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If You Had One Wish for America, What Would It Be?

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If You Had One Wish for America, What Would It Be?

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June 3, 2022 3:17 pm

The Todd Starnes Show discusses the gun grab, Second Amendment rights, and Joe Biden's administration, while also touching on conservative values, moral compass, and Christian values. The show also covers the conflict in Russia and Ukraine, free speech, and authoritarian regimes.

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It's America's favorite gun-toting, Bible-clinging, deplorable American. That's us. That's right. I love this American ride. Todd Starnes.

Oh, yeah. Hello, America. Tim Van Orden for Todd Starnes today. It is Friday. You're almost to the weekend.

Stick that chest out, and let's hit that finish line hard today. What do you say? It's an honor to be here with you. our phone number 844-747-8868. And as always, you can find the best in journalism, best in commentary, as well at ToddStarns.com.

Welcome along on all the great radio stations across the Fruited Plain, as well as streaming across on Getter and many other platforms. We thank you for being with us today. Grace Baker is here. Kyle is here as well. And Grace, I have to tell you, I usually come in out of the box just really full of vinegar, ready to go, fired up.

Today, I come with a very full, happy heart. It's a little, maybe, I don't know if it's a kinder, gentler, Tim Van Horn, but my heart is very full, and so is my stomach with all the Chick-fil-A that has been consumed today.

Well, yeah, I guess we should just go ahead and tell the listeners, it's your birthday today, so it's a great day when it's Tim Van Horn's birthday.

So we already started celebrating this morning with a full platter of Chick-fil-A. We had the chicken minis, the chicken biscuits, the fruit. We had, of course, the sweet tea. Oh, we had fruit? Yeah, I noticed you didn't really touch the fruit because we also had Gibson's Donuts.

Shout out to Gibson's, our favorite donut place in Memphis, Tennessee. I know Voodoo Donuts in Portland and for our affiliate in Salem, Oregon, I know Voodoo Donuts are awesome. I have heard they're really good. But Gibson's are the bee's knees. Yeah.

But no offense there. I don't want to start a donut.

Well, yeah, I do want to start a donut war. Send them all in. We'll be the judge. How about that? That's true.

I'm happy to taste test. But the morning show on KWAM in Memphis was so wonderful this morning. It was so bizarre that I did not even recognize my wife's voice when she called in to wish happy birthday because she never participates in the morning show. That's how big of a morning it has been. Yes, exactly.

The fact that she called in. Yeah. Yeah. So I come today with a very full heart. Your love bank is full.

My love bank is full. I've never heard it called that. That's what my grandma's. We'll go with what grandma says. If grandma says it, then it must be cool.

I'll go with that. But I have a wonderful wife. I have a wonderful child who is at camp who I miss very much. Hopefully she's letting them, you know, it's at church camp, so maybe they'll let us listen in on the live stream there. But I have great friends.

I have great coworkers. I'm in a building here in Memphis where there's plenty of opportunities. I mean, heck, I'm on a national show on my birthday. I mean, this isn't work. That's pretty good.

This isn't work. This is a labor of love.

So I am honored to be here with all of you today, and it's just great to be here. And I know that we are in the midst of some troubled times, and there are a lot of things that are going wrong in this country. But today has been very humbling, and it allows me to just take a moment and just, you know, I've got a lot to be thankful for, too. But you didn't come here for a birthday palooza.

So you came here for great conservative common sense radio, and that's what we're going to give you over the next three hours. I know we've got Mo Brooks lined up a little bit later today. That's going to be fantastic. Jason Miller from Getter. We're streaming on Getter, so if you haven't gotten Getter, get Getter.

Okay, got it. Make sure you do that. And we've got some other terrific guests and some surprises coming up a little bit later on on the Todd Starnes show. But as I sit back and I review the last year and just think about all of the things that have been going on in this country, there are a myriad of things that if I could take my birthday wish today and blow out that candle, I would want it to be something for America. I would love for it to be not about me, but something about us, because we have seen the reality over the last 16 plus months of what has happened since Joe Biden has taken over in this country and the Biden agenda, the left's agenda.

There are so many things, even in just the recent weeks, that we look at and we go, we could not have fathomed this would be going on in our country. I mean, we look at the baby formula shortage across the country. We have a president who swears up and down that he had no clue that there was a baby formula shortage. And we have spokespeople out there that can't even tell you who the person was that told Joe Biden that there was a baby formula shortage.

So we don't even know if the president even knew what was going on with his own economy. If that doesn't scare you, there's plenty more that's going on in our country. Of course, the numbers, they talked about inflation today, Joe Biden coming out today, and he had numbers that he thought he could brag about. It's like the emperor's new clothes. Please, please don't look at the fact that you don't have as much money because of Bidenflation, that your real wages are going down.

And then you throw on top of that, he went for the gun grab last night. No, we are going to talk about the gun grab. We are going to be talking about that on the Todd Starnes show today. They are not letting up on this, and they are coming in hot and fast for the guns. But fortunately, we do have some brave conservatives out there taking a stand and pushing back against all of this nonsense.

and then on top of that have you looked at tv lately or have you looked at businesses lately you know this is the month by the way where you ditch the ukrainian flag and you put the pride flag on your corporate logos you you know this of course right which to me grace i still don't understand this how do you reconcile praying for ukraine and then going straight to the rainbow flag when when in ukraine gay marriage is banned that's a good point how do you reconcile that is it just is it the woke olympics do you just switch is it the topic of the month yeah it's whatever's the cool thing to be supportive of at that time but as the wind blows but we have big money trying to tell the rest of us what is good to think what's not good to think and it is leading to a continued moral decline of our country well i can tell you during pride month all the big companies are making money off of this oh it's that's the big thing it's an absolute marketing ploy oh yeah and i i would like to think in my own world i treat pride month just like i do valentine's day and here's how you're looking at me quizzical like i'm very curious going with this timothy because you're a couple different ways you're giving me that timothy look not that tim look But that is, and I just got pulled over for speeding. I treat Pride Month just like I treat Valentine's Day. If you have to have some company tell you how to be nice to somebody, then you're doing it wrong the rest of the year. Whoa, dropping bombs at the beginning of the show already. You like that?

That's pretty good. Because on Valentine's Day, I am not a fan of Valentine's Day. I love my wife. I love my wife 365 days a year and the extra day on the leap year. I do not take a day off on the leap year.

I don't need a greeting card company to tell me that I need to go buy a card, take her for a steak dinner, or buy flowers. I don't need that. If I'm not already doing things for her and showing how I love her, then doing this symbolic gesture is nothing but virtue signaling, and I'm doing it wrong the rest of the time. Oof. Oof.

Shots fired. It's the same thing with Pride Month. If you're having to tell people how much you like people that have different sexual orientations, If you're having to tell people how to do that or telling that you like people that have a particular sexual orientation, well, what about the other 11 months? How are you treating people then? Why isn't your heart open to everybody all of the time?

Why isn't the welcome mat out in your heart all of the time? You know why? Because it doesn't pay. Oh, no, it doesn't pay. Does it bring home the bacon?

No, no, it does not bring home the bacon. We got time for a phone call? Let's go to the phone. Let's go to the phone calls. And I want to do this, too.

I'm going to throw this question out. I'm in for Todd today, so I can throw the question out now. As I mentioned at the beginning of this, for my birthday, of course, you're going to blow out the candle and you're going to make a wish. I would make my wish today for America. But there's so many things wrong in America right now.

I'm not sure I could pick which one thing.

So my question to you at 844-747-8868, if you could take my birthday wish and wish for one thing for America, what would you wish for? Let's go to Jerry Lynn in Georgia on world-famous WDUN. Jerry Lynn, thank you for joining me today on the Todd Starnes Show. How are you? Hey, Tim.

Happy birthday, honey. I wish you all the blessings. Thank you so much. It's great to be here today, and it's great to hear from my friends in northern Georgia. How's the weather down there?

Hot and humid, honey. That's the south. That's the way we like it. It's the only way we can drink sweet tea. I know it.

I know it, Mr. Tim.

Well, Mr. Tim, my wish, if I could have one of your birthday wishes, would be that the demon rat party would die. We would never. They would go away, Tim. and we'd never hear from any of them again, ever.

I like unambiguous birthday wishes. I like the way you're going with that because you're very specific with that. And I'm going to write that down. I'm going to keep a list of these because at some point later today, I've got to blow out birthday candles on a cake, and I've got to pick something from somebody. And so I'm writing that down.

After Happy Birthday, I may have demon rats in the back of my mind as I'm getting ready to blow out the cake. How's that for a visual, Jerry Lynn? i love it mr tim well tim tell me about georgia sure okay george georgia's primary you know was just recently yes okay well a friend of mine mr tim worked the poll okay so she called me that night when she got in she said jerry lynn something's not right here i said oh gosh what i said it can't be anything to do with them because it's the republican party she said yep it is so she couldn't put her finger on it tim so she started going back to the register and all honey do you know tim that over a hundred thousand demon rats voted in the republican primary in georgia and they put that's why kent and ratzenberger went back in it sounds like an operation chaos where they did that to force republicans to hold their nose for the general election from what you're telling me but wait a second i have to question you right off the bat jerry lynn because voter id is racist how did so many democrats get to vote because it is not i said the same thing mr tim okay come to find out that is not illegal in georgia we are so backwooded that it no matter if you're a registered democrat or republican you can vote in the primary however you want to vote and they did it because If Jody Heiss and Perdue had gone in, they were going to, from day one, they stated they were going to do a voter fraud investigation.

So the demon rats didn't want that. Oh, goodness gracious.

Well, then I would assume that many of our conservative friends down listening to WDUN may feel the same way. Are you excited that Herschel Walker could be your next senator? Yes, absolutely. And, Tim, let me tell you, we watched Trump's rally Saturday night, last Saturday night. Yeah.

Do you know what he said? What did he say? He said when he got off the plane, Tim, Tim was standing there and handed him a hat. He didn't say hat. I'm sorry.

And he said, I don't need a hat. What I need is for you not to allow the Democrat Party to vote in a Republican primary. Burn.

So there you go. There you go. How about try them apples on for size for sure. Jerry Lynn, thank you for joining me this morning, and thank you for your suggestion for the birthday wish. Tim, happy birthday, honey, and I love all of y'all.

Kyle, Grace, Todd, you. I love all of y'all, honey. I listen to you every single day.

Well, thank you, sweetheart. I'm going to adopt that Grace. I'm going to make that Grace my daughter. Yeah?

Well, I tell you what, you call her back and get her birthday, because if you're going to make that promise, You've got to come good on birthday and Christmas, okay? Oh, absolutely, Mr. Tim.

I love you, honey, and happy, happy birthday. All right. Thank you, Jerry Lynn. There's Jerry Lynn from WDEN. Our phone number, 844-747-8868.

Today's my birthday. I would love to make one wish for America. If you could take that one wish for me, what wish for America would you make? 844-747-8868. It's Tim in for Todd.

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Welcome back. Tim Van Horn in for Todd's to earn us on this Friday, 844-747-8868. We're going to talk about Biden's gun grab coming up in just a bit. But, you know, we were looking at week. My wife and I were looking at weekend dining plans.

And every now and then, you know, we'll go out and blow our carb limit and have some pizza. And we love going out for pizza. One pizza place, though, I think I'm about ready to just go, just scratch off that list. Pizza Hut, folks, who make great pizza. In fact, growing up, they had a reading program.

You read books and you bring in proof. You could get like a slice of pizza or a personal pan pizza. They've been doing this for years. But it has now become quite the twisted program, Grace. And this is a head-scratcher for me because they're now sponsoring a program, which is great, incentivizing kids in preschool to read books.

But now there's a different twist to it. One of the suggested books on the list is called Big Wig.

Now, you'd think maybe it was about a boss or maybe the big guy, like 10% for the big guy, Joe Biden. Maybe about economics or something. But it is not, is it? No, apparently this is about a child who becomes a drag queen. And I was like, of course.

It used to be Dr. Seuss, Horton Hears a Who, read that book. And now it feels like there's a lot of these books that are about kids who become drag queens or a boy who thinks he's a girl. And it gets very confusing. But apparently they're incentivizing kids to read this book to get free pizza.

The cultural onslaught is on because I feel like I have to look everywhere before I let my kids' eyes go to a particular place.

So you would think a reading program from a restaurant would maybe be like some crayons, a coloring book, maybe a simple book on, oh, look, John and Jane make a pizza pie, something like that. But no, this is about transgenderism. It's about being a drag queen. And corporate wokeism has just continued to seep in that now it makes it difficult to go just enjoy some of the things you used to take for granted. And I think they've taken a lot of that goodwill and think that people will tolerate this and see how far they can push it.

Exactly. And it's ridiculous because, you know, you go to get some pizza at a family friendly place. You wouldn't think to look at a lot of these places, but you can't put your kid in front of a Disney movie anymore. Or you can't put your kid in front of, I don't know. Paramount.

Paramount is bad, too. Paramount's bad. And you can't put your kid in the book section at a Target or at a Walmart without being afraid of what books they're going to pick up and look at. I don't want anything on gender identity or sexuality of any kind. I mean, just full stop.

Oh, yeah. I just want to eat some pizza. And if they want to have a coloring book or a book about how to make a pizza, that's fine with me. First, it's big wig. and if this doesn't get stopped which by the way it's so ironic this company was founded in Wichita, Kansas like right in the heartland and now you've got this going on.

It's ridiculous. But this is kind of the gateway well if we can push the envelope this far the left never stops. I guarantee you that if they get away with this there will be even more.

Next thing you know they're going to have a book called Pizza Slut.

Well they're the epitome of you give an inch inch they'll take a mile yes you know same thing but yeah now i can't get that image out of my brain thanks a lot but now i feel like when before i order a pizza for takeout or for delivery now i have to scan the website to see what kind of crazy mess that they're disseminating to kids across america exactly i just want it all i want is my all i want is a slice of pepperoni pizza is that too much to ask you know though tim most people i know like prefer papa john's anyway so i think Pizza Hut's already been struggling. This is probably going to be the nail in the coffin. Pizza Hut, folks, I'm telling you, they've been closing all those old school stores anyway by the droves, and I don't think this is maybe pointing the moral compass in the right direction. Pizza Hut used to be a gathering place for families, and at the end of baseball season in Little League or soccer season, we'd go, we'd get our little medals or our trophies, we'd get a couple slices of pizza, play a video game or two. You know, get hyped up on soft drinks and then we would go home.

It used to be a tradition. It's not that way anymore. Coming up, we've got your comments on our live chat at Todd Starnes, 844-747-8868. We're going to talk about Biden's gun grab attempt. He's still at it, folks.

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That's MyPillow.com backslash Starnes or call 1-800-544-8939. Use the promo code Starnes. Welcome back to Van Horn in for Todd Starnes. Our phone number 844-747-8868. Welcome, welcome, welcome.

It is Friday. It's National Donut Day, but it's also my birthday. And it's very humbling. I've gotten a lot of great wishes on our live chat. We're going to get to some of that in just a moment.

But as I told Grace at the beginning of the show, And I told all of you in the audience that later today, I'll blow out the candles for my birthday. And as you get older, you realize the birthday is really not about you. And it's about everybody else and counting your blessings. And later today, you get that one wish. And for me, I want to make that wish about America.

But there's so many things that America needs. I'm not sure what to pick.

So I've wanted to toss this to you out in the Todd Starnes audience at 844-747-8868. And, of course, Ms. Jerry Lynn from WDUN down in Georgia was out of the box this morning and called in and said she'd love to get rid of the Democrats. What did she call them? Demon rats.

She said demon rats. And she called me honey three times.

So my day is already made. But 844-747-8868. If you could take my birthday wish and have one wish for America, what would it be? And Grace, folks have been chiming in by the droves on Todd Starn's Facebook live chat this afternoon. It is very humbling, and they've got some great ideas.

Yeah, so David says that he wishes we would repent on a national level and turn back to God. Several people said that, including Melissa, said her wish was a prayer revival. and also we've got low prices across the board voting straight red this november um we've got again a lot of people wishing for revival for our schools for god to be back in our schools that's what caroline says and jeff says for god to return uh rick says abortion what he wants abortion to be abolished that's a good one would that be a great gift this birthday month for for a minimum 6-3 Roe v. Wade overturned. That would be great.

That would be awesome.

So those are our comments, but they're still pouring in. All right. Keep them coming at Todd Starnes on Facebook Live Chat and at 844-747-8868. And if Joe Biden had his wish, he would get the hundreds of millions of guns out of the hands of law-abiding citizens and take your Second Amendment rights away. And, of course, we are now a week and a half away from the last school shooting in Uvalde, Texas.

And Joe Biden spoke to the country last night, and he is not going to let go of this. He is going to try to keep this news cycle as long as he can and try to demonize you, the law-abiding citizen, and try to take your guns away. here's joe biden and not only does he want to take your guns away he wants to punish those who sell the guns listen to what he said had to say about uh gun manufacturers cut nine we should repeal the liability shield that often protects gun manufacturers of being sued for the death and destruction caused by their weapons they're the only industry in this country that has that kind immunity and you know what mr president they're the only item listed in the constitution in the bill of rights that is specifically protected as well why why would you want to strip those rights from the gun manufacturers instead why don't you go strip the liability shield from the covid vaccine makers instead while we've got people with inflamed hearts and people dropping over and a slow trickle of information why don't you go worry why don't you go worry about these uh drug companies that are making billions of dollars off of these semi-mandatory shots and what why don't you go hold them accountable for some of this rather than something that is listed in the Constitution as a right we are given by God, it is not a right to be taken away by you or anyone else who thinks they are above our God-given rights. Shame on you for that. If you are a conservative right now, and it's always a tough time to be a conservative because you have the left.

They never, ever stop. They always want more. They always want more. I have to tell you, I was so encouraged hearing Lauren Boebert on the floor of the House of Representatives this week. This is how you handle the left when they try to demonize you for being a law-abiding gun owner.

You know what she did? Instead of placing the blame for the school shootings on the Republicans and letting that stand, she flipped the script. Listen to this genius on Cut 6. Madam Speaker, I want to begin this evening by thanking my Democrat colleagues for their outstanding work in encouraging millions of Americans to celebrate their Second Amendment rights by purchasing their first, second or even 100th firearm. From the left's riots in cities across America to Biden's threats to strip away our basic constitutional rights, Democrats are single-handedly responsible for the sale of tens of millions of firearms.

Bravo.

Well done. Not only is she saying that the Democrats are not going to get the guns, she's actually telling everybody that they are the reason. And she's speaking 100% truth here. They are the reason why there's even more guns on the American streets these days and why more people are carrying and why more people are training on how to carry and properly use a firearm. But wait, just like a great TV deal, there's more.

Then she went after the Biden family. And when she did, I guess she dropped the mic.

So whoever's cleaning the floor in the House of Representatives, don't vacuum up the microphone because Lauren Boebert just dropped this with cut seven. I have some questions for these freedom haters. When are you going to call on the chief executive, the basement dweller, to hold his own son accountable for his gun crimes? Hunter Biden lied on a federal firearms application, which is punishable by up to 10 years and a $250,000 fine, of which 10% will not be going to the big guy. rules for thee, but not for my crackhead Parmesan-smoking gun criminal son.

That's what you do. You stand up to the bully, and you push back. Everybody has a great plan, like Mike Tyson says, until they get punched back in the nose, and then everything changes. Good for you, Lauren Boebert. I love that.

844-747-8868. I'm going down the Mississippi River to New Orleans Let's talk to my friend Janice. Janice, happy Friday. You want to talk about the Democrats? Yes, sir.

How are you doing? Did you say it's your birthday? It is my birthday. I am celebrating 40 for the 11th time. It's Timapalooza.

Great. Happy birthday to you Hey thank you sweetheart No I wanted to say that years ago and I mean I still think it right because of cancer and everything and how you get the I forget what they call it I can't think of what it's called when you inhale cigarette smoke, but you're not doing the smoke and it's... Secondhand. Secondhand, that's right, that's right. I couldn't think of it.

That's right, secondhand smoke.

Okay.

So I was down with, and I'm still kind of down with, don't smoke in a restaurant, don't smoke, you know, in certain places, and expose people to that. But I had a friend, Robert, and it's because of Robert that today I am who I am, and I know all about the politics now and what's happening in my world. One day Robert told me, he says, you know, put on the radio, and there was a particular guy on, and I said, who is he? He says, put it on. And he told me what he was talking about.

I put it on and it changed my whole world. But he told me this. He says, yeah. He says, you think that's great? No smoking in the restaurant, no smoking in the bar, this kind of stuff.

He says, but here's the problem. He says, the Democrats come up with an idea. Might even be a good idea. But they don't know when to quit. No.

They keep going and going like the Energizer bunny until you have no more rights at all. Yep. And, you know, Rush Limbaugh said this many, many moons ago that the downfall every single time of the Democrats is they don't know when they've overreached way too far. They don't know when to stop. You know, Joe Biden yesterday was talking about magazine maximums, the number of bullets that could go in a gun magazine.

And he throws this number out. But Janice, you and I both know that that is not a hard, fast number. If he were to ever get that passed, that would only be the beginning. For instance, if he said most you could have in a gun is 30 rounds, you know a few years later then it would be 25. Then it would be 20.

Then it would be 15. I know what you're saying. And any time that you pass legislation, it opens the door to be more restrictive. I'm sorry, but not with my God-given rights, sister. I tell you, I just don't know where this is going to end up.

I don't know where this is really going to go because I know people are not really going to stand for this. It's not good. It really isn't good at all. But with criminals, when it comes to criminals, I don't care if you're an adult or a child. If you're an adult, you kill somebody, death penalty.

If you're 14, 15, you kill somebody like a few months back there, they had this woman, they carjacked her, they drug her, and down the street literally tore her arm off her body, and now she's dead.

Well, I'd take those people. I'd put them in jail. I'd give them some ice cream and a pillow, and I'd treat them very well until they become legal men or women, and then you get execution. You go to court. You get your day in court.

You have your trial. But if you sound guilty, death penalty. I'd have a whiteboard with a line down the middle, death on one side, life on the other, and I'd let these people know. I'd play very fair with them, and I'd tell them, if you don't want to die, then don't do these things. If you don't want life in jail, then don't do those things.

Don't sell drugs. Don't do drugs. Don't have intercourse with a minor child or rape a woman or torture an animal. Janice, you sound like my second-grade teacher, Mrs. Finley.

She put the fear of God in me with some very harsh consequences. If you do bad, you will suffer the consequences. We are becoming more and more a consequence-free society. Janice, thank you for calling.

Now, we don't have beignets really in Memphis, so what I'm going to do is I'm going to go down to Gibson's Donuts and get them to sprinkle a little powdered sugar on one of those donuts in your honor today and have that. How about that? Oh, thank you so very much. And I can't tell you what a pleasure it has been speaking to you. It really has.

Well, have a wonderful weekend. The honor is all mine. Matt in North Carolina on the talk station. Hello. Hello, Tim Van Horn.

Happy birthday, sir. Thank you very much. Thank you for calling today. You're very welcome. Appreciate you taking my call.

Absolutely. About a little over a year ago, when all this mess started happening with our so-called president i talked to a different radio host who i'll shower me nameless comes on right after your show here um i said what about the 25th amendment the guy can't do his job and he who worked in the white house by the way explain under trump so you know who i mean explain to me that it's very complicated and he went into all the details how complicated that is and everybody knows if that went through then we have kamala harris happy birthday anyway yeah yeah it's like like which do you prefer getting shot in the left arm or shot in the right arm it is pretty much a a lose-lose situation for sure but hey thank you so much for listening on the talk station matt and thank you for the birthday wishes my friend you're welcome sir all right take care there's matt on the talk station uh in north carolina we appreciate that so much 844-747-8868 and today is my birthday but i want you to think about what wish i should make for america if you had one wish for america what would it be 844-747-8868 tim in for todd ever since i got the new galaxy z flip 4 i've been learning all these new tricks with my dog finn like how to take the best selfies at the park i just set my phone down put it in Flex mode and capture hands-free picks from multiple angles. Or how to capture our training sessions for his followers. I simply wave my hand to start recording video. Good boy!

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Or call 972-PATRIOT. That's 972-PATRIOT. wow it's not easy being prince harry and megan markle these days huh grace looking at uh what has been going on with the platinum jubilee ceremony honoring queen elizabeth you would think that they would uh just kind of ease their way in and stay in the background let's just say that's not a warm welcome that went down for them no not at all unfortunately they were met with booze as I understand it which is you know I think Meghan Markle just needs to go back to the TV so what is it suits that she was on she was on but she was one of my favorite suitcase holders on dealer no deal as well oh never saw her on there but I did see her in suits and I was like wait a minute that's the Meghan Markle and she looks much happier in that show than she does now and my wife binge watches the show called Castle oh I've heard of that show it is it's a mystery thriller thriller writer who shadows a cop she's in that she's in that as well man uh but saint paul's cathedral in london in london i've been there before it is a gorgeous gorgeous building the acoustics in there are incredible so whenever they're singing it it just sounds like angels are singing and when people are booing you would think there were a hundred thousand people that disapprove that's rough well you know when you basically diss the royal family you don't get to reap the benefits, honey. No, so they made the trip over from their usual job of virtue signaling and attending every environmental cause and every BLM rally to show up and be there at the service, which was respectful. I see that, but the folks in England do not quite appreciate them coming back after essentially taking a big old torch and throwing it onto the bridge and burning that down with the royals in public sight.

Exactly. I don't think that she is well-received over there, and I honestly don't blame the people because she's been bad-mouthing the royal family, and then she just walks in like, how dare they? I would liken that. How dare they? If President Trump had a 100th birthday celebration, it would probably be the equivalent of Mary Trump walking in.

Would that be a fair analogy? Yeah, I think that's a pretty fair comparison, But I feel like Meghan Markle is one of the most disliked people right now. I think. She's up there with Jada Pickett-Smith. Yeah.

And the thing is, is Prince Harry was so likable because of his military service. Yeah. You know, he was an interesting individual. I mean, he had his moments when he was younger. But then again, you know, if your mom passes away and there's a public divorce for the whole world to see, that's going to impact you.

Of course. But his service in the Middle East and serving his country was great. and then of all the women in all the places, you had to pick Megan Markle. Had to pick Megan Markle. They got booed.

You would have thought England and Scotland were playing and he played for the Scottish national team. Incredible. 844-747-8868. Tim Van Horn in for Todd Starnes. We'll be right back.

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Good afternoon, America. Tim Van Orden for Todd Starnes. He's taking the day off, but he'll be back on Monday. No worries. Our phone number, 844-747-8868.

So glad to be with you on this Friday. Just hustling back upstairs at the flagship station, KWAM, right here in Memphis, Tennessee. And just finishing off, a couple more of those Chick-fil-A chicken minis. We're downstairs. They had breakfast catered today.

Today, I celebrate a, let's just say I'm eligible to get those mailers about senior discounts. Let's just put it that way.

Okay, I'm 51 today, but enjoyed some Chick-fil-A. Grace, we got to find out what they do to the top of the chicken minis at Chick-fil-A. Do they brush them with butter or honey or a mixture? Because there's something glossy that makes it taste sort of sweet. I bet it's butter and honey.

And it might just be love. Could be just love. It could be that, too. But they are so good, and you guys spoiled me today. I want to thank you for that.

And our phone number, 844-747-8868. And our question that we've given our audience for the phone lines and for our live chat at Todd Starnes on Facebook has been for today. Later today, I'm going to blow out my candles for my birthday. I've decided I'm going to make my wish something for America. If you could take that birthday wish, what one wish would you have for America?

844-747-8868. Chuck in Gainesville, Georgia, listening on the wonderful WDUN. Good afternoon, Chuck. Thanks for calling. Happy birthday, Tim.

Chuck, thank you, my man. I appreciate it. It's been one of the best ever. I got to say, and it's only getting better. What's on your mind on this Friday?

Well, I've got a great birthday wish for you to start with. Bring it. that would be to uh return to the the love of the constitution and the love of america by all the citizens so that we uh it once again have common ground and not not be like we are now where there's no common ground that's a great one and you know what i would even say maybe that's a great wish and what might an extra if i could get a bonus wish would be that we could just simply have a dialogue and talk with each other and discuss problems rather than me pitching an idea and then somebody calling me xenophobe, homophobe, racist. Let's just have a dialogue and let's get back to ideas and back to the Constitution. Chuck, I love what you're saying.

Let's get back to the basics because that's what made America great. But I know you also wanted to talk about Biden and this push for guns. If you wanted to control a group of people, you could disarm them, for one, which they're talking about that, not making any secret about it. You could prevent them from voting or put question in that process, which is right in everybody's face right now. But there's something else that you could do that's huge, that's hiding in plain sight that nobody sees.

You could restrict their movement.

So imagine what if everybody, instead of being now, where if you went to go to Alaska, as long as you could afford the gas, you just hop in your car and go. What if everybody drove a car that only had a 50-mile range on it until it was charged?

Well, and also you could pick the winners and losers on the utilities get to decide maybe who gets how much electricity based on your social score. Yeah, so how easy would it be to just, besides disarming people and making it where you can elect your representatives, how easy would it be to trap people right near their home and keep them able to flee if everybody had an electric vehicle?

So that's one of those deals being pitched is a sanctimonious, save-the-planet kind of benign-sounding thing, but I think there's something nefarious behind it a lot more than what's being thought about right now. And I love these charging stations that have a diesel backup generator in case the power goes out. That's pretty rich. Yeah, you could so easily trap a whole city full of people because even with gas, if everybody had to buy gas after they got the range of their tank, that takes forever just spilling the tank up. But if it took hours, hours to charge each vehicle, you could trap a whole population of people that were unarmed and just had no say so in their future.

And California, Chuck, California's already on the brink of that. They can barely keep the lights on with fossil fuels as it is. If you put everybody on the electrical grid, can you imagine the chaos that would happen in California? Practically, we are not even anywhere near that. And if you want to talk about restricting movement by taking the guns, All you got to do is look up Australia and there's Exhibit A right there.

Chuck on the great WDUN. Thanks for calling this morning and we appreciate you on the Todd Starnes Show. Our phone number 844-747-8868 and it is about holding you hostage. If you don't have protection against tyranny, well, what are you going to do? How about this for tyranny, guys?

The Biden administration, I'll just put this in a nutshell for you. If you don't follow our interpretation of Title IX and let those guys go into the girls' bathrooms in school, we're not going to give you any money to feed the poor kids in your school. That sounds like a conspiracy, doesn't it? But it's not. The Biden administration is now threatening to withhold federal funding for school lunch programs programs if schools and districts don't adhere to their definition of Title IX, which would include gender identification.

And if you discriminate based on gender identification and sexual orientation, well, guess what? They can take away that lunch money for the school kids. Have you noticed how the Democrats, who always want to play the compassionate card, in fact, They play it so much they should have it laminated because it's always pulled out. But have you ever noticed for a group that's so compassionate, any time that there is a disaster or anything that happens bad, children are typically going to be involved with it. Think about every time that government shuts down or there's a threat of a government shutdown.

What do the Democrats threaten will happen if you do not pass the extra funding or the continuing resolution? Guess who's not going to have lunch money? They're like, people are going to die. The children are going to suffer. The children are going to die.

You heartless cowards. You terrible Republicans. How was that? And it was perfect. And sometimes it's children only.

Sometimes they play a different card where it's women, children, and minorities, which I guess they lump everybody into one group. We'll suffer.

Next, they'll throw in the puppy dogs. They'll throw in the puppy dogs. Which, well, Fauci, beagles, but I won't say anything else.

So you are looking at an administration now, and if your kids are in government schools, I'm not going to call them public schools because they're not of the people. They are run by the government. Randy Weingardner, the head of the Teachers Union, she's the one, and you've heard sound bites on this show and I'm sure on your shows throughout your daily lineup, wherever you may be, of Randy Weingarten trying to sneakily push CRT, trying to push gender identity, and push these radical leftist policies.

Well, this one is out wide in the open. And this is a threat to school safety. I think this is an absolute threat to safety. How can you send your kids into a den of wolves when you're trying to send your little lamb in to learn, to grow up, to learn values, and all you want to do is have your kid in a school building know that they're going to be learning they're going to be in a what should be a safe environment and we'll talk about school security a little bit later but in an environment where if they need to go to the restroom they don't have to worry about nonsense and then have more questions than answers when they come home for the day no exactly and you know also you want to be able to send your kid in and And these teachers, a lot of them are hiding this gender ideology business from the parents.

So you can ask your kid what's going on, but you're probably not getting the full story. And you can't ask the teacher because the teacher's telling the kid, don't tell your parents. And then the teacher won't tell you either.

So you're totally in the dark. And you see that the government knows this because you've got Merrick Garland, the attorney general, who is now more than happy to sick the wolves on parents who push back against local school boards, whether it be critical race theory or if it's on gender ideology. The parents are starting to get it. And they got it during the pandemic when they started to look over the shoulder and see some of this nonsense that's being pushed in the schools. And now that the parents are getting it, the government feels threatened.

They feel threatened by the sanitizing light of truth. Yeah, so now they're scrambling. Not only are they scrambling, but they are getting nasty about it.

So now they want to withhold school lunch money if you do not conform to their idea of Title IX. I think they personally got it all wrong. Kyle, a good friend of mine here, a former county commissioner by the name of Terry Rowland, taught me everything I need to know, and I think he could teach all of our audience everything we need to know about gender identity. god created man and woman okay male and female if you have a problem figuring out which one you are all you got to do is look at your britches you know what i mean amen god don't make mistakes that's right god don't make mistakes if you got a question of who you are just look in your britches says terry roland i think you know we don't even need a gender studies course all you got to do is put that on a t-shirt or put that at the top of a notepad and you have learned everything you need to know. God don't make mistakes.

Just look in your britches. That's all you need. But you know what? The Biden administration is going to continue to push this. And folks out there in radio land, let me tell you, you think critical race theory has been pushed back.

That's great. You better keep an eye on that. But now you better be ready to fight this fight in schools because it is going to be here, there, and everywhere.

So mama bears, Papa Bears, rest up. The summer's coming, but the new school year is going to be on the way, and there's going to be more fights to fight in front of that school board. 844-747-8868. Today is my birthday. You heard Chuck's wish.

If you had one wish for America, what would it be? 844-747-8868. We've got more of your comments from our Facebook live chat. We'll take your calls. We got so much more Tim in for Todd.

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844-747-8868. Hey, look around the corner. Mo Brooks will be joining us. Also, not too distant future, Jason Miller, CEO of Getter will be joining us 2-844-747-8868 We go back to the phone lines WDUN in Gainesville Paul calling in this afternoon on the Todd Starnes Show Hey Paul, thanks for calling in How you doing?

Alright sir, been enjoying the show My wish is that America's churches would realize who they was and they'd rise up and take their rightful place and come out of the walls and come into society. Because if you change, if the Lord touches a heart and changed it, you don't have the school shooting. The people look at things totally different. Do you think culturally that there are not enough churches that are engaging and it has created a massive moral vacuum? Yes, sir, I do.

I believe that if you... Tell you what, Paul's got a little... We've got a little bit of a phone issue with Paul there in Gainesville. You're welcome to call back. But his wish and our question of the day.

Today is my birthday. But for me, my birthday wish would not be about me. I would love to blow out the candles and make a wish for America. And my question has been to the audience. If you had one wish for America, what would it be?

844-747-8868. And, of course, he is welcome to call back. Joe Biden, the gun grab continued last night It was kind of a creepy The location where he gave it last night In one of the halls in the White House It was very creepy He walked out on this red carpet And all along the path It was about 30 feet And it was lit with those What do you call them? Tea light candles or tea candles that were on the floor It almost looked like he was walking to some sort of sacrificial ritual When he walked out and started talking about a myriad of things, including, and of course he says every time, you know, enough, enough, and for God's sake. He whispers, I am your president.

He wants the guns, and he began by demonizing the Republicans, and he wants them to jump in with bipartisan support to begin to strip the Second Amendment. And for instance, he's happy to take it down brick by brick. Oh, yeah. He's more than happy to limit the magazine capacity on guns. And everything, by the way, is an assault weapon.

That's true. Everything. Have you ever gone into a gun store and tried to buy a non-assault? No. I can't say that.

I mean, hello. I mean, it is a self-defense device. You can use it for hunting. The evil comes from the user. It does not come from the device.

I mean, let's look at Waukesha. I mean, are we going to ban cars or trucks because of Waukesha? I don't think that's going to happen. Britain tried to ban, they've tried to ban knives because that's, you know, they say that's an assault weapon.

Well, yeah, because there's no, you know, they don't have guns over there. Exactly. So now everybody turns to knives over in Britain.

Well, the same thing would happen here is what I'm saying. It would just turn to something else. Where does it stop? Just like Miss Janice said.

Well, it stops once you don't have anything to protect yourself with. But this is what Joe Biden does. Joe Biden goes out there. He throws out, for God's sake, enough is enough. And then he begins to tell you exactly what the Democrats want to do.

And that is to take the guns bit by bit. If they can at first limit the magazines, if they can just get that on paper, if they can get bipartisan support to get that on paper, That is simply just the crack in the door that they can eventually kick open. Because once you get that on, then the next thing to do is to modify that, the number of rounds from, let's just say 25. 25 round magazine. Down to 20.

Down to 15. Maximum of 10. Down to 5. And that's how they're willing to do it. If they can get anything out of this, whether they get a little bit or they get a lot, they want to go for the guns and they'll take whatever victory they can get however small or big 844-747-8868 a couple minutes here let's go to dave in north carolina on the talk station he wants to talk guns hey dave hey thanks for taking my call sure this is something that's been going on the day after the shooting uh i called and mentioned the fact that you know because now we're talking how much it would cost to protect schools and everybody's trying to put that up front And then Biden said he would not pardon the targets as you know, as his where he would not fortify the schools.

So he has absolutely no desire to protect the children. And this new bill is called protect the children.

Well, the thing is, back after this happened, I mentioned that four years ago after Parkland I you know I had volunteered personally volunteered to go in as as part anything and set up these programs I a retired Marine and there a lot of people that I know that are retired military retired law enforcement and everything who would volunteer to do a shift or do whatever to go in and protect the schools. Four years later, the schools are not protected, and Joe Biden, who's saying guns are the problem, refuses to protect the children. And Dave, you know what else on top of that is the fact that if you have parents, you have neighbors that have a vested interest in preserving that neighborhood to protecting the kids, you then create an environment where the kids know who their protectors are. They're not as intimidated by those who want to protect them. And then we also turn the table on this anti-police, defund the police rhetoric.

It would be a great way to protect the schools and also change our culture. That is a great call from the talk station in North Carolina. 844-747-8868. It's Tim Van Horn in for Todd Starnes. Welcome back.

Tim Van Horn in for Todd Starnes. 844-747-8868 on this Friday. It's great to have you with us. It's just good to be right on the cusp of the weekend. Got plenty in store for you.

In fact, let's go right now to the Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line. And joining us right now from the great state of Alabama, it's our pleasure to be joined by Congressman Mo Brooks. Congressman, always a pleasure to talk with you, sir. How are you? I'm doing great, Todd.

How about yourself? Everything is going fantastic, Congressman, I've got to tell you. It's good to talk to you again. In fact, you were last year at CPAC in Dallas. It was 8 o'clock in the morning.

I had just showed up, and you were my first interview of the day, and you just walked up, and we just started talking. And I've got to tell you, I will never forget that. It's great to talk to you again, sir. Under these circumstances, though, there's a lot going on here in the country, And now as I look in grocery stores, not just in my neighborhood, but at Costco and wherever across the country, it's just flat out tough to find baby formula still to this day. And I am absolutely shocked, Congressman, that the president is acting like he had no clue about this at all until just recently.

Well, I'm shocked, too. The federal government has a role to play, and to some degree they hastened the shutdown of one of our largest baby formula production plants in the United States.

Now, in fairness, there are allegations that some babies, a couple of them, if my memory serves me correctly, had died because of some kind of contaminant associated with that particular plant. That's something that I'm sure a court will resolve later on to determine whether it's true or not. But anytime you have a major production plant shut down, you're going to have less supply of whatever it is they're supposed to produce. And in this instance, the federal government has not been reacting nearly as fast as they should in trying to make sure that that plant reopens, although I'm cautiously optimistic that its reopening is not that far in the future. And with that, how do you not pull in businessmen from those companies right away?

How do you not call in Abbott and call in these other companies and say, listen, we know there's a problem and not let them leave the room until a problem is solved? I mean, we're even hearing that he didn't even know. And the spokesperson, Karen Jean-Pierre, can't even tell us who eventually told him about that problem. How can you solve a problem when you don't even know that there is one? And that's just the tip of the iceberg.

There's a lot of things missing on our shelves, Congressman. Joe Biden has been economically out of touch for a long period of time, quite frankly. I'm one of those that believes that, unfortunately, with age, he's lost some of his mental acumen. I've been familiar with him for well over a decade. He was a lot sharper 10, 15 years ago when he was vice president, sharper still when he served in the United States Senate.

But now he doesn't have the mental ability, in my judgment, to grasp all the different facts and challenges that a president of the United States is supposed to grasp. And it's unfortunate. Different people age at different times. But the president certainly has been aware of this crisis months ago.

Now, granted, I have a little bit of advantage over him. I've got twin girl grandchildren that are eight months old and another granddaughter who's five months old.

So this was very quickly brought to my attention by my two sons and two daughter-in-laws.

So not only do your kids have to shop, but you've got to have some ready, I guess, in the cupboard when they come to visit. We've got to be in a position to help. We have 13 wonderful grandchildren, and we do what we can, helping out around with all the family needs and obligations. And it's wonderful when you have those baby grandchildren over. But you do have to have baby formally, because you know what?

I'm not naturally equipped to handle that hunger need. Neither is my wife, who's a grandmother.

So we've got to have it.

Now, wait a second. Woke ideology says you ought to be able to handle that, Congressman.

Now, are you so sure about that now? But there are a lot of gaps between woke ideology and biology and science, and this is yet another one. Oh, goodness gracious, that is for sure. Congressman Mo Brooks joining us from the great state of Alabama. I just saw gas tick up another 10 cents here at our flagship station in Memphis to around $4.59 a gallon.

How are things looking down in Sweet Home, Alabama? It was pretty bad. I was driving about 400 miles yesterday, crisscrossing the state in between Huntsville and Phoenix City, which is in the very southeastern quadrant of the state of Alabama. And the gas price is typically around $4.30, $4.40 a gallon. Just to give you an idea of my memory, I remember when it was about $0.23, $0.21 per gallon.

And so gasoline prices have gone up astronomically, and all of this is self-inflicted by the Biden administration. The very first day when the Biden administration took office, they made it clear that they were going to attack oil production and oil supplies. And they did so by unilaterally shutting down the Keystone pipeline that would have shipped a lot of Canadian oil, a reliable ally, to our refineries along the Gulf Coast and the Texas, Louisiana and other areas. And it's just economic stupidity. You can't move a truck that's supplying goods if you don't have diesel fuel.

You can't move people to and from school, to and from work, unless you've got gasoline. You can't do a lot of things if you don't have energy production. And the signal that the Biden administration gave at the very first day of his having been sworn in was that we're going to have a war on oil. We're going to have a war on coal. That has an adverse effect on the psyche of the industry.

And, of course, speculators went wild. The entire market anticipated that prices were going to go up, and to some degree, you had the actual reduction in supplies pushing up prices, but you also had the adverse effect on the psyche of the people who are in these markets who just came to believe that prices were going to go up. And so, in fact, as a result, it's kind of a self-fulfilling economic prophecy. Prices have gone up, and now all Americans across the board are suffering very, very badly by the Democrats' war on energy. And Congressman, I know you're looking for a run in the Senate.

I want to ask you this, because every summer we head down the Baldwin Beach Express and head down the Foley Express down to Orange Beach every year to see my Uncle John and my Aunt Kim that live down there. They love Alabama. They're never going to cross that state line. They love what's going on down there. What do you say to my aunt and uncle and folks in Alabama as we look at the midterms, look at 2023 and beyond?

Is there a hope to turn this around?

Well, we need to first and foremost start electing conservatives in Republican primaries. And my opponent is supported by Democrats, which ought to tell you who the real conservative is. And so I urge people across the state to become more aware and also to do homework so that you'll be able to discern the truth against these brazen, dishonest attack ads that are being financed by special interest groups against me that won't open borders and cheap foreign labor, or the establishment wing of the party that blocked us in 2017 and 2018 when we tried to build the wall and repeal Obamacare, the two principal promises that the Republicans made to the people of America in order to earn their trust and get elected to the White House, the House, the Senate in 2016.

Well, the very people who failed our country in 2017 and 2018, they're the ones who are fighting me in this United States Senate race.

So if anybody wants to help, the primary runoff is just 18 days away, and I very badly need campaign contributions.

So please go to Mobrooks.com, Mobrooks.com. I can't get my wallet spilled by special interest groups because you know what? I put America first. Yes. And that's the exact opposite of what special interest groups want.

Congressman, it has been an honor to have you back on again. It's great to talk with you. And before we go, I want to say congratulations to the great state of Alabama. It looks like Space Force is going to be located at a place near and dear in my heart, just down the road in Huntsville, Alabama at Redstone. That's got to be exciting if that all comes to fruition.

Hey, the number one place to live in America, according to U.S. News and World Report, best place to live, Huntsville, Alabama, my congressional district, just gives you an idea of what I've been able to accomplish along with the assistance, I should emphasize a lot of other city, county, and state elected officials collectively. We've been doing great in the Tennessee Valley. But having said that, all you liberals, ignore what I just said. Stay where you are or move elsewhere.

We only welcome conservatives in the state of Alabama. That's right. Moe says no, Moe. Liberals in Alabama. Congressman Moe Brooks, thank you so much for joining us.

Good luck in your runoff. Again, that's MoeBrooks.com, MoeBrooks.com. and hopefully we'll get to talk to you again very, very soon. Have a terrific weekend, sir. Thank you so much, and have a blessed day.

Thank you. There's Congressman Mo Brooks. Love that guy. All right, coming up, we've got plenty more. On the way, we'll have the CEO of Getter.

We're going to have Jason Miller on the Todd Starnes Show, and we've got a wonderful patriot that will be joining us in addition to Jason Miller in our number three, but we've got plenty more to get to. 844-747-8868. Today is my birthday. Later today, I'm going to be blowing out my birthday candles. I want to make a wish for America.

If I could make one wish for America, I'm not sure what it would be. There's a lot of things we need to wish for. If you had that one wish, what would you wish for for America? 844-747-8868. Tim in for Todd.

Welcome back. Tim Van Horn in for Todd Starnes. 844-747-8868. Next hour, Jason Miller with Getter. He is the CEO.

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You're talking with Tim. Hey, Mike. Hey. Thank you for taking my call. Certainly.

What I wanted to mention, you know, there's talk, why don't they ban cars? And, of course, they wouldn't, and I'll tell you why. One reason, decent, good people drive cars, not them old gun-toting people. You know, they're kind of looked down on by a lot of folks. You know, if you're a fool of guns, you're not looked at as real good amongst a lot of people.

But everybody has to drive a car, even those respectable people. move freely yeah i've never been to new york but i hear of all the subways and stuff but how do they get to the subways you know some people don't they live out past the you know you you know that the burbs the burbs limits you know the new york i guess i guess you got to get a pair of my slippers from my pillow and take a long walk to get to the subway that's what i would do just for the long walk so I wouldn't have the fatigue. But, you know, it's hard to get around by car in New York City and in all the big cities. And that is a global fact. But you're right.

Elites do tend to look down on the Bible-clinging, gun-toting Americans. That is for sure. Mike, I'm going to put you on the spot here with a simple question. Today is my birthday. And I want to make one wish today for America.

but there's so many things wrong, so many things I'd love to see happen. If you had one wish for America, what would it be? World peace. Wait a second. This isn't a beauty pageant.

It's a radio show, Mike. Yeah, that's why I said it. The one thing I'd like everybody knows, the Lord. Yeah. To know the Lord.

That would be it. That's a great answer. That's a great answer. Mike, thank you so much for joining me. It's an honor to always talk to the great folks in Georgia.

Have yourself a good day. And don't forget to vote for Herschel Walker and for the Republicans. Let's flip that back to red this fall. 844-747-8868. A lot of people coming in with some wishes, Grace, on our live chat as well this afternoon.

If you could have one wish for America, what would it be? And I love our audience. Doris says, put the Bible back in America, restore the Constitution, and repeal the Emergency Powers Proclamation of 1976. Hey, now, did one person say all three things? They didn't use a comma, so is that one thing?

I don't know about that. I would just put the Bible back in America. Just take the first one. If you do that, everything else falls into line. Yeah, fair enough.

How about that? Jennifer said that President Trump be re-elected.

Okay, well, that may not happen in 2022, but maybe in 24. Perhaps. He sure is playing coy, isn't he? We'll see. Yeah, absolutely.

Also, Alicia says that everyone would find the Lord. A lot of spiritual awakening wishes on here, and I love that because people are putting everybody else first on this live chat, and I think that is fantastic. Jennifer also says more strong leaders like Trump with a backbone to stand against the swamp and to trust the Constitution. That is great because this is something, and this is a civics lesson that will not get taught in school, Grace. And there is a massive difference in how government works when you have a conservative versus someone not conservative.

I'm not even just going to say left versus right. I'm going to lump the rhinos in with the left. conservative versus non-conservative when a conservative wins they want to push back in the other direction swing the pendulum closer to the constitution the left always wants to further their agenda and i lump the rhinos in with them because when the rhinos win we jump up and down that yay republicans win but the republican rhinos only want to slow down the left's agenda They don't want to stop the agenda.

So it is the same as the agenda progressing. It only progresses at a slower rate than if it were a full-blown leftist assault. And they do not teach you in civics course.

So if you have kids listening, turn up the radio. I can't get you college credit for it. But it is something that the kids need to know as they get older and learn when they go vote that a rhino victory oftentimes is a hollow victory. And Mo Brooks said it great last segment that you've got to have strong conservatives in office if you're going to not only beat back the leftist agenda, but to promote the conservative agenda, which is simply returning to the middle and returning to the Constitution to American values to push America forward. The country is not broken.

We have politicians who are trying to break it. If we go to the Constitution, I believe that there is a salvation. I believe there is a reawakening of American exceptionalism just waiting to be had. We only have to get the right people in place to make that happen. I think it is just that simple.

Folks, stick around. Coming up after the top of the hour, Jason Miller. He is the CEO of Getter. It's a wonderful platform. I want to say hello and blow a big kiss to all the people watching on the Getter live stream today.

You guys are so loyal to the Todd Starnes Show. We love you. We're going to talk to the CEO of Getter coming up next. 844-747-8868. If you had one wish for America, what would it be?

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Tim Van Horn in for Todd Starnes. Happy Friday. I think this is going to be a great third hour. Kyle just turned his baseball cap backwards. Either we're three runs down in the bottom of the ninth or it's going to be huge this hour.

I tend to think it's going to be awesome. Our phone number, 844-747-8868. That's our phone number, and you are welcome to call on this Friday. We've got a lot going on here on the Todd Starnes Show, and let's just go right back to the phone lines, to the Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line. Joining me on the show is the CEO of the wonderful social media platform, which, by the way, if you go to Todd Starnes, we're live streaming right now on Getter.

Jason Miller joins us now. Jason, thanks for joining us on the Todd Starnes Show. How are you? Tim, I'm doing excellent. Great to be back with you.

I have to tell you, you hire wonderful people. One of my bestest social media friends in the world, Kalen Doerr. We have some of the deepest conversations about life, politics, and Star Wars from time to time on the KWAM Morning Show. Love your folks there. Oh, that's fantastic.

So Kalen Doerr, who worked with me on both Trump campaigns and who worked in the White House and is our Senior Global Director of Engagement, is a great guy, been a longtime teammate. And here's the funny thing. It's when I show up to these events, whether it be a Trump rally in Wyoming or whether it be CPAC or something like that, the first question I always get is, hey, is Kalen here? because he's the one who's literally talking to everybody. I'm a little bit of my liver.

So, no, Kalen's a great guy. And, you know, we've really set the precedent here that if you believe in free speech and you oppose cancel culture, we've got to get you on board. And when I was first thing through the kind of the qualifications and the characteristics of kind of a day one employee, that's kind of who we're looking for. That and I think can you eat 10 pancakes in one sitting because he can tick that box. His pancake challenge was pretty epic.

Now, what's also spreading is not just a great attitude, but Getter itself continues to grow, and it gets bigger, and it gets better every single week. And I know that you've got some big things on the horizon sooner rather than later with Getter. Can you speak to that? Absolutely. So here's the cool thing.

So we launched last July, and since then we've grown to be 5.5 million users that are on the platform, half in the U.S. and half from around the rest of the world. We're seeing great global growth with live streaming, which, again, the Todd Starnes show is live streaming on Getter right now. For everyone who's watching and participating in the online chat, we've now had over 120 million live stream views since we launched that in October. Here's the cool thing.

Tonight, at some point this evening, as part of the most recent Apple App Store and Google Play Store upgrade, we'll be turning on for everybody an expanded beta testing for Vision, which is our short video competitor to TikTok and Instagram Reels.

So all in one platform, just one app, one platform. You have your microblog, your timeline. You'll have the live streaming. You'll have Vision, essentially your own non-CCP controlled version of TikTok or Instagram Reels. And this thing is so easy to use.

Even I was able to figure out how to start making cool Vision posts. And the engagement on these things is so much fun.

So no longer do you have to bounce around between 10 different apps on your phone. We're putting it all in one place.

So after I finish at the gym in my tank top and then flex in front of the mirror and start taking selfies, I can just let everybody know with one click then. Is that what you're saying? Absolutely. And you can put on stickers. You can add in music.

So maybe you want to put on a little Wang Chung or something while you're flexing in front of the mirror. You want to put a couple Schwarzenegger stickers on there, all sorts of cool effects. You want to have gold coins floating all around. All of the fun stuff that's there. And it's, again, none of the political discrimination, which, again, is the key because we're even seeing TikTok and Instagram reels.

Boy, you mentioned COVID. You mentioned the November 3rd. You mentioned anything like that, and they automatically get a warning label. Jason, just a moment ago, you mentioned many of your users, about half in the U.S., half globally. Can you talk about the global growth of Getter?

It sounds like people are thirsting for freedom of speech, and you are providing that oasis.

Well, they are. And, you know, when I first kind of started working with the folks from Getter to get the idea about taking this platform to market, initially I was thinking about this through the U.S. lens. Obviously, folks like myself and Kalen worked for President Trump, saw what happened when they stopped the Hunter Biden story from being shared or when they ultimately deplatformed the president. What I didn't realize until we started doing our research here was how big of a problem this political discrimination and curtailing free speech rights is around the globe.

The difference here, though, Tim, is that it's big tech that's really the big monster here in the U.S. Around the world, a lot of places, though, it's authoritarian governments, whether it be the U.K., the E.U., even as we look at the Supreme Court in Brazil, they have a great president, Jair Bolsonaro, but the actual Supreme Court, which there actually get to investigate and set their own laws and policies. It's totally bonkers. But remember, these governments are actually the bad actors in the free speech. And so it's important we defend it here in the U.S.

and around the world because what happens around the rest of the world can impact our market as well. And I've seen you've gone overseas. You've gone to Europe. I know you're heading back to Brazil for CPAC. Last time it got a little interesting.

Can we go there? No, we absolutely can.

So this will be my second time to Brazil. We went for CPAC at the end of last August, beginning of last September. and then obviously do CPAC Brazil again for 2022 coming up this next weekend. And Brazil is our number two country. It's about 14% of our user base and President Bolsonaro.

We're blessed to have him on the platform. And as I'm going to the airport, a couple of plainclothes officers are there. I'm like, oh, Jason Miller? I'm like, yeah, they're like, oh, just follow us this way. I'm like, oh, am I getting my own private – I'm a VIP.

I'm getting my own private escort to the plane. They're like, no, we're going to take it to this interrogation room. And they start asking me these questions. I'm like, wait, wait, why are you pulling me in here? Like, well, we want to talk to you about two secret investigations.

I'm like, well, what are they about? And they go, well, they're secret, so we can't tell you. Anyways, what it ended up being was they detained me for about three hours or so, and they wanted to just ask a bunch of questions such as, how are you monetizing the platform? Or tell us the role that your platform had in January 6th. And I had to break it to them.

I was like, we didn't even launch the platform until July of 2021. And we haven't even started to monetize yet on the platform. I mean, my investors want me to start monetizing, but we haven't started doing it yet.

So guys, you know, I'm sorry, I just can't help you out here. But pretty clearly what it was was just a brushback pitch. Like, hey, we don't want anyone who's perceived as a Bolsonaro ally to be here. We want to make sure that we have full control. And it's pretty clearly an effort to put their foot on the scale as this October's election comes up.

But it just reinforced more than anything how important this is at a global level. Because here's the thing. Of course, I can get a lawyer real quick or I can call an embassy or things like that. But imagine if you're just a political activist and you have a Supreme Court going to take you away to some secret detention room. You start realizing that a lot of these countries, it can go from zero to 60 real quick.

Yes, yes. And Miranda Wright, what are those in Brazil?

So I would assume – And this is the best part I've got to tell you. They put this six-page document in front of me and said, but if you sign this paper, then you can leave. You can go to your plane. I'm like, I don't speak Portuguese. And they're like, well, we'll tell you what it says.

I'm like, no, stop. Call the embassy. This is nuts. Come on. I'm like, I didn't go to law school, but I did watch the first 20 seasons of Law and Order.

I'm not signing something in English or in Portuguese. Come on. Let's get me a lawyer.

So it was, you know, I laugh about it, but again, the seriousness of it is if you're a regular person in a country like Brazil, you don't have the rights, the First Amendment rights that we hear have in the U.S. And this is the thing that boggled my mind is, you know, we take the First Amendment for granted, that we have the freedom of speech. It's so important to me that literally, literally the First Amendment. Brazil doesn't have their version of a First Amendment. The U.K.

doesn't have a First Amendment. Most countries around the world do not have anything in their constitutions that actually protects speech. We are so lucky here in the U.S. that we take it for granted every day. And we've got to be careful not just about the First Amendment, Jason, but the Second Amendment as well.

Biden has been hot and heavy after going after the guns now too and I know that been trending quite a bit on Getter Absolutely And it very clear that this is part of the leftist progressive push to become authoritarian regimes And it's not just Joe Biden. I mean, look what Justin Castro, I mean, Trudeau, is doing up in Canada. First, it was the bank accounts. Then he's coming after the guns. And it's just it's amazing that these so-called progressive governments are the ones who have become the authoritarians here.

And imagine if Trump had done any of these things, whether it's shutting down free speech or Second Amendment rights. You know, and one of the things just, you know, what was President Trump to his NRA speech in Houston this last week? And what was shocking to me was how many elected officials ran away last week in the face of this horrific shooting. But rather than stand up and lead and call out the issues of mental, basically just these mental health issues and start actually addressing the real issues about why these lunatics do what they do, people were coming up with scheduling excuses and starting to kowtow to the gun lobby, the radical anti-gun lobby that's trying to take away all of our Second Amendment rights. and it's just amazing that more politicians didn't stand up and lead like President Trump did and say, hey, we're going to support the Second Amendment and we're going to go and make sure we deal with the mental health issues that clearly aren't being caught.

And I gained a new respect for South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem because I know she had caught some flack on some gender identity bills up there earlier in the last 12 to 16 months, but she showed up at NRA. She was there. She's one of those ones that did not back down. And you do have to appreciate when somebody takes a stand and goes against the wind and stands for the principles and stands for the First Amendment, stands for the Second Amendment as well. Jason, we're coming up on a break, but one more time tonight.

You've got big doings on Getter. Please share with us one more time what's going down. Absolutely. So with our live stream, we're programming literally from 6 in the morning until about 10 at night. There are multiple shows.

where you can obviously catch Todd's darn show from about noon to three every day, live streaming on Getter. I'll be on doing another Miller Live coming up later this afternoon. We're going to talk about the 23rd anniversary, excuse me, the 33rd anniversary coming up here of Tiananmen Square, which is tomorrow. The 6-4, which is how the folks in the Chinese community refer to it, will be talking about how the people, the thousands who died in 1989, how that fight still continues today and how important it is that we don't back down. the CCP.

And then keep an eye on your app because you've got new features coming up now sometime tonight? Yep, sometime tonight. Vision, which will be the logo right down at the bottom of the screen there. You click on it and start making your own short form videos like TikTok or Instagram Reels, except you don't have to bounce around. It's all in one place.

You can post them to your timeline and it's a lot of fun. Fantastic. And folks, on our show blog, yeah, you can get all the details how you can follow Jason Miller personally, but just go to Getter and get the app. It's fantastic. Jason, thank you for sharing a few minutes with us today.

Congratulations on the continued growth that you're experiencing. Good luck on your trips, and we look forward to the new features on Getter. They seem to be coming all the time. Thank you so much. Thank you.

All right, there's Jason Miller, and it's a great app, and we're streaming live on there right now, and we appreciate that for sure. Our phone number is 844-747-8868. Today is my birthday. What better way than to spend it with you on Getter and on our live stream and on great radio stations all across the country. I got a birthday wish coming tonight after I have a little bit of birthday cake, blow out those candles.

I would love to make one wish for America. If you had that wish, what wish for America would you make? 844-747-8868. It's Tim in for Todd. Welcome back, Tiffin.

On in for Todd Starnes, our phone number, 844-747-8868. And we are making the sprint to the weekend. But before that, we've got an expert coming up. Colonel Austin Bay will join us. He's an author.

But we're going to talk a bit about Russia and Ukraine. Today, Grace, is 100 days of Russia and Ukraine. It seems like it's been going on for six months, but it's really been just over three. I know. I can't believe it.

When I was doing some research, I was like, man, it's only been 100 days. It seems much longer than that. Yeah, absolutely. We've got that coming up in about 10 minutes. Here's some breaking news for you.

Peter Navarro, who is a former White House economic advisor, just got arrested by the FBI. And this stems from him being held in contempt for refusing to testify at the January 6th committee hearings. hearings. Navarro, and what a coincidence, boys and girls, because just yesterday, Navarro was on MSNBC making a promise that he would certainly take the reins and be happy to lead the effort to impeach Joe Biden if the Republicans take Congress back in the November midterms, which it looks like there is going to be a red wave coming. But what do you know?

The day after he says he would impeach Biden, they send the FBI after him and arrest him on those contempt charges. Navarro is among several witnesses who have sued the committee in federal court, claiming that it is violating the separation of powers by performing a law enforcement function and that it has violated the terms of its own resolution. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi took the unprecedented step of choosing not to seat some Republicans on the committee. When Kevin McCarthy, the White House minority leader, withdrew all of his nominees in response, Pelosi then handpicked the committee of seven Democrats and two Republicans, contrary to eight Democrats and five Republicans that the resolution requires. The committee has no official member that you would call, air fingers, quote, the ranking member, which a lot of folks that are experts on this say that makes the subpoenas invalid.

844-747-8868. Chris, listening to us on the flagship station, KWAM. He's in neighboring Cargillville, Tennessee. Hi, Chris. Hi, Kim.

I just wanted to point something out. Last night when Biden was talking about when are we going to do something for these schools? When are we going to do something?

Well, excuse me, if I'm not mistaken, most of the people that sit on these school boards and who sit on these county commissions and city councils and stuff, they are Democrats. Democrats run these big cities. OK, and they they when it comes down to the smaller towns, I don't know, you know, the demographics of, you know, Democrat versus Republican on a school board or whatever like that. But really, when it comes down to public education, it's mostly the Democrats that run these school systems.

So for him to stand up there and talk about when are we going to do something, when are we going to do something?

Well, everybody who is conservative, the conservative parents, the conservative community leaders, they all say, look, you know, let the retired veterans go in there. Let's get these schools taken care of. Every time somebody comes up with a common sense policy, the Democrats shoot it down in these schools.

So for him to point the finger, he needs to point the finger in the mirror.

Well, and let's talk about Uvalde, Texas, because down there you have the Uvalde School District Police Chief Pete Arredondo, the top cop of the school district. Not only is he probably not going to face a ton of scrutiny.

Well, that may say, you know, I'll take I'll walk that back just a little bit. Perhaps he will face some scrutiny. But guess who he'll face scrutiny from from the city council? And guess who just got sworn in as a city council member in the town of Uvalde? Pete Arredondo.

The man that is the top cop of the district is now a city councilman.

Now, I would wonder, Chris, how tough will he be on fortifying schools? Will he be a believer in that? And if so, is that an admission of his own failure? Or will he do what's in the best interest of the kids in Uvalde, Texas? that remains to be seen but I think he may have just insulated himself from some criticism because he's going to sit on the decision making board for that city coming up we've got plenty more we're going to talk to a Colonel Austin Bay we're going to talk about Russia Ukraine it's Tim in for Todd 844-747-8868 ever since I got the new Galaxy Z Flip 4 I've been learning all these new tricks with my dog Finn like how to take the best selfies at the park i just set my phone down put it in flex mode and capture hands-free pics from multiple angles or how to capture our training sessions for his followers i simply wave my hand to start recording video good boy plus the z flip 4 is compact and fits perfectly in my pocket oh wow click the banner to get your galaxy z flip 4 Welcome back.

Tim Van Horn in for Todd Starnes. 844-747-8868. Tell you what, this may rank in easily top five birthday days ever. Just having a blast today. We are broadcasting from the flagship station, KWAM, in Memphis, Tennessee.

And just having a blast for a birthday. The staff brought in Chick-fil-A, which was terrific. Chicken minis, chicken biscuits. I promise, Grace, I will get to some of the fruit. I know there's a fruit tray down there.

I know you're saying, hey, you're a year older, Tim. You need to take a better care of yourself. Get some of the fruit. I will do just that. I promise.

I'm not going to lie to you, Tim. KWAM News anchor Ben Dieter here is already eating all the fruit. I saw him eating the rest of the fruit, and I was like, well, I guess Tim's not getting any.

So, sorry, bud. Ben is my morning co-host for the show at KWAM So he and I may have a little tension on the morning show on the day Either that or I'll go somewhere and get a smoothie I'm sorry to cause radio marital strife there No, you're not No, you're a pot stirrer, Grace I know people like you Oh, goodness gracious But we've had so many comments And our question of the day has gotten terrific response And it's in regards to making wishes on a birthday You get one wish. I would love to make a wish for America, but I don't know specifically what to wish for because there are so many problems in this country.

So I leave it up to our audience, the smartest in radio world. What wish would you make for America? And Doris chimes in on our live chat on Facebook, says, I wish for America that each person would be guided by a moral compass. That is fantastic. Patricia says that the border would be closed.

Elaine said that there would be no politicians. I think she means no swamp. I don't think she's calling for anarchy here. I don't think. Probably not.

If she's listening to this show, she's probably not calling for anarchy. I wouldn't believe so. William says, get rid of all in our government that doesn't have Christian values and put ones in their place that do. It would be nice. I think this all goes to our audience.

Many are saying, hey, let's get back to conservative values. Let's get a moral compass. Let's base things on the Constitution and move America in the right direction. It's just not happening right now, and America is suffering the consequences for it. You have a president who last night went for another gun grab as he spoke from the White House and unabashedly now looking to take away your guns bit by bit, whether it's by the number of rounds in the magazine, whether it's the size of the gun, the type of a gun.

And here's the thing. They're going after AR-15s. That's the sexy gun to go after. And people have asked me, well, why are they singling out the AR-15?

Well, one, it looks like it's a scary gun. It looks like it's a big gun, and it looks scary. and if they can plant, if the left can plant that imagery in your head that it is the root of all problems, what they're trying to do is make that the poster child. It's kind of like the statues, Grace. Let's take down one statue, just one statue.

You take the first statue down, it's like guns. You take the first gun out, guess what comes next? Then another, then another. It's like a domino effect. And then the next thing you know, you've got Ulysses S.

Grant statues coming down and he won on the good side. And George Washington statues trying to come down at places like Lee University. Yes, it's incredible. But that is the same playbook that the leftists are using to go after the guns. If they can get the AR-15, guess what?

Now they have their victory. The door is open.

Now they have precedent. They have a playbook that works. Then you go for another. Then you go for another. And they're going to go the same way on these magazines, on the gun clips.

30 rounds well let's make let's make that the bad number then as that happens we'll let's amend that to a smaller number and a smaller number next thing you know maybe you can have a gun with five rounds maybe three rounds maybe maybe you have to barney fife it and keep one round in your pocket and you have to call a city counselor maybe you have to call somebody in to help you know to break up the dispute to have have a social worker come out before you can maybe use the gun it is and i I say that with tongue in cheek, but that's the direction that the left really wants to try to push you. And that is toward taking the guns away. And once they do, you are your own. Hey, in Memphis, you've seen this. You know this.

You are your own line of defense in Memphis. We are understaffed with police. They are underappreciated. And when seconds count, the police are just minutes away. And this is not a slam on them.

they're overworked and they're so spread out it's nearly impossible for a rapid response and also i mean let's be real here that some of this may sound crazy to some folks but i mean a babylon b headline today reality tomorrow we've seen it happen multiple times so who's to say you know oh they're just coming for this kind of gun and the next thing you know it's all the guns next thing you know it's your pocket knife i mean just if i've learned anything since 2020 is that anything can happen so don't dismiss the conspiracy theories right off the bat and i have to admit i'm very nervous watching mitch mcconnell turtle man the senate minority leader the guzzle i'm very nervous about that because sometimes he can be extremely savvy and he's done i will give him credit he's done some things he's been great when dealing with supreme court nominations i will give him that okay i'll call it as it is but if he were to say yeah let's bring this to a vote i'm very nervous because he has a lot of rhino in him and i don't know how squishy or how much ground he would give yeah but i also don't know if he's trying to reel them in to try to get them on record and then say absolutely no way and then slam the door on this i don't i don't know and trust mcconnell enough to know which way he would go with this does that say does that seem like a fair assessment of the guy i think that's definitely a fair assessment i mean he's just one of those ones he's kind of wishy-washy yeah and we don't need wishy-washy right now we don't we need to make a stand because the old adage is true the second amendment protects all the others and we've even had a local congressman here that has been trying to push this ever since the uvalde shooting and it is it is a shame when you take advantage of an opportunity like that and but you don't even say a peep when you have record rates of homicides the last six years in your city never let a crisis go to waste when it benefits your side looking at you steve cohen by the way that's who i had a feeling that's who you were talking about it can only be it can only be one. It could have only been one for sure. And really, you take the gun grab and then you take what we are looking at when it comes to inflation. You heard Mo Brooks talk about those numbers continuing to skyrocket in the state of Alabama. And then you look at the supply shortage of food and the baby food.

And it's bad enough that the food is not there on the shelves. What really terrifies me, Grace, and I want to knock out a couple of clips here with Kyle, and it's the questions for Karen Jean-Pierre, who is now the new White House spokesperson. And it's not bad enough that we have this problem But what makes it worse is that the executive, the commander in chief, the president had no clue about this, apparently for the longest time. Listen to these conversations with the media and the White House spokespersons. In this case, Karen Jean-Pierre, cut four, please.

Can we ask you to go back on the issue of who briefed the president on baby formula? To say there is no specific person is not a satisfactory answer. When you have senior assistants to the president, there's a paper trail, I'm sure, about briefings to the president. There's a domestic policy council. There's a chief of staff.

At some point, we need to know who would have been the most likely person to talk to him. I think what I'm trying to say, there are so many issues that come up that is presented to the president. As you know, you've covered many administrations. And there are just regular channels that happen that go to the president. It just looks like it's evasive to not have the most senior people in the White House willing to say, I had a conversation with the president about it, or we talked about it in this context or that context.

And we're also all reporting on the consumer side of it, of what you're doing, of putting out and trying to get information. But we're also trying to understand the information flow in this White House, and it's important for us to get that answer, which is why we're going to keep asking it until we get that answer. You have every right to keep asking. That's why I'm here. Look, really, Kelly-O, he's briefed on countless priorities.

He is the President of the United States. There are regular channels. He is briefed by his senior White House staff, and that is just the process that we have.

So should he be the chief of staff then? I'm not going to confirm who it was. I'm just letting you know that there are regular channels that we use. And, you know, it's senior, again, senior White House staff that elevate issues to him when the time comes. And they're just regular channels.

And that's what I have for you to share there. Is that not totally weird that she can't even share who told him about the baby food crisis? I mean, how bizarre is that? We have all these streams of information. Yeah, you also have computers and you have recording devices and you take notes.

It's like we get all this stuff and then we just, whatever, we have notes on a few things. It just boggles my mind how we can have a president that does not even know that there was a baby food shortage until just recently. Which then I have two questions. What else doesn't he know about? And maybe as importantly, who's running the country?

If he doesn't know everything, who's calling all the shots out there? If he doesn't know, then who's in the know in the White House? If Joe Biden has no idea on this, what other critical issues is he not being informed on? Who is running the White House? 844-747-8868.

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all right welcome back to fan orton for todd's darn say four four seven four seven eighty eight sixty eight you know i'm going for my birthday dinner tonight i am heading down the road to germantown tennessee to stony river that's one of my favorite places to eat i i had a steak there recently and it you know what i love about steak a steak is good when you don't need to put sauce on it oh but see they have the best steak that's like marinated in this like coffee grounds and that's fine that's fine but once it comes off the grill yeah don't put anything else oh like a1 sauce or ketchup or i've seen people do ketchup i don't get that well a lot of that stuff's ketchup based anyway yeah but i agree with you a good steak only needs butter yeah in fact they are going to give me the Todd Starnes corner booth, which is typically cordoned off with a red velvet rope. Oh, aren't you special? And there is a jug of half-sweet, half-unsweet tea waiting when we get there, typically. Oh, well, so wait a minute.

So you're pretending to be Todd on his show today? No, no, no.

So you're going to walk in there tonight and then pretend to be? I'm just kidding with you. No, no, no.

Todd apparently reached out to Stony River and said, hey, one of the guys is coming out there for dinner. They can use my booth.

Well, that was nice. Yeah. He's nice like that sometimes. Yeah, so he's like that all the time.

So Todd will be back on Monday, by the way. He's just taking some time off, and he will be back joining us right here in Memphis, Tennessee. 844-747-8868. W-D-U-N in Georgia. It's Randy.

Hey, Randy, let's talk about guns. Hey, man, with this whole gun thing and what the feds are trying to do, It's a prime example of how inefficient the federal government is. This has nothing to do with solving the problem that occurred over there in Texas, right? At the same time, I'm looking at this. I've got two teenage girls, and I'm trying to explain to them that right now, because of some actions that somebody else took, The federal government is trying to remove your right to either purchase a firearm for whatever, entertainment, sports-like, or for defense.

And you're a responsible person. Do you think that this is okay? Do you get a voice in any of this?

Now, one of them is 19, so she can vote, and she does vote. but it's a great time to explain to your kids look at the way that they approach problems something over here happens and that can all be solved at the state level but over here in Washington D.C. they're going to go around behind your back and slowly chip away at your right it's very aggravating they want to make decisions on your kids who go to schools that typically don't have the same security that their kids get to have in their schools, Randy. And that is a big difference because they are simply out of touch. They're so far out of touch.

Here at the schools in North Georgia, if you tried to do whatever they did over there, it would be like trying to attack a Texas Walker Ranger because we have police officers at our school every morning throughout the day to the end of the day. There's one school that shares the same driveway between the school and the sheriff's department. It's on the same piece of property. You know, in our state, we've already taken those types of steps by just at least putting police officers around in the area. There's never been a day that I've taken my child in after going to a dentist appointment or a doctor's appointment If there wasn't a police officer sitting in front of the school at 12 noon.

Sometimes they're inside in the front office. And you know what? I mean, they're well covered. This is a public school because it's at a state level that we've taken, you know, in a state like Georgia where you have open carry. Right.

The governor just passed that law. You don't have to have a concealed weapons permit anymore to walk around feeling safe. And thank God for state legislatures that get it. And that's why I think the federalization of education is such a disaster. One, education is not in the Constitution.

There should be no Department of Education. That should be at the states like many other things. But, you know, I'm sick and tired of the left, Randy, that will come up and they'll say or they'll post, you just want to make the schools like prison. You want to make these kids scared. You want to put them in lockdown.

No. So if you've ever been to a concert, if you've ever been to a ball game, you know when you walk in, typically you're going to have a bag check or a metal detector. There are armed security guards or police at the ballpark. And honestly, Randy, when I go watch the Memphis Redbirds minor league baseball team, I don't feel like I'm incarcerated. Do you feel like you're going into a jail setting when you go watch a ball game?

Absolutely not. You know what? That's because I look at those people as a friendly protection. They are not infringing me in any way, but I know if somebody, I don't know, happened to pull a weapon out of whatever, I know that, hey, there's some guys around here who have got weapons to combat them.

So it's all in the approach, and again, it's how I know I'm just going to say it's the way I teach my kids about society. Randy, thank you for sharing a few minutes with us here. We appreciate you and everybody down at WDUN. I don't think there's a ball game this weekend, but that won't stop me from having a cold one this weekend. You don't need a good reason to have a Baptist martini, maybe get a little Diet Coke with a little lemon squeezed in there.

That's going to do it for today. I want to thank Todd Starnes for the opportunity to guest host today. Don't forget you can go to ToddStarnes.com, ToddStarnes.com. anytime check out the great stories there and also you can listen to this and any of his other past great shows anywhere anytime thank you you have made my birthday absolutely wonderful god bless each and every one of you god bless america and until next time tim van horn in for todd starns We all know someone who's all work and no chill. Trust me, that used to be me.

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