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Well, hello, everybody. Welcome to the Todd Stearns Radio Program. Such an honor. To have you with us as we broadcast on 130 radio stations, border to border, coast to coast, across the fruit and plain.

So, look, a couple of things as we got started here today. I will say that on Friday's show, We had a lot of breaking news happening. Of course, the Senate bolting for the doors in the wee hours of the morning, 2 a.m. They effectively sabotaged and killed President Trump's America First agenda. And we covered that in great detail.

We had Congressman John Rose from Tennessee on the program. Yeah. Point blank. Uh asked the congressman, is it time for new leadership? Does Jon Thu need to go?

And And Congressman Rose, to his credit, actually rose to the occasion and said, yes, absolutely. Jon Thorne's got to go. And that, ladies and gentlemen, marked a viral moment in the program's history. We can tell you that other lawmakers are now coming out on the house side of the The Congress and saying that John Thune's got to go.

However, Not a single Not a single Republican in the US Senate has made such a pronouncement. Not a one. And I know you've got Senator Mike Lee out there, and Senator Lee is like he's we've got to nuke the filibuster, we've got to get this through. But Mike Lee is just all talk. He's not actually doing anything.

None of them are.

So, therefore, ladies and gentlemen, I'm going to take a rather controversial position here. It's not Jon Thune, it's all of them. It's every single Republican in the Senate right now. They're the ones that are standing in the way of President Trump's agenda. And there's nothing wrong with the president's agenda, even with Iran, and I'll get to that in just a moment.

But let me just say that we need to be working the phones all this week, and you need to be calling your senators and you need to be calling your members of the House, and you need to tell them that Thunes got to go.

So President Trump over the weekend said, well, you know, it's we've got to start exposing the Republican senator standing in the way of ending the filibuster. It's all of them. It's all of them, mister President. I hate to break it to you, sir, but That's every single sitting Republican senator. They're the ones who put Jon Thune in charge.

Now, if you remember, I begged and pleaded. And even cajoled. And it's not every day that Todd Stearns cajoles, but I cajoled the Republicans. Whatever you do, don't pick Jon Thune. He's a rhino.

And they did not listen to my cajoling. But so far, and hear me on this, so far, not a single person. In the Senate has made an effort to remove John Thune from power. Therefore, Therefore, we have to assume or surmise as a result of that. That they actually Quietly support Jon Thud, or maybe he's got photos on all of them doing things with barnyard animals.

I don't know. I do not know. But for whatever reason, the Senate Republicans are going along with Jon Thune here. And don't get me wrong, Mike Lee, Ted Cruz, all of they all talk a big game on X and on Facebook and Instagram. But when it comes to actually doing something, they haven't done anything about it.

Not not a just not a thing.

So I wrote about this over the weekend, and I don't know what it is about my Twitter feed lately, but it's getting a little bit of we're getting we're getting a lot of traction. We have millions of people weighing in over the weekend on some of the issues. that I brought to the table. And here's where I think we're at with all of this. I've had a chance to sit back over the weekend and analyze it.

By the way, busted brackets now. There's really no reason to go on. Cool. I'm talking about with March madness. That was rough.

The only great joy was Yukon. Boy, did they just stick it to well, anyway, I digress.

So I'm sitting there and I'm watching the games and I'm jotting down some notes, doing some show prep. And there's been a lot of turmoil. And it's all unnecessary. And this is why, look, I am very hopeful for the midterms, provided we get our act together. But if we keep going down this path, ladies and gentlemen, we are going to get our butts handed to us.

I mean, there's really no way around that. But here's where I think we're at with all of this, and I am curious to hear your thoughts. And the question is: do you stand with President Trump or do you stand with the Senate Republicans? Because they're not going to nuke the filibuster, but it's even worse than that. They are not going into recess.

They're gone for two weeks, two week vacation. They're gone. They're not coming back. And they're not going into recess. You say, Todd, why is that important?

Because if they were going into recess, as they normally traditionally do, President Trump would be able to make recess appointments. But Jon Thune is not even allowing President Trump to do that. Do you understand right now that Jon Thun is the the most powerful man in Washington DC? But I don't think that a lot of conservatives. really understand the depth of hatred that the Establishment Republicans have for all of you grassroots folks.

I just don't think I don't think that we grasp that just yet. And Jon Thune is a very powerful man. He has the power, as we have seen and he has illustrated, to slow down and stop the president's platform. That's it. And by the way, the R and C Maybe you see this differently.

I don't know what those people are doing. but they've shown very little interest in winning the midterms. You've got these and the fighting. The finding is even at the state and the local GOP level, we are getting reports that good and decent grassroots conservatives are being removed from positions simply because they've criticized the Republican Party. And they're removing America first voters from leadership positions.

So it's all there's there's a common denominator in all of this. And you have to go back to 2024 when the evangelical Christians, the Tony Perkins of the Republican Party, were stripped of their power base. during the platform debates. And then you've got the What's happening in the the the the world of conservative punditry. And that would include the podcasters and the YouTubers and all of these TPUSA stuff, which is just.

We're going to have to spend an entire show talking about TPUSA, but all of these things are. Merging together. And it's going to be It's going to be a come to Jesus moment for the party. Because look, these conservative pundits are they're fake. And I will say this, I have seen the reports.

A lot of the Democrats now that are on CNN are coming out and saying, oh, well, you know, that's Scott Jennings. When he's not on the air, he's back in the green room. He's talking trash about Trump.

Well, he's not the only one. I've been in those green rooms. I know exactly. Look. But that's it's not my job to rat these people out.

You've just got to do your homework. And trust me, it's all going to come out in the wash. It's all going to come out in the wash.

Now I want you to think about something. Just think about this. There have been people in In religious circles, people in politics, and they haven't changed their opinion one iota. They've got their foundational beliefs, and that's how they live their lives. And I'm talking about people like Franklin Graham, Mike Huckabee, and Robert Jeffress, and who's Mark Levant.

These are guys. They have not changed their positions one iota. But now all of a sudden you've got these newcomers like the Tucker Carlsons and the Megan Kellys, who is consumed right now with the size of Mark Levin's manhood. I don't know why. I don't care.

And I know I'm not even going to go there today. But I'm just telling you that all of these Johnny come lately's are now all of a sudden saying that you cannot trust people like Mike Huckabee, or Franklin Graham, or John Hagee, or Robert Jefferson, or Mark Levin. And the list goes on and on. As a matter of fact, They have they've called me out. Starnes is an agent of Israel.

No, I'm not an agent of Israel. I'm an American citizen. And I do support the nation of Israel. My position has never changed.

So, do you see what's happening? These people are infiltrating, and they have infiltrated our ranks. And now they are trying to literally destroy the party from within. And a lot of that is going to be up to you. Who do you trust?

Who do you believe? Who do you follow? I hope you follow Almighty God. And I do hope that the Lord is guiding your path in everything you do. And yes, that does include politics.

Because your faith should flavor everything that you do. And I just believe there is a lot of deception, and there is a lot of. Demonic activity going on in American politics right now. There's really no other way to describe it. And unfortunately, a lot of young people are getting caught up in all of this.

The polling data is out there. I mean, when you look at. When you look at what happened at CPAC, Very, very small crowds, not much enthusiasm, and I heard from five or six people who were there and gave me first hand reports. They said there were more foreign nationals at CPAC than there were Americans, and it was just, it was dull. It was boring.

There's no excitement. There's no energy. And there are probably several reasons for that. I mean, location being one of them, it's hard for people to get to Dallas, Texas. A lot of people didn't want to wait at a TSA line for three to four hours.

I get that. But when you put it all together, you put all the puzzle pieces together, when you look at the elections that were held last week or week before last in Florida, when you see the numbers of people, when you look at, yes, even the polling data. You realize people are getting a little sick and tired of the Republicans promising but never delivering.

So my recommendation is That President Trump needs to invoke his rights under the U.S. Constitution and call an emergency session of Congress. Nuke the filibuster, get it done so we can get the president's agenda complete. Because understand this. If we require a voter ID at the ballot box.

Ladies and gentlemen, we are We're going to do away with about 90% of the fraud in our elections. Oh, by the way, Florida.

Well, we'll get to that story. Remind me to tell Dylan, remind me to tell folks about Florida. But I'm telling you, Democrats are going to keep stealing elections unless Republicans stand up and stop it. And that's what the Save America Act is all about. All right.

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Also rumblings over the weekend. That military troops are being deployed to the Middle East. And there are growing concerns. that we may end up having boots on the ground after all. in Iran.

Now what that's going to look like, well we we don't know. But that's The headline here from the Washington Post: Pentagon prepares for weeks of ground operations in Iran. We're hearing bits and pieces of Military service members telling their families that they've got to get their affairs in order because they're going to be shipping out.

Now, look, I have a very different opinion about this than a lot of other folks in the media. Personally, as a journalist, I'm very inquisitive by nature, so I want to know every single detail. But you know what? We cannot, and nor should we get every single detail because we don't want to give the enemy any sort of information, and we don't want to give them any sort of advantage by sharing whatever information might be coming out of the Pentagon. But again, we're talking now about thousands of American soldiers and Marines arriving in the Middle East.

And many people are saying this could be a dangerous phase. Here's the deal. If we're sending in thousands of military personnel, This is not going to be a four or five week operation. This is something that could go on for a little bit of time.

So the question is, ladies and gentlemen. And again, I don't think we're looking at a full-scale invasion here. I think you're going to see a mixture of things, special ops for. uh infantry troops. But again, This is going to be This will be a step too far for I suspect a lot of folks, and so I am curious about our audience.

And ladies and gentlemen, where do you stand on this? Do you support Putting boots on the ground in Iran.

Now over the weekend at SEPAC, there was a massive, massive contingent of Persians. As a matter of fact, the son of the former Shah of Iran brought down the house with his remarks. And I think that's all well and good, but here's my question. Why is he here, and why is he not overseas organizing some sort of a force to take back their country? The one thing I do get sick and tired of is the countries that are not willing to put their own people's lives on the line.

Instead, they expect for us to put our people's lives on the line.

So, if the Iranians and all of the Iranian Americans want freedom, then they're going to have to fight for it. I don't mind. Look, if we're going to fight alongside, okay, but. This notion that we're just going to get out there and fight somebody's fight, and they're going to sit back in Kiev and sip, I don't know, apple teenies? Yeah, those days are over.

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In the last segment, I told you that it's so vitally important to be good stewards of where you are getting your news, where you're getting your information. And that's why you need to be checking out places like, for example, Torch, which is just an incredible new streaming subscription network, great company that's literally pushing the limits of media and technology and education and just doing a phenomenal job, created the founder, the Great Glenn back, who I know many of you listen to his great morning, his morning radio show. And Glenn is working overtime. He's hanging out with us today, noon to three. Glenn, it's good to have you on the radio.

It's good to talk to you, Todd. How are you? You know, I'm doing well, and we're having a good time doing radio. I loved having you on the T V show, but I said we got to get him back, you know, so we can at least have a little bit longer form conversation. Sure, sure, sure, sure.

Oh, it's the makeup and the hair, and you got to wear clothes. Oh, my God. Glenn, we had you on Newsmax to talk about this incredible special exposing the Islamist blueprint for conquering the West. And this has been on the minds of a lot of our listeners. What are they going to find with this great special you guys have?

So it's really important. I mean, if you happen to watch me back in the day with Fox, when I had the chalkboard out, one of the things I did for about a year, every day I hit this chalkboard, The anarchists, the communists, the socialists will work hand in hand with the Islamists. to destabilize the Middle East, Europe, and it'll eventually spread here to the United States, and it will their goal is to bring down the West. And I got so much heat for it. Everybody said that's just not possible.

They won't work together.

Well, they didn't know history. And unfortunately, I didn't know history at the time either. It is now called that chalkboard is now known as the Red-Green Alliance, and you're seeing it in places like the UK and Europe. If Europe is even salvageable anymore. I don't know.

But the same blueprint is here in America, and in their own words. Um they believe that the United States is T the success. They have to collapse the United States.

So you have this red-green alliance, you have these people who are communist and Marxist, and they want to collapse it for some reason, you know, for a utopian world, but the Islamists want to collapse it for a caliphate, a global caliphate. And the thing, Todd, that people don't understand is You would think that the religious have nothing in common with the socialist, but they do. The enemy of my enemy is my friend. And this is exactly how they took over Iran back in 1979. And if you don't know history, Let me help you.

Um back in nineteen seventy nine um The Ayatollah wanted to come back in power and they wanted an Islamic State.

Now, the Marxists didn't want an Islamic State, they wanted a revolution. And so they got together and said, hey, look, you guys want revolution, we want revolution. Um you guys organa organize all the religious people and all the mosques, and we'll organize all of the colleges and universities and the young people. we'll get all the schools. And so they did, and they worked together famously and really well.

They overthrew the Shah of Iran in nineteen seventy nine. But as I said on that when I was talking about the chalkboard, because people kept saying they have nothing in common, you're right. They have revolution in common. They have the destruction of the West in common. And once they accomplish that, they'll do exactly what they did in Iran in nineteen eighty, and that was round up all the Marxists and kill them all or imprison them all.

They tortured and killed thousands of Marxists afterwards. Because you'd Always bet, always bet on the people who have religious fervor. The people who actually believe in something and are willing to die for it because they believe God is telling them. That is exactly what's happening right now through the Muslim Brotherhood, through Iran and the Shia Twelvers. It's it's They're telling us, they're telling us, they're showing us what the future is, and we refuse to believe them.

Glenn, we got an email just this morning from one of our listeners in Memphis on KWAM. Her name is Laura Liu, and I wanted to save this for you because I think this is a big concern that people have. She says, I'm writing because I have a major concern about the number of Islamic centers and schools cropping up in Memphis. I live in Cordova, a suburb, and it seems we're getting inundated with them. Todd, I have grandchildren, and I have grandchildren, and this is something that I will fight for them.

I will not win because I'm fighting them alone. No one in Memphis cares anything about this deluge. Is this an anomaly what this woman's writing about here? No, this is happening. No, this is happening.

What you're seeing in Europe, where they have almost won. If Europe doesn't wake up soon, they're not going to be able to pull themselves out of it. This is a conquest. In the special, I show that um you know there's two ways to go about revolution. One is a bloody revolution.

Bombs, guns, You know, and that that kills a lot of people, it wakes up a lot of people, it forces people to take a side. We know that this is true because communists back around the turn of the century before communism was really discredited Communism started to be a really cool idea.

So did authoritarianism.

So did Mussolini and Hitler at the very beginning were in Time magazine as very popular guys. with some Americans. The Soviet revolution was a good thing, according to Woodrow Wilson. He thought, finally, we have partners we can work with. They saw this this this um This authoritarianism as a way to fix all of the problems that we would have here in the country.

It was a new scientific way. The problem with it was, is it required bloody revolution. And so the progressives, the reason why they're called progressives, is they are progressing toward the goal of total control This is early nineteenth the nineteenth century stuff, you know, early twentieth century stuff. Um they're progressing towards uh the goal of a of a managed state but they want to do it without any kind of revolution.

So is this red-green alliance, the green, the Muslims, have learned from that. You fly build you fly airplanes into buildings and everybody wakes up. And so you all of a sudden you have the Department of Homeland Security and you have a war and everybody is on alert.

Well, that's not good if you're trying to take over a country.

So what do you do? You do it progressively, one step at a time, and you don't draw attention to yourself Until it's too late. Again, that's what they've done in Europe and that's what they're doing here.

So when you're seeing all of these Islamic centers, back in the nineteen nineties, and again, we talk about it on the special at Glenbeck. com slash torch, We talk about it in the way we show you the actual documents. We show you in their own words. We show you the history. back in the nineties, Muslims in America who were not extremists reached out in nineties and then early two thousands, and they were begging the United States government to help them because they said the Muslim Brotherhood was coming in with millions and millions of dollars, and they were buying up all of the mosques and all of the Islamic centers, and they were turning them radical.

So they own a good portion of these things, and it's all Subjected now, all the Muslims in America are being 90% of them are being subjected to this radical ideology. that is saying that we are here to take over the United States and collapse the United States because it's immoral, it's wrong, capitalism is wrong, et cetera, et cetera, and we have to have Sharia law. If you're not mistaken, you are awake if you're seeing these things.

Well, yeah. Gosh, about, gosh, 10 years ago, one of my first books, there was a story about Islamic scholars that were being hired to be editors for American school textbooks. And there was a time, and this was happening back when both of us were at Fox News when we'd get these reports from parents saying, oh my God, our kids are being taught Islamic, you know, whatever in the textbooks, and it's all wrong. It's skewing. And that was the plan.

They wanted to poison the minds of American school children. And I think they've been very successful at that. We are, we're so far down the road, and if Americans Don't pay attention in their own state and their own local districts. you're going to get what's happening in Minnesota and Dearborn all over the country. you're going to get what's going to happen to New York all over the country.

That is what it looks like. Slowly but surely, they don't raise any alarms. And before you know it, everything is halal and you have a parallel state living in your country. and you become England. Which didn't let us use any air bases, not because they didn't want us to bomb Iran.

They were afraid of their own people. That is the problem. They're afraid of their own people now that they have let into their country. And you're seeing it in the Alliance in the No Kings rally. Whenever you see the Palestinian movement, you're seeing the red-green alliance.

And there is a coordinated, and again, I show this in the special with glenbeck.com/slash torch. where you can see the outreach that the Iranians have plotted to bring outreach with the North American Native Americans. And I know this sounds crazy. But The left has been in the North in the North American Native American communities for a very, very long time. They're part of this Turtle Island myth.

that America doesn't exist, it's Turtle Island and we took it. The now the Islamists, the Iranian Islamists are now aligning themselves with the Native Americans in North America And they are they're glomming on to this idea that Uh it's Turtle Island, not North America, not America. It is this idea of grievance. They're all getting their grievances together, and they are walking in lock step.

Meanwhile, We are being separated. We're being separated on the war. We're being separated on Israel. We're being separated with our own religions. We're being separated.

We're told which podcasters to hate and which ones to like and which ones are traitors and which ones aren't. We've got to stop. We've got to stop. Evil is separating us now, and God is calling all of his children. to arms.

Everyone, battle stations. The battle is raging. I believe the Lord is coming, maybe in my lifetime. Pay attention. We need everybody working together.

Not separating ourselves. That's evil that's doing that. Glenn, last week we had Michael Yousf, and I am Todd Stearns does not fact-check Glenn Beck, but we had Michael Youssef, who's like, he's an expert in all of this. I said, here's what Glenn Beck just said about the end times. And he said, Glenn Beck is 1,000% right in the idea that we may very well be in the end times.

So, this is something Todd came to me about 2004, I think. I was working with one of my Early researchers. And I remember we were at my house, and I was reading up about Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the president of Iran. And um He had said, Oh Allah, help me hasten the return of the Promised One. I didn't know what a twelver was.

I didn't know what he was talking about. And I said to one of my researchers, I said, would you go do me a favor? Would you compare the Shia twelver eschatology To the Christian eschatology and compare the two. And he said, What are you looking for? And I said, I'm guessing.

that their bad guy is our good guy and our good guy is their bad guy. And he came back like six months later and he said, oh my gosh, Glenn, how did you know? And I said, oh my gosh, is it that? And I'm telling you, Todd, if you look and put the two of them side by side, It is as if the Islamic Eschatology of the people, the Twelvers, the Shia Twelvers in Iran, and also the Muslim Brotherhood. Just slightly different.

If you look at those two side by side with the prophecy in the book of Revelation. It is as if somebody took the book of Revelation and said, let's write a story of the polar opposite. And we'll freak the Christians out. It is the same story in negative. And I firmly believe you are looking at the army of.

the end times. You're looking at the army of Satan when you are looking at These Muslim Islamists that want a global caliphate. and will behead anybody who does not bow to them. It it is a It's enough. For every human on earth that believes in God to go, wait a minute, let me at least do my own homework.

Let me look into this and see because I'm convinced, and you know, people have the apostles said this after Jesus died. I'm not predicting anything. I'm just looking at the sign of the times. And I'm saying those are the conditions, and these may be the people. If they're now or later, They are that's the army of the Antichrist.

And we should all be very, very aware And that's why we can't separate each other. Glenn is taught to stand together. Glenn, let me jump in here. Folks, you've got to go sign up and check out Torch, Glennbeck.com/slash Torch. Glenn Beck.com/slash Torch.

You'll be able to watch this incredible special, The Jihad from Within, exposing the Islamist blueprint for conquering the West and Islamization of the West. But, Glenn, there's so much more that you guys have at the Torch. I've got about 60 seconds. Give our listeners a little taste of what they're going to find over at Torch. we're really trying to focus on education.

So there's a lot of education. There's my show every day, obviously. But with this special in particular, right now, we just posted last week two extra hours of raw unedited interviews with all the experts we talked to. Plus, there's a booklet that we have made. That you can download, print, and send to all members of your family.

It doesn't have my name on it, it doesn't have anything like that, so it's not automatically controversial. And it has all of the original documents, all of the source documents. You can argue with Glenn Beck. But when you have the document either from the federal government or from the Islamist movements outlining everything and what they're doing. How how are you arguing with that?

One last thing, 1999, I'm on WABC in New York, and I said. Osama bin Laden is somebody we need to be concerned about. And everybody went crazy and said he's ridiculous. And I said, I'm telling you. Within 10 years, there will be blood, bodies, and buildings in the streets of Manhattan, and it will have his name on it.

That was in 1999. I am telling you. This is a real concern, and we will lose our country to this effort if we don't wake up right now. All right, Glenn, we got to leave it there, my friend. But we just so appreciative of the great work you're doing.

And this is it's such an important thing that y'all are doing over at Torch. And I'm so excited that you guys launched this. What a great educational tool. Thank you so much. I can't thank you enough for getting the word out.

All right.

Glenn Beck, everybody, here on the Todd Stern Show. And I want you to head over there, check out this incredibly important documentary. We've got to start educating ourselves. Again, this is something that our schools are not going to do. And unfortunately, many churches are not going to do either.

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Scott, thank you for doing that. And what is on your mind today? Yeah, Todd. I just wanted to say that one of the reasons the Republican Party has fallen apart at the themes is because. of what happened years ago when The country didn't elect Pat Buchanan.

Instead instead of putting that George Bush in as president. Buchanan was the political prophet of our time. He predicted everything that we're seeing today. He predicted back in the day when he was on crossfire. When he did the presidential debates, he should have been elected president.

And even the Republican Party and conservative talk show hosts have turned their back on Buchanan. And to me, he's like a political giant amongst little Fuchians. And it's just I mean The party is reaping what it sowed when they didn't elect Pat Buchanan. And that's what's going on. Scott, I'm a huge admirer of Pat Buchanan.

And back when I was at Fox, he was sort of slowing down, not doing as many interviews, but had the opportunity to interview him a couple of times. And, of course, his sister, Bae Buchanan, who is a great patriot as well. Those books he wrote, going all the way back to what, 2001, where The Right Went Wrong, The Death of the West, Suicide of a Superpower, those books. Scott, if you go back and read those books, Pat Buchanan was like a modern-day prophet, right? I mean, he predicted every single thing that is happening in our country right now.

Pat Buchanan predicted it. He was. He was, to me, he should have been president of the United States. I remember the debates. Between him and George W.

Bush, he said that Buchanan just tore him a new one. And then Bush sat there with that smirk on his face and you know, he needed to fix his end. He was going to be president. And now, I don't want to hear nothing from Republicans. Anybody that voted for George W.

Bush, you got it. This is what this is. The devil has come home, and you're going to eat this one. And that's just they should have voted for Buchanan. I voted for Buchanan.

And everybody voted for Bush, this is what you get. But keep in mind, here, Scott, just think about this for a moment. Of course, that was back when you did not have.

Social media, you know, you didn't have everybody on the internet, you didn't have Facebook, you had none of that. If Pat Buchanan, let's just say if social media had been around when Pat Buchanan was running, I think there might have been a very good chance that Pat Buchanan could have been President of the United States. Oh, he was going to win. He won New Hampshire. And he was getting ready to won Iowa, and he was going on the road.

Then the Republican Party, these rhinos, stepped in and blocked it and stopped it. McConnell and all of them. I mean, they stopped it, whoever the Senate leader was, they stopped this. They had to stop him. Because and I'm sort of mad at President Trump because he hasn't given Pat Buchanan the President Medal of Freedom.

And and and Pat Buchanan deserves it. Trump's been sort of funny about Buchanan. He he owes Buchanan everything. If it wasn't Buchanan, Trump would have never got elected. I'm sort of mad at Trump about that.

I mean, he's getting he I mean Pat Buchanan needs to be honored in this country and he just never has been and and Like I said, the party's through. I mean, it's just it's through it. I mean, you can't go back and change it, but we're going to wait what we thought. Scott, there's a fight right now between, and there's a populist wing of the party that sort of was ushered in to get Trump over the finish line. Because keep in mind, Trump is not a conservative, right?

He never has professed to be, and he's just simply not a conservative. I think he's using, he certainly used the Republican Party as the vehicle to get himself elected, and I'm glad he did. I've got no beef with President Trump at all, and who knows, he might end up honoring Pat Buchanan. But I will say this: the Republican Party at large, talking about the establishment types, the Mitch McConnell's, and the, and I know people, you know, Scott Jennings, he is one of those guys over at CNN. You've got those folks.

They are not going to allow their party to be taken over.

So they're plotting right now to reclaim power after Trump leaves. And that's why you're Seeing all of this infighting right now between the Republican Party, you could be right. I mean, this could be the end of the Republican Party as we know it, only because of all the infighting. Yeah. If you get an opportunity, I wish you'd watch the debate between Pat Buchanan and Ron Reagan against William F.

Buckley. And I can't remember who the senator was. It was over the Panama Canal. I mean, you get to see a little giant talking Buckley was a was an incompetent clown. I mean, Levine supports Buckley.

Why would you say that? He's the father of the modern-day conservative movement. No, he's not. Pat Buchanan is. No, sir.

No, sir. Going all the way no, sir. He's not. You got to go I mean, William F. Buckley was exposing the wokeness on school campuses back when he was at Yale University, wrote a book about it, God and Man at Yale.

No, but he was a globalist. But why are you yeah, but you don't have Scott, what I'm trying to say is you don't have to trash everybody else just to I mean, you can admire and you can hold Pat Buchanan up in esteem, but that doesn't mean you have to trash everybody else. That's what I'm trying to say here. No, I understand what you're saying. What I'm saying is, if you could just watch that debate, it'll change your mind.

You'll see. I mean, you see Ra you see Buchanan and Reagan together against Buckley. I mean, I mean, you got the conservatives you got the true conservatives against the fake conservatives. And you're seeing you're seeing the two powers go at each other. It's very fascinating.

And especially if you get an opportunity to watch it. All right.

Scott, gotta leave it there. Thank you for the call. By the way, that debate pack in 1978.

So the problem look. If you're going to go out there and you're going to start trashing and you're going to say Ronald Reagan wasn't a real conservative, William F. Buckley wasn't a real conservative. Only the people I say are real conservatives are conservatives. I mean, that's what Tucker Carlson is doing right now, by the way.

And Megan Kelly and Candace Owens and Nick Fuentes and all of that bunch. They're saying that some now, now, all of a sudden, all of you people that admire somebody like a Franklin Graham or a Mike Huckabee, that you become the enemy. Do you see how all this is playing out? Look, you can go down this path, but if you do, it is going to end in destruction. Because you're saying it is my way, and if you If you, conservative lawmaker, do not agree with me on every single thing, then you have to be destroyed.

I got a problem with that. And that is not a. By the way, politics. Politics is about compromise. But the problem is with the Republicans, they never had a foundation.

So they're compromising their actual foundation. That's a big problem as well. nine oh one two six zero five nine two six. Going to share this story with you from the New York Post. Dylan?

Let's talk about Easter egg rolls. Have you ever done the big Easter egg rolls? I have, yes. My mom, I'll never forget this. Back when I was a kid, I don't know, do they still have the plastic Easter eggs?

Oh, yeah, yeah. Those things are very breakable.

So. Yeah. Or, you know what? It inevitably happens when, because I used to hide the Easter eggs. That was at some point, you know, in the grandchildren, I was the oldest grandchild.

Yeah. So, you know, you are elevated to the hider of the Easter eggs, and I made it so nobody could ever find anything. Yeah. Until when Paw Paw would mow the grass and. Found another one.

Found another one. But uh my mom used to put This was funny. She used to put Hershey's kisses and little chocolate eggs in the Easter, in the little plastic Easter things. And then you hide them around the yard. There's just one problem with Easter in the South.

Yes. It's like 80 degrees. It's way too hot to put candy, chocolate, that be in those eggs. Yeah. So one time your uncle who was very, very young at the time.

uh got found an Easter egg and opened it up and started crying. Because He thought that someone had Pood and the egg. Because it had all melted. That's tragic. It's terrible.

So anyway, all that to say, that's the set up for this story. PETA, the people for eating tasty animals crowd, is very upset at the White House. You know, every year they've been doing this forever, they do the big egg roll. And Activists are now urging all Americans, including the White House, to replace those decorated eggs. with potatoes.

Okay.

Okay.

Why?

Well, they're saying that apparently it's been rough on the hens.

So there lay in too many eggs. And PETA says that they want to give the hens a break, so they're encouraging. I think the hens are going to be popping out eggs no matter what's happening at the White House. They're going to do that regardless. Yeah.

Anyway. Maybe I would be surprised. Are they gonna try to make the potatoes look like eggs? And then that would be the gist of it. But again, it's a brown, it's brown.

Potato. Paint it white. And it's, yeah, it's kind of weird. A White House potato roll. This is coming from PETA.

A White House potato roll. would be kinder, cheaper, a boost for potato farmers, and provide a smashing good time for kids, proof that Easter fun doesn't have to come at a hen's expense. They're trying to make it seem like it's a good thing for the farmers. Yeah, I'm not sure this is going to go over well. It doesn't seem like I don't see that working.

So then you know what the kids are going to do. They're going to start throwing those potatoes. Yeah. Secrets. Hervis is going to have to step in.

That'd be way worse than an egg. It could get ugly. Yeah, it could. All right, got to take a break here at 901-260-5926. Our number, that's 901-260-5926.

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Big protest over the weekend. By the way, all completely funded. There was Fox News had the big expose. That the no kings protest We're all funded, what, 3,000 cities? You know, here in Memphis, they did one of those No Kings protests as well.

And I don't know what it was like in your neighborhood, but predominantly, and like, for example, Detroit, Michigan, which is an overwhelmingly, well, Detroit and Memphis were overwhelmingly black cities. Most of the protesters were old white people. And fat and fat white girls who can't find husbands. And it's.

Well, no, Dylan, I don't mean to. No, I'm not being rude or unkind. I'm just saying they're. You know, full-figured gals. And they can't get husbands.

And you want to know why? Because they sound like walruses in heat when they Ba bum bum oh, And the rest of them sound like Heinelo. Will the beast It's terrible. I will say this, though. God bless President Trump.

You know, I know they hate Trump, the no-kings protesters, but Dylan, I noticed something spectacular. I noticed this in Memphis, Tennessee. You know what it is? It's Trump was using the No Kings protest as a Maha moment. Because these people are getting out there, and I think some of them, this is the first time they've exercised in decades.

Yeah. A lot of sunlight, you know, the vitamin D. It's good for you. They did look pale. Yeah.

Especially with the magenta hair. That just accentuates how pale your face is. Yeah. I heard sunscreen sales were up. Yes, and also Birkenstocks.

You know, that's the footwear of choice among the Subaru drivers. I thought it was the Crocs. Oh, well. Crocs and Birkenstocks. Crocs, yeah.

Yeah. And the patchouli oil. You could smell them before you saw them. It's tough. But I just, for the record, I just want to say something to all the No Kings protesters out there.

Trump is not your king. Let me repeat that. Trump is not your king, progressive radicals. He's your daddy. He's your daddy.

Call him Daddy Trump. Daddy Trump. Yeah. It's true. I'm just saying.

All right, let's go to Memphis, Tennessee. Arnaz, listening to us on KWAM. Arnaz, regale us with your knowledge.

Well Where what? I saw the No Kings protest, not even not just here in the United States, but also abroad. All I can say is I don't worry about the protest. I protest at the polls where it matters.

So if they want to get out and protest, by all means, But I want to see that same energy in November. twenty twenty six and November twenty twenty eight. And I'm pretty sure we're going to see it, and the Republicans know we're going to see it. Because We had thirty-six Republicans retire from Congress. That hasn't happened in all in nearly one hundred years.

On top of the twenty eight See. that Democrats have have flipped from Republican to Democrat. And on top of this war where we ha where this Last I checked. This war was supposed was already over. It was supposed to be short.

But we're still sending troops over to Iran to basically fight Israel's war. Where why the IDF fighting the war? Why?

Do I have to be worried to death? that my wife who's in the Navy. may have to go over there and fight a war that we have no business whatsoever being in in first place. On top of when I came down hex crossed Today And I have to look at gas being three hundred fifty five. on top of Trump's approval rating being at thirty six percent.

Once you get up thirty five and under, that's when you're cutting into the base. And all I can say is, all these things show, and all he can do. is show off his ho show off his ballroom on Air Force One. And all this leads to leads me to say Is that the American people simply aren't buying what he's selling anymore?

Now, Arnaz, let me jump in here. I want to be able to respond. First of all, I had no idea your wife is in the Navy, which means you're a patriot family. And so, God bless you for that. And please tell her we're just so honored that she's serving our great nation.

Look, I don't think anybody wants their loved one to go to war. You do sign up for that when you sign up to serve. I mean, that's the reality of it. You're right. President Trump said that we had won the war.

We had obliterated Iran. And a lot of people are saying, okay, well, wait a minute. If we obliterated Iran, why are the missiles still flying? And why are we sending even more troops over there and more resources? That's a legitimate question.

And I do think the White House needs to come out and explain exactly. What is the mission here? Because I don't think anybody actually knows the answer to that question. Arnaz, as far as Israel, yeah, they are fighting. Their air force is up there, and their jets are engaged, and their military is under fire just like ours.

But, Arnaz, let me say this. Our fight with Iran goes back to 1979, and that is something we cannot forget. It's a great call, Arnaz. I got to run. 901-260-5926.

We'll be right back. All right, welcome back, everybody. And again, these no kings protests, you know. Trump never said that he wanted to be a king. I'm.

I don't recall him saying that at all, but you know who did? You know who did want to be king? That would be Barack Hussein Obama, who not only personally wished that he could be a king. But also, the Democrats at the time were trying to figure out a way to give this guy a third term in office.

So whenever you Whenever you see the um whenever you see the Democrats out there saying that, oh, Trump wants to be a go, the Republicans want to do something, actually it's something they've already done or something they they actually want to be. And in this case, It was Barack Obama. As a matter of fact, there was a headline. Where is that headline? Oh, this was NBC News.

Why Obama Wishes He Were a King? There you go.

Well, I know that in some places the No Kings protest turned violent, including here in. Memphis Where you They had a permit to rally, to so they were supposed to be in some sort of a park. But instead they decided to They decided to march in the streets, which is against the law. And they were impeding traffic. The police were there, and for 45 minutes, the police.

Begged and pleaded and cajoled, that is the word of the day, for these protesters to get out of the streets. And finally, they said, We're not going to do it. And so the police, they hauled out the the pepper spray. And man, some of the photos are pretty spectacular, but our officers have good aim and they hose down these protesters. And now they're all screaming about how they're victims.

They heard us. Oh, we got pepper sprayed. I want my mommy. Oh, it's terrible. And so the local media is just insane in Memphis.

And any of our Memphis listeners, you guys know this.

So now the local media, a lot of them are out there saying they're alleging that it was a peaceful protest until the cops showed up and started beating people. They hurt me and they call me names. I want to go to the Patriot mobile newsmaker line, our good friend, the publisher of TristarDaily.com, and they wrote about this. Steve Gill joins us. Steve, good to have you with us today.

Great to be with you. There are a lot of terms that could apply to Trump. I mean, he's like Tenant, because he does live in their heads rent-free. He is the boss of them, so just calling him the boss. With work.

King is just it doesn't apply. And when you look at some of the signs that these knitwits are carrying at these protests, first of all, you got the preprinted ones that are being paid for and then utilized all over the country, all over the world. I love the No Kings protest, by the way, in London. where they actually have a king. You aren't doing anything about that.

But when you've when you've got these signs and they're misspelling words on them, It it underlines that they don't even know what they're there for. No, and here in Memphis, it was very confusing. We're like, why do you have a problem with B.B. King or Jerry the King Lawler or the King of Rock and Roll? What's your problem with Elvis?

I mean, come on. But you know, Steve, it's interesting because here they took it a step further and uh we got word over the weekend that the organizers and a lot of these it's the ACLU, it's uh these far left, you know, far left groups that are getting all sorts of grant money. They call themselves the Free the 901 campaign, and they were literally blackmailing local businesses. And they were telling these businesses, literally going inside and saying, you will either renounce the Memphis Safe Task Force or we will boycott you. And also, any business that served somebody wearing a uniform, they said they would boycott those businesses as well.

Well, and the sick irony of this, Todd, is that so many of the people at this protest, and it's the ones throughout. the country. They're going from protest to protest. It's like, okay, what are we protesting today? It's like the protest du jour.

It has nothing to do with any real complaint about a particular issue. But but the ones in Memphis How many of them aren't actually from that inner city Memphis community that is safer, more secure, less rapes, less murders, less robberies, less guardackings than there was before this National Guard was deployed? Give people Are not the ones who were victimized before Memphis was made safer, nor are they going to be there if they accomplish their goals. And the security goes away, the police presence goes away, and Memphis returns to the crime-ridden. murder capital that it was before President Trump stepped in, they're not going to be the ones suffering.

And when they put these businesses on Beale Street out of business because of their ill timed, ill conceived boycott, They're not the ones whose kids are going to go hungry. They're not the ones who are going to see the storefront and be all empty and the tourists having no reason to go down there either because of the crime threat or because there's nothing to do there. They aren't going to be the ones paying the price if they achieve their protest goals. No, I think you're absolutely right about that. Steve Gill joining us on our Patriot mobile newsmaker line.

Steve, I want to talk about what's happening up on Capitol Hill right now. There's just a lot of angry people, and God bless John Rose, the congressman from Tennessee, got all of this started Friday on this radio program when he said that he was calling for Jon Thune to be removed as majority leader.

Now I understand Tim Burchett is sounding that call as well. But the reality is. Nothing's getting done. And I want to read this to you real quick. This was just posted seven minutes ago by Congressman Rose.

He says, Let me explain what just happened in our Republican-controlled Senate this morning. Any single Republican senator could have sought recognition from the chair this morning. That senator could have asked unanimous consent to take up the bipartisan DHS funding bill the House passed Friday, which fully funds DHS. The chair would have asked if there was any objection. We now know Chris Kuhn's plan to object, which would have killed the bill that fully funds our Brave Border Patrol agents.

That's been the Democrats' plan all along. We would have had them on record once again choosing criminal illegal aliens over TSA workers. And then Rose goes on to say this: but that did not happen this morning. Why?

Because not one Republican senator went to the floor to put this DHS shutdown exactly where it belongs on the Democrats. And I presume that's because they fled Washington. What do you say to that?

Well, and I love Tim Burchett, one of my favorite congressmen in the entire country. I love John Rose stepping up and calling out John Thune. But do you do you hear the silence? God, do you hear that? That epic silence, where is Senator Marsha Blackburn's boast?

voice calling for Soon to go. Where is Senator Bill Haggerty's voice calling for Soon to go? These are our Tennessee senators. Marcia's running for governor, claiming she is the toughest woman that would ever be able to run for and be elected governor in Tennessee. She's so tough.

And yet, the cat gets her tongue when it comes to calling out John Boone.

So, I'm interested in John Rose's voice, I'm interested in Tim Burchett's voice. I'm more focused on the absence of Marcia Blackburn's voice as she fled the Capitol a few hours before they voted again in the Senate on this DHS funding. And she was escorted through the airport by her Let's Avoid the Lines escort at the airport while Americans were standing in line for hours and missing their planes, while these members of Congress. The Senate gets special. treatment.

So it's not just the silence of her voice. It's not just her fleeing the Capitol when key votes are being taken. It's then she's being scored down the line.

So she doesn't have to be with us little peons who are standing in lines at airports right now. Yeah, I did notice that. And she's not the only one, by the way. I think Jon Thune as well, you know, everybody else. And there are some congressmen, I believe Mike Collins out of Georgia was actually photographed in the line with all of us regular folks.

You know, they did not get the special treatment. But, Steve, I'm telling you, this looks really, really bad for these Republican senators because no one has the courage to stand up.

Well, I guess if if if they had called For that vote, like you just laid out. And Chris Coons, the Democrat who was going to block it, wasn't there. There would have been nobody to object. There would have been nobody to call for a quorum. They could have passed it with like one vote.

They're just we're playing checkers while the Democrats are paying four level, you know. Star Trek Test. Or worse, we're just playing the cowards of the county rather than doing anything to actually step up and do what we promised we would do, do what they have repeatedly said they want to do. And trust me, if the Democrats do regain control of the U.S. Senate, they will jam through everything we despise.

They'll stack the Supreme Court. They'll expand the Supreme Court to add liberal whack jobs to the court. And our gutless, cowardly senators will vote for the nitrates they put up for the Supreme Court, as we have done so often in the past.

So, you know, again, I think Republicans across the country are increasingly disgusted with the Senate Republicans, and with good reason, The problem is, if the Democrats take control, they will they will eradicate everything that has been accomplished by Trump with executive orders, and we will lose even worse than we were under Joe Biden.

So I understand people say, I'm not going to vote for the Republicans. What's the difference? There is a difference. But we need some Republican senators to show there's a difference.

Well, we need five senators to step up and say they want Thun out, and that begins the process. And I know Mike Lee, everybody's like, oh, Mike Leed is such a bold voice on social media, but he's not a bold voice in the U.S. Senate, which is where his voice actually matters and actions actually matter. And I can appreciate him calling out the Democrats. And yeah, the Democrats are responsible for all of this, but the reality is the Republicans are in charge and they have the ability and the authority to nuke that filibuster and move the president's agenda.

But, Steve, what bothers me even more. And I think this is the bigger question. Why are they not going into a recess so that President Trump could make those recess appointments? Again, because those running the Senate as quote Republicans, like Thune, McConnell, and Rurkowski and the rest. They are anti-Trump.

They are anti-MAGA. They will run claiming what they're for. But when it comes time to the rubber meeting the road to actually stand up and do something, again, they're the gutless, bindeless cowards that have us so frustrated with them. And again, Marsha Blackburn is running for governor with her tagline, Marsha, Marsha, Marsha.

Now, if it takes five votes, I don't think she gets three. But I would love just to have at least one vote from Marcia to say, let's remove Thune if she's really the tough. doer that she talks like doing. And who's the other guy that's the the senator here? I keep forgetting his name.

I I never hear from him. The the Tennessee guy. Senator Bill Haggerty. Hagerty, yeah. Senator Hagerty.

That'd be two of the five votes. Where are they? And he's running for re-election. Is that right? Yes, he's up for reelection with no significant opposition.

Marsha is running for governor against John Rose. And right now, she has a significant lead in most of the polls. But when you start. You know, cutting in line at the airport, when you start departing before key votes, when you start refusing to step up and call the leadership to task. Uh in the Senate.

That's the kind of thing that takes what should be a sure win at this point and turns it into an upset. I just, I'm curious. If the Democrats were in charge, how would they handle the Senate any differently? I don't think they would. Oh, they'd already be jamming through doing away with the bilibuster so they could pass everything with fifty-one votes.

They would be expanding the Supreme Court to add four more Elena Kagans and Southern Mayors to take away what the Supreme Court has been doing for the American people in the last year. And many of these votes. has been unanimous, coming from the Supreme Court, meaning even the liberal whack jobs on the court have sided with their conservative brethren. Yeah, the bottom line is they will do What they're trying to stop us from doing if they get power. And that's why it's important to have our so-called conservative Republican senators.

stepping up and actually putting words into action. Steve, CPAC seemed to be somewhat of a disaster on multiple levels. I'm not sure we can use that as any sort of indicator, but we're certainly getting a lot. I think Republicans have been losing a lot of these special elections, Democrats flipping a lot of these seats. Are these just anomalies?

What's the mood as we head into the midterms here?

Well, it's a mixed bag. And I think again, the division Among Republicans. Particularly with conservatives being increasingly frustrated by the fact that those who run for election claiming to be conservatives, Mike Lee being a good example, Marsha Blackburn and others. They don't deliver. And I think that's what's causing people to say: look, what difference does it make, to kind of quote Hillary Clinton?

What difference does it make?

Well, it's hard to see a difference when they're not. actually doing what they promised to do when they're running for election.

So I think that's part of it. Part of it is we just saw this this election down in Bara Laga, where a Democrat won by eight hundred votes. We now find that one of the key Democrat operatives down there had access to the to the voting process. And in an eight hundred vote margin, clearly, it appears enough votes were stolen to flip that seat.

So while the Democrats are fighting against election integrity, just simply showing a volo ID to vote, which you have to do, To buy a beer, to get cold medicine, to get on a plane, to get on a train, to go to Democratic Party fundraisers. Maybe in Somalia. Require photo IDs to vote, and yet Democrats are blocking it because the only way they can win is if they cheat. And if we stay home. And that's the disastrous combination that could be looming in the midterms.

Republicans stay home, Democrats cheat. And they cheat America out of our future that we should be able to obtain if Republicans would simply step up. All right.

Steve, we're going to have to leave it there. Good hearing from you. TriStarDaily.com, ladies and gentlemen, is the website. That's TriStarDaily.com. All right.

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Welcome back, everybody. This is the Todd Starge Radio Show. Hang tight. We're going to get to your calls at the top of the next hour. Dylan, was there a rule in your household growing up, like at supper time?

Did you guys everybody sit down for a meal together? Did you guys have like any rules? Um, we didn't have any like spoken rules. It was kind of understood what to do. At a certain point.

No cell phones. No cell phones. You're just talking about recapping the day. And yeah, no cell phones. Yeah, that's the way it was with us.

Of course, back when I was growing up, we had the landline. And we were highfallutin, though. We didn't have the rotary dial, we had the push button. Ooh, the olive green, if anybody remembers, there are only certain colors you could have. Very fancy.

Olive green. It matched the refrigerator and my mom's stove. Very nice. Anyway, we had a rule. The phone rang and went right to voicemail.

We had a little answering machine. And um And by the that's how I got my started broadcasting. You've reached the Starnes residence. No one is home right now to take your call. Wait, you got to do that?

I got to do that. It was very cool.

So, anyway, yet we weren't allowed to do anything. We had to sit down, eat food, and answer any questions. Speak, you know, don't speak unless you're spoken to. According to the Food Industry Association, I'm surprised by this. More than 80% of American families still gather around the table for dinner.

But unfortunately, only one quarter say family meals Are free from cell phones.

So most people, they're at the dinner table, but they're busy texting while they're trying to eat, I don't know, their tuna casserole.

So Chick-fil-A is doing something about that. They are now introducing a cell phone challenge. And they're telling people they've got something called the coop, and you can put your phone in the coop. And if you sit there and eat your meal together at Chick-fil-A as a family without having a cell phone in front of you, everybody's going to get a delicious iced dream cone. That sounds very tasty.

That's an interesting idea. I wonder how many people have taken them up on the challenge. Yeah, and how far is the coop uh how far away is the coop from the table? Like, are they taking your phone and put under a lock and key? Yes.

I don't know. Reagan said that all great change in America begins at the dinner table.

So, I don't know. Maybe Chick-fil-A's onto something here. What do you guys think about that? No cell phones at the dinner table. 901-260-5926.

Going to the phones coming up next. Live from the Liberty University Studio in Memphis, Tennessee, it's America's conservative blowtorch. That's us, that's right. I love. Love is American.

Yeah, right. Todd. Stars. All right, hello everybody. Welcome to the Todd Sterns Radio Show.

Happy to have you with us. Hour three underway. Our good friend Dr. Michael Youssef joins us a little bit later on this hour. But right now, I do want to go to the phones: 901-260-5926.

Let's say hello to Kathy in Salem, Oregon. Hi, Kathy. What's going on? I don't. Um First of all, I would consider it a high compliment if visitors would leave their cellphones in their car.

That would really be a compliment. Oh, like if so if they're going out to eat or if they're coming over for like a visit to your home or something? Right. Right. You know, it is interesting.

Dylan, I'm not going to name names, but I have noticed at our family gatherings.

Some of our family members are like On the phone. We do have Gen Z members in the family. Yeah. Well, that is true. But some of the older, some of the boomers.

They don't help. No, Kathy, I think this is a great idea.

So, you know, if you're going because again, it's I mean, it's kind of rude, right? You're invited to somebody's house. Very rude. Very, very rude. Yeah.

It's a great point. Yeah, no, and this goes back in if you missed out, folks, Chick-fil-A has introduced this I don't know if it's an official program, but some 200 Chick-fil-A restaurants now have something called a coupe. And so, if you're going in to have dinner, you can drop your cell phones off in this little thing and they'll take care of it for you. And if you enjoy a meal together without having any devices, then they're going to give you a free ice cream cone. And I just love this idea of getting back and actually having conversations again.

Yeah. Yeah, I'm with you. It's a great idea, great idea, Kathy. All right, what else is going on? I know you called for another reason.

Yeah, I did. Because I'm just about to cry over it, but um Yeah. I've never considered not going to the polls. Never. Number.

Even since I was eighteen years old. And Our Republican nom or candidates. For governor here in Oregon. has declined to attend A debate. And I've done some work for this guy.

I don't want to name any names, but. He decided not to attend. And I consider that a job interview. Debate. And if They don't want to meet us, then Why do they why do they want us to vote for them?

So, are you telling me?

So, you've got multiple people running as Republicans, and they don't want to debate. Is that the gist of it? No. There's there's three people that have backed out. Are they all Republican?

Yeah. Wow.

So Kathy, let me tell you, we've got the same situation in Tennessee.

However, so we have the state so Senator Marcia Blackburn, who I have endorsed, full disclosure, she's going to get my vote. She is refusing to debate her two opponents, Congressman John Rose and State Representative Monty Fritz. And, you know, those two guys are wanting a debate. But I know that Marsha Blackburn's team, they're saying, why would we debate because we're so far ahead in the polls? Why would we want to open ourselves up to any sorts of questions at an uncontrolled debate?

So, yeah, we're dealing with the same situation in Tennessee: Republicans not wanting to debate, or at least one Republican not wanting to debate. Yeah. It's tough, Kathy, and I'm with you. It is a job description, as you pointed out. And I think that if you are going to run for office, you ought to be willing to debate.

I mean, it's just, it kind of goes with the job. You know, you got to try out. And this is an opportunity to see how you work, how you operate under pressure. I don't think it's a bad thing at all. I just do not see any negatives at all.

I mean, if you're. If you've got a foundation of beliefs and you walk into that debate and you base all of your answers on your foundational beliefs, you're going to be okay. And I think the people of Oregon or the people of Tennessee or wherever, I think they would see exactly who you are. Kathy, great call. Thank you for listening.

Let's go to Memphis, Mike, listening to us on KWAM. Mike, what's on your mind? Bye. Greetings, Todd. I just want to bring to your attention a lot of people don't know this, but in nineteen fifty three, the CA overthrew Iran's leader, Mosadegh, because he had nationalized the oil and kicked British petroleum out of the country.

And since then, the CA has had control of every one of their puppet leaders, and that's the problem. The CA there were The University of California had a campus in Iran. And there were people that when I used to work at FedEx that were exchange students from Iran coming to the University of Memphis. And we had so much in common. And that's the thing that people are not aware of because If you don't know, you don't know.

And these are things that people need to bear. These are not. Crazy people. These are Persians who are very highly educated, and it's a sovereign nation. And I'm afraid that it's like Iraq.

Okay, not a single Israeli soldier died in the war in Iraq, just Americans, because it was a proxy war. We were brought into it with bad information from. Netanyahu. And the same thing now. Iran posed no threat to the United States.

We need to stop what we're doing, remove all the threat. They'll open the Straits of Hermuse, then they can sit down and negotiate. From what I found, they actually didn't have anything near. The capability of getting any kind of a nuclear weapon.

However, Israel does. And with the leadership that they've got committing genocide. I'm concerned about what who's committing genocide? Look at Gaza. That's a genius.

No, no, no. I just asked you a simple question, Mike, and you're going to answer the question: who's committing genocide? Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza. No, they're not. Where is your proof of that, Mike?

There is absolutely no proof. But there is proof. There is proof that Hamas has waged warfare and terrorism on the Israeli people. And that has been going on for generations. And Hamas is funded through Iran.

Not true. No, it's absolutely true.

So you're telling us, are you telling me that President Trump is lying to the American people? Are you calling President Trump a liar? Yeah, I'm calling both of you a liar, and I can prove it to you. Will you sit down with me and let me show you the proof? No, Mike, you know what?

I'm not going to let you call me a liar on my program. Goodbye. You're done. Unbelievable. I can put up with a lot of nonsense.

I'm not going to have somebody calling me a liar. That's outrageous. All right.

And I know, and he'll call back and he'll whine and complain.

Well, you know what, Mike? Get your own show.

Alright, if you want to spew that nonsense, get your own show. But the fact of the matter is that that the Iranians and and he is correct, this we're the ones that were responsible for installing the Shah. I'm just telling you right now that America has a very bad track record when it comes to regime change. It doesn't work out for us. It just doesn't.

But the reality of it is this, and I know that there are. There are many Christian people out there. And this is going to get me in trouble, but this is the reality.

Well, Todd, we just need to love everybody. And if we love everybody and sing coomba yaw together, well, We're all just going to be we're all going to be singing and praising the Lord at the First Baptist Church of Tehran Aaron. No, that's not a reality. I mean, I would hope and pray that would happen, but. That's not the reality.

Here's the reality. We need that oil. And unfortunately, the people in Iran, the Persian people, they don't want freedom. Otherwise, they would be fighting in the streets for it. They would have been fighting when the Islamists took over the American embassy, but they didn't do it.

They didn't do it. They expect us to do it. You say, well, Todd, back when the Shah of Iran was in control, the Iranians were actually kind of like good to us. They treated us okay. Yes, they did, because that was our bad guy.

and we could control our bad guy. We can't control the other bad guys.

So in the the real world here. And again, that's what we're trying to operate in, the real world. It's better to have our own bad guy over there. If the options are the Shah of Iran and the Ayatollahs, you're better off. We are better off.

The region was better off with the Shah. Was he a bad guy? Yes, he was a bad guy. But he was our bad guy. And I know that Ah, that's just not Christian.

That's not very Christian. No, they're throwing Christians off of the rooftops. All right, do we understand what's going on here in the Middle East? This is. And again, this is why we should not be doing regime change in the first place.

All right, we got to take a break. 901-260-5926, our number. That's 901-260-5926. This is the Todd Sturge Show. Yeah.

All right.

Welcome back. Good to have you with us, everybody.

So here is Congressman Randy Fine from Florida. He's getting blasted. He says Democrats only care about three things. Take a listen. Is not an important service the American people deserve.

What I have learned in this debate. is Democrats care about three things. Muslim terrorists, Somali pirates and illegal immigrants. And if I what's clear to me, if we want to fund the Department of Homeland Security and get them on board, there's one simple solution. Have all of those TSA agents declare they are illegal immigrants because then they'll rush to get the money over to them to get them funded.

It is not right to keep the government closed. If you want changes in policy, let's have those debates. But the same people who demand these folks. Not be masked. Spent years demanding the rest of us get arrested if we weren't willing to wear them.

The hypocrisy is stunning, and the American people are not being served. We need the job to get done. We need to get the whole thing funded, and I support the resolution fully.

Well, thank you very much there, Congressman. I wholeheartedly agree with that assessment. And again, going back to the whole No Kings rally, this is ludicrous. These people, first of all, most of them have absolutely no idea why they were out there marching. Second of all, It was Joe Biden and his administration that actually ruled like tyrants.

Remember what they did to people when they lost a loved one during the China virus, where you you were not even allowed to sit next to your loved ones? Or what about the skateboarders where they went in there and they literally filled up the skateboarding parks with sand? To stop children from being able to go outside and skateboard? Or what about all the churches that were fined because people showed up to worship on a Sunday? Or the people that were surfers out in Southern California that were given fines and that were arrested for going surfing?

That all happened during the regime of Joe Biden, King Joe the Third. That's what happened.

So, if you want to have those conversations, happy to have those conversations. But let's put this into context. And again, the dozens and dozens of stories on Democrats, members of the media, and Barack Hussein Obama himself, who wished that he were actually a king. They're the ones that were talking about it, not the Republicans. All right, let's go to North Carolina.

O.G. wants to weigh in on something Mike from Memphis had to say. Hi, O.G., what's on your mind?

Well, you can tell that gentleman, you know what? I'd kinda like to know where'd you go to school? And was it a blue state, maybe? But, you know, it was, he was just so far off into the field, it was just amazing.

However, I almost am old enough to remember years ago when a politician was not doing the job. It involves a rail. a bag of feathers and pine tar. And you know what?

Some of these politicians really need to see in front of their Efforts. a truck with tar and feathers and saying, are you a candidate? Unless you start telling the truth, you will be a candidate. But that's a little too violent. But anyhow, as a matter of fact, I am old enough to almost remember riding a rail out of town with Tar and feathers.

Tar and yeah, they used to tar and feather him back in the day. That's right. I'm glad I gave you a little bit of a laugh today. OG always appreciates the humor. Thank you for calling in.

Let's go to Tim in Gainesville, Georgia, WDUN, our great affiliate there. Hi, Tim. What's going on? Hey, Todd, great show. Really appreciate what you do for America.

I did want to touch on the COVID. China virus uh thing. The last month of my dad's life, uh, he was he was in a nursing home. And they would not allow visitors in.

So my mom, after they had been married over 60 years, The last month she could not even see him. uh while he was still alive. Because of the mass requirements, it was terrible. I'll just tell you, that was one of the worst months. uh of my mom's life and mine and just just still just still have uh so many regrets and uh just lost lost all that time with my dad.

Tim, I'm so sorry that you had to go through that. And that was so heartbreaking because I know there were, if you remember, there were. There were times when people were not even out allowed to go and see their family members in the nursing homes, and they had to stand outside and stare at them through windows. I will never, ever forgive the Democrats for what they did to us. Yes, she she actually would go to the door and they would have to bring my my dad up in a wheelchair so they could just see each other.

but cannot cannot have physical contact. Um, just and he didn't, he didn't even have COVID, he was basically there for something else, but. They were just so afraid of what was going to happen inside those nursing homes. that that just it was it was really a really hard time for our family. And Uh I I just I I my mom still still uh still has has trouble with that.

Well, again, I am just so sorry. And I know that many other families went through the same thing you had to go through. And it just wasn't right, and it's still not right. And again, I hope that people. On election day, will remember what those Democrats did to us.

The challenge is, of course, that. The Republicans are not making it easy, are they, Tim? They're just not making it easy. Unfortunately, the voting public has such a short term memory They they they that cycle has long passed. And they a lot of them don't remember that that time because it probably didn't affect them uh personally like it did with some others.

So they they will they will not hold hold anybody responsible for that. I don't feel. They're really just thinking about the date and what their trials are. Uh and you know, it it it it can be it can be tough on families. And yeah, I just I just hope they do remember.

All right, Tim, thank you for that call. Dull dull. Are you you're a fashion guy? Maybe. I don't know.

Am I? Have you heard of something called chubbies shorts? Yes, I have. What is the point of a chubby's short? I don't know.

Maybe to get a good tan on your thigh.

So they're kind of short shorts. They're very short and tight. The mayor of Arlington, Tennessee. has been arrested. Mm-hmm.

Attempting to steal a $70 pair of Chubbies shorts from Dillard's at Wolf Chase Galleria. Interesting. God help us all. Yeah. I guess it could have been worse.

It could have been, I don't know, ladies unmentionables. I don't. There you go.

Chubbies. I didn't know chubbies shorts were a thing. I wish I didn't know that they were a thing. There you go.

Alright, hang tight, everybody. This is the Todd Stern Show. All right, welcome back, everybody. This is the Todd Stearns Radio Show. Happy to have you with us today.

You know, I have we a couple of days ago, we had Glenn Beck on, and I, I, we, the conversation was amazing. We could have gone on for all, I don't know, three hours of the show, and I did not get around to asking what I think is a very important question.

So, we're going to ask that question to our good friend, Dr. Michael Youssef, who has a very important book out. And, folks, I don't care where you are in your walk with the Lord. You need to read this book. And if you are a freedom-loving patriot, Maybe you don't even go to church.

You need to read this book. It's called An Unholy Alliance. And Dr. Youssef has pinned what I think is a for such a time as this book with the rise of Islam in America, the terrorist attacks in recent days, of course, members of Congress, nearly 60 joining of a Sharia-free caucus. This is an issue that is right now gripping the nation.

Dr. Youssef, the author of An Unholy Alliance, joins us on our Patriot mobile newsmaker line. Dr. Youssef, hope you're doing well today. I'm doing great.

Thank you for having me, Todd. I just came back from Australia, where they have been totally shaken by the Islamist takeover of I mean, they're shocked. They're in a shell shock. I actually flew to Canberra, the capital, in Parliament House, and I met with some parliamentarians. And I'm telling you, I just got back and I'm so thankful for you and you for giving this whole issue A voice, and I know you have a tremendously respected voice, and that is, I'm so grateful to you, Todd.

Thank you so much. Well, I appreciate you saying that. And, you know, we talk about a lot of the issues you're not allowed to talk about or you shouldn't talk about on the radio. But since I actually own a radio station, you know, who do I get in trouble with?

So we talk about those issues. And one of the questions that has really perplexed me, when you see these people out marching in support of the Islamist, many of them are people groups that you would think they would be attacking. And I've always wondered why the radical Islamist and the radical progressives are sort of partnering together. What's going on there? It is the most incredible thing I think.

It's not. I'm going to give you history uh background to all of this Not a surprise, but it's it's just baffling in many ways, especially to people who don't understand the religion of Islam or the faith of Islam or a political expansionist ideology of Islam. And they don't understand uh in fact, how can y you have queer for Palestine? And and one one lady had a a sign that is queer for Palestine. I have a video of it.

And they were beating her up and they said, We don't want the likes of you here. And so in reality, they're totally opposed to each other. But in fact, they have one common Cause and called the omni cause, and that is the destruction of Western civilization, destruction of biblical morality, destruction of freedom that we have. In fact, they are using the very freedom our very freedom. They're using it to deprive us of our freedom.

And that's happening in England, happening in Australia, happening in Canada, happening in Europe. And it it is Historically speaking, I can give you two examples very, very quickly. Nasser in Egypt in nineteen fifty two aligned with the Muslim Brotherhood because it was founded in Egypt by Hassan al-Banna. and they sort of worked together in the in the late forties, early fifties In order to Kick out the King Farouk and the British, British occupiers, colonialists. And as soon as the they succeeded, One has to turn on the other.

It's always the case.

So whoever's got the upper hand and in this case was the military NASA literally put them all in prison and uh got rid of them. And Fast forward 1979, The same thing happened in Iran. when uh the the leftists the ones who l really led the revolution. And they prepared the way for Khomeini to fly in from Paris. They got rid of the Shah.

And so this time Khomeini learned from uh the Muslim Brotherhood mistake And he started. basically chopping the heads of all the leftists Who led the revolution? And in both cases, in most cases, when you see that happening, The Islamists called the leftists the donkeys of the revolution and oth they they were called useful idiots. in the days of communism. But They call them the donkeys.

They're the ones who carry the revolution. It happened in twenty eleven in the Arab Springs. And I would reading all the the the Muslim Brotherhood material. And they will kind of snicker, ah, the the let the donkeys of the revolution bring the revolution, get rid of Mubarak and then we will take over. And they did.

Mercifully, God in His mercy turned this thing around twelve months later. But That is just uh it it happens because they have a common enemy and they hate the enemy more than they hate each other. It seems to me that and we've seen this sort of play out in other countries where uh Christianity begins to wane, uh the the secularist uh seem to to grow in numbers and then all chaos breaks loose because there's really no moral foundation anymore and then the Islamists sweep in after that And end up taking over. And I'm wondering if that's really what's been happening here in America, where we've really seen the Christian church sort of water down its message over the years. I can give you chapter and verse, historically speaking, about this.

every time, every time the church weakens in its doctrine and its theology, weaken in its belief and commitment to Christ and the gospel of Jesus Christ, every time Islam must are there to fill the vacuum. It happened in the very early days of founding of Islam. when they invaded Christian lands in the six hundreds, North Africa particularly had a heresy that was rampant known as Montanists, the Mont Montanism or the Montanists. And what they said based on the heresy said, oh, the canon is not closed. God can still speak with authoritative voice, just as he did through the apostles.

Well, what happened when the Islamists came in invading from Saudi Arabia They got to Egypt and they found tremendous opposition because the Coptic Orthodox Church believed that the canon is closed.

So when they came to Libya, Tunisia, Morocco and Algeria, What happened? They found a welcome arms in these countries. There used to be fifty thousand dioceses in North Africa before the invasion of Islam. But because of the heresy, because of the weakening of the church, within thirty five to fifty years we'll Christians were wiped out completely and have been for now over one thousand four hundred years. And so, and I can go on, of course, historically, show you again and again and again, this happens when the church weakens.

Islam is still there to fill the vacuum and take over. I have so many questions. And by the way, folks, Dr. Michael Youssef joining us, he has written an incredibly important book called An Unholy Alliance. We're seeing this play out in real time, Dr.

Youssef. We've seen a lot of very powerful social media influencers with very large platforms. They have been rapidly anti-Islam for most of their careers, but now all of a sudden they've done a complete about face. And I know that you actually write about this in the book about foreign funding. Do you think that could be what's happening here is that the Islamic countries are some Islamists with deep pockets are funding some of what's happening in our country right now?

Absolutely. I mean, you see, they're giving a billion dollars to Texas AM, a billion dollars. I mean, think about this. I mean, they could they could work for a hundred years, couldn't raise a billion dollars for their endowment. and they know exactly who to go to and who to pay off And they had the list in their offices in Qatar and elsewhere.

And they go after the individuals whom they know are an influencer. And it may especially if they've taken the opposite side and said, hey, would you like a few million dollars? I I hate to say this. When I grew up in the Middle East, There was always the snickering on the part of the Islamists. Not the Muslims, guys.

One of our best friends in school was a Muslim, but he was not an Islamist. But there's always a snickering. You know, the Americans are very easy to buy because their God is the dollar.

Now, remember, this is in the 60s. I'm growing up there listening to these Islamists talking about America. And I was dying to come to America at the time. And I said, Makkah, they said, they're so naive when they worship the Almighty dollar. That's their God.

And we can put the dollar in front of them. They will follow us.

Okay, so you said something that is very important, and I get this question a lot on the show. You said you mentioned Muslim and Islamist. Is there a difference? Because you've got some lawmakers that literally want to deport all the Muslims from America.

So is there a difference between the Islamist and the Muslim? There's no doubt in my mind. I mean, we have actually Muslims who are anti-Islamists. Let's take example. the United Arab Emirates.

The United Arab Emirates as a nation, as a group of nations or emirates, They are absolutely opposed to Islamism. And Sisi fought a battle and got rid of the Islamists from Egypt, whom he called political Islam. And so I can go down the l why are they outlawed in Jordan, the Muslim Brotherhood? Why are they outlawed in Egypt? Why are they outlawed in Saudi Arabia even where Mecca is?

They're outlawed from the United Arab Emirates because they know that these Islamists are really have political ideology, while they may be devout Muslims and don't have that kind of in fact, in my book, I describe these two different groups as Mecca Muslims and Medina Muslims. I have a whole chapter on that to explain the difference. and how that difference came about. And why we must be wise To understand that difference. I have had the privilege of meeting with President Sisi a couple of times.

And I mean he's a man who single-handedly basically undermined the Islamic revolution that took place in two thousand with the Arab Spring, and they took over Egypt for twelve months. And brought the country to its knees. And so you go on and on and on. I want to be truthful. I don't want to say, well, look, all the Muslims are Islamists.

No, all the Islamists are Muslims, but not all the Muslims are Islamists.

Now, admittedly, a lot of people, out of emotions, they would lash out. And I understand that. But the truth is, we have to be truthful. The truth is very important to us as Christian believers, and we must always speak the truth in love. Uh Dr.

Youssef, there's a lot that we've got to cover. You say that this book. Needs to be a wake-up call and was written to be a wake-up call for the Christian church. Why is that? What does the Christian church need to be aware of?

Oh my goodness. I mean, I think the Christian church are sadly are asleep. They're asleep at the switch. Because you've got a segment of that church, those so-called liberals or I gotta call them apostates. who are universalists, who think Muslims and Christians and Jews all the same and there really no difference.

And we an example is the congressman from Texas who's running for Senate. And you get that kind of universalism that is absolutely an anathema is and the preaching of foreign gospel. But then even the evangelicals said, Oh, we shouldn't be judgmental And then the very few people who's like the bubbles in the bottle screaming up and down and saying, no, no, no, no, no, this the truth is Christ alone I remember one time Jim Dobson asked me a question. Back in the days of the Iranian revolution. How far I go?

And he he basically was asking me, do we worship the same God? I said, absolutely not. That was forty seven years ago, because our God fully revealed himself in his Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, whom they call Esau, which actually they learned back in Arabia from some Jewish tribes who opposed Christianity. And they were using the term derogatory term about Jesus, calling him Esau or Esau. Because as opposed to Jacob, the chosen one.

And so he the Prophet of Islam just heard Isa Isa. Isa did not realize that this is just a derogatory term, and he thought that was his name. And so they said Isa, son of Mary. But our God revealed Himself fully in Jesus Christ, and Jesus said, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father but by me.

And therefore, that is our hill on which we die, because there is no other name under heaven by which men can be saved. Dr. Youssef, real quick, we had Glenn Beck on the show earlier this week. He's got a new documentary out, really wanting to wake up the church as well. And he said something that he thought, he said this would be controversial.

And I said, oh, what is that? And he said that he believes that we are actually living in what he termed the end of days, the end times. Sure. Do you think that he's onto something there? I really believe that, and I'm not a dispensationalist, my brother, as you know.

But I just look at the events and I look at what Jesus said in Matthew twenty four about the birth pangs and what happened with the labor pain is that when it comes toward the end, of course, we always had wars and rumors of wars. We always had hunger. We always had earthquakes. But what happens when you get closer to the birth of the baby, and I take Jesus' word, that's what I'm talking about, and I'm going back. is that these labor pains are coming with greater intensity and frequency.

And therefore, from understanding the Olive Ed discount in Matthew twenty four and twenty five, I sense in my spirit that we are coming very, very close.

Something is going to happen. because those labor pains are increasing globally And so that is my rationale and my understanding from the scripture why I feel that we are coming toward the end or closer to the end. And I just would love to see the church revived before the Lord returns, so he doesn't return to a sleepy church or an apostate church or unfaithful church and that he would that he would return to an await church awaiting for him and anticipating his return.

Well, Dr. Youssef, we're going to have to leave it there. A half an hour goes by very quickly, and we certainly appreciate you spending some time with us. The book is called An Unholy Alliance, written by our friend Dr. Michael Youssef, and it is available wherever you buy your books.

You can also get it online. Dr. Youssef, we're going to get you back on because I know we have this is not the end of the conversation, it's really just the beginning. And congratulations on this great book. Thank you, Todd.

Thank you, my brother. Thank you so much for having me. And again, if you missed part of that interview and also the interview with Glenn Beck, all you have to do is go to ToddSterns.com. We will have the podcast there posted. You can subscribe to the podcast free of charge, and you'll be able to listen to all three hours of the Todd Starns radio show.

To that point, I want to play some audio real quick. This is from a guy in Michigan. He's a Democrat running for the US Senate. His name is Abdul El Syed, and he's warning people about speaking ill of Iran's. Um Ayatollah Khomeini, take a listen.

So like I just don't want to comment on Khamani Khemene at all. Like I don't think it's worth even touching that. A lot of people are sad that an evil monster is dead. Ladies and gentlemen, we need to take a very long, hard look at who we have allowed into this country. All right, it has been a quick start to the day.

Tomorrow, we're going to do it all over again. Noon o'clock on the radio. Tonight, 5 o'clock Eastern on Newsmax 2, the Todd Starn Show. Hope you tune in. Benjamin Netanyahu is going to be one of our special guests.

Get out there. You guys be safe and be good, America.