income. Get out of here. Wait, what? Yeah.

Eric, this is insanity. Absolutely, it's insanity. It's insanity upon insanity. I mean, I just want to tear the whole system down and build it right from the ground up. You know, I mean, and there's a lot of truth in what you're saying there because you're right.

It's just got to be destroyed, dismantled, and we've got to start all over again. The grift and the corruption. And that's one of the reasons why I'm really excited about the possibility that organizations like, for example, the Department of Agriculture are going to be moving out of Washington, D.C. But you're right, there's just a lot of corruption out there. This is shocking.

That's a lot of chicken poop. We're in the wrong business. I should just be closing out these old chicken lagoons by the dozens. By the way, not that the only connection here is that it involves chickens. I was watching the craziest video last night, Eric, of these chicken farmers, and they've got the portable chicken coops that are on wheels, and you can just move them around.

So the chickens are sort of like, I don't know, free range, and they're eating the grass and everything. It's really fascinating. Did you guys ever have any of those? No, we we do uh like I said, we don't do chickens anymore, but everything we have are the superhouses. They're five hundred feet plus long, and you get thirty thousand, fifty thousand chickens in a house.

It's production chicken work. It's not It's not what I would call organic, fun, and friendly chicken work. Eric, years ago, years ago, when I was invited to speak at Truate McConnell University in Cleveland, Georgia, and I was doing the show in Gainesville and then drove up. And a lot of my New York friends at the time, they're like, oh, we just, we love the country and we just want to breathe that fresh country air. Try driving up from Gainesville to Cleveland behind a chicken truck and we'll have a conversation about that fresh mountain air.

Yeah. That'll get you going. I want to share that story with you. It's great talking with you. Eric, thank you very much.

Wow, what a crazy story. And I'm sure there are plenty of others. But there's a lot of grift, a lot of corruption, not just at the federal level, but he's right at the state level as well. All right, 901-260-5926 or telephone number. That's 901-260-5926.

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But Donald Trump has created this excitement, this energy across America. Are you feeling it? Can you feel this energy, this excitement? People literally can't wait for the next time that Trump shows up on TV. They never know what's going to happen.

They never know what the guy's going to say. There's a black lady on X, and she is going viral because she is so excited about the work that Donald J is doing. She calls the president straight up gangsta. And this is a good kind of gangsta, not the jazz. Crockett fake eyelash fake ghetto gangster.

No, this is the good kind of gangster. Y'all can say what y'all want, but Donald J. Trump Yeah, that man right there? My President of this great United States of America nope, nope, nope, Jesus is Lord, Jesus is Lord, don't come here with that, but he is my President of this great United States of America, he's straight up gangster. Straight up gangster.

Trump raised them tariffs on China to 125%, then halted for 90 days tariffs on other nations. He got China President Xi Jinping scratching his head. Yeah, scratching his head. The markets currently are kinda impressed with Trump. didn't come to play?

Would you think he do this for fun? Trump eat negotiations for breakfast. You heard me? Tom said like in a mob voice. They are a proud people.

The Chinese. But they'll come around. They better. 'Cause personally I could just buy American black part. I like this lady.

Oh my gosh. Wow. What? It's folks. There's this energy.

There's this excitement out there. And I'm loving it. This is going to change our nation. And Donald Trump, he knew what he was doing. And here's the deal: when you go into a negotiation like he went into, you know what?

Yeah, there's a possibility that things may not work out all that well. But you know what? It could. That's why you're taking a risk. Donald Trump took a risk, but he knew how this was going to play out.

He knew it. All right, 901-260-5926 is our telephone number. That's 901-266-666. I want to go to our newsmaker line and say hello to our good friend Congressman Keith Self from the 3rd Congressional District of Texas. Congressman, hope you're doing well today.

I am, Todd. Very well. Glad to be here.

So let's talk about what's happening in the House right now, because there's been a lot of concern, a lot of scuttlebutt that you guys, conservatives in the House, were not going to sign off on this Senate plan, which only includes, what, about $4 billion worth of cuts instead of the $1.13, $1.4 trillion that you guys were after. That's exactly right. We had one point five trillion, which is one thousand five hundred billion. versus the Senate four billion.

So today in the last forty eight hours, we've gotten shrunk from the White House from leader Screen in the Senate and certainly from Speaker Johnson that the one point four the one point five trillion dollars is the gold. And now we've got work to do, but this only starts the process. But very encouraged with the assurances that we got in the last forty eight hours.

So, Congressman, where are we right now with this? And is the Senate plan going to pass in the House? It's already passed. We passed it about an hour ago. Uh so it has passed.

So we passed it now. That unlocks the process.

So now the instructions will go to the committees in both the House and the Senate, and they will start finding these cuts That we must have in order to pay for the tax cuts. Spending cuts. Pay for tax cuts because the tax cuts don't pay for themselves, and this is the key to this whole thing. We want the big, beautiful tax cuts that President Trump talks about. That is the goal.

But we can't blow the deficit and the debt out of the water. We can't explode them.

So in order not to do that, we've got to find a spending custom and buy down the tax cut.

So that's the $1.5 trillion. And frankly, I hope we can go above that. But that is now the goal. We've got assurances from the White House, the Senate and the Speaker, but that is now the goal, the serious goal that we're working towards.

So the serious goal here is not the $4 billion, which that was a non-starter, I think, in just about everybody's minds, but the goal here for the Senate, and the Senate has agreed to this, is to cut the $1.3 trillion, $1.4 trillion. Absolutely.

That was the assurance that in the press conference this morning with Stephen Johnson and Lee Dr. Spoon from the Senate, that's exactly what they stood in front of a podium and told the American people they would do.

Well, I'm glad to hear that. And again, that's to the credit of Speaker Johnson for standing his ground. It could have been easy for the Speaker to say, well, look, this is what the Senate Republicans want, and we need to get in line here. But it looks as though the Speaker read the room here. The speaker did leave the room, and there was there was a significant number of us who would not have accepted that low that low bar.

Four billion is not even on the playing field. That was an insult to the forgotten man that Trump talks about all the time.

So the Senate, I think, knew that they had to come up with more assurances for the House. In order for their amendment to our resolution to pass, which it did today, based on those assurances from the White House and the Senate. All right.

Well, Congressman, this is good news and breaking news.

So it's still a lot of work to do. When do you think we're going to be able to get the final package together? How long will that process take?

Well, as as normal, the speaker is pointing toward Memorial Day to get this passed.

So he has a very tight time line. That's two months for both the House and the Senate to work it out, then to agree, then to pass the final bill.

So it may sound like a long time, But Memorial Day is is like a freight train coming at it.

Well, no doubt about that.

Well, Congressman, congratulations, and thank you for sticking to your guns. Thank you, Todd. We've got work to do, and I want the people to understand that. This only unlocks the process. We have work to do and we've got a lot to we'll have to do this again.

to see that we get the final build where we need it. All right.

Ladies and gentlemen, Congressman Keith Sell from the third Congressional District of Texas. The House again narrowly passing that budget framework resolution, and the work continues. Congressman, thanks for coming on the show today. Thank you so much, Scott. All right.

901-260-5926 is our telephone number. That's 901-260-5926. And I'm glad to see the Speaker of the House playing some hardball here behind the scenes with the Senate Republicans. And that's what it's going to take. There's absolutely no way.

And it really was an insult. And it just reaped of Lindsey Graham this $4 billion in proposed tax cuts. That's just not going to move the needle at all. $1.3, $1.4 trillion. And you heard the Congressman say, we hope it is more, but those cuts are going to have to happen.

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So, look, here's the deal: seven Republicans in the Senate working with Democrats, and they want legislation that would stop President Trump from being able to do what he's doing to China. And Johnson says: it doesn't matter what the Senate's going to do, we're going to stop it in the House of Representatives. Good for you, Speaker Johnson. Very, very happy. to hear that report.

All right, nine oh one two six zero five nine two six is our number. That's nine oh one two six zero five nine two six. I've got some great news to share with you. This is coming from the US Merchant Marine Academy.

Now, in 2023, you might remember the story. We actually broke this story in the national media. The Biden administration ordered a massive painting of Jesus Christ to be removed from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in Kingsport. New York, or Kings Point, New York.

That painting featured Jesus with his arms outstretched over a lifeboat with sailors who were lost at sea.

Now, this thing was originally installed back in 1947.

So it's been there 75 years. 75 years later, though, somebody got upset. The Military Religious Freedom Foundation, which is an ugly, ugly, notorious gang of anti-Christian bigots, the guy who runs that is his name is Mikey Weinstein.

Okay. And he once boasted back years ago when Obama was president. Weinstein said that he actually had a hotline. Like a red phone? That Picked up, you know, he called the Pentagon and somebody picked up the other line.

So he had a red phone in the Pentagon. Guy's really devious.

So anyway, the Military Religious Freedom Foundation demanded that the painting be removed because it apparently offended non-Christians.

So I'm just curious here, and any of you merchant marines out there, but heaven forbid, your boat sinks and you're in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean in a lifeboat, are you going to be praying out to Mikey Weinstein or Jesus to save you?

So, anyway, instead of telling Mikey Weinstein to don't let the door hit him with a good Lord splitting, instead of doing that, the Biden administration ordered that the painting had to come down.

So, they took down this painting and they threw it in this damp, moldy basement where it has been ever since.

Well, all of that changed thanks to Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy. He was giving a speech at Kings Point. And the whole point of that speech was to say, hey, look, this place is a mess. And we've got to fix all of this. It's the entire facility is in Incredibly dilapidated.

And the Merchant Marines were just so excited to hear that they were going to be getting all of these repairs and upgrades. And then Duffy, who is a devout Catholic, said, And by the way, can we bring Jesus out of the basement? Can we do that? And the entire room just roared with approval. And so it looks like the portrait of Jesus is now going to be restored to its rightful place in one of the major rooms there at the Merchant Marine Academy.

And would it not be cool? If Jesus was restored and raised from the basement grave on Easter Sunday, would that not be cool? I think that would be cool. Thank you, Transportation Secretary Duffy. All right, let's go to Don in Houston, Texas, our great affiliate out there, Patriot Talk 920.

Hi, Don, what's on your mind?

Well, I got a hypothetical question for you.

Well, I'll try to give you a hypothetical answer, Don. What's your question? That'll work.

Okay, with all the money that Musk and all is saving and everything and they're generating and like I say, this is hypothetical, we've got billions of dollars that we've recovered.

Okay. Now if they took like five thousand dollars of that and gave it to every taxpayer, not just the adult taxpayers, not everybody in the whole world, but in the United States. They took this and gave it to The taxpayers. That money Th those people, all the taxpayers, they're not going to save that money. I mean, it's going to go right back into the economy.

They're going to buy furniture, they're going to buy food, they're going to buy this, that and the would that not stimulate the economy and make things proceed more back to like a normal level Well, it I mean, that could be a possibility. You're looking at, and I'm having to guesstimate here, what, about 150 million taxpayers in the country, give or take of you, 100,000.

So, and you're saying give every single one of those people, what, a $5,000 check? Is that what you're suggesting, Don? Yeah, I was just, you know, like I said, this whole hypothetical. I was just wondering if that happened, if it would work and it would not. Help with the whole inflation and everything else getting back to a more normal, stable.

relations here.

Well, possibly. I mean, inflation is dramatically down, and it's shocking everybody in the media. But again, I'm not shocked. Donald Trump knows what he's doing here. And he told us that all of this was going to happen.

Look at the stock market. It just took off like a rocket yesterday, and it could hit 50,000 very soon. I think it topped 40,000 yesterday. But again, it's a roller coaster ride. Donna, I like this idea of returning the money back to the American people.

Now, do you give every taxpayer in the country $5,000 or do you adjust that based on how much people are paying in income tax? That could be debatable, but I like the idea, Don. Hypothetically. Yeah, hypothetically. 'Cause I was just thinking about that and I thought Cause the people You know, some of them will save some of it, of course, but most of the people will put that right back into the economy, either.

Buying farm goods, buying eggs, buying furniture, whatever. But they will spend that money and it'll go right back into our economy. And I just thought.

Well, wouldn't that help? I mean, wouldn't that get us more back to a normal situation. Don, it's a great point, and I'm sure our listeners are going to want to weigh in on that. Thank you for calling in. 901-260-5926.

You know, Dieter, I'm curious. You get $5,000 from the government. I have to imagine that you're going to the local farm. I'm thinking gallons of what is that beef beef oil that you're um you're a big fan of? Beef tallow.

Thank you. Beef tallow. I spoiled. We just came off a new mund. I.

I spend thousands of dollars every month on bills. I mean, I'm not one of these people. That can waive, I don't know, a free card that the government gives me to pay for, I don't know, things like housing. 1,300 on an apartment every year. I mean, every month, I wish every year.

The grocery bill is through the roof. I mean, my car payment is close to $400 a month.

So that's where I would start before the beef tallow. All right.

Well, still, I mean, it'd be nice to have some extra spending money around.

So, all right. Hang tight, everybody. We've got to take a quick break. Hour two of the big show coming up again. Our number: 901-260-5926.

That's 901-260-5926. Coming up, President Trump making showers great again. Live from the Liberty University Studio in Memphis, Tennessee, it's common sense conservative commentary from Todd Starr. That's right. I love this American ride.

Well, hello, everybody. Welcome to hour two of the big show. Good to have you with us today. I want you to write down our telephone number. You will need this if you plan on calling into the program: 901-260-5926.

That's 901-260-5926. Well, one of my favorite people to follow. In the state of California. Of course, we got our good buddy Joe Messina out there in Santa Clarita at our terrific radio affiliate there. But Amy Reichert is just really doing an incredible job of reporting and investigating and exposing a lot of crazy stories happening in California.

She is the founder of Restore San Diego. You got to follow her on Twitter. It's a lot of fun. And she joins us today on the newsmaker line. Amy, hope you're doing well.

I I'm doing well and I love following you too, Tod. You know, we're between you and me, Amy, I think we trigger just about every leftist out there. Yeah. Amy, a couple of big stories that you've been on, and I want to talk about the politics in just a moment. And by the way, restoresan diego.org is the website, restoresan diego.org.

You exposed a story about California teachers leading children in some sort of a ritual exercise. And is this true? They were encouraging kindergartners to come out of the closet? Yeah, this is Crazy, even for California, they're not educators, they are activists. happened was they had a fifth grader who was in a kinderbody program with a kindergartner do an exercise where they read a book called My Shadow is Pink.

about a little boy Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then afterwards, they went outside and they had fifth grader draw the shadow of the kindergartner and ask the kindergartner what Color is your shadow. This is insanity that it's happening as young as kindergarten now, this radical sex and gender ideology. This is not education. This is indoctrination.

And there's a federal lawsuit. And there's going to be a decision made this month. About parental notification, the parents weren't even notified. In fact, the school and the teachers. on purpose kept us from parents.

So so how did you find out about it and and what's been the aftermath, the result of you exposing all of this?

Well, the parent who is Catholic, and this goes against his Catholic beliefs. I did a Instagram video that went viral. I wound up connecting with the attorneys in the lawsuit. I got a copy of the federal lawsuit. And then I started exposing the scheming of the administrators who openly say things like.

We have plans in place for kids as young as kindergarten to transition them. without parental notification or consent. Just remarkable. And again, this is happening, folks, at the kindergarten level there in California. Amy, we've also been following some of your political coverage, and I'm always fascinated by what's happening in California.

And really, people seem to forget that That Orange County, Southern California, really was the birthplace of the modern conservative political movement back in the day. And you wonder if it can ever be revived, if we can ever experience that again. And there are some interesting signs. And there was a supervisor's race. And I want you to tell our listeners what happened in that race.

So this is what's so exciting with coming out of California.

So here in San Diego, of course, we are right next to the U. S. Mexico border and in a heavily Latino district, They actually went nearly 50% voting for Trump. And so we have this. supervisors race that's going on right now.

It's in special election. And the Tulavista mayor, John McCann, in a surprise, is the top vote getter so far, winning over cities that are majority Latina. This is fascinating.

What do you make of this? Because, I mean, those are some, that's a pretty impressive, and is it fair to call it an upset in the race? Yes.

Oh, it it's Sending a shockwave. Through the Democrat political establishment here, where they have a supermajority. And I will tell you, as I'm talking to people on the ground. There are Latinos in particular that are upset about what's being taught to their kids in schools. They've had enough.

They have family values. They love God. right? And they're they're pro gun, by the way. And They're tired of it.

They've had enough of the indoctrination of their kids.

So, I do a lot of work in Lancaster, California at West Coast Baptist College, and then our good buddy Jack Hibbs down at Calvary Chapel Chino Hills. And you've got both those two churches and organizations represent just thousands and thousands of very conservative Christian people. And, Amy, I have often wondered what it would take to get the Latino population in California organized and on the right path here, especially in some of these culture issues. I think it's happening. In fact, in the November presidential election in Pirio County.

which is the county just south of San Diego County at the US Mexico border that is overwhelmingly Latino. They went plus twenty four for Obama. Just a decade or so ago, and it's now a red county. And I We now have a million more registered Republicans in California than we did just a few years ago, while Registration for Democrats is on decline.

So we're not there yet, but the pendulum is swinging back and I'm very hopeful.

Well, this is exciting. What is it going to take, though? Because I do know about the squabbles and the inter-party squabbles within the Republicans there in California. And it just seems like they have a hard time figuring out what kind of Republicans they want to be. Are you guys starting to unite, or is that still an issue within the Republican Party itself?

Well, you know, I mean, the fact of the matter is we have rhinos. And it is what it is. And those rhinos are fighting very hard against Trump. right here in California.

So it's really difficult to unite with Rhinos. Oh, well, they don't want unity, Amy. It's their way or the highway. And they're trying to do that in the U.S. Senate right now with Trump over the tariffs.

So I'm just wondering if we're going to see a situation in California where you will see these, for lack of a better term, these Trump Republicans taking over these local parties. And I'm wondering if, from a grassroots effort, if you guys are going to be able to facilitate change at the state Republican Party from the bottom up. Oh, absolutely, absolutely very hopeful. And it is so nice to see actual Democrats who are Latinos. who voted for Trump too, who are with us.

Love it. Love it. Well, Amy, I I just love your social media presence. Folks, go check out her website, restore San Diego. Org, and the work the work that she is doing there.

They call you is this true? They call you California's political deadpool? I love going after Gavin Newsom. Yeah, it's by the way, now so you've got Kamala Harris. You guys have a gubernatorial race coming up.

And Kamala Harris, I hear from your Twitter feed, is not doing all that well right now. She's catching some fire. She is.

So the Democrats that kissed her ring before are now openly attacking her. Because she's saying that she's going to make an announcement in late summer if she's going to run for governor or not. And that's pissing off the Democrats who've already jumped into the race. Because the big donors are holding back and not writing the big checks. Love it.

Couldn't happen to a worse person. Wow. All right.

Well, look, Amy, we're going to get you back on. Keep us updated on any sorts of big stories coming out of California. Really appreciate you and respect your great work. You too, Todd. Thank you.

All right.

Amy Reichert, everybody, the founder of Restore San Diego. And she's really stirring things up there. And they are coming after her. And that's when you know you're doing the right thing. All right.

901-260-5926, our telephone number. That's 901-260-5926. I want to say something about President Trump. One of the funniest things he did yesterday did not get a lot of press coverage, but the president wants to make taking a shower great again. And I'm all over this.

Now, I've always been a shower person. I'm not a bath person. I like doing the showers. And I don't know about you. But I've got to have the worst, like the biggest bee in my bonnet.

I don't have a bonnet, but it's a phrase, an expression. Yeah. My biggest pet peeve.

Well, okay, I don't have a pet, but it's a little bit. It's an expression. My biggest issue with taking a shower is when the water pressure is not very strong, and it's like just dribbling, or it's like a gentle, like spring rain. And I don't want that. I want pulsating, pounding water coming out of the spigot.

Mm-hmm. As a matter of fact, There's a great story about President Lyndon Baines Johnson, LBJ. And he was obsessed with this. And there's a great story. About LBJ renovating the White House bathroom because he was not happy.

With the pressure, the water pressure. an LBJ actually wanted water shooting out of the the nozzle that was about the same force of a fire hose, and it took them forever. Forever to get this high-powered shower. There's actually, there's a story about it in a book by Kate Anderson called Inside the Private World of the White House. And she wrote in the book that the shower was like nothing the staff had ever seen.

Water was literally charging out of multiple nozzles in every direction with needle-like intensity. and hugely powerful. And apparently, LBJ was especially concerned that his midsection, his belly, was not getting, I guess, clean enough.

So they made sure they actually had nozzle heads pointed at both the front and the back of the president. It's unbelievable.

So, anyway, During the Biden administration, they had all these policies, and it made basically taking a high-powered shower a thing of the past. And Trump said, nope, those days are over. Yesterday, signing an executive order, and here's how that went down. The Biden administration launched what you called a war on showers. They had certain regulations that basically killed the water pressure of showers and other water appliances.

You can say it. What are the appliances? I mean, it's everything, sir. Six and dishwashed, dishwashers, toilets, things. But the showerheads are.

You know water. You don't get water. It's ridiculous.

So with this executive order, we're effectively going to be reversing that set of regulations to ensure that Americans have choice in the consumer market. If they want a low-flow showerhead, they can buy one. If they want a real deal shower head, you buy a new house, you pay a lot of money, and the developers, you're not. To do anything more. They put restrictors on.

They used to have a restrictor where you could take it out, but now they weld it in and you take a shower or wash your hands, whatever you do, including dishwashes when no water comes out. You wash your hands and in my case I like to take a nice shower to take care of my beautiful hair. I have to stand under the shower for 15 minutes until it gets wet. It comes up drip, drip, drip. It's ridiculous.

It's beautiful hair. The man's got beautiful hair. What are you going to say? Dieter, get this. LBJ.

It took them five years. Five replacement showers and a special water tank to get the shower right for LBJ. Six body spray nozzles, and they say literally that it sprayed hundreds of gallons of water per minute, more than a fire hose. And LBJ never liked warm water. He wanted the water either hot or cold.

That was it. No warm water for LBJ. All right, there you go. 901-260-5926. Our telephone number.

That's 901-260-5926. This is the Todd Stern Show. All right, let's go to the phone lines here: 901-260-5926. Dave, listening to us on WSJS, our great affiliate, High Point, North Carolina. Hi, Dave.

What's on your mind today? Yeah, just to reiterate, like you said, with a little click of the button, and they can change where your login is and all that. You have to do any Yeah. Yeah. The art Allegations and all that they're finding, that Dodge is finding, unless it's just a smokescreen.

There's really no. Yeah. I mean, no perf watch, no nothing yet. No, they're like I said, they push the buttons, they can find stuff, they can find where those checks are going in a click of a button, but there's no. Prosecutions yet?

Well, they've just started focusing on the Department of Labor, and the Labor Secretary says they are going to track down these people. And I can tell you, Dave, we are going to hold people accountable. Again, we're not even one hundred days into this administration yet. But I do expect we are going to see purp walks. And so you're telling me that's what you want to see.

You want to see these people being let out of their homes, being let out of these offices in handcuffs. Yeah, I mean, if there are some, I mean, maybe Cash Capel could use some. Oh, wait, he's. What happened to him? He's not in this administration anymore.

Look that up. Wait, what? Cash Patel, he's no longer in his position, correct? What happened to him? This is just a show.

What are you talking about, Cash Patel? Yes.

He has been removed from his position, has he not? Have you not? Yeah. No, not to my knowledge. You check the news, dude.

He's been removed from his position. The FBI Director is Cash Patel. He was replaced no, he has not. All right, where's your source for that? Where's your source of that information?

Removed, replaced. Where is your all right, Dave? Where is your information for that story? CNN, Fox News, everybody's reporting it. No, he's the FBI director.

You're saying he's no longer the FBI director. He's no longer yeah, he's no longer the FBI director. Google. Where Yeah. You don't know what you're talking about, Dave.

Now, Cash Patel was replaced, or rather, replaced the acting ATF boss. But he is the FBI director. No. You know what? We're done.

We're done. Dave, you can't, we're not going to bring stupid people onto the program. You got to, that's just ridiculous. Unbelievable. Folks Every now and again, we get the seminar callers, and I can appreciate a good seminar caller, but I just can't have somebody that's just going to be downright ignorant.

I mean, and that's just ignorance right there. Speaking of ignorant, I want to play some audio here. You people in Georgia, this is in the, I believe this is Decatur. She represents, I believe this is John Lewis's old congressional district. This is Nakema Williams.

And she is saying that The black people of America are going to suffer if they have to show ID at the polls. Take Alyssa Cut One. In Georgia, over half of the population doesn't have a passport, and our driver's licenses, even the real ID, doesn't prove citizenship. This bill could force Georgians to pay more than $700 million just to register to vote. Y'all, that's the poll tax, plain and simple, and it's blatant voter suppression.

All right, blacklisters, do you believe that? Is that voter suppression? Asking people to show an ID to vote? 901-260-5926. This is the Todd Stern Show.

All right, a little bit of breaking news. President Trump holding a cabinet meeting right now. Elon announcing that so far the savings in fiscal year 2026 will amount to about $150 billion in waste and fraud alone. And that includes the unemployment payments to the people who have not even been born yet. Elon said, they ask me, how do you find waste in government?

He says, I'm like, just go in any direction, that's how you find it. It's very common, as the military would say, target rich environment. Good for you, Elon. Wow, that is a massive, massive amount of money. Welcome back to the Tom Stearns Radio Show.

So, was it last week? Ben Dieter got invited to speak to poor knowledge. Into High school students, so one of these high school seniors at a local Christian school in the Memphis area. And they invited you to come down there and share some of your knowledge. Which is crazy because I don't have much of it.

I think the point for me being there was I was just. young someone their age We're not quite their age, I'm 26.

So it wasn't that long ago since I had also been in high school. And you gotta think, Todd, right now a lot of kids are getting ready to graduate. This is commencement season, so a lot of graduation speeches happening. I wasn't their keynote speaker, but I just shared a. Couple things I've learned along the way.

So you gave them, I know that you were sharing from your list, and what were some of the, what were some of the, some of the, some of the, um, some of the advice you gave the graduating seniors?

Well, I kind of pretended like I was Moses, and I had gone to Mount Sinai, and someone spoke to me and gave me 10 things that I wish I would have known when I was maybe, I don't know, 17, 18 years old. That now I know as a 26-year-old.

So I had 10 of them. And I'll run through a couple of them. Number one was: You're the captain of your ship. You know, Ben Carson uses this poem, and I don't have the poem right in front of me, but he's basically saying, in a world of. And this society where We are constantly told that You're a victim, or it's their fault.

It's not your fault.

So, if you act out, well, that's because your deck of cards was poor.

Well, look at Ben Carson. I mean, the guy literally was born into poverty in the projects, and through a good mother and a great education, look at him today.

So, you're the captain of your ship. And essentially, you own everything: your mistakes, your success. It's on you, and you can't point the finger.

So that was number one. Number two. Being cool is overhyped. A lot of kids these days, Todd, and I'm sure this was the case back in your day as well. Every generation, there's a lot of emphasis on being cool.

But in the real world, what I realized is cool does not give you a promotion. Cool does not give you a paycheck. Pool does not ensure that you have a 401k. Be smart. Because you will be rewarded and you will be respected if you're putting your smarts over just being a cool kid.

Um And then a couple others. I mean, these are just no-brainers. Working hard is really important. No job is beneath you. A lot of these kids come out of college or high school and they want.

To be paid these big salaries. And that's just not how the real world works, Todd. I'm curious, how was when you were sharing, because these are all fascinating things, and I think every high school student in America needs to hear the Ben Dieter Rules for Life, which I'm officially quantifying this as. What was their reaction to the students as you're sharing this, you know, really dropping truth bombs?

Well, when I some of them they took well, but things like Social media is not real life.

So you need to delete that real quick. I mean, these are kids in their. They're 17-year-olds.

Society says you need to be on social media, TikTok, Instagram. And I have found in my early life, it's all fake. And so jump off that.

So I don't think these kids were expecting that. You know, they'll get these speakers from time to time, and they're just talking about: here's the three things you need to do in your first interview to land your first job. Mine was like, you need a job. It's going to be a crappy job. Your job is to make your boss happy.

Get them coffee. Your job is to delete your social media. Get off Instagram because it will come back and bite you in the butt. Sit down. Like, no one cares about your opinion.

Not yet, anyhow. Give yourself 10 years. Don't follow money because you'll be a disaster at it. Follow your dreams. God gave you skills.

God gave you. Different skill sets and line them up with your passions. What do you want to do with your life? And so, you know, it's just. I don't know that the go get a workout plan hit the way that I wanted it to, but you know.

Find a hobby.

So when you're talking to the students afterwards, were the kids, I mean, are most of the kids bound for college or are some of them going into the trade schools or some not going to college at all? What was your take on that?

Well, I Talked to quite a few of them, and these were pretty smart. I mean, it was like half of them were also in homeschool programs. And when you have hiring managers or different recruiters for colleges, and they're looking at They're looking at where you went to school. One thing that a lot of these homeschoolers, you know, want to prevent is someone just looking at homeschool, which we're a big proponent here of on the Todd Starn show. And, um, And so, what ultimately I encouraged them to do is instead of just pursuing the Ivy Leagues, there were a couple kids that actually were going to Ivy Leagues, which was great for them that affirmative action had been struck down.

That was a huge blow for a lot of kids. There were some that were headed to the Ivies, there were some that were headed to different schools, Belmont in Nashville. My encouragement to them were. If you know exactly what you want to do, find a school that will propel you into good internships. But if it's not your plan to go get your doctorate, go to a trade school, or there's a lot of great community colleges, go get your gen eds.

Like, if you are a young person listening to the show right now, you can go to your community college and for two years get all of your gen eds that you're going to be required to get, irregardless of whether you go to Harvard or BC3, which is a community college. I like that idea. Yeah. And then you can go into, say, if you want to go to the University of. Alabama, if you want to go to Georgia, great schools.

But you can kind of lily pad around. Hop around on the lily pads, get your gen eds under your belt, and then go spend that money for those last remaining two years. I love this advice. Dieter, you need to compile all of this and you need to write a book. This is great advice.

Yeah, well, you know, you learn a lot of things and I Yeah. Being an employed adult is totally different than your college experience, your high school experience. You know, you're told. In your junior year of college, your senior year of college, everybody's heard the Oprah speeches at their graduation classes. Reach for the stars.

You are unstoppable. You're going to go be a bestseller and it's like. Uh, maybe. Or you may just be average and that's okay too. Just learn some skill sets, throw yourself at your job, work hard, and.

You'll be okay. You'll land on your feet. I like this advice. Yeah, so I probably should have come in a little bit softer: like, hey, I'm super proud of you guys. But my advice, being a 26-year-old, was.

You're a nobody, and you're going to be okay with that. You're going to be okay, and you're going to earn your way up. Look, there you go. Ladies and gentlemen, what advice. Would you give the graduating class?

Because as Dieter said, a lot of kids are getting ready to graduate high school. And what do you think about the advice that Ben Dieter just poured knowledge, poured knowledge into the mushy minds of these young people as they're beginning to step out into the world? Give us a call, 901-260-5926. That's 901-260-5926. I love this idea, though, Ben, about going to community college and getting those, what did you call them?

Gen eds. Oh, is that what that? Oh, the general education classes. And everybody's got to take. English, which is crazy.

Everybody's got to take math again. Everybody's got to take English or Spanish or French again. It's ridiculous because you did this in high school, right? And you think you're done. And then you go to your college year and you're a freshman and you're sitting in your first classes and they're handing you your syllabus.

And you're like, wait, I just did this in high school. It doesn't matter. You have to basically for the first two years. Cross your T's, dot your I's, and get all of those gen eds. And some of these kids are paying $40,000 a year, their freshman year of school, just to get those gen eds when you could go get that for seven grand at your local community college.

All right.

It's great advice. Ladies and gentlemen, what advice would you give the graduates of 2025? 901-260-5926. That's 901-260-5926. By the way, did they give you like, was this like a paid gig?

Did they feed you or lavish you with like gifts? They gave me pizza. Oh, they gave me pizza and then they gave me some gift cards. I like which was very nice of them to do. Very nice, very nice.

And I gave them my number. And if they wanted job shadow, if they want an internship, if they want to see how radio works or broadcasting. Gave them the number, and they can watch us do radio. Watch the sausage be made, as they say.

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So make the switch today. You won't ever look back. All right, welcome back to the Tod Cerns Radio Show. Let's go right to the phone lines, 901-260-5926. Let's say hello to Amy in Texas City, Texas, listening to us on Patriot Talk 920.

Hi, Amy. What's going on? Hey, how are we? I'm well. Thank you for asking, Amy.

Good, good, good, good, yeah. Um just wanted to let you know that Uh then Advice. We have lived it, we had done it. Is that right? What do you mean?

Both of my kids got their associates in community college and And we They came out of it. They're both debt-free. Is that right? No FAFSA, no student.

Well nothing.

So his advice, people need to follow it because it is 100% doable. And your kids, do they go on beyond community college to a four-year school? Uh my son. Yeah, he actually just started at the University of Houston and he went in as a bachelor, so he'll only have to do his two years. Look at that.

And I have to imagine, have you guys been able to calculate how much money you guys probably saved? I don't know because my daughter, when she went into her program, she's actually a medical assistant now, and she just set it up and she did an automatic payment. It came automatically out of my checking account. I honestly don't even know how much it was. I just saw, I think it was like $200 or $300 a month.

But at the end of each semester, she started the next one, and we didn't have any carryover.

Well, I'll be.

Now, Amy, when you were talking to your kids about all of this, did you get any pushback initially, or were they on board with it? Oh no, my daughter, 100%, because her high school sweetheart was going on to a university and she was like, I can't believe he's spending $80,000. for college for four years when he could spend like a quarter of that by going to community college first. She was telling me about it. She's like, I don't want that debt.

Well, we figured out how to make it work. She was great, and my son, too. My son's like, I'm not spending that kind of money.

Well, it sounds like you raised some smart kids there, Amy. I did. They are fantastic. And my daughter is going to be starting the nursing program in the fall. Proud of them, but as soon as I heard what he said, I'm like, yes.

Yeah. All right.

So Dieter gets an A. Is that what you were saying, Amy? Mm-hmm. It's an A-plus and a graduation cap and all that stuff. I am so proud of him for being 26 and having that mindset.

How about that? Did you're the valedictorian? I actually was.

So I hate to flex, but I actually was. And I got a three-point in college, and I went to, I didn't take that advice, unfortunately, for myself. And I ended up going to a private school, which I regret, Amy, if I'm being completely honest.

So that's why I learned it the hard way, and I didn't want these high schoolers to do what I did. But because I paid for it, my parents didn't pay for the private school. It hit me personally. And so I took my classes even more seriously, which would be my advice to the parents of these high schoolers: let your kids pay for it because their grade point average will be almost a 4.0. I was a 3.9 at the end of my school, and it was a difficult program.

That is amazing.

So, your parents did it right. As hard as it is to let your kids struggle, they did it right. And that's fantastic.

So, yeah, that's great advice for parents. Let your kids struggle, and they'll appreciate it more. I love that. Amy, thank you for calling in, and thanks for listening to Patriot Talk 920. We love hearing from our new friends out in Texas.

Let's go to Wisconsin, and Ken is on the line. All right, Ken, what sort of advice would you like to share?

Well, uh, Todd, um I was uh Thinking along the lines of Um What I mean uh Read a book like what color is your parachute or Uh do what you are. Um One of the one of the books that um you know, it matches your personality, passion and talent. uh with the careers that that line up with them. You know, and and uh That way you're not like You know, I I I see so many tips going to school and spending tens of thousands of dollars getting tens of thousands of dollars in debt. And only about one-third of them end up doing what they went to school for.

You know, and so I mean, you really need to get out there. and and uh working some jobs Maybe take an apprenticeship. Uh, you know, um Get a mentor. Seek out a mentor. Um and and um you know uh do um co-op co-op programs um you know, if you do go to college, there's there's a co op programs where there's a cooperative with a Um with the school.

With certain professions?

Well, Ken, we talk about Career Day a lot at high schools, and I hope these schools are bringing in folks like diesel mechanics and plumbers and roofers and electricians because those are incredibly well-paying jobs. There is such a need right now for those kinds of skilled workers in America. And to your point, you can actually start out as an apprentice and eventually become a very well-off person by doing something in the trades. And so I'm with you. There may be some people out there, and college isn't for them.

One of my favorite calls, I'll always remember this, years ago, we were doing a salute to the trade industry on the show. And we had a listener call in, I think he was 23, 24 years old. He was literally working in a garage, learning how to, he was in school. Learning how to be a diesel mechanic. And it was really one of the neatest calls because, again, it's just an affirmation and a reaffirmation.

That not everybody needs to go to college. Not everybody wants to go to college. And you don't have to go to college if you don't want to. There are plenty of other jobs out there for you. Ken, I got to run.

We've got to take a break here. But, folks, opening up the phone lines. Dieter has struck a nerve, a chord, a positive one. 901-260-5926. What advice do you give the kids graduating in 2025?

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Hour three of the big show coming up next. Live from the Liberty University Studio in Memphis, Tennessee, it's America's conservative blowtorch. That's it. That's right. I love this American ride.

Todd starts.

Well. Hello. Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Todd Sterns Radio Program. We've got a fun hour.

This is sort of a weird hour. I just want to prepare you. Prepare yourselves, ladies and gentlemen. Dare I say, gird your loins, America. Bill Main is going to be with us.

He is the executive vice president and general manager of WDUN in Gainesville, Georgia, one of the very first radio stations to ever pick up my show. And I love these people.

Some of my favorite people in the world live in Gainesville. Bill also hosts the WDU in Morning Show with Bill Main, and it is a terrific program. I'm on every Tuesday at the crack of dawn. It's a lot of fun. And we're going to be talking to Bill Main.

And you know, I think it would be fun if some of our WDU and listeners called in and we could let them talk to Bill Main as well.

So we'll work all that out a little bit later on. I do want to give a shout out, though, to somebody.

So the lovely Kristen. And Dieter can attest to this. It takes a professional makeup artist and hairstylist to make me look even somewhat presentable. For national television. And the lovely Miss Kristen does that every single day.

She's sort of like our version of Steel Magnolias. You know, and when a Dolly Parton she had the beauty parlor, that's in her home, and that's the lovely Miss Kristen. And she comes in every single day before the show and does the hair and the makeup.

So I look halfway decent on Newsmax.

So anyway, the some exciting news. The lovely Miss Kristen, she is married to a firefighter in the Memphis Fire Department, firefighter Gary. And today, is retirement day. He has been with the Memphis Fire Department, and he is retiring after 33 years of fighting fires. And they're having a big, they've already had, I think, a big celebration.

It was a surprise party. But anyway, he's wearing one of those yellow reflective vests that says retired 2025, and it's got the sloth. The little sloth critter, and it says, Not my problem anymore. I love that. So, anyway, happy retirement day, Gary.

33 years of fighting fires and serving the city of Memphis. And we salute you and we wish you nothing but the very best. All right, I've I've got a question for Dylan. Because I am just Clearly, my cultural references are sort of old school now, but there is a movie that's gone gangbusters, and it's based on what a video game called Minecraft. Is that right?

Did I get that correct? Yes, Minecraft. All right, so tell me, so this is insane.

So teenage boys are going bonkers over this movie. Yeah, I think it attributes highly to the fact that it's like the highest-selling game in the world, Minecraft is.

So it has a big fan base.

So, just to give you some comparison, because I don't think it's getting that much publicity in the media, though, right? And not as much as Snow White. No, definitely not as much.

So Snow White's opening weekend was $86.1 million, a complete bomb. Minecraft, on the other hand. It opened $301 million opening weekend. And I want to read this to you, Dylan, because I'm very curious to hear your take on what the heck is going on. Teenage boys are going absolutely nuts in movie theaters during the new Minecraft movie, throwing popcorn in the air.

And even bringing live chickens into the theater. Why are they bringing live chickens into the theater? Yeah, I'm glad you asked. There's a the chickens are playing a big part of the game. I mean, you have to kill the chickens and you also can farm the chickens.

But this particular chicken that they're talking about is a baby zombie. riding on top of a chicken. And it's called a chicken jockey. Oh, because the baby zombie is riding the chicken like it would be riding a horse in a race. Is that right?

Pretty much, yeah. All right.

Is this part of the video game? It is. And it's a rare thing to see in the game, but I mean, it's very exciting, obviously, to these young boys. Have you seen the videos coming out of these movie theaters? Yeah, I feel bad for the workers, honestly, because they threw, it was like the entire theater threw their entire bucket of popcorn in the air.

Why are they doing that? Are they being instructed to do that? Or they're like whooping and hollering, and it's so loud you can't even hear what's happening on the theater screen. Right.

Well, the movie also makes a bunch of references to the game.

So they call out things like the crafting table, which is like an integral part of the game. The zombies, the other things that you know you just come across.

So, like, they're cheering for almost every single bit of those references in the movie. The vandalism was so bad in one New Jersey theater, they've actually had to restrict kids. No unsupervised kids can attend movies. This was like when they uh the minions movie came out, and like all those guys came in dressed in like tuxedos and all the minion suits. Oh, yes, I remember that.

It was awful. Wow. So apparently there's even a song. It's called Steve.

Now, who is Steve? Steve is a character. That's the Jack Black character. Yeah. Steve is like the default character that you play once you get into the game.

Everybody is Steve, basically, once you start the game of Minecraft.

So there's a song. It's called the Lava Chicken Song. Have you heard of this? I haven't heard that one. It goes something like: these are the lyrics: La La, La, Lava, Cha-cha, Cha-cha, Chicken.

Steve's Lava Chicken, yeah, it's tasty as hell. Ooh, Mamasita, now you're ringing the bell. Crispy and juicy, now you're having a snack. Ooh, super spicy. It's a lava attack.

Mm-hmm. That's the Chicken Lava song. Get you.

So any so so I I'm just I'm sorry to ask this. It's it's just asked out of sheer ignorance. But if in fact there's like a zombie baby on the chicken, would the zombie not like eat the chicken? Apparently not this zombie. This is a zombie friends with the chicken.

So there's some sort of all right, so maybe it's a force field around the chicken. There's something that prevents the the the zombie baby from from gnawing on the chicken. Maybe the chicken's also a zombie, so it's like You can't eat your own. Have you seen it yet? I haven't.

I don't think I'm going to. I'd be afraid. Yeah. But what are they bringing the live chickens in? I don't understand.

How do you sneak that in? That concerns me. What are they doing with the chickens? This is terrible. All right.

So that's the big craze here.

So if you hear people talking about chicken jockeys and zombie babies and Minecraft, that's what's going on. I do feel bad for the movie theater people. I feel bad for the people that have to clean up this mess because they're literally throwing everything. I mean, it's just, it's like an avalanche of popcorn and soft drinks, and they're throwing them.

So if you're in the front of the theater, that's a very bad place for you to be. I guess you would want to sit in the back of the theater for Minecraft. There you go. 901-260-5926. Our telephone number.

That's 901-260-5926. Interesting story out of Notre Dame, the university there now using federal funds to study criminals. Queer farmer relationships. This story from the college fix, Casey Harper is the writer. U.S.

taxpayers selling out tens of thousands of dollars to the U.S. Department of Agriculture for research on LGBT issues, the kind of funding that's now under scrutiny by the Trump administration. The research relies on conducting interviews in one case for $373 per Zoom call. One taxpayer-funded research grant studied queer farmers' quality of life in Pennsylvania. The Sustainable Ag Research and Education Project.

Paid fourteen thousand nine hundred ninety seven dollars for the twenty eighteen. Grants. They also Petitioned a study in Pennsylvania at Penn State. The project titled Sexuality and Sustainable Agriculture examining queer farmers' quality of life in Pennsylvania. The grant proposal says the topic is woefully understudied.

I I have to imagine it is. I I can't imagine there are that many queer farmers in Pennsylvania or, quite frankly, the United States of America. Maybe I'm mistaken. I don't know what they're hoeing in the garden, but maybe, just maybe, this is a bit of a stretch. The grad student who assisted with the project, Michaela Hoffelmeyer.

presented the findings to the Rural Sociological Society annual meeting in Richmond, Virginia. I bet that was a hoppin' meeting down at the what, Day's Inn, maybe? Her research highlighted some of the challenges faced by queer farmers. Reporting that findings suggest transgender, non-binary, and women farmers face additional hurdles. What would those hurdles be?

I mean, a hoe is a hoe, right? Am I missing something here? I I don't get it. Huffelmeyer says on the university website. She applies feminist criticism.

Queer and labor theories, and her research to inform ag programs and policy. On how to make shifts to support viability.

Well-being and sustainability. You still gotta slop the hogs. I don't care if you're gay, if you're straight. Lesbian, you got to slop the hogs. There are just some things you got to do.

You gotta feed the chickens. Or, in this case, you could ride them, I suppose, and it'd be perfectly okay if you're in a. If that's your cup of tea. But I'm concerned about the first of all, I thought and correct me if I'm wrong here, but my understanding is any school that was doing this kind of nonsense would lose all their federal funding.

So what in the world is going on at the Cath for the Catholics over at Notre Dame? Why do we really need to study? Queer Farmer Relationships Can we not just leave the sheep alone? Can we do that, please? Let let the livestock be.

Do we really Do we really need to do can't we just let let the sheep be sheep? Can't we just do that? Got to take a break. 901-260-5926, our telephone number. That's 901-260-5926.

Coming up, we have some fresh audio from the president's cabinet meeting. The labor secretary giving us some more intel on the number of 115-year-olds that are getting unemployment checks. We'll be right back. La la la la la. Oh, it's a little got a little beat to it there.

It's a toe-tapper there, Dylan. That's the chicken lava song from Minecraft. All right, welcome back. 901-260-5926. You know, could you imagine?

If we could get like Joe from L A J and maybe Miss Carlotta from Rhode Island, and we get Connor from Boston and Miss Janice in New Orleans, and we all went to go see the Chicken Zombie movie together. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. That would be insane. All right.

Welcome back, everybody. Good to have you with us. I want to play some audio. This is the Labor Secretary just a little while ago talking about this incredible corruption they've uncovered within the Department of Labor when it comes to unemployment. Take a listen.

We're understanding unemployment insurance fraud. That trust needs to be whole for the American people. When we need it, we need it for who deserves it. That's not what we're seeing. And the numbers that we saw last night, again, exposed by our partners at the Department of Labor, since 2020, over $400 million of payments have gone out already.

And when you hear these numbers, apparently in the United States, we have over almost 25,000 people who are over 115 years old who are collecting $59 million that we have sent out to people. Talk about fraudulent behavior. Mr. President, $28,000. People between one and five years old have collected Fraudulent payments at the tune of $254 million has gone out.

And lastly, 10,000 people who have not been born yet. 15 years into the future, $69 million, and they haven't even been born yet. In one case, they will be born 129 years from now. The United States government sent them $41,000 and they're not born yet.

So, under the Department of Labor, those are the things that we're uncovering. I couldn't be more honored to tell the American people that we're bringing back their dollars and we're saving them and returning them to the United States Treasury.

Well, I'm certainly glad to hear that. But again, that's just absolutely insane, the numbers there. And we had a previous caller early on who said, you know what? We need to start seeing purp walks. And I agree.

We need to start making very public arrests. We've been seeing this with the Tesla terrorists, and I'd like to see it with some of these people that are stealing our money. And that's what it is, ladies and gentlemen. This is nothing more than theft. Oh, I've got to play this audio from last night, CNN.

They're holding these town halls, and they had one last night with the aging socialist Bernie Sanders and Anderson Cooper. And I want you to hear what happened yesterday.

Now I wanna you know sometimes These issues. about health care. About income and wealth inequality are not talked about in the corporate media, and it's time that we did talk about them. That's why the question a moment ago, why are people losing faith in the American system? We don't talk about it on CNN.

We don't talk about it in Congress. It's because they understand that a handful of billionaires exert enormous influence. And that has got to change.

So when I'm running around the country with Alexandria and other people, what we are trying to do is demand that working class people begin to stand up and fight for their rights. There is no reason we should be the only major country not to have health care, not to have paid family and medical leave, et cetera, et cetera, why we have the highest rate of childhood poverty, almost any major country. 22% of our seniors living on $15,000 a year. Anybody here think that makes sense? Yeah.

But you've got to get CNN to talk about these issues. You got to get your members of Congress to talk about these issues. All right.

So Bernie Sanders ripping CNN a new one writer, Anders Guba didn't know what to do. And it was pretty beautiful. But then this happened. Oh, we're back with Senator Bernie Sanders. I want to introduce Grace Thomas.

She's a local civil rights attorney. She's a Democrat. Grace? Say them pronouns, actually. Thank you.

Oh. Good evening, Senator Sanders. Oopsie. Oopsie. There you have it, ladies and gentlemen.

A woman who happens to be a civil rights attorney was misgendered by gay Anderson Cooper on national television. And people are having a lot of fun with this, but it was funny. I think Riley Gain said, All right, is Anderson Cooper going to lose his job here? I mean, the guy misgendered a woman on national television. Pardon me, misgendered a they, them on national television.

It couldn't have happened to him better. And Anderson Cooper's like, wait, what? And Bernie Sanders didn't know where he was or what he was doing. But it's uh you can You know what? They got to keep it up.

They've got to keep it up. These they's and them's and the Z's and the Zurs and the alphabet people, they got to keep this up because the more they take us down this path, The more that Donald Trump is going to become more popular. I mean, that's just really the way it goes. All right, 901-260-5926. Coming up, we're going to be talking to Bill Main, who is the host of the morning show and executive VP at WTUN in Gainesville, Georgia.

And we're going to be opening up the phone lines, and you'll be able to talk to Bill. Also, just a reminder, folks, about our friends at Old Glory Bank. Man, this has been a huge story over the past year where so many conservatives have been debanked by some of the big guys. I'm not going to name names, but you know what I'm talking about.

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They do protect your privacy, your security, and your liberty. That email address, one more time, old or the website address, oldglorybank.com slash starnes. Uh And welcome back, everybody. This is the Todd Stearns Radio Show, and always fun to talk to folks that work at our affiliate radio stations around this great nation, and we've got a lot of them. Bill Main joins us.

He is the Executive Vice President and General Manager at WTUN, and he hosts the incredibly popular morning show there. Is it still called Mornings on Main? Is that it, Bill Main? Morning's on Main Street, but we put an E at the end 'cause that's how you spell the name. On Maine, like the states.

I I got it. I that's how you spell it out. I keep trying to get the city to change it, but they won't.

Well, we could you we could start a petition drive. Yeah, call Elon. Let's see if we can fix it.

So look, you have been I'm just I'm fascinated by this story. You know, in the radio industry, folks are like at a station for a couple of years and then they're off to the next station. But how long have you been at WDUN? Let's see, since just after Thanksgiving of nineteen eighty, so what do we get, Kath? 45 years coming up this week.

Wow. Wow. That's amazing. And you wear many hats at the radio station. Uh I am uh I'm the Morse Show host.

And then I'm the general manager and executive vice president.

So that means I make the schedules. Take care of programming and as a scheduler maker and hire and all that sort of stuff, you do a lot of counseling in your office as well. Um, but it's fun. It's radio, man. Do you charge for the counseling or is that free?

I should. They have away. I'm a little winded right now, I got to be honest with you. I just didn't make the hit, and I'm glad I made the hit just in time because I was being chased by a zombie on a chicken, and it was just difficult to get here. I was Worried I wouldn't make it alive.

I'm concerned about the live chickens in the theater. I that just creeps me out.

Well, we're in the poultry capital of the world, as we like to think of ourselves, and that is yet to happen here.

So, I think so far, so good. We like our poultry on a plate. If it was going to happen, well, it was going to happen anywhere. It's going to happen in Gainesville, Georgia, the chicken capital of the world. Most definitely.

Bill, I'm always fascinated by local radio and you guys and the work y'all are doing there at WDUN. I mean, it's really remarkable. It's a family-owned company. And you guys, I mean, you have a full news crew, the whole nine yards. That's right.

We and we just moved as you know, we just moved downtown onto the square basically within, I don't know, fifty yards of where we started back in nineteen forty nine. And so we've moved our studios. We have a storefront studio there. And you've had the pleasure of being in that studio. We've got a full staff newsroom with Uh let's see if uh Up to five or six people in there at any one time during the day and what have you spread out through there.

And of course, our website access WDUN, which is an online news site which is going 24-7 with news from not locally, locally, state, national, it's all right there. What's the secret sauce to the success?

So many of the big corporate guys are going belly up, and you guys are thriving. The secret to the sauce is local. The bottom line is local being in touch with your community and knowing what they want and not trying to be something more than what you are and what you should be.

So we super serve our community. We're in Hall County, Gainesville is, but we have 10 counties that touch us, and that's our coverage area. Our epicenter, though, is out of Gainesville, and that's what we specialize in. And no one else is really doing that.

So that's what you do. And with so many corporations that own five or six. Sticks in the market. The problem there is they're competing against themselves for the same ad dollars, and they're not doing a very good job of it sometimes. No, no, they're not.

And you guys do a terrific job of that. You've got some great sales folks there, and the whole team is just a lot of fun. And you've got, now I stole one of your staffers, and then you guys stole him back.

So, good old Avery Bryson. How's Avery doing? Is he doing well? Avery's doing very well. Here's what I did with Avery.

When Avery came back and he was looking for some work, and I said, you know, we've got this thing we call Swap Shop on Saturdays, and I was having to host it Because our regular host had decided to move on to something else. And so I was working every Saturday morning. I don't mind it, but after a while, you know, if you got to travel or do things like that, you got somebody to spill in.

So I just threw Avery in the fire, and he has done well.

So he hosts that morning on that show on Saturday mornings. And then he produces the rest of Saturday morning for our can-do because we have a gardening show and a home improvement show, and he produces those. And then now he's also working as a videographer in our news department.

So he's been producing some news stories for us from the video standpoint for our website. Matter of fact, he posted one yesterday about a new feature that we have at the rowing venue here because we are an Olympic rowing venue. I want to bring Dieter into the conversation here because I don't think Dieter's doing enough work right now.

So you're telling me I'm hearing him on the air as much as I'm hearing you. I think he's busy.

So this swap shop idea.

So Dieter could get on the air and people basically, it's like, I've got something to sell, and here's my number.

Okay, Dieter, how old are you, Dieter? I'm 26. Oh, you're 26.

Okay. So here's, let me break it down into terms you can understand. You know, Facebook Marketplace and Craigslist? Yes.

Okay, it's on the radio. That's what the swap shop is. It's basically people doing that, but they just call it in. And it's, you know, I don't know, Todd, were you in the days when other people called it by other names like Tradio? Tradio or the funeral home of the air.

Remember that when you did funer live funeral notices on the radio? Sure did. Absolutely did. Wait, Bill, how do you vet that you're not getting crap? Because Facebook marketplace is crap.

Not out there. You can't. It it it the market the market actually uh adjusts itself because if people sell stuff that's not Not upping up, or they're not upping up, they call and report them.

So we have a really good cadre of folks. We have some regulars, but a lot of people just call in because they got a one off. They hear about it and they want to sell something. And I actually had someone call me last or text me this morning. Todd, is some funny to bring us up.

They text me. This woman texted me and said she thanked us for having the show. She called last week or the week before. And someone Bought what she had for sale. And when they came out there, they realized that she needed some help with her ramp for her wheelchair.

Because it was having to go through the mud when you got the bottom ramp.

So he came out and he concreted in the bottom of it so she wouldn't have to go through the mud anymore.

Now he's doing some other work for her. Yeah. So they people meet each other and they end up. helping each other a lot of time. I love this.

I think this what a great idea. And well, it's nice to know that Avery is doing that. By the way, can I just say something? This is just a general observation about the callers we get from WTUN. Many of them are calling with nicknames.

Are you aware of this? Yes, I have heard that. I do. Yeah. We get some of those here.

We have Camaro Raymond, and I've got Alan from Raven Gap who calls. I don't know if that's a neat name, but he's a neat caller.

So is that from the old Ludlow porch days? Is that where that came from? I think that's where it comes from because, you know, that's what they did on Ludlow all the time. Everybody, you know, came up with a nickname. I miss Luddy.

That was a lot of fun. That was great radio. The Fun Seekers Network. I remember that growing up. That was great radio and trivia.

By the way, you guys. are like the trivia kings of America.

Okay. Every morning on Mornington Main Street, just before we end the show, so about eight fifty before the eight fifty news hit, we do a thing called four random. And that's where I come up with four random facts, pieces of trivia, every day. And so maybe that's what we're doing. Maybe we're educating folks.

I don't know. Maybe we're helping out. It's the trivia capital of the world. I will fight people to the death over that.

So I don't know how you guys do it. Bill is, I mean, again, just the amount of work that is in radio, and it's just, for me, it's just a lot of fun. You know, yesterday, After the Newsmax show, I was putting on the boots and heading down to our tower site, which right now is in the middle of the Mississippi River because of all the flooding. But I mean, there really is something weird yet fun and quirky about radio. Yeah, if you've ever been bitten by the bug, you're infected and you're going to be involved in it in some form or fashion.

I've known a lot of people in this industry and who've worked here who have come through our doors who actually in college were doing something else and they got a chance to be on the college radio station and they totally changed their major and they got into radio.

So it's mamas and don't let your babies grow up to be disc jockeys because if they ever go once, they're going to be going again and again. But I got to put a shout out here if I could, Todd. And I hope you'll I encourage you and other listeners, log on at accesswdw.com. There's a story there I want you to look at, especially radio fanatics. We have another gentleman in town who owns a radio station, Glory thirteen thirty, and it's a religious or or station.

They do a lot of preaching and songs, and they do a lot of sports there as well, local. They're very local. But my buddy Mike over there, yesterday, his tower fell. And there was a bit of an accident there. Nobody was hurt, but his tower's down, so he's internet only.

But I think it's a good example. We did a story on it. We talked to Mike about it. he's just a good salty earth guy. But it's one of those things where Todd, you're in this business, we compete against each other, but we also help each other because if we don't, we none of us will survive.

And Mike sent me an email today, and he said, thank you for helping me out. or you know for getting this word out. And then the last line in his email was If there's something I can do for you, just let me know. Wow. But that's Mike.

But Mike's always been that way. But that's the way this business is. We compete, but we all love radio, and we'll do whatever it is to help the other guy just so we can all be on the air. I want you folks to go over to the website, and we'll post this on ours after the show. But go to access story.

Yeah, accesswdun.com, and you'll see the story. And within the story, there's actually a link where you can check out, and maybe there's a way that you can help. This is awful. This is a terrible story.

So apparently, the guy wires were accidentally cut during lawn care. And of course, that is always a great concern when you are in a giant field.

So I'm somewhat trembling as I'm reading this story right now. Yeah, you need to watch out for those guys, that's for sure. Paint them red or put fences around them, one of the two. Bill, the K-Wham Tower has been there for like 75 years, and it's in a field right next to the Mississippi River. And it's normally dry, but we have had major floods.

And right now, the entire site's under about two and a half, three feet of water with about several thousand water moccasins guarding the tower site. No, it's terrible. And so, when I bought the station, they told me that what you have to do is you have to rig a pulley system between this tree and the tower itself, and then you have to basically pull yourself over in a boat to get to the tower.

So, our engineers, yeah, it's quite the adventure. But, you know, it's just one of those things where it's just one of the fun stories about local radio.

Well, you know, if you have that situation here, we know so many folks with boats. We get you a bass boat, we can get you over there, no problem. You see, I like that with the baseball bat, so you can knock off the water moccasins. Those suckers are aggressive. Just tell them the bass are biting, and they'll help you.

Our engineer standing up there and told me about that. I have never heard anything like that. That is crazy, man. It's the funniest story, but here's the best part of it all. I shared some pictures on our social media of the flooding, which is really impressive.

And one of the old timers from back in, he worked at K-Wham in Memphis back in the 1970s. And back then, the station was actually at the tower site, at the transmitter site. And they actually had Jerry Clower. Come in person and climb up the stairs and haul. And he did.

Jerry Clower did like a 30-minute interview back in the day. Wow, that is incredible. That is incredible. We had an issue where our generators, we have generators at all of our sites because we have three towers and three transmitter sites in the building, so we have four generators. And one year during this ice storm, we ended you we used to call this thing back in the day when we ever had snow in or ice in, they call it the ice house gang.

And we'd just go live all day. We just put all the program aside and people just call and you just because there's nothing else to do. I mean, the town shuts down.

So uh but this particular time, our we had no fuel on our generator and didn't realize it. But we headed to the transmitter side up the hill. And so we moved the host up into the transmitter building plugged two microphones in and some headphones into the STL so that we could get it out, and that's what we did. Um we didn't have water to deal with, but uh we were iced in in no generator. Wow.

You know, we did not have a generator, and I had to run the entire station for a football game. Through my Cadillac. Really? It was a great game, but yeah, but everything was plugged into my car. I'll tell the boys at Hayes.

They'll be glad to hear that.

Well, please tell. That's where I bought my car from.

So great folks over there. Bill Main, thank you for coming on. And I love local radio, and we celebrate radio on this show. And we just really appreciate the great relationship we've had with you guys over the years. Same here, and I appreciate it.

Todd, when you're on my show on Tuesday mornings, appreciate the conversations. We always have fun. We talk about the serious topics, but we also throw out the fun topics. By the way, real quick, I know you're up against the break here, but real fast, today we did a topic of if you had to sing karaoke, What would your karaoke song be? Oh my word.

You raise me up? Or no, pretty fly for a white guy. That's my jam. Yeah. 35.

I want to see it on Facebook. All right, Bill Main, we'll let you get back to it. All right, you too. We'll talk to you too. All right.

The great Phil Dane from WDUM. What a fun group of folks over there. And, folks, let me say this: we have, I think, what, 100 and some odd stations that carry this show. Just imagine 100 some odd stations just like WDM, because that's really what it's like, you know, with these with our local radio affiliates.

So much fun. And as you heard, even something like Swap Shop, Dieter, don't worry, we're not going to make you do Swap Shop. It was just. The conversation, theater of the mind.

So, we're not going to give you more work to do. But the idea that a guy could, you know, would just voluntarily help somebody who needed some work done so they get their wheelchair up the ramp. I mean, those are the kinds of stories that I love to talk about. All right, we've got to take a break here: 901-260-5926. This is the Todd Stern show.

All right, 5 o'clock Eastern, the Todd Stern Show on Newsmax 2. Be sure to watch, we have a lot of fun on that show. Dayter, I know you were worried. I was just trying to be humorous. I wasn't going to make you host Swap Shop on the local KWAM.

Webbed radio station. You know, if that was done in Memphis, Tennessee, one of my main stories as the morning show guy is. People end up buying stolen cars on Facebook all the time because we have a massive, we have 55 cars. Cars that are stolen every hour in this city. It's like an absurd amount of cars.

True. And so a lot of times the thugs steal the car, then they list the car on Facebook Marketplace.

So you're scrolling, you're looking for a car for your kid, and you buy it. And the next thing you know, the authorities are showing up. busting down your door going, you're in a stolen car. And so, if we were to do that on the air and people were calling in and selling their vehicle, we would just have to make sure, we would have to thug proof this system. 'Cause people can't sell their stolen cars.

Or we could just call it the K-WAM Chomp Shop, you know, where you can come and offload your stolen vehicles.

Okay. There could be a market for that. I don't know. But Dylan was not, he was unclear. And I explained to him: this is pretty much how swap shops go back in the day.

You know, the phone would ring. It's like, oh, this is Carl, and I've got about four car tires out here in the front yard. I'm trying to get rid of for, I'll take about $5 for them. And then somebody else calls in, and well, I'll trade those car tires for three chickens, laying hens. And that's how you do it.

And you build this great community. You should try it. Maybe we should. Can we do it on your national show? Yes, I think that's a brilliant idea.

Because I bet the people in Georgia would appreciate some of this stuff over at KYK and Oregon Territory. We just facilitate it all. We're basically Craigslist. I bet the Bartlesville crowd, I bet they would really get into that. And I have to imagine the Patriot talk crowd in Houston would as well.

We've got some great farmers in Jackson that could ship some of their products and produce over to our friends in Baltimore. Love them. Because they're in the city and they need that stuff. A national swap shop.

So instead of doing Open Line Friday. It sounds like you're saying a sweat shop. This isn't a sweat shop. No? Swap shop.

Swap. Swap shop. We could get Avery to come over and he could he could MC or something. I love this idea. All right.

Wow, it's been a lot of fun. By the way, got a quick note from Glory, one of our listeners in Richmond, Texas. And Glory, tomorrow. We're going to be naming and shaming these Republican senators that are standing in the way of President Trump's agenda.

So don't you worry. We're going to be providing names and phone numbers so you'll be able to light up the switchboard there in our nation's capital. All right, folks, it's been a great day, busy day. Again, tonight, 5 o'clock Eastern on Newsmax 2, be sure to watch the Todd Stern show. In the meantime, head over to our website, ToddSterns.com.

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