Memphis Leaders Don’t Want to Provide Trump Security

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I love this American ride. Todd Starnes. Oh, yeah.

Well, it pains me to say this, America. It really does. Because you know how much I love my hometown of Memphis, Tennessee. The greatest city on the planet. Unfortunately, we've got a pretty nasty infestation of progressive Democrats, and, well, they just screwed it all up.

And that's what the same thing happened to San Francisco, by the way, a beautiful city, good people, great food. But the government, they're all progressives. And now you can't even walk down the street before you step in a pile of people poop. It's horrible. And, I mean, look at New York City, which is a great, it's a beautiful city.

I mean, we should be proud of New York City. But unfortunately, the progressive liberals, everything they touch, everything they touch, it just turns to rot, sadly. But I tell you that Memphis, Tennessee is just the most beautiful land in all the world. Memphis, Memphis, Memphis, Memphis, Memphis, Memphis, Memphis, Memphis, Memphis, Memphis, Memphis, Memphis, Memphis, Memphis. Nothing but Memphis.

Everywhere we go, it's Memphis. Memphis, Tennessee, the beautiful land in the world. it's beautiful i get misty every time i hear that it's that's how much i love this city the home of elvis johnny cash lived here bb king the guy who created piggly wiggly and of course the best barbecue in all of america and all you people in st louis in kansas city i will fight you to the death over that just that's the way it goes you folks in Texas, just take a knee. If it's not pig, it's not barbecue. You make a mean brisket, but it's not barbecue.

But that's not why I'm riled up today.

So, Grace Baker, you know that President Donald John Trump is coming to our beloved city. As a matter of fact, the Trump family has been very involved in Memphis, donating millions of dollars and helping to raise millions of dollars for St. Jude Children's Hospital, which is the best children's research hospital in all of America. For sure, and you can't miss the billboards around town with Trump. Trump is coming.

So President Trump is coming to town, and we're going to have the organizers of that event. Kimberly Guilfoyle is going to be here, Mike Pompeo. I mean, this is a who's who in ultra-mega world. Oh, yeah.

This is a big deal. And so we're rolling out the red carpet to greet President Trump to the bluest part of Tennessee. Oh, yeah.

It's like you look at Tennessee, red, and then blue Nashville, and then blue in the corner for Memphis. It's terrible. And so anyway, President Trump, you know, Memphis is a dangerous town. Unfortunately, we're like the second or third deadliest city in America. We're up there.

1.3 million people. The Democrats have tried to defund the police. They have they refuse to give police officers the resources they need. We're about 800 people off of our compliment here in Memphis. And I know that many of you other folks are suffering as well.

But we've got Trump coming to town, and, you know, people need to make sure that the President of the United States is going to be safe.

So typically, when a President comes to town, what happens?

Well, you work with the local police departments, and typically there's an entourage. Secret Service heads up the detail, and then they fill in the gaps with all the other local police, and it's an honor. Oh, yeah.

Because you want to be able to say that you protected. you were on that presidential detail when President Trump came to town. And, you know, police officers take pride in that. I mean, that's an honor. I would, no matter who was the president.

So here in Memphis, we have a progressive city council.

Now, let me say this. Most, and I know that we have a lot of minority listeners in the Memphis, Tennessee area, specifically, where it's a majority-minority city. Many people are conservative, but there are also a lot of Democrats who listen, and they are conservative in their values. In other words, they believe that basically they're Republicans and they just don't know it. I mean, basically.

We'll help them figure it out. And that's the point of this program. I think we are, actually. I think we're being helpful in that process. But the reality is the people elected to office are radical progressives.

Let me explain how radical. These people are AOC and Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib radicals. I mean, that's how radical they are. They tried to literally rename the major street through Memphis, Poplar Avenue. They wanted to call it, what, Black Lives Matter Boulevard.

Yep, I remember that. You remember that? Oh, yeah.

They refused to – we're 700 cops down. They can't find any cops in the city limit. People wanting to be a cop in the city limit. And so we have these neighboring communities, the suburbs, and the city council, which is a majority, you know, minority, they refuse to bring in people from outside. As one city leader said, we don't want Bubba patrolling our streets.

And we all know what that's code for. It's really pathetic. It's very sad. Because most of the victims of the crimes in Memphis are, in fact, people of color. And why would you not want to protect people?

I mean, my philosophy is we're all taxpayers. We're all children of God. Protect everybody. Shoot the bad guys. Just get the job done.

So anyway, two of the most progressive of the city council members, there's a guy named J.B. Smiley and a guy named Martavius Jones. They have introduced a resolution telling the Memphis Police Department do not provide security for President Trump when he comes to Memphis, Tennessee in a couple of weeks. I love we have all these problems here, and this is what they're focused on, renaming streets and making sure President Trump is not protected when he visits. We literally have people being gunned down every single day, sometimes multiple times a day in this city.

And the most important pressing matter is they don't want the Memphis Police Department to provide police protection for the President of the United States. Makes no sense. It's ridiculous. Unbelievable.

So the argument they gave is rich because they're saying, well, we just don't have enough money. We don't have enough resources. And you see, I smelled a rat, Grace Baker. I smelled a rat. Because I knew that wasn't, because the question I had was, okay, fine.

If you brought Barack Hussein Obama to town, would you provide security for Barack Hussein Obama? Yes or no? And the reason I ask that question is very simple. Because it's one of two things. They're either racist, these two city councilmen, or this is a political thing.

So it's either one or the other. And I don't know which one it is. I think it's political. You think it's political? I do.

You see, I don't know. because they both have a history on both sides of that particular nastiness.

So anyway, I decided, you know what, I'm going to reach out to these guys. And I'm going to see if they will reply because I smelled a rat, and I knew that wasn't the reason why.

So I reached out to this Martavius Jones on Twitter, and I put it all out there. And so I asked that question, and so he replied. And he said, of course, we would provide security for Barack Obama. And he also said they would provide security for George W. Bush and Bill Clinton.

But he said they would not for Trump. And he told the real reason why.

So these guys are liars.

So hold on. I've got to read what the real reason is, why they don't want the police department to give security for the president of the United States. He says, quote, just those that incite mobs to attempt to overthrow the government, overturn an election, has a history of stiffing those that have performed work for them and habitual liars like Trump. Those are the people they don't provide security for.

Well, I mean, talk about habitual liars. How many times did the guy lie in that one tweet? You smelled a big rat, Todd, and you found it. And we found it. And then J.B.

Smiley chimes in what the councilman said. All right. Ditto. If they want to talk about habitual liar, okay, let's talk about Barack Obama. If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.

Let's talk about William Jefferson Clinton. I did not have sexual relations with that woman. Wrong answer, sir.

So there you go. And it's an embarrassment. These men are an embarrassment to the good taxpaying citizens of Memphis, Tennessee. Yep. I don't care who you are.

The president comes to town. That's a big deal. You ought to take a little bit of civic pride. You should. But these yahoos, all they are, you know what?

They're like Maxine Waters wannabes. That's what they are. Yeah, that's a good way to say it. They're infected with Trump derangement syndrome. How many times have we seen this all over America?

These elected leaders, and they've got Trump derangement syndrome, TDS. It's an incurable disease. And when it infects you, it's horrible. And there's no vaccine for it.

So here's what we're going to do, Grace Baker, because I love my president and I love my city of Memphis. And I know we have a lot of listeners on our flagship radio station. And maybe there are people all over America. I think we need to create our own security detail. If the Memphis Police Department is not going to be able to protect President Trump, maybe we should form our own posse.

If you want something right, do it yourself. Right, because I know, and you and I both know, that there are many gun-toting, Bible-clinging, ultra-mega deplorables that would love to come to Memphis and protect our great president. Just surround him. Right. And just walk with him.

Can Merlo be the guard dog? Merlo, you know what? We will deputize Merlo. Cool. I think that's a brilliant idea.

But the funny thing here, the irony here is, at the end of the day, nobody even asked the Memphis Police Department to do security. Secret Service hasn't even reached out to them. Exactly. The Memphis Police are like, wait a minute. What's going on?

So this is a big, ugly, cheap political attack on Donald Trump. Yes. And, you know, it's sickening. And fortunately, you voters in Memphis, you know, really, this is what you voted for? I mean, come on.

We can do better. We got to do better. All right. If anybody wants to be a part of our detail, we've got to check to see if we're even allowed to do this. I don't know if we're allowed to do this.

Do we have the clearance? Do we have the clearance? I don't know. I don't know. But the good news is the rally is actually in Mississippi.

It's right across the state line. Yeah, that's true. Which is like heaven. You know, it's kind of like because that's the safety zone. Oh, my gosh.

I mean, you're a heck of a lot safer in Mississippi than you are in Memphis. Fair enough. I am just saying, and again, I love my city, love my hometown, but we got some problems. Yeah. All calls by progressive Democrats.

Every single one of them. All right. So if you want to join our posse. Our posse. We got to come up with a better name.

I got to come up with a better name. Like the Lone Ranger, Butch Cassidy, the Sundance Kids. We're going to have to think about this. Maybe our listeners can give us some ideas. Get some barbecue, a theme or something.

Oh, no, please don't do barbecue. The smokers. No. Please no. It'll make us sound like we have lung disease or something.

Well, you know, low and slow. The low and slow riders. Oh, I like that. Oh, that's good. You don't like that, Grace?

We'll work on it, Todd. We'll work on it. All right. 844-747-8868. We got tons of stuff happening all over America.

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Oh, this is great. Rick from Georgia hanging out with us on WDUN. WTUN says, Todd, I got a name for you. The Tennessee Volunteer Rangers. Rick, I like that.

I'm digging that. All right, Grace, write that down. Write it down, Grace. Thank you. She's writing it down.

All right, Tennessee Volunteer Rangers, if you want to join us in our quest to defend our great president when he comes to Memphis, give us a holler. By the way, I've got to give a shout out to some great fans of the show. they own they're the owners of cottonville farm in cold water mississippi and they were at this big farmer's market i went to in hernando the hernando farmer's market and man they have all sorts of great stuff you know what i was searching for i was um i was had a hankering for a fresh mississippi red tomato i wanted a mississippi red tomato sandwich and um i go up there the guy stops me he says i listen to you every day on the tractor and uh they gave me i i offered to pay and he said no your money's no good here and he gave me this incredible jalapeno like cucumber relish stuff which was you could like a guy fier would say you would put you could put it on a flip-flop and it would taste good i mean it was really amazing anyway he says uh yeah you got to come back a couple of weeks the tomatoes aren't ready yet so i'm like all right so anyway a shout out to all of our great listeners. We have the best listeners in all of America, and we so appreciate you guys hanging out with us. I was having a conversation last night with a very conservative person, a longtime friend, and a person who is pro-Second Amendment all the way.

And this individual is now having second thoughts about being pro-Second Amendment. and they're responding to a lot of these horrible tragedies, you know, from Texas to Buffalo to what happened yesterday in Tulsa, which apparently some guy was upset with his doctor. I guess he had back surgery and it didn't work out well, and he showed up and, what, five people dead and a lot of other people got injured. But this individual who's a conservative says, you know, maybe just maybe we need to rethink all of this. Maybe we need to have some sort of a delay system.

So like when you go and you say you want to go buy a gun, because now the police are saying in the AP report, and this just came out a little while ago. Apparently, the guy purchased an AR style rifle. This is their language, their verbiage.

So the guy purchased a rifle on the day of the shooting.

So now the narrative, let me explain how this is going to go. They're going to say that this guy bought the gun with the intent to go and kill people at this medical center in Tulsa.

So this friend is saying, well, maybe we need to have some sort of a delay system.

So if you want to go buy a gun, you won't be able to buy it for 48 hours or maybe a week, maybe five days. In other words, if you were going, and the argument was that if you're going to get a gun just because you're angry and you want to eke out revenge or whatever, that'll give you an opportunity to cool down. That's the philosophy here. But my question is, who makes that determination? You know, they have people that say we want universal background checks.

All right, well, what about states' rights? States have rights, right? Do we really want to grow the government? Do we want to make the government bigger? My issue is we've got plenty of laws on the books governing a whole lot of stuff, and the reality is if laws had been obeyed, if rules and procedures would have been followed, there would not have been a mass shooting at that elementary school.

in Texas. There would not have been a massacre at Parkland High School in Florida. If the laws that were already on the books and if the rules governing things like discipline in public schools, if those things have been followed, there's a pretty darn good chance that some of these horrible things could have been averted. But here's where I'm getting at with this, and I'm going to jump into more of this at the bottom of the hour. this is not about guns i i i know people know todd it is about guns no it's not about todd it's about guns they went it's not about guns it's about guns listen to me it's not about the guns there's something else going on here and you have to look big picture at what's happening in this country right now you know we were talking about jamie diamond was was on yesterday uh from jp talking about this economic tsunami that is about to slam into this nation.

Folks, we are facing, we are on the brink of food shortages. We are on the brink of jobs being lost. We are on the brink of massive chaos in the economy. This is what the Democrats, the progressive Democrats want. They're the ones that are truly running the country right now.

They want the turmoil. They want the upheaval. and they know the only thing standing between them and a socialist takeover in this country is your legally purchased firearm. And they want those firearms. I'll have more to say about this coming up.

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Good to have you with us today, everybody. Welcome to the Todd Stearns Radio Program. We're very excited. On Monday, we launch the show live noon to 3 Eastern in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, in Greensboro, North Carolina, and also High Point, North Carolina.

So excited to welcome a lot of North Carolina patriots to the radio program, as we continue to grow, and that's always a good thing.

So look, going back to this gun situation, now the Republicans are going to capitulate. I just want to prepare you for that. I mean, we know that Mitch McConnell, Senator Turtle, has already said, well, I want Senator Corden to work with the Democrats on this.

Well, thank you, Senator. He does. He wants Senator John Cornyn from Texas to work with the Democrats and come up with some sort of a plan. Right now there are eight gun control pieces of legislation they are looking at. And I suspect that the Republicans are going to reach some sort of a compromise on probably a waiting period from purchasing a weapon and also raising the age to either 21 or maybe even 25.

You watch. You see how this plays out here, folks. But the Republicans see this from a PR perspective, not a constitutional perspective. And one of my problems with the NRA is that they are so focused on their fundraising. Are they really doing a lot of good in wooing some of these Democrats over to the right way of thinking?

I mean, it's insane. I gave up my membership to the NRA. I mean, the amount of time and money they spend fundraising and then squandering all this money on these lavish vacations, it makes no sense to me.

Meanwhile, we have a serious issue in this country.

So my question, are you good with a waiting period? Are you good with raising the age limit from 18 to 21? By the way, Congressman Jim Jordan, here's what he had to say about that. Cut three. Bill before us is short-sighted.

and not solutions-oriented. It's a one-size-fits-all approach that punishes law-abiding citizens while doing nothing to make our community safer. We all want to keep children safe in school, but this bill wouldn't do that. This bill is just another Democrat attack on the Second Amendment, and it's likely just the start. President Biden has said he wants to ban all 9mm handguns.

Where does it end? The American people expect and deserve more from us than political charades that rehash old ideas and don't actually solve the underlying problems. All right, there you go, Congressman Jim Jordan. The problem here is that people don't want to talk rationally. The Democrats, they're emotional creatures.

They don't deal with fact. They deal with emotion. And so when something like this happens, and you've got a lot of people on the woke establishment side in the Republican Party, and they're like, well, we just need to get together. We just need to get around the table so we can hear each other. We can hear from each other.

What do you want to hear?

Somebody tell me the eight pieces of legislation they're going to consider, would they actually have prevented what had happened in Texas or in Parkland, Florida? And the answer is no, they would not. Because these pieces of legislation are based on emotion. They're not based on reality. They're not based on fact.

So what's really going on here? And I love what Glenn Beck had to say. And he pointed this out. We've been talking about, again, we talk about puzzle pieces for all of our new listeners. We put these puzzle pieces together, and it gives us an idea of what's really happening in the country.

This is why I write books, is so that you can see all of the evidence combined, so you get an idea of, holy cow, this is what the Democrats are doing in our country. And it is very effective because you do get a pretty good idea of the attacks on the culture. If you read my book, Culture Jihad, you knew about three years before critical race theory became a commonplace word what critical race theory was. If you read my book, you knew what the cancel culture mob was really all about. I was writing about those things back in 2019 in Culture Jihad, How to Stop the Left from Killing a Nation.

So Glenn Beck raises some interesting points here. He says, what's really going on? We're being starved of food. We're being starved of energy, gasoline for the cars. We're being priced out of basic commodities due to shortages and high inflation.

It's one man-made crisis after the next. As we saw with COVID, the destruction of liberty is the eventual goal. Glenn Beck is right here, right on the money. He says, look where we are in the post-COVID world. Had I told you in January 2020 that two years later the government would force you to shut down your business, weaponize bureaucracy, and force you to get an injection, you'd lose faith in institutions like the CDC.

you would have been called insane. But the reality here is we are in the midst of a revolution in this country, and we're not the ones that are waging the war. It's the left. And they've been very successful, very successful. All you need to do is take a look around you for the month of June.

30 days, the next 30 days, it is a gay pride free for all. Our Lord only gets two days, Christmas and Easter. But the LGBT, they get a whole month. Imagine what you see, and it'll be very visible over the next 30 days. What you see for the next 30 days, your kids see that every single day in their public school classroom.

They're getting pounded with that indoctrination. But beyond the whole LGBT movement, you've also got a situation where they are pounding into the brains of these kids to hate America, to think that our founding fathers were a bunch of slave owners who were racist and every single thing they did is tainted and has to be destroyed. It has to be turned to rubble. Imagine what this country is going to be looking like, not just five years from now, but just a couple of years from now. if we do not get out and vote in the midterm elections i mean that's why things are so vitally important here that's why the midterm elections matter that's why we've got to focus on saving the country no matter what well let's go to the phones here 844-747-8868 georgia dino on the line nougat radio over in chattanooga tennessee dino what's going on what's on your mind you know it's interesting i just saw a special on the nra this weekend and wayne lapierre was their fearless leader and come to find out he didn't even know anything about guns the reason they hired him todd was because he was a fantastic lobbyist and it's just uh you can go out in any major city right now if you have enough hundreds in your pocket you can get an ak-47 you can get anything you want as you know guns don't kill people people kill people you know oh you gotta do something but what do you do No doubt about that Dino But I wondering you know from your vantage point I mean the people in your circles are they starting to put these puzzle pieces together I mean the high gas prices look the minimum wage the federal minimum wage what an hour That what people are paying for a gallon of gasoline There no way we going to be able to sustain this.

None whatsoever.

Now, you know, when I worked refineries, I'm a retired union pipefitter. I worked refineries most of my career. And the cheapest fuel, the first fuel to come up is diesel, right? It's the cheapest to make, but why is it so expensive? Oh, that's right.

Planes, jets, you know ships uh it's just a shame and it's like we've talked about this before and tell people like you and the rest of us all my friends are gun owners you know i'm an avid vermont but we use them properly we were trained properly uh i've often wanted the local police officers to go around to the schools and show these young kids what guns will really do so they're aware of you know not like playing a video game but anyhow uh you know what we used to do dino no you know we You know what we used to do, Dino, when I was in the scouts, they used to take us back when it was just boys and not whatever they are now. But they used to take us down to the local police department and we got to tour the jail. And, you know, you would they would show you the prisoners and they would say, if you are a bad person, if you break the law, this is where you're going to end up. Don't end up in jail. I mean, it was sort of an in your face education that we got as a little when I was like a cub scout.

But those things have a lasting memory on kids. We have seen a breakdown of American society. That's what we're looking at right now. And it can be traced back to the destruction of the traditional American family. You know, it's interesting.

I hear more people. I hear, Adito, thanks for the call. I hear more people complaining about gay marriage than I hear talking about the divorce rate in traditional marriages. And it seems to me that the bigger problem is that we've had a breakdown in traditional families, traditional values.

So, yeah, I mean, if you want to talk about, you know, defining marriage, that's great. Have that conversation. But let's get real here, folks. I mean, heterosexuals. I mean, how many how many kids are not growing up in single parent homes?

That's that's the problem. All right, let's go to Jim, North Carolina, WSIC. Jim, what's going on? Hello, Todd. To give you a little bit of background, I'm a retired police officer, tactical officer.

I've been a firearms instructor for 40 years. I'm currently a private protective services officer here in North Carolina. And I also work for a company that teaches firearms to Secret Service, CIA, FBI, and the military.

So I've got a little bit of background on this, but I am 100% totally for gun ownership. The only thing I don't like is the current law of buying a rifle. Anybody can go buy a rifle like a man did in Tulsa, walk in the door and buy it and walk out of the door with it. I do think there should be a delay, some type, on rifles.

now now jim so let's just say there is a delay what kind of a delay are you talking about a couple of days a couple of you know a week or two well when you buy a handgun you go to sheriff's army get a permit then they look at you they bet you uh right now there's no betting on rifles so as far as i'm concerned it could be a month or more uh you know people don't normally need a a rifle the next day or that day. They can wait a little while. Jim, why is that? Why is it that there is no, you know, again, there's no paperwork, there's no detail. I mean, again, if you're going to buy a handgun, it seems to me that you should fill out the same paperwork for a rifle.

Why is there a difference? It's politics. That's all it is.

Now, if you go in to buy a rifle, they give you that federal form and that federal form is so stupid you've got yes or no answers and you know if you check no to one of those questions they're not going to give you the gun so if it's a crook he is going to check yes to all the answers uh so you know that's that's the only thing that's bothered me for years now you know jim i was at the supermarket a couple of days ago and i i caught myself, you know, just I was more observant of my surroundings than what I was there to go buy at the grocery store. And I realized as I'm walking around my neighborhood Kroger, you know what? It doesn't matter how good of a shot you are. It doesn't matter how many people, and I suspect most of the people there at Kroger in my neighborhood were packing heat. Jim, I mean, if you've got a guy with an AR-15 coming in, that's it.

You know, I mean, you're going to be lucky if you escape, but if you're in that guy's line of sight, you're gone. And there's nothing you can do about it.

Well, you've got to prepare. I'd love to get you to our school up here and let you see what the military and the government actually trains for now. But, Jim, can I just say that? And I hear what you're saying, but, Jim, just hear what you just said. I just want to go to the grocery store to buy a can of chili, and I've got to get ready like I'm going into a war zone.

I mean, that's where we are in America right now. Yep, it's unfortunate. I wish it wasn't. My wife, after a confrontation we had downtown one day, she has carried a gun ever since, everywhere she goes. Because after the situation that I took care of by staring the guy down, my wife told me that's the scare she'd ever been in her life.

And I said, why? And she said, the look on that guy's face just scared me to death. And she's carried a gun ever since. Jim, again, you've been in law enforcement for a long time. Do you remember when all of this changed, when we started having all these mass shootings?

I grew up in the 70s, went to high school in the 80s. We didn't have any of this when I was growing up. No, it was mainly toward the middle 90s that I really started first seeing, and then it just escalated from then. But, no, we never had these problems when I was young. I was just like, you know, when I was young, you looked up to the police officers.

You know, that was your big heroes. And that's not anymore. And real quick here, but did anything change? I mean, in the 70s and 80s, were those same weapons available to people, the average citizen that are available now? Oh, yeah.

There's just more different calibers. But, yeah, there was handguns out there then. and uh i want to see this lung that uh the president said a nine millimeter will blow out of the body yeah you would be both that don't happen no no it doesn't it doesn't uh there's a lot of ignorance out there and and a lot of that is coming from the media jim where uh they need to have some sort of gun experts on staff now so they can explain all of this in rational terms and in factual terms. Jim, we got to run. We are late for a break here.

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It's just that when we look at the things that you're doing and you're trying to do to America, we've seen the carnage. I mean, for heaven's sake, let's take example. Democrats control the major cities that have the worst murder rates. That's right. Your ideas have been shown to get people killed.

And he's right. He's absolutely right.

Now, a lot of this, and again, we're not talking about mass shootings here, but when you're talking about violence, look at what's happening in New York City where you can beat somebody over the head with a baseball bat, crack their skull wide open, and you're not going to do any jail time. You're going to show up. They're going to say, okay, you've got to show up at court on this date. Have a nice day. Do you validate the parking?

So where are we going with all of this? Again, you've got to look at the broader picture here, folks. Democrats thrive in chaos. They also thrive in carnage. and everything they accuse someone else of doing they're the ones that are guilty of this when so when they go out there and they accuse you of being a racist they're the ones that have the racist tendencies you know they they accused trump of uh and the trump supporters of being violent people go back and do your history and you got to do this you can't be lazy and a lot of journalists today they're stupid and then the rest of them are lazy and it's unfortunate because the reality is it was the left that went out and started attacking trump supporters i mean this back in 2016 you can look you can google it go to our website toddstarns.com we document everything there everything america all right hang tight we've got to take a quick break here for the news this is the todd starns radio show The Z Flip 4 perfectly in my pocket.

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I love this American. All right. Hello, people. Good to have you with us. Welcome to the Todd Starrs Radio Program, broadcasting border to border, coast to coast, across the fruited plain.

And we've got a lot going on this hour. By the way, President Biden weighing in on the baby formula shortage. Here's what he had to say. Here's the deal. I became aware of this problem sometime in early April about how intense it was.

And so we did everything in our power from that point on, and that's all I can tell you right now. Really? Because he didn't say anything publicly or anything publicly about it until May, May 13th to be exact.

So what exactly has the administration been doing? By the way, Biden says that baby formula comes in bottles.

So the guy's clueless. Let's go to the Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line. Honored to have with us Chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, Congressman Scott Perry. Congressman, welcome to the program.

Well, Todd, it's great to be with you. Thank you so much for the opportunity. And unfortunately, in this case, the President of the United States is clueless. It's completely disconnected. If most families know that have had children that formula comes in mostly in these cans that you mix, some of it is incredibly expensive due to whatever, you know, need your special need your child has, so to speak, whether it's a lactate or lactose allergy, something like that.

I mean, this stuff can be difficult to come by in the best of circumstances. Of course, when he says he didn't know about it, now, you know, he might not actually be lying about that because there's at least a reasonable chance that the rest of the people in the administration that did know something about it just never briefed them because it's not important to them. What is important that I think your listeners know is that this is a government-created problem.

So one company essentially makes about 45 percent of the baby formula, which is used for the WIC program, the Women and Infant Children program.

So you subsidize that. And then that one company gets a kickback from the federal government every time a person that is subsidized to get the WIC formula goes ahead and picks it up at the store. the federal government shut that plant down essentially 45 percent of the production market and and and cluelessly thought that it was going to have no impact on the greater market and of course they're completely wrong and their answer is to ship it in from overseas after you know we have spent huge amounts of money and regulatory process in making the america's food supply safe, so to speak.

Now, when the chips are down, I guess we don't care about safety, and we can just get it from anywhere. But all the rest of the time, you know, we prevail on these companies to make the food safe, which costs us a boatload of money, not only in regulation itself, but in the cost of the regulation when you go and buy the goods and services. And so, as usual, the government creates the problem and then spends more money and makes it worse by their solution to the problem, which is now shipping it from overseas on airplanes. And, Congressman, let me jump in here for a second. I mean, you're right.

All of these are man-made crises. But the problem is we've got a lot of these crises now. You have Jamie Dimon out there warning of what could be a superstorm, sandy, economic-style event that's about to happen. Inflation is insane. And when you look at the average minimum wage with the federal minimum wage, $7.25 an hour, that's what people are paying for gas in some of these states, California, New York.

What is this country going to look like in a couple of months?

Well, it's really hard to determine, of course, again, not I know you say manmade and I know what you mean, Todd, but I think it's important for you to realize Biden made, government made, leftist made policies created these problems. Inflation, I think the latest number is about five point four GDP down to one point three illegal immigration to two hundred thousand plus record breaking every single month. And so with all due respect to Jamie Dimon, they have not been helpful in this circumstance. They have never, as far as I know, been derogatory towards this administration's unbridled printing. And let's face it, we don't even print it because literally we physically don't have the time or the capacity to do it.

just creating digital currency out of nowhere and flooding the U.S. economy with it, which, you know, has gone a long way to create the inflationary circumstance. You add that with the shutdown of the federal government and state governments imposed on goods and services, you have this huge amount of dollars chasing fewer and fewer goods, fewer goods because companies were shut down, fewer goods because employees were incentivized not to work or told that they couldn't work or couldn't go back to work. That all has a consequence. And they think just by raising interest rates that they can fix all that.

These problems are only slightly borne by the interest rates. What they're mostly borne by is all this government activity in the private sector distorting markets. And it just shows they absolutely have no understanding of the free market and competitive market capitalism, which they are normally vilifying, including folks like Jamie Dimon, quite honestly. Congressman, what is this going to look like come the fall? When you're, you know, again, we're being told from farmers to we should begin to expect to prepare for food shortages.

My concern, yeah, baby formula shortage, that's a horrible thing. My concern is what happens when you've got families that can't buy food? Right. Well, I mean, that's what we're being told to expect. Of course, you know, with 30 percent of the world's wheat supply coming out of Russia and Ukraine being imperiled because of the war there.

And of course, we have taken very few to no steps in solving our own circumstances, whether it's fertilizer, whether it's the price of farmers doing business. Todd, as you understand, is most of farm equipment runs on diesel. And so it makes it ever increasingly expensive at $6 a gallon for off-road diesel to do the farming, to make the investment up front. And then you add to the fact that we have not given up on this stupid program of the renewable fuel standards, turning corn and soybeans into food instead of fuel.

Meanwhile, the same administration is telling us we need to gird ourselves for potential food shortages.

Well, if they know about it now, why aren't they saying we're going to end at least temporarily this insane policy of turning food into fuel, and we're just going to get the fuel right from the ground where we're standing on top and including the state where I reside in Pennsylvania, where we get huge amounts of natural resources below our feet, and we refuse to get them because of the Green New Deal. This is the insanity that we have to look forward to. You're seeing a precursor at the gas pump.

Soon you're going to see it in your electric bills, and then you're going to start seeing it even more in your grocery stores, not only the cost of it, but the unavailability of things that you normally get. And that's when you've got that cascading effect. Restaurant prices are going to go up. People aren't going to be able to afford to eat out. Those businesses are going to shut down, and we're going to be in a world of hurt here.

And I just think people need to be prepared so they know what to expect, and this doesn't come as some big shock come August or September.

Well, not only that, Todd, you're absolutely right about that. People do need to be prepared, but people need to connect the dots. This isn't just happening because the world screwed up here. This isn't happening because the market didn't respond. This is all happening as a result of government intervention into the free market.

And unfortunately, it's hard for people to accept this, but this is by design. I mean, as some people like to say, The pain is the process. It's the principle of the thing. For instance, the gas prices. They want gas prices to be high.

They want to force you to consider buying electric vehicles at the very same time that they're imperiling our ability to produce more electric power in this country.

So this is by design, and people need to connect the dots. When you elect the leftists to run your government, to manage your economy, to manage your country, these are the kind of things you're going to get. And leftists, as you know, Todd, don't only reside in the Democrat Party. Leftists are leftists wherever they are, and you need to be very highly skeptical of anybody that runs on the left side of the political arena that says they're not for these things. because they keep happening, and these people either are part of making them happen or they're apologists for that or they don't do anything to stop them from happening.

Either way, we can't support that kind of stuff. No, we can't. And, Congressman, I think you've laid out in very blunt terms why the midterm elections are so vitally important. That's the first step in trying to save us from the abyss. Yeah, you're absolutely right, Todd.

It is the first step. It is not the only step, but it is merely the first step. All we can do is slightly slow down what they're trying to pass on the legislative agenda, whether it's economically wreaking havoc on the country or on our culture or the legislative administrative state. It only puts a little bit of the brakes on it. But we absolutely have to do that.

We have to show the American people what we're for. and what we would do if you will give us control not only of the legislature, but of the executive branch to stop this insanity.

So it's the first step, but it's the first time that we have an opportunity to say, we aren't going to put up with this stuff anymore, and we've identified who's doing it to us. Real quick, Congressman, before we let you go, of course, Gay Pride Month kicking off 30 days of celebrating the LGBT movement. and word has leaked out or come out that over at the embassy, the U.S. embassy at the Holy See, they have unfurled a gay pride flag. It does make you wonder what sort of message they're sending to the Vatican.

Here's the message that I would like to send to all allies and people that wonder about America overseas. We have one flag. It is the American flag. It stands for freedom. It stands for equal justice under the law.

and it stands for liberty around the world. That's the only flag that needs to fly, save maybe on occasion the POW flag because we want to have our POWs either sent home or we ask for a place to bury our war dead. That's it. The American flag is the standard. We should be proud of that and that's the flag that should fly at all times and that's the only flag that we need.

All right, Congressman, we're going to leave it there. Appreciate you coming on the program today. Lots of stuff. Thank you, sir. You have a wonderful day.

God bless you and your audience. All right. Congressman Scott Perry, he's chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, based out of Pennsylvania, by the way. We've got the photograph over on the website. It's fascinating.

And you do wonder, I mean, is this sort of an up yours to the Catholics that the Biden administration is? Because clearly, Catholic teaching, and whether you agree with Catholic teaching or not, it's their teachings, they're not flying the gay flag at Catholic churches, most Catholic churches, I would say. But a lot of people are wondering what that message is. And by the way, I mean, again, if the Biden administration is going to go down this path, and, you know, that's their right, they got elected to office, why aren't they flying that flag at the embassy in Riyadh or in Saudi Arabia or in Ethiopia, which are Muslim-controlled countries? I mean, if in fact this is about sending a message, if you're going to send a message to the Catholics, why would you not send the same message to the Muslims who have the same teachings regarding that?

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Click the banner to get your Galaxy Z Flip 4. So a new poll is out. This is after the shooting down in Texas. And I think this poll is going to trigger a lot of people. The Economist and YouGov did the poll.

By the way, The Economist, you know, well, there you go. Not exactly a friend to conservatives. Here's the question. Do you favor or oppose giving school teachers and school administrators the option of being armed at school? 51% of everybody says yes, they favor it strongly.

You've got 20% who favor it somewhat. Only 37% say they oppose somewhat, and 23% strongly oppose.

So an overwhelming majority of Americans, Republicans and Democrats, favor letting teachers arm themselves. And again, I mean, if you've got a police department like the one they've got down in Texas, you better believe you want to be able to protect yourself and protect your students. And again, this flies in the face of what you hear every night in the mainstream media. This flies in the face of what you hear with the squawking magpies on The View. I mean, the reality is that a majority of Americans think it's a pretty smart idea to have teachers armed in the classroom.

What say you? 844-747-8868. That's 844-747-8868. Now, time now for some gay news as we commemorate the Pride month-long celebration here at the Todd Stearns Radio Program, because we're a diverse and tolerant people. YMCA, the Gay National Anthem.

Did you ever hear that? They call it the Gay National Anthem. But YMCA gets people up and it gets them moving. It's fun to stay at the YMCA. All right.

Here's the news. Wonder Woman. Wonder Woman, now a bisexual. And are there any straight superheroes left? I don't know.

Maybe there should not be. I don't know. This is coming from the Independent. Linda Carter, who played Wonder Woman back in the day. She says that Wonder Woman is a superhero for bisexuals.

And she says, if you want to argue that she is somehow not a queer or trans icon, then you're just not paying attention.

So I'm just curious. And look, I mean, look, congratulations, Wonder Woman. You know, my condolences to Steve Rogers. I don't know, is she getting it all with Batwoman? Do we know which supergirl?

Do we know which female? Grace Baker? No, haven't confirmed that yet, Todd. Why did you put this on my stack of stuff? Because you wanted gay news.

And this, listen, I will say, though, she doesn't play Wonder Woman anymore. She's the old Wonder Woman. The new Wonder Woman, well, to my knowledge, she is not a lesbian.

Well, but you don't know that. No, I mean, Linda Carter says Wonder Woman is a superhero. And it's not a lesbian. They're bisexual.

So that means they like the. I'm sorry. they like you know batman and robin if you will wait robin i'm not even gonna i'm not even gonna say anything there talk that all i know okay there talking at the comic book conventions there talk i just know gal gal gadot plays Wonder Woman now and she was dating a dude in the movie Right but that could be cover It could be, because like you said, bisexual. And that's fine. I just, you know, there you go.

We're just here to bring the news. It is what it is.

So now you've got what? Superman is gay. You've got Batman is questionable. You've got Robin, who is bi. Oh, yeah.

And Aquaman. He swims with the fishes. That's all I know. We don't judge. We don't judge.

We'll be right back, America. We all know someone who's all work and no chill. Trust me, that used to be me. But then I found Galaxy Z Fold 4, which allows me to do more things at once. Ah, much better.

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Click the banner to get your Galaxy Z Fold 4. All right, welcome back, everybody. Todd Stearns with you. You know, Grace Baker, I got the new glasses. I'm having a difficult time of things today.

I walked in, and you had new glasses, you had a haircut, and I was like, whoa. Got my ears lowered yesterday, and I found a new barber over in Germantown. Yeah, it's a great barber shop. Did you say ears lowered? Yeah, but I got my ears lowered.

What does that mean? You know what? But please tell me, you didn't learn? You don't know what that phrase means? No, I have no idea.

All right. I know some of our listeners will be able to explain to you when you get your ears lowered what that means. That sounds painful. No, it's not painful. It's just, you know, you're getting a haircut.

Okay. It's a great kind of men's hair. You know, that's where you go. Guys, you go and you get the haircut and they offer you. They've got a variety of libations there.

So if you want whatever you would like to have a drink. Wow. And they got a dog, one of these big old like bulldog kind of dogs. And that just comes up and it wants to be petted. Man, they don't have that where I go.

It's great. It's great. So anyway, I've got the new glasses and I have to wear two different pair. One for nearsighted, one for farsighted. But here's the problem.

Like the nearsighted, if I'm or farsighted, if I want to read my computer screen, I can't see you.

So what I need, what you need is one of those lanyards that you can hang the glasses so you can just switch back and forth.

So you need two lanyards and you can just switch back and forth like the grandma's have. I'm not going to do that. Like with the big, huge, like 1970s mobster sunglasses? Just the lanyard that you can put your glasses on so you can switch between the two pairs, depending on what you're trying to look at. Yeah, I don't want to be that old.

I'm not ready to be that old. All right. Let's head over to the Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line. Always an honor to have with us our resident military expert, Colonel David Giamona. Colonel, I hear you've got a book coming out, and we'll talk about that in a minute, a brand new book.

Always good to have you on the program. How's it going?

Well, Todd, it's great always to be with you. Can't wait to talk about our new book and talk about what's happening in the Marine Corps today. Yeah, this is sort of insane. When I saw the photograph, I'm like, wait, what, really? And we've got the picture on our website, folks, a Marine combat helmet, and attached to the helmet are bullets that are rainbow-colored for the gay pride celebration, I guess, there in the Marine Corps.

Colonel, what's your reaction to that?

Well, first of all, I want to go back to a guy named, actor named Morgan Freeman. You remember? Oh, yeah.

Still popular, African-American. They asked him about Black History Month. He goes, and the reporter was really taken aback when he said, I don't celebrate Black History Month. He says, do we celebrate White History Month? Do we celebrate Asian America?

I mean, where are we ending in all this?

So where I'm going with this, Todd, is this. We do not need to be celebrating this Gay Pride Month in our Marine Corps, in the military. Why do we celebrate? Who else are we going to pick out to celebrate? Marry Your Robot Month?

You know, it's never going to end, the amount of celebrations that people are going to want.

So it's ludicrous to me. That's the first thought. And the second thought is, hey, look, the Marines do two things. They kill people and they blow things up. And the rest of the world is laughing at us.

I heard some Russian ambassador the other day just, you know, just saying, you Americans are foolish. because when we go to war, no one's going to care what color you are, whether you're gay, whatever it is. When the bullets are flying, that's when we say man up. We go to war and we make things happen. And I'm not sure the Marine Corps is ready if they're focused on so many other ridiculous things.

Yeah, it's strange because this particular Gay Pride Month, I mean, they've got flags for everything.

So now all of those gender identities that Facebook came up with, they all now have flags. And I mean, there are at least, I would say, a dozen different kinds of flags. To your point, yesterday we did a story, and it sounds outrageous, but a woman says she is sexually attracted to an airplane. Who are we now in today's society? I mean, we're supposed to be a tolerant society.

Who are we to judge this woman?

So what happens if that becomes a thing? I mean, will there be different demographics of people, groups that we have to honor and recognize within the ranks of the military? I mean, it's a fair question to ask. I mean, I'm not judging one way or the other here. But again, we're talking about tolerance in today's society.

You know, I really think we need to go back to the simple fact we're all Americans. Let's celebrate that. I like that. Yeah. I mean, I don't want to.

I'm Italian-American. I don't want people raising my flag from Italy. I just want to see American flags up. Forget all this other stuff because it's a lack of focus. And I spent 32 years in the military, and believe you me, there's all kinds of training people want us to have.

And commanders were complaining constantly, look, we need to be warfighting training. We don't need to be training about the woke culture or training about who's – There was some guy the other day, Todd, I kid you not, he bought an $11,000 collie costume because he identified as a collie. Like a dog? Yeah, a dog. And it was a beautiful hair, beautiful costume, $11,000.

He said, hey, I'm a collie.

Well, you know what? Like I said, when it comes down to combat, and I've been there and back many times, people you know the enemy isn't going to ask you what's your identity you know they all they're going to know is you have the firepower and the training to bring defeat to us or we're going to beat you and that's all there is that's the bottom line this other stuff is a bunch of hogwash and that's what gets me i look i don't care gay straight whoever i mean if you want to if you want to put on the uniform of this country and you want to stand on the front lines and defend my right to sit behind this big, beautiful, huge microphone and share my opinion every day. You know, I salute you. I honor you. But that doesn't mean that, you know, we have to have a full month of celebrations within the military.

I just don't think that's the point of the military here. And it concerns me, Colonel. We had a lawmaker on yesterday who said they're sincerely concerned about military preparedness and readiness because they're so focused on all the woke culture war stuff.

Well, that's exactly right. You know, and what's going to happen, there's a book called America's First Battles that I actually mentioned in our first book. And it's worth reading. And we read it in the War College, and it's required in the War College. But America's First Battle is, we lost every first battle America has been in war at since the beginning of warfare in the United States of America.

And we weren't ready. We weren't focused. We weren't prepared because We're doing all these stupid things that at the end of the day don't mean a thing. But, you know, after a while, you know, people understood we got our butts kicked in first battle. Oh, we got to get serious now.

And trust me when I say this, nobody in combat cares about your color, your race, your gender. All they want to know is, can you help us? Can you fight? And can you win the day? And that's what the military is geared for.

The social experiment, especially what Barack Obama was doing when I was in, is just craziness because it takes the focus off what we're really there to do. On the Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line, our great military expert, retired Colonel David Giamona. David, I want to turn our attention briefly to what's happening in Ukraine. there are some there's some reporting out there u.s intelligence reports that putin is not doing well that he may have some advanced form of cancer uh there's um back and forth yes he's still in control but there seems to be some growing turmoil in russia what are you hearing about that yeah um i've i've heard a lot about that in the last few days and actually the last few weeks It's a growing concern among many in the State Department and around the world that, you know, Putin may be losing control over his forces because of his health concerns. That may be a very dangerous place for us to be in because, you know, he may unleash things that we wish he wouldn't unleash.

So we've got to be very careful in the days ahead. And not just that, you know, of course, the Ukraine-Russian war, but now we have the Israeli-Turkish-Iranian fiasco coming our way.

So we have a number of fronts we have to look at in the days and weeks, months to come. This place, this planet is on a very dangerous place. I've been saying this for weeks and months now. And, you know, Russia has been threatening nuclear discharge, nuclear war, chemical war. I wouldn't put it past them.

I hope that it doesn't come to that. But we have to be prepared and ready for anything in the days to come. Yeah, when you and again, that same reporting is that apparently there was some sort of an assassination attempt on Putin that clearly failed. And to your point, that's how World War One got started. And there's a there's a fascinating essay and of all places, The New York Times.

I don't know if you've seen this, Christopher Caldwell writing and borrowing a line from World War I about sleepwalking into war with Russia and that we may be in a position now where the war in Ukraine may be impossible to stop. And we're to blame for that.

Well, you know, what people don't realize, I've been talking to some really high level people recently. You know, Joe Biden has given away many of our missile systems, our anti-tank missiles, in fact, to a point where we can't reproduce them fast enough now and we're behind. We should not have been giving all that armament to the Ukraine because we have to defend our own sources and resources.

So it's going to be very interesting. You know, you're exactly right. We slept walking to World War I. uh war world ii was the advance of a powerful nation and powerful leader uh we may be and i don't want to be a warmonger i don't want to scare people but uh we could be very close to a war world three if we're not very careful in the days to come and with joe biden in the leadership and the nation's perceiving us as the leaderless that's a very much more dangerous to be all right colonel we're going to have to leave it there we're going to get you back on to talk about the book as we get closer, but you can pre-order now, folks, The Military Guide to Disarming Deception, Battlefield Tactics to Expose the Enemy's Lies and Triumph in Truth. Great title coming out August the night.

We've got a direct link to David's website over at our live show blog. David, appreciate the great intel. We'll get you back on soon. Todd, anytime. Thank you, my friend.

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Want to go to the Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line. Busy day here. our good friend from the Commonwealth of Virginia, Congressman Bob Good, is actually at the Texas border right now. Congressman, welcome, and tell us what's happening where you are. Thank you, Todd.

Great to be with you again. You know, just this is my fifth trip to the border in my first year and a half since being sworn in in January of 21, and I keep coming back just to keep the attention on what is the greatest or the worst, I should say, of all the crises that this president has created the border crises. I maintain that never in the history of the country has our own president done more to intentionally harm the United States than this president has done in his first year and a half in office with some 3 million illegal border crossings.

So visiting once again here and just seeing that every resource this administration is committing to the border is for the purpose of more efficiently, more quickly, or what they consider to be efficient anyway, quickly processing illegals into the interior of our country. They're committing no resources to border prevention. It's all about processing more illegals intentionally into the interior of our country, flying them out, bussing them out at taxpayer expense. You know, we've got some 8,000 a day that are apprehended at the border and then released into the country, not counting the 1,000 to 2,000 a day that are the more criminal gotaways, if you will, the ones who evade apprehension, because, you know, most are surrendering the 8,000 a day into our custody because they get free health care, free social services, free travel, free phone, free education, and whatever they need at taxpayer expense.

So obviously they surrender. We are just the most welcoming country in the world, legally, with about a million legal immigrants. No other nation in the world accepts a million legal immigrants like we do. But what we're doing on the illegal side, it's just incredible.

So you can only imagine the intent of those who are smuggling children, sex trafficking, drug trafficking, into our country, the Godaways as well. But no effort by this administration to stop it. In fact, they are facilitating it on purpose. Congressman, I'm curious, in your trips down to the border, have you been able to talk to Border Patrol agents? And if so, what are they telling you?

Yes, they're very frustrated. We do meet direct with Border Patrol.

Sometimes you're meeting with the leadership who's showing you what they're allowed to show you or telling you sort of the company line, if you will. But when you have those private conversations with them and or you just sense the frustration, they're working very hard, Todd. They're overwhelmed. They've been turned into daycare workers. They've been turned into nursery workers.

They're just trying to have to take care of folks. They're pulled off the line, if you will, the front lines. Instead, they're in the processing centers. We visited the largest processing center yesterday, some 280,000 square feet, where families and children are being processed, illegals. The compassionate side of you as an individual feels compassion for those who are coming here seeking a better life because of our lax policies.

However, I was elected to be the fifth district representative of Virginia, not of Central America, not of South America, not of the world, if you will. And we've got to have America first policies. Carry this president's policies out to its logical conclusion. He's on pace to have 10 to 15 million illegals invading our country with his assistance, his willful, purposeful assistance. That's why he deserves to be impeached.

But the Border Patrol officers, they're trying hard. They're trying to do their job, but they're frustrated by this administration's unwillingness to enforce our own laws and allow them to continue to execute policies that were working under the Trump administration. And, you know, Congressman, I mean, these poor guys and gals, they've just been under the gun. You remember a couple of years ago when you had these leftist groups out there that were doxing the Border Patrol agents. They were showing up at the schools of some of these agents where their kids were attending.

I mean, it's just horrible stuff. And the amount of sacrifice they make every single day without the resources, that's just appalling. That's right. The resources are actually there. They're just not directed towards prevention.

We don't need more resources. What we need to do is enforce the laws that we have. And what Republicans can do is refuse to fund the government until the president secures the border. We can deny the Democrats one single Republican vote for any government funding until we secure the border, even the minority.

However, when we get the majority, Lord willing, here in November, then next year with the president who will not sign policies to secure the border. You know, yesterday, Todd, we actually visited a facility where we saw where there's hundreds of millions of dollars worth of material sitting there rusting because the administration has removed him from the border, moved him into this yard, if you will, a fenced off yard to just let him sit there and rust because we've already paid for those materials. but the president will not allow them to be used. That's why the president deserves to be impeached, but at the very minimum, we ought to deny him the funding of the government, be willing to shut down the government, and force him to secure the border. He didn't need to do anything when he was sworn in on January 20, 2021, except keep President Trump's policies in place.

If he stayed in his basement on the beach in Delaware, we would still have a secure border if he had done nothing. All right, Congressman, we've got to wrap it up there. Appreciate the update from the border, and keep us posted. Thank you, Todd. Great to be with you.

All right, Congressman Bob Good, who is from the Commonwealth of Virginia. By the way, speaking of Border Patrol agents, we've got to give this guy a shout-out, Jacob Alborado. He was an off-duty customs agent in the barber chair getting a haircut. His wife at Robb Elementary School calls. Fourth-grade teacher says, honey, there's an active shooter.

Help, love you. He asked the barber, you got a gun? Barber gives him a gun. And he runs to the school and is able to save his wife and kids. Off-duty, Border Patrol agent.

Good guy right there. All right, stick around, folks. This is the Todd Starnes Radio Show. We all know someone who's all work and no chill. Trust me, that used to be me.

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When you look at the stats about this AR-15, these assault rifles, when we had that federal assault weapons ban in place under President Clinton and then it was allowed to expire, the deaths from the mass shootings went up. And now I'm not saying that there's a direct correlation or causation, but there is a correlation there. And so why doesn't Congress do something about that? And when you look at, let's say, Daniel Defense, which is that gun manufacturer, I mean, I think we have a copy of the ad, the marketing ad. They are marketing to children and families.

Look at this. And I found this so insulting. They're saying, train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it. That's Proverbs 22, verse 6. And it's such a disturbing ad.

And Daniel Defense has since deleted this toddler tweet. But they are actively marketing towards children using call of duty type ads. I think they call that grooming. Yes. It is called grooming.

It's part of the Christian nationalism, this rise in violent Christian nationalism that we have seen, which is also disturbing. Because they find it to be, they use biblical principles. They pervert them to justify this, which is another problem, particularly in Texas. This is a growing movement. It's God guns and Trump or God guns or whatever.

It's part of their ethos. This was the way it was down south. They used to use the Bible and say, you know, you're not people, so God doesn't see you as people, so we don't see you as people. Listen, this AR-15's got to go. You know, I'm a nice guy, but I got to tell you, those women, those are the squawking magpies of The View.

They're the poster women for bachelorhood in America. I mean, it's just the nonsense spewing out of the TV every single day. I just don't get it. Welcome to the Todd Stearns Radio Show. Good to have you with us.

hour three of the program a lot happening this hour of the show uh kirk cameron coming up in just a little while but right now i want to go to the patriot mobile newsmaker line our good friend and the expert our show expert when it comes to all things law enforcement jay warner wallace uh good to have you with us jim hope things are going well now you've intimidated me by calling me the show expert so i hope i can hold up to at least give you some insight on some of these things I thought it was interesting, Todd, that at least they said, hey, somebody on that show just said that they are perverting Christianity.

Well, I can tell you, I get a sense sometimes that people are eventually going to say, the same side is going to say, no, they're not perverting Christianity. They're just actually accurately interpreting Christianity, because it is a perversion often of Christian views that people target as though they are orthodox, legitimate Christian views, when in fact they aren't.

So I think, first of all, you have to be clear about what do we believe as Christians, and I think that's why most Christians need to do a better job at knowing what it is we believe. No, I think that's a fair reaction to what they're saying, because these are clearly – there are talking points within the evangelical movement especially, and when it comes to things like Christian nationalism, the idea that we are proud of our country, that we want to defend our country, that somehow there's something wrong with that now. A lot of that was birthed out of, or maybe it was always there, and we just didn't know it was there until Trump came to power back in 2016. Yeah, no, I think you're right. Before you can start any meaningful discussion with anyone, if you're going to use an expression or a term, we have to define what the expression or the term is.

Because otherwise we end up kind of talking past each other because when that expression Christian nationalism is used, well, I need to know what it is you think that entails.

so I can tell you if I actually buy off on what it is you think it means. But I suspect that you have a definition in your head, which may not be the definition that's in my head. And that's why I think we end up making claims that aren't really helpful because we aren't really talking about the same thing. And again, this goes back to the whole gun conversation. People, as soon as the shooting happened in Texas, they're, well, we've got to pass laws.

Okay, what laws would you like to pass? What are you recommending? And, you know, we've got, what, eight now pending pieces of legislation on Capitol Hill. And, Jim, not a single one of those would actually would have stopped or prevented the shootings from happening there in Texas. Yeah, no, I think – so here's what I always say about this.

I spent my entire career enforcing laws. If there were no laws to enforce, I wouldn't have had a career.

So I understand the value and role of the laws. But, of course, most of my work has been involving cases in which people were actually able to break the law.

So the law is not a barrier that cannot be penetrated. It's not as though we're building stone walls around the victims so they can never be reached. The laws don't do that. They give us guidelines for which we can later punish lawbreakers.

So the problem I have with laws in and of themselves is they're not sufficient. Clearly, this kid broke a number of laws even to do what he did.

So this is not unusual. Shooters of this nature end up breaking many laws, and if you had three or four more laws in place, they would have found a way to circumvent those three or four laws as well. We see this, for example, in gang culture. I very seldom will see gang shootings involved in Los Angeles involving legally registered or purchased guns.

So they are breaking laws even to possess these weapons.

So here's what I would say about this, Todd. I kind of have to split the baby a little bit here. I need to paint a solution going forward for our culture, but if you're only going to allow me to use certain paints on my palette, the painting won't be that good. I need the entire spectrum of paints. And what we tend to do is to think, well, no, these paints belong to our political party.

Those paints belong to your political party. And I'm not going to use whatever paints are on your side of the palette because I'd be breaking the precedent that I have within my political beliefs or the party platform or whatever it may be. But it turns out probably we're going to have to put our paintbrush in all those colors if we want to paint a solution.

So I think to say, well, it's all going to be about law passing, you know, passage of laws, while we're ignoring other issues that our side would probably say, you know, the conservative side would probably say, well, look, it's a heart condition. It's an issue that has to do with mental health, has to do with one of the red flags that we could actually act on before a shooting occurs. It has to do with facility security. It has to do with our response and how we respond to these kinds of things. Because we would side with the idea that we have to balance the freedoms that we want to retain, yet understand with those freedoms come awe-inspiring responsibilities.

And so how do I balance the freedoms and responsibilities? And by and large, I mean, you've got – I mean, every person who owns a gun in America, there are a lot of people, tens of millions if not hundreds of millions of people own weapons in this country. By and large, we're talking about law-abiding American citizens who've gone to the gun training classes. They've gone about it the right way.

So when you break down the actual numbers, and that's what gets me, Jim, is that we're dealing with – we're not dealing with facts. We're dealing with emotion on the other side of this issue. That's what concerns me because, again, they talk about, well, we've got to get rid of all the AR-15s.

Okay, fine, you do that. But you do realize that most of the people that have been murdered in this country, it's been a handgun, which is what I think they're really going after. I think that the AR-15s are ultimately the smokescreen. No, I think you're right. And so if – but, of course, whatever happens with the nature of the shooting that's in the public eye at that moment will be the impetus for whatever people are talking about.

So it just so happens that AR-15 was used here. But it turns out that, yes, you could easily have gone in with just one handgun with multiple magazines and done the same kind of thing. It just depends. And, of course, that would be the topic of our conversation. But I don't think that really it's the kind of gun that's going to matter as much as do we ever – are we going to allow – look.

Even as a conservative cop, there are – I own guns, okay?

So I'm in favor of gun ownership. But I also think that certain people should not own guns. I think most of us would agree that if you're a convicted felon who's used a gun to shoot other people, they're probably going to want to restrict your future ownership of guns.

Okay, I get that. The only question is like who And how do we determine who And even if we said well we not going to allow this kind of person to own a gun maybe somebody who suffering from mental health issues how do we even certify the mental health issues Like there's still a lot of questions left on the table, even when we say that we have to have some restriction of guns. And I just don't see us really wanting to paint from both sides of the palette here. Because if I said, hey, I just want unanimous gun restriction. I don't want to be worried about what our side is going to say.

well, no, listen, there are certain people that have mental health issues, and we need to focus on those folks, because it almost always seems like when this is done, we can look back at the shooter and see several warning signs that were missed or ignored before the shooting takes place.

So I think we've got to paint from both sides of that palette. A retired police officer called in to the show, and he shared his credentials, which were pretty impressive. He says, look, I'm in favor of raising the age. I think that's what really needs to be done here and maybe have some sort of a waiting period.

So it's like, for example, the guy in Tulsa, the word coming out that the guy went out, bought a gun, and then went to go shoot and kill the doctor and these other poor people at the medical center. As a former law enforcement guy, how do you feel about something like that? Yeah, I agree. I'll say two things about that. Number one, I do think we have an age before which we don't allow kids to drive because that 6,000-pound vehicle is going to be something we don't want them to be navigating if they don't have a certain skill set, certain maturity.

So I think that that's fair. I think an age.

Now, of course, the debate is going to be, well, what's the age?

Now, the second thing I would say is that that waiting period only makes sense.

Well, it makes sense for two reasons. One, if it's a passionate moment where you're buying a gun and acting on your passions, well, of course, a waiting period restricts that passion, right? You might cool down before you do something stupid. But I think more importantly, that provides you with a period of time in which you can actually look at the person buying the gun to decide if this person is a risk.

Now, the bigger problem there, though, is what's the criteria for determining risk? Then there's one more thing I would say, and that is that in the past you've seen situations in which young people are using the guns they got from their parents. It's not even their gun. They didn't have to go in a store and buy it. They just had to pull it out of their parents' closet.

So I do think there has to be some responsibility in terms of how we secure guns from our kids. If I'm the owner of a gun, and unless someone breaks into my house and steals it, I can't really control that. But I have to have some level of responsibility based on how my gun is used if I'm not securing it at all.

So I think that there's three fronts I would go on. Yes, I think age is one of those. I think who you are is another one of those. That's where it gets tricky, though, right, because who's going to determine what is mentally healthy and what is mentally unhealthy? And then finally, responsibility for people who aren't securing the weapons they already own.

And again, going back and looking at the facts, the facts are that most of these shootings where an AR-15 was used, those people were well over the age of 21.

So, you know, back to the point, how do you make those determinations? You know, they meet everything by the letter of the law, but there's still somehow maybe there's a mental flaw that nobody catches.

So that's, you know, it's a weird situation, but I don't think anybody really wants to think through these things. They're just willing to throw more laws on the books, and ultimately, at the end of the day, that's not going to work.

Well, look, here's the danger. As Christians, I get this, because I believe that God is love. God is love according to our Scripture, but love requires a very dangerous prerequisite. It requires free agency, because love can never be coerced.

So when God creates a world in which love is possible, he has to create a world in which free agency is possible first. And that means you have to have the freedom to both love and despise and hate. That freedom is there.

Now, God will give you a set of instructions on how to use this dangerous thing called free agency. But if we choose to ignore the instructions that have been given to us, we will misuse our free agency. And I think as we move forward, abandoning the very worldview that navigates how to use your free agency, we're going to find people misusing their free agency more and more.

So a lot of this is even more systemic in the sense that it's cultural because we are moving away from a culture that has taught humans for thousands of years how to navigate their free agency, what their responsibilities are, what their responsibilities are to the holy God who created them with this free agency. And as we move away from that, don't be surprised that people will be misusing their free agency more and more. We've got about 45 seconds here. But when I was growing up in the 70s, we didn't have these things. We didn't have school shootings, mass shootings.

I graduated in 85. We didn't have these kinds of things. Those weapons existed, but this kind of violence did not exist at this scale. What do you think has changed?

Well, I suspect if you look at it from 2010 to today, you'll see an exponential rise in these kinds of things. at the very time that social media has exponentially engaged the younger culture.

So I think what happens is that now I have instant access to what was done across the country that I can then emulate. All the details are available to me in real time, and I can see those. And I'm compelled to make – he made statements at the Uvalde shooter about, hey, you're going to see this. He's predicting what he's about to do on social media to other people. The social media component in which we have unrestricted access to social media at this generation is part of the entire puzzle.

We're going to have to address that part of it. That social contagion in my generation growing up was a lot harder. It was a lot harder to get a fad off the ground.

Now you can launch that fad in the first week, and it's probably old news in a month. And that's, I think, the difference is that the social media takes that lot that can travel around the world before the truth can get its boots on. That's pretty much what's happening with social media pretty much every day. Fascinating. Jim, we could go on for the full hour, but Kurt Cameron would get upset with us.

Totally understand. Tell Kurt hello for me. All right. Hey, look, we've got links to all of your great work over on the live show blog. Your Dateline folks, you saw Jay Warner there, Cold Case Detective, Colson Center Senior Fellow.

You're an adjunct professor at Biola. Great stuff. All right. We'll be calling on you again soon, Jim. Thanks for having me.

I appreciate you. All right. Great guy right here, folks. Worked with the LAPD and loves our Lord and is just a wealth of knowledge. All right.

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It busted. Back in the day, Grace Baker, TV used to go off the air at midnight. What? They would play the national anthem and then it would go off the air and you would have bars. And that's what this looks like.

It's kind of horrifying. Yeah, I disagree with the woke diarrhea description because otherwise there would be more of a splattered effect as opposed to the straight lines. But it's very odd.

So can we talk about Wonder Woman for a moment? Again, you want to talk about Wonder Woman. You're just harping on all these superheroes. No, it's the whole Wonder Woman story now with Linda Carter coming out and saying that.

Well, she's not coming out, but she's coming out to talk. But anyway, she says that Wonder Woman is bisexual. I hate everything. That's the way I feel right now.

So what's next? I mean, Yoda for Star Wars? I mean, is Yoda going to come? Gay you are. That's very clever.

Thank you. But, you know, because Star Trek, what is it? Star Trek Discovery. I don't watch Star Trek. Star Trek went, as a matter of fact, the whole Star Trek ship was a flavor of the rainbow.

I don't even think there was a straight person on the show. What's going on on that ship? No, the straight person was the black captain.

So she was the straight person. But everybody else was like of the rainbow color. No, Stacey Abrams was the president of Earth. Oh, that's a horrifying thought. It was frightening.

Yes. I think this was after Earth had the apocalypse. Oh, it all makes sense now. Yeah, I just, yeah. Anyway, but are there any straight superheroes left?

That's what I'm, it's a legitimate question now because they've all come out of the closet. I'm just very curious. All right. Got to take a break here. 844-747-8868.

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for their country they don't want to abandon their children to a system that by and large is doing more grooming for leftist politics and sexual chaos and racial confusion than they are doing any real educating about truth beauty and goodness you know he's not wrong uh that's by the way Welcome back to the Todd Stern Show. This is Kirk Cameron. He's got an incredible Fathom event documentary coming out, and it's June 13th and 14th. And we've got links to this over on our live show blog. It's called The Homeschool Awakening.

And again, when you look at the pandemic, and you've got to go back to the early days of the pandemic, So many moms and dads were at that point forced to listen to what their kids were being taught in the public school classroom, and many moms and dads were simply horrified. They had no idea what was actually going on, the amount of indoctrination in that classroom. And so you're looking at off-the-chart numbers of people who are pulling their kids out. And it's not just Christian families. You've got a lot of other folks that are taking their kids out of the public school system, and we're talking about record numbers of minority students as well where moms and dads are saying, you know what, this is it.

Well, I want to go to the Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line. We're honored to have a good friend of this program. It's been a while, Kirk Cameron with us. Hey, Kirk, how's it going? Hey, man.

Great to talk with you, brother. I'm doing great. How are you? You know, doing well, doing well, and I was so excited to see you out there and talking about these big issues. you're calling it the homeschool awakening.

What do you mean by that? There's a great awakening taking place. It's one of the big stories that no one is hearing about on mainstream news, and that is parents are taking back America not by complaining and cursing the darkness. They're getting on the offense. They're pulling their kids out of the public indoctrination system, and they're beginning to take the leadership role in their kids' education.

And I've documented 17 families who are doing that joyfully and successfully in community with others, and their kids are not only getting a great education, but their families are flourishing, and it's beginning to revive their communities and produce world changers. It's called the homeschool awakening. I just love this. And again, June 13th and 14th, we have links in the live show blog. And you know, Kirk, I probably should brag on my executive producer, Grace Baker, who's, she came up as a homeschooler, went to the University of Memphis, and now she's got the best job in America as producing my show.

Well, you know, I'm not surprised, Grace. Listen, you know, when you have parents who are having, they have this pioneer spirit, and they have this sense of adventure, and want their kids to learn about God's world, develop a love for learning, and give you a chance to develop your own identity, your character, your faith, and you're not squeezed into this little mold and told who you are and that you live in a horrible country and that you ought to be critical of other people because of the color of their skin.

Some people are victims and others are oppressors. you have a chance to flourish, and now you are, and you're making a difference.

So I'm not surprised. You know, Kirk, I was writing about these issues and topics, two books, going back to 2014. And people have always been shocked about how quickly the culture, how quickly views and the culture has changed and how rapidly that's happened. It's happening in our public school systems, and I loved what you said. And in this Fox News piece, you said the problem is that public school systems have become so bad.

That's why we've got to get the kids out of the public schools. Yeah, and the homeschool awakening is not a diatribe against the public education system. Listen, my father is a public school teacher.

So are my grandparents. Teacher is a noble position. You have been entrusted with the minds and hearts of children. The problem is teachers are not allowed to determine what they're teaching their kids. They're trapped in the same system that is pumping them with Marxist ideas that undermine the values that make this the greatest nation on earth, that undermine their faith and undermine their family values.

So there are options, and there is hope. If you're not happy with your children's educational situation, you're not stuck. Watch The Homeschool Awakening, and it'll answer the how-tos, the ins and outs, and give you a glorious picture of what you can do in community with others to give your children a hopeful and faith-filled future. Kirk, as much as you've been getting a lot of praise and a lot of support, there are a lot of people out there that got a big problem with what you're doing. MSNBC, this is the headline from Fox.

I love this. MSNBC column claims homeschooling is racist, part of extreme evangelical war to dismantle public schools. How do you respond to that? That is so ridiculous. That is such nonsense.

It tells us that, boy, we're right over the target. because, listen, to say that I'm anti-education because I'm calling out the nonsense that's being taught in our public schools to our precious children is like saying that I'm anti-human because I hate cancer. No, no, no. What the public school system is doing is they are spreading more of a terminal disease called wokeness than they're doing any real educating. They're promoting sexual chaos to our children and grooming them for leftist ideas that will ultimately fundamentally change our country, as some politicians just come out and say.

So if you're not down with all of that, watch The Homeschool Awakening, and it will give you options and thrill you with the possibilities for you and your family.

Now, a lot of folks may not know this, but you, Kirk Cameron, you and your wife, you homeschooled all your kids. Chelsea and I have six kids. They're all one year apart. And I had a healthy fear of homeschooling. I was allergic to it.

I thought, what? I mean, homeschooling, that's like some for fringe people. That's weird. I mean, that's for people who don't care about education for their children. Like, do you have to be a Quaker?

Do you have to own a cow and churn your own butter? And I realized that I was totally wrong. There are families who have taken back education for their kids. The first hundred years in America, all education was centered in the home, supported by the church, and wealthy people would build private schools, and churches would help make it affordable for people. And you can do it in a way that fits your family.

You can live in the city. You can live on a farm. You can be a movie maker like me. We show families with children who have their pilot's license at 14 years old and are so well socialized and familiar with business and the world that they make the best students in college and they are out of the box, free-thinking people who end up doing things like Grace is doing with you. And it's absolutely fantastic.

You know, it's funny you mentioned that. We had a former worker here at the radio station I own here in Memphis, homeschool kid, graduated a year early with an engineering degree, and within a span of a couple of weeks, over the past couple of weeks, the kid graduated college with honors, got himself a full-time job, and got married to his high school sweetheart, all at the age of 21 years old. Man, I want to give that guy a great big high five. And listen, homeschooling is not a magic wand, but the power of God working through the hearts and hard work of moms and dads can perform miracles. It really can.

And there's something in our DNA that tells us there's something wrong with dropping our children off at a place that's teaching our children the opposite of everything we want them to learn. Listen, school is not just about math and about science. Those things are important, but it's also about learning to develop your identity and your character and your faith and understanding true history, not the false stuff that is causing your kids to want to become little Marxist revolutionaries and fundamentally change the freest, most blessed nation on the earth.

so check it out and open your mind if you're interested or curious or even skeptical about homeschooling go watch a movie for 90 minutes that will put homeschooling families on display in uh in in glorious color and you will have your eyes open love this uh the homeschool awakening everybody and we've got links to it on the live show blog uh june 13th and 14th only Fathom events and we would love for you to and they make it super simple you can just literally pop in your zip code and they tell you where where the where the film is playing Kirk it's one last thing yeah go ahead go right ahead since it's only in theaters two days only get your tickets early because some cities have already sold out all their tickets so if you want to go with your friends and family you got a few of you that are going get your tickets online through the website now and that will reserve your seat because once the tickets are gone they're gone it's not in the movie theater for the whole week it's two days only boy you're not kidding it's like i still cannot get a ticket to see top gun maverick i mean you're right i mean it's you got to get it you got to get in on that all right well uh thank you so much it's great to talk to you brother kirk always good hearing from him by the just for the record there is no churning of butter in this movie is that correct there's no churning of butter although home churning butter is delicious oh it is good though it is well said all right kirk cameron you take care of yourself thanks kirk you too all right great american patriot right there uh kirk cameron and uh this is going to be a great film and i i would love to hear from you if if you have been through that homeschool experience uh you're a mom you're a dad uh you've been homeschooling your kids maybe you have been homeschooled, give us a call and let us know what that experience was like for you. 844-747-8868. That's 844-747-8868. I've got to tell you about our good friend Mike Lindell, mypillow.com slash Starnes. Mike's got some great deals for our listeners this month.

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so grace baker are you uh are you uh doing the whole british british thing it's the queen's jubilee what's that well she's been on the throne for a long time i know grandpa stearns used to have that problem but oh that's a different kind you had to take it there no todd i wasn't planning on doing anything to answer your question seriously look i'm i'm fascinated with the royal family oh i am too it's just it's amazing that the british people would literally pay these individuals um to live in palaces true and to basically rule they have no powers really Not really. They have some. It's mainly symbolic. It's predominantly symbolic. But I love Queen Elizabeth as, okay, I love her story.

Yes. I love the Queen's story. Oh, yeah, me too. She has a, she's a person of deep faith, by the way. That's what I find fascinating.

But anyway, the whole family's nuts. I mean, you hate to say it. Yeah. Yeah. I think there's a little bit of a cousin-on-cousin marriage going on.

Wait, what? Yeah, you know, they're all related. I mean, they're getting married to this cousin and that cousin.

Well, at least they did the right thing and kind of got rid of Megan Markle.

Well, you can tell it in the family portraits. You can kind of pick out. They do look weirdly related. A little too similar. A little too similar.

It all makes sense. But Markle, was Markle invited? Was it Meghan Merkle, Markle? Meghan Markle. Whatever her name is.

Merkle. Boy, how would you like to be married to that one? I mean, yeah, at least she's pretty.

Well, yeah, but that, I mean. She is pretty. You got to admit, she's very, very pretty. But yeah. 70 years, 70 years as queen.

And you know, she was the accidental queen. Her father, the uncle, wanted to get married to a divorcee, which was against the rules. And so he abdicated. And so then Queen Elizabeth's father assumed the throne, and then she became queen.

So she wasn't supposed to be queen. She just wanted to raise horses out in the countryside. A simple life. Yeah, seriously. And she was very frugal.

And they didn't spend a lot of money on a lot of stuff over there. The Buckingham Palace was just dilapidated. Yeah. But then they finally fixed it up. But it's a fascinating story.

And the corgis. Oh, yeah, the little dogs. Yeah. She loves the dogs. But she's a big horse person, too.

She loves horses. And that's what she wanted. She wanted to be a country wife and raise horses and got the dogs and all the whatnot. not but she but she churn butter churn but did you understand that so i guess yes so i guess people really think that homeschoolers sit around churning butter well they just think they're like amish people that like live out in the middle of nowhere all right well there you go all right 844-747-8868 that's our toll-free telephone number that's 844-747-8868 and we have a couple of exciting things next week heading to new york city for the big talkers convention and we're going to be meeting with a lot of our friends, Harry Hurley, Jeff Stein. I believe Tim Van Horn from Memphis is going to be there, so it's going to be a lot of fun.

We're looking forward to meeting a lot of talk radio hosts from around the country. We'll be broadcasting one of our shows from New York City and then coming right back, and we're going to be meeting with folks at the Road to the Majority Conference. That's our good friend Ralph Reed. There's going to be a national gathering there in Nashville. I'll be delivering a speech.

And as a matter of fact, I'm on the same platform with Lindsey Graham and Betsy DeVos.

So we'll have a good time, and I'll do my best to bring a good message to the assembled crowd there. But they are expecting thousands of people at the Road to the Majority Conference. We've got links to it over on the live show blog. Then in August, we're heading to Dallas for CPAC 2. You know, they do two CPACs now, one in Florida and the other in Dallas.

And we'll be doing several days' worth of programs from CPAC, and I've been invited to speak on the platform there as well. And it's always a lot of – you know, one of the things I love about getting out is we get to meet so many of our great, great listeners. We're also doing some events. You folks in Pascagoula coming down to Pascagoula in just, what, a couple of weeks. July 3rd, I believe, is when we're going to do that.

Hey, let's go to the phones real quick. Daphne is in Mississippi, WPMO. Daphne, you've got about 30 seconds. What's going on?

Well, many years ago when we were all upset about the school, we found out that they were under the union, which means they were under the government's right hand, there was mention of a Christian teachers' union. And I thought, man, that's a swell idea. We need to start one of those, too. And I never heard any more about it. And I thought, somebody ought to come up with that idea, because if you go to the surgeon and you have to have surgery, he may not be somebody that was homeschooled.

You may want to keep our public schools in the right hand. You know, Daphne, there's a lot of good. As a matter of fact, we're raising money for a Christian school in Theodore, Alabama, called Lighthouse Christian Academy. And I think it's important for us to support Christian education, whether it be at the grade school level or the secondary level. We've got to do it.

Daphne, that's a good thought. Hey, folks, wow, what an action-packed day. We're going to be back tomorrow, by the way. Tim Van Horn is in. I will see you Monday.

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