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Live from the Liberty University studio in Memphis, Tennessee, it's America's favorite gun-toting, Bible-clinging, deplorable American. That's us, that's right, I love this American ride. Todd Starr. And hello America, welcome to the Todd Stearns radio program. Hope you guys are doing well wherever you might be.

Right now I would say just about everybody in the southern states listening to us is under some sort of a winter storm warning today. A lot of snow falling out there. We got a lot in Memphis and also in Los Angeles, the chaos surrounding the wildfires, which is going from bad to worse. And I will say this. This is a great example of DEI at its very best because at its very best, DEI is deadly.

And this is what happens when you put so many government agencies, you elect so many people who believe that diversity, equity, and inclusion should trump people who are confident. That's the big problem here.

So we're going to get into a lot of that. We've got some great guests coming up. We're going to get to the very latest there. President Trump is very upset about what's happening in California, primarily because he's going to have to clean up the mess. And we're talking about damage estimates and the tens of billions of dollars.

That's what we're looking at right now in California. And, I mean, as horrible as it is, it's only going to get worse because when all those people living in all those multimillion-dollar beachside homes realize they're no longer going to rebuild there, that's going to be a problem. There's something in California called the California Coastal Commission. And these are basically wackadoodles. These people are far leftist.

They're the treehuckers of the worst type. And they are hell-bent on returning and restoring the coastline to what it is, to what it was, before people arrived. And so there's going to be a big fight over whether or not any of these people are going to be able to rebuild. That's how bad it is. Right now, the General Assembly gaveled into session yesterday in California.

The top order of business was not the fires in Los Angeles. The top order of business at the California General Assembly was to literally go after Donald Trump. They were strategizing on how to stop Donald Trump and his policies.

So now I hope you understand you're getting a little bit of an idea of what happens when you put Democrats in charge of your county, your city, your state. It all turns to mush.

So we're going to have a lot of fun today. We've got a lot of great topics we're going to weigh into, jump into. Also, they have arrested at least one person. And when I say they, the citizens of Los Angeles, God love them. They didn't wait on the police.

They made a citizen's arrest, and they stopped some guy who was armed with a blowtorch.

Now, the police are saying this is a homeless guy.

Well, where does a homeless guy get a blowtorch? How does a homeless guy know how to use a blowtorch? They're also saying that this guy had a couple of burner phones on him. All right, what sort of a homeless person has burner phones on him? And the police are confirming that they're investigating at least one of the fires as arson.

When you look at how they all started, and at least three of the fires, there were five fires in all, at least three of the fires were started at about the same time in different parts of the city. And so a lot of people wondering whether or not this could be some sort of a terrorist attack. And I'm curious to hear your thoughts on this. Do you believe that this could be some sort of a, I don't know, could the Islamic radicals be involved here? Is it possible that you had illegal aliens?

I mean, it very well could be you've got a bunch of homeless people going out there and just setting fires. Or is there something else at play here? But when you look at the fires, and our buddy Shanklin's weighing on this, he says the last fires and these fires look to be in really nice neighborhoods. And they are. These are very well-to-do neighborhoods, and a lot of Hollywood celebrities live up in that area.

I know Mel Gibson lost his home. James Wood. You've got Adam Carolla, who's living in a hotel right now. And Ben Dieter, I know that you were talking about a lot of the Hollywood celebs that you're aware of, your generation. And they lost their homes, too.

Yeah, I mean, Malibu is destroyed. I mean, Paris Hilton, you may not like Paris Hilton. You may not like the Kardashians, but a lot of these A-list celebrities are posting photos of them walking through what was once their billion dollar homes. I mean, these homes are insane, Todd, and there's nothing. It's it's skeletons.

It is bones of what was once their home. It's it's just really sad to see. And again, I mean, a lot of people that were not celebrities lost their homes. I would say more regular folks lost their homes than celebrities, and it's terrible if anybody loses their home because you lose everything, everything. And it's horrible, but it certainly does look suspicious to me.

And so the question now is, were those fires intentionally set? And if so, what was the intention? Not only do you have government incompetence, but they knew the winds were going to be coming. They knew there was some sort, I mean, there's always a risk when you have the big Santa Ana winds coming. And by the way, they're going to be gusting again on Sunday.

So did very bad people take advantage of this? Is it possible that Islamic radicals, is it possible that the Iranians had people here in this country and they were coordinating to set these fires? There are several reports circulating that at least one of the people that was arrested actually had some sort of a phone provided to him by the United Nations. What's up with that? I don't know many homeless people that are connected to the United Nations.

So we're going to jump into that as well. It is also open line Friday. That means you can talk about whatever you want to talk about on the program today. Let me give you the telephone number. It's 901-260-5926.

That's 901-260-5926. This snow is insane. It's been coming down since last night in Memphis, and they're saying we could get up to about 10 inches of snowfall. It's already snowing. I hear it's snowing in Gainesville, Georgia, and in the North Georgia mountains.

We'll have to get some eyewitnesses from all of our listeners on WRWH and WDUN. In Atlanta, at Hartsfield Airport, big-time delays, And a lot of that has to do with the Delta jetliner that aborted takeoff. And we've got the video on ToddStearns.com. You've got to go see this, folks. It's insane.

The flight taking off this morning and was bound for Minneapolis. They abort takeoff, and they actually have to use the emergency slides to evacuate the plane. Over 200 people on board. We understand about four people injured. They're going to be fine.

minor injuries and they say one of the engines caught fire so the good news is everybody's okay bad news is it's going to be a while before any planes take off over there at Hartsfield Atlanta all right we're going to take a quick break 901-260-5926 this is the Todd Stern Show MyPillow is celebrating its 20-year anniversary with over 80 million MyPillow sold Mike Lindell at MyPillow wants to thank each and every one of you by giving you the lowest price in the history of MyPillow. You're going to get their queen-size MyPillow for $19.98, regular price $69.98, and just $10 more, you're going to be able to get a king-size pillow. You're going to receive deep discounts on all MyPillow products like bed sheets, mattress toppers, pet beds, mattresses, MySlippers, and so much more. This is the time to try out some of their other amazing products you've had your eye on. Go to MyPillow.com slash Starnes.

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and welcome back everybody good to have you with us uh 901-260-5926 is our telephone number uh let's uh start the day in newburn uh north carolina is it uh valona is welcome to the show um okay let's go to david in north carolina hi david what's on your mind hi todd i i glad you played the stigley day and today is donald fagan's birthday yes it is well i did not know that but happy birthday right right i heard of i heard a news cast a local news radio earlier this morning with the mail gibson interview i wondered if you had heard that the Mel Gibson interview what about it David and he's just so humble you know he was like these are just things I'm glad my family's safe he said his chicken survived and he was just so humble about it and you know even though he is a celebrity you know he does have personal items a favorite pair of sneakers or something that he lost and I just I just admire his uh his courage you know just to you know he's a great Christian just to forget about material things and just be glad for the safety of his family and even mention his chickens bless his heart david you know it's interesting when you you go through a situation like this and as much time as all of the networks are placing on you know california the people in western north carolina are suffering like people can't even imagine and yet in spite of the suffering um you know people are still grateful to have their families they're grateful to have their churches And it's amazing how things like this put things in perspective. That's correct. You know, I worked in New Orleans after Katrina, and I saw that same inspiration. And, you know, I also admire the people in the mountains. I'm on the coast of North Carolina.

But the folks, you know, they got out and managed to vote. And, you know, I was thinking, I said, maybe the governor is not helping them because they know that's probably a Republican area, and they're not really in a big hurry. But they stuck together and got the polls, you know, were able to do the voting. It's that's and that's that American spirit. And I think we're going to certainly see that.

And we've already started to see it in Los Angeles, David, where you had the citizens, multiple people. They saw this guy, this I would call him a terrorist trying to set fire, set blaze to something. And they jumped in. They jumped on top of the guy. They had some hand ties, and they were able to place this guy under arrest and hold him until the cops got there.

I mean, this is Los Angeles. We would definitely do that here in the southern states. But it's exciting to see that American spirit that can do. And I think the people of Los Angeles have discovered what we knew all along in the South. You cannot rely on the government in a disaster.

You've got to be willing to step in and take care of your own people. that's absolutely correct sir and we'll have to see about how to get one of those u.n phones huh yeah uh i wonder if it was an obama phone if you remember those uh yeah i remember those all right all right god bless you david yeah that was a great mel gibson interview and so many others adam carolla out there and you're starting to folks trust me on this this is far from over in The political ramifications. Trump says Bass has got to go. He says Newscom's got to go. 901-260-5926.

Viola in New Bern, North Carolina. All right, Viola, happy Friday to you. What's on your mind? Hello, Viola. Hi.

All right, Viola, I hear you think this could be arson. uh well i'm wondering if it's those wackadoodles that you mentioned that want to return that area to its natural state well it could be i mean there are environmental terrorists out there and i i believe and some of our georgia listeners might be able to help us out here i believe they actually laid siege to some sort of a police training area i guess this was months ago set fire to it I don't know, Viola, that could be a possible theory.

Okay, I'm just wondering what you thought. All right, Viola, well, thank you for calling in on Open Line Friday. 901-260-5926. Let's go to Ohio. Ed, what's on your mind?

What do you want to talk about, Ed? What I want Trump to do is finish that wall, sir, what he promised he would do before he does anything else. He needs to round up these idiots. for him to go ahead and they're going to try to stay here and try and help the people out there in California. Got thousands of FEMA trailers.

Move them down there. At least it shows he's trying to help the people until he gets his agenda done. That's what he needs to do. Ed, I'm with you. And the president, day one, is going to unleash.

And I have no doubt that the roundups are going to happen. We're going to start rebuilding the wall. The president's going to do a lot of stuff this is a man who can multitask at levels you cannot even begin to imagine ed but i'm with you um this he is going to be focused on the agenda and and i think he's going to be able to get it done what about you well he he got to do it because he promised that first they're trying to get him in a checkmate here people are starting to see it especially up here in ohio i'm a retired police officer just retired last year and a true american patriot ed god bless you sir all right god bless you ed and thank you for calling in there are reports of looters and they're using the motorized scooters uh there was one local uh reporter saying she saw at least a hundred thugs on scooters uh going into these areas where the fires are unbelievable i believe we've got that as i was getting my whole family out all you have in your mind is just you're in survival mode at that point i saw men coming into our neighborhoods police confirmed it she had this to say take a listen it was wild um we just started seeing all these cars pull up doors open and groups of men running up our street going up to the doors of these houses and we weren't sure what was going on. I'm thinking, are these people here to help my neighbors? I hope so.

And I left and then my husband talked to the police and said, what are those guys doing? These guys don't live here. Get them out. My next door neighbor said his quote, there were like a hundred people that came up on scooters and were trying to get into any and all houses on the street. And did you physically see police officers stopping them?

I didn't, but it's not to say that they weren't. It was so incredibly chaotic, and I was so worried about my big family and getting them out of our old tinderbox of a house that I was just focused on them first. Wow, folks, I'm telling you, the concern I have is I'm not sure how many Los Angelinos, at least in those neighborhoods, actually have guns. But if nothing else, Maybe, just maybe, the people that lived in Pacific Palisades and some of these other areas, Pasadena, maybe those are going to be brand new Republican voters. If they're even allowed to rebuild, that's the big problem here.

Will these people be allowed to go in and rebuild? Most of them did not have homeowners insurance because State Farm canceled their policies. Can you believe? This is, it's just, it's an apocalypse on so many different levels. And the reality is it could happen anywhere else in America.

That's the concern. Here's President Trump. Cut number three, please. Very interesting to see whether or not they're going to build or whether somebody else is going to build and build a much lesser home. These were the most expensive homes outside of Palm Beach County.

I see a list outside of Palm Beach. these were the most expensive homes anywhere in the world and i don't think that i think a lot of them are just not going to go back and build it plus they don't want to be part of a construction site they don't want to they're building a home another one's building a bed they're building in front of them behind them alongside of them so i think it's a tragedy i think it's an incredible incredible tragedy it's also a tragedy for a tax base and the governors know exactly what i'm talking and i'd like to hear anybody talk about that but if you're the governor of a state and you lost thousands of very rich people that were paying a lot of taxes sure did and those people are going bye-bye they are so um joe biden announcing that he's going to step in with with money here's what gets me biden is going to be covering billions and billions of dollars in bills down there in Southern California, but he's turning a blind eye to the people of North Carolina. Have you noticed that? And you know what else?

So we're not talking about North Carolina, where people are literally being living in tents and they're being evicted from FEMA housing.

Meanwhile, oh, and don't forget this story, New Orleans. We hear nothing about the terrorist attack, do we? All right. 901-260-5926 is our telephone number. That's 901-260-5926.

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So this is an insane part of the story.

So the LAFD, the fire department out there, and I'd love to hear firefighters. Is diversity a big issue? Are you guys in your local departments, in your volunteer fire departments, are you guys all in on this diversity stuff? Because over in Los Angeles, it's not just that they have a lesbian fire chief. And she, you know, look, I don't care, again, what you do in the privacy of your bedroom as long as you can do your job.

That's the only thing that should matter. But that's just not the case here. And they're spending millions of dollars now within the Los Angeles Fire Department, millions of dollars not to learn how to fight fires more efficiently, but to embrace diversity.

So you're going to hear the audio of a gigantic, morbidly obese firefighter. And she looks like a man, but she ain't a man. and she's a woman and she's a big one. And again, no, this is not fat shaming anybody, Ben. I'm just saying that if you're a firefighter, you've got to be physically fit.

You've got to be able to climb up a lot of stairs. You've got all of this gear and you may have to carry somebody out of the building. And it's hard to do that if you're eating three or four Big Macs every day. Oh, boy, Todd. Yeah, it's one of the prerequisites, right?

You've got to have a six pack or at least huge muscle, something. This gal's got a couple of kegs on her. Yeah. At the very least. Anyway, cut number four, please.

You want to see somebody that responds to your house, your emergency, whether it's a medical call or a fire call, that looks like you. It gives that person a little bit more ease, knowing that somebody might understand their situation better. Is she strong enough to do this? Or you couldn't carry my husband out of a fire, which my response is, he got himself in the wrong place if I have to carry him out of a fire. What?

Are you kidding? Can you imagine you're over in Pacific Palisades and you're sitting there watching Newsmax and all of a sudden you look outside and you realize, holy cow, there's a huge wildfire burning. And so you call 911 and you say, my husband is upstairs and he's got a busted leg and he can't get down the stairs. Can you send help? and the non-binary firefighter, the non-binary obese firefighter says, well, he shouldn't have broken his leg.

Well, what are you supposed to do with that? What are you supposed to do with that? That's what I want to know. All right, let's go to the phone lines here. 901-260-5926.

let's say hello to rj in georgia listening to us on wdun rj what's going on well my observation is this i just wondered if kamala was going to send those people 750 bucks around have a good day wow rj that is a great question i wanted to ask rj about the snow but rj hung up and i want to hear what's happening in gainesville i saw some photos and you guys are getting some good snow over there but rj raises a great point because the people over in north carolina they got what 750 bucks and that was it and i think they have to pay that money back it's a fair question rj we'll look into it i don't think i think the priorities of kamala harris is la la did you hear did you hear president biden yesterday so they were talking together and there was a discussion and this was being hosted in i believe california and he tossed it over to the vice president well why because this is her home state but the setup of this guy and the way that he teed up kamala harris by using a fire pun so out of touch fire away he said i don't think he understands what happened in california vice president i know you're directly affected so Will you fire away? No pun intended. All right. As the president throws it to the president. And then what was it?

The day before yesterday, he's out there in California getting the briefing. And he was saying, well, it's a horrible situation, but I got a grand new great grandbaby. It's a boy. A boy. Smoke him if you got him.

Anybody got a light? it's like what what are you talking about i will say though i've been following celebrity reaction from this because it's the top stories i mean it's clickbait right it's like this celebrity's house burnt to the ground so i've been going to their private instagrams or their their instagram accounts their twitter and they are turning they are turning against their governor and they are turning against the mayor, Karen Bass, and even the Biden administration. I mean, these people are furious.

Now, will they vote furiously? That will have to be determined. That's the big question here. And we're going to have to wait and see. I would say that they need to recall everybody, just everybody that was responsible for this debacle.

901-260-5926 is our telephone number. That's 901-260-5926. let's go to mark in bristol tennessee mark what's the weather like in your area uh we're waiting for the blizzard to show up but it's not here yet uh you're if it's the same snow we're getting in memphis my friend you better get the shovel ready yeah i got the bread and the milk and the toilet paper all that's that up it's the holy trinity of snowstorms mark you're good to go yes hey um i know you've got the president's ear um got two ideas for the inauguration when after he uh does his oath and swears in before he has a message for america i would love to see him say before i address america let's all stand and say the pledge of allegiance to the flag together i i think the place would ignite uh the patriotism there and uh number two i want to see that garbage truck parked at the white house with the mcdonald's apron hanging on the mirror what a great idea mark that wouldn't that be a great smithsonian exhibit oh and the media would have to deal with it they would have to have pictures of the garbage truck with the mcdonald's apron on it they would have to deal with it what what a great idea mark i i love that well pass it on all right you know what i will do that and i will let his team know mark thank you for that you know there are um bon gino was talking about this he and i were uh were texting a few days ago and he is very concerned about the inauguration and he raises an interesting point. Have you noticed how quiet the leftists have been? I mean, the last time Trump was, or the first time Trump was elected, that inauguration, all you know what broke loose.

But there are a lot of people that are very concerned about holding a massive outdoor inauguration ceremony. And there are some within the MAGA movement and the America First movement, and even the Trump transition, that believe it might be safer for the president to take the oath in a much smaller ceremony inside. And there are some in law enforcement that are especially concerned with remember the drone situation And by the way Trump yesterday said day one he going to tell us what the drones were all about he knows he can say anything right now but he going to tell us once he's taken the oath of office but there are people who are concerned that a possible drone attacks on the crowds attending the inauguration ceremony and and based on what's been happening in this country with Las Vegas and again this is the Las Vegas story it's like we've just completely forgot that happened. It's completely out of the news cycle. The terrorist attack in New Orleans, completely out of the news cycle now.

Just like what happened with Donald Trump's two assassination attempts, the media has chosen not to cover any of these stories anymore. And it makes you wonder why. It makes you wonder if, in fact, there is some truth to the fact that the government, one of the alphabet agencies may have been involved in all of this 901-260-5926 is our telephone number let's go to jackson in waterloo iowa home of our great affiliate kxcl hi jackson what's on your mind todd first of all how many uh lookout towers are around there uh look out towers around where oh i think we've got a bad connection you're a little garbled there jackson uh we're gonna put you on i tell you let's put jackson on hold uh we're gonna take a break and we'll come back to your calls it is open line friday ladies and gentlemen whatever you want to talk about if you have a question about something you've seen in the media give us a call and we will talk about that again 901-260-5926 may i tell you about our friends over at the wellness company we had dr drew on yesterday talking about their field emergency medical kits you know a lot of people out in los angeles really hurting right now because they had a lot of them had to leave they didn't have any emergency supplies and on this program we're urging every american to take personal responsibility and be prepared which is why we want you to check out the wellness company they have so many so many wonderful things from their emergency medical kits they have a contagion kit first aid kit and they also have all sorts of incredible supplements for your uh for your kids for yourself even for your pets so go to twc.health slash stars right now that's twc.health slash stars and you can order today use my promo code Starnes, and you are going to save 10%. We'll be right back. Hi, everyone.

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May not be available in all states. All right, I think we got things worked out with Jackson in Waterloo, Iowa. All right, Jackson, welcome back and what's on your mind? all right todd i was mentioning how many lookout towers are in california there was ranger stations lookout towers how many do they have yeah that's a good question i know they have them out in the forest area i'm not sure in the neighborhoods how many they would have jack so that's a good question about having in the forest area every half mile so when the fire starts there's a billowing smoke immediately call somebody call a plane to put water over it whatever Isn't that a good idea? More powers?

I think it's a great idea. I think even more so than that, the issue is cleaning out these forests, all the underbrush. It's got to be cleared away, and they stopped doing that. By the way, you know what else they stopped doing, Jackson? They stopped.

A memorandum went out, and they stopped checking fire hydrants across Los Angeles as part of a cost-saving measure.

so what can californians do to impeach those two idiots the mayor and the governor impeach them yeah i don't think they're well they're not going to impeach uh newscom because he's got a super majority of democrats so they're not going to buck that um the the people could stage another recall but i'm not quite again we're talking about california jackson they recalled newscom and then they re-elected the guy well it's like this todd maybe the republicans will return now like it did in the days with ronald reagan maybe they've learned their lesson for a while now maybe just let the republicans take over california i hope so jackson i i really do hope so and and again when you look at the level of destruction and the fact that they had a guy rick caruso this billionaire developer who was warning people hey look you're about to elect people who are not competent or qualified i mean he he nailed it and it turns out that his his shopping center was one of the few places in pacific palisades that did not burn to the ground hey todd is it heading toward los angeles right now um the last i heard it was holly it was in the hollywood hills area so that's not good hollywood the hollywood sign is in danger is that true no no it's that that's okay and i think there are a lot of fake images out there of the of the fire burning behind the um the sign and yeah that's yeah no and i also heard it was coming across my phone they think arson has started yes sir yes sir which would make that terrorism jackson right uh jack jackson god bless you and tell jeff stein we said hello we really like him over here in these parts uh this just in from the los angeles times are you ready for this folks it turns out the pacific palisades reservoir was empty and offline when the firestorm exploded that reservoir holds 117 million gallons of water and would have given the firefighters ample pressure to fight the blaze. The Department of Water and Power, they've been forced to admit the reservoir being offline likely contributed to the dry fire hydrants and the low water pressure. I want to know who are those workers. Folks, I'd be willing to wager an In-N-Out burger that they're all DEI hires, Every single one of them. And here's the way I look at it.

And Ben Deter, I know you're not a big sports guy, but I will say this. If you look at the Memphis Grizzlies lineup, it's not exactly diverse. No. They've got the best, most talented athletes they could hire. And that's who's on that team.

it doesn't look if as far as i know the the grizzlies don't have a three foot they don't have like a little midget person a little white midget person on the team do they i'm checking the roster now look down you might be able to see them 12 14 they're tiny nope uh no no they are all giraffes they're like over seven foot tall and you know what what do i care what color they are i don't want them to win games that's we're the team right so but what about the What about the short guys? They want to be on the team.

Well, I know, but they can go play in an intramural or church league. Dodgeball. It's hard to hit those little targets. They're like, they can move fast. I know.

And the ping pong matches. They would be good at the ping pong. Jeez. But again, so if it just so happens that the best engineers are a bunch of Asian guys in Pacific Palisades or, I don't know, a bunch of white guys, who cares as long as they're the most qualified to make sure somebody remembered to fill up the reservoir how hard is that ladies and gentlemen how hard is that 901-260-5926 let's go to jerry in iowa listening to us on kxel hi jerry what's on your mind brother tom love your show i disagree with you a little bit on your treatment of the carter funeral but i called for that you to answer your question about should donald trump for security reasons have the inauguration at a more secure indoor venue or outdoors and i'm sure that terrorists have thought of this before many i'm sure all of our government has but five unauthorized drones each delivering 20 pounds of explosives exactly at the podium on inauguration day could deliver 100 pounds of explosive explosives.

So that is a real security risk. But knowing Donald Trump, you know he's going to stick his finger in the eye of tyranny and say, freedom is not going to be hampered on this day, and he's going to put his hand on the Bible and raise his right hand, and he's going to give the oath, because he's brave and he loves America. But think about it. The age of drones, that's a real thing.

So I'm kind of torn on the decision. I could kind of go either way because we absolutely need four years of Trump to do his thing. We don't need an inauguration day event like that. It concerns me, Jerry. I know that Trump is planning a huge, massive MAGA rally the night before the inauguration.

I got a problem with that, man. I just don't want to put him at risk. And there's too much writing. There's too much at stake for the country, and there are a lot of people that want him gone. And to your point, not only do they take out Trump, but an attack on that podium, it literally decapitates the government, Jerry.

That's my concern.

Well, a bunch of other really smart people coming in for security, and this can be fixed later on. Right now, it is a state of high risk. All right. Jerry, I've got to run, my friend, but thank you for calling in. And, folks, we are continuing the conversation right after the top of the hour news.

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I love this American ride. And welcome ladies and gentlemen across America. I am Todd Starns, your voice of truth and hope from border to border, coast to coast, across the smoldering ruins of America. uh wow what an hour we've got ahead of us a lot of breaking news a lot of it is weather it's just crazy weather stuff happening most of our southern states in the middle of a rare snowstorm and of course we're also following the developments out in california today also open line friday that means you can call in and talk about whatever you want to talk about our telephone number i want you to write this down if you'd like to become a part of the show 901-260-5926 that's 901-260-5926 i want to go right away to the patriot mobile newsmaker line our next guest she was on my newsmax tv show last night and just really did a terrific job she lives in the law in los angeles and is a member of the venice neighborhood council i want to welcome soledad ursua to the program soledad good to have you back with us hi thank you so much for having me on today all right well soledad um again we've been following the latest developments of the la times now reporting it turns out i guess somebody forgot to fill up the reservoir at in pacific palisades um it's just every single minute you're getting just incompetency it's unbelievable it's really true and what you see today, even when they had their press conference, the emergency management group came out and they had to apologize because they accidentally sent out evacuation orders to LA County residents, 10 million residents at 3 and 4 a.m. telling them to evacuate.

People are on edge. They're freaking out when they see these, you know, alerts and they don't realize that they're false.

So they came on today, they explained they're false and they said that they don't have control of their system. They don't know how these alerts are being sent out.

So what we see is that every single rule in this, it's all failure.

So we're witnessing systemic failure on a massive level. And from the reservoirs, I mean, there's really nobody who is doing their jobs today. By the way, I want to give an update here, Soledad. At least 10 people now confirmed dead, more than 9,000 structures, either homes or businesses destroyed. We can also report that KABC, the Disney station there, has lost their over-the-air signal from Mount Wilson, and that's because of that big fire that's burning at Mount Wilson.

And there's a lot of tech equipment up there on that mountaintop, so I suspect that won't be the only TV or radio station to go silent.

Soledad, how are people doing, and what is the mood right now? I know a lot of it has to be shock, But are people getting angry now at their government? People are getting very frustrated and people are very scared. Most people have not slept. And so that's why when these false alerts are going out, it's really putting people on edge.

We're also seeing that there's flare ups going up in different neighborhoods. In my neighborhood of Venice Beach, there was an apartment complex that caught fire. It was quickly put out. But you see that these are sort of happening throughout the city. Many people have actually fled and have left.

I have many friends that were in the Hollywood area. They had to evacuate. Most people have gone down to the San Diego area. I'm actually in Orange County right now. You see a lot of people who just want to get away from Los Angeles at this time.

The air quality is incredibly poor.

So what you have is a lot of people who are stuck there. And there's also kids who are staying home from school.

So it's just an all-around very dangerous situation. and there are no competent leaders. It's just a situation where people are just going panic and there really is no one who can point to the right direction. I also understand that the National Guard has been called, but they haven't even arrived yet. It may take another 12 to 24 hours for them to show up.

On that note, my good friend Lars Larson, he is a nationally syndicated radio host in the Portland area. And there's a report that they're sending all sorts of help, fire trucks and all sorts of firefighting apparatus to California. But the problem is they're going to be stuck in Sacramento. I'm calling up his tweet here. Sixty fire engines were sent from Oregon to California, but they're not on the fire lines because they have to submit to a DOT inspection in Sacramento that's scheduled for later this afternoon.

And if they clear inspection, then they'll be allowed to drive the 400 miles to Pacific Palisades. Are you kidding me? This is insane, Soledad. What we see is that the red tape and the regulations are actually slowing down the much-needed emergency response. You know, one thing that people were questioning, you know, because we look at Pacific Palisades, the neighborhood that went up.

This is a very wealthy enclave with homes ranging in the $6 to $14 million range. And it's alongside the Pacific Ocean. You know, there's about 23,000 residents.

Some estimates today are that at least 75% of the neighborhood is gone. But many people were questioning why couldn't they just use the water from the Pacific Ocean? It's literally right there because we understand that when the firefighters tapped into the hydrants, there was no water. And so that was one of the reasons that the fire went out of control and just, you know, could not be fought at that time.

So many people were asking why that was not possible. We now know that because we didn't have the right planes. And there were two planes that arrived from Canada very recently. They are the ones that are able to fly and they scoop water up directly from the ocean. And so everybody was cheering yesterday because we finally had these two well-equipped planes on loan from Canada.

But then, unfortunately, there was a civilian drone flying and one of the planes hit it. And so now that's down.

So now we are down to only one Canadian plane.

So it's just, I don't know if we are witnessing a comedy or a tragedy. You know, it's just everything is one blundering mess after the other. There is literally not one competent person in the city or the county of Los Angeles. And what we're really seeing here is these are DEI policies that have come home to root, and it is just blowing up at an incredible rate.

Soledad, you've got a great piece up on the website, UnHerd. That's unherd.com, folks, unherd.com. And the headline, Can Gavin Newsom Survive the L.A. Wildfires? What say you?

i don't think that he is going to be able to survive i think he just witnessed his political career go up in flames um you know there's going to be video um of some of his actions here you know when he uh so cnn was out here and they interviewed him what people should do in los angeles because there was no water in the hydrant he just shrugged it off and said well that's a local issue you know that if he tries to run in 2028 for his uh president's operations that clip is going to be playing on repeat.

So I think that his political aspirations have really gone up in flames with this wildfire. Wow. All right. Well, Soledad, great, great work, and it's a great column. We certainly appreciate you coming on the program today.

And we're going to get you back on because we've got to figure out how to fix what's broken out there in California. Great. Thank you so much. All right. There you go, folks.

Soledad Usura, who is a great, great conservative voice out there in Los Angeles. All right, we're going to take a quick break here, folks. 901-260-5926. That's 901-260-5926. This is the Todd Stern Show.

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That's 833-880-0600 for a free consultation. Redballoon.org. All right, welcome back, everybody. You know, I want to alert you. We are having a major snowstorm in Memphis right now, and we're getting a lot of snow, and a lot of that snow is now accumulating on our satellite dishes.

So we may have a few minor hiccups, nothing to worry about, but I will extend my apologies. Ben, we think we have a solution, which involves... How do we explain this? A ladder, you, and a big broom during the next commercial break. Todd, I am clicking buttons back here.

So if I, I hope we have workers calm, first of all. Number two, if I don't come back in, you have no show.

So we're faced with air or no air or you don't have me. I'm going to make it happen. They're telling me there's a ladder downstairs. I've got to grab a broom. And I'm, what, sweeping off, Todd?

sweeping off snow from our satellites. Yeah, so the signal, because the signal, the snow, if it accumulates, and they're telling us as much as between, now what, seven and 10 inches of snow? It's insane out there.

Well, we already had a snow fight. That was fun. Snowballs. Snowball fight. I did snow angels.

Tried working on a snowman. That didn't work out. The snowman creation lasted for maybe two minutes. It's too cold out there, Todd. It is freezing.

And as you said, we have almost a foot of snow, which in Memphis context, that's an avalanche dumped on this city. It may as well be 30 feet of snow out there. That's right. Honestly, it's just insane.

So anyway, we are taking recommendations, by the way, for our Memphis listeners. Are there things that Memphians should be doing in the snow? I mean, there's no place to go. Everything's shut down. are there enjoyable fun things that be and deter you mentioned something that involved eating snow oh yeah you haven't had this yet we have to get out there after the show wraps up and get you some snow cream this is the bet and it's good for the diet because i know we're watching our calories in the new year it's super simple it's affordable nothing's affordable and all it takes is god's creation and a little bit of mother nature which is probably one of the same you go get snow.

You've got to put it in a big old bowl. Then you're going to want to get sweetened condensed milk, which hopefully you got that while you were at your local Kroger. Then you're going to get some vanilla extract and then drop a couple drops in and you've got vanilla snow cream. You just have to watch for the snow. Really?

Yeah. Okay. You don't want the brown snow, brown snow or yellow snow. I have already seen yellow snow. I don't know what's happening around our building i don't know if it's dogs cats or humans but no yellow snow it may be the hobos coming off of the the trains i don't know um well if you have any recommendations ladies and gentlemen give us a call because we get a lot of snow and really nothing else to do uh but we're enjoying hanging out with you today 901-260-5926 let's go to mark in the villages and what wait are we really going mark i don't want to hear put them on i don't want to hear how nice it is in florida mark happy new year from from the somewhat warm state of florida thank you happy new year mark hey listen build an aglue do not eat the snow because you don't know what the heck's dropping out of that sky you know it's true all the stuff going on good point that probably wouldn't be a good idea he was telling me that down in florida they have are Are they lizards, iguanas?

The geicos. They're geckos. And normally you try to catch them and they take off really fast. You can't get them. But right now it's like 36 degrees here in Florida and everybody's hibernating.

And these guys can't even move. You can literally walk up and pick them up and they're frozen. That sounds like Collierville right now. I think the entire town is just frozen solid. Wow.

My friend from Alabama just sent me a bunch of pictures that he's covered in snow. They don't know how to handle it. I just kind of laugh at it being a northerner. It's funny to watch it. It's not good, Mark.

I'm telling you, it is not good. We need sunshine very soon. There is frost on the pork butt. Like they said, make some snow angels. Go out there and make a snow angel.

Just don't eat that yellow snow. You're going to have issues. The nice thing about this snow, it's that thick, wet snow.

So we're going to have some nice, hopefully some nice artistic work involving snow peoples. Make a snowman. You guys get together. Make a snowman. You know, get some carrots.

Put a nose on it. Take pictures. That'll be the highlight of your snow season. I like that. That's a great idea, Mark.

What's going on otherwise? We're talking weather, but what's going on? Yep. But that thing with Kamala Harris yesterday in California, and Biden making that comment when he was handing it over to her to speak, and he goes, fire away. You know something?

These people that voted, these Democrats that voted for these ignorant people, better think again in 2028, because they don't care about you, even if you're in a blue state. They don't care what happens to you. And to sit there and make a comment like that, knowing what they're going through, This guy is off the defense. We've actually got that audio. Let's take a listen.

Madam Vice President, I know you're directly affected, so you fire away. No pun intended. All right, as the president. Oh, geez. The guy's clueless.

Clueless. I mean, but the people are clueless that voted for him. Because when 2028 comes up, you guys got to remember these things that they're doing. They don't care about you, even in a blue state like California. And you've got slimeball, slickhead Newsom out there going at it, too.

They need to get him out. They need to put somebody else in. They can't even put fires out that's going on out there. They can't even drag water in to put it out. That states in some serious, serious trouble.

And they voted for them, people. They need to change, or they're going to have problems in 2028, too. They did. Mark, we're going to leave it there, my friend. Always good hearing from you, and enjoy the geckos.

Let's go to Vicki in North Carolina. Vicki, I understand you have a question about the Los Angeles mayor. I do, because yesterday on Dr. Gorka's show, well, American First, they reported that this mayor was a trained communist militia trainer in Cuba. and I just have to say this and he had a video whatever it was on America First yesterday but you know it is time for America to wake up and realize the possibilities that this money that is like 17.6 million that's missing out of the fire department it is time for them to look at the possibility that this is not incompetency this is intentionally and this money may be actually going to train militants against America.

We've just got to look at some serious issues how this money just keeps popping up and is gone and there's no auditing of it or nothing. They may actually, I believe for a long... Did you get my book Klaus Schwab Third Reich and COVID Holocaust I believe I did vicki well if you look around the world Todd this is happening all over the world this is not just america uh and i listen to dr gorka show almost every single day right well let me well let me jump in here vicki because this is the this is our show and we you know we appreciate dr gorka but a lot of stations don't carry his program. I will say this, Vicki, that it is accurate that Karen Bass is in fact a communist.

Now, in 2020, she renounced her ties to Fidel Castro. But the truth is that when she was a young person, she was a part of a communist group. She went to Cuba. She worked in Cuba with Fidel Castro. And according to one of the communist newspapers from back in 1975, she actually identified herself as a leader and an organizer of communist groups in Southern California.

So the reality here, Vicki, and I appreciate you calling in, the reality here is that the people of Los Angeles have an honest-to-goodness communist as their mayor, because I don't believe that she really did renounce her beliefs. Vicki raises a good point as well. Is it possible that a lot of that money that's being cut from things like the fire department, that money's actually going to communist groups? Is that possible? All right, got to take a break here.

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So Adam Carolla. You know what? We'll hold off on Adam Carolla. Let's go to the phone lines. our friend joe messina hosted the joe messina program out in santa clarita california joe joins us now uh joe what's the situation out there oh it's it's not getting any better we have a little lull that people are getting comfortable with but todd it really isn't getting any better uh the winds are maintaining they're probably going to stand strong until about six o'clock tonight and then they're talking about them um jumping up again tomorrow There's still a problem with water, as you heard yesterday.

And I don't know if you heard about the news today, but one of the major reservoirs that actually would have been able to supply water is empty, and it's supposed to be having repairs done to it. And wouldn't you know it? They took it down just before fire season started. I can't imagine how much you have to drink not to be able to figure this out ahead of time. And the person who's the head of Water and Power, $750,000 a year.

I don't know about you, Todd, but I'd do it for $500,000 and probably do a better job at it. Yeah, I think just about anybody would, Joe. We also understand that they haven't even – they did away with testing the fire hydrants as a budget-cutting move. Yeah, that's in Los Angeles City. You are correct.

And they don't trim anything up. I was telling somebody yesterday that if you looked at the palm trees going down, somebody had brought this up, going down some of the areas in Los Angeles, you saw how the dead palms kind of fall down. They don't even fall up a tree. They kind of hang down. Those were catching on fire.

And then when they fell off, they would fall on the homes or they would fall on the dry areas, which is proof positive that we need to do some maintenance on these trees. We need to do some maintenance on these grounds. And we're not doing it. They're not allowing us to do it. unbelievable um joe um i know you're in the radio business um we're hearing reports i think kabc is off air um we're hearing that some of the big communication towers up on mount wilson may be compromised or may be in jeopardy because of the of the flames are you hearing anything about that yeah actually uh i was i was looking in on a call that the one of the fire chiefs was talking about the fact that they had kept the flames down.

They were trying to build a fire break, but if it reaches those towers, it's not just the radio stations.

So it's the cell phone usage. You know, it's microwave antennas that are up there. There's some major communication that goes on up there.

So if that goes down, you're going to see some problems with the larger stations in and around L.A. Joe Messina, host of the Joe Messina Show, joining us to talk about what's happening out in California. Joe, are you hearing anger from the people of Los Angeles? Are they waking up to what's going on? You know, it's interesting because we've had natural disasters.

I'm not going to call this natural. This is almost self-imposed. But we've heard about these disasters before with the legislature or the government doesn't act fast enough on it. And They get all riled up and they get mad and we need a change. And what do they do?

They vote for Newsom again. They vote for Karen Bass. They vote for these people that have put them in this position to begin with.

So I used to be very excited, but then I remember these people voted for Barack Obama twice.

So, you know, I have little hope is that it really is possible. But I am hearing them mad. I am hearing them coming out saying, you know, we need a change. It's not a political thing. The blessing here, and I don't mean this in a backhanded way, but you have a lot of prominent people whose homes burned, whose homes got destroyed, and they're asking for answers, and they're pounding the table saying, why was that reservoir empty?

Why did the fire department not have water? Why did they not have enough manpower? And now we've got a looter problem, if you heard about that. We heard the report, and we played this in the first hour. We're kind of all over the story here, Joe.

So about 100 people on scooters that they witnessed going into a lot of these neighborhoods. That's a true statement. Actually, over by the Van Nuys Airport, which is kind of in the middle of the San Fernando Valley, a very densely populated area, they caught a young man or a 20, 30-year-old man trying to set fires in that area, too, to get it wrong.

So I think we're going to find out when this is all said and done. that many of these fires were started by arsonists.

So we'll see what happens.

So that's going to really punch a hole, Todd, in the whole climate change thing, isn't it?

Well, yeah, there's your climate change, a guy with a blowtorch. That's right. It's just insane. Yeah, we are seeing the looters, not just down there. We're seeing the looters where they know that some of the police officers and fire departments have emptied out these areas to go down and help, like from Santa Clarita Valley, that you want to make sure that the fire stations are being watched over.

And, you know, on the fringes, they're doing the same thing. They're breaking into stories because there's no coverage, there's no power. We still have tens of thousands of people without power. That means no alarms, no way to communicate in those areas. Joe Messina, host of the Joe Messina Show in Santa Clarita, California, joining us on our Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line this afternoon.

Joe, we're hearing the winds are going to pick back up over the weekend.

So the fire threat still remains. Is that accurate? Oh, yeah. Yeah, the fire still remains. And if you look at the numbers, they do not have much of a containment on any of these, really.

And right now, I mean, I just walked into the studio about, I don't know, half an hour ago. But when I was outside, we still have a wind gust of around 30 miles an hour on the average. But they're talking about it could hit as much as 50 to 60 miles an hour before 6 o'clock tonight. Then the winds will die down, and then we'll get them back again tomorrow. But they're thinking they're only going to hit about 40, 45 miles an hour.

But only, listen to me, only 45 miles an hour. That's enough to drive these flames crazy. And even southwest of us in a very affluent area in Ventura County, they saw flames yesterday. They were having fires pop up all over the place. That's why I say to you, I'm not so sure that all this is an accident, a wire that has fallen.

Yeah, and that's what I'm concerned about, Joe. All right. Well, look, we really appreciate all of your time this week, and we're certainly thinking and praying for all of you guys out there in Southern California. Joe, thank you. Thanks for having me, Todd.

God bless. All right. Good guy right there. Joe Messina, host of the Joe Messina Show. It does make you wonder, you know, going back to we had Vicki from North Carolina who brought up Karen Bass and her ties to communism, which are well-documented, So much so, by the way, that of all places, of all news publications, the Washington Post actually published an op-ed from Henry Olson saying that Karen Bass's history with Cuba should disqualify her from being vice president.

As a matter of fact, and a lot of people did not realize this, but Karen Bass, who was a longtime congresswoman and worked with Shirley Chisholm back in the day, Shirley Chisholm, a congressperson from New York who became the first black woman to run for the presidency. That was back in, what, 72, I think, 1972. Anyway, Karen Bass, a congresswoman, and for the longest time, very close to Joe Biden. and Biden actually considered making her his VP. And at the time, this was back in 2020, and Henry Olson in The Washington Post said, uh-uh, can't do it.

Her communist ties should disqualify her from ever serving in the White House. And it seems to me if you're so big of a communist that you can't actually work in the White House, then you probably don't need to be mayor of Los Angeles, California. The woman is basically Joe Biden 2.0. As a matter of fact, yesterday at this press conference, and Dieter, you pointed this out, she was trying to give out a website address. And here's how all that went.

Cut number 11. Build stronger than ever. Right now, if you need help, emergency information, resources, and shelter is available. all of this can be found at url who wants to tell her who's got to tell this woman my my great-grandma knows more than this a url is not the website now keep in mind todd this is the website for the thousands and thousands of people that were forced to evacuate for them to find shelters, for them to find assistance, for them to find water. That was the website, and she had one job.

Throw it out. What was the website she threw out? URL. What a dandy. By the way, this just in, they're announcing that curfew.

Curfew, 6 o'clock in Los Angeles County. Everybody's got to be indoors by 6 o'clock. Yeah, that's going to work. The sheriff says we're not screwing around with this. Until they start shooting the looters, nobody's going to pay attention.

Yeah, because the 100 guys on the scooters, I can tell you right now, they will not be following a curfew. When the sun goes down in Malibu, those scooters come alive, and they will begin looting. It's not funny. It's terrible. The only people following the curfew coming from LAPD are the law-abiding citizens.

It's a nonsense. Did you hear about this? This actually happened live on television. The poor weather guys up there giving a report. All of a sudden, everybody's phones start going off with the emergency alert.

And they were telling it was from the Los Angeles County emergency alert system. And they were telling the entire county to evacuate. The entire Los Angeles County, you've got to evacuate. Was that staged? People are freaking out.

No, it was not staged. It was real? It was real. And so now we know that they're apologizing, but they're saying the reason why is because it was a technical malfunction because humans don't actually operate that.

So this is some sort of an AI kind of a thing. I'm telling you, it's like Terminator. This is the future. It's a Terminator movie right here, folks.

So anyway, but it's happened a couple of more times.

So now people don't know, do I evacuate? Is it the end of days? What do I do? Yeah. I mean, if I'm a top, put yourself there.

I mean, you've, you've visited, you've vacationed a lot in this area. If you're a homeowner or if you're a resident, I would be on the first car out of Los Angeles. I'd be the first person out of LA County. I would not be hanging around. And it's not even because of the threat of more wildfires and these winds that are pushing them all over the place radically.

It's just because it is on the verge of anarchy. It really is. It could descend into that real quick. Speaking of hot and spicy, can we talk about the Obama's marriage for just a moment? Do we have to?

Yeah. So Big M wasn't at the funeral, at the state funeral. She was the only living first lady not there, right? You had Laura Bush. She was there.

You had George W. You had Hillary was there and Melania looking stunning. You know, and here's the thing a lot of people didn't realize about this. Yesterday was also the one-year anniversary of her mother's passing, and she was so well-composed. I can't even imagine the heartbreak she must have been feeling, but also the anger knowing that the people in that room tried to kill her husband and tried to destroy her family, and she kept it together.

If there was anybody that needed to have a come-to-Jesus moment with the folks, it's Melania Trump. But anyway, Michelle Obama wasn't there, and the official reason is she was on vacay in Hawaii. And maybe she was doing a hula lesson or she was getting a body wax. We don't know. We don't know.

I don't care to know. But now there are rumblings that she was either having some work done or that there are problems in the marital bedroom. wasn't that also the rumor with that surfer the chef at their home oh yes the chef with that story went away and what happened to the chef yeah let's not talk about it so the last time there was a rumor someone died yeah he was cooking more than omelets from what i hear yeah yeah i don't know it's all rumors but nobody ever wanted to report that it seems to if look if somebody remote if a doorman at mar-a-lago keeled over it would be wall-to-wall news coverage that trump killed somebody i mean it's the hypocrisy and think about this todd melania trump was villainized by the media for four years like you can't blame the woman i guess the report is she's not going to be in washington dc consistently she's going to be residing down at mar-a-lago and who could blame the woman imagine for one second had she have skipped the the funeral can you imagine the coverage oh it would have been people would have been enraged yeah by the way did you notice that garth brooks and um and the wife trish yearwood yeah the song they sang imagine there's no religion imagine there's no heaven you don't want to be singing they're saying imagine they're coming under fire people like really really in a church you're gonna sing that kind of a song boy couldn't sing like beer for my horses or something i can only imagine you know it's interesting uh jimmy carter there's actually a great documentary about jimmy carter and southern rock you know jimmy carter was a big southern rocker which kind of frightens a lot of people uh but he was he was really big with the leonard skinner guys uh the allman brothers willie nelson and those those southern rockers actually got him elected they did all these benefit concerts all over the country for jimmy carter i'll tell you more about it coming up after the break we'll be right back all right welcome back everybody good to have you with us on this open line friday so anyway back to jimmy carter um there is a great documentary that sort of lays out jimmy carter's relationship with uh bob dylan he and bob dylan very very close uh then the Allman Brothers and Greg Allman was down in Macon, and he was invited to go visit Jimmy Carter back when he was governor in Atlanta. And you know, Ben, Jimmy Carter's big teetotaler, Southern Baptist at the time. And Jimmy Carter was, so he goes up to the governor's mansion, pulls up beautiful, typical Georgia mansion, you know, with the big columns, the white columns.

and Greg Allman was recounting this in the documentary he said you know I was uh I was there and all of a sudden um I walk in and there's a guy standing on the front porch he's got no shirt on he's wearing a tattered blue jeans and he's he's drinking um Jim Beam oh boy and he thought who's this bum standing on the front porch of the governor's mansion it turned out to be Jimmy Carter so anyway um and uh so they ended up having spending the night together they opened up a bottle of scotch and uh governor carter had a drink uh greg allman had a drink and they became the best of friends right there imagine that there you go all right uh folks hang tight hour three of the big show coming up it's open line friday whatever you want to talk about today 901-260-5926 This is the Todd Stern Show. Live from the Liberty University studio in Memphis, Tennessee, it's America's conservative blowtorch. American Ride. Time starts. Oh, yes.

Well, hello, everybody. Happy Friday to you, America.

So last night I was watching the playoff game, which actually was a pretty good game. And Penn State and Notre Dame came right down to the very end there. And the kicker made good. You know, interesting. Notre Dame has had a historic problem with their kickers.

but they were able to get it through the uprights and win the game based on that kick last night.

So anyway, ESPN, golly bum. You know, I liked ESPN back when they were all about sports, not about DEI. And it just angers me that we've allowed DEI to seep into every single thing we do.

So you had one of the anchorettes, that's one of the lady anchors, and one of the anchorettes, because they're all about having the females in the locker rooms now and all that kind of stuff. By the way, just a brief aside, have you noticed now that the female anchors are complaining? They want the players clothed in the locker room? Here's a thought, ladies. If you've got a problem seeing naked men, then don't go into the men's locker room after a game.

How's that? Anyway, one of the anchorettes asking the head coach of Notre Dame, a guy who happens to be black, A question about his skin color. Take a listen. Thank you. Because you are the first black head coach to go to a national championship game in college football.

Congratulations. Just hearing that response alone, how much does this mean to you? You know, I've said this before. I don't ever want to take attention away from the team. It is an honor.

and I hope all coaches, minorities, black, Asian, white, it doesn't matter, great people continue to get opportunities to lead young men like this. But this ain't about me. This is about us. And we're going to celebrate what we've done because it's something special. Good for you, Coach.

These reporters try to make everything about race. It's not about race. It's about football. It's about fielding the best possible team. It doesn't matter.

You don't have these coaches going down there with a list saying, all right, we need five black players, five white players. We need somebody from Samoa. We need a Puerto Rican. No, they don't do that. They want the best players, no matter their skin color.

ESPN used to appreciate stuff like that, but they don't do it. It's just, it's really sad. Also, isn't this so old at this point? Like, everything has been a first. This is 2024.

What are they talking about? The first what? If it would have been a Samoan, would they have asked the same exact question? You're the first Samoan. Congratulations.

You're the first white guy of the NBA. Wow. Wow. Yeah. Right.

It's just so dumb. And for these anchors to not know their audience, Todd, you spent a lot of years in television at the network level. You have to know your audience. And I just wonder if the ESPN audience and Notre Dame fans that are celebrating this this great win that's the number one thing they want to hear from the coach of whether he's proud of his skin color know your audience ma'am yeah i i'm with you a thousand percent but again this is all about an agenda and they're shoving it down the throats of viewers whether you like it or not and that's unfortunate and it's ruining it's really beginning to ruin college sports and and that's that's what saddens me so 901-260-5926 is our telephone number that's 901-260-5926 by the way here's congress chick jasmine crockett she completely loses it she was on cnn scott jennings the lone conservative and he simply called out the diversity crap going on in the los angeles fire department uh take a listen uh you might have recall a new story from last year there was some interest in the fire departments and the firefighters in california and the interest was was there were too many white men who were firefighters and we need to have a program in california to make sure we don't have enough white men as firefighters so so we have i'm wondering now if your house is burning down how much do you care what color the firefighters You can respond. Listen, I am so tired.

You know what? There was an article that just came out that said that actually the most educated demographic in this country right now is black women.

So let me be clear. Because you are a woman or because I know that some of the right has been sharing these photos of the fact that I believe that the fire chief may be a woman or something. That has nothing to do with it. We are looking at qualifications. What diversity, equity, and inclusion has always been about is saying, you know what?

Open this up. Don't just look at the white men. Open it up and recognize that other people can be qualified. And the fact that we want to, at a time when people are dying, decide that a country of immigrants is failing or people are dying because the same very people that built this country. Because the last time I checked, y'all didn't say that anything was wrong with the White House.

And I can promise you it was my ancestors that built the White House.

So listen, if we have been good enough to build this country, we are good enough to serve and die overseas. We are good enough to serve in other ways. And the fact that people actually decide that they want to engage in public service, whether it's sitting in Congress or whether it's serving on the fire department or the police department, should not be an issue. The fact is, stop trying to act as if only white men are the ones that are capable. Because right now you're sitting at a table with three very capable black women.

I'm not. scotch i would have asked i i want to see the survey i want to see that survey so we did that we did that for him and it turns out essence magazine which is a magazine for uh african american ladies says that african american ladies are in fact um the most educated demographic in the united states so i think we need to step back for a moment and understand they may be and this may be the most educated demographic, but are they the smartest demographic? Do they have common sense, this demographic? But beyond that, and I want you to understand, I'm getting to a point here. Black women make up about 13% of the population of the United States.

However, in taxpayer-funded education, they account for about 68% of the associate degrees and 66% of the bachelor degrees. This is, by the way, coming from the Essence Magazine article. Black women also account for 71% of master's degrees and 65% of doctorate degrees.

So if that is in fact the case, that this 13%, why is it that they have such an overwhelming number that are getting the degrees? is it possible that the system is now rigged against everybody else? Could be. Could be. But again just because you have an education a college degree doesn mean you a capable human being Now I want to point locally to Memphis Tennessee where we have a school board that is in sheer chaos right now The school system here that the largest in Tennessee over 100 students and 70% of the kids cannot read at a third-grade reading level.

Now, when you look at the school board, the entire school board is made up of, well, not the entire. You've got two black guys and a Hispanic chick.

So all the rest of it, I think there are eight black women on the Memphis Shelby County School Board. Why can't they get it together? I mean, they're the most educated demographic in America. What's up with that? Because is it possible that they're not qualified?

Is it possible they were elected because of some other reason? Could be. i mean look at mayor karen bass a communist the people of los angeles did have a choice they just made the wrong choice and again it goes back to something i said yesterday why should the american taxpayers keep having to foot the bill for all of these mistakes these bad choices that people are making at the ballot box at what point do we say you know what enough is enough no we're not gonna we're not gonna keep funding this you're not gonna do what you need to do to make sure that, and I'll give you an example, and this is going to anger some folks here, but hear me out. Let's just say that you live on an island in the Gulf of America, and this island gets hit by hurricanes every year, and every year all the homes get wiped out, and then the federal government has to come in, and they rebuild the homes.

Next year, hurricane season comes in the Gulf of America and what happens? A hurricane hits the island and it wipes out the homes and guess what? We got to build it again on the taxpayer die. I'll give you another one. You've got a lot of people building these beautiful homes literally on the sides of mountain cliffs.

Landslides happen, homes get wiped out, federal government comes in, rebuilds. At some point, at some point, does anybody have the wherewithal to say, you know, maybe you shouldn't be building your home on an island that gets hit by a hurricane. Maybe you don't need to be building a house in an area that's prone to gigantic wildfires. Or maybe you don't need to be building your homes next to a river that's going to flood every year. Nobody wants to have those conversations, but it's true.

And by the way, yeah, insurance companies are horrible. I get it. But at some point, even the insurance companies have to say, we cannot stay in business if we have to keep rebuilding people's homes every single year. Just want to point that out. And by the way, it's not climate change.

They've been having these kinds of fires in Los Angeles in Southern California for as long as anybody can remember. And it's all verifiable in the local reporting. All right, we've got to take a break here, folks. Again, Open Line Friday, whatever you want to talk about. You have a question, give us a call, 901-260-5926.

That's 901-260-5926. This is The Todd Stern Show. All right, Senator John Fetterman is heading to Mar-a-Lago. Oh, that's going to be exciting. He said, is he going to ask Trump anything?

He said, yes, he wants to be named the Pope of Greenland.

So you can, Pope Fetterman, you got to love it. I tell you, after the guy had the stroke, he started thinking correctly. God bless him. 901-260-5926 is our telephone number. That's 901-260-5926.

Let's go to Connor in Boston. Hey, Connor, what's going on? You know, I'll tell you, this Sutterman guy, like, I could not stand him during the election. But, like, slowly but surely, he's coming around. Maybe he's going to be a Republican.

Who knows? You know, it's funny. I mean, he seems to be open to Trump's nominees. He's saying all the right things. We'll see how it goes.

You never know. Yeah, exactly. But Todd, I'm going to tell you about today's sentence thing for our great president. When Trump gets back into office and Kim Bondi becomes our attorney general, we need to get a grasp on our Justice Department. was the framers and the when this country was being you know fought us it's like the justice system this country was never meant to be such a weapon against your political opponents or against your enemies in general and that's what the democrats have done that's what the biden administration has done and that's what this i guess you would call them a judge if you call them that down in new york did to our great president today so we need to get a handle on it and if we don't it's going to become like a third world nation the way we've ministered justice in this country.

Well, that's true. And Trump is going to appeal the ruling today. And again, he's not going to, there's no jail time, unconditional.

So, but still, it's the, they cannot weaponize the judicial system like they've done. They just can't do it anymore. And I hope he takes it all the way up to the Supreme Court and gets thrown out because our president is innocent. And this is just another witch hunt that they're using to go out. It's It's unacceptable.

Well said.

Well said.

All right, Connor, good hearing from you, my friend. Always a pleasure, Tom. I'll talk to you next week. All right. There you go.

Connor from Boston. Wow. Okay. By the way, have you heard $100,000 the city of Los Angeles is giving to a transgender cafe? And we've got the story up on toddstearns.com.

And a lot of people are wondering, okay, what exactly is a transgender cafe? We have really struggled with this one. But Ben Dieter, as far as I know, a transgender cafe, like a transgender diner, let's say you go in and you order a delicious, juicy cheeseburger, but the waitress brings you a tuna melt. I don't want a tuna melt. You can say, ma'am, I don't want a tuna melt.

I ordered a cheeseburger. And she would say, yes, but the cow identifies as a fish. enjoy your lunch that's actually a thing is that what your investigative journalism has found transgender food oh what is a transgender cafe they bring you different food that identifies differently they wanted a safe space for homeless transgender people to have a meal and to maybe get some coffee gotcha oh so it's speaking of diversity it's not very diverse it's just for one group of people just for one group of people yes got it got it the city of diversity that's it and i hope it didn't burn down in the fire i'm just i'm just saying it's terrible hey listen todd we have been told sorry you're right there deter i put a cough drop in my mouth because we've been on air all day doing snow coverage i think it's the dry weather so i might have to toss back over to you and hack my lungs out no i can finish no so the la fire department has really focused on diversity because they say that these transgenders these lesbians the gay fire men and women are the most qualified so who knows maybe these these people that are at the transgender cafe are very competent qualified fire people that would be able to fight and protect their transgender cafe who knows that's what we've been told anyhow could be could be uh by the way the week before the fire started it just keeps getting worse uh a new report out the week before the fires started uh karen bass called for cutting an additional 49 million dollars from the fire department's budget it would have shut down 16 fire stations this is according to the daily mail criminal oh and also the lapd can find no probable cause to charge the guy caught trying to start fires using a blowtorch. He was just trying to light a cigarette. Yeah, I mean, give him the honor, the president's awards he's been handing out.

I mean, put him right up there at the top with George Soros. These are the people they love. By the way, back to Conor for just a moment. Trump's lawyer, Mike Davis, great guy. Trump's got an incredible legal team.

He just issued a warning to Judge Juan Murchin and all the other Democrats that are engaged in this warfare or lawfare. He said the Democrats think they're the hunters. On January 20th at noon, they're going to become the hunted. That's going to be the top story on the Sunday shows.

Well, and it ought to be. It ought to be. It's just unacceptable what they have done. Unacceptable. Also, Mark Zuckerberg is offering some thoughts and intel.

and he was on Joe Rogan's podcast and he says, Zuckerberg says, that when the Biden administration called and they wanted something taken down or something censored on socials on Facebook, he said that they cursed him out. Cursed, I mean, he said it was ugly. Are you buying it, the conversion? No. I mean, he found the Lord Jesus Christ, and now he wants to free all of the conservatives from his jail.

You're buying it? Yeah, he is not a social media Moses. No. No, I don't believe that. Let my people go.

All right. Hang tight, everybody. Got to take a quick break here. 901-260-5926 is our number on this open line Friday. That's 901-260-5926.

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all right folks five o'clock eastern the todd stern show on news max be sure to watch we're going to have a wild show tonight there is a 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 just four years ago Joe Biden earned a 25-point margin of the younger voters' 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, YAF.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 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, it'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 spoon-fed, rammed on them in college. They want to feel more of this. And again, our polling, 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, you know, 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 did 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 for 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 and 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. You know, 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 dc 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 two million subscribers and last year surpassed 1.6 billion views get your kids online there and uh boy the more they know the better off we're going to be well said all right governor we're gonna have to leave it there always appreciate you coming on the program thank you thank you dot 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 heights 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. Penske also happens to live in the Pasadena area. Dr.

Drew, good to have you with us today. And how are things going out there in California?

Well, Pasadena is better. Hollywood is still struggling, and 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 in 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 legislator 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 are 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 Pennsylvania.

It 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, we're a separate city from Los Angeles where we have different water and power. I 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.sterns, ladies and gentlemen. That's TWC.health.sterns. And you're going to see not only the medical kits that we've been talking about, and I don't have the field kit, and I need to get that one.

It's really good. We were so grateful to have that kit yesterday, particularly yesterday. We're breathing smoke. smoke you know that is one thing we have had to deal with and we have there's an inhaler in that kit that helped me and i didn't realize uh you guys even have a ready i've got the medical kit the first aid kit the travel kit uh there's even a radiation emergency kit yeah that is a new kit we put together uh you know back in the days of fukushima there was a run on potassium iodine because uh that's one of the things you want to do in preparation and so And 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 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, it's there. The 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. We're going to have you talk about another issues, but this is the breaking news, and everybody's talking about what's happening in California.

Yeah, it's wild. 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 Malibu might have prevented this.

Just getting those horrible homeless trailers off the street might have prevented this thing. Just functioning as a government.

So roads function 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. All right. And again, folks, head over there.

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