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Those numbers will come in, and we'll share that information with you later on today as we get that intel. I've got to start out the show with the craziest story I have seen. And it's a weird story. We're going to get into the FBI. I know a few folks follow us on the Facebook.

You're thinking, well, I thought we were talking about the FBI. We are talking about the FBI, but I've got to share this story with you. It is probably my favorite story. I don't know why Grace Baker is smiling unless she knows what I'm about to talk about.

So, Grace, you know, it's the fall. And so a lot of people from the southern states, they love to take these little trips to New England so they can see the leaves change. I mean, it's beautiful up there. Beautiful. They don't know how to cook seafood up there.

Everybody's broiling everything. You've got to get some batter and some peanut oil and then have a good old fish fry. But other than that, it's a beautiful place.

So you know I'm going to get calls from our WLOB fans. I know. Deep fry that lobster, sir.

So anyway, there was a guy. His name is Lieutenant Colonel Christopher Hoffman. He's a member of the Massachusetts Army National Guard.

So anyway, he's driving around. And what's been happening in Martha's Vineyard, you know, they've been inundated with the illegals. And by inundated, DeSantis sent a busload of 50 illegals to Martha's Vineyard. And so what did the people, what did the rich, white, liberal people do in Martha's Vineyard? They cried.

They cried. Well, yes, they cried. They also called the military. They said, well, actually, they called the governor's office. Get those brown people out of here.

That's what they said. Dang. And so the next day, they brought in the military, and they hauled everybody over to Joint Base Cape Cod, which is, I guess, to our knowledge, that's where they're still residing. But anyway, the rich white liberals, unless you're mowing the grass or cleaning the toilets, they don't want brown people in their community. Dang.

I know it's terrible. It's terrible.

So anyway, you've got this guy, Lieutenant Colonel Christopher Hoffman, and he's on the lookout because they're really concerned that they're going to be sending more illegals, busloads of illegals, to Cape Cod, to Martha's Vineyard.

So the guy is off duty, and all of a sudden he sees a big bus, and on the side of the bus is the word Florida, or Flo-Rida, for you people of Michigan. Florida. And he thought, aha, aha, I found them. He thought he found himself a busload of illegals.

So he starts tailing the bus. Oh, buddy. The bus driver is very concerned about all of this because all of a sudden there's this guy, and he's like literally on the guy's bumper, and he's flashing his lights, and the bus driver is starting to freak out a little bit. And the bus driver doesn't know what the heck is going on here.

So the bus driver keeps speeding up and changing lanes, and then the lieutenant colonel in the National Guard does the same thing. and people on the bus are starting to freak out they don't know what's going on so anyway long story short the bus finally gets to his destination and by the way he's facebook living all of this is on facebook live they got the lieutenant colonel is facebook living everything this just keeps getting worse and worse is that how you say facebook living yeah no you did good you did Thank you.

So anyway, they get to this nice little hotel. And is it Falmouth or Falmouth? It's Falmouth. Whatever. F-A-L-M-O-U-T-H.

The Admiralty Inn and Suites. It's a very nice looking hotel. They have a little swimming pool in the middle in the courtyard. And I guess they give them a free breakfast. I don't know.

No, that's only at the Hampton Inn.

so anyway they pull in and then the guy starts he jumps out and he starts banging on the door of the bus and he says you have to let me in let me in and the bus break down the door the bus driver's freaking out and the guy said i know you have illegal aliens on the bus and this is all in the dark of night can you imagine michael vaughn is the driver he is the owner of mike's limousine it is a bus company they drive people you know we're trying to get a bus to go to nashville next week a party bus a party bus but i digress so anyway uh hoffman thought that the bus was full of illegals and he wouldn't he wouldn't give up so he would not leave and mr vaughn says he harassed us to death. This is the Cape Cod Times story. Everybody was scared to death, and I have to imagine, so. And all of this is being recorded live on Facebook.

So anyway, it goes on and on and on. The police are summoned, but before the police can get there, the guy was able to get on the bus. And when he did, he realized he had made a tactical mistake. And here's what happened. And I wish we had the video, but they've since deleted the video.

But he told the bus driver, you've got to let me on. He says, you're interfering with my tour. The guy says, I want to see what's going on. And the bus driver said, it's none of your business what's going on. And the guy says, I have every right as a United States citizen to see what's going on.

You know what I'm talking about. As if the guy was smuggling illegals into Martha's Vineyard. But Grace Baker, it did not turn out to be illegal aliens. It turned out to be a busload of elderly grandmothers, black grandmothers from Memphis, Tennessee. O-M-G.

And when he got on that bus, they went full-blown Medea on his ass. Good for them. And it was a beautiful—I wish that would have been on the Facebook line. They tore into this guy like a Christmas Day ham. I mean, they were yelling and screaming.

and i can tell you um he he tried to apologize but they weren't having any of that so fortunately the police were able to get there and pull him out of the bus because those grannies look you don't mess with grannies from the 901 ain't that the truth i'm telling you they're lucky they didn't have a cast iron skillet that's exactly what i was thinking any kind of cooking utensil i just i I just love this story. It's wonderful. It is a great. It's just like never, A, never assume. A, never follow anybody.

I mean, come on. What an idiot. Never speculate. Never speculate. That is my number one rule.

Only deal with the facts. Deal with the facts. By the way, Lieutenant Colonel, if you really think they're illegals, call the popo, as Medea would say. And let them handle it. Let them handle it.

It's not your business to go handle that. I hope this guy realizes. And by the way, they say the guy, they think something was off.

So they think he had a mental break or something.

So he's in the hospital now. But he's lucky he's not in the hospital for having a big goose egg on his noggin. That's a good point, Todd. What a story. I love it.

The bus driver was like, he says, those old black women were on his ass. They tore his ass is what they said. That's the quote there. We're talking in the biblical sense, so don't call in or send me emails to complain. But anyway, what a beautiful story there from Cape Cod.

Good for you, grannies. All right, 844-747-8868. That's our toll-free telephone number. That's 844-747-8868.

Now, when we come back, we're going to jump into some interesting news coming out of the FBI where whistleblowers are now providing more information saying that the FBI, and they have evidence, that not only is the FBI purging conservative employees, but they're also now retaliating against whistleblowers.

So the jig is up when it comes to the FBI here, folks. The jig is up. They know that when the Republicans take control of the House and the Senate after the midterms, that hopefully, hopefully the Republicans are going to follow through on their promises and clean house at the FBI. And we've got to do that. It's unacceptable.

They've become the state police, and they've become politicized. And this all happened during the Obama administration. And for a number of years now, they've been going after conservatives, law-abiding, decent people, and it's got to stop.

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So we've been following these school board races all over America, to Loudoun County in Virginia, the great work the patriotic moms and dads have been doing there, then down in Florida with just about five of the major school districts in the state now controlled by conservatives. And a lot of that is thanks to our good friends over at Patriot Mobile, America's only Christian conservative wireless carrier. They've been very involved in going after these far leftists, these woke Americans, who are on these school boards and these individuals who are terrified of this radical mob out there.

Well, last night I went to one of these school board. They're having a big school board race in Germantown, Tennessee, which is the area that I live in.

So I thought, you know what, I'm going to go down there and I'm going to see what's going on. I want to see how my tax dollars are being used. and grace baker i'll tell you this people there were there were some nervous people when i walked into the room todd i was about to say you could have brought me as your bodyguard i should have i you know i should have we could have gotten merlot in there oh yeah but they were playing hardball it's interesting they didn't have police there and i'm and i'm sitting there you know off to the side i didn't want to be like a distraction and i was really there just to get information on what was what was happening and the nice thing i know a couple of police officers are like come right over to where i'm seated and there was nobody else there at the time i'm like oh man am i gonna get but they were very nice the police are great uh and they were just there but they were discussing strategy in case it got rowdy and this it's a school board thing but you know what i was so impressed with grace um our flagship station kwan is very very powerful and uh they i know the school superintendent there hates what what kwham does and the reason why is kwham is the only only media outlet in the entire city that calls out this woke leftist nonsense that they're shoving down the throats of the kids it's not berkeley it's memphis tennessee germantown tennessee so anyway i was there and um heard one of the people running for school board and this is fascinating because you always think i know there are a lot of people right now in newburn north carolina and they're listening to us on the talk station and they're thinking you know what there's no way this could happen in our neighborhood no way now germantown by the way is a very conservative i would say it's conservative ish agreed uh but but the people they elect are liberal ish which is weird no they're not ish they're full-blown liberal and they're advancing this stuff and they're right out of the gate they're like well we there's no such thing as crt uh being taught in our schools it's illegal to teach CRT. That's true, but they just call it something else. Exactly.

So anyway, there's this one guy. Just to demonstrate, just to illustrate how liberals are trying to take over your school board, and they're trying to shove a very disturbing agenda down the throats of your children, I want you to hear from this guy. I'll tell you, we're going to play cut number one, and I'll tell you who this is after we play the soundbite. Dr. Kumar, can biological men become pregnant and give birth?

So men can have pregnancies, especially trans men.

Okay, my apologies. That's the wrong soundbite, but we'll get to the other stuff a little bit later. My apologies, that's on me. That was a question that was raised on Capitol Hill, by the way. to someone from, no, I'm not making this up.

This is an individual who actually said men can have pregnancies.

So I'm at this school board meeting or this school board, I guess, debate, and it really wasn't a debate. They wouldn't even let people, like, address their opponent. And they said, if you, and they were very strict about all of this. And they said, well, if you say anything about your opponent, If you say anything, we're going to shut you down. We're just going to shut you down.

And the reason they did that is because there are conservatives running against liberals for the school board in Germantown, Tennessee, and they wanted to silence the conservatives. That's all they tried to do there. But I don't think it was effective. And I do think the conservative candidates did a good job getting their point out. But one of the school board guys, he is the chorus teacher at Arlington High School.

And the question was raised about whether or not he believed that teachers should use preferred pronouns. And he said absolutely. He said teachers, and he said that one of the most egregious things is for a teacher to misgender or mispronoun a child.

now if this is happening in germantown tennessee you better believe it's happening in your town in your community i'm just telling you that's that's the way it is and it's pretty sad but you better pay very close attention to what's going on in your local school district because if it's happening here it's happening in your neck of the woods as well and we've got to put a stop to this those are conversations for mom and dad by the way this guy goes on to say that actually teachers and parents have a 50-50, a shared responsibility in the child. I mean, do you actually believe that, ladies and gentlemen? Do you believe that teachers should have an equal say in how your child is raised? Jeff Chipman is the school board guy's name here. Do you believe that's how we should be raising our kids in partnership with the local public school?

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All right, welcome back to the Todd Starnes Radio Show. Good to have you with us today. All right, we've got this audio now. I want you to, look, no, we don't make this stuff up. And I want you to hear with your own ears.

My earlobes were tingling yesterday when I heard this at this school board thing. This is, all right, let's play the audio here. This is this guy running for school board who is all over the whole gender pronoun stuff. You community. And I am proud of that.

I'm proud of the life I have and the life that I've built with my husband and my sons. I'm proud of my friends and others. And that was at one time not a possibility. Today, as you know, I would want to say that every child that walks into my classroom needs to feel like they are comfortable, that they are cared for, that they are respected, and their personal human dignity is respected by everyone in that room. And I would say that if a person has an objection, then they just don't need to speak to that child.

because it is never okay to misgender a trans child. It is never okay to mispronoun them intentionally because that person is deserving of their own dignity, their own human respect. That relationship between child and parent that is being fostered is just as important as that other relationship with a family that maybe sees things differently. All right. And what you didn't hear, because the first part got chopped off, the guy says he's a member of the LGBT community.

And that's all well and good. But the issue now goes to whether or not he wants to use his position on the school board to advance an agenda where if you don't want to call, and you heard him say this, that if you've got little Sally and she says, no, you've got to call me by he, him, or Zezer, or wackadoodle this or wackadoodle that, If you don't do that, then all of a sudden you've got the problem and you do not have a right to address that child. I mean, this is nuts. Male, female. That's it.

God chooses, not you. Let's go to Germantown, Tennessee. Allie listening to us on KWAM. Allie, you just heard it for yourself. What say you?

Oh, Todd, thank you so much for bringing me on the show again. I spoke to you a couple months ago, and I'm very honored to be able to come back home and talk to you again.

Well, let's get to it. Yeah, let's get to it. We don't have a lot of time here. Yeah, let's talk about this.

So I was a teacher for nine years. And first of all, I want to say teachers do not have 50%. I would never, ever assume in the years that I taught that I would have any type of parenting ability ever as a child. I could not take them to the doctor. I could not sit there and take them somewhere where, you know, I don't.

I'm not a parent to them. but sometimes parents would expect us to parent them because they were too busy teaching.

Now, on this subject where he's trying to sit here and say, do they have, they deserve respect in the classroom, 100%. I love my students, okay? They do deserve respect in the classroom. They do deserve to feel like a, you know, yes, they deserve to be treated like a human. But am I going to sit there and groom them?

No, that is grooming, Todd. That is, I don't know what age he teaches, but you're sitting there and you're putting this in their brain in the classroom. You're trying to sit there and promote a conversation to make them think about something that they've probably never, maybe their parents aren't talking to them about. Why are you, again, I haven't taught for six years, but the idea, and I even taught theater for nine years. High school students, we did not do this.

I did not, did I have children that I possibly thought were gay? Yes. But did I sit down and say, do you want to explore this relationship, like your thoughts there? No. Because that's not my place.

I mean, that's their parents' place. And I believed 100% that if I had done that, do you realize the parent would have come through that room and would have skewed me out? I mean, I would have never taken it upon myself to do that. If the child had come to me and said, can we talk about this? I would have immediately said, we're going to need to talk to your parent about this.

Because I am not that child's parent. That is not my responsibility. You know, that is not my place. I could, I could, that's crossing the line, in my opinion. And there might be people out there that disagree.

But in my opinion, and I even, I mean, and I wasn't in a Christian setting. We probably would have gone down to the principal's office. But we would have called that parent before I ever had a conversation with that child.

Now, Allie, hang tight, because I want to bring into our conversation Jerry from Milwaukee, who I suspect has a different opinion about all of this. And, Jerry, you're on the air with Allie from Tennessee. Jerry, what's your take on this? Yeah, you're right. I do have a different opinion.

Yeah, I mean, students are, some people are just born into the wrong sex. And sometimes they know it as children. You look at identical twin studies. If one child is transgender, then odds are much higher than the average sibling that the other child would be transgender. And there's also genes that show a correlation between transgender people.

So it's probably natural, transgender people, and this is the way they are. I mean, teachers should comply with the students' wishes. Allie, what say you to Jerry? I agree to disagree. I mean, I believe that we are all created in the image of God And I don't believe that you're for a transgender I believe this is something that has been created In this woke culture That we're coming up with And I believe that the more that we sit here And we put it in our shows The more we sit here and we put it in these books That we're putting in these children's libraries They are going to see this They're going to say, wait This is something that I can be Oh look, I want to be a dinosaur Oh I want to be this, I want to be an astronaut I want to be, do you, I mean, have you ever worked with small children before?

Have you ever been a teacher?

Well, yeah, and no child grows up at 20 years old saying, I guess I really want to be a dinosaur. People. No, I'm just asking you personally. Have you ever, have you been a teacher? Have you worked?

No, I haven't been a teacher, but I understand just because I haven't been a teacher, it doesn't mean I don't understand that children are, you know, not every child is the same. These transgender adults state that they knew that since they were children, that they were different, that they were transgender children. As adults, they knew that. If you listen to a transgender, because that's the thing, you guys never listen to actually transgender people. I'm not one, but you never listen to them.

It's like an echo chamber.

Well, I can say that I've never spoken to a transgender person.

So, I mean, I can't say that I've never listened to one before because I've not had a conversation with one before. but um i agree to disagree with you um i think that that's the respectful thing to do in a conversation with someone you don't know but if you've never worked with children before if i have worked with ages kindergarten through 12th grade i have directed them in place and i can promise you that they are creative especially when they're younger say you tell them to be something you give them an idea and they will run with it and i will say this and let me jump in here ali and And, Jerry, something is going on in the culture. There was a study from UCLA, and they're saying that the transgender youth population in America has literally doubled in five years. There's no way that can happen unless the kids are being, quite frankly, groomed for that. But, again, the reason, Jerry, I really, truly believe the reason is that you've got – and, again, we're talking about young people here.

The reason why is this is what they're being encouraged to do or considered to do in the classroom.

Now, guys, we got to run. We are late for a break here. But Jerry, Allie, appreciate the debate. You kept it. You kept it feisty, but friendly.

And we like that here on the Todd Stearns Radio Program. But overall, according to Pew Research, I mean, and they say this may be a stretch, about five percent. Get this now. Five percent of young adults are transgender now.

So it's just that that population is somehow exploding as this becomes an issue in the culture, in the music, movies, TV, and so on and so forth. And, of course, we've all seen the TikTok videos. All right. 844-747-8868. We're going to be taking your calls on this.

A school board says, you know what? A school board candidate says parents. It should be 50-50 with the parents and the teachers. And again, this idea that if you misgender or mispronoun somebody, you should not be talking to kids in the classroom. Do you have a problem with that, ladies and gentlemen?

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Do parents need to share responsibility with the school teachers for their kids? 844-747-8868. The Mike from Chattanooga. Mike, you officially are like the Ohio State. It's the Mike from Chattanooga.

Hi, Todd. As usual, love your show and the topics. I think we're missing, as usual, the entire point. For 45 years or more, I've been promoting the abolition of all government public schools. You can't fix anything unless you agree on definitions.

The definition of education is the improper moral, physical, and intellectual instruction. Since they took God out of the schools, morals are not being taught. We also must understand the definition of socialism, which is government control over production and distribution. And it always fails.

So we have an immoral government system of lower learning that's based on socialism. You can't fix it. The only way, and this is the problem with, and I'll take a breath in a second, the Republicans and Democrats are socialists and they don't even know it. I was asked many times to help with these issues of public schools. said you can't fix socialism.

Competition is what works. Give an example. In Hamilton County, Tennessee, they steal $500 million a year in property taxes. That money should go to private education institutions. Let's create 50 or 100 to determine where your child goes to school.

So now you have 50 different new schools based on the money they've stole in property taxes because they believe they need to educate the children their way. But now it's competitive. And the parents will send their children to those schools that best suit their needs. Maybe it's a transgender school. I don't care.

Maybe it's a gay school. Maybe it's a Christian. Whatever it is, the parents have the choice. You don't have choice here, Todd. And you know, you've read the book, I'm sure, Johnny, Why Johnny Can't Read.

We know why they're doing this. I was in seventh grade and I detected it. In ninth grade, I made a campaign to abolish these freaks because that's what they are. And there's a lot of good teachers, but the people on top are freaks. And all you have to do, Mike, is just check out the TikTok.

I mean, Libs of TikTok, they've got a Twitter feed. And every day they're just churning out teacher after teacher who are not only turning their classrooms into these LGBT indoctrination centers, but they're openly defying school rules so they they clearly have an agenda and they're gonna they are hell-bent on on shoving that agenda down the throats of the children and that's where i have a problem if you read some of the books they have in these schools in the middle pornography you you how they're not imprisoned and and even they what they did over the weekend here chattanooga You know, why isn't the new sheriff arresting them? I love Governor DeSantis who says, if you pull that, listen, you can't do that, especially when you serve liquor. And I was trying to tell people this is not about a man dressing as a woman. A man dressing as a man could not do that in an establishment.

Gyrate, spread his legs, have a little kid touch him, give him dollar bills. It's obscene. It's obscene by the Supreme Court. But no one – the laws are worthless if they're not enforced. And, Mike, let me say real quick here, I'm just shocked that happened in Chattanooga.

I mean, you guys have a lot of liberals in leadership, but there are a lot of conservatives out there as well. And you're right. I'm surprised law enforcement did not get involved with the videos coming out at that brewery that hosted, and, by the way, defended hosting this very pornographic, perverse event for children. The liquor control board should shut them down. Yeah.

And I've been here now, Todd, over 10 years. And I can tell you this. It appears that since the war to prevent Southern independence, and I hate to say this, a lot of Southerners have been neutered. And they're silent and they're afraid to speak out. And how can you claim to be the Bible Belt and allow this?

This is a test, and they know this. That so-called community knows if they can get away with it here, they can get away with it anywhere in the country because Chattanooga is a test balloon. They know that. All right. Mike, you're not whistling Dixie.

All right. Mike, I appreciate the call. Mike from Nougat Radio, our great, powerful, huge affiliate in that part of East Tennessee. Let's go real quick to Salem, Oregon. Maria on KYKN, great radio station.

All right, Maria, you've got about 90 seconds. What's up? Oh, hi there, Todd. Yeah, I'm beginning to wonder that part of the issue that this is happening with the kids is I go to a Presbyterian church here in Salem, and they support the LGBT community. We have a new minister that he got up the last couple Sundays and said, hey, go on out and support the LGBT community and, you know, them standing up and listening to what they're saying and things like that.

And I'm going, what? I mean, the minister shouldn't be doing that. He should be spreading the word of God. Those are not God values that he is putting. And there are a lot of teenagers and kids in my church, and, you know, they're hearing that.

So it may not only be the schools. Try to find a non-liberal church in Salem. Ha, good luck. There are a few that aren't, but, you know, you really have to check it out. Maria, you may have liberal churches there, but I can tell you the churches here where I live, nobody wants to say anything.

They're terrified, terrified of the LGBT activists. They're terrified of the Black Lives Matter crowd. Nobody wants to offend anybody, and that's why a lot of this stuff is happening. But again, folks, it's about the schools. Mom, Dad, you've got a responsibility to raise your kid, train up your kid.

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Well, we got a lot going on this hour of the program. And we're going to start with some breaking news. And we'll be bringing in a guest in just a few seconds here. But I want to share some news with you coming from Ukraine, where Ukraine has now applied for emergency membership into NATO. This information just now coming out.

And as Congressman Thomas Massey pointed out, we are now spending more money in Ukraine than we are for roads and bridges and other things here in the United States of America.

So things are beginning to heat up in Ukraine, and we need to be paying very close attention because the Biden administration seems hell-bent on getting us into a shooting war with Russia. And this emergency application, by the way, comes after Russia's annexation bid. I want to go to the Patriot Mobile Newsmaker Line, our good friend. She has one of the best top podcasts in all of America, Monica Crowley on the Patriot Mobile Newsmaker Line. Monica, good to have you with us today.

Hi, Todd. Thank you so much for having me back.

So, Monica, just real quick here, the breaking news coming from Newsmax. And it's looking pretty crazy now with Ukraine wanting emergency membership into NATO. Yeah, and this comes on the same day that Vladimir Putin has exercised his control over those four territories in eastern Ukraine, claiming that Russia was annexing those territories. The British government today said the UK will never recognize those four territories as Russian. They will always be Ukrainian territory, according to the U.K.

government. I'm assuming that the Biden administration is going to make the same. Look, nobody here is defending Vladimir Putin, OK? But the people in the West, the ruling class, Biden regime and so on, they have been chomping at the bit to get the United States and the West in the middle of that conflict. That's basically an intraslavic conflict between Russia and Ukraine.

And yet our ruling class has been so desperate to interject ourselves into this conflict and have in a whole variety of ways. But I think they were really hoping that the thing would escalate to the point where we would just have no choice but to intervene militarily.

Now, we have spent a heck of a lot of money, about $1.5 billion, according to Zelensky, per week in Ukraine. upwards of, what, $60 billion to ensure the territorial integrity of Ukraine and the Ukrainian-Russian border when our own border is wide open to God knows who.

So I think, you know, actually that they've been a little disappointed, the ruling class has been disappointed that the conflict there has not escalated to the point where it became inevitable for us to intervene militarily. and that's why they're constantly provoking it in order to escalate it even further now you've got a situation where putin is claiming annexation and zelensky says no negotiations now we want emergency membership just buckle up because that conflict could overflow the united states could be ever more deeply involved beyond just sending billions of dollars that we don't have and and And, Monica, again, Thomas Massey makes a great point. We have literally spent more money on Ukraine than we have roads and bridges here in the United States. And I think as a taxpayer, you're looking at the tens of billions of dollars going over there. You've got military personnel that are being told by the Pentagon, hey, if you can't make ends meet, you can always get food stamps.

And I think a lot of people are asking some pretty legitimate questions. Why are we funding all of this?

Well, it's pretty clear that this is what America last is all about, Todd. You know, when President Trump spoke about America first, he meant it. He put the American people and America's interests first before anybody else. And he said repeatedly, I was not elected to be president of France or the EU. I was elected to be president of the United States and the American people.

This current president does put America last for a whole variety of reasons, not least of which, is that the left believes that the United States is not worthy of superpower status, that we are morally inferior and therefore don't deserve it, and therefore all of their policies are geared towards destroying us here at home and taking us down a notch or two or ten on the world stage, so that we're not a superpower, we're not exceptional on the world stage, we're not a force for good, whether moral good, military good, diplomatic good, were none of those things. That's their objective.

So, you know, the other part of this equation is they do want us in the middle of this conflict between Russia and Ukraine because of it. It's like a wag the dog calculation. If we're in the middle of some international conflict that's going to drag on and on and on and you're going to have no real end to it or no real successful end to it, That benefits them. That serves their purposes because it's a distraction. It gets the American people distracted on some shiny thing over on the Russian-Ukraine border rather than what's happening here.

And that's exactly what they want because their destruction here in this country is 100% deliberate. They don't want you focused on it. They know the American people are really ticked off heading into November's election with a failing economy, skyrocketing inflation and gas prices, crime spiking, cities in collapse, wide open border and all of the issues that entails.

So they know that they're not in a good position. They want a shiny object to distract us. It's not going to work. Monica Crowley is on the Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line today, folks, a host of the Monica Crowley podcast. Monica, another story that you've been talking about on social media, this horrific, barbaric stabbing of a first responder in New York City, Lieutenant Allison Russo-Elling.

She was about six months away from retirement. We understand she was standing outside the fire station, the EMS station, when some guy comes over, and it's all on video, and unfortunately we do have this on our website. It's incredibly graphic. But the guy stabs her 20 times in broad daylight, Monica. Yeah, I mean, welcome to America's cities, right?

It's not just New York, but so many urban areas now are just collapsing under the weight of skyrocketing crime. It's really a dangerous situation for the American people and others who want to come and visit. You know, the other day I was in New York City, Todd, and I got a piece of jewelry for my birthday and I needed to exchange it. And it was a very nice jewelry store and well-known jewelry store. And I exchanged it for a different piece.

And the saleswoman came out after the exchange transaction with my new piece. And she handed it to me instead of the store's famous bag, she handed it to me in a plain white paper bag. And I looked at her and she said, I can't send you out on the streets of New York with your piece of jewelry in our bag. because she was afraid I was going to get mugged. That is where we are in New York City, but also Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Washington, D.C., Chicago, you name it.

The American people cannot walk down the street in broad daylight and feel safe. This is absolutely outrageous. Again, it's all by design. Look, one of the first things communists do when they take over any country is they empty the jails. They empty the jails of all violent criminals.

Why? Because they need violent mayhem in order to distract you and have you living in fear so that they can slam through their real agenda. And so if you're constantly worried about your own safety and security, you're not paying attention to what the communists are doing. That is exactly what's going on here with all of these Soros DAs, with the turnstile justice system where the criminals come in and they're back out on the streets in a couple of hours. We need change.

And I mentioned New York. New York has a gubernatorial race with my friend Lee Zeldin as the Republican candidate. He must win if we're going to save New York. But every state across the country, if you've got gubernatorial races, Senate races, congressional races, it doesn't matter. As I said on my podcast today, Todd, I don't care if the only office on the ballot in your community is dog catcher.

You vote Republican dog catcher. You vote Republican all the way down, and that's the only way. Right now we're going to start to turn this ship of state around. I think you're right, Monica. And again, when you look at these Soros DAs and what they did in New York City especially, I mean, you can literally hit somebody over the head with a baseball bat.

They're going to let you right back out on the streets. You're not going to have to post any bail. This cashless bond, and this is happening in other cities. Memphis just elected a Soros DA, and that's the first thing on his agenda, not tackling the crime. It's going after bail reform, and this is happening in every single city.

And you're right. We've got to vote Republican. That's the only way. All right, tell us what's on the big podcast. Oh, well, thank you.

Well, today, actually all week, my podcast all week has been really great.

So I recommend them to everybody. Go back on Monday. Actually, you can go back and listen to all of them, which I would love. But this week's podcast, I do it Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Todd.

So this week's podcast are really, really important stuff. I had Miranda Devine on Monday and I've been talking about all of the issues that concern all of us. I had Julie Kelly on Wednesday talking about the January 6th committee and the January 6th defendants because she's done such great work in exposing the depth of corruption at the DOJ and FBI. And also really working with the January 6th defendants to really what's happened to them has been unconstitutional and appalling. Real human rights abuses.

So those two shows, Miranda Devine, Julie Kelly. And then today I'm talking about how we are leaderless in America with a president who's senile and a vice president who is in a constant state of nervous breakdown. But how Governor Ron DeSantis throughout this hurricane, as atrocious as this hurricane was, reminded us all that our leaders are there to protect, defend and serve us. They are there to make our lives better, not worse. What a powerful reminder going into November.

right? It's such a basic point, but we've lost sight of it. Our leaders are there supposed to make our lives better, not worse.

So I talk about that, and then I've got a long and very funny and important interview with a top editor at the Babylon Bee, the nation's greatest satire site. Those guys are conservatives, they're Christians, they're believers, and of course they've been lied about and suspended and canceled all over the place, but I have got them on my show for an extended interview and you're going to love it it's so much fun all right monica crowley and we have a direct link to the podcast on our live show blog so folks you can check it out there monica always good having you on the show have a great weekend always a pleasure todd thank you all right there you go uh folks i mean it is dangerous out there and monica was um was not kidding about these soros da's but this story out of new york city where this uh this lieutenant and And by the way, she was on the job for a number of years. She was at 9-11. She was one of the first responders. She survived the attacks.

She's a mother and a grandmother. And the story was she was just going to get lunch, came back, and she's right out there in front of the fire station. And some guy literally comes around the corner, takes out a knife. She didn't even see it coming. And by then it was too late, just started stabbing over and over and over.

And I counted about 20 times, and we do have the video, and it's incredibly graphic. But they rushed her to Mount Sinai Hospital there in Queens, New York, and they were not able to save her life. But this is the reality in these cities that are controlled by Democrats. And you've heard me talk about the experiences that I've seen and the stories here happening in Memphis, and you have them in your towns as well.

So we all share that one issue where Democrats, wherever Democrats control the city, there is mayhem. And Monica is right that this is part of the plan to bring socialism into America. First, you've got to empty the prisons. And we have seen this happen over and over and over again, where people who are arrested, they should be in jail. They're let out and they commit even worse atrocities.

844-747-8868 that's our phone number 844-747-8868 this is the todd stern show all right welcome back big football weekend everybody college football my tennessee volunteers by the way rank number eight in the nation i'm feeling good about alabama i think we're going to I think the Vols are going to be able to take care of business. Don't mess with Rocky Top. We're coming for you, Georgia Bulldogs. Let's go to the phones. Ella J.

Georgia, our good friend Joe. Hey, Joe, what's going on? Todd, you're great. Everybody needs to vote Republican. Talking about football, Georgia Tech, we fired our coach, and we got a new coach coming in, and we play Pittsburgh tomorrow.

But everybody needs to vote Republican, and I want to pay tribute. You have two huge fans in Ella J. Edna Pooh, the winner of the famous Oscar Pooh. We're celebrating her 90th birthday tomorrow at the famous barbecue. And then Martha Wheeler has worked with me for 53 years.

She's 88. And yesterday I asked her if she would work to 100. She's that good. But I'm really fired up. We're going to win the midterms, Todd.

And you're a great show. It's not a day that passes if somebody doesn't come up to me and say, Hey, Joe, we love the Todd Starnes National Radio Show.

Well, Joe, you're always kind to say that. Happy birthday. And so did she agree to work until she is 100? You know, she can't retire. She's 88, and I need her.

So I think she will. She's really healthy. She's got the best work ethic in America. I mean, boy, she works Saturdays. I don't ask her to.

I'm not a slave driver. But she's just got that incredible burning desire to work. And she's a great conservative. She loves Marjorie Taylor Greene. She loves Donald Trump.

and she's a great conservative and she loves your show. Ah, well, I'm glad to hear that. You know, Grace Baker's got that work ethic.

So, Grace, would you work till you're 100 years old for me? I don't know, Todd. I mean, listen, if I can still hear, I feel like being in the radio industry, I'm going to lose my hearing by the time I'm 50, but, you know. Todd, you can't let her go. You've got to have her with you.

I know. I know. She's a keeper. All right, Joe, good hearing from you. Take care now.

Could you work until you're eight? She's 88. And Joe says, can you just hang on until you're 100? Oh, man. Yeah, I don't know if I'd work until I'm 100.

I mean, hey, it keeps you active, keeps your mind active, right? It keeps you busy. What are you going to do? Just sit around. You can only mow the grass, I guess.

I don't know. It's strange. Yeah, I know some people that have worked. They say, you know what? I'm not going to retire.

I'm going to work until I drop.

Well, good for them. I mean, everyone's different. I don't know. I think if I didn't have a formal nine-to-five job, I would definitely still have hobbies. I would have to have a schedule.

You see, I love working. I was going to say, Todd, there's no way you're retiring. I haven't taken an actual vacation. No, because when you take off work, you're doing more work. I was going to go on vacation.

They said, you can't bring your laptop, and you can't bring your phone. You just have to leave it behind. I can't do it. I can't do it. But I am thinking about taking a little vacation, though.

You deserve it. Treat yourself. I was going to go to Naples, but can't do that. Oh, by the way. Such a beautiful place.

Beautiful, beautiful. By the way, Charleston now flooding, and it's not even high tide yet.

So not looking good there. Beautiful town. Beautiful town. You folks in the Carolinas pay very close attention to your radios. A lot of bad weather moving in your direction.

844-747-8868. Hang tight. We've got Open Line Friday coming up on the Todd Starnes Radio Show. Whatever you want to talk about, give us a call. you know i'm still trying to get my head wrapped around this whole virgin atlantic airline story we briefly touched on this yesterday so here's the story virgin atlantic going through something of an identity crisis.

They're announcing that male employees and female employees are going to be able to wear clothing that may or may not be suited for their gender. Crew members are also going to be given pronoun badges, he, him, she, her, cat, dog, bird, porpoise, I don't know. Virgin Atlantic says that they're the most inclusive airline in the world. and in that spirit, they plan to conduct these mandatory training sessions for all the workers to make sure that all the LGBT customers feel comfortable. Really, is it possible to make them feel comfortable just by maybe offering them a beverage, something nice and frosty, maybe an adult beverage or some cran apple juice?

I'm a ginger ale guy myself. Love the ginger ale. Not the Canadian stuff, the other, the American version. Anyway, Virgin Atlantic says that this is about equality, and nothing says equality like a hairy-legged dude in culottes serving you pretzels at 30,000 feet, right? No, I'm not making this up, Grace.

I'm telling you.

So Virgin Atlantic says there's a reason why they're doing all this. And they say they believe that men should be able to wear dresses and women should be able to wear man suits to express their true identity. That like you know Hillary Clinton already wore that That been done before The man suits Oh yeah The polyester pantsuit Yeah exactly I don think that a new thing All right Well there you go She doesn't wear that well, but who am I to judge? No, not her best look. This is not Project Runway.

Anyway, I fly Delta. They may lose my luggage, but by golly, they still know their pronouns. That's true. I'm just going to tell you. god help us all 844-747-8868 let's go to central arkansas steve on the line hey steve what do you want to talk about today uh you hadn't this isn't the subject you've had today but it's since it's friday but it's open line friday steve you can talk about whatever you want to talk about it has really bothered me the reporting from the mainstream media on this hurricane, how they're trying to bend over backwards to drive the discount up into the hundreds and all the linking they're doing to making it a climate change issue.

I think we need a new definition in our social vocabulary, and that's the definition of climate change disaster versus natural disaster. This hurricane was a natural disaster. They've been going on, we've been having hurricanes since the beginning of time. Man has no control over them or what they do. But an example of a climate change disaster was the winter of 2021, I believe, that winter storm that went through Texas that ended up killing around 250 people, mainly because their power went out.

And our power went out due to a climate change disaster. And that's the idiots in the government and the leaders of the utility companies. There's something stuff that decided to start monkeying around with their generation plants and got them in a situation where they couldn't supply the electricity. That's a climate change disaster. And Steve, I hear what you're talking about here.

And a lot of folks don't like to talk about this aspect, but this is important. When you look at where a lot of these deaths occurred, and look, if you want to live on the beach, man, that's your God-given right as a United States citizen. You can do that. The problem is our forefathers would not have done that. They knew not to build a house on the side of a mountain because you might have landslides or mudslides, and your house might slide off into oblivion.

They knew not to build homes right on the beach because of storms or hurricanes. They knew not to build in floodplains because the floods would come. But Americans, they had this idea that that doesn't really matter, that they're willing to take the chance, and they're willing to really put their lives on the line to have a great view of the sun setting over the Gulf of Mexico or watching the sun rise in the mountains somewhere. when you've got half the people believing you could we can control the weather uh why does that surprise you why do you think we have levees on the mississippi river the whole reason they actually created uh the the atchafalaya basin was to control the direction of the mississippi river uh so again and people seem surprised when these man-made levees and other things fail new orleans is below sea level. Who builds an entire city below sea level?

And then we're shocked when a hurricane comes, the levees break, and the place floods and people die. The reality is we bear a lot of this responsibility. It's not climate change. We're actually doing things that we should not do. We're building in places we should not be building.

And when disasters strike, well, we should not be all that surprised i agree 100 but you're right this this has nothing to do with climate change to appreciate the call somebody i was watch i was reading something on twitter this morning and one of these leftist wackadoodles actually said that the um all of the water was sucked out of tampa bay because of climate change no that's not what happened it was the wind that You moron. The water came back. To Steve's point, though, on Open Line Friday, when you look back at history, the deadliest hurricanes happened a very long time ago. I mean, yes, we had Hurricane Katrina, but that really wasn't because of the hurricane. Katrina was because of the levees that were not maintained, and they broke.

galveston hurricane in 1900 more than 10 000 people left homeless 8 000 deaths 8 000 people die 1928 the san felipe oak oakichobe hurricane more than 2 000 people dead 1935 florida keys 400 people dead. I mean, most recently, and we're talking a stretch here, you've got Hurricane Andrew in 1992, and you had, what, 15 deaths, Hurricane Katrina, and again, that can't be blamed on the hurricane as much as it was the flooding because of the levees. But you had a lot of people die, more than 1,800 people died, not just in Louisiana but also in Mississippi. And then, of course, you had Hurricane Sandy, which went right up the eastern seaboard into New York City. And I happen to be working in New York City.

Seventy-five people died.

So you're looking at, I mean, when you look again at hurricanes and hurricane prep, I would say that we've done a pretty darn good job based on the massive numbers of deaths that they had in years past and centuries past. I've got to play this audio for you. Nancy Pelosi this woman is slap crazy they say she doesn't drink alcohol and I don't know if that's true or not so if that's the case if in fact she's a teetotaler and she was sober when she said this we've got big problems America here's Pelosi talking about picking cotton down south the fact is is that we have a responsibility to secure our border we also have a responsibility to recognize the importance of newcomers to our nation. Right now, the best thing that we can do for our economy is to have comprehensive immigration reform. We have a shortage of workers in our country, and you see even in Florida, some of the farmers and the growers saying, why are you shipping these immigrants up north?

We need them to pick the crops down here. But that doesn't mean that we don't recognize our moral responsibility as well. When the president, the former, well, okay. All right. Wow.

So is Pelosi advocating for slavery here? Is that what she's doing, that we don't want them up north? We need to ship them down south so they can pick the crops. a couple why thank you thank you plantation owner Pelosi, Ms. Pelosi, Ms.

Nancy why thank you she's kind of like the Scarlett O'Hara of the North that one Nancy Pelosi also says that we don't have enough workers you people, you Americans, you lazy Americans you don't want to work, is that true? I mean, I know it's hard to find people that want to work, but are we at a point now where we have to bring in the slave labor and we have to move them from up north? You know what it is? Pelosi doesn't want. What did we talk about earlier in the program?

And people are horrified when I say this, but it's true.

So the rich white liberals don't want to have anything to do with black or brown people. I'm just telling you. And you just heard Nancy Pelosi explain why.

Well, we can't have them at Martha's Vineyard, I say, I say. We have to have those folks down south in Dixie. They got to pick the okra. They got to pick the collard greens, I say, I say. Maybe she's eating bourbon ice cream, Grace Baker.

Maybe that's it. Honestly, that makes sense. But she is, I think, just that crazy. I think she's sober. I need a mint julep.

I need, Jose, get me a mint julep. Oh, my word. Right? It's terrible.

I'm telling you.

I need a Shirley Temple right now.

Well, you know, the problem here, Grace, is they don't hide their racism. It's just right out there for everybody to see. That's why I don't understand why people don't, like, see it just in general. They're really good at, like, tricking people. They don't want to see it.

They don't want to see it. That's fair. All right. We've got to take a break here. Open line Friday.

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all right let's get to the phones here on open line friday whatever you want to talk about 844-747-8868 greg salem oregon kykn our great station out there hey greg what's up hey todd anyway uh anyway i saw you at the barbecue when you're out here and i got to have my picture taken with you and got your book that was great but anyway uh what i want to say was we have the same issues that we're facing today. We had the same issues 50 years ago, and crime in the streets, crooked politicians, failing justice system, and Clint Eastwood tapped into the public sentiment with the popularity of the Dirty Harry film series. And they're just as relevant today as they were 50 years ago. And I think that if somebody had the guts to make a movie like that today, it would be really, really popular because we're all hungering for it. And with the popularity of the new Top Gun movie, and that's exactly my point.

That was an old movie, but they basically stayed true to the spirit of the story. And look how popular it is. And the same thing would happen with the Dirty Harry movies because people are sick of it. And all the things that were going on then are going on now. Worse now.

But anyway, I've been thinking about that for a long time. You know, Greg, it's that opening scene of the first Dirty Harry movie. It's just incredible. That big shootout. And you're right.

I think people really respond to that kind of stuff. Tough law and order guy. And that really established Clint Eastwood as a really worldwide superstar. Yeah, I mean, every time you watch those movies, it makes you feel good. And you wish, like, well, why can't we have a little bit more of that going on now?

But it was the same thing. I mean, the crooked politicians and then the corruption within the departments of these institutions. And then he's being labeled as a bad guy even within the police department because he's enforcing law and order. And it shows the gutless administrators, the gutless politicians, the worthless judges. and anyway it was great greg no you're you're but you're right i mean when you when you look back at and back in the 1970s when there were some fierce culture war battles going on and and the only reason ronald reagan got elected is because of of christians organizing to vote you might remember Jerry Falwell Sr.

and Pat Robertson, Jerry had the moral majority, and they mobilized Christian voters all over America, and that was the first, the very first time that you had evangelical Christians making an impact in a presidential election. That's the reason why Ronald Reagan got elected. That's exactly right, and so like if you look at Trump, and if you look at Ron DeSantis, or another great leader, Patton. Patton is a great movie. He was a great leader.

And that's what we all want. We want somebody that is going to stand up. They're going to tell it straight. They're going to get the job done. You know, when you hire a rat exterminator to come and get the rats out of your house, do you really care about how he talks, how he looks, or how he dresses?

Or do you want to get the job done? And that's what we all want. And that's what Clint Eastwood was at Dirty Harry. He just gets the job done. Greg, appreciate the call.

Have a great weekend, and we appreciate all of our friends out there in Oregon. And this is why I'm very concerned about our churches nowadays being marginalized, because when that happens, and there's a lot of Soros money that's flooding into a lot of church houses across America, and they're basically convincing these ministers that they should not be engaged in politics, that there's something wrong with them if they engage in the political process. And it's a lie. It's a lie from the pit of hell, ladies and gentlemen. Going back to the 1970s, the only reason we have Ronald Reagan is because Christians got engaged in the political process.

And when that happened, one of the greatest presidents of all time was elected. I think, again, if Christians want to change the direction of this nation, they have the power. They have the ability. Here's the problem. They've just allowed themselves to be neutralized.

So you've got to get back engaged in the process. And if you belong to one of those churches where you've got a preacher who's saying, yeah, you know, Christians shouldn't be involved in politics. You need to find another church or another preacher. All right, got to take a break here. It's open line Fridays.

That means whatever you want to talk about. We will take your call today. 844-747-8868. That's 844-747-8868.

Hour three coming up, ladies and gentlemen. Live from the Liberty University studio in Memphis, Tennessee, it's America's favorite gun-toting, Bible-clinging, deplorable American. That's us. That's right. I love this American.

Todd Starnes. All right. Hello, everybody. Welcome to Hour 3 of The Big Show. Good to have you with us today.

All you folks down there in Florida, we're certainly thinking about you, and they are still trying to get into some of those areas. I mean, just entire towns just wiped away. It's just a horrible situation now. There are millions of people without power.

So many folks, if they are listening to the radio doing so, in their cars or on a transistor radio.

Now we understand that flooding is already underway in Charleston, South Carolina, and it could be impacting even our friends at Liberty University and our beautiful studios there.

So folks, just pay very close attention. Listen to your radio. Have some AA batteries handy just in case you need them, and we're going to get through this.

So just be very, very careful out there. It is Open Line Friday. You say, what does that mean? It means you can call in and you can talk about whatever you want to talk about. And we're going to get to your calls momentarily, 844-747-8868.

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There is an interesting event coming up. We've talked a lot about our schools and how important it is to get faith back into our school classrooms. And Focus on the Family is doing something about that. They are sponsoring a big event. called Bring Your Bible to School Day.

Danny Huerta is the Vice President for Parenting and Youth at Focus on the Family, and he is on the Patriot Mobile Newsmaker Line. Danny, good to have you with us today. Hey, thanks for having me on the show, Todd. Appreciate it, man. All right.

Well, tell us all about Bring Your Bible to School Day. Yeah, it's an exciting day. It started several years back, and it's the first Thursday in October every year. This year's October 6th. And basically, it's a day for kids to be able to live out their faith in one very particular way, and that is to stand up and say, hey, I believe in God's Word, and share with others by bringing their Bible to school, putting it on their desk, showing others that maybe they organize a Bible study time or a prayer time, and they bring their Bibles that day intentionally to school wherever they're at, homeschool, Christian school, private school, public school, and parents, I encourage you to do the same.

Take your Bible to work. And then just really the idea is to engage with God's Word, but also to open up conversations, intentional conversations with people around you. And it's a student-led movement where you're not being disruptive in school, rather you're being life-giving. You're bringing hope to a world that right now needs a message of hope. And really, you're practicing your religious liberties by taking it.

You can, through the First and Second Amendments, do this. And as long as you're not being disruptive and it's student-led, you can bring your Bible and organize a participation with your friends in reading their Bible together. My daughter and my son, both teenagers, have done this throughout the years and have enjoyed gathering their friends before school and then at lunchtime, reading their favorite scriptures together, and then encouraging one another in their faith and praying for one another during that time and inviting other students into that conversation.

So Danny, I'm sure a lot of parents are wondering, is it legal? Can kids bring a Bible into a public school classroom? They can. They can, indeed. Anywhere in the United States, You can bring your Bible to school, into the classroom, and the caveat is as long as you're not being disruptive to what is happening in the classroom, and that is you're standing up in the middle of class and reading a verse when it's not related to anything that's happening there.

You can bring your Bible. You can set it on your desk. I remember a young man that started this, I believe his junior year in high school, and participated in Bring Your Bible to school that year, put it on his desk, and then continued to do it every day all the way into college, and has continued to take his Bible every single day, practicing that freedom, and then also opening up the opportunity for people to ask him questions about his faith in Christ, and he shared some of those a while back. Last year, we had 590,000 households. That was a projected amount of people that participated in Bring Your Bible to School, and this year we have surpassed our numbers from last year and projecting close to 700,000.

We're hoping to have a million households participate and bring your Bible to school.

Well, that's tremendous, and it needs to be a lot more than that. I think this is a terrific idea. I'm curious, so what is the point of it? You bring your Bible to school, you've got it there on the desk. What does that do?

Really, in my mind, it provides an invitation. You're coming in and you're inviting people into something that you believe is true and can be life-giving. You're bringing an invitation. You're letting other people know, I've been invited into something, into a relationship with Christ, and I want to invite you into that as well. And then it creates a momentum of conversation with others around you.

It also reminds you of how you're living out your faith throughout the other day, that you're there. It's not just about bringing the Bible, but it's a reminder to you that you are representative of those beliefs. And in that, we hope that people sign up for Live It Challenges. And we've had over 2,000 registrants every month come on, new registrants come on to the Live It Challenges. And Bring Your Bible to School Day is one of those challenges.

But then we have a monthly challenge for families and students to take on and encourage one another through social media to live out your faith.

Now that you've proclaimed and you say, hey, I believe in Jesus Christ, now you get to show that through life-giving activities, like encouraging words and doing things that are challenges, life-giving challenges that you get to participate in all year long. And so that's an exciting way to have a starting point for many different things. Maybe it's a Bible study in your school. Maybe it's a prayer group that you start. But we count October 6th as a great day to stand and to begin a momentum, and you're inviting people into something that you believe is amazingly life-giving.

All right. Well, Danny, we're going to leave it there. Great project, great idea. Folks, you can go to our website, toddstarns.com. We've got the link to Focus on the Family, or you can go to focusonthefamily.com.

and sign up there. And, Danny, thank you again for your time. Yeah, and Todd, I just want to share, if somebody has issues with being able to bring their Bible to school, make sure you go to bringyourbible.org. We have information on all the freedoms you have, all the legal rights that you've got, in case you need some details on that. We also have a line, 1-800-TELL-ADF, and on that you can speak with a lawyer about how you can just protect those rights as you're walking in.

It's a great day to have a reminder of the freedoms that we get to enjoy here in America. Thank you so much, Todd. All right, Danny, appreciate that. And again, folks, we are supporting Alliance Defending Freedom on this program all this coming month, October. We officially start.

We want to get a head start and start raising money for our Radiothon. Our goal is $50,000. That's how much we want to raise to help Alliance Defending Freedom fight these cases. Heaven forbid you've got a child that shows up at school with a Bible, and they're told they cannot bring that Bible onto school property.

Well Alliance Defending Freedom is going to be there to defend that child and that child family And the only way they can do that is with our help And your tax gift is going to go a long way You can, again, give to the cause at toddstearns.com. When you get to our website, you will see the banner, the Alliance Defending Freedom banner. Click on that, and it'll take you to the donation page. And by the way, folks, every donation you make is automatically doubled thanks to a generous Alliance Defending Freedom supporter. All right, here's the deal.

Open line Friday. We're going to go right to the phones. We've got to take a break first. 844-747-8868. Whatever you want to talk about.

It's Friday. We're kind of letting our hair down a little bit. Grace Baker may be even doing some dancing. You never know what's going to happen.

Okay, maybe not dancing. But you never know what's going to happen here. All right, 844-747-8868. We'll be right back, America. All right, folks, welcome back to the Todd Starnes Radio Show.

Just got an email from our good friend Martha Zoller. She is a terrific radio host there in Georgia, WDUN, her flagship station, asking us to pass along some information here. This is about Pine Island down in Florida, and this is the message she received. As homeowners on Pine Island, we've been in contact with full-time residents who chose to remain in their homes during the storm. These people are desperate for help as this island is being overlooked with all the attention being focused on Sanibel and Captiva Islands.

Pine Island is the largest of Florida's barrier islands, one of the last authentic fishing villages, the site of a former Calusa Indian village, and home to many elderly retirees as well as hundreds of seasonal residents. We're getting word all power is out on the entire island. There is no water. The island is inaccessible by road. One of the bridges and about 1,000 feet of roadway washed away.

The island is accessible only by boat or helicopter. according to people still on the island, there have been no visible signs of any police presence. Martial law has reportedly been enacted on the island, and neighbors have been hearing gunfire at night, and looters are coming in by boat. People who sheltered in place are running out of water, hygiene products, and first aid supplies, and they're desperate for help, and so they're trying to get the word out.

So we will pass along. Grace, let's pass along that information to our contacts over at the governor's office, Ron DeSantis. Let's reach out to his comms people, and we will try to get that information to them. Pine Island.

So if you guys have any intel on that, give us a call, and we will pass that information along to our contacts over at the Florida governor's office. Terrible situation down there. And I suspect it's going to get worse. All right, let's go to the phones here. Let's talk to Martin, listening to us on the Nevada Talk Network.

Hi, Martin, what's on your mind?

Well, Todd, as I was telling Grace, I'm a Catholic, and I was telling her also that while I was in school in San Jose, the nuns used to come to teach Catholics the catechism.

Well, that's fine, up to a point then it ended rather suddenly in 19, I guess it was 1945 or something like that. I was just a child. And I remember that distinctly. The nun, she was a very beautiful woman. But she taught us catechism.

The nun was beautiful? Is that? No, I'm serious. Oh, okay. No, I believe you.

I'll never forget that. And my first contact with the beautiful woman, I guess it was. Oh, jeez. But the funny part, it wasn't funny. Later, it was disbanded, and I couldn't understand why.

But the public school system was already turning against the churches, I believe, in the 40s. And then this guy comes on the radio just a minute ago talking about soliciting for the lawyers that he represents. Bring your Bible to school day. Exactly, and that's ridiculous. Why is it ridiculous?

Now, hold on. The public school system was never designed for religion in the first place. Like I was telling Grace, it was reading, writing, and arithmetic, and get the hell out. And that's all it was ever designed for. It was for education, not religious education, but, you know, your normal ABCs.

And what he's saying is that, you know, bring the Bible. that's fine if he was in a voucher school or a Catholic school or a Methodist college where I went to in Pennsylvania. You do not bring the Bible to a school that's teaching you the ABCs. You just don't. It didn't make any sense to me.

Why not? Todd, I've heard it before. This is an old story. I'm just asking a question. Why?

No, no. Why not? It interferes with the curriculum that's going on, for God's sake. You know, you bring a Bible, and all of a sudden the kids are saying, why is he bringing the Bible? They're not Catholic.

They're not Protestant. They're not anything sometimes. They're just LBJ something or other. And, you know, so you don't know what the situation is in the school in the first place.

So he's actually putting the kids on us in a spot by bringing the Bible in a school that doesn't even recognize religion, for that matter. That's the public school system in general. That's why.

Now, Martin, I want to offer this to you, and I do this in the spirit of just I'm writing a new book, and I'm writing about this issue in my new book. And the reality is that our public schools were actually meant to be religious in nature. And this goes all the way back to the founding, the early colonial days of America, before we were the United States. Every single school was religious. They read from the Bible.

They prayed. Even the state-funded public schools in the early days of Massachusetts, they had devotions. They had Bible readings. They had prayers. When you look at Harvard and Yale, which were not public, those were private institutions.

But the whole reason they created Harvard and Yale was to literally train up ministers of the gospel.

So, Martin, I think an argument could be made that the problem is we have strayed away from the original intent of the Founding Fathers when it came to education. Todd, I hate to tell you, it's never going to go back. They're on a roll, and they're going to stay on a roll. And once you put a kid in the school with a Bible that everybody else, in effect, is ignoring, you're putting that kid on the spot. I would never do that.

If I was to tell anybody, I'd say, go to a voucher school, go to the Methodist College in Pennsylvania, go anywhere where there's a biblical connection.

Well, here's my take on it, Martin. I appreciate, look, I completely disagree with your assessment here, but I will say this. If they're going to let the kids wave the little rainbow flags, then by golly, they're going to let those kids walk into that school with a Bible. That's what I say. Martin, got to run.

Appreciate the call. 844-747-8868. Let's go to Pastor Bob in North Carolina. Pastor Bob, are you down at the Home Depot getting yourself some duct tape? And are you got everything hunkered down?

Well, I have that and gasoline for the generator. Nancy and I got super prepared for this one, expecting it to be pretty bad. But it looks like it's going to miss Carteret County and not cause much damage. Two things. One, your guy about the Bibles, I graduated from high school in 1960, and we had a Bible club in our school, and nobody picked on the guy that was the president because he was the captain of the heavyweight wrestling team.

And so that worked out good. And they can call you a Bible thumper all they want, but the day they need prayer, they're coming over and asking you to pray for their mom, dad, brother. sister whatever the other thing i wanted to say is you had an earlier guest talking about clint eastwood i think the funniest thing i ever saw him do was at the mit romney convention when he spoke to that chair thinking that that chair was obama and and he just went on and on and on. He says, I can't tell him that. But sad to say, I think we have a whole bunch of politicians today that are not smarter than that chair.

Well, that's about right. Empty chairs, empty suits. And Pastor Bob, I was actually there for that speech. I was working at Fox News Channel at the time, and I remember that moment. And it was really one of those great Clint Eastwood moments.

I hate to do this, Pastor. We've got to take a break here. God bless you, though. Glad you guys are safe there in the Moorhead City, North Carolina area. Certainly not the case in other parts of the Carolinas, especially South Carolina.

844-747-8868. Open line Friday. Martin says, keep the Bibles, keep the religion out of schools. What say you, America? We'll be right back.

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Savings off regular sale and clearance prices. Exclusions apply. Everything you say is gonna happen Even though I haven't seen it yet I will build a boat in the sand Where they say it never rains I will stand up in faith I'll do anything it takes With you in my sails Your love never fails or fades I'll build a boat in the desert place And when the flood and the water starts to rise Yeah, I'll ride the storm Cause I got you by my side All right, that's the latest hit single from our good friend Colton Dixon. Grace Baker, I know you're a big Colton Dixon fan. Yeah, man.

American Idol alum right there. Back in the day. Back in the day when the show was good. Him and Danny Gokey.

Well, yeah. I'm a Colton Dixon fan, though. I mean, Danny Gokey's good, but...

Well, Colton's got the hair. The great hairdo. Oh, geez. All right. Colton Dixon's on the Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line.

That's been a long time ago, though. Colton, hope you're doing good. Man, I'm doing so good. Thanks for having me. That is hilarious.

I'm going to tell Danny you said that. No, no, no.

Well, Grace was talking about your hair, which is, you've got great hair. I mean, let's be honest. You know, it is the thing.

Well, thank you.

So, look, this interview has already gone off the rails. I don't know what's happened here. Colton, this is a great song, and now there is a music video that has been premiered by People.com. We have a link to it on our website. But I want you to tell us this.

There's an incredible story behind this video, and I want you to tell our listeners about it. Yeah. Man, thank you so much, first of all, for playing the song. But we got to partner with an amazing organization called Mercy Ships. And for those who don't know, Mercy Ships literally build ships and convert them into hospitals and take them to third world countries so that men, women, and children who don't have access to health care or everyday surgeries like we do get the health care that they need.

And this music video got to tell the story of actually a couple twins, twin boys. I'm not going to try to say their names because I would butcher it. But they're just the sweetest little kids who had bowed legs. And what you might not realize is when you have a deformity in a civilization like that, you're kind of shunned and you're not allowed to do everyday activities.

So the fact that Mercy Ships came in and straightened their legs, it really gave them a shot at a normal life in their community.

So it's really cool what they do. Honored to be a part of that. And yeah, I had a lot of fun doing that music video.

So what does it take to go in and hear the story and then put a song together? Take us through that process. Yeah, honestly, the song was inspired by the story of Noah. Probably just take a genius to figure that out. But, man, I was so encouraged by the story because I feel like Hollywood has portrayed it a certain way for so many years of this big struggle between God and Noah.

And, you know, Noah saying, you've got the wrong guy, don't want to do it. you know, not right now, whatever. But the Bible says that God asked Noah to build an ark and gave him all these details of how he should build it. And then it said Noah did exactly as God commanded him to do, that Noah was obedient. And I just thought that was so simple and beautiful and challenged me in my own life to rise to the occasion.

When God asks you to step out into something crazy, I think that we would be a fool to not trust God with our future, because his plans are to prosper us, not to harm us, to give us hope and a future.

So that's what this song is all about, about stepping out in faith, and faith is what precedes a miracle.

So I encourage you to do it. And of course, you know something about that, the miracle part of that. I mean, you and your wife, you have twins, and there was a pretty big health scare for you guys back in 2020. Yeah, there was. Our first one out of the womb was little Ava Dior, and she had started the birthing process already.

We had to switch to C-section last minute, and she wasn't breathing, didn't have a pulse, really scary. But we had a choice to make as believers. Do we choose faith or fear? And I'm so thankful that my wife and I are on the same page. We chose to have faith in kind of a grim situation.

But we were literally speaking my daughter's name over her. Her name, Ava means to live.

So we were speaking her name over her and just believing that God was still a God of miracles. You know, I've seen him come through time and time again, so I believed he was going to do it again.

So whether he reached down and touched little Dior firsthand or he worked through the doctors and nurses, we have two happy, healthy little girls who just turned two years old about a month ago. Wow.

Time just flies, doesn't it? Flies, doesn't it? Man, And we're told that all the time, but we're seeing it happen firsthand. It's wild how fast it goes.

So are you thinking, you know, again, you don't talk about global nomination in Christian music, but like, you know, the Dixon family singers? Man, that would be so much fun one day. I think the first step is to get them out on the road with me at some capacity. My wife used to travel with me full-time before kids and twins. And, man, that would be a lot on the road currently.

So we're taking our time figuring that out. But, yeah, they both love to sing, all three, my wife included. They love to sing.

So that would be really fun one day.

Well, Colton, I just think this is a great project, and it's really helping bring attention to an incredible charity that's doing just amazing work out there. And, of course, Mercy Ships, they've been around since, what, 1978? and they've got, I think, their newest ship, Global Mercy, they can actually fit up to 200 patients on that thing.

So they're doing some incredible work out there. Man, I agree. It's an organization I've heard of long before the song ever came out. And, of course, with the song coming out, it was just a perfect fit. I'm so honored that they would partner with us in what we're doing as well and got to sit down with actually one of the engineers to design the Global Mercy.

And sobering conversation, amazing to hear the heart behind what they do, and really great organization. You should definitely check them out. And we have links to everybody and everything over on our live show blog, ladies and gentlemen.

So if you want to check out Colton's new music video, you can do that. Also, if you'd like to get information on Mercy Ships, you can find that information as well. And I thought it would be great as we head out to break here. we'll let folks listen to this incredible song build a boat so colton hope you have a great weekend good hearing from you and you got to make it down to memphis one of these days man we'd love to last time i was there we hit up graceland so uh next time we'll have to visit the station that'd be a lot of fun and we're right down the street from central barbecue so we'll get you some ribs too oh yeah sounds good all right colton dixon ladies and gentlemen colton And thank you. This is Build a Boat on the Todd Stearns Radio Show.

I will stand up in faith. I'll do anything it takes. With you in my sails. Your love never fails or fades. I'll build a boat in a desert place.

And when the flood and the water starts to rise. Yeah, I'll ride the storm because I got you by my side. With you in my sails. Your love never fails or fades. I'll build a boat, so let it rain.

You're the map, you're my compass You help me navigate the currents under me Take the lead, I surrender Everything you say is gonna come true You will lead me to the promised land Everything you say is gonna happen Even though I haven't seen it yet I will build a boat in the sand Where they say it never rains I will stand up in faith I'll do anything it takes With your wind in my sails Your love never fails and fades I'll build a boat in the desert place And when the flood and the water starts to rise Yeah, I'll ride the storm Cause I got you by my side With your wind in my sails Your love never fails and fades I'll build a boat, so let it rain all right welcome back to the todd starns radio show let's go to the phones folks wanting to talk to america and by the way it's open line friday so we've got a few moments if you want to jump in and you can talk about whatever you want to talk about 844-747-8868 amanda in tennessee what's on your mind amanda hey i just wanted to address what martin had to say um as christians we're supposed to take our our bibles with us and those are our swords those are our weapons against people and that's what's wrong with this country now is you know christians haven't stood up for our beliefs. And whether we're in a public school or a private school or in a secular job or where we're supposed to stand up for our job, you know, our beliefs as Christians and, you know, taking that out. And that's a way to witness also to those people.

So that was just my two cents. Amanda, look, I hear you. And I do believe that kids, teachers should be allowed to carry their Bibles, have a Bible on their desk. If they want to have a quiet time during a free moment or whatever, I think teachers should be provided that opportunity. I remember years ago in Florida where some teachers were actually threatened with jail because they were caught reading their Bible in, of all places, a closet because they weren't allowed to actually read it and public in view of the children.

And that flies in the face of what public education was meant to be in this country, and I shared that with Martin. And I don't think he – you know, I see where Martin is going with all of this, but I think the reason why public education is so screwed up now is because we took God, we took morality out of public schools, out of the education process, and that's not what our founding fathers meant that to be. We did. We did. And can I add one other thing?

Sure. Comet changers or comet tree huggers. If you're out there and you believe in God, God did not create man to be able to destroy the world. We're not that powerful. He created it and only God can destroy it.

You know, that is very true, Amanda. And I remember a certain congressman from Georgia who was very concerned about putting more military personnel on the island of Guam. Hank Johnson's the guy's name. He's still up there on Capitol Hill. He's from Georgia.

And he actually was concerned that having more soldiers on Guam would tip the island over. You can't make this stuff up. God help us. exactly all right amanda appreciate the call thanks for listening to us uh 844-747-8868 that's our toll-free telephone number that's 844-747-8868 want to share this information from the new york post uh miranda divine and she's been on this program a number of times The headline, 30 ex-FBI agents stand up to support whistleblower who exposed agencies' political bias.

So you've got all these FBI agents, including a number of retired agents, and they are defending Stephen Friend. Stephen Friend was suspended, labeled a whistleblower by the FBI. Ernie Tobaldi, a retired agent from San Francisco, says it's time to stop the FBI from being the enforcer of a political party's ideology. I mean, this guy's from San Francisco when he's saying this. We need to reestablish the FBI as the apolitical and independent law enforcement entity that it has always been.

Many former agents hailed Friend, who is a SWAT team member in Florida, as a hero after he was punished for refusing to participate in what he regarded as unnecessarily heavy-handed SWAT raids over J-6. In his complaint to the Department of Justice Inspector General, Friend alleged the FBI has been manipulating case file management in order to falsely inflate the threat of domestic terrorism. He also is accusing the FBI of using unconstitutional excessive force against political dissenters. dissenters.

So in other words, he's confirming what we have long suspected, that a lot of these cases are fairly innocuous, but the FBI is going in there and they're making it seem like there is more to the story when in fact there's not. Got to pay attention to this stuff, folks. By the way, patriotmobile.com slash Todd, That's patriotmobile.com slash Todd. A lot of you have been wondering, okay, what can we do about our phone service? We're tired of all of our money funding these leftist causes.

Well, that's why I made the switch to patriotmobile.com slash Todd, because Patriot Mobile is America's only conservative Christian wireless carrier, and they're out there doing something to support our values, to support the organizations we care about. And they've got a long list of organizations that they provide funding for. By the way, Alliance Defending Freedom, one of them.

So if you switch to Patriot Mobile right now, you're going to use my promo code, and they're going to give you free premier activation and a free gift. If you're a veteran or first responder, they're going to give you an additional discount. All you have to do is go to patriotmobile.com slash Todd, and they're going to get you hooked up right away. Oh, I cannot believe this to be true. We've got to go back to the lines.

Our good buddy from the great state of Maine, Ray Richardson from WLOB, the Big Lobster. And, Ray, you are the Big Lobster. How's it going? It is true, although I'm less big, Todd. I've dropped 54 so far, so I'm less big.

Wow.

So you're like a shrimp now. You're not a lobster. You're like a shrimp. No, no, no.

I wouldn't go that far. I'm still a lobster, buddy. I'm still a lobster.

so i just i heard you guys talking about you know bibles in the schools and whatever and i just thought to myself now i'm old i graduated in 1980 from leesburg florida high school great great school had a wonderful experience and you'll never guess what part of our graduation gift from the school was todd um it wasn't a lobster hold on um it was in florida we we have crayfish down there. Oh, yeah.

Okay. Wow.

An orange? I don't know. No, no, no, no, no. You'll be shocked, Todd, and so will everyone else. And guess what?

Let me just set it up. No mass murderers out of our school. Can you believe it?

So the school gave us, as part of our graduating gift, they gave us the New Testament plus Proverbs and Psalms, and it was engraved with our name and the date of our graduation on it. That came from the school. Is that right? Was this a public school? Absolutely.

I went to Leesburg High School. Wow.

Same place my daddy played. My daddy played football there 20 years before. Absolutely. Ray, I can only imagine what would happen if a school did that today in America.

Well, you know, it's really interesting. We traded the Bible for a book called Gender Queer in Maine, and Monday night in Bonnie Eagle High School in Stanish, Maine, we're going to have a showdown over this. This is the most explicit book you've ever seen, and they have it available to sixth-graders, Todd.

So we traded the Bible for genderqueer. That's the name of the book. I would not believe the graphic nature of it. Oh, Ray, trust me, I can. You know what?

We ought to do, Grace. Let's get Ray back on the show Monday, and maybe we can spend some time talking about this and let people know, and they can show up and help fight back. It's insane. But sadly, you're right. They have replaced the Bible with a lot of pornography in many American public schools, and that's just not right.

Ray, you know how this business goes. We're up against the end of the show, my friend. I just had to call you. I mean, you know, you were talking about it. I just had to call.

I love you, Todd. Maine loves you. More importantly, we love Grace Baker, though.

Well, it's always about Grace. What can I say? She's amazing. How could it not be? How could it not be?

There you go. Verily, verily. Ray Richardson, ladies and gentlemen, that is going to wrap up today's show and our broadcast week. We're going to do this all over again on Monday. In the meantime, head over to ToddStearns.com.

Get those donations in to Alliance Defending Freedom. I want to thank Grace, Dylan filling in for Kyle. Folks, you have a great Friday. And whatever you do, be sure to go to church this weekend, America. ...

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