PIZZA HUT IS BRINGING BACK THE RED HUT AND PAC-MAN

Live from the Liberty University Studio in Memphis, Tennessee, it's common sense conservative commentary from Todd Starn. That's right. I love Love is American. You know, Dylan, I've been trying to figure out the most important story of the day, and I know there are a lot of things happening. President Trump and Iran, and you've got my Mark Cuban and RFK Jr.

and Trump RX. And then, of course, you've got the big primary battles today in Georgia.

Well, six primaries across the country, but the ones we're most interested in. Are in Georgia and also the Commonwealth of Kentucky, where Thomas Massey, and they're saying that what's happening in Kentucky is really a referendum on Donald Trump. And if Massey loses, as many expect he will, then it will be proof positive that Donald Trump is in control of the party. And if not, they're saying if Massey wins, that somehow this will be a stain, a mark against President Trump. But anyway, we're going to get to all of that.

Also, a crazy story out of the state of Maine, and we're going to check in with our good buddy Ray Richardson in just a little while to give us an update on the Nazi that the Democrats have nominated to be their synagogue. They're putting up a Nazi against Susan Collins. And it's even worse, he's a perverted Nazi. And I know that That may be an oxymoron, but it is what it is. You know what I'm trying to do here, Dylan?

We've been getting so many letters and so many kind things. People have been sending a lot of things, you know, and after my hospital stay, and we just greatly appreciate it. We're going to read some of the letters, but the good folks over at West Coast Baptist College in California sent me, Dylan, they sent me jelly bellies, Dr. Pepper-flavored jelly bellies. And I made the mistake of actually just putting a handful in my mouth right before the show started.

And I'm still working on the jelly bellies. Todd, the last time that you were sent jelly bellies, you did the exact same thing. I know. I can't. I see Dr.

I see the Dr. Pepper logo, and I just can't help myself. You know what's funny? Those taste exactly like Dr. Pepper.

All the Dr. Pepper flavored things. 1,000%. They're very good.

So thank you to the students here at West Coast Baptist College, and they sent me a very kind note as well.

So greatly appreciate it. Anyway, that's why I'm trying to finish swallowing the jelly belly on national radio. Very unprofessional. But here's where we're starting off, Dylan. And I think this is the most important story.

of the year. What's your favorite pizza joint? It's got to be Marco's pizza. I think that may be more local than national. I don't know.

No, Marco's is actually a national chain. As a matter of fact, YouGov did a survey, 44,000 people, and they said, What's your favorite pizza joint? And number one on the list.

Well, I'll give you the top five. Marco's Pizza made the top five. Little Caesars made the list. Papa John's made the list. Number two on the list was Dominoes.

But the number one pizza chain in America is Pizza Hut. Interesting. And a lot of people have been turned off. You remember Cracker Barrel? Was it last year that Cracker Barrel, they hired the woke chick, the vegan, to run Cracker Barrel, and then she turned it into like this really, I don't know, Magnolia Farms-looking sterile restaurant where they painted everything beige and tan and all that kind of nonsense, gray.

Yeah, they tried to like minimalize it. Absolutely. Butchered it. And then they, I don't know, took on sweet or took sweet tea off the menu or meat. Vegan sausages.

Oh, God, the plant-based sausage, which is why they had to start serving booze. That's the only way you could wash down the stench from the plant-based sausage.

So, anyway, of course, they nearly bankrupted the company. Oh, and they ditched the old white guy. They ditched the cracker and Cracker Barrel. Yeah, yeah. Cracker and the barrel, both.

Pardon me. The salty American. And so.

So, anyway, they saw the error of their ways after they nearly went bankrupt, and so they brought everything back.

So, Pizza Hut did the same thing, right? They went completely modern. I mean, that's the whole thing: even McDonald's. You know, McDonald's used to be bright and colorful, and the restaurants were shaped like the old school restaurants were shaped like the big M in McDonald's. And you had all these colorful characters: Ronald McDonald, the hamburgler, Mayor McCheese.

Who was the Sasquatch guy? Oh, Grimace. Grimace thinks you're not Sasquatch. That's a creature in the wilderness. My apologies.

You had Grimace, and you had the little nugget things. Oh, those were always cute. The little nugget. And now it looks like some sort of a business park. There's no fun.

They're just sucking the joy out of all of these great, iconic restaurant chains. And they're trying to modernize everything. It's really kind of. Honestly, it's like a a Soviet style dystopian you know, view. It's like a brutalist, brutalist architectural style.

There's just, there's no creativity, there's no character, it's just all right. Nobody wants to get a hamburger from a place like that. You know, you want to be able to sit you want to be able to sit on, I don't know, a chair that's like painted bright red with the uh the M you know, the big M as the back of the chair. That's the way McDonald's used to be. And then they had the playground at the McDonald's.

Remember that? They had the playground. Oh, I've got to tell you this story. We were at one of those, and you know, the playgrounds used to be like at the front of the McDonald's, and then the McDonald's had the big, huge, you know, plate glass windows, right? They were very bright and colorful.

And so anyway, they had the covered slide. And the slide, so you climb up the slide, and then the slide, the way it was positioned, it's like are shooting out bodies toward the plate glass. And you know, it's all like made of plastic or whatever. It's all you know very whatever. It's not like the 80s when we had to slide down actual aluminum slides that were 700 degrees Fahrenheit.

This new generation of kids are weak.

So, anyway, we're sitting there eating our burgers. We were on a church youth group. I don't know why I remember this after all these years. This woman must have been I she may she was north of 300 pounds. And you could almost hear the plastic groaning.

As she climbed up the stairs, and all we heard was a wee! And she got stuck. She got stuck in that covered slide. And I mean, people were like. freaking out, they tried to bring up butter and tried to like loosen her up.

And they finally had to call the fire department and first responders should they had to cut the poor woman out of the plastic. I thought they would have made it a water slide. Put the hose down. We were afraid that if they did that, she would shoot right through the plate glass window. Fair enough.

So there was a lot of concern there.

So all that to say. Pizza Hut has now seen the error of their ways because Pizza Hut was one of these great. You guys remember when you wanted to go out for a pizza, and it's like if you're back in the 70s and 80s, it was Pizza Hut. And there was something, you walk inside, and you had the red vinyl booths with the red and white checkered tablecloths, and they had the red plastic cups. And there was, I mean, there was so much to do, like Pac-Man.

You know, back in the day, Dylan, we didn't have like handheld video games. You know, we had like machines and you had to have a roll of quarters And you would go and play Pac-Man. I remember actually growing up, they still had those before they butchered it. They still had the machines that you could go, like a whole separate room. And then for your mom, they had a salad bar, you know, so that you could have they had like, remember the Tiffany, they had like the Tiffany glass, you know, things over the lights and the dessert pizza.

Oh, the dessert pizza. Yeah. And the pizza, the pan pizza comes out there. You know, it's like piping hot, and it's just a fun, fun place. And they just completely destroyed all of that.

And Pizza Hut was about to go belly up.

Well, it turns out there's a guy. In Kansas, and they own about 100 of the Pizza Hut franchises. By the way, Pizza Hut was founded in Wichita.

So, all of our KQAM listeners, this is like your pride and joy there. A sign from Dalton Glasscock. I mean, it's the Pizza Hut. I mean, that's what you guys are known for. And they've decided that they're going retro Reagan.

And they are bringing back the Pizza Hut classic look. And something very interesting has happened. People are starting to come back to the original Pizza Hut restaurants and that there's just something about the about the nostalgia of it all. You know it's interesting because I was reading a survey. The uh the other day.

And the survey showed that many young people in Generation Z, you know, this is the generation that's going back to church. They're getting jobs, and maybe they're not going to college, they're getting married very young, and they're starting to have babies. These are, it's a very traditional generation of young people, and they are now embracing things like. Like the old school pizza hut. I was reading.

There are actually record shops, Dylan. You'll find this interesting. There are now record shops that are opening up that are actually selling vinyl albums again. You know, those things used to be like the jam up until about the. Wow, the mid-2000s.

I mean, you could still go to a record shop and get vinyl. And of course, now you can't find a place. But we're starting to hear reports of people actually wanting to go back and purchase vinyl albums again. Yeah, I feel like Gen Z, maybe it's the nostalgia of just missing that old look of things and the feel of things, like the happiness you feel. But the vinyl thing has been coming back for a few years now with Gen Z.

I even have a record player. I don't even know why, but like. I'll go to a vinyl store just to look around, just to smell the vinyl store. It's a weird thing to say, but like, it's just fun to go in there and do stuff that used to be a huge thing.

Now it's back. I mean, you have not lived until, of course, I grew up, I was sort of, I spanned the, we had eight track tapes. And then we had the cassettes. And you always had to have an ink pen or a pencil so that you could, you know, in the event the tape kind of got a little wobbly, you had to self- Self-roll your uh Your take it was. It's it's and back in the day when you had the Walkmans, your pockets were just bulging because you had all these cassette tapes in there.

And then, of course, somebody came up with the idea of, oh, let's create mixtapes. Yeah. And so that became a thing.

Well, my generation, we had the iPod Shuffle and the iPod Nano. The iPod Nano was probably the biggest thing of all time.

So like obviously everything else went away. Tim Sparks is the guy, and he owns the DeLand Corporation. I hope I got that right, and they're based in Kansas. And they're helping keep the dream alive. And I'm really happy to see this.

And it's really sad because we went through a time in this country where it was like we were. I don't know. It was like we were trying to sanitize everything, and everything looked the same. If I'm going to Wichita, Kansas, I want to see Wichita, Kansas. I don't want to see Memphis, Tennessee, and Wichita.

Or if I'm going to Memphis, I don't want to see Wichita and Memphis. You know, I want to see something that is unique. And unfortunately, and it's not just like with restaurants or with music, it's even radio, you know, because of all the corporate, the big corporations coming in and scooping up all their everything sounds the same. This is why I love Being a part of locally owned radio stations because we all sound different. We sound like the communities that we are a part of.

So I think this is terrific. And I'm curious to hear from you about this. Are you glad to see some of these companies going back and embracing The way things used to be. You know, they say that they say, oh, well, these are upgrades. Yeah, but sometimes when you upgrade, you're actually downgrading.

And I think that's what happened with Pizza Hut. And I'm so glad. That they are going back and embracing what worked for them. And I think you're going to see a lot of families, a lot of families, starting to go back out for Friday night pizza. And while you're waiting for your pizza, you're going to get a roll of quarters and you're going to head over to the Pac-Man machine and you're going to play Pac-Man until it's time to eat your, I don't know, pepperoni.

Just don't be putting the a pineapple on the pizza there. That's just. Yeah. That's a sin. All right, we got to take a break here.

901-260-5926. Would it not be great, though, if they had like a jukebox or just maybe just somebody playing vital records? At the Pizza Hut. I'd go for that. 901-260-5926.

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So we won't hold that against Mr. Producer, but. He did take her away, though. He did. We bear a grudge.

And she just sent me a photograph. You're not going to believe this.

So they were in Pennsylvania the other day. There's only one. Classic pizza hut left in all of Pennsylvania right now. It's a little town called Tuckahonic. Pennsylvania.

And she was there. And so she took pictures. And it's like old, it's like stepping right back into time. That's so nice. See, this is validation that this is a good idea to do this for every restaurant.

Yeah, absolutely. She says, just went to this pizza hut last week with the fam. And anyway, we're glad to hear from her. Also, Matt Velasquez down at Patriot Talk 920 in Houston. He's He owns that great radio station there.

He says, Todd, I'd love to see McDonald's go back to the old playground. My kids need to experience an all-metal playground in the middle of a Texas summer. I think I still have burn marks for when I was seven. I don't remember that from McDonald's, though. That's crazy.

I do remember the plastic slide. Those aluminum slides. That sounds terrible. Those things are brutal. You always had to have, that's why you had to make sure you had a tetanus shot when you were a kid, because you can survive the playground.

The worst, though, was the merry-go-round. Did you ever do the merry-go-round? Yes. You know, where they try to, you the whole point was the older kids would get it going so fast that the younger kids would go airborne. Yeah.

Of course. I mean, I was always a little bit taller as a kid, so I was never like. Bullied to that. Yeah, you didn't have that.

Well, I wasn't bullied. It was just good old fun, playground fun. I think you could put it in the category of bullying of some sort. Did you ever do tetherball? Oh, yeah.

Tetherball, and the whole point was to get it wrapped around the pole. Yes. At least that's the rule of the game. But when we were in school, it was about trying to hit the other person in the head with the ball. Yes.

Faces were at um In the Target. Oh, it was that. You came off the back when we were in school. You came off that playground field. You looked like you had been in a war.

That's the way it should be, though. Exactly. And then you have lunch. And then you have lunch. And then you have nap time.

And it's just a great day. That's what America used to be. That's why we're wusses now, right? We've got to get back enough of this. I mean, you've got I mean, they're sending kids out like riding bicycles with helmets and elbow pads.

Nobody did that back in the 80s. Nobody did it in the 70s. That's why we're a sturdy stock, our generation. I'm just telling you. I think I may have a dent in my head from when I fell off my bike.

Well, you haven't lived until you've fallen out of the back of a pickup truck, right? On a dirt road. You need these moments. That's right. Character building.

Yeah. It's character building, is what it is.

So, there you go. By the way, we have an update on a story. Do we have the police crime blotter? This story just reeks of the police crime blotter. All right, let's go for it.

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So And they say the wine was ironically chilled. 901-260-5926 This is the Todd Starn Show. All right, welcome back, everybody. This is the Todd Stearns Radio Show. Great to have you with us.

And, of course, a lot of primary elections underway today at this hour, six, six states holding primaries. We're paying very close attention today to what's happening in Georgia, also what's happening in Kentucky. And curious to hear from our listeners in both of those states whether or not you guys are seeing large turnouts. I will say in Georgia, early voting turnout has not been good for Republicans. Democrats have about 150,000 vote lead over Republicans there in Georgia.

So give us a call, 901-260-5926. That's 901-260-5926. Meanwhile, in the great state of Maine, you have just a weird, weird story. Story where the Democrats have put all of their hope and trust in a perverted Nazi guy who is running for the U.S. Senate against Susan Collins.

And the guy's name is Graham Plattner. He's already facing criticism over things he wrote on Reddit, making all sorts of graphic sexual comments. on his account, including doing unmentionable things in portable toilets. I want to go to the Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line and say hello to our good friend. And the radio said that used to be our great affiliate there in Portland, Maine, W-L-O-B, the Big Lobster.

Ray, good to have you back with us. Todd, nice to talk to you. How good is it to be on your show? I love it.

Well, you're so kind to join us, Ray. And we've been following a lot of the crazy stories coming out of this political cycle. And I have to tell you, Ray, this one really takes the cake what you guys are dealing with there in Maine. It is insane, Todd. But before we get to that, I need a favor.

Would you do me a favor? I'll do my best. I need a picture of that beautiful, sweet, iced tea you have in Memphis. 'Cause it's ninety one degrees in Portland, Mainland. Wait, wait, ninety one degrees in Maine?

Yes, it's awful. As you know, my wife and I moved to Maine. 41 years ago to get out of the Florida heat, and now that Florida heat here is not nice. Not nice though. Ray, here's what I'm going to do for you.

We know the good people down at Milo's, the sweet team, we're going to send you, we'll try to like FedEx you a gallon jug of Milos. Oh, I would love that more than you have any idea. That would make me feel like I'm home again. By the way, one of our great team members is a student at a university and is an aspiring theater person. And he accepted a job at the Maine State Theater up there, not too far away from Portland.

Yeah, so we're very excited for him. And I think our whole church group is going to be taking a field trip up to your neck of the woods very soon. I think that's wonderful. They're putting on the musical 1776 this summer. and honor the 250th anniversary.

I don't know if you're familiar with that one or not, but. It's a wonderful portrayal of how the Declaration of Independence came into being. And so they're doing that. It's a marvelous theater. We're so proud of it.

Well, we're just excited that you guys have a Southerner up there. I've already, and we spent like Sunday after church. I'm like, repeat after me: lobster, lobster.

So I think we've got him trained on the language. But look, let's just jump into this here. Tell us what we don't know about Graham Plattner, because what we do know is really bizarre.

Well, I think what we don't know is all about to come out. As you know, Governor Mills has suspended her campaign. Um she didn't drop out.

So, I mean, the people could say. I didn't realize this was this not and still vote for her, but He is the presumed Democratic nominee for the United States Senate. And I do want to say this, God, who served in the Marines, he went to war. I respect him for that. He is suffering from post-traumatic stress, and I understand that.

My uncle had it when he came back. from Vietnam.

So I understand that. But that does not excuse the behavior that he's displayed. the porta potty thing that you talked about this morning. I said to my audience. All right, I'm going to give you one minute.

If you have children under the age of eighteen listening to this, take them to another room. And I did read it on the air and and I've never even used some of these words, I didn't even know what they were, Todd. And my wife's in studio with me, I was embarrassed, but I felt like the people needed to know this is outside the boundaries, not of common decency, but of any decency.

Well, yeah, my thinking was: okay, if he's saying all of this stuff in public, what is he saying in private? I mean, I can't even begin to imagine. You know, the whole thing about the Nazi emblem, all of this stuff, it would have disqualified a Republican right out of the gate. And so I think that's why I'm just puzzled by all of this. Why in the world would the Democrats embrace this guy like they have?

Yeah. Mandami thing in New York.

So, what did they do? They went and found a well-educated guy. He actually, Mandami, went to school in Maine. at a private college called Bowdoin, which is a very high-end tool. He's got a big, toothy grin.

He wears $2,000 suits, $1,000 loafers. He's what you know, he looks like that rising young New Yorker And so the same people. Came to Maine and said, well, that won't work here.

So they went and found a guy who had served in the military. Who works on the water? He has a little orchestra farm that he does and. and he likes to walk around with his shirt off and so We have a lot of older women here like Oh, he's such a handsome boy. They don't really care what he said so far.

I think he's got him in the ether, if you want to know the truth. Because you're right. If I had said this, if you had said this, we'd be off the air He said this, and he's going to be the Democratic nominee for Senate.

Well, knowing what we know about Susan Collins is, is she going to be able to have enough juice to get across the finish line here? There's been a lot of frustration directed at rhino Republicans. And I think a lot of people look at Susan Collins and say, here's a person who has not been supportive of a lot of the President's key agenda items, including the Save America Act.

Well, she did support the Save America Act in the original cantation when they tried to put it through reconciliation. One of the things she said was that version did not even include proof of citizenship, so she did not support it there. But she had she did support the standalone bill. And respectfully, Todd, I will say this. Susan Collins.

has been our senator for a couple of decades. There is no one in Washington, DC, man or woman, Democrat, Republican, House or Senate. who works harder than she does. She shows up for every vote. She's never missed a day, no matter what.

And that's over two decades. If you ask her a question, she is always prepared to answer it. You may not agree with her always, and I don't agree with her always. But she's always willing to talk about it. Anytime she votes against the President's agenda, I asked her to come on.

We'll go through 30 straight minutes and why she did what she did. And sometimes I'll understand and sometimes they won't. But the point is, she did the work and her staff did the work. She's always prepared.

So I have the greatest respect in the world for Senator Collins. We're a tough state. We're a large geography, small population. The people at the top of the state are six hours driving time from the people at the bottom of the state. And other than being Mainers, they have nothing in common.

uh very different philosophies about life and politics and everything.

So I think it's tough, but I will say, she votes for the President 80% of the time. I know a lot of people say, well, that's not enough. But Reagan always said, if you're with me 80% of the time, you're my friend, not my enemy.

Well, and that well, and that's good to know. And that's a fair assessment. Ultimately, it's going to be up to the people of Maine to decide. And do you think that she will have the support to overcome this guy who's very popular with the Democrat base? Yeah, I do.

I very much do. I said in late January that she would win in November by 10 points. And just to give that a little bit of credibility, in twenty twenty when she ran against the Speaker of the House. And Chuck Schumer literally threw the kitchen sink about you know, two, three hundred million dollars against Collins. Which may not sound like a lot in Tennessee, but in Maine, it's a gargantuan amount of money.

And Collins won that race by nine and three quarters points. She has a unique connection with me. She's always here. She comes home almost every weekend. If something's happening, she's there.

We had winter storms a couple of years ago that wrecked the coastline. And it wasn't the governor, and it wasn't Angus King, or other senators, or any of the congressional people. It was Susan Collins Walking the shoreline with these business people, figuring out what it is they need. And let's not forget, she's the powerful chair. Of the Senate Appropriations Committee.

I believe the first time in 100 years in Maine that we've had that appropriations chair. College has a unique relationship with main people that a lot of people don't get. Um people don't say hey senator. When I'm walking in a parade with her, they say, Hey, Susan. They know her.

Ray Richardson from WLOB in Portland, Maine. Before we let you go, Ray, I got a lovely letter in the mail from some of our listeners in Augusta, Maine. It's Kennebec. Is that Kennebec County? I hope I said that correctly.

Kennebec County, right? Yeah, Kennebec County. That's Augusta. Yeah, so they invited me to come all the way up to Augusta to speak at the Elks Lodge. And of course, I wish we could make the trip because it's such a beautiful state and beautiful people there.

But we certainly appreciate the invitation. They're doing a big Trump dinner, one big, beautiful event, and they're at the Elks Lodge.

So always kind to hear from our great listeners there in the state of Maine. Oh, they love you in Maine, Todd, they do. And we wish you were still on our station, but Uh you know, that's that's a decision that got made above my paid grade, but We the people of Maine still love you. I get text messages from you, from them. And I guess occasionally you mention my name and I get flooded with text messages.

Todd just talked about you.

So you still have a big following here in Maine. I also got invited to that dinner.

So it'd be great if you came. That'd be great. I'd be there if you were there.

Well, we're working. I got you know, now I got this stupid cardiologist thing going on, so I got to get permission from the doctors before I'm able to leave, you know, Memphis for anything.

So, man, they're keeping me on a short leash right now, my friend. Tell your doctor that Maine's a very commonplace The air is very, very fresh, and that would be good for you. And you guys don't fry anything up there, so you know, it's all healthy. That's a fact. All right.

Ray, we got to leave it there. Great hearing your voice. Ray Richardson, everybody. And this guy is the number one talk radio host in all of Maine and does a great job. And they got a new owner to the radio station, and they decided to go a different way.

And that's all right. But we are very fortunate because so many of those WLOB listeners ended up joining us on our live stream.

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That's 800-999-9690. Text and data rates may apply. Dylan, I'm looking at some interesting. Video here, and it's a commencement exercise. And these are all grown people, and they're as soon as they got their diploma, they're They're twerking and they're gyrating and shedding their clothes.

And I thought, oh my goodness, this is happening in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. That's the home of LSU, Louisiana State University, among others. There are some other schools in the area. But I'm like, oh my gosh, I've never seen you know, at high school graduation used to be a very formal event. You know, you have the the the what is it?

The uh the what do they call the graduation? Is it pomp and circumstance? Yeah, yeah. La, la, da, da, da, da, da, he. If you get lucky, you get the band to play it.

Oh, yeah, and it's always slow, and somebody's always off-key. One of the piccolos, you know, misses whatever. It's terrible. And then they're announcing Todd James Starnes the third. And you know, you walk up and get your department, but now it's sort of like something very different.

Yeah, there's no decorum to it. Because you gotta, like, you gotta go, you gotta get the diploma, shake the person's hand, then you take your little picture, then you sit down. Right. They don't do that anymore. And so at first I thought, oh my gosh, what in the world?

Somebody, you know, I get a lot of stuff from you guys. You send me DMs and Facebook messages, and a lot of this is stuff we ended up talking about on the radio, and I greatly appreciate it. But I thought, what in the world? This was so profane and vulgar. And I thought I was looking at the graduation ceremony for Hammers and Thongs School of Pole Dancing, but it turned out to be like a college graduation ceremony.

It's a good degree. Mm-hmm.

Well, they pay you in cash. Yeah. Usually dollar bills. You don't have to worry about that.

Well, unless you're good, and then they'll slip in a 10 or a 20. Yeah, true, true. Mm-hmm.

Yeah. I'm just saying. Then there's this story. UC Berkeley, the University of California, Berkeley, one of the most liberal schools in America. And they have struck a great blow for diversity and inclusion in America by announcing that they have held their very first blacks only graduation ceremony.

So if you're any other skin color, you're not allowed to participate. Uh the No, I'm not making this up. There's actually video of this and there's a story. That the university is holding a blacks-only graduation ceremony.

Now, everybody's loving this. And they're saying, oh, this is a great thing for the black community. I'm just wondering what would happen if UC Berkeley had. had a whites-only graduation ceremony. I think they would say, That's racist.

That's racist. Who do you think you are? You You white supremacist How dare you Sorry. Oh, that's how they talk at Berkeley, by the way. Think it's something in the water.

I don't know. So anyway.

So anyway, again, what just happened to what happened to just a good old-fashioned, if you graduate, if you pass your classes, you get to walk in your commencement ceremony? It doesn't matter what your skin color is.

So there you have it. The UC Berkeley folks heralding all of this by saying that their blank graduation celebrates community culture and achievement. And it's somewhat may I just say, somewhat exclusive. Unless you get a really good tan. They're saying black students.

This is from Professor Emeritus Charles Henry. Black students from across the campus gathered together. When they march across the stage, it is a collective acknowledgement of success. And also exclusion. They say black graduations authenticate our achievements, our community, and our aspirations in one moment.

What is that, segregation? Is that what we're promoting here? I don't know. I thought we went through this whole thing back in the 60s and 70s and 80s. To desegregate the schools, but now it's like now everybody wants to have their own schools, own graduation ceremonies, own restaurants.

It's hard to keep up with these folks. All right, coming up, folks, we have a jam-packed show for you. Steve Gill is going to be along in just a little while to talk politics of the day, the big primary races in Georgia as well as Kentucky. Also, we're going to be talking to Darren Bailey. He's running for governor in Illinois as a Republican and has a lot of stuff to say about J.B.

Pritzker. We're also going to be taking your calls: 901-260-5926. What are you wanting the Republicans to do between now and Election Day to get the base? Fired up. What is it that you want the Republicans to do?

Give us a call, 901-260-5926. This is the Todd Stern Show. Live from the Liberty University Studio in Memphis, Tennessee, it's America's conservative blowtorch. Spirit. I love Love is American.

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So, welcome everybody. This is the Todd Stearns Radio Show. You are not at Del Taco. Great to have you with us today. And by the way, before we get to your calls, and we put out a question in the last hour of the show: what do the Republicans need to do?

Between now and November, to get you fired up. I mean, I know there's a laundry list of things that a lot of people want, but I'm curious what you. What you want the Republicans to do between now and the midterms.

Now, we also have some breaking news to share with you at this hour. Breaking news now on the Todd Starn show. And the president finally taking sides in this Senate runoff in Texas. And we can tell you that President Trump has decided to endorse Attorney General Ken Paxton as the next senator from the great state of Texas. The president writing on True Social, Ken is a true MAGA warrior who has always delivered for Texas and will continue to do so in the United States Senate.

So, the president throwing in, and for the longest time, he said that there are those that say whoever I endorse is going to win. I don't know if that's true, but historically, that's absolutely true. I just don't like to say it because I don't like to brag. No, this president, the president's a very humble man. He is not one to boast.

So, this is a pretty significant development. And John Cornyn, of course, the incumbent, had drawn the fire of a lot of the MAGA world, America First World, there in Texas.

So, all you folks in Texas, Curious to hear your thoughts on this today. President Trump throwing in behind Ken Paxton for the U.S. Senate race. And our telephone number, 901-260-5926. That race coming up in a couple of weeks, by the way.

That's 901-260-5926. Well, let's go to Statesville, North Carolina. Billy, listening to us on WSIC. Billy, what's on your mind today?

Well, how you doing today? I'm well. Thank you for asking.

Well, thank you. I appreciate your show, and I appreciate your attitude. Um The first thing I thought of when you asked that question about what is the one thing, the very first thing that popped in my mind. was I just wish the Republicans would get together. and get along better and work together better.

Especially on uh subjects that's very important and needs to be passed you know the whole And not necessarily acting as the Democrats do, where they play follow the leader. And if anybody don't, they get severely chastised. But But they need to try to work together more and pass things that need to be passed than just. be more of one mind than they are, I think. That would make me happy.

So, is there one particular side that needs to do a better job of reaching out? I'm I'm afraid I don't know the answer to that, but Um I think I think all of them you know, space just in the Senate. Um And um Congress They just need to be able to, especially whenever they have very important. uh things to pass You know, you seem like you've always got a handful of rogue or Republicans that don't want to vote. the way enough to get the thing passed and I think they need to really consider what they're doing and just try to Work together better.

Well, to that point, I mean, the side I think you're talking about here would be the establishment Republicans, the rhinos. And they are the ones that are standing in the way of President Trump's agenda. And look, Billy, I'm with you. Look, if you are a principled person, you need to vote your principles. But you're also a member of a political party.

And if the leader of your party is wanting to move his agenda through, I mean, that's what the people voted for. I mean, when you look at the go back to the go back to the election. Um in uh in 2024 And it was very clear the only reason Republicans were given control of the House and the Senate is because people voted for Donald Trump. I mean, that's the reason why. He was the draw on Election Day, not members of Congress.

So, therefore, knowing all of that, I think you have to take all of that into consideration when you say, okay, I'm going to support the president or I'm not going to support the president. The American people sent you to Washington to get that president's agenda across the finish line. And if you can't do that, I think you ought to step aside. And that's, I'm with you. I think there does need to be unity, but that unity has to be around the president's agenda.

Billy, I got to run, but thank you for that call. 901-260-5926 is our telephone number. That's 901-200. 260-5926.

Now, I'm going to play some audio here. This is actually from our conversation we had with Ken Paxton.

Now, this was done before President Trump. Decided to throw in and give him the endorsement, but you're going to hear Paxton talking about how important that endorsement is. Take a listen. And first, I'd like to get your thoughts on what the president just had to say about the Democrat, James Tallarico, calling him a weird dude. I don't, I kind of think he's a dangerous dude.

What say you? I totally agree with you, Todd. He is a deceptive guy presenting himself as a Christian pastor, and yet. Very calmly espousing very anti-Christian views from his view on God being non-binary to his focus on Mary and abortion. And all his positions seem to be very anti-biblical, and yet, you know, people believe sometimes, just as we saw Satan use the Bible in Against Jesus in the temptation of Christ.

Here we have a guy expressing his views on the Bible that are so seemingly anti-Christian. I know the president still has not made an endorsement here. I'm wondering how critical is that endorsement? We're just, what, about 11 days out from the runoff? Yeah, look, I have a lot of respect for the president.

I've been with him from the beginning. I endorsed him with Troy Nelsbury, the first two politicians to show up at Mar-a-Laga when he announced. You know, I stood with him at his trial. I was the first person to show up at his trial. John Corner, on the other hand, has not been so kind to the president.

In 2016, he did not support him, saying he was an albatross around. And then in 2024, he said that President Trump's time had passed. and that we should go in new direction that Trump may be potentially Legally liable for having committed crimes.

So, you know, now that he's in a primary with me, he's changed his positions on almost every issue, including Donald Trump. Look, there's no doubt about that. I mean, it's all out there for people if they want to look at it. And by the way, there's a new ad out there saying that Senator Cornyn has a special place in his heart for radical Islam and even believes that we have a moral obligation to support Muslim mass immigration. And I'm wondering, does the senator speak for the majority of Texans on that issue?

No, he absolutely does not. I've been fighting that issue. We've been fighting Sharia law. We've sued Epic City in my county. We shut down another development in Kaufman County.

We've defended the state against the Muslim Brotherhood and still in that lawsuit. We've addressed school districts trying to have Muslim-only events. Look, Sharia law has no place in this country. It cannot stand with our Constitution. It's antithetical to it.

I am fine. The First Amendment should be honored. Everybody should be able to worship as they please. But having a separate set of laws, and John Corny has been very supportive. Of this movement in the past.

Of course, right now he's not speaking much at all because I think he is receiving a lot of support from that community. You know, it's interesting. There was actually a 16-year-old boy from Texas, Wiley High School, who was actually testifying up on Capitol Hill. And I think that young man actually had more boldness when it came to talking about that very issue than the sitting senator from the state of Texas right now. What does that tell you?

I'm telling you, that kid, I've met him. I'm so impressed with him. I met him in person.

So proud of him. He stood strong. He stood up to that congressman. And you're right. He's had more boldness and he has more conviction about that issue than John Cornyn ever has or ever will.

John's going to play the game right now and keep his mouth shut and not talk about it. But we know where his heart lies. And that boy, I'd love to see him take John Cornyn on on that very issue because we know who would win that debate. And it would be that 16-year-old boy. You know, it's interesting, Mr.

Attorney General, the Save America Act is not going anywhere in the Senate. I think we all sort of knew that. The frustration I have is with the sitting senators, the Republican senators, who are not doing anything and they could do something. And I'm wondering, if you are elected, based on what John Thun has already done to stop the president's agenda, would he get your vote to be majority leader?

So look, the Save America Act, the president said in the State of the Union, I was there, I heard him. Most important bill in front of our Congress because it's necessary for the midterms. It's necessary for our future. We have all these Democratic states that have gerrymandered, that have not just gerrymandered, but that they've rigged their elections with mail-in ballot fraud, having non-citizens vote, no photo ID. These are very essential things to fair elections.

And I don't know how it's possible. And I even said it right after the runoff. I said, I'd consider dropping out if John Cornin, after 42 years, actually accomplished one good thing, which he hasn't done. done in 42 years. And that one good thing was Gift to Save America past.

And guess what?

Something that fundamental that we have the votes to get with 53 Republicans, they went on vacation for two weeks instead of passing it, came back for a week, and I think then they took another break.

So it's very frustrating to me. And this is exactly what I'm trying to highlight as I run against John Cornyn. It's time to deliver results for Texas and for the country. And John Cornyn hasn't done it. And so it's time to change out.

It's time to put in a pitcher who will actually throw a fastball. All right, the breaking news, President Trump endorsing Ken Paxton, the Attorney General, in that ferocious GOP Senate primary runoff in Texas.

So that sets up a, what should end up being a Ken Paxton versus James Tallarico Senate race. 901-260-5926 is our telephone number. That's 901-260-5926. Let's go to the phones. Charles in North Carolina, WSIC, our great affiliate there.

Hi, Charles. What's going on? Hey, Todd. Todd, I tell you, I'm really excited to hear that news was just announced with Trump's endorsement of Paxton. Um I think Things like that type will help ignite the base to show up during the midterms.

But last week this past weekend, it was Cassidy. Uh, next Tuesday, hopefully, it's going to be John Cornyn is gone, and if Trump wants to make it a repeat. The best thing I think he could do is withdraw the endorsement of Lindsey Graham and endorse his primary opponent and get rid of all three rhinos. Um But Todd, you were asking what you think Republicans need to do to win the midterms, and I just alluded to that, but also, I think that there's still time for this save act to pass at Trump. Starts trying to exert more leverage on Foon, maybe calls them back in for a special legislative session this summer.

We need to push, continue to push for this redistricting and everything that we've been doing because that's. Structurally, it's pointing us in the right direction to hold on to the house. But, Todd, the most important thing is we've got to get rid of in this war and Iran and fast because. These high gas prices, which are going to mean high food prices and everything else. If we don't do that, I'm afraid the Democrats are going to hang that around our necks just like we did theirs in 2024.

Yesterday, I was at a gas pump, and I know you had talked about how expensive gas is getting. I saw a little sticker of Donald Trump pointing to the price of gas and said, I did that. And that's just the kind of stickers I used to put on gas pumps years ago when Joe Biden did that. Only now it's reversed.

So I think it's incumbent to try to end this war as soon as possible and focus on domestic issues.

So so you're not buying the the argument from the the the the purist, I guess. I don't I'm not even sure what to call them, the America first purist. And they're saying that you have a patriotic duty, Charles, to suck it up and not complain about these high gas prices. No, I don't buy that. I don't buy that at all.

No, it's not my patriotic either to do that. Any more than it was our patriotic duty to wear a mask and take a vaccine. You know, Joe Biden made the same reference. No, I mean, I just think that Trump needs to declare victory in Iran. Uh, I mean, you know, Todd, the Middle East, ever since I've been a child, they've been fighting over there for 60 years.

They're going to continue to fight even after Iran. And it's kind of like the old tar baby in the tales of Uncle Remus. You know, every time you throw a punch, you just get. Suck banning just gets stuck. And I think we just need to declare a victory.

Come home, let Israel handle Iran and focus on the domestic issues. Because even if we even if we declare a victory now and come home, it's going to be at least forty-five days or so before. we may see gas prices and every the supply chain start to open back up, but We've got to focus on domestic issues because I'm hearing it from my friends who are diehard MAGA people just like myself. And everybody's being affected. They just are.

Well, there's no doubt about that. And I know the President just a little while ago was talking to reporters. He says that he was an hour away from making a decision to order new strikes on Iran, but then he did not do that at the request of allies there in the Persian Gulf. The president went on to say the war is very popular and he does not have enough time to keep explaining the rationale for it. I think that's a mistake.

I think the American people and look, I may be mistaken here, but I'm not quite sure why we are doing what we're doing over there right now. I genuinely do not know Charles.

Well, Todd, and I agree with you totally.

So let me just bring something up. was this close to developing a nuclear weapon, okay? I don't think it's too much to ask to present some type of documentation, not verbal. But something like you know, an email, a something, you know, something. to the American people.

Just like Adelaide Stevenson at the in nineteen sixty two in the Cuban missile crisis at the UN, we put down photos of the Russians building missile sites in Cuba. Because you and I both know That our government will lie to its own people to get us involved in a war, just like the Gulf of Tonkin resolution in 1964 to get us in Vietnam, just like Iraq in 2003. And I wouldn't be surprised if Trump is getting some bad information.

Okay, follow me on this, Charles. No, no, no. Follow me on this for just a minute. Because none of this really has ever made a lot of sense to me.

So going back to day one, the whole point of this was that Iran cannot have access to nuclear weapons. That was it. We were not going in for regime change, none of that.

Now, that was the original reason why we decided to go in. My question is, did we accomplish that mission? And if the answer is yes, then why haven't we declared victory? If the answer is no, then why is President Trump postponing a major attack that could have taken out whatever nuclear sites we needed to take out over there?

So either way, it's not making sense right now. Yeah, I agree. I mean, we've already taken out their leadership. What did Trump say? Two levels of their leaderships?

We've accomplished that. But that's not what we were after. We were not after regime change. They kept telling they said, this is not about regime change. This is about going after the nukes.

But Todd, how can here's what I'd like to know. How can we guarantee that Iran or any other country for that matter will never have a nuclear weapon? I mean, we can say that right now, but. Who's to say what's going to happen five, 10, 20 years from now? You can't make that kind of guarantee, I don't think.

No, no, no. But I hear what you're saying. And look, I'm with the president on the fact that Iran cannot have access to nukes. The point I'm trying to make here is we're in a weird situation now, and this thing could drag on for a very long time. And to your point, it's going to take time to wind down all of this stuff.

It's going to take time for the gas prices to come back down. And if we're dealing with higher gas prices around November, it could get a little dicey for the Republicans. Charles, I got to run. 901-260-5926 is our telephone number. That's 901-260-5926.

Steve Gill. Coming up next. Yeah, Thomas Massey's a terrible congressman. He's been a terrible congressman from day one. Uh dealing with him is just a horrible I don't think he's a Republican.

I think he's actually I think he's actually a Democrat. He's not a Libertarian. You know, sometimes they say he's a Li he's really a Democrat. He votes against us all the time. He voted against the border wall.

He voted against uh men playing in women's sports. He voted against transgender for everybody, the mutilization of your children. He voted against, again, open borders. We have the best border we've ever had right now. Nobody's coming in.

I mean, a report just came out. In the last 11 months, literally nobody has been allowed into our country illegally. We're taking people legally. They go through a process. But nobody's come into our country.

But we've taken out. Hundreds of thousands of people. We had 10,000, it was 10,800, 11,888 murders. Many of these murders allowed into our country from prisons. They were in prisons.

Many of these people killed more than one person. More than 50% killed more than one person. This was gross malfeasance. This was on behalf of the Biden administration. I don't know Biden because I don't think he knew he was alive.

But she Kamala was the portazar. She never called that one time, she never called. The Border Patrol. She never called ICE. She never called law enforcement.

She never went to the border. Think of it. I used to call every single day. And that's recently.

Now I call less. We have nobody coming through. We had caravans coming through with tens of thousands of people pouring into our country. We had no idea who they were. We would have been, I'll tell you what.

Our country would have been destroyed. If they won this election, our country would have been. We have now the hottest country anywhere in the world. If they had won the election, our country would have been destroyed. Our country was a dead country two years ago, and now we have really the hottest country in the world.

And this is the ballroom, and it's going to be something incredible. You see the quality of it. All right, that was the president. He was actually outside the ballroom construction site at the local office. That's why you heard all the noise and the hammering and all that kind of stuff.

So, anyway, the president weighing in, of course, as voters in Kentucky and Georgia go to the poll, six states altogether. I want to go to the Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line. Say hello to our good friend, the publisher of TriStarDaily.com, Steve Gill. Steve, good to have you with us today. Hey, Todd, you know, he is President of the United States, but at his heart, Donald Trump is still a developer.

He gets so much more excited when he's on a construction site than anything else he does during the day. Oh, a thousand, a thousand percent. And you can just tell. I mean, his demeanor changes. He's almost like a kid in a candy store around all the construction hard hats and all the big technology out there, the power tools.

Well, and he's a builder, and we're seeing that both in domestic policy and international policy. You know, again, I know we're going to talk about some other stuff, but when you look at what's happening, In the Middle East right now, with the UAE and Saudi Arabia and Qatar and Bahrain and Kuwait. And Lebanon is talking directly with Israel. This is an epic shift in the Middle East that would never have happened, has never happened with any other president in history, and yet. You know, he gets basically demeaned by the mainstream media.

The left attacks him constantly. And yet He's the guy who steps up and does things another president. Yeah, I mean Iran has been threatening the US and Israel and bullying everybody in the Middle East for forty seven plus years. No president has done anything about it. They've talked about it.

We need to keep Iran from getting nuclear weapons. But talk is cheap. And Trump is happening with the primaries today. And there are two that we're really paying close attention to. One of those being in Georgia, where you have a pretty contentious governor's race going on, gubernatorial race, and then you've got the Senate race.

And the voter turnout. Was really, I think, at least early voting turnout really disappointing for Republicans. And we had the lieutenant governor on Burt Jones. He's the Trump-endorsed candidate going up against Rick Jackson, who seems to have the MAGA world backing there in Georgia. And Burt Jones says, hey, look, you know, we did not get a lot of support here from the Republican leadership, which led to, I think, Democrats outpacing Republicans by about 150,000 early votes.

Well, part of the problem in Georgia has been the leadership in Georgia, whether it's the governor camp, whether it's the Secretary of State. They are not MAGA Republicans and have pulled the rug out from under President Trump and conservative Republicans every step of the day. And that depresses Republican voter turnout when the leadership in their state are not real Republicans. I'm wondering, you know, again, when you look at, for example, the Senate race where Derek Dooley seems to be having a late surge, I was joking with our friend Martha Zoller yesterday on the show. It's a good thing those folks along the border, the Tennessee border, can't vote, or Dooley might be doomed.

Yeah, he may be a much better politician than he was a football coach at Tennessee.

So that may be, he's finding his actual strengths. And football coaching may not have been it. Yeah, the other thing when you look at Georgia is they have a runoff.

So, one of the things we see in Tennessee, for example, as you know. It's first to the post.

So we constantly have two or three conservatives will run. and a rhino, a more moderate Republican run. And the Rhino will win 30-something percent of the vote because we don't then have a runoff. To find somebody who can get 50%, but one. In Georgia, I think many of these races today are gonna end up with runoffs.

So conservatives can coalesce. Behind the best conservative candidate and put somebody in place who can maybe carry the standard forward in November better than if you have somebody who really does not appeal to that broad MAGA conservative base. I'm curious about this governor's race because Matt Towry, our good friend, Insider Advantage Polling, they've actually got Rick Jackson, who's sort of like the businessman, put a lot of his own money, millions of dollars of his own money into the race. He's sort of a self-made guy, and people are attracted to that. I think it's splitting the MAGA vote.

And again, you've got four possible contenders.

So the question is, are you going to have two relative, you know, the Trump guy is a MAGA guy, the lieutenant governor and Rick Jackson in the runoff? Or could you get one of the Never Trumpers in the I think you got Chris Carr. He's not the Never Trumper, but Raffensberger.

So that's going to be a pretty interesting race to watch tonight. Will Trump's endorsement get the lieutenant governor across the finish line? Roland Raffensberger, who's Secretary of State, he's the guy in charge of counting the votes. We saw how that worked in, I think it was Arizona, where the Secretary of State counted the votes and said, oh, I won. Despite all the voter fraud that has taken place there.

So I think that when you look at trend lines and polls, Polls are generally two or three days behind where things actually are. And when you look at the trend lines, I think it's pretty likely that we end up with two conservatives at the top in a runoff rather than one of the rhinos getting in.

So you mentioned this. This is a bizarre part of the story. And I know we've got a lot of listeners in Georgia.

So it turns out that after the votes are counted, The results are going to be aggregated tonight by the Secretary of State Brad Raffensberger from a secret bunker, which is off limits to candidates, the public and even the state election board And there's a lawsuit that's been filed over all of this. You have to wonder what in the world they are thinking, especially after what happened in the presidential election. But again, more and more evidence comes forth that the votes in Georgia were stolen before. And now to have this secret bunker where they're going to keep everybody from looking until the guy decides: oh, look, by the most amazing coincidence, I counted the votes and I won. This is third world.

This is a former Soviet era. This is. Chinese communism at work. in the red state of Georgia. The Voter GA is all over this.

Their co-founder says this in a quote in a press release. It's yet another example where Brad Raffensperger refuses to comply with Georgia law. It began in 2019 when he took office, when he purchased a $100 million voting machine system that a U.S. District Court found in violation of two Georgia statutes. It is both obvious and mandatory that statewide election night aggregation must be moved out of the bunker so it is not conducted in secret.

Well, and again, you have Where's the Georgia Attorney General? Where's the U. S. Attorney General? Where's the Department of Justice?

I mean, I love how President Trump, God bless him, will talk a lot about voter fraud after elections occur. But here we have it. seemingly taking place wide open before the votes are counted. Seems to me that might be the right time to step in and make sure things are done right. Yeah, that's just weird.

So we'll see how that plays out. Then, of course. You heard what President Trump said just moments ago about Thomas Massey. He does not like this guy at all. You know, you can really get on Trump's bad side when you vote to impeach him based upon hoaxes and false information.

And Massey voted to impeach President Trump.

So a lot of people are saying, oh, Massey is With what's going on in Iran or anything else. No, Matthew has shown himself time and time again to not reflect the values of his congressional district, which is a rural congressional district in Kentucky. And I think he goes down today and good ridden. And unlike some of these other guys like Cassidy in Louisiana, he's already voting against President Trump. He's not going to have that much impact.

But these guys will still have votes to cast between now and January. And you know they're going to be even more vindictive towards Trump once they've been defeated and are not going to be carrying forward to the next congressional or Senate session. All right. Steve Gill joining us on our Patriot mobile newsmaker line. It is going to be a fascinating thing to watch.

And Steve, real quick here, they're saying this is the massey thing is going to be a referendum on Trump. It's like every election is a referendum on Trump here. Ultimately, the people of the Commonwealth are going to decide, but clearly they're on President Trump's side here, I think.

Well, in this congressional district, voted overwhelmingly for Donald Trump.

So again, I think the people in that district have an affinity more for Trump than Matthew, who's been reelected like most incumbents do time and time again. I think that this is going to be another notch in President Trump's belt when you're seeing all The Indiana senators who blocked redistricting. When you're seeing the other people that Trump has endorsed, I don't know if it's 36-0 at this point in this election cycle. If it's 36-0 today, it'll be 37-0 tomorrow after Massey goes down. All right.

Steve, always good hearing from you. Tell us where people can check out TriStar Daily and some of the great work you guys are doing. Yeah, go to TriStarDaily.com, TriStarDaily.com, and you'll find links to a lot of stories involving Tennessee. By the way, some breaking news. We just But up.

Nashville, Tennessee, is going to be the site of the Super Bowl in 2030.

So the Super Bowl coming south to Nashville in 2030. Wow.

So that is sort of major news. They're putting, let me get this straight.

So they built a stadium, and it wasn't all that old, right? It was about 20 years old? and they tore it down and they're building a new stadium. Yeah, my big question, Todd, is who's going to do the half time show? Hopefully, by putting it in Nashville, we'll actually have a country music halftime show that America and the world will want to watch rather than bad bunny being shoved down our throat.

Oh, yeah. We're not getting any bad bunnies at the Nashville Super Bowl. No way. You know what? Tennis, this may require, I don't know.

At that point, what is it? Would be Governor Blackburn would have to step in and. Put down an executive order or something. Banning the money. Oh, there you go.

All right, Steve Gill, my friend. Good hearing from you. Thanks, my friend.com. You know, Dylan, there's no way. They have to go with a country music band if if they're doing the Super Bowl in Nashville.

Oh, yeah, that's a no-brainer, you would think. And not like, you know what? They're going to say Taylor Swift. That's not country. Yeah, and she doesn't even go around there anymore.

She doesn't associate herself. Oh, that man. Does she not like us anymore? I know she and Blackbird had a problem. Oh, yeah, for sure.

All right, there you go. 901-260-5926. This is the Todd Star Show. Uh Uh All right, welcome back to the Tot Cerns Radio Show. Time now for our mailbag.

We've got a lot of mail to get through today. This is from Joe Garner from Memphis, Tennessee. Great lady. Joe says, Todd, praising God that you are recovering well. Thank you for all you do.

Well, thank you. Joe Garner, we certainly appreciate that. This is from Rachel Wall, chairman of the Republican Party in Memphis. We got a lot of Memphis mail today. Todd, sorry to hear you haven't felt well, but grateful to hear your surgery was a success and you're on the mend.

I know the last few days were certainly unsettling. I hope you enjoy your downtime. And probably much needed and well-deserved slower pace. Get well soon. Rachel, well, thank you for that.

And lovely stationary there. Thank you, Rachel Wall. Oh, we've got this. Oh, I love cards. It's got a little puppy dog.

in a picnic basket with It looks like Pizza Hut, a Pizza Hut tablecloth. This is from our dear friend, Miss Susie. Todd, my friend, this is Susie from WTUN. Please get well soon. I miss your voice on the radio.

Todd, leave off the gravy and try to exercise. I appreciate you, and giving me the truth I'm praying for you. This puppy gives you a lick and a tail wag, your friend Susie.

Well, that's very kind, and thank you, Susie. This is from Vicki Gandy from Germantown, Tennessee, listening to us on KWAM. Todd, just a note to say how thankful I am that you are healing and feeling better. I love hearing you on the radio again. Please take care of yourself.

We need you on the radio keeping us informed. You are in my prayers. Hope to see you soon. Your favorite realtor. Vicky Gandy.

Well, thank you for that, Vicky Dandy. Dylan, we also got uh we just got an email in. From Joy. What's Area Code 410?

Somebody Google that real quick. Joy says: Todd, though I enjoy your talk show and learn. Learn a lot of info from it. I'm concerned about your many references to the Christian nationalism you enthusiastically support. You do support other religions such as Judaism and also Israel.

However, you also insist this is a Christian nation. No, it isn't. This is a Judeo-Christian republic. I won't continue with the rest of my thoughts as for another time. She's in Maryland.

Oh, Joy, it is a bus to listen to us on WCBM.

So, look, Joy, well, thank you for writing to me. We got to get the music. I got to have the vibe. We have to have the vibe here. Thank you, Delaney.

We had a lot of mail today.

So, Joy, look, here's the deal. We are a Christian nation. You know, it's interesting, our founding fathers, not a single founding father was Jewish. An overwhelming number of them happened to be Christian. 0.1% of the early patriots of the country identified as Jewish.

So, when you look at, when I say you say Judeo-Christian, that means we are influenced by the Old Testament teachings, but. I truly believe when you read the teaching, the writings of our founding fathers, that we were in fact meant to be a Christian nation. And that is not a slight against Jews or Muslims or Hindus or atheists or anybody else. But under the Under the precepts and teachings of Christianity. You're able to worship however you want to worship without fear of being persecuted.

And by the way, we don't talk. I mean, how many times have I mentioned Christian nationalism? I don't talk all the time about it. I think I mentioned it yesterday because it was brought up in the context of the America 250 celebration there on the Washington Mall over the weekend.

So, anyway, it's all right, Joy. And look, continue with your thoughts. And we love our fan mail, whether good or bad. We read it on the air.

So, anyway, gotta leave it there. And you can always send us a note. If you want to get our address, you can call Miss Helen and she will pass along that information to you. 901-260-5926, our number. That's 901-260-5926.

Coming up, your calls plus. Darren Bailey running to be the next governor of the state of Illinois. We'll be right back, America. Live from the Liberty University Studio in Memphis, Tennessee, it's America's favorite gun-totin, Bible-clinging, deplorable American. That's us!

That's right! I'm low. Love is American. Todd starts. All right.

Well, hello, everybody. Welcome to hour three of the big show. Great to have you with us. And of course, It is all politics today. We have a lot of big races happening around the country.

Of course, the big story is what's happening in Georgia and Kentucky today, six primary races. In Illinois, Republicans there feel like they can make big gains. J.B. Pritzker has really pretty much destroyed the state. It's really unfortunate.

And what's happening in Chicago with the mayor, that crazy mayor, Brandon Johnson, just unbelievable.

Well, I want to go to the Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line and say hello to Darren Bailey, who is the Republican running for governor there in the great state of Illinois. Darren, what a great honor to have you with us today.

Well, Todd, thank you so much for this opportunity. It is indeed an honor. Thank you.

So I'm curious here, you know, it's been a challenge for Republicans in Illinois, no doubt about that. But I'm wondering if these failed policies of the Democrats, if people are waking up and they're starting to understand what's going on in their state. Absolutely. I'll tell you what, I think this race, this governor's race, is the most overlooked race in the nation, and I truly believe that because. If J.B.

Pritzker wins in November, November 4th, he'll be launching his presidential bid, and heaven forbid he is able to have a chance to do to the United States what he has done here in Illinois.

So, you know, when I'm up in Chicago, so I'm a farmer, the southern end of the state. When I'm up in Chicago, my wife and I just every day we're meeting people. They're tired. They're tired of being oppressed. I mean, the people, the taxpayers here in Illinois are the highest taxed people in the nation.

And yes, they're ready to shrug that off. And we have that wonderful opportunity if we can just get the voter turnout. What's been the response around the state? As you've been out, you mentioned you're a farmer. I saw a report that you were getting a little place in Chicago, and how's that working out for you?

Well, it's working out great. You know, I was the Republican nominee four years ago, and the biggest difference right now is the response we're getting in Chicago. You know, our messaging is affordability, it's safety, and it's education. People can't afford to live in this state. Businesses aren't coming here because of that, you know, people don't feel safe.

You can see that in just any headline you read about the shootings and this egregious safety act that we have, and our schools are failing. I don't think the people in Illinois or in Chicago really realized that or felt that, but their pocketbooks are pinched. Everyone across the state is scared to death to take a look at their next property tax bill. They're scared to death to open their next utility bill.

So we're keeping that to message alive that J.B. Prickster owns every bit of this mess that he's created. No doubt about it. And of course, the sanctuary state policies, the sanctuary city policies, were time and time again, I think even the citizens of Chicago's South Side, they understand exactly what is going on. And I'm wondering if that's an opportunity for Republicans and for yourself.

It is, it's the opportunity of a lifetime for Republicans to stand on our values and stand on our message. And that's the reason that I've been propelled to this position because I served one term as a state representative, I served one term as a state senator. The people across Illinois know me for when I say something, I mean it. And I think they're tired. This era here in Illinois of being governed by trust fund billionaires.

It simply isn't working because J.B. Pritcher has absolutely nothing in common with anyone in Illinois. He just thinks that this economy, things, life just keep flowing because I assume you would if you had all the money and had no cares in the world.

Well, I mean, it's a fair point. And again, I think a lot of folks forget, they think about Illinois and they just think Chicago, and they don't realize there's a lot of farmland in that great state. There is. There's a lot of patriots, but more than importantly, there's a lot of fed up people.

So we'll, you know, this race, we've just got to generate turnout downstate outside of Chicago and the Culler counties. And we've got to garner about 28% of the vote in Cook County. And I'm telling you, we can do that. It's doable because the people they're tired and who wouldn't, you know, it's time for a new day. And when we look at the past several years, the last 20 years when other Republican governors were elected, it really came upon the same situation that we have now.

Government was failing the people, and a Republican got elected. And I think that's what we've got here. Our polling suggests that. The feel on the street says that. We just got to do it right and make sure we don't let the people down here in Illinois and that we start building a state of prosperity instead of a disaster.

I saw there's a group called Illinois Policy, and they're saying that Pritzker has presided over, I'm just shocked by this number, $77 billion. Billion dollars. In increases while the state's economy lags behind. Is that true? I mean, those are pretty massive numbers.

Oh, absolutely. Illinois Policy is a rock-solid organization, and they'll be right there by my side as governor working on policy. When I started this journey in 2017, I started it because Illinois was proposing a 32% tax increase, and too many Republicans went along with it. Back in 2010, in the budget of 2018, our budget stood at $32 billion. And if Pritzker gets his way here in a few days, which I believe he will, we will be looking at a $56 billion budget and life in Illinois.

We have the highest gas tax. We have the highest local state taxes. It's time for some relief. The people need relief. And you can find a lot of those numbers on my webpage, baileyforillinois.com.

The blueprint for illinois.com is a page where I've got a lot of this data. You can even do your own searching on that. You literally can't make up more disastrous policies than Pritzker has implemented here in Illinois.

Well, it's just it's it's really shocking and sad. A beautiful state, beautiful people. And again, this tax situation, that is just unacceptable. Again, Mr. Bailey, I want you to give us the website where people can go if they want to get more information about your great campaign.

Well, thank you very much. Blueprint for Illinois.com. You can see the plan. You can even do your own searching for these terrible policies. And Bailey for Illinois.com, we'd love to connect with you.

We'd love to earn your support. I do mean this. We are the most overlooked, just because we're in Illinois, a campaign in this nation. We can stop J.B. Pritzker dead in his tracks and turn around a great nation, which will benefit, turn around a great state, which will benefit this entire nation.

I love that. By the way, before I let you go, what are you growing down there on the farm?

Well, corn, soybeans, and wheat have an excavating business and a trucking company. And I've actually, you've got the Galen Lawrence farm down in Memphis, Tennessee, over in the Arkansas area. And years ago, they had some farm ground up here.

So I'm very familiar with your area. We farmed their ground. But corn, soybeans, and wheat, if you've eaten any Girl Scout cookies, you've definitely partook of some of our wheat. Oh, very nice.

Well, you know, it's interesting. A lot of people don't realize West Tennessee is really the farmland of the entire state of Tennessee.

So it's flat out here. Beautiful mountains over in the east of middle Tennessee, but we're just nice and flat. A few hills in the Memphis area. Beautiful delta ground, a lot of rice. You've got some beautiful country down there.

That's it. That's it. And good duck hunting, too.

So, as a Governor Mike Huckabee, he's always somewhere around Memphis during duck season. Yes, he is. He's an awesome ambassador as well. Yes, he is, Ambassador Huckabee. Darren, good luck to you.

We're going to get you back on between now and the election. Again, I'm with you. I think this is an important state, and this is a winnable race. And we've just got to make sure you've got the resources you need to get across that finish line. That's what we need.

We will win.

So, thank you so much. All right. Darren Bailey, everybody, running as the Republican nominee for governor and got a boatload of votes there in the primary and as well on his way.

So, Baileyforillinois.com. That's Bailey4Illinois.com. All right, we're going to take a quick break here, folks. Our telephone number: 901-260-5926. Again, that number, 901-260-5926.

This is the Todd Stern Show. All right, welcome back, everybody. This is the Todd Stearns Radio Show. We asked you a question early on in the program. What do you want to see the Republicans do to get you fired up?

Or are you just already fired up? Because let me tell you something. The Democrats. They have already laid out their game plan, and it is going to be an impeachapalooza. They're going to try to undo all of the redistricting and they're going to try to pack the court.

I mean, that's the game plan. Democrats are spelling it out for us. Which is why it doesn't matter. How upset you are at the Republican Party, you got to get out and vote. You've just got to do it.

901-260-5926. Let's go to Mike in Memphis, Tennessee, listening to us on KWAM. Mike, what's on your mind? Greetings, Todd. You were talking earlier about the Kentucky race for the congressional seat with Massey.

I don't really see this as a referendum against President Trump as much as I see it against The candidate that Trump is endorsing, he supports draft and compulsory service. Just like Israel, and there's a lot of people that don't want to send their kids off to a war in the Middle East, which is not our war. Otherwise The unit party's got a problem, and this is why I see all incumbents having a hard time. This is a referendum, and as I say, it's going to be against both parties because they're ultimately, you look at their lobbying funds. They're all controlled by the APAC group, which is where they put tens of millions of dollars in this campaign against Thomas Massey, not directly in their own name, but in different groups.

But they're coming after him because he doesn't take their money and support their every will. And that's got to stop. This has got to be America first, not Israel first. And I think that's what's going to. Come down to a lot of people not supporting either party.

See, no, no, no. I know a lot of people like Thomas Massey, I know this type of person. If you don't, it's their way. They know all. You know nothing.

And if you do not support everything they support, if you don't breathe the way they breathe, if you don't dress the way they dress, if you don't go to the church that they approve that you go to, then you're really not a true Republican or you're not a true conservative. And I'm sorry, I just don't buy, I don't buy into that one bit, Mike. And I see these types around Memphis, Tennessee, where I live and make my home. And you know what those people are at the end of the day, Mike? They're losers because they don't build coalitions.

I don't see Massey buying people shoes like President Trump. What do you mean buying shoes?

Well, you said if they don't dress like you, they don't you're not part of their clique. And Trump's buying shoes for his cabinet, so they look exactly the way he wants them to look. What's wrong with that? I mean, if I'm a businessman, for example, okay, I own a business. When we go out and we do an event with the radio station that I own, I require our staff to look and act a certain way.

Now, Donald Trump, on the other side of it, Donald Trump is not going to the average citizen and saying you have to wear, you know, Italian loafers. I don't know what kind of a shoe he wears. But again, I don't have a problem with that at all. I just I just think that it's The people's agenda, not President Trump's agenda, nor Israel's agenda. No, no, no.

But no, it is President Trump's agenda, which is our agenda. I mean, that's look, when you go back to the whole point of this, the reason why Donald Trump got elected is because the Republican Party kept sticking it. To the grassroots of the party. And Trump saw this and said, you know what, these are the issues I believe in. I'm going to deliver on these issues.

And so far, he's done a pretty darn good job of that. I mean, can he do better? Yeah, absolutely. But so far, I think he's done a pretty good job. The issue of no new wars, better economy, and the Epstein files.

These are things that we're looking at. And right now with gas double what it was. Six months ago, I just filled up this morning, and yeah, it's affecting a lot of people. And if we nationalized our oil, We could solve that problem. We wouldn't have to worry about international corporations or anybody.

We would be getting it at less than a dollar a gallon with the gas tax. What do you pay? What'd you pay for gas, by the way, today? I'm curious, Mike. Peace.

You know where I go, Sam's Club, and they're the cheapest in town, $3.90. 389, 389.

So it's come down a little bit. I gotta go fill up a Cadillac after the show. I've been holding off. It's not good. I'm not a member of Sands Club, though.

I does Costco do gas? I can't remember. Or Kroger? Germantown Parkway. Oh, okay.

Oh, that's good to know. All right, I'll go check out their prices. I'm trying not to drive too much because, you know, gas is so high. But to your point, look, I get everything you're saying. And, Mike, I want the Epstein files released.

I wanted all this stuff that was promised to me. But the question and the reality is It's not going to happen. And so now we have to figure out, all right. Why do we need to go and vote in November? And that's going to be a conversation that every single person.

Person is going to have to have with themselves. And the reality is. At the end of the day, And I hate to say this. It's been a lot of talk. And not much action.

And that's just the reality of it. Look, after this administration is over, we're going to be able to rehash all of this and look back. But You know, it is what it is. And I'm sorry to say that, but it is what it is. All right, Mike, appreciate the call.

I think I discouraged Mike. I'm just being a realist. When I see the wrecking ball being lodged directly into the Department of Education, that is when I'm going to be celebrating. Because right now, there's a huge debate and huge outrage in California because transgender athletes are still beating young girls in these races. And it was my understanding, and please correct me if I'm wrong, ladies and gentlemen, it was my understanding that Donald Trump was going to yank federal funding from any school district that allowed that to happen.

And it hasn't happened. And I got a problem with that. But you know what? I'm still going out, I'm still going to go vote. This does not bode well for 2028, though.

I'll certainly tell you that much. 901-260-5926 is our telephone number. That's 901-260-5926. And people are saying, give it time, Starnes, give it time. We don't have time.

We don't have time. And I know we heard one of our earlier callers saying, you know, there's still time to pass the sentence to save America. No, there's not. And that's not going to happen. And I don't know what other talk radio hosts are telling you.

I'm just, I know how these people think, I know how they operate. And the reality is, it's not going to happen. I mean, it really is that simple. And does it bother me? You darn tootin', it does.

It absolutely bothers me. By the way. Senator John Kennedy fired up over Medicaid fraud. And again, we're exposing all this fraud. Who is being held responsible for all of this stuff?

Cutting up nineteen, please. That California will actually pay a health care provider, I didn't know this was a medical expertise, to pay for exorcisms. Is that right? Yeah. I'll accept that, Senator, but that's that's they pay the California Medicaid program will pay for herbal medicines.

Meal deliveries. They pay for housing. I don't know what housing has to do with health care. Is that correct? Yes.

Were you aware that the Medicaid program using federal uh money, taxpayer money will pay for um An in-home chef. Yes. If it's a family member, yes. Yeah, they'll even pay for gymnasium fees through Medicaid in California. They'll pay for bicycles.

Scooters. Gym memberships. Did you know that?

Okay. Uh yes, several states do, but California does for sure. They don't even repay your student loans. Were you aware of that? I was not aware of the student loans repay.

Yeah, they'll repay somebody's student loans to encourage them to become a health care provider. Exorcisms? We're paying for exorcisms now.

Okay. I thought don't the Catholics do that for free? Doesn't that come with like your tithes and offerings? Over on the Baptist side, we just whack you upside the head with a hardback Bible. That kind of takes care of the demons.

901-260-5926. This is the Todd Stern Show. All right, welcome back, everybody. This is the Todd Stearns Radio Show. Man, I just need to ask a question here, and you guys helped save me some money going to the doctor, but I'm just curious.

After heart surgery, I have noticed my vision has changed, and I don't know if it's for the better or not. But I'm wondering if that's like a normal thing that your eyes on. I was doing some reading. You know, it's always dangerous to Google your symptoms. Because Dylan and I were doing that a couple of days when it's like, oh, you have toenail cancer.

Okay. And I'm like, No, I don't think that's it. I don't Yeah, that's um It will tell you the worst-case scenario if you try to do that. No, I did. I sent my cardiologist a note.

I'm not sure if I'm charged per question, but I've been asking a lot of questions only because, look, I. I've gone to the brink, and I don't want to go like, I want to, I don't want to get to the brink again.

So. I'm sure he's happy to help you. Just asking a lot of questions. It's his job. Yeah.

Right? I just he'll be fine. Just keep asking. It beats making an appointment. Oh, I've had like a low-grade fever, and so I'm talking low-grade fever.

Fever, you have an ear fungus. I'm like, wait, what?

So I got the Q-tip, and apparently you're not supposed to put Q-tips in your ear. Which I violently disagree with. I do too. Yeah. Yeah.

Some ear expert's going to call in. But anyway, I noticed because it's weird. You know, I had this retina surgery. I don't know what time was, I think I'm falling apart here, but I'm really not. I feel good.

But, you know, a couple of years ago, I sneezed and I guess I blew up my retina or something.

So I had to have, I tore my retina.

So I had to have that surgically repaired. And then after that, you have to get cataract surgery.

So I have 20-20 vision in one eye, and I'm legally blind in the other eye, and I can't have cataract surgery there for another 10 years. I remember that. I was your Uber. Oh, that's right. I forgot about that.

I got that. You may not have remembered me doing that at all. I don't remember anything. All I remember is going into that ho th the eye hospital, I was terrified. Oh, yeah.

Terrifying. I mean, it's your eye. Like you know what people mess around with your eyeball You can't see if they mess up. And I was afraid to sneeze. It was during the spring, the allergies.

I didn't want to blow out the other eye. Plug your nose.

So I never forget, I went in as the UTI Center or whatever. There are all these children there. And I'm like, what is going on? I guess it was Children's Eye Surgery Day, and they had to work me in. And so I'm sitting there, and I was talking to the nurse.

The lady checked me in. I'm like, my gosh, these kids are just. They're just so relaxed. And I said, I am I said, between you and me, I am freaking out right now. And she said, Oh, they're not relaxed.

I said, What do you mean? She goes, Well, when they put you under the medicine, like when the kids wake up, it makes them like raging monsters. And so they're like cute, little peaceful, you know, little babies. And when they, you know, they finish with their surgery and they wake up and they're like, I don't know, trying to eat you. And so the nurse says they give them another medicine as they're coming out.

So they're coming out of one medicine and they're coming on to another medicine that just completely chills them out. And I said, I want three times whatever those kids are getting. That's what I want. You got it. I can attest to that.

I I don't remember a thing about it except complaining 'cause you have to be awake for all of this. And I remember I'm like, okay, I'm getting thirsty. I remember telling him, I'm getting thirsty. When's the eye surgery going to be? Everybody goes, dude, we've been working there for three hours.

We're about wrapped up here. That's too funny.

So anyway, that's it. What was the whole point of this? Oh, I was going to read something to you and I couldn't see it. Thank you.

I knew there was a reason I was getting to this. This is what happens when I go out on tangent.

So, anyway, I was trying to read this. And normally I cannot read it with the glasses, but now I can.

So anyway, President Trump was at the White House and he actually this is the kindness of our President here, ladies and gentlemen. The President asked the White House chef to make breakfast sandwiches for the reporters taking a tour of the new White House ballroom. This is really nice. And the president, it's quite the spread. And I have to describe this.

These are like. I mean, they're not biscuits. All right, I, you know, so I get that. Um but they're they're sandwiches. And there's also, and I'm so impressed with this.

It turns out that they were serving Coca-Cola products. Sadly, no Dr. Pepper, but that's okay. I get, you know, beggars can't be choosers. But the president served Coca-Cola's in the bottle.

And they had like a presidential bottle opener. I'm impressed with that. That's got to be the coolest thing ever. Where do you, again, and I'm just curious: where do you get, can you even buy the bottled Coke anymore? I think it's select gas stations.

I love those things. I mean, there's, I'm telling you right now, if you drink a Coke out of a bottle, And then you drink one out of that plastic crap. I'm telling you, the bottle, it just tastes better. Yeah, I mean, can you tell with root beer? Root beer is like the only.

Company that still does the bottle. Totally. Yeah. Totally. It's just better.

And I'm just going to tell you this. Just write this down: Abida Springs Root Beer out of Louisiana, best root beer in America. 100% agree. Yeah. I'm glad you brought that up because it's such a good debate out there.

There's so many different root beer brands. Abita is the best. I will fight you. I will fight people over that. I will.

You're right. As a matter of fact, our friends over at Busters. They actually will order, you know, they'll order it for you. Lovely people. I went in there.

I said, I need some Abita Springs. We got the, they go, great, we got the Abita Springs beer. I'm like, no, no, no. Root beer, root beer. The better beer.

That and Dr. Pepper. I don't do root beer that often. I've got to be in a certain mood, but I will tell you that that's the only kind of root beer I drink. Ambeda Springs root beer.

In a chilled bottle, too. Got to. Or a chilled mug. Or a mug. A mug will do.

A mug will do. So All right, 901-260-5926. The crazy conversations we have on this program. Let's go to Mark in the Villages, America's friendliest hometown. Hi, Mark.

What's on your mind today? And as I keep saying, Pat, it's not the golden age, it's old age. Mark, I'm about to ban you from this radio program. Hey, so is there any truth to this? California doesn't have voter ID laws.

So does that mean that people from all over the US can go to California to vote for Sencor Pratt? And California can't defend against this, seeing they don't support the Save Act. Pod, did they just put their foot in their mouth? And if they ask for voter ID, how dare you? That's racist.

You know, if Spenser Practice did, He will ask the RS to review the books to see how Sleinball Slickhead Newsom was managing the funds or should I say, cooking the books. You know, this is interesting now.

So you're suggesting since they do not have a voter ID law that just that you could say, for example, the entire state of Tennessee could just fly over and vote and then go back home. Why not? I like this. Yeah, if they ask for ID. Yeah, that's great.

Right? Yeah. No, look, I think this is right. I think you're right here. The challenge is.

That you've got to make sure if you're from Tennessee, it probably won't work for Tennessee because they could catch your accent and that would give it away. What? All right, well, I don't know about that, but I'm just trying to say, we can all get, Scott, we can all get on a plane. Let's just all go over there, all your listeners. We'll just go over there and we'll throw our our boats out there.

I love this idea. Look, I mean, if this is the game the Democrats are playing, I got no problem with that. No beef at all. I love that. All right.

All right. Mark, good hearing from you, my friend. Keep things real in the villages. I will, sir. All right.

Good man right there. Oh, by the way, do you know who's also Dave Bourne from KYKN in Salem, Oregon? And I'm he. I have a bee in my bonnet over this one, Dylan. You know that he is driving cross country and apparently he is in the Memphis area.

He needs to stop by. I ordered him to stop by. and we were going to buy him some ribs. We have lots of barbecue and a new barbecue place opening in our area. I've got to tell you about this in just a moment because I had a little faux pas with the barbecue yesterday.

I'll get to that in a moment. Let's go to David, though, in Memphis, Tennessee. David, you may have the most important news of the day, sir. Yeah, so you've already mentioned Sam's Club. You can go into Sam's Club and get glass bottle Coca-Cola.

It's the uh Mexican Coke with pure cane sugar in it. No, get out of here. Really? They've got the Mex it's really at Sam's Club. The Mexican Coke.

I get it from my one of my daughters.

So she's a Coca Cola um professional. Have you can you taste the difference between Mexican Coke and the other stuff? Very much so. Man, that cane sugar, that's one of the things I remember about Louisiana, is all of the cane sugar, and it is a very different flavor. I had no idea that you could get the Mexican Coke right here in Memphis, Tennessee, though.

And if you really get, you know, if you're really into pure cane sugar during Passover, uh and Kroger's if if if the Kroger's over uh Over there near Yarl's office. The yellow top bottles, though they they have puricane sugar in them. It's called Passover.

So, can Gentiles drink it? Is it just for Jews?

Well, they let you buy it. I mean, they don't care, but it o it it is also pure cane sugar. I guess it's chick oh pure cane sugar, but uh They have the Sprite and the Fanta Orange, too. Oh, you fanta. Oh, yeah.

You gotta have that. David, this is, wow, I had no idea.

So, you are a great American patriot. Thank you for letting us know about that. All right. All right. And tell your daughter, good for her.

She's a Coca-Cola expert. I love that. I just realized something here, Dylan. We've got to be careful when we say, where can I get some Mexican coke? I was thinking that as soon as he said it.

We've got too many DEA agents driving around. Can we tell the difference?

Well, probably. Just a little snort'll do ya. Mm-hmm.

As they say. All right, 901-260-5926. All that to say, thank you, Mr. President, for feeding the. The Press Corps.

That was it took me fifteen minutes to get around to that. Yeah. Oh, so let me tell you what happened yesterday.

So there's a, and bear with me, folks, for just a moment. It's just a funny story.

So all day yesterday, I was looking forward to this. It's a Texas brisket place, and it's called Bain's Barbecue. And they are located in midtown Memphis, which is quite always. You know, Memphis is really spread out. We're like 13 miles from downtown, and we're just it's a Memphis is just really spread out, and it's really hard to get from point A to point B.

So, anyway, I try to go over there every couple of months or so. But they just had the best brisket. And they do the, you folks in Texas know this sausage that you make, you know, with the jalapeno cheese and all that kind of stuff.

So, anyway, and these guys are from Texas in the Hill Country, so they know what they're doing. And in Memphis, barbecue for us is pig. This is brisket.

So, and they also do these like Czechoslovaklovakian things, and somebody's going to call in and tell us what those things are, but they're unbelievably good.

So, anyway, they announced they're opening up a new location in Dillon. It is exactly. a quarter mile from my home. Yeah. And so I was so excited yesterday.

I told you we had some meetings after the show. And had to get, and I left you guys here, left poor you and Ian here in the building. I'm like, guys, gotta go, gotta go. You thought it was an emergency. You thought it was an emergency, right?

And I didn't have the heart to tell you I was going to the barbecue joint, I was going to Baines. Yeah. To get this, to try the new barbecue. I forgive you.

So I'm driving, and it was later, it was like 6:30, and I'm trying to get there, and I'm allowed to eat meat. I just can't eat all the sides, and I have to eat green salad and everything. But I was prepared to go in. And so I pull in, and I was like, surprised, there were a few cars there, and I thought, man, I thought they would be packed. rush in the front door, And the lady recognized me right out of the gate.

It's the radio guy. Because I used to eat there a lot, you know, which is, you know, why I had the stent put in.

So we're having a great conversation, and they go, What are you doing here? And I said, Well, I'm here for the barbecue. I said, I gotta get some brisket to go. And they look at me, and then I just suddenly looked around and realized, aside from the owners, I'm the only other person in the building. And they're like putting together tables.

And they said, we don't open until tomorrow. Uh oh. I was somewhat devastated. They thought you were one of those people that was going to stay overnight in a tent or something.

Well, then then the guy asked me, he says, You want to help put some tables together? And I'm like, Well, you know, I gotta go. It's but I've got this heart thing.

So I went home and had some Cascadia Farms heart healthy fiber rich cereal. You're just preparing yourself. Two percent milk. Yeah. It's like drinking watered chalk.

That's that. All right, 901-260-5926. Our telephone number, this is the Todd Stern Show. Yeah. All right, don't forget tonight, 5 o'clock Eastern, the Todd Stearns Show on Newsmax, and we're going to have the very latest on the primaries, of course, still voting.

And then tonight over at ToddSterns.com, we're going to have live, we'll have our live show blog up, and you'll be able to follow along and hang out with us later this evening once the polls start to close. 901-260-5926 is our telephone number. That's 901-260-5926. Greg Bovino, remember him? The border guy?

Yeah, so he's like working out at one of these fitness locations. And this big old fat liberal woman, and I don't mean that in a negative way, she is a big old fat liberal woman, literally comes up to the guy and while he's trying to work out, and this is what bothers me, leave these people alone. And here's here's what happened. The position that you were in. That you're more concerned about how you're treating immigrants now?

Uh, you mean illegal aliens or immigrants? I always treated immigrants, great. Big difference. Safe you don't think that you should treat People fairly Oh, I treated everyone fairly, just like I treat you fairly, I treat me fairly, treat everyone fairly. Like the measures for Renaker.

Which measures? What measures? The murders of Renega and Avex Pretty that came from your turn and burn. Immigration tactics. I won't disturb it.

We're still in the middle of the morning. They said they weren't murders. Court of law said that.

So, no. Yes, because checks and balances and line still exist. I'm just curious, where are you working? I don't need to play your tactics, Craig. Hey, you can't be in our city.

You're not welcome in my city. How does that sound cheesy? This isn't your city. It's not yours either. I'm a resident here.

Me too. Not a full-time one. Sure, absolutely. Doesn't matter. I'll come here whenever I want to.

Do what I want to. Just like you can. Yeah. As long as it's legal, ethical and moral. You've done none of those things in this country.

Everything in this country.

So Glad that you're happy about your position there and protecting a pedophile. I hope you'll really reassign America. Thank you, man. Nice here. Lordy.

You know, she was out of breath. She wasn't even doing anything, standing there. But I guess she's so. volumous that she got out of breath just standing and talking to the guy. But could you imagine?

This is what these liberals do, and I'll never forget Ben Dieter, who was a part of our show for what, three years, three and a half years, now working up on Capitol Hill. Dieter liked to go to the cool parts of Memphis where all the, you know, they have a lot of liberals here. And Dylan, I know that you guys would all go out together. And at one time, these liberals would come up to him and try to like start arguments right there. Of course, they would.

Yeah. No, so I wasn't there for all of them, but I was there for like the crazier ones. And what they do is they come up to the table, they start screaming at him, he did the morning show here. And they would just say so many different things. He's a skinny little fella.

Yes. Right? He drinks like bone broth, but he's like a marathon runner. He's very fast. He's kind of like a puma.

And he knows how to take care of himself. I mean, you know, he grew up in the farm and Pennsylvania farm country. Oh, he'll fight back. He's got. Plenty of words that he has in his vocabulary.

Yes, but he'll. All that to say, I don't have near as much patience as Greg Pavino has.

So, all right, my recommendation, ma'am, hit the treadmill. All right, we've got to hit the road here, folks. Been a great day. We're going to do it all over again tomorrow. 5 o'clock tonight, Newsmax, noon o'clock tomorrow, right here.

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