From the Mighty 990 Broadcast Center, you're waking up in Starnes Country with Todd Starnes. Yeah, hello everybody. I'm back. Todd Starnes here. Great to have you with us today.
Wow, it's really a nice start to the morning. 67 degrees out there. If you folks are into running, this is perfect running weather for you. We are going to have a hot day though. It still feels like summertime here in the Mid-South.
highs heading up into, well, the low 90s today. Laura Huckabee is going to be by just a little while with your forecast. I have to say thank you so much for the incredibly hard work that Kristen New and Luke Simbel did last week and then yesterday, filling in for me while I was out on the road. And I just can't say enough great things about those two. They just did a terrific job and they love our city they love our county and they just had a lot of fun on the radio and thank you guys so much for being incredibly gracious i was able to tune in from afar and to read a lot of the comments so appreciate you guys out there in our social media live chats and a special good morning to you guys as well hey i want to want you to write down our telephone number.
You're going to need this if you want to call in to the show this morning, 901-260-5926. That's 901-260-5926. Coming up, we have our good friend Judge Jeanine Pirro joining us here on the Mighty 990. She sat down with me for an interview, and we talked about crime in Memphis and what the White House is doing about that. Also, Senator Bill Haggerty will be along a little bit later on.
And he'll be phoning in from Washington. And we're going to get the very latest from the senator on this looming government shutdown. And just a reminder, it's the Democrats here. They bear full responsibility.
So if the federal government shuts down at midnight, only one party is to blame, and that is the Democrat Party. And here's the reason why. You'll hear the senator talking about this a little bit later, but I want to give you a preview. This is all about funding health care for illegal aliens, which the president is staunchly opposed to doing. And look, I'm not a cold-hearted person.
You know, I want to make sure that everybody has access to health care. But the reality is that we've got a lot of American citizens. We have a lot of veterans that don't have access to health care. And every single dollar, every single resource that we give to an illegal is a dollar or is a resource not going to a veteran or an American citizen in need.
So we've got to start prioritizing the American people, the American citizens first, and then we can help our neighbors and other countries if there's money left over.
So they're wanting to spend millions of dollars to fund health care for illegals. They want to restore funding to National Public Welfare Radio, WKNO, and they also want to restore funding to PBS. Half a billion dollars in funding that the president issued an executive order doing away with all of that.
So that's among other things.
So we'll get into more of that with Senator Hagerty a little bit later on in the program. Also, Senator Brent Taylor, our state senator, is up in Washington, D.C., and he is introducing the Make Memphis Matter movement to the entire nation. And he's pretty excited about this. The senator is going to be testifying, and we believe that is going to happen in the next hour. He'll be testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee, and we'll see what the senator has to say.
So they're sort of being very tight-lipped about all of this. And we'll have to watch the hearing on C-SPAN to see what Senator Taylor is up to and what he'll be telling and what he'll really be testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee. The senator releasing a statement saying that he fully supports the National Guard deployment to Memphis. He says, after all, we have a great city to save. Has anybody seen the National Guard by any chance?
I'm just curious. If you have spotted the National Guard. But it's sort of like birdwatching, right? You've got people literally all over town. I don't know if you're following the same people I'm following on the socials.
But people are out there like birdwatchers with their binoculars trying to spot the National World. You're not going to find them because they're in camo.
So they're just going to be very hard to find.
Sort of like a copperhead, right? You're never going to know until you step on them. Boom, they get you. And I'll give you a great example. I was trying to rush back.
I literally had to rush back from Memphis International Airport yesterday to the studio here, but I wasn't able to do that. Cassie, turn your microphone on. Cassie! You know why I was not able to rush back here to the studio yesterday, Cassie? Why?
Because they had Tennessee Highway Patrol. They were, like, stacked up on I-240. No way.
So you couldn't even go 65. You were going, like, 55 to 60. and and so people were slamming on the brakes and it cracked me up because there was one there was one guy he was in an unmarked squad car but as soon as he got up on you you could tell who the guy was and people would people were passing the guy and then slamming on their brakes so i can imagine all that to say look i'm glad i fortunately i still made it still made it but um nobody's going 120 miles an hour right now on i240 and that's a good thing are they still pulling people over on the streets the surface streets for the car tags oh yeah that's still happening it's happened to me well i didn't want to bring it up i was just going to say but you got to get the car tag renewed i got them renewed i got them renewed oh good good good so we're safe all right so following the law so were they doing what were they were they doing like a um roadblock is that what they were doing they blocked off the whole road and then they checked everybody for their car tags, their seatbelts, all that good stuff. It's a good thing Dieter's not here. Oh, man.
We'd be bailing Dieter out of the big house. Daily. Daily. We have a collect call from 201 Poplar.
So we're glad. We're glad. No, we're just kidding, Ben. We're kidding. All right.
901-260-5926. If you have seen the National Guard, we want to hear from you. That's 901-260-5926. All right. Can we talk for just a moment about Central High School?
This is the craziest story. And I saw this, and I knew that as soon as I got back to Memphis, we had to address this because this may be one of the biggest scandals brewing in the Mid-South. It's called a kazoo protest.
So the Central High School marching band, and I don't know what they're doing. I don't know what's in the water over at Central High School. They have an incredible music program at that school. and so their marching band is just rocking it so they were playing brighton the other day and they told them that they could come and play but the band was not allowed to perform and the reason why is they said the band was too much of a distraction and they play too loud i'm sorry but isn't that like the entire point of a marching band in a football game right you want to get the crowd you know riled up and you want to have some great music and you want to maybe play loud enough that the other team gets distracted. Isn't that the whole point of having the marching band there and the cheerleaders, right?
I'm just asking.
So anyway, they told the band, you guys can come, but you can't bring your instruments.
Okay, so that's called a spectator at that point. But Central High School, they got very clever.
So they decided instead of bringing 200 musical instruments, they would bring 200 kazoos to the game. And here's what that sounded like. Where's the kazoos? I don't have the kazoos. Oh, there they are.
Oh, my God. All right. Enough. All right, so you're telling me that the kazoos were less annoying than an actual marching band? Have you been to a Mississippi State football game before?
I have not. You just haven't experienced life until you've heard, I don't know, 25,000 cowbells clunking. Oh, my gosh. I can only imagine. I'm just telling you.
So anyway, good for the Central High School marching band. By the way, Tipton County said that they issued a statement saying we did not ban. That was something between the principal at Brighton High School and Central High School. It sounds like they're passing the buck. Come on, guys.
Let the kids be kids, right? It's a high school football game. There's going to be a lot of noise. There going to be a lot of distractions It fun Let the kids be kids Let do better Can we agree to do that All right we got to take a break here 901 That 901 This is Starnes Country All right, 68 degrees at Central High School. By the way, one of our dear friends, the great Kristen New, who was hosting this show last weekend yesterday, said the football players better get used to it because if they move on to the next level, they're going to have to play in really noisy stadiums.
That is an excellent, excellent point. All right. By the way, Dean Franklin sending in this little update. The senator is saying that his testimony is going to start at 8.15 our time. Again, that's 8.15 our time.
So we'll be paying very close attention to what Senator Taylor has to say. Again, they've been super, super secret about this. It's on the download, the QT.
So we'll keep you updated on that. All right. As promised, I had a chance to sit down with Judge Jeanine Pirro. We have been friends for a really long time, going all the way back to my Fox News days. And we've hit the speaking circuit together.
And literally, Janine and I actually spoke in Mayberry, and we'll tell you more about that. Here's a conversation with Judge Janine. Judge, it's been a long time, and I hope you're doing well.
Well, I'm doing great. I love it here in this office in D.C., in the U.S. Attorney's Office, and being the U.S. Attorney, it is certainly a challenge. It is one that I'm certainly up for.
And I'm excited about this office because it's not just an office where we prosecute federal crime. I mean, we do civil federal cases as well, obviously. But we also have a huge part of the office. It is your basic DA jurisdiction, which is what I did for 32 years, actually, where we do all the local crime, the violent crime, the drugs, you know, the rape, the domestic violence, the guns, the drug trafficking. the robberies, the burglaries.
And of course, I'm trying to get my hands on juvenile crime, because when I got here, I realized that there was so much juvenile crime going on, for which those people on the D.C. Council believe that juveniles shouldn't really be accountable for in criminal court.
So that has been my main mission for the last couple of months that I've been here. There has been a lot of talk about the National Guard and, you know, the increase in law enforcement help there in the D.C. area. And, I mean, it really has revolutionized the city. And Memphis, Tennessee, which is my hometown, is next on the agenda.
President Trump sending the National Guard in. What can the good people of a place like Memphis expect to see with this ramp up in law enforcement? What the good people of Memphis, and congratulations, I didn't know you were from Memphis, Scott. I think even more of you now. what they can expect is a return to safety.
With the surge in D.C., we saw the President Trump's determination and his use of resources in D.C. have made D.C. a safer place. In fact, as a result of the surge, Todd, we've had a 53 percent decline in homicide, 10 percent decline in sexual abuse, 39 percent of violent crime and a 45 percent of motor vehicle theft and a 40 percent of theft from an auto.
So we've got some huge cases of robberies are down 57 percent.
So it's a combination of not only arresting individuals quicker and in tune with along the moment that they are committing the crime, but it also, Todd, has a deterrent effect. Because if you think that, you know, there are people on the street that are going to arrest you right away, you and I both know that you're not going to commit that crime if you think the chances are that you're going to get caught.
However, with juvenile crimes, the juvenile crimes remain high because they're not afraid of being arrested. They know it's literally a joke when you go into the family court here in D.C. And that's why I'm fighting so hard to get my hands on these young juveniles who, after years of committing violent crimes and going to juvenile court because of their age, they come out and their first foray in the criminal court as an adult is a homicide.
So they literally build their way up and they get all of this basically protection and they get all of this, you know, non-resistance from the system.
So then they're out killing people, which is no surprise. And young people with guns in D.C. is like, you know, a candy store with candy. I mean, they just go together. No, it's true.
You know, it's we literally have these conversations in Memphis because we're the same situation, you know, in my city where the juvenile crime is off the charts. And you literally have conversations that you'd rather be carjacked by an older person because they may actually let you live as opposed to these kids. That is a funny line. You'd rather be carjacked by an older person because there'll be some accountability. But here's the problem, Todd.
The problem is that unfortunately the victim, especially the victim of a homicide or a shooting good care, left the age of the shooter because it's not any less painful and it's not less lethal if a young person does it. And the people here on the D.C. Council and some of these judges in the family court, I mean, you know, they're so obsessed with the prefrontal lobe development in young people. I could give a damn about that. I know that they know that they're going to get away with it.
I know that they know that there are no consequences. And so my job is to get their tails over here in criminal court and start locking them up because I'm sick of this. And so are the people of this district.
So are the people who come and visit here, Todd. You know, an intern from Massachusetts, you know, working for a congressman from Arkansas at 1030 at night, not even, goes out for a bite to eat and gets shot in the middle of a shootout between these young thugs. 17-year-olds that literally have a record a mile long in the family court, but no one can talk about it. All right, that was just a bit of my interview with Judge Jeanine Pirro, and we're going to have a lot more to say and a lot more to talk about. If you would like to listen to the entire interview, go to my website, toddstearns.com, and you'll be able to download our podcast, and you'll be able listen to the entire conversation with Judge Jeanine.
And of course, coming up in just a few moments, we're going to be checking in with Senator Bill Haggerty on the looming government shutdown, which is scheduled to happen at midnight. By the way, I want to share this information with you, and we'll do this again a little bit later, just to remind everyone, we are dealing, if you listen to us on our AM signal, you're not hearing us right now. And the reason why there has been a power outage at our tower location, which is in Arkansas.
So our towers are in Arkansas, right across the river. And we alerted Entrygy yesterday morning. Entrygy said they would get to it. The reality is that they have yet to fix the repairs. And so we knew that the trucks were out there at five o'clock yesterday.
They left. They left without repairing the damage. I don't know if they don't work overtime at Entrygy Arkansas. I don't know what's going on.
So we've reached out to their headquarters because, and this is the great, I don't know, I never believe in coincidences. There's only one power outage. There's only one customer without power in the Entrygy grid in eastern Arkansas right now, and it's the KWAM Tower site. And they claim that there's something broken and they're trying to fix it but they give us no estimations we were originally supposed to be back on the air yesterday at two o'clock then they told us five o'clock we have ring cams out there and we also had somebody out there doing some mowing of the grass in our mass we have 30 acre tower site and they said oh yeah they left if they left just packed up and left at five o'clock yesterday and went home and so now they're telling us that hopefully by eight o'clock this morning, we have decided to ratchet up a notch, so we've reached out to the governor's office in Arkansas to find out what the heck is going on. I just find it very odd that the only power, one customer without power in Memphis, it's the conservative news talk radio station.
I don't know what to make of that. I'm just telling you.
That's the reality of where we are.
So we'll keep you updated on that. My apologies. I would encourage you, download the app. And you'll be able to listen to us wherever you are across America or like I was doing yesterday at 30,000 feet flying back to Memphis. All right.
We've got to take a quick break here, folks. Senator Bill Haggerty. We're talking about the Bartlett Fall Fest. There's a lot going on this weekend in the Mid-South. And it is a great day to be hanging out in Stardust Country.
We'll be right back, everybody. All right 65 degrees at Christopher Brothers High School this morning Hello, everybody. Welcome back to Starnes Country. I'm Todd Starnes. Crazy story out of Memphis.
City Councilwoman Yolanda Cooper Sutton, a great, great American here. This is an insane story. An 83-year-old woman was evicted from her home.
So the Sheriff's Department showed up, and they had all of these folks. And we're going to get into that part of the story in just a quick second here. But it turns out they accused her of not paying her taxes on her home, this 83-year-old lady. And the video is insane from the Sheriff's Department because all of her belongings are literally on the front yard. and the family is panicked.
They don't know what to do. And this poor lady, she's 83 years old, and this is her home. And she showed them the documentation, and sure enough, it turns out that she had, in fact, paid her taxes, and nobody could figure out why she was being evicted.
So God bless the city councilwoman, Cooper Sutton, because she actually showed up. She put out the all call and reached out to the sheriff's department, and they put out called all their off-deputy officers to come over and to help put everything back inside this lady's home. And God bless Yolanda Cooper Sutton and the Shelby County Sheriff's Office. But there's more to this story. We've got to figure out who in the world was responsible for this eviction in the first place and who made the mistake because this woman clearly paid her taxes.
That's unacceptable for an 83-year-old to do. And again, we need to take a long, hard look at this property tax issue. And once you've paid for your home, there's no reason why you should be paying property taxes. That's just the opinion of yours truly.
Well, I want to go right away to our Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line. There's a lot happening in Washington today. And we're always honored to have our great Senator Bill Haggerty joining us. Senator, hope you're doing well. Todd, it's always good to be with you.
Thanks very much for having me this morning. You know, Senator, the clock is ticking, and we're looking at a looming government shutdown. But I think it's important to remind everybody, this is all of the Democrats. And I'm curious, I know there were a lot of meetings yesterday. Where do things stand right now with the looming shutdown?
I think we're going to have the votes tonight, but we're not there. The government shuts down the 30th at midnight, so we're headed right toward it. Here's why we're here, though, Todd. I don't think this is getting enough coverage. The Democrats, ever since President Trump won the election and took office, have been on their maximum resistance campaign.
Let me put it into perspective. We have been trying to help President Trump put his cabinet into place. If you go back to Bill Clinton, 98 percent of the nominees that he put forward were immediately confirmed through a process in the Senate called consent. You know, a normal process. That number dropped down to 90 percent in Barack Obama's administration.
Today, we are at 0%. Chuck Schumer has implemented the maximum procedural delay, if he possibly can. It's called cloture. They did it to me, Todd, when I was nominated to be U.S. Ambassador to Japan in President Trump's first administration.
That tied up the Senate for 30 hours of debate on my nomination as U.S. Ambassador to Japan. It was not controversial. 88 votes at the end of the day for me. They just used it to slow us down.
I was four months late getting to my post as a result of what Chuck Schumer did then.
Now he's implementing it on everyone. And he's not allowed us, therefore, to put the appropriation bills on the floor. We've already got three done. There are a dozen that need to be done. We're pretty close.
All they need to do is vote like they have in the past to continue the Biden-era budget they've already voted for, to give us another several weeks to get this completed and finalized. But rather than do that, it's resist Trump at all costs. It's fight Trump. That seems to be the mantra, no matter what the cost will be to the United States. And that's the problem because, and we've seen this over and over again, and I know it frustrates a lot of Republicans when you guys, you know, approve and sign off on all the Democrat nominees.
And there's a thought pattern to all of this. And we've heard this from other Republican senators in the past is that, well, the sitting president deserves the people. You know, he got elected. He deserves or she deserves the people that they want for their, you know, for their administration, unless they're, you know, far left wackadoodles. And I get that.
But the reality is the Democrats don't return that level, that measure of respect when it comes to Republican presidents. No, it's amazing. Democrats always try to seek a new low. And again, they've done it here yet again. And I think Chuck Schumer finds himself in a very difficult situation, Todd.
On the one hand, he's got what they call a clean continuation for several more weeks to continue the negotiations. He's going to – he's voted for that in the past. It's a bill. This is a budget that was passed under Biden. He's going to vote against that, making completely unrealistic demands, another trillion dollars worth of unrealistic expenditures.
This is the other side of the argument. AOC in the far left of this party criticized him heavily for not standing up to Trump. He doesn't want to be perceived as taking a knee to Trump or bowing to Trump in any way.
So this is more or less a test of his manhood, which I think is ridiculous. But I hope he can prove himself larger than this today. But every indication is that he's going to just shut it down to prove that AOC and the far left don't have anything on him. And he's as much of a Trump fighter as they are, even though they have no strategy and their popularity is going to continue to wane. And, Todd, you may have seen the memo that Les Vaux put out regarding layoffs that will occur.
if this happens. Yes.
So I think the Democrats will have that on their hands as well. And it might warrant maybe just a few, you know, a little bit of an explanation. I think you all know that, we all know that there's a lot of bloat in government. We also know that there have been a lot of resistance, legal resistance, HR law resistance to allowing President Trump to go through and clean house, get rid of wasteful programs, programs that we shouldn't be doing. You think about the fights and the arguments that we've had.
where Russ Boat has instructed every agency at every department to go through and find all of those programs that are questionable, that probably would wind up on the cutting block if they were in a private corporation. Let's go ahead and enumerate all of those. And when we go into shutdown, the president has inordinate power to eliminate positions. We're out of cash at that point. It'll determine some of them essential.
But those that are not, it's certainly within his power to go ahead and do the elimination.
So Chuck Schumer will have this on his hands, too. And Senator, let me jump in there on that note, because my understanding is that those jobs could be completely eliminated.
So if the Democrats are really playing with fire here because a lot of their constituents could be out of jobs after midnight tonight. Don't you think this just illustrates the genius of Donald Trump's negotiating ability? He wins either way. It's brilliant. If he keeps the government open, we continue to negotiate.
That's the preferred line of movement here. But if Schumer decides to throw his temper tantrum, Trump has said, okay, fine, go ahead and do it. Then I'm going to start exercising the power that I wanted to exercise from the very beginning and start really chopping some of this dead wood out of the U.S. government. And my favorite, the headline today, and it just cracks me up because the left thinks this is like going to scare all of us.
There are about 100,000 federal workers, and the rumors are they're set to formally quit working for the U.S. government if, in fact, there's a shutdown. It's like, okay, good luck to you.
Well, I think we all saw what happened post-COVID. All these people, quote, working from home, nobody knew the difference. It really is a shame, and I think there's a tremendous amount of bloat. There are some government workers that are doing fantastic jobs. I think about our law enforcement, what we want to see in Memphis.
I've talked to the governor, by the way, about this. The National Guard will continue to be paid by the state. We'll figure out how to reimburse them later. But if you think about some of these programs, these agencies that most Americans have never even heard of that are going overseas, you name it, and some of these programs are just, frankly, quite embarrassing when you find out what we've been funding. It's time for all that stuff to go, and if Chuck Schumer wants to go ahead and accelerate it, I think President Trump is more than ready to take him up on it.
Let's talk about Memphis, Senator. And I know we're, I mean, the entire city, our phones have been lighting up here at the radio station. People are so excited to see the National Guard, this increase in law enforcement. I've been traveling the country for the past week. And when I came back, people were literally doing 55 miles an hour on I-240, which is a miracle from on high.
miracle. But how important is it for the president to send in the National Guard? And when can we expect to see boots on the ground? That's the big question. People are wondering when the Guard will actually be here.
Well, Todd, let me give you the backstory for just a couple of minutes, because this is deeply personal to me. You know, I'm from Middle Tennessee. Since I was a boy, my parents wouldn't even let me go to visit friends in Memphis when I was a kid, because they're worried about my personal safety. This has been an issue for a long time. We can't ignore it any longer.
And in November, after we won the election, I knew that I would have the gavel on the Appropriations Committee and that President Trump would be in the White House. I went to Mayor Paul Young, the mayor of Memphis, and said Paul we have a chance to actually make a real difference here if we can find a way to work together And through a number of discussions and also with Sheriff Bonner with Police Chief Davis we had a number of discussions My staff started working with him in earnest I went to Kash Patel in December of 2024, Pam Bondi in January. We agreed to put together a strike force to be very quiet about it, because why would you warn the criminals you're coming? And that strike force ended its operations about two and a half weeks ago. we nabbed over 500 of the hardest core criminals in the Memphis area.
They are being charged federally, over 100 federal indictments, well over 100 federal indictments and growing. And when I say charged federally, that means they're going to Leavenworth. They're not going to the Shelby County Jail. They're going to Leavenworth.
So we are going to see, we've already seen massive cooperation, well-affected cooperation. President Trump saw that and he said, okay, you're going to get the full menu. That means 16 agencies will be arriving in Memphis this week. That includes the National Guard. The National Guard will be the most visible.
But I'm talking about alcohol, tobacco, and firearms, DEA. The IRS will be there, Todd, because every one of these criminal gangs has illicit revenue streams. Those illicit revenue streams, this is how we call it Al Capone, those violate federal laws. These people are going to federal penitentiary. We need it.
It's a once-in-a-lifetime chance to fix it. And the governor and I both pledged to the mayor that we'll do everything we can to put the necessary long-term resources in place. I serve on the Appropriations Committee here for federal resources. Governor Lee has said we'll do the same at the state level. We're going to put in place the resources so that we can bridge the gap in law enforcement in Memphis to make this sustainable for the long term.
I'm just curious, and President Trump appears regularly here on KWAM, and he announced on the radio that he was not aware of how bad things were here. and he would look into it and would consider moving Memphis to the top of the list, which he did. I heard that interview, Todd. It was great. Senator, do we know why the governor didn't send in it?
Why did we have to wait for President Trump to take action? Why didn't the governor, I mean, he sees, I mean, he's here in the state. Do we know why the governor didn't send in the National Guard beforehand? Actually, the governor has been involved at this from early on as well. I invited Cash Patel to come to Nashville in March of this year and invited Governor Lee and Senator Blackburn to join that meeting from the outset when he heard what we're thinking about doing.
Governor Lee has been supportive. It really has been a matter of making certain that we cooperate closely with the federal activity. You don't want to announce the National Guard or anything else while we did our strike force. Again, that needed to be quiet. We worked in coordination with TBI and, again, the big FBI bump up, a big DEA resource bump up.
And that makes sense. That's done, this 500. And that makes you, I get that. I get that. All well coordinated.
So Governor Lee was right there in the Oval Office with me when the announcement was made that we're going to bring in now the broad menu of federal resources. But he's been he's been on this. And real quick here, I've got about 90 seconds. I know Senator Brent Taylor, State Senator Brent Taylor, is up on Capitol Hill going to testify before Senate Judiciary today. I think it does me proud to see people caring about our city.
And I want us to be that gleaming, you know, I want us to see the skyscrapers and the growth and people coming back to the Mid-South. And Senator, I mean, when you look at Memphis, we really do matter, not just to the Mid-South, but really the entire nation. That's absolutely true, Todd. Memphis is a great city. It has so much potential, and there's a lot happening that's very positive.
This is going to allow us to secure the place that Memphis deserves. It needs to be one of the safest cities in America. I want to commend the mayor who's been willing to work across the aisle. And my conversation with him has been very simple, Todd, and I think you'll agree. I don't care whether you have an R or a D behind your name.
A government servant's basic responsibility is to provide for public safety. That should not be a partisan issue. And we're here to demonstrate that. It's working. And I'm looking forward to seeing Memphis turn into the safest city in America.
And I'm going to make certain the resources are there in the long range so that we can sustain that. All right. Good stuff.
Well, we've got to leave it there, Senator. We do appreciate your efforts. And they have not gone unnoticed. And we will be paying very close attention to what happens later tonight on this government shutdown. Senator, thank you.
Thank you, Todd. All right. There you go. Senator Bill Haggerty on our Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line. And I do have to say, though, the governor, I'm still not understanding why the governor never sent in the National Guard.
Why did he have to wait? And we're just going to get real here for a moment. The governor had no intention of sending in the National Guard until we forced the issue and we forced the governor's hand on this. That's the reality of it.
So I'm glad the governor's on board. I'm not sure he's a happy camper about it, but it doesn't matter because we got to fix the city. It's as simple as that. And thank God that Donald Trump is doing that. All right.
We've got to take a quick break here, folks. Hang tight. 901-260-5926. If you want to weigh in on that conversation we just had, that's 901-260-5926. Hey, let's check in with Commander Chuck.
All right, the conversation with Senator Haggerty sparking a big conversation on our social media pages. By the way, kwamradio.com, you can access all of our social media platforms, and you can also download our free app, which we'd encourage you to do. For whatever reason, Entergy is taking its time repairing an electrical issue on their end, at our tower site.
So our AM signal is off the air, which means you're going to have to listen to us on our stream at kwamradio.com, or you can listen on our app, which you can carry with you wherever you are across America.
So anyway, we're working through all of that. A lot of folks fired up and pointing out again that the Democrats have controlled Memphis for generations.
So I appreciate what the senator said. And, you know, the Senate, they always try to work across the aisles for better or for worse. And I get that. But the reality here is this. Republicans at all levels, if you are a Tennessee Republican, you must call out the Democrats by party and by name in Memphis and Shelby County.
They have controlled everything in this area for generations. And when you see the squalor and the lawlessness, that's all on the Democrats. And so we have got to make that distinction, and we have to really just punch that message home. And if we don't do it, then the constituents here, the citizens, are not going to understand the difference between the Republicans and the Democrats. And I can understand their confusion at times.
Don't get me wrong here. And I'm a card-carrying Republican. But anyway, we're going to – and look, I mean, the governor's a very nice man. I just don't like the way he's governing the state of Tennessee. And that goes all the way, as Kristen Hicks points out, we've got to remember what the governor did to this country or to this state during the COVID lockdowns and watching Memphis collapse.
I mean, it really is that simple.
So look, my recommendation to all of you Democrats out there listening, give the Republicans a shot. I mean, it really can't get any worse than it is. They really can. All right, 901-260-5926. I've got to get to this story.
I don't know why I find this humorous, Cassie, but I'm a big marching. I love the marching bands. It's a lot of fun. I can't play an instrument, so I'm always in awe of these people who move and play instruments and all that kind of whatnot. And then they twirl the things in the air, you know, the batons setting on fire.
Pretty, pretty awesome. Anyway, there's a big controversy in the HBCU world. And there's a plus-sized dance group called the Honey Bees. That's B-E-E-Z. I want you to hear how they were introduced at a recent football game.
Take a listen. congratulate them they're now the new face of authentic oh dear uh yeah yikes so the announce the announcer said that the and these are i mean they're certainly plus size but it's not like they're 500 pounders i mean you know these are just plus size girls and they're out there dancing and they look very, I mean, they look really nice. And so the girls are from Alabama State, and everybody's really fired up about all of this, and they're demanding that the announcer who's been around since 1975 announcing these games and announcing all of the marching bands, they're saying he's got to go because of what he did.
So the guy's apologized, but I'm not sure he's going to be able to come back from this. That crowd was ready to go after that fella. Storm the press box.
So anyway, and who does that? Did he think that was a compliment? That's what I'm trying to figure out. What goes through your mind as you're introducing these young girls out there, these college girls about to go out there and do their dancing, and they call them the face of Ozempic? Jeezaloo.
All right, we got to leave it there. 11 o'clock, folks, we're going to have wall-to-wall coverage of the looming shutdown. It's going to be a lot of fun. We've got some great guests lined up. Get out there.
Have a great day, everybody. Thank you for joining us here in Stearns Country. Thanks, Luke, Kristen. Really appreciate you guys. We'll see you tomorrow right here on the Mighty Night 90.
