From the Mighty 990 Broadcast Center, you're waking up in Starnes Country with Todd Starnes.
So something very interesting happened early this morning. Hello everybody, welcome. To Stearns Country, I'm Todd Stearns, and it is Really terrific to be back in the 901. Great to be back with you. Over the weekend, I was the master of ceremonies at a large gala for a Christian legal team called Pacific Justice Institute.
And Eric Trump was the keynote speaker. And we got to spend a lot of time together. And I will say this about Eric Trump. And I'm going to get to the point of this in just a moment, but bear with me. Eric Trump loves Memphis.
And during his remarks Saturday night in Anaheim, California, he talked. Talked about how great of a city Memphis is. Of course, he and his wife have donated upwards of what, $30 million to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
So Eric was very excited to hear. I related. He asked how things were going with the National Guard, and he asked if we were actually seeing any sort of a difference. And he asked about the vibe. Everywhere I go, people ask about the vibe, what's the vibe in Memphis?
And I told him, I said, man, the vibe is great. People are loving it. When you go onto the socials, you can't, you got to turn off the TVs and you got to listen to the folks calling you to talk radio. You've got to check out what people are actually saying on their TikTok and Instagram and Facebook and Twitter feeds. And when you do that, you get a whole different picture of the reception the National Guard and all the troops are getting.
So, anyway, what a wonderful time. It was a great, great event. And a surprise guest, by the way, John Voigt, the great actor, was there and got to, we were, me and Eric, there's some great photos we posted on the Facebook, on the socials of me, Eric, and John Voigt just. Hanging out, like you know, what's going on, guys? How's it hanging?
So, anyway, great night. We'll tell you more about that in the national show. But, anyway, I got back in from California in the wee hours of the morning, got to see some of our great listeners. They were on the flight, that was a lot of fun. And so, as I was driving back to Germanton, I was exhausted.
And I wanted to sort of get behind a Dodge Charger. There were no Dodge Chargers. As a matter of fact, everybody was driving the speed limit on 240, by the way. Everybody. And I don't know.
Maybe this is just me. I haven't seen a single drive-out tag in at least the past week and a half. I don't know if that's just me, if it's an anomaly, but it seems as though people are taking care of their business, and I love that.
So, again, well done.
Well done, President Trump. Thank you for sending the National Guard to Memphis, Tennessee. All right. Did you see the No Kings protest yesterday? Wow.
Was that? That was weird.
Now, the one in Memphis. Featured sort of a motley crew of folks, mostly geriantric people. And I'm curious if any of you drove by, if you saw it for yourself. Because there was some crazy stuff going down. at this uh at this protest And it's interesting because nobody from the local media actually asked the most important question of all.
Why are you protesting? Nobody, nobody can tell you. I mean, border to border, coast to coast, they have all these people going out. And nobody can explain. Why are they actually protesting President Trump?
Nobody knows.
Now, I don't know about Memphis, but most of these protests were paid. These are professional agitators. Many of them are senior citizens. They got nothing else to do. As a matter of fact, many of them, at least the ones in Memphis, and I'm just gonna say, compared to some of the other protests, ours was a little sad and pathetic.
I mean, it really was. And when you look at the, because the elderly that they pulled out of the nursing homes here, they sort of like look like Joe Biden at the G8 summit. Remember, where he just kind of wandered off into the woods? I mean, they were having to constantly, the organizers were constantly having to corral the elderly. I mean, it was.
It was not good. It was just not a, it was not a good look.
So you've got all that going on. All these elderly white liberals Oh, and then you got a bunch of gays out there because they had little rainbow flags, and you had the magenta-haired Subaru driver girls out there, and nobody knew. Nobody knew why they were out there. By the way, somebody wanted to Someone asked a question. Amy said, Serious question.
Some of these people actually came dressed as either furries or those are people who think they're like. uh critters like cats and dogs and bunny rabbits. Uh and then others actually came in inflatable animal costumes. And Amy writes in serious question, was there also fart spray? It's a fair question.
Amy, it is a fair question. We'll try to get to the answer of it. But here's what, you know, when you step back, and that's what we do here at the Mighty 990, we sort of analyze all of this, and at the end of the day, I think we figured out what they were protesting. And oh, by the way, the crowd size. Can we talk about that for a moment?
So it was. I mean, when you re read the T V page uh page uh their websites, they're like thousands of people, thousands of people turn out in Memphis.
Well, in the Daily Memphian, you gotta give them credit here. Because they said, yeah, it was. Probably not that many people. And I don't think they were expecting 5,000.
So that was the big lead up to this. 5,000 people expected. And so then all the headlines are thousands turn out. But then we realized that it was, they're estimating maybe as many as 2,500. But then in the Daily Memphian piece, they said, but it was probably in the hundreds.
And that's probably where they're at, because that was a pathetic crowd. But I am curious: if any of you drove by, did any of you try to engage with the protesters? Did you offer them a bit of refreshment? Perhaps some metamusol, or I don't know. And sure.
Yeah. It was really sad. It was just, it was. But here's the thing, but this is what they're protesting. The ultimately, all of those people out there, and it was a mostly white crowd.
I mean, overwhelmingly white. I don't even know if they allow blacks to come. I mean, that was a segregated group.
So you had hundreds of mostly white women, gay men, the elderly. The infirm. and they were protesting in a mostly white area of Memphis against safe neighborhoods for black people. That is ultimately what they're protesting against. And a lot of people are like, well, strange, how come K-Wan wasn't out there?
Well, I'm going to tell you something about that, and I'm happy to answer that question. Ka Wham will be more than happy. to cover one of these protests If all these old liberal white people decide to hold their protest in Orange Mound on a weekend at, say, 2 o'clock in the morning. You let me know when that happens, and we will be there broadcasting live. I can promise you that.
So, anyway, I'm curious your reactions on the nationwide protest. I want to play some audio from we're adopting, you know, we get to make a lot of rules here on the radio station. We're officially adopting Congressman Tim Burchett as our very own. That's right. Congressman Tim Burchett, even though he's out in East Tennessee, he does more for West Tennessee than anyone else in our delegation.
And we love this guy. And here's Congressman Tim Burchett last night in the Nashville area weighing in on all of this. Take a listen. Judge for being here. But look, folks, we got a lot of work to do.
We've got a great man in the White House right now, he's not a king. He understands it. He loves his country. He doesn't have to be there. He literally took a bullet for this great country.
If you can imagine it. Yeah. I read my Bible, and I know a lot of people say, well, that's not literally what it means, but literally, the Bible says that God knows if a sparrow falls from the sky or knows how many hairs are on his head. A couple of y'all. You doesn't have to gall too many on you, but you're all right.
Tell everybody that's a solar panel for a think tank, alright? Very good. But if God knows all that, surely he had his hand on our great president at that time. Look, I've said this many times. That gum, I don't want him teaching my daughter's Sunday school class, but I love him in Pennsylvania Avenue, don't y'all?
He never sleeps. I don't know how he does it. We were in the Oval Office. We were excuse me, we were outside the Oval Office in the In the Roosevelt room, and he walked out and he said, Hey, Byron Donaldson was saying, Hey, Byron, you're really doing good in Florida, raising lots of money. Think you're going to win?
He said, Thank you, Mr. President. And then he walks by me and he goes, Hey, Tim, I really like seeing you on television. I'm like, What world am I in? And now.
And then I'm back in the Oval Office and he's given us all these challenge coins. And let me tell you. It is the biggest, most beautiful challenge of all. It looks like a dadgum manhole cover. That thing is a monster.
And he leans over to him and he goes, Tim, I really like watching you on CNN. And I said, Why is that, Mr. President? And he said, Because every time you're on, they fire somebody. That's true.
They do. The great Congressman Tim Burchett out of East Tennessee, we're getting the Congressman on the boarding show this week. We're going to have a great conversation. Also, Congressman John Rose is going to be joining us.
So it's nice to know we have lawmakers across the Mid-South or across the state of Tennessee who have our back here in West Tennessee, and that's always a great thing. We got to talk about these drag queens. We're going to do that after the break. Drag queens spreading their legs at the University of Memphis. I know those of you at Bryant's, you just spit out your sausage biscuit, but it's true the University of Memphis is hosting a massive drag show.
And you have to wonder how much of your tax money was involved in that. We're going to tell you all about that. We'll open up the phone lines. We've got some great guests coming up as well. Our telephone number, 901-260-5926.
That's 901-260-5926. By the way, another fall fling coming. Up Friday, we're going to be broadcasting live at JoJo's. What a great time! We had such a great time in Bartlett on Friday at the Pharmacy Coffee House.
So many wonderful listeners dropped by. Great to see all of you folks, and we just appreciate the great hospitality and the coffee over there at the pharmacy coffee house. All right, got to take a break. Let's check in with Commander Chuck. Tired of giving away all your rental profits to a property manager?
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I thought, geez, Lou, what happened? I was just gone for a couple of days. Winter's already here. Excited to have with us our good buddy, Dr. Mike Spradland, president of Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary.
Dr. Spradland, wow, good to have you with us. And you're wearing a coat and tie. I feel very underdressed this morning. When you get to be on the Todd Starn show, you've got to represent.
You've got to, I mean, national media and to be located in our own city of Memphis, pretty cool. When I'm on the Mighty 990, I want to show up and show out. I should apologize for teasing the University of Memphis drag show before bringing that in any way, shape, or form. No spreading of the legs this morning here on the The show.
Some huge news involving the seminary because you guys are moving. Is this true? I've heard the rumors. The rumors. R true.
We are relocating. Everything. It's been the brief version. It's been about a four-year project. I asked our board of trustees, let's be entrepreneurial.
Now, Todd, we're a little different. We've been in five locations as an institution. Started in Little Rock, Arkansas, moved to downtown Memphis. We're at the old Jewish synagogue Temple, Temple Israel in downtown Memphis, then moved to Germantown, and then Methodist Hospital purchased our campus. We moved next door to our current neighbor, Bellevue Baptist Church.
We've been there for over 20 years, and we've trained a generation of pastors and missionaries there, now have a college. And so, but I told the trustees, I said, since COVID, Online is the future. Residential yes, online yes. but now half of our students will never come to Memphis. And there are a lot of different reasons for that.
And one of those, I'm just going to throw this out there because a lot of people are wondering: did crime have anything to do, and the concern about crime in the Mid-South, have anything to do with you guys moving out of Cordova to Arlington.
So I think that if I could give you an honest answer, it is an indirect perception issue for us. In other words, it's not like the number one leading thing, but for the last thing. For some of our potential residential students to live in our apartments, the thought when they see Cordova. Even though we've had some crime on campus, minor crime, car break-ins type things. But that perception is a reality.
But then you have faculty that are moving in from all over the country, and they want to be able to keep their families safe. I have to imagine that is a factor. It is a factor. We are moving to Arlington. We've already purchased property there.
We'll begin a renovation. We actually hope to begin classes in January of 2026. It's kind of a crazy goal. Yeah, I know. It's fast.
Yeah, it's fast. You know, seminaries and colleges, really, what are you? You're squares and rectangles. We don't need specialty buildings. The new site will have a chapel that seats 450, a dining area for 100.
We can do all the classes, library will be fully residential, fully committed from the college through the seminary level.
So you think about seminary, training pastors and missionaries, college is undergraduate Christian education.
So we can do everything we want to do there. We won't have a gymnasium. There, but there are many amenities in the area.
Well, you know, I think a lot of people are surprised to hear that we have a seminary here that is reaching the world for Christ and also a college component of that as well.
So, you know, you guys, really, you can do it all at Mid-America. Absolutely. From bachelor's degrees, even associate's degrees, whether it's business or organizational leadership, all the way through the traditional seminary degrees, training pastors.
So I told our Board of Trustees, I said, we need to be entrepreneurial. I said, what's the seminary of the future look like? We don't have to have big infrastructure to do what we're doing.
So what we need are the basic tools. We've been training pastors for 2,000 years, Todd, as Christians.
So what are the basic tools? It's not the building. It's the faculty. It's the passion. And it's the mission to win people to Christ.
When you look at the headlines, there have been a lot of Christian schools closing, shutting doors. What is it at Mid-America that you guys are doing to stay open and thrive?
So what are the things that Helped us to survive COVID was the fact that we had almost no debt. If we'd had a lot of debt as an institution, we would not have made it. I don't think. We don't participate in the federal student loan program, so our students are not borrowing money. We try to keep the tuition down.
You know, if you leave college and you have $100,000 student loan debt. And you're going to be in the ministry, that's not a good combination.
So we've tried to keep the cost down, but also keep the mission focus there is really focusing on the Bible. I'm not just giving lip service to it, but actually talking about we believe the Bible and we want to learn it and live it. I'm just curious because Men America is for, well, anybody who wants to become a pastor, but predominantly you've got a lot of bivocational pastors out there. Is that the predominant, I mean, when you look at the numbers of pastors, what is the percentage of full-time pastors compared to, you know, those who have to have a job on the side?
Well, it's changing. It's a really insightful question because maybe 10 years ago, 15 years ago, the majority of pastors earned enough at their church. To that's their only job. But now, with so many churches that are smaller, weaker, et cetera, especially in our small towns, they're having to go bivocational again.
So that's a growing number. It's a really good catch on your part. Do you see a lot of buy-in here locally from the churches here in the Mid-South and West Tennessee? The answer is not yet, but necessity is the mother of invention. I probably quoted that wrong.
But. You know, as churches are really not financially able to pay a living wage, but they still have this idea, well, our pastor is full-time. He's always on call. The reality of it is that maybe we need to make some changes in our model to make this work. Dr.
Mike Spradlin joining us, president of MedAmerica Baptist Theological Seminary, and they are moving their campus to Arlington. And I understand it's, I mean, so you guys don't have to really build anything. It's already there. That's right. The cost of construction is pretty high.
But the other thing is there's a lot of commercial real estate. This is what I talked to our board of trustees about. A lot of commercial real estate out there that you can get for a really good price. It's in great shape. And here's the thing, Todd.
Maybe, I don't know, maybe it's not funny, but you know me, I have a pretty twisted sense of humor. You do.
So the company that owned, a local company owned this building, but they were owned by an entity in China.
So we actually bought the property back from China. I feel like we've redeemed a little of America. Back from China. That's my takeaway for the day. You and Sarah Sanders are a great governor over in Arkansas.
I love that.
Well done. I would definitely sweep it for bucks, though. That's a good point. I know somebody.
Now, where can people go, Dr. Spratlin? If they want to get information on Mid-America, maybe they want to go back and get their degree. Where can they do that?
Well, the website is always the way to go: m-ab-t-s.edu. And that's for Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary.
Now, we can kind of confuse ourselves, but we are a full college, Mid-America College, same website, but you can get your Bachelor of Science degree. You can get a Bachelor of Business, Organizational Leadership. We have a new communications degree. We're even coming out in a public policy and pre-law degree next year, and really to help with apologetics.
So lots going on. A lot. Dr. Spratlin, great to see you. Congratulations.
Thank you, sir. Thank you. All right. Hang tight, everybody. Got to take a quick break.
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Keep your 10% and sign up for free at Turbotenant.com. All right, I got to give a huge shout out to Wadaburger. Not only do they make a great burger, they're just good people. Look, here's the deal: a couple of months ago, we told you about this horrible situation over at South Haven High School. The marching band, the Mighty Chargers, they were raising money and they, you know, they have to raise money for their uniforms and the buses they use to get to the games and all of that sort of stuff.
Well, they had a treasurer who ended up stealing most of the money.
So they're in dire straits, and the kids need our help. They've set up a GoFundMe, and it's not getting a lot of traction, folks.
So we decided to post it in our live show chat over on Facebook.
So if you'd like to donate, you can do that. Cassie just posted it. You'll be able to see it there. And here's the deal: Wadaburger on Tuesday, tomorrow, they're going to be donating 20% of their profits, 20% to the good people. Over at South Haven High School marching band.
I just love that. That is such a generous thing for them to do. And you know, in the restaurant business, those profit margins are mighty slim.
So this is a huge sacrifice on their part, but they're doing it to help these kids.
So here's the deal: you can help out two ways, and I want you to do both. First of all, go to the Facebook page, make a GoFundMe donation, and then I want you to go and have lunch at Whataburger. I mean, see, you get the best of both worlds, right? All right. Wow, we have got a lot going on.
I mentioned to you this crazy story over at the University of Memphis, where they held a drag show over the weekend, the Stonewall Tigers, and over 100 people turned down for this thing. And I'm just going to say, this was not like.
Well, it was pretty awful. But anyway, one of the dancers who goes by Bryce the Crispiest. And also a fellow drag artist named Juicy Massacre. They were among the featured drag performers there at the university. They were all very upset because apparently they lost their funding as a result of the cut in the Office of Multicultural Affairs.
And that's interesting. And we're going to bring in our next guest to weigh in on this because the university's multicultural affairs office did in fact shut down. But I want to run down the list of organizations that were sponsored by your tax dollars at the University of Memphis. You had the Black Scholars Unlimited. The Black Student Association, the Empowered Men of Color, the Hispanic Student Association, Indian Student Association, the Muslim Student Association, yes, your tax dollars, ladies and gentlemen, funding Muslims at the University of Memphis, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and something called the Professional Assertive United Sisters of Excellence and the Stonewall Tigers Gender and Sexuality Alliance.
This is what your tax dollars are going to pay for at the University of Memphis, ladies and gentlemen. And I want to thank our good buddy Justin Johnson for alerting us to that story. I want to bring into the conversation our newest host here on the Mighty 990, Rachel Davis. You're here every Sunday, right? Yes.
10 o'clock, front porch forum. Love it. I love the name. Thank you. I bet there are no drag queens.
100%, no. We definitely don't have drag queens on the porch. The porch is family-friendly, it's kid-friendly, and so that is not something for us. And you talk about a lot of the, I mean, you talk about faith, but also how faith intersects with the culture at large. Yeah.
There are so many people in Memphis doing wonderful things to help not only our city, but people around the nation. And so I think that when organizations like this get a spotlight, you're taking it away from people who are doing real good in the city to help our city. You know, again, when you look at the protest over the weekend, first of all, nobody knew why they were out there protesting at all. But the broader issue is, why aren't you actually out there in those communities that do need help? You know, why are you in the exclusive Tony sections of Memphis, you know, when you should be out there in, for example, Orange Mound or Fraser, you know, North Memphis?
Yeah. Um, all I have to say about No Kings, I just got back from the West Coast, and so I'm glad that they wrapped that up before I came home. Uh, but just go ahead and get that out of your system because in January 2026, it will be the U.S.'s 250th birthday, and so the real patriots will be celebrating the Constitution and everything that gives you guys the right to protest. No doubt about that. Rachel, I want you to tell us a little bit about this show.
It's every Sunday, 10 o'clock here on the Mighty 990. What can people expect? Yeah, so really, you're going to expect positive stories. You're going to hear ways that you can get involved in helping a myriad of different people who are doing wonderful things. I have a, I was just next this next episode coming out will be a contractor who just got wind that a woman in a bad area of town needed her house redone.
And when he got there, it wasn't just, hey, we have to fix this. It had to be completely taken down to the foundation. Wow. Yeah. And he's paying, like, people are paying for it.
Like, he's, he said, I will step in. And then people said, okay, well, if he can step in and sacrifice, so can I.
So, this woman who owned that property, right? And that's a thing for minority. neighborhoods is home ownership. He wanted that woman to keep her property and not sell, not leave, not give it to an Airbnb, right? keep that property.
Let's fix it. Let's make you a home. And people are getting behind it.
So those are the kinds of stories that you can expect on the front porch forum. You know, it's interesting. When you talk, you look at Memphis and the philanthropic nature of our city, one of the most giving cities in America. Absolutely. There was this great story.
I mean, it was a bad story, but it had a great ending. A lady got evicted from her home, and it was a wrongful eviction. Wow. And all of her stuff is out there. She's 80-something years old.
And Yolanda Cooper-Sutton, our city council member, put out the all call to deputies. And a bunch of off-deputy, off-duty deputy sheriffs showed up. And they put everything right back inside this lady's home. Again, these are the kinds of stories that you love focusing on. Absolutely.
You know, growing up, a lot of people said, you look for the helpers. You look for the helpers. Memphis gets a lot of bad press because we've got some real issues here, but there are salt of the earth, good people here who just want to love and serve.
Now, is, you know, people, maybe they have a story and somebody has done something great in their community, their circle of influence. How can they reach out to you and get that information to you? Yeah. So reach out to K-Wham. You know, let us know that there's this story that you want to highlight.
You can find me on social media. I'm everywhere. Everywhere. Easy to find. No, all right.
So, well, this is good news because I know, you know, for example, what's happening down in South Haven with the Whataburger. You know, I mean, it's so kind. Normally it's Chick-fil-A.
So I'm glad to see the beef people stepping up. That's right. That's right. So no, but it's, it's, you know, the generosity, I think, is something that we do want to focus on and that we do. But I'm so glad that you're highlighting those stories because we need to hear those kinds of stories.
Absolutely. People, we have to be positive. We have got to remind people of why Memphis is the city that it is today. Memphis has always been a huge part of the Tennessee landscape. Landscape and in all different facets in industry, in entertainment, in culture.
And so let's remember why and where Memphis got its start and its foundation. And let's get back to that.
So you were at a conference that was sponsored by a couple of good friends of mine, Tony Perkins and Jack Gibbs. The Supreme Vote stand. How did the conference go? Oh, it was wonderful, Todd. It was just so great to be in a room with so many people who are believers, who love the Lord, but also love our country and want to see our country restored to its rightful place in every single facet that you could possibly think of.
Lila Rose was there, Larry Elder, Heidi St. John, just some really good players. Of course, Larry, you can hear every night live right here on the Mighty 990, just a wonderful talk show host, the Sage from South Central. And Heidi is a good friend. We got to know each other really well in North Carolina a couple of months ago.
I was speaking at a conference there, and she's been a longtime follower of what we're doing and just a great lady.
So I'm so glad. And so huge crowds, too, from what I understand. Great crowds. I was so blessed to be able to go. I'm the director of community relations at Life Choices of Memphis, our local pregnancy center.
And so they sent me because what I love and what I learned is how organizations and churches like Chino Hills. They're mobilizing around issues.
So, about that church, it is unlike any other church. I just love the whole outdoor. Oh, the breeze wet. You feel like you're in a different country. It's wonderful.
It's like a lifestyle mall/slash church. Yes, I was like, This is a church? Wait a minute. It's pretty awesome. Yes, it was.
It's pretty spectacular. And I think now probably as good a time as any to announce that starting in January, you'll be able to watch the Todd Stern show on the Real Life Talk Network.
So we've signed a partnership with Jack Hibbs and those folks over at Real Life today. And you'll be able to watch us on their network starting in January.
So that's going to be a lot of fun. Rachel, I want you to tell us about life choices.
So what a great, great ministry that you guys have here in the Mid South changing lives. Yeah, closing in on next year will be 40 years of ministry here in Memphis. Yeah. Wow. 40 years.
Last year, we had 827 babies. Born into the life choices family.
So, names, birth dates, weights. Just amazing. And what Larry Elder said at Pray Vote Stand about fatherlessness really is just timely as we have just launched a fatherhood program that is taking off. It truly is the the Missing piece, if you will. Like Traces of Memphis is not.
We're just not those pro-life people that, you know, you get the bad rap from the pro-abortion side. We're truly changing lives, truly doing generational change in people. We had over 3,400 client interactions last year. Wow. So 3,400 women for different reasons, right?
Our medical services, our adoption agency, our post-abortion counseling, the men's program, mentorship. I mean, Todd, it's just such a facet and a gem in the city. Top 1% of pregnancy centers in the nation is where Life Choices falls with everything that we're offering in the city. That's pretty spectacular. Ah, love it.
Great work. Great work. All right, Rachel, for life choices, where can people go if they want to get information and support the ministry? Yeah, www.lcfriends.org. That's www.lcfriends.org.
You can find us on social media. Figure out what we're doing. Find a way to get plugged in. All right. I'm like your social media planner now.
So, what you have to do is come out Friday to JoJo's, and we'll have a lot of listeners, and they'll be able to meet you in person. Oh, a little. I love it. I would love to meet people. And you'll be able to listen to Rachel every Sunday, 10 o'clock, Front Porch Forum.
It is a wonderful show. You are going to be blessed. And that's one of the things I love about our Sunday programming, Rachel. We're local from First Assembly to Christ Church. And we have so many other great ministries and weekend programs.
And that's what it's about, local radio. Love it. All right. Rachel, congratulations. Thanks, Todd.
And welcome to the family. Wow, I'm excited to be here. All right, Rachel Davis, everybody, the host of Front Porch Forum. You can hear that program every Sunday, 10 o'clock. Right here on the Might Eat 990.
Hey, let's check in real quick our K-Wham Sports Director, Parker May, with a look at what happened over the weekend. Still managing your rental business like a side hustle? Stop risking your cash flow. Over 800,000 landlords use TurboTenet to streamline their rental operations for free. From finding tenants you trust to collecting rent on time, we've got you covered at turbotenet.com.
What do we want? We know now. When do we want it? Also unclear. Why do we want it?
Because it was forwarded to us in an email, so it must be true. Yeah. That just a little clip there from one of the No Kings rallies. We hear that may have been in Rhode Island.
So, the Rhode Island No Kings protest. Welcome back, everybody, to Stearns Country. I'm Todd Stearns. Great to have you with us today. By the way, I want to give you an update.
Over the weekend, our good buddy Luke Simbel passed us along from the Shelby County Sheriff's Office. Remember last week when Tater Chip Tammy Sawyer. She tried to manhandle deputy sheriffs there at the courthouse, and her security guard, she was trying to smuggle in her security guard who was armed with a weapon.
So now the Tennessee Bureau of Investigations has officially launched a probe into all of this, and we will keep you updated. But I would recommend that Tammy Sawyer might want to. lawyer up. By the way, another big story that went viral over the weekend. Did you see the video?
The AI of President Trump as a top gun. Pilot. Flying over Midtown Manhattan and dropping Hold on, I've got to get this. I've got to read this from channel three. You know, the sad thing about our local media, and I don't want to paint with a broad brush here, they don't have a sense of humor, these folks.
And that's unfortunate. Here's the headline from Channel 3, WREG: Trump Post AI video dumping brown liquid on No Kings protesters. Oh the horror.
Okay, channel three. That brown liquid is called. Who As in Po Po. Much like your reporting, by the way.
So there you have it. But it's really worth it to watch the video. Oh, he's also, President Trump's also wearing a crown. The guy's got a sense of humor. What can I say?
901-260-5926. If you want to weigh in this morning, that's 901-260-5926. There was finally something worth reading in the Daily Memphian. Erica May is one of the op-ed writers. And she wrote an interesting piece about the Federal Task Force.
And I mentioned this earlier in the program, where I popped onto the interstate from the Memphis International Airport early this morning, and man, everybody was doing 55. And she said, the whole point is. And Erica, by the way, works for 911. She's in public safety, and she's also a member of the Shelby County's Council on Gun Safety. She lives in South Memphis.
And again, she's going back and saying that when the Memphis City Council passed this Achieving Driving Equality Act, it pretty much opened the door for all sorts of crime in the Mid South. And that was originally passed back in twenty twenty three, if you remember that. It was all because of the Tyree Nichols tragedy, and police officers were literally banned, banned under the city council rules from traffic stops based on minor infractions like expired tags or broken taillights. And then, of course, the state stepped in, and that was set aside. But even today, Memphis police are not allowed to conduct any sort of high-speed chases.
Now, let's fast forward to where we are right now, where you have the Tennessee Highway Patrol here in the city. And what are they doing? They're making traffic stops for broken taillights, expired tags, and unsafe vehicles. And they are also chasing drivers who refuse to stop.
Something that the current Memphis Police Department is not allowed to do. And guess what's happening as a result of that, ladies and gentlemen? I don't want to read this from Miss May's excellent piece here in the Daily Memphian. The result, she wrote, people are clearly driving slower on our streets. More criminals are being arrested, and crime will go down as a result.
Go figure. And by the way, the anecdotal evidence is now tangible data. Reading from her piece, Shelby County Clerk Wanda Halbert has reported a noticeable increase in tag renewals since the Federal Task Force arrived.
Now, I want to stop here because she brings up another point that a lot of folks forgot about. The whole reason you had Big Tammy Sawyer, you had all these folks out there, the activist community in Memphis, and what were they telling us? They said that the average Memphian cannot afford to purchase a car tag. Really?
Well, guess what? They can afford it now. And that's what Miss May writes here in her piece in the Daily Memphian. Suddenly, we can afford to renew our tags? She said, we're not as poor as council members and activists made us out to be.
We just lack the motivation to follow the basic rules. A commitment to enforcing the law is not an attack on poor citizens. It's an enforcement of civic responsibility that has a direct positive impact on public safety. And It's true. Absolutely.
Absolutely true.
So well done, well done, Miss May. I'm just shocked the Daily Memphian published something like that. All right, look, the fun continues. 11 o'clock, the Todd Stern show. We're going to have a lot of fun on that program.
Don't forget Jim Miller standing by with your top local news headlines, Laura Huckabee with that awesome. Awesome fall forecast. Folks, keep your radio set right here to the Mighty 990. Have a great day, everybody. Mm-hmm.
