Jill & Kamala Rage at Funeral; Trump & Obama Laugh

Live from the Liberty University studio in Memphis, Tennessee, it's America's favorite gun-toting, Bible-clinging, deplorable America. That's us, that's right, I love this American ride. Todd Starr. Oh yeah. Ladies and gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen of America, there is high drama happening in the pews of National Cathedral at this hour at the state funeral for Jimmy Carter.

And it's only a matter of moments. We are, the nation is on edge right now. We are on pins and needles. We could be on the outbreak of hostilities between Kamala Harris and Joe Biden. It could very well happen at any moment, and we will bring that to you live from the front row of the funeral of Jimmy Carter at National Cathedral.

Hello, everybody. Welcome to the program. Todd Stearns here with you. Ben Dieter is standing by as well. And, Ben, if somebody throws a fist, throws a punch, I've got to know about it.

I mean, this is a big deal. It's a huge deal. You have every living president sitting together. I will also say visibly not present. Where's Michelle?

Big M. Yeah, where's everybody's there? Everybody's there except Michelle. Michelle Obama. Michelle Obama.

She's not there. Everybody's there. Front row. There is so we need a body language expert.

So you are a body language expert. Jill Biden and Kamala Harris are seated butt cheek to butt cheek on the front row, and they're refusing to even glance at each other. There's not a nod of the head. There's not a handshake, a hug, a howdy-do. They're literally just staring straight ahead.

As a matter of fact, and Jill won't even let her husband look. The first couple and the second couple could come to blows. Yeah. And at the same time, Bill Clinton can't quit staring at Melania Trump. I mean, there's so much happening here.

It's true. Oh, by the way, did you see this was fascinating?

So George W., he was trying to get into the pew, and he gave Barack Obama a belly tap. He tapped his belly as he was coming through. Really? Yeah. I guess they're pretty friends, good friends.

I've always heard that they always put George Bush beside Michelle Obama, and it's the greatest romance since Romeo and Juliet. But there's no Michelle to compliment. No. George W. He gave him the belly tap.

And apparently, again, I'm not a lip reader, but I'm trying to read the lips. And he said something like, oh, where's your man? Yeah, you're fired. You are in a body language reader. We take it back.

The other thing, Todd, not only did the first lady, Joe Biden, and Kamala Harris not speak to each other. If you notice the body language of Joe Biden when she sits down, she actually shifts her body away. She sure does. She's got the angle. Yeah.

So, you know, you would have leg to leg to leg. You've got the first president, the first lady, then the vice president, then Dougie. And Joe Biden actually shifts her entire body away from her. This is fascinating. You know, our listeners, I'm sure, are big body language and lip-reading experts, and you have to wonder what's going on there because we are just a moment away from one of our great listeners in Gaston, Alabama said this.

We're just moments away from the hoops coming off, the hair going up, and we're going to have a come-to-Jesus meeting right there in the church house. If Michelle would have been there, there would have been a cat fight. You know, two ladies can do it. They say add in a third chick and then it's all over. It's the MMA.

So maybe it's a good thing Michelle's not there. Michelle would have thrown chairs. You would have seen a chair getting thrown. Michelle would have thrown a lot more than chairs.

So the other thing that's really interesting is Karen Pence. Oh, yeah. She invoked her inner Karen.

So President Trump and Melania, who look stunning. How do you? I mean, she looks beautiful at this funeral. And so much so that Bill Clinton, he's trying. Yeah.

You've got to give William Jefferson, you've got to give him some credit. We weren't able to confirm this, but Hillary Clinton is pinching his leg. She's got a gun to his side. I'm just going to sit here and read this program here. Don't look.

Don't look. Don't look. Keep my willy. Don't look. So anyway, while all that's going on, you've got Karen Pence.

So Mike Pence stood up and greeted his former boss, Karen Pence. And here's what gets me. She refused to acknowledge Trump, the president-elect. She refused to stand up. She refused to even acknowledge him.

And then Melania was very gracious, and she did not acknowledge Melania. Yeah. Some people are saying, well, she maybe missed him. Nope. Nope.

Because I'm watching video right now inside at the celebration of Jimmy Carter's life and his legacy. When the Bushes walk in, you've got George W. and Laura. They walk in and Karen Pence shifts her whole body, leans up and shakes both of their hands.

So it was completely deliberate. Yeah, she's a and she's a very unkind, unpleasant. I've actually had her in studio back in the day at Fox for a children's. She looks like such a sweet lady and frosty. This woman.

Oh, yeah. She's a she's but she's Karen. She does. She's nasty.

So then so Trump is seated next to Barack because Big M isn't there. And Barack and Trump are having like a good old conversation. And I don't know what Trump told Obama, but Obama starts. He busted. That was a belly laugh.

They were laughing. And then Kamala looks over her shoulder. I feel like we're like on the real housewives of D.C. or something. And we're doing a blow by blow.

But it's like she was enraged that they were sharing a laugh. she looked over she looked over her shoulder at Barack Obama and gave him the iciest glare ever you've got to think we have heard nothing but Democrats are unified remember the DNC they were a unified force against the threat of this democracy of this republic which is Donald Trump turns out the only unity I'm seeing is Donald Trump and everybody is kissing Donald Trump's ring Yeah, everybody except for the sitting presidents, they all look so uncomfortable, except for Barack Obama. And he's like, you know, it's almost like Barack saying, I told you people, and you didn't listen to me, and you got what you voted for. What I would do to be a fly on the wall. Ladies and gentlemen, this is, and poor Jimmy Carter.

Nobody's paying attention to him. He's the dead guy in the casket. everybody's everybody's waiting to see if there's going to be a fist fight between kamala and jill biden do we have any intel on al gore he's also there he is there um now he divorced tipper so i don't know if tipper she's she's the ex yeah she's the ex second so i don't think she gets an invite uh but man it's it's funny because karen pence i think that quite frankly i would put a secret service agent because she's sitting behind him. I would put a secret service agent next to her. Yeah, whatever happened to love thy brother.

These are the Pence's. These are the people always screaming, we just love Jesus. We love Jesus, but we hate Trump, so we can't do both. And it's not just that we love Jesus. It's like, we love Jesus more than you.

Oh, to be a fly on Mike Pence's head right now. Have we heard the explanation as to why Michelle Obama is not there? Do we have any reporting on that? We're going to work on that. We will hunt that information down.

Even CNN, you've got to give Jake Tapper credit. Here's how bad it is. Even CNN had to acknowledge what was unfolding before our very eyes there on the front row at National Cathedral. Take a listen. I started the year as the would-be Democratic presidential nominee, and we all know what happened after that.

And again, you know, you didn't see a particularly warm greeting between the first couple and the second couple. But again, we are at a funeral.

So one has to take that into account when trying to read the body language of the individuals there. It sounds like heaven there, doesn't it? But the visual is hell. I mean, that beautiful chorus, the choir in the background. It sounds like, you know, Jimmy Carter, maybe walking through the gates of heaven.

That's what it sounds like. the audio but if you watch the body language of these dignitaries it is anything but heaven yeah these are some very angry people and i love it and you know trump is just having the time of his life right now he is having a great time and the fact that that he can he just leans in he leans into obama and obama is trying he is he is trying not to bust out laughing but he was clearly Whatever the joke was, I hope it wasn't another bus incident. We don't need another Access Hollywood tape. Not before the inauguration.

So that's the interesting thing is we're about, what, 10 days from this inauguration and all of these same people have to show up to Trump's? They're going to be up on the platform. All of these people are going to be on the front steps of the Capitol. This is brilliant, ladies and gentlemen. By the way, we now know where Michelle Obama was.

Dylan, do we have that ready to go? All right, we do. All right. Here is CNN unveiling where BM is. These are just moments that you don't see hardly ever.

And just to go back to that moment where Trump walked into the room and shook hands with Mike Pence, that is the first interaction that those two have had. They have not even been in the same room in four years. I called to just double-check that this morning with a few aides of both of theirs. And it just was a moment to see them come and shake hands with one another. And, Jeff, obviously to see this moment, Jeff, you covered President Obama, to see the two of them speaking to one another, seated next to one another, which I don't think they have been at one of these funerals or gatherings where they've been in the same room before.

They have not. It truly is extraordinary. The last time most of them were in the sim room was in 2018 at the funeral of George H.W. Bush. President Trump was in office then.

One person missing. This is Michelle Obama. I'm told by her advisors that she had a scheduling conflict. She's actually still in Hawaii from an extended holiday vacation.

So she's missing there. But if you look from these presidencies. All right, enough of that. Vacation? She's on vacation.

A scheduling conflict then drops vacation. You got a freaking president of the United States who drops dead. And he's your – On your side of the aisle. And it's not like we didn't see this coming. No disrespect.

He was out campaigning for Kamala Harris along with her.

Well, kind of. Allegedly. They pushed him in the – yeah, that's terrible. That's terrible. What they did – the poor guy.

Can I just say this? This is so terrible. But remember when they rolled him out and they said the only reason he was staying alive was to vote for Kamala Harris, right?

So we're not making – I'm not making this up.

So you've seen the photo. I mean, the poor guy, his mouth was agape. And, I mean, if I'm that age, if I'm 100 years old, I want to be locked away in a room somewhere. I want people to remember me for when my mouth was not agape and I had control of my faculties. I mean, the guy's 100 years old.

And so they roll him out there, and they said, again, the family of Jimmy Carter said, well, we're voting. Jimmy Carter says he's voting for Kamala. And I don't know how they were able to know that because the man could not talk. the only possibility is they put a mirror over his mouth and it fogged up and it just read i'm staying alive for kamala maybe that's what they did i don't know it was so disgraceful what jimmy carter's family did to him in the final days and how did that work out fair point just incredibly disrespectful but for all that to say for michelle obama to be running around the beaches of Hawaii in a bikini. And I apologize for that visual, folks.

And she doesn't have the wherewithal to come back and sit there and pay respect to a man. And by the way, they all hated Jimmy Carter. They all did. His own party hated the man. Why?

Well, because he didn't work with him. And I was listening to some big pundit. It was a conservative. him well jimmy carter was just he was just a good christian man and he worked so well with everybody no he didn't he even didn't even work with his own party they hated the guy because of that so anyway again it is incredibly disrespectful but shell obama said yeah i'm in hawaii i'm staying in hawaii well this is coming in from a washington post columnist that's writing about what's happening in the cathedral. He wrote the following about the exchange between Donald Trump and Barack Obama, writing, I desperately wish they were all mic'd up so we would know what they were saying.

I mean, the conversation, whatever it is, and however brief it was between Obama and Trump that made Trump laugh, I don't know that I've ever seen him laugh in public.

So I'd love to know what was said between the two men. They do it for quarterbacks, right? For college football and for the NFL, why can't we just mic up the former presidents? It's true. Trump doesn't laugh that often publicly.

It's a full laugh. He's belting out. How much you want to bet it was a joke about either Joe or Kamala? It had to have been. Anyway, get a load of those two.

There was something going on. All right, we've got to take a break here. Opening up the phone lines, what do you think they were talking about? 901-260-5926. Who wins in a fist fight?

Jill or Kamala? My money is on Joe Biden. My money's on Joe Biden. I think at some point during the funeral, there's the WWE music and Big Mike comes in. Starts throwing cheers.

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So we'll be talking to Dr. Drew, get some sort of an idea of what's happening out there. You're going to want to stick around here for the next, coming up in the next segment, I'm going to break down what's really going on in California. And I have a very simple question for you. I have great sympathy for the people that lost their homes.

I don't care if you're a Republican or a Democrat. I don't care. Losing your home is a horrible thing. and losing it to a fire, everything is gone. Everything has turned to ashes.

And I have great sympathy for those people. But ultimately, I've got a bigger problem with us stepping in and helping people rebuild. And I want to explain why, and we'll go into more detail after the break. But the reality is the people in Los Angeles, you had a chance to vote for competent people. Instead, you voted for incompetent people, and you do it every single election cycle.

And every single election cycle, something horrible happens, and the taxpayers have to step in, and we've got to fix what the Democrats break. And I don't know about you, but I'm tired of it. I'm just absolutely sick and tired of it. And it seems to me that if you're out there, and you are going out there, and you're intentionally voting for people simply because of their skin color or their political party, instead of can they do the job, then that's on you.

So my question is very simple. Should the American taxpayers step in and bail out California here, ladies and gentlemen? Should the good taxpayers of California step in and fix what the Democrats in California broke? It just seems to me that elections have consequences, but so do life choices. And the people of California, the voters of California, have been making some very bad life choices lately.

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So he got off the airplane first and waited for her in the jetway and called her out. I mean, and look, he was not rude about it. He was not mean. But this woman left knowing, knowing full well that there was a dangerous windstorm approaching her city and she left town. And this guy did what the local media and the national media simply refused to do.

Listen to cut one. Do you owe citizens an apology for being absent while their homes were burning? Do you regret cutting the fire department budget by millions of dollars, Madam Mayor? Have you nothing to say today? Have you absolutely nothing to say to the citizens today?

Elon Musk says that you're utterly incompetent. Are you considering your position? Madam Mayor, have you absolutely nothing to say to the citizens today who are dealing with this disaster? no apology for them do you think you should have been visiting Ghana while this was unfolding back home and it goes on and on we've got the full video up at ToddStearns.com this is painful she refused to say anything she even refused to acknowledge the pain and the suffering of the people of Los Angeles many of whom dare I say many of whom probably voted for her.

So Gavin Newsom is out there, and he was with CNN's Anderson Cooper. And may I just stop for just a moment here and point something out? Every single major network and cable news anchor, all of the people with the beautiful hair, every single one of them are in Los Angeles right now. Every single one of them. including ABC's David Muir, who actually was cosplaying as a firefighter and had to use a safety pin or a clothespin to tighten up his firefighter costume so he wouldn't look like he was bloated on air.

I just have a girlish figure. He and Anderson Cooper are two birds of the same feather. No, I'm not talking sexually. I'm just talking about they're all about their personal appearance, how they look. Does this make my butt look fat?

These are the anchors. We've gone from Walter Cronkite to David Fior. You all right there, Dieter? It looked like he got his fire man suit from Party City or from a spirit of Halloween. The only thing missing is he should have driven up to the scene in his little child's fire truck.

Right? Like a big wheel fire truck. With a little siren on top. Wee-oo, wee-oo. And you know how fireman suits aren't form-fitting?

You know, typically they're there to protect you from a flame. This was the tightest garment I have ever seen. You know the news anchors, they wear the tightest Brooks Brothers suits and whatnot. That thing was snug. That thing was tight on his chest and biceps.

Does this make me look slim? Do you have something in a size four? Yeah. Yeah, five people just died behind me, but at least I look good. That's it.

Honest to God, that's what these people are all about. Unbelievable.

So all that to say, where the hell were these people when the hurricane waters were washing out complete towns and communities in North Carolina? Where were they? And I'll tell you why. They don't give a damn about you people in North Carolina or eastern Tennessee or South Carolina or Florida because their rich and famous friends got their homes burned out. all of a sudden they've got to be their boots on the ground.

But to all you folks in North Carolina, you don't matter to these people. You do not matter to them at all. And I hope you remember that. Unbelievable.

So anyway, Anderson Cooper's out there with Gavin Newsom. And this is going to end up on some sort of a campaign. If this guy decides to run for president, I think it's over for him. I think his career in politics is done. Let's take a listen to cut two.

What is the situation with the water? Obviously, in Palisades, it ran out last night in the hydrants. I was trying to fire a firefighter in this block. They left because there was no water in the hydrants here. The local folks are trying to figure that out.

I mean, just when you have a system that's not dissimilar to what we've seen in other extraordinarily large-scale fires, whether it be pipe electricity or whether it just be the complete overwhelm of the system. I mean, those hydrants are typical for two or three fires, maybe one fire. You have something at this scale. But again, that's going to be determined by the local. Look, the whole point of this is that he screwed up and he said, look, the local folks are going to figure it out.

Yeah, the local folks, they're trying to save their homes with garden hoses. There's actually video right now. I don't know if you guys have seen this of a firefighter in Los Angeles. they they're filling up there's like a woman's purse and they're filling up the purse with water so they can go and douse a a fire with it it's unbelievable and the reason why is most of their equipment the extra equipment they had it went to ukraine mayor karen ass actually cut the city's fire department budget by more than 17 million dollars as a matter of fact the lesbian police or the lesbian fire chief, she actually wrote a memorandum to City Hall saying, look, if you cut our budget by this much money, we will not have the resources we need to fight a major fire. Literally spelled it all out.

And I know she's a female and I know she's a lesbian, but set that aside for a moment. At least she got that right. And what did the mayor do? the mayor got on an airplane and got out of dodge and i'm going to ask a question here and man this is media matters is going to have a field day with this last night another fire broke out this one in hollywood hills and when you look at at how these fires are erupting they're all erupting in very in different places and we're talking miles are separating these fires, but they're all starting about the same time. Look, is that normal?

It seems to me rather suspect. And it seems to me that something else may be going on here because they haven't really talked about how the fires started, what caused the fires to start. Certainly the winds are there, but the winds are fanning the flames. The winds aren't causing the fires.

So are these fires being intentionally sent? You had Iran state media a few days ago predicting that there were going to be things transpiring in the world that would cause you to wonder And so I'm wondering, are we dealing with some sort of a different kind of terrorist attack in this country? Is that what's going on here, aside from the gross incompetence of City Hall? I'm just wondering. But it just seems rather coincidental that all of the fires would start at right about the same time.

And may I just say something about the citizens of Hollywood and Beverly Hills? You guys got to get it together. I mean, you can't even stage an evacuation? That's insanity. This is another reason not to live in a major downtown area of a city, Ben Diener, because when all you know what breaks loose, these people don't know what to do.

No. They have no plan, no preparation at all. And some, Todd, I don't know if you saw the one video of the people that were actually inside their home, and they were filming as the fires were getting ready to engulf their home. and I thought, okay, so you obviously didn't listen to the evacuation orders because those have gone out in good enough time. They had time to prepare and get out.

To sit in your home, and I thought that is everything LA summed up in a nutshell, that they are filming it, posting it online as they're about ready to die. And the video, it looks like the gates of hell. It just looks absolutely crazy, but it got a lot of clicks. And who knows what happened to those folks it's about the social media and the clicks in la i saw that video and the good news i'm gonna say this before i say what i'm about to say um the good news is they survived i don't know how but they survived but all i could think of as i was watching that is wow that's what my roast beef looks like from the oven right they see the flame that's that's the last thing the roast beef sees sorry that's a bad they're okay and there was a dog in there there was a dog here here's what's crazy Todd you've got Paris Hilton her house in Malibu is destroyed we just heard from Prince Harry and Meghan Markle they just released a statement so all of these A-list celebrities I mean if they're lucky their houses are still there instead of I don't know getting out there and crying because your house all of your Joan Rivers daughter Melissa Rivers even she had she's a human so she jumps on CNN and she's in tears saying we just lost our home I was able to grab my mom's Emmy Award. Other than that, everything is gone.

And instead of that, every LA celebrity, every Hollywood celebrity is posting about how you can donate to the pet shelter. Please send your funds to the pet shelter. Or they're mocking conservatives like James Woods and others who lost their homes. That's disgusting to me. But I want to talk about this diversity situation for just a moment.

Because it does impact all of us as citizens. And I want to talk about the fire chief, who I don't believe is qualified to do the job. And I've been hearing, I've been getting a lot of messages on social from people who have family, husbands who are currently serving in the fire department. And they said, everything I said yesterday was a thousand percent accurate. But you've got a situation here where most of this could have been prevented.

You know, we had Caruso on yesterday, Rick Caruso, the billionaire developer. You know what's fascinating here? This guy could have been the mayor. This guy owns the beautiful, and it's sort of like a, it's a very, very high-end outdoor shopping district in Pacific Palisades. Guess the one thing in Pacific Palisades that did not burn?

The shopping center. The shopping center. And you know why? because he had private fire security out there. They had fire return materials on the rooftops.

They did everything to prepare, everything they could do to prepare for the fire they did. And his facility, his massive shopping district, did not burn down. This guy could have been your mayor. By the way, I've got to play this for you. It was Rick Caruso yesterday who said that one of the big problems was the firefighters did not have any water, which they do not and here you have again a woke reporter um saying that's not true that's we have no verification i want you to listen to cut four this is great former la mayoral candidate and real estate developer rick caruso criticizing the city's response to the windstorm and fires he says officials should have been more prepared real issue to me is twofold we've had decades to go remove the brush in these hills that spread so quickly.

And the second is, you've got to have water. And my understanding is the reservoir was not refilled in time and in a timely manner to keep the hydrants going.

So that's a failure whether on DWP's part or another city agency. But this is basic stuff. This isn't high science here. And it's all about leadership and management that we're seeing a failure of. and all of these residents are paying the ultimate price for that.

Despite what you have heard from Caruso, no firefighters have told us that they are running out of water. And let's go out to Gigi Graciette. She is live in Pacific Palisades. I know your signal's not the best, but Gigi, what can you tell us?

Well, firefighters have told me they have no water on this block and you may be able to make out the ember storm that we're in the middle of right now. There you go. Idiots. That's awkward. But again, all the fire hydrants out of water.

And you know why? Because the government leadership refused to refill the reservoirs. Why did they do that, Todd?

Well, Governor Newsom and the tree huggers wanted to protect a tiny fish called a smelt. That's the reason why. Donald Trump is just enraged over all of this. He said that Newscom refused to sign the water restoration declaration put before him that would have allowed millions of gallons of water from excess rain and snow melt to flow daily into many parts of California. That's true.

All that runoff, all that snow when it melts goes right to the Pacific Ocean. Trump says he wanted to protect essentially a worthless fish called a smelt by giving it less water. But he didn't even care about the people of California.

Now the ultimate price is being paid. The president says, I will demand this incompetent governor allow beautiful, clean, fresh water, American water, to flow into California. He is to blame for this. And it's true. Many are wondering whether the fire chief, who happened to be a diversity hire, was responsible because she made her whole job about promoting and adding more women and gays to the department.

I'm just going to be very straightforward here. I don't care what you do in the privacy of your bedroom. That's between you and your maker. I don't care. Who you allow to fiddle around with your private parts is none of my business, and it should not factor into whether or not you get a job.

I mean, come on, man. but all they're doing is pushing diversity inclusion and equity you know if i was a resident of la county i would identify as a smelt they do that in california they identify as all sorts of things they identify as trees leaves birds bees i don't even know so you identify as a smell and then you get protection if everybody in la county said i identify as a smell maybe they would have been protected and they would have had water in their homes it's it's mind-boggling when you go through and look at all of the the diversity stuff i mean they're literally going out of their way to not hire white guys i mean period but this is even beyond that they're not even hiring qualified black men they're going after lesbians and they're going after the women that's what they want and it doesn't matter to me look can you drive a fire truck i'm a lesbian can you can you hold a hose i'm a lesbian well can't no i i mean it goes on i mean seriously do do you know how to fight a fire i'm a woman oh hello no this is outrageous all right we got to take a break we'll be right back Jim was at the laundromat when he heard...

well um all right we've got i've got a lot more to say about this and and again i don't care um i don't care if you're gay or i are straight i don't care can you do the job and yeah no i get she's a lesbian she may not know how to handle a hose but that doesn't matter this is it shouldn't matter competence above all ladies and gentlemen that should be the call of the day all right we i've got so much more to say about this stick around we'll be right back hi everyone tom mustin here for the legal help center if you or someone you know were diagnosed with lung cancer or mesothelioma, listen up. This could be the result of asbestos exposure, and you could be entitled to significant compensation. Call us at 800-304-4700. That's 800-304-4700. To find out if you qualify for a cash settlement, we have legal professionals standing by right now to take your call, and they'll tell you if you qualify.

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Live from the Liberty University studio in Memphis, Tennessee, it's common sense conservative commentary from Todd Starr. That's us. That's right. I love this American ride.

So I went down to Kroger yesterday, and I had a few items to pick up. Nothing terribly major at all. But I forgot that a snowstorm is heading in the direction of Memphis, Tennessee, and apparently the entire south, I think. By the way, you folks in Gainesville, Georgia, I believe you guys are going to be getting some snow as well. We don't typically get a lot of snow in the south.

And when we do anything over an inch and all you know what breaks loose, you've got flurries and people are running for the hills.

So anyway, this is they're telling us that we could have at the very least about six to seven inches of snow.

Some people say we we could be upwards of a foot of snow. I don't know. And, you know, it's these weather guessers. They're professionals. They know.

So anyway, people are getting prepared, and there is a correlation to what's happening here in Memphis to what's happening in Los Angeles. Let me tell you, I went to the Kroger last night, and it was as if the end of days was upon us. First of all, I knew there was a problem when people were literally parking on the street to get into the Kroger. It was unbelievable. There were no parking places.

I walked in and there were no shopping carts, all of the shopping carts. And it's sort of a neighborhood Kroger. I mean, it's busy and it's a big Kroger, but we normally don't have that many people. And so I'm wandering in. And, of course, I live in a nice community, a nice town.

And it's one of these where everybody's concerned about their appearance.

So they're always, you know, the produce section is fully stocked. And they've got all the things that healthy people eat, like lettuce, tomatoes, things of that nature, the arugula. And so people are like freaking out, and they're just loading up there. They're loading up there. There was hardly anything there.

And so I bypassed the produce section. I go straight to the deli counter, and I started taking photographs because everything was wiped out. I mean, there was nothing to be had. And so I'm taking these pictures, and I'm like, well, geez, Alou, they actually have something very nice that I enjoy. They do a sliced prime rib, and it's very good.

So anyway, I thought, well, all right, it's the apocalypse. You've got to make sacrifices.

So then I go over to the – I did need to get some milk. And so I went to the milk. There's no milk. There was no milk except for the chocolate milk. I mean, even that nasty stuff, that's not even milk.

It's like they squeeze the nuts and the juice comes out of it. What is it? Almond milk? Coconut. Coconut milk.

They have the soy milk. Oatmeal milk. You know, it's just disgusting.

So anyway, I didn't want any of that stuff. But that was gone.

So I got some chocolate milk. That's very tasty. I had a glass last night, by the way.

so i'm there so then i go well i gotta get some bread i want to make some toast so i go down the bread aisle there was no bread there there the only bread left and even in a very healthy neighborhood like the one i live in even the healthy people won't eat this stuff you know what i'm talking about it's that nasty bread it's that's got all the nuts and stuff in it the good stuff no it's not very good is that what they call it though that's what they call it no it's also just good stuff yeah yeah nobody nobody bought that was there that on the shelves i thought it was no that was all gone as well that was all gone the only thing left in the the dairy section was a single package of cream cheese philadelphia cream cheese that was it i thought it was interesting as i was i want to psychoanalyze that my fellow shoppers but i'm thinking it's the apocalypse the end of days you may not be able to eat anything else for the rest of your life or at least until monday and what are you going to eat and i was kind of shocked you know i don't think arugula salad is going to do it for me give me a burger a big juicy burger if i'm going i'm going out with beef there was one there was one memphian they spoke to a local tv station here and they were talking about all the essential items that are flying off the shelves at the Kroger here. And she was standing there with a whole basket of Little Debbie's. And she said she had her essential items. And I said, you know what? Yes, that is essential.

Another chick had wine.

So what essential means to Utah may not be essential to everybody.

So there are a couple of people walking out with the boxes of Josh, the cheap booze, the cheap wine. and I did see, I'm not going to name names, but I did see Baptist that were in the liquor aisle, and I don't think they were lost. You know how, oh, you know it's funny when you run into somebody at church and they're in the liquor aisle. I have not had this happen recently. You just invert your eyes.

It's like, oh, sister so-and-so, I'm looking for the cough syrup. I just got lost. I'm looking for the cough syrup. Or they say maybe they're using it to cook a steak and it burns out. The alcohol burns out.

It's on the other side of the store, ma'am. But better to drink wine, I guess, than to guzzle Dayquil. Yeah. Right? You don't want to get addicted.

The lady in front of me at the Sprouts in Memphis, she had so much wine. I've never seen so much wine. She'd bought bottle after bottle after bottle. I'm like, what are you preparing for? It's snow.

I mean, it's a lot of snow.

So I finally get to the checkout, and every aisle is insane. And then the self-checkout, people have like two carts apiece.

So I said, forget that. I just, so I got in the line and it's one of these Kroger's where we kind of know each other by name, you know, the produce guy and the lady behind the deli counter and all that kind of stuff.

So anyway, I'm in the line and I'm like talking to the cashier and I'm like, she goes, I think it must be a holiday or something. And I'm like, no, I think there's a massive snowstorm coming. She was like, really? I didn't know. And I said, where are all these people coming from?

She goes, I've never seen these people. And I just think that if you're going to have an apocalyptic event in your community, then you need to go to the stores in your specific zip code. Right? Otherwise, there would be plenty of bread for the good people of Germantown. You're saying that me in downtown can't come steal your goods in Germantown?

Darn tootin'. How do they, what, are you going to have a passport, ID, they stop and frisk you at the door? I'm going to city council and I think we need to build a border wall between Germantown and Memphis I think you've got to have a passport oh Miss Kristen the lovely lady who makes me look beautiful the makeup artist she says were you able to get your Fritos they had no Fritos I got a pack of Doritos I don't even eat Doritos but I figured it's the apocalypse you've got a snack I am curious what people stock up on and why is it milk I don't even like milk. I don't even like bread. I'd rather get 14 other things.

I think there's some sort of like, you know, the mob action here. I think the weather people are getting kickbacks from the milk and the dairy and the bread industry. It's like with Big Pharma. Big Pharma. They have to run all the pharmaceutical commercials.

But this is big F-A-R-M-A. This is Big Pharma. Yeah, Big Pharma. That is a good question. And I am curious because most of our listening audience is about to get walloped.

what do you need to survive the snowstorm? Are there essentials? I will say this. Nobody was buying the Little Debbies. In Germantown.

In Germantown. Because everybody's doing yoga in Germantown. They're eating fruit. Yeah, they're eating fruit. Look, if the apocalypse is coming, I'm going down not with pears.

I'm going down with the Little Debbies. And a pork butt. And the Ho-Hos. Give me some intimates. I'm smoking a pork butt.

Maybe smoking something else. You know, and it's crazy. Give me a Baptist martini. it melts people it's not going to be here for a week but they are planning like they are going to be locked into their homes like this is the covid of 2.0 march 2020 that's what it you can't get toilet paper i'm thinking okay how much toilet paper do you need you've got to leave some for the rest of us i went to costco i've got enough through 2028 oh um how does this i got a text What's the correlation? Get with it.

I'm going to explain the correlation here. The reason why people are doing what they're doing in Memphis is not because of panic. It's because they know that the people who control our city are incompetent idiots. And the power will go out. We may lose water.

It will be the roads will not be plowed. Nothing. It will. The city will come to a standstill. and people are pretty much on their own and they would rather and this is the sad part about it they the the citizens could do something about this by simply voting for competent people but just like in los angeles the people of memphis vote based on skin color and they vote on political party if you're not a democrat and here in this city it's this just we're just a majority black city.

If we were a majority Hispanic city or whatever, we would say that. But if you're not a black person and you're not a Democrat, you're not getting elected here. I mean, that's just the reality. It doesn't matter if you are the, well, we can't say retarded. It doesn't matter if you're a moron, a clinical moron.

It doesn't matter because we've got plenty of these clinical morons and they have literally destroyed things in the city and they keep getting elected because They've been in power for 60 years. That's right. And you would think similar to what's happening, Palisades and Pasadena, the same thing. It's all part of the same trend. People would have enough.

I mean, Todd, we had to take baths last year for over a week. I don't take baths because we had no ability to. They said the shower water was unsafe.

So you could, I guess, boil some water, put it in a bathtub. We had to do that for over a week last year.

So that's what you're speaking about. This city has trauma. It's not that they're just going crazy and they're being neurotic. It's trauma. Right.

But the problem is it's self-inflicted trauma. That's the problem. It's all self-inflicted. They could fix all of this by simply electing competent people. Although I did learn to like a bath.

I'm sorry. Gavin Newsom, he is enraged because President Trump is calling him out. And Trump, when he takes the oath of office, there's going to be you-know-what to pay. And here's Gavin Newsom, cut 14. We're in the public safety phase.

I hate to even ask this question, but the president-elect chose to attack you, blame you for this. One can't even respond to it. I mean, people are literally fleeing. People have lost their lives. Kids lost their schools.

Families completely torn asunder. Churches burned down. This guy wanted to politicize it. i i i have a lot of thoughts and i know what i want to say i won't um i stood next to a president of the united states of america today and i was proud to be with joe biden and he had the backs of every single person in this community didn't play politics didn't try to divide any of us joe biden thought he was going to a campfire to eat s'mores he didn't know what was going on i got a new great grandkid this is a great day for me people are like burning alive and joe biden is out there talking about his new great-grandkid. We still don't know who the baby mama is or the baby daddy.

We don't. I'm just saying. All right, we got to take a break here. They're yelling at me. Folks, here's the deal.

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So why use high-priced recruitment agencies who charge you up to 40% of an employee's first-year salary so they're focused on getting you the costly talent, not the best fit, which means you get more of this. What's your policy on paying employees to attend protests? I demand eight weeks of vacation. I need at least 12 weeks of paid vacation. I'm going to need a lot of mental health days.

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That's 833-880-0600 for a free consultation. RedBalloon.org. All right, let's go to Statesville, North Carolina. Patty is on the line. Hi, Patty.

What's going on? Oh, Todd, I was laughing at the church. All the two faces there, huh? They're all two-faced people. They're all, you know, you've got the Clintons.

But you know what I loved about it was Trump and Obama laughing. What do you think you were laughing about?

Well, it's hard to say. The New York Post, Dieter, you were following this. New York Post says they've got an official lip reader on staff. That's right. Right.

Yeah. And here's what they say, because they had a lip reader, a forensic lip reader. look at the video, Patty, and they had this conversation of an agreement Trump was talking about and Obama had very little to say, but they they believe he was potentially talking about, according to the New York Post, the Paris climate agreement. They say it's unclear if that's exactly what they were talking about. But who can say?

I don't think that would make Trump laugh that hard.

So I don't buy it, but that's just me. Yeah, but look at Melania, though. She was sitting there looking straight ahead. She does not like the Obamas, because I'm reading her book right now. She despises them.

She hates the Obamas. And I don't blame her. Yeah, because when they were moving in there, when Trump became president, Michelle and them wouldn't let her in. She wanted to do something with that. She wanted to set up stuff.

They wouldn't let her in.

So she badmoused the Obama's big time and Melania book. And the other thing I want to get to, Todd, I think, or Vin, I think Karen Bass should step down. And I think Newsom's career is over with. He will become president, and he should step down, too. I believe that.

All they have to do is show that drone footage of the smoldering ruins, I mean, of Pacific Palisades, an entire community just gone because of his stupidity. Right, Todd. And you know what? If you go back to 2018, Trump, I have a hat on right now. You're going to laugh.

My daughter got it for me. Trump was right. I have a hat on right now that says that. We ought to be distributing all of those across Southern California right now. Yeah, it's a terrible thing that would happen, but I'm going to tell you something right now.

Them, Karen Bass, going over on vacation, and $17 million, $17 million? They stopped the water. Nobody had water. Patty, is that your dog in the background? Yeah, he's 85 pounds.

I'm 92.

sounds ferocious coming after me uh but anyway can i say something though todd really i believe karen basher stepped down do you think she would um i don't think she would but i i she's in over her head she needs to be removed from office i mean that's what needs to but again you've got 14 out of the 15 city council members are are democrats so probably not going to happen and can i add this if they were to recall this woman look at what they did with the recall with gavin newsom they elected him again so even if they tried recalling him the voters would send her right back to office do you think what happened just right now with all this going on you think newsom would ever even get in there again i think his career is over it's got to be it's got to be patty we're going to let you go see who your dog is eating and uh always good hearing from you Love you, guys. Love you, Vin. Bye. All right. Take care.

By the way, we're getting some reports of looting in Los Angeles. They're now saying at least 20 people have been arrested for looting. I'm not sure what they're looting because most of the homes have been destroyed. You know I have a very simple policy when it comes to something like this in a catastrophe of this magnitude of this nature I think looters are shot on sight It doesn matter who you are boom you gone Anybody that does that, shoot on sight. That should be the rule that they hand down through the LAPD.

You know, they're not going to do that, but that's what they ought to do. All right, We've got to take a quick break here. 901-260-5926. That's 901-260-5926. Coming up, we're going to be talking with our good buddy Jeff Katz, WRVA.

Four days, this major American city without water, and it's, again, incompetence. We've got to get a handle on this, folks. All right, 901-260-5926. This is the Todd Stern Show. I don't really like working.

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well the situation in richmond virginia just beyond insane they have not had fresh drinking water for four days now i want to go to the patriot mobile newsmaker line and say hello to our good friend from wrva the number one talk radio host in america jeff katz joins us jeff Hope you're doing well today. I am doing very well. Oh, yes, I am doing very well, Todd. Thank you very much. We're all looking for water, water, water.

Yeah, so what's going on here? Why do you guys not have water?

Well, on Monday, we were told that there was a power outage at the main water treatment facility, the water plant, and nobody knew about it.

Somehow the power went out, but the city didn't actually notify anybody for 10 hours.

So what happened was this, that for a period of about 10 hours, Todd, we don't know if that water was clean or not.

Some of my listeners sent photos who said that they were either connected with it or worked there. You know how it is. You have sources. They sent pictures of water that was just unbelievable. It was filthy.

I mean, it was filthy. Then the water just stopped working throughout. most of the city. Nobody notified the business owners. All the steam-powered heating systems failed.

The restaurants had no water, and it's just been a disaster ever since. And to be clear, you guys are run by Democrats in Richmond. Is that right? Oh, God. The city of Richmond has not elected a Republican anywhere in, well, 50-plus years.

You know, at some point, Jeff, and we were talking about this earlier in the show, at some point the American taxpayers have to come to a decision. Do we continue to bail out these big cities that are run by incompetence? You know, the citizens ultimately elect these idiots, and at some point they're going to have to start bearing the responsibility for their bad life choices.

Well, Todd, I agree with you completely. The problem in the city of Richmond, the last mayor, because we have a new mayor, He's only been in office for six days, so can't really hold him to account for this. I don't think he even knows where the water fountain is, let alone where the water plant is. But the last mayor, LeVar Stoney, was in office for eight years. He's the guy who tore down all the statues on Monument Avenue, spent $2 million to do that.

And we are now finding out that during his time in office, the Virginia Department of Health cited the city, as did the EPA, the EPA run by the Biden administration.

So it was bad. Jeff Katz with us from WRVA in Richmond. Any idea when you guys are going to be able to get back to normal there?

Well, those of us in the surrounding counties at this point have some water.

Some of the counties were impacted because we all seem to draw some of our water from the same basin, if you will. That being said, we in Hanover County, for the most part, do have water. And RICO is iffy. We have no idea on the answer for the city of Richmond. We are told that it could be another 48 hours.

People have to boil water. And just as an aside, Todd, on Wednesday, yesterday, we were supposed to have the first day of our general assembly.

Well, they couldn't meet. There's no running water. The bathrooms are not working.

So they all gaveled in fast enough to say, hey, time for us to gavel out. We'll see on Monday. Wow. This is absolute insanity. I'm curious what the good listeners at WRVA are saying about all of this.

well you know we've mobilized some of my listeners Todd some of my listeners heard that there were health issues for people people use a CPAP and use oxygen apparently need water to make them function so I actually had some listeners who traveled out of town to bring water back for some of those folks yeah some of my listeners are on wells so they're okay the rest of us are trying to get through. As an example, here in Hanover County, we've opened a couple of schools where people can take showers. We have some of the bigger companies bringing in truckloads of water from other places and trying to distribute them. But there's just no word on when this all might be over, especially in the city. And again, it goes back to elections have consequences, as we've seen play out in Southern California.

Jeff, I know that you've been swamped with your own crisis there, but when you see what's happening in Southern California, what's going through your mind?

Well, I'll tell you what, Todd, my fear is the same as you're seeing there, where you would have water hydrants with no water.

Now, we've been fortunate thus far in the city that we haven't seen any big fire events, but God forbid that happens. I just don't know. That's just absolutely insane.

Well, Jeff, I appreciate you coming on today and alerting our listeners and wanting to bring a little bit of national attention to the plight of the good people there in Richmond. I appreciate it, Todd. It's a tough time. We've got hospitals that have canceled surgeries. I mean, it's really just incredible.

I'll keep you up to speed. I mean, we ask, as always, for some prayers for us to get through this.

Well, no doubt, and we can certainly do that. Jeff Katz, ladies and gentlemen, WRVA in Richmond, Virginia. Thanks a lot, Jeff. Unbelievable what's happening. But, folks, it again illustrates how big of a problem we've got in this nation.

And this is all about the voters and the people. We've got to wise up when it comes to voting for people. I want to play some audio. Dylan, do we have this from Karen Bass? The mayor is holding a press conference.

And a CBS News reporter really got under the mayor's skin. Let's take a listen to that. Mayor, L.A. County is in a panicked state. It began two days ago with the Palisades fire.

My crew and I arrived shortly after it started. And for several hours we watched as hundreds of homes in a neighborhood burned to the ground. We did not see a single fire engine. We watched as Good Samaritans guided traffic. There was fear and there was a lot of confusion.

You were out of the country at the time. Shortly after the fire started, a press release was put out warning of this fire behavior. My question to you is, what explains this lack of preparation and rapid response? Let me just say, first and foremost, my number one focus, and I think the focus of all of us here with one voice, is that we have to protect lives, we have to save lives, and we have to save homes. rest assured that rest assured, let me finish rest assured, when that is done, when we are safe when lives have been saved and homes have been saved, we will absolutely do an evaluation to look at what worked what didn't work, and to correct, or to hold accountable any body department, individual, etc but my focus right now is on the lives and on the homes.

Do you think your leadership was effective while responding to this disaster? I just said what I believe is the most important thing for us to do right now, and that is going to continue to be my focus. Thank you. Wow. Definitely getting under her skin, and well done CBS News.

I will say this. They've done a terrific job covering this catastrophe, and their reporters on the grounds, We heard Elyse Preston yesterday giving a report and straightforward just the facts, and we appreciate it, and I appreciate that reporter asking those tough questions. Those are the kinds of questions that we have to start asking as journalists in this country. We can't be afraid of whether or not you're going to get blowback or you're not going to get invited to the cocktail party. Forget about that.

You're a journalist. You've got a job to do. All right, let's go to the phone lines here. joe rita in beach bluff tennessee listening to us on the great wtjs hi joe rita what's on your mind today good morning um i'm calling because my husband we understand a position that these folks are in uh we were burned out in 2017 so we fully grasped the the complexity of this situation it's amazing it's amazing we live in Tennessee currently because even though we had insurance and so forth the process is just undaunting there's no way to explain it in our situation we had absolutely no warning we woke up and had to run for our lives by foot. And there was just no warning.

And you just can't imagine. Jorita, did you live in California? Yes, we did. What we found that we just we couldn't afford to live there and replace our home. The process was so slow.

And it's amazing. All the benefits mainly that we got was from local sources, and we were so patient. I mean, you know, it took us two years to even get to a point that we could think about moving. You know, Jorita, it's interesting you mentioned the insurance because thousands of those people in that area lost their homeowners insurance just a couple of months ago.

So and at some point, I hate insurance companies, Jarita, I really do. But in some cases, it's understandable why they would cancel policies. If you are in a high-risk area and the government's not going to do what is necessary to prevent these fires, or at least, and again, you can't prevent all the fires, but you can do things that will lessen the impact, they're not doing any of that. and as a result the insurance companies say you know we can't take this risk so i get that yeah no i agree with you i agree wholeheartedly um but you these people aren't going to be able to rebuild i mean no they're not yeah you're right just not they're going to have to walk away like like we did you know we've lived there 30 years we were going to pay our house off on And Friday, we had saved enough cash money in our house, which we didn't get because we were in a hurry, to pay it off on Friday. And it burned up Sunday night.

Oh, my gosh. After all these years living there over 30 years, you know.

So it was a big letdown. And I just can't express how long it took to even get the property cleared. and then the plans and the local agencies you have to go through. And, Jelrita, and what you just said, what you just described, if you think the outrage is wild now, wait until all of those people whose homes were destroyed on the beach in Malibu, wait until they find out from the California Coastal Commission they're not going to be able to rebuild their homes or they're going to have to comply with all of these new environmental standards. What's going to happen is the people who elected these snakes are about to get bit by the snake, and that is going to be a free-for-all.

But we're going to pay very close attention to that part of the story as well. Jorita, glad to have you as a fellow Tennessean, and welcome to the Volunteer State. All right, let's go to Tom in Salem, Oregon, listening to us on KYKN. Hey, Tom, what's going on? Hi, nice to talk to you.

I'm a retired hydroelectric mechanic. I worked on the California aqueduct system. I worked all the way from Oroville down to Lancaster. But I just want to explain a little bit about it. The water comes from Shasta, Shasta Lake.

You have Oroville Lake. They dump into the Sacramento River. The Sacramento River goes into Rio Vista, which is south of the San Francisco Bay. and you have the tide because of the San Francisco Bay, that's where the liner goes in the I-5, the aqueduct. But you can only pump during low tide because at high tide, the San Francisco Bay brings in salt water.

So you're really limited on time. But these environmentalists who aren't elected, they just get out of college and make up these rules and laws, and they suffer the people. They set for all the reservoirs. They set for all the farmers. Farmers used to pay, I've talked to them, $100 an acre, and now up to $5,000 an acre, some of them.

And, Tom, I've seen and I've been to Lancaster many, many times, Oroville, and the aqueduct system is really fascinating. And I think the problem here when they talk about the reservoirs, people just don't understand that they had the huge winter snow nose, and they had all this water, and instead of going to the reservoirs, it was just washed right out into the Pacific Ocean. And a lot of that has to do with the fact that they're protecting this little tiny smelt fish. Yeah, that's right, the Delta smelt. But the Sacramento River is pooled 24-7.

You can look at it any time. But that's where the water comes into the real vista where they pump it. There's no excuse for not pumping it. None whatsoever. Tom, I hate to do this, but I am super late for a break.

But I do appreciate your expertise on this. This is a great big mess. And all I'm saying is, as a taxpayer, I'm tired of footing the bill for this kind of stupidity. It's time for California to start electing smart people. 901-260-5926.

That's our number. 901-260-5926. This is the Todd Stern Show. I don't really like working. I'm going to need a priority parking space.

I only work remotely. How are your safe spaces? Can I bring my dog to work? Will your company protect me against microaggressions? You're triggering me.

Is this interview almost over? You don't run a daycare. You run a business.

So why use high-priced recruitment agencies who charge you up to 40% of an employee's first-year salary so they're focused on getting you the costly talent, not the best fit, which means you get more of this. What's your policy on paying employees to attend protests? I demand eight weeks of vacation. I need at least 12 weeks of paid vacation. I'm going to need a lot of mental health days.

Do you have a game room? My pronouns are Z's and Z's. Isn't it time you hired grown-ups? Call redballoon.org and skip those high-priced recruitment agencies. Call 833-880-0600 for a free consultation.

That's 833-880-0600 for a free consultation. RedBalloon.org. You know, Ben Dieter, we just had a major delivery. There's a huge box with a homemade snowflake on the top of the, it looks like a care package. It's a weather package is what it is because we are bracing for half a foot of snow.

And so our great Shelby County Republicans Women's Club, they just delivered all the essentials for an all-nighter. Todd, you know you're pulling an all-nighter tonight. I do. Yeah, so I'm sleeping at the station. It is very normal.

There's a couch downstairs. I will sleep there. And they delivered it with this nice card. I'll read it. They said, here's a snow day survival basket for the best morning crew in radio.

Wow. Warm regards. and we appreciate the Shelby County Republican Women's Club. Wow, I love Republican women. They're the best.

And they know how to cook. Oh, absolutely. I'm going to tear into that package over the next break.

Well, thank you very much. The Shelby County Republican Women's Club in Memphis, Tennessee, thank you for bringing over the kind supplies. I wonder if there's any toilet paper in there. I don't know. We've got plenty of toilet paper, though.

I know. I almost took some, but I didn't want to be caught with company embezzlement. I'm not kidding you. By the way, I do have a question, and maybe someone can help us out. This is a legitimate question.

As the station owner, after I finished doing the national show and I finished doing the Newsmax show, I had to put on my owner hat, which means getting the building prepped. And I do have a question, and maybe some of our snowbound listeners can help us out here. Is it okay to put the salt down before the snowstorm happens? or do you have to wait until after the snow falls? And in all seriousness, if somebody can help us out with that, 901-260-5926.

We'll take your calls in the next segment because I have been wondering about that. I went down to Lowe's and I got the spreader. I've got the bags of salt. But I remember in years past, it's been like two weeks and our parking lot was frozen over.

So I'm trying to avoid that. You know what they use on our roads here? Potato starch. It's better than, doesn't somebody use beet juice? Yes.

Somebody uses beets. You know, nothing works better than salt. I'm sorry. You've got to use salt. You've got to use that gravel that they put over the roads.

But, you know, if you want to use potatoes, go ahead. All right. So we'll take your calls on that coming up. 901-260-5926. Also, Governor Scott Walker is going to drop by, and our good friends over at the wellness company, Dr.

Drew Penske, one of the survivors of the Pasadena fires.

So we'll talk to him as well. All right, hang tight, everybody. Our three of the big show coming up next. This is the Todd Starnes Show. I don't really like working.

I'm going to need a priority parking space. I only work remotely. How are your safe spaces? Can I bring my dog to work? Will your company protect me against microaggressions?

You're triggering me. Is this interview almost over? You don't run a daycare. You run a business.

So why use high-priced recruitment agencies who charge you up to 40% of an employee's first-year salary?

So they're focused on getting you the costly talent, not the best fit, which means you get more of this. What's your policy on paying employees to attend protests? I demand eight weeks of vacation. I need at least 12 weeks of paid vacation. I'm going to need a lot of mental health days.

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Todd Starnes. Oh, yeah. Well, hello, everybody. Welcome to the Todd Starnes radio program, hour three of the big show.

So happy to have you with us. You know, as we watch these Democrats squirm in California, just a reminder here of what the California people have done to themselves. Everybody's everything in the entire state is controlled by Democrats, not a single Republican, all Democrats. Los Angeles City Council, 14 of the 15 members, Democrats. The other guys, an independent who used to be a Republican.

Mayor, Democrat, Governor, Democrat, General Assembly, super majority of Democrats, every government agency run by Democrats. And again, they get what they vote for. I mean, it really is that simple. They could have had a very well-qualified candidate, but they didn't like the fact that he was a white guy. And so there you go.

I just, again, ladies and gentlemen, have a big problem with our tax money being used to bail these people out over and over and over again. We've got to bail people out, and I'm tired of it. All right, we've got a lot going on this hour of the program. Coming up, we're going to be talking to Governor Scott Walker from the Young America's Foundation, also Dr. Drew Penske from the Wellness Company.

here in uh here in memphis tennessee the headquarters of the todd stearns radio empire we are bracing for a snowstorm and i did have a couple of questions we don't get a lot of snow but i think i'm prepared this go around uh that we're expecting about a half a foot to possibly 10 inches of snow and so i just had a question about i about icing and making sure because in years past the parking lots have remained frozen for a couple of weeks.

So I wanted to avoid that happening and prevent that from happening.

So let's go to Manny, and you know what? Let's bring in Pat as well. I will say hello to Manny and Pat, who are calling from North Carolina. Manny, Pat, first of all, thank you for calling in. You're welcome.

Good. All right, Manny, we'll start. Is it Manny or Pat?

Well, we'll talk to Pat. We're going to talk to you first and then Manny. But, Pat, I just need some guidance here on do I salt before the snow falls or after?

Well, I'll tell you what. I was born and raised in Asheville and lived in Greensboro most of my life, and they salt the streets when they think the storm is coming along and the bridges.

So it's a good thing to salt, but keep salt near your stoop or wherever you go out on your porch and your walk so you can put salt on it, on top of it, after it snows. Because it'll ice over when it gets cold. That seems like good advice. Manny, what say you? Wait, wait, wait.

Oh, hold on. I'm going to come back to you, Pat. Hold on. I want to get Manny, and I'll come back to you, Pat. Manny?

Okay. I'm originally from the Bronx, and I had a couple apartment buildings. We used to salt them before, and then after the snowstorm came, we had to wait until WCBS and Win Win 10. Then the snowstorm started, and we had 24 hours to clean it. We put more salt down.

But put it down before. put the broom down all right manny good advice pat finish your thought sorry about that let me let me tell you what to do in the trunk of your car get a big bag of clay kitty litter and put it in there it'll keep you from fish tailing and i used to put a cinder block in my trunk too and if you get stuck anywhere you can take that kitty litter and put it under your wheels and rock yourself out of it and i guess if you get mugged ben you could take the concrete and use that to defend yourself but that's what i used to do and i always keep water and snacks and warm clothes in the car in case i got stuck anywhere that's me i was always careful pat it sounds like you're prepared yeah but we don't get any snow in moorhead city manny what were you saying oh i'll get pat credit guys we've put bags of cement in our uh in our cars and uh but those barrels we cannot hold the road but it always helped out and uh a couple sledgehamers worked out too 20 pound sledgehammers oh sledgehammers all right that's good those weigh more than teeter does but i like that idea straight mind right okay will you be safe okay manny you too pat manny and pat thank you for the guidance there are two north carolinians and i think they've gone through this quite a bit ben so they kind of know she said a cylinder block in the back of the car yeah to keep it from fishtailing so you want to have some weight in the back of you so if you're driving like a pickup truck or something of that nature you want to have something in the back to weight it down a little bit i have never heard of that. I like to keep a knife in my glove box, a pocket knife for protection. And then also, when you're filling up your gas tank, what happens every year, and I get bit by this, it all freezes. If you're parked outside, you go to fill up at the local gas station around the corner, and you can't pop open your gas tank lid because it's all frozen shut.

So every year, this time of year, I am out there grinding the side of my car with a pocket knife.

So I'm trying to work around that as well. These are great suggestions, Todd. And by the way, and maybe we need to because we have a lot of listeners in Memphis, Atlanta, Chattanooga, and they're about to get, we're facing, we're going to be getting a lot of, we're going to have a lot of issues on the interstates and roadways.

So if folks have suggestions for how to drive in snow, I think the Southerners would appreciate that. I'm so mad I did not bring my skis home to Memphis because I would have just skied from downtown to work oh i i have the solution there just get like a garbage can and you can use that as a sled yeah that's a good idea not in memphis our potholes are too get a couple of two by fours and you can use that as skis right but but the problem is you know people just don't know how to drive and everybody wants to drive super fast you got to keep it low and slow and if you start to slide don't slam on the brakes yeah well i think the thinking there is A lot of people think the quicker they can get off the roads, the safer they'll be. Key word there is quick. And so they just get out on the interstates. They get out on those freeways and they step on it.

When the meteorologists and the TV reporters say get home quickly, they don't mean literally miles per hour speed up to 90 miles per hour I remember we were trying to pick up Grace Baker a couple of years ago and she lives on a hill right Yeah decline On the just a slight it a slight incline but you don't want to come to a full stop. And there was a moment where we couldn't, and so we had to drop her off, and I just came to basically to a slow slide. We're like, Grace, jump. I'll pick you up on the Knox block. She had to jump out.

It's terrible. But, yeah, but a lot of people, you're right, and it bothers me because there's a very simple way to drive. One of the secrets I have, and especially you Southerners, if you have an experience driving in the snow, is get over, if you can, get over beyond the emergency lane, and if you're driving on the grass, you're going to have a little bit more traction than you would on the ice-covered roadway. That's my one suggestion. But again, don't slam on your brakes if you start to slide.

Then it's all over for you. Yeah. All right. 901-260-5926 is our telephone number. That's 901-260-5926.

Dieter, you're from Pennsylvania, so this should be secondhand to you. Oh, I am one with Mother Nature in these times. I'm here to save you, Todd. You're a Southerner. I know you spent some time in New York.

You don't know what you're doing. I am from the Keystone State. I'm from Pennsylvania. I will save you if you need. I will come pick you up in the car.

I know how to drive the roads. I'm a fantastic skier. I know my way around the slopes.

So I'll be fine. It's you I'm worried about. Oh, I'm good. I had to walk one year at Fox. This is true story.

We had something on it. It was six, seven feet of snow. It was brutal, brutal. And they came up with this clever idea. I'm eight miles.

It was exactly eight miles from my home to Fox. There was so much snow that the subway shut down because they couldn't. How does that work? Snow can't get in the subway, does it?

Well, a lot of the subways are elevated.

So the problem is, for example, my line, the B train, would go over one of the bridges, the Manhattan Bridge. And so the bridges, you just couldn't operate the trains.

So I had to walk eight miles in a blizzard. It was a blizzard. And there's a picture downstairs in my office documenting that moment. And they would take me live at the top of every hour as I was trudging through the blizzard, making my way to Fox News headquarters. And I'm thinking nobody else did that.

Nobody else had to do that.

So I guess I was the expendable guy. You know, if I froze on the Brooklyn Bridge. It would be great for the ratings.

Well, as a matter of fact, yeah, so I had to back up and get, I couldn't, they had shut down the Brooklyn Bridge. You couldn't even walk across the Brooklyn Bridge because the ice was so crazy.

So I had to go over to another bridge. Those were insane days. All right, folks, got to take a break. 901-260-5926. This is the Todd Starnes Show.

and welcome back to the Todd Stearns radio show tonight five o'clock eastern we have got wall-to-wall coverage of the aftermath of the fires in California so be sure to watch us on Newsmax 2 tonight and in the spirit of I don't know the the snowstorm that's that's about to hit Memphis I feel like I want to give away a copy of my awesome devotion book, and it really is. It's a great devotion book, and if you haven't gotten one, you need to buy one now because it's a great way to start the year. You're going to be inspired. You're going to be encouraged, and we have some great recipes if you can find ingredients in the Memphis area.

So the name of the book, Our Daily Biscuit Devotions with a Drawl, and here is the trivia question. Dieter is standing by to take your calls. This individual is known for having a corncob pipe and a button nose. Who am I talking about? This individual had a corncob pipe and a button nose.

Who are we referring to, ladies and gentlemen? 901-260-5926 is our telephone number. That's 901-260-5926 if you want to try your hand at some trivia today. By the way, we've got some new video coming out of this funeral. This is just insane.

But apparently, well, it's not apparent. I saw the video myself, so I can tell you that former President George W. Bush actually snubbed President Trump. He had to walk directly in front of Trump, did not acknowledge Trump, and instead patted Barack Hussein Obama on his belly. That's insane.

But again, ladies and gentlemen, let me say something about the establishment Republicans. They're very unkind people. They really are. They're spiteful people. And they hate you.

They truly hate you. The establishment of the Republican Party, they hate you folks. and all I can tell you is when you look at moments like this, these interactions, where just, you know, look, I've got to hand it to Barack Obama. I don't know what they were talking about. He and Trump talked for a very long time, and they were both very cordial.

They laughed together, and again, we have no idea the context of that. But the body language, it looked like both of them were having a pretty good time conversing, so you've got to give them credit. But these other folks, George W. Bush, and by the way, George W. Bush, the devout born-again Christian, and he's going to turn around and he's going to snub Donald Trump?

I just don't get that. I just don't get that. All right, let's go to the phone lines here. We'll talk to Faith in Georgia. Faith, what radio station are you listening to?

Hello? Hi, Faith, you're on the air. What radio station are you listening to, Faith? My name's not Faith. It's Paulette.

Paulette. Paulette, I am so sorry, Paulette. That's okay. All right. What radio station are you listening to, Paulette?

WDUN, Gainesville. Let me tell you, I've spent some time with those folks at WDUN, and what a great group of folks at that radio station. They sure are. They're great. Do you listen to Bill Main in the morning?

Absolutely. Absolutely. He goes to, well, when I was living in games, but he goes to church with me. Is that right? So is he well-behaved?

Absolutely. Paulette, let me ask you, is he well-behaved? Bill Main, I've heard stories. Him and his wife are fabulous people. I haven't heard stories.

We love Bill Main. He's a great guy. And yeah, they do some great, great work. Paulette, we're going to try to win you. Do you have a copy of my Daily Biscuit devotion book?

No. All right. We're going to try to win you a copy here. Who is it we're talking about? They've got a corncob pipe and the button nose.

Frosty the snowman. Yes.

Yep. That's it. Paulette, we may have to get Dieter out there to build a snowman. That's right. Once it starts falling here.

And you guys are supposed to get some snow as well, I understand.

Well, see, I live near Helen at Clarksville, but that way. You're definitely going to get some snow. Oh, yes. I know. I do.

Now, Paulette, you've got to tell people, it is one of the most beautiful places, Helen, Georgia, that beautiful Bavarian style. Is that right? That's correct. I had Dr. Amir Kanter as the president at Truett McConnell University, one of the great Christian schools.

And he took me out to this Czechoslovakian-style restaurant. And I can't remember the name of it to save my life. It was one of the best meals I've had, Paulette. Oh, well. I haven't tried that one.

I was up there on Monday with a friend of mine, and it wasn't crowded. The streets were bare. It was cold. Oh, yes, yes, but it's a beautiful village. Folks, it's worth taking a vacation trip.

And, Paulette, I'm going to put you on hold. Congratulations. We're going to send you a signed copy of our Daily Biscuit, Devotions With a Draw. I appreciate it so much. All right, Paulette, hold on.

I love that accent. That's a great southern accent right there. Let's go to Mike in Oregon. Mike, I understand you're going to help us out here. I'm a novice when it comes to all of this snow and stuff.

Yes, I heard Dieter talking about him not being able to get into his gas at the gas station because it was frozen. This works for not only this, you can get cooking oil spray, and you've got to do this ahead of time, obviously. spray it around the edges of it and then wipe it down and you can also do it on all your door you know like open your doors and along the gaskets and the where they you know mate with the body of the car where the ice develops if you do that on all your doors they won't freeze nor will your gas batch is that right so a little vaseline uh cooking oil spray oh cooking oil okay all right i've got some crisco just any kind of cooking oil like pam i think of the main brand is pam oh yeah and you can just spray it so you don't have to spray it and then what yeah and then wipe it down you know because it'll want to run but just spray it down and wipe it you know leave a liberal or coating on it as you can but without it running and then from there on out it won't freeze i had no idea i've never i've never heard this idea what a great idea mike i'm going to give that a try so i really appreciate appreciate the advice you're welcome and i enjoy your show so thank you for taking my call thank you mike and we love our friends at kykn just beautiful beautiful folks up there and some of the best in radio i'll tell you that much right away all right uh deter so we got to get you a big old tub of crisco i don't use crisco but i think i i confirmed with some of our great callers that have called in, I can use beef tallow. I've been listening to RFK Jr.

Now I'm using beef tallow. I don't use that Crisco stuff. My mom, when I was a kid, mom used to put Crisco on everything. You know, she had some wrinkles. She'd put a little Crisco up there.

It just kind of gets rid of your wrinkles. And de-ices your gas caps. And it's good for frying chicken, too. I reckon. Who knew?

Multi-purpose. I tell you what, we're kind of like a farmer's almanac on the radio here. All right. 901-260-5926. This is the Todd Stern Show.

Congratulations, Paulette. All right, folks. 5 o'clock Eastern, the Todd Stern Show on Newsmax. Be sure to watch. We're going to have a wild show tonight.

There is a new survey out. Almost half of American college kids do not want DEI forced on them in a higher education. Of course, that's diversity, equity, and inclusion. I want to bring into the conversation our next guest on our Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line. Our good friend, he is the president of Young America's Foundation, Governor Scott Walker.

Governor, hope you're doing well today. Hey, Todd, I'm doing exceptionally well. Thanks for having me on.

Well, sure. And, of course, folks, we love YAF, Young America's Foundation, doing some incredible work raising up that next generation of conservative leaders in this country. And, Governor, I want to get your take. Are you surprised to hear these numbers? Almost half of the college kids don't want DEI.

No, I think it matches what we saw in the fall elections. where, you know, just four years ago, Joe Biden earned a 25-point margin of younger voters' votes, the ballots at the 2020 election. This year was down to six-point margin for Harris. And most interestingly enough, in the exit polls, you look at just young men, they went from giving Biden a 15-point advantage to now a 14-point advantage for Trump. I think it's a good example.

People just had it. We learned at Young America's Foundation, why AF.org, if people are interested, that authenticity and fairness are hallmarks of this generation, Generation Z. And then when it comes down to fairness, they just want to live in a meritocracy. They don't want people to dictate what they have to think. They want to figure out what they think about people on their own.

And, Governor, you guys have your pulse on really the heartbeat of this generation, the younger generation. are are you sensing that there is a shifting of attitudes and more young people are now embracing conservative ideas they are and at a minimum not only conservative ideas but just being more open to having a true debate true discussion again that's that authenticity of feeling it's unfair that only one side of the equation is being spoon-fed to them in high school and now in college not even Spoonfed, rammed on them in college. They want to feel more of this. And again, our poll, and we do polling all the time, of college high school students as well, and college students, by an almost two-to-one margin, think it's not fair, for example, that race is a factor in enrollment or employment. By over a two-to-one margin, they don't think it's fair for young men or men in general to compete in women's sports.

So they're getting it. They may not necessarily call themselves Republicans versus Democrats. Most are just trying to figure it out, and that's why the best thing we can do is go on campus and go online and talk about these things issue by issue, because I think we're on the right side of history on these issues. We've got to get to them and not just presume or assume that the left-wing media and that have got them all cornered. They don't.

Young people want to hear more than one side of the story. I started paying attention in the presidential this past election cycle, and the number of young people, especially at the high school level, that were embracing President Trump, it's almost a counterculture movement, as crazy as that may seem. But when I saw the crowds at Beverly Hills High School, of all places, supporting Donald Trump, I'm like, wait a second, something's going on here. Right. New York City, Washington, D.C., California, elsewhere, all across the country.

And the pushback, you know, that we've gone to court to protect kids, you know, you could say almost anything you want on the left on your T-shirt, but don't dare wear a fight, fight, fight shirt or a MAGA shirt or anything else like that. That's, again, unfair. Young people get that. They understand it. And not only do they believe in fundamental sense of fairness, but, again, I go back to this authenticity.

You know, Donald Trump is who he is. It's like Ronald Reagan a generation ago when I was a kid was exactly who he was. He didn't change in front of one group or another. He was the original let's make America great again. We now see that again with Donald Trump.

Both of them took on the establishment, even within their own party. Both made this case. And I think that's where you've got a growing appeal from young people versus people like Joe Biden, who they didn't think was awake to stumble his way through the presidency. And Kamala Harris, who was the epitome of a fraud, even on election day, pretending to call someone when her phone was obviously on the photo app. I mean, that's a clear-cut distinction.

I think as conservatives, what's important for us now is to connect the dots. It can't just be about personality. Obviously, Donald Trump's got tremendous personality.

Now we have to show them, and President Trump and his allies in Washington hopefully will help make the case by getting things done. But we've got to prove to young people it's more than just personality. It's that conservative ideas work. Free market capitalism works versus government-driven socialism fails, and we've got to make that case over and over again. YAF.org, Y-A-F.org, folks.

Go and check out their website. This is the one student organization that I support in this country, and it's because they're doing real important work, and they are advancing the conservative agenda. And I just deeply appreciate and respect that. But, Governor, as always, first of all, we appreciate you coming on the program. And if you could just speak to the moms and dads that might be listening out there, maybe grandmas and grandpas looking for ways to support, I know that you guys would be welcome to that.

That's exactly right. YF.org, get your kid, your grandkid, your niece, your nephew to come, whether it's at the Reagan Ranch, Washington, D.C., elsewhere across the country. Share the videos. Go to YF.org or go to YAF TV. That's our YouTube channel that now has nearly 2 million subscribers.

Wow. Last year surpassed 1.6 billion views. Get your kids online there, and the more they know, the better off we're going to be.

Well said. All right, Governor, we're going to have to leave it there. Always appreciate you coming on the program. Thank you. Thank you, Todd.

All right. Governor Scott Walker, Young America's Foundation. Yep, good people there, very good people. All right, let's go to the phones here. Shannon in Memphis, Tennessee, listening to us on KWAM, our flagship station.

Shannon, I understand you have a snow recommendation. I do. You can go and get rubbing alcohol, a big giant bottle of it, and put it in a spray bottle. And you can spray that on your windshield. You can spray it on your door handles.

And it melts all the ice without having to do anything else. I've never heard of this.

So just regular old, go to the grocery store or the pharmacy and rubbing alcohol. Rubbing alcohol. Wow. And also, too, like I told my kids this morning, when they get home, to turn their windshield wipers on and make them pause in the up position and then pull them out so they're not frozen to their windshield, too. All right.

This is great news. Shannon, thank you for this advice. And I know the team at KWAM is going to be up throughout the storm, providing everybody with not just news and information, but also a friendly voice on the radio. Because it can get kind of lonely if people are stuck at home by themselves.

So you'll have to be sure to tune in to KWAM tomorrow. I can't wait to listen to you guys in the morning. All right. Shannon, thank you. All right.

There you go. All right. We've got to take a quick break. 901-260-5926 is our number. That's 901-260-5926.

This is the Todd Stern Show. And welcome back to the Todd Stern's radio show. Happy to have you with us. I want to go right away to the Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line. And we're always honored to have our friends from the Wellness Company joining us.

And Dr. Drew Penske is the chief patient officer for the Wellness Company. but dr pinsky also uh happens to live in the pasadena area dr drew good to have you with us today and and how are things going out there in california it's uh well pasadena is better hollywood is still struggling and uh people are returning to what's left of their property which is just horrible to watch people go through that process it's excruciating but here in pasadena we have no wind, and the smoldering embers of parts of our city are just that.

So here we are. Fortunately, we've been quite safe over here where I am. I'm sort of across the, you know, people know Pasadena, obviously the Rose Bowl is here in Pasadena, and we are across the canyon where the Rose Bowl is from the fire, so we were pretty well insulated from all this. But we do live up in a fire zone, and we live up a canyon. And if you live in these areas of Southern California, you become a mini-expert in fires and earthquakes.

We know more than we should, to tell you the truth. And one of the things I learned, I was talking to a fire chief yesterday, was that when the wind really blows, and if a fire gets going, I always said if a terrorist wanted to destroy a great city, if we really had heavy Santana winds, a terrorist could destroy this city with a blowtorch in about five hours. And he agreed. He said, you know, when the winds get blowing, we can't do anything. We can't fly aircraft.

We can't do drops. We can't get near the fire. It just blows right through everything. We have to wait until the winds die down. And that's, I mean, when you look at what happened, and we don't know how these fires originated, but yesterday, I believe, three of the fires started right at about the same time in various parts of the city.

And that certainly raised a lot of eyebrows on social media because you're right. I wouldn't put it out of the possibility of something like that happening. But regardless, and as I'm watching all of this unfold, I keep thinking, this is why what you guys are doing at the wellness company is so vitally important because you don't know when you're going to have to jump out in a moment's notice and escape your burning house, which is why you need to have these medical emergency kits ready to go. No, I'll tell you what, my wife and I, we are so glad that we have this field emergency kit, which is the heavy-duty ultimate kit. And we've been carrying that thing around with us for three days because literally everything you could need in an emergency like this is in that kit.

And so, yeah, I could not be happy to be a part of it. And in addition to being prepared with the kinds of materials, you know, again, remember, we established ourselves because of the overreach of government and the fact that government wasn't allowing people to get access to the things that they wanted or needed.

Now we have a situation where government incompetence and failure set us up for these situations that could have been, I don't want to say easily avoidable, but certainly didn't have to be at this level of catastrophe that we are seeing here. And the interesting thing to me is, I don't know if you saw Bernie Sanders was tweeting this morning, it's climate change.

Okay, Bernie, I'm going to lean into it. It's climate change. What are you going to do about it? How are you going to prepare for the next one? And oh, by the way, if climate change is something you're actually concerned about, do you know that the amount of CO2 put into the atmosphere since 2020, except for this fire, prior to this fire, exceeded all the savings of CO2 that this state has ever attempted since the early 2000s?

So if you actually are interested in what's going into the environment, Why aren't you doing something about these fires? Why aren't you doing something? The reason we don't have the capacity to prepare for these fires, we used to prepare for them. There was a reason we didn't used to hear about them. I used to look up in the San Gabriel Mountains here locally, and you would see them crisscrossed with fire and fuel breaks.

They don't do that anymore. Why?

Because it interfered with the migration of a field mouse. And the laws in this state, the legislature in this state, have created the homeless situation, and they've created the fires, and they've created the water problem. that allowed these fires to run out of control. It's so grossly offensive. And by the way, to the climate change thing, this is what gets me.

All you have to do is a little bit of research, and you'll come across a banner headline in the newspaper of the time talking about how people in the Pacific Palisades had to run for their lives. They survived the firestorm by jumping into the Pacific Ocean. That was in the 1930s, Dr. Drew.

So, again, but to your point, this has a lot to do with there were a lot of other factors, including the mismanagement of the forest. But, again, you know, we're bracing for a winter. We broadcast our show nationally from Memphis. We're getting ready for a snowstorm that's going to hit. Went to Kroger last night, and it was a free-for-all.

Nothing was there. But I can tell you this. I've got all the meds I need. I have everything I need thanks to, you know, the wellness company and these medical emergency kits. Doesn't it feel good to have that?

I mean, you really feel prepared. Patients need access, and we have given them access to these things. It's silly that people can't get what they want, and we help them do that. Yeah, I mean, government failure, it's gotten so disgusting now that they do everything except govern, except do things that are for the good of the people of this state or this county or this city. You know, I live in Pasadena actually is pretty good.

You know, what happened to us here really was a function of the winds. Our fire department is good. You don't hear people come. We're a separate city from Los Angeles where we have different water and power. We didn't lose power the entire time.

It can be done better. We actually made out pretty well here in spite of the devastation in certain areas that just could not be avoided. You don't hear people complaining about passing the city. L.A. City, L.A.

County, the state failed us miserably, and it didn't have to be like this. Dr. Drew Pinsky joining us from the wellness company, TWC.health slash Stearns, ladies and gentlemen. That's TWC.health slash Stearns. And you're going to see not only the medical kits that we've been talking about.

And I've got, I don't have the field kit, and I need to get that one. It's really good. We really, we were so grateful to have that kit yesterday. But I was, I was surprised. We're breathing, we're breathing smoke.

You know, that is one thing we have had to deal with. and we have an inhaler in that kit that helped me. And I didn't realize you guys even have a – I've got the medical kit, the first aid kit, the travel kit. There's even a radiation emergency kit. That's fascinating.

Yeah, that is a new kit that we put together. You know, back in the days of Fukushima, there was a run on potassium iodine because that's one of the things you want to do in preparation. And so we thought, you know, we should have people preparing for this too. I mean, this is a real possibility. And so, yeah, we just put that kit together recently.

And it includes a Geiger counter, which, again, with knowing that we've got all these terrorists that have crossed into our country, sleeper cells, and this is all documented through the lawmakers that have come on this program, you don't know when the terrorists are going to strike it. They're going to try to use a dirty bomb.

So I think that's a brilliant, brilliant idea. It really was the situation in New Jersey that got us talking about it. And so it's like, why can't we help people prepare? You can't go wrong being prepared. Look, and again, as I told you at the beginning, you become a little fire and earthquake expert here.

Having a generator, having a plant, having a go, all these things, we have to contend with it. Mother Nature will get us eventually one way or another in these regions. It's so awesome. And people say, how big is it? It's just like, it's about the size of the Bible.

If you have, like many people have their Bibles in a case, you know, they bring it to church. it's a it's pretty much that size so it's very mobile you can just set it aside put it in the closet and when you need it a little bit of field kid field kid is in like a oh that's huge yeah that's yeah that's a little bigger all right well dr drew we appreciate you coming on now we're going to have you talk about another issues but this is the breaking news and everybody's talking about what's happening yeah it's wild it's it's it's sad it's terrible i mean there's nothing you can say that but it didn't have to be this bad just burying the power lines in in malibu might have prevented this. Just getting those horrible homeless trailers off the street might have prevented this thing. Just function as a government.

So Rose functions so people can get in and out during an emergency. For God's sakes, give us a government that works here. Dr. Drew Pinsky. Dr.

Drew, thank you. Glad you're okay. Thank you, sir. And again, folks, head over there. And by the way, it's not just the medical kits.

They have great supplements as well. I know Dieter loves this kind of stuff, but they've got all sorts of things for your heart, for heart health, energy, metabolism, digestion, bone and joint support. It's really a fun place, all run by conservatives. And go check them out. You'll love them.

And if you use my last name, Starnes, they're going to give you some great discounts. Dieter, what just happened here? You come rushing in, and one of our great listeners on KWAM, Jay, just brought us by some emergency supplies. This is insane. This is awesome.

He brought us hand warmers, foot warmers, you name it, warmers. And what are you holding in your hand? You can see it on the simulacrum. I'm holding this up to the camera on our Rumble TV shot, and you've got to check that out. This is an LED lantern.

This is pretty awesome. And no, he brought his batteries. He brought his batteries, Todd. And batteries, too, and hand warmers. Wow, these are going to be nice.

These will come in handy. Jay thank you so much all of our great listeners and folks calling in thank you we're going to be back doing this all over again tomorrow it's going to be a lot of fun alright I'm sorry we couldn't get to everybody's calls give us a holler back tomorrow it's open line Friday don't forget 5 o'clock Eastern Newsmax be good America