The True Story of Thanksgiving

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

Well, hello, everybody. Welcome to the Todd Starnes radio program.

So happy to have you with us today on Thanksgiving Eve. Is that a thing? I think it is. I was, last night after the show, I had to rush over to the Costco, the local Memphis Union Mission, which is a phenomenal facility. And they house, I think, upwards of 300, 400 homeless men.

And they put on a huge spread pretty much every day. I mean, those, they do an incredible job. But they're in need of pies.

So I guess they were getting ready for the big Thanksgiving meal, which they're actually doing today. And they came up short on the pies.

So we got our news, our morning show host, Ben Diener and Grace Baker. We hopped in the caddy, drove over to the Costco. And I guess on what is today? Wednesday? Today's Wednesday.

I'm completely confused. But apparently Tuesday's our senior citizen's day at the Costco. because it was like all the senior retirement homes, they were like lined up the buses. Field trip.

So we're going and we're making a beeline for the pies. And I only know where the pies are because I was there a few days ago getting some pies. And they're about as big as the tires on a Buick, these pies. It's huge.

So we got about 20 or so pies, as many pies as we could put in the basket. I'm surprised there were that many left. Oh, there were tons. There were a lot of pies left. And so anyway, we brought some pies down to the guys yesterday.

And I'm telling you, there's a lot of people out there that are hurting, and they don't have a lot of money, and a lot of good people. They want to work. They can't find a job for whatever reason. And it's tough, especially with the economy.

Well, I'm sure they appreciated those pies. And let me just say from experience, those pies are actually really good. They're not just like generic. No, they're really good. Seriously, we want to be able to make sure that everybody has a good meal on Thanksgiving.

And anyway, the Union Mission, if you folks listening to us in Memphis, they still need some stuff, some pies.

So if you want to head over there, I know they'd be happy to see you. And they gave us a great tour. The whole facility was built by businessmen.

So they have done a tremendous job. and they're doing some good work, the Lord's work there at the Memphis Union Mission. All right, wow, where do we start today? If you follow us on our Facebook stream, you know that today I am going to share with you the true meaning of Thanksgiving.

Now, this is the story that is not taught in our public school system. This is a story that you do not see on the made-for-TV movies. You will not see this on the Hallmark Channel. But today, and we're going to do it this hour of the program, I'm going to share with you the true meaning of Thanksgiving. And this is really an homage to our dear friend Rush Limbaugh, who used to do this every Thanksgiving.

And after he passed, I made the decision to pick up the mantle, and we're going to carry on that tradition.

So a little bit later on, gather the children around the radio, and we're going to walk you through the true meaning of Thanksgiving. A couple of big stories to share with you. First of all, and this is no surprise.

Now, Grace Baker, we have a rule on this radio program when it comes to breaking news. And the rule is wait. Wait for the facts. Just wait for the facts to come in. And it drives people crazy, the left especially.

Starnes is just a homophobe. We knew it all along. He's just a bad man. He hates gay people. That's why he's not commenting.

No, no, no. That's not it at all. Oh, that's Starnes. He is a racist. That's why he's not talking about Juicy Smoulet.

Shame on him. We love you, Juicy. No, there's a reason for it, Grace Baker. Yes. Because the facts tend to evolve.

How dare you say that Paul Pelosi wasn't hit on the head with a hammer, that it may have been something really inappropriate instead. Who do you think you are?

Well, we're journalists, but... And we're waiting. We're waiting for the facts to come out.

So anyway, we told you the story early on of what happened at the gay bar in Colorado Springs, Colorado. A horrible story. Thank God there was a man there who's a decorated military veteran. I believe he's a retired major. I remember reading that in one of the publications.

Anyway, this guy was there with his wife and his daughter and the daughter's boyfriend. They were caught up in the melee. The boyfriend was shot and killed. and as soon as the gunman opened fire, the military veteran just jumped and just started wailing on the guy. I mean, beating the holy living daylights out of this guy.

There was a drag queen there. And I know you folks, you get upset when I say that they wear the stiletto heels and the feather boas, but they do. And a lot of sequins, a lot of sequins, ladies and gentlemen. But the drag queen comes running over, takes off the stiletto heel, and starts, no, maybe they didn't take off, but they were smashing the gunman with the stiletto heel. And I say, you know what?

Bash away. Do what you've got to do to stop this bad guy from killing people. And we can't, what troubles me about this story is that we all just can't come together as a nation and condemn this heinous violence and salute and celebrate the heroism that was demonstrated in that gay bar. There you go, Todd Stearns. You're not a real Christian.

You're praising those people and they, how dare you? You need to get your heart right with the Lord. Really?

Well, I don't think the Lord wants you to get shot up anywhere. And by the way, what do we say on this program? Every single day, how you want to live your life in America, that's up to you and God, and it's protected by the United States Constitution. You may not approve of someone else's behavior, but you know what? It doesn't matter.

People have a right to live their lives how they see fit, thanks to the United States Constitution. But it just, I wish I could say it cracks me up, but I'm a little irritated today, folks, because of this kind of nonsense. We can't just step back and say, thank goodness that there was a guy who was filled with that raging, toxic masculinity the left complains about all the time. And this guy literally put himself in the line of fire to save lives. I know because I'm getting poor Grace Baker getting the calls.

Why is Todd talking about this? Shame on him. What? Really?

We're going to be that crass? We're going to be that uncaring and unkind? No, not on this radio program. No, that's not how we play that game.

So anyway, the story comes out, the mainstream media going bonkers over this. They immediately, immediately start blaming all of the Christian conservatives in America. And they say all the hate, all the vitriol, that's what's leading to these attacks on gay people.

Now, I said early on, I'm not so sure about that because we haven't heard up until today, and we still haven't heard of a motive. We don't know why the guy did what he did.

So all of that is just conjecture, speculation. But you have these people on the radio and on the TV, and they're accusing every Christian, Every parent in America who has a problem with drag queen story time of being some sort of transphobic person. And I mean, the hate was pretty terrible.

Some of the things they were saying were just simply horrendous. As a matter of fact, I want you to listen to Cut 14. This is someone saying that Lauren Boebert, the congresswoman, and Tucker Carlson, they need to be flogged. They need to be punished for defending these children against these radical sex and gender revolutionaries. Cut 14.

You need to see accountability and consequences.

So first, a real quick hate crime charge here on top of the homicide charges. I applaud that. That tells me prosecutors and police, they found quickly what they needed. That means they know this was a biased crime. This is likely, and since we've heard reports that the subject isn't cooperating with police, that means they likely found clear and convincing evidence on his devices.

If he's a consumer of the people we just rattled off, from Lauren Boebert to Tucker Carlson, let's get it out. Let's get it out at trial. Let's expose it for what it is. Name it and shame it. He's a consumer of these people, and those people should face civil consequences from the victims.

The other thing they want to deny is not only the safe harbor, but the way we resolve this. And by that, I mean, you know, you asked earlier, how do we how do we put a stop to hate?

Well, one of the things you would normally do is teach young children in school. Here's what race is about here. Here's these other people over here who may seem different to you. They have a different orientation. But you know what?

Increasingly, states are saying, no, no, no, you can't talk about race or say the word gay or teach anything in schools.

So they deny the resolution mechanism that we would normally use.

So this guy is saying that the government clearly was a fan of Lauren Boebert and watched Tucker Carlson all the time.

Well, there's no proof of that. And I cannot sit here behind this big, beautiful, huge conservative microphone and tell you beyond a shadow of a doubt that the guys never watch Fox News Channel. I can't tell you that because nobody knows that. This moron doesn't know that. Frank Figaluzzi is his name.

He's a big losey loser is who that guy is.

So anyway, all that. And then you've got the Colorado police chief coming out. And, of course, this entire thing is now politicized. And the Colorado Springs police chief says we're going to be using pronouns to now identify victims. Cut 13.

We respect all of our community members, including our LGBTQ community. Therefore, we will be identifying the victims by how they identified themselves and how their families have loved and identified them. The first person I'll identify is Kelly Loving. Kelly's pronouns are she, her. Daniel Astin.

Daniel's pronouns are he, him. Derek Rump. Derek's pronouns are he, him. Ashley, Paugh, that's P-A-U-G-H. Ashley's pronouns are she, her.

Raymond Green Vance. Raymond's pronouns are he, him.

So there you have it. This was nothing more than an exercise in political correctness. And that was a shame and a travesty. But here's the bombshell, ladies and gentlemen. It turns out that the gunman is not some sort of a far right wing, Southern Baptist, Pentecostal extremist.

Turns out this guy is not some sort of, at least to our knowledge, some sort of an avid super fan of the Fox News channel. According to the official court documents, and this is why we're able to talk about this now, because there are official court documents, the gunman identifies as non-binary. As a matter of fact, the gunman goes by the pronouns they, them, and wants to be called MX. And this has thrown a great big wrench into the mainstream media's narrative. And you just have to hear the sheer confusion and frustration in the voice of Alison Camerado, the X-Fox News gal now anchoring a losing show on CNN, cut number 11.

So attorneys for the accused shooter, Anderson Lee Aldrich, say in new court filings tonight that the suspect now identifies as non-binary. In a footnote to a motion asserting legal privileges, the public defenders say, quote, Anderson Aldrich is non-binary. They use they, them pronouns and for the purposes of all formal filings will be addressed as Mix Aldrich.

So in other words, not Mr. or Ms. Joining me now, CNN political commentator Errol Lewis, also back with me, Al Franken and Joe Walsh. I don't know what to say about that. I mean, that's not anything that we had heard from his background.

People have been looking into his background, and I don't know if anybody's your biggest lawyers. Not his, they's, they's background. I don't know if – Okay, enough of her. Enough, enough, enough. She doesn't know what to say.

Well, according to the section gender revolutionaries, you have to accept someone's gender identity, whether they change it every single day or whether it's with the plumbing that the good Lord gave them at birth. You've got to accept that person no matter what they say.

Now, I don't know. The other part of this is apparently this kid went by another name until he was 16 and went through a name change.

So all of that to say, just like Juicy Smule, just like Bubba Wallace, and just like the poor Covenant Catholic high school kids, you cannot believe these sorry so-and-so liars in the mainstream media. All right, we've got to take a break. 844-747-8868. That's our toll-free telephone number. 844-747-8868.

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Now, a couple other things here about this Colorado story, and I want to move on here. But first of all, you had to know something was up because we have yet to see the mugshot of the guy, right? There's been no mugshot, no motive released by authorities. And there's a reason for that. Whenever they withhold that information, there's a reason.

And typically the reason is it conflicts with the drive-by media's narrative. Look at what's happened. Look what happened with Paul Pelosi. We still don't have the mugshot. We don't have the motive.

We've got nothing from the attack on Paul Pelosi, the alleged attack on Paul Pelosi. But another thing, and again, just we step back and we just look at the facts here. Why isn't the mainstream media really reporting the true story of what happened inside that gay bar when a heterosexual man stood up and confronted the attacker? A heterosexual man, ladies and gentlemen. A heterosexual white guy stood up and took out the shooter.

Nobody wants to talk about that. You can speculate as to why, but I suspect it just goes against the narrative. All right, coming up, the Biden administration, they're releasing some talking points for all of you leftist children out there. They want you to have a chat with your uncle at Thanksgiving. We're going to go through that.

Also, we got a lot of trivia today. We're going to give out some copies of my book, Our Daily Biscuit, Devotions with a Drawl. That is, we have gotten so many comments about that book. It's my first non-political book, and it's going pretty well. As a matter of fact, I was down at the local bookstore.

Only two copies left on the bookshelves there.

So here is a trivia question. We make this pretty simple. All you have to do is get the question right, and you win. All right, here we go. Who says the Thanksgiving meal prayer in a Charlie Brown Thanksgiving?

So there is a prayer delivered right before the Thanksgiving meal in a Charlie Brown Thanksgiving. We want to know which character delivers that prayer.

So if you know, give us a call, 844-747-8868. That's 844-747-8868. We got a lot of news to get through. Also, folks, we're going to share with you the true meaning of Thanksgiving.

so we want you to gather your youngsters around the around the radio around the smartphone and we're going to share with them the story they're not going to hear about in their public schools again who says that thanksgiving meal prayer in a charlie brown thanksgiving 844-747-8868 is our telephone number our website is toddsterns.com and we are live on thanksgiving eve this is the Todd Stearns Show. There's no doubt the nation is facing a financial crisis because of the Biden administration's economic policies. Hi, this is Todd Stearns, and no doubt our economy is in trouble and you need to take steps to protect yourself.

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All right. Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Todd Stearns Radio Program. We are live from our flagship radio station, KWAM in Memphis, Tennessee. Hope you're getting ready to have a terrific Thanksgiving celebration tomorrow.

Let's go to the phones, 844-747-8868. We're going to start in Hendersonville, North Carolina. Barbara is listening to us on WHKP. Hi, Barbara. How are you today?

Well, hi, Todd. I'm doing well. Thank you. I hope you are. I am.

Now, Barbara, tell me about the big Thanksgiving feast that you guys are going to be taking part in. Are you doing a lot of cooking for this one? Yes, I am. In fact, right now I'm making cornbread for the dressing tomorrow.

So, yeah, I'm doing a lot of prep today so that tomorrow won't be a big thing.

So no stovetop stuffing at Barbara's table? Oh, no, of course not. Never. I love it.

So what's on the menu?

So if you've got the cornbread dressing, you're heading in the right direction here. Yes, and of course gravy, turkey. We're also having ham. We're having mashed potatoes. We're having green beans, cranberry salad, pumpkin roll.

That's the one thing. And deviled eggs. Oh, you can't go wrong with deviled eggs. I love those things. But I've never heard of a pumpkin roll before.

What's that?

Well, it's just a thin cake layer that you make with pumpkin. And, you know, cook it, and then you roll it up until it cools. and then you unroll it and use a cream cheese, powdered sugar, butter concoction that you spread on it, then you roll it back up, and then you slice it, you know. Wow. Barbara, you're going to have to set an extra plate at the table.

I'll have to do the map quest to see how far it is from Hendersonville to Memphis.

Well, you're sure welcome. Barbara, let's try to win you a prize here. We're doing some Thanksgiving-themed trivia, and we started out with the Charlie Brown Thanksgiving. There was actually a prayer delivered during that segment. Who delivered that prayer, Barbara?

Was it Lina?

Well, let's go to the audio and see. In the year 1621, the Pilgrims held their first Thanksgiving feast. They invited the great Indian chief, Massa Soit, who brought 90 of his brave Indians and a great abundance of food. Governor William Bradford and Captain Miles Standish were honored guests. Elder William Brewster, who was a minister, said a prayer that went something like this.

We thank God for our homes and our food and our safety in a new land. We thank God for the opportunity to create a new world for freedom and justice. Amen. And Barbara, it turns out that you are correct. Fantastic.

It was indeed Linus. I love those old cartoons. They don't make them like that anymore, Barbara. No, they don't.

Well, Barbara, we're going to put you on hold, and I'm going to send you a copy of my latest book, Our Daily Biscuit, Devotions with a Draw. It's got some great recipes in there, but it sounds like you may need to write your own cookbook. No, I will certainly try your recipes because I try lots of new recipes.

So, yes, that will be such a blessing. Thank you so much, Todd.

Well, you're welcome, Barbara. Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family.

Well, happy Thanksgiving to you, and thank you again. You have a very blessed day. All right, hang tight, Barbara, and we're going to get you a copy of our daily biscuit devotions with a drawl. And, folks, look, we want to hear from you as well. It's going to be a leisurely show today.

We have some great guests coming up, but we want to know what are you doing for Thanksgiving? What's going to be on that big Thanksgiving table? Do you and your family have any sorts of traditions? Give us a call, 844-747-8868. That's 844-747-8868.

So Mike Pompeo is making some news. Pompeo's looking at a run for the White House. And I think the guy would make a great president. I'm not sure he's going to do well against Trump. I mean, the polling data out there, nobody's beating Trump.

Not even Ron DeSantis. But Pompeo is making some headlines and ruffling feathers. Pompeo did an interview with Semaphore, and this publication asked him about the most dangerous person in the world.

Now, when you ask the former Secretary of State, who do you think the most dangerous person in the world is, you immediately think of, I don't know, Putin. You might be thinking about Chairman Kim from North Korea, Xi Jinping, the most dangerous person in the world. But that's not who Pompeo picked. As a matter of fact, Pompeo said the most dangerous person in the world is Randy Weingarten, the leader of the Teachers Union here in the United States of America. And that has triggered every union worker in the country.

But Pompeo actually has a very good point here. As I pointed out and wrote this a couple of years ago back in 2019 in my book, Culture Jihad, that the radical leftists were actually using our nation's public education system to advance their radical agenda.

So in essence, the reason why our country has changed so radically over such a short amount of time is because of the indoctrination that's happening inside our public school classrooms.

Now, many moms and dads, you weren't aware. You had plenty of stuff to do. I mean, you send your kids, just like grandma and grandpa and great-grandma and great-grandpa, you sent your kids to school, and they had a school marm, a teacher, and you learned your lessons. You learned how to add and subtract, and you learned how to read and write. You learned about dissecting a frog.

Little boys went to shop class, and they learned how to change tires and change the oil and how to build shelves, and little girls learned how to make delicious pancakes and waffles with blueberries on top. That's how life was in America. And you know what? We won world wars when we had an education system like that. And if you made a mistake, you screwed up.

It wasn't the teacher's fault. You got your butt spanked in the school, and then you got it twice as hard once you got home. And guess what? Generations of American boys and girls grew up. They became patriots.

They became hardworking taxpayers, respectable citizens and community leaders. And they don't do that anymore.

Now you go to school, your poor kid comes home, and they don't even know what their pronouns are.

So I think Pompeo is right here when he says that the most dangerous person in the world is the leader of the teachers union right here in the United States of America. Our public schools have destabilized our country, folks. I'll give you an example. When you go back to 2008 and there was the raging debate over gay marriage in California, right? Not Tennessee, not Mississippi, California.

As a matter of fact, when the vote on Prop 8, which is what it was called, when the vote, when the people went and they had their say at the ballot box, the people of California, not Mississippi, not Tennessee, not Georgia, California voted down gay marriage. That was back in 2008. they were so afraid of a similar proposition failing in New York State that the lawmakers intervened and decided they weren going to give the people of New York a say on the matter So how do we go from 2008 to where we are now where you have companies openly promoting pedophilia and pornography, child pornography, on social media? How did that happen?

Well, the answer is very simple. It happened inside our taxpayer-funded classrooms. And many of you folks were checked out until the pandemic hit. And then all of a sudden, everybody's stuck at home, and you've got nothing else to do, so you're watching what your kids are learning on the Zoom, and you realize, wait, wait, what? You're teaching them what?

And this is why so many people are coming out of these public schools, and they're socialists, they're pledging their allegiance to communism, They don't know their pronouns. And they want the complete destruction of the United States as we know it. That's what's happening.

So I agree with Mike Pompeo. If you're looking at the most dangerous person in the world, it is the head of the teachers union. And we've got to do something about this, ladies and gentlemen. If we do not, we are going to lose this country. I have hope in America.

I believe that we the people will do the right thing, but it's going to be an uphill climb. What say you? Who do you think the most dangerous person in the world is? 844-747-8868. That's our toll-free telephone number.

That's 844-747-8868. Now, Grace Baker, you left me some artwork here in the studio. This is very clever. I didn't realize you were that artistic. I missed my calling.

No, art by grace is what it's called. I had to leave a signature.

Well, I took a photograph of this. It's up on the Instagram page. Oh, no. Folks, you got to follow us on Instagram, Todd Stearns FNC. I got one of the little blue check marks or whatever.

It says, gobble, gobble, Biden. Yes. I love it.

It's our, you know, president. That's why I gave him a little top hat. He's a turkey. He's a turkey. Oh, I get it now.

Yeah. Very well done. Yeah, there it is.

Well, folks, during the break, go over to the Instagram and check out the great artwork that Grace Baker left here. Good to have you back from vacation and the sick leave. Yes, that was rough. I'm glad to be well for Thanksgiving. Apparently, the flu is like sweeping through Memphis right now.

Yeah, well, I got it in Florida, that's for sure. Which is not good. All right, folks, we've got to take a break here, pay some bills. Got to tell you about our friends over at Patriot Mobile, America's only conservative wireless carrier. carrier, and they're also a Christian-owned company.

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award information, visit jdpower.com slash awards. grace baker i'm curious uh does the uh the baker family do they uh do they watch the big thanksgiving day parade the macy's thanksgiving day parade well i have younger brothers so it's normally like on in the background but it's definitely not something we you know what as a younger kid i watched it i would sit down and watch it and i always liked seeing the big floats and santa at the end so you know it wasn't until a couple of years ago and i think it was with kinky boots when they had the big huge performance by the cast of kinky boots oh boy and you know you got the little kids you know in front of the tv because you know they they want to see the big you know, floats and the balloons. And all of a sudden, Kinky Boots comes on, and, you know, Mommy and Daddy are having to have some difficult questions around the supper table. See, I always hated it when they had the theater performances. I was like, I just want to see the floats.

I don't care about this stuff. This year's parade is going to feature the Queer Big Apple Corps. No. Oh, yeah, 200 strong. The Queer Big Apple Corps, formerly known as the lesbian and gay Big Apple Corps.

Oh, so they shortened it a little bit. I think they wanted to be more inclusive. Oh, that's true. They've got to get the 97 other genders in there. That's a lot.

It's hard to fit those on a t-shirt. Yeah, you got that right.

So they had to shorten it. They are the world's only curtsy.

So they do a curtsy. Of course they do. Of course they do. Since its formation in 1979, the band has represented the LGBTQIA plus community, and it brought the sound of love and joy to audiences across the fruited plain. It's the 43rd anniversary of the queer Big Apple Corps.

Why'd they have to call it an Apple Corps? You got me on that one. You got me on that one. So just a heads up, ladies and gentlemen, in case, you know, the kids are wondering, Mommy, what is a queer Big Apple?

So, I mean, they're going to, kids are going to want to know. You know, this does not come naturally to the children.

So anyway, God forbid, we don't know. No, we don't know if we're going to have any, like, LGBT balloons. We do not know. We'll find out, though. We'll research that for you.

I mean, do you think it's like a giant apple core? I don't know. I mean, it could be like, I don't know, Elton John, a big inflatable Elton John. Oh, my gosh. I don't know.

Or a drag queen. You know, I half expected there to be drag queens marching in this year's parade. Oh, man. I would think so, too, but I don't know.

So the musical entertainment, I don't know who any of these people are. I'm going to run these by you.

Okay, I'm going to try. Pitch Perfect, Bumper in Berlin. I know Pitch Perfect, like the movie series.

Somebody named Betty who, I guess, is she a girl? Yeah. She's a she. She's a girl. Can't tell.

All right. Big Time Rush. Yep. Know them. Wow.

It's a boy band.

Okay.

Someone named Blanco Brown. I know that name.

Someone named Cam. The country singer. Oh, Dionne Warwick. I know her. She's good.

I don't know. Grace, don't even get me started. Fitz and the Tantrums. Yes. I know them.

All right. I think they're going to be on the Lego float. And then Gloria Estefan is going to be there with her munchkins, her little kids. And, oh, this is nice. Jordan Sparks.

Wasn't she from, like, American Idol or something? Yes, American Idol. And somebody named Josh Stone. I don't know Josh Stone. She's going to be on the Hallmark Channel float.

Oh. And Kirk Franklin. Oh, yeah.

Of course I know Kirk Franklin. Oh, Miss America's going to be there, too. Oh. There you go.

So, see, there's some names you know. There are some people. Paula Abdul. You've got to do – oh, of course, Paula. Do you know – ooh, Trombone Shorty.

Who? And Orleans Avenue. I have no idea. Oh, okay. I don't know.

It's a brass band. Gotcha.

So, anyway, there you go. That's your Thanksgiving. You know, I had to cover that when I was in New York City, when I worked at Fox News Channel. Was that horrible or funny? It was entertaining, but there's not much – I mean, you know, you're standing along the parade route.

The only people who can sit in the stands are Macy's employees and their families. Really?

Oh, yeah.

And that's kind of a nice thing they do for the Macy's workers. But everybody else, you've got to stand up. And so you're there for hours. And I remember I was over at Columbus Avenue, and I was able to sneak out. I just need to get a photograph and do a screenshot.

And I remember the police officer let me out, but then he locked me out.

So I was literally in the parade. Oh, well, not everyone can say that. No, I'm like, holy cow, because bearing down on me was the giant SpongeBob inflatable balloon. I thought you were going to get stuck on the Sesame Street parade float. No, no, no.

So anyway, there's a great photograph on the Facebook page somewhere of this giant SpongeBob square pants dude looming over me as I'm reporting there in New York City. I bet that was a little terrifying. It was weird, but I'll tell you, my new office, so we got new offices at Fox. And my new office, you can actually sit on the, I think it was the 28th floor, and you could actually watch the balloons just pass by. It was a great vantage point.

That is a great benefit. It was pretty nice, actually. All right, look, we've got to take a break here and pay some bills. Top of the hour news. Another trivia question we're going to throw out for you.

This is for all of you folks out there who might know your Thanksgiving history. What city is home to the oldest Thanksgiving parade? the city with the oldest Thanksgiving parade. Is it New York City? Is it Chicago or Philadelphia?

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This American ride. Todd Starnes. Oh, yeah.

And hello, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the Todd Starnes Radio Show on this Thanksgiving Eve edition. Hope you're doing great wherever you might be today. And get ready for big doings tomorrow.

So save your appetite, America. You're going to have a lot of eating to do tomorrow. By the way, coming up in just a little while, We're going to be talking to our good friend, Dr. Paul Champel from Lancaster Baptist Church. They're doing something very clever and very unique and something that your church ought to be doing.

They're educating kids about great Americans, talking about our history, our founding fathers.

So we're going to be talking with Pastor Champel a little bit later on about that. In the meantime, we gave out a trivia. We're doing a lot of trivia today, and we threw out a question right before we had to take a break. I want to go to the phones. Let's talk to Tony in Gainesville, Georgia.

Hi, Tony. How are you today?

Fine, Todd. How about yourself? Tony, doing well. Doing well. Thank you for asking.

All right. Well, here is the question we have on the table. We want to know which city is home to the oldest Thanksgiving parade. Is it New York? Is it Philadelphia or Chicago?

Well, I thought it might be Detroit, but that wasn't one of the answers. for the famous department store there. I forget the name of it now, but Hudson's Department Store. But I just guessed Philadelphia. Yeah, that's it.

Philadelphia started in 1924, by the way. I'm sorry, 1920. And it was a famous department store. It was Gimbel's, which you might remember is the department store in the Miracle on 34th Street, the competing department store against Macy's. Yes, sir.

And the first, believe it or not, the first Thanksgiving parade, Tony, only had 50 people, 15 cars, and a firefighter dressed like Santa Claus.

So there you go.

So those were the good old days. Yes, sir. All right. Well, Tony, we're going to put you on hold, and you just won yourself a copy of our Daily Biscuit Devotions with a Draw. Thank you for playing.

Let's go to Gene in Iowa. Gene has a question. Gene, what's on your mind?

Well, I'm going to ask you if you're going to do a promo and do a great turkey drop down there in Memphis. Gene, this is a terrific question you ask. And you're, of course, referring to the Great Turkey Drop, sponsored by WKRP in Cincinnati back in the day, one of the best comedy bits in TV history, in my estimation. Yeah, I figured that, you know, you need some light stuff on your show because the way things are going in the country right now is such a downer, you know. You know, we thought about it, and fortunately, Kyle is the one who really talked us out of it, because I said, guys, what do you think?

What if we get a helicopter? We can rent a helicopter. We can hover it over the broadcast center, and we can throw turkeys out. And Kyle was like, well, he goes, isn't that against the law? I mean, Joe Biden?

You're going to throw Joe Biden out the helicopter? Yeah, that might be an issue. That might be an issue. Yeah, I don't need PETA folks knocking on the front door, Gene. I've got enough problems as is.

Well, you've got to find a herb to take care of them. Yes. You know, Gene, WKRP is back on Netflix or somebody. He's got WKRP in Cincinnati. But there was a big problem with the music because, you know, they used to play music, rock music, as a part of the show.

And they made them take all the music out. And it's just not as good. no it's not as good it's not as good it makes me sad to think of so many of the actors are gone you know uh tim reed and uh our art hessman is lonnie anderson still with us i can't remember if she's uh i believe she is uh uh yeah i believe she's still with us and uh jam smithers is still with us but uh and i took it kind of hard when i trying to remember his name mr carlson but it's that real name when he passed away i don't know it just kind of hit me kind of hard because i really enjoyed him well he was he was a great character actor back in the day you know who is still alive is les nesman uh richard sanders is still living yeah yeah and uh there's times whenever you kind of remind me of him okay we're we're gonna hang up on you now you're gonna say goodbye okay oh gene come on really well i would be in the helicopter throwing the turkeys out the window that's what i would be doing oh you'd be up there like urban and mr carl what was the great line as god as i my witness i thought turkeys could fly yes yes that was the line by the way They can fly, at least Wildman can.

Well, there you go. There you go.

WKRP in Cincinnati. It was a great, great TV show from the 70s, folks. And I would tell you to go and check it out, but I don't want you to see what they've done to it by stripping all the music out. That's just terrible. By the way, Gordon Jump was the guy who played the general manager.

He played Arthur Carlson. Hey, Gene, appreciate the call. Thank you for listening. Happy Thanksgiving to you. Folks, we're going to make an open line Friday, even though it's Wednesday.

844-747-8868 is our toll-free telephone number. That's 844-747-8868. Now, it's interesting because when you go back in American history, and if you remember what you learned about the Pilgrims and their journey across the Atlantic Ocean to Plymouth Rock, It's really more of a sanitized version of what happened. And even in the most conservative of schools, the telling of the pilgrims and the first Thanksgiving, it really portrays the Indians as the rock stars. And our good friend Rush Limbaugh, every Thanksgiving would take a segment from his program, And he would talk about the true story of Thanksgiving in America.

And it's a fascinating story because, yes, the Indians were very instrumental and very helpful to the pilgrims. But there's much more to the story, and there's a lot the Indians were not a part of. And honestly, the reason why the pilgrims flourished had nothing to do with the Indians, as Rush Limbaugh once told us.

So I want to share with you, just for a few moments here, the true story of Thanksgiving and what happened as that little band of pilgrims came across to this country and many of them died. Many of them did not survive the journey. Those who did, there was disease. There was starvation. It was a terrible time.

I mean, it was a miracle, just a miracle that any of them survived. But when they made that journey, there was a decision made by all of the pilgrims there in that tiny little boat called the Mayflower. And that document they all agreed on was called the Mayflower Compact. And this was basically the set-upon rules, the agreed-upon rules, the laws that would govern their colony once they got to the New World. It was very interesting because when you go back and read the Mayflower Compact, you realize right away that all of the laws they came up with were pulled from the Holy Bible, from the Old Testament, and from the New Testament.

You see, in our public education system today, they don't want you to know that our founding fathers, the pilgrims who came to this country, did so on a religious journey. These were people that were being persecuted for not following the tenets and the teachings of the Church of England. These were people that wanted to come and practice their religion in the New World. And they set up this compact, this agreement, that they would abide by these rules and regulations that came from the Scriptures. And it's all well documented, and you can read it for yourself.

But again, when they came here, they were not super wealthy people. Many of them had no money at all. Many of them had investors. They had business owners that funded the journey, and they were expecting to be paid. They wanted a payment for their services.

They covered the cost of the ship and the captain and all the sailors. They financed the journey. And so once the pilgrims got settled, they had to figure out a way to repay what they owed. And so right away, they came up with this idea that there would be one bank, there would be one store, and everybody would have an equal portion. It didn't matter how hard you worked.

It didn't matter if you didn't work at all, because everybody got the same equal portion of everything. But there was one problem with that. And by the way, I believe today we call that sort of collectivism socialism. But there was a big problem because it turned out that nobody was doing anything. And there was no incentive to work hard.

There was no incentive to get up and go the extra mile. And William Bradford, who was the governor of the colony, finally realized they had a great big problem. And they had to fix it, otherwise they would all die. They would perish. You see, nobody owned anything.

Everything belonged to the community. Everything belonged to the common store. It was basically an early version of a commune. That's what it was.

So Branford is the governor of this colony, and he realizes, hey, something's not working here. And so they came up with a plan B, because clearly this version of socialism was not working, where everybody gets an equal portion.

So what did they do?

Well, they divided up the land. Everybody got a plot of land. Every family was given a plot of land. And they could do whatever they wanted to with that plot of land. They could build a hotel.

They could build a farm. They could build a house. They could do whatever they wanted to do. It was on them. If somebody wanted to turn it into a store or a restaurant or a diner, they were free to do that.

In essence, what William Bradford was doing was unleashing capitalism. They didn't call it that. They didn't know that that was what they were doing. But this was capitalism in action. As Rush said, long before Karl Marx was even born, long before Karl Marx was a sperm cell in his father's dreams, the pilgrims had discovered and experimented with what could only be described as socialism.

And they found it didn't work.

Now, it wasn't called that then, but that's exactly what it was. Everybody given an equal share. You know what happened? Nobody did anything. There was no incentive.

Nothing worked. Nothing happened. and so William Bradford after putting everybody in a common store they wanted to be fair they wanted everybody to at least have a shot at survival but it did not work there was no prosperity there was no creativity and again because there was no incentive to be creative and that's why they came up with this idea of letting every man be his own man to live in those early days the American dream. And that's really what they were celebrating on that first Thanksgiving because they were able to pay off their debts.

Soon people in the old world were beginning to hear about the prosperity that was happening in the new world, and they came here. And it was that early beginning where we almost lost what would have been America because of socialism that the pilgrims embraced capitalism. And as a result, they were able to flourish. Were the Indians a big part of that? Yes, they were.

They taught the pilgrims how to fish and farm to live off the land. But that's not why they flourished. That's not why they succeeded. It was because of the introduction of this idea in its infancy called capitalism. And that's really what they were celebrating on that first Thanksgiving.

The first Thanksgiving that became one of hundreds as we now celebrate the most exceptional nation on earth. And what a great thing that Rush Limbaugh brought to the radio airwaves and one that a story that we plan to continue to share in the years to come on this program, noon to three, Eastern. All right, we've got to take a break here as we do another trivia question. I told you we got a lot of trivia questions. Grace Maker working very hard today.

Which president made Thanksgiving a permanent national holiday? Who was that? Which president made Thanksgiving a permanent national holiday? 844-747-8868. That is our toll-free telephone number.

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Limited time offer cannot be combined with other offers. See additional terms at OnePeloton.com. all right folks welcome back to the todd stearns radio show happy to have you with us today uh let's go to the phones let's go to the beautiful state of maine wlob dina is on the line hi dina how are you today hello dina all right let's go to kathy uh kathy in georgia kathy how are you i'm doing well wonderful now kathy are you getting ready for thanksgiving what's on the the menu for tomorrow oh the usual turkey we've got about uh 15 16 people coming and And everyone's bringing the side dishes, but I'm in the middle of making dressing right now. Oh, you've got to make the dressing. And that is a labor-intensive project.

Yes, it is. But it's worth it.

Now, Kathy, do you do the cornbread in the cast-iron skillet? I have to have a bigger. I don't have a cast-iron skillet as big. But mine is part bread and part cornbread. Oh, that's interesting.

I'm from the West, and that's how we kind of do it.

So a little half and half there. Mm-hmm. All right. Well, there you go. I love it.

I've never heard of that. I'm going to have to try that one of these days.

Well, Canty, let's try to win you a prize. The question, which president made Thanksgiving a permanent national holiday? Who was that? This is a guess, but I thought it was Abraham Lincoln. Oh, that's a good guess, Kathy.

You're right. Honest Abe. October 3rd, 1863, and he declared that we would celebrate Thanksgiving on November 26th. And so the very first Thanksgiving was November 26th, 1863. Congratulations.

Thank you. Kathy, we're going to put you on hold, and Grace is going to get all of your info. we're going to send you a copy of my latest book, Our Daily Biscuit, Devotions with a Drawl.

So there you go.

And by the way, folks, if you haven't been over to the store, now is a great time to check that out. You know, we have Cyber Monday coming up. That is a wonderful opportunity for you to purchase some great items, maybe get a copy of one of my books. I think all seven of the books that I've written are there. And you can get yourself a copy or buy one for your loved one.

We also have some pretty awesome tumblers and mugs too Again that ToddStearns All right we got to take a break When we come back we going to be talking to our good friend Pastor Paul Chappell from Lancaster, California. They're doing something pretty cool to educate boys and girls about great Americans, and we're going to tell you all about that. All right, stick around, folks. It is Thanksgiving Eve here on the Todd Stearns Radio Show. All right.

The Germantown Fire Department asked me to pass along a message to all of America here. Whatever you do, please do not put a frozen turkey into a vat of boiling oil. Do not do that. Otherwise, you're going to be celebrating Thanksgiving down at the homeless shelter and possibly the burn unit.

So you've got to be careful with those deep-fried turkeys. It's going to be tough. By the way, Grace Baker, I was checking out the forecast, and they were warning people it could be a rainy Thanksgiving. Oh, man. So you might have to roast that turkey instead of the deep-fryer.

That's always a bummer. We're doing a smoked pork butt, too. Wow. So multi-protein Thanksgiving at the Stearns family. You've got options.

We have plenty of options. I'm bringing the pies. Oh, yeah.

You're covered with the pies. We're covered with the pies. We're going to call you Mr. Pie Man. I love it.

All right. Thanks, Grace. And let's go to the Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line, a good friend of this program, the pastor at Lancaster Baptist Church, president of West Coast Baptist College, our good friend, Dr. Paul Chappell. Hey, Dr.

Chappell. Happy Thanksgiving to you. Happy Thanksgiving to you, Todd.

Sounds like you're going to eat well this week. Probably not as good as you guys, though. Mrs. Chappell is not only an incredible chef, but she's also a cookbook author.

So I have to imagine you guys are going to have quite the spread.

Well, she's trying some new recipes out.

So we're all excited to see what it's going to be.

Now, how many people, I'm just curious here, how many people are going to be at the big Thanksgiving gathering that you guys are hosting?

Well, we're over 30. I know that much. and there's usually friends that get brought in, so she always cooks for an extra 10 or 12. And how many grandkids now? We have 11 grandkids, and so they'll be front and center.

Oh, that's great. That's great.

Well, Dr. Chappell, I was on social media the other day, and I saw some pictures of a big event that you guys do annually, and it is such a clever thing because it's teaching kids about some of the great Americans, and some of our great patriots, and I want you to tell our listeners what you guys do there.

Well, we have a wonderful K-12 Christian school, and of course, it's such a blessing, especially with all of the woke issues and really sin issues in the public school system. And so the children are taught not only to know and to love God, but to know and love their country. And every one of the children, K-6, is allowed to pick a great American. We give them a list of about 100, ranging from Booker T. Washington to George Washington to Neil Armstrong.

And they write a report on their favorite American, and then they dress the part and come to school. They give speeches, they sing songs, and then they bring their best work to the entire church family. And it's just a great night to remember our Christian heritage and the great patriots as well that have made our country great. This is such a refreshing thing to hear, because in a lot of public schools around the country, Dr. Chappell, many of our founding fathers and our great patriots that have made America exceptional are looked down on or they're frowned upon or in some cases just completely erased.

Yes, they're being banned. And the fact of the matter is that the people that are banning these great Americans have just as many or more flaws as did the great Americans. And it's absolutely ridiculous to mark people out of history who carved our country into existence, who sacrificed in wars and in difficult times to make our country what it is. And so we encourage the young people to learn about the good things that they did. And we're glad to have discussions about perhaps some things that took place that should not be repeated, but we're not going to just wipe away all of our history.

and revise it at our own whims. And it's a great country that we live in, and we have been blessed with just such a heritage of people, even this holiday, the fact that Abraham Lincoln and, of course, others prior determined that we should stop as a nation and be thankful, and not just to one another, but to be thankful to our Creator. And this is the type of nation that we're blessed to live in, and we want our children to celebrate it. When you look back on the writings of William Bradford and some of the early pilgrims knowing that they felt like they were on a mission for God, that God wanted them to come to this country to establish the colony, and to see that Mayflower Compact with all of the teachings from the Bible governing how they would conduct themselves in the New World. That's something that they don't teach in public schools.

No, but it's a fact, and this is why our founders came. They were seeking religious liberty, and to try to create the idea that they were all just profiteering and seeking to make money or seeking to colonialize from the standpoint of just gaining territory for themselves is completely the opposite of what really happened. And these people came here with the fear of God in their hearts, and they expressed that even on that first Thanksgiving when so many who had come originally had died during the rough winters. They still paused and gave thanks to God. It shows really the depth of their faith.

You know, one of the things I really love about Lancaster is that it's really almost a throwback to the way it was meant to be, where the churches were places where children attended school, where they were educated. And, you know, looking back at Harvard University, which was meant to train up preacher boys, and Lord knows they're not doing that these days. Right. But it's something exciting, not just with the K-12 school, but also with the Bible college. That's right.

Well, Jonathan Witherspoon, who was the first president at Princeton, said, curse it be all learning that is not subject to the cross of Jesus Christ. And we really believe that Jesus needs to be at the center of education, and that includes the young people, that includes, of course, the students in the Bible College, and we're just thrilled that over 3,000 of our graduates are out in the pastorate working as assistant pastors, missionaries, and so forth. And in California, I'm curious, how is the K-12 school. How is that accepted in the community there? It's accepted well.

In fact, I drive by some public schools on the way to the church every day, and I really wonder, how can parents even put their children into a school that's going to cause them to question something as basic as their identity as a person? And how can they put them into a school that's going to teach them, not always, but sometimes to disrespect authority, including police officers and so forth? And so a large number of families are grateful for private Christian education and take advantage of it. And you've got some great sports programs, too. I hear the football team did well this year.

They did well. We went to the semi-playoffs and lost on a cold Friday night, last Friday night, to Hesperia Christian. But our boys had a great season. They finished the season 10-3 and had a great testimony for the Lord, and we're thankful for that. Pastor, I love Lancaster.

I just don't get the weather over there. I mean, it's, you know, y'all are in the high desert. It's like 112, and then at night it's 30 degrees. Yeah. I don't understand.

We get a big swing. We'll get a 40-degree swing, 50 degrees sometimes. But it's a beautiful day today, and we're thankful for the season of Thanksgiving and thankful for the crisp weather and looking forward to celebrating what God has done.

Now, if people want to get information on the Great Americans program, Where should they go to get more info on that and how to do that? They could go to the LancasterBaptist.org, and they'll find some of the pictures and writings there and also a link to Lancaster Baptist School. And if it's an educator or a homeschooler that's listening, they could feel free to call our school office to find out more about the curriculum and more about the different ones that the students write about. What a great idea.

Well, Pastor, we're going to leave it there, and just hope you and Mrs. Chappell and the family have a great Thanksgiving. You as well, Todd. Happy Thanksgiving to you and all of your listeners. All right.

Pastor Paul Chappell, everybody, from Lancaster Baptist Church, West Coast Baptist College. They also have a K-12 Christian school all there on the same campus, and it's just unbelievable. If you want information on this Great Americans program, and as you heard Pastor Chappell say, if you're a private Christian school or maybe you're home School. They have some great information for you at LancasterBaptist.org, and we're going to post that on our live show blog. All right, 844-747-8868.

Grace, let's do another trivia question here. This is regarding live critters. We need to know which president received a live raccoon as a Thanksgiving present. I will be stunned if anyone just knows this right off the top of their mind, but a president received a live raccoon as a Thanksgiving gift. Who was that?

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Let's go to Randy in Pennsylvania. Randy, I hope you're doing well today. Doing great.

Well, fantastic.

So, Randy, we've got a trivia question out on the table, and it involves a certain president who is, Grace Baker, why are you laughing at me? Because it's a difficult question. It is a difficult question. And it's a funny, once you know the story, it's pretty hilarious as well. And I'm trying to find my sheet.

It's okay. I got it. I got it handled. All right. So, Randy, we're going to let Grace handle this.

Where did I put the last trivia questions? It's okay. It's okay. It's the day before Thanksgiving.

So here's the question. Which president received a live raccoon as a Thanksgiving present? Do you have the answer, Randy?

Well, I'm going to take a guess just because he was an outdoor kind of guy. Teddy Roosevelt. Oh, Randy, I'm sorry. That is a great guess. I would have actually guessed that, Randy, but that's incorrect.

Grace, let's go to Tom in North Carolina. Hi, Tom. How are you? Hey, Todd Starnes. What's going on?

Well, you're hanging out with Grace Baker and myself because I've lost my notes here. I don't know what has happened here. Tom, Grace is going to take it from here. Yes. Tom, I'm just going to repeat the question, and I'm going to let you have the floor.

Which president received a live raccoon as a Thanksgiving present? Well, let me let Floyd answer this one, okay? Because Calvin Coolidge was my president. And Andy would say, well, Floyd, Calvin Coolidge didn't say everything. But yes, he did.

By the way, Todd, do you need a haircut?

So Grace is free to... I'll go with Calvin Coolidge. Yeah, that's right. And the Andy Griffith Show impressions get you bonus points. Hey!

Oh, and I got another bonus. I go to church with Lockwood, whom we all love dearly, right? Yes, Lockwood owns The Talk Station. The Talk Station. Wait a minute.

In North Carolina? And the raccoon's name was Rebecca. It was a female raccoon. That is correct. Wow.

Do you know where she came from? What state? Oh, golly. Ooh, I got you stumped. He's already won twice.

I know, I know. We're going to give you the book, but just as an extra little tidbit, she came from Mississippi. Mississippi, wow. And the kicker there, I found my notes, Grace Baker. Oh, about time.

It turns out Rebecca, the raccoon, was meant to be served for Thanksgiving dinner at the White House in 1926.

Something tells me it was not served. I'll just leave it there. Wow. This is awesome. Happy Thanksgiving to you, Todd.

I'm a faithful listener. Listening right now on the app, on the KWAM app that I downloaded, plus when I'm in the car, I have it on 107.1 D Talk Station, WTKF. And we love you guys.

well tom we appreciate you and happy thanksgiving i want you to hang tight for me though i'm going to get your information off the air we don't want to give that out and we're going to get you a signed daily biscuit book okay all right thank you grace all right hang on time don't go anywhere golly you know what it is grace i've this the weather change we've been like in the 20s and now it's the what's going to be 50 degrees yes no 65 today like literally i was in florida and it was 80-something degrees, and I come back, and it's 30. I'm like, what happened? My voice is shot, and flu is raging across the area, so I'm trying to keep it together so we can get through, soldier through the show. We've got to keep you well. I will take possible home remedies if people have some.

I've been doing the tea, the organic tea stuff, and I'm not sure that actually is working. It just keeps your throat warm. Oh, is that what it does? All right, very good.

Well, thank you, Grace Baker. This news coming from the White House, ladies and gentlemen, and the World Health Organization. White House was very concerned that the word monkeypox was offensive to minority groups, to people of color.

So the White House has petitioned the World Health Organization to rename monkeypox. This is according to a report from Politico. According to the Biden administration, they believe that a monkeypox carries an unnecessary stigma for people of color. The monkeypox outbreak, by the way, is now a global health emergency. And the WHO says they understand the White House's concerns and they are going to rename monkeypox.

Now it's going to be called MPOX, as in M-Pox, as in M-Bom.

So M-Pox, the letter M-P-O-X. And at this point, you have to wonder, okay, well, what's next? I mean, what else will the Biden administration demand to be renamed because it might be offensive, and I'm still not quite sure I understand, why the Biden administration believes the word monkeypox would be offensive to people of color. They have yet to explain that. It seems to me that that says more about their thinking and their personal prejudices than it does ours.

But anyway, I do wonder if they're going to consider actually renaming smallpox because it might be offensive to the little people. I mean, just something to think about there. Interesting story out of San Francisco, and it involves a person who was the head honcho of their election board. This guy had been on the job for 20-plus years, and now he has been fired from his job. His name is John Arntz.

Mr. Arntz, just over the past year, managed over five elections here in San Francisco. And by all accounts, you did a good job. There have been no national scandals, nothing. All the votes get counted on Election Day.

And I don't know if this guy's a Democrat or a Republican. I have no idea. But anyway, the guy got fired. And here's the reason why. The city's election commission says they need to give the job to a non-white person.

So here you have a guy. He's been on the job 20-plus years, doing a great job. But because he is of the Caucasian persuasion, the city's election commission is giving him the heave ho. San Francisco says it's part of a racial equity plan. But even some Democrats are pretty upset about this.

Supervisor, which is their city council position, Supervisor Aaron Paskin, says the decision to boot Mr. Arntz was malfeasance. Even Mayor London Breed is going, what the heck are you people doing? I mean, folks, did you think that you would ever see a time in American history where a person would be fired because they just happen to be white? This is what's happening in San Francisco, hiring people for the color of their skin instead of their ability to do the job.

This is not a dream, ladies and gentlemen. This is a real-time nightmare.

So my question is, where do you draw the line? I mean, at what point do you – I mean, if we're talking about racial equity, are they going to step in and tell the NBA team in San Francisco or the NFL team they've got to fire a bunch of black players for racial equity?

Something tells me it doesn't go like that. All right, we've got to take a break here. 844-747-8868. That is our toll-free telephone number. This is the Todd Starnes Radio Show.

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I love this American ride. Stop, Grace. Just stop it. It's Thanksgiving Eve. What can I tell you?

You're just having too much of a good time over there. No, I'm completely discombobulated and somewhat unorganized today. Hey, listen. I put everything in the folders, but if you mess them up after that, I can't tell you. Oh, no, it's on me.

I'm telling you. I'm an organized individual. Goodness. Welcome, everybody, to the Todd Starnes Radio Program. I told you we should have taken the day off, Grace.

We've got a lot going on today, this hour of the program. We're going to be taking your calls. We have some great Thanksgiving trivia coming up. But I want to go right now to the Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line. Our good friend from the 14th Congressional District in Pennsylvania, Congressman Guy Rushenthaler.

Congressman, happy Thanksgiving to you. Todd, happy Thanksgiving to you, too. and please, as always, just call me Guy.

Well, you're kind to say that, but I just, you know, you've earned the spot, Congressman. And I just, I don't know, it kind of feels weird just to call you Guy. But I am curious, though, about Thanksgiving. You guys going to have a big spread this year? We are.

We're going to my mother's house. My brother came in from out of town with his wife and kids. And I have pheasants that are on the Traeger as we speak, wrapped in bacon, that I shot on Monday.

So I'm adding wild game to the menu come tomorrow. Is that right?

So, yeah, you know, we were talking in the Starnes household, we're smoking a pork butt to go with the turkey, but so it's pheasants for you guys. Yes, so we're going to have the turkey, of course, and, you know, you got it because we're German, you got to have the red cabbage there. But I am adding the wild game, the pheasant. We did it last year. People loved it, and so we're going to incorporate it now is a new holiday tradition.

Love it. You got to love traditions and especially new ones. Congressman, you have a great new article out saying there's a good reason to be thankful. Why is there a good reason to be thankful, sir?

Well, the reason to be thankful is that we can now stop the madness that we're seeing from the Democrats and the administration in particular. Remember, for the last two years, Todd, we've had one party rule in Washington, D.C., and it's had a detrimental effect on everything from foreign policy to inflation to wages, you name it, chaos of the southern border, crime rates surging. At least now that we have control of the House, we'll be able to stop a lot of that agenda.

So I'm very thankful that we're going to come back into power, that we're going to have Kevin McCarthy holding the gavel. And look, we can do a lot of oversight investigation. I didn't talk about that heavily in the op-ed I wrote, but a lot of our focus is going to be on oversight investigation. Mayorkas is going to have a reserved parking spot in the Capitol complex because we're going to call him in so much. Same with Hunter Biden, Fauci.

I'd like to question Granholm as well to see what she's been doing at the Department of Energy. But that's what I'm thankful for heading into this Thanksgiving in terms of politics. You know, it's so important that the Republicans regain control of the House. There has to be investigations. We've got to get to the bottom of so many issues.

And I do think I agree with you that this is a good reason to be thankful. And by the way, folks, we've got a link to the Congressman's column, which was in The Hill over on our website. You know, Congressman, when you look at January, there's going to be a lot of stuff that you guys have to address. What in your mind, going in to the new Congress, what are the top issues that we need to be addressing?

Well, in terms of oversight and investigation, one thing we got to look at is the southern border. I mean, we've had Mayorkas come in and tell House Republicans when he's testifying before us that the border is secure, that they have tactical control of the border. We know that's not the case.

So we need to bring Mayorkas back in. We need to have subpoenas to see what's going on. We also need to see what is going on with Hunter Biden and that laptop. If we need to get a special prosecutor appointed, so be it. But we need to do something because, remember, that story was suppressed.

We were told by the intelligence community that that was disinformation from the Russians. That was all nonsense. And big tech, the media, they suppressed that story, which led to Biden getting elected.

So let's go back and get to the bottom of that. And then I'd also like to take a look at the CCD and get Fauci in. and question him. I know he's retiring, but too bad, so sad. The Democrats have started a new standard where you can call folks in after they're out of office or they've left their administrative post.

So we're going to call Fauci in ad nauseum. He's going to have to talk about his relation with Big Pharma. He's going to have to talk about the decisions that he made early on with COVID that had zero rationale based on science. And he's got a lot of answering to do to us.

So those are the top three. In terms of politics, I wish we could pass sweeping legislative reform. Realistically, we're not going to be able to do that because the Democrats still control the Senate and we don't have a president that's going to sign off. We obviously don't have a veto-proof majority in either chamber.

So we're going to have to be realistic and say, hey, we're going to go on offense when it comes to oversight investigation. We're going to go on defense when it comes to stopping the radical agenda from Biden. And Congressman, yesterday we saw Kevin McCarthy at the border vowing to literally hold hearings at the border. What's your take on McCarthy? Do you think he's going to be able to get to that 218-point vote number that he needs to be Speaker, or is there going to be somebody else in the wings?

Well, I think Kevin will become speaker. I'm a big Kevin McCarthy supporter. He's a close friend. But what's so problematic, Todd, and what you should watch for in the weeks leading up to January 3rd when we take this vote is we're not going to get somebody more conservative than Kevin McCarthy. He's not Boehner.

He's not Paul Ryan. He's very conservative.

So is Steve Scalise. And if the hardliners in the Freedom Caucus, and a lot of those guys are my friends too, but if they want to play this game a political chicken. What's going to happen is the Tuesday group, which is a moderate caucus in the Republican Party, they're going to join up with the Democrats and they're going to nominate somebody that's viewed as a moderate Republican.

So God forbid a Liz Cheney. You could get somebody that's a moderate Democrat, a Bill Richardson, a Joe Lieberman. I mean, the list goes on and on, because remember, you don't have to be in the House to be the Speaker. You just have to get the House of Representatives to elect you Speaker.

So that's the dangerous game that the hardliners are playing. And, you know, I say you play silly games, win silly prizes. Let's just hope Liz Cheney isn't a silly prize that the Freedom Caucus wins come January 3rd. No, and look, as far as Kevin McCarthy goes, I mean, you know, he's on the record as saying he doesn't believe that Biden's done anything that would lead to impeachment. My question is, you know, all these investigations that you're talking about, are those really going to be fruitful or is it going to be you know like it was in the past when republicans had control there was a lot of talk but really nothing got done well so do i think the bar has been lowered that we can impeach biden yes i do because the democrats have now made impeachment a political tool where if the the party that controls congress is opposite at least the house representatives is the opposite of the party in the white house impeachment is now front and center I don't think that's right, but the Democrats have changed the rules.

We'll play by those rules. I still agree with Kevin McCarthy that strategically it's a bad idea to impeach Biden. What's the point? Emboldening Kamala Harris to now she's running in 2024 from the presidency? That's not smart.

Also, historically speaking, Americans tend to rally behind an impeached president. We saw that with Trump. His poll numbers were literally never higher than they were right after impeachment. We saw that with Clinton, and we've seen it historically as well.

So the exception would be Nixon, but he left office too quickly with the threat of impeachment.

So it would strategically be bad for us to do that. All right, Congressman, we're going to have to leave it there. We appreciate you coming on the program. I hope you and the family have a great Thanksgiving celebration. You too, Todd.

Happy Thanksgiving. All right. Congressman Guy Reschenthaler there in Pennsylvania, and he is on board the McCarthy train. I, you know, I wish I could be. I really do, folks.

But the reality is Kevin McCarthy has done nothing to verify his conservative bona fides. And this goes well beyond and this is not about this commitment to America that was really just a bunch of nothing This goes to the fact that he has been working behind the scenes to thwart conservative candidates and specifically America First candidates I got a problem with that.

So look, you heard the congressman say that the concern is that if McCarthy doesn't have the votes, you could have some liberal Republican siding with the Democrats to bring in a Liz Cheney or Joe Lieberman. Andy Biggs on this program, what, about a week or so ago said that was a red herring. That was not going to happen. There was no way that was going to happen. But to call the Freedom Caucus hardliners, that's going to be a tough sell.

I want to play some audio. This is the White House press secretary yesterday. Reporters are trying to ask questions about Dr. Fauci, but they're not getting anywhere. Cut number one.

I will not call on you if you yell. And also, you're taking time off the clock because Dr. Fauci has to leave in a couple of minutes. I'm done. I'm not getting into a back and forth with you.

Go ahead, Jeremy. Dr. Fauci, she's only a great question. Go ahead, Jeremy. You asked your question.

You should allow her to answer. Jeremy, it's Jeremy. It is not your turn. It is not your turn. You can't understand anymore.

You can't make a press briefing. You need to call from people across the room. She has a valid question. She's asked about the origin of COVID. I hear the question.

She's the best person. I hear your question, but we're not doing this the way you want it. This is the disrespectful. It is. I'm done.

Simon, I'm done. I'm Simon. I'm done. I'm done with you right now. All right.

And it did not stop there. Cut number two. They're being disrespectful. Hold on. Hold on.

Hold on. Hold on. Wait. I did not call on you, Stephen. Go ahead, Alex.

You're next. She has lost complete control of the White House press corps. If you ask me, I think she's a short-termer. Corinne Jean-Pierre, she'll be getting a job at CNN or MSDNC, but she is a short-termer there at the White House. Completely lost control of that White House press briefing room.

And she's always stumped. Just check out cut number three. On your question, a student loan, as you know, we have sent this up to the highest court of the land. No, yeah. All right.

Next question. You know, I think she's done. And I think she said, you know what? This is not as glamorous as Circleback said it was going to be. I'm out of here.

So you watch. I think she's going to be gone very soon. All right, we've got to take a quick break here to pay some bills. We're going to throw another trivia question out there. This one involves the Charlie Brown Thanksgiving.

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See additional terms at onepeloton.com. Wow, the suspect in that Club Q shooting just made his first court appearance. Man, that guy, well, no, he's non-binary, so he's still a dude. But that guy was, I mean, messed up by the military veteran who took him down after he opened up a fire there. Anyway, police are looking for a million dollars bond.

We'll see how all that plays out. What a mess that is over there. All right, welcome back to the Todd Stern Show. Let's go to the phone lines. We have a trivia question in play.

Angie from Georgia is on the line. Angie, how are you today? Hey, I'm great, Todd. How are you doing? Angie, I'm doing well.

Thank you for asking. Got big plans for Thanksgiving? Yep, I'm probably going to cook some cold cereal, maybe some toast. Which, by the way, happens to be the answer to our trivia question, what does Charlie Brown know how to cook? Yep, I've always wanted your book.

I've ordered it, never got it. I've never read your biscuit book, and I really, really am trying to get my hands on one.

Well, we have to do some formalities here, so let's check and see. Cold cereal and toast. Yep, that is correct. Angie, Kyle gets a little upset if we don't play the game show music. Y'all are fine, Todd.

Y'all are our hero since Rush Limbaugh is now in heaven, and you're our go-to man. And I grew up with Rush Limbaugh, and I actually grew up with you, believe it or not. I grew up in Memphis as well.

well memphis is a fine town uh as long as you can dodge the bullets it's a good place to live yep georgia is getting the same way i i in in 42 years i can't believe it's went democrat this is just crazy crazy crazy crazy uh how are things looking for herschel well i don't understand all of it because a lot of the the ones the senate race went 49 49 and had a runoff according to the statistics here, Herschel is at 47 point something before the runoff. And, uh, that other fool, whatever his name is, 49. Yeah. We're not. It was, it says you can't serve God in the military.

My father was a chaplain in the Navy. Thank you. Wow. So, yeah.

So I'm, you know, we voted, I'm going December 6th, I'm voting again, you know, and we have this big thing about sesame street in the state of georgia we're trying to put billboards up there with the sesame street and count dracula counting you know count one two three i love it angie we're going to put you on hold here and get you a copy of that biscuit book happy thanksgiving to you thank you so much are you going to sign it for me oh we'll sign it yeah we're going to sign it that'll take the value down a little bit but yeah that and rush limbaugh would be so proud of you, sweetheart. We just love you to death, and we just want y'all to have a very happy Thanksgiving. Dodge the bullets and dodge the flu and whatever else, the M-Pox or whatever else is going on out there. Amen. And Grace, we're going to let you grab Angie, and so hang tight, Angie, don't go anywhere, and we're going to get you a signed copy of our Daily Biscuit, Devotions with a Drawl.

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Let's go to the phones here, 844-747-8868. Tom in Gainesville, Georgia on the line. Hey, Tom, what's on your mind?

Well, Todd, I love your show. I appreciate you taking my call. I read an article that popped up on my phone just a little while ago that said that Paul Ryan was backing Kevin McCarthy for Speaker of the House. And I think that says it all right there. If Paul Ryan supports him, then you know what he is.

Yeah, Tom, I can confirm that information. Paul Ryan and a lot of the other moderate Republicans are supporting Kevin McCarthy. And I hope that the House Freedom Caucus is going to be able to maintain their numbers. Again, McCarthy has to have 218 votes to become Speaker of the House. And we understand he does not have those numbers yet.

and a number of lawmakers according to uh congressman norman said uh that say that they are not going to be announcing their vote until that the day of the vote yeah if uh paul ryan didn't get anything done while he was there and so you know kevin mccarthy's not going to do anything either and they'll throw trump under the bus every chance they get well no doubt about that And again, my issue with Kevin McCarthy is now all of a sudden he's becoming super conservative. He's going down.

Now the word is he's going down to the border to make some sort of a big announcement. This is all a dog and pony show. That's all this is, Tom. And we don't need people. We don't need somebody in the speakership to play make-believe conservative.

We already had that with Paul Ryan. We already had it with Cryin' John Boehner. We don't need to go down that road again. And if we do, we will never win back the House of Representatives. Conservatives are going to bolt the party.

Got your fake news, and then you got your fake McCarthy. There you go.

Tom, appreciate that call, and thank you for listening. By the way, you folks in Georgia, I want you to hear this audio. This is from Raphael Warnock, this communist preacher who supports abortion. He actually is a disciple of Jeremiah Wright. Remember him?

The KKK of America? America's chickens have come home to roost. Yeah, take a listen to this. Bless America! Damn America!

In that sense, Jeremiah Wright, whose sermon, by the way, you should read in its entirety. It's a very fine homily entitled On Confusing God and Government. No, no, no. Not God bless America. Damn America.

We celebrate Reverend Wright in the same way that we celebrate the truth telling tradition of the black church. No, no, no. Not God bless America. Damn America. And Jeremiah Wright is doing what he should do.

He is a preacher and a prophet. No, no, no. Not God bless America. Damn America. which when preachers tell the truth, very often it makes people uncomfortable.

Now, I will just say this about you Georgia voters. Really?

You're going to let that go back to Washington, D.C.? You want that to represent you in the United States Senate? Pastor Raphael Warnock, on multiple occasions, said that he supports that sermon delivered by Jeremiah Wright. God blank America God blank America and Jeremiah Wright has said this over and over and over again and just in case you are new to the program Jeremiah Wright was the pastor of Barack Hussein Obama just so you know where all of that is is coming from 844-747-8868 we're following some breaking news out of Charlotte, North Carolina. It's a pretty horrible story, but a news helicopter has gone down just off Interstate 77.

And we understand the interstates are all shut down, but the crash actually happened right alongside the interstate. We understand that the television station involved WBTV. That's WBTV. we don't know who was on the flight but it was their helicopter sky 3 is what they call it two people on board the helicopter have died three other people have been injured that's all the information we have at this point but clearly a terrible tragedy there and you want to pray for the good people of wb tv they're actually having to broadcast and report on as as they're they're waiting to hear the fate and learn the fate of their colleagues on this helicopter.

So certainly our prayers are with the good people over at WBTV there in Charlotte, North Carolina, and a mess right now on the interstates there as they've shut down the interstate to deal with this horrible, horrible tragedy. All right, folks, we're going to take a break here. When we come back, we're heading to your calls. That's 844-747-8868. That's 844-747-8868.

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Hey, Todd. The way it used to be at one of your favorite restaurants that you place a pickup order at, the person manning that takeout desk could be working for free. They average their tips out over the total hours that week that they've worked, and if they've made really good tips enough to make a minimum wage, then they would be working for free that night.

Okay, so this was this comment from our Shoutback app. By the way, we would love for you to use that. all you have to do is go to our live show blog and you can download our app for free.

So here's what gets me about this, about the restaurants.

Now, I am a generous tipper, and this is just something that I do. I'm able to do it, and I'm honored to be able to do it. But typically, when I'm out at a restaurant, I will just take whatever the bill is, and that is the tip.

So, and it works out pretty well if you're taking out the crew of the Todd Stern Show, because these guys are healthy eaters. what are you laughing at grace i feel like that was shade thrown at me no it's not shade thrown at you you eat like little morsels i mean kyle you know yeah kyle's a whole nother yeah he he likes the beef he likes the good food he does he's kind of a music connoisseur and a food he's a foodie is what he is a foodie so anyway um so so i but here's what gets me is that if you're not going to pay your workers, that's on you. But I've got a problem with these folks that are like, okay, well, you've got to tip the lady at the front, and then you've got to tip the bartender, and then you've got to tip this person.

Okay, a lot of people don't have that much money.

So, I mean, if you're going in, and let's just say you're going to go to, where are we going to go, Grace? Let's name a restaurant. Applebee's. What were you going to say? I was going to say Houston's.

No, not Houston's. Because I want to go to a place that I normally don't go to. Oh, okay. Buffalo Wild Wings.

Okay, we can go to Buffalo Wild Wings. Sweet.

So how much would you pay? What's the average ticket?

So if you and Mr. Producer are going out to Buffalo Wild Wings. For both of us, let's say it runs about $35, $40. Geez, Lou, wow. I don't know.

If you get a whole thing of wings and an appetizer, I mean, there you go. All right. That's soda. All right. So that's 30 bucks.

And so you would tip, what, 15%, 20%? Yeah. What do you guys say? Normally 18%, 20%. That's kind of normally where I live.

It's just me.

So that would be whatever that number is. This is why I was in journalism school. I know. It's all right. But then you've got to add even more on top of that to cover everybody else's tips.

Yeah, because you'd be tipping about six, seven bucks at that amount. And then you've got to do it. Yeah, I mean, it adds up really quick going out, I just want to say. Which, again, is why I think a lot of people are not going out for dinner. And then you've got these people, they don't want to work hard.

They want to take a job. And a lot of these restaurants, you're looking at 60, 70-minute waits. And a new thing that a lot of places will do with takeout, you'll get takeout from a restaurant, but they will charge you a 20% tip onto your ticket. Have you? I've had that happen.

Oh, yeah.

I can think of a few places right now that I'm like, those places are good, but I hate getting takeout from them.

Well, and by the way, the Grubhub, you can't even use that anymore. Oh, no. I noticed that I ordered something a couple of weeks ago, and it was double the amount.

So whatever the amount was, it cost me double that to have it delivered because you have the fees and the tips. The gas surcharge. The gas surcharge. Oh, thank you. That's the new one.

The gas surcharge. And that's been there since like 2020. I'm like, really? Come on, people. I don't know.

It's just, it gets to be just ridiculous. And this is why you just got to learn to cook.

Well, clearly, or I mean, it's just cheaper. But, you know, again, a lot of people like to go out. And I feel bad all these restaurants are popping up all over the place. You know, they're not going to be able to survive. No way.

I think the restaurant industry itself is in grave danger.

Well, when I was just out of town, we noticed there would be like, you know, two hour waits or whatever. You get in there, there's a ton of empty tables, but they're just understaffed.

So they can't, you know, fill it up. But again, but then you have these people.

Well, you got to tip. You got to tip everybody. OK, well, that's great. But I don't have a you know, I don't have a hundred dollars if I'm going to go to Applebee's or TGI Fridays. It's true for, you know, for a burger.

It's insane. It is insane. All right. Very good. Thank you, Grace.

844-747-8868. That is our toll-free telephone number. By the way, Farm Bureau has a new report out. This will be the most expensive Thanksgiving in the history of Thanksgivings. And you can blame Joe Biden.

The Farm Bureau says the cost of a Thanksgiving dinner is up 20%, nearly doubling since when Donald Trump was in office. office thanksgiving feast for 10 people and by the way that's got to be a small family i mean we're talking usually you have like 15 20 people at the um the gatherings but a thanksgiving feast for 10 people is 64.05 um it is a 10.74 cent increase from last year's average oh my word the centerpiece told most thanksgiving tables the turkey it costs more than last year 28 96 cents for a 16 pound bird that's up 21 from last year this is according to the usda agricultural marketing service data oh by the way the usda says you got to get a china virus shot if you're going to go to Thanksgiving dinner. But anyway, everything is up. Carrots and celery. You got the sweet potatoes, cranberries, green peas.

You know, I never did like the cranberry sauce, Grace Baker. Are you a big cranberry person? Oh, you had to bring this up at the end of the show, Todd. This is very controversial. I actually, okay, I actually like the cranberry sauce when it's in the can.

like not the you know the like the lumpy kind of homemade cranberry sauce that's i mean it's good but something about the canned cranberry sauce that you just put on a plate and then you cut it up in slices that's the kind of like it jiggles have you noticed that and it takes the shape of jello it's kind of like jello yes i like that better than the real cranberry that's what i'm saying which feels like sacrilegious to say that i like the store-bought over the homemade but so So here's what gets me, and I'm not a pumpkin pie guy. I am a sweet potato pie guy. Really?

Oh, yeah, sweet potato pie. Oh, I like pumpkin pie one slice a year, and I'm good. Pumpkin pie mix.

So is that true? People actually use this? They don't make their own pumpkin pie?

Okay.

From scratch? We buy it from Costco. Not going to lie. Good Lord. I know.

South is going to hell in a handbasket. $4.28. Bless you, Grace Baker. whole milk three dollars and 84 cents whipping cream two dollars and 24 cents cube stuffing who in the world eats cube stuffing i've heard of it but i've never had it is that like a stovetop stuffing probably i don't we did my mom i remember when i was a kid my mom would always be in charge of a couple of things she had to bring the ambrosia which was like a huge thing in the south so you got to have the ambrosia and then there's the um the sweet potato pie yes oh she made great homemade sweet the crust everything homemade that's impressive and then the cornbread dressing that's what mom had to bring fair enough it's good but i remember as a kid watching her she had the big cast iron skillets and she'd make the cornbread and then you know then make the dressing and the what of course it's you got to make it from scratch otherwise it's uh You know, Jesus is not happy. He's displeased.

I'm just telling you. At least that's what we were told as kids growing up.

So anyway, all that to say, a lot of people are really going to be struggling. Do you charge? How does that work, though? I mean, if you've got like a big family, do you pass the bucket and ask people to chip in? Oh, gosh.

Do you just suck it up? Charge admission. Hey, it's my tip. Just say it's your tip. You made the food.

You served it. It's your tip. Oh, my gosh. Grace, I thought this document you sent me, I thought, oh, my gosh, my eyes are really shot here. But it turns out it really is pixelated.

Oh, there you go. Thank you, Grace. Holy cow. All right. 844-747-8868 is our telephone number.

Let's go to Jeff in Georgia. Jeff, what's on your mind? i wanted to talk about the uh the lady that said that jesus would be leading the uh the parade in the gay parade i do not believe jesus would do that um i just uh jesus will go by the word and that's what the preachers preach from the pulpit he won't change his word he won't change it for anybody so uh he won't do that people try to pull him into their world and then make him part of it like that. But it don't work that way. We need to go into his world and become part of that.

So anyway, I just wanted to say that, that he'll change people. He'll lead them away from sin, not into it. All right. Jeff, well said. And we got to leave it there, my friend.

We're running late for a break. Happy Thanksgiving to you, folks. We are back tomorrow live. We'll do some fun trivia giveaway. We're going to talk about the real meaning of Thanksgiving.

You know, they don't do that these days in the public schools.

So gather the kids around the radio tomorrow, and we're going to try to educate them. All right, folks, you get out there. You be safe today. This is the Todd Sterns Radio Show. Na-na, na-na, na-na, na-na, na-na, na-na, na-na-na, na-na, na-na.

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