Congresswomen Declare War on Male Lawmaker Wearing a Dress

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So, look, I want to start out with this weird story out of Washington, D.C., Capitol Hill. Where The ladies of Congress, the gals of Congress, are now coming under attack.

So there is a lawmaker from Delaware. And this lawmaker is a man who is cosplaying as a woman. In other words, he's pretending to be a woman.

Now, his name is Sarah McBride. And if you read the Fox News thing, and this is what gets me about Fox, and again, they just, they are biology deniers over at Fox News because the staff, they're under orders. They have a woke HR department. And so they're under orders at Fox to refer to the transgender people as their preferred pronouns. Of course, one of the stars at Fox News is Caitlin Jenner, the Jenner formerly known as Bruce.

And they expect everybody there to bow down to the transgender agenda at Fox News. And that's not the only place. But anyway, Mr. McBride is very is is a is a radical, and he's using his he was just elected to Congress. How weird is it in Delaware that you good people there in Delaware are now represented by a dude?

34 years old, and he goes around and he wears a skirt and the high heels and the whatnot. And so, anyway, he's very upset because now you have members of Congress, the ladies of Congress, that are coming out and they're saying, Whoa, Nelly.

So, we're not going to have a guy in our bathrooms. We're not going to have a guy. Going out there and changing clothes in our facilities, we don't want that going on.

Now, Mr. McBride will be the very first member of transgender member of Congress. And I want to say something here. I believe in treating everybody with dignity and respect. I get that, but if you're a man, you're a man.

If you're a woman, you're a woman.

So here's what's going down, and this is why we're talking about this today. Yesterday, Congresswoman Nancy Mace from South Carolina, we've had her on the program many times, has introduced a resolution. And the resolution will officially ban transgender people from the the ladies' bathroom. In other words, if you're a man, you got to go to the men's room. If you're a woman, you go to the woman's restroom.

Or, yeah, I got guys. I guess you could find a bush. They got plenty of those out there on the Capitol Hill. The landscaping.

So, anyway, here's Congresswoman Nancy Mays explaining. She's actually walking down a hallway here, and now she's coming under fierce attack. Here's Congresswoman Nancy Mays: A radical left is calling me an extremist for being a feminist, fighting to protect the rights of women and girls. If being a feminist makes me an extremist, or a bigot, or a monster, I am totally here for it because I'm going to fight like hell for every woman and every little girl across this country to protect you and keep you safe. Wow.

Good for you, Nancy Mace. By the way, she used to work at Waffle House. She can not only make the hash brown scatter covered and smothered, she can beat the holy living crap out of you in a bar fight. Those waffle house waitresses can do that. All that to say, you don't want to mess with Nancy Mace.

She's telling it like it is.

So, anyway, there's Nancy Mace, and then MTG. And you got to love MTG because she's really fired up over this. And MTG is somebody, you don't want to mess with MTG either. And here's what she had to say. Sarah McBride, as he calls himself, formerly Tim McBride, is a biological man, and he should not be using any of our restrooms in the Capitols, in our office buildings.

But Nancy Mace's resolution doesn't go far enough. A resolution is just a statement by Congress saying that Congress disagrees with something. We need something more binding, and that's what I just brought up at the microphones there in our conference, is I directly asked Speaker Johnson what the men in our leadership are going to do about this because this has to be stopped. America gave a man. At this election, and said, not only are they sick of the open borders, the invasion, the out-of-control inflation, foreign wars, but they're sick of the trans ideology being shoved down our throats.

And it's an attack on women and children all over the country. I don't think Nancy Mesa's resolution does enough. I think we need to do more. That's what I asked Speaker Johnson, and he committed to me in there in the conference that Sarah McBride will not be using our restrooms.

Well that's not exactly what Speaker Mike Johnson said. And Yeah. Look, I love the boldness of our conservative women on Capitol Hill. They are fierce lady warriors for freedom. And they are, it's take no prisoners.

And then comes along. Little Mikey. Our Speaker of the House, and he was asked a question about all of this during a press briefing just mere moments ago, ladies and gentlemen, on Capitol Hill. Here is what little Mikey had to say. Mr.

Speaker, is freshman-elect Sarah McBride a man or a woman? Look, I'm not going to get into this. We welcome all new members with open arms who are duly elected representatives of the people. I believe it's a. A command that we treat all persons with dignity and respect.

We will. And I'm not going to engage in silly debates about this. There's a concern about uses of restroom facilities and locker rooms and all that. This is an issue that Congress has never had to address before. And we're going to do that in a deliberate fashion with member consensus on it.

And we will accommodate the needs of every single person. That is all we say about that. Do you plan on bringing Nancy Mace's transgender bill and putting that into the rules package? I'm not going to address the plans on any of that. I just told you what I'm going to say about the issue.

I'm not going to engage in this. We don't look down upon anyone. We treat everybody with dignity and respect. That's a principle that I pursue my whole life. And we will take care of this, you know, issue a first impression for Congress, as we will any other thing.

We'll provide appropriate accommodation for every member of Congress. Good golly, Mike Pence has a bigger spine than this guy. And his was a jellyfish spot. This is insanity.

So here's how you handle the situation. And look, I get it. Yeah, we want to treat everybody with dignity and respect. But you know what? We got to protect women's rights in this country.

Now the first my response would have been if Todd Starnes had been Speaker of the House and Todd Stearns was asked that question, my question in response to the reporter is, well, sir, I'm happy to answer that question for you, but first, you need to explain to me what exactly is your definition of a woman. Put em back on their heels, little Mikey. Come on But then, and again, you know, he said, well, this is not the time or the place. No, this is the time and place. They asked the question, they brought it up.

Let's talk about it. Let's talk about it. mister Speaker, what's wrong with saying, you know what, we believe that men are men and women are women. There are women's bathrooms, there are men's bathrooms, and you will use the bathroom according to your choice. And by the way, Nancy Mace.

Has a great resolution that actually addresses that very issue. And you heard the Speaker of the House say, Well, I just don't know if we're going to be able to bring that up. You know, we just want to be good Christian people here. And, you know, to be a good Christian person, you just have to love everybody, and you have to be gracious, and you have to use their preferred pronouns because that's what we do back home in Louisiana. We just love people.

Just love. them to death. That's what we do. That's what we do. So I just I just don't think that's the appropriate time to talk about Nancy Mays and all them other all them other women.

Them women folk Really, dude? Really? That's the takeaway? Mike, are you kidding me? Mike Johnson was brought to the UFC fight night.

He was allowed to walk down the aisle with Donald J. Trump and RFK Jr. and Dana White and He came out with That's that's what he came out with? Come on, Mr. Speaker, be a man.

Stand up for the women. In your own party, sir.

Now, Mr. McBride, and on this program, and we have a lot of new listeners, I just want to be very clear. If you were born a man, we use. Mr. We use the correct pronouns on this program.

That's what we do here. Anyway, mister McBride Issuing this statement here. Oh, by the way, Fox News says that he presents or she presents as a woman. What does that mean? What does it mean she presents as a woman?

Okay. Does she stick the fake boobies out? And portray I don't understand what that means, President. Anyway, regardless, here's what mister McBride said: quote: This is a blatant attempt from far-right extremists to distract from the fact they have no real solutions to what Americans are facing. And I'm a woman.

We should be focusing on bringing down the cost of housing, health care, and childcare, not manufacturing culture wars. Delaware's sent me. Is that how you say it? Delaware. Delaware sent me here to make the American Dream more affordable and accessible, and that's what I'm focused on.

Get out of my way, women. That's what the guy says. It's So anyway, this guy thinks that he's going to be able to walk into the ladies' room on Capitol Hill. And maybe Nancy Pelosi will welcome him. Maybe Nancy Pelosi will just walk the guy right in there.

But could you imagine? And I want you to think about this for a moment. Just imagine. That you have MTG and you've got Cat Kamak. And you've got Nancy Mace.

We'll throw in Bobert. We'll throw in Lauren Boebert. And they're all in there doing their makeup and doing whatever the ladies do in the ladies' bathroom. And in walks Big Sarah. Sam.

Folks, I'm telling you, you may never hear from that guy again. I'm just saying. I've seen stranger things flushed in down the commode. I'm just saying. All right.

901 260 5926 is our telephone number. I have a very simple question here. Do you believe That this Transgender member of Congress should be allowed to use the ladies' restrooms. And what's your take on Mike Johnson here? I mean, this was.

This should have been a home run. This was a softball question. And yet the Speaker of the House Took a pass.

Well, we just can't we don't want to talk about those things because you know the good book says we just have to love everybody. Love, love, love. That's all we are. We're just about loving folks down here. Just look can we pray?

Let's just all hold hands. The transgender hand and the heterosexual hand touching together. Yeah. in peace and harmony. Yeah, I'm not too sure about Speaker Johnson.

901-260-5926. We have a poll up on our live show blog. I hope you go over to the website. Just take a gander at our poll on whether or not men should be allowed to use ladies' bathrooms on Capitol Hill. We'll be right back.

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But again, this is, folks, what's happening up on Capitol Hill is really no different than what's happening in many public schools around the nation, where you've got these radical transgender people out there, and they truly believe that men make better women than women do. I would disagree. Better, hairier, and smellier. Than most, you know, most women, aside from some of the radical progressive gals, and they've got some issues.

So my problem is Speaker Mike Johnson. Why is it that this guy is treating this like, you know, he's treating Capitol Hill like it's some sort of a Sunday school class? I got a big problem with that. We need a ferocious leader. sitting in the speaker's chair.

We don't need somebody who's going to respond to something like this with a kumbaya moment. We don't. Here's the reporting of Axios, House Speaker, and this is the opening sentence from the Axios piece here. Written by Andrew Solander and Julie Grace Brufke. Johnson pressured by GOP firebrands on trans bathroom access.

Really? Is that like or is that a right wing extremist position now? To if you believe that men should use the men's room and ladies should use the ladies' room, if you have a problem, With a a guy undressing in front of your little girl in the locker room? Then all of a sudden you're some sort of a a right wing lunatic, according to the media.

So reading from Axios here, House Speaker Mike Johnson is facing pressure from some of his most outspoken members to restrict Congress Congressman elect Sarah McBride from using women's bathrooms at the Capitol. Nancy Mace told Axios on Tuesday that Johnson said to me last night that he would include it in the House rules, but today Johnson stopped short of making that commitment at a press conference, telling reporters, quote, We are not going to address the plans on any of that.

Well, why not, sir? Why not? What exactly is Mike Johnson going to fight for? I'm telling you, there's something off about this guy. And he has been invited on this program many times.

Before he became Speaker of the House, he would come on quite a bit. But as soon as he became Speaker, everything got shut down. And I don't get it.

Something's not right with this fella. Marjorie Taylor Greene went so far as to threaten to get into physical altercation with McBride. And let me tell you something. My money's on MTG. I think MTG, she does the CrossFit.

She would literally Take that dude by the belt strap.

Well, he's probably wearing pantyhose. He'd take him by the pantyhose and hoist that guy headfirst out of the ladies' room. Yeah. I It's this is insane. Green said, If he is aggressively coming in our bathrooms, then we should be able to defend ourselves.

Wow. Could you imagine? Let's just say that um I don't know. This is terrible. Let's just say that Mr.

McBride. had, I don't know, Taco Bell for lunch, and he's having a run for the border and he comes plowing into that bathroom and there there's MTG standing there, arms crossed like she's Beth from Yellowstone. That could get messy. I'm just saying that could get messy. But again, the issue here is that this exposes Mike Johnson's weakness.

This is a man who does not want to fight. He's a man who wants to get along. And by the way, we've already seen that over the past year, right?

Well, we just all want to get along, and that's what we do back home in Louisiana. We just. Sing sing songs and We have little prayer circles around our fire pits and We just hold hands, the Transgender hand and the heterosexual hand, and all those other little hands just singing Kumbaya. Yeah, I don't think so. I just don't think that's going to work, folks.

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Well, I want to bring into the conversation Congresswoman Mary Miller from the 15th Congressional District of Illinois. Congresswoman, welcome back to the show and congratulations on your win this fall.

Well, thank you. I think we've I had a big win for the country. I'm very excited. We're living in interesting times and I know as a country we sing the verse Uh God shed his grace on me and for the listeners that Don't really think about what grace means. It means unmerited favor.

And I do think God has shown. in a way, unmerited favor to our country, and I'm super excited about it. You know, we've been following, and there are so many things we want to talk to you about. But, of course, this news that came out yesterday, Nancy Mace introducing this resolution that would ban transgenders from using the ladies' restroom facilities. And, of course, all of this is around the incoming congressman from Delaware who identifies as a woman.

Where do you stand on the resolution? Do you support the resolution? Do you oppose it?

Okay. Absolutely, I support it. And I think one of the reasons President Trump won was that he stood against. The insane notion that you can change your gender. And I even go so far as to say that it demonstrates pride and rebellion against God's created order.

And so 100% I support it. And Mike Johnson, I think you know, just a couple hours ago, he came out. He supports the ban, and he wants it in the House rules that biological males will have no access to the women's restrooms. Yeah, well, according to Axios, and we played the audio just a little while ago, the speaker actually stopped short of making that commitment at this press conference. He said we're not going to address the plans on any of that.

So I certainly hope the speaker follows through and will support the ladies there on Capitol Hill.

Okay, I believe one hundred percent. He will make sure it's put in the House rules. this is insanity. And we want to stand against the transagender all over the country, which is why I proposed a bill to reverse Uh the Biden and Harris Directive. on Title Nine that we're going to force Biological men into our girls' athletics and private spaces.

And President Trump's 100% on the Um on the side of standing up against the trans agenda. You know, it's interesting, we had Riley Gaines on election night, and we were going through the exit polls. And a lot of people, Congresswoman, thought that the female vote The reason why they were going to vote was on the abortion issue, but Riley Gaines correctly said it was really this transgender mo this issue of the women and or the men and women sports that really drove a lot of women to go and vote on Election Day. I think that, that's true. And I say that there's three issues That transcends politics, that whether you're a Republican or a Democrat, are Of importance, and one of them is.

safety and security. It's the top order of the government is to make sure we're safe, which is why we need to secure our border and deport the illegal aliens that are here, the illegal immigrants, and restore law and order And protect our girls and women in their private spaces and athletics.

So, definitely, the first agenda is. safety and security. Number two is economic opportunity, which I believe as a top priority for President Trump. He's going to, you know. put you know uh fight for good trade agreements and bringing our manufacturing back here, getting our energy independence going full throttle.

Deregulating, which is going to unleash these American. to be productive once again. And then the final thing is quality education for our children. Those are the three issues: safety and security, economic opportunity, and quality education. You know, I want to go back and talk about the border because your governor, J.B.

Pritzker, was on MSDNC with Joy Reed. And here's what he had to say about the issue of these illegals. Cut 11, please. Can the state of Illinois prevent the federal government from building internment camps, aka what they're calling detention facilities in Chicago? Yeah.

Well, we have prohibited by law in the state of Illinois the use of any of our existing county jails or prisons for the purpose of rounding people up and detaining them. I want to be clear that there are certain circumstances in which the federal government and state governments should work together to allow deportation. An example would be somebody who's been convicted of a violent crime. But they're talking about rounding up people who are law-abiding, undocumented immigrants in this country, many of whom are working, paying taxes, not getting any benefits for those taxes, I might add. And we have a law on the books in the state of Illinois called the Trust Act, which prohibits our local law enforcement and sheriffs and the like from coordinating with the federal authorities.

But we cannot prohibit them, federal law enforcement, from coming into our state to Yeah. conduct raids or or do anything else like that.

Meanwhile, I think it would be very difficult for them to just spread out across the country. They don't have enough manpower within the Department of Homeland Security in order to carry that out.

So look, I'm going to do everything that I can to protect our undocumented immigrants. They're residents of our state. And I also obviously need to make sure that whatever they're doing in our state, the federal government, that it is actually within federal law or state law for them to do that. All right. So where do you stand on that?

Because President Trump is planning to declare a national emergency and send in the military and get these people out. Where do you stand on that?

Well, probably President Trump is going to do everything he can to put Americans first. J.B. Pritzker obviously is putting Illinois citizens last. He is protecting criminals. These people are here illegally.

And not only that, But The Democrats have supported bringing these people in that are convicted. criminals before they ever came here, murderers and rapists. Who in the world would ever do that if they cared about their people? Like no father would open his door to murderers and and rapists and bring them into their home. And the only thing he said that was true is that they reside in our state.

But the other thing is Illinois is bankrupt. We are We are in such a precarious situation, and to think that we are bringing criminals into the state. And we are picking up the tab billions and billions of dollars that we don't have. It is so offensive to the residents, to the citizens that live in Illinois. Congresswoman Mary Miller on our Patriot mobile newsmaker line.

And I'm curious about the President's cabinet that we continue to get new names. Any surprises for you? Anybody you're glad to see mentioned in that bunch?

Well President Trump has a mandate, and the American people want. Things shaken up. They don't want status quo anymore. They are happy that he's naming people who are going to drain the swamp. And the Republicans have an obligation to support.

whoever he his appointments are. And so that's where I stand on that. All right. Well, Congresswoman, we really appreciate your time this afternoon. Again, congratulations on your reelection.

I know you're one of the rock solid conservatives, and we certainly look forward to having you back on through the year.

Well, you're welcome. I'd love to talk about how Illinois could go red someday if we could get the gun owners and registered Republicans out to vote. You know what? That's going to be a great conversation, and we're going to do our part to make that happen. All right, Congresswoman Mary Miller, always great having you on the show.

Mm. Thank you. Take care. All right. There you go.

All right. We're going to take a quick break here, folks. By the way, I just put up the big poll question over at ToddSterns.com and click on our live show blog and you'll see it there. Should men be allowed into ladies' facilities at the U.S. Capitol?

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You also had big college football and then NFL.

So, anyway, fascinating story. The new ratings for the NBA are out. And it's really shocking. They are now in a ratings freefall in the NBA. And I just want to I want to throw this out there.

That I'm wondering if it's because Of the wokeness of the NBA. I mean, they've gone full-blown woke. The numbers on ESPN down 28%. Viewership is down 28%.

So the NBA ratings this year are just awful. And so I look at the NFL. And Dylan, I don't know if you've watched any of the games, but the players, when they get the touchdowns, they score the touchdowns, they're in the end zone. And now they're doing the Trump YMCA dance. I have seen this.

Yeah, it's pretty awesome. What was it? CBS News. CBS Sports cut it out. Of course they do.

Oh, man. You can't do that. You could show somebody burning a flag on the field. Oh, that's okay. Also, there's been way worse celebrations in the end zone.

Let's go. Of course.

So there's been sort of like this resurgence. Rush Limbaugh, many, many years ago, many of you will remember this when Rush said this at the time. That the woke progressives and the feminazis wanted to destroy Football because football It is a man's game. It is a man's game. You're not going to see, even if you've got a large marge out there on the field, she's not going to be a linebacker.

There's no way. Right?

So when you see all the controversy surrounding the transgender stuff, it never impacts football because it's a man sport. And Limbaugh Rush, L. Rushbaugh, was saying many, many years ago that was the ultimate goal, was to wassify. The NFL. And I think that they reached a point where they're able to do that.

And we saw that with the Colin Kaepernick stuff, you know, the disrespect of the national anthem, all of that. But it's like we're coming out of that now. Have any of you guys noticed that? It's like we're just coming out of that, and we're seeing a resurgence in sports and boxing and UFC fight night. And there is something to I know that this horrifies the white dudes for Haris.

I understand it terrifies them, but there is something of this gladiator mentality. That we're about to be the biggest, baddest fighting force on the planet with our military. We're getting rid of all the DEI garbage, we're getting rid of all the drag queens. You're not going to have sailors wearing lipstick anymore. You're not going to have any of that stuff.

So it's almost as if we are writing the cultural ship, and we are doing that by reestablishing that men are men. I mean, how long have we seen this where men have been put upon? With the toxic masculinity and getting in touch with your feelings. But I'm telling you, the NBA, there is something to this. I don't think it's just by chance that we have seen a ratings.

Drop in the NBA. And I'm telling you, it's just hard, right? It's just you just want to be able to watch a football game, you want to be able to watch a basketball game and not have somebody's politics shoved down your throat. And we were talking about this with so now this Memphis flower shop lady. gone viral, a Libs of TikTok picked up the story.

And the owner of the flower shop is doubling down, saying that I want to do business with Trump supporters. Oh, and the newest one is: well, we'll do business with Trump supporters, but we're not going to do events that we disagree with. Really? Really? Because when the Christian Bakers tried that, guess what happened?

They got sued out the wazoo.

Well, I'm liberal. We have different rules. I'm telling you folks. People are getting sick and tired of this stuff. And it's not about And by the way, the the flower shop owner is now claiming to be a victim.

I've been victimized. We've had to shut down our business for an entire two weeks. Yes, because people canceled their orders. Maybe you should have thought about that. before saying that you don't want Trump people coming to do business with you.

Because by and large, I guarantee you that there are a lot of people that voted for Donald Trump that go to that flower shop, that go to the decor shop over in Oregon, Hip Nest. And you know what? People don't have to go shopping there anymore. They really don't. People don't have to go to an NBA basketball.

They don't have to go to the NBA anymore. They can stay home and do something else. And I think a lot of folks, especially owners, they recognize: oh, yeah, but this is where we are right now here in this country.

So I think that Donald Trump is he is bringing sanity back to America. And there are lots of things that Trump is going to be doing. But I think. Donald Trump's election brought sanity back to this country. And so when you are so when you're out there at the supermarket and people are smiling, they're a little bit more easygoing, you walk into people, and there just seems to be a giant collective sigh of relief around the country that we came so close.

To ending everything. We were able to walk back from the brink. And I think that's ultimately what this is really all about. There's just this sense of relief about where we are in the country right now. And everybody realizes the road that we were going to go down, and we decided, you know what, we're not ready for that.

We're going to stick with freedom and liberty. By the way, has anybody seen Kamala Harris? Has anybody seen her? What about Doug, the second dude? Kind of a little worried about these guys.

We haven't seen them. Did they go out into the jungle with Joe? Yeah. What happened there? All right, we're going to take a quick break here.

We're going to be checking in when we come back with Robin Poffman. She has been covering this trial of Lake and Riley, the murderer of Lake and Riley. We're going to be talking to her about the very latest. And the breaking news coming out of all that, ladies and gentlemen, is something very, very disgusting. It turns out that your tax dollars were used to fly Lake and Riley's killer to Atlanta.

where he did the evil deed. Unbelievable. All right, hang tight, everybody. Hour two of the big show coming up next. This is the Todd Stern Show.

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Todd Stars. All right. Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Todd Stearns Radio Program, hour two. If you would like to join the program today, just give us a call, 901-260-5926.

That's 901-260-5926. So we have been following these developments coming out of Ukraine, where. They have now used US missiles, these long range missiles, to hit targets deep inside Russia. And we know for a fact now that Vladimir Putin has threatened that if this happened, then it would signal that uh we were at war. With the United States.

And Moscow now says that the. The notion that Ukraine is using these U. S. made missiles signals that the West wants to escalate the conflict.

Now this is the first time ever that this has happened. And it came just a few days after President Biden gave the okay to use these missiles.

So we've been giving them missiles, these ballistic missiles, and then earlier today we got word that they hit an ammo depot in the southwestern part of Russia. According to the Russian Military of Defense, Kiev used six ballistic missiles. known as um Army Tactical Missile Systems. A senior American official and Ukrainian official confirmed. Those were the missiles used.

Now, ladies and gentlemen. I want to posit a theory here. Is it possible? That Joe Biden Or at least his handler, Barack Hussein Obama, want a world war. There are some concerns here that Putin If pushed, and again, if these attacks continue, that Putin could end up attacking the United States.

Now, when that happens, then you know what we have to do. And then you're looking at a nuclear winter by Christmastime. And that is a concern of many now is that. The administration is Deliberately leading us to a world war.

So the question is very simple. Should Should we remove Joe Biden from office? Should he be removed from office? to stop whatever is about to happen. We know as Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said that they're going to be as much money they're basically going to drain every single one of our bank accounts and send that money to Ukraine.

That's what they're going to do. They have Anthony Blinken on the record saying we're going to send every single penny we've got up until Inauguration Day to Ukraine. This is a pretty serious situation. All of you young men out there. We go to war, guess what happens?

They're going to have to institute the draft because our numbers are so low right now in this woke military. And you want to know why? Because the red-blooded patriotic sons of America, they want to be sharing a bunk with a drag queen. They don't.

Well, that's just homophobia. You know what? It may be, but you know what? That's the reality. They don't want to be exposed to all of that garbage.

And that's the reality of it. You can say whatever you want to say. But when you look at the recruiting numbers, I mean, we are in a world of hurt right now. And there is a lot of concern up on Capitol Hill from Republicans and especially military veterans. Who are now in Congress, and they don't believe that we are capable of fighting and winning a war right now.

That's how bad the Pentagon is. We're in rough shape, folks.

So we're going to pay close attention to this, but I'm telling you right now, we are living in some very, very dangerous times. Again, our telephone number is 901-260-5926. That's 901-260-5926. So the FEMA director now says that there's going to be an investigation. Into This Incident and by the way, it's not just one incident here.

But we we understand that FEMA Deliberately passed over homes of Trump supporters during their relief efforts. This was from Hurricane Milton, and I'm going to say Hurricane Helene.

Now, Scott Perry is the congressman from Pennsylvania. He is a chair. of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. And He says that this is a big deal. He's saying that there were more instances of homes and survivors being passed over because they supported Donald J.

Trump. And we're being told now from the FEMA supervisor who was fired, her name is Marty Washington. We're being told that the numbers are colossal. That's her language. Not mine.

So that's what we're that's what we're dealing with right now. On FEMA.

Now, meanwhile, Joe and Mika are Are this is terrible?

So, Joe and Mika are in hot water. And the reason why is they went to Bar-a-Lago. And honestly, it wasn't, I don't even think they wanted to go to Bar-a-Lago. Their bosses wanted them to go to Bar-a-Lago. to kiss the ring.

Yes, and possibly. The buttocks. I don't know. I don't know what they were asked to kiss. But I do know this, Joe and Mika were begging for their jobs.

That's all this was.

So I never did understand this, and I understand President Trump is a gracious man. He's always willing to give somebody a second chance. But these people, do you really think that Joe and Mika deserved to have a meeting with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago? If I were Trump, you know what I would have done? I would have been like, you know what, Joe Mika, if you fly down to Palm Beach, happy to meet with you, but we're going to go to the IHOP.

I don't want you on my property. Mar-a-Lago's an exclusive place. We'll go down to the IHOP. I want to play some audio. This is Joe and Mika from Morning Schmo over on MSDNC.

Bashing President Trump. Cut 18. When is the time to sound the alarm? When is the time to start saying, well, Does this look Lake Germany in 1932? His obsession with Hitler that has now come out.

This is not a reach. I could go back and talk about Nazi Germany, and I'd do it without any concerns whatsoever. Who they are running against. A dark, dismal, fascist, and increasingly obviously fascist. Person.

There's always a tinge of racism in everything he says. If you can't believe it, and this is your choice, you're lying to yourself and you're going to ruin this country. Hateful, racist, bigoted, tired, aging, branding. I wouldn't say genius, branding obsessed narcissist. He will imprison, he will execute whoever he's allowed to imprison.

Executely voting for a fascist. They're voting for a racist. Did a graphic scene, like he was having oral sex with the microphone. All right, and that's just a sampling, ladies and gentlemen. And these are very horrible people.

And my question is. Did they deserve an audience with Donald Trump?

So, what they didn't count on, Joe and Mika didn't count on getting attacked not only from the conservatives, but now from the left, who are accusing Joe and Mika of being sellouts. Because, again, they think this guy, or at least on their program, they're saying that Donald J. Trump is Adolf Hitler reincarnated.

So my question is, if that is true, why would you ask for an audience with Adolf Hitler? Why would you sit down and eat a delicious tuna fish sandwich and sip a glass of iced tea In the Florida sunshine. With a guy that you believe is literally exterminating progressives, I guess, or sending them to the gulag? But I I now don't understand that.

So now here's Joe and Mika. Trying to explain all of this, cut 17. Joe and I went to Mar-a-Lago to meet personally with President-elect Trump. It was the first time we have seen him in seven years.

Now, we talked about a lot of issues, including abortion, mass deportation, threats of political retribution against political opponents, and media outlets. We talked about that a good bit. And it's going to come as no surprise to anybody who watches this show, has watched it over the past year or over the past decade, that we didn't see eye to eye on a lot of issues, and we told him so. What we did agree on was to restart communications for nearly 80 million Americans. Election denialism, public trials, and January 6th were not as important as the issues that moved them.

to send Donald Trump back to the White House with their vote. Joe and I realize it's time to do something different. And that starts with not only talking about Donald Trump, but also talking with him. All right, so all you know what broke loose when that happened yesterday.

So today, CNN has a piece out, and they're quoting. Two unnamed sources. I'm going to tell you who those two unnamed sources are: Joe and Mika. Those are the two unnamed sources. And the sources are telling CNN that the reason that Joe and Mika went down to Mar-a-Lago is because they were driven by fears of retribution.

So they say that this had nothing to do with saving their jobs or begging Trump to give them some relevancy. They were down there at Mar-a-Lago begging Trump not to throw them in a gulag. No, I'm not making this up. This is coming from CNN, the most profane name in news. According to the two sources.

With direct knowledge of the matter that's Joe and Mika, Scarborough and Brzezinski were incredibly concerned they could face governmental and legal harassment from the incoming Trump administration.

Now, I don't want to read all of this story by Brian Stelter. Who may or may not have a walk-on role in the next Hobbit movie. But Mr. Stelter, there's an interesting, he quoted a Democrat political consultant. I had to laugh at this.

Democratic political consultant Chuck Roach, oh, pardon me, Rocha, channeled this view on CNN's News Night. He said, quote, I think Joe and Mika just won't don't want to be Audited.

Now that's an interesting choice of words. And I say that, ladies and gentlemen, because back during the eight years of the Barack Hussein Obama administration, back when I worked at Fox News channel, I was audited. Two times. By Obama's IRS. the my entire life, fifty seven years old, I've only been audited two times, and it happened during the Obama years.

And why is that? Because I was one of the more outspoken people on this issue of gay marriage. As a matter of fact, Franklin Graham, remember Franklin Graham? Billy Graham was still alive at the time. And Billy Graham, the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, for the first time in the history of their organization, Billy Graham.

Was audited by the federal government. Want to know why he was audited by Barack Hussein Obama? Do you want to know why Barack Hussein Obama? Audited America's pastor. You want to know why?

Because Billy Graham took out a series of ads. promoting traditional marriage. Sure.

So I find it interesting that now all of a sudden you've got the Democrats concerned that the Internal Revenue Service might be weaponized.

Well, it's not might be. It's already been weaponized, and it's been weaponized against conservatives. As a matter of fact, I went to the Legal department at Fox News. And I said, guys, I said, you know, I'm man, I'm getting killed here. I got to go out and hire an accountant and get to get an attorney.

And I said, What do I do? And they told me to get in line. Yeah. Because multiple people at Fox back in the day were getting slapped by the weaponized Lois Learner Internal Revenue Service. Many of you remember those days.

This was a very unpleasant time in America.

So the reality here is this. Joe and Mika, you know what their retribution is going to be? You know what their payback is? They're going to lose their jobs. And it's not because of Donald Trump.

It's because of their far left policies. And let's just get real for a moment. Nobody wants to wake up to those two in the morning. Nobody.

Okay. I'm telling you. 901-260-5926 is our number. That's 901-260-5926. This is the Todd Stern Show.

All right, the University of Maryland has a brand new course. They are introducing And just a matter of Well, spring semester. Emma Arnes is the author of this report from Campus Reform. The University of Maryland is slated to offer an Intro to Fat Studies course. all in the upcoming spring semester.

The university course will focus on fatness. Blackness and their intersections.

Well, there's got to be a mighty big intersection. The three credit class, which is offered through the Harriet Tubman oh dear, that's an unfortunate name. Harriet Tubman, Department of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies. Yeah. examines fatness as an area of human difference subject to privilege and discrimination that intersects with other systems of oppression.

Oh, Jeez a loop. All right, I just want to say something here about this, and again, I It seems to me that the fat people of America are the ones who actually have the privilege. For example, when I'm boarding an airplane and I'm sitting down in the seat I paid for, and then you have a 600-pound dude come in, and I've actually seen this happen before, and his fat rolls are so gigantic that they literally flop over. Onto your armrest? That to me is privilege.

And it just seems to me that if you're that big, you need to. If you're 600 pounds, you probably need to purchase another. Another seat ticket, or maybe the whole row. By the way, there was this one guy, I'll never forget this. This is in first class.

And this guy was, and he just kind of like the blubber just kind of like. I mean, it just kind of like spread out. It was like Job of the Hunt. And so I'm sitting there and the poor guy needed and even a first class needed like two seat belt extensions. And I'm thinking, you know, I'm not quite sure he needs it because he was almost, his belly was almost touching the we're in the front, like in the front row.

So so anyway, it's just and again, it's just This idea that if you've got a problem with fat people, or if you think people need to lose weight, that makes you an evil person. As a matter of fact, the Course actually covers that. Fat Liberation Yeah.

Well, the challenge here is I think a fat person has been liberated because they don't wear belts anymore. Maybe the suspenders. Fat liberation. It's a method of fighting. This is terrible.

I can't even pronounce this word. But anyway, they got a new word, and it means hatred of fatness. Shouldn't we all hate fatness? I'm not talking about hating fat people, but shouldn't we all, should we all not be able to say together as a healthy nation, you know, we hate fatness? I'm trying to shed a few pounds myself.

But again, I'm not trying to declare that I'm some sort of a special species or group because I enjoy little Debbie snack cakes. I'm just saying. By the way, that guy got up. I mean, it was.

Well, I shouldn't mention this, but the guy got up, and you could see the steam rising from the chair. In the airport. I'm not kidding. I am not kidding. Anyway.

All right, there you go. University of Maryland, your tax dollars at work. I think you also get a six pack of ho-hoes. With your degree. And welcome back to the Todd Cearns Radio Program.

So, I have a question for you. Is there any job you would not do? Let's say you lost your job, and there are just not that many options for you. And you realize, oh, wait a second, I could, you know, there are jobs available, maybe working in the agricultural community. Maybe you could, farmers are looking for people to go out and pick produce or whatever, pick apples from the trees.

Um would you do that kind of a job? What if the only job available to you was being a housekeeper at like a motel? or sweeping floors, taking out the dress, you a janitor. What if that was the only job that you could find? Would you take that job?

Now the reality here is I think many of you probably would. Because many of you don't want to be. And hear me on this. You don't want to be a deadbeat, right? I don't think many Americans want to be that way.

Mm-hmm. But during the China virus pandemic, a lot of people really decided: you know what? Maybe I just need to stay home and just get a check from the government.

Now it's one thing. If you are a hardworking man or a woman and you're out there trying to provide for your family and you lost your job and you can't find a job, so in the meantime, you got to go on food stamps for a couple of months, Okay? Yes, that's by the way, that's what the food stamp and the welfare system that's what it was originally designed for. The welfare system was not designed for generations of Americans To to be chained to those housing projects. But you've got the government out there saying, you know what, don't worry about it.

We're going to take care of you. It will determine what will determine what you need. And we'll provide you the bare necessities, and you'll be happy with it. And a lot of people are. Anyway, I ask this because the latest argument in advance of the mass deportation is that we're not going to be able to have lettuce on our hamburgers anymore because there will be nobody left in America.

To pick that lettuce. And many of you in this country will be homeless because. Most of the people building our homes are, in fact, illegal aliens. And so there's a report in Axios, 13.7. And again, this breaks down how many.

Workers could be eliminated from U.S. industries as a result of the deportation.

Now, I just want to say something, we're just right out of the gate here, folks. Even if it's 1%, Those are jobs that should be going to Americans.

So, I'm going to play some audio here. This is from. This is from CNN. Matt Egan is their business correspondent, and he has this liberal mindset. And you'll hear it.

And let's play this. I want to bring in Ben Dieter to weigh in on this. Cut 10, please. What happens to food, to farming, agriculture, if there are mass deportations when a lot of these Business is Use undocumented immigrants. Yeah, Dana, listen, food would get more expensive, possibly a lot more expensive, and that would directly undercut another Trump campaign proposal, promise rather, which is to get inflation under control.

Now, the big economic problem here is that we're talking about industries that are heavily reliant on foreign workers. Many of them are undocumented. And so, when you have fewer workers, it means less food, and yes, higher prices. Let me just show you one example. If you look at farm crop workers, a plurality of people in that industry, 41%, are unauthorized.

That's according to the USDA. One farmer in Michigan told me that mass deportations would be, quote, devastating to the ag economy because there just would not be enough people to pick the crops. But it's not just about farmers. If you look across the food supply chain, there are many different parts of this that rely on tens or even hundreds of thousands of undocumented workers, everything from food processing to groceries, and of course. Of restaurants altogether, an estimated 1.7 million people who work in this space are undocumented.

Now, we've reached out to the Trump transition. They have not gotten back to us, but in the past, they've argued that Trump's campaign proposals would not make inflation worse. But I've got to tell you, economists that I'm talking to, they're saying the exact opposite, Dana. All right, so let's run through the numbers here. And Ben Dieter, I find this fascinating because their argument is: if we get rid of the illegals, all of you rich people are going to lose your yard workers and your maids.

And you may not have anybody to p pick your cotton.

So if you look at these industries, so we're talking everything from agriculture, which slash farming, hospitality. Construction If you look at the share of workers in the specific industries that are illegal immigrants, for example, 13.7% of the workers in construction are illegal aliens. Agriculture, that makes up about twelve point seven percent of all agricultural the people working on the farms, picking crops, would be illegal aliens. Hospitality out of one hundred Hospitality workers, you have seven of those that are Going to be illegal aliens.

So, what they're saying is, this is going to have real-life ramifications, and it is going to increase the cost of everything from building a home to going to your grocery store.

Somebody's got to pick the berries. If we deport the berry pickers, we are going to see that increase the cost tags, the price tags, rather.

So, that's their argument.

Well, look, I am stunned by this, this Pew study they did. 75%. That's. A massive and ginormous Swath of the American people. 75% say illegals mostly fill jobs that American citizens don't want.

Is that true? Is that, I mean, seriously, have we gotten to a point? Because America, Ben, before you were born, Americans were known for their hard work and ingenuity, right? We would, a lot of dads sometimes were, especially blue-collar dads, were to work two jobs, sometimes in some cases, three jobs, just to make sure that food is on the table and the kids are clothed and all of their families' needs are taken care of. But this tells me that we become a lazy Entitled Nation.

Well, I mean if you look at some of these jobs Plasterers, so the people that are doing plaster on the walls, you have the masons out there, the people laying bricks, drywall installers, ceiling tile installers, tapers, painter, paper hanger. Are those jobs that are terrible? Because my dad did masonry work. My dad built houses and he loved the job. But apparently, what they're saying is Americans are either too lazy or they just are too entitled to do these types of things like build a home.

Which may be true. I don't know. I feel like you have a lot of listeners in your audience that do these types of despicable jobs, quote unquote. I'm just going to say this. There's a reason why we have Jiffy Lubes.

And the reason why is because Somewhere Dads stopped teaching their kids how to, their sons, how to change the oil in their cars and how to rotate the tires. And look, in a lot of cases, a matter of convenience. I get that. And those are great jobs. I'm not dismissing that, but I'm saying that there was a time when moms would teach their daughters how to cook.

how to clean house, how to do all those things that happen in the house, which leads to these beautiful domestic goddesses we have. And then dads would teach the sons, all right, here's how you fix the lawnmower. Here's how you mow the grass. But I'm wondering if we've just, we're in a new age now where we just want everybody else to do everything for us.

Well, my question is. What did you all do before we had 20 million illegals in this country? We do way more than that now. But like under the last four years, Trump estimates we have 20 million undocumented illegal aliens roaming around this country. Who did all the jobs before?

I'm just asking. Did we not have homes? Did we just not have berries that were being picked? Were they you know, Martha Radditz over the weekend on the Sunday show, she went to California and she was talking to farmers out there and they said, if we don't have these illegals, if Trump gets his way and he starts deporting these illegal aliens, our berries are going to be fermented. You're going to have no strawberries, raspberries, blueberries.

They're all going to be rotting. I'm like, I. Pick the darn raspberries. You know, I would. I that's not beneath me.

Why are you looking at me like that? No, I think I'm just a great berry picker. I used to go with my mom back in the day. She would say, fill up that bucket. And I would go out there in the hot sun and I would pick blueberries.

Oh, wow. Hire me to replace one of these jobs.

So you're like a migrant worker in the berry field. I got a great tan. I got a great tan, but I was an American doing one of these jobs. The way they view these jobs also, isn't it kind of racist? It's offensive.

What's wrong? I mean, look, these are the people that are preparing your food. I think you've been talking about the most noble profession. How about being a farmer? Yeah.

Without farmers, we all starve. Most people don't even have backyards anymore. They have zero lot lines.

Well, remember Kelly Osborne way back in the day? Oh, wow, there's a name from the past. Yeah. Is that the dad who ate the bat? That's Ozzie.

That's Osby. This is the daughter. Remember, she was on the view. She was on the view. This was Trump's first go-around, and she said.

You know, if you kick out all the Latinos, who's going to clean the toilets? Oh, dear. And there was a gasping, Rosie Perez was like, oh, you can't say that. And she was immediately canceled. But I mean, she said the quiet part out loud.

That's what Dana Bash wanted to say. You know why this is a brilliant thing, but you know why illegal immigration became the issue for this election cycle? It's because of what Ron DeSantis and Greg Abbott did. They sent the illegals to the liberal neighborhoods and the liberal states. And then all of a sudden, everybody realized: holy crap, we got a problem here.

No, we've had a problem here. It just wasn't in your backyard. Yeah. It's a great point.

Well, the way that ratings are crashing over at MSNBC and CNN, Dana Bash, Joe and Mika, they might be cleaning the toilet. They're going to be picking berries.

Well, maybe Anderson Cooper. Yeah. 901-260-5926. Oh, my God. Wow, that was very inappropriate of me.

901-260-5926. I am just curious here. Do you find this survey to be true? 75% of you say that illegals are filling jobs that Americans just don't want to do. I disagree.

All right. Because I love picking strawberries. I believe you. 901-260-5926. This is the Todd Stern Show.

Uh All right, let's go to the phone lines here. Let's start in Cleveland, Georgia, Janice. All right, Janice. What's on your mind?

Well, I do not have a solution for the illegal aliens. That's not that's part of this thing on my mind. But I just want to say I I go to the local farmers' market every Saturday. All through the summer into the fall, because we have so much produce left over from what we have grown. I I know all all everybody has gotten away from that.

Um But that's just you know, Janice, isn't it? Haven't you noticed? I mean, from when you were growing up, and I grew up in the 1970s and 80s, but even then, even then, there was a self-sufficiency. Like you grew whatever you could grow at home, you grew at home, and then you would supplement that at the grocery store. That's right.

I can remember my mom's Um grocery bill came up and it was um in the eighties and she said No, that can't be right. That can't be right. I don't buy that many groceries because we grow 'em. And sure enough, the girl had doubled it and didn't mean to, but Um, you panic you panic when you don't have that kind of money. Um But even going to the farmer's market with our excess, we still have enough excess in the end to make vegetable soup, which is going to carry us through the winter.

There you go. Janice, and that's the way you do it. You don't waste anything. Janice, thank you for that call. Love those farmers' markets.

And that's the thing. You've got to go support your local farmers like Janice. It's huge. You have to. It's important for me.

And I've been, you know, I've been, and we'll talk more about this in the next hour, but I've actually been paying attention to all the oils and everything. You know, RFK Jr. has got to get away from the seed oils. But I think you also have to start purchasing food, and you know the people that are growing that food. Concur.

All right. Natalie in Youngstown, Ohio. Hi, Natalie. What say you? Hi, Todd.

I'm just calling about I don't see a lot of illegals doing housework or remote in the yard. around our our place. Matter of fact, I do housework myself. Um For families? And Natalie, are you legal?

Sorry, Natalie. Very legal. I just wanted to clarify it. Yeah. And my husband.

and my son in law both do lawn maintenance. and we're all legal. And I know quite a few people and ladies not only here in Ohio, but we go to New Bern, North Carolina in the wintertime. And I know a lot of ladies down there that do housework in We get paid good money. It is, and Natalie, again, you go back to this idea, and I want to answer Ben Dieter's question.

What did we do back before the illegal alien invasion? Natalie, we had something called kids. And if you were a kid, you were mowing the grass, you were cleaning the house, you were taking out the trash. Right. We have three we have I have four kids and the three of the boys They started my youngest son started at nine years old, helping my husband with the lawn business, and the other ones were already You know.

doing it and they did it and put themselves through colleagues. And I also worked in a restaurant for thirty years. And so did they, and there was no illegal immigrants or You know, it was all the Americans and I enjoyed what I did and I enjoy what I do now. You know. And there's no shame to it.

No, not at all. I mean, that is a noble. Remember the hullabaloo when Trump had the 11-year-old boy mow the White House lawn? Remember that? And the media was just horrified.

How dare you? He's a boy. He's 11 years old. Yes. And those 11-year-olds need to start getting out there and learning what it means to work.

I mean, this is who we are as Americans. Yeah, they all want to just sit home and play their games and um you know, babies are kids and I'm like, no, they need to get out and learn to work. And what we're lacking in is the trade even. Yeah, yeah, that's a great point. in our country.

Natalie, thank you. But I just want to weigh in on that for you.

Well, I'm glad I want to weigh in on that for you because. you know We grew up, you know, mom and dad worked at General Motors and you know, we were provided for and dying w you know, you start babysitting and then, you know, My husband showed the kids how to change oil and mow the grass and Today, all my boys and my daughter are hard workers. That's it. Good job. And, Natalie, and thank you for that call, Natalie.

And it's good hearing from you. I am curious: how many of you, moms and dads, are actually teaching your kids how to do those things, right, Teter? I mean, how many of you are learning how to cook, how to wash clothes? Teter, you look horrified. A little nervous.

I mean, I just learned recently how to change a tire, and guess who taught me? Perplexity. That's artificial intelligence. Wow. AI taught you how to change a tire?

Not AAA? I'll tell you about it over the break. No, in all seriousness, though, how many of you, ladies and gentlemen, are actually teaching your kids those things? Because back when I was in high school, the girls would go to Home Eck and they'd learn how to do all that stuff. By the way, I'll have to tell you a story about they banned cabbage from ever being prepared in the high school after a terrible incident.

It took months to get that smell out of the building. But anyway, and then the guys, I'm getting on a tangent here, but then the guys would go to shop class or auto mechanic class. And so if you weren't learning it at home, they were teaching you how to do these things at school so you can go out into life and be some.

So what you're saying is you're a welder after the show. Yeah, you're Todd Welds. All right, don't go anywhere. We've got full lines here: 901-260-59260 number. We're going to get to your calls right after this.

Live from the Liberty University Studio in Memphis, Tennessee, it's America's favorite gun totem, Bible-clanging, deplorable American. That's right. I love this American ride.

Todd Stearns. Oh, yay! Hello, great patriots. Todd Stearns here, your voice of truth and hope from border to border, coast to coast, across the fruited plain. Ladies and gentlemen.

Wow, we have stirred up a hornet's nest here. In the last hour of the program, we were discussing this survey out there that shows.

Well, hold on, I've got it right here. My formerly chicken fried steak thing. Stained fingers. You okay there, Nieter? It's all right.

Ben Teeter, our executive producer, joining us in studio for this segment. Otherwise known as a berry picker. Hey, nothing wrong with that. Thank you. Just don't pick anybody else's berries without their permission.

Yes, sir. Most U.S. voters, 75%, say I. Illegals Fill most of the jobs that American citizens don't want. And again, does that mean that we are a lazy people?

Does that mean we are an entitled people? And by the way, are we just not teaching our kids a strong work ethic in America anymore?

So that caused the phone lines to explode. And we're going to work our way through some of these calls here. 901-260-5926. Let's go to Lee in Memphis, Tennessee, listening to us on KWAM, our flagship station. Hi, Lee, what's on your mind?

Uh uh how you doing, Todd? Um Well, basically I just start out by saying, you know, like I grew up in Memphis all about fifty three years and Not until I don't know if it's early two thousands or eight nineties, certainly not in the eighties or early nineties. You know, nothing against illegal Hispanics. I'm just saying I've never seen any Hispanics in Memphis. We had one Mexican restaurant that was called Ponchos.

Oh, I love Ponchos. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it was like a taco bill. It wasn't the one Mexican there, you know what I'm saying?

So Wait, what? There were no wait, what?

So is ponchos like an no Mexicans working at ponchos? Yeah, there wasn't no Hispanics there, you know, that was like a Taco Bell basically is what Poncho's was.

So the last one recently closed, but Um my point is that, okay, now Unless I fix someone's card, you know, I can't tell who's illegal or not, but you can only assume that this many. can't be illegal in such a Mm. short period of time. Anyhow, um, I'm retired, you know, I retired early in fifty. And uh sometimes I'll do a little door dash on the side, you know, get have something to do or whatever.

And I drive around a lot.

Well, you know, everywhere I look, landscapers, housing. uh some restaurants uh uh Even these subcontractors that have been doing all this fiber optics all over the city, everywhere you go, they're working on those, you know, the little orange pipings he put in the ground. anyhow, not a woman. I don't see any white person. I don't see any black person.

you know so now Like I said, who knows how many is legal or not, but I suspect the l the leg the legal ones are the small, you know, Percentage and And so like I say, how do you go from zero And literally zero, because I remember this. Like, I've never even seen a Hispanic until. Until like After I went to the military, California, basically, you know, wow, and then so yeah, so you know, there were none here really in the 80s. I mean, if there was, I never came across anyone.

Well, Lee, I don't know what you just drive down Summer Avenue, just drive down Summer Avenue. But I think the point is: no, to Lee's, Lee, I. I don't know how old you are. I'm 57. And I do remember.

Look, I remember when we had the first Chinese restaurant open up in the neighborhood. Look, that's migration, and that's a great thing. That's an American thing. And again, I don't want to go around asking people: are you an illegal? Are you illegal?

Because, quite frankly, you don't know. Nobody knows, but I do know this. If you are an illegal and you get caught, boom, you're out of here. And the other thing that's got that Trump has to stop, and Lee, thank you for the call. The other thing Trump has to stop is this anchor baby nonsense.

Mm-hmm. That's got to go. You come into the country, have a baby, leave the country, the baby becomes a legal citizen. I want to go to Steve in North Carolina, who's got an answer for us on the deportation of the illegals. Hi, Steve.

What's going on? All right, NAD, thanks for taking my call. Yeah, I mean there's a there's a very simple answer that will probably make quite a few people angry. Um And it's just a simple change of a phrase. instead of having welfare, We go back to work fair.

If you're on public assistance, you need to put a certain number of hours a week into some gainful employment. Mm-hmm. I've got no problem with that. But again, and there has to be sort of layers here, guys. Look, you had one of the congressmen, what, Gonzalez from Texas, he was out there saying, well, we can't have Trump out there.

He's a Republican. We can't have Trump out there. Uh deporting Grandma Consuela. And I'm like, well, okay, I don't think anybody's out there deporting grandma, but if she's here illegally, she's got to get legal.

Well, and also, keep in mind, there's 1.3 to 1.6 million illegal immigrants who have already received deportation letters from the courts. Bye-bye. Start there and then go on to the criminal ones, right? Because then, after that, so you're right, you could go on labor levels and then go after the illegals that are criminals, start there. I'm all for that.

Steve, it is a great thought. I like the way you think there. Let's go to David. All right, David, what's your idea? Uh, well, you and Natalie kind of stole my thunder, uh, a a while back, but uh I was just going to try to point out that Please you know, illegals.

for no better way to put it, they replaced the school kids. Because, you know, when I was 11 years old, I'm 64 now. I went to work for farmers. And you know, uh it was money for us, buy school clothes, whatever. And then towards About the time I got about 19 years old, or when I graduated high school, I noticed that.

Nobody could get a job with the farmers anymore because it was all illegals.

So That was kind of my point. And uh you know, most everything I ever learned I feel like I learned in the tobacco field, you know. Um you know, politics. Uh Okay. Uh team uh Teammanship, whatever you want to call it, you know, we all learned that there, how to work together.

And I think it's something kind of lost on this society. 100%, David. I had to do and when you go back and look at history, and I know Walter Cronkite went a little squirrely towards the end of his career as a broadcaster, but when you look at a lot of the old school broadcasters and reporters, they all had Pretty hard jobs that they did before they got into journalism. Look, I spent a summer I spent a summer paying for college by bailing hay in a field. That's hard work.

And it really does teach you to appreciate everything you've got. I have a story too. My first job was mowing the lawn and I had to use one of the push ones, not one of the zero turn ones that are now super trendy and cool. And not only did I have to mow a lawn, I had to mow the town's cemetery. And I was a little bit OCD, so I had to do the horizontal and the vertical stripes.

Try doing that in a cemetery. That was my first job, and I got it when I was 13. And I realized right then that I wanted to go into a field that was not that, not because that didn't have dignity, but because I realized that's hard, hard work.

So let me go be a reporter. Less hard. I'm just saying. It taught me the dignity of hard work. That's right.

And you respect and appreciate people when they're out there doing that kind of work. My dad, believe it or not, dad was an electrician. And he worked his butt off.

Sometimes Dad had to work a couple of jobs just to put food on the table. But that's what dads did back in the day. Let's go to Doug in Georgia. Hi, Doug. What you got for us?

Well, as usual, I love you guys. I just think you I told you before, you did so much to help us get Trump in. But anyway, I'm a big I love Trump. I'm conservative. Here's my problem, the conundrum.

And I've said this, I say this to every Latino I run into, and I'll say it to anybody: Latinos are going to save America. They are the most God fearing American people They the most family oriented people. They are the hardest working people. I mean, why do you think we see them in all these jobs? Because they work and they they play music when they're working.

You hire I've hired guys who have spent all day day laborers in a wet parking lot. And these guys don't work for nothing, minimum, ten, twelve dollars an hour. I had I hired an El Salvadorian, and he told me it was time to get back to work after we were having lunch. And so the problem is This illegal question is really, yes, still illegal. I'm not in favor of breaking the law.

But these are some of the best people. But let's get rid of the criminals. Let's I know it's a real conundrum. I'll leave it to you. I'm going to hang up and let you talk.

Well, Doug, thank you for that. And yes, look, the Hispanic population in this country is, by and large, very conservative culturally and incredibly hardworking folks that add a lot to who we are as a people. And I remember years ago when I was at Fox, we'd get a lot of calls from down in Texas, and most of the people enraged about the open border were actually Hispanics who were losing jobs because of the cheap labor coming across the southern border.

So, look, it's going to be, it will be. There will be some compromise along the way on this. All right. You've got to trust me on this. You're not going to, I don't think you're going to see entire families uprooted and sent back across the border.

But we've got enough criminal, and by the way, and I hate to, this is the reality. You cross that border illegally, you're a criminal. Period. You just broke our law. I got a big problem with that.

My concern are the people trying to get here the legal way. And we're going to have to have a conversation about grandma and grandpa Lopez or whoever. But right now, we've got enough criminal illegals and I'm talking about murderers, thieves, rapists. We've got enough of those folks that You know, we're going to be busy for a little while. All right.

Folks, we do have some breaking news coming up. Breaking news now on the Todd Stern Show. All right, I'm taking credit for this because we called out Mike Johnson. We are the only people calling out Speaker Mike Johnson. Is that right, Pen Teeter?

The Daily Wire, they were giving him credit for saying that boys are not girls, and that was not true earlier. You're the only person that was calling out this majority leader.

So we called out Mike Johnson because he hemmed and hawed and was basically trying to play nice with the transgender, the new incoming transgender person. Person. As a matter of fact, before we get to this audio, before we get to this audio, I personally, Todd Stearns, have exclusive audio of Congressman Johnson as he was. Of making nice with the transgender activists.

Well, we just love our transgender people, Todd. That's all we do back home in Louisiana at the Baptist Church. We're just loving people. We love, love, love, love, love people, especially the transgender people. And we just love holding hands, those little transgender hands, holding hands with those big, strong, heterosexual hands.

And we're just singing Kumbaya. Come by. Can't we all just get along MTG? Hey, wait. Let's pray.

All right, so now Mike Johnson has apparently had a change of heart. Hello everybody. I just want to make a statement for all of you here and be very clear. I was asked a question this morning at the leadership gaggle and I rejected the premise because the answer is so obvious. For anybody who doesn't know my well-established record of this issue, let me be unequivocally clear.

A man is a man, and a woman is a woman. And a man cannot become a woman. That said, I also believe that's what Scripture teaches, what I just said, but I also believe that we treat everybody with dignity. And so we can do and believe all those things at the same time. And I wanted to make that clear to everybody because there's lots of questions.

But that's where I stand. I've stood there my whole life, and those are facts.

So let's just be clear here, Ben Dieter. He was not clear, which is why he had to come out and clean up that mess. Unequivocally clear that the Bible teaches me in that old flannel graph down at the, you know, the flannel graph, he was teaching, you know, Sunday school stories that there was one boy and one girl, boom, baby. But it wasn't that clear. No, it wasn't clear.

And I'm not sure it's still all that clear. That's the concern I have here. Anyway, Mike Johnson, and by the way, the tweet we put out has gotten a little bit of play. And again, if you, as a Speaker of the House, cannot come out and say unequivocally, We don't want men in the women's bathrooms. You don't deserve to be Speaker of the House.

Why didn't he say that? It w because I He didn't say that, though. He's scared. He is afraid of offending people. This is.

This is the problem: he's a very good-hearted person. Thank you, Todd. No, seriously, I think the House Speaker is a very good-hearted person, but you've got to have a killer instinct if you're going to be Speaker of the House. Cojonies. It's that simple.

By the way, do you know who else? Do you know who else says that? I mean, you heard Johnson there say, we boys are boys and girls are girls. You know who else said that, Ben Dieter? Boys are boys from the beginning.

If you were born a boy, you stay a boy. Girls are girls right from the start. If you were born a girl, you stay a girl and grow up to be a lady. Everybody's fancy, everybody's fine. Your body's fancy and so is mine.

Only girls can be the mummies. Mr. Rogers, I just love you. Let's sing along, America. Let's sing along.

Everybody's fancy. Everybody's fine. Your body's fancy. And so is mine. Won't you be my neighbor?

Oh All right, have you ever been on an airplane? And maybe this is just me, and I don't mean to be morbid, but have you ever been on an airplane and you just wonder: okay, what happens if something if something happens to the pilot? Right?

So what happens if the pilots all conk out, right, or they keel over, and there's nobody else on the flight? That could actually land the plane. No, this actually happened. In October, where there was a pilot that died mid-flight. No, it happens.

It's not just speculation, it's not just hyperbole, Todd. It was, and they had to make an emergency landing in Seattle. I mean it it can happen.

So the question is, because I asked myself, I wonder if I could be the guy, the hero, that could jump up from first class and rush in and land the plane. Because I think, and in my mind, I'm thinking, I can land this plane.

Solely. What was the pilot that landed the plane on the Hudson River?

Well, he was actually a pilot. Oh, yeah. But you would become him. Yes, exactly.

So there's a brand new survey out. Nearly half of American men Believe they could safely land a passenger plane with the help of air traffic control. Yeah. Of course.

Is that you? What about the lady? Are the ladies saying we're not capable or we don't think we would be able to? No, they're flight attendants. Todd.

Diversity. There's male. Stewardesses. Yeah. They always have an attitude, though.

Have you noticed that? It's like a chip on their shoulder. They walk with that swagger down the aisle. Yeah. I was like, Rain in the berries, pal.

Rain in the berries.

So do you you really think you could land a plane? Yeah, I do. I mean, if I had somebody saying, All right, push this button button and do this and do that, I think. What qualifies you? Confidence?

Ego? I'm a man. That doesn't qualify you, Tom. Oh, it does. Oh, I think it does.

Okay. Men of America, what say you? Do you think you could land a plane? Ha ha ha ha ha ha. I can't even turn on the microphone.

901-260-5926 is our number. That's 901-260-5926. This is the Todd Starring Show. I don't think I'm getting my nuts on the plane next week. All right, here's this is a pet peeve.

I don't know if how you feel about this, but Uh earlier today A far left judge was confirmed to the Florida Eleventh Circuit Court. This could have all been prevented. This is Judge Embry Kidd. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is furious.

So it turns out that you had a number of Republican senators who did not show up. To vote today. and therefore Kidd was confirmed on a 4945 vote.

So, if the Republicans had just bothered to show up, President Biden's second appointee to the federal court would have been rejected. Here are the names of the senators who were no shows. One of them is And I hate to say this, um. Bill Haggerty? Mike Braun.

Steve Daines? John Fetterman, by the way, the only Democrat to abstain.

Now, Daines said he was not present because of flight issues. This is according to Newsweek. Also, Marco Rubio. was not there. How is it that Marco Rubio is not the Secretary of State yet?

He is still a United States Senator.

So why was he not there? Also Senator J. D. Vance was not there. And again, I appreciate that he's the Vice President-elect, but he still has a job to do, right?

Right, ladies and gentlemen? Looks like right now, Steve Danza, maybe these guys have great excuses for not showing up. They broke a leg, or they're in a car accident, or the wife's given birth to a baby. Steve Dain said that his runway was closed due to ice.

Okay, you get a pass for that, Senator. At least you tried to get there. But does it bother you, ladies and gentlemen, that once again the Republicans in the Senate? Are letting The people down. I mean, they have one job to do.

One job, go and vote. Charlie Kirk is defending Vance. He says Vice President-elect Vance is co-chair of the transition. We need him right where he is, helping shape incoming administration. No, we do not.

They can do without him for a couple of hours so he can fly back to Washington, do his job, and stop a far-leftist judge. From being put on the bench.

So there you go, ladies and gentlemen. Once again letting down the side. That's exactly what they did. By the way, according to Newsweek, They're not getting any comment from the other senators on why they were not there. This is very unfortunate.

But again, this is, we're not terribly surprised by all this. All right, Nancy Mace, just a few moments ago, came out in front of the cameras, and she is catching holy, you know, what. She is facing all sorts of death threats from these transgender freaks. And who'd belong in these mental hospitals? These are some very dangerous people out there threatening Nancy Mace.

Anyway, here's Nancy Mace. If that being a feminist makes me an extremist, I'm totally here for it. Is this effort in response to Congresswoman McBride coming to Congress? Yes, and absolutely, and then some. I'm not going to stand for a man.

You know, if someone with a penis is in the women's locker room, that's not okay. And I'm a victim of abuse myself. I'm a rape survivor. I have PTSD from the abuse I've suffered at the hands of a man. And I know how vulnerable women and girls are in private spaces.

So I'm absolutely 100% going to stand in the way of any man who wants to be in a women's restroom, in our locker rooms, in our changing rooms. I will be there fighting you every step of the way.

So, and I want to illustrate why this is so important. The voice you're about to hear is a transgender person who posted a death threat on.

Social media. Directed at Nancy Mace. This person believes he should have access to the same bathroom as Nancy Mace. This video goes out to Congresswoman Nancy Mace. Congresswoman Nancy Mace, I hope that one day I do find you in that woman's bathroom and I grab your ratty looking.

Hair and drag your face down to the floor while I repeatedly bash it in until the blood's everywhere and you're dead. Hehehe And then he ends by saying kisses. This is a freak show, ladies and gentlemen.

So you're darn tootin'. You're darn tootin' that these women up on Capitol Hill deserve to be protected from animals like that piece of garbage. Oh, by the way, so here's Hakeem Jefferies, who is the minority leader On Capitol Hill in the House of Representatives. Going back to the trans-related issues now. We can talk about this legislation all day.

Should there be accommodations made for trans members of Congress? And if so, what should they be? As Catherine Clark indicated, the notion that this incoming small House Republican, conference majority. is beginning To transition to the new Congress by bullying a member of Congress. This is what we're doing?

This is the lesson that you've drawn. All right, there you go. So, the Democrats' official position is that any woman who has a problem with a man in her bathroom, you are a bully. Ladies, you are bullies if you don't allow men into your bathrooms and your locker rooms. This is what they're dealing with on Capitol Hill.

But here is something for us to consider. This is what every single teenage girl in this country has to go through every day, and nobody on Capitol Hook cares about that. Nobody's doing anything about that.

So, I can appreciate wanting to protect the female Congress members. I get that. But what about the young girls of America? What about the ladies that go shopping down at Target and they want to try on a dress in a changing room, and there's a grown man there? What about those people?

What about those ladies? Don't they count? Don't they matter? 901-260-5926 is our telephone number. That's 901-2066-6666-6666.

two six zero five nine two six. I want to play some audio here. This is Um, let's see. All right, this is. Scott Jennings.

Now Scott Jennings is on CNN. He's the only conservative they've got over there. And this guy is usually six against one on these panels. It's pretty darn impressive. Here is Scott Jennings.

Weighing in on All of the events over the past couple of days with all of these leftists trying to get to Mar-a-Lago. Cut one. I'm amazed. I did not expect Hitler to get so many meeting requests. First from Joe Biden, now from Mika and Joe.

It's amazing that literal Hitler is getting all these meeting requests. And what it tells me, Professor. Is that all the rhetoric That came from the left, from the Democrats, from the White House, from Kamala Harris, and everyone else before the election, all of the rhetoric. The fascism, the Hitler, the Nazi rally, it was all a bunch of BS. They didn't mean any of it.

And if I were in the Democrat sort of rabble's shoes, I would be looking at all my leaders and going, Did you just BS me for an entire six weeks before the election? It's a great question. It really is. Anyway, good for you, Scott Jennings. And we love it when conservatives are.

Triggering leftist on CNN and MSD and C. Ben Dater, I have a question for you. I know you're a healthy eater kind of a guy. And RFK Jr. wants to get rid of the seed oils.

I guess they're very bad for you. Mm-hmm. So that would be corn oil. Would that be corn oil? Yeah.

So they are things like sunflower oil, cottonseed oil, sulfour, don't know what that is, grape seed oil, soybean, and even peanut oil. Really? Yeah. Peanut oil? That's what they said.

They thought peanut oil was good for you. Anything from a seed.

So if it's a seed, it's bad. But a peanut, is a peanut really a seed? It's a nut. It's not as bad as the other. What about, like, so what do they recommend?

Olive oil? Olive oil is. No, because here's the thing: it was like 10 years ago they tried. Villainizing olive oil.

Now it's good for you. Avocado oil. Coconut oil. Beef tallow. Nah, nah.

What about Crisco? Is that butter? I mean, right? I mean, butter, you can still fry stuff in butter. I mean, you shouldn't per Maha make America healthy again.

Under Maha's movement in this administration, you could potentially see Crisco. For all those people getting ready for their Thanksgiving spreads, get their Crisco banned. Because they say it's basically for a car, not a human, to consume. Really? Yeah.

Like, you know, if you have a rusty part on your car, there's what, WD-40? You could swap that out with Crisco. I wouldn't recommend that, but they're saying it's basically for car maintenance and not for human consumption. But I think that's how you make a yummy pus cr uh a pie crust. Yes.

I mean, what is it there was a movie. Um, that the help. Anybody remember this movie, The Help? And in this movie, they said the most important invention since they put mayonnaise in a jar is Crisco. Ha ha ha ha.

Which is true. Do people still use Crisco? I know, like, in my generation, and I would be Gen Z, that has been banned. Like, you don't use Crisco. Much I mean, and now they're trying to lump in the corn oils, pumpkin seed oil.

I did not even know that chia seed oils were a thing. It apparently is.

So, what is RFK wanting to do, though? I mean, are they wanting an outright ban on these things or what, put warning labels? I mean, the Democrats have been trying to do this for years, and we've been so enraged over it. How dare you stay out of my pantry? And so, now we're asking RFK Jr.

to step into our pantries. Your French fries are not going to be dunked in regular oil, the oil that makes them really yummy and crunchy and nice. They're going to be dipped in beef tallow, which is the fat from bovines. Interesting.

So that's what I think they want to do and start slowly transferring how we typically bake or cook rather at these fast food restaurants, these chains to find an alternative, something healthier as opposed to things like Crisco. Oh, well, here's the quote from the help. Crisco ain't just for frying. You ever get a sticky something stuck in your hair like gum? That's right, Crisco.

Spread this on a baby's bottom. You won't even know what diaper rash is. Shoot, I've seen ladies rub it under their eyes and own they husbands' scaly feet. Yeah. So here's what's interesting: how did everybody live using Crisco?

We lived very well, thank you. Because the way that they are putting a target on the back of Crisco, you would think that it is like rat poison. And I'm thinking, I mean, my grandma lived on this stuff. And she's still kicking.

So I we will open this up to the phone. Any of you folks still use Crisco? What happens when there's a knock on the door from the Trump administration and they want to take your Crisco away? It was introduced in S June of nineteen 11. By Procter and Gamble.

And that's the problem. That's what RFK is saying. Again, it's that Procter and Gamble. They needed to get that into our food to create all these diseases. 901-260-5926 is our telephone number.

That's 901-260-5926. This is the Todd Starred Show. All right, let's go to the phone lines here. I knew our audience would not let us down here. Dana in Gainesville, Georgia.

So you know a thing or two about cooking with lard, Dana. Is that right? Yes, that's right. All right. Well, so is it ba is it healthy for you?

Or I mean, do you still cook with lard? Uh, every once in a while I do. Make It makes really good biscuits. Oh, it does. Shortening is what they used to call it, right?

Well, uh You know, you just cook your crack corns out. You have crackling cornbread, and then you use your. Grease and stuff when it sets up for cooking your biscuits and it's called lard.

Now, Dana, you're going to have to explain to Ben Dieter. He's from the north. He doesn't understand what crackling is. Yeah. Well, it's meat that you cook out.

and almost so you just have to keep watching it and stirring it and stuff and I can just eat it like that after it's done, you know, and then Have you some crackling cornbread and some milk and onions? That's good eating. I'm googling it right now. Man, your listeners, Todd, they have like the best recipes. Trust me.

By the way, when I wrote the biscuit book with Michelle Cox, a lot of the recipes came from our listeners, and people swear by those recipes. They're buying the book just for the recipe. Wait, so is lard just the fat? Yeah, it's fat. What's good?

Dana, thank you for that. Let's go to Anna in Gainesville, Georgia. All right, Anna, let's talk, Crisco. What you got for us?

Yeah. I've got four grandchildren and I love my small bat. Morphy. More. Oh, dear.

We've got a bad connection there with poor Anna, so let's get that worked out. Let's go to Frank in Salem, Oregon. And Frank. Yep. You know of Crisco in your neck of the woods.

Oh, for sure. Um I got steered to it probably twenty years ago, not just the regular Crisco. It's Butter-flavored Crisco. Oh, that sounds that's double-dipping right there. Wow.

Oh, man. I go by the old saying: I like what I eat and I eat what I like.

Well, that's good. Yes. And a butter flavored Crisco for pie crusts. Oh, it's It's the top.

Well, I just hope they're not going to go. I I really I am a somewhat concerned about RFK Jr. because he's a leftist, and I know that he's got some good thoughts about the vaccines and all that kind of stuff. I just hope he doesn't overstep Frank. Yeah, stay out of the kitchen.

Hands off our lard. Yes. Yeah. And like I said, my mom was a baker par none. I mean, she.

She raised nine of us kids. and she could bake and cook And deep fried she made deep fried doughnuts, you know, which put a doughnut shop to shame. And uh I used her pie recipe because I'm the pie baker in the family. Uh You know, I raised three boys, one me and my wife did. And it's They want my pies.

Frank, I love it.

Some pumpkin pies and a Marionberry pie. A what pie? A who pie? Marionberry? Wasn't he the mayor of D.C.

who did Coke? No. Merionberries are only uh grown in the Willamette Valley, which is in and around Salem. In the whole United States, merrionberries, merionberries, best tasting, if you could ever get them. Uh I have a granddaughter who lives in Denver and she loves them.

And so we have to ship Chip pursued the Merry and Berry Jam that my wife makes. Uh every year.

Well, Frank, I appreciate you clarifying because I had never heard of that before. And again, Mary and Berry from D.C. got into a jam too, but it's a whole different jam.

So God bless you, Frank. And thank you. I got to try out some of that Marion Berry next time I'm in Salem, Oregon. Yeah, hopefully there's people picking those Marion Berries. Who knows if the deportations go into flex.

Maybe Anderson Cooper could use a job. Anna, we've got you back for about 40 seconds. Go for it. I'm sorry, I was lost in Doc Anderson and Cooper. I'm baked.

I've got four grandchildren, and my favorite small dot cupcake recipe requires the Crisco.

So I only use it for a few recipes, but we really need the liquid Crisco and the Shortening, I got a bone to pick here with our new guy. Dieter, go ahead and pick away. I'm licking my wounds. I mean, if it's good, you're confirming that it's good. As long as the recipe is good.

Not you, RFK. I'm not a problem now. The back. Oh, that guy. I've seen.

Sorry. No, no, you're you crack me up. No, you make me laugh. You need to stay.

Well, Anna, well, thank you for that. And yeah, we will have to go to war if they go after the Crisco, if they go after Kritz. Yeah, we're going to have to saddle up. Anna, I got to have one of those cupcakes. And as you heard, Anna said it is mandatory.

Mandatory. That's the American mandate. That's the American way. All right, folks, been a lot of fun. Get out there.

Have a great rest of your day. We're going to be back tomorrow, noon to 3 Eastern. You be good, America.