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Live from the Liberty University Studio in Memphis, Tennessee, it's common sense conservative commentary from Todd Starr. I love Love is American. Greetings, ladies and gentlemen. Tis I, Todd Stearns, your voice of truth and hope across this great nation. Great to have you with us today.

Hope you're doing well. Wow, you know, I see these photographs from far-flung. Places like Minnesota and I don't know Vermont. And there's snow all over the place. And we're running around here in the south, in the mid-south, wearing shorts and t-shirts.

It's like 70 degrees today outside. By the way, the entire southern region of the United States, the entire south, we're all dealing with some sort of a medical issue right now with the upper respiratory stuff. That's the way it goes. I'm telling you, the dayquil and Nyquil, it's at a premium these days. All right.

This literally just got dropped in my lap as I was about to walk into the studio here, the palatial studio. At the Todd Stearns radio show, this is from our friends at First Liberty Institute. And I want to share this with you because we have some work to do, people. It turns out that an airman at And military base, and I'll get to the base in just a second. An airman was ordered to remove his flag.

Apparently this gentleman and his uh wife and four children, they live on base. At Maelstrom. Air Force Base. In Great Falls, Montana. Maelstrom Air Force Base.

in Great Falls, Montana. And he had a flag that he posted outside of his home there. Many people do that. This particular flag said, Jesus is my king. And Trump is my president.

And had it fly in there, and people really loved it. I mean, I don't think anybody complained.

Well, somebody ended up complaining. Because he received a message from the management company that controls base housing. And he was told that he had to remove his Jesus is my king, Trump is my president, flag. He was given 48 hours to comply or he would face Disciplinary action. At the time he was informed of his violation, I'm reading this from the email I just got from Hot Off the Presses from First Liberty Institute.

At the time he was informed of the violation, other base residents. Displayed flags representing sports teams, seasonal decorations. That would be. Happy holidays And LGBT Pride Flags Those flags were allowed to fly, but the Jesus is my king, Trump is my president flag was apparently against the rules.

Now, First Liberty Institute says this is a clear violation. Of the First Amendment, and that Sergeant Durant, that's the gentleman's name, Sergeant Technical Sergeant Robert Durant. His rights were violated here. According to the senior counsel for First Liberty Institute, permitting the display of the gay flag and other flags for years while subsequently ordering the swift removal of a religious flag is blatant anti-Christian bias targeting religious exercise. And they're demanding that the military take action here.

You know, I am surprised by this. I mean, they're. Pete Hankseth has been doing such a great job as war secretary, and I know there are lots of military bases and installations. I get that. But it seems to me that orders would trickle down.

that the days of targeting Christians were over in the military. Maybe not everybody got that memorandum. Maybe that's maybe that's what's going on here. But what I find interesting is That they included photographs. Of all these other flags that people are flying outside their homes.

You may know somebody who has a flag very similar to this. Outside flying outside their home, and it's not a big deal. As a matter of fact, according to the rules and regulations, even though this is a military base, the home owners or the home occupants, the renters, still have rights. It's not like you just surrender your rights when you step on to the military base.

So there you go. We will keep you updated on this story. It's just really odd. But what I find very apparently, there are a lot of people who support the LGBT movement there at Malmstrom Air Force Base. They're in uh Montana.

Well, go figure. All right. By the way, our telephone number, 901-260-5926, that's 901-260-5926. President Trump. Talking to Republicans.

Giving them the what for earlier today, the president speaking at the Republican retreat. Everybody's coming back from break. And the president is really, really upset. that they have yet to do anything about The about the filibuster. And the president said, We have got to pass.

Nationwide voter ID laws. And this is all. This is all coming from the Senate, right? It is Jon Thune, the majority leader. He's the decision maker here.

He's the guy that can say, you know what, the filibuster's gone. But he's not doing it, and I'm not sure he's going to do it. I think that Well, I don't. No, I don't want to go there right. No, I'm in a positive mood here, so I don't want to go down this path just yet.

But There are some establishment republics. Let me frame it like this: there are some Republican establishment peoples. And they believe the better thing to happen is for the president's agenda to go down in flames. Because they believe they're going to be able to Resurrect the old Republican Party on the ashes of what they would call the America First Movement. That's sort of the thinking here, the mindset.

No, I'm not. I don't believe that's. I don't think it's going to work. No, I don't. I'm just trying to explain to you.

This is the thinking of these establishment Republicans. They have no allegiance to you. These people are bought and paid for by the lobbyist. By all these foreign countries. By big business.

The chambers of commerce.

So they really don't care about us.

So we don't really, when I say we, I don't, I mean we, the people, the taxpayers. We don't factor into the equation at all. That's what I'm trying to say.

So anyway, Trump's up there and He sounds a little raspy. It may be going around. I mean, it's just this weather is just insane. It's affecting everybody's the upper respiratory stuff.

So the president sounded a little raspy today. But still in good spirits. Cut number eight, please. Mr. Sign.

And uh He wasn't the president. First of all, the election was rigged. You ought to have voter ID. You ought to insist on it. You ought to insist on it.

Can you imagine? In California, they not only don't have voter ID, but if an official at the voting booths, which they don't have, by the way, because it's all male, if an official, a voting official, even asks somebody for voter ID, Sir, we'd like to see your identification. Uh do you come from our country? They put him in jail.

So there you go. The president again calling for Congress to do something here. And I don't know that they're going to do it. It is going to require a huge effort on the part of the American people to really hammer home. That we want the Senate to get rid of the filibuster.

If you today could somehow just take a moment, pick up the phone, and call your senators. And tell them it doesn't matter if they're Republican or Democrat, but clearly we need the Republicans here to get on board. But we need you to call your senators and tell them to abolish the filibuster, get rid of the blue slip, let's get the president's agenda. through Congress. And may I just say here, There's nothing but greatness in the president's agenda.

Nothing but greatness for. The American people. And that's the problem because Congress, they're sort of like their own entity now, right? They're all about the big dollars. They're looking out for those lobbyist jobs.

They're looking out for their 401k packages. They're looking out for their investment portfolios. We elect all these people, and they're just average regular Joes, and then they become multimillionaires. And there's a reason for that. There's a lot of grift.

There's a lot of. Crime Within the halls of Congress, and we got to root it all out. That's what we've got to do here.

So we just need to send some positive reinforcement to the Republicans to say, you know what? We're going to have your back here. And the reality is, if you don't abolish the filibuster, the Democrats will when they get. when they get the the the majority. That's what's going to happen here.

901-260-5926. Call your senators, and then I want you to call me. And tell me what they told you. Because they need to hear from us, and those phone calls are very, very important. Even if you don't get through, even if you leave a message, it's very important that they hear from you no matter where you are, ladies and gentlemen.

All right. Wow, so much to go through. We've got Dan Pongino back. Back in the mix, Bongino officially Leaving the FBI. And uh he is a civilian again.

And Bongino's getting ready to announce whatever his next big steps are. And he's going to war against somebody within the conservative movement. We don't know who that is just yet. But he's going to war against somebody.

Now, I'm just going to tell you. Right out of the gate here. These social media influencers, may I ask you a question about the social media influencers? I'm talking about the Megan Kellys and the Candace Owens and the Tucker Carlsons and the Ben Shapiros, and we'll throw Bongino into the mix too. Do these folks influence you?

They call themselves social media conservative influencers. Bongino doesn't, but the others do. Do you look to these folks for guidance on how to vote? Do you look to these folks for Your positions on the big issues of the day. And the point I'm getting at here: what are you getting at here, Stearns?

Well, I'm going to get there. Just bear with me for a moment. Here's my question. I'm just wondering how influential the conservative influencers really are.

Now, on the left, I would say their influencers are. Very powerful. Because they do shape opinion, they do shape policy. But I mean, as from a wee little kid here, I was raised to think with my own mind. I was taught to Be influenced by God's Word.

to be influenced by my elders And by elders, I don't mean Presbyterians, I mean older people. All that to say that I was. I don't think I was ever told, oh, son, you know, you ought to. You know that old Captain Kangaroo? And mister Green Jeans, they're they're good people.

You ought to you ought to emulate them. And I'm like, Well, I don't like overalls, but okay. Sure, Dad? I can get a bowl cut. Just like Captain Kangaroo.

My poor staff is looking at me like, who is he talking about? What is going on here? But you know who I'm talking about.

So I'm just wondering, how influential are these folks? to the great scheme of things.

So anyway, Bogino's out there and uh I got to read this. He is fired up, and I can't read it in his angry Dan Bongino voice. But he said, Let me just add from the jump, so there's no confusion, I started in this movement as a candidate during the Tea Party movement, and I began my political commentary career shortly thereafter. I helped build this movement. And I sure as hell am not going to let it get hijacked by a group of black pillars, life losers, grifters, and burns.

Okay, who is he talking about here? We are a movement guided by truth. The essence of conservative ideology is the preservation of eternal truths. We are not the latest thing group. We are not political cannibals.

I've watched quietly from the inside while doing the job I was hired to do, but I am back now, and it's time to restore balance to the force That one was for who anyway. Um And so he goes on from there. He says, We've got midterms coming up. There's no time for BS. This administration is cooking and real change simmers.

If you've been spending your entire day blanking and whining with three-quarters of the term still to go, then please find the exits. There's no time for it.

So, anyway, he's telling you to shut the hell up and listen to whatever he tells you to do. I mean, that's basically what Bongino's telling you here.

Okay, all right. I'm just wondering when we're going to see the Epstein files. I'm just wondering we're going to start seeing all these people arrested and hauled out of their homes in the pre-dawn guns-drawn raids. Is that. I don't does that make me a b I d I don't know.

And they told us they were going to do all these things. Maybe they'll get around to it. Hope they do. But again, going back to the social media influencers, we're going to play some audio from Megan Kelly. And it'll help you understand what's really going on within the conservative movement right now.

Because I think you do have to pay attention. to who you follow and who you listen to. We have a saying on this program, trust but verify. I do that all the time.

Sometimes we have to verify two or three times now that you got the AI stuff going on.

So look, we got to take a break here. More coming up your way. 901-260-5926. That's 901-260-5926. This is the Todd Starn show.

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Social media influencers, and they're enraged right now. They say we had no business going into Venezuela, that we had no business taking out the dictator and putting him on trial in New York. And they're also saying that the president has no right to go into Cuba or Colombia or Iran or anywhere else. That the only job of the President of the United States is to bring down the cost of milk and eggs. And I'm not kidding you, we're going to play some audio coming up after the break here.

But a lot of people that you thought were conservative are now coming out and saying, oh, yeah, we have no business being involved in any of these things.

Now I would contend that we have every reason to be engaged and every reason to be involved. And this goes look go all the way back to you can go back to the Cuban Missile Crisis. Where the Soviets at the time wanted to install, actually, they were installing. Missile silos, these portable missile silos, that could have launched nuclear weapons on the United States just ninety miles off the coast of Florida. And if that were happening in real time today, You would have people like Tucker Carlson and Megan Kelly and Marjorie Taylor Greene and Thomas Massey, and they would be out there saying, How dare you?

Cuba has a right to install those missiles 90 miles from our shores. I just sincerely disagree with that because once those missiles go in, the blackmail begins. That's how serious this is.

So, what Trump is doing, and he's looking at this holistically here. which is why Greenland comes into play. The President wants to protect the United States of America. And the President knows things that he's not saying right now, things that he cannot say. about the threats that we are facing.

And there's a reason why he wants to shore up our hemisphere. We can't allow Russia, can't allow Iran, can't allow China. To throw down a flag anywhere in this hemisphere. It's just. Driving me insane.

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Well, going back real quick here to what's happening in Venezuela, what could happen in Colombia, Mexico, and Cuba. The Trump administration realized that the Chinese and the Russians. and Iran were gaining strongholds in Venezuela. That is a direct violation of the Monroe Doctrine, which prohibits that kind of activity coming from the coming from Europe.

So this is a that's a big, big deal, and it's a big violation. And God bless President Trump for understanding how vitally important it is to keep the Western Hemisphere clear of all of those kinds of influences. That's what is ultimately going on here.

So, Megan Kelly is very upset about all of this. And she's attacking Fox News channel, who used to pay her a very big paycheck. Here's Megan Kelly, cut number two. I really think this is something we need to consider both sides on. I really do.

I don't think. Let me just tell you something. When I was at Fox News, which was a long time, 14 years, I would have known exactly what to do in the wake of Trump's attack. In Venezuela, his retrieval, shall we say, to put it in mild terms, of Nicolas Maduro. I don't know.

known that I was supposed to cheerlead it. And I turned on Fox News yesterday, and I'm sorry, but it was like watching Russian propaganda. There was nothing skeptical. It was all rah-rah, cheerleading. Yes, let's go.

And that's fine. I love our military as much as anyone, and I believe in President Trump. But there are serious reasons to just exercise a note of caution. before we just get on the raw raw train. All right, I have done that enough times in my career as a Fox News anchor.

to have been embarrassed enough to know I'm gonna stay on the yellow light. For this. I'm not in the green light territory. I'm not in the red light territory either, but I am staying in the yellow light territory. For now.

I see all of the strategic advantages of what he's done. Trust me, I do. I see that other countries like Russia and China and Cuba were all over Venezuela and it's oil. Posing a potential threat to the United States. I get that.

That's actually the most persuasive argument, and obviously, the real one, and none of this bullshit about law enforcement.

Okay, my apologies there, folks. But anyway, she gets a little salty sometimes, Megan Kelly does. And guys, if we can just check her other, let's check her other clips as well, there, please. Look, I want to unravel a few things that Megan had to say. First of all, she said, She's telling you that she doesn't believe what she's saying.

In other words, when she would go on to Fox News channel, if you believe her explanation here, Fox was telling her what to say. Fox was telling her the party line. I'm just going to tell you in my experience, and this is just my experience, and I was actually at Fox a lot longer than Megan Kelly was. I was there for 15 years. And I can tell you, not once did anyone in management tell me what I could and could not say on the air.

Not once. Never happened. Is it true they put out daily guidelines? Hey, here are some of the big stories we're looking at today. Absolutely.

And I would like to think that every news organization in the country would be doing something like that. But I don't know of anyone. And I've spent a lot of time with a lot of the prime time anchors. I don't know a single person who said they were ordered by management to go out there and say something that they did not believe in. And I'll tell you this much.

And so, all of this, and even if they did, even if the Fox management did, that is their right to do. As the owners and the operators of a news network. Much like I own a news talk radio station in Memphis, Tennessee. I have the responsibility to say what goes on my airwaves. That's ultimately my decision to make.

You may not agree with the decision, but it's the decision that I get to make because I pay the bills. And the same thing goes at Fox News. The problem I have is an anchor that goes out there. And goes all cheerleader rah-rah for something they do not believe in. I have a problem with that.

And by the way, Bill O'Reilly, can we just talk about this for a moment? Bill O'Reilly. And Greta Van Sustran, when Greta was back at the network, they took contrarian views all the time.

So you can You can believe what you want to believe here. But I'm just telling you, this was not my experience. And maybe she was the she was the exception. I don't know. I wasn't there.

I'm just telling you my experience. And I can tell you just from watching them on the air, Bill O'Reilly and Greta and others have had contrary opinions.

So, Megan goes on to say. About Well, we'll hold on to that. But Megan Kelly was complaining because she said, Well, I've got a 16-year-old son and a 12-year-old boy and a 14-year-old girl, and they might have to go to war. What what is she talk what war? What were it literally lasted, what, four hours?

As we pointed out, the coming out scene on Stranger Things was actually longer than the entire operation to capture Nicholas Majoro. And then you've got this other gal. What's her name? Cat Temph. On Guttfeld's show.

And she's in a tizzy talking about regime change. What regime change? Nicolas Maduro actually lost the presidential election in a landslide. And what did he do? He remained in power.

There is no regime change. We arrested a guy, he's going on trial, and that's going to be that. Trump says we're going to be running the country. We don't know what that looks like. They're going to present the plan.

But that's where we are right now. But a lot of folks on the conservative On the conservative side, they are getting squirrely, and one of the reasons why is they're really not all that conservative, and they never have been. And I'm not naming names because our audience is smart enough to figure out, you guys are smart enough to figure it out yourselves. And at the end of the day, I think this is all, I think this is going to resolve itself. Because a lot of these folks are only in it for the money.

They're in it for the grift. I've been doing this 30 years. Jeezaloo that's a long time. 30 years I've been doing this. And you know what's interesting?

My opinion has never changed. My opinions on the big issues, my foundational beliefs, they've never changed. Yeah. And I know that angers a lot of you. I know that that makes a lot of you folks irritated at me sometimes, but at least you know, well, you know what, that's where all stars, that's where he stands on the issues.

By the way, Dylan, I've got to read this to you. I got one of the most vulgar pieces of hate mail. I've been getting a lot of hate mail lately. I don't know why, but there's been an uptick, an upsurge. in the hate mail.

You know what? Maybe we need. Do we have the mailbag music? I'm calling it audible here. This might go over better.

If we um if we have some oh yeah, mailbag music. This is from Sabre Wagon on X. Dear Todd, you hot ass milk blank blank. I want to smear my blank all over you and eat you up like a plate of blank-covered waffles. That doesn't sound like hate, but...

That sounds like the opposite of me.

Well, when you read the words that I had to bleep out, you'll understand. It was so vulgar, I thought I was going to go to Perkins last night for some pancakes and waffles. And I thought, nah, I'll have a salad. Just hold the ranch dressing, please. Yeah.

I've got like. Hold on. There's. You keep that music going. I forgot.

There. I forgot to read this. There was. We've been getting a lot of hate. These are one, two, three, four, five.

Uh these are like emails I got from Mitchell. You are not a smart man. From David, you stupid F-word. From Trent, you lying scumbag. From it.

Tucci. How blanking stupid are you? And from John, just a one-word letter, the C-word. There you go. Have I really angered the entire nation this week?

At least they're listening, you know? I don't know. These may be, I think these may be groipers. I don't know. Everybody's in a mood this week.

I'm feeling pretty good. It could be the NyQuill. But there you go.

So, what are we talking about again? Oh, yeah, Megan Kelly.

So, anyway, back to Megan Kelly.

So, here she is, cut number six, please. I I have seen what happens when you cheerlead unabashedly US intervention in foreign countries thinking it's for our good and for the national the international good only to wind up with what we've called quagmire. In places Like Iraq. Um not to mention Libya. We're not great at going into these foreign countries, decapitating them at the leadership level, and then saying either we're going to steer the country to a better place or it's going to steer itself.

Either one. They they they just Nine times out of ten, they don't work out well. And what does it mean in terms of boots on the ground? Trump is saying, I'm actually fine with that in Venezuela.

Well, whose boots? Because I have a 16-year-old boy. And I have a 12-year-old boy, and I have a 14-year-old girl. And a lot of my listeners have children, too, who are actually the ones who might have to fill the boots.

So, I think I speak for a lot of moms and dads for that matter when I say I'm staying in yellow territory. Until we know more, and I will not be joining the Fox News cheerleading brigade this time. I've been burned. Too many times. Again, nobody ever asked me when I was at Fox to join any sort of cheerleading brigade.

You either supported something or you don't. And take a position, and your audience may be upset with you about it, but at least you've got integrity, you're taking a position.

So look, at the end of the day. We may have to fight a war somewhere. But right now, let's look at where we are right now. We are not at war. As a matter of fact, President Trump went in, sent the military in, they accomplished the mission at hand and extracted the bad guy, the dictator, who is now in a jail in New York City.

We ought to be celebrating that. Why would you not want to celebrate something like that? 901-260-5926, our telephone number. That's 901-260-5926. This is the Todd Stern Show.

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We're going to do a quick trivia question. Today is a very important anniversary. There is a specific game show. It has been on the air for 50 years. Today is the 50th anniversary of this particular game show.

And if you know the answer to the question, what is the game show? then we're going to get you a copy of Twilight's Last Gleaming Can America Be Saved. That's my latest political book. Give us a call, 901-260-5926. The host of the show, this is the clue.

The host of the show was Chuck Woolery. But this show game show still on the air debuted If you know the answer, give us a call 901-260-500. five nine two six. This is a good trivia question. But I will s I will say this, you know, when it comes to game shows in our family, there were there were two game shows in particular.

Um, one side of the family, they were the intellectual side, they watched Jeopardy, and uh the rest of us we watched the other show. Uh I'd I'd just say it. I was always a fan of deal or no deal. Were you really? Yeah.

Do you remember um Let's make a deal. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I love that show. Yeah. That was a great show back in the day.

Now, in the early days, Monty Hall was the announcer. And was the host of the show. And people used to have to dress up in the costumes, and that was like a big part of the bit. I always wondered why they did that. And then recently I've stumbled upon this older show and I don't remember what it's called, but it's like uh they're in this um Shopping mart.

It's like a Kroger or something. And they have to like find the items. Faster than the other person. And then. Guess like the price or something.

So it's not the price is right. No, but they're in like a. They're in like a Kroger or something, but it's in the 80s when the show aired. Like, it's obviously older. But it was cool.

Somebody will call in on that. I don't remember that. When I remember Joker's Wild. Which had a great host. Wink Martindale was the host of that show.

He was a great DJ from way back in the day. And um what was the other one? Hollywood Squares. And some of the funniest, most profane comedy. And the thing is, it was done in such a way that nobody, you know, if you were a kid, you didn't get it.

But if you're an adult, you're on the floor rolling. It's tasteful. Paul Lind, he was always center square, and he was like. Nobody ever said it. Of course, the kids, we wouldn't have gotten it.

But he and Liberace were good pals back in the day, if you know what I mean. Uh let's go to Doug in Georgia. Doug Welcome to the show. What what game show are we talking about? Wheel of Fortune.

Well, let's go to the tape. Ah What? Oh, this is the 70s version of the theme song. It's Wheel of Fortune. Yeah, Doug, congratulations, man.

Yeah, it was Wheel of Fortune 50 years. Can you believe it's been on the air for 50 years? Yes, it's hard to believe it made it that long, but It's still here. And Vanna looks good. She's like, what, 87?

Yeah, she's like 133, I think. She truly does look good. They pickled the poor woman. It's terrible. Oh, my word.

No, it's Chuck Woolery, though, was the very first host of the show. And, of course, it started in daytime TV and then went over to prime time. Back in the day, we were a big wheel of fortune family. Oh, we watched a lot of it when I was young, a lot of it around my house. And still occasionally I'll flip it on now.

My Aunt Patty from West Memphis, Arkansas, was a contestant on the prime on the rather Wheel of Fortune, and she lost, but she got like a year's supply of tuna helper or something like that. I just remember us eating tuna helper a lot that year as a family. Yeah, well, y'all were a lucky family that year. It was a fun show. We were so proud.

She got her picture in the paper and everything.

So there you go. Oh, yeah. All right. Big deal. Doug, all right, hang tight.

We're going to get your info. I'm going to send you a copy of Twilight's Last Gleaming: Can America Be Saved?

So hang on. Don't go anywhere. And if you'd like to get a copy, you can go over to my website, ToddSterns.com. We have lots of stuff for you to check out there. You don't even have to buy a vowel.

All right. Hour two of the big show coming up next. I hope Bana's doing good. Is she in a nursing home or anything? Six people.

Live from the Liberty University Studio in Memphis, Tennessee, it's America's conservative blowtorch. I love Love is American. Time. Star.

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So happy to have you with us today. Write down our telephone number. You will need this, 901-260-5926. That's 901-260. 5'926.

Well, President Trump talking to Republicans, having a big, big meeting today. Trying to rally the troops and get everybody focused and as we're moving uh into the uh the midterms. The big question is: what do the Republicans need to do to win? What do the Republicans need to do? to earn your support.

And I can't think of a better audience to discuss that question than our audience. I mean, you guys from all across the nation, all different backgrounds, big cities, small towns, what is it that is going to compel you to get out and vote On Election Day in November.

Now our telephone number is 901-260-5926. Again, our number, 901-260-5926. President Trump, of course, is calling on Congress to immediately do something about voter ID. We have to do something about voting integrity in this country, which is why Congress, or at least the House of Representatives, passed the Save Act. The Republicans in the House did that back in April.

Here we are. It's January. And Senate Republicans are still not doing anything.

So the question is: What are you wanting Republicans to do as we move towards the midterm elections? By the way, the president just eviscerating these protesters that are out there. We saw them. I saw a photograph of some of these protesters in Memphis, and they're out there with these signs that are saying no war, no kings. The crown is very old.

and they're all female. basically fat over white old chicks. and I realized all of a sudden that the No Kings mob has now become the Pro Dictator mob. How did that happen? Anyway, here's President Trump cut number cut number nine.

By the way, Venezuela, everyone, they're marching in the streets. They love it, except in New York. I mean, where they find these people? These people I did not like These people are a mess. I know it's not nice to say that.

These people are a mess. Where do they find these people? They are the worst looking people I've ever seen. They really They got hats that are all frayed and all, they look like they're all paid. They're all they don't even know what they're talking.

When the people the reporters don't interview them because they know that it's you know, the reporters, the press is so anti. It's hard to believe the press can be so anti. Because it's all common sense. You know, it's not we're conservative, we're conservative, whatever, doesn't matter. We're all common sense people.

It's not even conservative, it's common sense. But the press has no credibility whatsoever. Think of it, I got 97% bad stories on one network, 93% on the other, and I won in a landslide. You know what that means? The press has no credibility.

Well, no, of course they have no credibility. And the president's been suing them left and right. It's really quite remarkable what President Trump is doing. I'm working on a new book that'll be out later this year. And I've got a chapter on how Trump destroyed the media.

And it's a beautiful thing. You know, for so many years, we were pleading with our Republican lawmakers from President Bush on down. to go after the media, to punch back. But they never would. For whatever reason, the Republicans, especially in the Senate, in the House, they just would not.

Punch back. And Donald Trump showed the Republicans the winning way. Trump showed them that not only is it okay to punch back. But that Your voting base is going to love you and respect you if you do that. But for I don't think everybody's learned that lesson.

Especially those that are in the the Senate. And it's a shame. And I know I get I aggravate Republicans because even though I am one, I am not working off of anybody's talking points when it comes to this program. Because we have much more going on. We have much more at stake here.

I'm just not some sort of a yes man. And I think we've established that over the years. And that means sometimes I don't get invited to the cool snazzy parties, and I'm okay with that. I really am. But that's where we are right now.

Of course, the other big story, and God love Stephen Miller, he was on CNN. And he smacked around Jake Tapper last night. I want you to listen to cut number 10. We're a superpower and under President Trump, we are going to conduct ourselves as a superpower. It is absurd.

that we would allow a nation in our own backyard To become the supplier of resources to our adversaries, but not to us, to hoard weapons from our adversaries, to be able to be positioned as an asset against the United States rather than on behalf of the United States.

Sovereign countries should be able to do it. The Monroe Doctrine, the Monroe Doctrine, and the Trump Doctrine. is all about securing the national interests of America. For years, we sent our soldiers to die in deserts in the Middle East to try to build them parliaments, to try to build them democracies, to try to give them more oil, to try to give them more resources. The future of the free world, Jake, depends on America being able to assert ourselves and our interests without apology.

Well Poor Jake Tamper, you kind of felt bad for the guy a little bit after that woodshed experience. I want to go right away to our Patriot Mobile newsmaker line, our next guest. Is very well known in conservative circles, Daniel DiMartino. He grew up in Venezuela and he saw firsthand how socialism destroyed his home there. Daniel, good to have you with us today.

And I'm just curious, what has been your reaction to the events that have been unfolding over the past several days? Thank you, Todd. It's great to be back. Um well, you know, it's been really hopeful days for me, very happy days, especially the day of the capture of the tyrant. I first couldn't believe it because it's something that I have been praying for for so long.

But, you know, it's true. Maduro is captured. I went to his arraignment in New York City. I went to the courthouse. Yeah.

So Um, the way a lot of Venezuelans celebrated. paid communist activists. asking for his release too that And then the Venezuelans began fighting, so it it was quite the show.

Well, no doubt about that. And and I want you to take our our listeners back to to your growing up years and how what what happened to your family when the the the Socialists took charge, the communists took charge?

Well, my family was like many Americans, small business owners. We own the gas station. And we made a good living, a few thousand dollars a month. And then we ended up because of hyperinflation with very diminished purchasing power of really we were making one hundred bucks a month by twenty sixteen. And but most importantly, we have to line up for food, we lost electricity very often at home.

Increasingly, without water as well, sometimes for a few hours, then days, then weeks without water.

So we had to ration it, collect it from the rain, like if we lived in a village in the middle of Africa in the nineteenth century.

So we really went from living in a first world to a third world country within my lifetime, my teenage years. That must be a shocking thing to see the place that you grew up in, your family, the business. And it all just vanishes, it goes away. And you know, we had it well because we could leave, and I had a. a great opportunity to come to America, but most people didn't.

I have friends who are still there and they are really struggling. But I can tell you that all very happy, very grateful for what the US did and just looking forward for the RENA transition, hopefully as soon as possible, so people can be free and prosperous again. What do you make of some of the the narrative, the rhetoric coming from places like Tucker Carlson, who says that Majuro was ousted so that gay marriage could be implemented in Venezuela? Yeah. It it's it's it's outrageous and ridiculous.

the Venezuelan people just want to be free in the sense that we want to be able to start a business, we want to be able to eat, okay? We don't give a crap about gay marriage, okay? He can keep all the gay marriage stuff to himself, Doctor Carlson. I think he's a disgrace. Um and really he's sort of Dutch.

And and you know, it makes a lot of sense when you think about it because Qatar is a great ally of the Maduro regime, so is Iran, so is Russia, and Tucker has become the apologist for all of these evil regimes.

Well, then you have others. I think Megan Kelly is out there saying she's not ready to jump onto the bandwagon yet. She doesn't want her kids having to be boots on the ground in Venezuela. I don't think anybody's talking about having boots on Venezuela. I don't think nobody asked her kids to be boots on the ground in Venezuela.

You know, it seems like those people who are suggesting that are the ones who want it. Um Look, the reality is that this was a clean operation. There is a lot of pressure. It was almost all air as well. No American casualties.

You know who were the casualties? The Cuban spies and soldiers that have occupied our country. Those were the people who died. thirty two. After denying that there were any Cuban troops in Venezuela, the Cuban regimes have to come up with the bodies of the 32 people killed.

Turns out they were in Venezuela. Um So that's for one. And two, she just had on her show this man called Aaron Mate. who works for this outlet called Greystone. Which is an offshoot of Russia today.

So she's having Russian regime journalists. To supposedly give an alternative perspective to what happened in Venezuela. I wonder if there's any vested interest that Russia has. in supporting the Maduro regime.

Well, it's a great point. And we probably should have started with your bona fides. I mean, you're a young guy, but you've been very successful. And you graduated from what, Indiana, you attended Indiana University. You've got a Ph.D.

from Columbia University, and you've focused on economics. The reality here, Daniel, when you look at what's happening, the Monroe Doctrine is still on the books. And the reality is we cannot allow any European Any sort of influence in the Western Hemisphere. That is vital for our national security.

Well, and you know what? There this is where America first is different from isolationism. There are many conflicts in which it makes no sense for America to be involved. Such as you remember when Trump was talking about ISIS fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan? It's like, let them fight.

You know, they're both bad sides. Let them fight. Don't get involved. Let them kill each other. In the case here in Venezuela, it's different.

We are all paying more at the gas pump because Venezuela is not producing very much oil anymore. We are all suffering from the drug trafficking epidemic because the major regime are a bunch of drug traffickers to pay off and maintain power there. We are all suffering from illegal immigrant crime and welfare use because of the Maduro regime causing the largest refugee crisis in the planet, okay?

So President Trump is not only rooting out Assets of the Chinese, of the Iranians and the Russians from Latin America, which are national security dangers. It's actually good for the U. S. economy and for our personal security. Daniel, what do you see happening next?

I think there's a lot of confusion over who's going to be leading the country. What are you hearing?

Well, I think that what they're doing is trying to force the regime into an orderly transfer of power into a democratic and free country. This is important because the reality is that if You know, people ask have asked the President and the Secretary of State, why didn't we just kidnap or arrest all of the members of the regime, right?

Well, and they answer with something very logical. I mean, that's a very difficult operation. Capturing Maduro and his wife was already difficult enough, right?

So they already have threatened to go in again The Majuro regime is so scared that last night they began shooting at each other in Caracas in the Presidential Palace. I'm not sure if you saw those videos. Turns out they thought that a drone that was their own drone was the Americans coming back again, and they began fighting an internal war. I mean, these people are incompetent. weak and the United States has total superiority.

So we have a chance now, and this is what I think the Secretary of State has laid out. to be in charge. And what does that mean?

Now they have the the people remaining in power, Del C, her brother Jorge, Gustavo Cabello, Padrina Lopez, the remaining leaders. They have a chance to live with all their stolen wealth. To perhaps Russia, Qatar, Iran, I don't know. Let's negotiate with a foreign country. that wants to take them.

Let's allow them to take all the money they've stolen, do a wire transfer, take planes full of gold. I don't care. And be free. and in that process, transfer the authority over every single institution two people who will be rightfully elected in a free election involved. which I have no doubt that Maria Corina Machado would win a line flight with ninety percent of the vote.

Of that, there is no doubt. It's the only poor human person in the country. You sound pretty optimistic that that this this can be t all turned around. I mean, it's going to take some time, but you can go back to the days of Venezuela being a very wealthy, influential democracy. Yes, though we do have a time constraint here, Todd, and the time constraint is President Trump's term.

This needs to get done ideally in the next year. Um you know, if this drags on for a little bit. The Major regime is going to try to do just that. They're going to try to delay and delay.

So that President Trump is out of office and they know they're safe and the no transition takes place, And then they go back to seizing the American assets, go back to drugs, go back to all their crimes.

So we need to do this quick because Trump they know Trump is the only person with the guts to do what it took last weekend.

Well, you're well said, and I think you're right about that. Daniel, we're going to leave it there. And folks, Daniel, I know you've got a website. Where can people go if they want to get more information about you and what you do? Go to my social media.

I'm just at Daniel DiMartino, that is D-I-M-A-R-T-I-N-O. on Twitter, X and Instagram. All right. Well, Daniel, we appreciate the insight. We're going to get you back on.

These are going to be some exciting days, and we just celebrate alongside you and the good people of Venezuela. Thank you, Todd, so much. Amen. All right. Daniel DiMartino, ladies and gentlemen, a great guy, economist, so, so well educated and well versed on world affairs.

Um Can you imagine seeing your country? Go through what they've had to go through in Venezuela and now to come out on the other side. And what a day it could be if we could restore Venezuela to what it once was. DanielDMartino.com is the website there. Go check that out.

All right, we've got to take a quick break here, folks. 901-260-5926. This is the Todd Stern Show. All right, welcome back. Coming up, we have an update on Zoron Mandami.

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We'll be right back. All right, let's head out to Western Kansas. Great radio station out there, K-G-Y-N. Kent is on the line. Kent, what's going on?

Happy New Year to you.

Well, Happy New Year to you, Mr. Starnes. Thank you for taking my call. Yes, sir. I wanted to you to know that I was able to order Some star sango blessings and give them away for Christmas gifts.

Is that right?

Well, thank you for doing that, and I hope you've got some positive feedback.

Well, I'll tell you how it is. Everybody liked him, and nobody brought him back.

So I feel like that's pretty cool. That'll do it for me. I love it.

So I took your advice. I called two of my campus senators. One was Senator Hawley. And his reception answered the call, answered my call, and I told him about. voting with Trump and voting for the For the uh uh voter ID.

And what all did they tell you?

Well, he didn't I didn't ask a lot of questions, mister Starnes. I just said I'm calling to please ask you to vote with Trump on all the upcoming agenda.

Well, I like that, and I'm glad you did that, Ken. And a lot of people think: oh, those phone calls don't really matter much. No, they really do matter. You know, that's the first time I've ever got through, and I didn't have to talk to a machine, so I was just thankful that I got to talk. To a live person.

Is that right?

Well, I'm glad you were able to get through. The other senator was Senator it was a woman, Senator Bowers. And I left a voicemail on a recording.

So we'll see how that goes.

Well, Ken, I sure do appreciate you calling into the show, and thank you for doing that. And we certainly hope you and your family have a very happy new year out there in western Kansas. All right. You see how easy it is, folks? 901-260-5926.

That's 901-260-5926. By the way, Dylan. We've gotten some information from our great affiliate News Talk1400 in Winchester, Virginia. And they're telling us the name of the game show you were talking about: Supermarket Sweep. Oh yeah, that's it.

That's the show. Yeah. And also, who else? We got another note from Collierville, one of our K-Wham listeners. And they're saying supermarket sweet.

Apparently, it was really popular. I mean, 1960s up until the 90s. And it was just like different. I've never seen a game show like that. No, there you go.

All right, let's go to the Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line. Our good buddy Josh Jones is hanging out with us. Josh, hope you're doing well today. I'm doing good, Todd. How are you?

Yeah, doing pretty good. You know, I've been doing, I'm coming off the Nyquil. You know, I've been doing the liquid drugs. Yeah, I mean, something's definitely going on around going around right now. I have a cold right now.

At least I hope that's all it is. Let me tell you something. I lost an entire day doing NyQuall shots. I don't know what I was doing Saturday. I didn't do it for you.

Somewhat frightening, actually, but. I checked the papers. My face wasn't in there, so I think we're good to go. Oh my goodness. All right, Josh Jones, our great Republican strategist, a good friend of the program, and a great American patriot, joining us from our nation's capital.

Josh, the president meeting with Republicans today, and I think this is one of those everybody's coming back from vacation, getting everybody on the same page. As we are now really, I mean, we've got a B-line to the midterms, what do the Republicans need to do to win? Look, we got less than a year now. We're in 2026. That is a midterm election year.

Republicans on the Hill and across the board, this goes for the administration as well, but particularly on the Hill and Congress. Look, they really have to lock in and focus on passing the agenda because Republicans have to have something to run on come this November. And look, they've done some good things. You had the one big, beautiful bill that passed last year. News cycle moves quickly, and we need to deliver more on the agenda.

So it's good that the administration and the president are meeting with congressional leaders, particularly with the slim majority that we have in the House of Representatives now after the news that broke earlier this morning. They have to really lock in and focus on the core items here. And you mentioned that, and it's just a shocking thing. A congressman out of California, and he's been on the program many times. Doug LaMalfa just died suddenly.

We have no other information passing away. And of course, that narrowed the margin. And then a Fox News was reporting that another Republican lawmaker was in a pretty serious car accident. He's going to be okay, but it does, you know, we're starting to get in very very tedious times. Yeah, no, I mean, we really are.

This is the slimmest majority in Congress for either party, whether Democrat or Republican. This is the slimmest majority that a party has had in Congress, or at least in the House of Representatives, since the 1930s.

So almost 100 years ago.

So, well, look, we're kind of in uncharted waters, or at least somewhere we haven't been in a long time.

So the leadership, particularly Speaker Johnson, but the leadership really has to make sure our members are attending and staying in D.C., basically, that be here for these critical votes. You know, we had Tim Burchett on the show a couple of, gosh, it was last week, it was right before the holidays. He said, we are literally one flu season away from losing the majority. And he's not kidding. Yeah, he's not kidding.

I mean, because look, also another reality here is like a lot of a lot of members of Congress are up there in age on the older side of things. And look, the flu may not affect people in their earlier stages of life as much. But look, I mean, he's not joking when he says that. It's a real risk. What are you saying?

The old folks are going to keel over there, Josh? I saw you trying to. I was trying to say it a politically correct way. We hear you. We hear you.

You young'uns, you whippersnappers. You know, it's interesting. MTG, yesterday was her last day in Congress, so she's out now. I just you know, it just seems to me that she really got her feelings hurt over the polling data that was shown to her, and she's just taking it out, I think, on the wrong person here. Yeah, I mean look.

People are allowed to have their political convictions and stick to those beliefs and voice their opinions. But to your point, you can't let your own personal emotions or your own personal feelings about a particular individual affect the policy or the beliefs or ideology that you have. And look, her resigning from Congress, again, going back to the point we were talking about earlier, that's another seat that Republicans, we haven't lost a seat necessarily, but it's one less Republican member to keep the majority. you know, it's really disappointing that she did resign from Congress, whether you agree with her or you know All the time, or don't. Like, if you agree with someone 80% of the time, I'd rather have that than someone I disagree with 80% of the time.

Um So it's unfortunate that she resigned from Congress. I wish she would have finished her term, but hey, here we are. And then you have people like Thomas Massey that are just contrarian to be contrarian. And at some point, you know, if you're going to be a Republican, you got to you got to stick with your party. It's like he votes against the party just about every s on ev just about every single issue.

Yeah, no, you're right. Because, look, we're a big temp party.

So, naturally, you're going to have a lot of disagreements within the party on different policy issues or policy areas, maybe the regional, state-specific, whatever the case may have. It's fine to disagree, but if you're on the team, again, to the point I raised earlier, you should be with the team at least 80% of the time, give or take. When you're voting no on everything, you're not a team player at that point. You're just there to be a contrarian. What does it say about these Democrats out there?

You've got Chuck Schumer, you've got Pete Buttigieg, among others, that several years ago, back when Trump was in office the first time around, they accused him of propping up the dictator Maduro. And he needed to go in, he needed to topple the administration. And so when he finally does it, now they're on the other side of the coin again. Yeah, look, it's classic, and we say it all the time: it's classic TDS, Trump derangement syndrome. Whatever Trump does, they're against, even if they were for it before.

So, no, it's the Democrats, at least those particular Democrats, playing politics. Because, look, John Fetterman and some others have come out on the Democratic side in support of the operation. But those particularly who were for it in the past and now are all of a sudden against it, it's just them playing politics. All right. So, off to Texas again, or are you other doing other races around the country?

Other races around the country, heading down to Texas potentially later this week, or if not, me, the team is at least, depending on how this cold progresses. But yeah, heading down to Texas. But yeah, we're doing stuff all over the country this year.

So it should start heating up here over the next couple of months. All right. All right. By the way, were you and your family, were you guys like a Jeopardy family or a Wheel of Fortune family? I don't think we really either, to be frank.

Me and my mom, like, we watched The Walking Dead when I was on a game show. That's not a game show.

Well, okay, that's unusual. All right, good to. We're marking you down as neither.

Okay, Josh Jones, get to feeling better, my friend. Thanks, Todd. Appreciate it. All right. Good guy.

He said The Walking Dead. Is that a show you can watch with a whole family? That's debatable. Don't they have little zombies, though? Eventually.

Little munchkin zombies, sure. If that's family-friendly, then sure, yeah. I guess. I don't know. No, I don't think you can watch it with families, you got to be careful.

Yeah, these days, you just never know. And the fact that it's not even a good show.

Sorry, John. It's okay. Let's go to Rick in Iowa, K-X-E-L. Rick, I hear you have a Vanna White story. Yes, I do, Todd.

Let me pull over. I'm driving. Here in Iowa, they passed a law that you can't drive and talk on a cell phone at the same time.

So I'm pulling over to the side of the road. Um, there was an adult magazine that was going to run uh Banna White's uh Personal item. And Vanna White said, if you do that, I'm going to sue you. Um Okay. I could tell you what the magazine is, but that wouldn't be good.

It's two words, and they drop the Y out of both words. Oh, Playboy. Oh, whoops. Oops. I shouldn't have said it.

Playboy Matt. Did she pose what is she I think was she in Playboy? She was, but it was called Pla-Beau because they dropped the Y. And Vanna White said she'd sue the magazine and the magazine didn't want to get sued. I've never heard that story before.

Hell yeah.

Well, as a young man, young and dumb and full of, you know, I bought it and I got rid of it. I just wanted to see what you look like.

Well, could you just turn on the T V. Oh, oh, oh.

Now you got it. Rick in Iowa? Shamo, you need to go to church, young man. Hey, I do go to church. I do.

I do. My pastor has helped me out a lot with some un Under thoughts. She's a loot. God's got under control like He does um alcohols that have, you know, the taste for alcohol.

So God is good and He uh blesses us who trust in Him and I encourage anybody who has an issue with that kind of stuff to seek God and He'll correct that. All right. Well, Rick, appreciate the Vanna White trivia there. Jeez a Lou. Also a therapist.

Uh I think I need some more apple brandy. That's what I need. Got to take a break. We'll be right back. Mm.

All right, this was a weird hour. I'm still trying to get over Walking Dead, The Walking Dead there. This is an interesting story from Knoxville, Tennessee. They have a symphony orchestra. And this is not a unique st well, it's not a unique thing to Knoxville.

They would do these blind auditions. But the problem with and the whole point of the blind audition was that the person was only being judged on the ability to be able to play an instrument. And not necessarily their skin color or something like that. But the problem was, in many of these cases, The white musician would turn out to be the better musician. I mean, that's just even in the blind auditions.

So now a lot of these symphonies are doing away with the blind auditions. But in Knoxville, they were doing the blind audition, and a white clarinet player. Says he got booted because of that. I want you to listen to this audio. Cut one, please.

My name's James Immerman. I'm a clarinet player. You may not have heard of me, but if you've been to Disney World or played video games or watched Netflix, you've heard my playing. I'm a session player in Nashville and I also work in big tech. Before tech, I was principal clarinet of the Nashville Symphony for 12 years, but in 2020, I got canceled for resisting DEI.

It's a long story, easy to Google if you feel like it.

So last summer, I took the blind audition for principal clarinet of the Knoxville Symphony, practiced like a madman for two months, and won the audition unanimously. I was very pumped. Until two days later, when their CEO called to tell me, we heard some things about your time in the Nashville Symphony, and refused to give me the job, wouldn't communicate with me, and gave the job to my runner-up, an obvious DEI hire who's still in college. Which is not just uncool, it's illegal.

So, a couple weeks ago I sued them for a year's salary plus $25,000 to compensate me for the 100 hours I spent practicing for the audition they invited me to, with the understanding that they'd give me the job if I won. But more than that, I'm suing because these orchestras can't keep throwing out their best players to make room for diversity hires and putting race and politics above merit and skill. All this does is lower the quality of the music, alienate audiences, and turn the arts into politics. The Nashville Symphony got away with acting like this in 2020, but maybe the Knoxville Symphony shouldn't be able to in 2025. I wish I didn't have to do this.

I was just looking to get back in the game, put 2020 behind me, and earn money for my kids' college doing what I love, but if I'm blacklisted, it's either pushback against the people in charge or walk away. And if Knoxville thought I was walking away from this, they were sorely mistaken. Hopefully, I'll win my lawsuit and make an example of the Knoxville Symphony, and orchestras will go back to hiring the best players the way they did before DEI ruined the business. It's either that or leftists keep running orchestras into the ground until they're gone completely, all in the name of the world. Of diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Give me a break.

So, follow me and see how the fight unfolds. I'll be doing some fundraising as well as posting clarinet clips and pictures of bread. Thanks for watching. Wish me luck. All right.

Well, good luck to you there. Dylan, I wonder what how do you know if your clarinet player is a DEI hire? You know what? I was thinking that exact thing. When I'm going to a concert or an orchestra concert or anything, I'm not really looking at anybody.

Like the lights are dim and you can't really see in the first place.

So, I just care if it sounds good, and that's what most people care about. Seems to me, you're either a really, really, really good clarinet player or you're god-awful. I don't think there's any wiggle room with that particular instrument. It takes a while to get good at that instrument. Yeah, I can imagine.

You know, this is funny. I didn't realize this was a thing, but going all the way back to 1969, there are these two black musicians, and they accused the New York Philharmonic of discrimination. And they said they were rejected because of their race.

So they started these blind auditions where you basically audition behind a screen.

So the whole point of it was, and this is all way back in the 1960s, early 70s, and the New York Times did a big story on this. And so the whole point was: this is the way that you can hire a musician based solely on their musical ability and not whether they're a male or a female or black or white or Hispanic.

Now so when they started doing that, it turned out that even more white people were getting picked.

So now they're trying to make they're trying to make the case that we have to end blind auditions to make the orchestras more diverse. It's ridiculous. It's terrible. Why can't we just have good music? That's what I don't get.

Yeah, I've had to do a couple blind auditions in my day, you know, playing the trumpet and for the, you know, the Mississippi State, you know. You know, I forgot what it's called, the Mississippi State Band, basically auditioning for that. That was a blind audition. And they took the best players from the state. They don't care.

They didn't care. But knowing this, that they're trying to do away with it, that's just sad. No one's gonna wanna go to these. Orchestra concerts, if that's gonna be the case. It's gonna be like sixth-grade orchestra Christmas concert.

Reet, re-re. Yep. That's what it's going to be. That's it. Nobody's going to want to pay big money for that.

Come on. All right. There you have it.

So good luck to the. I'll be. White clarinet players of America. Jeez a Lou. 901-260-5926, our telephone number.

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So, President Trump. We we have truly the this man sense of humor. We just don't deserve President Trump.

So the president's uh he's trying to rally the troops there, talking to the uh Republicans in Congress. He's over uh they're having a little uh retreat over at the Trump Kennedy Center. I love saying that now, Trump Kennedy Center. And the president uh did a little bit on the first lady, Melania Trump. And you know how he does, Dylan, you've seen the president's dance moves, right?

Oh yes. And uh they're pretty um they're pretty epic. You know, you've got the weightlifting, the one like he's trying to lift weights back and forth. And then, whatever that other move is, I don't know what it is. He doesn't even need music at all.

He makes his own music. And it makes you smile, right? You'll love it.

Well, the president. revealed a secret to the lawmakers. He says that the First Lady actually does not like his dance moves. And he you got to listen to this. She said, you know, she's a very classy person, right?

She said, it's so unprecedented. I said, but I did become president.

Somebody she hates when I dance. I said, everybody wants me to dance. Darling, it's not presidential. Shackley said. Could you imagine FDR dancing?

She said that to me. And I said There's a long history that perhaps She doesn't know. Because he was an elegant fellow. Even as a Democrat, right? He was.

The attack by Japan, you know, he was quite elegant, but he wouldn't be doing this. But Nor would too many others. But she says, Darling, please, the weightlifting is terrible. And I have to say this, the dancing they really like. She said they don't like it, they're just being nice to you.

I said, that's not right. The place goes crazy. They're screaming, dance, please. But the weightlifting but no, the girl gets up. Yeah.

And you see, I want to be more, but I have somebody watching. I want to be more effusive. I want a really good one. Once you got something and Drops the thing, walks off the stage crying, her mother's crying, her father's crying. And it goes on.

It's a beautiful thing. FDR. I guess you can dance in a wheelchair. But um anywho I'm just curious, ladies and gentlemen, is this true? Are you just being polite or do you really like the president's dance moves?

I'm in the I Love the Dance Moves column. We're going to take calls from you today. Just remember, you may face an IRS audit. I'm just kidding. No, but seriously, the president's dance moves.

Do you like the? I think the guy's got some moves. A pretty fly for a white guy. 901-260-5926. That's 901-260-5926, our telephone number.

So, this audio is from the president of Sacramento State University.

Now, this is a taxpayer-funded scroll. And the president is a black dude. And he doesn't like all of you white people out there. I want you to listen to the president of Sacramento State University. I would not say they're influenced by white people, they're influenced by whiteness.

What does that mean? Whiteness is an ideology, it's a culture, it's a value system. And what we need to do is we need to eliminate that value system. You want to eliminate whiteness? Whiteness, not white people, whiteness.

But how do you eliminate whiteness without eliminating white people? What I want to do is to created an environment that is more collective. That is more value-driven. And I think that that. Flies in absolute oppositeness of white people.

If you're saying that white people are evil? No. They're not evil. Not at all. But then if they're not evil, why would they treat another human being to a point that a man like you would want to eliminate whiteness.

We are all fallen people. I would just recommend if you are a white student at Sacramento State University, you might want to find another place to educate yourself. That's all I can tell you there. This is insane. But again, this is sort of the reality that, and we're not afraid to talk about this issue on this radio program.

I know a lot of people get nervous when you talk about race. Pandu can't talk about that. It's just you know, it's just Aren't you afraid you might get I don't get in trouble? By who? Wh who who would I get in trouble with?

I mean, we've got to talk about these kinds of issues. And the reality is that we live in a nation where, even to this day, and it's going to take some time to get all this worked out of the system, but right now people are judged by the color of their skin. And if you're a white person, well, you are more likely and more prone to be the victim of discrimination in this country. I mean, that's just the cold, hard reality. And we got no problem talking about it here on this radio program.

By the way, Zoron Mamdami's director of tenant housing, that's the person in charge of like the apartments and whatnot in New York City. Uh she is making a lot of headlines. People are going back and researching her history. Her name is Sia Weaver. And she doesn't like white people either, but she also doesn't like homeowners of any persuasion.

And I want you to listen to cut number seven, please. I think the reality is, is that for centuries we've really treated Property as an individualized good and not a collective good. And we are going to trend in transitioning to treating it as. A collective good and towards a model of shared equity will require that we think about it differently. And it will mean that.

Families, especially white families, but some POC families who are homeowners as well. are gonna have a different relationship to property than the one that we currently have. What does that mean? A different relationship with property.

So that means that under a Mamdomi Administration There's going to be the possibility that the city comes in and takes over your property. And that would especially be true if you, for example, own an apartment building and for whatever reason, your tenants are complaining, maybe you don't have hot water, whatever, the city could come in and literally take away your property from you. That's what that's all about. This is a very slippery slope That the city of New York is going through right now and going down. And I'm predicting we're going to have Venezuela-like conditions in the next couple of years.

No doubt about it. All right, let's go to the phone lines here: 901-260-5926, Bruce, Pasadena, Texas, listening to us on the great Patriot Talk 920. Bruce, what do you think about President Trump's dance moves?

Okay guys, I'm gonna give it to you straight. I'm a trained dancer. He's not up to par with his wife. I would love to ask her to dance the shower off. But He feels his music.

And that's all that counts. And he loves his wife.

So, wait a second here.

So, Bruce, you're coming at this from a qualified position because you're going to tell us you're a trained dancer. Brick. All right, so you're a trained dancer, and so Melania Trump, she's a very elegant woman, and you're saying she's got great dance moves. I think she she has enormous potential. And she could really be shown off.

And I don't need to do it. I'll come trained on him. I'm not sure the President would would would allow you to have that. I'm not sure the President would be too keen on that. That's asking for a lot, but you know.

as a voter out here in the world who who's relatively middle of the road, I just got that perception a long time ago. I said, you know, I'd love to ask her to dance. Got these little low-key really show that woman off. And that's a leader's job, by the way, is to show off. the l the l the lady he's leading.

Uh-huh. Yeah, I'm feeling the beat. Are you feeling the beat here, Bruce? Are you feeling it? Uh Not quite.

Oh, come on, Bruce. Just go to it. Come on, Bruce, Empasadina. You're feeling it. Tell me you're feeling it, Bruce.

Jump man. Cause you're in a new town. Melania dancing up a star. Oh, are you lifting the weights now, Bruce? Come on, lift the weights.

I've witnessed Yeah. I'm liking this. Bruce, you've got all of Pasadena, Texas dancing with you right now in solidarity. Stay at home. Wow.

I'm loving this. All right, America, let's dance with Bruce as we head off to break here. You gotta do it. You gotta do it for your presidents. Show us your dance moves, America.

901-260-5926. Work it, girls. It's always good to dance a little bit in the middle of the day. Welcome back, everybody. This is the Todd Stearns.

Radio show. By the way, we had a wonderful panel discussion. You know, we've been talking a lot about what's been happening over in Minnesota, among other places. And we had a great panel discussion with our good buddy Michael Wilson from Patriot Talk 920 in Houston. By the way, happy anniversary.

And we're celebrating, or at least helping our friends at Patriot Talk 920 celebrate their big anniversary. And if you are listening to us from Patriot Talk and you get on the air, we're going to hook you up with a copy of Culture Jihad: How to Stop the Left from Killing America. And you'll be able to give them a big shout out on the air: 901-260-5926. That's 901-260-5926. But again, back to this panel discussion: Michael Wilson and our good buddy Aaron Flint, who is a talk radio host there in the Midwest as well.

Let's take a listen, Aaron. Your reaction to Zoron Mandami.

Well, it's as laughable as this staged protest by the Democrat Socialists back here in Missoula, Montana. I mean, what, just a month ago, they had their phony no kings protests, and here they are wanting their dictatorial narco-terrorist king back in power in Venezuela. I mean, this is just insane. But this isn't just a commi-mandani problem in New York City. We've had trende Aragua narco-terrorist thugs busted here in Montana.

They've been targeting Native Americans on our Indian reservations in particular.

So this is fundamentally an America-first approach. And I'll tell you what, Montanans are incredibly grateful for President Trump, Secretary of War Hag Seth, and these incredibly badass operators who went in there and pulled off this incredible operation. By the way, Michael, another big story out of New York State, the governor, Kathy Hochul, ordering a number of landmarks across the state to be illuminated in green in honor of Muslim American Heritage Month. This included what is known as Freedom Tower, the old One World Trade Center. What sort of message do you think this is sending to the rest of the country?

Well, Todd, the intended message is supposed to be that we're supposed to honor the heritage of Muslim Americans. Those are two oppositional ideologies. Muslim and America, I don't even believe they can go together.

So the message it's trying to say is: hey, our belief here in America is that Muslims are as American as you and I, that America is fundamentally just a melting pot mixing up of religions, and there's nothing that differentiates America from any other, say, Arabian country. But the message that I take away from that is that we are in a very large battle for the heart and soul of America, the heart and soul of our culture, one that the people we're disagreeing with want radical Islam to rule this country, where some of us actually prefer to go back to what the founders envisioned for this nation, which was to have a group of people that actually believed in similar ideologies, running this country in such a way that things like what happened in Venezuela are actually a good thing. Yeah, I'm old enough, guys, to actually remember there was a raging debate at the time on whether or not they would allow a mosque to be even built right across from ground zero at the time. It was a huge, huge, huge controversy. We got to move on, though.

Aaron, this is Mandami talking about what New York City is going to be like moving forward. Let's listen to this. We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism. To those who insist that the era of big government is over, Hear me when I say this. No longer will City Hall hesitate to use its power to improve New Yorkers' lives.

All right, there you go. This is right out of the Marxist playbook. What say you? I'll tell you what, the best memes out on the internet over the past few days are this rugged individualism versus the warmth of collectivism. I think one of my favorites was there was this lone protester in Iran sitting on the street in front of all the terrorist Tehranian regimes, thugs out there.

That is the rugged individualist standing up to the warmth of collectivism, which is the socialist communist regimes, including the terrorists in Tehran. And, you know, one of the best tweets that I saw or posts on X over the weekend came from our own U.S. Senator Tim Sheehy, a Navy SEAL veteran. And he made a point. You know, Joe Biden, he was basically lecturing Trump, you know, how Biden was saying he's going to stand up to Maduro, et cetera.

And Tim Sheehy said that aged about as well as Joe Biden, frankly. Yeah, no doubt about that.

Okay, guys, here's Mandami's tenant director. Her name is Sia Weaver. She weighed in on property ownership. Let's take a listen to this. I think the reality is that for centuries we've really treated Property as an individualized good and not a collective good.

And we are going to trend and transitioning to treating it as. A collective good and towards a model of shared equity will require that we think about it differently. And it will mean that. Families, especially white families, but some POT families who are homeowners as well. are gonna have a different relationship to property than than than the one that we currently have.

Okay, and to clarify, this was a comment she posted in 2019. We are getting word now that she's deleting a lot of these posts on X. Michael, what advice would you have for white property owners or any property owners? in New York City. Move.

My number one piece of advice: move. Get as far away from there as possible. Find somewhere else to go. Here's the reality. I mean, let's be, I'm going to be brutally honest.

This is such an effeminate perspective on things. I've said before, communism in general, as an ideology, is from each according to their abilities to each according to their needs. And that works on small scales, right? Like where mothers are in homes, right? Fathers provide, the kids are really their little communists.

They don't provide really anything to the home in terms of prosperity or any of that sort of production, but they need things, right? And so we understand that that works on a very small scale. When you blow that up to be a nationwide or a statewide or even a citywide perspective, it fails every single time. It fails when the people are good. It fails, especially when the people are bad.

And when you're looking at New York City and you're looking at this idea of collectivism is the public good, it only works in some made-up utopian where we're all one little tiny family in a home, as opposed to the way that the city is actually supposed to be run for the benefit of everyone, but in a way that actually works. Yeah, and that's it, ladies and gentlemen. You got to get out of there. If you live in New York City and you are a property owner, sell your property and get the heck out of there while you still can. All right, we're going to be taking your calls on this.

And again, this is a situation where you had millions of illegals and millions of migrants moving into New York City. That's how Zoron Mamdami got elected. By the immigrants, right?

So you're about to lose everything you've got. If you're a law-abiding American citizen, you're a homeowner, you're a property owner in New York City, and by the way, that's a big deal. That means your property is worth millions of dollars, even in the bad parts of town. You've got a lot of money at stake. You got to get out of there while you can.

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We'll be right back. Todd, you need to keep my name out of this, but uh No, I don't like the way he dances. He dances like Urkel. I figure I'd just throw that out there. Again, you don't know who I am.

You have a wonderful day. I hope you had a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. to you and your staff and your family. Bye. All right, that was not Mark from the villages, everybody.

Did he say the president dances like Urkel? Come on, Mark from the villages. Jeez, hello. Good to have you back with us, ladies and gentlemen. And if you missed that segment, President Trump says the first lady doesn't like his dance moves and says you guys are just humoring him.

That you're really. No, I find great joy. I get great joy watching the President of the United States dance. All right. Let's go to the phone lines here.

As promised, 901-260-5926. First to Barry in Fort Myers, Florida. Barry, I know you want to talk about what's happening in New York. What's going on?

Well, in New York, I mean what they're doing, I mean what the the They want to do with the socialism is take away people's property. It's enough that they just. taxing people when they buy property. which I think is outrageous to begin with. because you've already paid taxes on the money that you bought the property with.

But to take to steal your property, we got a Fourth Amendment that says you're not supposed to be doing that. And obviously, communists I don't know if they're going to you know, stand up with the American uh Constitution. But all I know is this could lead to very serious consequences. I mean, people picking up guns. You know, they're basically stealing.

They're coming in with a gun, like a mafia, and stealing your property. They're just taking it. And in that case, Americans don't like that. Americans typically will fight back. They'll say, no, I'll get a gun too, and you're not going to take my property.

And I'm going to organize with all my friends that have property. And we're going to get a little militia here. And we're not going to allow this to happen. And I think that's the right thing to do, and I think that's the American thing to do, is to stop the government. From stealing from you and from overpushing their power.

Barry, I have a question for you. Are you from New York City by any chance? Yes, I'm born in Brooklyn, raised in New York, and I mean, so I know New York. And that this is outrageous. This is totally outrageous.

And I have a Brooklyn, my attitude is a Brooklyn attitude. We don't take crap. We don't we just don't do that. You just can't go against the Constitution and just steal my property. That's unacceptable.

And people are going to stand up and say no. And they're going to be right.

So many Americans died. in wars to protect our freedoms and to protect our right to have our home as our castle. And that is going totally against the American way. You know something? I'll tell you something.

I grew up in a democratic household. And when I got into high school, I was a socialist. I believed in socialism the whole bit. When I got out of high school, and I was 17 years old. I got out of high school.

I was a Goldwater conservative. It tells you how far back this went. And I'm very old right now. I'm a very old guy. Um Everything that I realized the problems with socialism turned out.

I'm eighty two.

So it turned out to be I was one hundred percent right Socialism failed every place. It it's just so people do so much more when it's for themselves than they do in a in a commun you know, in a commune type thing.

So it's totally wrong to begin with. I think New Yorkers enough to have voted for this guy. I think they're ignorant. They're just ignorant, period.

Well, let me jump in here for a second, Barry, because I lived 15 years in Brooklyn over in the Park Slope area, which is it was a great area. But one of the things I noticed about New York proper, and not just in Brooklyn, but people sort of balkanize, right? You live among your own, which is why they have places like Chinatown. And they have, for example, you know, Spanish Harlem and Harlem, for example.

So everybody kind of congregates.

So even within the Orthodox Jewish communities over in the Williamsburg area, I I could actually see what you what you predicted happening, where people would form these little community militias to to fight back against Zoron Mamdami here. Right. Right. And and uh I hate to see that. I I mean that'd be the worst thing.

And I can't imagine allowing the government to go that far.

So you have to nip it in the butt. Otherwise, it'll just grow bigger. More will happen. More dictatorship. It's got to be stopped right up front.

And Mandami, I got to tell you something. This is a dangerous man. First of all, he's a Muslim. He's looking really to have uh you know mu you know They have religion all over the country. And they have no tolerance for anything.

Their religion is causes wars, causes very bad things all over the world. Wherever the Muslims are, there's always conflict and fighting. Always has been, always will be, because they only have one way That one way it goes, it's their way or the highway. That's it. They kill you if you don't go along with what.

they want you to do. And we in America, we're very different. We are open to different ideas and different people and and and we have we're very tolerant to everything.

So it's a totally different thing.

So that's where he's really coming from. Besides socialism, I think that's his a way to get in. You know, Barry, back in my neighborhood, we look we had a pretty safe neighborhood. You want to know why we had a safe neighborhood? Right at the corner, I lived in one of the walk-ups, the Brownstone walk-ups.

Right around the corner from my apartment, they had the Italian Friends Club. They kept things pretty common in the neighborhood. That's right. Oh, my goodness. Barry, I want you to give us a call back.

We've got other folks stacked up here wanting to weigh in, but I like the way you think, and I love your history of New York. It's a beautiful city, and I hate what's about to happen to it, but it's going to have to happen. And I think people are going to have to see for themselves that socialism fails wherever, wherever it is in America or really around the world, as we saw in Venezuela. Let's go to John in Bowling Green, Kentucky. John, what say you?

Hey there, how are you doing, Mr. Steins? Listen, that gentleman that was born and raised in Brooklyn, and you lived in New York itself. for fifteen years. Thank God you came back home where you belong.

Remember the old saying, you can vote in socialism, but you're going to have to shoot your way out? That's exactly what's happening in Venezuela. That's exactly what your caller is stating. And Zoran Mamdami is using this facade to bring in. Islamic and Sharia law.

If you don't accept it, he's going to do it at a point of the sword. You know, people are just saying, oh, it's not going to happen. But Todd, I would just love you to have talked to a Venezuelan from From one of the states that saw what socialism happened, some lady from North Korea who escaped there and talked about communism and socialism. You even have Islam Muslims that left that faith, that religion, because they saw what it was. But honestly, Todd, remember, New York was one of the first states or colonies that took up arms against an oppressive regime under King George.

It's just really sad that this is we are witnessing it happening again, and it is the ignorance. And I'm sure your caller from New York Brooklyn, sorry, I don't want to say New York, Brooklyn, Will say and possibly agree with me, it is the ignorance of the voters of New York that put this man in power. And a lot of the Jewish people voted for this man, they're going to end up. regretting it. And my concern is besides shooting your way out, we're going to start seeing pogroms.

Great show, Todd. Love you, brother, and God bless you. All right. Well, John, thank you for that. And no, look, it's a tough situation in New York right now, and a lot of the vote totals came from new immigrants.

That's the problem. We have a legal immigration problem and an illegal immigration problem. And both of them played a major impact in what happened in New York City. But you're right. Part of this is you got to get out and you got to go vote.

The other part of it is Republicans played stupid. They didn't really have a legitimate candidate. And I think there was really no true alternative. to Zoron Mamdami. And you know, Cuovo killed everybody's grandmas.

And you couldn't trust the guy with the intern.

So, what are you going to do there? But again, going back to the fifth and fourteenth amendments, ladies and gentlemen, of our great constitution. And it It protects Your private property. The government cannot just arbitrarily seize your private property. We're going to see how this plays out.

It's going to get ugly, but I can tell you this: you've got a lot of eyeballs on New York City, and every single move this guy makes. We're going to be all over it because you need to see this in real time. Oh, by the way, speaking of that. Yesterday, Zoram Mamdami came out and said that he had been briefed by the President about all you know. And at first we thought, wait, wait, wait, wait, hold on a second.

This guy doesn't have that level of security clearance.

So he was asked about it yesterday, cut number four. And has anyone from a federal agency reached out to you or members of your team to begin the betting to get federal security clearance? That briefing, yes, was conducted by my team, and the question of federal security clearance is one that's ongoing.

So do you have it right now? No, not as yet. No, so he lied.

So here's what happened. Mr. Mayor, we're watching the President's Twitter feed right now, and here's what the President. That's how it all happened. This guy is, it's a joke.

It's a complete joke, this guy, Zora M. Dabi. Oh, did you also hear yesterday? About the World Cup.

So, the mayor, Zoron Mamdami, I call him Zamdami. Comrade Zoron. was asked about ticket prices to the World Cup. And he says that he's going to do whatever he can to make the tickets affordable. That what?

As far as I know, there aren't there are not even any World Cup Games being played in New York City. This is the headline from CBS News. No, no, of all the problems in New York City, this is the number one issue for Comrade Zoron, according to CBS News. New York City Mayor Zorod Mamdami vows to appoint a World Cup Czar. to address ticket prices.

So the mayor Is going to demand that the World Cup provide tickets. For poor people. What right does he? He has absolutely no authority to do anything like that. Ladies and gentlemen, this is unbelievable.

And he's upset the mayor's upset because he said only rich people Will be able to go and see the games. According to one man Domi here, and you can take this with a grain of salt, he says, the cheapest ticket of the World Cup final. Is $4,000. That's five times more expensive. than it was to go to the final in Qatar.

Oh, really? How did you how did you know that, mister Mayer? Just wondering, maybe he and Tucker went. I don't know. Gotta take a break.

We'll be right back. Yeah. May I just tell you one of the exciting things that's happening thanks to President Trump. It is now safe to come to Memphis, Tennessee. I'm just going to say this, and I'm probably going to get some blowback from you folks.

I don't know, in Houston. And Wichita And Portland, Maine. Portland Oregon. I get it. But we've got the coolest.

Freakiest. City in America. I mean, we've got everything here.

So, anyway, I was getting some text messaging. I was doing some text catching up on text over the break there. And some people are coming to town. And they're like, Todd, we're coming to town for the weekend. We're doing a whole Memphis thing.

What do we need to see? And Dylan, I'm like jotting down, like, well, you got to go to Graceland. You know, you got to do that whole experience. It is so fun. And I actually recommended Memphis Zoo Memphis Zoo.

That's a good one. Yeah. It's one of the top zoos in America. And we are experiencing not cold weather right now. It's like seven.

You want to be outside? That's great. Oh, it's great weather. I recommended Stacks Museum over in Soulsville. I just went there for the first time.

Yeah. What did you think about the Cadillac, Isaac Hayes? Oh, man, that was cool. Isn't that insane? I probably spent the most time just staring at that thing because it just spins around in a circle and you just, yeah, that's it.

Oh, it's insane. And of course, K-Wham, which is the radio station that your cousin owns, we have a history with Stacks, and we also have a history with Sun Records, which is where, of course, Elvis, you know, cut his, what is it, first album, I think, or first record? Yeah, yeah. One of the first. One of the first.

Yeah. So all sorts of great history there. Rhythm and blues, soul. It's just, it's a place to go. Yeah.

What about Beal Street? Is it worth going to Beale and going to the clubs or anything? You know, I haven't been down to Bill Street in a minute. I did go to a Grizzlies game, so that's a good recommendation. Grizzlies games are fun and safer to go to.

But Bill Street, as far as I know, it seems a lot better, safer. A lot more people have been going out recently. I was checking in our good buddy Jim Lesapio, and Jim owns a lot of the clubs there on Beale. Just a super great guy and great patriot. And he's the guy that fed all the the the troops.

You know, we fed all the agents a couple of weeks back. And he was like, I said, Jim, we've got to feed a thousand twelve hundred people in three days. He goes, piece of cake. Is that all? No problem.

No problem. But anyway, he's got some great clubs, and we've been hearing nothing but great things from all the restaurant owners and the clubs down on Beale. But I just love that people are, and I've had multiple folks reach out and say, We're coming to town. Where do we need to go? Where's the best barbecue?

And that's a tough question. Yeah. But there is a right answer. And it is Central BBQ. It is Central BBQ.

Yes, it is. Central Barbecue. Thank you, Dylan. Rendezvous is fun. It's good.

Go there for hors d'oeuvres. And it's Memphis style. Yeah. And then go get a meaty rib over at Central BBQ. I'm just saying.

I'm just saying. Best of both worlds. Exactly.

Well, that's exactly right. Also, you've got to go to the Bass Pro shop, which is the largest freestanding elevator in North America. Right there in the pyramid. And which used to be called the Tomb of Doom. Did you know that?

I did not know that. The Tomb of Doom. That makes sense. And of course, you know, I mean, it's look, it's a great river town, so there's just a lot of stuff for you to do. Wander around and just visit Memphis.

And I know a lot of our Memphis listeners may have some ideas, recommendations for folks that are coming to our city. I'm just glad people are coming here. Here's one of the things you don't have to worry about: all of the drunk bridesmaids on those bicycle things puking their guts out all over. That's Nashville. Yeah, we have.

We have vastly avoided that in Memphis, Tennessee. Thank the good Lord. It's actually really chill downtown, and there's a lot of live music if you're into that.

So, yeah, and it's authentic too. It's like real music. Oh, it's real. And these musicians have been here for years. This is their life.

So, it's the real deal. And that's what I love about Memphis. It's raw, it's real. What you see is what you get. There's no pretense here.

If you want the glitz and the glamour, go to Nash Vegas. Yeah. That's what I've tried to say. It's fake. Fake over there.

Exactly.

So, anyway, I had a whole segment planned, but I was so busy trying to text, and I'm like, th they're like, we're only here for a weekend. And I'm just like, just. Oh, you got to go to the Shelby Farms. We got our bison herd. Yes, no one ever thought bikes are out there, and it's true.

It's true. And we have the dunks at the Peabody Hotel. Oh, yeah, you got to go to the Peabody.

So many things. You could just. You just get one in your head and then something else comes up. Oh, you got to do this too.

So anyway, and by the way, and if any of you do come to Memphis, well, you got to get a tour of the Todd Stern Show and all of our great facilities.

So we're having a good time over here, and it's just amazing. It's amazing that in just under two months, President Trump was able to drop the crime rate by 70% in one of the most violent cities in America. And I will say this, ladies and gentlemen. If he can do it for Memphis, he can do it for any other city. You folks in Charlotte, North Carolina, I know you guys are going through it right now, but if you let the president just unleash the president, he's going to get all this fixed up.

All right, got us scooted out of here. Been a great show. We'll see you tonight, 5 o'clock Eastern on Newsmax. And then tomorrow, we will see you right back here on the radio, noon o'clock Eastern, ladies and gentlemen. Get out there and be safe, everybody.