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Alright, good. It's gone. Um. Yeah, it probably should have been gone a little earlier, but hello, everybody. Welcome to the Tom Sterns Radio Program.

Happy to have you with us today. May I just say what a weird day this is going to be and has already been.

So, last night, we're sort of in the middle of a holy war, if you will. No, not with the Muslims. No, it's Trump versus the Vatican. And did not have this on the bingo card, ladies and gentlemen, but that's the way it goes. Nevertheless, we're always prepared to bring you.

Great analysis, whether you agree or not. I think we can all agree it is great. And I'm going to try to unravel what's just transpired here.

Now, President Trump is under fire for sharing what many are calling a blasphemous meme on True Social. Have you seen the meme? If you have, you know what I'm talking about. But if you have and so this meme, this is what the other side is saying. And by the other side, just about every Catholic in America, they're saying that President Trump Blass is committing blasphemy because he shared a meme that portrayed himself as.

Jesus Christ healing a a sick person. As military angels descend from the sky, and people are gathered around the bedside of this ailing individual. And we don't know who the individuals are. There are a lot of fake memes based on the original meme.

So if anybody calls in today and says it was Jeffrey Epstein, we're hanging up on you. Because it was not Epstein.

So, anyway, there were no words attached to this. It was just, he put it out there. And of course, all of this within the context of this particular story after a weekend where the White House and the Vatican were trading barbs. And I'll get to that part of the story in just a moment, because there's this is not all happening in just spontaneously. This is a very well coordinated plot against the President.

And we'll get to that in just a moment.

So, anyway, I'm looking at the meme, and people are very upset over my initial take on what's going on here. Because I'm not quite sure. It It actually means what people think it means.

Now, let me just step back for a second. I'm not going to speak for the president. I reached out to the White House earlier today and I said, hey, can you provide us with some context? What sort of message was the President trying to convey here? And We got nothing.

So they're not commenting on it.

However, we understand that the meme has now been deleted from True Social. Dare I say it has been raptured from the President's social media feed. Am I allowed to see that? I don't know. I'm stepping on so many minefields today.

It's landmines today. It is not going to be a pleasant conversation. I'm just curious. Any of you have a problem with what the president posted? Do any of you have a problem?

And do you consider it to be blasphemy? And here's the reason why I asked that: because in this image, which originally was posted by a guy by the name of Nick Adams. He's a big Trump supporter. And this was back in February. And the context of that post was that Donald Trump was healing the nation.

And so, within that context, okay, I get it. It's kind of weird, but okay, I mean, I get that. But even if it even if it was and I do believe it was, quite frankly, tone deaf, because I think even with the Trump administration, you've really got to think for a second, how is this going to play? And I don't think they thought that through. I really don't.

But again, the question is. That image of the pres is that blasphemy? And I don't think it is. I don't believe it reaches the, you know, people are saying, oh, it wasn't Jesus that he was portrayed as one of the disciples. Yeah, okay.

I don't know. I have no idea. I mean, if somebody could, Dylan, could you do me a favor? Dylan, could you just Google the latest photo of Jesus Christ, and maybe we can do a. a picture-by-picture comparison.

What's that, Dylan? You can't do that. Why can't you do that, Dylan? He's not pictured. There are no pictures of Jesus Christ.

Thank you, Dylan. You're welcome.

Well, yeah, there is that one where he's, you know, the blonde-haired, you know, white guy. No, that's I don't think that's I don't think that's accurate. Just to Just going to step out on faith on that one.

So, anyway, so we have to define blasphemy. All right. So, this is the actual definition of blasphemy. The act or offense of speaking sacrilegiously about God or or sacred things. Using that definition, I don't think the image actually rises to that level.

Was it in poor taste? I guess. I again, I don't know the context. I mean, politically tone deaf? Oh, absolutely.

Absolutely there. But from what I could tell, they weren't trying to mock. This wasn't a mockery of Jesus. This wasn't a mockery of our Lord. This was Donald Trump healing the nation from the Wounds inflicted by the demonic Democrats.

That's what I think is going on here. But I may be off base. I don't think I am, but I may be off base on that.

So anyway, everybody is going all bonkers crazy and all these little conservatives, you know, the young conservatives getting off their private jets, coming off the golf course at the Masters to hyperventilate about all of this stuff. And at the end of the day, I'm not sure. Is it going to matter? I don't know. Is this going to impact independent Catholic voters?

I don't know. I just don't know. But what I can tell you is That the Obama administration was, in fact, guilty of blasphemy. and promoting blasphemy. And I posted something on X.

And people are saying very unkind things about your host, but I'm used to that. No worries. But let me just say this. I posted a bunch of photos. There was one talking about how Obama was the first black gay Jesus.

That was on the cover of Newsweek magazine, by the way. Had a little rainbow colored halo. You want to talk about blasphemy? Let's have that conversation. Wouldn't be sitting under a tree in a thunderstorm when I'm having it either.

You want to talk about blasphemy? What about the image, the sculpture, the painting rather, of Barack Obama being portrayed as crucified on a cross?

Now that, ladies and gentlemen, is blasphemous. Or, for example, the Obama votives, the candles, or the Obama nativity scene. Or the Obama prayer shawls that were provided to people attending the 2012 Democrat National Convention in Of All Places. Charlotte, North Carolina. I mean, if you want to have that conversation, we can have that conversation.

Or what about the what about the sculpture, the actual sculpture from the guy in the Windy City, the artist in the Windy City. It was a sculpture literally called Chicago Jesus. I mean, if we want to have that conversation, fine, let's have that conversation. But they actually thought Barack Hussein Obama was their Lord and Savior. They sang worship songs to the guy.

Remember that? Barack Hussein Obama. Mm-mm-mm. Still gives me creeps to this day.

So, anyway, if you want to have that conversation, okay. But the problem is I think it's really about political messaging. And the White House has got to be smarter about this kind of stuff. They just do. The messaging's all over the place, and I know you can't control the President.

I get that. But you gotta try. You got to try. Because people are going to interpret this, and this is all everybody's talking about right now. They're not talking about the incredibly successful thing that happened in Islamabad when.

For 21 hours, the Vice President of the United States Tour Iran a new one. They're not talking about that. And the reason why is because that's how the media is. That's how the Democrats are. And quite frankly, you also get a chance to see and be reminded once again.

of who the Never Trumpers are in the Republican Party. And many of them will kind of will sort of feign support for Obama, but when something like this happens, they run for the Hills. Why, I just I'm just so appalled by what my president has done. Jesus, Jesus loves you. Yeah, Jesus loves all of us.

But there's no reason for you to take the Holy Bible, the hardback edition of the Bible, and beat President Trump upside the head with it. I mean, come on.

So at the same time, and I'm happy to support my president. At the same time, the White House got it gotta lend us a little helping hand here. You gotta gotta s step away from the intentional minefields. Why do I keep saying that? Landmines.

It's Monday. Bear with me.

So, anyway, this is where we stand with all of that. And I don't know what to tell you other than the fact that the president deleted it. You know, early on, this president said that he doesn't apologize for anything because he doesn't make mistakes. I think he may have made a mistake here. I do.

Do I think it was blasphemy? Absolutely not. And if anyone with a half of a brain would actually look up the definition, you would see that. But I can see why some Catholics might be offended. But quite frankly, I'm offended at the Catholics, and I want to explain why.

What's wrong with you people? And why is your church so left and why are they so woke? That's what I want to know. Because here's what's really going on here. This is nothing more than a concerted political attack.

against our President and is being perpetrated by the Vatican, and by Pope Leo.

Now, I'm a Southern Baptist. I don't get into all the Catholic stuff. How you guys want to do what you guys want to do in your church and the Vatican and all that. That's your business. That is your business.

Proud to march alongside Catholic friends in the marches for life? Absolutely. But we've got a lot of differences in our theology, and we're not going to talk about that today. This is not a church service here. But I want to go back to last week and set the context for you.

Nobody's talking about this, but you need to understand the context of all of this.

So last week David Axelrod remember you've seen him on See You N.

Okay, well nobody watches CNN, but anyway, he's on CNN. And David Axelrod was. The former senior advisor to Barack Hussein Obama, also a longtime, very powerful Democrat strategist. David Axelrod last week met privately with Pope Leo. And Pope Leo is now just days later.

attacking President Trump. I want to know what they talked about. I want to know what they talked about. On Sunday, you had three cardinals of the Catholic Church appearing on 60 Minutes, and they all rebuked President Trump's immigration policies. Ladies and gentlemen, I don't believe in coincidences.

I just don't. And it certainly appears, and going all the way back to 2025, that Pope Leo has weaponized the Catholic Church to advance an agenda that is promoting open borders and illegal immigration. Is he as far left radical as the communist pope you guys had, Pope Francis? No, I don't know. I don't know.

I would originally, I think we all said, okay, this guy's going to be moderate, but I don't know. They've also chosen sides in the Iran war. No, they have not, Don. What are you doing? Why would you say something like that?

Well, it's very simple. You're either for the United States or you're for Iran. There's no wiggle room. And if you're for Iran, then you are for all sorts of terrorism, state-sponsored terrorism. you are for the enslavement of women?

There are, there's no wiggle room here. It's not. Yeah, but No, no, no, no, no. This is. all about good versus evil.

And they chose the Catholic Church chose to side with evil, Iran. Pope has been blasting this president's policy since 2025, and he's using the pulpit to play politics. And I will say this. President Trump. Gotta give the guy credit because he actually held his tongue for a very long time.

But then he came out over the weekend and he said, You know what? Enough of this nonsense. And he put out a statement.

Well, I'll read some of the statement a little bit later on. But he said: basically, in essence, Pope Leo is soft on crime, and he's a very liberal pontiff.

So again, in my estimation, The attacks on President Trump coming from the Vatican. are nothing more than a coordinated attack. And I guarantee you it was the Democrats and the Vatican working in cahoots. And between you and me, I find it to be distasteful. uncharitable, and quite frankly unchristian.

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However, I would have voted for the janitor at the junior high because he wasn't Kamala.

So it was election math. It certainly isn't because of Donald. And I don't worship at the altar of Trump. What he's done most recently is blasphemous. It's horrible.

And this guy is continuously elevating himself in stature. He's putting his pedestal so high that he needs new ladders to get up there.

So and the second worst thing about it is supporting it in any way. There are no attacks Against him from the Vatican. They're calling him out. And he's not beyond reproach. He's not beyond criticism.

You know, wrong is wrong. And the thing is, Donald Trump is not a 13-year-old girl. Put the damn phone down. Don't want to hear your tweets. Don't care how you feel about something.

We have children missing. We have all kinds of stuff going on. Fix the problem and stop giving us your opinion, Donald, because we don't care. All right, first of all, his name is Mr. President.

Let's show a little bit of respect here, Dave. Mr. President. He's not acting respectful, Todd. It doesn't matter.

Look, what that's so how is it blasph how is it blasphemous? I want to know how does that mean blasphemous? For any man in any way to elevate himself to a position where he thinks he's even comparable to Jesus. How do you know he did that? Did he say that?

Uh Ready? No, no, no, no, no, no, because he didn't say anything. He shared, you go ahead and justify it. from your end, you know, you think that he can do no wrong. But that's incorrect.

Dave, I haven't justified one single thing. And if you were not, go back and listen to my opening comments and my remarks, and you'll hear exactly what I said. Dave, I got a run: 901-260-5926. Dave said President Trump needs to shut up. Stop posting things on social media.

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All right, welcome back, everybody. It is the Todd Stearns radio show, and we are expecting President Trump to. Make some comments. We don't know what this is all about. We do know that the I i it could be We just don't know.

It could be the situation in the Middle East. Maybe he's going to say something about this image. That he posted on the True Social.

So we'll keep you updated and we'll try to bring those remarks to you live when the President speaks to the nation. All right, let's go to the phone lines here: 901-260-5926. Let's say hello to Johnny in Memphis, Tennessee, listening to us on KWAM. Hi, Johnny. What's on your mind?

Oh. What would it take for you to denounce Trump? I mean what What what can he do? to make you denounce them and say that he's wrong. What what does he have to do?

Well, I did say the post was tone deaf. What else do you want me to say? I can't say. You see, Johnny, I know what you want me to say. But I'm not going to walk into your trap.

Because ultimately, we don't know the context of that painting? We just do not know. And I will say this, Johnny, has Donald Trump done anything that would lead you to believe that he was mocking Jesus Christ? Yeah. What?

No, that is not. No, I'm talking about leading up to that meme, Johnny. Has Donald Trump done anything to disparage the Christian faith? Yeah. Yes, yes.

He held the Bible up back. When he held the Bible up and and he proclaimed to be a Christian. But yeah, they still he wants to go. And blasphemy. Christian.

How is he blaspheming Christians, Johnny? How is he blaspheming Christians? Todd, you know better. No, I'm asking you a question. You're not answering my question, Johnny, and I'm giving you a chance.

How is he blaspheming? How has he blasphemed Jesus Christ? With that picture, Assa. What in that picture is he doing that is offensive? Depicted himself as Jesus.

No, sir. How do you know that? How do you know that? It is easy because I know Donald Trump and you know it too. It is easy.

And then so and then you asked Dylan to to to look up Jesus. Google Jesus, and then you say there's no picture of Jesus.

So the white nationalists, conservative, they've been lying all this time?

Well, let me put it this way, Johnny. If you've got a Polaroid of Jesus Christ, I want to see it. I don't have to have one. The picture of them is in the Bible. The picture of them is on.

What page? What page? Oh, you mean the painting? Johnny, come on. No, no pictures actually.

And then when you go to your church and your church fans has a lot of pictures of Jesus Art.

So so so I mean so they so you saw in his last. This whole time about cheese. You know, and that's what you were saying.

So, so Johnny, you think that the actual so the church fans, uh, and many at least in the southern states, uh, many churches have fans because of the AC, or it gets a little hot in there. Um you're telling me that the portrait on the fan is the actual portrait of Christ. That's what y'all depict it as. No, we don't have church fans. We have a pretty good AC unit.

Yeah, and the church that you go to, they say this is Christ, you know, and you got him on your window. You got them on them beautiful stained windows. That's Christ. And then, like I said, you're white conservative. Friends, they got a picture of Christ.

That's who they worship.

So and then and then you so out this this whole time we have been lagging. Yeah. What a shame. I have no earthly idea what you're talking about. Honestly, I really don't.

I will tell you this: that Joe Biden, a man who, by the way, professed to be a Catholic, is a man who directed his FBI to target members of his own religious group. The FBI went in and tried to recruit Catholic priests to spy on their parishioners in Catholic churches across this nation, starting in Richmond, Virginia. This is the same administration, by the way, the Biden administration, actually ordered the FBI to target pro-life Catholics. They knocked down the doors of their homes and raided homes and pulled people out to arrest them for being pro-life. The Biden administration, they actually threw elderly grandma's in prison for praying outside an abortion clinic.

And you know who never complained about that? I'm going to tell you, it was the Pope. It was the Pope Francis and this one. They said absolutely nothing as members of their own denomination were being persecuted by the Democrats in the Biden administration. That's what bothers me.

And Johnny, I'm looking here at Donald Trump's track record, and everything I see shows me that he has a great respect. For Christianity. Is this man a Christian? I don't know. That's between him and God.

But I can tell you that every single breathing moment of his administration, he's been standing alongside people of faith and people of the Christian faith. Johnny, good luck. I appreciate the call, Johnny. All right, let's go now to the president. It pertains to you more than anything.

Yes, sir. It's fantastic. It's so such an honor to meet you. And I think you voted for me, do you think? Uh maybe.

I heard you're a great supporter. We appreciate it. Thank you. I'll put this over here. Why don't we have a news conference with the customers?

Want to do it? Sure. You don't have to speculate too much. I think they're looking about hormones straight and various other things. Do you have any questions?

Mr. President, did you post that picture of yourself depicted as Jesus Christ?

Well, it wasn't depicted. It was me. I did post it, and I thought it was me as a doctor. and had to do with the Red Cross as a Red Cross worker there, which we support. And uh Only the fake news could come up with that one, so I...

I do. I just heard about it. And I said, how did they come up with that? It's supposed to be me as a doctor making people better, and I do make people better. I make people.

A lot better. As an example, Uh the 11,000, I understand your husband's going through treatment. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. He's going through some very uh serious cancer treatment, so this goes a long way.

Yes, sir, it sure does. Mr. President, are another round of talks planned with Iran? And if so, will you send Vice President Jamie Vance with?

Well, he's done a good job. Steve and Jared, they've all done a very good job. I can tell you that we've been called by the other side. They'd like to make a deal very badly, very badly. What was the sticking point over?

You said it was over nuclear. It was uh over nuclear, very similar, yeah. Very good. I guess you're listening. It's over the fact that uh they will never have a nuclear weapon.

Iran, you're marking it down, Iran will not have a nuclear weapon. And We agreed to a lot of things, but they didn't agree to that. And I think they will agree to it. I'm almost sure of it. In fact, I am sure of it.

If they don't agree, there's no deal. There'll never be a deal. Iran will not have a nuclear weapon, and we're going to get the dust back. We'll get it back either. We'll get it back from them or we'll take it.

Mr. President, as far as the naval blockade is concerned, what's the end game? Is it to force Iran back to the negotiating table? Is it to open up the strait so that gas prices ultimately come down? Maybe everything.

I mean, both of those things, certainly, and more. We can't let a country blackbel or extort. The world, because that's what they're doing. They're really blackmailing the world. We're not going to let that happen.

And you know the amazing thing is we don't Can you believe this? We don't use this trade. We don't need this trade. We have our own oil and gas, much more than we need. We have more oil and gas than Saudi Arabia.

Think of this: we produce more. Saudi Arabia. and add Russia to it. substantially more and by next year we'll have double that amount.

So we don't need it, but the world needs it. Many ships are heading to our country right now as we speak to load up with the best. Really, I guess you could say somebody said the best and sweetest. I don't know exactly what sweet is, but when it relates to oil, it's a good thing. But they're coming to our country.

Right now, there are many boats coming to our country.

Now, it could very well be this is going to be settled before that. We've uh been called this morning. By the right people, the appropriate people, and they want to work a deal. They would like to work a deal. Is it your anticipation, Mr.

President, that other countries will assist in this effort to blockade Iran and those states? Yeah, other countries are going to also. Which countries, sir? We don't need other countries, frankly, but. Uh, they've offered the services.

We'll let it be known probably tomorrow. Has the locking started, sir? Yeah, started at 10 o'clock. We should rather be copied by Robert Meer. support to you and your policies and creating the news for defending religious freedoms.

Downstairs you owe Pope Leo an apology. Will you apologize? No, I don't, because Pope Leo said things that are wrong. He was very much against what I'm doing with regard to Iran. And you cannot have a nuclear Iran.

Pope Leo would. not be happy with the end result. You have hundreds of millions of people dead. And it's not going to happen, so I can't. Uh I think he's very weak on crime.

And other things.

So I'm not. I mean, he went public. I'm just responding to Pope Leo. And you know, his brother is a big MAGA person, and he's a great guy, Lewis. And I said, I like Lewis better than I like the Pope.

No, you have to have. uh law and order in our country and And that's what we have now. We have the lowest crime numbers we've had in a long time, despite the fact that many criminals were allowed into our country, but we've gotten a lot of them out. We've done a great job on crime.

So we have the lowest murder rate. in a hundred and twenty-five years since 1900. The lowest murder rate.

So we believe strongly in law and order, and he. He seemed to have a problem with that, so. There's nothing to apologize for. He's wrong. And the other thing is he didn't like What we're doing with respect to Iran, but Iran is a uh wants to be a nuclear nation.

So they can Exterminate the world, not going to happen. And Mr. President, if the Wi-Fi deal is not reached by the end of the ceasefire, does your threat from before still stand? Yeah, I don't want to comment on that, but it won't be pleasant for them. Let me put it that way.

Has your timetable changed in any way in terms of ending this conflict? No, it's going on. Right now there's no fighting. Right now we have a blockade. Uh they're doing no business.

I didn't like seeing boats come out. if they were doing business with Iran, but if they weren't, no boats came out.

So now Iran is doing absolutely no business, and we're going to keep it that way very easily. Don't forget, their Navy is gone, their Air Force is gone, their anti-aircraft is gone, their radar is gone, and their leaders are gone. Do you still want to charge them?

So quotes coming from predominantly going to China, Mr. President, have Xi Jinping breached out and are you going to be leaving? He would like to see this ended also. He certainly wants it ended. Everyone, I want to see it ended too, but we can't give.

a nuclear weapon to a group of people that have caused nothing but havoc for 47 years. Look, I'm the president that's done something about it. This should have been. And many other presidents regret that they didn't. Yeah, so I'm doing something.

Ukraine impeachment documents that were just declassified show that Eric Charomella not only submitted false information but that he had no direct knowledge of the alleged conversation. All here to say, do you feel vindicated by those documents? Yeah, I do. Are they a bunch of crooked people? You're talking about with respect to.

Uh all of the things that they put against me, yeah.

Well, it's come out that in so many different ways thank you very much for that question, I appreciate it. But in so many different ways. The election was rigged, the 2020 election was rigged. We found that out. What you just said is just a piece of that.

It's a big piece, but minor relatively speaking compared to what they did. They cheated on the election, they cheated on the vote. They cheated in every way possible, and it's the only way we got an incompetent man to be a president. And he was an incompetent. Many of the things that we're talking about, even including this, this would have been settled a long time ago, not now.

And it should have been settled by other presidents. But the election was a rigged election. We can't let that happen to our country. This concealment of extulpatory information, what should happen?

Well, it's a very serious charge against them and the Democrats. They cheat. They can't get elected with their policy, so their policy is no good. Uh they want to have uh I mean open borders. They want to have men playing in women's sport.

Do you think that men should play in women's sports? I really don't have an opinion on that. You don't, I'll bet you do. No, I'm here about. Is it your understanding that during this period of time while the U.S.

has instituted this naval blockade that oil companies will be able to send their oil tankers through the strait, get more oil out from this area? Yeah, I think they're going to be doing very well there, and I think they're doing very well here. You know, a lot of tankers are coming up here. They're coming in empty and out full. And we have a great capacity to take care of that business.

May we know your name, please? Have you delivered to the White House before? I have not. My name is Sharon Simmons. And are the White House good tippers?

Do you know? Wait. Potentially. Yes, very. Mr.

President, can I ask you something about this? Thank you. You reminded me. Mr. President, one on Cuba, sir.

You previously said that you had no problem with countries sending fuel to Cuba after previously promising to Tyrica. What happened? What changed?

Well, we're going to see with Cuba. Cuba's another story. Cuba has been a terribly run country for a long time. It's got a bad system. It's been very oppressive, as you know.

And we have a lot of great Cuban Americans, all of whom just about voted for me. And they were treated very badly. In many cases, family members have been killed. They've been beaten up and mugged and liked. Terrible things happened in Cuba.

and Cuba's a failing nation. And we're going to do this and We may stop by Cuba after we're finished with this, but Cuba. is a nation that was It's been horribly run for many years by Castro. You said face? All right.

There we have it. The president conducting an impromptu. Press conference there on the portico of the White House. And all of this started when a DoorDash grandma showed up with the delivery order for the president from McDonald's. And this is all about promoting his no-tax on tips policy.

And we don't know. We don't know what the president ordered, but it looks like he's pretty hungry. He's got two sacks there of food. And Dylan, I got to tell you, I'm concerned the media is asking far too many questions, and the food's getting cold. You're right.

Yeah, he's got to put that in like the oven or something. McDonald's. Yeah, McDonald's doesn't do well after it starts to cool down a little. No, and the burgers start to solidify. It's true.

I don't know what's going on there. Also, the president was asked about the meme, and he says it was meant to depict him as a Red Cross worker.

So that's the president's explanation. He says he was not trying to portray himself as Jesus. All right, 901-260-5926. We have got to take a break. Again, the president taking questions there at the White House.

And if you were listening, you could also watch the president because we now had that upgraded ability over on our YouTube channel. And we'll be doing some chats here in the break.

So if you want to head over and give me a chat, talk to me, you can do that right now. Go over to the Todd Stern Show YouTube channel. We'll be right back. Hey Todd, David from Washington State. A simple reminder to all your naysayers that in Mark 16 we learn Jesus was not the only man healing and casting out demons.

So this portrayal of Trump doesn't have to mean that he's portrayed himself as Jesus Christ. All right. Well, thank you. That was David from Washington State leaving us a shout-out over on the app. And look, David is right.

There is in the Bible, the disciples and other Christians were out there healing people, and they were doing so through the power of the Holy Spirit.

So, but again, I. I don't want to do too much of a deep dive read into all of this, but at the end of the day, the question is: was this meant to offend Christians? And I just do not believe that was the case. And there's nothing in the president's background or history that would lead us to think something like that. I know we've got a lot of you folks on hold, and I want to give you time.

So hang tight, don't hang up. We're going to give you time to weigh in coming up after the top of the hour news break. Also, we have the very latest on the blockade, Eric Swalwell. Why are the Democrats. Protecting this guy.

We'll talk about that coming up next on the Tom Stern Show. Live from the Liberty University Studio in Memphis, Tennessee, it's common sense conservative commentary from Todd Starn. Uh I'm sorry. This American All right, welcome everybody. This is the Todd Starnes Radio Show broadcasting border to border, coast to coast across the fruited plain.

Great to have you with us today.

So, look, I want to give you a quick update on this blockade at the Strait of Hormuz. We now understand more than 100 oil tankers are heading to the United States as the blockade forces them to reroute.

So, just a little bit of geopolitical history here. If you were wondering why Cuba was so vitally important to what President Trump and the Secretary of State have been up to, a lot of folks thought it had to do with Venezuela, but in actuality, it had to do with all of the Gulf Coast. Ports and oil refineries because those ships have to move through that area very close to Cuba. And that's why the United States needed to make sure that Cuba was in friendly hands.

So a lot of moving parts here. But if you look right now at the Gulf of America, the number of oil tankers that are in the Gulf of America just Really simply unbelievable. Our telephone number, by the way, 901-260-5926. Hang tight. We're going to be getting to your calls in just a moment.

That's 901-260-5926.

Well, very excited to welcome a special guest. He is the vice president of external government relations for Focus on the Family. We're going to get to him in just a moment. In the meantime, let's go, let's try to work in a couple of those phone calls. First, let's say hello to AP in Gainesville, Georgia.

AP, what's on your mind?

Well, if I listen to the President and all those tankers that are coming here, A load up. I was just wondering why we're having to face such high prices, especially on diesel.

Well, that is a great question, AP. I'm curious, do you what are you paying for diesel now if compared to, say, maybe a couple of months back?

Well I drove 500 miles last year and it cost me $70. I drove the same distance this year and it was $160. Yeah, I think it's a very good idea. And it's just a Pick up truck.

So it was over right at six dollars a gallon.

Well, I will say this. We got a note yesterday from our good buddy, Joe Messina, over in Southern California. And the price tag, let me see if I can't call this up. He's paying upwards of eight dollars a gallon. Right now for gasoline.

Look, AP, they're going to blame it on what's happening in the Middle East, but those prices have been high. And by the way, high diesel prices, that's why your prices are not coming down at the grocery store quickly. That's the reason why.

So the president says it's going to happen quickly. We're just going to have to wait and see, AP. Yeah, I wished it'd happen yesterday. No, well, I understand. You and me both.

And I will say this: that is going to be a concern, especially as we head into the summer months. A lot of people going on vacation. You're going to look at airlines raising their ticket prices, and that You know, again, you don't want to see that happening as we get closer to the midterm elections. Nope, sure don't.

Well, appreciate you taking my call. All right, AP, happy to do it. All right, 901-260-5926. Let's go to the Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line. Say hello to the president of external and government relations for focus on the family, Timothy Gagline.

He's also the author of an incredible new book called What Really Matters: Restoring a Legacy of Faith, Freedom, and Family. Timothy, good to have you with us today. It's great to be with you, Todd. I'm a great fan of yours of many years, and it's really a delight and a blessing and an honor to be with you. And just for the record, Timothy, you haven't posted any religious memes lately, have you?

I have posted no religious memes lately, I promise. Good. All right. Just want to clear that up. You know, it is interesting when you look at what's happening in this country, and we've been hearing these stories about churches that are filling up, young people that are going back to the faith.

They're seeming to embrace the faith. Is that accurate or are these just anomalies in the country? I think it's absolutely accurate. I'm an inveterate optimist, but even if I weren't, the empirical data says it's the case. And it's, and frankly, Todd, it's why I wrote what really matters.

Because if we are really going to restore faith, family, and freedom, we've got to see the planting of seeds like this germinate. And we are seeing them. In fact, just by coincidence, I was on a debate. You know, on Good Friday morning, and my interlocutor said, dollars to donuts. What do you think is going to happen this Easter?

I said, if you're in the bluest part of America or the reddest, I think you're going to see churches filled to overflowing. Young people are going back to church, especially young men ages 18 to 25. They want to be married. They want to have children. They want to have a faith tradition.

And I think absolutely we are seeing a moment of national revival. Where do you think that desire is coming from? Because clearly the previous generation, their moms and dads, probably not as religious. I'll tell you with some precision where I think it's coming from. It's a combination of COVID.

You know, we are made for friendship and relationship. And this generation, particularly, felt that enormous sense of lockdown. They missed graduations. They missed dating. They missed being, you know, elementally with people they like being with.

And I think it's seared their soul. I think that's part of it. And I think, particularly, Todd, among young men, they have lived through not just a digitally distracted age, but a really era of brokenness. And I think they are seeking on this hand fellowship, friendship, relationship. But I think they're also seeking the spiritual sense.

And I think that if we're going to really address and break what we all call the loneliness crisis, it is this combination of religion, faith, and returning to regular community of fellowship. And I think it's all to the good. Decades ago, and I can't even remember who was speaking, but in the context of this speech, it was a pastor, and he said, What's going to happen? And this was back like in the 1990s. He said, What's going to happen is you're going to see these continued attacks on young men in America, but especially the friendships that young men have.

And usually, guys have a best friend, and they said, You watch what society is going to try to do. They're going to try to sexualize that sort of relationship. And that is exactly what they did. It's just really appalling the level of attacks being directed at young men, especially in this country. It really is.

And it's why, in what really matters, I devote an entire chapter to what I call restoring the American male. And I'd like to, if I may, not overwhelm anybody with data. But I think this is worth saying. And if people forget everything we've said, I think this is really worth internalizing. In America today, Todd, men account for three out of every four suicides or drug overdoses.

And you ready for this? Approximately 15% of all American men say that they have no friends. I was speaking at the weekend at one of the Ivy League schools. And after my remarks, I kind of opened it up for questions and answers. And I asked specifically the men in the auditorium.

Whether this figure comported to the reality of their era. And they said, unfortunately, it did. They said they knew many young men who not only had no really close friends, they really didn't have friends per se. And I asked, what do you attribute that to? And much of what they said is what we're discussing today: this kind of breakage in what most people would say is a continuous idea of community, family, fellowship, neighborhood, kind of, you know, the area that is most familiar to us.

And in this era that we're in, this is a particular reality among the attack on masculinity and femininity. It has ramification. It's the kind of thing we're talking about.

So you write this book and you say, what really matters? What does it matter to? Things like faith, freedom, and family. Yeah, I'm glad you asked. I was speaking a couple of years ago on behalf of Focus on the Family.

And after I spoke, an undergraduate came up to me and she said to me, Mr. Gagline, I agree with most of what you have said. But she said, why is the political class not talking about what really matters? And I've not forgotten that. And I think that she was right on board.

And I think that the political class understands now that government can make things a whole lot worse. They can't tuck a child into bed at night. They cannot save a marriage. There's no doubt about that. But the political class needs to learn that they can incentivize the breakdown of the natural nuclear family.

They can incentivize the kind of things that have brought us to this moment in 21st century America. Again, I think this is one of those for such a time as this books, especially at this juncture in American history. And I think the President and his administration have done a terrific job of putting out a lot of the dumpster fires and helping sort of point the ship in the right direction. But my concern is for the future. I mean, you know, you've got a lot of issues that are still undecided and things that have not been dealt with.

What would you say is the most important thing that we need to be focused on right now as a country? The single most important thing that we need to be focused on as a country is cultural renewal. Our friend at Breitbart famously said that politics is downstream from culture. But, Todd, as you and I know, downstream from all of it, you know, may be politics, but upstream at the top is the things of the spirit. Culture is downstream, you know, from things of the spirit, and politics after that.

We have got to be focused on the things of culture, the things that really matter. We've got to be focused on rebuilding and telling a new generation about the goodness of marriage, the goodness of babies, the goodness of children, the goodness of being part of a faith and religious community. I'm a very serious Christian, and I think most people understand and know that when life seems to be top of the body. The mountain. It's wonderful to be a part of a community like that.

But inevitably, in the course of life, there are moments where you're not on the top of the mountain, you're in the valley. And we know from the idea of the Judaic Christian tradition and in the American experience that this kind of community is the thing that demographers tell us over time is the greatest guaranteer, not only of physical health, but of mental and emotional health. In other words, the natural law has a practical application. Timothy, we're going to have to leave it there. There's so much more to this topic that needs to be discussed.

Real quick, though, where can people go if they want to get a copy of your book, What Really Matters? I'm very happy to say it's widely available, Todd, wherever people love to buy books. Everything from Amazon to Target to their other favorite places. And I hope everybody truly will pick up a copy of what really matters as a tool in the toolbox toward the kind of cultural revival we all want.

Well said. All right. Timothy Gagline, everybody, Vice President of External and Government Relations for our friends over at Focus on the Family. Timothy, great to see you, and we sure do appreciate you coming on the show today. Todd, thank you so much.

Be of good cheer. All right. 901-260-5926 is our telephone number. That's 901-260-5926.

This is the Todd Stern Show. All right, let's get right to the phone lines here: 9012-60-5926, Tom in Atlanta. Tom, what's on your mind? Unfortunately, I ran. Yeah.

So, I'd much rather be thinking of planting tomatoes right now. Anyway, the. I listen to a lot of talk radio shows, and yours is right there at the top of my favorites, of course. But this guy was on this show last night. And it's a mainstream radio network show, you know, conservative mainstream.

And he's an Iranian American or American Iranian, whatever. He's here, he's been here a while, but he still has people that he's in touch with back there. And he was telling me or he's not telling me, he was telling the audience and his host of the show that when these people who got mowed down in um earlier in the year thirty thousand or however many there were. That their family to identify them had to go unzip the bags, the body bags, one by one, and see if that was their relative. And, you know, until they found them, hopefully it's not sooner rather than later.

But then they were charged a fee For the number of bullet holes that were in that body.

so that the uh Iranians could rear rearm their you know, uh, re up their all Now, if that's actually so. I don't know what to say other than Please, Mr. President. Finish. The job.

This is beyond any adjective I can come up with to describe that behavior. Yeah, look, it's an ugly thing, Tom, and I don't think that we will ever know the full extent of what happened over there. But I can tell you this. That they have to finish the job, and I think that President Trump understands that as well, and I think the president. Is going to finish the job.

You know, what I find fascinating here, Tom, is that the lengths that Donald Trump is going to to prevent us from having to wipe the civilization off the face of the earth, so much so sending J.D. Vance over there for 21 hours of peace talks, which of course amounted to nothing because the Iranians refused to compromise. They refused to do anything.

So, right now, I think that President Trump has the upper hand here. I think that Iran is going to pay a very stiff economic price here in the very near future. The question is: how long does it go on? Me, I just want to see things done. Right, it's been what 50-something days.

We've been there, let's get it over with, and let's move on to the next big issue. Yep, that's you got it. Thank you, Todd. All right, Todd, thank you for that call. Yeah, it's um called Pay for bullets This is insane.

And this is the reporting that the families of the protesters who were killed, had to pay for the bullets that were used. To kill their loved ones. I mean, this is. This is disgusting.

Now, these are multiple reports.

Now, the Todd Stern show, we haven't been able to confirm any of this, but I'm just going to read this to you. This is the reporting of others, not not me, but according to multiple sources, families are being told they have to pay for each bullet used to kill their relatives. The amounts range from whatever the amount I think it roughly translates to $480 to $1,700. That's American money. Unbelievable.

But this is who the Iranians are. These are evil people. Evil people, ladies and gentlemen. And Tom is right. We need to finish the job over there.

All right, got to take a break here. 901-260-5926, our telephone number. That's 901-260-5926.

Woo, sweet mercy. We haven't even gotten to swallow well yet. And also, we have some new polling data that shows an overwhelming number of Americans actually support what the president is doing in Iran right now. What does that say about the MAGA podcasting crowd?

Well, we'll tell you coming up. All right, welcome back, everybody. This is the Todd Stearns Radio Show, Isaac Hayes today. Always a good Monday when you got some Isaac Hayes for you. The CBS News poll finds Americans overwhelmingly support the president's goals in Iran.

So this was released on Face the Nation. What's important for the U.S. to do regarding Iran? Eighty-seven percent opened the Strait of Hormuz. Oil access eighty one percent.

Make sure Iran's Uh people are safe and free. Stop Iran from attacking other countries at 76%. Permanently stop Iran from getting a nuclear program, 76% as well.

So again, when you look at it, it's sort of like the transgender issue for the Democrats. It's really a 95-5 issue, and yet the Democrats just have lost their minds. I think the same thing applies to the conservative podcastanis. out there in Podcastan.

So, all these MAGA podcasters are completely out of touch with their audience.

Now one thing that most Americans do believe is that the White House needs to do a better job of explaining our goals. sixty two percent say the the milit the White House has not done that. And that's a fair criticism. To be perfectly honest with you. Trump's overall job approval rating stands at fifty percent.

Let's go to the phone lines 901-260-5926. Say hello to Black Conservative in Memphis, Tennessee. Black Conservative, it's been a while. Hope you're doing good. I am the most erudite mind, brilliant thinker, and political philosopher.

I'm doing great. How about yourself? I'm doing pretty dandy now that I'm talking to you. I feel erudite myself. You know, I've been spending my time trying to keep America great unlike these fair liberal politicians.

who try to undermine everything that this President is doing keep this country safe. I think there's something to that, black conservative. I think a lot of other people are doing it as well. What do you see here? We're moving towards the midterms.

What do you think the big issue is heading into the elections?

Well, there's no issue. other than the fact that you said it a minute ago, there's no issue. The base is intact. Trump fought we're we're intact. This idea that we're falling apart and we're upset that we voted for the President and all that nonsense that that crazy you know, the crazy people on the host on the view talk about.

you know, them dodo birds. You know, but uh you just read the numbers there. Yeah. They approve of what the President the American people approve of what the President is doing. Case closed, that's it.

No controversy over that, you know. The fake news media, they're never going to be truthful about anything, you know? Um there was a From day one when the Operation Freer took place They jumped ship on day one after it was uh announced that it had started.

So but you're reading the numbers there with the poll, put it Face the Nation CNN poll. There are the numbers there. American people are what is president.

Well, they are, and I haven't doubted it. Look, there are forces at work trying to divide this coalition that Trump put together. And I think a lot of it has to do with they're not getting the amount of maybe access. Maybe they're not getting the money that they thought was going to come. Maybe they're not even getting the invitations down to Mar-a-Lago.

I don't know. But I think the clinical term is butthurt, black conservative. Yes, absolutely. They're not getting access because they're going to blow You know, they're not they can't let 'em know everything because you you have all these leaks and leaks. coming out about this and that.

So, you know, they can't, you know, they they have caught on now. You you just can't Let the news media know anything ahead of time because they can't be trusted. The media can't be trusted. As President said last week, you can't trust these people. But uh but yeah, um And I want to say one more thing.

The President does not owe The Pope in apology. nothing. You know, I I get tired of this. You know, you got to have an apology for this. You got to apologize for Tiger Woods, you got to apologize for Sergo.

Uh Sergio. Because he brought you with him. He destroyed a perfectly good driver.

Well, that's his driver. You know, if you got a million bucks in the bank, a couple of drivers broke ain't gonna ain't gonna hurt you that bad. You know, this is crazy stuff. Everybody got to apologize to three three million people because they did something You know, out of character. No, Sergio doesn't owe me an apology, neither do Tiger Woods, and neither do the president owe the Pope an apology.

I tell you who the Pope owe an apology to, since he wants to come out of his cave every blue moon. I tell you who he owe an apology to. The 200 little children who was. sexually assaulted and molested by those bishops and priests And in in their parishes, maybe you need to come out and apologize for that. Those two hundred thousand little kids and cases for their uh Systematic cover-up of that.

Mr. Polk, why don't you do that? If not, go back in your cage. And that's what we call, ladies and gentlemen, an inconvenient truth. By the way, look, I had an erudite mind.

I'm a man of much foot learning. You know, I should have told the president this about the Pope. But this here and there. I'm watching. I was going mad in the break.

There was a big banner on one of the news channels that said Trump attacks Pope. No, the president did not attack the Pope. He was responding to the Pope's attacks. Absolutely. And the the poke was a rich you know, Here's here's the deal over there.

They They hung a guy. Who was a wrestler? Just hung the guy in public. You know, hung the guy, the Polk didn't speak about that. Not one.

The protesters, 40,000 them inflicted punishment on them. Why would the Polk at the end? You know, I have a respect for the Polk, but he needs to stay in his lane sometime. He kind of be oh, out there in left field sometime. I don't know.

Maybe he's been locked up too long or something. But anyway. But young that. Uh Black conservative. Let me ask you a question.

Did you get down to Augusta National? You know, I did not. I said, but I watched Aurora Mecca Roar. I watched it yesterday, but I didn't get a chance to get down there. Yeah.

Yeah. Here's what I want to know. I got a bunch of guys I know that are pastors. I want to know how they always get the invites to the masters. I want to know what's going on there.

I better find out, too.

Something in this soup is not tomatoes, you know. But I mean, I didn't go down to the masters. I don't know. I made a flipped my car on the side or something.

So that's why I don't know. That's why they're good anyway. All right. Black conservative, it's been far too long, my friend.

Well, I'm going to keep you locked in. I was looking at the app. I'm going to lock the app, and I do apologize for. couldn't have run it for a while, but Hey. Yeah.

It is what it is. We got you back. I love it. All right. Black conservative, ladies and gentlemen, the man who has the most erudite mind of anyone in our great listening audience.

So there you go. Dylan, did you catch any of the Masters over the weekend? I saw that one hold-in-one shot, and that is the extent of my Masters watching. And the Eagles, I tell you what, they were fired up. Yeah, they were.

Fired up. Yeah, there's some controversy surrounding the Masters this year. You know, I wasn't going to bring that up. But uh is it Scotty Scheffler? played the did he not like play the course like for weeks?

I don't know. So they the controversy that I saw was the guy that won Rory McElroy. Yeah. It was the fact that he had been playing that course for like two months straight before the Masters. Are they allowed to I'm just pleading ignorance here?

Are the golfers actually allowed to do that? As far as I know, only he was allowed to do it because he won last year.

So he had this. I don't know how it works.

Someone else can probably call in and explain this, but. He had access to that course and not, I don't know how many other people did. People are mad about it because they're like, well, of course he won because he's been there for the past two months. Yeah, they're saying that he had an unfair advantage, is what they're saying. Yeah.

He was on an interview too, and he was speaking about how that's literally been his life, his Augusta course. And I'm like, well, yeah, makes a lot of sense. Yeah, I know Outkick Sports is all upset about this. And they say, oh, yeah, he got had an unfair advantage heading into the Masters. I said Scheffler.

I was talking about. I met Matt Roy. Anyway, I don't know. I mean, still, I don't know. You're going to have a good game.

You know, and there's no guarantee that you're going to have a good game, no matter how many times you play the course. That's true. I mean, the wind blows. A little bird, you know, flies into your shot. You can't practice for that, unfortunately.

Somebody coughs. Yeah. Someone has their phone out. I get it. Yeah.

So I'm reading one of these. I'm reading Fox News. And they had this uh this they had this op-ed. About why, you know, and again, it's the freaking masters. Can we just, why does everything have to be so political, right?

It's the masters. Yeah. So anyway, this op-ed was like, oh, I was wandering around and there were nobody was on their phones. The fathers were with their sons explaining the game. People were laughing and co cavorting and Drinking adult libations and laughter aplenty, you know, all this kind of like stuff.

It was overkill. But I'm sitting here going, and the whole point was, no one, and no one was on their cell phones. No one had their heads, you know, looking into the snow, you know, their heads down, looking. Yeah, you know why? Because it's against the rules.

Yeah. Nobody could have a phone. You'll be carted away if you have that phone. It wasn't as if the entire Augusta, Georgia area had like this epiphany of like, oh, we've got to put away our phone so we can hug each other again. No, you morons Okay.

You can't have a phone there. I love it. There's a lot of rules. And they're very fancy, too. They're very decor.

You can't be wearing t-shirts. I don't know. So you got to have a collared shirt. You're allowed to wear shorts, though, right? Or pants?

I hope so. I don't know. It's like. This is getting a little too far. All right, we got to take a break here, folks.

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I am greatly concerned about the The advent of the humanoid robots. Dylan, this story out of CNN has me greatly disturbed. How filming your chores. could train the android butlers of the future. I I kind of like this, but keep going.

Well, according to CNN, with the evolution of artificial intelligence, humanoid robots have become the latest frontier in the race to dominate advanced technology. And they're rolling out all of these new programs.

Now, there is a huge appetite for first-person footage that can be used to train robots known as egocentric data or human data. Over the past several months, startups have stepped in to supply that demand by collecting and annotating videos from thousands of contract workers around the world. From manufacturing, factory warehouses, retail, nursing homes, and hospitals.

So, if you're reading between the lines here, one day. Instead of going to see a nurse, you could have like this little robot humanoid person strolling up to you and poking you with a needle.

Okay, fine, I don't like it anymore. It's taking jobs. Bend over. What if the person recording the video messes up? Right, exactly.

What happens then? I mean, what happens? You saw, what is it, the, is it the way, who's it, the Waymo cars? What are they called? Yeah, the self-driving cars.

Yeah, the self-driving cars. You hear about what happened in Nashville over the weekend.

Well, I'm not surprised. I didn't hear about it, but I'm sure it crashed. No, multiple cars just stopped in the middle of like interstates or roadways. Yeah, no, that's pretty terrifying. I would never let that happen to me.

If I can help it. Yeah. They call them what? Weight. Those are the self-driving cars.

Yeah. Autonomous cars.

So they're basically being driven by robots. And they just stopped in the middle.

So, what happens, God forbid, you know, the robot says, Oh well, Mr. Stearns. Bend over, cough, and all of a sudden, like the robot craps out, and you've got like a probe sticking up your wazoo. What do you do then? That might be the worst constructed scenario I've ever heard.

But I mean, you've got to think that someone has to think about it, I guess. What about pet care? Could you imagine a robot like, you know, manhandling your poor cat? Or I don't know. Squirrel, whatever you got.

That's terrible. Yeah, I mean you ra you raise a lot of good points here.

So They're apparently submitting 10 hours a video.

So, for example, Dylan, we could like film what you do. And we could turn it over to AI, and they would have somebody that they would train a robot to do what you do. Yeah, now I'm thinking about intentionally messing up. There's an organization called Micro One based in Palo Alto, California, which is where all the dystopian films start, by the way. I don't know if you've ever noticed this.

And it has about 4,000 robotics generalists in different households across 71 countries. And they say that there are hundreds of thousands or tens of thousands of these videos out there. The growing demand for data in robotics mirrors the early trajectory of ChatGPT and other AI chatbots. trained on hundreds of billions of words harvested from the Internet. And what they do is they look for text patterns to generate the likeliest responses to user prompts.

They're saying this is like a multi-billion dollar. Deal here. Oh, it's got a section here. Here we go. It says still 90% of the customers are based in the U.S.

And their assumption that American consumers have the spending power to adopt humanoid robots early, some are willing to pay more for data from U.S. households, even though the hourly wage can be as much as triple that of a worker in Vietnam or India. Why would I want what are we going to pay the robots now? I don't think so. What scares me is the fact that um What other data are they getting from our phones from daily usage?

Like, you know, that that that one company that I think it was a car company, but they were using the um those security tests that you have those annoying security tests that you take. when you have to like identify the stop signs in this photo. They were using that as data for AI. The whole time. They say the Indian kitchen is very different from the U.S.

kitchen. Curry I'm just guessing. Probably a lot more curry. Probably a lot more curry. A broomstick in India is very different from a broomstick in the U.S.

I have no idea what that means. I don't know, folks. This is all going to end very badly. That's all. And then don't even get me started on the Islamist robots.

I mean, at that point. It's all over. I'm just saying. That's a Terminator movie. That is Terminator 5, probably.

I guarantee it. All right, got to take a break here, folks. 901-260-5926 is our telephone number. Would you buy a robot? Would you hire robots to do work that humans would do?

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Well, we've been following the developments coming out of Out of the White House, the President earlier today, talking to reporters and said, Look, I did not blaspheme Jesus. He was portraying some sort of a medical worker honoring the Red Cross, and that's what was going on. You heard the President's remarks live here on the show.

Meanwhile, you've got the Catholic Church that has really declared war. On the President, cut number five, please. Colonel McCarroy, we are speaking in a church here in Washington, D.C. that serves a largely immigrant. population the pastor asked us not to share.

or publicize this parish name or location. What's he worried about? He's worried for his people. They live under fear. And thus Our mass count.

within at the Spanish masses in our archdiocese. went down 30%. from the year before. 30%, that's a lot. and is all fear.

Before he became Archbishop of Washington, Cardinal Robert McElroy served as the Bishop of San Diego, one of the busiest stretches of the southern border for illegal crossings. I feel it got to a point where it was getting out of control. Under Biden. Under Biden, yes. You believe in strong borders.

So what's wrong then with the current policy? This is a roundup of people throughout the country. People who have been living good, strong lives, been here a long time, raised their children here, made their children born here, and are citizens. That's what our objection is. But this was disgust.

during the campaign. was widely discussed. And yet President Trump won the Catholic vote. over Kamala Harris handily, fifty five to forty three per cent. He promised to secure the border.

He talked about deportation. And a majority of Catholics voted for the policy. I would like to know what Catholics feel about this indiscriminate mass deportation. I think that it's very clear the American people are saying we really didn't vote for this.

Well, they would s well, certainly the polling data would disagree with the Cardinals there. But again, this idea that President Trump is attacking the Catholic Church is simply not true. The President is simply responding to the attacks that originated from Pope Leo and from the Vatican. And now all of a sudden they're trying to play the victim card, and we're just not going to let them get away with it. If the Catholic leadership wants to jump into the fray here and get involved in politics, well, fellas, you got to put on your big boy pants because it's a rough and tumble sport.

Well, excited to welcome our next guest, author of a great new book called The Rainbow Chaser: The Man Who Gambled for Success and Broke even. Former Louisiana Congressman Bob Livingston joins us on our Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line today. Congressman, good to have you with us. Thanks so much, Todd. It's great to be with you.

And as a Catholic who disagrees with the Cardinals, I'm equally doubly pleased to be here with you today. You know, it is interesting, though, because the way the media is, and you know how they are, the Democrats, I mean, in the last administration, you had Joe Biden literally weaponizing FBI agents to infiltrate Catholic parishes, targeting pro-life Catholics, knocking down the front doors of their homes. I don't remember any condemnation of that behavior coming out of the Vatican.

Well, the immigration issue has just gotten out of hand. We've got too many people here that are criminals and they're epedophiles and murderers and all the like. And I cannot understand the position of the Catholic Church.

So they're wrong. The American people are right, and we just need to turn that around. You know, Congressman, I want to switch over to your book, The Rainbow Chaser. I mean, you have had quite a colorful career in our nation's capital. What was the deciding factor in writing the book?

Dodd, I'm a prosecutor. I was a prosecutor before I went to Congress, six years putting the crooks in jail. I believe in solid criminal prosecution against people who violate the law. Whether this violent or civil or anything else. The fact is, I Believed in what I did, and I never did it for political or personal reasons.

And I never realized that there are people, and particularly in recent years, who have misused the legal process to go after innocent victims for their own personal or political reasons. And I think it's not just a fear that I have, but it's happened against many friends of mine, and they're listed in the books. And then, when they finally came at me, I got so angry that I decided to write a book about it.

Well, it's by and by the way, folks, the book will be in stores on the 14th, so that's tomorrow.

So you're going to want to make sure you get a copy of The Rainbow Chaser: The Man Who Gambled for Success and Broke Even. You know, you mentioned some of those folks. I mean, it is, I love the phrase you use here. They've weaponized lawfare, and they've certainly been doing this against the president during his first term in office and now his second term in office, and even while he was out of office. But it's not just the president.

A lot of conservatives have become victims of these activist judges. The president was probably one of the most significant victims of the process. Lawfare has been the use of the authority of the state against innocent individuals since the beginning of time. But it's only become refined in the last 20 or 30 years, and the Biden administration went out of their way to employ it with devastating consequences. Yes, they went after the president, and he had the resources to fight him and to beat it.

But too many people find themselves lives disrupted, their entire careers ruined, they're bankrupted, often sentenced and prisoned. And lawfare is a dangerous, dangerous symptom of tyranny that has to be brought to bear, has to be turned around, or else this country, this free society of ours, cannot survive. You know, Congressman, there's a phrase you used. You talked about the tyranny of the deep state. A lot of people think Oh, that's just a made-up term.

That's a make-believe thing. But you say it's a real thing. Yeah, they ruin people's lives. I mean, this guy, Jack Smith, who worked for the Justice Department over the last four years, went after President Trump. But he also went after people like Governor Bob McDonald of Virginia, who, after four years, it's a one-term state, after four years, he's one of the most popular governors in the history of the country, of the state of Virginia.

And two weeks after he left office, all of a sudden he gets charged by Jack Smith and dragged through the courts. His marriage was disrupted. He ended up getting a divorce. He had to spend millions and millions of dollars in legal fees. He was tried.

He was sentenced. He was looked at the possibility of going to jail. He went all the way to the Supreme Court. And at that point, the Supreme Court threw the whole case out, saying there was never a violation of law in the first place. And they admonished Jack Smith.

I mean, that's the kind of thing that's happened to people right and left. Senator Ted Stevens. Was convicted two weeks before his election. He lost his election after a wonderful career in the United States Senate from Alaska. He founded Alaska, who was virtually as one of them.

And he ended up getting convicted two weeks about two months after the case was thrown out, excuse me, after the uh uh uh election and after he'd lost his election, uh the judge threw out the case and said that he was no longer uh uh that the pro the prosecutors I'm sorry the prosecutors had had uh uh violated their legal Authority, and the case was dismissed completely. But he couldn't get his job back. He couldn't go back to the Senate. And a couple of years later, he tragically died in a plane crash. What is the solution here long t it seems like this is not some sort of an easy fix, or maybe it may be, but how do we fix it?

Well, I think the most important thing is that prosecutors and certainly U.S. attorneys and the Attorney General of the United States and district attorneys around the country need to understand that they have tremendous authority. And if they abuse that authority, then they do risk the possibility of tyranny. I think that what we have to do is make prosecutors liable, criminally or civilly, if, in fact, They pursue a person for personal or political reasons without evidence and without probable cause. I am absolutely 100% for legitimate criminal prosecution.

It's the only way a free society can exist is if we have legitimate law enforcement. But if they abuse that authority, they ruin lives. They devastate families. And the abuse of the authority is just intolerable. It's got to be reversed.

And the only way to do it is to get the leaders who are responsible for these offices to impress upon their prosecutors, do it legitimately, do it fairly, but don't abuse your authority. All right. Well, Congressman, we're going to have to leave it there. Congratulations on the great new book. It's called The Rainbow Chaser: The Man Who Gambled for Success and Broke Even.

It'll be available in bookstores all across the nation tomorrow. And, Congressman, as somebody who spent time in St. John the Baptist Parish, I notice you're a big green wave guy, so go green wave. Two lane. Go green wave.

They've had pretty good years in the last few years. They have. They have. We're hoping to keep it up. But not quite SEC standards, but we're getting there.

Good stuff. All right, Congressman, good to have you on the radio show. I know we're getting you on my Newsmax show as well. Congratulations to you. Thank you, Todd.

All right, there you go, folks. Former Louisiana Congressman Bob Livingston, the book called The Rainbow Chaser: The Man Who Gambled for Success and Broke Even. All right, we've got to take a break here: 901-260-5926. That's 901-260-5926.

This is the Todd Starn Show. It's all good and All right, it's been a rather fascinating thing to watch, but Eric Swalwell has been taken out by his own party. This is pretty remarkable to watch what transpired over the weekend. And Swoll has now announced he's suspending his campaign for governor. There are calls from Republicans to pull out of Congress and to have this man expelled from Congress.

The allegations are just unhinged. But ugly stuff. And of course, now you have the Democrats who are saying you know that they're trying to say they're taking the moral high ground. Here. But let me be clear.

There is absolutely nothing moral about These godless, immoral Democrats. Period.

So now we understand the House Ethics Committee has opened an investigation into Swalwell. The Ethics panel said in a statement that the investigation into Swalwell relates to allegations he may have engaged in sexual misconduct. including towards an employee working under his supervision. What is it that, um What is it, Messina? Joe Messina on Friday on the show said that the nickname, they got a nickname for this guy back in California.

that his name is Swallow. Anyway, Swalwell suspended a run for governor Sunday, did not respond to any requests for comments from Politico. He says the allegations are all false. The accusations first reported in the San Francisco Chronicle as well as CNN. Nancy Pelosi says that the accusations must be investigated.

Four women described sexual misconduct by Congressman Swallow, including a former staffer who says that. He raped her. This is from CNN. Telling the news of the news organization, I was pushing him off me, saying, No, he did not stop. This happened in his office.

She says the congressman raped her when she was heavily intoxicated and left her bruised and bleeding. Three other women who spoke with CNN also alleged various kinds of sexual misconduct by the Democratic congressman, including Swallow, sending them unsolicited explicit messages or nude photos.

Now, let me just say something here. First of all, Innocent until proven guilty. Right. But that's not how the Democrats play. It's guilty unless otherwise told.

By the Democrats. They set all the rules here.

So, therefore, since the Democrats set the rules, they've got to play by these rules. And that means this guy is guilty as charged. It's unbelievable and it's somewhat laughable. Had it not been, these are very serious charges, ladies and gentlemen, incredibly serious charges. And if this is true, this guy needs to go away to jail for a very long time.

If everything is as it has been alleged. But the challenge here is that everybody knew it, and everybody's known it for a very long time. This is nothing new. As a matter of fact, here is This is former Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy. Take a listen to Cut Eight.

If you got the briefing I got from the FBI, You wouldn't have Suawell on any committee. And you're going to tell me other Democrats couldn't fill that slot? He cannot get a security clearance in the private sector.

So would you like to give them a government clearance? You asked me questions about Santos. You asked the questions about Swawell. Not only was he getting a clearance, he was inside an Intel committee. He had more information than the majority of all the members.

Did you ever raise that issue? No. which you should have. You're going to tell me there's 200 other Democrats that couldn't fill that slot, but they kept them on it. The only way that they even knew it came forward is when they went to nominate them to the Intel Committee.

And then the FBI came and told the leadership then. He's got a problem. Mr. Smith. That jeopardized all of us.

All right. So he's got a point there because this guy would have been open to blackmail, Congressman Swallow, no doubt about it. Here's what needs to happen, and I'm curious to hear your thoughts on this. There's actually a sex assault slush fund in Congress. That's right.

They're using your tax dollars, and they paid out some $17 million in settlements. I don't know about you. I want to see I want to see who is doling out the money. Who are they protecting? We need to know, ladies and gentlemen.

I don't care if they're Republican, Democrat, Independent, don't care. Don't care, but we deserve to know if we've got perverts working up on Capitol Hill. We'll be right back. Oh. All right, these numbers are just staggering.

And when you hear these numbers that I'm about to share with you, the entire Make America Healthy Again movement, all of the efforts to get Americans in shape, it's going to make sense to you.

So there are a lot of different surveys out there, but they all seem to point. In the same direction, according to this data. Roughly 73%. To more than 75% of all American adults are considered. Overweight or obese, and obesity rates alone are hovering around.

40 to 42 percent.

So, by the way, and these are multiple surveys. A Gallup poll, by the way, and this was self-reported data. Found that 43% of Americans describe themselves as overweight, and it's also just as bad among children and teenagers, obesity affecting about nearly 30% of adolescents and 22% Of children, women have a slightly higher problem with their weight than men do. And this is a look, overall, this is a big issue. And that's one of the reasons why we've been so excited to introduce all of you to our friends at PhD Weight Loss.

And on our Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line today, we're just honored to have Dr. Ashley Lucas, who is the founder and the advisory consultant of PhD Weight Loss. Dr. Lucas, what an honor to have you with us today. Hi, Todd.

It's great to see you. Thanks for having me.

So you know, again, these numbers, I think I don't delve into these specific kinds of numbers every single day. And quite frankly, it seems a little staggering to me. Are you surprised by those numbers? I'm not surprised because I've been in the field of weight management for, I don't know, the last 20 plus years. Um I do think it's obviously a huge issue.

We can't be strong as a community, as a nation, if we aren't strong in our health. It's my biggest purpose and passion is to help empower people to be able to step up, to better their lives, and to become self-sufficient. I hate when we're dependent on big food, big pharma, anything outside of ourselves.

So that's my ultimate goal: to help people to be able to understand they can create the change if they want to. They can do it pretty darn simply. And I don't know if you've experienced that. I don't think it has to be as hard as we believe that. It is.

And to be self-sufficient, to be self-empowered, to be able to create change and keep that positive change there. You know, I thought it was interesting just going back in history, and there was an amazing quote from President John F. Kennedy, who was a fierce proponent of being physically fit and getting out there and being active. And the kind of language he used to describe America's children would get you canceled in today's culture. But sometimes, you know, you have to have those tough conversations.

And I know a lot of people are trying so many different things. You know, they're trying to take off a few pounds and nothing seems to work. And then you guys come along and you've created a really unique formula that's actually been very, very successful. Yeah. We've helped over 12,800 people nationwide.

Collectively, together, we've let go of almost 500,000 pounds. Any age, you know, I think a lot of people come in saying, Oh, I'm just too old. I can't do this anymore. I was just reading. A story of a lady who came into us.

Her name is Ann, and she's 80 years old and she dropped 50 pounds, dropping about two and a half pounds per week, naturally, by the way, no medications.

So it is totally possible. And we just take the guesswork out of it. We create a customized meal plan for every single client. We guide them in exactly what, when, how much to eat. They're not hungry.

They feel good, they sleep better, their focus is better. I mean, it is an amazing process when you're able to give your body the food that it really needs at the right time. When you don't starve yourself anymore, you can take the body out of what I call survival mode and allow it to feel safe enough again to be able to release the fat much more effortlessly. That's the ultimate goal. Myphdweightloss.com is the website, folks, and I want you to go and check it out.

Myphdweightloss.com. When you go to the website, what are they going to find there, Dr. Lucas?

Well, they'll find a lot of really great stories, real people. Who are just like you, who were skeptical, who have tried everything before. And can finally see success. We have over 2,000 five-star reviews sharing stories, pictures, videos. And then, of course, the ability to give us a call.

We are real people, no AI. When you give us a call, you'll actually talk to a real person, and we'll get you booked with one of our nutritionists. Our nutritionists are amazing. They've been with me for years, they know exactly what's going on. And we're going to get to know you and your story because our program is customized.

Like I said, we create a customized meal plan for you. But first, we have to understand where you've been, what you've done, what your goals are. And then the length of your program is customized to your needs.

So it's not just 90 days or six weeks. It's going to be built around you and your needs.

So that's why the first step is to schedule one of those consultations. And because you're hearing this on the show today, that consultation will be waived. You just need to mention Todd Starnes and we'll do that for you.

Well, it's look, it's been a great thing for me. And I'm sort of in the early primordial ooze phase of jumping into this. And I'll tell you, you know, working with a nutritionist, it's almost like having a weekly coach, you know, who you just sort of plan your week ahead. And, you know, it's really, you know, I personally have seen the difference. And the food is pretty spectacular.

I'm a big fan of the cream of chicken, by the way. Oh, excellent. Yeah, it's pretty. Great stuff. Yeah.

So, so anyway, and again, I think a lot of people are somewhat skeptical because they've been through all the diet programs before. This is really not about dieting per se. Yeah. You are creating a new lifestyle. And that's why we need to do it one step at a time and why we are so high touch.

Your coach, Heather, is amazing. All of our coaches are amazing. Ebony, Lori, I mean, Jenny. We help Clients all over the country, every state. And so, what You were mentioning, Todd, is we like to provide the food.

There's no additional cost to the food, it's just there for you as a tool. We'll ship it to your doorstep, it arrives there. And we have it paired with your customized meal plan.

So, again, you're going to know exactly what to eat. We're going to provide a lot of that to you if you want. You can always use your own foods if you want. But we find that the process is more easy, more reliable when we're able to manage a bit more for you at the beginning. And then, just like for you, Todd, your dinner meal.

Is on your own. It's your responsibility. It's about becoming empowered to know what you're doing for your body.

So we need to start with one meal at a time.

So it's not overwhelming.

So, you'll understand dinner. And then, as we let go of dinner, we're going to, or after you understand dinner, we're going to let go of lunch and breakfast and snacks.

So, by the time we get you where you need to be, we let go of that belly fat because that's what we focus on: the belly fat. You're totally self-sustainable. You understand what to eat, when to eat, you understand your thoughts and your behaviors because 80% of any change comes from the mind. That's why you have a weekly coach, a counselor guiding you through it. I don't know, Todd, were you surprised at your hunger levels?

Were you hungry? Did you have cravings? Tell me a little bit about that. No, not really. It was, you know, what I found fascinating was, you know, I'm pretty much from sunup to sundown, you know, I am behind a microphone or in front of a TV camera.

So it's hard to get into that, you know, that routine. But one of the things that I was really impressed with, I know this is going to sound silly, but I do like butter. And Heather, the great nutritionist, was like, yes, you need to have butter in your diet. You know, maybe not a whole stick, but. But you know, and so it's I haven't lost any of the flavor, um, any of the foods.

You know, I've I've cut back on some things, but um, but I think it's been a really great journey so far. Yeah, I love to hear that. I think most people believe that when they're losing weight, they're going to be hungry. It's miserable. Most of the time, you are.

But through this program, by eating the right foods, by healing your metabolism, you're going to be amazed that you don't have hunger. You don't have cravings. You're really liberated from food. Again, no food noise, but naturally. You can drop weight quickly.

You can drop weight sustainably. Enjoy the foods. Have rich foods, red meat if you like it. You don't have to be vegan or vegetarian. It's really a beautiful thing when we can feed our body the right food at the right time and allow it to work the way that it's supposed to naturally.

All right. So you mentioned that anybody listening, if they call in today, they get a free consultation. What does that look like and what number should they call?

So, the consultation is going to be about 30 minutes. You will meet with one of our nutritionists. We're going to talk about your goals, your health history, where you've been, what you've done before. We really want to understand where your body is at the moment. One thing we haven't talked about is the belly fat.

The belly fat Is a different type of fat than the fat throughout the breast of the body. It is this active. Tumor-like organ once it gets in there. It wraps around the liver, it gets in the organs, it gets its own blood vessels, it makes its own, grows its own blood vessels. And once it does, it starts to secrete hormones.

And these hormones create inflammation in the body, they drive continued hunger and cravings. It's like this thing, and all it wants to do is get fatter and fatter as fast as possible.

So we need to understand where your body is right now, how much of this deep belly fat, this visceral belly fat that you are carrying to understand the length of your program. We want to explain what's happened in your body. We want to know if you've had weight gain and loss, kind of your history around dieting so that we can create a customized meal plan for you. After that consultation, you will be ready to go. We will pick out foods with you.

We will ship them to your doorstep and you will get scheduled with your nutritionist for your first weekly one-on-one coaching session. That is really the best bet so that you can learn what your program would look like. The phone number is 864-644-1900. That's 864-644-1900. And you will get a real beautiful person on the phone talking to you when you give us a call.

I love that. All right, Dr. Lucas, we're going to have to leave it there, but I know we'll have you back soon. And thank you. It's really enjoyable.

Being a part of PhD Weight Loss. It's a great program, and we want to give Heather a shout out as well. That's right, we do. Thank you, Todd. All right, Dr.

Ashley Lucas, everybody, the founder of PhD Weight Loss, myphdweightloss.com is the website, and the phone number is there. All the information is there. And I just want you to understand this: 90%, this is on average, 94% of the folks who went through PhD weight loss experienced a reduction in insulin use, and 17% on average experienced a reduction in diabetes markers. It's working and it's working for thousands and thousands of people around the nation, and it can work for you too. And I mean, what did she say?

What, 500,000 pounds lost? That's the planet says thank you for that. I mean, that's a chunk of tonnage right there.

So, anyway, let me give you the website address again: myphdweightloss.com. That's myphdweightloss.com. Or if you want to call them directly, 864-644-1900, that's 864-644-1900. This is the Todd Starring Show. Uh Something from the mind.

Oh yeah. There's a All right, welcome back, everybody. This is the Todd Stearns Radio Show. Tonight we have a jam-packed program on Newsmax. Hope you watch the Todd Stern Show.

Also, ladies and gentlemen, just a friendly reminder. To go and pre-order a copy of my brand new book, it's coming out in May. It's called The Golden Age: How Trump Saved America. And I want you to read this book. It also lays out the blueprints for what happens in this country after President Trump leaves office.

So, again, I want you to get a copy. You could do that going to Amazon, Barnes Noble, wherever you buy your books. The Golden Age: How Trump Saved America. There's a report out there about Google News now suppressing. Right leaning Conservative news organizations.

Not surprised at all.

Now Few, gosh, what was it? A few months ago. We notice something happening on our Facebook page.

Now, we have humans that we talk to at Facebook. We do a lot of work with Facebook, and we post a lot of our content on Facebook. And we are in good standing. We have never been in violation. We always play by the rules, and we spend money on Facebook.

So a couple of months ago, noticed a little concerning trend, and I alerted our folks at Facebook about the trend. And they said, no, it's everything is fine, no big deal. The next month, we noticed the same trend. It was a downward trend. And keep in mind, on our social media pages, at least on Facebook, we're getting 100, 200 million engagements a month.

We have a lot of engagement on Facebook.

Well, we had a lot of engagement on Facebook.

So the new numbers came out just a few days ago. And our overall engagement on Facebook, not changing a single thing that we've done. Not a single thing, no mistakes, no issues, none of that. Our traffic is down, engagement is down some seventy five percent. And Facebook says they're looking into it again, but we can show them monetarily what sort of an impact it's having, numerically, what sort of an impact.

And the reality is that we're very careful with everything we post on social media. Like I said, nothing has been flagged because we do a very good job of making sure we play within the rules. And it's very clear that conservatives, or at least our page, has been throttled. There's no other explanation, down 75%.

So, I want to encourage you to do something here, and I know it's so frustrating. But there's only one way to guarantee that you are getting conservative news and content and information from us, which is all exclusive, by the way. There's only one way for you to get that information, and that is to go to our website. And sign up for our free newsletter.

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But look, it's really disappointing once again that we are having to deal with this, and not only with Facebook, but also with X now. A lot of people are really frustrated because of what's been happening on X since Elon took over. Initially, it was such a breath of fresh air. Right. I mean, uh Elon was Was really doing a great job.

And I'm not sure who's in charge now, but even on X, a lot of the people I follow. Do not even show up in my feed anymore. I have to physically go and search them out on X. And something's not right about that. It's interesting.

You can ban people on Facebook, but they can or on Twitter, but they can still see you. They can't engage with you, but and their stuff always shows up on your feed. But the people you actually follow and that you want to follow, all of a sudden those folks disappear. And again, for X, it's bothersome because we're paying a lot of money to be on that platform, and we're not getting a lot of return for that investment. It goes back to something Rusch Limbaugh said.

Many years ago, he said, do not base your business plan on somebody else's platform. And that is great advice, and we have not done that. And in a large part because of Russia's advice. That being said, many of you are on Facebook exclusively. And if that's how you're getting our information, you're not getting it.

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Alright, it's been a... Man, it has been a weird day, right?

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