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Oh, yeah. And hello, everybody. Welcome to the Todd Starnes radio program. Hope you're doing well today. Wow, a lot going on.

We still don't know officially whose cocaine was left in the White House, But now the White House is apparently throwing Kamala Harris under the bus. This is going to get pretty entertaining. MSNBC is now reporting that the cocaine, the coke, the powdery substance found in the White House was actually found near where Vice President Kamala Harris parks. Cut number four, please. Kelly, the big change is where this was found.

And it was found, by my observation, in a much more secure place, limited access place, than that West Wing reception area. It's still a frequently trafficked place, but it's down near the Situation Room, right off West Executive, down below. And normal people, just average people, just can't get in there, even with the entry from the Northwest Gate.

Well, let me bring you up to date with the reporting that I have. What we have learned is that there are, in fact, two West Wing entrances. You know that. I know that. But for the benefit of our audience.

And now the investigation has progressed. And so they're saying the West Executive entrance, which, as you noted, is closer to the Situation Room and closer to the Navy Mess, where there's the facilities for food and so forth. It is also next to West Executive Drive. That's where, for example, the vice president's vehicle is parked. All right.

There you go.

So they're trying to insinuate now that the vice president is the one who is doing the cocaine, which could explain a lot, no doubt about it, when you listen to some of Kamala Harris's speeches of late, cut number three.

Well, I think culture is a reflection of our moment and our time, right? And present culture is the way we express how we're feeling about the moment. And we should always find times to express how we feel about the moment. That is a reflection of joy because, you know, it comes in the morning. we have to find ways to also express the way we feel about the moment in terms of just having language and and and a connection to how people are experiencing life and i think about it in that way too what in the name of all that is good and holy in america is that woman talking about.

Geez, hello. Maybe we need to be on cocaine to understand this woman. But anyway, we're not going to get to the bottom of this because the White House doesn't want you to get to the bottom of it. And they're not going to allow the Secret Service to get to the bottom of it. But at the end of the day here, folks, ultimately, based upon all the inside info I'm getting, This is not Kamala Harris's cocaine.

It was, in fact, and again, we just call it like we see it here. It was either Joe Biden's cocaine or it was Hunter's. And my money would be on Hunter Biden, the man who is known to be a crackhead.

Now, what's interesting about all of this is that apparently Hunter has already been through the therapy and all that other kind of stuff.

So Hunter was it was apparently free of the cocaine. But clearly that is not the case. And we'll see how all this plays out. But this is looking very bad for the Secret Service. Because one of two things is true here.

Either they know beyond a shadow of a doubt who did this, and they are not allowed to say who, or they don't have a clue. And if that's the case, that's the more disturbing part of all of this. Because that tells us that anybody can get inside the White House, the most secure building in America. Anybody can get into that building at any time of the day. Hall and Lord knows what.

And that is not very good at all. All right, 844-747-8868. That is our toll-free telephone number. Today, open line Fridays. And this is the day that you can ask questions.

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some brand new polling data is out and it's not looking good for Ron DeSantis.

So there was a poll conducted here in my home state of Tennessee, the volunteer state, and Donald Trump is leading Ron DeSantis by nearly 50 points in the poll. That is that's beyond a landslide. I mean, that's an avalanche of support for the former president.

So my question, what does Ron DeSantis have to do to turn things around? Can he even turn things around, or is it over for the Florida governor? Here's how bad it is. They're sending Mrs. DeSantis out on the campaign trail.

At this early stage, they're sending her out solo on the campaign trail. And I will say this about Mrs. DeSantis. She is very effective. She is a solid campaigner.

And it seems to me, just based on my observations of her out on the campaign trail, that she has a better grasp of politics than her husband does.

So I wouldn't be surprised if we see more of Mrs. DeSantis in the coming days as we get ready for the first big Republican debate coming up in August. But anyway, Mrs. DeSantis is out there. I think she was in Iowa.

She was photographed with Kim Reynolds, who's the governor out there. And there are a lot of people in the establishment wing of the party who say Ron DeSantis is their man. But the polling data does not show that at all. As a matter of fact, from the Hill.com comes this story, the headline, Republican Sound Alarm Over DeSantis' Sagging Campaign. And my question for you is this, why is it sagging?

Why is the DeSantis campaign sagging? I mean, he does have a good track record in Florida. According to the Hill.com, questions surrounding DeSantis' presidential campaign strategy are multiplied as he continues to trail former President Trump in the polls. In a sign of just how concerned some of the governor's allies are, the spokesperson for the pro-DeSantis PAC never backed down, that would be Cortez, Steve Cortez, recently referred to Trump as the runaway frontrunner in the primary, said DeSantis faced an uphill battle.

Meanwhile, DeSantis' campaign faced backlash this week after sharing a video attacking Trump over his past comments in support of the gay community, leading some Republicans to raise concerns. One Republican strategist described the spokesperson's comments as a very clear-eyed moment. Quote, they realize they're in a hole. They realize they can potentially win this, and they are the only game in town. But again, they are in a big hole.

Do you think they can turn it around, though? I mean, that's the big question here. Do you think they can turn it around? I don't think they can. because I'm not sure Ron DeSantis knows who Ron DeSantis is.

And that, to me, is the crux of the problem. And I believe that Mrs. DeSantis is the one running the campaign and running the messaging. As I have said from day one, and I know this is a surprise to the people at the Hill and it may be a surprise to you, but from day one, we've been sounding the alarms about the DeSantis campaign apparatus. And by the way, that's why they will never come on the program.

Because of that, we have sounded the alarm from day one. We've been trying to warn people, hey, something is not right here, and DeSantis has to fix it because this is all about Ron DeSantis. Who is he? And I don't think Ron DeSantis knows right now. And honestly, I'm looking at a man who doesn't look all that interested in being the next president of the United States, almost as if he was shoved into doing this.

He was forced into doing this. But if you're trailing Donald Trump by 49 points, you may as well hang it up, folks. You may as well hang it up. All right. We're going to take a break.

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Can't wait to chat with you, the great listeners of this program. 844-747-8868. Let's go to Jim in Lakeland, Tennessee, listening to us on KWAM. Hey, Jim, what you got for us today? I don't know much.

I think what the difference is between DeSantis and Trump, If you watch them side to side, Trump has a confidence look in his face and an authoritative voice that when he tells you something, the look on his face, you feel that he means it. And also the fear factor in the look on his face, like with other countries that are giving Biden a lot of trouble right now, they didn't give him any trouble because they knew in a way that he meant what he said he was going to do. Yeah, that's a fair point, Jim. And again, I think with DeSantis, it's just, you know, even there were some incidents in Florida, just the optics of it. I think there was a flood or hurricane, and he showed up with his blue jeans stuffed into these white hip waiter boots.

It was just sort of, I don't know, the optics around DeSantis, his team, they're just doing a lousy job. yeah it just you know it's i just you know he's done good for florida but the thing is it's just trump's got and of course he's got that background of the first presidency he did everything he said he was going through and uh i mean it's just he just gets stuff done and you know that when he tells you something you can count on it being done all right jim appreciate it and i think look i think that goes to the heart of this folks is that one of them looks presidential and acts presidential and the other does not uh let's go to troy in north carolina wsic hey troy i know you want to weigh in on this white house cocaine issue what you got happy anniversary to you todd it's it's been a wild crazy ride it's hard to believe it's been six years already it's been a lot of fun Thank you for that. Yeah, been listening to you most of those years. But anyway, I think what happened this week was deliberate, smoke and mirror, usual, oh, you know what, and to try to get us off of the real picture here. And that's why I'm voting for Trump.

We need to get him back up there because if we get him back up there, nonsense will stop. and that's exactly what it is going on up there in the White House. I don't really care about Joe Biden's son. He's got a habit. He's not the only one that's got a habit up there.

I'm sure there's plenty others that have it, but I hope he can get clean. If indeed that was his or not, it doesn't really matter. I just hope he can get clean someday because I know some people that have had some drug addictions, and it's no fun and games. but I just think that was smoke and mirrors. I think it was deliberately set, put in place.

They knew about it, and then they wanted to tell us about it because the media thrives on stuff like that. Oh, no doubt about that, Troy. I will say this, and we talked about this earlier this week on the program, that this is not happening in a vacuum.

Somebody wanted that information to come out.

Somebody wanted the nation to know that cocaine had been found in the White House. I suspect it's not the first time, but the reason why it's coming out now is they are trying to force Biden's hand. It doesn't matter if it's Hunter Biden's or not. That's not the point.

Somebody's trying to get the message across that this White House is out of control. And it looks to me like Barack Obama is forcing Biden's hand here. But I don't think I don't think Biden's taken the bait just yet.

So I wouldn't be surprised if we have more issues coming to light out of that White House over the next couple of weeks.

Well, I guess we'll just have to wait and see. But, yeah, I agree with you on that theory. I think Obama is running this country, even though he's not up there in the Oval Office anymore. He's still running it behind the sidelines, so to speak. And we've got to put a stop to him.

Somehow or another, we've got to put a stop to him. Yes, we do, Troy. and I appreciate the call. Thank you for listening. But folks, it goes back to something very simple.

There were illegal drugs in the White House. This is unacceptable.

Somebody needs to go to jail for this. And they know who it is. This idea that, oh, we have no cameras, we have no surveillance. The entire building is under surveillance.

So they know who did it. All right, let's go to Steve in Arkansas, listening to us on KWAM. Hi, Steve. What's going on? Hey, Todd.

I want to use this as an example to point out how our government fixes things. Fifty-one years ago, Richard Nixon announced the war on drugs. And for the last 51 years, we've spent no telling how many billions of tax dollars, countless campaign promises and politicians running on the war on drugs we're going to stop illegal drugs and here we are in 2023 they're leaving drugs laying in the white house and they can't even figure out where they came from so that's how your government fixes things for you well that's a fair point poor nancy reagan just say no kids just say no say no to drugs If you want something to get worse, let the government get involved. Boy, is that not the truth? Steve, I mean, you're absolutely right about that.

I mean, it really is that bad. All right, got to run, Steve. Appreciate the call. Thank you for listening. 844-747-8868.

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Now, there's an interesting story up on the website, and there has been a raging debate about trying to normalize chest feeding. In other words, men who think they are women and they want to chest feed little babies.

So I'm going to play some audio here. This is a dude, all right, who's trying to start a GoFundMe page to buy pumps so that he can lactate. I am not making this up. Cut number six. I've always wanted to be able to lactate.

And today, my doctor, after my EKG results, said that she's feeling confident enough to start me on this medication, Regulin. And it has some serious side effects, but I'm only going to be taking it for two weeks, up to three weeks possible.

So within two weeks, I should be lactating. The rest is on me. I'm going to have to pump and keep a supply. this is the tough part I have one pump I need two pumps and I'm the amount of the amount of pumping that I have to do to lactate is going to require a better pump than what I got I mean I have electric pump but I need the two of them and I need them where they're more compact and I'm going to start a GoFundMe I need some help or if anybody's got one they want to donate please but if it in the comment i need a good one one that links up to the phone where it's more discreet because i'm gonna have to pump a lot all right uh there you go that's a man who thinks he's a woman and he talks he goes on to say that he wants to provide transgender milk to mothers so if there's a mother who cannot breastfeed her child, this man wants to give that mother, quote, transgender milk.

Now, ladies and gentlemen, we are no longer on a slippery slope here. We're at the bottom of the pit. This is insane. And now the CDC is giving official advice on how men can chest feed babies. 844-747-8868 is our toll-free telephone number that's 844-747-8868 this is the todd stern show if you are looking for my pillow you will not find it in the big box stores and the reason why it's pretty awful.

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Yeah, this is really kind of weird, but the CDC now has something called health equity consideration. And the CDC says that transgender and non-binary gendered individuals may give birth and breastfeed or feed at the chest. It also stated that the gender identity or expression of transgender individuals is different from their sex at birth. And the CDC says the gender identity of non-binary gendered individuals does not fit neatly into either man or woman. OK, ladies and gentlemen, quick solution here.

Defund the CDC.

Now, the House of Representatives, controlled by Republicans, guess what? They control the purse strings. Defund the CDC.

You ought to be on the phone right now calling your congressperson and tell them, we want you to defund not a single penny going to the CDC. Any organization that claims to be a health organization and they don't understand basic human anatomy or biology, they don't deserve a single penny of your tax money because they're morons. Absolute morons. Only women can give birth, ladies and gentlemen. Only women can give birth.

I know that makes me transphobic. I don't care. Because we work with facts here. We work with reality here. And if you're a grown man and you're trying to breastfeed a child, you belong in jail charged with crimes.

Crimes against nature. Unbelievable. But this is what your tax money is paying for over at the CDC. All right, let's go to Statesville, North Carolina. Jim on the line.

Jim, what say you? Hey, Todd, how are you today? I'm good. Thank you for asking. Yes, sir.

I've got two things to say. I love your Friday open line thing because you've got some really intelligent people out there saying stuff. and the second thing I want to say is you know that we have 170 days that they have designated as trans, gay, queer, whatever it is celebrations in the United States that's 47% of the days out of the year that we celebrate some sort of creep bull crap and you know if the news media would not keep putting this on, they would back off. But the news media keeps running, just like the race thing. And that's what I've got to say.

Jim, the problem there, and look, the media is going to do what the media is going to do. I think the problem is that if you, for far too long, we in the radio news business have ignored this story. And now you've got people cavorting about the lawn of the White House without any clothes on. You've got men thinking they can breastfeed children, and we've got to start calling this garbage out. And I like how you think we're a family-friendly radio show, Jim, and I appreciate you cleaning up the language, but you're right.

This is grade A fertilizer they're shoving at us.

Well, you know, it should be called LBGTQ, D-O-G-C-R, and you know the rest. Oh, yes. Jim, very clever. You came loaded for bear today. Jim, appreciate that call.

By the way, and I want my words back. Why is it that only one group of people get to call them? Why do they get to be proud? What about the rest of us? Just because you stick things in certain places does not mean that you get to claim words anymore.

Why can't we have our gay apparel and it doesn't mean fishnet stockings on a grown man? Right? We can't even sing Christmas songs anymore. people wanting to don their gay apparel and now they everybody giggles everybody giggles when they sing that song now it's true uh let's go to ellis in georgia wdun our great station there hi ellis what's on your mind today how you doing todd i'm well thank you well i just want to say trump won i'm a supporter of trump and i pray to god he's elected again and i want to tell a short story, I mean it's real short, anyone long, about North Georgia College and State University years ago, so I retired from over there. They had a gay pride week.

I and them Corps of Cadets, they got together and they had a straight pride week. And they advertised it, college bulls, and it went over good too. And under it, they'd always say there's nothing wrong with being straight. And the people that really knows how to do that kind of stuff should get together and have a national straight pride week because there's nothing wrong with being straight wow you know ellis you're right i mean you're absolutely right i didn't realize they were doing that though in north georgia but there are a lot of heterosexuals in that part of the country so i'm excited to hear this news a straight pride no no no not a week ellis you're you're you're you got to go for the whole month right we've got to have a whole month of celebration yeah that's the way it was way back called straight pride week you know i mean gay pride week you know yeah now it's got a whole month good straight pride week nothing wrong with being straight no it's true that's ellis appreciate that call it was so nice though july 1st guys i don't know about you but it was you know folks packing away their buttless leather chaps and their whips and chains and putting clothes back on it's kind of nice to get back to normal for the month of june but it is true and ellis is right i mean there's really nothing wrong with being straight right i mean they They want to make you think that. They actually have a term in the LGBT alphabet activist community.

They actually have a term for you heterosexual people. They call you breeders. Breeders. That's what I'm telling you, folks. It's a freak show out there.

A literal freak show in America. All right. 844-747-8868. Open line Friday. Doug in Georgia.

Hi, Doug. What's on your mind?

Well, first of all, Trump won and Trump, too, because I think we're going to go Trump one and Trump, too.

So that's the first feeling. But here's my question. You own your station. You pick your programming. You decide what we get to hear.

And we all love it because you put out the good news and you question the things that we know are sick about this country. And what we what I often hear from all stations is the mainstream media does it.

So you as an executive, who is making the decision at the mainstream media to keep things away from us? Most recently, a transsexual African-American man ran through Philadelphia or Pittsburgh or something, shooting a bunch of people, and it never makes the news. God, it's the advertisers calling up and saying, oh, no, no, you can't say this, you can't say that. Who's making the decision? because that seems to be the whole thing that's holding everything back is we just aren't getting the news the way you put it out, and we know you're telling the truth.

I believe you.

So that's my story. Doug, look, this is a great question you raise, and I will do my best to answer this for you and maybe we can just peel back the layers here of this onion You know the sad reality is that most of the major news organizations and conglomerates are controlled by liberals. And even in the talk radio world, like iHeart, Cumulus, the people who run those networks are raging leftists.

Now, you may be saying, Doug, well, if that's the case, well, they carry Sean Hannity. They carry Mark Levin. Yes, they do, and they're able to say what they say because they make tens of millions of dollars for these conglomerate radio stations. But by and large, the corporatization of radio is a very dangerous thing because they silence a lot of good conservative hosts.

Now, they're not going to touch Hannity or Beck or Levin. They're not going to do that. Those guys are too powerful. But on the local level, and maybe those folks coming up through the ranks, yeah, they're going to lay down the law.

So you're not going to see a Rush Limbaugh-type person rise up at that level at iHeart or Cumulus. And the reason why is very clear, because conservatives do not run those companies. And that's the way it is, Doug. Basically, I mean, there's not some sort of a clearinghouse where everybody goes to get their talking points for the day. it's just the nature of the business where most of the people that are running these organizations are wackadoodle leftist all right well hope that answers your question look it's a sad thing but yeah look i'm telling you i own my own shop and i'm proud of it and we don't tell our people what to say on the air and we take great pride in that all right doug gotta run appreciate that uh 844-747-8868 can we go to let's go to don real quick and don i understand you used to work for the CDC.

Yep, that's right, back in the late 70s.

So what in the world is going on here? They're just ignoring human biology now.

Well, they're sort of like a lot of other three-letter organizations now that have become so woke and so political that basic science and medicine has just sort of gone out the window. it's unbelievable don and was it like that when you were there not at all it was um pretty much run like a private enterprise and our private business and politics wasn't involved at all that i can remember and i think what you're seeing now just look at the way CDC handled the COVID pandemic. It became so politicized that science was just disregarded, and anybody that had a different idea or opinion was pushed to the side. And I think the country better wake up. I think that you're seeing a really dangerous trend.

It is, Don. I mean, when you cannot even acknowledge basic science, that is a disturbing thing. Don, I appreciate the call. We've got to take a quick break here. 844-747-8868.

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Kathy on the line. Hi, Kathy. What's going on? Hi, Todd. This isn't of any national significance, but I just wanted to tell you something that happened here last month.

There was a special election for like a commissioner for the fire department in a town called Hubbard. It's about 12 miles from Salem, our state capital. And we are just so blue. It's not funny. But anyway, President Trump won.

Well, he tied for the other guy that was running. and it was a write-in campaign.

So many people wrote his name in that he tied. And then they had to flip a coin and President Trump won. Is really? Yes. It was the town of Hubbard, H-U-B-B-A-R-D, I think.

I wonder if Trump's going to take the gig. But I just thought it was so remarkable that it was a write-in campaign that I'd never even heard of. It's in my county, but I didn't vote because I think it was for the town of Hubbard. But anyway, I thought it was remarkable and awesome. Even the flip of the coin.

Kathy, this is brilliant. Yeah, this happened in the little town of Hubbard, and President Trump was the winner, and the seat was on the Hubbard Fire District Board.

So I'm not sure what the fire district does down there. Are they in charge of the fire department? Is that what they do? I don't know. I don't know either.

Interesting. But Trump was declared the winner of the tiebreaker. I wonder if the president even knew he was on the ballot. Did he campaign? I don't think so.

No, he wasn't on the ballot. It was completely written in. Yeah. I love it. K-O-I-N, the local CBS affiliate, says, Trump has not announced plans to relocate to Hubbard or the neighboring towns of Woodburn or Aurora.

I live about 20 miles from Hubbard. Wow.

So anyway. I love that. What does that tell you, Kathy, about what's happening in your state, which is a blue state? It's very blue. And Salem, I mean, is our capital.

It's 12 miles away. and um it just tells me what every what people are feeling i think people are tired i think they're tired yeah all right so anyway i appreciate that well thank you so much and thank you for listening to us uh appreciate that 844-747-8868 is our telephone number. That's 844-747-8868. Now, folks, I have to tell you about Patriot Mobile. Man, are they doing some great work around the nation.

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Because by the way, when you're using DoorDash, you're not only paying the tip, but you're paying a delivery fee.

So that $20 pizza probably in reality ended up costing about 40 or $41. And that's why I've stopped using DoorDash because it's just so darn expensive. But I'm curious, would you be offended by a 22% tip on a pizza. All right, we're going to take your calls on that, but it is Open Line Friday, and we've got a lot of people wanting to weigh in. Give us a call, 844-747-8868.

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That's 844-747-8868. You say, what is Open Line Friday?

Well, this is the opportunity for you to call in and talk about whatever is on your mind today. And we allow you to do that on Fridays, and it's a lot of fun. You never know where the conversations are going to go. This news from Politico, Kevin McCarthy has decided not to endorse President Trump. Sarah Ferris and Olivia Beavers are the writers of the story.

Kevin McCarthy risking Donald Trump's wrath by not officially endorsing his third White House bid. But the Speaker is also fulfilling an important mission, sparing the House GOP a civil war over 2024. While scores of McCarthy's members have already backed Trump, plenty of other Republicans are steering clear of the former president in the GOP primary. Are you surprised by this? You should not be surprised by this.

In all seriousness, we knew that Kevin McCarthy is not a man that, what is a polite way of saying this, is not all that terribly reliable. No, no, no, I don't think snake in the grass is an appropriate descriptor. I think even snakes have some morality about them.

Some Republicans already view McCarthy as a Trump backer in all but name. Congressman Dan Muser suggested the Speaker is just clearing a path for his members to rally behind the former president by the end of the primary. Muser summed up McCarthy's message to House Republicans this way. Hey, you're with DeSantis right now. That's OK.

We get it. You're with Mike Pence, Tim Scott. But in the end, we've all got to come together with who's going to be our winning candidate.

So again, I mean, if McCarthy is going to go down that path, I suppose that's fine. But the concern I have here is you can't trust Kevin McCarthy. And we've all seen this. I mean, everybody knows that McCarthy is out for McCarthy. He has no interest in backing Donald Trump unless it's going to benefit him personally.

That's what that's all about.

So there you go. Kevin McCarthy is not endorsing President Trump. By the way, there's a new group called Mamas for DeSantis, and they put out a new ad, Cut 13. In America, we've witnessed a lot and put up with enough. Are you going to talk to me?

Are you going to talk to me? Yes. You guys got to go. Let's go. He is arresting her for being on a public playground.

Her kids are here. We've been forced into silence. Into compliance. Told that we must trust the science. Indoor and outdoor venues should be closed.

We've been told that we must deny truth, back down, and look the other way. But enough is enough. When you come after our kids, we fight back. Because there's nothing we won't do to protect our children. They're not yours.

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All right, so there you go. A pretty effective ad there. I got to tell you, it sounded good, looks good. But again, this is Mamas for DeSantis, and they're saying that the Mamas are in his corner and not Donald Trump's. I'm curious to hear from the Mamas in our audience.

So where are you leaning right now? Are you in the Trump category or DeSantis? 844-747-8868 is our number. That's 844-747-8868. Oh, by the way, this is fascinating.

Um, Tucker Carlson sitting down for an interview and, uh, Tucker said something that we actually have been talking about for a while on this program. But Tucker says that the chief of the police at the Capitol told him personally that the crowd on January 6th was filled with federal agents, filled with federal agents. What do you make of that? it's almost as if the entire event was some sort of a false flag event. That's what it's sounding like.

By the way, Tucker also asked to weigh in. He was doing an interview with Russell Brand on Donald Trump. He says, I love Trump. You know, Trump is the only person with stancher in the Republican Party, really, who is saying, wait a second, why are we supporting an endless war in Ukraine? Oh, and he's right about that.

You have Mike Pence the other day. He's hanging out with his his pal, the president of Ukraine right now. Zelensky. Having a good old time. But Trump is the only one tapping on the brakes and saying, hey, wait a second here.

We got a problem. We got a problem on our hands. Maybe we need to slow this thing down. All right, let's go to the phones here. Sean in North Carolina listening to us on WSIC.

Hi, Sean. What's on your mind today? Hey, Todd. How are you? I'm well.

Thank you for asking. Good. I just wanted to give a quick shout out to my friend Maggie down in Florida. She's listening to you, too, and she likes your show.

Well, we're always happy to welcome new listeners, so we appreciate you doing that. Good. But this is the thing that I don't know if you've been watching, but I'm in North Carolina, obviously, but I am loving. I am loving that they are turning on the heat and sticking it to Cooper every which way they can. Because he just vetoed another bill protecting women's sports and all this.

So they're going to probably return the favor again and probably override his veto, which is great. Yeah, your guy, it's fascinating to watch North Carolina politics. Your lieutenant governor could very well end up being the next governor of that great state. I would love it because, again, you know, I heard some talk radio from South Carolina yesterday, and they were saying that their legislature, you know, claims that they are conservative Republican. And he said, he goes, they're just wishy-washy, too.

And he was like, he's like, I'm kind of proud of North Carolina because they're actually following through with what they're saying they're going to do, and they're doing it. And, you know, I'm pretty proud of some of the representatives that we got because I've actually met, you know, Representative McNeely personally. And he's, you know, he's a stand-up, you know, he's a stand-up guy. He just, he wants what's right. And that's what I'm, that's what we want.

So your state house, the General Assembly there, doing the right thing, they passed a series of pieces of legislation that would ban the medical mutilation surgeries. It would ban boys from playing in girls' sports and vice versa. and it would also crack down on what the teachers are doing to the children in the classroom with regard to gender identity and sex. And the governor vetoed every single one of them. Yep.

And that's well, again, you know, and then he comes in and he does that scary stuff of, oh, they're going to they're going to come in the LGBTQ community. And, you know, I cut the hogwash, you know, it's like he really you know, I like I said, I love the fact that one of the Democrats jumped ship and became a Republican because she had too much. too far with Hoffs, and more of them need to do it. And he has to stop being a bully because he's a career. Basically, to me, he's a loser.

The only way he got in against McCrory was that bathroom bill, and that was it. And he's done nothing. Like McNeely said, he's done nothing. His whole existence in office, his merit and everything, there's nothing there that he can actually claim credit for and walk away with any kind of accomplishment. He has none.

he has none and like i said he he was a big part of the biden thing trying to push across that one loser that you know ended up getting caught cheating on his wife a couple times and you know it's like they got caught with a hand in the cookie jar and i'm glad the people you know voted for you know you know i'm actually kind of upset though that they got tell us back in but you know we found out what kind of snake he really is oh that guy's a yeah that guy's a loser sean i am curious though so the republicans have veto correct me if i'm wrong here but i think the republicans in north carolina you guys have veto proof majorities in in both chambers so um it looks like i have to imagine next week they're going to come back and and take care of business yeah it was funny because i heard vicky sawyer saying on the local radio station she goes you know he vetoed the last round because we just returned a favor to him of overriding it i love it. I love it. I love it, too. It's so great. All right.

Well, Sean, appreciate the intel there. And man, good for you guys putting those Republicans in charge of your state house. And as a result of that, ladies and gentlemen, some good things are going to happen in spite of the fact they've got a Democrat governor who is not going to be there much longer. Mark Robinson, by the way, the lieutenant governor there. All right.

Appreciate that call. 844-747-8868. This is open line Friday. We'll be right back. Johnny Saddlebags.

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That's the former NCAA swimmer who lost or tied, rather, with Leah Thomas, the man, the man swimmer. Anyway, the latest thing now are these videos that are surfacing showing men allegedly chest-feeding little babies. And Riley Gaines is really enraged over this, and she is flat out calling it the normalization of pedophilia. And there is one video in particular of a fella who is using a nipple clamp. Yes, I said it, ladies and gentlemen, a nipple clamp to satisfy a twisted sexual fetish.

And what is that fetish?

Well, it's allowing a child to suck his nipple. No, I'm not making this up. I mean, this is a real thing. And as Riley Gaines points out, this is nothing more than child abuse. And she's absolutely, absolutely right.

Take a listen. Cut number five. The longest time I refrained from posting on TikTok. I'm the swimmer who competed against Leah Thomas, who has been outspoken on why men should not be competing in women's sports or changing in our locker rooms. But after what I saw today on Twitter, I will be blasting my opinions and my views on all of my social media platforms because this is sick.

And I think a true testament of where, as Americans, we are today.

Okay, so I came across this picture yesterday on Twitter, which is very clearly a man who is claiming the identity of a woman and breastfeeding a child. After seeing that picture, I very quickly took to my Twitter to call that what it is, which is sexual abuse of a child. But I didn't realize to what degree until I saw this. In the following photos, you will see the same man who was breastfeeding the child actively using nipple clamps to fulfill his sexual fetish. And here is the Instagram caption from the same man on his Instagram profile where he wanted to check on how hard you can tug on the nipple clamps.

So I guess what I'm wondering is how can any sane human being see this man posing with this child, obviously sucking on his nipple, now seeing what he engages in privately and not see this baby as an erotic prop for this man with a sick fetish? It is sexual abuse of a child, bottom line. And all of this to say that in America, we are normalizing pedophilia. Let me repeat that. We are normalizing pedophilia.

And we're normalizing this behavior in the guise of human rights. But sexual abuse is not a human right for anyone. I hate to even be spreading this message, but I think people need to see it. It's up to us to stand up against evil, which is exactly what this is. This is a battle of moral versus evil.

The smirk on this man's face says it all. All right. There you have it from Riley Gaines. Do you agree with her? Does she have a point here that what we are watching is nothing more than pedophilia and the normalization of pedophilia?

This started a couple of years ago when they said, oh, you can't call them pedophiles anymore. You have to call them minor attracted persons or they call them maps. And my question to you, what would you do if you saw some dude walking down the street chest feeding a baby? Why is that individual not in jail? I mean, the guy's a pedophile.

By the way, Newsmax went off on all of this. Cut number eight. Just even that term is an insult to any woman who has had to breastfeed their child. Breastfeeding is something that is so healthy for a child. and it is a beautiful moment for the mother and the child to bond, the baby to bond.

And so for this attempt by the CDC to normalize chest feeding, it's just, to me, it's just, it's so unnatural. It's not right. And we have to call it out. At some point, we have to put a stop to this madness. And I got to tell you, I think when we got to look at the fact that CDC, they haven't done any studies on whether there are these hormones that you have to take when you chop off your breast or if you're a man and you're trying to get however you're doing it, I can't even, it's so complicated.

The mere fact is that we don't know the impact that this has on infants, right? What these chemicals that they have to take, these hormones, what effect do they have on kids? We have no idea, yet the CDC puts up this outrageous guideline. Yeah, it's we're watching the normalization of pedophilia before our very eyes. And again, they're going for the children.

And why are they going for the kids at such a young age?

Well, ladies and gentlemen, we now know that children are born with natural instincts. Little boys like little girls, little girls like little boys, right? That's the way it's been since God created Adam and Eve. That's the way it's been. That is a natural thing.

And now you have society coming in these alphabet activists perverts one and all and they coming into the schools and they confusing the children And this is why they starting when the kids are three and four years old They're trying to confuse the behavior at an early, early age. I feel horrible for this generation because when they become adults, we're going to be looking at some very, very confused, mentally ill people. That's what we're going to be looking at here. But right now, this is nothing more than a freak show, ladies and gentlemen. When you have grown men walking around lactating, or at least pretending to, and then trying to breastfeed little children.

And I know this angers a lot of you that we're even talking about this, but we have to talk about it. Otherwise, this becomes the norm in America. I'm just telling you. All right, got to take a break here. 844-747-8868.

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You know, he's a big DeSantis guy. And he says Trump is actually gaslighting you good people. Cut 14. Has there ever in the history of politics and the history of the world been a frontrunner who supposedly is up by 30 some odd points, who spends every waking minute going after the guy that's in second place that supposedly is flailing. It's simply not true.

I mean, in some ways, Trump at this point, and I voted for Trump. I've interviewed Trump. I happen to like him in a lot of respects. And I think he was a far better president than Joe Biden. But in some ways, he's at this point gaslighting his own base.

You know, Ron DeSantis is out there every single day. I did an event with him about two weeks ago in Nevada. There was a line of cars about a mile to get in. There's incredible enthusiasm. But also, you know, this is sort of the tortoise and the hare.

And I think if you just slowly, calmly go about your business, show the people that you're competent and clear, I think most Americans at this point are sick of the endless show, the descent to hell that we seem to be on, the constant bickering and everything else.

So hopefully most people are. Perhaps most aren't. And, you know, we all probably have to look in the mirror sometimes when it comes to that. But I think Ron DeSantis is doing just fine. And remember, national polls don't mean anything.

This is a primary process. You've got to win a couple primaries in a row. National polls don't matter until the end. Absolutely right. All right.

No, he's a moron. That was Dave Rubin on Fox Business.

So, look, let me explain something here. Dave Rubin, by the way, a gay man, was married to another man, and he sadly passed away. They adopted a couple of kids as little babies. and so ron desantis has been bashing donald trump about being pro-gay right put out a big ad called a lot of flack for it log cabin republicans are blasting desantis it was ugly just ugly and it turns out that ron desantis actually sent dave rubin and his husband onesies matching onesies for the new kids.

So my question is here, are you going to really, you're going to attack Donald Trump for being pro-gay? Then you're going to turn around and openly flaunt your support for gay marriage and really, you're going to do that? All right. Just want to make sure because people are going to call you out on that, Ron DeSantis. All right, let's go to the phones here.

Let's go to North Carolina. Patty wants to weigh in on Riley Gaines. Hi, Patty. What you got for us hey todd how are you how are you feeling i'm good thank you for asking patty okay um listen yeah i just wanted to say yeah that's it's definitely if these people are all sickos they they need psychiatric help they really do and you know who's the main groomer the main groomer is the man in the white house joe biden yes ma'am he is the main groomer he he look look We had that big party with all those nut jobs there. Who knows?

Maybe one of them left the cocaine there. True.

Well, that's a fair point. I mean, they've got so many wackos going in and out of the White House. I mean, any one of them. It's a joke. It's sad.

It's disgraceful what's going on. You know what? The White House is now a frat house. Wow.

That's a great way to look at it. You know, Patty, go back to, I just go back to the daughter's diary. I mean, who among us was taking showers, naked showers, with our children? I don't know anybody who does that. Oh, well, he's always been weird.

But, yeah, and I mean, you know, like I said, I think he's just the main groomer. You know, Grandpa's the main groomer. He knows exactly. He's allowing all these people, putting pride flags on the White House. I mean, other countries are laughing, laughing at us.

G-I-C, Groomer-in-Chief, Patty. That's what he is. That's good. And another thing I actually want to tell you, too, my daughter went online, and we live in a rural area in North Carolina. There's 36.

There's no luck. She showed it to me. 36 pedophiles that live in our area. What? 36 pedophiles live in our area, Todd.

Patty, that's not good. No kidding. And that's when she brought that up. I'm getting chills right now. Yeah, and we live in a rural area.

So you could imagine if you live in a very crowded area. We live in the country in North Carolina. And there's two of them not too far from where we are living right now. There's two of them. Are there a lot of kids in the neighborhood?

there's children but we're like yeah it's very rule it's like they go in the yard i mean we don't see no kids but you see kids playing outside anymore talk it doesn't do we don't do it's not like when we were growing up you know we had a normal we did we had a sub we at least had my parents gave us a subnormal life okay yeah i i hear you patty that's that's shocking and i i guarantee you, if anybody goes online and types in their address, I think they would be shocked at what's living in their neighborhood. She showed it to me. I mean, I'm sure I wasn't shocked. Maybe two, maybe one, two, maybe. When she came up 36, I was totally floored, Todd.

Shocking. Patty, all right. Watch your back out there. Watch your six. I think the folks in North Carolina know how to handle themselves.

All right, Betty, appreciate the call. All right, let's go to George in Gainesville, Georgia. I've been looking forward to this question. Hi, George, what's on your mind? Hi, Todd.

Thank you for taking my call. I wanted to ask you, what is the latest word on Marjorie Taylor Greene as far as what's going on in the House and her efforts, or should I say her early efforts, in trying to make things better for the political prisoners in the D.C. jail.

Well, it's not been good for Marjorie Taylor Greene, MTG. She was ousted from the House Freedom Caucus. Nobody's wanting to really talk about why. Congressman Andy Harris out of Maryland is the one who sort of let that leak. And he said that Green also may no longer be able to attend meetings of the Freedom Caucus.

It's the first time anybody's being kicked out of the Freedom Caucus. And that's really very surprising. They say that there were a lot of issues. And it wasn't just the dust-up between Lauren Boebert and MTG. but they are saying that that was the straw that broke the camel's back.

But they were also very concerned and upset with Green's support for House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and her support for a debt limit deal.

So I guess my question, George, for you, I mean, what are folks back in Georgia saying about MTG? Do they feel like she's letting them down now?

Well, I'm not in her district, but I'm not really hearing anything about MTG. It's very strange what's been going on. And clearly some promises were made. Kevin McCarthy and MTG have some sort of an arrangement, some sort of a relationship. Don't know what it is, but I don't know if it's just political in nature, But there's clearly something weird there.

And she's, you know, she's asked for things and he's clearly given them to her. And now she owes her allegiance to Kevin McCarthy and not the House Freedom Caucus.

So it's all very strange. And I have to imagine the folks in her congressional district are sort of scratching their heads right now, going, what the heck happened to MTG? George got a run. Appreciate that call. Let's go to Judy listening to us on WDUN in Gainesville, Georgia.

Hi, Judy. What's on your mind?

Hey, hi, Todd. I'm in Dahlonega up in the mountains. Very nice. I'm one of the mothers, grandmothers, who is a truncester all the way. And to me, you know, Ron will be good one day, but he's just a little bit sophomoric for me.

so not so just not not mature enough yet yeah yeah he needs a little bit of age and experience all right yeah go ahead like i really like vivic but he he's so young vivic ramaswamy what yeah he's doing well in the polls he's actually neck and neck with ron desantis in a couple of those polls out there wow that's impressive all right judy appreciate that call and thank you for listening, as always. Folks, we've got to take a break here. Open line Friday, 844-747-8868 is our telephone number. That's 844-747-8868. So every night, folks, I watch Newsmax.

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Let your voice be heard. All right, this is a very interesting story.

So the guys over at South Park, the creators, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, they own a restaurant. in Colorado, Casa Bonita. And apparently it's one of these destination restaurants. They call it Tex, Tex, or rather Mex Eats and pageantry.

So the restaurant actually has divers plunging into a pool below a 30-foot waterfall. They also have puppet shows. That's kind of creepy, right? At a Mexican joint? I mean, actually at any kind of a joint.

I'll tell you, I've got a story about that in just a moment. But anyway, the guys, Trey Parker, Matt Stone, have announced they're raising the minimum wage.

So, guys, this is the minimum wage to $30 an hour. Every person that works at Casa Bonita is going to be getting over $16.35 more than the minimum wage there in Colorado. This is fascinating.

So I was trying to do the math here on this.

So you're looking at just working eight hours a day. That's what, about $240 a day. And so that's about $62,400 a year, which is a pretty darn good salary. And again, if you work more hours, you're going to make more money. And what is there?

So they have 256 employees. and if doing the math, you're looking at over $16 million just in payroll. That's a lot of enchiladas. I mean, a lot of enchiladas. I don't know how they're going to be able to stay open.

Do they get that much business? What are they charging for the burritos? What's it, 20 bucks a taco? The over-the-top venue is known for animatronics and entertainment that extends beyond just food.

So this is sort of like, I don't know, Mexican Chuck E. Cheese on steroids. Is that it? The Denver Gazette calls it the Disneyland of Mexican restaurants. Anyway, a Casa Bonita spokesperson told the local Fox affiliate, we did some soft openings and we found that guests simply were not tipping.

We believe that's due to our unconventional prepaid ticketing system. In order to provide a higher than average dependable wage, we shifted to a no tipping model and double the hourly rate to more than $30 for our service staff. And they have 256 employees. They say only two, two employees were unhappy with the with the new system. And we have to assume those two people wanted to basically get get tips.

Look, I don't have a problem with that. I mean, you charge what you want to charge. You pay what you want to pay your workers. The New York Times did a big interview with the South Park creators about the purchase of the restaurant. And they say, we could have built this thing twice as big for half as much money, but we spent so much restoring it like a piece of art, and the food is excellent.

Wow.

Now, you know, tipping is such a controversial issue. And we were talking about the situation with the DoorDash, and that just angers me. Because by the time you factor in everything, you're paying more money for the delivery than you are for the actual food itself. And then we were, Ben Dieter, who is the morning show host, we were talking about this earlier today, that you're even supposed to tip your Uber driver. And I don't understand that.

I just don't understand that concept until somebody called in who happened to be an Uber driver. And I guess it makes sense because it turns out that Uber literally takes most of the money that you pay.

So the driver gets very little. And that's why they want you to tip the driver. But it seems to me, why not just go ahead and pay the driver a livable wage? And, you know, if that cost has to be passed along to the consumer, then so be it. but give us the opportunity instead of putting us into a bad spot.

So anyway, until today, I had no idea about the Uber situation.

So now I feel bad because I had no idea that Uber actually can judge you.

So you know how normally when you – I just got a survey. They said, how was your service? One star, five stars. Did you have a good experience?

well over at uber they do it in reverse so they're asking the drivers so what did you think about the person you picked up the passenger so there's no kit no doubt that i have a very bad record over at uber which could explain why i'm always getting the crappy cars i'm telling you it's not good i got one in new york city this is terrible i don't even think it was an uber because it looked like a yugo i mean the car was literally falling apart and i'm like i'm paying 80 for this car and you're literally putting your life into your hands i don't recall there actually being seatbelts in the vehicle and there was this i'm not kidding there was um like a mother mary statue on the dashboard and a woman in a hula skirt and there was like a huge there was something hanging from the, I couldn't tell what it was, but I think it was an air freshener that looked like some sort of a religious icon. Anyway, it got me where I was going, but I'm thinking $80? Really? $80? I mean, there were no seatbelts.

I think for $80, you should at least have a seatbelt, right? I'm just saying. All right, coming up, folks, our good friend, Governor Mike Huckabee, is going to drop by. We're going to be taking your calls as well. open line Friday.

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All right, well, hello everybody. Welcome to Hour 3 of the big show. Let's get right to it. We got a lot going on today. Our telephone number, open line Friday, by the way.

That number is 844-747-8868. That's 844-747-8868. Want to go to the Patriot Mobile Newsmaker Line, our good friend from across the river, Governor Mike Huckabee. Governor, hope you're doing good today. Yes, I am, Todd.

And yesterday we were trying to talk, and I think a little storm took out some of your lines and made it impossible for us to keep the conversation.

So delighted to be with you today.

Well, you know, in Memphis, if you sneeze, the power goes out.

So we have no infrastructure in this part of the country.

So it is what it is.

Well, I'm glad to be with you, and I just want everyone to know that that cocaine found at the White House did not belong to me. You know, if there's powdered sugar around here, it's probably coming from Café du Monde.

Well, Todd, if you know this or not, but the Biden administration has now partnered with Disney, and they're going to create a new movie that will come out this fall. It's called Blow White and the Seven Snorts. You came loaded for bear today, Governor. Blow White. You know, it's fascinating to watch all of this play out and for the media to actually cover this story.

Even MSDNC is now suggesting that cocaine was found in an area that was very secure in the White House. What do you think is going on here? Why are they covering this story? I think they can't ignore it. I mean, when you have cocaine found in the White House, which is supposed to be the most secure facility in all of the United States of America, then that's a big story.

And I don't care who's president, and I don't care who's the president's son, who's come and who's gone. That's a big story. It is a big deal. It's surrounded by cops. There are secret federal agents everywhere in that building.

And to say that somebody just dropped a bag of cocaine somewhere, and especially the fact that the story keeps changing. At one point, oh, it was in a little cubby when you first walked in. Like people walk in, they say, here's my cell phone, here is my pocket knife, and here's my bag of cocaine. I'll pick it up when I leave. Nobody believed that.

That was nonsense.

So we're just getting more and more information, but something just doesn't smell right. And I don't know how they end up getting away from this. Supposedly, the Secret Service is even conducting DNA tests on the bag itself and the area around where it was found, fingerprinting and looking at surveillance cameras, which are everywhere. They're ubiquitous in the White House.

So I don't see how somebody gets away with this. But then again, I think just like the Bidens seem to get away with anything, they very well may. It's really fascinating when you watch all of this unfold. And I contend that someone has given the okay to start releasing these kinds of stories. I suspect it's not the first time they've found cocaine, but it is the first time that they're reporting on it.

And I'm wondering if someone is giving Biden a nudge saying, you got to call it a day here. Who knows? I think there are people certainly that are hoping that he might take the hint and realize he's not up to the task of running, much less serving. But I can't imagine that somebody would plant cocaine in order to push that along. All they really have to do is just show some of the YouTube videos of him being let off the stage after every speech, mumbling through speeches, unable to read the teleprompter, and then saying irrational things like, God save the queen, man.

That's all we really need to know, that this guy is just really no longer capable of serving in that job. Governor Mike Huckabee is on the Patriot Mobile Newsmaker Line. Governor, we were covering a story earlier in the week about your daughter, the governor of Arkansas, standing up to the secularist bullies that actually went after your grandkids for putting that beautiful chalk drawing there on the driveway of the governor's mansion. And I just thought it was really the perfect response to these out-of-town agitators coming into Arkansas and going after the family's faith. It was a stupid thing for them to do, because all it does is call attention to how ridiculous and irrational they are to go after some children who are between the ages of seven and 10 and say, you shouldn't be putting chalk drawings out because it has a cross in it.

Well, they happen to be very committed to their Christian faith, the whole family, including the children. It's fascinating because some people even said, oh, they didn't really draw that.

Well, I can attest to the fact that they did. Because every time they come to my house, they take out the chalk that we have here and they make chalk drawings all over our driveway. And sometimes I'm amazed how good they are.

So when I saw that, I said, hmm, that's a good one. Very well done, kiddos. But for somebody to get upset about that, it just doesn't make sense. And even the most liberal columnist in Arkansas for the local newspaper came out and said, boy, did they pick the wrong fight. Speaking of this nutty group from out of state.

that if you're going to pick a fight with the governor of Arkansas, don't do it over her children doing a chalk drawing. For heaven's sakes, a good rain will take care of it anyway. But it just makes you look like a bunch of doofuses. And that's exactly what they look like. Governor, we are looking at some new polling data coming out here in Tennessee, by the way, a brand new survey, 49 percent or rather Donald Trump holds a 49 point lead over Ron DeSantis.

in the presidential primary poll. What's the deal with DeSantis? I mean, he's a good guy, good governor, beautiful family, but he is just not moving the needle that much.

Well, I think he has been a great governor, and he's done a wonderful job in Florida. But people at this point know that if Donald Trump gets reelected, he is highly motivated to go and clean house and break some things in Washington. And I don't know about you, but if there's one thing I want the next president to do, if he's Republican, is to break some things in that city. Absolutely. And to fire some people, to clean some things up, to take the Dyson vacuum cleaner and go up and down Pennsylvania Avenue and Constitution Avenue and do some real serious cleaning of the deep state.

Nobody is this highly motivated. Nobody has continued to fight back against the extraordinary headwinds like Donald Trump. And I think a lot of people will say you know his personality sometimes can offend me and rankle me But by golly this is no time for us playing patty cake with a bunch of people that want to destroy our constitutional republic We going to have to fight fight hard and we have to rid ourselves of these people who have weaponized the government agencies to go after mothers who stand up at school board meetings who go after pro grandmothers and put them in jail and who go after people who simply walked around on the grounds of the Capitol and put them in a jail cell for months without really adjudicating their cases People are sick of that, and they want to save time when we have a legitimate and equal sense of justice in this country. All right, Governor Mike Huckabee on the Patriot Mobile Newsmaker Line. Big weekend, of course, the show coming up on TBN.

What can we expect to see this weekend?

Well, one of the things, we've got some great guests that are going to be on our show, and we'd love to talk about all of them. But the one thing I want to talk about is that John Schlitt is our musical guest this week, who is just extraordinary. He was the lead singer for the band Petra. And many Christian music people, of course, will remember the influence that Petra had. He has some of the most amazing pipes.

And I just cannot tell you how excited I am that we'll have John on the show. And it's going to be an extraordinary time.

So please enjoy yourselves and watch the show this weekend for some great entertainment and, of course, insight into the issues of the day. You know, Governor, when I was a kid, mom and dad were huge Southern Gospel fans, but Petra comes along and I'm like, holy cow. I had no idea Christian music could sound like that. It was phenomenal. Absolutely, and they really helped introduce a whole generation of younger people to a music that related to them.

Because sometimes, you know, in all due respect to the Southern Gospel, it didn't really compete with Credence and Led Zeppelin and some of the stuff that many of us are listening to. Petra comes along and we say, that I get, and I dig. That's it. By the way, I found a new restaurant in Memphis.

So the next time you come through, there's a place that used to be an old liquor store. And so they've turned it into a diner, kind of a 50s style diner, and they still call it the liquor store. But they serve breakfast all day.

So you can have breakfast down at the liquor store. You know, somehow a picture of you and me walking into a place called the liquor store is one for the books. It's posted on somebody's Facebook page. But I'm game. I'm willing.

It's good food. I'll tell you that. Governor, we've got to leave it there. Always good hearing from you. And please tell Sarah we are just super big fans over here across the river in Tennessee.

And we just tell her to keep the artwork coming. I will do it. Thank you, Todd. Have a great weekend. All right, you too now.

Governor Mike Huckabee on the Patriot Mobile Newsmaker Line. In all seriousness, if you're driving through Memphis, just Google the liquor store, and you're going to have an incredible meal. And you can get the pancakes if you want to, but for me, I'm old school biscuits and sausage at the liquor store. All right, got to take a break here. 844-747-8868.

Here's the deal. Open line Friday. Whatever you want to talk about, we're going to talk about, but you've got to give us a call. We've got to take a break. We'll be right back.

All right, folks, welcome back to the program. By the way, if you haven't already done so, head over to the website and subscribe to our daily podcast, all three hours commercial free of the program. and we love to be able to provide a lot of free stuff for you. And be sure to check that out and download our podcast at ToddStearns.com. All right, let's go to the phones here.

Sherman in Georgia. Hi, Sherman. What's on your mind?

Thanks for allowing me to speak. We're really agreeing to talk about that.

Okay, that's a – yeah, we can't do that here, guys.

So thank you. Sherman, we've got a bad phone connection. Let's go to Joe in Wisconsin. and hi, Joe, what's on your mind? Hey, Todd, I enjoy your show, first of all, and I enjoy the updates that I can pick up on Facebook there.

I wanted to say something about Ron DeSantis and Trump, and just so you know where I'm coming from, I voted Trump the first time. I voted for him the second time. He votes again. I'm going to vote for him again. I think he's the best president we've ever had absolutely positively um he's the only president that i know of that did everything he promised when he went into office and so i trust him more than anybody but ronda santis has impressed me and i would like to see somehow another them to get together and to not bloody one another too bad somewhere down the road we're going to need a ronda santis he's the only one up there right now that I really trust, other than Trump.

And at some point in time, I'd like to see them get together. We've got a—you had her dad on a few minutes ago. And, you know, the lady in Arkansas, the new governor there, she's looking good for the first woman president. I think she would be great. But DeSantis has been an absolutely fabulous governor.

I don't think there's ever been a better governor than him. And I would like to see that expertise brought to the White House in some form or another. And, you know, I don't know why he's running. I do not believe he's got a chance to win, but I'd like for somebody to kind of get them together just a little bit somewhere. I just don't want to see him go down the toilet.

Joe, I'm curious what happened behind the scenes. There's something that happened behind the scenes that we don't know about between Trump and DeSantis. And I'm willing to say it wasn't even DeSantis. I think it was the people surrounding him who have really proven to be horrible, horrible campaigners. I mean, just horrible.

So I'm just wondering if something was said, something was done that really irked Trump, because Trump does value loyalty. Yeah, I don't think it's that. That's just my opinion. And, of course, it's probably worth a whole lot. But I think that this is typical Trump.

Anybody that challenges him, he trashes them. And once again, now, remember, I am a Trump supporter. You know, I like him. I trust him more than anybody. But basically, this is what he does when he sees somebody that he thinks might give him competition.

He trashes them. He did it with a guy out of Texas in the first election. And I can't remember his name, but you know how I'm calling it. Ted Cruz. Yeah, yeah.

Lion Ted. Yeah, but it sounds like later on they came to be friends.

So I don't think it means a whole lot between them two that they're trashing each other. I just think that's what they do. But I really like the status, and I don't think we want to throw him on the bush. That's all I've got to say. Thank you, Todd.

I love your show.

Well, Joe, thank you much, and I always appreciate hearing folks from Wisconsin. Joe sounds like he's from the southern part of Wisconsin, but maybe that's it. Appreciate that. Appreciate that call, Joe. And you give us a holler back.

And Joe raises an interesting point. Is it possible that at the end of the day, it could be Trump versus DeSantis or Trump and DeSantis on the ticket together? Could be. But I got to tell you, folks, we got to have numbers. And I'm not sure what at this point, based on the numbers we're seeing, what does DeSantis bring to the table that another candidate would not?

Let's go to Gainesville, Georgia. James on the line. Hi, James. What's happening? How are you doing, Todd?

I'm well. Thank you. I just wanted to say I'm really disappointing the White House over this cocaine thing. I can't believe they hadn't blamed Trump yet. Yeah, I'm surprised as well, James.

You know, if they could find a way, they would find a way. Oh, yeah. I figured they'd already come up with that before now. Who do you think the cocaine belongs to?

Well, I don't know if Joe could even take it. He wouldn't know how, so that only leaves one.

So I just wish the security people would show the videos and stuff, but that would be an act of Congress if the Congress would do anything. Absolutely. And the Republicans, Lord love them, they can talk a good talk, but when it comes to actually getting investigations and indictments and holding people accountable, it just hasn't worked out well for them.

So I'm not – yeah, I don't know. I'm with you. I hope they can figure it out. But, yeah, they haven't blamed Trump for it. All right, James, we've got to leave it there.

Thank you for that call. By the way, speaking of Parmesan cheese, one day I was in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. Pine Bluff, Arkansas. I believe they had a nice hotel there, a beautiful hotel, actually. And I was eating dinner at the hotel diner, and I went into the restroom.

I was washing my hands, and I noticed this big, huge bowl, and it looked like Parmesan cheese. And so I took a photograph of it, and I just thought, oh, wow, somebody, one of the staff, maybe they were heading to a table with the Parmesan cheese and had to make a pit stop, and they left the cheese in the bathroom. And so I just made a little joke about it. It wasn't really anything, something fairly innocuous.

So anyway, I posted on the social media page. Three minutes later, the manager of the hotel comes rushing. I think it was a Marriott property. It comes rushing in. It's like apologetic.

Mr. Starnes, that wasn't Parmesan cheese. that was some sort of crystal soap. We're so sorry. And I'm like, what are you doing?

Don't apologize. Like, really? That soap? It looks like Parmesan cheese. All right, we got to take a break.

We'll be right back. all right someone sent me a note one of our buddies over at town hall news sent me a note during the break said hey they're talking about you over at barrett media barrett news media they're a great industry trade publication. I guess they were listening to the program earlier this week when I was talking about our six-year anniversary. And they wrote a very nice story about that, and we really appreciate them doing that. You know, I think back a lot to my time at Fox News, which, by the way, I was there at a great time.

I was there in the golden years of Fox News Channel and Fox News Radio. And one of the things I remember was the day that really changed the direction of my career, which is when they came to me at Fox and said, hey, look, Paul Harvey. Any of you folks remember Paul Harvey? News and commentary. Anybody remember Paul Harvey?

You know, a lot of the younger generation, they don't know who Paul Harvey is. And we do our best to try and educate here. Paul Harvey was one of the great radio newsmen of our time. And he was a conservative without telling you he was a conservative. And you knew it by the things he talked about and the things that mattered to him.

And he had one of the largest radio audiences of all time. Very influential man, Paul Harvey. Maybe some of you have a favorite Paul Harvey story, and we'd love to hear that from you on this open line Friday, 844-747-8868. Anyway, a guy by the name of Hank Weinblum, who came over from ABC Radio, and he was working at Fox. He was one of Paul Harvey's producers.

Paul Harvey was an ABC News guy. And by the way, that guy made millions, millions of dollars for ABC Radio News. Just unbelievable amount of money. Just an incredible man, an incredible broadcaster, an incredible writer.

So anyway, they called me in one day. I was at that point a national correspondent and pretty much living out of a suitcase, going to this disaster and that disaster, covering politics. And they said, hey, how do you feel about becoming our version of Paul Harvey?

Well, first of all, nobody can become Paul Harvey. And nobody was willing to give it that much airtime on their radio stations anymore. And so they said, here's our plan. Why don't we have you do one-minute commentaries? and you can write about whatever you want to write about.

But they said the writing and the style of writing that I did reminded them a lot of what Paul Harvey used to do back in the day. And sure enough, whenever I would do a report on Fox News Radio, the network, they would get calls and they would say, hey, who is this guy? He sort of sounds like Paul Harvey. And my voice sounds nothing like Paul Harvey, but I guess it was in the delivery and the mannerisms and the style of the way I wrote my copy.

So we did. And, you know, I remember it being a hard sale, even in the building. We were meeting with the sales department. And God bless our editorial team because they said, no, this is going to be something good. And so the sales team was like, we can't sell this.

Nobody's going to want to buy this. You're going to have a hard time getting this commentary on anybody's radio station. That's what they told us. And I'll be doggone if the affiliate relations team there, they didn't get out there and they convinced people, hey, you got to check out this commentary. And by the time we wrapped all of that up, we were the second largest product they had in the Fox News radio family, aside from the five-minute news service.

Hundreds of radio stations around the country carry that commentary. And it was interesting because as I left Fox and started out on my own, and again, they declined to renew my contract. We were in the middle of negotiations, and it really wasn't anything ugly at all. It was just a matter of, okay, we're done here. And I remember walking out the door.

They had never asked me to sign any sort of a nondisclosure agreement.

So as I was walking out the door, I was literally calling affiliates saying, hey, look, we're branching out on our own. And that was, what, 2019? And here we are in 2023, and we're just living the dream, having a good time. We're on more radio stations now than we've ever been, and still doing the daily one-minute commentary. And if your radio station doesn't carry that, give them a call and say, hey, we'd love to have the commentary.

But the three-hour radio show has been exciting because this noon to three hour, it's a little crowded right now on the radio, but we're in this for the long haul. And I do believe that radio is a marathon. Radio is not about shouting at people. Radio is not about carrying anybody's water. Radio is just about us hanging out together, talking about the big issues of the day.

And that's what it's about.

so anyway all that to say thank you it's been a great anniversary week and we're looking forward to to year seven uh this has been a lot of fun and we're going to keep doing it and you know what we some people say well you're not on it but you're not on in los angeles you're not on in new york city no that's okay i'm i'm okay with that because you know why because we're on in gainesville georgia we're on in winston-salem north carolina and memphis tennessee and little Rock, Arkansas, and Wichita, Kansas, and I could go down our list, Portland, Maine, Salem, Oregon, Santa Rosa, California. We're on all over the place, and I love it. I absolutely love it. All right, let's go to the phones here. Charlie, listening to us on Alexa from Joplin, Missouri.

Hey, Charlie, what's on your mind today? Hey, Todd, you asked about Paul Harvey. Back in about 1974, I had the privilege of sitting with Paul Harvey for about two hours or better, waiting for him to speak at the Kayamichi Men's Clinic. There were about 5,000 men there, and my singing group was a group that sang just before he was to speak. I was with the Gospel Lads Quartet.

Is that right? What was that like? You got a chance to just visit with him. We were sitting in a bus, just three of us or four of us in there, for about two hours just reminiscing and talking. He talked about all topics and subjects, and my goodness, it was just a real privilege.

I'm curious to know, I've heard that Paul Harvey on the radio is Paul Harvey in real life. Was that your experience? Oh, absolutely. There's no question about that. He was just a down-to-earth guy just talking, and we were nothing.

We were nobodies just because we were singing, but didn't mean the whole lot. But he was the big celebrity, but he didn't know. You would never know that. I love it. You know, one time I was speaking at an event, Charlie, I forget where I was, and somebody came over and said they didn't realize I was the keynote speaker.

And they're like, hey, would you mind taking a picture? And very quickly I realized they did not want me in the picture. They wanted me to take a picture of them and their group, but I was more than happy to oblige. And it was really funny because after it was all over with the woman came up and she was horrified. And I'm so sorry.

I'm like, why are you don't apologize? You needed somebody to take the picture. And I think I took a pretty darn good picture for you.

So I like those kinds of people. Those are real people. Governor Mike Huckabee is one of those people, by the way. He's a real, real deal guy. Right.

Well, it was a great privilege for me. We had some pictures taken, but I don't even know where they are now. That was so long ago. Wow.

What a treat. It's just, you know, you love those moments on the radio. And, you know, I'm a radio guy. I appreciate doing TV and Newsmax. They brought me up and enjoy doing TV, but I'm much more comfortable at home behind the microphone.

And you do a wonderful job with that, too. It's great. I love listening to you.

Well, you're kind to say that, Charlie, and tell the good people there in Joplin we said hello. I'll do that. All right. 844-747-8868 is our telephone. You know, Charlie's got a good radio voice.

It sounded a little Paul Harvey-esque. 844-747-8868. You know, a couple of other folks that influenced me in radio, and one of them was not even a radio guy, but Louis Grisard. Any of you folks remember Louis Grisard? And I used to read his books cover to cover, and then over again and again.

Just an amazing writer and Southern humorist. And it was interesting. Lewis and I had the exact same heart problem. And Lewis, unfortunately, passed away at a pretty young age. I think he was in his 40s when he died.

And he had a heart valve problem. And so it turns out I had the exact same problem. And my very first book was really an homage to Lewis Grisard called they popped my hood and found gravy on the dipstick.

Sort of written in Lewis's great Southern style. What a great writer. But his stepbrother, a guy by the name of Ludlow Porch. And Ludlow used to have a great, great radio show, the Friend Seekers Network. I don't know if any of you guys have even heard of Ludlow Porch.

But he is just one of my favorite, just was one of my favorite people and just an amazing broadcaster. and he was also one of the best trivia guys in america according to sports illustrated and they used to do a lot of trivia on the radio it was a lot of fun which is one of the reasons we uh we try to do trivia every now and again here on this program so i don't know if any of you guys ever heard of ludlow porch or lewis grisard but give us a call 844-747-8868 robert in north carolina on WSIC remembers Paul Harvey, though. Hey, Robert. Hey, how are you doing, Todd? I'm well.

Thank you for asking. Yeah, I was going to, I wonder if we're ever going to know the rest of the story about that cocaine they found in the White House. I see what you did there. I see what you did. Yeah.

I love Lewis Kergard, the fried green tomatoes. Yes. I love that. Yeah. And homegrown tomatoes, I believe was the name of the song.

But I loved his song when he wrote that. I thought I'd call in and mention that.

Well, I'm glad you called in with the rest of the story. Yeah, you're going to start using that? No, no, no. I do use his— You do have a Paul Harvey voice.

Well, you're kind to say that. And as an homage to Paul, I start every one of the commentaries with, Hello, Americans, I'm Todd Starnes. Stand by for news and commentary next. Yeah. That's it.

You can start laying the rest of the story on us now if they ever find out. You know what? Robert, you will be the first to know the rest of that story. All right. Appreciate the call.

Have a great weekend. Let's go to Cindy in New York. Hi, Cindy. What's on your mind?

Hey, Todd. Good day. You guys are clever today. Good day. Oh, I love that.

Paul Harvey, 4th of July freedom is one of his best ones. You know, the God made a farmer was it for me. Oh, that was it. Wasn't that a good? Yeah.

Cindy, what was it about Paul Harvey? Oh, just the good day. I guess. I don't know the rest of the story. I don't know.

Just everything about him. I was young when he was on, but I still remember him and revere him, just like Rush. And you took Rush's place very well. Thank you for your show, and I love listening to you.

Well, you're so kind.

Now, what part of New York do you live in, Cindy? Closer to Buffalo than New York City.

Okay. Western New York.

So you're in God's country then? Yeah, way out in the boonies. Oh, that's beautiful. That's beautiful.

Well, Cindy, thank you for listening to us, and thanks for calling in. Let's go to Kay in Georgia.

So, Kay, wait a second. You knew Ludlow Porch? Yes, I did. I was one of his callers. Is that right?

Yeah, his name is Bob Hanson. That's right.

Now, did you have a nickname? Because I believe people called in using nicknames. You're going to laugh. It was Dynamite. Get out of it.

Dynamite. I love it. Yeah, and I'm also the one that gave you a big hug when you came to Gainesville. You remember? Kay, this is nothing to joke about.

I remember that hug. You're a very good hugger, Kay. It was Dynamite. Yeah. My goodness.

Well, I love that show, and I would just drive around. I would literally get in the car and have nowhere to go, nothing to do, just to listen to that radio show.

Well, he was great. He died back in, I think it was 2011. Wow, it's been that long. You know, he wrote a lot of books. Yes, and I've got a bunch of them.

Well, I do too.

So the next time I'm going to be in Gainesville, we're all going to have to get together and have a Ludlow Porch reunion or something. I would love it. My goodness.

All right, Kay, appreciate that call. Dynamite. So from now on, Kay, when you call in, you're going to be dynamite.

Okay. All right. I love it. All right. Take care now, Kay.

God bless. I remember her. She's a good hugger. All right. 844-747-8868.

That's 844-747-8868. Let's go to Joanne in Georgia and reminiscing about Louis Grisard in Ludlow Porch. Hi, Joanne. Hey, Todd. Todd, how are you today?

I'm well. Thank you for asking. I'm going to try and give you a quick story. I know you don't have much time left. Quick story.

Louis Grisard, yes, we miss Louis Grisard in Georgia. And also Ludlow Porch, loved listening to him all the time. And I'm a retired flight attendant. One day I was, we were doing meals. That's when we were doing meals.

And I was doing second coffees. And I walked up to him and I looked down and I said, you're Ludlow Porch and he said yes I am and I told him I said my husband and I we listen to you all the time he goes well bless your heart and he had that great baritone well bless your heart just that great baritone voice oh my goodness brings back memories we miss him too yes indeed all right well Joanne thank you for that story and we appreciate you listening to us today we do Let's take a break. They're yelling at me. 844-747-8868. This is the Todd Stern Show.

I was going back and, oh, by the way, welcome back to Open Line Friday. 844-747-8868 is our number. I'm going back through some of the old Louis Grisard books. And Dylan, I'm sure just by the look on your face, you've never heard of Lewis. Great American patriot.

Oh, my gosh. The liberals hated him. Hated him. A couple of the book titles, and I forgot about some of these, Don't Sit Under the Grits Tree with Anyone Else But Me. They Tore My Heart Out and Stomped That Sucker Flat.

That was the book he did about his heart surgery. If love were oil, I'd be about a quart low. That's clever. I love that one. Elvis is dead, and I don't feel so good myself.

These are all collections. A lot of them were collections of his columns, which were published by the Atlanta Urinal Constipation back in the day. My daddy was a pistol, and I'm a son of a gun. Shoot low, boys. They're riding Shetland ponies.

they just don't write book titles like that anymore do they folks oh this is a great one dylan you would love this one chilly dogs always bark at night it's true they do what are you gonna do does a wild bear chip in the woods you know that's interesting um he was a big time golfer uh lewis was and hated wearing socks remember that he hated to wear socks. That was a big Lewis no-no. I took a licking and kept on ticking, and now I believe in miracles. Another great one. I haven't understood anything since 1962 and other naked truths.

Well, that's a good book. And probably my favorite of all time, don't bend over in the garden, granny, you know them taters got eyes. That's very solid advice. I'm telling you, you read Lewis's books and you're going to learn a lot about life. I'm just telling you.

One time though, and it's the greatest, I think one of the best stories, Lewis took a job in Chicago as a sports center i think it was for the chicago sun times and he hated it that was the first time he lived outside of the south he hated it and he wrote a book he said if i ever get back to georgia i'm gonna nail my feet to the ground and he did he never left he never left all right folks it's been a lot of fun reminiscing this hour's been a great week thanks to josh and for dylan grace the whole team here. Folks, you get out there, have a great Friday, and whatever you do, be sure to go to church this weekend.