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Wow. All right, this is the arrest heard around the world. It's like Happy Gilmore gone wild. Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Todd Sterns radio program.

We have so much to talk about today. We're going to get this poor Scotty Shuffler in just a few minutes. You know, here's the deal on Shuffler, real quick here for a moment. That guy is either going to go out there and he's going to get like eight hole-in-ons just to work out the aggression, or he's going to be completely distracted. I feel horrible for this guy.

We're going to talk more about that in just a little while. Also, Congress chick's gone wild. We're going to get to that. It was like I was watching this House hearing, and you've got the who's the deaf guy? Oh, that was James Comer.

He's the chairman of the. the committee What? I can't hear you. Speak louder. No, don't speak louder, sir.

Don't speak louder. Anyway, it was like watching Glow. Remember Glow, the gorgeous ladies of wrestling? That's what I. My money is on the country, check.

MTG, I think she. I think she wins hands down. We're going to get to that story also. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has written a nasty little column about yours truly. And I've got to read it on the air.

You're going to love this. It's also Open Line Friday. And that means you can talk about whatever the heck you want to talk about today. Our telephone number, 901-260-5926. That's 901-260-5926.

We're going to get to all of that today. I want to start out, though, with a moment of personal privilege, if that's okay. I only do this once a year. But today is sort of a weird day for me. And, you know, it's something I want to talk about with you.

So it was on this day, May 17th, 2005. A few days before that, I had gone to the doctor. I was working at the great KFBK, which is, of course, the radio station where Rush Limbaugh got his start. And before Rush, Morton Downey Jr., great radio station. Judy Farah, the news editor, and it's interesting, her daughter happens to be Alyssa Farah, who is one of the gals on The View.

Judy's a great, great conservative lady. A fine news editor. And anyway, she was upset with me because I had this cough that would not go away. And you know how it is with us guys. You know, we'll like just take a Ricola or chug some, I don't know, dayquil.

Liquid Tylenol, but the cough just would not go away.

So, anyway, she was pestering me and hounding me. Todd, you gotta go to the doctor, you sound terrible.

So I finally gave in, and I said, all right, all right, I'll go to the doctor.

So, anyway, I go in there and I'm thinking I'm going to get like a prescription and head over to the drugstore. And the guy comes back in and he says, You've got about Two weeks to live And I'm like, wait, what?

So the doctor sat me down and I was thirty seven years old at the time. And he said, Yeah, you've got a problem with your heart. And so he said your heart is Is very large. And I said, Well, thank you. I go to church.

I try to help my neighbors. I, you know, I do what I can for the community. And he says, no, no, no, that's not what I'm talking about. And so he took me through this process. And I was apparently born with some sort of a crazy heart problem.

And they didn't never check the babies. And I think they finally started checking babies in the 80s or 90s. But there are multiple generations of Americans who were born, and the doctors just did not check to see if the aortic valve was flawed. And I had one of these deformed aortic heart valves. And the problem with the aortic heart valve is when it goes, you're gone.

When it stops. working, when it starts functioning, you just You just drop. And there's no there there you have no symptoms up until the time that it's getting ready to fail, and that's when you develop what they call a cardiac cough. And I just thought I had a bad case of bronchitis. I was popping Recola like I was on crank.

So anyway, um I had to have open heart surgery. And I remember those of you in the South, you'll know the name Louis Grizzard, the great Southern humorist. And I was a massive, and I still am to this day, a massive Louis Grizzard fan. Lewis had the, I had the exact same heart problem that Lewis had. and unfortunately he was not able to survive.

And I knew all of this going into this surgery, and it was a pretty it was a pretty scary time, not gonna not gonna lie to you. I was I was a little I again, I was just I was still waiting for the recola. And so they're sending me to the hospital, and I was in Sacramento. I was hoping to be able to fly back home. I wanted a Southern doctor.

If you know, if a heart surgeon was going to operate on me, I wanted to be somebody from the homeland. And they said, No, you can't you can't do that. You've got you have to stay here. This is a life or death issue.

So, anyway, so I had open heart surgery, and it was. Believe it or not, May 17, 2005. And it was an amazing moment. We talk a lot about it because it was part of a series that won an Edward R. Murrow Award.

And reporters followed me through the surgery itself, and recovery, and the whole nine yards. And I will tell you this. It was a great blessing. There is a mechanical hard valve that's literally keeping me alive right now. When it gets super quiet, you can hear it, and it ticks like a clock.

I'll never forget I was when I was assigned at Fox, to cover the bi or to cover the Obama campaign. And for the first, when you first sign up with the campaign and you're traveling with them, you go in for your little meeting with the Secret Service, the FBI guys. And so, anyway, I was in this quiet room, and it's a little intimidating, right? Because you've got the FBI, I think it was the Secret Service. You have the Secret Service guys there, and it's really quiet.

And so, anyway, they were writing notes, and then the guy just stops and he just kind of looks around, and he goes back to writing notes, and he stops and looks around again. And then he steps out of the room, comes back in with another agent, and the guy says, Mr. Starnes, we need to ask you a question. Why are you ticking? I thought, oh, geez.

So I had to show the Secret Service my heart card and my scar because they popped me open like a Thanksgiving turkey on that operating table. But it's interesting that at this very moment, you know, it's and again, it's sort of hard not to. Today is just a weird day. It's not like I'm just somber because I'm very grateful to be alive. As a matter of fact, it was grateful to be given a second chance.

And a lot of people asked me, what lessons did you learn out of this heart surgery thing? And I said, well, it's important to have good insurance. I'm not quite sure.

Someone said, what did God teach you? I'm like, I don't know. What do you want me to say? I think it's a process. And you know, we all kind of go through.

Things in our life. And this was one of those things for me. And I had never truly been tested up until that time. And I think you find out what kind of a person you are because I remember as they laid me down, and I remember they put a garden hose into my wrist. And you could feel, I mean, it was a huge tube, and all these drugs were flowing through.

And I realized, you know, at that moment, I wanted to get up and just walk out of that hospital. There was not a blasted thing I could do. And at that very moment, I had absolutely no control over what I was going to do with my life at that moment. And I think for me, There have been moments where you just realize you just have to let God. Um take control.

And I think, really, for the first time in my life, that was the moment that God actually took control. But I was incredibly grateful and blessed. I was a very selfish person. Up until that time, I'm one of the people. If you need help, I will be there.

I will be there if you need help. But if I need help, I will never ask for it. And it really up until that point. And so many people were wanting to do things to help me. My plan was to recover from heart surgery on my own.

and which was a ludicrous thing. But I wasn't thinking straight. And I remember the pastor telling me, you know, when you do that, when you don't allow people to help you. You're taking away and you're denying them a blessing in their life. I never really thought about it like that.

So it's, I'm a lot better than I was at that, but you know how it is, guys. You want to do stuff, you're the man, you do things, and you take care of things. You don't like to be taken care of. But I think I'm getting better at that.

So anyway Today's been a good day. I don't know. Realizing that I got a second chance. And I try to squeeze as much life out of every single second of the day. And I would say probably my biggest problem is my cardiologist, I have to go twice a year now.

And my cardiologist says, Starnes, you got to slow down a little bit. You know, you're a cardiac patient. I don't have time for that, Doc. I got stuff to do. And and I love that.

And I'm just going to keep doing what we're doing here. And I just want to say thank you. You guys have been an amazing part of this experience. My family, we have the best staff in all of radio working on this program. And it's just been a great, great joy.

Um Yeah, what was it? The Louis Grizzard book took a took a licking, kept on ticking. That's my story, and so it's been a blessing.

Now, here's my encouragement to you. Go and get yourself checked out. If you were born before 1980, do yourself a favor. Schedule an appointment with a cardiologist and have him look at your heart. Because you never know what problem might be lurking around in there.

and I want you to be around for a long time as well.

So I just want to say thank you. It's been a great ride, and it's going to continue to be another great ride. For the next 25 years. And the good news is I was kind of hoping for a pig valve. That's what I wanted, a pig valve.

And I really felt that like that would enhance my barbecue eating experience. I could experience this zen with the pig, right? But anyway, those things have to come out every like 14 years. And I thought, yeah, I'm not doing this again. I'm only going through heart surgery once.

And so, anyway, I have a mechanical heart valve, and you can hear that sucker ticking. What was the other Lewis Grizzard book? Oh, yeah, they tore my heart out and stomped that sucker flat.

So, if you want a good laugh at heart surgery, oh, and you got to read my first book, which is actually available on Amazon. My very first book I ever wrote, it was called They Popped My Hood and Found Gravy on the Dipstick. And it takes you through that crazy experience. All right, so here's the deal. We're going to take a break.

I want to jump into this Scotty Scheffler story. This is so ridiculous what's happened to this guy. But I'm telling you, I think we are on the verge of a frat boy summer. I really do, and I think the men of America are making a comeback. 901-260-5926.

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Well, just remember, I'm a cardiac patient. All right.

Yeah. All right, can we talk about Scotty Scheffler for just a moment?

So, this is a crazy story. By the way, people are already out on the golf course at the PGA, and Dylan, they've already got the Scotty Scheffler mug shot t-shirts. I don't know who did that. Brilliant move.

So my question is very simple. And we've we've got a great report coming up that'll explain exactly what happened. But do you think this is the police are just Overblowing all of this. Because the police are now saying that the police officer who was involved had to be rushed to the hospital. He's being treated for pain and swelling and abrasions to his wrist and knee.

This is according to the Louisville police. But a lot of people are saying that the Louisville police really are way, way off the mark on all of this.

So I want to play this report. We'll be taking your calls on this as well. 901-260-5926. That's 901-260-5926. Let's listen to what happened.

Well, Grindy, as you could see in some of that footage, it was a very chaotic situation this morning already outside of Valhalla Golf Club as police were responding to a separate incident down the road. It resulted in road closures and ultimately was only a situation where officials and players could get to the point where they could even approach the Valhalla entrance. But what happened next was certainly surreal. There was a bus that did not have a driver in it that was still sitting outside of the main gate of Valhalla Golf Club. Police were trying to figure out how to get that bus moved.

Scottie Scheffler was in a vehicle two behind that bus. Scheffler attempted to drive his car on a road that was jammed with vehicles Onto the side medium. Plenty of space on that median where Scheffler could move his car around toward the entrance. A police officer in a yellow jacket, like those ones you're seeing there, approached Scheffler's car, told him to stop. Scheffler continued to drive his vehicle, at which point the officer attached himself to Scheffler's car.

Scheffler's vehicle then drove another 15 to 20 yards. making the left into Valhalla Golf Club before coming to a stop. At that point, The officer took his Flashlight and start to bang on Scheffler's car, telling him to open the window or open the door to get out of the vehicle. Scheffler lowered the window. The officer then ripped the door open Pulled Scheffler out by the arm, pushed him up against the vehicle, placed him in handcuffs.

At that point, I approached Scotty Scheffler and the officers. Scheffler turned at me and said, Can you help me? The officers then confronted me, told me to step back. I informed them that I was a member of the media. At which point, one officer told me, There's nothing you can do.

He's going to jail. Another officer then approached me shortly after with a pad in his hand and said to me, Could you please tell us the name of the person that we arrested?

So they did not seem to know that it was Scotty Scheffler, the number one golfer in the world, for whatever that's worth and however that factors into all. They also, when they placed him in the back of that vehicle, they put him in handcuffs. They then, at one point, removed the handcuffs, at which point it felt like the situation was becoming diffused. They allowed him to adjust his wrists before then placing the handcuffs back on him. Schuffler attempted to get the attention of the officer.

Who did put him in the handcuffs originally and pulled him from the vehicle to tell him that he did not know he was a police officer? The police officer did not respond. Two shufflers' attempts to explain himself in the situation. All right, and by the way, the cops did not look like they were cops. They were wearing these reflectible vest and all that kind of stuff.

So, again, it's pitch dark when all of this is going down in the parking lot of the Valhalla. As a matter of fact, I want you to listen. This is what it sounded like when he was literally arrested. Guys, guys. Guys, uh-uh.

That's the ESB rubber. I'm back. I'm back. You're game one, right? Yeah, I was in the topic.

Guys. What do we do to you? I'm staying back. Here's the thing. Right now, right now, he's going to jail.

Okay.

Okay.

He's going to jail. And it ain't nothing you can do about it. Period. There's nothing you can do about it.

Okay, now, do you have a question? I'm a media. I'm a reporter, okay? That's all I'm doing. That's fine.

I just want to make sure that's.

Okay, but you need to step up. No problem here. No problem. You got it.

Okay.

Okay.

Wow. There you go. Get out of the way, boy. That boy going to jail. He's going to jail.

Ain't nothing you can do about it. He's going to jail. I have a few thoughts about this. All right, hang tight. I'll get to it.

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And the guy is just, I think he just had a new baby. Just very recently. Anyway, Schuffler sending a message to ESPN. This morning I was proceeding as directed by police officers. It was a very chaotic situation, understandably so considering the tragic accident that had occurred earlier.

And there was a big misunderstanding of what I thought I was being asked to do. I never intended to disregard any of the instructions. I'm hopeful to put this to the side and focus on golf today. Of course, all of us involved in the tournament express our deepest sympathies to the family of the man who passed away in the earlier accident. It truly puts everything in perspective.

Now a lot of reporters and sports guys Are out there saying, okay, what? What in the world is going on here? What does the mayor have to say about this? What is the chief of police? Nobody's talking.

Uh they're saying that the city of Louisville now has a huge black eye.

So I will say this: when you see, you know, when you, when you hear and see the video. It just seems to me that these and again, if this was they were directing all the golfers around the accident site, so Scotty Scheffler was doing what he was supposed to be doing.

So, whatever misunderstanding there was, it led to all of this. And it certainly seems like, and you can certainly hear the. the aggression in the police officer's voice as they're talking to the reporter. Um You do wonder. What's really going on there?

I mean, there was a lot of anger there. And it just seemed like it was. I don't know. I don't know. But it's all very strange.

Regardless, I mean, if these charges stand, Scottie Scheffler could be going to jail for a very long time. The accusation is that he assaulted a police officer. I mean, the police are acting like Scotty Schoffler literally dragged the cop through the parking lot. I mean, that's how they're describing it. But The facts don't seem to bear that out at all.

So it does make you wonder what's going on there with the Louisville P D. All right, 901-260-5926 is our telephone number. That's 901-260-5926. Want to play some audio for you?

Now, this is from a crazy committee meeting last night that turned into Congressional Girls Gone Wild. I've never seen anything like this. These are your elected leaders, ladies and gentlemen. And James Comer, the guy you're going to be hearing trying to maintain control of all of this, cut number 15, please. I'd like to know if any of the Democrats on this committee are employing Judge Mershon's daughter.

Please tell me what that has to do with Mary Garland. Is she a porn star? Oh, Goldman, that's right. He's advising.

Okay.

He's advising who what Do you know what we're here for? You know we're here about HG. I don't think you know what you're here for.

Well, you the one talking about I guess. I think your fake eyelashes are messing up. No, ain't nothing. Hold on, hold on. Order, Mr.

Chairman. That's beneath the motion. Order. I do have a point of order, and I would like to move to take down Ms. Green's.

That is absolutely unacceptable. How dare you approach your political appearance with another person? Are your feelings hurt? Her words down. Oh, girl, baby, girl.

Oh, really? Don't even play, baby. We are going to move and we're going to take your words down.

Next second, so who will have to play? I'll be Ms. Green agrees to strike her words. I believe she apologized. No, no, no, no.

Perry, hold on. Then, after Mr. Perry's, you'll be recognized. Then, Ms. Greenwich.

I'm not apologizing. What do you want to do?

Well, then, I am not apologizing. Come on, guys. Why don't you debate me? Mr. Chairman.

The minority of the board. You don't have enough information. The chair recognizes Mr. Perry.

Okay, move to strike the ladies. I move to strike the lady's strike. I move to strike the words. Order. That's two requests to strike.

That's two requests to strike. Oh, they cannot take the order. There's another motion to strike your words again, please.

Okay, here's the correct part of you. Ms. Green, do you agree to unanimous consent to strike your words? I repeat again for the second time. Yes, I'll share my words.

But I'm not apologizing. Without objection. Without objection. Mr. Chair, point of order.

It's me. Ms. Crockett. I'm just curious, just to better understand your ruling, if someone on this committee then starts talking about somebody's bleach blonde, bad-built, butch body, that would not be engaging in personalities, correct? A what now?

Who you be talking about, woman? Chairman. I make a motion to strike those words. I don't think that's a part of it. I'm trying to find clarification on what qualifies.

Chairman, motion to strike those words. We're not going to do this. Look, you guys earlier literally just said, you just voted to do this. I can't vote until you stay. Order.

I'm trying to get clarification. Look at it. Calm down. Calm down. No, no, no, no, because this is what y'all do.

I'm trying to get clarification. I can't hear you. I'm about to go D on somebody. Please calm down. Don't tell me to calm down.

Calm down. Because y'all talk noise and then you get out of control. Because if I come and talk about her, y'all don't have a bad word. Mr. Chairman, Mr.

Chairman. Oh, my God. Lee.

Okay, take order. Order. Jeez Allow.

So uh that, ladies and gentlemen, uh those are your elected leaders. Those are the men and women that are making important decisions about our tax dollars.

Now the woman that was very offended, and we never got clarification on whether or not Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett actually wears false eyelashes. Did we get any clarification on that at all? I don't believe we did. Anyway, it was a Congress chick Jasmine who was wanting to go full-blown Medea on Congresswoman MTG, who she called a blonde, what did she call him, a blonde butch gal or something? I don't know what she's insinuating there.

I think MTG has a boyfriend. as far as I know. And then there's AOC. Oh, baby girl. Oh, baby girl.

Yeah. Don't you be talking to me like that, the girl. Wow, where did that come from? What was that all about? I mean, AOC is normally just very and I don't mean this in a negative way, but she's just a whiny little gal there, right?

I mean, it's just And now all of a sudden she's going, I know Puerto Rican. Where did that come from? It's like we're in West Side Story. This is crazy. Did anybody pull a knife on anybody?

Do we have that intel? I. You can't make this up.

So, anyway, the reality of the situation here is after all of that was said and done, and by the way, all of this was. Over whether or not we should hold Merritt Garland in contempt of Congress. If you ask me, the Democrats on that panel should be held in contempt of Congress and the American people. All I'm saying about that. 901-260-5926.

Let me ask you this, though.

So you've got The gorgeous ladies of Congressional Wrestling And you've got AOC, you've got Jasmine Crockett. And then you've got MTG. Who do you think wins? Who do you think? Who do you think wins that fight?

My money is on mtg. My money is on MTG. I think she can take him down. 901-260.

Well, unless AOC pulls a switchblade or something. I'm not sure it would be a fair fight. Or a Glock on the in the case of Jasmine Crockett. I'm just saying. I'm sitting here listening to this.

I'm like, where do these people think they are?

South Memphis? I mean, come on. This is Congress for crying out loud. All right, look, we've got to take a quick break. Unbelievable.

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Not going to be good. All right, let's go to the phones here. 901-260-5926 is our number. Joe in Ella J, Georgia, W-D-U-N. And Joe, I was on a plane coming back from Atlanta earlier this week, and I think half the plane was coming back in from Seat Isle.

Yeah. Well, Todd, I'm sorry I missed your appearance in Gainesville, but I was I was in Sea Island and boy, I tell you, down there. Boy, it's a terrific Trump plays, about everybody I talked to from all over the country at Sea Island, was for Trump. And I think he's going to have a landslide win. And I think your radio poker will contribute to that.

He's ahead in six of the seven swing states. And I think it's going to be a huge landslide win. And I think your great radio show, Todd, will contribute to that landslide Trump win. And I think the stock market hit 40,000 yesterday. And in my opinion, the reason it's doing so well is because the American people are anticipating that Trump is going to be elected and they're buying stocks.

in with that with that prospect coming true to come true.

So anyway, it hit forty thousand yesterday, and I feel like Trump will be elected and we'll have the best economy and stock market pod in world history. Yeah, look, I think so. I think there's something to that, Joe. And I can tell you this: when I was in Gainesville, that is Trump. Territory right there, Trump country, and a lot of people there in the North Georgia mountains.

I look, our job is to get every person out to vote. It doesn't matter where you are, the hills and hollas, we need everybody to get out and vote on election day. Amen. I think that will happen, Todd. I think people are fed up with Biden and the Democrats and more taxes and more government.

I think they want Trump and less government and less taxes. And I think that's going to come true. And I appreciate all you're doing to make that happen, my friend. All right, Joe, good hearing from you, sir. And you give us a holler back soon.

That's our good buddy Joe from Ella J, Georgia. By the way, the Apple capital of the world.

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So it was not a tornado. We're talking about these straight-line winds, and they're saying upwards of 100 miles an hour and completely decimated downtown. And some of the videos of the winds blowing out windows, and you had debris raining down on people all over the city. At least four people are dead. Who knows how many people are injured.

But the big problem here, folks, is that the power may be out for a while. It's not like a couple of lines went down.

Some of these massive transmission lines were completely destroyed, I mean crumpled by these winds. Just insane. They're saying that um About a million, a little over a million people are Are without power. By the way, you folks in the New Orleans area, You guys got hit by that same storm system, over two hundred thousand people in the New Orleans area without power.

So anyway, be careful. They're telling everybody to stay home, listen to the radio. And they're going to get you through it. But Houston, Texas took a wallop, and these images, and we have all of this video on ToddSterns.com. I mean, it's unreal when you see the amount of damage done to these high rises, these skyscrapers.

And what is Houston like? The fourth largest city in the country? Also, the roof of the Hyatt Regency in downtown. It's one of those big hotels where they have the atrium from the floor to the ceiling. The roof of the Hyatt Regency.

Blew out. Yesterday.

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Alright, well coming up. We've got to tell you about this crazy story from NBC News, where they are releasing a documentary. I heard our good friend Ben Dieter talking about this on his radio program today. Where apparently The um there are Transgender lions, I guess, and tigers. There are so the animal kingdom, they say, is filled with animals of the LGBTQIA persuasion.

So, no, I'm not making this up. It's called Queer Planet. And it'll be coming out in June. We're going to be talking about that in the next hour. Also, they had a graduation ceremony in Memphis, one of the high schools, last night.

And this is fascinating. They actually, there was a fight that started. During the graduation, let's play a little bit of this uh audio here, cut number nine. Torian with Victoria. Torrell with Torrella.

Good for you. What's wrong with you? Alonzo Wicks. Come on, Alonzo. Maybe I'll see you.

Tierney Wilkins. Please stay seated, please stay seated, please stay seated. All right, so they got police rushing up onto the up onto the stage. This is a high school graduation. Apparently, one of the young men flashed gang signs at another guy, and the next thing you know, he's taking out his diploma and he's using his diploma.

I want you to think about this. This young man Graduating high school, the first order of business is to take his diploma and turn it into a literal weapon. And knocked the living daylights out of another graduate who was allegedly flashing the gang signs. This is You can't make this up. That's Memphis, Tennessee, ladies and gentlemen.

But again, if you talk about this, if you talk about the rampant crime. You all of a sudden get smeared as a racist. You know what that is? What we saw at that graduation with all the screaming and the hollering and the chaos. That's bad upbringing right there.

It's time for moms and dads to really consider starting raising your kids to behave like human beings, please. Is that too difficult to ask? All right, 901-260-5926, our telephone number. That's 901-260-5926. This is the Todd Stern Show.

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Oh, yeah. All right.

Have you heard about what's happening with Supreme Court Justice Sam Alito? This is a weird story.

So, the New York Times picked this story up. By the way, welcome to the program. Great to have you with us. It is Open Line Friday. And that means we talk about whatever you want to talk about.

Just pick up the phone, give us a call. We'll be taking your calls this hour, 901-260-5926. That's 901-260-5926. Now, according to the New York Times, Justice Alito was flying the American flag upside down outside of their home.

Now our good friend Shannon Bream with Fox News. And by the way, Mrs. Alito is a friend of the program, as she is a personal friend, Martha Alito, just a lovely lady. Great patriot. Anyway, Shannon Bream got the story about what was going on.

Now, the allegation from MSDNC and the New York Times is that Alito was flying the flag upside down. On January the sixth, in solidarity with the People who broke into the US Capitol. In other words, they're trying to make you think that Sam Alito is some sort of a co-conspirator.

So anyway, here's what Shannon said. I spoke directly with Justice Alito about the flag story. In addition to what's in the story, he told me a neighbor on the street had a blank Trump sign that was in fifty feet of where children wait for the school bus. misses Alido brought this up with the neighbor. According to Justice Alito, things escalated.

and the neighbor put up a sign personally addressing misses Alito. and blaming her for the January 6 attacks. By the way, the whole notion that this had something to do with J6 is completely absurd because it happened on January the 21st. Pardon me. Justice Alito says he and his wife were walking in the neighborhood, and these were words and there were words between Mrs.

Alito and a male at the home with the sign. Alito says the man engaged in vulgar language, including the C word. You know, I'm just gonna go out on a limb here and I'm wondering if there well. Can we s no, I can't go that far yet. You're just a horrible woman, Mrs.

Alito. Isn't that right, honey? Yes. Following that exchange, Mrs. Alito was distraught and hung the flag upside down for a short time.

Justice Alito says some neighbors on his street are very political and acknowledges. it was very heated in January. Of twenty twenty one.

So there you go.

Now you know the rest of the story. And I got to tell you, the one thing I'm not sur the one thing I am surprised about by this story is there are not more Americans flying the American flag upside down. which is, by the way, a sign of distress.

So the notion and the media is the media, by the way, they were trying to get justice. They're going after the wives, right? They did this with Justice Thomas' wife, Jenny Thomas, who is another dear friend of mine. And now they're trying to do it with Martha Alito. both of whom are great patriots.

And it's disgusting. But what do you expect coming from the media? 901-260-5926, our number. Do you have a problem with Mrs. Alito flying the flag upside down?

Give us a call, 901-260-5926. I want to go to the Patriot Mobile newsmaker line and say hello to our friend Congresswoman Aaron Hochen from the 9th Congressional District in Indiana. Congresswoman, hope you're doing well today. Thank you, Todd. Great to be with you.

So a couple of things. We now know that the committee has voted to proceed on these contempt of Congress charges against Mayor at Garland. How do you see yourself voting on that?

Well, I think Merrick Garland absolutely has to be held in contempt for his uh actions and I'd love to see us do more. I mean, this is an administration that's completely rogue, and it's weaponized, and they need to be held accountable. The American people, certainly in my district, are. Hoping that they can be held accountable. The problem is, we need a different president if we want accountability, both for the things that have taken place in his administration and under his watch.

So and again, you know, the challenge here, I think a lot of Americans have been so frustrated with Republican leadership in the House and really not progressing or moving forward on a lot of these issues. And I think this is one that the Speaker really needs to focus on. We need to hold the line. This is the line in the sand. And I think that we need to hold Merrick Garland accountable, as you said.

Yes, and the House certainly, I think, will take that action. I will be talking to the Speaker about pushing forward for those things to happen. I think the challenge that we face is the Democrats control the Senate and the Democrats control the White House, and they have been acting on every issue as a huge roadblock for any accountability, any border security. The problem here is Democrat leadership that is preventing accountability from taking place. We found out that things have been hidden from view, and we really, really need.

to have the strong support of the American people to get the accountability through electing leaders in the Senate. keeping the House and electing Donald Trump as our President. You know what's interesting. One of the things I've been noticing, and I appreciate what you just said there, holding people accountable. When you look at what's happening with the administration right now in Israel and the threats being made against One of our most, if not the most important ally we have.

Do you have concerns about how the Biden administration is treating Israel? Absolutely. I think it's absolutely ridiculous that President Biden is attempting to withhold critical aid to Israel. It's why we had a bill on the floor this week. It did have bipartisan support, but we've already heard that it's a no go in the Senate under Chuck Schumer.

So At a time when the world's worst actors are attempting and causing chaos, our allies cannot and should not ever be in doubt where our where the support is of the United States. And the last thing we need from this White House is for liberal activists and college students to be dictating foreign policy. This is the first time in the 76-year history of the State of Israel where I believe that the United States President has not been strongly and vocally supportive of. standing with our allies. Congress passed aid to Israel without conditions.

He's choosing to ignore that even though 80% of the American people support Israel over Hamas. We continue to encourage the President to stand with Israel and join us in support of Israel, and we'll continue to push him to do that. I want to play some audio for you. I'm just curious to get your thoughts on what the mood, the atmosphere, the tone and tenor in Congress. This is a little bit of a conversation between AOC and Marjorie Taylor Greene last night.

Cut number four, please. I do have a point of order, and I would like to move to take down Ms. Green's words. That is absolutely unacceptable. How dare you have a physical appearance of another person?

Are your feelings hurt? Your words down. Oh, girl, baby girl. Oh, really? Don't even play.

Baby girl. We are going to move and we're going to take your words down.

I second that motion. Congresswoman, is that normal on Capitol Hill? What the heck? I mean, it's I guess Todd, it's becoming more normal, but We've got some strong personalities here, and I did not see that interaction. I caught some of it today on on the television, but I did not see that interaction.

I am you know, we see some of these things. In fact, we see a lot of bullying from the left, even in the committee that I serve on on the Financial Services Committee.

some of those members will actively just try to fire us up, and we don't take the bait. But it's a sign of the times right now in Congress. It's a slim majority. Temperatures are high. And we really, really need to quell some of this chaos from the left and get back to the work of the American people doing the things that they want us to do on the border.

on inflation, on crime and public safety. This is National Police Week, and we had one hundred and forty eight Democrats vote against a bill that supports the police. We had a bill that Democrats voted against, which is crazy, Todd. DC counts you as a juvenile if you're twenty four years old. It took Congress, an act of Congress, to say that a juvenile is eighteen years or younger.

All of that Stuff about kids' brains aren't developed until they're 24 or 25 years old has been debunked. We don't hold people accountable on the left in this country, and that's what's leading to the surge in crime. All of these things feed back into the need to have a strong majority next year to take our country back in November. Yeah, and to that point, I was. Getting to the National Police Week story and this crazy vote, and you had almost 150 House Democrats voting against this bill that would.

Again, deport illegals that assaulted police officers. That seems like a no-brainer to me. then you'd think that's the least we could do, right? That's the absolute least we could do. One of the House Democrats was on the floor saying they were tripping over themselves to try to say how they support the police, yet almost 150 of them voted against.

deporting illegals who assault police officers. We had 60 law enforcement officers murdered in the light of duty last year. 79,000 assaults were committed on police officers, some of these by illegal aliens, and 148 Democrats voted against the bill requiring their detention and deportation for assaulting a police officer. Once again, House Democrats are just protecting the illegal immigrants that are violent over our own law enforcement officers and continuing what I believe is their just a true anti-law enforcement stance. All right.

Well, Congresswoman, we appreciate you standing up for our nation's law enforcement and also for the nation of Israel. We're going to leave it there, and thank you for coming on the show. Hope you have a great weekend. Thank you, Todd. You too.

All right, Congresswoman Aaron Hochin, ladies and gentlemen, from Indiana's ninth congressional district, and a lot to go over there. One of the things I appreciate about MTG, and you're right, look, people talk about decorum. We haven't had decorum in the U.S. Capitol since the founding of the country. I mean, at least we're not out there, you know, challenging each other to duels.

So, the idea that there was a time and an era when you had civility and decorum, those days never happened. You know, they may fake it, but at least I appreciate MTG standing up and pushing back. And you know what I loved about that encounter? It wasn't MTG that was getting all riled up, it was AOC. Goin' Puerto Rican.

Is AOC even Puerto Rican or is she culturally appropriating? All right, Dylan, get on that. Let's find out. Because that may be a whole other issue. Anyway, you got Jasmine Crockett and AOC.

Trying to take on MTG. I don't think that would have ended well. All right, we got to take a break here: 901-260-5926. That's 901-260-5926. This is the Todd Stream Show.

Yeah. All right, welcome back. Good to have you with us. Our telephone number 901-260-5926. That's 901-260-5926.

So fascinating story here. From The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. And someone sent this to me early this morning, and it's really funny.

So, there's a guy by the name of David Mills, who is a columnist for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. And I guess the guy's some sort of a leftist, and he's very upset with yours truly. And I was the subject of his entire column, and this thing is really long. The guy needs an editor, and he's the deputy editorial page editor and a columnist.

So the headline is, and this is all about yours truly. The original The original headline was: Todd Starnes says, Todd Starnes, right-wing propaganda, America destroyed. They revised that headline to read the rights careless, reckless, sneaky propaganda.

So this guy is accusing me of being a reckless, sneaky propagandist. Uh And the guy goes all the way back to 2020. And he pulls out a tweet I wrote back in 2020 to make his point. He probably could have done that by just going back a couple of hours. Anyway, um He said, I wondered, writing on this date back in twenty twenty, prompted by a silly tweet from conservative radio celebrity Todd Starnes, what he thought he was doing and how much he really believed what he said.

Well, I believe everything I say. Sir? And did he ever feel bad about the irresponsible, careless way he spoke about public life and about using hysteria, anger, contempt, self pity, and half truths to get clicks and viewers and fame and fortune? As far as I can tell, no.

So, what he was all upset about, and this is the tweet that set him off. I was recounting when I this was back in 2020. I dropped by a department store to buy a toaster oven. And when I walked in, you had to have a mandatory hand sanitizer squirt. You had to have a mask on.

There were directions on the aisles. You could only travel down one aisle one way, and if you deviated from the approved zone for customers, they lectured at you. I'm not kidding about this. I actually tried to turn around. Sir, excuse me, sir, you on the blender aisle.

You need to turn around. You're going the wrong way, sir. I mean, it was insane. And so anyway, I turned around and walked out. Yeah.

And my whole point of that was if the the the government's rules and regulations on these businesses And they had to follow all these protocols before they could open. I said, people are not going to shop there, people are not going to go through that level. Yeah. Rules and regulations. And sure enough, six months later, that store closed down.

Yeah. Anyway, the guy writes this: leave aside the question. And Dylan, I got to get your take on this because we are a family. Leave aside the question of whether he actually did what he said he did, which I did, by the way. Does a man as rich as Starnes go to the department store on his own to buy a toaster?

I have my doubts.

Okay.

Oh yeah. Of course you do. My vast staff, I was, yeah, I have an appliance guy, David Mills. And his only job is to go and buy appliances. Yeah.

Wow. It's me. I'm your appliance guy. And yes, I don't even go to the grocery store, really. I just send my produce girl.

She goes to the produce aisle. Your milk guy, your eggs girl. I have a staff there. They line up every morning and they wave goodbye as I'm off to the news bunker. Right.

Ah, geez. Anyway, the guy goes on to say, um The tweet was mild and minor as these things go. He wasn't raging like some of his peers. He wasn't ranting. He wasn't even sneering.

What Starnes was doing is what he always does: exploit a vein of right-wing feeling that craves the feeling of persecution impending apocalypse, that they can blame on the government, the liberals, and the major media, and that love to feel that the world is foolish and ridiculous. Who wrote this crap? When I saw the tweet, it had gotten over 35,000 replies, retweeted over 6,000 times, liked by almost 30,000 people. The tweet may have been more effective, which is, say, worse, because it was so mild and minor. The guy who says anything and says it loudly risks people not taking them seriously.

Though that hasn't happened to Donald Trump. Oh, the guy's another Trumper. The guy who speaks calmly, no matter what they're saying, can convey a kind of objectivity and authority they don't actually have. The most effective propagandist doesn't look like a propagandist. He may look more like Todd Starns.

Wow. Well, thank you, I I guess. Thank you? I Gotta do a better job writing a column. Otherwise, this guy's career could be toast.

Oh, pardon me. Gotta take a break. We'll be right back. Jeez Alurud, the Post Gazette in Pittsburgh. All right, can we talk about these homosexual animals here?

I don't know what's going on down at the zoo, but they gotta get a handle on this nonsense.

So, anyway, um, the NBC is putting out a um A very interesting new series. And they're doing a show on homosexual animals. Are we allowed to call them homosexual animals? Because, you know, they get all upset when you call them homosexuals now. You can't call, I mean, you can still call heterosexuals heterosexuals, but you can't call the homosexuals homosexuals.

So, oh, we have to use LGBTQIA. You see, that's just so wordy. We'll say the alphabet activist.

So anyway, they're releasing a documentary just in time for Gay Pride Month. And that's when we celebrate and we recognize the incredible accomplishments of the Mexican man shoe wearing crowd And the men who flaunt about and Butless Leather Champs. God bless America. Anyway, it's called Queer Planet. It's going to be released on NBC, which ironically, the mascot of NBC is a peacock.

I don't know. Okay.

Uh, cut eight, please. The paparazzi really are everywhere. Everything you were told as a kid is wrong. You make me want to stand! gay penguins, bisexual lions, sex-changing clownfish.

This is a queer planet. Queenness has always existed. It's only in humans that we have such a stigma about it. The idea of just having two fixed sexes is clearly out of style. Mother Nature is pretty open-minded.

Sex is not just for reproduction. It's clear that no matter where you look on our planet, nature is full of queer surprises. To be honest, we should all probably get laid a little more than we do. All right.

Okay, that's going to be on NBC. It's a T V special highlighting same-sex relations in the animal kingdom. And this is going to be coming out in June. Andrew Randalls, who is the narrator, said this in a press statement: We've all heard of gay penguins, but this film really opened my eyes to the full spectrum of LGBTQ behaviors across the natural world. It's fabulous.

And what could be more natural than being who you are? All right.

So there you go.

Queer Planet on the Peacock Network. Interesting.

So One of the questions I have, you know, when the and I don't know, Dylan, I I but when I was a kid, we watched Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom. And that was a pretty entertaining show. There wasn't a lot of gay sex among the animals, but the animals were eating each other. And that's always fun. That's pretty exciting to watch actually.

Nature doing its thing. Mm-hmm. Doing what comes naturally. Right. Not unnaturally.

Uhhuh. Just want to say. That being said, I do wonder about the and I have often wondered and you don't mean to do this, I you don't want to judge people, but I have often wondered about the pink fairy armadillo and the naked mole rat. Those are questionable animals, yeah. Just curious.

I don't know about their preference, though. Whatever floats your boat, but I think every gerbil is now evacuating the bay area. I'm just saying. We gotta get out of town, boys. We gotta get out of town.

Let's go to Sacramento. All right, 901-260-5926. God help us. Doug in Illinois hanging out with us today. Hi, Doug.

What's going on?

Well, this is actually Doug the T shirt guy. I forgot to mention that to him when I did it. You're cracking me up. Uh But I think you're going to be in trouble with the liberals just calling them animals. I mean, Trump did that.

Look at all the trouble he started.

Well, that's a fair point. I was going to say Homo sapiens, but, you know. Yeah. Yeah. But you are you were talking earlier, you had an appliance person If you're looking to buy a Harley-Davidson, I would be more than happy to be your Harley guy test driving bikes for you.

Is that right? Doug, that is what a noble gesture and what a kind thing. I've got my staff my personal staff is upwards of what, seventy, eighty people, Dylan. I mean, I you know I don't even bathe. I have people do that for me.

They're from the school of the blind. I would almost be willing to look for a hot biker chick, but I'm happily married and that would get me divorced.

So you're you're on your own with that one, though.

Well, no, I understand.

Well, I understand, Doug, and you you want to make sure that yeah, you want to keep those home fires burning. You know, you do wonder where does this guy and and by the way, you know, the guy is going to write a nasty column about me. The least he could have done is picked up the phone and asked me you know, I could have easily answered a lot of these questions for him. Absolutely. Absolutely.

He could have called me. I would have given him answers. Doug, thank you. Yes, exactly. You could have given him a quote.

Well, you know, Todd owns a Harley, but he won't write it. I have to write it for him. That's my job. Yeah. Don't even get the girl started going.

Well, well, this might get me in trouble, but maybe you could get Grace to go for a ride on the back. Oh, well, that's a fair point. But Grace does have other responsibilities.

So maybe after doing the dishes. We could say truth. I'm in big trouble now. I'm trying to think how you refer to her husband. Is it Mr.

Producer? Mr. Producer, yes. Yeah, why? Being that she has Merlot, I do have a t-shirt.

Actually, I just got one made yesterday. that he might like when they're walking Merlot, because I'm pretty sure I know what his job is. When we walk my dog or our dog, my job is poop duty daddy. PoopDuty.com. I've got that on a t-shirt with a picture of what it is I'm waiting to pick up.

Good for you. All right.

Doug, thank you for that. Appreciate the call, and thanks for volunteering. I will let you know as soon as we have an opening on the Todd Stern staff, I will let you know.

So, this guy going back to again, his name is David Mills. He just kind of reeks of liberal, even the photograph. You don't mean to, you know, stereotype people. But anyway, he also compares me to Ann Coulter. He says Starnes.

Stearns held up to contempt something that should not have been held up to contempt. Criticism, yes. Killing America claims no, but it created clicks. You know, this is the problem with these morons. You know, they act like I'm out there trying to create stuff to get clicks.

I'm not. This is just my train of thought. And that's what terrifies these liberals. And in reality, the people like the David Mills of the world of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the sad thing is they're. They're irrelevant.

I mean, how many of you actually have a subscription, in all seriousness? How many of you actually still have a subscription to a newspaper? How many of you actually wait for the paperboy to ride by on his bicycle and knock you upside the head with the the rolled up paper? How many of you still have a subscription? And the problem is with America's newspapers, and I grew up on the newspaper side.

of the of the journalism world. And I love newspapers. I love being in the press room when those first editions were being rolled off the press. I love the smell of the ink. There's something about it.

Something uniquely American, by the way. But what happened was that people forgot where the editorial page started and stopped. Yeah. and they stopped hiring reporters and they hired propagandists. And they destroyed newspapering.

That's ultimately. It's not digital. That's not what killed newspapers. Newspapers killed newspapers. People like David Mills killed newspapers.

And it's sad because a lot of good people are out of work. And I will say this now. I don't know what they're churning out of these journalism schools. But you've got kids out there working in newsrooms and they can't put a sentence together. And the reason why is they're not teaching kids the craft of writing anymore.

It's all about propaganda.

So, anyway, this guy goes on to write about me. This is like, I'm not kidding you, a three-page column. Really got I I guess I got into this guy's skin. He says, let's see here. Oh, yes, Stearns does this kind of thing all the time and in several different media.

If slow and steady wins the race, mild and minor wins the readers. See STARNS. Do you consider me to be mild and minor, ladies and gentlemen? Starnes represents all his ilk. You may remember Ann Coulter, who seems to have lost her superstar right-winger status.

When she decided Trump wasn't right-wing enough. She liked to say the most provocative things, and that made her famous. Rich. I think he thinks that I'm super wealthy. I think that's the problem.

He probably saw me driving a Cadillac. Aha! Aha, a one percenter. Anyway, back to this column. A few years ago Anne was talking about people crossing the southern border.

She said, if you shoot one, maybe they'll learn. Actually, that's a great idea. Just, that's my editorial here. Either she was serious, which would be appalling, or she was not serious, which would be appalling. But either way, it works.

It degrades public discourse, but it works. Starnes's ilk, I should be clear, are not just found on the right, but on the left as well. Many on the left use the same techniques he does to appeal to the same feelings.

So the problem here, the guy is upset because yours truly. is a happy warrior. Because, ladies and gentlemen, I have hope for America. I believe that we can turn back from our wicked ways. Yeah.

Then I don't believe all is lost. And this guy can't stand it. This guy can't stand it that we can poke fun at the left. He is upset because I find humor in life. That's his problem.

That and the fact that I have about two or three million more readers than he does. And there's nothing I can really do about that. But I will say this in the spirit of reconciliation, David Mills of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. I am more than happy. To offer some ideas on writing a column, helping you edit a little bit, tighten up your copy, happy to do that free of charge.

Just give me a call. 901-260-5926 is our telephone number. That's 901-260-5926. Do any of you actually still have a newspaper subscription or have you canceled them? We'll be right back.

Uh All right, welcome back, everybody. Good to have you with us. So Hitler is all the rage in a growing number of American classrooms. There's a crazy story. And I think we have the local news reporting on this from the Atlanta area, Mount Vernon School.

Uh the kids are Being asked to rate some of Hitler's attributes. You can't really make this stuff up. All right, let's take a listen. This screenshot shows two questions posed to eighth grade students at the Mount Vernon School. How would you rate Adolf Hitler as a solution seeker?

And also, how would you rate Adolf Hitler as an ethical decision maker? It's troubling. As written, some students question the appropriateness and if it's glorifying the Nazi leader. Obviously, that looks horrible in the current context. Knowing Mount Vernon, you know, we do things a little odd around here.

We try to think outside the box. Oftentimes, that doesn't work. Several students told us that wasn't in their curriculum when they were in eighth grade. We weren't aware of that. The Mount Vernon School says they wholeheartedly denounce anti-Semitism and gave us this letter in response, saying, quote, the intent of the assignment was an exploration of World War II designed to boost student knowledge of factual events and understand the manipulation of fear leveraged by Adolf Hitler in connection to the Treaty of Versailles.

One student says he can see the school's intended approach to critical thinking. I can definitely see why they'd be upset, but overall I feel like it's important to look at both sides of the coin in every situation. And I think it's important to just be able to compare and contrast everything that's happened in our world history, whether it's been good or bad. All right.

There are allegations that a number of the staff wore little mustaches right under their nose, just teeny tiny little mustaches right under their nose. We're working to confirm that.

Meanwhile, in Tiger, Oregon, and we just had a guy on the show this week talking about this. Middle school kids there were asked to compare Hitler to to former President Trump.

So here's how it worked. The kids were um had all these quotes. and the quotes came from President Trump and Hitler, and the kids had to match the quote to the man.

Now The parents were like. Are you people insane? They said the lesson was, first of all, offensive, but it was also politically one-sided.

Now the school district says. We don't have a problem with this. The school district said. that we're perfectly fine. With uh Comparing Hitler to Trump.

And they said the point was to show that Hitler and Trump used propaganda to influence public opinion.

Okay, great.

Well, if that's the case, why not compare former President Obama to Hitler? Or what about President Biden? Why not compare President Biden to Hitler? But they're not going to do that. Because that goes against their narrative.

I'm just telling you. I have a question for you here. High school problems. Big story. A A girl Is her name Pat?

I'm just asking. She was turned away from the prom because she was wearing a suit and not a dress. Cut number 12. Prom dreams dashed. Holly Savage says her daughter Sophie was suited up and set to go into Mason Classical Academy's prom.

She was excited, took a couple pictures, but an administrator pulled her aside. Her mom says, Because she was in a suit and not a dress. Because she is female and not male. The school has strict guidelines for attire for gentlemen and ladies. For formal, only a gown, dress, or one-piece attire are allowed.

Mason Classical Academy responded to Wink News, saying in part: Any student who shows up to an MCA dance and does not abide by the dress code is given the opportunity to return to the dance in proper attire. Hawley said they opted for something more casual instead. And we went and got ice cream. And sat and talked about it, and she cried about it.

Sophie is a junior and has been at the school since second grade. Her mom thinks they need to keep up with the times. We realize this isn't going to change anything for Sophie, for my daughter, but we'd like it to change for kids in the future. And they shouldn't have to feel humiliated for being who they are. The embarrassment now has the family considering other options for Sophie's senior year.

All right.

So do you have a problem with this? Do you have a problem with the fact that this child showed up To the prom, wearing a suit, a very nice suit, by the way, but it was for a boy, right?

So the rule is that girls have to wear dresses and boys have to wear suits. That's the rule that's on the books. And apparently, the school's been enforcing this rule for a very long time. But this mom is now saying that the rule is not fair, and her daughter got humiliated.

Well, it seems to me that the humili the person that ought to be blamed for the humiliation is the mom. The mom knew the rules too. The mom knew that the school had rules and regulations, this is a classical school. It's like a public school where you can, you know, you wear a G-string or a thong and they'll let you in. I mean, they actually have standards here.

Yeah. And the fact is that her daughter Sophy was dressed up like Sam. Or sell.

So the question I have, do you have a problem with this? Did the school overreact? Did the school do the right thing? 901-260-5926. I'm curious to hear your thoughts on this.

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That's 901-260-5926. And we'll be taking your calls throughout the hour today. All right.

I want to go back to this story out of this high school where a young lady showed up at prom wearing a suit, and the school turned her away. They said, no, you cannot, you can't come into the prom because you're a female, and females are not allowed to wear suits. Cut number 12. Prom dreams dashed. Holly Savage says her daughter Sophie was suited up and set to go into Mason Classical Academy's prom.

She was excited, took a couple pictures, but an administrator pulled her aside. Her mom says, Because she was in a suit and not a dress. Because she is female and not male. The school has strict guidelines for attire for gentlemen and ladies. For formal, only a gown, dress, or one-piece attire are allowed.

Mason Classical Academy responded to Wink News, saying in part: Any student who shows up to an MCA dance and does not abide by the dress code is given the opportunity to return to the dance in proper attire. Hawley said they opted for something more casual instead. And we went and got ice cream. And sat and talked about it, and she cried about it.

Sophie is a junior and has been at the school since second grade. Her mom thinks they need to keep up with the times. We realize this isn't going to change anything for Sophie, for my daughter, but we'd like it to change for kids in the future. And they shouldn't have to feel humiliated for being who they are. The embarrassment now has the family considering other options for Sophie's senior year.

All right, so that's the local reporting. This happened out in Florida. And uh this uh child um has a um And again, I'm I'm not I'm just describing here the sixteen year old who's putting herself out there in the news, sure enough wearing a three piece suit, and she has her hair done up like a young man would have his hair done up.

Now the school, this is Mason Classical Academy. They're saying, hey, look, we've got very strict rules, and the kids know all about the rules. They said the dress codes are clearly presented and outlined to all students and parents. Any student who shows up to a dance and does not abide by the dress code is given an opportunity to return to the dance in proper attire. All students are treated equally and are welcome and encouraged to attend these voluntary events.

Well, I I say good for the school here. I mean, at least they've got rules, they've got regulations. I don't think this is a problem at all. But now, and it looks as though the mom and the daughter are trying to find some sort of a court case here. As if their child her child has been discriminated against.

So, there's something else here they're not telling us about this story. Very. Very strange indeed. Yeah. But do you think the school is right here that boys should wear suits and girls should wear dresses?

You got a problem with that? I don't have a problem with that. nine oh one two six zero five nine two six. That's nine oh one two six zero five nine two six. Yeah.

This story out of Massachusetts. A small town called Norfolk, is uh in big trouble. And the reason why is that the state of Massachusetts is building a new giant shelter for illegal aliens in this tiny town. And here's what you need to know about this tiny town. It's a conservative town.

So you think this is coincidental that the conservative town is about to get overrun by illegals? Cut 13. Help our own do something to stop it. A heated meeting in Norfolk packed to capacity with residents voicing their concerns over the state's plan to open a shelter at the former prison. There is no turning back when this happens.

Our schools are overcrowded as it is. We have a budget problem. This isn't a humanitarian question. This is a mathematical question. It cannot happen.

Norfolk town leaders say they met with state leaders Wednesday and learned the state does plan to house about 450 people at the former Bay State Correctional Center. The overflow site is meant to help homeless families with children, many of them migrants who have been sleeping at Logan Airport.

Now we are considering adding additional children onto the plate of our already stretched too thin teachers and expecting it just to work. The biggest concern is how the schools will handle this influx of children, while a few people said they worry about those new students getting bullied if they're not welcome here. And as you know, one of the few black families in this town, I feel obligated to ask this question because I don't want these children to be targets. Public safety is another concern with the sudden increase in population for this tiny town. The Norfolk fire chief says when the shelter opens, he's expecting emergency calls to increase by 5 to 10 percent, which will impact response times to residents.

I visited the facility on Monday. There were no contractors there. We were told that barbed wire would be taken down. State Representative Marcus Vaughan and Norfolk town leaders say they've been left in the dark on this new shelter, but they're hoping to mitigate the impact to this town. All right, there you go.

Folks, coming to a town near you. If you are a conservative town and especially a small town or community, you better get ready because Biden's going to be sending those illegals to your neighborhood as well. All right, Dylan, I have a question for you. The P. Diddy.

Is that the guy that was doing uh the uh the weird relationship with Bieber? I think so. Or was that Puff Daddy? I can't. Same guy.

Oh, it's Puff Daddy.

So Puff Daddy is P. Daddy. P. Daddy, shout out to Daddy. That's Paddy Combs.

Oh, that's. E-I-E-I-O.

So, oh, that's what the P stands for. Yeah. I had no idea.

So, anyway, this guy.

So, I mean, the insinuation is that he likes to do stuff with the. Young people. That is what he's accused of. Got a little Michael Jackson thing going down here. It's a theme.

All right.

Well, anyway, he's in even bigger trouble.

So. Mr. Diddy Combs, according to page six, has now been seen on surveillance video. Beating and dragging. Cassie Ventura.

This was his then-girlfriend. This all took place back in 2016. But the surveillance hallway video has just been discovered. That footage obtained earlier today by CNN. And I will say this.

It's horrifying video. To watch, he literally beats the ever-living daylights out of her in this hallway. It happened at the Intercontinental Hotel, that's in Century City. Back in 2016. And there's no way this guy gets out of that.

He's only wearing a towel. around his waist and he is literally beating this woman and kicking her. In the video, a Ventura is seen exiting a hotel with several bags, walking quickly to the elevators. She is wearing a black hoodie over her head. Shortly after that, here comes Combs in nothing but the bath towel.

Oh, he's wearing socks. And he's running towards Ventura. he grabs her by the back of the neck, throws her to the floor, and starts kicking her. Then he turns around and kicks her again and drags her by her hoodie towards the room. Before walking away, this guy is sick.

Sick. Gut wrenching is what um What some are saying.

So anyway, we'll see how all this um plays out. But not a good day. I don't see P. Diddy coming back from this at all. Along with whatever may or may not have happened with Justin Bieber and the other children.

Pardon me, young people. All right, 901-260-5926 is our telephone number. That's 901. two six zero five nine two six. Folks, it's the weekend, and I know many of you, the weather is going to be nice.

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Let's go right to the phones: 901-260-5926. Kathy and Oregon on radio station KYKN, our great affiliate out there. Hi, Kathy. What's on your mind? Hi, Todd.

Um, I actually went to um Quality junior high. I don't know if they're still calling it junior high or not, but um. It's a very, very fancy liberal. town Tigrid is. And the people that I know that still live there Um They wouldn't even dream of voting for President Trump.

Really? I'm not surprised by that. It's a suburb of Portland. And it's very, very fancy. I mean super fancy.

And it wasn't when my dad moved us there, it was sort of just. Um kind of country But Portland has sprawled out and so Anyway. It's a fancy place and very liberal.

So you're not surprised, Kathy, that they're comparing the kids to they're comparing Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler?

Well I still don't expect anybody to do such a thing. I mean, even the Tiger School District. But, um You know, liberals do what liberals do. I did have a couple of strange happenings there in Tigard at Quality and at James Templeton, which is the elementary school that's right next door. Um but I don't know.

It's um It's just a fancy place, and I'm not surprised that any school anywhere would do such a thing. Especially in Oregon. I hear you, and it's just absolutely insane that something like that's going down, even in a liberal town, as you point out, like that town in Oregon. Kathy, gotta run. God bless you, and thank you for listening to us today.

Let's go to Karen in Tennessee. KWAM, our great affiliate there, wants to weigh in on the girl wearing a suit. Hi, Karen. What say you? Whoa, I Um I wore I'm from a very conservative town in Tennessee and I wore a prom back uh I mean a prom wore a prom.

I wore a tuxedo to the prom. In 1985. I mean It had nothing to do I just thought it was cool. I think this I think it's being a little frivolous to You know, some girls don't like to wear dresses. It doesn't mean you're making a statement per se.

Now, I remember the 80s. I'm a child of the 80s as well, and I remember that being an actual style back in the day where the girls would wear the tuxedo suits. Yeah. What movie did that come from? Was that one of the 16 Candles movies or something?

Molly Ringwald. No, I mean, I just watched Sixteen Candles and I didn't that was not part of that movie, but um I you know, there was a girl that was two years ahead of me that wore one, and I remember seeing the pictures and I just thought it was cool, and so. I wore one. I mean, if I had to do it over, I probably wouldn't, you know, but. Back in the day and you're a kid, you do kid things and I just I just think that they're blowing this out of proportion when it could have just Nobody would have given notice.

All right.

Good stuff. All right.

Karen, appreciate you calling in, and thank you for listening. Let's go to Patty in North Carolina. And by the way, all of you folks in Statesville, we're going to be coming to your town for a big book event coming up on May twenty fourth. That's next Friday. Patty, how are you doing?

I'm good, Todd. How are you? I'm doing well.

Okay, listen, I want to get on the Merrick Garland thing. I explained to Lydia. I really believe this is a revenge tour with Merrick Garland. Remember, because he didn't make the Supreme Court justice. And I really believe in his mind he's thinking, But you know what, you Republicans didn't vote me in?

One day I will get you And I believe this is what he's doing.

So you think this is all part of the payback for him not being on the Supreme Court? Right. I believe that his power went he's got a higher power being a you know, a D O J. Could you imagine if that guy had made it to the Supreme Court? Oh, my God.

That was the sharing part. I mean, yeah, and that's what I'm saying. I really believe he is doing this. He's taking it out on why? It's all conservatives.

You've got people that pray. You've got people that are against abortion. Who does he go after, Todd? It's all Republicans. It's a it it it is a terrific point.

I mean, it really is a great point. And I believe in his mind, this is his revenge. His revenge is like, he's okay, down the line, I'm going to get you guys back. And he went at he's going after Trump. He's going everybody, have you seen one Democrat with this guy going to jail?

No, it's all Republican. Mm. Yeah, it's Patty, it is a great point and a and a good observation. All right, Patty, look, you gotta help me out here on something. I'm coming to Statesville next week.

Is there a place where I should grab a good meal? There's a lot of places here. You know, North Carolina, they got a lot of great places. Oh, I know.

Well, you know, I'm going to Biscuitville. I love that place. Yeah, Viscaville. Um Do they have one close by where you're going? I don't even know if they still have that open.

I know a lot of things are closing down, too, Todd. Oh, geez, the Lou. Don't tell me that, Patty. All right.

Well, look, Patty, I hope to see you next week when we come to town, and we'll be telling you more about that next week. But we are doing an event, actually, doing our show from WSIC, the great radio station there in Statesville. Patty, good talking to you. And folks, also have to give a big shout out to Gillian's Christian Supply Center. They're going to be handling all of our book sales for the North Carolina swing of it.

And they're just some incredibly great folks, great Christian family-owned bookstore. And they've got the stores all over North Carolina.

Now, if you are in the Statesville area. Or WSJS, we're coming to your town next week as well. Winston-Salem, Greensboro. I'm looking for some good local restaurant places, some of the best places we need to go and eat while we're traveling through North Carolina. Give us a call, 901-260-5926.

That's 901-260-5926. Here's the schedule. I mean, we're going to be on Thursday, we're going to be in Winston-Salem. Friday, we're going to be in Statesville. Then we're going to be at the North Carolina Republican Convention and the Thrive Homeschool Conference.

And then Sunday, I'm going to be speaking at a GOP prayer breakfast. Wow, I'm going to have to eat the Wheaties. We're going to be busy. All right, 901-260-5926, our number. This is the Todd Stern Show.

I'm going to use a bottle of the same method. Um Um Yeah. Uh Oh. All right.

Welcome back, everybody. Good to have you with us on this Open Line Friday. 901-260-5926 is our telephone number. A lot of folks from states will be calling in. Let's go to Jeff in North Carolina, WSIC.

And you know what? Let's also bring in Terry. Can we do that? We'll bring in Terry as well, who's listening to us on WSIC. Jeff, Terry, I hope you guys are doing great.

Hey, Dodd, doing great. Hope you are too. I am. Jeff, we're going to start with you.

So, I understand you've got a couple of food recommendations. Absolutely. Little Pigs Barbecue started in 1963 and it's the best I've ever had, and I think you ought to go eat there. Little Pigs. All right, I've got that one.

Now, Terry, you've got a recommendation, too. The one I would recommend would be going out to eat some Keaton's chicken.

Now, Terry, I don't mean to stereotype, but you sound like a guy who knows his way around some chicken.

Well Uh They've been there for a while. And I've been eating those lairs since I was in high school and I'm I'm a little bit north of sixty, going on towards seventy now. Wow, that's so that's so it's healthy chicken too.

Well I don't know if it's healthy, but it's good.

Well, that's all that matters, Terry. That's all that matters. Usually if something's healthy it don't taste good. This is true.

So, Jeff, you've got little pigs. Do you have another recommendation? I know how much you love barbecue, and I don't want to steer your own, but I have eaten a Keaton. That's also really, really good chicken. A little pigs is about two miles down the road from WSOC.

Is that right? Well, I could walk that off and then go and get some Keaton's chicken. All right, I'm excited about that.

So we're excited to have you in Statesville area.

Well, guys, I'm looking forward to it and hope to meet y'all both in person. We're going to be doing a book signing there at WSIC. I think that's on Radio Road in Statesville. And we'll be telling you more about that next week. But, Jeff, appreciate you calling in.

And, Terry, thank you for the recommendation, too. Let's go to Michael in North Carolina. All right, Michael, what are your recommendations? Yes, sir. I just wanted to say thanks for all you do, Todd.

It's been a long time listener since you've been on this radio station, but One of my personal favorites is Broad Street Burgers. Or the twisted oak. Very good. Broad Street Burgers.

Now, what what do you normally order when you go down to Broad Street? I actually like the blue cheeseburger they got. Blue cheeseburger. Oh, that sounds good. All right, I'm writing this down.

Blue cheeseburger. Okay, Michael. And they have. They have fried cheese curds that are just to die for. Ooh.

All right.

I'm I'm writing that down too. Uh, my cardiologist listens to this radio program, so Michael, we'll just have to make sure that they're the healthy cheese curds. How's gay buddy? I love it. Hey, Michael, thank you for the recommendations.

I love this. And this is how we ride on this program. I mean, we'll be coming up to Portland, Maine. We're doing the book signing up there later this year. Also, Salem.

You guys have a great food scene out there as well. Let's go to Tammy in Georgia, WDUN. Hi, Tammy. How are you today? Hi, Todd.

I'm good. Thank you for taking my call. Sure. I'm listening to you on WDUN in Northeast Georgia, Gainesville, Georgia. But however, I grew up in McLean'sville, North Carolina, We graduated from NC State there And Raleigh And the my favorite place to eat in North Carolina is in Greensboro.

Across the street from the Greensboro Coliseum is Damien's barbecue. I think they've been smoking pigs for about ninety four or ninety five years. All right.

And you make sure when you get the chop pork sandwich You get it with a vinegar-based flaw and get the hush puppies to go with it. Oh, I don't know if I can do that, Tammy. I'm a hot slaw. I'm a hot mustard slaw kind of a guy. You know, I'm from Memphis.

It's hard for me to do the vinegar. All right.

So you think I got to have the vinegar slaw on it? Yeah, it can. Traditional, it'll come with the slaw, and you unless you tell them no slow. And of course, it's North Carolina, so it's going to be the vinegar-based. Sauce on it, but it's great.

I love it. All right, Tammy, I'm going to do this just for you. I'm going to try it, but I'm confused here. What's up with the hush puppies now? Oh, the hush puppies, they are so good.

And a lot of people don't realize that. They think hush puppies with a barbecue sandwich. But that's just kind of the thing there at Stamy's. They've done forever. And it's my favorite.

They're they're the best hush puppies you'll ever eat. I've never had such a thing.

Now, you know, I'm from Memphis and we do our we save our hush puppies for the fried catfish. Yeah, well, these hush puppies go real well with that barbecue pork sandwich. All right, Tammy, I'm opening up my culinary horizons here. I'm going to try this.

So, get the pulled pork sandwich with the vinegar slaw and a side of hush puppies. I think in a few of our famous Republican v President has made a visit there to us. You'll see some pictures inside there.

So it's it's that's cool.

So it's one of those places where you um you have to stop if you're out on the campaign trail. Exactly. And when when we go back home to visit my parents, It's the first stop we make right there. And we we don't even go to my parents. I go straight to seventy-fourth.

I love it. I love it. That's great. All right.

Well, Tavi, I appreciate you calling in and uh thanks for the the great recommendations. Wow, we're getting some we're getting some good choices here, Delad. This is like I'm hungry, Todd. I know. It's terrible.

We do eat well. This show's three hours long. We can't eat it. We eat well out on the boat tour.

Okay, that's good. It's true. And the folks at DUN, though, they took me normally, you know, they've got some amazing food scene in Gainesville. One of my favorites is the Long Street Cafe, which is a good old-fashioned meet and three kind of a place. And then there's the Smokehouse BBQ.

But they also have a brand new like fusion Asian sort of L Latin, Mexican kind of a a place. It's called the tsunami or something downtown. That was insane. I'm going to have to broaden my culinary horizon too because, you know, I only eat chicken tenders. And ketchup.

And lots of ketchup. That's true. Yeah, we got to fix that. We got to fix that, Dylan. We'll work on that.

All right.

901-260-5926. That's 901-260-5926. Have you heard this? There is a woman who is in charge of graduation. You know how they announced the graduates?

At the graduation ceremonies.

Well, this happened at Thomas Jefferson University, which makes it even worse. Thomas Jefferson University. And here is the here's the announcer announcing the names of the graduates. Victoria Super pros. Jeeku Lynn Boer.

Alasuna. Call Bishop. Our son Care. Camp Bull. Thomas.

Thomas. I did. Tell me. All right, may I just throw this out there? I'd be willing to wager a Chick-fil-A sandwich, she's a diversity hire, a DEI hire.

How do you not know how to pronounce basic names like Thomas or Allison for crying out loud? Come on. All right, we got to take a break. 901-260-5926. That's 901-260-5926.

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Well, we're staying busy. A lot of news out there. And, of course, we've been talking and we spoke to a member of Congress earlier about the attacks on Israel and the lack of support coming from the Biden administration. But I know that you guys over at Patriot Mobile have been really instrumental in putting out a very strong message in support of Israel. Why did you guys do that?

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Well, Lee, we appreciate all the great update and the great work that you guys are doing. And you're right. It's up to all of us to help build and grow this Red economy. And we're so glad that Patriot Mobile is at the forefront of that effort. Hope you have a great weekend.

Thanks, Todd. You too. All right.

That's Lee Wonskam, who is the Chief Communications Officer at Patriot Mobile. And again, patriotmobile.com/slash Todd. Go and check it out. Use that promo code. They're going to give you one month free.

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So take advantage of that. PTV is the code. Folks, it has been a great day. We're going to keep up the conversation. 5 o'clock Eastern on Newsmax 2, the Todd Starn Show.

We have a lot of great guests. We're going to be doing a deep dive into what happened outside the PGA today. We're going to be talking to one of the editors from golf.com. As well as a police expert, did the police overstep here?

Well, we're going to talk about it. In the meantime, head over to ToddSterns.com and get yourself a signed copy of my new book, Twilight's Last Gleaming. All right, folks, get out there, have a great Friday, and be sure to go to church this weekend.