Stars of Hit Children's Film Say it's "All Gay"

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Wow. Do we have a fun show lined up for you? A lot of crazy stuff happening. And of course, we're going to start out the program with some breaking news from CBS News, now reporting that a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah is set to be announced today. Ladies and gentlemen, this is all because of Donald J.

Trump. And I want you to understand that we are in for a wild four-year ride, and it's already starting early. the international community understands that it's not it's not going to be business as usual not anymore ladies and gentlemen not anymore this is going to be an incredible moment to be alive in american history it's going to be an incredible moment especially if you're a young person to see the fundamental retransformation of the united states of america and part of that a big part of that is international foreign policy now on that note um i am so excited about these these tariffs so yesterday um word leaked out that that president trump was going to impose tariffs on mexico and canada and a lot of people are freaking out oh my god the canadian bacon will cost us 120 What am I going to do? We won't be able to pour no egg McMuffins anymore. What are we going to do?

What are we going to do? People are really freaking out over this. But it was really a pretty darn brilliant strategy. The president, President-elect Trump, said, hey, look, here's the deal. Day one, we're going to impose across-the-board tariffs, and China, not only on China, but also Canada and Mexico.

what are we going to do about guacamole i love my guacamole can we get guacamole and avocados from mexico what are we going to do calm yourself it's okay don't worry about it because president trump is a smart guy and he understands that all these other countries you see they for the past four years these other countries mexico and canada they all thought They had the upper hand, and they did because they knew that our president had no functioning brain capacity.

So they tried to bully us, and they were very successful. All of these countries, just about every country on the planet was bullying the United States of America. And now President Trump's coming along, and he says, hey, folks, heads up here. We're going to be fair with you. We're not going to blow you to smithereens, but you need to understand something.

We're not going to be tolerating this bully nonsense anymore. Those days are over. You punch us, we're going to punch back twice as hard, right? Isn't that President Trump's mantra, right? You come after Trump, he will not come after you.

But if you come after Trump, he's going to come after you and he's going to put you on the ground. I like that.

So anyway, this is so brilliant. President Trump announced right out of the gate, here's the deal, folks. You're either going to stop the illegals of the drugs from coming over our border, or we're going to levy a 25% tariff on every single thing that comes across that border. And it doesn't matter if it's a new car or a pack of chiclets. They're going to be taxing it.

There's going to be a tariff. And the tariff, Trump said, would remain in effect until all of the drugs, all of the illegals, all of the trafficking came to an end. the president says both mexico and canada have the absolute right and power to easily solve this long simmering problem and we hereby demand they use this power and until such time that they do it is time for them to pay a very big price huge so you're gonna hear this spin in the media trump's declaring war on mexico he's a xenophobe no that has nothing to do with it at all the president knows how to speak their language as a matter of fact you had the president of mexico just a few moments ago saying ay caramba and saying we surrender as a matter of fact justin trudeau the um the prime minister of canada just just seconds ago here's what he had to say Bonjour tout le monde. I had a good call with Donald Trump last night again. We obviously talked about laying out the facts, talking about how the intense and effective connections between our two countries flow back and forth.

We talked about some of the challenges that we can work on together. It was a good call. This is something that we can do. laying out the facts moving forward in constructive ways this is a relationship that we know takes a certain amount of working on and that's what we'll do one of the really important things is that we be all pulling together on this, the Team Canada approach is what works, that's where putting aside partisanship, that's where I reached out immediately to Doug Ford to agree with him that we would have a First Minister's meeting this week to talk about the United States, talked with Francois Legault and some other premiers as well. There's work to do, but we know how to do it.

All right.

So anyway, look, I really don't care all that much about Canada. I mean, what do we get from those guys? We got the Canadian bacon and the Canada dry. And I'm not a big fan. I'd rather have the Schweppes.

But any all that to say, the bigger issue, I think, is Mexico. And the president of Mexico, her name is Claudia Scheinbaum.

well i know that's another day that's another story for another day anyway president shine bomb of mexico says oh oh we got problems and she's pointing out that they're going to get hurt and she's predicting american businesses are going to get hurt and i don't think they are folks i really don't i don't know about you but it's time that we bring all of these businesses back to America. It doesn't matter if it's building cars or making whatever. It needs to come back home. And there ought to be a penalty. You've got all of these big companies now.

And what are they doing? They are going to these other countries and they're hiring all this cheap, cheap labor. They're still charging us an arm and a leg for their products, but they're making hand over fist big money because of all this cheap labor they're getting from Mexico and wherever else.

So I say, bring them back here. There ought to be an incentive for American businesses to operate within the United States of America.

So I say, good for you, Mr. President. And again, at the end of the day, here's what's going to happen. Mexico and Canada are going to crack down. They're going to have to.

But right now, what they're trying to do is they're trying to destroy our nation because the people coming across that border. And by the way, Bill Belugian over at Fox News is down on the border right now. hundreds of people are pouring across our border you know why they're doing that because those people want to destroy america venezuela they emptied their prisons and now they're on the streets of many american cities including right here in memphis tennessee where we broadcast this national radio program we have very dangerous people that are prowling the streets of american cities and yeah i blame the democrats but i but i also blame mexico and i blame canada no i yeah i i get it that but i know it's canon i just don't like them i'm just telling you i'm blaming both of them but the reality is most of them that we know about are coming across our southern border and it's a very simple thing mexico could stop this you know where mexico could stop it they could stop it at their southern borders but they're not doing it there it's a it is literally funneling funneling all of these very dangerous criminal illegals directly to the united States of America. And I'm very excited about what's about to happen when Tom Holman takes charge of the border. He's going to be like the modern day Judge Dreg, this guy.

I mean, this is unbelievable.

Now, I want to play some audio here. There's a mayor in Denver, and a lot of these mayors and governors of sanctuary states, Gavin Newsom being one of them, You've got Denver, which is a sanctuary city for illegals. And the mayor of Denver said, hey, look, here's the deal. We're going to be calling the cops. Not only are we calling the cops on the feds, but we're going to be rounding up thousands of citizens.

He said, by some estimates, 50,000 citizens, he said, would be willing to stand up and fight off the federal officers coming in to round up these illegals. It's the craziest thing I've heard of. This is actually not just an insurrection, it's an uprising. And if that's the case, this guy needs to be immediately arrested.

So Tom Holman was asked about all of this. I believe he was on Hannity last night. And Holman said, hey, look, here's what we're going to do. The mayor, by the way, said he would be willing to go to jail to protect the illegals. And here's what Tom Homan had to say.

Who has jurisdiction, the federal government or state and local governments? And if you're a sanctuary state or city, are you breaking the law? You're absolutely breaking the law. All you have to do is look at Arizona versus U.S. You'll see he's breaking the law.

But look, me and the Denver mayor, we agree on one thing. He's willing to go to jail. I'm willing to put him in jail. Because there's a statute. It's Title 8 United States Code 1324 II.

And what it says is it's a felony. if you knowingly harbor and conceal illegal and illegal immigration authorities. There's also a felony to impede a federal law enforcement officer.

So if we don't want to help, that's fine. He can get the hell out of the way. But we're going to go do the job. President Trump has a mandate for American people. We've got to secure this country.

We've got to save American lives. And I find it shocking that any mayor of a city would say, and President Trump's been clear, we want to concentrate on public safety threats and national security threats. I find it hard to believe that any mayor or governor would say they don't want public safety threats removed from their neighborhoods. I mean, I don't know what the hell is going on in Denver, but we're going to go and we're going to fix it. If you don't want to fix it, if you don't want to protect his communities, President Trump and ICE will.

Wow. I love that. And that's what we need. That's a borders are, ladies and gentlemen, right there. And I want to suggest, I want to pitch something to President Trump and his transition team.

on day one on day one not only do we impose these tariffs on mexico and canada but we also need to be targeting these sanctuary cities and these sanctuary states and it's very simple any state that harbors and by the way holman is right according to federal law it is a crime to harbor illegal aliens. I don't care if it's your sweet grandma, Rosita, or if it's some sort of a terrorist. It doesn't matter. Illegals are illegals. And you can sort all of that out and you can help.

If we want to try to find grandma a path to citizenship, she's got to go about it the legal way. The domestic terrorists, they need to go back to wherever they came from. But let me say this about the sanctuary states and cities. On day one, President Trump, and he ought to go ahead and announce this ahead of schedule ahead of time give the governor something to think about say governors mayors here's the deal you harbor illegal aliens you're a sanctuary city you're going to stand in our way and you're going to protect the illegals we will suspend every single federal tax dollar you get and you will not receive that money until you get rid of your illegal aliens it's very simple and you know what's going to happen the same thing that happened in Mexico and the same thing that happened in Canada. It wasn't even 24 hours.

And you've got the president of Mexico and the prime minister of Canada coming back and saying, oh, please, please, please, Mr. President-elect Trump, please don't slap us with a tariff, please. And what happened? Trump said, here's the deal. You secure the border, you stop the drugs, You stop the trafficking.

You stop the illegals. And we will lift the tariffs. And what did what did the president of Mexico, President Claudia Scheinbaum, say? Oh, gracias. Gracias, President Electro Trump.

What did what did Justin Trudeau, the prime minister of Canada, say? Oh, thank you, Mr. President. Thank you, Mr. President.

I don't have a good Canadian accent. My apologies. All that to say, isn't it a good day to be an American? Aren't you excited about what's about to happen in this country? And I don't know about you, but I'm going to be one of the ones cheering as we see the caravans of illegals heading due south, sending those folks back to wherever they came from.

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Welcome back, everybody. Great to have you with us. A lot of folks out on the road heading to Thanksgiving back home. and it's nice to be home and not having to travel. And I love that about being back in Memphis, Tennessee.

But safe travels to all you folks out there driving or maybe you're heading to the airport. Be careful out there. Pack your patience. Interesting story out of the world of cable news. You know, MSDNC, folks, is in a world of hurt.

Comcast is trying to offload MSDNC. It is costing them so much money. CNN is in a world of hurt. And we're hearing about layoffs impacting the cable news industry, local television news. It's insane.

And the reason why, it's very simple. The people that you see on your local TV newscast, the people that you read, the bylines in the newspapers, they hate you. They hate your ideology. They hate everything you stand for. They hate Jesus Christ.

They hate everything that makes this nation great. Every single thing. And I hate to break that to you, but it's true. And you can slap a lot of makeup on those people, but it's still an ugly look for the industry.

So anyway, there was a joke. And this may be more than a joke now. I don't know. But the joke was, what if Elon Musk stepped in and bought MSNBC? And people are like hyperventilating over this.

The folks on CNN are just freaking out. We're going to play some audio in just a little while. But they're concerned because Elon Musk might turn MSDNC into a fair and balanced news channel. And let me say something about that. The day Elon Musk buys MSNBC, Fox News is over.

They're done. Because now a lot of the people on Fox are just make-believe conservatives. They really don't believe what they're saying. And that's sad. Not everybody.

No, no, no. Not everybody. but a good many and here's what i find fascinating about all this where was all where were all of these leftists screaming when george soros just bought 200 radio stations many of them conservative talk radio stations nobody batted an eyelash on that one folks and the reality here is at least as far as i can tell elon musk is really responsible for donald trump winning and you know why Because he allows X to be a fair and balanced social media platform. He does. As a matter of fact, X is the most fair and balanced.

And the left exposes who they really are. Because today's leftist progressives, Democrats, oxymorons, I get it. But today's Democrats literally believe that you don't have a right to an opinion unless it matches their opinion. That's it. and the reality is that most Americans are now getting their news from social media platforms like X as opposed to, say, ABC or NBC.

As a matter of fact, Forbes magazine just reported that CNN and MSNBC were literally beaten in the ratings by the Hallmark Channel. More people would rather watch a big city girl who gets fired, move back home, saves her town's coffee shop, than watch Mika and Joe. And if look, if you're in the industry and you're saying Anderson Cooper gets a 20 million dollar paycheck, but more Americans are watching Operation Nutcracker. Anderson Cooper may be looking for a job. All right.

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And periodically through the show today, we're going to throw out some trivia questions. And Ben Dieter, I'm very excited because these are somewhat difficult questions.

So we're going to make people work for their turkey dressing. I love that. Yeah. What do we have? All right.

Here is our question here. We need to know the name of the president who first pardoned a turkey, the official first pardon of a turkey. Which president did that? If you know the answer, give us a call, 901-260-5926. Which president first pardoned a turkey?

901-260-5926. You were going to say Millard Fillmore. I could tell. No, I'm using artificial intelligence because I truly, that's a tough one. You're using artificial intelligence?

Yes, not actual intelligence. Artificial fake intelligence. Hey, look, can we talk for just a moment here about Wiccan? And I have not been following this story terribly closely, but apparently it's causing a lot of controversy out there. Mm-hmm.

Did you go see it? I'm assuming no. No. Based on that setup. No.

And so I went to when we would always have the family members come up when I lived in New York City and they would always want to go to a Broadway show. And so, you know, I told you the horrible story about what happened when I went to Hamilton and you couldn't understand a word. And I'm like, what's going on here? And so then I took the family to see Wicked on Broadway, and it was pretty good. Is that the one where it's Let It Go?

No, no, that's Frozen, Todd. Get your musicals right.

Okay, my apologies. Yeah. So anyway, this is the story. Wicked is the Broadway musical version of The Wizard of Oz. And so it was well done.

I saw it when Kristen Chenoweth was one of the stars. Yeah, she was the OG. All right.

Yeah. So and she's not that old. No, but she. Oh, the OG is good. The original.

And she's not woke either. She's a she's decent. I see.

So a lot of people are really upset because, again, this is a movie that's supposed to be it's a live movie adaptation.

So of Wicked, which is now in theaters. And a lot of parents are taking their daughters in the original controversy was that people were singing along with the musical. Is that right? And they said no singing. Yeah, they actually had to put a disclaimer up because everybody was singing the musical score.

And no one wants to go to a movie and be drunted out by a ton of seventh grade girls screaming the lyrics. That's what was happening. Nobody wants to see that. And like 30-year-old men. Wait, what?

Yeah. Oh, God. I'm setting up the story. Oh, geez.

So anyway, if you've already taken your kids to see it, I just this is a cautionary tale here.

So if you've already taken your kids to see it and you you you walked out of the movie theater and you were probably thinking to yourself, wow, you know, that show was mighty gay. And you would not be wrong for thinking that, would you, Ben Dieter? Maybe flamboyant. Like it was very flamboyant. Have you seen it?

I saw trailers. You saw the trailer. I did not go see it. Gotcha.

So a couple of the co-stars, Ariana Grande being one of them, was doing an interview. And they explained that everything about Wicked is meant to be gay because everything in The Wizard of Oz is gay or queer. And so when the original creator of Wizard of Oz back in the 19 whenevers, he actually said, oh, yeah, this is a queer movie. But it didn't mean queer queer. It was just like unusual queer.

A happy movie? It was kind of a queer quirky kind of a movie. Oh, I didn't know that was a synonym. The whole alphabet activist community, they keep hijacking all of our words. I always knew there was something weird about that tin man.

Gay used to be. Hello. They were all wearing the sparkly shoes. Yeah. But we don't judge here.

So anyway, do we have this audio of Ariana Grande? Let's take a listen. Every day in the Emerald City is a pride parade. Oh, my God. Yeah.

I mean, look at, like... That's great. But it's true. Yeah. Even, like, the chickens.

Those chickens are gay. The smell of it with the little cake. Oh. Yeah. Definitely.

You know? Yeah. I mean, Dr. Dillman in that Bodhi cardigan. Oh.

Let's wake it up. Dr. Dill what? I want that cardigan. Let's just talk for a minute about him and his little custom tea device as well.

Yeah. His little teacup. Dr. Dilly. Dr.

Dilly. We love tea in his cardigan. No. I'm just throwing it out there. It's true.

It's true. Gay icon, Dr. Dill. For sure. I do think that that scene with his teacher friends or his animal friends, they're all a little bit like...

Very chic. You know, Snow Leopold's lounging on the couch. And the little tamarind monkey. What?

So can we go back to lesbian chickens? What?

Gay chickens. What's up with that? I've never seen a gay chicken.

Well, if you go to Wicked, you will. And Dr. Dilly with the cardigan and a teacup. I don't know anything about that. That's weird.

So anyway, they're saying, by the way, Grande went on to say the character she plays, Glinda the Good Witch, might actually be in the closet. I don't even want to know about Toto.

Well, you know, apparently instead of a broom, she gets around in a Subaru.

So that, you know, you don't want to, I don't want to judge. Yeah. I want to stereotype. And the Emerald City is a pride parade.

Okay. Wow. All that to say, folks, if you take your kids, and this is all meant for kids, this is what really, Ben, indoctrination looks like. You know, I don't, do you know what's unfortunate is I've heard a lot of good reviews about this by not woke people either. A lot of people took their kids to this film.

And I don't think it was really gay or queer. I think that the characters who you just heard from Ariana Grande and the other chick, they're infusing something in it that was not there. I could be wrong. I'm going to take I'm going to defend the actual movie itself. I don't think a kid or a parent for that matter matter walks out and goes, wow, that was an LGBTQ film.

Now, maybe there's a listener out there that went and saw it over the weekend and they would say that it was. But I think this is more about the characters just sitting down in front. They were sitting in front of a gay magazine interviewer.

So the interviewer was gay for a gay magazine, and they tried to cater to the base. I don't know, because everything coming out of Hollywood is gay. I mean, everything is gay. There are no more straight movies in America. Everything is gay.

But again, are we really that surprised, though? I mean, this is a movie based on a Broadway musical, and we're shocked that it's gay. I mean, who out there? A show of jazz hands, please. Do we know about Dorothy?

What about Dot? What about Dorothy? I don't know. The Cowardly Lion? Dorothy, pronoun confused?

I don't know. But all that to say, you know, it's really sad, though, that you have to have these conversations. I mean there was a time we can go to the movies and you know if you were going to watch a Scooby cartoon you were pretty clear that you know you know Scooby and Shaggy just like Scooby snacks that they weren you know popping gummies Well it and it also what happens when you have a lot of these spinoffs So like a story you've been talking about on your show is like Snow White, for example. They wanted to bring the movie, the classic child story to life and put it on the big screen. And then you have the chick out there, the Disney chick that's playing that in real life.

And she's saying that we don't want the man kissing the girl because that is toxic masculinity. And so they ruin what are traditionally very wholesome films that have been created that families for centuries, not centuries, decades have enjoyed. They have. And so that's why I'm a little always concerned about this, because you want the kids to be able to go and enjoy themselves, have a good, you know, good time without, you know, coming out, not understanding what their pronouns are. That's all.

Yeah. Yeah, I've heard rumors that they're going to do it with the Cars movie. And I'm like, please leave the Cars alone. Leave Tow Meter alone. Do not hyper-sexualize Cars.

Wow. Can we disagree on that? All right, let's go to the phone lines here. Janet in Hendersonville, North Carolina, wants to weigh in on our Thanksgiving trivia question. Hi, Janet.

How are you today? Hello. Oh, I'm good. How are you? Janet, I'm well.

We're going to try to help you win a prize here.

So who was the first president to pardon a turkey? I think it was President Truman. Oh, no, Janet, good try. But thank you for calling in, and we'll have another chance a little bit later on. Again, we need to know the name of the president who pardoned the first turkey.

Let's go to Tom in Gainesville, Georgia. Hi, Tom, what say you? Good afternoon or good morning, Todd Starnes. I think it was Roosevelt around 1941. Oh, no, Tom.

No, I'm afraid that is incorrect. Good try, though. I told you, Dieter. These are good trivia questions. They're using real intelligence.

They need to use artificial intelligence. No, don't use AI. I'm not coming after. Use AI. Just type it in.

All right.

Again, we need to know the name of the president who pardoned the first turkey. If you know, give us a call. 901-260-5926. That's 901-260-5926. This is the Todd Stern Show.

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Who was it who parted in the first turkey? If I'm not wrong, the original person who pardoned the first turkey was Bill Clinton. No, unfortunately, Mike, Bill Clinton was the turkey there, but he was not the first. Wow. Wow.

Wow. That's inappropriate, Todd. That's inappropriate. appropriate let's go to kelly in memphis tennessee hi kelly how are you today hi todd it's kelly how are you i'm good good good all right kelly so we have a question um outstanding here we need to know the name of the first president who pardoned the turkey abraham lincoln yes actually that is correct we have a that was a dog a dog that's a turkey sounds like a dog congratulations kelly like we've had a million people call in and get it wrong i thought it was george washington this entire time well done thank you yeah it actually goes back to to abraham lincoln and then harry Truman picked it up and it was all sort of sporadic until George H.W. Bush really made it an official event.

So a lot of controversy over who actually started it, but it was in fact Abraham Lincoln.

So congratulations, Kelly. What you got planned for Thanksgiving? Oh, I'm going to my brother's house and he is cooking the meal and I don't have to do a thing. Oh, wow. You just have to go and eat.

Correct. Wait, Kelly, real quick, are you going Black Friday shopping? I've done some online. I'm going to try to avoid going out into the city, but you never know. Yeah.

Well, have fun. Stay safe if you do. I will. Thank you so much. All right.

Congratulations. Hang tight, Kelly. We're going to get all your info. By the way, we're going to have another trivia question in the next hour and the following hour as well.

So a chance to win some cool prizes. Are you a big Black Friday shopper, Todd? No, no, no. You know, our family used to do that back in the day. But you're talking about getting up at, what, midnight?

You leave at midnight. You're standing in the line at Walmart or Best Buy. You're looking for those doorbusters. You spent your Thanksgiving evening looking through all the magazines at the Sears, JCPenney's.

Now, I'm wondering, did you guys, because you're a young fella, you're a Gen Z-er. did you guys have the catalogs like the sears catalog or the macy's catalog the big huge catalogs no that come in the mail no you don't know what i'm talking about no so we don't even have sears anymore i wonder if anybody in our audience remembers that you would get you would wait for the and there would be like one seat there would be like seasonal catalogs and they would have one that came out for christmas it was the sears christmas catalog or the macy's you know whatever the whatever the big department store was in memphis we had one called goldsmiths which was the highfalutin store and so anyway you would get the catalog and then you would have to steal it from your siblings so you could go and you could circle you could circle or write down what you wanted santa claus to bring wow so what do kids do now i don't know it's been a second i don't know It's so sad. I mean, what do they do, go online? No, this is what you do. You get on your For You page on TikTok, and you send it to your parents.

You can send TikToks to your parents, and they already have, like, targets running specials, and you are scrolling on your phone, and it will be, like, this flashy video of, like, the latest video game, Xbox, blah, blah, blah, on TikTok. You just zap it to your parents. Really? It's basically these kids are sending a ton of links to their parents. Why not just text them?

But what's the point? The same point of you circling. I don't even know a Sears catalog. That sounds absolutely archaic. No disrespect.

It was a lot of fun. And there was another time in American history when the Sears Roebuck catalog after Christmas would be used for something else.

So at the port-a-potty.

So you could use it as double purpose. What is this? The Great Depression? you remember k-mart todd just rip a page out i do remember k-mart i just read a story the other day their last physical brick and mortar k-mart store is officially closed that's sad the end of an era well you remember they used to have the blue light special but they had to discontinue that because in memphis everything's a blue light special oh boy but do you remember that i mean You had the blue light special, and as soon as the blue light came on, people would rush over. Wait, that's an actual thing?

Oh, yes, in Kmart. Oh, my gosh. You don't remember that? No. I remember Kmart, but I don't remember a blue light special.

That's crazy. All right.

Folks, we've got to help Ben Dieter out here. He thinks we're making up all this stuff. 901-260-5926. That's 901-260-5926. Guess what?

I was in Target yesterday, Todd, and I was doing some Christmas shopping, and there was a man in there. Without clothes. Wait, what? In Memphis, Tennessee. In Target?

He was only wearing, he was like basically wearing these small shorts and he was shirtless. What?

In our Target. And it's cold out there. It is very chilly. I just thought whatever happened to the no shirt, no shoes, no whatever policy.

Well, at Target, you know, you're allowed to do a lot of stuff you shouldn't be doing. I guess that's... Which is why good Christians should not be shopping at Target. I'll go stand in the corner.

So what happened to the guy? They kicked him out. Oh, well, he was at the self-checkout thing. He was trying to rush his stuff there. And they're like, you can't.

You have to put on clothes. I know this is Target and we let anything go. But even for this Target, it was too much. Oh, geez.

Yeah. No, but we would. Yeah. It was like a big deal. You would wait for.

And you felt bad for the. You know, when you're a kid, you don't feel this way. But looking back, I felt bad for the mailman on Sears Christmas catalog delivery day, because that's a lot of that's a lot of time. I just think it's kind of sad because now everything to our last call, Kelly was saying everything's online.

Now Cyber Monday is bigger than Black Friday. But back in the day, I mean, you would get your whole family together, jump in the car, you're listening to Christmas music, you have hot cocoa, and you're out there standing in the crowds. You're battling the hustle and bustle, and you get great deals. But now it's not even a thing anymore. and you just got to click and i don't like that yeah i don't like that at all of course nowadays on black friday you're going to get beat up or shot or trampled yeah you have to pack that's true that's true all right 901-260-5926 that's our telephone number that's 901-260-5926 if you want to reminisce on those old sears and roebut catalogs or kmart's blue light special robot Roebuck.

Oh, Sears and Roebuck. Kat Kamik is going to be here in the next hour. Also, Dr. Simone Gold, Senator Bill Haggerty. We've got a lot going down, plus more trivia.

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That's us, that's right. I love this American ride. Todd Starks. Yeah, hello everybody. Welcome to Hour 2 of the Big Show.

Great to have you with us today and we got a lot going on. Senator Bill Haggerty is going to drop by a little bit later on. And we're also going to be doing some more Thanksgiving theme trivia.

So an opportunity for you to win some great prizes here from the Todd Stearns Radio Show. By the way, write down our telephone number if you would like to become a part of the program. 901-260-5926. That's 901-260-5926. Our next guest on the Patriot Mobile Newsmaker Line.

always an honor always a lot of fun to have congresswoman kat kamik join us from florida's third congressional district and kat you got to be doing good your florida gators looking pretty good no we don't want to talk about that we don't want to jinx it we're just acknowledging that things are are good but we're not saying much else so i have my i have my executive producer in studio ben Dieter, and I don't want to jinx anything here, but, you know, they are mentioning some possible bowl predictions. And, Kat, one of them happens to be the Liberty Bowl right here in Memphis, Tennessee. I know. I've heard. I've heard.

Again, I'm knocking on wood. We've had a rough decade, rebuilding decade, and we've had some really interesting signs of life here in the latter half of the season.

So things are going good. Fingers crossed. Knock on wood. And now we just got to take care of FSU. You know, that's next on the list.

So just staying focused. That's it. You got to stay one game at a time. You can't look ahead. That's right.

You got to stay focused. And so if you have my buddy Byron on, that means you got to give him all kinds of help. Oh, trust me. For all the grief that he put me through last season when FSU was actually okay. They say I'm a Tennessee volunteer.

here so i've been through my own personal you know what for many years so we're we're having a good time now old miss not so good these days but you know and i gotta say todd it was interesting having lane kiffin in the swamp after all the talk he could potentially be one of our coaches in the future yes very interesting so look if if if the fates uh land you in memphis the ribs and we've got a great local bourbon distillery downtown so we're gonna we'll make sure you and the family have a great time while you're here. I love it. We'll have to do a college football special in the studio. That's it. We'll get Clay Travis down from Nashville, and that'll be a wild time, so there you go.

Hey, look, I love the picture. I was retweeting it yesterday, you and Pam Bondi, and how excited are you that Pam Bondi is going to be our next Attorney General? I couldn't be more thrilled. And honestly, Todd, I'm I told this to my husband yesterday. I said, President Trump is picking all of my friends and I'm going through my phone and I'm finding all these photos and he's coming out with them so fast that it's impossible to keep up with all the postings of all these amazing people that he has appointed to be in his cabinet to really get us not just off this crazy roller coaster of emotions and horrible trajectory.

that we've been on, but to set us on a path for the next 250 years of American exceptionalism and greatness. And when you think about the people that he has picked, he has picked total dynamite rock stars. And of course, I'm a little bit biased because many of them hail from the sunshine state. I'm a little bit worried that, you know, we're losing a lot of really great talent in the state, but wow, we are going to be in for a real treat come beginning of January. And as soon as we can get people appointed, we're going to be off to the races.

It's exciting because these are not folks that are going to go in and make their own policy. I think they really are all disruptors in their own right. And they're going to be going into these government agencies with President Trump's agenda. And I love that. Yeah, you know, I really do kind of see this as hopefully, fingers crossed, leading the era of entertainment, where we've seen people who, one, want to keep these problems going as a way to garner campaign cash and attention.

And hopefully we're moving into, as you said, the disruptors era, right? Where you have people who are going to come in and they don't give a damn what the consequences are to their own personal reputation or to their next gig or whatever it is that people are always looking for. They're disrupting the status quo, which has decades long been needing to be shaken up. And so I'm hopeful that we're in the era of rewarding progress, rewarding fixing the problems that we talk about. And I will say that there's been a lot of courage given to folks here as of late.

I've seen a lot of my colleagues, both in the House and the Senate, all of a sudden start talking real tough about fiscal conservatism, despite having passed, I can't tell you how many omnibuses and CRs. And now all of a sudden they're changing their tune and they're fiscal conservatives.

So let's see how long this lasts, hopefully for a very long time. Yeah, I'm with you there. And ultimately, you know, when you look, I think it would be wrong for the Republicans to look at what happened as a victory for the party. this is a victory for Donald Trump and when you see some of the congressional races you realize wow we're going to have some pretty tight majorities in both the House and the Senate. Yeah you know we're heading into a very interesting time where we have three members who one of whom of course Matt Gaetz he was going to be the attorney general has resigned and we're now waiting to see what his next steps are going to be but he said he's not coming back to the House So we have that vacancy.

Then, of course, Elise Stefanik, Mike Waltz, and potentially even more down the road.

So this is going to be a razor thin majority. But I think that Donald Trump has a lot of fantastic lessons learned from his first administration that will allow him to avoid some of the pitfalls that plagued him in the first go around, where I don't think he'll tolerate people who are going to just say, you know, I'm going to hold out for my own selfish reasons or my own whatever reason. And he has a mandate from the American people. And I think people would be wise to work with him and to advance the agenda that the American people have demanded. And that's reflected in the House.

It was reflected in the Senate and certainly at the presidential level. And so we have a lot of work to do and not a lot of time to do it.

So hopefully the hammer is going to be ready, ready to go, because if people want to play stupid games, we're about to win a very stupid crowd.

Well said. But Kat Kamek, everybody, on the Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line, you know, we just saw over the past 24 hours President Trump throw down the hammer on the tariffs. And almost immediately, you have Mexico and Canada saying, whoa, whoa, whoa, wait, wait, wait, we weren't really being serious. But look, this is a smart guy. President Trump is a brilliant strategist, and he knows it's all about the money at the end of the day.

Absolutely. And I think, you know, my friend Rick Grinnell said it best, there's a difference between threats and credible threats. And in the case of Donald Trump, people around the world know that when he says something, he's willing to back it up. These aren't the moving red lines of the Obama years that we all remember so fondly as it related to his Middle East policy. When Donald Trump says he's going to do something, he's going to do it.

And so you're starting to see now in the 8-12 hours that have passed us since the announcement that Trudeau has been on the phone with them and saying, oh, we're having a very good productive conversation. Yes, we're looking at this. Mexico has made announcements today as a result of him making the announcements on the tariffs. This is what we need at this moment. This is the strong, firm hand that demands respect, that is widely recognized as someone who is going to actually follow through on what they say, and that there are no idle threats.

And so it is. It's very important that what the commander-in-chief says is understood to be truth, to be fact, and that it will be followed up on. And so I think you're going to see a real realignment happening, not just in our foreign policy as it relates to North America, but the Western Hemisphere and certainly around the world. I mean, this is what we've been dealing with for the last four years with Biden, which is just weakness and constant apologies for American exceptionalism. We're not doing that anymore.

So I think that this is not just going to be shaking up the domestic policy. you're going to see foreign policy and real reverberations around the globe of what it means to have governments that are paying attention to the people that elect them. These authoritarian regimes are poking up and saying, ooh, we might be in trouble. You're right. Kent, we're going to have to leave it there, but Thanksgiving, what does that look like at the Akamek household?

Are you the cooker-in-chief? Are you the chef? You know, as you know, Todd, I'm married to a firefighter, so Thanksgiving will be celebrated at the fire station. I am not the chef in the family. That title belongs to my husband, like the good firefighter that he is.

But I am the baker in the family, so we're whipping up some really tasty dessert. Very nice, very nice.

Well, Kat, we love having you on the show and wish you and your family, your husband, just a terrific Thanksgiving.

Well, right back at you. And thanks to all our amazing first responders who are giving up their holiday to keep our community safe. Appreciate you. And happy Thanksgiving and have a safe Thanksgiving, everybody.

Well said. All right.

Congresswoman Kat Kamek from the great state of Florida, third congressional district and a great American patriot as well. All right.

Our telephone number is 901-260-5926. That's 901-260-5926. We were asking you guys in the last hour, do you remember the old Sears and Roebuck catalogs? Do you remember what it was like to go out there and go shopping on the day after Thanksgiving? Charles in Gainesville, Georgia, has been holding on.

Charles, do you remember those old catalogs? Oh, let me tell you, you brought back some memories, Todd. Thank you. I have a little .22 rifle, a Remington bolt-action that my dad ordered from the Sears Robot catalog for $7. $7?

That was in the late 20s or early 30s, and it's still like new. I have it. And then my brother and I, when we turned eight and nine, we got our first Red Ryder BB gun from Sears Roebuck with $2.95 each. And we did all of our shopping with the Sears Roebuck catalog back then. Charles, it was so exciting.

Look, I've been around for a little while, but I remember back in the 70s waiting for the mailman to come and deliver the big Christmas catalogs. yeah well i think it had a uh order forms in the back yeah it sure did to do was mark what you wanted put a check in there that was it you know it's interesting and i know our memphis listeners will correct me here but i believe that memphis was actually home to the the catalog distribution center and it was it was the largest building in memphis at its at its time uh and now it's called the crosstown concourse but that's where they they put those uh catalogs together um i'm sure our memphis listeners may have some stories about that but charles uh wow it's always good to reflect and uh bring the uh the youngsters in and say here's what we used to do back in the day yeah it was it was our amazon back then i just didn't think back in the day would be the 1970s and 80s to be honest with you oh wow yeah all right i was i spent some time in memphis in 69 and i got to meet elvis with my family and i had a good time that year is that well it's you know elvis was just like a regular guy you know he'd be down at the grocery store or downtown you know just riding around so that's he had a great tradition of doing that just one of the one of the regulars in Memphis. My two daughters were six and seven, and we had been out to eat dinner, and coming down in front of the Graceland, Elvis was out in the front in a golf cart.

So I pulled over, and the guard let us in, and we got to talk to him, and he got to hug my two girls. They'll never forget it. Wow, that is a memory right there. Charles, we got to run. I'm late for a break, But thank you for calling in and sharing those great memories.

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all right a a hairstylist in omaha nebraska now offering liberal women the opportunity to shave their heads so this barber is going to shave the heads of liberal women for free this is some sort of a big national protest out there women are denuding their their noggins. It's not a good look. I, you know, I don't, I don't want to get in trouble here because, you know, I, I know there's more to a person than just the way they look, but still it's just not a good look for women to be shaving their heads. Anyway, this is all part of an effort. The women are staging national protest over the election of Donald Trump, and they want to send a message to their family members who might be supporting Donald J.

Trump. So they're going to show up to Thanksgiving dinner without any hair on their head. The problem is with these particular women, what they ought to be doing is shaving their leg hair and their armpit hair.

So they're still going to keep that. They're just shaving their heads. That makes no sense to me at all. All right.

We've got another trivia question we're going to throw out there, and we're going to be doing this throughout the program today um let's talk football and dylan i know you're a big football guy and you're probably gonna we got the egg bowl coming up this weekend mississippi state and old miss yes lots of fun lots of fun and there always an nfl game on thanksgiving always the lions always play they do So here the question We want to know the very first NFL Thanksgiving game Who were the teams that competed at the very first Thanksgiving NFL game? And I'll give you a clue. It was 1934. That's your clue. That's a terrible clue.

It's a hard trivia question.

so if you can tell us the two teams that played thanksgiving day 1934 in the nfl give us a call 901-260-5926 that's 901-260-5926 another i'll give you another clue it was not green bay that's your second clue all right it was 1934 and it was not green bay so there you go uh 901-260-5926 is our telephone number i want to get back though to this you know this all goes back to barack obama and obama always was always telling the college kids use those use your holidays as a way to attack the conservative values of your family and obama was like the original proponent of this so really as a friendly public service announcement to all of you parents out there and you've got children attending a taxpayer-funded university. Your kid's going to be coming back home with a load of dirty laundry and a load of woke ideology, and you need to be prepared for that. I mean, it can be shocking, right? It really can be shocking for unsuspecting parents. They're like, oh, Billy's home, and then you're sitting around the table, and you ask Billy to pass the jiblet gravy, but instead you get this earful about the pilgrims waging genocide on the Indians, And then Billy tells you, that's my dead name.

My new name is Laverne. Call me Laverne. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is a clear-cut sign your child has been brainwashed.

So all that to say, you might want to go ahead and have some extra bottles of Pepto because somebody's going to get indigestion listening to little Billy, now known as Laverne, spout off all this liberal ideology that he learned at the public university. and my recommendation is if your college-aged kid comes home and he announces that he's got new pronouns you get to sit at the children's table sir not the big table not the grown-up table you're off at the kids table all right 901-260-5926 our number that's 901-260-5926 this is the Todd Stern Show All right, let's get right to the phone lines here. We're going to start with Dan in New Bern, North Carolina. All right, Dan, the first NFL game played on Thanksgiving. Who are the teams?

Well, I'm going to get this wrong because I was going to say the Green Bay Packers, but I'm going to guess. I told your screener that New York football giants against the Lions, but I'm going to change and say the Chicago Bears and Detroit Lions. Say that one more time. Chicago Bears and Detroit Lions because I'm trying to think of old franchise. Yeah, Dan, that's correct.

And I'll give you a bonus question here. Do you know the name of the team? They were known as the Detroit Lions, but who were they before the Detroit Lions?

well chicago was the staleys the detroit lions i'm going to say tigers no it was actually the spartans um the portsmouth spartans from ohio and the owner of the team a guy by the name of george richards who was actually a radio guy he was a big radio executive moved the team to detroit and the spartans were originally members of the nfl from 1930 to 1933 but the detroit lions and the Chicago Bears played the very first NFL game on a Thanksgiving. Hey, Dan, congrats, and we're going to put you on hold, and the lovely Miss Cassie will be getting your info. All right, switching gears, and by the way, we'll do some more Thanksgiving Day trivia coming up in the next hour of the program. I want to turn to a pretty serious topic, and there are fights underway right now. Many moms and dads are fighting doctors over so-called gender-affirming care.

And a good friend of this program, one of the top doctors in America, Dr. Simone Gold, has a brand-new documentary out called What is a Doctor? By the way, you've got to go to the website whatisadoctor.org. Dr. Gold joins us on our Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line today.

Good to have you with us. Great to be here, Todd. Thank you. All right.

Well, let's talk about, I mean, this is, I mean, it's been promoted as an explosive documentary, but I mean, this really is an explosive thing, uncovering what's really going on when it comes to gender affirming care. Yes. You know, I'm an emergency physician and I saw a lot of the disinformation during the COVID years, and that's why I started speaking out. The issue that is facing people now, the biggest medical issue is this, quote unquote, gender affirming care. which sounds very benign and lovely and polite, but in fact, it's horrific.

So we doctors got together and we did a documentary where we actually say it like it is. Where did this come from? What exactly is it? What does gender-affirming care include? You'll be shocked when you watch it.

I think everyone should watch this. It's not just parents. It's if you are a grandparent, if you have any children in your life at all, So, you know, neighbors, if you work at a school, it's horrific what they're doing to the children. I'm curious, Dr. Gold, I'm curious, take us back to the beginnings of all of this.

Why did you decide to focus on this documentary on gender-affirming care? Thank you. It's because it's missing. The doctor's perspective is missing from public discussion. People are hearing this phrase, gender-affirming care, and it sounds benign and it sounds polite.

But if you are a doctor and you've witnessed these surgeries and these hormones, it's horrific. And people talking about it politely in their homes and at schools are glossing over the fact that they're medically mutilating healthy bodies, chopping off penises, chopping off breasts, taking children who outgrow the disordered thoughts that they're having and happily settle into their own body. Instead, we're styling them with lifelong medical needs, lifelong prescriptions, inability to ever have children. No matter what you do, there's no fixing it. And lifelong repeat surgeries, not to mention lifelong chronic complications such as wound fistulas, which are horrific.

We are exposing what gender affirming care really is, which is mutilating healthy bodies. It's unacceptable in American society. I mean, it's just shocking. And when you see the post-op pictures of some of these people, I mean, it just harkens back to really the 1930s when they were doing these horrifying experiments in Germany on human beings. And you do have to wonder, Dr.

Gold, if years from now, maybe decades from now, we're going to be looking back at this period of time and asking how in the world was this kind of stuff allowed to take place in hospitals? Yeah, it'll be quicker.

So this is right now facing a challenge at the Supreme Court. It's happening oral arguments on December 4th, the United States versus Cermetti. The state of Tennessee said, no, we're not allowing any children to have these horrific medical mutilation procedures. you can't you can't just chop off body parts and you can't just cause people to have lifelong medical needs just tennessee stood up for the kids and the biden administration challenged them that's being heard at the supreme court i believe we're going to win this fight and you asked me why i got into this it is partly because my father was a holocaust survivor and i know exactly what nazi doctors can do and what i'm seeing in these surgeries is not that different what is a doctor dot org folks you need to go there and also sign a petition to ban medical mutilation which is which is exactly what it is and dr gold it just it's horrifying you know if you're a child and maybe you're just confused i mean you know especially young kids you know what one day they want to be a horse and the next day they want to be a you know an astronaut so it's just shocking that you would have a parent agree to mutilate their their own child i want it yeah i want to share, we have so much empathy for the families that have gone through the situation. And that's another reason we did this movie is that the doctors are misleading people, just like they did in COVID.

They're misleading people on the medical mutilation issue. When a family is faced with this problem with a child who believes they're a different sex, the doctor needs to treat the child and the family in a holistic, ethical, and accurate way. But the Doctors are not doing that. This is a crisis for the family. And instead, our government has empowered doctors to divide the family.

And in about five states in our nation, actually take custody of the child and do these medical mutilation procedures.

So this is a threat to the family. We are here to help you. There are honorable doctors out there. As much as this is kind of a shocking documentary, in some ways you will feel empowered and better for knowing the good resources that are out there and the doctors that are fighting for you. Again, folks, Dr.

Simone Gold joining us on our Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line. And there have been some victories. A judge yesterday affirming Missouri's ban on transgender surgeries for minors. That is a huge victory, to your point. Yeah, we're going to be fighting a lot of it.

It's good that we're talking about it now because this is the live issue right now in the medical space. And we need doctors to stand up. Also, in doing this movie, we're giving permission to doctors to stand up. You may not know this, but doctors face professional repercussions if they disagree with the Biden administration approach on these matters. And by the way, we've named names.

We're very explicit in this movie who's doing the bad thing. Admiral Rachel Levine, she's done some terrible things. There's some doctors out there. We name the names, who's doing what. And those people need to be called to task, I would say.

I'm thinking about right now a case that's unfolding at this moment in Los Angeles where you had a judge grant full custody to Jeff Younger is the guy, his ex-wife. And she's going to transition their 12-year-old son into a girl. And this poor guy, I mean, Dr. Gold, his hands are tied here. That is such a heartbreaking story.

This movie is for people like what Jeff Younger is going through. There's certain states, California, one of them, Minnesota is another one, Colorado is another one. We'll take custody of your child. We'll take custody of your child. So you're a 10-year-old, 11-year-old, 12-year-old, 14-year-old who wants to mutilate their body because of some beliefs that they have.

The state will actually grant custody to, it could be in this case, it was an ex-wife, but it also could, they could take the custody of the child and give your child to a foster family to people I call trans groomers, trans groomers. They're happy to take your child and make a mockery of that person's life. This is a horrific subject. You need to become more educated. That's why we did this.

It's whatisadoctor.org. Please check it out. I put my professional reputation on the line. You won't be bored and you won't be disappointed. All right.

Well, Dr. Gold, we certainly appreciate you coming on the program. Again, folks, that website, whatisadoctor.org. Thank you very much, Dr. Gold.

Thank you so much, Todd. All right, folks, we've got to take a quick break. When we return, your calls, 901-260-5926. Again, that number, 901-260-5926. We'll be right back.

and welcome back everybody let's go right to the phone lines 901-260-5926 mark in the villages hey mark what's going on hello young man i talked to you last week i couldn't talk much i was driving and messed up half my story i wanted to tell you so i just kind of cut it short but um i remember the blue light specials they used to roll those carts out in different parts of kmart where you where they were having that special it was it was a lot of fun if you were in the kmart i mean it was sort of unusual at the time and of course that was before walmart was really starting to pick up so kmart was sort of like the the walmart of its day yeah we used to roll the cart into areas it wasn't supposed to be in when nobody was looking so if there was a blue light special in one area and we put it in another area, and they thought they were getting specials when they really weren't. I love it. Hey, correct me if I'm wrong, but did Bongino get the position for the Secret Service?

Well, they haven't announced it yet, so we're still sort of in the great unknown. Because I texted him out. I said he should get that. Maybe he heard me. I don't know, but he'd be perfect for that position.

You never know. You never know. All right.

Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family. I look forward to all those pictures you guys are going to get from that delicious food. All right, Mark, thank you very much, and happy Thanksgiving to you as well, all of our great friends down in Florida. Folks, Samaritan's Purse is still helping out our friends over in western North Carolina. Are you ready for this?

Over 100,000 homes were either destroyed or heavily damaged by the floods, and FEMA has completely dropped the ball here. As a matter of fact, and just so you know, it's been snowing in parts of western North Carolina. It's very cold. And FEMA actually, they were interviewing somebody who said, oh, yeah, you know, the people in western North Carolina, they love living in tents. Wait, what?

Who wants to live in a tent in wintertime?

So I want to share with you what's going on here, just so you're aware of this, but a huge busload of Amish folks came down from Pennsylvania area. And these men were armed with the tools, lumber, the whole nine yards, and they were building these tiny homes, which are kind of all the rage now in a lot of the hipster neighborhoods. But anyway, they were coming down to build these very sturdy, tiny homes to shelter victims of the hurricane. But they were kicked out. The local authorities, local and state authorities in North Carolina, and specifically Mitchell County, North Carolina, they told volunteers to go home.

They said, we appreciate you coming down, but you have to comply with all of our building and health codes. And the locals down there in Mitchell County, North Carolina, said they have to ensure safety and well-being for everybody. and anything they do has to be built up to their specific codes all right yeah we're talking i get that but we're talking about a national disaster here temporary shelters and dwellings that fail to meet minimum requirements are unsafe for occupancy well okay um let me just think this through here for just a moment. I don't know about you, but if I know a bunch of Amish guys are out there building something, you better believe that's going to be the sturdiest building you've ever been in.

Now, maybe that's just me, but I would rather live in a tiny house built by Amish people than something built by anybody else.

so now you have local and state government leaders in north carolina you folks in north carolina you got to deal with this stuff you got to stop electing these morons they go on to say any um any temporary shelters and dwellings that do not meet the minimum requirements of the 2018 north carolina state building code should not be occupied even temporarily and i guess they're threatening i i mean i don't know what they're going to do throw you in jail well at least you've got a roof over your head but this is nonsense but they're taking this very seriously there in mitchell county north carolina where they say that any temporary housing installation must comply with north carolina's building code okay are you telling me that a fema tent is safer than a tiny home built by the amish this is nonsense absolute nonsense and what did i tell you about what's happening over there in the carolinas these people are still suffering and nobody's covering it in the national media nobody and that's unfortunate by the way we understand samaritan's purse is now announcing they're going to be building houses for people folks this was a devastating moment and i know we're spending billions and billions of dollars in Ukraine right now to launch a nuclear war. I get that. But we should be spending a lot more money in Western North Carolina helping people rebuild. These people are taxpayers. They're hardworking folks.

And you're telling me that we're going to turn away volunteers? We're going to turn away good Amish men who are coming down there to help build homes what's wrong with you people 901-260-5926 is our telephone number that's 901-260-5926 that to me says everything you need to know about the last four years in this country a lot of people are getting sick and tired of it just sick and tired so i'm telling you right now ladies and gentlemen we're going to do whatever we can do to help these folks out you guys opened up your pocketbooks and gave so generously a couple of weeks back when we were raising money and we certainly appreciate you doing that but our friends over at samaritan's purse they're the ones doing the the bulk of the work now and they could use a helping hand whether you want to donate money maybe you want to donate time whatever you can do i know that franklin Graham and the team over at Samaritan's Purse would greatly appreciate it. But what does it say about what does it say about our nation? What does it say about the state of North Carolina and the Democrats who run that state? That good, honest, hardworking Amish people are not welcome to come and help their fellow countrymen.

What does that what does that say, ladies and gentlemen, about the state of affairs in this country? All right, coming up, we're going to be talking to Senator Bill Haggerty from Tennessee. He has been very outspoken on President Trump's cabinet, and he is fired up about what's going to happen in the next four years in this country. In the meantime, head over to ToddStearns.com. If you haven't been there, you need to go over.

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Hour three of the big show coming up. This is the Todd Starnes radio program. We'll be right back. from the Liberty University studio in Memphis, Tennessee. It's America's favorite gun-toting, Bible-clinging, deplorable American.

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So very happy to have you with us this hour of the show.

So look, man, the mainstream media going bonkers over Elon Musk and whether or not he's going to buy MSNBC. Scott Jennings over on CNN was defending Elon. Listen to cut number nine, please. Also, I heard what you're saying about X. I saw a survey this week.

It's now the most ideologically balanced user platform. Scott, stop. It's too early. I just sat down. I've only been here for two minutes.

You cannot continue to say that. You cannot say that. Who's the source of that? We've reported it on this network. It's not accurate, and you know it.

Okay. I'll let you make your statement. Can I reframe it a different way? Because the site changed radically, right?

So whether you think the voices, it is somehow more balanced now, that's fine. But no doubt, Musk's influence is profound in that you open it up, and now you're there with his opinion, and he is now part of this administration.

So does anyone else think that there should be this greater concern about billionaires purchasing media companies?

Okay. Would you be worried if Bill Gates controlled MSNBC? No, because he's sane. There you go. You can't argue with these people.

So then CNN, the conversation goes on, and finally they get down to the crux of the matter, which is they don't want free speech in America. And we've covered this. I've written two books on this issue, but the reality is we have taught a generation of young people that we need limitations on free speech. And here's how it works. If you say something and I find it upsetting, then you can't say it.

And that's basically what the left is saying here. Cut number 10. Platforms are not regulated right now, which gives them carblocks to whatever they want right now. Elon is not someone who likes to be regulated. And so to buy MSN, he would go under some federal regulation.

Who's regulating CNN right now? The FCC. We're not broadcast. It's cable. I mean, I don't really think cable stations are under the same regulatory structure that broadcast is.

It's definitely regulated more than Facebook and Twitter. What she's saying is that there's still a litmus test of journalism that you have to pass. You can't come on TV and just make on things. Make up things and say things. That happens on X.

Please don't give me the eyebrow furrow as if you don't know what I'm talking about. It happens often on X. I can go and say the color is blue, and I will be met with so many disrespectful remarks. No one's regulating the N-word. No one's regulating the criticism.

No one is regulating how people are treated or the lies. How much government regulation of the First Amendment are you for? Let me tell you something. If I came on here and I just started calling you all kind of names, do you think the bosses would let me continue to do that? I mean, it happens occasionally.

I mean, it doesn't happen to you, but it doesn't happen to me. And I know that I wouldn't be able to do that. There's a level of professionalism in what we do here because we are journalists and we adhere to something, at least morally. And there is no moral compass on this thing called. We're also having a.

So there you go, folks. And let me say let me say this about the Democrats. They don't get it. They are still they're delusional. They don't understand that the reason why they lost is because the country is not woke.

The country's not buying all of this woke ideology. And you've got people like Donna Brazile out there saying, well, that has nothing to do with it. Wokeness has nothing to do with it. The majority of Americans want men in the ladies' room. No, they do not.

And they were sending a very clear message. There were so many issues at play. But the overarching part of all of this, ladies and gentlemen, is that, and again, at the end of the day, the American people do not want to go down this woke path to fascism. They simply do not. And people are tired of the DEI stuff, which is why Walmart came out yesterday.

We had Robbie Starbuck on the show last week. He's been leading this one-man crusade to go after corporations that have these DEI policies. And Walmart yesterday said, you know what? We're not going to be doing DEI anymore. We're eliminating all of that.

And we're going to take it a step further. We're not bowing down to the LGBT mob out there. And I say, good for them. Good for them. By the way, and this is what's happening.

60 Minutes over the weekend had an amazing story about a brand new college that's been created in Texas, the University of Austin. And they're literally boasting about the idea they are swapping out diversity, equity, and inclusion for meritocracy. Take a listen. Twelve. Asked you very specifically, are you open to sending Denver police officers to the county line to stop federal forces or national guardsmen from other states from coming into denver we have no plan to do that and we really hold it hold it hold it that's the wrong one cut 11 please i gotta tell you we did not see a particularly uh diverse student body we are putting resources into finding talent of an intellectual variety and if you're interested in diversity i recommend you look at the social backgrounds of our students at the family circumstances of our students as for admissions, UATX swaps DEI, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, for what some call MEI, Merit, Excellence, and Intelligence.

How would you describe members of the founding class? Very outspoken. You'll never enter a conversation and leave without something that you didn't know before talking to someone. Olivia Antunes, Dylan Wu, Constantine Whitmire, Grace Price, and Jacob Hornstein are among the 92 students in the inaugural class. If UT is built around Longhorn football, the focal point of UATX...

Pursuing the truth.

So you stop by telling the truth. Pursuit of truth. Fearless pursuit of truth to me is, I have this kind of mentality that the best way that you should go about your life is to always assume that you're wrong in some capacity. You're prepared for that. Right.

To be challenged and stress-tested and confronted. It's not just even prepared. That's why I'm at this school. I want them to be challenged because I know that I'm wrong in some way. What are some things that differentiate you guys?

We're very intellectually diverse. I've met people of every political persuasion here from like far left Democrats who are for Bernie Sanders or to the left of that even to people who would make Donald Trump look like a liberal.

so again ladies and gentlemen how exciting is this that you you now have a university that's out there promoting this idea of we want the best and the brightest and you've got kids that are trying i mean they're flocking to this brand new school right now because they don't get that at the taxpayer-funded schools. Again, the University of Austin in Texas, where no topic or opinion is off limits, they're not telling you how to think. They're teaching you to think. The professors aren getting canceled And they actually meeting They just started this fall in a Texas department store An old Texas department store This is exciting.

So they're literally swapping diversity, equity, and inclusion for merit, excellence, and intelligence. This is what we need, folks. This is the kind of education we need. And if we have more schools with this sort of thinking, I can tell you it's going to radically change this great nation. Got to take a break.

901-260-5926. This is the Todd Starnes Show. And welcome back. This is the Todd Starnes Radio Show. Trust you're doing well today.

A lot of people out on the roads at Memphis International. It's like a zoo over there. By the way, our telephone number, if you would like to weigh in today, 901-260-5926. That's 901-260-5926. A lot of people very excited about what's going to happen with the Pentagon.

We are following the, and we'll be following the nomination of Pete Hegseth as our Secretary of Defense. and it looks like Pete's going to have a pretty good path to being the next defense secretary. I know there are a couple of hiccups and all of that, but I've known Pete for a very long time and I think he's going to be a fine secretary of defense.

Well, I want to go to the Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line. Say hello to my senator from the great state of Tennessee, Bill Haggerty. Senator, hope you're doing good today. I'm doing well, Todd. It's always great to be with you.

So I find it interesting that President Trump has pretty much been able to organize his entire administration, and they are still counting congressional votes in California. I find that somewhat humorous and shocking. It is embarrassing is the term that comes to mind more than anything for me, Todd. It's just shocking that California is so poorly managed to run that you would have a situation like this occur. You know, just a laughingstock type of situation that we see in these blue states.

And yet it's exciting to see President Trump, and he made a lot of promises out there on the campaign trail, and you can just see through the men and the women that he's selected to be a part of his administration that he's going to be delivering a lot of those promises. Absolutely, Todd. I think the American public has seen four years of this lurch towards socialism, Marxism, and they've had it. They want to see dramatic change take place. President Trump has promised that from the campaign.

He's been out saying exactly what he's going to do, and now he's putting together a cabinet that's going to help him accomplish that.

So you've had a chance to have meetings with some of the picks in advance of the hearings. Any folks that you've been impressed by specifically?

Well, I just heard you talking about Pete Hegsett, who is a Tennessean. I'm so pleased that he has been nominated or will be for our Secretary of Defense. Pete told me, Todd, that he had received just an outflow of messages from people that he's known and served with who were thinking about retiring and getting out. You know we've got a huge retention problem, a huge recruitment problem in the military right now because they're more focused on pronouns than they are on our ability to do the job, lethality. And so Pete said he's getting an overwhelming number of messages, people saying, yes, I want to stay in now that you're going to be the leader.

You need that type of inspiration and someone that can speak to that. What we've had is just complete mismanagement of the Pentagon. Look at the disgrace of what happened in Afghanistan, that sloppy withdrawal there. Nobody was held to account. In fact, the only person that was held to account was a poor fellow who said maybe there should be accountability held.

I think they court-martialed that guy or put him in jail.

So it's just amazing that this administration, the current administration, has done such a pathetic job of misusing our military. It's time to get back to business, and I think Pete will be a great person to lead that effort. I'm also pretty impressed with Pam Bondi as the Attorney General pick. I was reading somewhere, Senator, and correct me if I'm wrong, that she is probably one of the most well-qualified nominees to hold that position in modern political history.

Well, she was an attorney general herself in Florida, a big state, for eight years. Pam's an enormously talented person. I've known her, as you have, for many years, and I'm delighted to see her coming into that role. If you think about the challenges that our attorney general is going to face, you've got an FBI that has been completely misused and politicized. This is the nation's top law enforcement officer.

And under Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, there's been nothing more than a political weapon of the Democrat Party. You think about their unwillingness to even uphold the laws that are on the books to protect the homes of Supreme Court justices who are being threatened and marched upon in the wake of the lead up, I should say, to the Dobbs decision when people are clearly trying to influence the court, using the FBI to go after people in their homes after they've gone to a school board meeting and perhaps complained about, you know, what the school is either trying to teach or their policies at the school. It's just amazing how bad things have gotten over there.

Somebody's going to have to be able to take that apart from top to bottom, and I think Pam will do a great job. How do you think Marco Rubio is going to do at state? I think he'll be great. I served with Marco on the Foreign Relations Committee. He's also on the Intelligence Committee.

He's going to go into that position well-armed and well-equipped with a very deep background. I also find this particularly helpful. Marco's been very active on our Western Hemisphere work in the Foreign Relations Committee, meaning Latin America, an area that I think America is far too long overlooked, and that's a bipartisan criticism, Todd. But we've got a lot happening below our southern border, and we've got to get control of that situation. President Trump has already taken a bold move right now saying he's going to tear up both Canada and Mexico.

They don't do a better job of upholding their borders and protecting ours. But there's a lot more work to be done, and I think Marco's well equipped for it. And I have to tell you, isn't it interesting, though, when you start talking about money like that, you had Justin Trudeau and the president of Mexico say, well, wait, wait, wait a second now. Don't be too quick on that. It's amazing how quickly they're able to readjust their thinking.

Well, President Trump clearly understands, as you and I do, Todd, that one of the greatest sources of competitive advantage for us as a nation is our economy. And access to our economy is a privilege. It's not a right. And if countries like these will not maintain, do their own, you know, do their own work to allow or not allow, I should say, Chinese cartels and drug cartels from Mexico to come in, partner up and then basically, you know, invade our country. They've got some answering to do.

And so this is, I think, entirely appropriate. President Trump knows what he's doing. And I think it's a wake up call to both Canada and certainly to Mexico. Things have got to change. You know, Senator, I'm conservative, and there are some of the people that President Trump has nominated, and they're not conservative.

They're probably more to the left on issues than I am. And I've got to tell you, even though I'm a conservative, I'm okay with that. He won with a mandate, and my philosophy is who Donald Trump wants, he needs to get. I may not understand the broader picture, and that's okay. Trump's got a plan, and he needs those people to accomplish that plan.

I agree with you, Todd. And I think the breadth of the diversity of talent also just reflects the big tent that the Republican Party has created under his leadership. We've seen movements. I know how the Democrats always like to sort of try to divide us and keep us in various demographic groups.

Well, it didn't work. you see people regardless of their demographic characteristics voting for president trump he's increased his share with every demographic group that democrats have historically focused on i think the real divider now is something very basic it's it's whether you have children or not it's whether you're married or not if you do have children if you are married you believe in the future of this country you voted for donald trump and you know i'm not saying that wholesale but but He did much better with married people, people with children. Just think about that for a minute, people that are deeply invested in the future. I think that's a very positive statement on their view about the goals and aspirations that President Trump has for our nation and making it great again. Senator, I've got about 60 seconds here.

There have been some concern that some of the nominees might have some issues getting through confirmation. Do you anticipate the Republican senators standing together unified through this process? I certainly hope we will be unified through the process. Every senator is entitled to their own vote and their own opinion. That's certainly true.

But every Democrat voted for every single nominee that Joe Biden put forward. Not a single one of them voted against Joe Biden's cabinet nominees. And there's a reason for that. They wanted to give their elected president the cabinet that he wanted. And I hope that we'll be able to do the same for President Trump.

All right.

Well, you've got to tell us, Senator, Thanksgiving plans back home in Tennessee. You're going to be out on the road? No, absolutely. Home in Tennessee with family. No better place to be, Todd.

That's true.

Well, if you're on I-40. Happy Thanksgiving to you.

Well, likewise. If you're on I-40, drop by Lakeland.

So that's where the Stearns family will be. We'll be smoking a turkey this year. Absolutely. We'll have a wonderful Thanksgiving. You do as well.

Happy Thanksgiving. All right.

Happy Thanksgiving, Senator. The great Bill Haggerty, ladies and gentlemen, a good man and a solid conservative voice in the U.S. Senate. And to be perfectly honest with you, I really felt like he would have made a great, great addition to President Trump's cabinet.

So, all right, we got to leave it there. 901-260-5926. That's 901-260-5926. You said you heard him say he was hopeful the Republicans are going to be united. folks that's unclear right now we got to work on that we'll be right back all right welcome back by the way um we're gonna throw out another trivia question this is some of these have been a little tough this go around, but that's okay.

I want you to put your thinking cap on here. Here is a question. All right.

This is the second largest consumer of helium in the world. What company is the second largest consumer of helium in the world? No, yes, Dylan, it's a Thanksgiving question. The company that is the second largest consumer of helium. If you know the answer, give us a call, 901-260-5926.

That's 901-260-5926. By the way, speaking of football, and Dylan, I know you're a big college football guy. And I have to tell you, one of the funniest things, and again, I'm a Tennessee fan, Alabama. getting beat by Oklahoma. I mean, that was, if you thought Vanderbilt, I thought getting beat by Vanderbilt was bad.

Yeah. This is terrible. Yeah, Oklahoma is just as bad as Vanderbilt was, honestly.

So Paul Weinbaum, who's got like a huge, I mean, he's a very popular guy in the sports world. Did I ever tell you I ran into him? Yes. At the airport. Memphis.

That's right. And he was on the flight from Memphis to Atlanta, And then he was, like, across the aisle from me. And I'm like, who is that guy? Because he was wearing a mask. I'm like, who's this guy wearing?

He's the only guy on the plane wearing a face mask. I'm like, what's up with that? Anyway, some guy, some Alabama fan called in to Feinbaum's show to really rant about what happened with Oklahoma. And I have to say, they're taking it pretty well. Take a listen.

Man, I'm disgusted. You ought to be disgusted, too. You know, I heard Coach DeBoer in his press conference after the game talking about we need to learn how to do better. Nah, dude, all that crap's over with. You ain't going to the playoffs, and every real Alabama fan, don't give a damn now because he's messing up steak.

I don't even give a damn about the hornbow. I don't even care who I piss off. I don't care which one of you little Alabama fans gets your feelings hurt because Legend keeps it 100, but damn the arm bow. We about national championships at Alabama. I give a damn about beating some weak-ass Auburn team.

It's about playoffs and championships. It's just pathetic, and this is what hurts my heart, Paul. Can I tell you what hurts my heart? What's that? What hurts my heart is it's clear this guy is overwhelmed, and you took the greatest program in the world, and you can't handle this job.

Come on, somebody testify with me.

Somebody get up and say amen and hallelujah. All you got to do is look at this guy. He is overwhelmed. He is out of his league. He had no idea what he was stepping into.

Dylan, he's a little fired up there. People love their football. Just a smidge. Roll Tide. Roll Tide.

And they went three losses? yeah all right three losses now like the worst record they've had in it's bad 20 years it's bad down there in bama at tuscaloosa's really put them on your prayer list people thoughts and prayers it's not good not good at all all right um let's go to the phone lines here 901-260-5926 let's go to doug in georgia hey doug how's it going hey you know every time i call you i'm going to tell you how much i thank you for helping us get trump elected but that's because you are the media well like that guy we're pretty are the media and technically we are now the mainstream media ah well let's not insult ourselves macy's i'm saying macy's on the helium question well hold on i've got to ask the question first uh what is the the the one company that is number two The second largest consumer of helium. And, Doug, what is the answer? Macy's. Yep, that's it.

Well done, Doug. It was indeed Macy's, and they used that helium. And there were a couple of years, I think, during World War II, where they actually didn't use the balloons because the military needed the helium and they needed the rubber that the balloons were made out of. But you're right. You know, Todd, I've got to tell you, I don't know if you ever listened to yourself back, and I love you.

You know that. But your voice gets a little squeaky at times. I'm thinking maybe you're inhaling a little of that helium. It's all right to inhale it. It's an inert gas.

I'm not promoting that, but it'll make your voice high and squeaky. It's kind of funny.

Well, I have been known to have inert gas, but it hasn't made me squeaky so there you go Doug uh thank you for that Doug we're gonna put you on hold geez aloo and uh we'll we'll throw out another trivia question before the end of the show you know it's interesting 17 of those balloons and I when I lived in New York City I had to cover it a time or two what I find fascinating about the uh the parade it they changed the route so it came down 6th Avenue which is where Fox News was and my office was on the 32nd floor of the Fox News tower and I had a great great window view of the balloons as they literally passed by the 32nd floor of the tower but the day before a couple of days before they do something called the balloon inflation event and if you live if you're over on the upper west side and if if you just happen to be in New York City, it's worth going up there, and you can actually go on a tour, and they're literally inflating the balloons there on the street. They're on the Upper West Side, and they have hot cocoa, and it's a lot of fun for the kids to see Snoopy getting blown up.

Well, not blown up, but inflated.

So there you go. All right, congratulations, Doug. All right, we're going to throw out another trivia question. Did he say he said I had inert gas? Is that all right?

She's a loop. All right.

Here we go. According to and this is from the Today Show.

So this is their trivia.

So if I get in trouble for this, it's on them. According to a recent survey, what Thanksgiving side dish is the least popular among Americans? The least popular Thanksgiving Day side dish, 901-260-5926. That's 901-260-5926 if you know the answer. And there is an answer.

According to NBC News, the least favorite Thanksgiving side dish. By the way, coming up tonight, 5 o'clock Eastern, Roger Stone joining us on my Newsmax show. And speaking of Newsmax, it's exciting as we are gearing up for what we think is going to be a huge event, Newsmax and the planned IPO. And, of course, you now may be eligible to buy preferred shares in Newsmax before the IPO. All you have to do is go to Newsmaxinvest.com.

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Hang tight. Going to the trivia phone lines here in just a moment. the least favorite thanksgiving side dish 901-260-5926 we'll be right back all right let's get back to the phone lines here as we have a little bit of fun with some thanksgiving trivia so the question is according to nbc news uh the today show the least favorite thanksgiving side dish uh let's go to georgia veda what say you what's the answer veda oh my name is rita r-i-t-a rita my apologies rita okay rita what's the answer i think it's cranberry sauce oh oh rita no no no no but good try uh let's go to jennifer in texas hi jennifer what's the answer hi i believe it's going to be my least favorite side stuffing slash dressing oh oh jennifer no that is is not correct um i will say you know i was talking to bill main about this on wdun early this morning he's a big stuffing guy and and i told him i just can't eat something that comes out the wazoo of a turkey. I just can't do it. I can't do it.

All right, let's go to North Carolina Fred. Fred, how are you doing today? I'm doing well. How are you? Fred, I'm doing good, too.

All right.

Here's the question. According to NBC's Today Show, what is the least favorite side dish at Thanksgiving? Green bean casserole. uh yes fred that music that that music means you are correct so you're not a are you a fan of green bean cancer old fred it's okay but the rest of my family is way over it after all these years yeah you know my mom that was a big thing and she loved to put i don't know if this it may have been just my mom and my mom was a great cook i just i just could never develop the taste for green bean casserole she would put those canned fried onions on the top of you know what i'm talking about fred yes i never pretty simple recipe yeah but you know you know as a kid the crunchies but nothing yeah yeah i didn't like the stuff underneath the crunchy that was green beans and mushroom soup yeah it looked like somebody had an accident and put in the casserole dish wow well fred congratulations uh you're the you're the winner yay all right well thank you you got to work on the enthusiasm level there fred uh we're gonna we're gonna put you on hold and it sounds like somebody's there with you fred you know my lovely wife linda from 42 years is that right well happy well happy anniversary 42 years that's that's pretty that's pretty awesome is uh is linda i guess linda's getting ready she's going to be busy for thanksgiving she's going to be cooking the thanksgiving turkey this year no actually we're gonna get uh longhorn steakhouse of course you are you know they they don't have green bean casserole on the menu just want to give you a fair warning there fred yeah what that's good news that's great all right well fred congratulations and linda the very best to you as well enjoy longhorn steakhouse there on thanksgiving day hang tight guys and we're going to get you uh hooked up with a prize all right we've got one final trivia a question to share with you and i like this one you know the turkey almost became our national national symbol not not the eagle but the turkey um which founding father referred to turkeys as a bird of courage this founding father you know i know our this is going to be an easy one for our audience but we need to know the name of the founding father who referred to turkeys as a bird of Courage. 901-260-5926 is our telephone number.

That's 901-260-5926. And we'll try to sneak in another trivia winner before the end of the program.

Now, tomorrow, we're going to be back again live. And then we're off on Thursday and Friday, giving our team time to spend with their families. Of course, Ben Dieter already scooted off. He's going to Branson, Missouri, and the entire Dieter family is going to be hanging out there in Branson.

So if you're out in those parts and you hear Ben Dieter's voice, go over and say hello. Go say howdy-do.

So there you go. That's coming up on Thursday and Friday. And, of course, we'll be doing the Newsmax TV show this week, so just be sure to watch us on Newsmax. Folks, I also want to encourage you to get a copy of my book, especially if you have a young person, a young teenager, and they're wanting information on, you know, maybe they're starting to express an interest in politics and American history, I want you to get them a copy of Twilight's Last Gleaming Can America Be Saved? We're getting so many great reports, great reviews, over 100 reviews now on Amazon, and people are really enjoying the message of the book, and it's a simple, easy read, especially for kids.

And we give them reasons why they should love America in this book.

So I certainly hope that you get out there and get yourself a copy. Your favorite bookstore would be great. Also, you can get a copy on ToddStearns.com. All right, let's go to the phone lines and say hello to Joe in North Carolina. Hi, Joe.

How's it going? Hey, Todd. Hope you're doing well. Joe, I'm doing pretty good. Thank you for asking.

All right.

We need to know the name of the founding father. And this founding father famously referred to turkeys as a bird of courage. Who was that? I believe that was Ben Franklin. Yep.

Yes, sir. It was Benjamin Franklin. You know, Benjamin Franklin also wanted the turkey instead of the eagle to be our official, you know, bird.

So it was, I mean, turkeys are beautiful creatures, though. yeah it's interesting to see him fly if you've ever seen that that's a sight too i saw some video last i'm not sure why this popped up on my instagram feed but some poor guy was out on a golf course and he was getting ready to to tee off when a turkey came out and it was the turkey versus the uh i don't know it's i think he had a big bertha and i think the turkey one joe yeah i'm sure it did my goodness i knew a guy back many years ago oh this is a law 30 plus years ago and a good buddy of mine and he was um uh he served in the persian gulf war and he was a big turkey hunter he was a bow he was uh he'd go hunting with a bow and that is so impressive to see because it's so skilled i i never could figure out how to do that but man he was great at it Well, yeah, I have friends that are good at that. I don't hunt at all, but I have friends that do. I'm good at eating it, but not killing it. I'm with you, Todd.

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