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Of course, it's primary day in four states. And we have the big runoff in South Carolina, where there's a pretty contentious race for governor there. We'll check in with Josh Jones, our chief Republican strategist, coming up in just a little while. Also, James Tallarico. New audio servicing.

You know, this guy loves to talk, and it's the gift that keeps on giving for the Republicans. Tallarico now says that he hates Christianity, and he also is complaining about his whiteness.

So we'll get into all of that. We've got the exclusive audio. We will be playing that for you a little bit later on today. By the way, our telephone number, I want you to write this down: 901-260-5926. That's 901-260-596.

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Now there is um There's some interesting audio. I want to start. We're going to start with something a little different. I wanted to do the whole pond scum, folks, and the creature from the Black Lagoon. We're going to get to that in just a moment, but I want to start with something that.

Has been bothering me of late. And we are in the throes of. Of Gay Pride Month, right? And it's interesting, ladies and gentlemen. And I think that when you step back and when you look at what's been happening in this particular Gay Pride Month, has been.

I don't know that it's been overly Overly gay. I think it's just been overly weird and overly perverse. Right? It's not as if there are more things happening. As a matter of fact, I mean, if you listen to For example, Tony Perkins and a lot of the other folks out there in the religious liberty world, that the gay pride, the whole gay pride thing is sort of.

Fading. The colors of the rainbow are. Are fading. I mean, that's what they're telling us, and that may be the case, but. But it seems as though the celebrations are getting more profane and perverse.

Uh just the other day there was a new scandal. Involving the, oh, who was it? It was one of these, I think it was Gross Point, and which is an appropriate name for what was happening because. Apparently a a rather large Drag Queen, a guy dressed in uh ladies' clothes, was uh spreading his legs and exposing his um Crotch. To the children.

Parents did not seem to mind one bit about all of that. It's just all very. I don't know, weird and gross and sick. and disgusting.

So, anyway, I say all that to point in your direction. Story at ToddSterns.com. And this information came to us last night. I wanted to make sure we got the story up in time for today's program. And I would encourage you to go to ToddSterns.com.

And check out our story. It's called California Lawmaker Says Christians. cannot claim the rainbow. And ladies and gentlemen, it just seems to me, based upon what this lawmaker, his name, by the way, is California State Senator Scott Wiener. And Weiner is running for the U.S.

Congress. He's going to be replacing Nancy Pelosi in the San Francisco area. And yes, yes, I do find it somewhat ironic that San Francisco will be represented by a wiener in Congress. I mean, it's. Who would have thought?

But that's a conversation for another day. The fact of the matter is, this guy's going to win.

So, this guy is going to go to Congress. He'll be packing up his buttless leather chaps. And his other paraphernalia. And you've seen it all. We've shared the photos with you.

The guy is like a weirdo. A weirdo. A proof.

So anyway, Wiener is out there and he is in a, he is in really a mood. He's very upset because Major League Baseball has now backed away from punishing the three San Francisco Giants players who wrote Bible verses on their ball caps. And the Major League Baseball is, they understand what's going on. The blowback here was so severe. That Major League Baseball had absolutely no choice.

But to step in and say Oopsie, we made a mistake. We made a mistake. Yes, they did make a mistake. A grievous mistake, and they were hearing it from everybody, not so much the Protestants as much as there were the Catholics.

So anyway, Wiener is very upset because he wanted those guys punished. And he said that anybody who writes any kind of a Bible verse on their pride hat is defacing the hat and also committing homophobia.

Now, what I find interesting here is that Major League Baseball is still trying to have it both ways. And they're saying, well, look, you know, we were never really going to punish the players, but you cannot write or deface anything on your uniforms.

Well, that's not true. And we know that because the players normally do not wear pride attire.

So this was a special carve-out. For the LGBT community. And we'll get to more of that in just a moment.

So anyway, Wiener is still very upset about all of this. Yeah. No, Helen, no, no, I don't want to say he's butthurt. That's an inappropriate term for this particular conversation. But that's a good thought, though.

He is butthurt over this. And so anyway, um The players referenced Genesis 9:11 through 15. And we've been through this before. I mean, this is the Bible passage about God promising to Noah that he would never destroy the earth with a flood again. And the rainbow was a sign of that.

So anyway. Uh Ken Ham. The founder of Answers in Genesis weighed in on all of this. And what's interesting is that Wiener. is now saying that Christians no longer can claim ownership of the rainbow.

So, Scott Wiener says, The rainbow, and I'm going to read this to you. We're not going to let them talk about the Christians, we're not going to let the Christians hijack the Bible to take back the rainbow. The rainbow is about pride, it's about our beautiful LGBTQ community, and it's about San Francisco beauty and joy.

Well, let me tell you something, folks. If You've been in San Francisco on a gay pride parade? There's um There's a lot of pale flesh and buttless leather chaps wandering around. Not a pretty scene. But Wiener is now declaring that the gay people of America have conquered Christianity.

and therefore they now claim ownership of the rainbow. And I'm curious to hear your thoughts on that.

Now, Ken Hamm, I want to get back to him. He's the guy that founded Answers in Genesis. And many of you have been to the Ark Encounter in Kentucky. And here's what Kim Han had to say about all of this. The LGBT movement can arbitrarily determine that six colors, which they call a rainbow, are a symbol of their unbiblical movement.

In doing this, they think they've hijacked the rainbow for their immoral cause, but they can never change the fact that the true meaning of the rainbow was given to us 4,300 years ago by the one who created the universe and thus owns everything, including the rainbow.

So Ken Ham's point is: yeah, the rainbow doesn't belong to the gay people, it belongs to Almighty God. Because God created it.

So anyway, this is where we are right now. And Scott Weiner truly believes and by the way, he doubled down after Major League Baseball backed away He said about Josh Hawley, the Senator, who wrote the letter that prompted all of this, That Josh Hawley cannot process that Major League Baseball uniformly enforces its rules. And it does not have a homophobia exemption to its uniform debasement ban. Defacement Ban.

So he makes things up.

So, Scott Wiener believes that all of you Christians, and especially you Christian baseball players, you must either pledge allegiance. And devotion to the LGBT agenda, or you just have to find another line of work.

So, ladies and gentlemen, I just pose this question to you because clearly this is becoming an issue now where many companies around the nation. Are not satisfied with just celebrating pride. They're demanding that you celebrate pride. But here's what gets me. What does it say?

About the United States of America. that we spend an entire month celebrating The LGBT agenda. An entire month. But we only spend one day. honoring our veterans.

We only spend one day. Memorializing those who put on the uniform of this country and sacrificed their lives.

So that all of us may be free. What does that tell us? About our culture and about who we are, that we only celebrate our veterans one day, one day out of the year, but we spend an entire month. Celebrating pansexuals and two spirit Yahoos. who do unmentionable things.

with trees and other things. Our telephone number, 901-260-5926. That's 901-260-5926. Oh, maybe we need to, maybe we need to revisit Veterans Day. And Memorial Day, maybe we need to extend that particular holiday so we can honor.

And we can respect the men and women who are fighting to keep us all free.

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We have got a lot of ground to cover today, but let's go to the phone lines: 901-260-5926, Nelson in Georgia, listening to us today. Hi, Nelson, what's on your mind? Hey, Todd, just loved love the show. Listen to it every day. You remind me so much of Mr.

Rush Lambos, not even funny. I listen to him. For over 30-something years. Wow, wow.

Well, thank you, sir. I appreciate that. Rush is anyway, but you remind me a lot of him and he's just Anyway, the reason my call is I am an evangelist. I have been for about. 30 years now and These poor people are running around in this Godforsaken community that they're living in of AOG.

B you and all that.

So if they've never apparently they've never read the Bible, they've never read the Old Testament. You know, in the Old Testament they call these people dogs. and they kept them around to entertain foreign dignitaries. If you don't believe that, research the Old Testament scriptures and you'll find it. It's an abomination against God.

And they can run around and preach and and you know, demand everything that they're demanding, but One day they're going to stand in front of a living God. And you know, when you're judged according to the Bible, You're not able to say one word, but you're going to hear. And see everything that you've ever done wrong in your life. Yeah. It it it's so tragic.

I mean, I've I've seen people that died. You know they went to hell because expression on their face. And I've seen people that died like my mother when she went to heaven? And she smiled.

Well, Nelson, let me ask you a question. I mean, you're an evangelist, and again, I. I'm a constitutionalist. I believe that the Constitution affords you the right to live your life the way you see fit.

Now, I may not necessarily agree with that. But that's how our Constitution was formed. For example, if you want to be an atheist, I don't get that, but okay, you've got the right to be an atheist, and we're not going to persecute you because of your religious or your non-religious belief. If you're a member of the, if you're gay or lesbian, and that's how you want to live your life, that's between you and God. That is not up to me.

But where I draw the line, I draw two lines, Nelson. Number one. It involves the children, and you cannot You cannot bring that stuff around the kids. And that goes for straight people too. You don't need to be bringing your sex and debauchery around a bunch of preschoolers.

But the other part of that is when you force me to accept and celebrate what you do. That's where I draw the line. Amen. I agree with you 100%. you know, what people decide to do.

I believe in our Constitution. I believe in every word that's written there. Our forefathers were brilliant people. I believe they were all God fearing people. But it's just like you just said, Todd.

This is a country where you have the right to believe in anything you want to believe in. But when you get to the point where you're harming young children, or harming anyone with your acts, That should not be acceptable, like drag queens being involved in grammar schools. you know My granddaughter told me something the other day she's ten years old. and they were talking about the only thing they live in, they live in Defila, Georgia. And the only thing that they teach about politics in their school Is Barack Obama And Joe Biden, they will not mention Donald Trump.

His name's not allowed to be spoken in the classroom. I am not surprised by that at all. Yeah, and then that's wrong. Because, you know, when I went to school, I'm I'll be seventy years old in August. When I went to school, we learned about all presidents.

when I studied American history. Mm. Nelson, and again, I think back to my high school years and my junior high years. That was in the mid-80s. And I don't remember, I cannot tell you what the political affiliations of any of my teachers are.

I just, to this day, I could not tell you whether they were a Republican or Democrat. And I respected that because I think there was a line that was not crossed. People, you know, the teachers back in the 70s and the 80s, and I would say even into the 90s. We're busy teaching kids how to read, how to do math. How to, I don't know, dissect a pig or a Frog.

I mean, that's basically what school was about. It was not about indoctrination. And that's, and by the way, we've got some polling data coming out. A shocking number of Democrats hate America. And the reason why they hate America is because predominantly of what they've been taught.

In these public school classrooms.

So, Nelson, thank you for the call, and thank you for the great work you're doing as an evangelist spreading the gospel message. We need more of that. 901-260-5926, our telephone number. That's 901-260-5926. And look, I know that gets me in trouble with a lot of folks out there, but I truly do believe that you have a right under the Constitution to live your life however you want to live your life, but do not force me to.

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All right, our telephone number: 901-260-5926. That's 901-260-5926. Interesting report. out of CNN. On voters who are very proud to be an American.

Cut number 13, please. Again, 56% overall. I have an extremely much proud of the country. It's 29% among Democrats. It's 90% among Republicans.

Look at that staggering gap between the parties. Look at it on the other end here. Only a little or not proud at all. It's 36% among Democrats. That number among Democrats, it's higher on the low end there than it is on the extremely proud end, and it's only 3% for Republicans.

So a massive partisan divide on that question of being proud to be an American.

So I'm just curious, ladies and gentlemen, why is that? Why is it that Democrats do not Do not like our country. They are not proud of our country.

Well, let's go to the phone lines here: 901-260-5926. Greensboro, North Carolina, Kyler, listening to us on WSJS. Hi, Kyler. What's on your mind today? Hey, sir.

I just wanted to call in because I've heard your radio station a few times over uh Over the days, and I just want to give a different perspective, if you don't mind. No, not at all.

So, why is it that Democrats, in your estimation, are just not proud to be American. I think it could be a lot of reasons. I think a lot of Americans are currently struggling. I think everyone can agree with that financially. A lot of people are struggling.

I believe It's upwards of 60% or 70% of Americans don't have $500 in a savings account. And you can chop that up to personal finance. You can chop that up to independent faults, but When you look at the overall picture, 70% That's not an individual statistic. Seventy percent of people in this country can't be failing, right?

So where are you getting that number, 70%? If from the most recent data that I've heard, Again, I'm on my lunch break, so I don't have the website or the links off the top of my head, so I apologize. No, the reason I had heard there have been some studies done, Kyler, and I don't mean to interrupt, but I want to clarify this. But the number was not 70%. It was more like 40%, nearly 40%, have less than $500 in cash savings on hand to cover some sort of an emergency, which is still a pretty high number, but it's certainly not 70%.

But I wanted to qualify that, but go ahead and finish your thought. Yeah, I appreciate that. Thank you. Yeah, and by all means, yeah, if there's something that you you hear that you might have seen differently, I appreciate that. And so I wanted to go ahead too, and I'm 25, so I was born 2000, right before 9-11, all of that stuff happened.

And so my generation, the earliest years we can remember, is growing up under this new world after 9-11, right? And you had the 08 crash, and then you had some recovery after that. Obviously, things didn't get better, but you had a little bit. Our economy picked up. And then up into the late twenty tens as I turned eighteen.

Trump comes into presidency, and then we have the pandemic, and that's another really big recession. And you see All of these recessions start to come one after another, and wage growth doesn't increase. all of these things don't increase, but you see the stock market increases. But a lot of majority of Americans don't hold a large amount in the stock market.

So that's that's that's a lot of that's going to shareholders, a lot of that's going to the wealthier Americans and to the people that are struggling. And so when you look at that and then you would combine that our tax dollars are going for overseas to wars that we don't want to fund. We're being told that we need to bomb Iran into oblivion and things like that. I mean, heck, If you took all of the money we have just spent on the war in Iran, everything that we our government says we can't afford, and you took all of that money that we just put into bombing people, into all of the programs that would make people's lives better, we would be fine.

So I'm not going to disagree with you on some of that. And I want to you've said a lot, and I want to try to break it down and respect your lunch break.

So let's jump into this. First of all, on the issue of the recessions, I am not going to disagree with you. Except on this one issue, there have only been two official recessions since 2008. One was, of course, the collapse in 2008, which was known as the Great Recession, and the other was the China virus recession.

So that is accurate. There's a big difference between what happens on Wall Street. And I point this out: every time we have somebody call in and say, Wall Street is booming, the economy is great.

Well, not everybody's invested in Wall Street. As a matter of fact, a majority of Americans are not invested in Wall Street.

So you have what's happening on Wall Street, but you also have what's happening on Main Street. And people are suffering, Kyler. There's no doubt about that. And I think there are a lot of factors here. But one of the big challenges for young people is inflation, and that actually started under the previous administration.

It was getting under control, and then we've got the war in Iran. Inflation ticks back up. Prices start going back up again. Gas prices, while they're high, are not nearly as high as they were under the Biden administration. But, Kyler, that doesn't mean a hill of beans to anybody who is still struggling to figure out how to pay for a quarter tank of gas or a half a tank of gas.

Mm-hmm.

So I get that. I get that.

So what do you think? What is the answer here? Yeah. Well, I think overall, and I think a majority of Americans honestly would agree on this, and we are put We are divided between culture issues. We're divided among things like immigration and Trans people and trans people only make up about 0.1% to 0.3% of the population.

I don't know about that. I mean, if you listen to Hollywood, they make up 90%. Right. And again, but just like you said, Wall Street's not the real world, and neither is Hollywood, right? Right, but they control the media and they control the national narrative.

And when you tie in with organizations like the Human Rights Campaign, you have a very teeny, tiny demographic of the population that has a massive amount of control. But again, do you think that transactions affect your life?

Well, I'm about to answer that question for you. Why do we need, for example, drag queens going into preschools? And spreading their crotches in front of the children. What educational value is there in that happening?

So I think that conservatives love to create these. No, it's not hypotheticals. No, it's Tyler. It's not a hypothetical. There are videos all over social media right now, all over social media.

Of drag queens going in and showing their genitalia. Showing their crotches, yes. Why are you spreading your legs in front of children that are four and five years old? Why are you forcing children four and five years old to participate in gay pride parades? Why is that?

What is the educational value of a four-year-old doing that?

So let me flip this back around. No, there is no flipping. There is no educational value. But again, I want to circle back. You see, you're getting off the reservation.

I want to bring us back in. You said that one of the reasons why Americans or Democrats are not proud to be an American is because of the economy.

Well, the Democrats are the ones that put us in this position with the economy, and President Trump's trying to get us out. Started back in the 70s. We love going back to the previous administration, the previous administration, the previous administration, the previous administration. This has been an ongoing fight against this is a class struggle, sir. And this is what the older generation doesn't understand.

This is a class struggle. This is between working class people and the ruling class people, the corporations, the people that own the capital, the capitalists. That is what this is. The people who own the capitalists. Ever since the Great Depression.

In which FDR said he saved capitalism in his obituary. He said he saved capitalism by passing the Green New Deal and all of these socialist reforms that brought money back to the United States. That was the New Deal. AOC was the Green New Deal. Yeah, that's AOC.

Yeah, the New Deal. Doesn't know how to operate up garbage disposal. But go ahead. Sure, sure. And so when he passed all these things, it was record-breaking tax breaks for the working class.

Democrat Party. Federally funded programs programs for people. What about LBJ, another Democrat who enslaved generations of black Americans to the government teat? What about LBJ? Hey, Democrats are racist, sir.

I'm I am I do not I'm not Democrat. I'm not Democrat, sir.

So I think I think Democrats and Republicans are awful. And so what are you? If you're not a Democrat, you're not a Republican, what are you? I'm a leftist.

Okay, so all right.

So who do y who did you vote for in the last election? Who did I vote for? I unfortunately had to vote for Kamala, but I didn't want to. But you voted for two parties. Hold on, hold on, all right.

All right, no, that's fine. What about before?

Well, you can vote for anybody. I mean, you can write in a name if you want to write in a name. What about before Kamala? Who did you vote for? That's the faux democracy, right?

That's the faux democracy. It's not faux democracy. You could walk in, you could write somebody's name in. Because you could vote for a Green Party candidate that doesn't get any media coverage, that doesn't get any coverage by anyone. Or you can vote by the two Democratic candidates that get put up.

Kamala wasn't even voted on by Democratic constituents. She was pushed by the party. That's the Democrats. That's the Democrats. That's how they operate.

Yeah. So it was Republicans who freed the slaves by the way. Real quick. Yeah, I've only got it. Yeah, I've got about 30 seconds here.

So finish your point. I'm not sure where we're going with it. I'll finish my point. This has been a uh the the decay of our society and the collapse of the American empire is due to decades and decades of corporations pulling back our rights and our funding. And instead they go on the media and they tell you that trans people and immigrants are our problem, when instead we spend hundreds of billions of dollars to bomb school children overseas, and we say that we're protecting freedom by doing it.

Yeah, you know what? It sounds to me, Kyler, and I don't mean this in a negative way. I just like spewing the facts here. What you just described, you have just described yourself as a Marxist. That's what you are, a Marxist.

You said they didn't. You said that they didn't. Indoctrinate you in the seventies and eighties, but they did. No, no, no, no, no. You, sir, you, sir, are a Marxist.

You're a Marxist. Why didn't you just admit it? Why didn't you just admit it? You couldn't admit it, Kyler. I asked you.

Can you define Marxism? Can you define Marxism? All right, we're going to do it. Kyler, I've given you an opportunity, and a lot of people want to weigh it on what you had to say here. And and look, if that's how you want to live your life, I can we can spend an entire show talking about how Marxism is incredibly corrupt, and we can do that.

But, Kyler, I appreciate you calling in. Gotta get to your point a little bit faster though. I knew. Ladies and gentlemen. This is what we have to deal with here on this program.

And I appreciate Kyler coming in. You just got to be open and honest. Why don't you just call and say, Todd, I'm a Marxist? Let's go to Gene in Georgia. All right, Gene, what say you?

Uh I'm just I did not realize how well off the Republicans were versus the Democrats. We are obviously have cheap gas that's accessible We don't have any financial problems. because we are Republicans, and ninety percent of us are proud So the poor Democrats, I totally understand where Tyler's going. Yeah. Yeah, it's, you know, here's the thing.

Even during the Obama years, I don't care who the president is, I'm always proud of my country. I love my country. And if what is it to my country, right or wrong, it's my country. And I don't think the Democrats get that because they're not Democrats anymore, Gene. That's the issue.

They're not Democrats. They're a little Marxist. That's what they are. Todd, I'm 84 years old. I've been over the hill, across the river.

I've got to tell you, I truly. When I was in the Army, I truly cannot understand what is happening to our country. Is is Trump? That much of a problem for the Democrats. They have no idea.

They are missing the greatest president As far as fun, achievement, excitement, thrills and chills. And all because they're upset with Trump. It's I it's Gene, do you realize at this very moment there are leftists that are literally marching in support of algae? Outside the Lincoln Reflecting Pool. If that doesn't crack you up, you don't have a funny bone.

I'm sorry, Todd. I did see that and I thought. What has happened to our country? Oh what? Trump was right.

You're all crazy. They are. Gene, you're absolutely. And by the way, it's not just the Democrats, it's the Republicans, too. A lot of people forget Trump just used the Republican Party to get elected, right?

He's not a Republican. He is a populist at heart.

So I'm having a great time here. And this is one of the reasons why Trump is getting so much blowback is because he is blowing up the way things have been done. And all of you folks that think that Marxist ideology is the way to go. More than a hundred million people were slaughtered. Slaughtered because of Marxism.

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So here's what communism is: you got two cows. All right, two cows. The government takes both of the cows and it gives you some of the milk.

Now in socialism, you got two cows, the government takes one cow and gives it to your neighbor. Under capitalism, you got two cows, you sell one, and you buy a bull. And if you miss biology class, that means you get more little baby cows. calves. Under fascism you have two cows, the government takes both cows and sells you the milk, and under Nazism you got two cows, the government takes your cows and then shoots you dead.

And that's pretty much it. Those are your choices, ladies and gentlemen. And every single time, I love capitalism. It's the only way to go. All right, look, we've got to take a break here coming up.

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Well, as I mentioned earlier today, in the first hour of the show, Major League Baseball now admitting that they mistreated Christian ball players. I want to bring into the conversation our good friend. She is a terrific career trial attorney and a Newsmax columnist, Wendy Patrick. Wendy, hope you're doing great today. It's always a pleasure to join you, Todd.

Thank you. Wendy, what a bizarre story. And this is something that just sort of exploded and snowballed with Senator Josh Hawley writing an official letter to the baseball commissioner demanding a lot of answers. And it looks like Major League Baseball is backing off of the threats they made against those three Christian members of the San Francisco Giants. You know, Todd, I read the story with much interest as well because sometimes, you know, you'll have an organization come out seemingly in support of content-based discrimination.

And that's what this would be. If it's a freedom of religion issue, you're allowed to write whatever you like. And it ended up being to the point of making it an even playing field more about defacement, allegedly, than discrimination. It was because they wrote on their hats, not because we disagree with them being Christians. And it reminds me of the conversations we had over the taking the knee controversy.

It seems like so long ago with the national anthem. And like anything else, you know, sometimes a position might seem good, and a knee-jerk response by an organization is rarely as positive or as much of a good idea as initially thought, once public opinion begins weighing in on both sides of the aisle. And it didn't take long. For some of the viewers and voters, we can't forget that, to remember that the league also was allowing other kinds of things, Black Lives Matter patches, other things that stand for other viewpoints without discipline.

So it was interesting, but I have to say, I don't think we've heard the end of it. No, I don't think so either. And I know that you've had a lot of folks out there in the LGBT community really outraged over this. I still haven't figured it out. Exactly, why we need to force baseball players to celebrate Pride Month?

I don't get that. You know, it brings up another issue, and that is an issue of forced speech. You have players that have a variety of faith-based backgrounds, a variety of gender identities and lifestyle choices and everything in between. Demographically, they're very diverse. They're unified because they're great players and they play well together as a team.

Why make it a divisive issue? That is one of the issues that always arises when you are attempting to force speech. Let everybody believe what they believe, say what they want to say, because that's the law. And it really only comes back to what is legally permissible. Because if you enforce the law, the rules, the policy, whatever you want to call it, with respect to some groups, but not with respect to others, you're going to have problems.

And those problems are never going to go away because God created everybody differently in terms of what people believe and what they choose to believe. And everybody has opinions. And that's one of the reasons controversies like this garner the attention they do because it's caps at ball games. Today is going to be another form of speech tomorrow. And one common denominator is: not only can we not prevent free speech, but you can't force speech because then it's not free.

And that's a great point. And I think Major League Baseball understood that. In the explanation, I think the baseball commissioner went back several years ago when they actually provided a carve-out specifically for the Dodgers in Los Angeles and the Giants because they happen to have a large LGBT fan base. But everybody else, you're not allowed to force the Christian ball players.

Now I think everybody is going to be included in that. Yeah, and you know, carve-outs are dangerous. I'm glad you brought that up because why are you carving out exceptions for certain groups, certain teams, certain demographics? If you're going to do it in LA, why don't you do it with a team in Boston? And those types of things are ripe for extra scrutiny.

I don't mean legal scrutiny because obviously that's the same standard for everybody, but I mean public scrutiny. The court of public opinion is a very loud voice, and we know that they're influential because we've seen candidates change their statements, change their views. We've seen organizations, whether it's football, baseball, or any sport in between, we've seen them change their stance as well in support of public opinion or public disfavor.

So that's one of the problems. If you're carving out an exception for somebody, you are already on a road to trouble. Why not keep an even playing field for everybody in every location? We have Wendy Patrick with us on our Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line today. Wendy, another story out of California.

Scott Wiener, who is going to be the next congressman, barring some sort of a miracle, he's going to be replacing Nancy Pelosi. He came out yesterday and he's doubling down on all of this. And he's saying that actually gay people own the rainbow flag, not Christians. Uh what do you make of that?

Well, as a Christian minister, of course, you know I wear that hat as well. It's in the Bible. I mean, some of the arguments I hear are obviously made by people who haven't read the Bible. You can say I've read it and I disagree with the Holy Spirit, God that wrote it, but you can't claim something is not there when it is so easy to read. You know, we live in an age where we have information at our fingertips.

I used to say Google.

Now I'll say AI or name your browser of choice, but of course it's in the Bible. It's part of the promise God made to Noah after the flood that he would never do it again. Non-Christians understand that and know that.

So I think that sometimes people that are running for elected office or people that are already there really have to make sure that the statements they make are vetted so they don't run afoul of such obvious biblical principles if you're talking about religion. You know, I want to switch gears here real quick, Wendy. There's a story out of the world of Tucker Carlson. I don't know what's going on with that guy. But anyway, Tucker Carlson now says he's officially done with the Republican Party.

Let's take a look at it. A listen to the audio here. Cut three, please. I would not support the Republican Party. There's no chance I would support the Republican Party.

I'm not going to support the Democratic Party. I don't know what I'm going to do. But at this point, You know, how could you support, how could I or any American voter support a political party that's not loyal to the United States that puts the interests of a foreign country above those of its own citizens? Like, that's that's you know, it's not possible to vote for people like that, and I'm not going to. And I think I've voted Republican my entire life.

I worked at Fox News, I've CNN, MSNBC. I've been a consistent defender for 35 years of the Republican Party. I mean, very consistent defender, but there's no defending this because it's immoral and it's exactly the opposite of what a political party in a democracy is. Charged with doing, which is representing its own voters, its own citizens, its own nation. And they're not doing that.

So, no, I'm out. And if I'm out, then I think a lot of other people are out. Wendy, what do you make of what Tucker Carlson just said there?

Well, I've been on Fox with Tucker Carlson. I know that you know him too. We all know he's very opinionated and he's very outspoken when he has opinions. I'm not 100% sure at the back end of the rationale that he's proclaiming. You know, as a lifetime prosecutor, trial attorney, I would love to know a little bit more about the foundations of his denouncement of the Republican Party and believing that others have as well.

I understand he's against the war. He's made that very clear. And I understand what he thinks about some of the decisions this administration has made. But to generalize it to the entire Republican Party, I would love to know the backstory, how he went from where he was to where he is now. I think that's really the only way to understand some of these outspoken opinions.

You know, when we give opinions, sometimes we assume people know more about the basis of our viewpoint changes than they really do. And sometimes they're just left a little bit confused.

Well, if you don't agree with the Democrats and you don't agree with the Republicans, give us a little more. Information to work with and understanding why. It's a great point. All right.

Wendy, we're going to have to leave it there. Folks, you can follow Wendy on Instagram, Wendy Lynn Patrick. Follow her on Facebook, Wendy Lynn Patrick, as well. And Wendy, we always appreciate you coming on the program. Thank you.

Thank you, Todd. Always a pleasure. All right.

Good stuff. All right.

We've got to take a quick break. When we come back, your phone calls. What do you make of Tunker Carlson announcing that he is leaving? The Republican Party. 901-260-5926.

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Ron, what's on your mind today? I'm telling you right now, you might as well just go ahead and play Don't Call Me Brother right now from the OJs. But make a long story short, to hear Tyler, he seems intellectual. But what's happened, he's been indoctrinated with Caesar defeatism. The Republic and sorry, I'm not saying not voting for Democrat Republic and everything else.

That's what the Marxists want. They want sheep for the slaughter. And in the process, in my state especially, my candidates instead of sitting out there, my governor and senate candidates sitting out there, and I'm watching it nationally with the RNC. They're not going through, showing the evidence, just like writing a composition, introduction, a body and a conclusion. The introduction should be: here's what this person's done, why I'm running against them.

Here's what they voted that affect you. That's the body. And the conclusion should be: here's how we're going to make something and fix it. That's what's different from the RNC when you're talking about when Michael Rotley and Laurel Trump was running it, compared to Gruders in my own state, where the ORP has been undermined. by just trying to go along, get along.

You cannot serve two masters and claim that you walk with light when you're doubling down our sheep. What just the first commandment the three commandments that Jesus told Peter? Love his sheep. Protect his sheep, feed his sheep. You feed the sheep with accountability.

History is God's covenants in human affairs, as Daniel Webster says. And we must bring it back. We must hold accountable, we must be proactive. If we're not proactive and just think you can wait till September, October, and campaign then and think you're going to get elected. It's not going to happen anywhere.

We will have a slaughter throughout this country. But it really frustrates me to see these younger generations being undermined like this. Ty, we we got a problem.

Well, we do.

So, Ron, we do have a problem. And the problem is you've got young people that are being indoctrinated in these classrooms, and they're being told: this is what they're being told: that it's your fault, Ron. It's our generation's fault that they cannot find a job, they can't buy a house, you know, a starter home. And I think. You need what?

About, I mean, just to be able to afford a median price starter home, you've got to have about $79,000, $80,000. That's how much you need to be making a year. to be able to afford a starter home.

Now, I suspect, Ron, there are a lot of different factors involved here. And the reality is that it is a tough economy right now. No doubt about that. But you also have to be asking yourself some pretty hardcore questions. I think it was at the shark.

Who's the guy on the shark tank? Oh, geez, look. Bald dude. You know who I'm talking about. Anyway, he was.

Mr. Wonderful. Mr. Wonderful. Thank you, Mr.

Shark. Mr. Wonderful. Yes, Mr. Wonderful is saying, hey, look, if you're making $70,000 a year, you don't need to be going out for lunch.

You need to be packing a sandwich.

So I'm wondering how many people are just living so far beyond their means that they want to be able to buy the house that their parents have. When in many cases the parents did not that was not their first home. You know, the more money they made, they moved into a larger home. I just wonder as a whole if the country is living far beyond its means. I agree 100% because what we have groomed this generation, the last two generations, I blame my generation, I'm born in 67%.

Well, I learned when I grew up 40 years ago, one month, and three years ago in my foster home in Fontana, California, no cow is to be given. You got to earn the you got to earn, have a job. You got to put the effort. You got to learn how to tuck checkers away. And listen to the World I, World Two generation that had apartments and everything.

They had to earn it. They act like they didn't have nothing. We're not teaching fiscal responsibility in fifth grade too. junior high school. These don't teach fiscal accountability, household things till in high schools and just a blip by dumbing down through the school system, by the parents just going along because they've got to work two jobs, one jobs, both parents working, and this is premeditated race society garbage that LBJ set up.

And if they and if divide the household by having the mother of the kids have 90% of the custody, it's the emasculation, the demonicization of our society. And we mut the Republican Party, especially in my state, needs to explain, don't wait till the end of summer and then try to campaign. They need to show why my fuel bill is almost 90 cents high because of the utopian dream of cap and trade. They need to show why with law enforcement hands being tied that they can't. That they security guards can't even prosecute people for shoplifting and enabling the homeless because it becomes a NGO, money-grubbing, space society garbage.

Well, let me jump in here. All right.

Yeah, I got it. I got it. I got it, Ron. But hear me on this. There are young people out there.

Ron, thank you for the call. There are young people out there. who literally believe they have it worse off than Than there, what would be their great, great, great-grandparents who grew up during and survived the Great Depression? And I'm just curious to hear your thoughts on that because many of you were either children in the Great Depression or your grandparents. Or your parents were, you know, lived through the Great Depression.

Do you believe that today's kids, today's Gen Z kids, have it worse off? than people who survived the Great Depression. 901 260 5926 is our telephone number. That's 901260-5926. Harvard did a study in the fall of last year.

They call it their You Harvard Youth Poll. Only 13% of 18 to 29-year-olds said the country was headed in the right direction.

So they're being taught that. That you Middle class, upper middle class America, that you are hoarding the wealth. and they deserve it. They want what you work for, but they don't want to work for it. 901-260-5926, our number.

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Let's go to the phone lines. Westminster, South Carolina. Jan is on the line. Hi, Jan. What's on your mind today?

Hi, yes, sir. It's good to talk to you. I was just going to tell you a couple of little stories about my parents who were born in. nineteen seventeen and nineteen eighteen and their depression era experiences My mom and dad were born in Winston and Walker County and North Alabama. grew up on small farms and they remember picking cotton in well, they did it, in ten foot long cotton sacks.

And at the end of the row, they would have watermelon vines planted so they could sit down and have something refreshing. But that ten foot long cotton sack slung across their shoulders brought ten cents. My Aunt Helen, who was born in nineteen twenty nine, remembers that when the government would come to the area, and that's what she said, when the government men would come, they would hide Their stacks of flour and sugar up in the rafters of the barn so they wouldn't be confiscated.

So no, I don't think the Gen X Generation has it worse than what our folks did. No, it's, you know, it's interesting. When you look at Gen Z, and I think they overstate, greatly overstate their anxiety. You know, the reality is, yeah, home prices are very high right now. No doubt about that.

I think the average starter home, well over $200,000. And if you're making $70,000, $75,000 a year, Well, you're going to have a hard time covering that nut.

Now, I will say this: I know when my dad, you know, we went through the oil, the energy crisis back in the 70s and 80s, and my dad's job depended on that. And so, dad had to go out and get a second job. To make ends meet.

So sometimes you just have to suck it up, Jan, and you got to do what you got to do to make ends meet. That's right. When we were my husband and I were at house buying age in time, the interest rates were seventeen percent. Under Jimmy Carter.

So there was no house in our future, and we just did what we had to do. You know, it's it and if you don't have that mentality, you never get anywhere. It's a fair point, Jan. It's a fair point. And yes, times are tough for kids.

And again, when you take a look at how we structure our families and our lives, There are some cultures, and they just don't get why everybody leaves home at like 18 or 19 years old, or why grandma and grandpa are living in a home. You know, there used to be a time in this country when multiple generations lived under the same roof, or sometimes on the same piece of property.

So, again, times have changed, and there's nothing wrong with times changing, but the reality is there's no way that kids today have it as worse off than the kids who grew up during the Great Depression years. No, there's not. The stories they tell and the stories they won't tell, I think, which are even more important, the ones they won't tell of the hardships. All right.

But I appreciate your show. Always enjoy listening to you. Jan, thank you for calling in 901-260-5926. Our telephone number, that's 901-260-5926. I want to bring in our chief.

Political strategist Josh Jones entered the conversation. Josh, I'm curious about your family. You know, your family, you grew up on a farm or in the country. Uh, as did my grandparents. You know, back in the 1930s during the Great Depression, you know what they took to school for lunch, Josh Jones?

I don't. I want you to say, Todd, what did your grandparents had? Bread and bacon grease, and that's how they would make bacon grease sandwiches. Yum, yum. Yeah, I haven't heard that before, but I don't doubt it.

Which may actually be tastier than, I don't know, avocado toast, but you know, who am I to judge? Josh, it's good to see you. I know you've been out and about on the campaign trail. This is your busy season. And today, we are looking at Decision Day in America, four states holding primaries, one of them actually holding a runoff.

That's South Carolina. What's the big headline coming out of today? Look, I think looking at the Democrat side of the aisle, I think that might be where the story is today. Obviously, there's some competitive Republican primaries happening, but in New York, you have a big battle happening for the future of the Democratic Party and their ideology. You have the AOC Bernie Sanders crowd that are running all these candidates against the Democrat House delegation in New York.

So you're going to have this competition between New York and between the AOC socialist wing of the party and your more traditional blue dog Democrats.

So I think that's going to be a real bellwether. We've already seen in LA and then also in New York with these mayor races, Democrats are turning to the left. When you look at New York, I'm fascinated by this because it really is going to tell, I think, the rest of the nation exactly where these Democrats are going to go. And I think they're moving to the left, Josh. I may be misreading the tea leaves here, but I think they're going to the left.

Yeah, I think you're right. And I think a lot of Americans, whenever your average voter starts tuning in over the next couple of months as we get closer to the actual midterms, if Republicans do their job and message correctly and get out there on the campaign trail like they should, I think a lot of voters are going to go, wait a second, this is not the Democratic Party of not even just 10 years ago. They've run so far to the left ever since really 2016 after Hillary lost. And then you had Biden come in and be way more progressive than he had been historically in the Senate. And then in 2024, obviously you had Kamala Harris.

So I think a lot of people are going to take a look. Democratic Party does no vote and go, wait a second, this is a socialist party that doesn't represent our values, whereas the Republican Party is more focused on those traditional kitchen table issues. I think there, and on the other side of the aisle, there is an interesting runoff in South Carolina, the gubernatorial race between the lieutenant governor, who got the President's endorsement and Alan Wilson, who seems to be picking up every other endorsement in the state, including from our good friend Ralph Norman, who's a member of the House Freedom Caucus. What do you think is going on down there in South Carolina? Yeah, you have an interesting situation in South Carolina.

Like you mentioned, the president endorsed the current lieutenant governor who's running for governor. She came in first in the first round of voting back a couple weeks ago. But you've kind of had everybody else in South Carolina rally around the Attorney General who's running for the Republican nomination.

So, look, they're both good Republicans at the end of the day. I think it's going to be interesting. I think it's another test of the president's endorsement to see where the Republican voters might go. But look, the state leadership, and as you mentioned, Ralph Norman, Freedom Caucus member, a solid conservative is on the side of the Attorney General here. Regardless of who you're backing, whoever becomes the nominee out of this primary today is who Republicans have to rally around in November.

I think that's what they'll do. Josh Jones joining us on our Patriot mobile newsmaker line. Josh, very interesting Senate race out of Texas. James Tallarico, he's like the gift that keeps on giving for Republicans.

Now, some newly resurfaced audio where he says he hates Christianity. Let's take a listen to that, please. Cut to us. Yeah, and that's, you know, I always think of myself as a Christian who hates Christianity. Right.

And like, I always get drawn back into it.

So there you have it. He's a theologian who hates Jesus. How do you think that plays out there in the deep in the heart of Texas? Yeah, I don't think James Talrico is going to be doing very well in the election in November. And look, Democrats, every cycle, they think that's when Texas is going to go blue.

And they thought James Tyrico is doing what they always do, run as this moderate who is middle of the road and isn't crazy. He's just a traditional Democrat. And then all this stuff comes out that everybody was already saying from the beginning was going to come out, but all this stuff comes out of him being this radical leftist who's just running like a moderate. And I think, you know, Texas voters are smart. They're not going to fall for this.

And, you know, Canon Paxton will easily win in November. Look, here's how crazy this whole story is. Not even Jasmine Crockett. And, you know, she is off the charts insane. She doesn't want to have anything to do with this guy.

I don't think she's going to be campaigning for him. But I think the bigger story is black voters in Texas, especially Democrats, are very religious, very conservative. And Josh, I have to imagine they're going to be turned off by this sort of, you know, I hate Christianity or Jesus was an anarchist kind of stuff. Yeah, I mean, James Callarico is totally off base here and totally insane. And also, too, mind you, it's June.

We still have plenty of time to go between now and November for more stuff to come out about this guy, and I guarantee it will.

So, I think Texas voters are already paying attention because they're just seeing how crazy this guy is to get started with, but especially as Republicans ramp up their campaign heading into November, I think Ken Paxton is very easily going to be the next senator from Texas.

So, but if you're a Democrat watching, send your money to Texas because you can definitely win. No doubt about that. Here's Tallarico talking about. His whiteness and his masculinity. Take a listen.

I should mention, you know, my imagination is also just limited by my own. My own background and identity, right? My own, my whiteness, my masculinity, all those things limit my imagination about what's possible.

So I have to continually press against that to try to expand the limits of what I'm dreaming of for our community. And that's where, you know, Dr. Robin, your book helps me do that, and podcasts like this help me do that. What in the world is this guy talking about? I don't understand.

So he's got a problem that he was born white and he was born a man. And the last time I said something about this, Esquire Magazine took me to the woodshed because I'm just wondering how exactly does he come to terms with his masculinity? You know, if he's wearing frilly underpants or whatever, I don't know. I don't care. I'm just wondering, what does this mean, Josh Jones?

This guy's insane. And look, Democrats, for the beginning, they try to say this guy was a moderate. And then he's talking about stuff like this. I mean, who in Texas, if you walk up to a voter in Texas and say, what's the biggest issue on your mind right now? What's affecting you every day?

No one is saying anything he's saying. No one's talking about their masculinity. Nobody's talking about their whiteness. People are talking about the cost of gas, the cost of groceries, the cost of buying a house, like you were talking about before. Nobody is talking about this.

And this is typical Democrats. Democrats love to say, oh, Republicans try to divide people and divide Americans on all these cultural war issues. But at the end of the day, if you look at Republican messaging, particularly in Texas, as someone who does a lot of work down in Texas, we're focused on the cost of living and getting the price down for working families in Texas. Democrats, meanwhile, are out here talking about their whiteness and their masculinity and how much they hate themselves.

So we'll see which one resonates with voters this November. Yeah, that's going to be a no-brainer. By the way, I know you live in DC. Have you seen the algae people out there on the mall? These people are insane.

These people are literally insane. No, I haven't personally seen them, but I've been following it on Twitter. I haven't been down to the reflecting pool quite yet. But these people are literally mentally unwell. All right.

We will leave it there. Josh Jones, loaded for bear today. Josh, good to see you, my friend. Big start. All right.

There you have it, ladies and gentlemen. 901-260-5926, our telephone number. That's 901-260-5926. These people are insane. We'll be right back.

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Alright, I want to go back to this story out of Out of Texas. This is just bonkers. This Tallarico guy. And the fact of the matter is that he's a woman. I mean, that's really the bottom line here.

The guy is the guy behaves like a woman. It's insane. This is cut number 16, please. There have been attacks on your masculinity, on lies about your sexuality. Attacks on your partner.

They've been like on a level 10, 12. Sure. Paxton has even begun to call you Low T Tallarico. What's your response to that? Honestly, I had to look up what that meant.

I don't think guys my age are really concerned about that kind of thing. But I think that these nicknames and these personal attacks. Don't actually don't actually meet the needs of Texas. Right, everywhere I go across the state. All I hear about is how folks are drowning.

How those ends at the end of the month never seem to meet. And how People can't get by, they can't afford the basics: groceries, and gas, and insurance and. and prescription drugs, the things we need to survive. and they're looking desperately for elected leaders who are actually going to solve their problems. And so when you see Ken Baxton and the Republican Party.

Attacking me personally, attacking my girlfriend, attacking my church and my pastor, I think it exposes the fact that they have no clue how to get this economy back on track. They have no solutions. To lower people's costs and raise their pay.

So if they have no affirmative argument, to make the voters, I think that that um is a good sign for our chances in November. Uh-huh.

So Girlfriend. All right, that's in the ghost quotes there. Girlfriend.

So, look, here's the deal. The reason why they call him Loti Tallerico, the board guy said, I really don't know what that means.

Well, it means you got no testosterone, pal. That's what it means. And you can eat all the brisket in Texas, and I don't think that's going to work for you. I really don't. But anyway, Tallarico's out there, and the New York Post has a big story about one of his key mints.

Mentors. being some sort of a transgender queer wackadoodle. Never seen anything like it. But this guy, it's a pardon me. I said transgender wackadoodle.

It's a transqueer Latinx. No, I'm not making this up. It's in the New York Post for crying out loud. The author, Ryan King, Meet the trans queer. Latinx theologian who continues to inspire James Tellarico.

Tellerico says that the the theologian was his source his major source of inspiration for his left-wing philosophy. When you started following me on Twitter, I couldn't contain my inner fanboy because I read your book last year and it continues to inspire me. That's what he told Roberto Henderson Espinoza. Who I think is a woman. I think I don't hold me to that.

But the working theory is this dude's a woman.

Now, I don't know of many. I'm just going to say this: I don't know of many gay Texans who would be fanboying over a trans queer Latinx. But who knows? Crazier things have happened in the load star state. But there you have it, everybody.

I think Tallarico gets Gets a whooping. in in November. That's what I think is going to go on with this guy. Yeah, I'm looking at Roberto. I think he may have been a Roberta at one time in his life.

Big Roberta. Yeah. That's what I'm thinking. We don't judge here. We're just confused.

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Well, as I mentioned earlier today, in the first hour of the show, Major League Baseball now admitting that they mistreated Christian ball players. I want to bring into the conversation our good friend. She is a terrific career trial attorney and a Newsmax columnist, Wendy Patrick. Wendy, hope you're doing great today. It's always a pleasure to join you, Todd.

Thank you. Wendy, what a bizarre story. And this is something that just sort of exploded and snowballed with Senator Josh Hawley writing an official letter to the baseball commissioner demanding a lot of answers. And it looks like Major League Baseball is backing off of the threats they made against those three Christian members of the San Francisco Giants. You know, Todd, I read the story with much interest as well because sometimes, you know, you'll have an organization come out seemingly in support of content-based discrimination.

And that's what this would be. If it's a freedom of religion issue, you're allowed to write whatever you like. And it ended up being to the point of making it an even playing field more about defacement, allegedly, than discrimination. It was because they wrote on their hats, not because we disagree with them being Christians. And it reminds me of the conversations we had over the taking the knee controversy.

It seems like so long ago with the national anthem. And like anything else, you know, sometimes a position might seem good, and a knee-jerk response by an organization is rarely as positive or as much of a good idea as initially thought, once public opinion begins weighing in on both sides of the aisle. And it didn't take long. For some of the viewers and voters, we can't forget that, to remember that the league also was allowing other kinds of things, Black Lives Matter patches, other things that stand for other viewpoints without discipline.

So it was interesting, but I have to say, I don't think we've heard the end of it. No, I don't think so either. And I know that you've had a lot of folks out there in the LGBT community really outraged over this. I still haven't figured out exactly why we need to force baseball players to celebrate Pride Month. I don't get that.

You know, it brings up another issue, and that is an issue of forced speech. You have players that have a variety of faith-based backgrounds, a variety of gender identities, and lifestyle choices, and everything in between. Demographically, they're very diverse. They're unified because they're great players and they play well together as a team. Why make it a divisive issue?

That is one of the issues that always arises when you are attempting to force speech. Let everybody believe what they believe, say what they want to say, because that's the law. And it really only comes back to what is legally permissible. Because if you enforce the law, the rules, the policy, whatever you want to call it, with respect to some groups, but not with respect to others, you're going to have problems. And those problems are never going to go away because God created everybody differently in terms of what people believe and what they choose to believe.

And everybody has opinions. And that's one of the reasons controversies like this garner the attention they do because it's caps at ball games today. It's going to be another form of speech tomorrow. And one common denominator is not only can we not prevent free speech, but you can't force speech because then it's not free. And that's a great point.

And I think Major League Baseball understood that. In the explanation, I think the baseball commissioner went back several years ago when they actually provided a carve-out specifically for the Dodgers in Los Angeles and the Giants because they happen to have a large LGBT fan base. But everybody else, you're not allowed to force the Christian ball players.

Now I think everybody's going to be included in that. Yeah, and you know, carve-outs are dangerous. I'm glad you brought that up because why are you carving out exceptions for certain groups, certain teams, certain demographics? If you're going to do it in LA, why don't you do it with a team in Boston? And those types of things are ripe for extra scrutiny.

I don't mean legal scrutiny because obviously that's the same standard for everybody, but I mean public scrutiny. The court of public opinion is a very loud voice, and we know that they're influential because we've seen candidates change their statements, change their views. We've seen organizations, whether it's football, baseball, or any sport in between, we've seen them change their stance as well in support of public opinion or public disfavor.

So that's one of the problems. If you're carving out an exception for somebody, you are already on a road to trouble. Why not keep an even playing field for everybody in every location? We have Wendy Patrick with us on our Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line today. Wendy, another story out of California.

Scott Wiener, who is going to be the next congressman, barring some sort of a miracle, he's going to be replacing Nancy Pelosi. He came out yesterday and he's doubling down on all of this. And he's saying that actually gay people own the rainbow flag, not Christians. What do you make of that?

Well, as a Christian minister, of course, you know I wear that hat as well. It's in the Bible. I mean, some of the arguments I hear are obviously made by people who haven't read the Bible. You can say I've read it and I disagree with the Holy Spirit, God that wrote it, but you can't claim something is not there when it is so easy to read. You know, we live in an age where we have information at our fingertips.

I used to say Google.

Now I'll say AI or name your browser of choice, but of course it's in the Bible. It's part of the promise God made to Noah after the flood that he would never do it again. Non-Christians understand that and know that.

So I think that sometimes people that are running for elected office or people that are already there really have to make sure that the statements they make are vetted so they don't run afoul of such obvious biblical principles if you're talking about religion. You know, I want to switch gears here real quick, Wendy. There's a story out of the world of Tucker Carlson. I don't know what's going on with that guy. But anyway, Tucker Carlson now says he's officially done with the Republican Party.

Let's take a look at it. A listen to the audio here. Cut three, please. I would not support the Republican Party. There's no chance I would support the Republican Party.

I'm not going to support the Democratic Party. I don't know what I'm going to do. But at this point, You know, how could you support, how could I or any American voter support a political party that's not loyal to the United States that puts the interests of a foreign country above those of its own citizens? Like that's, that's, you know, it's not possible to vote for people like that, and I'm not going to. And I think I've voted Republican my entire life.

I worked at Fox News, CNN, MSNBC. I've been a consistent defender for 35 years of the Republican Party. I mean, very consistent defender. But there's no defending this because it's immoral and it's exactly the opposite of what a political party in a democracy is. Charged with doing, which is representing its own voters, its own citizens, its own nation.

And they're not doing that.

So, no, I'm out. And if I'm out, then I think a lot of other people are out. Wendy, what do you make of what Tucker Carlson just said there?

Well, I've been on Fox with Tucker Carlson. I know that you know him too. We all know he's very opinionated and he's very outspoken when he has opinions. I'm not 100% sure the back end of the rationale that he's proclaiming. You know, as a lifetime prosecutor, trial attorney, I would love to know a little bit more about the foundations of his denouncement of the Republican Party and believing that others have as well.

I understand he's against the war. He's made that very clear. And I understand what he thinks about some of the decisions this administration has made. But to generalize it to the entire Republican Party, I would love to know the backstory, how he went from where he was to where he is now. I think that's really the only way to understand some of these outspoken opinions.

You know, when we give opinions, sometimes we assume people know more about the basis of our viewpoint changes than they really do. And sometimes they're just left a little bit confused.

Well, if you don't agree with the Democrats and you don't agree with the Republicans, give us a little more information to work with and understanding why. It's a great point. All right.

Wendy, we're going to have to leave it there. Folks, you can follow Wendy on Instagram, Wendy Lynn Patrick. Follow her on Facebook, Wendy Lynn Patrick as well. And Wendy, we always appreciate you coming on the program. Thank you.

Thank you, Todd. Always a pleasure. All right.

Good stuff. All right.

We've got to take a quick break. When we come back, your phone calls. What do you make of Tunker Carlson announcing that he is leaving? The Republican Party. 901-260-5926.

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Ron, what's on your mind today? I'm telling you right now, might as well just go ahead and play Don't Call Me Brother right now from the OJs. But make a long story short, to hear Tyler, he seems intellectual. But what's happened, he's been indoctrinated with Caesar defeatism. The Republic and swim not say not vote for Democrat Republic and everything else.

That's what the Marxists want. They want sheep for the slaughter. And in the process, in my state especially, my candidates instead of sitting out there, my governor and senate candidates sitting out there, and I'm watching it nationally with the RC, They're not going through, showing the evidence, just like writing a composition, introduction, a body and a conclusion. The introduction should be: here's what this person's done, why I'm literally against them. Here's what they're voting that affect you.

That's the body. And the conclusion should be, here's how we're going to make something and fix it. That's what's different from the RNC when you're talking about when Michael Rotley and Laurel Trump was running it, compared to Gruders in my own state, where the ORP has been undermined. by just trying to go along, get along. You cannot serve two masters and claim that you walk with light when you're doubling down our sheep.

Would just the first commandment the three commandments that Jesus told Peter? Love his sheep. Protect his sheep, feed his sheep. You feed the sheep with accountability. History is God's provenance in human affairs, as Daniel Webster says.

And we must bring it back. We must hold accountable. We must be proactive. If we're not proactive and just think you can wait till September, October, and campaign in and think you're going to get elected. It's not going to happen anywhere.

We will have a slaughter throughout this country. But it really frustrates me to see these younger generations being undermined like this. Ty, we we got a problem.

Well, we do.

So, Ron, we do have a problem. And the problem is you've got young people that are being indoctrinated in these classrooms, and they're being told, this is what they're being told: that it's your fault, Ron. It's our generation's fault that they cannot find a job, they can't buy a house, you know, a starter home. And I think. You need what, about, I mean, just to be able to afford a median price starter home, you've got to have about $79,000, $80,000.

That's how much you need to be making a year. to be able to afford a starter home.

Now, I suspect, Ron, there are a lot of different factors involved here. And the reality is that it is a tough economy right now, no doubt about that. But you also have to be asking yourself some pretty hardcore questions. I think it was at the shark. Who's the guy on the shark tank?

Oh, geez, look. Bald dude. I know. You know who I'm talking about. Anyway, he was at Mr.

Wonderful. Thank you, Mr. Shark. Mr. Wonderful.

Yes, Mr. Wonderful is saying, hey, look, if you're making $70,000 a year, you don't need to be going out for lunch. You need to be packing a sandwich.

So I'm wondering how many people are just living so far beyond their means that they want to be able to buy the house that their parents have. When in many cases, the parents did not that was not their first home. You know, the more money they made, they moved into a larger home. I just wonder as a whole if the country is living far beyond its means. I agree 100% because what we have engroomed this generation, the last two generations, I blame my generation, I'm born in 1967.

What I learned when I grew up 48 years ago, one month, and three days ago in my foster home in Fontana, California, no cow is to be given. You got to earn the you got to earn, have a job. You got to put the effort. You got to learn how to tuck sheckers away. And listen to the World I, World Two generation that had apartments and everything, they had to earn it.

They act like they didn't have nothing. We're not teaching fiscal responsibility in fifth grade too. junior high school. These don't teach fiscal accountability, household things till hier in high schools and just a blurp by dumbing down through the school system, by the parents just going along because they've got to work two jobs, one jobs, both parents working, and this is premeditated race society garbage that LBJ set up. And if they and if divide the household by having the mother of the kids have 90% of the custody, it's the emasculation, the demonicization of our society.

And we mut the Republican Party, especially in my state, needs to explain, don't wait till the end of summer and then try to campaign. They need to show why my fuel bill is almost 90 cents high because of the utopian dream of cap and trade. They need to show why, with law enforcement hands being tied, that they can't. That they security guards can't even prosecute people for shoplifting and enabling the whole list because it becomes a NGO, money-grabbing, space society garbage.

Well, let me jump in here. All right.

Yeah, I got it. I got it. I got it. I got it, Ron. But hear me on this.

There are young people, and there Ron, thank you for the call. There are young people out there. Who literally believe they have it worse off? Than their what would be their great, great, great grandparents who grew up during and survived the Great Depression. And I'm just curious to hear your thoughts on that because many of you were either children in the Great Depression or your grandparents.

Or your parents were, you know, lived through the Great Depression. Do you believe that today's kids, today's Gen Z kids, have it worse off? than people who survived the Great Depression. 901-260-5926 is our telephone number. That's 901-260-5926.

Harvard did a study in the fall of last year. They call it their Harvard Youth Poll. Only 13% of 18 to 29-year-olds said the country was headed in the right direction.

So they're being taught that. That you Middle class, upper middle class America, that you are hoarding the wealth. and they deserve it. They want what you work for, but they don't want to work for it. 901-260-5926 are a number.

That's 901-260-5926. This is the Todd Stern Show. All right, welcome back. This is the Todd Stearns Radio Show. Let's go to the phone lines.

Westminster, South Carolina. Jan is on the line. Hi, Jan. What's on your mind today? Hi, yes, sir.

It's good to talk to you. I was just going to tell you a couple of little stories about my parents who were born in. nineteen seventeen and nineteen eighteen and their depression era experiences. My mom and dad were born in Winston and Walker County in North Alabama. grew up on small farms and they remember picking cotton in well, they did it, in ten foot long cotton sacks.

And at the end of the row, they would have watermelon vines planted so they could sit down and have something refreshing. But that ten foot long cotton sack slung across their shoulders brought ten cents. My Aunt Helen, who was born in 1929, remembers that when the government would come to the area, and that's what she said, when the government men would come, they would hide. their stacks of flour and sugar up in the rafters of the barn so they wouldn't be confiscated.

So no, I don't think the Gen X generation has it worse than what our folks did. No, it's you know, it's interesting. Um, when you look at Gen Z, and I think they overstate, greatly overstate their anxiety. You know, the reality is, yeah, home prices are very high right now, no doubt about that. I think the average starter home, well over $200,000.

And if you're making $70,000, $75,000 a year, Well, you're going to have a hard time covering that nut.

Now, I will say this: I know when my dad, you know, we went through the oil, the energy crisis back in the 70s and 80s, and my dad's job depended on that. And so, dad had to go out and get a second job. To make ends meet.

So sometimes you just have to suck it up, Jan, and you got to do what you got to do to make ends meet. That's right. When we were my husband and I were at house buying age in time, the interest rates were seventeen percent. Under Jimmy Carter.

So there was no house in our future, and we just did what we had to do. you know, it's it and if you don't have that mentality, you never get anywhere. It's a fair point, Jan. It's a fair point. And yes, times are tough for kids.

And again, when you take a look at how we structure our families and our lives, There are some cultures and they just don't get why everybody leaves home at like 18 or 19 years old or why grandma and grandpa are living in a home. You know, there used to be a time in this country when multiple generations lived under the same roof or sometimes on the same piece of property.

So again, times have changed and there's nothing wrong with times changing, but the reality is there's no way that kids today have it as worse off than the kids who grew up during the Great Depression years. No, there's not. The stories they tell and the stories they won't tell, I think, which are even more important, the ones they won't tell, the hardships. All right.

I appreciate your show. Always enjoy listening to you. Jan, thank you for calling in 901-260-5926. Our telephone number, that's 901. 260-5926.

I want to bring in our chief politicians. Political strategist Josh Jones entered the conversation. Josh, I'm curious about your family. You know, your family, you grew up on a farm or in the country. Uh, as did my grandparents.

You know, back in the 1930s during the Great Depression, you know what they took to school for lunch, Josh Jones? I don't. I don't. I want you to say, Todd, what did your grandparents had bread and bacon grease, and that's how they would make bacon grease sandwiches? Yum, yum.

Yeah, I haven't heard that before, but I don't doubt it. Which may actually be tastier than, I don't know, avocado toast, but you know, who am I to judge? Josh, it's good to see you. I know you've been out and about on the campaign trail. This is your busy season.

And today, we are looking at Decision Day in America, four states holding primaries, one of them actually holding a runoff. That's South Carolina. What's the big headline coming out of today? Look, I think looking at the Democrat side of the aisle, I think that might be where the story is today. Obviously, there's some competitive Republican primaries happening, but in New York, you have a big battle happening for the future of the Democratic Party and their ideology.

You have the AOC Bernie Sanders crowd that are running all these candidates against the Democrat House delegation in New York.

So you're going to have this competition between New York and between the AOC socialist wing of the party and your more traditional blue dog Democrats.

So I think that's going to be a real bellwether. We've already seen in LA and then also in New York with these mayor races, Democrats are turning to the left. When you look at New York, I'm fascinated by this because it really is going to tell, I think, the rest of the nation exactly where these Democrats are going to go. And I think they're moving to the left, Josh. I may be misreading the tea leaves here, but I think they're going to the left.

Yeah, I think you're right. And I think a lot of Americans, whenever your average voter starts tuning in over the next couple months as we get closer to the actual midterms, if Republicans do their job and message correctly and get out there on the campaign trail like they should, I think a lot of voters are going to go, wait a second, this is not the Democratic Party of not even just 10 years ago. They've run so far to the left ever since really 2016 after Hillary lost. And then you had Biden come in and be way more progressive than he had been historically in the Senate. And then in 2024, obviously you had Kamala Harris.

So I think a lot of people are going to take a look. Democratic Party this November and go, wait a second, this is a socialist party that doesn't represent our values, whereas the Republican Party is more focused on those traditional kitchen table issues. I think there, and on the other side of the aisle, there is an interesting runoff in South Carolina, the gubernatorial race between the lieutenant governor, who got the President's endorsement and Alan Wilson, who seems to be picking up every other endorsement in the state, including from our good friend Ralph Norman, who's a member of the House Freedom Caucus. What do you think is going on down there in South Carolina? Yeah, you have an interesting situation in South Carolina.

Like you mentioned, the president endorsed the current lieutenant governor who's running for governor. She came in first in the first round of voting back a couple of weeks ago. But you've kind of had everybody else in South Carolina rally around the Attorney General who's running for the Republican nomination.

So, look, they're both good Republicans at the end of the day. I think it's going to be interesting. I think it's another test of the president's endorsement to see where the Republican voters might go. But look, the state leadership, and as you mentioned, Ralph Norman, Freedom Caucus member, a solid conservative is on the side of the Attorney General here. Regardless of who you're backing, whoever becomes the nominee out of this primary today is who Republicans have to rally around in November.

I think that's what they'll do. Josh Jones joining us on our Patriot Mobile newsmaker line. Josh, very interesting Senate race out of Texas. James Tallarico, he's like the gift that keeps on giving for Republicans.

Now, some newly resurfaced audio where he says he hates Christianity. Let's take a listen to that, please. Cut 12. Yeah, and that's, you know, I always think of myself as a Christian who hates Christianity. Right.

And like, I always get drawn back into it.

So there you have it. He's a theologian who hates Jesus. How do you think that plays out there in the deep in the heart of Texas? Yeah, I don't think James Tyrico is going to be doing very well in the election in November. And look, Democrats, every cycle, they think that's when Texas is going to go blue.

And they thought James Tyrico is doing what they always do, run as this moderate who is middle of the road and isn't crazy. He's just a traditional Democrat. And then all this stuff comes out that everybody was already saying from the beginning was going to come out, but all this stuff comes out of him being this radical leftist who's just running like a moderate. I think Texas voters are smart. They're not going to fall for this.

And Canon Paxton will easily win in November. Look, here's how crazy this whole story is. Not even Jasmine Crockett. And she is off the charts insane. She doesn't want to have anything to do with this guy.

I don't think she's going to be campaigning for him. But I think the bigger story is black voters in Texas, especially Democrats, are very religious, very conservative. And Josh, I have to imagine they're going to be turned off by this sort of, you know, I hate Christianity or Jesus was an anarchist kind of stuff. Yeah, I mean, James Calarico is totally off base here and totally insane. And also, too, mind you, it's June.

We still have plenty of time between now and November for more stuff to come out about this guy, and I guarantee it will.

So, I think Texas voters are already paying attention because they're just seeing how crazy this guy is to get started with, especially as Republicans ramp up their campaign heading into November. I think Ken Paxton is very easily going to be the next senator from Texas.

So, but if you're a Democrat watching, send your money to Texas because you can definitely win. No doubt about that. Here's Tallarico talking about. His whiteness and his masculinity. Take a listen.

I should mention, you know, my imagination is also just limited by my own. My own background and identity, right? My own, my whiteness, my masculinity, all those things limit my imagination about what's possible.

So I have to continually press against that to try to expand the limits of what I'm dreaming of for our community. And that's where, you know, Dr. Robin, your book helps me do that, and podcasts like this help me do that. What in the world is this guy talking about? I don't understand.

So he's got a problem that he was born white and he was born a man. And the last time I said something about this, Esquire Magazine took me to the woodshed because I'm just wondering how exactly does he come to terms with his masculinity? You know, if he's wearing frilly underpants or whatever, I don't know. I don't care. I'm just wondering: what does this mean, Josh Jones?

This guy's insane. And look, Democrats, for the beginning, they try to say this guy was a moderate. And then he's talking about stuff like this. I mean, who in Texas, if you walk up to a voter in Texas and say, what's the biggest issue on your mind right now? What's affecting you every day?

No one is saying anything he's saying. No one's talking about their masculinity. Nobody's talking about their whiteness. People are talking about the cost of gas, the cost of groceries, the cost of buying a house, like you were talking about before. Nobody is talking about this.

And this is typical Democrats. Democrats love to say, oh, Republicans try to divide people and divide Americans on all these cultural war issues. But at the end of the day, if you look at Republican messaging, particularly in Texas, as someone who does a lot of work down in Texas, we're focused on the cost of living and getting the price down for working families in Texas. Democrats, meanwhile, are out here talking about their whiteness and their masculinity and how much they hate themselves.

So we'll see which one resonates with voters this November. Yeah, that's going to be a no-brainer. By the way, I know you live in DC. Have you seen the algae people out there on the mall? These people are insane.

These people are literally insane. No, I haven't personally seen them, but I've been following it on Twitter. I haven't been down to the reflecting pool quite yet. But these people are literally mentally unwell. All right, we will leave it there.

Josh Jones, loaded for bear today. Josh, good to see you, my friend. Big start. All right.

There you have it, ladies and gentlemen. 901-260-5926, our telephone number. That's 901-260-5926. These people are insane. We'll be right back.

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All right, I want to go back to this story out of Out of Texas. This is just bonkers. This Tallarico guy. And the fact of the matter is that he's a woman. I mean, that's really the bottom line here.

The guy is the guy behaves like a woman. It's insane. This is cut number sixteen, please. There have been attacks on your masculinity, on lies about your sexuality. Attacks on your partner.

They've been like on a level 10, 12. Sure. Paxton has even begun to call you Low T Tallarico. What's your response to that? Honestly, I had to look up what that meant.

I don't think guys my age are really concerned about that kind of thing. But I think that these nicknames and these personal attacks, don't actually don't actually meet the needs of Texas. Right. Everywhere I go across the state, All I hear about is how folks are drowning. How those ends at the end of the month never seem to meet.

And how People can't get by, they can't afford the basics: groceries, and gas, and insurance, and and prescription drugs, the things we need to survive. And they're looking desperately for elected leaders who are actually going to solve their problems. And so when you see Ken Baxton and the Republican Party. Attacking me personally, attacking my girlfriend, attacking my church and my pastor, I think it exposes the fact that they have no clue how to get this economy back on track. They have no solutions.

to lower people's costs. and raise their pay.

So if they have no affirmative argument, to make the voters I think that that is a good sign for our chances in November. Uh-huh.

So Girlfriend. All right, that's in the ghost quotes there. Girlfriend.

So, look, here's the deal. The reason why they call him Loti Tallerico, the boar guy said, I really don't know what that means.

Well, it means you got no testosterone, pal. That's what it means. And you can eat all the brisket in Texas, and I don't think that's gonna work for you. I really don't. But anyway, Tallarico's out there, and the New York Post has a big story about one of his key mint people.

Mentors. being some sort of a transgender queer wackadoodle. Never seen anything like it. But this guy, it's a pardon me. I said transgender wackadoodle.

It's a transqueer Latinx. No, I'm not making this up. It's in the New York Post for crying out loud. The author, Ryan King, meet the trans queer Latinx theologian who continues to inspire James Tellarico. Tellerico says that the the theologian was his source his major source of inspiration for his left-wing philosophy.

When you started following me on Twitter, I couldn't contain my inner fanboy because I read your book last year, and it continues to inspire me. That's what he told Roberto Henderson Espinoza. who I think is a woman. I think I don't hold me to that. But the working theory is this dude's a woman.

Now, I don't know of many, I'm just going to say this, I don't know of many gay Texans who would be fanboying over a trans queer Latinx. But who knows? Crazier things have happened in the load star state. But there you have it, everybody. I think Tallerico gets Gets a whooping.

in in November. That's what I think is going to go on with this guy. Yeah, I'm looking at Roberto. I think he may have been a Roberta at one time in his life. Big Roberta.

Yeah. That's what I'm thinking. We don't judge here. We're just confused. 901-260-5926.

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