58 House Dems Refuse to Condemn Charlie Kirk’s Assassination

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So a couple of stories. And first, right out of the House of Representatives. Just a little while ago, there was a vote on a resolution honoring the life and legacy of Charlie Kirk. It was a beautiful. Beautiful resolution.

Sponsored by the Speaker of the House himself, Mike Johnson. And I'm not going to read the whole thing, but I do want to read. I do want to read a portion of it. But before we do that, I'll let you know that it did pass and that there were Democrats who crossed over. and voted with Republicans.

But fifty eight Democrats refused to vote. They voted against Charlie's Resolution. They voted against. Honoring Charlie Kirk. But they also did something else.

They voted. against condemning the assassination. Of Charlie Kirk, because here's what the resolution said. It condemned in the strongest possible terms. The assassination of Charlie Kirk.

And all forms of political violence.

So, those 58 Democrats are okay with Charlie being assassinated. Those 58 Democrats are okay with all forms of political violence. The resolution also commends and honors the dedicated law enforcement and emergency personnel. who worked tirelessly to find the suspect. involved in the assassination.

They voted against that. They also extended their deepest condolences to Charlie's wife Erica and their two young children are By the way, word came out yesterday she's expecting A third child. A child that will never know his or her father. The Democrats, those fifty-eight Democrats, refused. refused to honor.

or offer condolences or sympathy to misses Kirk. And also, they called upon all Americans, regardless of race. party affiliation creed to reject political violence. Recommit to respectful debate. uphold American values and respect one another as fellow Americans.

Those fifty-eight Democrats, they found that offen that statement to be offensive. Offensive So they voted it down. It's Anda. I'm never speechless. Because I'm a professional talk radio host.

I could always find something to talk about. A chatterbox. But I find myself beyond words. I find myself grasping to find the right words. to describe my contempt for the Democratic Party right now.

The fact that 58 Democrats, by the way, there was another resolution. Remember when the Minnesota lawmakers were gunned down in their home by that radical moron? Re remember that in Minnesota? That that resolution passed unanimously. And again, I go back to this idea that the Republican Party, at the core, the core value, the central value of the Republican Party is life.

That's it. And if we can't get that one issue right, we can't get anything else right. Which is why I believe that the Republican Party is the only choice for Americans. Because the Democrats are the party of death. On many, many different levels.

They are. It grieves me to say that, but it is true.

Now Among those who voted against this, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, AOC, the leader of the Democrat Party, she is, it's not Hakeem Jeffries. Who, by the way, to his credit voted for the resolution, it's AOC. She is the one leading the party right now. She is a radical leftist. And here she is explaining why she refused to not only honor Charlie Kirk's life, but also she refused to condemn political violence.

Take a listen to Cut 17. Today's resolution only underscores the majority's recklessness. by choosing to author this condemnation and honoring on a purely partisan basis. Instead of uniting Congress, in this tragedy. With one of the many bipartisan options to condemn political violence and Kirk's murder, as we did with the late Melissa Hortmann.

Instead, The majority proceeded with a resolution that brings great pain to the millions of Americans who endured segregation, Jim Crow, and the legacy of bigotry today. We should be clear. about who Charlie Kirk was. A man who believed that the Civil Rights Act that granted black Americans the right to vote was a mistake. Who, after the violent attack on Paul Pelosi, claimed that, quote, some amazing patriot.

Unquote, should bail out his brutal assailant. And accused Jews of controlling, quote, not just the colleges. It's the non-profits, it's the movies, it's Hollywood, it's all of it. Unquote. His rhetoric and beliefs were ignorant.

Uneducated, and sought to disenfranchise millions of Americans. Far From the working, quote, working tirelessly to promote unity, unquote, asserted by the majority in this resolution. It is equally important. that Congress does unite. To reject the government's attempt to weaponize this moment into an all-out assault on free speech across the country.

All in the name of Charlie Kirk. President Trump and the FCC are now cynically threatening to shut down ABC and any outlets who give airtime to the Administration's political critics. This is a disgusting attack on the American people. and the very First Amendment rights that define us as a country. There you go, ladies and gentlemen.

AOC explaining why she believes in political violence in America. Look, there are a lot of preachers out there I've been following. I've actually had to unfollow so many evangelical Christian preachers over the past week. These people are nothing more than radical leftists. who are poisoning their pulpits And spewing woke garbage to their congregations.

And it's just shocking, the numbers, just shocking. But I I've got to tell you, I am so tired of these woke preachers and the mainstream media and the Democrats and even some Republicans. Trying to advance his narrative of Both side-isms. I'm tired of it. I am done.

Ladies and gentlemen, 58 Democrats refuse to condemn political assassinations in the House of Representatives. Do you understand what that means? 58 Democrats believe it's okay to go out there and shoot somebody you disagree with. This is it's beyond absurd. It's beyond some sort of a of a dark comedy.

This is a very dangerous time in American history. And by the way, within the Democrat world, those numbers are only going to keep going up. Those numbers are going to rise in the coming election cycles.

So it's a big mess. It's a big mess. And you Democrats, you got to figure out what you want to be. Because right now, we are heading down a dark path in this country. The idea that 58 Democrats believe it's okay to use violence.

To silence a political opponent. That's just unacceptable. All right, we got to take a quick break here. 901-260-5926. That's 901-260-5926.

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You know, A O C. Went on to say this about Charlie Kirk. It's just so vile. It's this woman is demonic. I mean, this is evil here.

And this is this is not h humans humans don't talk like this. They can't talk like this. She said we should be clear about who Charlie Kirk was. His rhetoric and beliefs were ignorant, uneducated, and sought to disenfranchise millions of Americans. This is evil.

And and the fact is that the exact opposite is is true, of course. It was in fact the Democrats and and whenever the Democrats get up and they accuse the other side of being something, they are the ones who are in fact whatever they're accusing the other side of being. They're the ones who have Disenfranchised millions of Americans. And we know that from Senator Chuck Grassley from Iowa just a couple of days ago, Operation Arctic. Uh what was it, Arctic Frost?

Operation Arctic Frost, where the FBI was covertly investigating nearly one hundred conservative organizations, including Turning Point USA, And we've got no clear indication from the FBI what precipitated the investigations. Why is it targeting Charlie Kirk? Why is it they were going after Turning Point USA? And I would contend when you look out and yesterday at, for example, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, there were 10,000 people in the stands. Charlie was supposed to be there.

The event got canceled, but 10,000 people still showed up. This is happening all over America, and I'm telling you, we're watching a modern-day. American Revolution unfolds and it's rolling across the nation. And the Democrats see this and they don't know what to do. They can't stop it.

So, what they're doing is they're resorting to violence. And when you're a Democrat in the House of Representatives and you stand up there and you vote against a resolution condemning political violence and political assassinations, that tells me that you're endorsing it. There's really no other there is no other explanation. These are evil people we're dealing with, and God hates evil, and so should we. Here's Congressman Steve Scalise on the vote today and the Democrats who voted no.

Take a listen to Cut 18. Yeah, it's a shame that that's where their party has moved. It's not where America is. I mean, my gosh, we've seen such an outpouring of love. For Charlie, what he represented, the idea that we should be able to debate freely even when we disagree and do it in a civil way.

And that's what Charlie did, and it's what he represented. It's why you've seen millions of people that maybe never heard of him. Thinking about things differently, but you know, what happened on the House floor, those members who voted no, I thought it was disgraceful. I mean, just paying. Tribute, paying honor to his life that was taken away by an assassin.

You know. That's something they've got to answer, not me. Yeah, look, and hear me on this. I don't hate AOC, I hate the demon that has possessed her. That's what I these people are possessed by demons.

And we have got that is a spiritual problem. We wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities and darkness. That's what we're fighting up against. And that's why those people are going out there. They are deceived.

Deceived. 901-260-5926 is our telephone number. That's 901-260-5926.

And by the way, just to give you an example, Jasmine Crockett came out just a couple of days ago. And she was really fired up about this.

Well, I'm the most peaceful person I know. I'm just the most peaceful, loving human being I know. And she was flapping the eyelashes so much you could see like a breeze forming. I've never seen life at. There she was, Jasmine Crockett, just shucking and jiving.

Chuckin' and jobin'. Good god. He's a little bit of a drink. Yeah, so Jasmine Crockett is out there, and she's talking about how she's never called anyone a Nazi, she's never called anyone a fascist. She's just Preaching the gospel.

I'm a preaching the gospel. Hallelujah. Alleluia. That's Jasmine Crockett. Really, take a listen to this: Cut 16.

But we got to come together because it's not each other that is the problem. It's the other side. It's the fascist. It's the wannabe dictator. It is, you know, the hater in chief.

It is the racist in chief. Like that is what we've got to get out of. And so I think we will. Yeah, there you go. That's Jasmine.

Now, some of you may be thinking, oh, well, maybe that was just like an oopsie moment for Jasmine Cronkin. But I don't think so. Because Jasmine Crockett has a history of not only going after conservatives, but really dehumanizing. Conservatives, right?

So we've been playing this audio over and over again, but we have some new audio. She sat down for an interview. And Dylan, I know that you cut all this audio and you see Jasmine there, and she's doing her like it depends on what Jasmine you get. You're going to get white Jasmine or you're going to get like ghetto jasmine. And there's no rhyme or reason to which one shows up.

Hello, I'm Jasmine Crockett, and I was educated at Rhodes College, and I'm a very well-educated woman to. Put the shut to the up. Let me ask you a question. But you're like, wait, what? What happened here?

So I don't know if we have like a white demon and ghetto demon and they're like battling internally for the soul of Jasmine Cross. I don't know what is going on there. We need to figure it out because. Again, I don't hate these people. I don't loathe these people.

I loathe and hate the demons that are possessing them, whether it's a white demon or a ghetto demon. I don't know. But anyway, again, here is Jasmine Crockett. Shucking and jiving once again. Cut 14.

I talk to black folk all the time, and somebody is the child of a preacher. Listen, most black people are not Republicans simply because we just is like, y'all racist. I can't hang out with the KKK in them. That's really what it is, but when we think about who we are as black people And we think about where we come from, most black people have very conservative values. Right?

But the reality is that like we just can't side with like the neo-Nazis and them. We like, we not dealing with y'all like that, right? Hello. Yeah. Oh my gosh.

Yeah, these people. I mean, it's insane. And nobody ever calls them. Nobody. No, you can't call them out because if you do, well, all of a sudden, you're a racist or a xenophobe or a homophobe or whatever.

So these are all the people. That believe it's okay. to engage in political violence to silence your enemies. This is what we call part of the assassination culture. There is a story.

Where is that? Oh, yes. Um Oberlin College, that's an Ohio. There is a student there by the name of Shu. Miss Shu is is uh from Connecticut.

She's a communist and And she is also a member of the gender, hold on, I got to get this right here: the gender sexuality and attraction initiatives board. I don't know what that is. It doesn't sound good. Anyway, she said that we need the problem in America is that we don't have enough political assassinations.

So this woman here at Oberlin College, Julia Hsu, is calling for even more political assassinations The university issued a statement. Why, we can't believe what was said here by Miss Shue. We're a good, wholesome college and we don't advocate for assassinating anybody.

Well, that's all well and good, but I mean, are the students safe on campus? I mean,. What happens if Mishu decides that, you know, she's going to take action here? I'd be a little nervous. Just a smidge.

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Demon time. Yeah, they're demonic. I mean, that's all it is. It's demon time. Anytime those two get up to speak anywhere.

It's um what's I'm sorry, what was that again? Demon Time. Demon Time. You got that right. Welcome back to the Todd Stars Radio Show.

Good to have you with us today. Last night, Scott Jennings. Wow, we've got, we've got like Jasmine Crockett wannabes. And to use the vernacular of Miss Crockett, they is popping up all over the place. It's unbelievable that I want you to listen to.

I think this is the one. Cut 15, please. One thing Brendan Carr told me today, and it is true, that the current. regulatory regime as it exists Is set up by the United States Congress, 1934 Communications Act. And he said, we're going to enforce that regime as it stands.

And he said, if they want to change it, if they want to make different rules, if they want to change the way these systems operate or the regulatory thing works, we'll abide by that. But right now, in his view, Congress has set up a system. They're enforcing that system. And until Congress changes it, that'll be what they do. I have to say.

Well, I actually talked to Brendan Carr today, too, for about 20 minutes. He brought up a similar concept, but it was in the framework of These local affiliates who have to live by these public interest rules finally getting a chance to. Push back against the networks, the programmers. It was his view that for too long, the programmers, the networks, had had too much power over these affiliates and had basically been able to boss them around. We have to live by these rules.

We have to live under the public interest rules. We don't particularly like to air this. We're the ones hearing about it from our viewers and from our advertisers, and we're finally pushing back on this.

Well, I think what he was saying that they're upset about is that all of their viewers are complaining, and all of their advertisers are complaining. All of their viewers aren't complaining. And they're all the few that Jimmy Kimmel has. And they're getting all these complaints. They're not making any money on it.

They're facing enormous financial pressures. They're not making any money on what? Selling advertising. Nobody wants to buy advertising on this shit. Nobody, you say all and nobody on the list.

I'm in this business. I'm going to tell you right now, that's where they give away the freebies at night. Trust me. He has a clear point of view here, which is that these groups that own these affiliates, and I think the two companies are NextDar and Sinclair, they own over 60 affiliates, that they, independent of anything he was doing, had made a decision that it was no longer in their best interest to have Jimmy Kimmel on the air. They suspended Jimmy Kimmel?

Well they told the network that they would not air it.

So when you take a look at the market stations that won't air something, the network has to make a decision. All right.

Well, that was the wrong cut. But I'll get back to Scott Jennings in just a minute. But let me say this about the Jimmy Kimball situation here. All right.

Uh Jimmy Kimmel. was failing. He his ratings were plummeting. The guy was making between $15 and $18 million a year. That's his salary.

We're not talking about any other salaries, the production costs, none of that. I mean, we're talking tens of millions of dollars here. tens of millions of dollars. And the reality is they weren't making enough money. The audience was gone just under, get this in the demographic.

And the demographic is, we're talking that younger demographic. Only 200,000 people watched Jimmy Cummell. Do you understand that? Greg Guttfeld over at Fox, and I'm fairly certain he's not making $18 million. I'm fairly certain of that.

Jimmy Kimmel. was making eighteen million dollars.

So while, yeah, Brandon Carr. The FCC chair Really Really said something he shouldn't have said. The decision by ABC had nothing to do with what Brendan Carr was talking about. None whatsoever. And it's sad that all of this is happening the way it's happening, but the reality is, the reality is that this had nothing to do.

With Donald Trump. This had everything, everything to do with a financial decision based on. Based on ABC. And I'll give you an example of that.

So just the other day, You had the firm, the former, the former chairwoman of Paramount. That's the owner of CBS, right? They canceled Stephen Colbert's show. Sherry Redstone sat down and she tried to explain to all of these leftists. What was actually going on here?

They're not bowing down to Donald J. Trump. This is all about finances, Cut 19. The cancellation of Steve Colbert's show, that was never explicitly stated as being part of getting regulatory approval, but it's something that I think a lot of people assumed. Do you think that they made the right choices to ensure that they got the regulatory approval?

I'm not going to tie any of that to regulatory approval. I can tell you that we had been looking at late night. It was financially not viable. It had been that way for a long time. We had made a decision months prior to the announcement that we were not going to be going forward with that show.

I love Stephen. He does a great job, but we really needed to be in a financially viable business. And you saw we did that with James Corden as well. And in terms of DEI, I think the reasons why DEI exists. matter and will always matter, and we need to continue to fight for those issues.

But I think the way in which DEI has been executed has often led to more problems than it solved.

So any of the changes that were made or continue to be made, but under us, I think we were trying to create an environment that would address the issues in a different way.

So there you go. I mean, that is the ultimate explanation here. And by the way, those folks over at CNN, they're about to find out as well. When the advertising goes away, so do jobs. I mean, it really is.

That simple. I mean, it is. It's that simple. It's all a matter of dollars and cents. If the money's there, the advertisers are there, everything is great.

And if not, They got problems, and they had problems at ABC, just like CBS. And as you heard, they've had to cancel their late-night programming and their late, late-night programming.

So look, the Wall Street Journal got an inside scoop on what was actually going on behind the scenes here. And it turns out that had Jimmy Kimmel not been pulled off the air, had he been allowed to go on the air, Last night, he was planning to double down and go after. President Trump and Turning Point USA and the MAGA Kraut. And ABC was trying to have these internal conversations saying, dude, you've got to back off here. You've crossed the line and you have got to back up and read the room.

And Kimmel simply refused to do it. And ABC, and we're looking at different layers here. You've got the network, and they're dealing with their issues.

So you've got the network, and then And then outside of the network, you have these local affiliates. And the local affiliates, like for example, if you are well in Atlanta, you've got a local ABC affiliate. Was it WSB is your local ABC station, I believe?

So the local ABC stations are getting the angry call saying, you know, we don't appreciate Jimmy Kimmel coming on here and cramping all over Charlie Kirk's dead body. And we sure don't appreciate you attacking President Trump. The man who is mourning Charlie Kirk. What is it that Kimmel said that Trump was behaving like how a four-year-old would mourn a goldfish. Why is that?

It's not funny. What he's saying was not funny. He was mocking people. And the local affiliates were saying, you know what? This is not worth it.

So you had two major television companies. You've got Next, or I'm sorry, Nextstar, and you've got Sinclair. They own together hundreds of local TV stations around the nation. And they said, you know what? That's it, we're pulling the plug here.

ABC starting to get really nervous because a lot of those stations are in major markets. And guess what happens if you're in a major market, like in New York or Los Angeles or Chicago? That's where you make the most money on your advertising. And now all of a sudden they don't even have shows in those markets anymore.

So ABC was really in a pickle. And they had They had no choice but to do what they did. And Kimmel was not backing down. As a matter of fact, he was going to become even more aggressive. And the Democrats are wanting to launch investigations.

Well, that's all well and good. But it's the Democrats who, by the way, urged the Democrats urged The net works to get rid of Roseanne Barr. They urge social media to ban Donald Trump and to ban a lot of other conservatives. And those decisions were based entirely on politics. What happened to Jimmy Kimmel?

And Stephen Colbert is entirely financial in scope. And I'll tell you why, because all the people that run those networks share the same value system that Stephen Colbert and little Jimmy Kimmel have. Every single one of them. I have no doubt that Sherry Redstone loves Colbert. They probably go to the same cocktail parties together.

But here's the challenge. As much as Sherry Redstone is a raging liberal, you know what else she is? A very wealthy woman, and she likes her lifestyle, and she doesn't want money coming out of her pocket to go into Stephen Colbert's. And that's what it is with these people. It's all about.

The money. That's all.

So there you go. Jimmy Kimmel refused to play the game. He threatened to double down. And my question to all of the leftists out there, all right, well, if Jimmy Kimmel was allowed to go on and say whatever he wants to say and they completely tank the network and they don't have any money to pay bills, are you okay with an entire network imploding? One way or the other, Jimmy Kimmel was coming off the air.

One way or the other. I mean, it really is that simple. The broader issue here is that, first of all, a lot of young people are just not watching TV anymore. Jimmy Kimmel's not funny. He's an angry man.

And he's mean. The guy I mean, he's done blackface. I mean, that's racism right there. I mean, if you want to play that card, I mean, that's. you know, the guy routinely dressed in blackface, mocking black people.

And also there was some uh some sketches that were certainly offensive to the hashtag MeToo movement. Don't want to get into that tonight. But that's sort of where we are. There you go, ladies and gentlemen. All right, we got to take a break here: 901-260-5926.

That okay. Here's the deal. Donald Trump can be Donald Trump, but the people in his administration cannot be Donald Trump. And Brendan Carr was trying to be Donald Trump. and got himself in trouble.

He said something. And again, what ABC was going to do, ABC was going to do. I don't think the FCC chair was going to have any influence on them at all. Not in this, not in this story. They were already taking care of business, and now it's become a political hot potato.

It doesn't need to be, and it never was, but that's where we're at. All right, we'll be right back. Objection is entered. I recognize Ms. Crockett for unanimous consent.

Yes, Mr. Chair, since I wasn't allowed. equal time to debate. I have a UC. It is from it looks like Yahoo News.

It says Charlie Kirk suspects grandma says family is all MAGA. Without objection, so ordered. Chair recognizes Ms. Green from Georgia. Ms.

Chair Marauder, UC as well. We'll recognize you next time. Chair, Ms. Green, it's your five minutes. Thank you, Mr.

Chairman. I can assure you that the man, the 22-year-old man, Tyler Robinson, That murdered Charlie Kirk is not MAGA. His family may be Republican, but all of the evidence that is being presented proves that he is a far leftist, very much integrated in online groups that are linked to Antifa. He was in a relationship with a biological male.

So-called furry, whatever that is, that is transitioning to be a fake woman. He was not MAGA, not one bit. That is a complete lie, and it's an insult to every single Republican and person that identifies with those types of politics. We will not tolerate it. And that is the exact type of language that is getting many of us death threats day after day and led to shootings on the baseball field where Steve Scalise was shot.

This is what led to President Trump nearly being assassinated this past summer. This is what has led to Charlie Kirk being assassinated. And so I just want to give a warning there. We're not going to tolerate that anymore. You know something else we're not going to tolerate is crime.

On August 11th. All right.

Well, okay. We won't hear the end of that. Let me just say this about crime. Oh, where is. The uh Jansmen Crockett.

So Jansmen Crockett is talking about About crime. And she said: just because you commit a crime doesn't make you a criminal. criminal Let me say that again. Just because you commit a crime doesn't make you a. Criminal.

Well, that's great because just because you go to college doesn't make you smart. Unbelievable, these people. Just unbelievable. 901-260-5926. That's 901-260-5926.

Yesterday After the show, and you know, a lot of times, a lot of the talk hosts after the show, they go home and they decompress. I, you know, I've got to do the Newsmax TV show, and then I normally have an event or something around town that I've got to do. And last night, I was invited to be a part of this big welcome celebration, welcoming the National Guard to Memphis, which we're all very excited about. And we'll keep you updated on the developments there. But I'm telling you, the criminals, I'm not sure if they understand what's about to come down.

But the wrath of God is about to come down on the bad guys. Here in Memphis. And so last night. We had a huge rally, and it was unbelievable. I mean, people came out.

They were wearing red, white, and blue. They had flags. There was such a beautiful spirit. The Democrats held an event in downtown, and it looked like the bar scene out of Star Wars. I mean, they only had like, I think, 20 people, and they were all angry.

They were irritated. Um, Hygiene somewhat questionable. There were no flags. As a matter of fact, one guy was wearing a communic, he was wearing a communist shirt. Unbelievable.

So Contrast that, compare and contrast with the beautiful gathering of Republicans. Everybody smelled good. You could be downwind, and you, you know how it is. I mean, come on, we've all. Yeah.

You know. Hashtag Patchouli. You know. So it was a beautiful moment.

So then our state senator invited me to come up and say a few words. And I think this is the right one, cut A. That wouldn't have happened without.

Some people working. Senator Blackford deserves a lot ready for that. But I tell you. My bank, I see Todd Starnes here. Yeah.

He is the conservative blowporch of the Mid-South. He is the Trump whisperer. He had President Trump on K-Wam, and he asked the question: Will you consider Memphis for federal trips? Todd, come on up here and tell us about that. All right, all right, all right, all right.

That was a lot of fun, though. And we got to meet a lot of our great listeners. And again, it is so exciting to see. Conservatives mobilizing together once again. And by the way, it was a bipartisan thing.

Democrats showed up last night wanting to be a part of the effort.

So I think something exciting is happening here. And ladies and gentlemen, it goes back to something I said at the start of the show. We're not dealing with the political battle here. We are dealing with a spiritual battle. And I don't hate the Democrats.

Their party has become possessed by demons. Demon time. And we've got to do something about that. And we need to exercise. It's not even a political exorcism.

It is literally a spiritual exorcism. And well, you know what I mean by that, but I'm just saying, not circumcision. That's a whole different issue. No, no, this is like exercising the demons out of the Democrats. Demon time.

I'm just telling do we have to pay by do we have to pay per mention telling us Demon town. That's going to get expensive quickly because there are a whole lot of demons. In this country, all right. Hang tight, everybody. We've got to take a quick break.

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Welcome to hour two of the big show. Great to have you with us.

So, House Speaker Mike Johnson, just a few seconds ago, weighed in on this. insane thing that just happened in the House of Representatives. 58 Democrats refused to condemn political violence. 58 Democrats refused to condemn the assassination of Charlie Kirk. What does that tell you, ladies and gentlemen?

What does that tell you about the state of. Affairs in the United States of America. Here's the House Speaker. We passed a resolution to honor the life and legacy of Charlie Kirk, my late friend. the friend of so many in this chamber.

And we called out Political violence in America. In fact, I want to read with you. The final line of this resolution, because I think it's something that the American people are eager to hear. It says this: quote: The House of Representatives calls upon all Americans. to reject political violence.

Recommit to respectful debate. uphold American values. and respect one another as fellow Americans. Sadly, a number of Democrats could not bring themselves to vote for that. Um You know, we we have to let everybody make their own judgments about that.

Wow. There you go. That's That's the current state of affairs with the Democrat Party, ladies and gentlemen. And it's really sad, and it's really unfortunate. We have got a lot going on this hour of the program.

We're going to be doing some trivia this hour as well as the next hour. We're also going to be jumping into what's happening in these schools. Around the country, and one of them in the Houston area. And this is a very disturbing story. From Stratford High School.

This is from the Houston area. Moms for Liberty in Harris County actually exposed this story.

Now, there were students at Stratford High School wanting to start a Turning Point USA chapter. And of course, to get us any kind of a club, you have to have teacher sponsors. And so, in this particular instance, they had two teachers that were willing to step up, and they said, you know what, we're happy to support this group. And that's when the problem started.

So apparently, some liberal teachers found out about it. And they doxed not only the two adult sponsors, the teachers, but also the students in Turning Point USA. And they sent an email, a memorandum to every student in the school and every parent as well. basically doxing the kids and the sponsors.

Now, Moms for Liberty got their hands on the correspondence that went out by these Democrats, and they basically no, that was not, no, that was not a Freudian slip. They are Democrats. And the mob, they set this mob upon the kids and the students. To bully the teachers into backing out of the club sponsorship. They're saying that Turning Point is a political organization, and the teachers who sponsored the organization were clearly making a personal political statement.

Were they really, though? I mean, let's just say that you're You know, you're the sponsor of the math club. Does that necessarily mean that you're a math nerd? No. It could just mean that you wanted to help these kids out.

But Hold on a second. What if they do share? the viewpoints of TPUSA.

So what? It's not against the law for a teacher to be a conservative, is it? I mean, it's an anomaly, but it's not against the law. Unless they're saying that only teachers are allowed to spew left-wing talking points.

So the email was filled with all sorts of lies and hatred. About Turning Point USA. said they were anti-female, anti-black, anti-Muslim, anti-gay. You know the drill. The Democrats in Harris County, Texas.

Said students would be irreparably harmed by the by teachers who support an organization that supports hate and division. Which is ironic because this is a political party where 58 House leaders. Just voted to endorse political assassinations. This is just unbelievable. Just unbelievable.

By the way, last night, our good buddy Judge Joe Brown dropped by our big Welcome to Memphis rally for the National Guard. And it's been so exciting around here. There's a sweet spirit in Memphis, and we've got all these restaurants and bars and clubs, and they're just opening up their doors to the National Guard troops. Beating everybody. You've got ladies' clubs and they're wanting to lend a helping hand.

You've got people wanting to. We've been getting a lot of messages on the Todd Stern show. Todd, to the National Guard troops, do they have a place to stay? You know, I feel bad if they're having to sleep out in a sleeping bag somewhere. I've got a spare bedroom.

We can fit a couple of National Guard troops in the uh in the guest room. It's so incredibly kind. And look, the National Guard troops are going to be well taken care of, no doubt about that. But just the generosity It just does my heart good. And I think it's really done everybody's heart well because that's who we really are in Memphis.

And the reality is. That an overwhelming majority of the black citizens here, 84%, are excited about President Trump bringing the National Guard to town.

Meanwhile, you have the the black leadership of Memphis And It's really interesting because they're the oppressors. They're the ones that are oppressing the black community. It's black on black oppression. And it's really sad to see, but people are wa boy are people waking up. Let me tell you something.

People are waking up. And it's exciting to see the numbers. Last year, I think they said they had 50 registered Republicans in the local Republican club.

Now it's almost 300. I mean, that's people are waking up. Hey, let's go to the phone lines here. High Point, North Carolina. Bill, listening to us on WSJS.

Great radio station. Hi, Bill. What's going on? Don is It's a wonderful day to be an American. Yes, sir, it is.

What makes it a good day for you to be an American?

Well I do. I'm going to throw that out there. This past week, you were talking about when you had Judge Joe Brown on. We're talking about. God, we ought to get Judge Joe Brown back on.

And I'm thinking, well, I remember back in the day of the original MTV when they had Downtown with Julie Brown. I was thinking maybe we could have downtown with Judge Joe Brown Atlanta. Downtown was drawer as Judge Joe Brown. Memphis. We can make a series out of it.

Oh, I like that.

So we could just send the judge. We could franchise him. That's what? I like this idea, Bill. You know, the judge, when you listen to the guy, he makes a lot of sense.

He does, which we need today. We need today. And let me ask one other thing out real quick, Cod, and I'll get off the phone here. This goes back several weeks ago. You were also trying to come up with a name for the illegal immigrant between Center in Tennessee.

And I thought about uh Dollywood up in the Smoky Mountains. I thought about all the barbecue in Memphis. Not as good as North Carolina. But anyway, I thought maybe we could name that place the Smoky Spoke. Smokey pokey God bless you and take care, brother.

Bill, I'm so happy I'm going to let the barbecue slur slide.

So thanks a lot, Bill. Wow, the smokey's pokey. I love that. That's very clever. By the way, ran into a guy yesterday at the rally and The um we had a lot of Hispanics there, by the way, as well.

I mean, it was a it was a really diverse crowd of folks. It was really exciting.

So anyway, this guy comes and says, Todd, the crime is so bad in our neighborhood, even the legal Hispanics are moving out. It's that bad. It's I'm telling you. All right, uh let's go to Ocala, Florida.

Sonny wants to weigh on him. Pea booty juice. Yeah. Yeah. Telling about the Pete Bootage Edge.

Indirectly. Cut hammock. who is the Congresswoman for District three here in Florida. About six weeks ago or two months ago, she had a baby. Yeah.

I call up the office, her office, Washington DC office this morning. And as she's the only one that really has a people working and answering phones, that's another thing. But I called up the uh mention something about the with the Democrats were proposing to vote on something. And I I mentioned it to a So I asked how she's doing. How she's doing well.

Oh yes, she's Back at work. And her baby is with her in Washington. Pre-Buddhaj took six months off for maternity leave. And his better half, I guess, had needed the maternity leave also. to take care of their adopted baby.

You know, there is a slight difference, I think, between the Demarats. and true Republicans. We know we got rhinos, but that's beside the point. The Democrats rule or something. I don't know what.

But the point of the matter is. Take Thomas. The Congresswoman from District Re in Florida. All right.

She's back to work. After having a baby about two months ago or six weeks or eight weeks or two months. It's unbelievable to me. And I, you know, I could because I asked, how is she doing? She's doing fine.

Oh yeah.

So you're saying that Pete Booty Juice, and by the way, it was two months, not six months, but it was a very long time. He took maternity leave when he purchased, he and his husband purchased those two babies. And you're telling me that Cag Hammock, who actually gave birth to her baby, she was already back at work, back on the job. You got it. That's it.

That's my main thing to bring out the point between people that want to work and represent their people. Another one's there that are up there just to represent themselves. Yeah, I mean, look, maybe Pete had complications. We don't know. But and it took some time to do the whole chest feeding, the whole nine yards.

But but yeah, it's a valid point here, and you're absolutely right. Pete Booty Juice, who purchased two babies, two newborns, bought them down at Idon's Know, Babies Are Us. And he took two months and then Cat Kamick right back on the job. Yeah, good point there, Sonny. Good hearing from you, my friend.

901-260-5926. This is the Todd Starden Show. All right, the team is compiled. Categories of of trivia. From modern movies to Green Acres.

To leave it to Beaver. To the Andy Griffith Show. This is, or this is going to be fun. All right.

Where shall we? Mm-hmm. Oh yes. I love this question. All right, we're going to try to.

We're going to try to, we'll start with Greenacres. This is a. This is a fun show. Uh here we go. Green Acres.

It was part of the CBS lineup back in the 1960s, and there was a town. We need to know the name of the town where Green Acres was located.

So, if you can tell us the name of the town where Green Acres happened, give us a call. Was it Johnson Junction? Was it Pixley? Was it Hootervell or Crawwell Corners. 901-260-5926, our telephone number.

That's 901-260-5926.

If you. No the answer. There's a bizarre story. Um involving a A County Fair. And this is an Ashland.

County. Ashling County, Ohio. It turns out that at the state fair, the local Democrat Party Wands selling their products. They had their wares out and like many other political parties they'll have buttons, you know, the little campaign buttons. In Ashland County, the Democrats Where providing buttons that had the red MAGA cap.

that had the words fascist. Felon Fascism and resist. Red Hat's white letters. But there were also some other things. Every one of the buttons had the term 8647, which is code for assassinating President Trump.

Every single one of them. All the buttons. Also, one of the buttons simply said Is he dead yet? Talking about President Trump.

Well, we can now report that the Ashland County Sheriff's Office. is investigating We also understand that they were kicked out of the county fair, and the Democrat Party was told to pack up their booth, and they would not be. allowed back in. And I say good for them. But now we understand the sheriff is is investigating This is a very dangerous situation in Ashland County.

Ohio at the state fair. Does this kind of I mean ladies and gentlemen? The Democrats, I am telling you. This is a possessed party. No doubt about it.

No doubt about it. All right, uh let's go to the phone lines here, 901. 260-5926. That's 901-260-5926.

Let's go to Vicki in North Carolina. Hi, Vicki. How are you today?

Okay, thanks. How are you, Todd? You know, I'm well. Thank you for asking, Vicki. Were you a big fan of Green Acres growing up?

I'm not a big fan, but I do know about the show.

Well, if Farm Living's the life for me, then, you know, that's your show. But, you know, if New York is your state of mind, Butchering the lyrics, but you get the point there. I hope. Yeah. All right.

Vicky, where was Greenacres located? Uh who do? Yes, you are correct. You know, Vicki. It's interesting.

Yeah, you got it right there. A lot of gentlemen, when they call in, they say it's Hootersville, but no, it's not plural.

However, our phones were loaded with Hooters today. That's right. It's but it's Hooterville. Yeah. All right.

Hey, congratulations, Vicki. And we're going to get you hooked up with a signed copy of one of my books. And thank you for being our first trivia winner for the day. Thank you. All right, don't go anywhere, Vicki.

We're going to get your info there. Dylan, I looked over and it was like hooter, hooter, hooter, hooter, hooter. That's Cassie was busy. Way better than Hooters. She had to abbreviate.

Yes, she did.

So, what are you going to do? 901-260-5926. That's 901-260-5926.

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And we're going to talk to the chair of the local party there at the college to find out what exactly is going on and what college Republicans, college conservative kids are having to go through. All of that tonight, 5 o'clock on the Todd Stern Show on Newsmax. By the way, after you watch my show, you got to stick around and watch Rob Fennerty. President Trump, big fan, says his show is terrific. Millions of people are now watching Fennerty every night at 8 o'clock Eastern on Newsmax.

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There's a lot of stuff for you to do over there. We'll be right back. All right, welcome back, everybody. This is the Todd Cerns Radio Show, and it is Friday, and we're having a little bit of fun with trivia today, and we are. We are going to go to the Andy Griffith show, and I know we have a lot of Andy Griffith show fans.

This is old school. Old school.

So here is the question. The darlings are coming, one of the great episodes. The darlings are coming. What unusual instrument does Briscoe Darling play in his family's band. What is that weird musical instrument that Briscoe Darling played in his family's musical band?

And I have to presume that we do have some of the Darlings music when we find a winner to this.

So let's try to find some of that. But again, the Darlings episode. The Darlings are coming in the Andy Griffith Show. What unusual instrument does Briscoe Darling play? Give us a call, 901-260-5926, if you know.

The answer.

Well, this is uh This is an interesting story. Coming out of the world of Generation Z. And the more I see stories like this, the more I like this generation. Actually, I love this generation. These are great conservative patriots.

As a matter of fact, some survey there was a survey out what was it, a couple of What was it a week or so ago, two weeks ago? And they said that Generation Z may very well be the most conservative generation since World War II. And that says a lot of great things for the future of America.

So, anyway, here is the story: the Gen Z Now Bringing Back Flip Phones. And the question is, are the young people of America now turning their back on tech? According to the report, Gen Z is embracing flip phones to rethink their digital habits, balancing data privacy concerns with smart, intentional tech use. shaping the future of the digital world on their own terms. In a surprising twist, young people are using dumb phones again.

But no, it's not a Luddite renaissance. It's a reflection of how Gen Z are rethinking their relationship. To smartphones, social media, and all the data that they're asked to share every day. I remember those. I remember those phones.

Dylan, were you of were you of that age when you had a flip phone, or did you uh What are we doing the uh smartphones? Mine was way better. I had this slide up phone. Really? You slide it up in your keyboards there.

Oh, wa man, that is old school. fancy at the time because the flip phones felt old at the time.

So now that flip phones are coming back, I don't know what happens to slide phones. I had a Blackberry. Back to the middle of the middle. Mm. No, that's the Motorola.

Yeah, that's the Motorola. Blackberry, and then there was the Motorola Razor, which was like the OG flip phone. No, I had the original pager, right? Where you could, it just had like a little tiny. A little tiny scream.

No iPhone games. No, no, none whatsoever. But are you noticing that in your friend group, though? I mean, you're kind of the older, you're in the mid-20s. Yeah, 26.

I haven't seen any of my friends get it yet, but I've definitely seen this trend online of a lot of people. Because you're right, they want to get away from all the noise out there and.

Social media is just toxic.

So it's terrible. Yeah. But I have noticed that, like, a lot of the younger family members in our little group, you guys aren't on social media much at all. Yeah. Yeah, I think we're starting to realize that it's toxic, so it's better to just hang out in person.

Really? Go outside some. Oh, what's the fun?

Some grass, maybe. What are you guys doing with all your time? I play video games. Of course, you do. I'm not a good example of that.

I knew the answer to that question. All right, 901-260-5926. I'm wondering if you've discovered that with your Gen Zer. Have they pushed back and said, you know, I really don't want this Marva. I'd rather go with the uh the flip phone.

They're called minimalist phones. Is that what they're what do they call the landline? Do your parents still have a landline, Dylan? No. Not anymore.

Okay. We don't we don't have a yellow book either. I used to look through that thing just to buy a number.

Sorry. The up base. It's that thick book you can never actually rip.

Well, you know the challenge here is with the yellow pages, they used to serve dual purposes.

So when you had like a toddler and you needed them to reach the table, you'd just pile up the phone books. Honest to goodness, that's how we used to do it. Back in the day. Beats a cushion. It does.

And also, you could beat the living daylights out of somebody with one of those things. Yeah, it's yellow pages. You have the yellow pages and the white pages. Yeah. So, yellow.

Y'all know the difference.

Well, the yellow page, somebody will call. You know what? I can let somebody call in and explain this one to you. Good. All right.

So ladies and gentlemen. Please call in and explain the difference between yellow pages and white pages to my Gen Z staff. Let's go to the phones here. Connie in Georgia. Hi, Connie.

How are you today?

I am great. I got through to you. Yes, you did. We have full lines, Connie. Full lines.

Oh, really? We're going to try to win you a prize here. Were you a big Andy Griffith show fan back in the day? Of course, I was. Still am.

Can I tell you, I am too. I just. I I watched a couple of episodes this week, Connie. I just had to escape. Yeah, it's a good one it's a good one to watch.

All right, well, we're going to try to help you win a prize here. There was an episode called The Darlings Are Coming. And Briscoe Darling played an unusual instrument. What was that instrument? The first thing that came to my mind was a jug.

Come on, little two, and away we go. Connect. We gotta start dancing, Connie. You're a winner. He lives right.

Hold on, Kylie, let's listen here. Still. One gal washed the boiler, the other washed his bout. And mama corked the bottles when old Dooley fetched them out. Dooley slipping up hollow doo Julie trying to make a dollar.

Come on, sit along, Connie. All right.

There you go. Connie, you know, it's interesting. The Darlings, everybody thought they were a real-life bluegrass band. They were not, but they were a different band in real life, and they were called the Dillards. Oh no.

Wow. I love bluegrass music, so I always love those episodes. You know, years ago, and they may still do it, but up in northeast Georgia, and I want to think it's Habersham County. I think they used to have a huge bluegrass festival back in the day. I mean, thousands of people will come out.

I love bluegrass music. Yes, I do too. Connie, congratulations. By the way, Connie, we got you on the line here. Can you help me out and explain to Dylan the difference between the yellow pages and the white pages?

The yellow pages are people and the wh You know, the white pages are people and the yellow pages are businesses. There you go. That's it. Oh. Thank you, Connie.

Okay. I'm glad you know now. We only had yellow pages. I don't think we had the white pages, but it's good to know the difference now. Oh my goodness, yeah.

Uh I don't miss those days. No, no, no. All right, Connie, hang tight. Congratulations. We're going to get you a prize on the way, and well done, you.

All right, there you go, Dylan. You learned something new.

Now we just have it all all in one contacts app. But I am. Where's the fun in that? Let's bring it back.

So here's my concern. And I don't know if anybody else stays up. Stay simple. I'm about to share something. I've been trying to figure out if I should share this or not.

And I think I may be about to overshare with my audience. And so guys, I... Bear with me here, Dylan, but I was thinking about this when I was up late one night this week. And should I explain why I was up late one? You have to now.

You're too far in. This is terrible. All right, here we go. This is why I, well, let me explain. I'll explain what I was thinking about first because that will get lost in the reason I was up.

So, um I was reading a book just about EMPs. And what would happen if we lost power? The grid was gone. And would we or if the internet just completely up and quit on us What would society look like, and would we be able to function as a society? Because I mean, even in the 1980s, you know, we were getting to a point where you didn't really need to know basic stuff because, you know.

technology could handle it.

So anyway, I was just up late one night telling you think about that kind of stuff. You know, what would I do?

So, I actually, that's why I have a lot of books.

So, I've got like Farmer's Almanacs and, you know, how to, how to garden, and how to, you know. You know, create electricity and all that kind of stuff in the event. We lose the grid. At least we'll have power here at the Tom Sharon's radio show.

So anyway, I was. I went, we had a, we've, they just opened up a Brandio Chipotle. in uh in my community. I was very excited about it.

So I thought I'd have a late dinner, and that's a problem. Because when you eat late, you get... Indigestion, right?

So it was like, I don't know. Midnightish. Get up. and I keep the pepto in the fridge. I also keep the milk of magnesia in the fridge.

And I took, I didn't even bother to measure it out. I just took a, I was having a bad case of indigestion, so I just took a giant, giant, supersized gulp. And about forty-five minutes later, I bolted up out of bed and I realized very quickly and for the rest of the door the rest of the morning that I had not gulped down the pepto, I had gulped down the milk of magnesia. Mm. It was not a natural cleanse.

Oh. I'll just leave it at that.

So Wow. I I don't know if I should say thank you for sharing, 'cause I don't know if I am. You know, the lesson here is always just don't reach into the fridge and pull something out with the lights out. Right? That's the lesson here.

And learn how to survive. The other lesson is, I think I did just over-share. I. I think I just I just blew through that. All right.

Yeah. Stops. Stop. That's just terrible. Oh, geez.

All right, we need another trivia question here. Stop it. Dylan? Jesus. It was explosive.

All right.

Who was Ampy's best friend and the notorious town gossip in Mayberry? Again, this is Andy Griffin Show trivia today. Ampy's best friend and the notorious gossip in Mayberry. Who was that? Give us a call: 901-260-5926.

This is the Todd Starge Show. All right, coming up next week, I'm going to be in Los Angeles. I'll be speaking at the Spiritual Leadership Conference at West Coast Baptist College. I'll be speaking Sunday at Lancaster Baptist Church and looking forward to being with our good friend Dr. Paul Chappell.

He's been a regular guest on this show. And it's really not only for me, it is work. We'll be doing a lot of book signings, but for me, it is just. Really, a great time to step back and get into the word and enjoy great Christian fellowship. Mary Walter is going to be filling in all next week, and I know you guys love Mary, and I want you to light up the phones and make her feel right at home here on the show all next week.

And then I'll be back. We're going to be. Literally traveling across crisscrossing America for the next three weeks with a lot of events. Also, going to be in Los Angeles in a couple of weeks. I'll be emceeing a big event with Eric Trump, and we'll tell you more about that coming up as well.

All right, let's go to the phone lines, and we're going to say hello to Kenny in North Carolina. Hi, Kenny. How are you today?

Uh, just fine, Todd. Kenny, we're going to try to win you a prize here. We're talking about the Andy Griffith show. I don't y you know, I don't know if I've ever really sat down and under thought about it, but why do you think Andy Griffith, that show, really resonated with the the American people? Uh Uh American uh you know American humor.

kind of people could relate to it. That that that sounds like my old hometown. Yeah, downhome values. That's it. That well, maybe that's maybe it's as simple as that.

All right.

Well, let's talk let's try to win you a prize here. We're talking about Aunt B's best friend. She was also a notorious gossip. Who are we talking about? Uh that'd be Clara Edwards.

Yes, uh, That's right, Kenny, Clara Edwards. Ant bees BFF or BAE as the young people call it. Dylan, the young people don't know. Not anymore.

No. What? It's a new word. I know, I think BFF's back. Were you aware of that?

I thought. I thought we could call people bays now.

Well, I I no, I just knew it was BFF. Kenny was old school, but now he's new school again. He didn't know that there was a change. Of course, I just found it a couple of weeks ago, so what does that say about me, Kenny? Yeah.

Well, this is I got a eight. I got Aaron Brass piece of trivia for you. Uh oh, all right. Yes. Frances Bavier, she retired to North Carolina and she's buried in Styler City.

That's right. Well, I've actually got a a couple of aunts and uncles that are buried in the same cemetery as her. And one of my aunts and uncles are buried literally next to her. She's 15 feet from her grave. Is that right?

Well, my Aunt Mary and my uncle Wade You know, she was she was a bit of a recluse. Uh you know, a lot of people weren't you know, didn't know that, but she was really sort of a quiet person and uh she did not do much socializing. No, no, she didn't. It it was sad the way she actually Passed away. She did not.

Yeah, it was a rough ending to that life, but yeah, she was. She lived a pretty sparse life in her later years, very quiet, as they say. And I don't believe she ever married either.

So. But again, yep, Frances Beauer, a great lady there. All right, Kenny. Congratulations, you are the winner, and we're going to put you on hold and get all of your information. Let's go to the phone lines.

Louise in Tocoa, Georgia. That's a pretty town. Hi, Louise, what's on your mind today? And you have some there's so much it would take days to tell you. Uh oh.

Well, pick something. Yeah. Pick one subject. I can't, I can't, but let me tell you something else. Y'all talking about phone books.

Yeah. I bet most people don't know what party lines were either back then. Dylan, are you familiar with party lines? We're going to ask Dylan here. I know what a party line is.

I learned about party line on your show, Todd. All right.

Louise, tell our listeners we have a lot of young listeners they may not know what a party line is.

Well when I was growing up, I'm 73 years old now. Uh, people couldn't you you could have a private line, but you had to pay X for it. The parting line was for God, you could have six people on the same line. you know, most of them listening to each other's conversation because they pick the phone up to use it. Maybe two people talking, they just listened to their conversation.

So, everybody knew everybody's business back in the Fifties and sixties.

Well, I guarantee you, Clara Edwards had a party line on the Andy Griffiths show. Mm-hmm. Sure, my thumb being. Yeah, I remember that. Sarah, Sarah was the name of the operator, by the way.

on the old Andy Griffiths show. Yeah, I I couldn't answer many of those questions, y'all. It's okay to.

Well, you don't. Yeah. Go right ahead. Go right ahead, Louise.

Well, it's like a little monologue. If you won't cut me off, I appreciate it because I hadn't bothered you in a long time.

Well, I've got about, I've only had about 40 seconds here, or the computer's going to cut us off, Louise.

Well, forgive it. I'll just have to wait until other time.

Okay. Well, look, Louise, it's good hearing from you. And thank you for educating folks on those party lines. That's a fun bit of trivia from back in the day. Louise, you'd be good out there in Tocoa, Georgia.

Beautiful college. There's a college out there. And years ago, I was a commencement speaker there, and just a beautiful, beautiful place. All right.

We've got to take a quick break here, folks. Coming up, we'll dip and dive into the news, some more trivia as well. Hang tight. We're going to try to get some more winners before all is said and done here. 901-260-5926.

It's Open Line Friday as well. If you want to do like Louise, you can call in and talk about whatever you want to talk about. Hang tight, this is the Todd Stern Show. Live from the Liberty University Studio in Memphis, Tennessee, it's America's favorite gun totem, Bible-clinging, deplorable American. Yeah.

That's right. I love this American. Todd starts. All right, welcome everybody to the Tom Search Radio Show. Hour three underway and a lot going on.

Let's um Let's go to the Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line right now. And we have Andrew Krapiaschets joining us. And Andrew, good to have you with us today. And we appreciate all the great work that you guys are doing there at Red Balloon.

Well Nice to talk to you, Todd. How are you doing today? All right.

Well, thank you very much for asking.

So, we've been seeing a lot of reports around the nation about Charlie Kirk and people getting fired for mocking the assassination of Charlie. And I know you guys have been all over this. Yes, absolutely. And obviously a lot of conservatives are taking a little pause on this, right, because we remember the COVID years. when people were losing their job and getting canceled because They weren't kind of towing the woke line with whether it was on social media or any other place.

And so they're like, wait a minute, are we reintroducing cancel culture? firmly say I do not know that the FCC should be involved in this necessarily, but the free market has spoken with Jimmy Kimmel and with so many others And if a private employer decides that they want to fire a person. because they represented the company poorly. And maybe turned away customers. I fired plenty of salespeople who lied to a customer.

Who did not represent my company well, we should. have a right-to-work situation where employers can make those decisions. I'm not totally sold on the FCC getting involved, deciding that they're going to use the strong arm of government. To make that type of decision. I think the free market was already making that decision for Jimmy Kimmel as an example.

Um but yes, there's lots of people who Are scratching their heads on that one. And I think at least the Jimmy Kimmel one is very clear. What needed to happen there?

Well, I think when you look at Jimmy Kimmel, and it's pretty clear from there were several layers here. You had ABC News, or rather Disney, the company that controlled ABC, and they've got a financial stake here. Then you have the affiliates that carry the show, and they're getting a lot of blowback from their local advertisers and their local audience. That's right. And Todd, you know this as well as anyone.

If you when you have a great show and people want to listen to it, that's how that show continues to succeed. And in fact, That's your job. And that was Jimmy Kimmel's job, but he had kind of transitioned away from late-night comedy. to really just being political vitriol towards Donald Trump every single night, and no one was watching the show. And so what I don't want to happen, and I'm afraid people are trying to do, is they're trying to take the victim card Um away from You know, the Kirk family who just lost their father just lost their husband.

And they want to direct it towards someone who lost their job because he was pushing a political ideology on late night television. And I definitely don't want him to be able to claim that victim card. And I do want people to realize that if you do well at your job, you should keep your job. And if you don't do well at your job, you should lose your job, right? And I know that sounds like rocket science.

But that is the free market, and that's the way we want the free market. To act right now. And that's what we're doing at Red Balloon, obviously, pushing on. free market principles in the economy and letting people earn their job through merit and not through DEI and all the crazy things that have been inflicting the labor market over the last several years.

Well, you know, on top of the ABC story and the Jimmy Cummel story, there was another issue just a few days ago when you have the Attorney General coming out and saying, well, you. If a company like Office Depot and you've got somebody coming in and they want flyers printed, you have to print those flyers. In this particular instance, it was a Charlie Kirk Memorial Service flyer. The local employees refused to do that. And now Pam Bondi is saying they may have broken the law.

Again, I think Supreme Court cases would say otherwise. And the issue it seems to me, again, this is a market issue, a free market issue, where the consumers should have the final say, not the federal government's coming in and saying, you've got to do this Office Depot. That's absolutely right. Right, and this decision was very concerning to me because we remember years ago when. you know, the homosexual couple wanted a cake baked for them and The baker is allowed to say, I, you know.

I'm going to decide who I'm not going to serve.

Now, if Office Depot decides that they don't want to create Charlie Kirk. banners and posters That is their decision.

Now, the market should respond to that, and that person should be free to get on social media and say, this company doesn't support this. And that should hurt them in the marketplace. We've seen that with Target. We saw that with Bud Light. Let the marketplace deal with some of those things.

I'm not at all excited. About Pam Bondi jumping into that type of decision because that sounds just a really bad Yeah. Yeah. Because all of a sudden, if the federal government, whoever's in office, because right now we've got great people in office, but we don't know who will be there in the future. If they can decide what you're allowed to do as a business, And force you into behavior that you're uncomfortable with, that is a very dangerous precedent.

And look, Charlie Kirk was a Godly, wonderful man. He was a friend. He loved Red Balloon. We worked together. And so, clearly, mourning loss.

I do not want. I abhor the fact that that employee decided that they wouldn't post that or print those posters. But at the end of the day, you got to let the market work on this, not government, because We want our government smaller, not bigger, and pushing on more and more mandates. Yeah, and Andrew, a red balloon, I think, is vitally important, especially and it's been important for a very long time, but especially now when we're getting to realize there is a large segment of the population that believes it's okay to kill people you disagree with, that it's okay to use violence to shut down speech you disagree with. And honestly, as a business owner, I don't want somebody like that employed in the company that I own.

And I think that's where Red Balloon really comes into play here because you guys really are all about. America, the number one Pro America job board and talent recruiter. That's exactly right. I mean, you think about all those people and really it's been millions of people who've been online celebrating the death Of a godly father and husband in America, the assassination, the public assassination of a public figure.

Well, you realize those people were interviewed at one point, they got an offer letter, and they're working at your business. And we have to. To know that worldview will have an impact on performance. That's just the way the world works. And so, if you, as an employer, don't want to hire those people, obviously, that's where Red Balloon comes in.

Hiring somebody like that, we talked to an employer just recently. They had hired an activist. They're like, it's not that big a deal, it's a $15 an hour job. And after about a seventy five thousand dollar lawsuit trying to get rid of this person, they're like, man, I never want to hire someone like that again. And so even as the pendulum is swinging culturally back in a very good direction, and we're very encouraged by that in a lot of ways through the election, The labor market and the hiring world is still very, very critical.

That you don't need everyone to line up exactly with their worldview, where you all believe. Believe exactly the same thing, but you do want people who don't hate America and you do want people who don't hate capitalism and actually want you to make money and are okay with you making money. And obviously, that's. What we've been passionate about at Red Balloon, but whether you're using Red Balloon or not, you need to be thinking very carefully about the people you hire because your culture is built. By the sum total of your employees.

And if you have the wrong employees in there, you are going to have some real Concerns about your business going forward? Oh, no doubt about it. And I'm not going to name any names here, but in the journalism world, especially the conservative media sphere, you can tell, every now and again, you'll see a news organization, and they sort of go towards the left. And you're like, well, wait a second, when did that happen? And I can tell you, because I've seen it firsthand, it's because they're not hiring conservatives.

And you've got to keep your eye on that kind of stuff. And especially if your business model relies on adhering to conservative or biblical values. Absolutely. In fact, I hate to keep bringing up war stories. But there was A conservative media influencer who will name be remain nameless.

Before he started working with Red Balloon, he'd hired people who. Who were actively trying to destroy what he was doing because he was standing up for conservative values, he was living his values out loud, and he was very vocal about it. He had millions of people following him on YouTube and other places. And lo and behold, these employees were actually taking a paycheck to leak financials, to unplug service. on weekends to break things in the office because they hated the worldview of the person.

they were working for Man, you do not wanna hire a trader. And we know that. But sometimes you're desperate as an employer, like, man, I just need someone who can actually do this job. But just be careful. It would be better to be understaffed than poorly staffed.

when it comes to kind of the litigious labor market that we're in today. And we're trying to help with that, but yes, it's really, really important for these lawyers. Maybe they're looking to hire somebody. They go to redballoon.work, and what do they need to do to get plugged in? Because I think a lot of people are going to be wanting to get plugged in.

Yeah, absolutely. Everything's free for job seekers. We see people who are looking for work. You know, they're in a vulnerable position. We want to make sure that we're not charging them anything.

Everything is absolutely free, a ton of free resources. You can fill out your profile and then employers can start to find you. And it's funny because we actually have this funny world that's going on. There's a lot of AI that's entering the job market and We're trying to push back against that, but maybe that's a discussion for another day. But you go to Redballoon.work.

And also, Redballoon.work just acquired militaryhire.com because we love our vets. And we're now starting to help VETS at scale So if you're an employer and you want values aligned employees who are going to help build the culture that you established. and not tear it down. That's what Redballoon. Work is all about.

And we love the Todd Stern Show. because it's really important for people to be thinking clearly and then hiring well.

Well said. All right, Andrew, we're going to leave it there. But again, folks, go check out RedBalloon.work. That's redballoon.work. It's a wonderful resource if you're looking for a job and if you are looking to hire people.

And I can tell you that we've used Red Balloon, and they are an amazing group of folks to work with.

So go check them out, redballoon.work. Andrew, good hearing from you, my friend. Nice to talk to you. Have a great day, everybody. All right, you do as well.

All right, Andrew Grapuschetz from redballoon.work. And it that's just mind-boggling. That you've got people, but sure enough, I mean, when you look at some of the conservative journalism sites out there and you've noticed, oh, wait a second, they've kind of gone a little wokish.

Well, that's because they're not hiring conservatives. And I'm just saying right now, I don't care who you are, if you're a conservative organization, you're a Christian organization, you need to be hiring conservatives and you need to be hiring Christians. Otherwise things are going to get squirrely very quickly. And that's one of the reasons we love Red Balloon dot work.

Okay, got to take a quick break. Before we do, though, let's go to the phone lines. Dan in Cleveland, Georgia has a very interesting Andy Griffith Show. Fun fact. Hi, Dan.

What you got for us?

Well, just a quick comment on the Andy Griffin show. Everybody on the show was standby Otis, and he was a drunk. Is there a message there?

Well, it could be. Yeah. Dan, what kind of a message would that be, sir? I'm not going to comment. I'm married.

I'm not about to comment on that. Yeah, if you want supper tonight, you might want to not answer that question. Dan, that's a great observation. Thank you for calling in, my friend. 901-260-5926.

That's 901-260-5926.

This is the Todd Stern Show. No, I think really moving forward, you know, all companies, especially if you're a company owned by Christians, you have conservative values, you're going to have to use things like RedBalloon.work just to. Just to make sure you're hiring the right people. Uh because you just don't want to hire people that are going to be working against working against your um Your company's mission. We actually had somebody come in and apply.

This is sort of funny. And man, they checked off all the boxes. You know, I mean, a very well-qualified person. Anyway, they called us back. The interview went well, you know, no red flags or anything, nothing weird of the sort.

Anyway, we got a message back the day after from this individual, and they said, Oh, I didn't realize you guys were a conservative News Talk Station. You don't share my values, so I'm not interested. And so I'm like, yeah, well, neither are we.

So good luck to you. Best of luck to you. Jeez the Lou. All right, let's go to the phone lines here: 901-260-5926, Statesville, North Carolina. Patty, what's on your mind, Patty?

Hey, Todd, how are you? Good, good, good. Thank you for asking. Yeah. Listen, I I just wanted to tell Dylan, you know, back when I in nineteen seventy five, my parents got me a Teenagers telephone.

Do you remember that? I don't remember that.

Okay. They had their own phone. They had a phone in the kitchen, they had a phone in their bedroom. But they got me a phone. When I was fifteen, I had Yeah.

I was telling uh Yeah. Yeah. It was a pink phone. But I had my own phone. But if you looked in the phone book, It would be my parents who were in the phone book, and then I would be underneath them.

Teenagers Telephone. Really? So it would still be your parents' number, but you would have your own line or something. Yeah. Oh.

They got me that at 50. And I that I remember it's nineteen seventy five. And yeah. And that's crazy, right? I mean, it was called Teenager Cell Phone.

But you know what I liked about back those back in those days, Todd, when we were growing up? We could actually crank people. I mean, I would say I would call and say, listen, did your husband take because I lived in Jersey at the time, did your husband take the Verizado Bridge home? And well, tell them to put it back 'cause there's cars waiting to get over. My uncle.

Bye. My uncle Don and Aunt Patty in West Memphis, Arkansas, they were the fun aunt and uncle.

So we would go over there, and one night they taught us. This is terrible. They taught us how to prank call. These are grown adults. I mean, we did it all to him.

I mean, is your refrigerator running? Would you go dead? It's going up the block. Oh, dead. Don't touch it.

Yeah, the the whole thing, uh, is is your refrigerator running, sir? I mean, you know what? It was so innocent back then. Wasn't the time we were innocent. Innocent.

It really was, yeah. I remember we used to, we uh we actually re-rigged a potato gun to shoot tall. Toilet paper rolls.

So when you would roll somebody's house, you could actually like. Stand in the front yard and fire the t Fired the potato gun, and it would literally unravel the toilet paper over the entire house. Those were the good old days. up up in the and you know when we well I don't know if you had a down south, but Up north we would have a a mischief night before Halloween. And my parents are the actual Yeah.

My parents would actually give us eggs. They would actually say, Okay, you could go do this one's house. I'm kidding. I think, but it was all fun. Did you ever manure somebody's windshield?

They did that in the country. My brother used to, my brother and his friends, they did it in front of the house. They would light it on fire. Oh yeah, that's Just good old fashioned fun. Just kids having a You know, you know what, Todd, what happened to those days?

Uh, you know what? I'm 65 now. And you know, God's taking care of me, thank you. And if you want to know something, I'll be honest with you, I can. Don't know what happened.

What happened to the mouse dog? What happened? Where did it go? It's gone squirrely, Patty. Gone squirrely.

Hey, gotta run, my friend. It's great hearing from you. You sound good. All right, 901-260-5926. This is the Tom Stern Show.

Welcome back to the Tom Cerns. Radio show. Good to have you with us today. Let's go to the phone lines. Beth is calling us from the Chick-fil-A drive-thru in Germantown, Tennessee.

Hi, Beth. How are you today?

I am great now, now that I've got my food.

So you've been able so you're are you already are you still in the drive-through or you've already uh gotten your food? No, I've got my food now. I mean, it's a leakety split. Wow, that's well, you know, they just did the whole redesign, and they've really got a state-of-the-art drive-through system there. Do we still have diet?

I would talk, but my mouth is full of food.

Well, you do have your priorities in the right place, but not necessarily, it doesn't make for good talk radio, Beth. Exactly. Exactly. No, I just wanted to call in. We I was listening earlier when you were talking about the phone books and not understanding what they were for.

And I said, I think our education has definitely declined. Because we don't have phone books anymore. What do you mean by that?

Well, when you have your phone book you have to know your alphabet.

Well, that's true. You gotta be able to find the names in the right alphabetical order and people around nowadays don't know their alphabet. Mm-hmm. Well, you know you are. When you're searching for something at work and somebody filed it, and you're like, why would you have put that in this order?

Well There'd have been A in it. You know, this is a great point. Beth, and I'll give you an example of this. In the supermarket, I haven't ever understood why the Lipton onion soup mix was not actually in the soup aisle where you think it would be. But for some reason, the Kroger I shop at, They always put it someplace else.

That's crazy. It drives me nuts. And then you're driving around your cart, and you got places to go. And people are, I go to the Kroger in Germantown. And uh it's always packed with folks.

Yeah. There's one day, and I can't remember which day it is, and I love senior citizens, I do, but I don't love them when they're grocery shopping, Beth. Yeah, I think it's Wednesday's senior citizens. Thank you. And they're always they're always in the self checkout line.

And I'm like, this is not I love you, I honor you, I respect you, but this is not the place for you. Exactly. Exactly. I'm like, okay, I don't go through self-checkouts because I've already put in eight hours at work and. I haven't got the Employee of the Year award here at this Kroger, so I'm pretty sure I'm not going to.

Okay. you know, work. Kroger. I don't want to check my own grocery store. Beth, what'd you order at?

What'd you order at Chick-fil-A, Beth? Oh, well, I try to be healthy.

So I got the kale salad. And then my naughty side got a small order of French fries, or the waffle fries. All right, that's kind of weird. No, I know, but it's delicious.

Well, I'll take your word for it. I can't do the kale, but I'm still missing their I miss their old carrot salad. Oh, yes, me too. That was so good. That was the jam.

Very, very good. It was. I definitely missed it. Indeed. Maybe we can start something to bring it back.

Oh, start like a petition drive. I mean, it worked for Cranker Barrel. Can we just say Chick-fil-A woke? Bring back the carrots. What's wrong with you, you?

Back the carrots, Palace. You liberals? What do you have against. What do you have against rabbits? Bring back the carrots.

The next thing you know, you're going to be serving vegan chicken. Oh, Lord. Yeah, I think we could I think we could stir up some wrath. I think so too. I know I've been always been My mother used to say, You are just a little troublemaker.

And you're like, who, me? Sweet meat. Everything I know, I learned from my mother.

Well, there you go. All right.

Beth. And I think that pop that got me a little pop on the bottom.

Well, yeah. Jeeze geez Lou. And sometimes they'd use the phone book, depending on how big of a town you lived in. Exactly. Exactly.

All right.

Beth, enjoy lunch. All right, you two. Have a great day. All right, there you go. Beth and the Chick-fil-A drive-through.

Taking care of business. She didn't get chicken though. You know they actually did try the vegan chicken, right? Oh, I forgot. Remember that?

That did not last very long. The cauliflower chicken breast. That's right. What happened to that? They got rid of it because nobody ordered it.

I tried to eat it, but my tongue and lips said no. I actually went out there and I was going to order one. You're brave. And I got it up, and the lips were like. No.

Mm No.

Something ain't right here. The tongue was like. Bad talk. Bad dot.

So I just threw it away. It's a smart thing to do. It also started with an aftertaste before it even got in your mouth. That was the problem with it. It's a vegetable.

It's. There it is. It has no place in Chick-fil-A. Go to Whole Foods if you want that kind of stuff. Let's go to Jerry, North Little Rock, Arkansas.

Wants to weigh in on Andy Griffith. Hi Jerry, what's up? Headload. Todd. I love the Andy Griffiths show.

I've always loved the Andy Griffiths show since I was a kid, born in 64. The only that ever really bothered me and it still bothers me to this Thanks, Father. about the Andy Griffiths show is Helen Crump. She's not a bad person. person, she's not a dislikable character.

Why? Should be just fun. Miss LA, down at the drugstore, had never existed. Miss Ellie. was funnier.

Miss Ellie had a better personality. Miss Ellie was more charming. Miss Ellie was just as smart. Obi likes Miss Ellie better. But most important If Ellie was just a Babe.

I I don't think I've ever heard anybody on the Andy Griffith show referred to as a babe.

Well you Maybe he can't be, but. I'm the only person who thinks that way.

So well, I I don't know, Jerry. You know, it sounded it kind of sounds like this is a Betty or Veronica kind of an issue. Are you more of a Betty guy or Veronica, you know, from the old Archie comics? I don't know. I never studied on R.

But I'm definitely a Mary Ann versus Ginger. Oh, well, there you go.

So you're more the wholesome type. Yeah, there you go. Okay, so you're saying that Helen might have been more vixen-ish? as opposed to sweet Ellie down at the drugstore. You know it Probably just off walls.

down to besides i still i Stand by Nicola had a much Better personality. Mr. Crump. Haircut. Oh my goodness.

It's just not. Miss Ellie's just. I like her better. No, Helen Crump had a mannish kind of a haircut. It's, you know It is what it is.

What do you really think? No, no, I hear you. I've never really thought of it quite like that. That was a little bit before my time. I grew up with the Brady bunch.

And then you had Marcia and Jan. And everybody loved Marcia. Yeah. Yeah, Marcia's, she's a good one. She was my favorite.

She was probably my favorite Brady girl. By the way, just for the record. Yeah. Time. Andy Griffith.

Fred Foreman and Hank Hill.

Well, no doubt about that. Have you seen the new Hank? Have you seen the new, you know, they updated the cartoon? Yes, and I haven't seen it yet. I've tried to avoid it all.

I just I hate it when they do that. Yeah. They mess with a good thing. Yeah. Jerry, we got to leave it there, my friend.

Thank you for calling in. Uh time for another trivia question. We need to know the name of the gas station where Gomer and Goober Pile worked. Gomer and Guber Pyle. What was the name of the Felling station?

901-260-5926, our number. That's 901-260-5926.

This is the Todd Stern Show. All right, welcome back, everybody. It's the Todd Sterns Radio Show. We got a kickback. You know what I mean?

It's. Look, it's been an insane news cycle. And it's going to be a rough weekend with the memorial service and. It's just tough.

So we've got to be able to kick back for a few minutes on the radio and uh I can't think of every time. I don't know why I do this, and maybe it's a lot cheaper than therapy. I just go back and watch old episodes of the Andy Griffiths show. And then everything, everything's okay. Everything is okay.

Except for the kerosene pickles. Uh let's go to the phone lines. Let's say hello to Robert. In Mills River, North Carolina, Hi, Robert. How are you today?

Durham Goodch, Todd. How are you today?

Yeah. Robert, I'm good. Thank you for asking. I want to say that uh Bless his family. and bless.

Last is uh little kids there and all, you know. Yeah, I just wanted to say I won't answer that trivia question. Yeah. Okay, go ahead. What's what's the question?

Do you know the two people? You always hear on the show, but you never see. I think one of them would be Sarah the operator, right? Mm-hmm. Natural.

All right.

Who's the other one? One meter. Oh. Juanita. Yeah, that's true.

I never really thought about that.

So, well, there you go, Robert. All right.

So, what's the name of that felon station that Gomer and Goober used to work at? Wally's Felon. Yeah, you knew that one. Yeah, absolutely. Robert, congratulations.

You are the winner. Hang tight, Robert. We're going to get you a prize sent over to North Carolina, so don't go anywhere. Miss Cassie will get your information. You know, we got to go back to Green Acres for just a moment there.

Um okay. This is tough. This is a tough one. Gotta go back to Green Acres. All right.

There was a pig. On Green Acres, right? And that pig had an egg. Can you name the pig? And Green Acres.

Dylan, we had some weird TV shows back in the day. Yeah, I've never saw Green Anchors. I gotta tell you, you gotta go back and watch it. It's old school fun. But uh there was a a fictional pig.

Well, it's a real pig, uh, but um the pig had a name. What was the name of the pig in Green Acres? 901-260-5926. That's 901-260-5926.

You know what's interesting, Dylan, about this particular uh pig? It has its own Wikipedia page. Is it accurate? It's pretty accurate. Yeah.

I mean, it's um. It's as accurate as a as a pig can be. Is it like a long-winded Wikipedia page? Has this pig been through a lot? The pig has been through it's it's been through a lot.

As a matter of fact, the pig was actually referenced in the diner scene in pulp fiction. Quentin Tarantino. Yeah, yeah. I love that movie. Uh there so there's also in uh there's a great TV sitcom back in the 1990s called News Radio, which was actually a very, very authentic portrayal of what it's like to work in News Radio.

And one of the characters was a big uh Green Acres fan. And in particular, the pig that we're talking about. I almost mentioned the pig's name. This is a very famous pig then. Very famous pig.

As a matter of fact, The pig had a trainer People may not realize that. But this individual, the guy's by the name, his name is Frank N. And he actually trained all of the animals in like Petticoat Junction, Beverly Hill Bellies, Green Acres. And back to, again, 1960, CBS was like the number one television network because of these kinds of shows. But the pig was so popular, Dylan, so popular.

that children would send in fan mail. And a class of sixth graders from Ohio actually wrote into the show and pledged to stop eating pork chops. Wait, people became vegan for this pig? People became vegan, or at least they wouldn't eat pork. I can't get past the fact that the pig had an acting coach and all these other animals.

Yeah. How do I get that job? It's a great gig. It's a great gig. Apparently, there were multiple pigs.

So I guess they didn't have a lot. The longevity was not great on a stunt double. Jeez. All right.

Let's go. Let's go to the phone lines. We're going to try. We're gonna try Doug. Doug in Georgia.

Hi, Doug. How are you? I'm great. How are you? Doug, I'm doing well.

I feel like I'm doing a great service to the nation here by educating Gen Z about some of the great sitcoms. Absolutely. Or maybe not. I don't know. But we're talking about green acres, and there's a specific pig.

You know the pig I'm talking about. What's the name of the pig? The pig's name was Arnold Ziffel. Arnold Zippel uh is correct. Yeah.

Yeah, Arnold was not just a pig. I mean, he was like a central character to the entire show. Yeah, my family had a Campground up in Michigan, and the family name was Green, so they called this campground Green Acres. And we had our own Arnold at the campground. Is that right?

So Arnold, you know, so Oliver Douglas, who was like, you know, the city guy, he came there. And so Arnold was treated like a human. And so, Dylan, that's kind of the shtick. Arnold the pig would go to like town meetings, play checkers, and they would lose. You know, Arnold Ziffel was, you know, very, very good at checkers.

That's it. Mm-hmm. And they tried to explain to people that uh Arnold was just a pig, but nobody in the town wanted to believe, you know, that he was just a pig. They thought he was just, you know, one of the guys. One of the best shows.

And then they were all very suspicious of Oliver Douglas because he could not communicate with Arnold the pig. Let's go. So they thought he was crazy. But yeah, back in the day, Dylan, Arnold Ziffel would write his name and change channels on the T V and watch the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite. Did this pig have like a middle name too?

Like this is like a this is a person at this point. This is not a pig.

Now that would be silly. I mean who would give who would give a pig a middle name?

Well, maybe like a hyphenated name. No, come on now. Doug, you see what I'm dealing with here? I mean, that's just absurd. Giving a pig a middle name.

We don't have animals like this in our shows that we watch. We don't have these famous pigs. In the Wikipedia Profile, he's listed as the species domestic pig. I want one now. Anyway, um There is a bit of scandal, though, guys.

Doug, by the way, congratulations. We're going to put you on hold, and we're going to get you a. We're going to get you hooked up with Miss Cassie here. There was a bit of scandal. At one point in the TV series, there was an interspecies.

Relationship: Arnold Ziffel fell in love with Mr. Haney's prized Bassett hound named Cynthia. But there there was a scene full of pig grunts and dog barks. And then there were subtitles. That their love could never be.

Okay. Yeah, it was a very intolerant era in American history. No, uh dog on pig, yeah, you can't go down that path. Yeah, we're in a new world now. It was never gonna work.

It was never gonna work. Now we have Shrek, where the donkey and the dragon, you know. You don't want to go down that path, probably.

However, the dog, the basset hound, actually started grunting like a pig. And so that led to a whole lot of questions.

Something's not right.

Something's not right.

And a lot of people are saying that about the Todd Star show right now.

Something is just a little off to day. Can't put my finger on it, but something's off. All right, geez, Lou, is it really time to say goodbye? Thank the good Lord. Folks, it's been a weird day.

And look, you hang in there. We're going to get through all this together, America. And that's what we do on this radio program. Don't forget, 5 o'clock Eastern tonight, we've got the Todd Stern Show. Mary Walter filling in next week.

I will be in Los Angeles. I'll try to phone in a time or two, let you know what's happening out there, and hope to see some of you at the conference as well. All right, get out there, folks. You have a great Friday. Want to give a shout out to the Memphis Tigers going up against the Arkansas Razorbacks tomorrow.

That's going to be a fun game. And by the way, whatever you do, be sure to go to church this weekend, America.