Todd Starnes Explains How Conservative Media Has Failed Herschel Walker

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So I had a chance to think about this Herschel Walker situation, and it's really getting ugly out there. And I have a theory. I'm walking back. My approach to this story is, and I want to explain why. But first, I want to play some audio because I have to explain.

I think the bigger problem here is that the conservative media don't know the right questions to ask Herschel Walker. And if they did, this would be a non-controversy.

Now, just to give you some background here. Herschel Walker's son's coming out, and that kid's unhinged. I'm sorry. He's just unhinged. And you can see it in his voice.

It is what it is. And a father's not going to go out there and attack his son. It's just not going to happen.

So we have to really discount. those those conversations The allegations that were made. What about those?

Well, Brian Kilbede on Fox and Friends really confronted Herschel about this. And I want to play this, and then I'm going to explain the right questions the media should have asked. And before you start screaming or yelling, hear me out. I am still a Herschel Walker supporter, and I'm going to explain why. But it's not because he's a Republican.

And there are some of you out there that say, and we're going to play some of this audio as well. There are literally people out there saying, I really don't care if a person is pro-abortion, pro-Second Amendment. I don't care if they're pro-critical race theory. I don't care if they're pro-open borders. As long as there's an R behind their name, we're putting them in office.

Well, you know what? That kind of mentality got you, John McCain and Mitt Romney and Liz Cheney. That kind of mentality means that you place power. Over principle. I got a problem with that, but that's not what we're talking about here.

We're talking about a human being named Herschel Walker.

Now, Brian Kilmead and Herschel Walker this morning, Fox and Friends, cut number six, please.

So, Herschel, you're saying that you weren't the perfect dad or the perfect spouse, but you've been redeemed. Is that what you're saying? Oh, that's exactly what I'm saying. No one is perfect. You know, I even said at a meeting: I'm a sinner.

We all sin before the glory of God. But every day I get up in the morning, I pray to God that let me do his will. And that's the reason I'm in this rage right now. When I see people getting hurt on the street, the crime that's going on right now, the crime is going on because of Senator Walnot and Joe Biden. I see the crime going on that seems like nobody wants to hold anyone accountable for.

I said, not on my watch. I see the way this economy is. And they're saying, but not in, it's okay.

Well, it's not. This is a new normal.

Well, it's not. And I want people out there to know it's not a new normal. And if I told them, if I had to fight alone, I'm willing to fight. I love America. I will fight for America.

I'll fight for Georgia. And that's the reason I got into this race. You had 250 people packed church last night in support of you, and you've already raised over $500,000 since Sean Hanner's interview last night. And so you still have, it seems like your backing is still there.

So they go on, and his backing is there. He's raising a lot of money. He went on to address this issue with his son, cut number seven. Here's what your son surprised a lot of us because he's tweeted positive things for you. He's an influencer, a conservative.

And this is what he came out and said after this revelation and your appearance with Sean. Listen. My intention is, don't lie about your life at the expense of me, my mom, and all of the people that you've affected throughout your life. You don't get to pretend you're some moral family guy. You don't get to pretend all these things.

Talk policy, talk normal. Do not lie.

So he saw that and says, You're lying, Herschel. What do you say about your son? Is he telling the truth?

Well, I love my son unconditionally, and that's where I've always been. I always love him unconditionally. You know, he graduated college a couple of months ago. He's now a young man doing his own thing, but his father is always there for him, always will be for any of my kids. And I love him.

I always support them, and I always have supported them, and I always will, and I love them unconditionally. But he's doing tremendous damage to you by coming out with those statements. Do you know why he's saying this?

Well, the damage he's doing is letting people know that the left will do whatever they can to win this seat. And I told you when I got in this race, I'm going to win this seat. People see someone sitting here in front of you right now that's been redeemed. And I want America to know I'm living proof that you can make mistakes and get up and keep going forward, but you can only do it in this country right here. And you can only do it if we get this election correct this come November.

Because we vote for the people on the left, like the guy running against Senator Warnott, you're not going to have a chance to be redeemed. He's a minister, and he don't believe in redemption. Right now, they're trying to destroy America. They're trying to destroy Georgia, and I'm not going to let them happen. It ain't going to happen on my watch.

All right, so there's a lot of people doing some really bad stuff here, and it's not Herschel Walker.

So, first of all, the conservative media, I'm not surprised that Fox News doesn't know the right question to ask here. If I would have still been on staff, I would have told them this is how you handle this interview. The question is, and I got a text message from some Georgia folks, and they're saying, Todd, you need to understand this happened in 2009. It's what happened after. And that's the question they should have been asking, because then that would have resolved all of this controversy.

But there's also enough. All right, I'm just going to peel this onion apart real quick here, folks. Yeah. Understand that Herschel Walker had a conversion experience. He became a new man.

You heard him talking about redemption. Kilmead should have followed up that question with what do you mean by that?

So you were one way in 2009. And I don't know. Herschel Walker may have very well paid for the woman's abortion. I don't know. That's between Herschel and God and whoever that person is.

But the reality of it is this: if after that event, And these horrible things, and we've heard the stories, and he's actually admitted to a lot of this stuff: the bouts with anger, mental illness, the family stuff. He's admitted to all of this.

So if in fact All of this happened before 2009. In 2009, he has some sort of a religious conversion experience. Then, Herschel Walker is a new man. And if any of us who profess to be Christians, if any of us are out there condemning this man for his past behavior, that in and of itself is a sin. His old life has passed away, and I want to get into a sermon here on national radio.

But if in fact we do believe that God's grace is amazing and can save a wretch like me as we sing in the song, Amazing Grace, the song, not my call screener, an executive producer, who is amazing. But if we truly believe that, then we have to believe he is a new man. That is the question that should have been addressed. But they didn't know to ask that. Because we're dealing with people who don't understand those concepts in conservative talk radio.

So here's the deal: Herssel Walker is a new man. He is pro-life. My question is: okay, Herssel, what's your life been like since 2009? Yeah. Have you been able to turn a path away from all of that behavior?

And those things. And to our knowledge, the answer to that question is: yes, he has. There have been no allegations that I know of. Uh So I would say, shame on the conservative media. I think we have let Herschel Walker down.

Because we didn't ask the right questions. But I think the Georgia Republican Party also bears some blame here. There's a report from MediaIte and Politico that Georgia political operatives within the Republican Party knew about all of this stuff all along. They said they warned the campaign that this story could torpedo the campaign. And so what do they do about it, folks?

They didn't do anything. The campaign didn't think that it was going to be that much of a story, and maybe at the end of it all, it's not. But it is a distraction. Yeah. So the Georgia Republican Party had an obligation early on to address this and, if nothing else, come up with a game plan.

Is it true? Is it not true? How do we respond? How do we fight back? When the story, if and when the story does come out, we need to be there with a plan of attack.

And they got nothing. They got nothing.

So again, I I blame the Georgia Republican Party. Yeah. I blame the conservative media. Yeah. And then there's another issue altogether.

And it's this issue of Republicans Regardless of Of the politics. If you're as long as you're a Republican, that's all that matters. Power is the only thing that matters. Here's. Dana Lesh.

So does this change anything? I mean, do you want my opinion? Are you listening? Not a damn thing. How many times have I said four very important words?

These four words winning is Virtue. What I'm about to say Is in no means a contradiction or a compromise of a principle, And Please keep in mind that I am concerned about one thing and one thing only at this point.

So I don't care if Herschel Walker paid to abort endangered baby eagles. I want control of the Senate. If the Daily Beast story is true. You're telling me Walker used His money to reportedly Pay Check.

Some skank for an abortion, and Warnock wants to use all of our monies. to pay a whole bunch of skanks for abortions. And yes, when they're used predominantly over 99% of birth control and it's my taxpayer dollars, you have invited me up in your business and I will use whatever D script I would like to. Thank you.

Okay, all right. If that's, and I heard from so many of you yesterday, you said, Todd, it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. We got to have a Republican. We don't care if they're pro-abortion.

We don't care if they're pro-critical race theory. Todd, we don't care if that person wants to take away every gun we own. We don't care as long as they have and are after their name. That is the only thing that matters. May I say something, ladies and gentlemen, if that is true?

That makes us no better than the Democrats. 844-747-8868. I support. Herschel Walker, 844-747-8868. This is the Todd Starnes Show.

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So many people in Washington, up on Capitol Hill, listen to this program, and we hear from them all that it says. As a matter of fact, somebody just sent me information for Herschel Walker's campaign. I mean, the campaign manager. You got to talk to this guy. Hey, we're happy to do it.

And we're happy to give Herschel a platform on this program to ask those questions. And not only do I think it would be an informative conversation for the electorate, but I think it would be an inspirational message for all Americans. I want to go to the phones here, 844-747-8868. And I'm curious, especially you folks in Georgia, the attacks on Herschel Walker, have they emboldened you? Yeah.

Are you more resolved now to vote for Herschel Walker and get out and vote on Election Day than you were before the attacks happened? Let's go to Angie, listening to us on WDUN, our great radio station there. Hi, Angie, what's on your mind? Hi, Todd. How are you today, sweetheart?

I'm well. I'm livid. I if all these voter fraud things, if I could figure out a way to vote one hundred fifty times, I would vote for Herschel Walker. Here is my thing. I watch these commercials, these two second, thirty second commercials about Herschel Walker supporting and paying some woman to have an abortion, and they keep saying he's lied.

Well, let me ask the country something. Haven't the Democrats lied their whole way? And if he did pay for this woman's abortion, wouldn't the Democrats want them want Herschel to be on their side because they support killing children? That's a fair question to ask there, Angie, and they're being mighty silent. As a matter of fact, the Warnock campaign, and this is interesting, they're not taking the bait on this one.

They're not going after Herschel on this issue. And I think because ultimately, this is a matter of redemption. Yeah. But uh we watch the ads And it clearly states in two thousand nine You've got people on there in 2009. We watch it every five seconds.

Every five seconds these ads come on in the state of Georgia. And when you've got people of all races getting on there, well, he killed a baby in 2009 and paid for an abortion. We just don't think Herschel Walker is for Georgia. I'm livid. So those ads are playing in Georgia right now.

Yes, yes, you can get on the YouTube thing in the state of Georgia. I just watched one right before I called you. And there's a Caucasian woman on there saying that Herschel Walker lied and killed a baby. And we just don't think, vote for Warnock. We don't think he should support Georgia because he's lied about aborting this baby.

Wow. Look it up. I mean, it's on YouTube. I've totally watched it. Talk about racist.

Talk about racist. Exactly. Exactly. And I'm, you know. This isn't about Republican.

This is not about Democrat. This is not about liberals. This is not about this is about God and our American nation, and we are being laughed at. literally laugh at. Then I got on XS North Georgia, WDUN, the other day, and you need to maybe call them.

They put out an article that the early voters for November, their ballots have been lost. They can't find their balance.

Well, we're going to be all over the voter fraud stuff, Angie. I can promise you that. And we got to run. You can hear the music there. But I can promise you, we're not going to let him get away with stealing the election again.

Not going to happen again. I can promise you that. There will be people on the streets if that happens. 844-747-8868, protesting peacefully, of course. 844-747-8868.

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They're talking about a worst-case scenario where Latino voters are threatening to stay home. And one of the reasons why is the Democrat Party has done nothing for that demographic. Melissa Morales is president of a local Hispanic PAC. She says, it's what's keeping me up at night. What I'm looking at is do Latinos actually turn out to vote this year?

And the question is, if they turn out in big numbers, they will vote Democrat, but if they don't, it could give Republicans big wins. I would contend that a lot of Latino voters are looking at what's happening at that border. Yeah. They see that hundreds of thousands of illegals are just pouring into their neighborhoods and taking jobs away. filling the classrooms.

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844-747-8868. I want to go to Steve in central Arkansas. Wants to wait on this Herschel Walker story. All right, Steve, what's up? Hey, Todd.

Just doing a little speculating like everybody else is on this thing, but. Number one, on credibility, Herschel hasn't said anything so far that really has made me doubt his credibility. He's owned up to not being perfect. But on the other hand, your son all of a sudden does a one eighty flip Owned his dad. He's draw right for his dad, behind his dad, and then All of a sudden his dad's the devil incarnate.

Uh So on the credibility side, I'd have to lean toward Herschel. As far as the reason is why his son is doing this, I'm an Occam's razor guy. Hearcell just said the kids just graduated college and now he's a A man on his own. It may be as simple as the kid just got his allowance cut off. And he's stoning a little temper tent.

And that could be it, Steve. The other part here, this kid is 23 years old. He's a grown man, 23 years old. And I just don't believe he's a conservative. I think I hate to cast doubt on people like that, but I just doubt it.

I really do doubt that he's actually what he says he is politically. I'll bet a dollar to a donut, the kids never even had a job. He's just now stepping into the real world and it's It's a little spooky for me. That very well could be. A dollar to a donut, Steve, as you said.

I like that. All right, Steve. God bless. Appreciate the call. Let's go to Georgia again.

Judy on the line. W-D-U-N, our great affiliate there. Hey, Judy, what say you?

Well, I'm going to tell you, I was for Herschel to begin with. I'm more for him now because I highly respect him. for what he said about his son. He loves his son unconditionally. He's admitted what he's done.

And times we all have things and, you know, I I believe in redemption. I'm a Christian. I love them all. And I'm voting all Republicans because I'm a senior citizen. on a fixed income.

and I want to buy groceries and put gas in my car. And I say, God bless you, Herschel, and I hope it's a total Republican win. Judy, well said from Georgia, and I know Herschel is going to appreciate your support, and that's really what it's going to be about. Judy, thanks for the call. It's not about abortion.

This is not going to be the motivating factor to get people out on Election Day. All of the survey data coming out, it's the economy. And, folks, you better buckle up because gas prices are about to skyrocket again, already setting records in California. And that's only going to get one. Worse.

So you better pay attention here. We've got to stay focused. And again, the question, and we're working on getting Herschel on the program this week.

So we can have that conversation. Yeah. And it will clear up literally everything. I promise you, it'll clear everything up. But I don't think it really matters because people like Judy get it.

Judy from Georgia says, Todd, this is a man who clearly has made a new path and carved a new path in his life. He's going down that path, and I support this man. Judy said she's focused on whether or not she's going to be able to go to the grocery store, living on a fixed income. Those are important matters. To the American people.

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Are you worried? Are you preparing? In the event that nuclear bombs are dropped in America, Clearly, somebody in New York and New Jersey has signed off on all of this. eight four four seven four seven eighty eight sixty eight. Let's go to Susie in Georgia.

Now Susie, you were very unhappy with me yesterday. I want to start. That's Rushdott. And I've liked you a whole, whole lot, and I've called you before. It has always been positive.

But myself and a lot of other people in Jackson County, Georgia just turned you off yesterday. because of your comments about Herschel, And because We don't know that that woman's telling the truth, Todd. Any woman could make up anything about you and put it out there, and I don't know that it's true.

Somebody could have paid that woman to say that. And I didn't like what you said that if one if Herschel and Oz get the Senate that they might vote Democrat.

Well, we don't know that. Herschel could be one of the greatest senators we've ever had from Georgia. Could be. Let me ask you this, Susie. Did you ever ge who who was it that killed who was it that stopped Obamacare from being killed?

Who was that? Republican father. No, it was John McCain, a single Republican senator who we all thought was conservative. We thought he was one of us, and then he turned around and betrayed us.

So did Mitt Romney. What I'm saying here, Susie, is this is not about that. There are two issues, two separate issues. One of them is about Herschel Walker. And I don't care if he did pay for the woman's abortion.

We don't know what happened. But even if he did, for the sake of our argument here, Susie, let's say that he did. It doesn't matter if after that he had a. A meeting with God, and he became a Christian. It doesn't matter at that point because he is a new person.

So that it just doesn't matter.

So, whatever happened after all of that, Herschel has lived a very good, decent, honorable Christian life, as far as we all know. Yeah. But the other issue, Susie, the other issue is we have to make sure, we have to make sure that the conservatives that we are sending to Washington, D.C. live up to their promises on the campaign trail. We just have to because we've got a lot of John McCain's and Mitt Romneys and Liz Cheneys in the Republican Party right now.

Right. And I think that's our responsibility to call and keep after them and make sure they vote the way I want them to vote. But wouldn't you like to know that before they get to Washington, Susie? I would like to know that. But who else are we going to vote for?

If you were in Georgia, Todd. Who would you vote for for Senate?

Well, I'd vote for Herschel Walker.

Okay. And hope and pray that, and look, but again, Susie, that's not the issue. It's a mindset among Republicans. This is a mindset among Republicans. Are you picking people in your primaries that you know beyond a shadow of a doubt are truly conservative?

That's all. Yeah, but we can't go back now, Todd. No, you can't. But you know what, Susie? But there were people calling me from Georgia.

How dare you? They said, seriously, how dare you demand that Herschel Walker debate his fellow Republicans? Who do you think you are?

Well, you know what, Susie? I just believe in debates, and I believe that if the other candidates are going to debate, I think you ought to debate as well. That's all. So we could have resolved this, but nobody in Georgia really wanted to do that. And I get it.

I get it. Two issues, sir. I think he I think he should I think he should have debated too. Does that make you a bad person? Does that make you a.

No, of course not. You're a reasonable person. No, but I I I mean, it is Um In history in Georgia, we haven't got any choices. Warnock is a about communists. And he was a preacher.

He calls himself a preacher, and I hope people are listening to me because I am a born-again Christian, Todd. And no born-again Christian can Support abortion up to the time a baby is born. And that's what Warnock is doing. And I hope people they don't know that. How are they not listening about that?

Well, we've been preaching that on this radio program for a very long time, Susie. And again, these people out there saying that Herschel Walker is not a smart man, that's a load of great Ahooey right there. This is a very intelligent man. He may not be well spoken. George W.

Bush wasn't well spoken. And he led us through the terrorist attacks.

So just because someone is well spoken doesn't necessarily mean they're worth salt. I will say this: if you want to talk about stupid and ignorant, let's take a look at Congressman Hank Johnson. This is a man who thought an entire island would tip over if too many people were standing on it. You better believe it. Yes, you better believe it.

I don't like that word stupid, but that Fits that man. Oh, stupid and ignorant. And he's a moron on top of that.

So, anyway, all right. Yes, and they keep pushing him back up there, putting him back up there. They do. They sure do. All right, Susie, got a run.

Thank you for the call. And look, folks, I hope, if nothing else, you now know that you're not going to agree with everything, but you're also going to find out, and you found out this week that if I've had a change of heart on an issue, I'm going to be open and honest about it with you. And I think we've tried to do that. Have we done a good job of that, Grace Baker, today? Thank you, Grace.

I think so, Todd. I appreciate you. I wasn't looking for actual affirmation, but thank you for that. I'm here for that too. All right, look, we're going to jump into this whole craziness uh around Ukraine and Russia.

And now the concerns that there could be a nuclear war. And folks, we are in very dangerous waters right now. This is something we all need to be paying very close attention to. And I will say this, you do need to get yourself prepared. You do need to get yourself ready.

Because if, in fact, a bomb gets dropped on New York City or Chicago and you say, well, hey, I live in Alabama, You know what? It's still going to have an impact on you. This will, it will freak folks. This is, we're going all the way back to World War II stuff here. Yeah.

And it's going to be a very bad situation. That's why Donald Trump is saying: hey, look, send me, I will broker a peace deal. Joe Biden does not even, he doesn't even know what planet he's on, this guy. We've got to send Donald Trump. We've got to send Trump to broker some sort of a peace agreement.

And I'm telling you, Ukraine. Right now, Joe Biden and the Biden Crime Syndicate Are employees of Ukraine. That's what this is all about.

So we're going to get into that with Colonel Giamona a little bit later on. Plus, your calls 844-747-8868. Toll-free telephone number. That's 844-747-8868.

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So we have a lot of casseroles, news casseroles to share with you today. Before we get to that, I wanted to go to the phone. Charles has been on hold from WSIC in North Carolina. And we were sharing this information about New York and New Jersey posting these public service announcements, warning people to be prepared in the event of nuclear war. Charles, good to have you with us today.

What concerns you, sir?

Well, Todd, I think that based on recent events, over the last six months that The policies of the Biden administration are leading us ever so closely to nuclear war. Yeah. You know, you've heard about the Ides of March, right?

Well, don't forget about the Ides of October. It's kind of coincidentally. that it was sixty years ago, Todd, this month, april nineteen sixty two. where President Kennedy played nuclear poker with Nikita Khrushchev in the Cuba Missile Crisis. Fortunately, cooler heads prevailed and a nuclear war was averted.

But This time around, I think things are totally different. I think that For one, I just I believe that the United States blew up that pipeline, the Nord Stream II. I firmly believe that. I think we had the motive. I think we had the means and we had the opportunity.

And if we didn't blow it up, I think we know who did. And Charles, and we threatened to do it. Joe Biden, President Biden, actually said on video he threatened to do that. Yes, and Because of that, Todd, I do think there's going to be a rush in response.

Now that could be targeted toward this pipeline coming out of Norway into Europe. I know this past weekend, this Submarine called the Belgorod. A Russian submarine left its port in the Arctic waters. This is a submarine that has the capability. Of detonating a drone with a nuclear weapon about 3,000 feet below the ocean surface that could create a 1,500-high radioactive tsunami.

But I do believe there's going to be some type of Russian response We, you know, love Vladimir Putin, hate Vladimir Putin, and I can't stand the guy. He's an authoritarian. But Cod, in my opinion, the biggest threat to world peace is not the guy sitting in the Kremlin. It's the guy that is the current occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Um You know, a guy that will use weaponize the intelligence services against its own citizens.

a guy that will try to steal an election. A guy that constantly lies, and a guy I think he sees his political fortunes going down the drain. And just like Vladimir Putin or any other authoritarian figure, I have no doubt that he would. try to instigate some type of conflict. to gain political popularity.

But unfortunately, Tai, a nuclear war, I mean, you can wipe out a city like Chicago and New York in about thirty minutes. With weapons that are 20 times more powerful. then the atomic uh bomb dropped on Hiroshima. And once it starts, Todd, there's no way to turn it off. I mean, it could start with tactical nuclear weapons.

But then it's going to escalate and it's going to escalate. And then it's It's the end of humanity. I mean, it's going to m kill millions of people, destroy our agriculture. And It's just, it's unthinkable. But unfortunately, I think a lot of Americans, Todd, look at nuclear war like we're playing a video game.

And they act like, you know, after a couple of weeks, everything goes back to normal, and it does not. And Charles, I'm not so concerned about the bombs. Falling on New York City or Chicago. I'd be concerned about the ones that are hitting the heartland, the farms, and decimating the agriculture community here in the United States. I mean, that's already becoming an issue with the war in Ukraine, where a lot of the production of grain has completely stopped.

And I suspect we're going to be looking at food shortages moving into the winter months globally. Yes, absolutely. And Todd, one other thing. Last week, Vladimir Zelensky applied for fast track membership to NATO. We saw all Solomon sign on that piece of paper, right?

Well, the worst thing that we can do is accept them into NATO, because once we do that, Automatically, we're going to be at war with Russia because it's going to trigger Article V of the NATO Charter. and it's going to require us to go to war with the Russians. And then all bets are off.

So this We've got to somehow turn this thing off. And I know there's unfortunately a lot of Republicans. or warmongers, people like Lindsey Graham. The former John McCain's, they've never seen a war they did not like. He did not want us to be in.

But this is not something like you said it's going to be over in two days or two weeks. You're looking at something that could destroy this country for two years and decades to come that we would never, ever recover from. Charles, you're right, and something we do have to pay attention to. We just cannot allow this to happen. And, Charles, I appreciate the call.

We've got to let you go. I want to go to John in central Arkansas. John, what's on your mind? Hey, Todd. I had read an article this morning about a Russian submarine.

that has gone missing in the Arctic. Yeah, yeah, okay. You know what I'm talking about.

So, and that thing, from what I read, it's capable of creating a radioactive tsunami. that is as is as tall as sixteen hundred feet.

So that would make that thing, you know, wherever it can maneuver around the coast of the United States, it would make that thing able to create a tsunami. And I couldn't get everything in there. I didn't really understand a whole lot of the technical stuff, but that radio. John, let me jump in and explain this. And again, the submarine has gone missing, and that's been the report for several days now.

Naval News says that it's apparently been spotted in the Arctic, but we've got no confirmation of that. And as far as the mainstream reporting, nobody knows where this thing is. But the belief is that they're calling this the weapon of the apocalypse.

So again, I sort of like, remember the hunt for red October? It's one of those deals, you know, a state-of-the-art submarine. And they say that the submarine comes equipped with these mega torpedoes. Wow. And they could literally launch these tsunamis that could inundate.

Every coastal city in America, you know, so depending on where the submarine is located. But nobody knows, nobody seems to know where it is. I suspect we do. I have to imagine that our military, CIA, they're all over that. But I think the point here, John, is.

That Russia is positioning itself. To push back if the United States becomes even more involved in what's happening in Ukraine.

Well, and I agree with you for sure. If they're not already planning it now, I mean, that was a pretty aggressive move, you know, knocking those. those uh pipelines out Who do you think did that? Who do you think did that, John? If you're a guessing man.

Uh Yeah. Yeah. Well, uh the only administration that I know of in the last two two two, three decades I see I'd say would that be crazy enough to do that would be the Biden administration.

So that would be my guess up first. up front anyway. A lot of people, and you know, it's interesting. Tucker Carlson raised this a couple of nights ago on the channel and was crucified. I mean, crucified by even suggesting this as a possibility.

But not only is it a possibility, a viable possibility, I think it's the only one that makes sense right now, John.

Well, yeah, you mean as far as Putin wanting to retaliate? No, as far as Joe Biden blowing up the Nord Stream pipeline, I think that's the only thing that makes sense. John, gotta run. We're late for a break. Appreciate you calling in.

This is coming from News Nation. Yeah. NATO warned members of the Military Alliance about a nuclear powered submarine that's gone missing from its base in the Arctic Circle. The Kremlin, by the way, is pushing back on all these allegations. NATO said that Belograd is no longer operating out of its White Sea base where it had been active since July.

Fox News. Says the officials they're quoting saying Russia may plan to test the Belograd's Poseidon weapons system. I guess they're calling it Poseidon. Remember the Poseidon adventure where the big wave takes out the ship? One of those things.

Russian officials say the submarine has the ability to create a sixteen hundred foot nuclear tsunami that could drown coastal cities. Part of a new Program of super weapons being developed by Russia's Navy. U.S. officials monitoring the situation said they have not seen Russia prepare any of its forces for nuclear war. As George W.

Bush used to call it. Strategy. I love that guy. Didn't love his policies, but you know, he's a good old boy. When asked about the media reports, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov.

said Russia did not want to take part in what he said was the West nuclear Rhetoric. U. S. officials continue to warn Putin and Russia there could be catastrophic consequences if it resorts to nuclear warfare. By the way, keep in mind, the only people talking about nuclear war, the only people are coming from The Biden administration and those folks in Ukraine.

By the way, what happened to that? I mean, it's it's there was a moment where if you weren't waving the Ukrainian flag, you were un American. You were not you're not a patriot if you're not supporting Ukraine. Yeah. I mean, we may as well make them the 51st state of the nation.

We're sending enough tax money over there. Jeez Halo. All right, we got to take a break here. 844-747-8868. Toll-free telephone number.

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This is the Todd Stern Show. Uh So there's a new survey out.

Well no, we're going to get back to nuclear war in just a second, but there is a survey out. And according to the survey, Memphis, Tennessee. Is one of the most profane cities in America. I mean, come on, what the? Come on, Memphis.

What's that all about? Watch your language, bro. Jeez, Louise. I mean, they're all Come on, Grace, watch your language. Yeah.

What can I say? I'm from Memphis. You're a potty mouth. What's wrong with our hometown? Stop picking on Memphis.

You know what? If you had to walk outside and dodge bullets every day, you'd. Knock off a couple of four-letter words as well. This is true. No, I'm just kidding.

We're a very good Baptist here on this program. According to the key findings, we're not the worst, though. The worst, the most profane city in America is Columbus, Ohio. Here are the key findings of this survey. The average American.

curses twenty-one times a day. See, I curse zero times a day out loud anyway. I've heard you say Jeezaloo a time or two. I say what the flip? Oh, that's actually on oh, I'm going to get to that list in just a second.

Oh, okay. Because there are alternative words.

So the average age, get the average age. This is fascinating. The average age an American starts using swear words. The average age? The average age.

Thirteen. All right. Kyle is saying three. What? Three.

Oh, thirteen. He's saying thirteen is three-year-olds are cursing.

Okay. What's your first word?

Well, you know.

So you guys both 13. I say 13, yeah. He's saying 12. Top producer Cal saying 12. It's 11.

Whoa. Yep, 11 years old. Starting them young. Americans are most likely to swear at work. 69%.

I believe that fully. I bet you do. Hey now. But this is what's interesting. 67% said they're more likely to swear in front of strangers.

Probably because they know, you know, the strangers might judge them, but they'll never see them again. And this one blows my mind. Sixty-three percent of Americans say they use bad language at the dinner table. Really? Man.

That's not a good idea. Have you ever experienced the The soap, your mouth was washed out with soap. I never did that. I saw it in a Christmas story. You're a good.

Well, trust me, that's a real thing. I was an angel child. What can I say? Well It sounds to me if something like that had happened at our dinner table, somebody's getting the mouth washed out with soap. Yeah.

I'm just saying. That's not a good idea at a southern, I mean, think about it. Unless you're saying it to say how good the food is, I just don't think that's a good idea.

Okay, here are the cities that curse the most. Your top, I'm just going to go down this list. Columbus, Ohio, Las Vegas. I can see Las Vegas. Oh, yeah.

Because you lose all that money. Yeah. Jacksonville, Florida. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. I'm shocked at you people.

Filthy mouth. Watch it. Filthy mouth. Dallas, Texas. What's wrong?

Come on. I mean, they got the sports. Get Dr. Jefferson on the line. Philadelphia.

Yeah, I see that. Indianapolis San Francisco, Fort Worth, Louisville, Washington and Austin, Texas.

So, this is fascinating, Grace, because. Apparently, Americans are using other words instead of like the bad words. Yeah. And I want to give a list here. This is fast because I get called out on this.

Every now and again, people will say, you've got to stop saying Jeeze Lou.

So instead, these are the favorite swear word substitutions.

Okay. Fudge sickle. Oh, fudge. Oh, fudge sickle. Shoot.

And what was the one you did? I said flippin'. Oh, this is it's frick. F-R-I-C-K. Yeah, I don't say that's too close.

Yeah, that's just too close. It's too close. It's too close to call. And it's not even a G, it's N. Frickin, like for NB, yeah.

Crap. Yeah, that one guilty. Dang heck darn. Holy cow! Dang.

Can I add one to the list? I say, what the biscuits? What? What? The biscuits.

Uh poop. Yeah. Okay. Fork? What the fork?

No. Yeah, there's no alternative. I don't like that. It's too hard to say. Sugar.

Oh, sugar. Diddly darn. That's not on the list either. Holy Smokes is on the list. Yeah, you say that.

And Mother Trucker is on the list. I don't like that. I don't like that. So, anyway, what is the conclusion here? You're a bunch of putty mouths.

Shame on you all. All right, we have some news, Grace, out of the world of cartoons, where. There are no more heterosexuals in Saturday morning cartoons. Yeah, no more blues clues. No, this is the story from Variety Magazine, and it involves our beloved Scooby-Doo.

I love Scooby-Doo. Scooby-Doo is, as far as we know, still heterosexual, but we don't know. Velma, on the other hand, is officially a lesbian. It's true. This is from Variety.

A Velma, officially a lesbian in a new Scooby-Doo film, years after James Gunn. And others try to make her explicitly homosexual. Oh. I mean, you know, she wears the turtleneck sweater, got the thick glasses, the short hair. mannish haircut, and the sensible shoes.

Yeah, the signs were all there, but I was kind of always like. It was the vibe. It was the vibe. I went back. No.

Didn't she have like a romance with uh Shaggy at one point though, so I don't know. I don't know. That's going deep into the weeds. Yeah. That's yeah.

I don't want to upset your Scooby snacks over that one. The new movie is called Trick or Treat Scooby-Doo. The Mystery Inc. members. Are involved in trying to track down a lesbian vampire.

It's a cartoon, by the way. You know, I went back in history. I mean, everybody's, I mean, Superman's gay now. Wonder Woman's a lesbian. Aquaman is doing inappropriate stuff with dolphins.

I mean, where do you draw the line here, folks? And by the way, the character was not created to be a lesbian. Our sensible shoes, though.

Alright, gotta take a break. We'll be right back. All right, welcome back to the Todd Stearns Radio Program. Good to have you with us today. 844-747-8868 is our phone number.

Want to go to the Patreon mobile newsmaker line. Good friend of this program, Congressman Pat Fallon, joins us. Congressman, hope you're doing well today. Todd Starnes, I've said it once, I'll say it again. You are a great American, my friend.

Well, and I'll tell you, the 4th Congressional District in Texas, blessed to have you as their representative in Congress. Congressman, we've been following the developments out of Florida with the Coast Guard doing heroic work. And what's been going on?

Well, instead of being congratulated, many of those young men and women are being booted right out of the Coast Guard because of these vaccine mandates. You know what? How does it make any sense? First and foremost. For your listeners, the military hasn't even met the recruiting goals this year.

The Army was 20,000 recruits short. The Navy only hit 89%, and the Air Force was also. Several thousand. Yeah. And in that kind of a time, just to be just to be pragmatic.

Why in the world would you throw out Bodied.

Well trained. in our military. Because they won't take an unproven experimental vaccine. It is literally boggles the mind. And that's what Joe Biden is doing.

It's the worst time I don't, first of all, obviously, Todd Starnes loves freedom and liberty, so do I. I would never think that's a good idea. But particularly in times like this when you're not meeting your recruiting goals, it's like national suicide. Congressman, it's insane. I mean, you look at what has been happening in the country.

You look at this administration's attack on our military specifically, and I think a very good argument has been made many times by your colleagues on this program that we are not prepared. Our military is not prepared because of all of these woke social justice policies and procedures that are being shoved down the throats of the great fighting men and women of this country. Yeah, and Todd, so there's about 15,000 active duty service members that are facing. Separation because they won't take the COVID vaccine.

So, again, let's look. Most of these people are younger. We all know from statistics, if you want to actually follow the science. That COVID, even the original version of COVID before all the variants, Was not a threat to young people. And now we also know that these variants, like most viruses do, they all actually all do, they get less and less potent as time goes by, thank the Lord.

But the military, because Joe Biden is commander in chief, is still hell bent I'm throwing these people out of the service.

So, Congressman, what's the answer here? Is there anything you can do before the midterm elections?

Well, we sent I signed on to a letter that we sent to The Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin. And we ask because in the letter we say, Joe Biden himself has declared the pandemic over.

So why are we kicking people out? And furthermore, did you all consider The effect that this has not only on the morale of the current service members, but what about retention of those members? And what about recruitment of future members? Because if you're 18, there's plenty of folks out there like, if I have to go, if I'm going to go in the military, and by the way, Todd, only 9% of the population even wants to serve anymore. And less than 1%, of course, will serve.

So we're dealing with a very narrow pool. But some of those folks are going to go, you know, I'd go in, but I don't want that COVID. You know, if they're COVID vaccine hesitant, then they're not going to go in in the first place. Has he considered those things? Did you do a review on the impact on operational readiness?

of these decisions. What considerations are you being made to offer reinstatement? And but I don't I'm not going to hold my breath because I think I'm going to turn blue. I don't think we'll hear back, but these are the things that we need to do now. And then, of course, we need to win the midterms.

So we'll have a seat at the negotiating table moving forward. Congressman, I'm curious. We've had Scott Perry on, Jim Jordan from the House Reading Caucus. How do you feel about this commitment to America? You think that's going to resonate with voters?

You know, I hope so because, you know, and I love Jim Jordan and Scott Perry, they are great and they're fantastic members of Congress. I personally, if I were authoring it, I would have been, I would like to drill down to more specifics so American people and the voters can say, this is precisely what you will do. I mean, literally write the legislation, you know, have the bills, have a summary of the bills that we would submit. And so, what we did in conjunction with the commitment to America in Texas, because we need to address the border, Todd. I mean, and you know that.

And so, what members of the Texas delegation, there are 24 Republican members, we worked together. On unveiling a plan that complements and really kind of supplements the commitment to Americans to say, this is what we think, the folks that are on the front line in this particular, not even crisis now, a catastrophe, what we need to do. And I think the voter wants to see more specific. This is me personally. Congressman, we have been paying very close attention to a lot of the rhetoric, some military movements surrounding Ukraine and Russia.

How concerned are you that the administration may be forcing us into a a war with Russian.

Well, you know, you have to handle that. And that's what that's why it's so important. I wish voters would really think about this. You're hiring people, right? You're hiring members of Congress, you're hiring senators.

But when you hire the President of the United States, This is the Commander-in-Chief. They need to be highly intelligent, and they need to really put America's interests first. I asked President Trump specifically, Todd, a month ago, I said, Mr. President, what would you do differently? About Ukraine, vis-a-vis Ukraine.

He looked right at me and he dove right into it. He said, First of all, I told Putin, I looked him right in the eyes: Vladimir, this is back in 2018. Do not invade Ukraine. Don't do it. You don't want to do it.

And then, and obviously, Putin didn't during those four years because I think he was really concerned and feared. President Trump's response. And then President Trump specifically then said, you know what we'd do? If he were to invade, you know what I was going to do? I was going to make sure that we bankrupt them because we were going to, you know, he was already unleashing the American energy sector, but he would have put that into hyperdrive and driven the price of oil down so low that Putin couldn't even fund the war.

Isn't that a nice third way to handle this situation rather than Biden begging authoritarian regimes? To increase production, and they buy this, by the way, they said to impound sand, pardon the pun, and they're not going to do it anyway, they're going to cut production. It's absolutely insane, and a lot of people are very concerned that all of this talk about nuclear war, whatever happened to the Nord Stream pipeline, a lot of people pointing the finger at the Biden administration. I hope they understand what they're about to get our nation involved in, and it will not end well.

Well, you know what? That's a great point, Todd, about the Nordshroom, too.

So he, what does Pooh or what does Pooh? What does Biden do when he gets in off? He cancels the Keystone XL. and then removes all objections. to the North Dream two, which President Trump was fighting.

And then, of course, that didn't work. It backfired and it blew up in the face.

So then, what does he do? Reinstitutes the Trump policy of. Fighting the Nord Stream 2. You know, and Germany was far too dependent on Russian energy, and they found that out now. I think prices the last thing I last time I checked, prices in Germany for energy were ten times what they normally are.

Can you imagine that if your electric bill is seventy bucks a month, suddenly it's seven hundred dollars a month? For the average average family, that's a bite, and they might not be able to pay for other things. But that's where we are, and we need to be projecting strength and putting our interests first. All right, Congressman, we are going to leave it there. Always good hearing from you, sir, and thanks for coming on the program today.

Thanks, Dodd. Go busting. All right. Congressman Pat Fallon out of Texas, among those expressing concerns about what's happening in the country right now, and especially with our foreign policy. All right, folks, we're going to take a break, getting back to the phones, heading over to Oregon to talk about the governor's race there.

Also, Charlie in Georgia wants to weigh in on candidate selection. 844-747-8868. This is the Todd Stern Show. Um All right, folks, welcome back to the Tom Sharns radio show. Let's go to the phones.

KYKN, our great affiliate in Oregon, David on the line. David, what's on your mind?

So uh good afternoon uh Todd.

So I I heard that you had our lovely Denise on yesterday, and I didn't hear about it until. yesterday afternoon so Just answering your call for input from Oregonians.

Okay, go right ahead. What's on your mind, David?

So the the way I see this race as a strongly principled conservative It kind of connects with what you've been saying about the race out in Georgia and Um The battle of principle over party. Um I look at our candidate here and I'm not really sure exactly what she's about. I mean, I I I know what she says and, you know, I I don't necessarily doubt it. It's just that I look at her legislative record and how she's carried herself as the leader of the Republican caucus. and just in the campaign here in interviews, debates, And and she's Solid.

But I I don't really trust her on the principles. Why don't you trust her, David? I mean, what has she done something that would cause you to doubt what she's saying?

So wh when she was the minority leader out here. Um well First and foremost, she was a freshman legislator. This is about three years ago. Right after the walkouts over the The cap and trade bill that the Democrats and the governor were trying to get pushed through. All right, we're getting deep in the weeds here, David.

So this is a national audience.

So, what's your concern?

So my concern is that she is good on the campaigning part, but not on the substance. that you want to actually push what's the that she wants to push and that needs to be pushed, like, you know, getting rid of some of these you know bureaucrats um And some of the stuff that is going on like in our schools. She she's talked about not shutting down the schools, which I believe, I mean, she actually pushed a bill to open them back up a year ago. quality and So I believe her on that, but as far as like the, you know, DRT and all that stuff, I I I don't I'm not really sure about Where she is on that.

Well, David, I would suggest going to a campaign event or going to a town hall, asking these questions directly of the campaign, and I'm sure they can answer those questions. I mean, she says and she identifies as pro-life. As you said, she worked hard to reopen the schools in Oregon. I think those are all good indicators. But unless there is a specific thing where she has misled voters, I see no reason to oppose her campaign.

David, appreciate the call. Let's go to Charlie in Georgia. Charlie, what's on your mind? Where are what's on my mind? Todd?

is that the Republican Party of Georgia is a big reason why we're in the mess we're in right now. between Kelly Loffler and David Perdue. And now Herschel Walker, it is really hard. to flip this state back red. The only true conservative that we've got in this state is Brian Kent, and for some reason, Donald Trump wants to go to war with him.

And I don't think that's all on camp. And I like Donald Trump, and I support what he's trying to do. But if the Republican Party of Georgia can't get its head together, and start fielding some candidates that people are going to turn out and vote for, we're in trouble.

Well, I mean, look, Charlie, you raised a good point, which, again, is why we need to be doing our homework. I mean, you're right. Kelly Loeffler, David Perdue, horrible campaigns. But keep in mind who was it that. Put Kelly Loffler in the U.S.

Senate. That was Brian Kemp, Charlie.

Well that's right. That's right. But he's still the best alternative, the best thing that we've got in this state. The problem with flipping states back, Todd, is Republicans. It's not Democrats.

Everybody knows. what the Democrats are going to do. The vast majority of the headway we made in this country was on executive orders. The legislation that the Republicans had, both the House and Senate, and didn't do a thing to protect this country. And the reason that people won't go to where I served in the military is 21 years.

I retired as a senior chief. The reason people won't go to the military right now has much to do with Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld kidding us in a thirty year war. as it does with what Joe Biden's doing right now. Nobody is going to lay their life on the line. No one you're just going to quit and walk out.

Well, it's look, this is something that is not unique to Georgia. As so many people have eloquently stated, this is ultimately about power, that Republicans really don't care what they vote for as long as the person is a Republican. And so if you have that mindset, Charlie, I hate to say this, but this is a mindset that is prevalent within Republican circles. And I've seen this play out. I have seen this play out in front of my very eyes here in Tennessee, where the most important thing is power and prestige.

It's not about values. It's not about the party platform. It's about who they can get that will beat the Democrat. It doesn't matter how they vote once they get to the Senate as long as there's an R behind their name. The whole Iran deal.

How did we wind up with the Iran deal to begin with? Bob Corker. Bob Porker who Yeah, he you know, because that the treaty is supposed to be through the Senate. They acquiesced to Obama with Bob with a vote from Bob Corker. Charlie, got to leave it there.

Good call. Thank you for listening. 844-747-8868. That's our toll-free telephone number. That's 844-747-8868.

Oh, by the way, Fredo has a brand new show on News Nation. It's a weird thing, this NewsNation. It's not conservative, it's not liberal, but it really is liberal. It's just sort of a middle-of-the-road pabl. Nobody is watching that thing.

So, anyway, Chris Cuomo, they gave him a show that pretty much should tell you all about News Nation. Ratings came out. The first week of the show, 147,000 total viewers. That's 147,000 total viewers. It's a flop, it's a dud.

Just like the uh the Bros comedy. This story from The Blaze: No White People Allowed, a group organizing an anti-racism discussion, banned white people at the University of Buffalo. Uh pardon me, the University of Chicago.

Okay. U Chicago United was founded in 2017 to. turn the campus into a truly inclusive space, Yeah. that fits the needs and empowers students of color. To that end, they're having an upcoming event for freshmen called Disorientation.

Disorientation will include classes like anti-militarism, one hundred one, policing, gentrification and abolition, along with a lovely walking tour of the U Chicago campus. Might I suggest Kevlar? It's very dangerous on the streets of Chicago. Anyway, only black, indigenous and people of color are invited to attend. If you are a Caucasian, if you are a cracker or a honky, you are not permitted to attend the anti-racism event.

You just can't make this stuff up, folks. It's really unfortunate. Sending white folks to the back of the bus, got to use those separate drinking fountains. That's coming up next. You watch.

You just watch. All right, we got to take a break here. As promised, Colonel David Giamana is going to be joining us. Also, there is a crazy new fitness. There's a fitness craze sweeping across the country.

The New York Times had a big story on it. We're going to be talking to the guys from Fitness Fellowship Faith. The president of that group, Frank Schwartz, is going to join us. F3 is what they call it. Bunch of Christian guys getting together and working out.

Giving each other nicknames. All right, we're gonna talk about all that coming up. 844-747-8868, toll-free telephone number. That's 844-747-8868.

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So I was. Reading the New York Times the other day, and I was astonished. To see a story and to read a story that was about a Christian fitness group. And what really astonished me about this story is that it was a pretty fair and balanced look, and quite frankly, a favorable profile of this organization. Called F3.

It is a no-frills fitness group that combines fitness, fellowship, and faith. And it was featured on the front page of last Sunday's New York Times. I want to go to the Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line right now. The president of this organization, Frank Schwartz, joins us. Frank, good to have you on the show today.

Great to be here, Todd. Thank you so much.

So, that in and of itself is a miracle that the New York Times did this flattering profile on you guys. Right? You had no idea what was going to come out of that one. You know, we heard that we were going to get interviewed, and so we did that. But you know, you never know how those kinds of things can turn out.

And we were kind of amazed that it turned out.

Well, I say we're amazed, but you know, something, Tom. Maybe it's just that good. And maybe that's it, is that what you guys are doing is making an impact. And I want to do a dive into this right away. I want you to tell our listeners how you guys started F three.

So, this was like a lot of great things throughout history, Todd. It was an accident.

Okay. We uh There was a a couple of guys, Dave Redding, Tim Whitmire, were the original founders uh of F three. And they kind of reached that point in their life where, I don't know, a lot of guys uh uh, you know, in their sort of mid forties find themselves where You know, they've got a good job. They've got a couple of maybe three kids. They've moved into a beautiful home and they.

But they still find themselves sitting on their front porch sometimes staring out into nothing and saying, is this all there is? And so they knew they were out of shape and they knew they wanted to just do something bigger and make more impact in their lives. They got together with some fellas and started working out outdoors. And that just It turned out to be the thing, sort of the secret sauce, the great magnet, if you will, that brought men together. They bonded over fitness.

And it's not just not Richard Simmons type fitness. It's a little more intense than all that. And I think that's part of the draw. is that it is difficult. And we live in a world where, as you well know, we're not overly challenged in many of the things that we do.

And so there was something magical. I think about bringing men together and doing that difficult thing first thing in the morning. uh that brought them together and bonded them together. And then from there, it just sort of It just kind of evolved to where now that we had better friends, real close friends. uh you know, intimate bonds with other men.

Real friends, not the fellow dad standing on the soccer sidelines, friends, or, oh, our wives are friends, and so I guess we're default friends, right? You know, we were able to get to a real and true and deep and vulnerable place with other men and share what's on our hearts and start being able to do life together. And that, you know, kind of blossomed into looking for ways to impact the community. And then pretty soon, you know, what started as 40 men about 11 years ago in Charlotte, North Carolina, has now grown to somewhere in the neighborhood of 55,000, 60,000 men across the entire United States in about seven countries. It's amazing.

And we're talking about 5:30 in the morning workouts. But beyond that, you're building, I think, what you guys described as a circle of trust among men. And I appreciate you saying this is not, you know, Richard Simmons, Pilates, soul cycle. This is very different. And this is a men's-only group that you guys have.

Have formed, and my understanding is what more than what 3,400 groups now around the country. Is that right? That's accurate, yeah. Like I said, you know, pretty much the lower 48 and seven other countries and Guys, you know uh pretty much any major city that you're in in the US Somewhere in 5:30 in the morning, you can roll out of bed and find an F3 workout now. Yeah, how did it work?

And growing every day. How do people find these groups? Are they associated with churches? Are they stand-alone? That's a great question.

They actually that's one of the things that I find kind of fun that is true of us is we are we are apolitical and we are not agnostic in the sense of we don't believe in a higher being, but we are also faith Neutral, if you will. We don't really care what denomination you might be, or really, if you have a denomination at all. We're bringing men together under kind of this umbrella of faith as a belief in something bigger than ourselves. and submission to that. whatever that thing may be.

For us, me as a Christian here in Charlotte, North Carolina, my thing that I believe is bigger than me is God. For the men in the Pacific Northwest, that might look a little different. But ultimately, it's that dedication to wanting to get better and wanting to push other men to get better and to live the best lives that we can, be the best husbands that we can, be the best fathers that we can. It's not tied to any church. It's not tied to any kind of organization.

It is its own standalone thing. And it used to kind of spread a little like Fight Club, right? It was kind of word of mouth, and we don't talk about it. It's early in the morning. Of course, now we speak at Rotary Clubs, so I guess it's kind of out.

But the way that it starts now or the way that you kind of find it now is really you can just go to our website and find a location that's near you and just show up. That's the beautiful thing. As soon as you show up, they'll call you an FNG. That stands for friendly new guy. I was just listening to your show about the sweariest places in America.

It's friendly. That's what the F stands for. Oh, well, that's good. We got potty mouths here in Memphis. It's a terrible thing.

Apparently. Yeah. And we also have, of course, language I have not heard in a Wednesday night church business meeting, but I digress. The New York Times described this as non-sectarian in the same style of, say, Alcoholics Anonymous.

However, many AA groups have a very strong Christian emphasis, and I suspect that's the case in a lot of these groups as well. Indeed. The way that we say it is they kind of take on the flavor, if you will, of where they're planted. That's one of the other things that makes us, I think, wholly unique over every other organization, maybe in the world, but certainly any other fitness organizations. We, you know, me, as an example, as the president, I theoretically sit, you know, atop this organization, but I have no real authority.

I mean, I can't revoke anyone's charter. These workouts are all free. They weren't planted by me or my team. They were planted by men who saw You know, a place to have a mission, a place to reach out and to better the community that they live in.

So they started it because of that. You know, Frank, and folks, we've got Frank Schwartz on the Patriot Mobile newsmaker line from F3, a fitness fellowship faith. Frank, really, over the past decade, we have seen, and it's probably longer than that, we've seen a war on men and this attack on manhood. Toxic masculinity has become a big buzzword these days. And it looks to me like this is a group where guys can get together, be guys, and be men.

Yeah. And to me, that's the you know, we we jokingly call it sometimes a grown man recess. you know, because we're allowed to go out and and Be who we are, and just enjoy all the things that make us unique as men. We couldn't agree more. In fact, you know, being on the front lines of the culture of war, right, we're right there with you, Todd.

We feel very much that there has been a and you know, you can look at it however you want, but we say a pendulum swing, right? There's definitely been a pretty heavy pendulum swing away from traditional masculinity. And there is a push to make anything that even sounds or smells a little masculine to label that as toxic, and we reject that. Wholly and completely. We don't believe that masculinity is toxic.

We think toxic is toxic. If you're toxic, you're just, that's what you are. As men, as men who are trying to exhibit what we would consider to be true masculinity, we believe that the highest form of masculinity is courageous love. It's being willing to sacrifice yourself Uh for the good of others. And in our estimation, we put our creator first, our family second and everybody else ahead of us, and we we live what we call third.

And we put ourselves at the bottom because we know for ourselves anyway That is the way that we're going to bring people together, and that is the way we're going to improve the conditions in our world and our communities, and really everywhere we go. All right, good stuff. Folks, we've got a link to the story and their website over on our live show blog. If you'd like to get information on maybe starting a workout group in your neighborhood, you'll be able to do that. Frank, we're going to leave it there.

Appreciate your time this afternoon. Congratulations. Thanks so much, Todd. Appreciate you. All right, Frank Schwartz, everybody, from F3, a no-frills fitness group.

Got an emphasis on faith there. I like this. Again, stunned that the New York Times actually did a positive piece on a faith-based organization. All right, folks, we've got to take a break here and pay some bills. 844-747-8868.

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We'll be right back. All right, folks, welcome back to the Todd Search Radio Show. Oh, it turns out. By the way, President Biden We'll get to Florida in just a moment. President Biden is having one of his episodes again.

Did you see this where he was in Puerto Rico? A few days ago, and he was walking out to some sort of a staging area. And he stops and he grabs his arm, and he's rubbing his arm as the crowd of people, including his personal nurse, Mrs. Dr. First Lady Joe Biden, and others, just keep on walking.

I mean, everybody's walking away, and there he is standing by himself, holding this arm as if he was. You know, I've seen that behavior before when someone's had a heart attack or is having a heart attack and they're grabbing their arm because the arm hurts. But we guess he's okay. We think he's okay, but he is clearly not with it. No doubt about that.

eight four four seven four seven eighty eight sixty eight. That is our toll free telephone over. That's eight four four seven four seven eighty eight sixty eight. I told you a couple of days ago about this Memphis firefighter. This was really a strange story.

A black firefighter went to see a movie about these African American. No, they're African, it's an African kingdom, all female warriors. And the guy goes to see the movie, and the firefighter posts a message on his social media pages saying, I hope there are some white folks killed.

Now this has not gotten national coverage and very little local news coverage. Not a lot of people want to talk about this. And the reason why is because it's a black guy threatening to kill white people, and they don't think that's news.

So anyway, I was doing some research for the new book, and I remember just a couple of weeks ago, there was another firefighter, and this firefighter was in Chicago. Happened to be a white guy. And this firefighter was actually fired because he posted racist language on his social media page, just like the guy in Memphis, Tennessee, the firefighter in Memphis, Tennessee. And I get it. Different cities, I get it, different rules.

But it's the double standard that really gets me here, folks. Because again, the media coverage very lacking. And I explained the reason why. I just want you to think about this for a moment. Imagine Let's see.

All right, imagine that um A white firefighter went to go see a movie. And this white firefighter is posting a message saying, you know what, I really hope a lot of. Black people get killed. And the guy is a Trump supporter. How do you think the media would have handled that story?

I would imagine that you would have had protest marches at the fire stations. I suspect you would have had civil rights leaders and these race baiting race agitating preachers coming out of the woodwork, issuing statements of condemnation. I even think you might possibly even get a statement from the President or maybe even the Vice President of the United States. I mean it would be a pretty heinous thing. But none of that happened here.

None of that happened.

Now, look, I think that we can all agree that all racist language should be condemned. But I also believe that We need to take a very hard look. at how we treat behavior in this country. There's always one we're literal literally setting up two separate societies, one rules for people of color, another set of rules for the Caucasian persuasion. And I don't know about you, but if you're needing to be rescued from a burning building, the last thing on your mind should be whether or not you should worry that the person coming to pull you out of that burning building may or may not do it based on the color of your skin.

I'm just saying, I just want to put that out there. It's all horrible. But this is where we are in American society right now. And it's pretty pathetic. But we've got to start pointing out these double standards.

And I don't think anybody, I don't think. Anybody else? is going to be out there talking about these things. All right, coming up, David Giamona is going to join us. He is a retired U.

S. Army Colonel, and he has been all over this story about Ukraine and Russia and the Nord Stream pipeline. Who do you think did that? A lot of people think Joe Biden did it. A lot of people think that we were responsible.

For what happened?

So I'm curious to hear from you. Who do you think did it and why? Do you believe that the Biden administration is trying to get us Engaged in a war with Russia. What do you think the end game of that is?

Now we had a conversation earlier on, and somebody raised a very good point here. We're looking at an October surprise. We haven't had that October surprise just yet. No, Herschel Walker was not the October surprise, folks. We're still waiting for the other shoe to drop.

And I do not put it out of the administration's I really shouldn't go there, but I'm going to go there. I wouldn't be surprised if this administration tries to do something to stop the elections. There, I said it. I think it's possible. I really do.

What does that look like? Does it look like chaos in the streets? Does it look like a mushroom cloud over a city? I don't know. But I think they're going to try.

844-747-8868. This is the Todd Starge Show. Welcome back to the Todd Starnes Radio Show. Good to have you with us. Before we go to to David Giamona.

I want to go to the Patriot Mobile newsmaker line, and we're very honored to have an incredible guest with us. He is the pastor of the First Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia. He has been very he's really been at the forefront of fighting and standing up for religious liberty, not just in Georgia but across America. Dr. George, what an honor to have you with us today.

Well, thank you, Todd. The honor is mine. And I know, Pastor, that you've had some conversations with Herschel Walker over the past several days. I think the newspaper has been out there and writing about that. How are things going with Herschel right now?

He's under the gun. Yes, he really is, Todd. We actually hosted a prayer gathering for Herschel. and it took place yesterday over lunch. We probably had two hundred fifty people there at First Baptist Atlanta.

And I think he needed that encouragement. There were a lot of people there to speak words of. of support and also just more importantly, we were able to gather around him and pray for him.

So hopefully we sent him off upbeat and ready to go out and face these challenges. Pastor George, real quick here, when it comes to the latest round of accusations, our concern is that the conservative media has not been framing these questions correctly when addressing what happened after 2009, where his life was changed. Are we right in going about it and approaching it from that aspect? I think so for sure. And that's something he even acknowledged yesterday.

He said, I am a fallen human being. I am broken but redeemed. And he said, I've made mistakes in my life, but God has forgiven me of those things. And he said, I feel like there are more people who can relate to me than who cannot. In our culture, and he got a roaring round of applause on that.

I mean, you're a pastor of one of the most prominent churches in America. I'm curious your take here to and what is your message to people of faith in Georgia that are going to be casting votes. What is your message about Herschel Walker?

Well, I can tell you, if he had walked into my office yesterday before the prayer gathering and said, look, there's truth to this. I did this. I'm sorry. I've asked God's forgiveness. I've asked the lady's forgiveness.

none of which he said, by the way. He's patently denying that that that any of this is true. But had he It would not have affected my support for him because our alternative is. a so-called Baptist preacher who occupies one of our Senate seats from Georgia in Washington. who advocates for and defends the taking of unborn life on demand.

So in my opinion, there's no dilemma here. But the choice is still clear for me. Uh despite uh Any allegations that we've heard and any allegations between now and Election Day? Pastor George, I have to leave it there. We're slammed for this hour, but I want to get you back on the show so we can have a much more in-depth conversation about the role of Christians in the elections.

There have been so many people trying to shut down the Christian vote. And I appreciate the great work you're doing at First Baptist Atlanta.

So, can we get you back on the show? Is that possible? Absolutely, Todd. You let me know, and I'll be available. All right.

Pastor, thank you so much. That's Pastor Anthony George, and we're going to get him back on this week or next to talk about a very important issue from the First Baptist Church of Atlanta. All right. Colonel Giamona is on the Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line. And, Colonel, thank you so much for holding on.

I know your time is limited, but I want to jump right into this. A lot of people are very concerned about these talks of nuclear war. How close are we to something very bad happening in this world?

Well, you know, when you push a wounded animal into the corner, it's going to fight back. I think Putin's there. He's losing this war. Things are not going well for him. He's conscripting 300,000, but those irregulars are not going to really help him anytime soon.

There's a lot of things going against him. And so he's probably talking to his generals right now. How can they launch a tactical artillery or cruise missile nuclear strike? At an unpopulated area right now, let it blow and give the Ukrainians a warning. If that were to happen, all bets are off, we could find ourselves on the brink of some extremely dangerous footings here as outlined by Europe, NATO, President United States and the Russians.

We're in dangerous territory right now. Colonel, I've heard it said that Biden has he's blown past the off ramp here, and we're really not giving anyone any options, any ways to get out of all of this. Is that accurate? Yeah, I think so. He doesn't know how to negotiate.

Uh he doesn't know what he's doing. Uh and he's in a very dangerous position as a lacklust leader of the United States of America. With all of that, given his record in Afghanistan and the feckless job he's done as leader of our military. Uh that could keep that could mean potentially bigger problems and deeper problems. for the world and especially for the US.

I don't think I'd ever thought about asking this question before or that I would. But if, in fact, there are nuclear hostilities here, how do you think that plays out? Where would that battlefield be, that theater of war?

Well, you know, Russia just launched one of its most powerful subs here lately. We don't know how. ready it is to launch that drone mega torpedo it has. They said several years out, could be now. We don't know, but Russian definitely is a superpower in the sense that it has nuclear capability, and I don't believe they're afraid to use that, although right now they're trying to withhold some of these things.

So what would happen is Russia tactical nuke.

Well, we may answer with our own tactical nukes. NATO may come online. And if Ukraine is accepted into the NATO alliance, which is in the works right now, we could have a whole different ball game with NATO coming into the fray with Russia. Because at that point, we would have to respond. I mean, is that something we would have to respond immediately to the Russian aggressions?

Do we immediately send NATO troops in? Yeah, well, Article 5 says we're supposed to defend our, you know, our NATO allies. I don't know what kind of stipulations NETA will place on Ukraine because they're in the middle of the war. Um you know, nor normally they would not, but they're seeming to be rushing through this. I'm not sure what the outcome is going to be.

It's going to have to be wait and see, but if if NATO agrees. To bring them in and what the timing is going to be.

Well, definitely, we're going to be on more war footing than we had previously because now we have a NATO ally to defend.

Well, and my concern would be the United States. I mean, would do you think that we could see bombs falling over here? Or was it would this be something that would primarily, in your estimation, be isolated to Europe? I think right now, isolated Europe, but don't forget, war is fought on many different levels. We call it dime, diplomatic, informational, military, economic and so forth.

So Russia could do a number of things to us on the for computer wars, information wars, all kinds of diplomatic wars could happen on different levels remains to be seen. I mean, Russia is a very weak position right now militarily. They're not doing well, but but that doesn't bode well for the rest of the world, especially the United States. I don't want to get in a shooting war with Russia because that would involve other players coming in, and it could escalate very quickly. We have Colonel David Giamona, retired, incredible author of a book, The Military Guide to Disarming Deception, and we've got a link to that book on our live show blog.

Colonel Nordstream Pipeline, a lot of accusations and speculation about that. And I know Tucker Carlson, among others, suggesting that we may have done this. What are you hearing from your sources?

Well, there's a lot of finger pointing right now. In fact, Sweden, Denmark, and others are going down to figure out exactly what happened. It had to be a superpower, Dodd, to do that kind of destruction because that pipeline is reinforced with military strength grade. Metal and armor. And so a superpower like Russia, US, or NATO had to do it.

Which one of those is going to be interesting? If it's the United States, it changes the whole world game geopolitically and it strengthens the enemy's resolve against us. I hope it's not us. I I heard Tucker Carlson talk about that. A lot of people are saying it's Russia to bring pro more people into the war and to relieve Biden at home I mean, excuse me, Putin at home.

Militarily, because he's not doing well right now.

So remains to be seen. My guess it is Russia. Um Even though it's a multi-billion dollar economic blow to them, Putin wants to get the onus off of him and onto his allies. Let's talk real quick, and I know we've got a wrap here, but real quick, I want to talk about warning signs. What are some things we need to be paying attention to?

What are some things that will happen that will be trigger warnings for you? Yeah, I think Putin aligning himself with his allies. getting muscled up, getting more military might into the fight. Uh using his ballistic Missile systems. All these kinds of things and more happening at the same time spells a dangerous time that we may be living in with this Russian.

There's no way Putin, from my estimation, is going to back out. He's going to go forward. That's the way he is. That's his history. He's going to continue to do that.

He's going to bolster his military reserves. And so those kinds of things are just some prelude to a glo more a broader global war than we've had previously. All right. Well, Colonel, we appreciate your time this afternoon, and thanks for being flexible there with that last-second change-up. No problem.

Always glad to be with you, Todd. All right, David Giamona, everybody, retired U.S. Army Colonel. He has a great book that you need to read. And we have a link to it on the live show blog: The Military Guide to Disarming Deception: Battleground Tactics to Expose the Enemy's Lies and Triumph in Truth.

So, certainly sounding the alarm here, and of course, a lot could change on Friday when Ukraine signs that NATO membership request. We will keep you updated on that story as well. 844-747-8868. That's our toll-free telephone number. That's 844-747-8868.

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Got into the wee hours of the morning. That was a long drive between Nashville and Memphis. And the Interstate 40, I don't know if you've ever driven through Tennessee. There hasn't been a time when it has not been under construction. And the Popo out in force.

So you can't.

Okay. Can't really put the pedal to the metal, as they say. And let's go to the phones here. 844-747-8868. Brian in Mississippi.

Listening to us on KWAM. Brian, what part of Mississippi are you calling from?

South Haven area. Fine. Glad you're the top of Mississippi, Brian. There you go. Actually, to answer your question, the worst part on forty is actually Jackson, Tennessee.

I think they've been working on the interstate continuously for over a decade over there. You know, Brian, we when I was a kid, we would always go to Opryland in the summertime.

Now it's just a big shopping center, but it used to be a great amusement park, and we would always stop at the Casey Jones Village. You ever been over there? I haven't. Oh, it's good. They have some good southern food, but it's fun if you're into trains and things like that, the old Casey Jones Museum.

You should go check that out. Yeah, I'll have to do that.

So my question just simply, there's all kinds of different facets of the conversation, Ukraine, Russia, whatever. The bottom line is, what is the breaking point? What is the line in the sand for Russia as far as attacking other countries, maybe countries that blew up their pipeline. i. e.

the United States possibly, all that. I mean, when when does Putin say I'm going to attack Western European countries, United States, whatever. allowing Ukraine to join as a NATO ally. I think that's insane. These politicians are just completely insane doing that because he's already threatened that.

So that's kind of my question too. Yeah, it's a great question. And again, we don't know for certain if we were responsible for sabotaging that pipeline. It makes a lot of sense, and I think there's a lot of evidence there, and we're going to find out. They will find out who did this.

Now, the question is: if, in fact, it was us, how is Russia? Going to retaliate? Are they going to try to take out some of our infrastructure? Will they try to hack us? I don't know.

But I think Putin is ready to fight back. And it concerns me. I know we asked Colonel Giamona whether or not we would see bombs dropping on the United States. He seems to think that if, in fact, there is some sort of a nuclear conflict, that it would be isolated over in Europe. But I don't know about that.

We just don't know how far Biden is willing to go here. Right. I just feel like there's got to be a break point line in the sand, whatever. description you want to use. But I mean, if he thinks that we were responsible through defense contractors, whatever cobart operations, whatever they call it, Of destroying his pipeline or whatever, and then we allow, you know, we vote yes to allow.

Ukraine. I mean, I think he's gonna retaliate at some point. And all I can say is Alaska's. Not very far from Russia. No, it is not.

And we've already had some reports of Russian subs and ships in that area dangerously close to Alaska. And Brian, Putin is not going to allow himself to lose.

So if the situation on the ground in Ukraine is as bad as they say as it is for Russia and for the troops, then we are entering a very dangerous phase. And the colonels seem to agree we've missed the exit ramp. And so now we've got to see how this all plays out. I totally agree. All I can say is, you know, it is good to be prepared, but you can only do so much.

But, you know, if you are into gardens and planting and getting your own sustainable food, look, I think that's a good idea. I think Americans should always be prepared. You should always have supplies on hand. You never know what's going to happen these days, especially with the infrastructure.

So, you know, I think now is a good time for everybody to sit back and say, okay, what would we do if X, Y, or Z happened? Brian, appreciate the call and always love hearing from our good friends in North Mississippi. Beautiful area, by the way. If you haven't, there's a great new shopping district out there if you're ever traveling through this part of the country called Silo Square. You got to go check it out.

Eat at the Stacks Pancakes. Tell them I sit over there. All right, folks, it's been a great day. Get out there, have a goman yourself. ToddStarns.com.

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