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That's 901-260-5926. Let's go to Houston, starting the day with Patriot Talk 920 and Lon. Hi, Lon, what's on your mind today?
Well, I'm concerned about my home state. I was born and raised in Michigan. And I'm concerned about the Where Horns that go off in Farmington and Dearborn around that area. You're talking about the Muslim. Are you talking about the Muslim call to prayer?
Yeah. Yeah, exactly.
So, so Lon, let me explain to our listeners, and they may not be familiar with this story because it is causing major, major trouble in Dearborn and other majority Muslim communities, where the residents are raising concerns because the call to prayer, the Islamic call to prayer, is being broadcast on huge loudspeakers. And, Lon, my understanding is people are being woken up at 5:30 a.m. by Islamic prayers. I hear that. Too, so I was born and raised in Muskegon on the west coast, right on the lake.
And I want to actually probably run. I'm 79 years old, but I have all my beans left in my head. Maybe I could run for governor over there.
Well, it sounds like you've got more common sense than the governor does over there right now. Yeah, this is pretty nasty stuff where they are using these outdoor loudspeakers and people are complaining. They're showing up at city council meetings. As a matter of fact, Lon, there was one meeting where the, I mean, everybody's all the elected leaders are Muslims.
So the Christians and the Jews, you guys are screwed. No offense, but that's just the reality of it. And some poor Christian guy got up there. He was complaining because they were renaming one of the streets after a pro-Hamas Muslim. And I know that.
Yeah. Yeah, the Christian the poor Christian was like he the mayor said, you know what? People like you are not welcome in this town anymore. Um I don't know what to say. I want to go back up there from Houston.
and change some of this stuff. Lon, let me tell you what's going to happen. And you, because you're going to have a big problem in Texas because your Republican leaders there are pussyfooting around this issue, the rise of Islam. And this has to be addressed. Texas is exploding with mosques right now.
It's happening in other states as well. I'll tell you, Tennessee, a lot of Muslims moving into Tennessee as well. And as we all know, New York City is about to elect an honest-to-goodness jihadist as the mayor. That is not going to end well.
So, Lon, we're going to be paying attention to this, but I don't think you're going to have to travel very far to fight this battle. Thank you for the call. 901-260-5926 is our telephone number. That's 901-260-5926. We've got so much, and I want to get sidetracked here.
But the situation in Michigan, where you have these towns, and if you have a majority of Muslims on your city council, You're going to be hearing the call to prayer. And one local resident said this the the mosques in East Dearborn are waking us up at five thirty a.m. with a call to prayer, and at other times forcing us to listen to the prayer in our yard and in our home. The council president said they were investigating and gathering decibel tests from certain mosques. They've already found instances of a mosque violating the ordinance.
Really? Who's going to enforce that? You think anybody's going to enforce it? The director of the Dearborn Community Center says there has been an ongoing complaint from a small group of residents. That would be the, I would think, Christians.
The Jews The non-Muslims? Anyway, you better get ready because this will be coming to your town, ladies and gentlemen. And there is. Uh I'm just saying you better get ready. Because We are watching the Islamification of America, and it has been a slow but steady march to that.
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Good morning, sir. I have first-hand experience. I was an instructor through the Philippine Marine Corps Martial Arts Program. For Armor Battalion.
So when our guys would come there for jungle survival training, for example, I'm the guy that would step out and critique all their knife techniques in the dark kind of stuff. Because they use a lot bigger knives than our guys do.
So you have to know how to fight like that or you you don't need to patrol through those areas without some Philippine Marines with you. Or you you literally will get cut to pieces. They'll take hostages in the middle of Manila. They'll take hostages from tourists If you're like sleeping on a boat and they will tell you if you sleep on the boat that you rented, Hire armed guards that are off-duty military to watch you while you're sleeping. If you do that, you're safe.
If you don't, It only takes. Two or three nights in the same place, and they come and snatch you up, and then you're down in the jungles of one of those islands in Mindanao where they've had an undeclared civil war going on. for like 50 years. With the Muslim extremists that recruit from headhunting traps that are still active. One time walking to the mall with my family, we had to cross the street because there were five bodies lying there on a very busy intersection.
Picture the middle of New York City, one hundred thousand people, and they killed five people and took the time out to cut their heads off, put them in a bag and take the heads with them. Wow, so this was and this was going on in the Philippines. This is in the middle of Manila, but you won't see it on uh Like seeing in Philippines, that would kinda hurt tourism, you know. Yeah, yeah.
Well I Yeah. You know, no, Bill, let me jump in for just a second because, again, you know, the argument's always been: well, it's only 1% of the religion that's extremist.
Okay, well, that's about 100 million people. That's still a lot of people, and that's still a lot of terrorists out there. And these, well, these idiots don't seem to understand. It's not like one day it'll come here. It is here.
If these people don't understand what's going on, Uh they're going to understand they're not going to have a choice. All over Europe now. Uh Girls are being kidnapped. Because they believe that infidels have a right to be subjugated, and sex is a weapon of psychological warfare of these kind of terrorists. This has been done since ancient times.
There are videos all over YouTube. of attempted kidnappings and successful kidnappings of vans pulling up. Guys in masks dressed up like antifi, they pull out and they just grab a girl, throw her in the van and go. And that is it's The practice is spreading like across all of the Western world, which means it will. eventually happen Here, if it hadn't happened here.
already. Uh Well, Bill, when you look at what's been coming across our southern border, and one of the stories that is not getting as much attention as it should is the human trafficking and what they're doing, these sex slaves. Many of these folks coming across the border are not just from Guatemala, they're from Middle Eastern countries. As President Trump said, if you remember, Bill, back in his first term in office, Trump got so much flack for this, but he wanted to shut down immigration from these hotbeds of radical terrorism. And that's why Trump wanted to do that.
Well, when people discuss it, please remind them if they want to whine and cry about uh 'Cause I got family members going to the the protest of You know, Trump is not a king. He thinks he They don't understand. It's like they hate Trump more than they love the fact that children are being rescued and found. What is it, 45 children found in Memphis since the pets came for two weeks now? Yeah, and thousands nationwide, yeah.
When you have judges that go along with cash and r catch and release BS crap. You need to look at the judges and have them audited. Are they getting money from George Soros? To promote this political ideology crap, because if they are a radical activist judge. They are not impartial, and therefore they have broken their oath.
to the Constitution to uphold constitutional law. That's why we officially already have it illegal for Sharia law, because what is the Constitution in the Bill of Rights State? Any law passed that contradicts what the Constitution says. And the bill of rights says is null and void, it's illegal and not to be followed. And anybody that recommends like all this squashing the Second Amendment, like what they enacted in 2025.
Of January up in Michigan. They are a traitor to the Constitution and they need to be brought up on charges immediately. Because, what do we do in times of war? All right, Bill. All right, hold on, hold on, Bill.
All right, you got to take a breath. Let me jump in here. Let me jump in for a second. Look, here's the deal. This is it's it's nothing is happening in a vacuum.
Everything is happening for a reason. And one of the reasons they want to take away the guns, and they're doing it methodically. And if they can't get the guns, they're going after the ammo. They want to disarm the American people. And they know the reason why.
And the reason why is they know that most of the country is armed to the teeth. Therefore, they can't come in. And if they do try to come in, it'll be a bloodbath.
So that's one of the reasons why we, the continental United States, has not been invaded in modern American history, aside from the illegals coming across the border.
So there is a reason for that, and the reason they want to disarm is once they do that. We are an easily controllable people. And I say that based on how quickly the American people gave up their civil liberties after the COVID virus happened. Bill, I have gotten to run, but I love your passion, man. And you give us a call back.
But you're 1,000% right. And again, Bill has seen it firsthand, which is why he's so passionate. And Bill doesn't want what's happening in Manila to happen on the streets of American cities. I get that. All right, let's go to Nelson in Georgia listening to us on WDUN.
Hi, Nelson. What's going on? Hey, Fab, I've been listening to your program forever. I love your show. Thank you.
Yes, sir. You really hit the nail on the head. You're another mark of in, as far as I'm concerned. Oh. What?
What? What? Yeah. You know, Levin. I know, Levin.
We love the great one. He is a good one. The reason my call is, I was listening to what's going on with these protesters. I watch it every day. You remember back when Nixon was in office and Kenned State was going crazy riding, doing all the stuff they were doing?
Unfortunately, Nixon had to kill four of them. to stop these bloody riots that was going on, and they did stop. I don't advocate killing of any kind unless it is for protection, protect our country, protect our family, protect our rights. And I think law enforcement, I come from a family of law enforcement. I think they really have taken a way too much guff and a way too much harm.
It's time for the law enforcement to be in control of these people. I know Donald Trump's backing him, you're backing him.
Well, of course, back then now that they're starting to fight back, like you said a while ago, when they when they when they get hurt They're not going to come back. No, they're not. And that look, these people are breaking the law, and they have to be punished. They have to be arrested. And my take on it is this.
The moment that you lay a finger on a member of law enforcement, Hey, whatever happened next, that's between you and the Almighty. Amen. I mean, it's really that simple for me. It is, and there's one more thing about these Muslim horns. If I'm a Christian, I think my daddy said I was born a Republican.
Probably right. Anyway. If I was in that area, I'd pay for it myself. I'd get me a large horn setup myself, and I'd be playing gospel music at the same time. I'd be recycling I'd be I'm also an evangelist.
I would be reciting prayers. you know, sometimes you just, you know, They're wrong in doing what they're doing. And it we know us as Americans, we have to stand our ground because Man, these people are trying their best. And all this, thank God, in Hiawashi, Georgia, where we live, We don't have that. We're way up in the mountains on the North Carolina border.
This is still redneck and hillbilly territory up here is what this is. And you know, we're good God fearing Christian people. And you know, we're not going to tolerate stuff like that up here. They tried that with that George Floyd thing, it didn't succeed up here at all.
So you're telling me, Nelson, the cure to all of this is to get a couple of loudspeakers and we need to be playing the Happy Goodman family and the Gaither vocal band? Yes, sir. Play you know what, you know, Best of Goodnight did one of the greatest songs, Looking for a City. And you know, 'cause I do Southern Gospel music too. I travel and do it.
Oh, have been for 40 years. I'm also Santa Claus. I'm I'm pretty well vested. I have a great time up here. Wow.
But, you know, I'm a full-blooded American. My father stayed thirty years in the military. He fought in the Second World War, the Korean War. He got captured by Hitler's SS. promptly escape.
And, you know, he was in 11 different engagements. He was attached to General George S. Patton. My father was I think it's a good idea. And of course, he died from Agent Orange at 66 years old, but he fought for our country.
Well, you know, well, it sounds like you come from good stock and patriotic stock, Nelson. And look, who can argue with Santa Claus? I mean, really? I mean, goodness gracious. Nelson, we got to leave it there, my friend.
I'm running late for a break, but God bless you. And I love that idea.
So, folks, Nelson in Hiawassee, Georgia is recommending that the solution to all of this, and thanks for the call, the solution to all of this is to put out giant loudspeakers and blast southern gospel music and Bible verses at the Muslims there in Dearborn. What do you think about that, everybody? Was it Barack Hussein Obama?
Now this is I'm just going to read this directly from the pages of the New York Times.
So when you call, I don't want you to call and say, well, there goes Starnes again accusing Barack Hussein Obama of being a Muslim. Everybody knows he was Episcopalian. No, actually, I don't think he was Episcopalian.
Well, he was probably Methodist or Pentecost. No, I don't think so. I'm just going to read these are not Todd Stearns' words. They're the words of the New York Times. Mr.
Obama recalled the opening lines of the Arabic call to prayer. reciting them with a first rate accent, in a remark that seemed delightfully uncalculated, Parentheses, it'll give Alabama voters heart attacks. End quote, Mr. Obama described the call to prayer as one of the prettiest sounds on earth at sunset. That's Barack Hussein Obama.
The guy who claims to be a Christian says that the prettiest sound on earth. Is the call to prayer, the Islamic call to prayer. Ladies and gentlemen. For me the I don't know. One of the prettiest sounds on earth at sunset is Maybe a Southern gospel quartet singing Let us have a little talk with Jesus.
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Now, I want to play some audio here. This is from the this is from Zoron Mamdami. And he truly believes That's That Andrew Cuomo is not qualified to be mayor of New York City because Cuomo refuses to visit a Muslim mosque. I want you to listen to Cut One, please. In the Democratic primary, for him to set foot in a mosque.
He had more than 10 years, and he couldn't name a single mosque at the last debate we had that he visited. And what Muslims want in this city is what every community wants and deserves. They want equality and they want respect. And it took me to get you to even see those Muslims as part of this city. And that, frankly, is something that is shameful and is why so many New Yorkers have lost faith in this politics.
Yeah, except that is false. I worked with the Muslim community for many, many years. Name a single mosque you went to in 10 years. Can you name a single mosque you went to in 10 years? You were ever here.
Before I was here. Before you were even in state government. I worked with a Muslim community. Imams presided over state of the states. We worked in religious working groups.
You couldn't visit a mosque. All right, gentlemen.
So, did you ever imagine that we would be in a situation where nearly 25 years after Muslims flew jetliners into buildings in the name of their religion? That A man running for mayor would not be qualified because he refused to visit a mosque. Anybody, is it just me? Anyone see the irony of all of this?
So, yeah, so Cuomo, and again, Cuomo is not qualified only because he killed so many grandmas and grandpas. Shoving the old people into these uh homes. During the China virus pandemic.
So, that in and of itself should disqualify Cuomo. But the question now is: all right, who's the. Who is the the lesser of the two evils here? Because you have Ma'am Dami, who is, as Elise Stefanik, the congresswoman, said. He is a jihadist.
There's no way around it. And so now you've got a situation where it is not looking good for the city of New York. Curtis Lee while pulling enough votes away from From Cuomo that. Mamdami now has a 20-point lead. And it's only getting bigger.
And the reason why, honestly, a lot of it is messaging. And this Mamdomi guy is brilliant when it comes to the TikTok, when it comes to Instagram, social media, getting his message out there. And also, he's a younger, more vibrant candidate. The other two are old guys. I mean, it is what it is.
So the issue now. And in New York especially, where the Republicans are fighting each other, Maybe you could stop fighting each other, stop releasing all your private text messages to Politico, and maybe you can focus on actually beating the jihadist who is about to be the next mayor of the Big Apple. But I got to tell you, this guy becomes mayor. Ma'am Domi, no, no. I'll be, yeah, I'll be packing it in.
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Now it's the Todd Starn Show on the Mighty 990 AM and 1079FM K-WAM. Live from the Liberty University Studio in Memphis, Tennessee, it's common sense conservative commentary from Todd Star Zach. All right, you know, it's Friday and I don't want to step in anything, but I may be stepping into something here. No, Cassie, it's not Pooh. But it's could set off a stink-like ooh.
Wow, first of all, hello, welcome to the John Stearns Radio Show. Let's get that out of the way.
So, a guy named Phil, we have, when I tell you, we have tens of millions of people engaging on our social media platforms, it's insane. Just insane. I've never seen anything like this. But but we have I think we have a lot of fun and we post a lot of uh interesting content. And certainly I have a somewhat uh dare I say well, quirky yet correct opinion on everything.
But I'm torn on this one, and I need your guidance. And this is where I could be stepping into something here.
So, one of the pages that we run, it's a group. And people are allowed to post anonymously.
Now, I know who these people are because their names pump up, and I have to approve their anonymous comments. And if it's, you know, if they're not attacking somebody by name or something, I'll approve it. But but by and large, I don't like doing that. And some guy whose name is Philip, and he posted like his real face, his real name and all everything. I know exactly who this guy is.
He's one of our all star contributors. And he said, if you post on this page and others and can't show your name, and stand up for your beliefs, then you are a coward.
So he's upset about people posting anonymously. He goes on to say this: look in the mirror, say to yourself, I am a coward. It's all caps. Then shut your mouth because no one cares what a coward posts. And this is really generating some comment, a lot of comment, and a lot of disagreement.
And many people who are posting. They're posting anonymously to the thread, criticizing anonymous people. They say this: these are their arguments for not revealing their true names. One person says anonymous participant three ten Says, I will say that I have some people on here that get nasty. And the way they work, they will come after your family.
Others say um That uh hold on here another Another said that they don't like to receive negative comments and they're afraid that. that someone might call their job and report them for having a conservative viewpoint. And there may be in some instances that somebody needs to be anonymous because maybe they're in law enforcement or something of that nature. And again, I will gladly sign off on those anonymous postings. Another person says some people can't do it because of their employment.
And everyone is so sensitive these days. Another person said, Well, the founding fathers used pen names. Leftists are finding people's addresses and employers to terrorize normal people. Ask me how I know. Be anonymous if you want.
Well, okay, yeah, I mean, I guess so. Look, uh you do you and I'll do me. But let me say this. There's really no reason to be anonymous. I mean really, unless you're in law enforcement or something of that nature.
But it just seems to me. That we have a lot of people that are terrified. Does that make them a coward? No, I don't think so. But I don't know.
I'm curious how you feel about these anonymous posters. I typically do not respond to anonymous posters at all. That's on Twitter, especially X. It's just, you know, X is just. horrible these days.
And so I never really respond to people over there unless I know who they are.
So So one anonymous person was just enraged. And they're saying, How dare you call us cowards? And they posted anonymously. Yeah. So I love what this one guy said, Chuck.
He said Guys, I'm blunt. I'm a moderate conservative. I'm also me, the guy in the picture. You don't like my post, then block me. I do think that we should be able to do the same to all these nobodies with no name.
I don't 100% disagree with all of them, but bottom line, I don't respect any of them. If you're afraid of posting under your name, you should not be on here. Not telling you to get off, just sharing that all of us need to relax and just ignore the post we don't like and maybe petition the admins to either stop anonymously posting or figure a way for real people to block them so we don't want to see so that we don't see them.
So I guess that's my question. Should I Should I stop allowing people to on our social media feeds. I'm just curious. 901-260-5926. Our telephone number, that's 901-260-591.
Yeah. Mm-hmm. These are first world problems, I know, but I'm just curious here because people get. Dare I say what it there is a clinical term for this in the I was reading in one of the latest medical journals. It's called being butt hurt.
And so apparently it's a real thing. And I don't want people to be butt hurt. I really don't. Oh, speaking of butt hurt, can we? I want to play this.
The leftists, they have a choral now, and they're singing, warbling outside of this ICE detention facility there in the Chicago suburbs. Let's take a listen in. We are not afraid. We will dance for liberation. We are not afraid.
We are not afraid. We are not afraid. Hallelujah. Yeah. He was keeping the bee with those bongos.
Not bad for a white guy, actually. I mean, he looked like the poor kid didn't have rhythm. I mean, and no no skin complexion either is just terrible. He's got to go out. Go visit a tanning salon, sir.
You know, that's the other thing is that all you small businesses, again, dentists, you need to be at these ICE protests, tanning salons. You need to be there as well. And maybe if there are any tattoo removal companies out there, you know, they can remove the tattoos now. Maybe all you guys ought to be out there just, or you don't even have to. You can hire some kids and get your business cards and they can go around.
And, you know, when let's just say one of the guys waving the Mexican flag is on the ground and, you know, he's trying to pick up what's left of his teeth.
Well, you can hand him a card. Just slip him a card. Say, hey, Dr. Moeller is happy to help you. No, I'm not mocking anybody.
I'm trying to help them. They got to get a new grill. If you know what I mean. 901. 926 is our telephone over.
That's 901-260-5926. All right. Here is.
Some new polling data coming in from, I believe, CNN over the Zoron Mamdami vote. And the reason we got three candidates here, so the vote is being split, and that's not necessarily a good thing. Let's listen to cut two. There is no sign that the race is tightening at all, Cape Baldwin. If anything, Zoro Mandani's lead is getting bigger, wider, larger.
You look in September in a three-way. Mandani was at 45, Cuomo 15 points back. Curtis Leewell, the Republican, at 17%. Look at where we are now. Mandani is actually up.
He's up to 49%. Then you got Cuomo at 31%, so a 15-point advantage back in September on the average.
Now it is 18 points. The bottom line is this. Andrew Cuomo needs something very big to change at this particular point, unless, of course, he becomes Teddy Roosevelt overnight. Because if something doesn't change over the final two and a half weeks of this campaign, this race is pretty much over. What is the historical Kind of precedent for a comeback like this.
Yeah, okay.
So I went back through the history books, Kate Paul. When you know I love going through my spreadsheets more than anything else, I love my girlfriend, I love my spreadsheets, I love cream soda. What happens if we look at the historical spreadsheets? Look at this. Mamdani leads by 18 points right now.
Look at the largest polling average miss. Since 1989, you know what it was? It was 11 points. You don't have to be a mathematical genius to know 11 points is less than 18 points.
So if Andrew Cuomo is going to come back and win, either something like Curtis Liwa has to drop out of the race or you need a polling miss that is nearly twice as large as the largest miss on record.
So you're going to probably need something historically unprecedented for Andrew Cuomo to win this race if the polling average holds through Election Day. There are lots of reasons why anyone picks one candidate over another, but what is some of what you're seeing, why Mom Dani's doing so well?
Okay, why is Mom Dani doing so well?
Sometimes, Cape Baldwin, politics is simple. Life is never simple, but politics can be simple. And it simply comes down to this. Momdani is the likable guy and Andrew Cuomo isn't. This is not a case of the lesser of two evils.
You look at the net favorable rating. Momdani is at plus 15 points. Andrew Cuomo has been underwater in the average poll throughout this entire camp. I love this guy. What did he say?
I uh I love my spreadsheets, my girlfriend and cream soda. And then Anderson Cooper is like, dead gummet. Got a girlfriend. Yeah, he does. And you too, Don Lemon.
Sorry, fellas. Yeah, it's look, it's not a good look, and I love this guy because he sort of tells it like it is. And it is not good. May I just say in his vernacular: if you are a Christian or a Jew, you better get out of town. Move to Joyzy.
I just say it. Yep, Uh look at a little Looking tough right now. I wonder how. Hold on, I have a question. This is terrible.
So let's say Mamdami, the jihadist, is elected. What happens to Broadway? What happens when they implement Sharia on Broadway in the theater district? Can you imagine? Just a word of advice to the Broadway crowd.
If you're invited to any rooftop parties, I would decline the invitation. And then move to Jersey. We'll be right back. I briefly mentioned this story earlier in the week, and I am curious if any of you guys. Remember the landlines.
How many of you had landlines and do you still have a landline? I would love to hear from somebody who's actually calling us from a literal, actual land line. And I love those calls because the calls are always crystal clear. Right. Yeah.
I mean, if you're on a cell phone and you hit a spot in the roadway, boom, you're gone.
So I love laying lines, and I know we had them here in the news bunker. You never know when they're going to come in handy. As a matter of fact, when you call in to the show, you're talking to someone who is on a lay-in line. But anyway, Gen Z.
Now, I was reading something the other day that Generation Z kids are now going back to the old flip phones.
So they're getting tired of the iPhones, and now they're trying to simplify their lives.
So they're going back to the flip phones. And then others are actually going to going s completely old school and going back to the old land lines. And they're trying to figure out How to do that now?
So I'm just wondering if that is you. Do you still have a landline? And if you are, if you're a kid. Do you have a land line? According to a Pew research, study.
They did this in late 2023. Over 40% of American adults and 62% of those under the age of 30 on their phones almost constantly. Most Americans, including 81% of adults under 30, believe they use their phones too much. And so, a lot of folks are wanting to go back to that simplified time when. You only had a landline, so when you were out grocery shopping, when you were out running errands, you weren't on your phone, you weren't checking your text messages, you were concentrated on the task at hand, and you were basically getting away from it all.
I remember our home. We had. Oh gosh. Maybe some of you might be able to remember this. There were only a certain number of colors of a phone that you could get back in the day.
Right, and I remember we had it was like a mustard yellow phone, and then for the the kitchen, it was like an olive green. Anybody remember the anybody remember those days? I miss those days. I miss the time that you could You can have an answering machine. Oh, the coolest thing.
This is when I was so excited when I was a kid. I I got to record the Stearns family greeting. Right? And it had to be very formal, right? You couldn't just like.
Pick up the phone. Yeah, what do you want? No, that would get you popped up inside the head. You had to have phone manners. Good morning.
This is the Stearns Residence. This is Todd speaking. That was like little Todd, like eight or nine years old.
Well, no, my voice hadn't changed yet, but I'm just telling you, Cassie, I was very good. I had a good phone voice. But that was like a big deal when you got to record the greeting, but then when When you got older and when you were in high school, and maybe you didn't do as well as you thought you did on the test. And your teacher called, you always dreaded the beeping red dot right on the answering machine. That was usually a dreadful conversation.
Hello, this is Miss Robisky calling for Todd's parents. I'm like, oh, geez, a loon. Not Miss Robisky. She was the driver's ed teacher, also coached women's softball. The Honey School.
Miss Robiski. Bachelorette. 901-260-5926, our telephone number. No, I'm just Cassie. Why are you upset?
I'm just taking us down memory lane here. Oh, goodness. Um, I remember when we had to record our ringtones on the T V. But this is cell phone, not landline. I wasn't alive during the landline times.
Well, you know, some only about 28%, they did a survey, only about 28% of American households actually have a landline now. Current that's right now. Everybody cut their cords. Wow. Yeah, I don't have one.
My family doesn't have one. But you know, I think I. I mean, I would go back to one. I think that's cool that getting like a pink. I see them in the movies all the time, like a pink.
Corded landline. You can wrap the cord around your finger. You know, pop some gum. I feel like it's an aesthetic. Oh, you can.
And so what you want to do is get the super long, you know, because the cords are not typically, I mean, the ones that come with the phone are not that long.
So you wanted to get, my mom had one, and she could be in the kitchen, and she would be in the bathroom, like through the den, past the living room. The 15-foot cord. Yeah, and yes, with her giant supply of Aquanet.
So I'm just curious, any of you guys have a landline? Would you go back to a landline? Would you be willing to give up your smartphone and just go old school? 901-260-5926. We're going to take your calls on this.
I'm intrigued. 901-260-5926. The question is: can you even get a landline?
Now, well, you can. They do exist. All right, we'll talk about it coming up next. Dads, moms, how many of you remember giving your kid, say they were going out and they were going to go hang for the weekend. How many of you remember giving your kids a quarter?
and saying don't forget to call if you get in trouble give us a call And Cancey, do you know why? Do you know why we had that quarter? Why?
So It was because If you got in trouble, if you found yourself like, you know, in a bad spot, you would, let's just say your friends were like drinking and driving and they you're like, stop the car, I want to get out. You would look for something called a pay phone. And then you would put that quarter in the pay phone, and you would dial the number, you would dial home, and then your parent would come and pick you up.
So you are to pay? To Call someone. Yeah, that's why they call it a pay phone. Yeah. And it's just a phone standing outside.
It's a phone outside. We used to, Cassie, there were at one point there were like 2 million pay phones in America. And now I think there are like 10,000 left. I don't think I've seen one in real life. Really?
What are they teaching you kids? I know they have them in London, those big red ones, right? Yep, ours weren't as cool as those. But anyway, let's go to the phone lines here. We'll say hello to Bernard in Memphis, Tennessee, listening to us on KWAM.
All right, Bernard, do you still have a landline? You know, I do not, and it seems like I'm a little bit older than both of you all. You said a quarter to call home. I came up during a time when you only had to have a dime. Wait, what?
A game. Wow. Yes, and we're talking about We'll talk about the seven D's. Yeah. We're talking about the sevens.
All you needed was a dime. Going back from the going going back to landline, Bones, no way. I remember them definitely. Um I remember when we all got excited. when the Star sixty nine came around.
Uh we called back the last person that called you. I remember that, I mean, that was like high tech back then, okay? But now you got the convenience. You walk around with it.
Okay. Um You can put somebody on hold. Lion is never good. You can put somebody on hold. and talk to the person, or you can add that person.
Going back, you couldn't do it. that on land iphone Well, that's a good point. You know, Bernard, my grandmother grew up in, she lived in Whitehaven back in the day. And one time she called, she got a phone call. And we just happened to be there.
We were visiting our grandparents. And she was on the phone for about thirty five, forty minutes. And at the end, I'm like, Mimaw, who who was that? She goes, Well, it turned out to be a wrong number, but she seemed very nice, and we just had a great conversation. Definitely.
Yeah, yeah.
For me, so going back, no, no, no. I mean, I love the convenience. You got it in your pocket and then If now. If you're talking about going back, Here the cell phone today. could do nothing but talk to someone it maybe it'd be easier to go back.
But because a cell phone can do everything, it's an encyclopedia, it's everything, it's your lifeline, period. Everything is on there. Everything is on there. That's the reason why we go crazy. One week.
Hit our pocket and it ain't in our pocket. I left it somewhere.
Well, that's you know, and Bernard, now though, kids can't get away with anything. You see, at least back in the day, we said, Well, mom, there wasn't a payphone anywhere around. It's like now your parents, not only do you have a cell phone, they can track where you are. Not only track where you are, they can make you FaceTime. Make sure you are where you say you are.
That's true. Yeah. I'm so glad we didn't have that one out this time. Right. Okay.
Oh, my goodness. Benar, thank you for that call. That's great. I forgot about Star sixty nine. It is true, though.
Let's go to Michael in Beaumont, Texas, listening to us on Patriot Talk nine twenty eight. Hey, Michael, what say you? Um We had a landline up to about three months ago. And The phone would ring, you would answer, nobody would say anything, or it was a scam. Really?
I wonder what I wonder if that's just because most people aren't using landlines anymore. I don't know, but it was it was ridiculous about Answering that because I had to walk out of the you know, into the room where the phone was to answer it. And then nobody would say anything or there'd be some kind of Scam call, so just hang up. But anyway, it was $126 a month. Oh.
for that. Oh Well just like ba basic phone. I remember one of my favorite Star Trek movies when they went back to like modern-day San Francisco, you know, and they were trying to talk to the computer right. And the computer wasn't talking back. You know, I I kinda like the fact that I can talk to my phone and, you know, I'll tell them to call somebody and the phone phone does what I tell it to do.
You can't do that with a land line, can you, Michael? Um I'm seventy. And when I was about thirty, I would use McDonald's. I go in McDonald's, they have a payphone in there. And I use that like my office.
Yeah. That's the way it is. Use that payphone, call my customer, or. How my help or whatever. You got all your quarters stacked up there on the table at McDonald's.
Yeah, and and a cell phone back then I couldn't afford one. No, you throw your arm out, too. Those things weighed. They were heavy. Heavy.
Yeah, like a big old box. Yeah. True. It's true. Michael, appreciate the call.
Let's go to Judy in Hendersonville, North Carolina. Hi, Judy. Do you still have a landline? I'm talking to you on it. Yes.
You know what, Judy? You're coming in crystal clear. That's what I liked about it. I really like my lamp phone. When I'm going to make a long-distance call, when I'm going to talk for any great amount of time for some reason or other.
I always use my lamb phone. And you won't believe this, I still have a princess phone. A princess phone.
Now tell me about the princess phone.
Well, it was just a slim phone that everybody had in their bedroom or It was a very It's a smaller phone. It laid down and it had a cradle with it. that you put your phone into when you're done talking. where it's sitting. Yeah.
Now Judy, I've got to read this to you. This is the actual description of your Princess phone, which came in Pepto-Bismol pink color. The phone had a soft, curvy, biomorphic shape. Wow. Is your phone curvy and biomorphic, Judy?
Or damn flu. I feel like I'm turkey talking dirty to you, Judy. My goodness. I have two. I have one that's beige and one is white.
Wow. I I am shocked by this is this is amazing. And so do you s do you also have a cell phone or are you strictly lay in line? No, I have a cell phone too.
Okay, well that's not bad. But look, when the grid goes down, Judy, you're still going to be able to make phone calls and everybody else is hosed. I know, 'cause when Halle happened and we didn't have power A lot of people didn't have some of their cell phone power. I still had mine.
Well, there you see, you're a smart lady. Judy, thank you for calling in and enjoy your soft, curvy, biomorphic shape. Yeah. Uh Wow. Speaking of biomorphic, Joe Messina is hanging out with us today.
Joe? Oh, you're on fire this morning, Todd. I got to tell you something. You're making me feel old. I do remember when it was a dime.
Okay. I very much knew what that lady was talking about with the uh princess phones. Uh and uh God, you're killing me, man. And we still have a copper l landline that don't tell anybody, but we haven't paid for it about 18 months because nobody knows who owns it, but it still works. Wow.
Well, you know, I mean, and that's why they're so reliable is because of those those copper those copper wires. Yep, that's it. And you need it in California because if there's an earthquake, what the lady was saying is you most people won't have service and even the cell sites will be down to a degree. Interesting. Hey, Joe, I want to bring in Cheryl from Ocala, Florida.
She's listening to us on WOCA. Cheryl, I understand you have a payphone story to share with us. Thank you. I I grew up with the with the black phones, with the dimes, whatever, but when I went to college I went out of state. And one time I called a boyfriend And it kept asking me, Oh, you have to put in fifty more cents, fifty more cents.
We talked so long, I filled up the phone um the phone itself and jammed it and the operator was freaking out 'cause I couldn't pay for the call and nobody else could put money in there. But yeah, wait, we filled up the bit. Did you end up marrying the guy? Yeah. I I did not.
I did not. But I was upset I wasted all my change. Yeah. Then then you got to figure out how to do laundry. You got no quarters left.
That's right, because we still had to do our laundry back then.
Now you go to college in the doors and they have the free laundry for you. Oh, Lord, these kids, they've got it so good. They've even got air conditioning. Yeah, thank you. All right, Cheryl, what a great story, Joe.
You know, it's kind of nice to go down memory lane and remember how things used to be. Yeah, much simpler, right? Although I go back to the pay phone that didn't have one slot. Remember, it had three. It had nickels, dimes and quarters.
Wow, you are old. I and I don't know if the statute of limitations is up on this, but you know, if you stuck a and a lot of your listeners are nodding their head right now, if you stuck a plastic straw, down in the dime slot. You could put nickels in, a couple of nickels in and make a call for a half hour. Is that right? I'm going to jail, aren't I?
Well, you know, we've got the, I mean, the FBI may be listening in. Who knows? I'm still trying to get over the biomorphic curvy princess phone. I remember those. And the commercials were a little risque, too, about them.
Wow. Joe Messina, our great friend, a talker radio host and nationally syndicated. You know, Joe, we've been following a lot of the stories around the country with the rioting, people holding the Mexican flags in Illinois. And of course, that's like an everyday thing for you guys there in California. Oh, yeah, and our Democrat friends out here are protecting them for that right to burn the American flag, but hold the Mexican flag up high, hold the Palestinian flag up high.
You know, we're seeing all, I don't, we've lost our minds. Look, I'm even stuttering for words. I mean, I see what's going on in L.A. and San Francisco and other places where they are flying the Palestinian flags. They are flying some of the, I guess they're ISIS type of flags.
And nobody's saying anything. Nobody's doing anything about it to speak of. No acceptance of it. Are you going to be at our? You know, I'm going to be in Anaheim.
And I'll be there with you. Are you going to be there at the Shindig? All right. Well, this weekend, yours truly, Master of Ceremonies for the Pacific Justice Institute's celebration of Justice Gala. And Eric Trump is the keynote speaker.
And, Joe, you know this. My job is to keep the trains running on time. Yes, it is. And it's tough with that crowd. You've got a record crowd this year, my friend.
And there was a waiting list of a couple of hundred people to get into the event.
So it's very exciting.
Well, it's because of the MC. I'm just kidding. Apparently, yes. No, is is Mrs. Joe coming?
That's the bigger question. Yes, she is. She is probably your second biggest fan. And she'll be there. She can't wait to see you either.
Are you bringing the Jag down? Yes, I'm bringing the convertible this time. What? I figure you and I can go for a ride and get the wind in our hair. I love this.
This is going to be fun. Cassie's like, Can I go? Can I go? It's going to be a lot of fun, and we're excited to see a lot of our great patriot friends there in Southern California. That being said, while we're doing that, there are going to be protests all over America, these no-king rallies.
And what I find fascinating, Joe, is the sheer hypocrisy because it was actually the tyrannical rule of Joe Biden that shut down businesses and churches across America. Shut down businesses. Force us to have masks. Try to force us to have shots. Fired us if we wouldn't.
I mean, my God, I felt like I was under Mussolini again here in the United States. And I'm sure he doesn't remember any of that at this point in time. He doesn't remember what he had for breakfast this morning. That's very true. But you know, Todd, Governor Newscomb up here in California, he's even worse.
Remember, he kept us under government rule well past most of the other, pretty much all the other states. We still had masks in schools. We still had, you couldn't come into class unless you had your shot as a teacher or an administrator. These guys really don't understand.
Well, maybe they do, but they don't understand truly what a dictator is all about. And I think that these Democrat governors like Newsom and Holcomb and those people, they really believe their job is a dictator. They don't understand what the Constitution is about. If they make an edict or what they call an executive order, you follow it, period. They are the gods of today.
Joe Messina joining us for this abbreviated segment. And, Joe, real quick, before we let you go, let's talk about cell phones. Were you one of the guys, were you one of the first guys? I mean, you got a convertible. Were you one of the guys that had the first cell phone that weighed like 78 pounds?
Oh, I got one better for you, right?
So I was doing electrical work at the time, and I had one put in my van, and they had this big, massive briefcase-sized transceiver, and the phone was mounted to the dashboard. And then my next move was to that brick that you put up to your head. Remember that one? The white brick? The white brick.
But you had to put out the antenna, right? The Motorola came out with it. It was like, you know, you really want to be sitting in a restaurant with that thing up to your head like you're really important, you know? It's true. And people are like gawking at you, but for all the wrong reasons.
$45 a month, 45 cents a minute, no free minutes. No free minutes. Nope. All right. Well, Joe Messina, safe travels down to Anaheim.
We'll see you on Saturday. Yes, we will. God bless, Doug. Thanks for what you do, man. All right.
Good guy, right there, everybody.
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Hey, Todd, it's great to talk to you, buddy. It's been too long. I've been too tied up busy. I apologize. I know you've got the brief time, so a couple of quick phone stories.
There was a drugstore in West Memphis, Soda Fountain-type store. And they had two, not one, but two: Clark Kent Superman-type. Tone boost. And I'd go down there on a weekend night if my girlfriend was out of town on vacation with her family. and dropped my nickels and dimes into one of those phone booths because he could shut the door and have complete privacy.
I'll I also remember Uh it you were really good and kinda just right to drop a nickel in the phone. booth, pay phone booth, and smack the receiver against the hang-up bar and get your phone call for a nickel. Real. That's right. Well, I'm also so old that I had a car phone that was stuck in my phone, couldn't take it out.
It was a car phone. And then I moved up and got what they called a bag phone. Motor, your previous call was right. Motorola had a bag phone. I remember that.
It looks like you were kicking it around a suitcase. Uncle Don. I remember the brute phone. Uncle Don, we got to leave it there. Also, Uncle Don taught me how to prank call when I was in third or fourth grade.
We'll save that story for another day, Uncle Don. Tell Aunt Sarah I said hello. All right, hang tight, everybody. Hour three of the big show coming up. This is the Todd Starring Show.
