Congresswoman Goes on Racist Rant Against White Men

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You know, I don't know about you, ladies and gentlemen, but I'm. I sweet mercy. Yeah, I am a little winded. Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Toddstorms Radio Show.

Oh, sweet mercy. You know, it's hard to keep up with Donald J. Trump. I am telling you, it's. He said we were going to get tired of winning, and I'm just a little winded.

I don't know about you. This has been remarkable, absolutely astounding. To see what this president has done in just two weeks, ladies and gentlemen. Remember, it was over the past four years, Joe Biden and the Democrats said there was absolutely nothing they could do about the border. There was nothing they could do about all of the illegals, that it was impossible to stop the flow of illegals, ladies and gentlemen.

Promises made, promises kept This has just been truly, truly remarkable what this president has done. And right now, I am telling you that the federal government is in the throes of chaos. You have all of these workers. They've had these cushy jobs. They don't do diddly, they don't do squat, and they've been doing it from the privacy of their homes.

They've been ordered to report to work, and we're being told that. They don't want to do it. I think we understand around twenty thousand government workers have already accepted President Trump's offer to basically buy out their jobs which is tremendous. The President actually made the offer to some two million government workers. I suspect we're going to see a lot more in the coming days.

But I want you to think about this because the government workers are pitching hissy fence, and many of them are DEI workers. As a matter of fact, I'm just going to go out on a limb here. And I am going to I'm going to prophesy. I am going to prophesy, ladies and gentlemen. I believe that about 90% of the government hires are DEI workers.

And I know that may be lowballing it, but I am willing to say At least 90% of the government federal work staff, the workforce, they are DEI hires. No, I am not doubting that number at all. Yeah. Also this just coming in, we understand the first flights from the United States to Guantanamo Bay are now underway, and those airplanes are filled with illegal aliens. And by the way.

This is just something for the Democrats to think about, and the Democrats are just raging over DEI. But I want you to think as a Democrat for just a moment, just think as a Democrat, which means don't use your brain, but think as a Democrat. Would you not want to make sure that the because they're all about protecting the illegals, right? It's all about the illegals. I mean, they can rape, pillage, and plunge and plunder America.

And that's okay, but they are all about protecting the illegals.

Well, would it not be wise for the Democrats to embrace President Trump's war on DEI? Because, God forbid, the illegals, they're on a flight out of Reagan National and they got a DEI hire working in the air traffic control tower. You want to make sure those illegals get safely from Reagan National to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, right? I'm just saying.

So, anyway, good news there. Caroline Lovett, the White House press secretary, making that announcement earlier this morning on Fox business.

So, there you have it. We're just two weeks in: President Trump securing the border, restoring law and order. We've had over 20,000 illegals, the dangerous illegals, arrested. President Trump now unleashing energy. And what happened yesterday?

with those tariffs, was absolutely brilliant. Brilliant.

Well done, Mr. President. By the way, Ecuador? Ecuador, they're wanting Ecuador, they're wanting to weigh in and unleash tariffs, and they're also willing to take in America's criminals. God bless you, Ecuador I'm telling you, right here.

Can you imagine being? Bing. Being a convicted felon, a thug in an American prison, and they tell you, guess what? You're going south of the border, pal. What a day.

So, folks, he's going to end up accomplishing his entire agenda. Before we hit summertime. If we are on the current path, the trajectory, Donald J. Trump. is going to accomplish his entire his entire agenda before we hit summer break.

It's just remarkable. We're going to be taking your calls of this. Are you surprised at how quickly things are changing in this country? You can feel it. There is great fear and trepidation, as well, there should be.

Because We have been put upon, ladies and gentlemen. One of the things that Elon Musk and his merry gang at Doge are doing. Is that they're discovering, they're uncovering a lot of fraud. I want you to understand something here. Yeah.

USAID. You're hearing a lot of stories about USAID and how people are, you know, that people are going to starve in other countries. People are going to go without. Anderson Cooper last night on CNN was all upset because people are going to get AIDS and die because we're not going to be funding USAID. USAID had nothing to do with feeding people.

USAID had nothing to do with helping people that were sick. USAID had everything to do with funding all of these far left causes. And we've got just a partial list for you. And I know you're going to be. Look, I know that you're going to be hearing a lot of this over the coming days.

I know you're going to be hearing this: that you're going to be hearing the sob stories and the little peasant women, they're going to be rolling those folks out, and the little children playing in the dirt with no shoes, crying, and the little mangy dogs. You're going to be seeing all of that on your news, all right? But you can't believe any of it because this is ultimately what we're dealing with. Elon Musk now estimates. And they've been running the numbers here.

They've estimated about $700 billion per year has been squandered on fraud. That's just the fraud part. And they're just estimating that this could be. twice as much, but at least seven hundred billion dollars a year that's been squandered on fraud. And Elon now says they've uncovered so far, only a couple of weeks on the job now, More than a trillion dollars in waste.

Do you understand? That just doing away with all the wasteful spending and the fraud, we could end up balancing the budget. It's remarkable. We've got a long ways to go. But Elon has been able to determine that USAID is nothing more than a multi-billion dollar slush fund for left-wing causes.

As a matter of fact, someone wrote this on X. It is described as the single largest criminal fraud operation in history. I I believe that. Are you ready for this? We're spending we were spending $1.5 million to advance diversity in Serbian workplaces.

Seventy thousand dollars for a DEI musical in Ireland, forty seven thousand dollars for the transgender opera in Colombia, and thirty two thousand dollars for a transgender pornographic comic book in Peru. That seems a little over a price to me. According to the and by the way, the New York Times actually reported this. They did a nasty hit piece on Elon. Oh, it was nasty.

So buried like paragraph 46, the New York Times actually admits That there is fraud. According to the Government Accountability Office, and this is straight out of the New York Times, here, folks. According to the Government Accountability Office, they estimate at least two hundred thirty six billion dollars in fraud or improper payments during the 2023 fiscal year.

So just one year. And the GAO has determined we got big problems.

Now, You heard from the President of Ukraine, Zelensky, Who said Yeah, we've only gotten about 70-something billion dollars, and we don't know where the rest of it went.

So is it possible that that money was diverted right back to the United States and laundered through the DNC. Nobody can seem to figure out how Kabbalah Harris and the Democrats got all that campaign cash. Where did that money come from? This it has to be investigated. But President Trump is all President Trump is doing here.

First of all, he's putting Marco Rubio, the Secretary of State, in charge of USAID. And he's saying we're freezing this until we can get a full accounting of every single taxpayer dollar. But people are gonna die. They're gonna die. The little the little Venezuelans are gonna die.

And the mangy dogs are gonna die. They got it. Die. Yeah, I don't think so. I don't think they are going to die.

Yeah. I think the problem here is that they're yanking money out of our bank accounts and they're funding all of this perverted crap. And, ladies and gentlemen, we can't afford that. We can't afford anything. As a matter of fact, We can't even take care of our own people.

So why are we spending any money? We have veterans that are languishing for months waiting for doctors' appointments, and you're telling me that we're going to be funding $32,000 for a pornographic comic book for men who think they're women in Poirot? I don't think so.

So, until we can start taking care of all of our people and our responsibilities, we only I'm sorry, we got to put up a little sign that says America is closed. We'll get back to you when we get our financial house in order. But right now, we're closed, closed for business, closed for renovation. All right, we got to take a break here: 901-260-5926. Do you believe it is unkind?

Because that's the argument here: that we are going to cause deaths around the world. And if we don't continue giving these people money, they're going to turn on the United States of America and they won't be our friend anymore.

Well, I folks, I'm I'm telling you, if you've got to pay somebody to be your friend. Yeah. That person is not a friend. They call that prostitution. 901-260-5926.

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All right, RFK Jr.'s nomination is going before the entire Senate now, which is great news. We understand all the Republicans on the Senate Finance Committee voted in favor of RFK Jr.

Now, a lot of the pro-life community, they're very upset about this because RFK Jr. is not pro-life. I get that. He is pro-abortion or whatever. But the the r the reality is RFK Jr.

is not going to Health and Human Services to advance his own agenda. He is going to advance Donald J. Trump's agenda, and that agenda is very clearly pro life.

So you need to understand that a lot of these pro life organizations out there, they are grifters and they are perpetrating a fraud on you. And many of them don't even want abortion to be outlawed because that would mean the end of their cash cows. It needs to be said, but it's true.

So again, when you hear this nonsense about, well, Trump is really pro abortion. No, he's not. President Trump in one of his first executive orders actually banned any federal dollars from being used to fund abortions.

So I don't know where folks are coming from with this nonsense, but it's simply not true. And we are going to use this platform to debunk all of this fake news coming out against President Trump and the policies. By the way, we can report this from our friends over at CBS News. Trump is going to sign an executive order today withdrawing the US from the UN Human Rights Council, and we're also going to be cutting funding for the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees. And I say, good for you, Mr.

President. Good for you. 901-260-5926 is our telephone number. That's 901-260-5926.

So I'm going to play some audio here. And get your take on this. There is a congresswoman. Her name is Jasmine Crockett. And she does not like all of you white folks out there, especially you white men.

So she went on CNN. And what got me here? And look, I don't know if Jasmine Crockett is a bigot or a racist. And I should probably qualify that. I don't know the woman's heart.

I know she's ignorant, but I can't tell you if she's a racist or a bigot. But I want you, my concern here is what CNN did. They did not challenge this woman at all.

So anyway, Crockett is very upset because President Trump is cracking down on DEI and he's getting rid of DEI within the federal government. Cut number six. I am tired of the white tears. Listen, if you are competent, you are not concerned. When I walk into Congress every single day, you know why I don't feel away and why you can't make me doubt who I am?

It's because I know that I had to work 10 times as hard as they did just to get into the seat. When you look and you compare me to Marjorie Taylor Greene or me to Lauren Boebert, there is no comparison. And that is the life. That we have always lived, so the only people that are crying are the mediocre white boys that have been beaten out by people that historically have had to work so much harder. This is why they don't want us to have education.

This is why they are trying to literally say we won't fund the HBCUs because they know that if they've already gone after affirmative action and they're saying, you know what, don't allow them to come into, say, these PWIs, as we call them. Don't allow them to come into these institutions. We know why they created the HBCUs in the first place. It was because they wouldn't allow us into the white institutions. And so now they're not allowing us in.

And now they're saying, you know what, we're also going to defund the HBCUs. You know why? Because they don't want any more Kamala Harris's. They don't want any more Jasmine Crocketts. But I got news for them.

I don't care what they do. We will fight to the end to make sure that we get our due. Because again, if you want to talk about the people that shouldn't be in this country, Country, you probably need to look in the mirror because the last time I checked, the Native Americans whose summer ice have been rounding up, or the Puerto Ricans who are absolutely Americans. Listen, the only people that came and colonized this place are your ancestors, Trump. B Boy, who you calling boy?

Shut your mouth, woman! What is she talking about?

So, look, Jasmine Crockett is from Texas, and I don't know what you people are doing down there in the Lone Star State, but you got to get that figured out.

So this woman would have you believe That she grew up in the era of slavery, that folks were out there picking cotton and sitting on the back of the bus. This woman was born in 19 freaking 81. 1981. They were making rampant hip-hop music back in '81. Oprah was doing pretty well in 81.

The NBA was doing pretty darn good. What is this woman talking about? She's acting as if, and literally, there's an entire generation of Congress babes like this one, and they're out there suggesting that back in the 19, I don't know, 70s and 80s and 90s, that black people were still slaves in this country. It is insane. And then she goes on to attack mediocre white boys.

Let me say something about this. If any white man has. Had gone on CNN and said what she said about black people, or no, I guess you could say that about Asian Americans or Hispanics and get away with it, but you can't say it against black folk. If a white congressman had gotten on CNN and said exactly what she said, He would have been forced out of office. Forced out of office.

He would have been removed from society. What this woman said, and by the way, that's not even the half of it. We've got more we'll play when we come back after the break. My question is: does this woman need to be censured? By Congress.

For those racist remarks, I don't know if she's a racist, but what she said is flat-out racism. 901-260-5926. That's 901-260-5926.

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Well, on top of that, you had the Palestinians, and they were getting, what, $50 million for condoms? But we have some good news, ladies and gentlemen. Apparently, there is an Israeli company. They were in the business of making these cell phone devices, and now they're in the business of making condoms, especially for the Palestinians.

So all's well that ends well. Welcome back, everybody. Good to have you with us. 901-260-5926 is our telephone number. So, Jasmine Crockett, she is the Congress gal from Texas, 43 years old, grew up during slavery times back in the 1980s.

And Mm-hmm. You can't make this stuff up. You really can't.

So, um yeah.

So she was on CNN last night and she really does. She's got a problem with all you white guys out there. She really hates President Trump. Anyway, Jasmine Crockett made a comment, made a statement, and I had Ben Teeter. Look into this.

And we'll get Dieter in here to help us understand what he discovered momentarily. Jasmine Crockett is out there. Saying that most of the crime in America and most of the violent criminals in America are actually. White supremacists. Let's take a listen.

I mean, this is very simple. We right now have a white supremacist that is sitting in the White House. He is backed up by other white supremacists. And if you really want to know who the criminals are in this country, you can Google it. You don't have to trust me.

But the people that commit 80% of the most violent crimes in this country are white supremacists. Yet, for whatever reason, they sit and they serve at the pleasure of the president. They are the ones that were there on January 6th, tearing our democracy down physically. And now we have them tearing us down right here from within.

Well Well, we did Google it. Miss Crockett, because we uh we don't trust you and In my hands right now, ladies and gentlemen, are the results of our findings. Is it true, as Miss Crockett alleged, that white supremacists are responsible for eighty percent of the most violent crimes in America?

Well, the answer to that question is emphatically no. That is not according to Todd Stearns. That is according to the FBI, the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Uh In twenty nineteen, ninety one percent ninety one percent of black homicide victims in the United States were killed by other black people. ninety one percent.

That's according to the FBI. In 2019, 54.7% of all homicide victims were black or African American, and 91% of those victims were killed by other black people, according to the FBI. According to the FBI, homicide is the leading cause of death for young black men. According to the FBI, blacks are twelve percent of the population, but they commit about sixty percent of the cr homicides, shootings and robberies nationwide. This is according to the FBI.

According to the FBI data, black individuals between the ages of 10 and 43 experience a homicide death rate that is approximately 13 times higher compared to their white counterparts. 13 times higher, and they're being killed by other blacks at 13 times higher. Are you understanding the reality of the situation here, ladies and gentlemen? And this is not to cast dispersions on anybody. Because it is a great horrifying thing.

When people are killed, I don't care if you're black or white or Hispanic, Asia doesn't matter. That's a horrible thing. But for Congress Gal Crockett to come out on CNN and for CNN to not even refute any of this, I mean, they They didn't say anything. At all. If a Republican gets up there and says, Oh, what a lovely day.

How dare you say it's a lovely day, sir? Where is your evidence?

Well, the sun is shining. How do you know the sun is shining, sir? Where's your proof? But meanwhile, somebody like Jasmine Crockett can get up there and spew this racist bile on national television where three people are watching? Come on.

Come on, man. But that's the reality of it. And I hate it for people like Jasmine Crockett because something happened to her and her upbringing. that made her to be a very spiteful, hateful woman. I don't know what that is.

I would recommend maybe she needs to go find the Lord. Maybe that's the answer here. But back to the whole issue, and what she's upset about is that we're doing away with diversity, equity, and inclusion. And instead, we're going back to meritocracy. Are you capable of doing the job that you have been hired to do?

Are you the most qualified person to do that job? And I don't care. I don't care if you're Black, white, whatever. Purple. Polkadot it?

Well, I my concern of get concerned if you're Polka nodded. And if you're purple, that means your breathing has probably been cut off.

So I would be concerned there. But if you're black or white, what do I care? As long as you're the best, let's say you're having brain surgery. I just want the best doggone brain surgeon out there. Let's just say that.

I don't know. You're flying into Reagan. National Airport from Wichita. I want the best doggone air traffic controller sitting there. guiding my plane and making sure that a Black Hawk helicopter that was piloted by an events planner at the White House doesn't crash into my airplane.

I would just I want the best and the brightest. I don't care if they're male, female, I don't you shouldn't be we shouldn't be concerned about those things. But you see, the diversity, equity and inclusion theology, and that's really what it is, this is a it's a perverted religion. That said, a person's race, a person's sex. Matters more than their actual abilities to do the job.

And may I say something about the HBCUs for a moment? I know Jasmine Crockett's out there and saying, oh, you know, we still have slaves in America. I get that. I understand why she's saying it. It's a lie, of course.

It was A Republican, Abraham Lincoln, who emancipated the slaves. It was Republicans in Congress who Passed the Civil Rights Act. It was Republicans who rose up and fought the Democrat-controlled KKK. But I get why she's doing that. I mean, she belongs to a political party that has never repented, never apologized for their positions on slavery or Jim Crow or the KKK.

They've never done that. the party that Jasmine Crockett pledges her allegiance to. But the reality is this. She says that Minorities in America have been put upon. Hi.

It's just not true. The mere mention of an HBCU, you have universities that are specifically designated for people because of their skin color. You've got television networks that are entirely designed. to accommodate people specifically because of their skin color. You actually have beauty pageants right now.

And if you're if you're a white person, you would not be allowed to enter these contests, these beauty pageants, because they're only for people of a specific skin color. And during the Obama administration and during the Biden administration, you had white air traffic controllers, people who went through, they passed their test, they were the most qualified individuals. And according to the federal lawsuit that was filed by Adam Laxalt from Nevada, according to that lawsuit, the only reason those people were not hired was because of the color of their skin. They were white. And in public schools around this country since the days of Barack Hussein Obama, you had a generation of school children, and those children were taught in our taxpayer funded schools.

That They were put upon because of the color of their skin. That black children. Were oppressed and the white children were the oppressors. We got a generation of those kids that are going to be coming up into the workplace very soon. How do you think that's going to work out?

So when you've got somebody like Jasmine Crockett coming on CNN and blasting white people, and saying that she's tired of you white people. She says that White people are the most dangerous people in America. How do you think that Turns out, ladies and gentlemen, I got big problems with that. And we've got to confront this stuff head on. And I'm telling you, if you don't, then you're going to become what we have become in Memphis, Tennessee.

Which is everything is about race here. Even stuff that has nothing to do about race, everything is about race here. And it's because nobody bothered to stand up and have the hard conversations and to tell people like Jasmine Crockett's put the shut to the up man. Put the shut to the up. 901-260-5926 is our telephone number.

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We did a little bit of checking here on Jasmine Crockett, born in 1981. I said she was from Texas. She's from Missouri. I want to read this to you. This is coming from.

The Mary Institute and St. Louis Country Day School.

So, this is where. the Congress gal did her studies. She went to high school there. And again, Jasmine Crockett is talking about how she grew up in a time in America where racism was rampant and so forth and so on. The tuition to go to the Saint Louis Country Day School thirty four thousand nine hundred and ten dollars a year.

That's Yeah, I'd be put upon too if it cost that much money to get a high school diploma. But yeah, this is the annual tuition over $34,910.

Now we did some Investigation, and it turns out that the tuition covers not only books and learning, but also lunch and snacks. And who doesn't love a good snack?

So there you go. That's who Jasmine Crockett is. Or let's go to the phone lines: 901-260-5926. Dan in New Hampshire. Hi, Dan.

What's on your mind? Yes, it was economic suicide for Justin Trudeau in Canada, thinking he's crippled Canada's energy sector. He's driven Canada to record high inflation. and dec decline in man manufacturing. And Mexico is deeply tied into US manufacturing and also auto production.

So when you think of it. Canada and Mexico was in no position to pick a fight with their most important trade partner. The U.S. China and Mexico depends far more on US then the US depends on them. 75% of Canada's exports Go to the US.

Mexico sends eighty percent of their exports to the U. S. while only 14% of U. S. exports go to Canada.

Now, Dan, did you have a problem with you know because even the Wall Street Journal attacking Donald Trump on the on these tariffs. Did you have a problem with the tariffs? Absolutely not. I'm for the tariff. Like it's a even Peter Navarro talked about it, how it's a tool to get the other country To to bend the knee, you know, the the countries against us, to bend their knees.

You got Canada charging the United States. 270. percent on a tariff in Canada on milk, butter, cheese, meat, et cetera, and eggs.

So uh it it's a tool to bring these countries under control because they're they they're killing us. They're killing us. And we should we're not charging them anything. It's crazy. No, no, no.

I hear you. I hear you, Dan. And you're right, it is a tool. And, you know, again, this is a 30-day freeze that Trump has implemented. But I think Trump did this.

In part to show the presidents of Canada and Mexico that he's serious about it and he will do it.

So, again, that forces them back to the table, which is something they were not going to do. Dan, I got to leave it there. Thank you for calling in, and thank you for listening. Let's go to Germantown, Tennessee. Murph for listening to us on KWAM.

Hi, Murph. What's going on? Hey, doctor Storms. Great to hear from you. Thanks for taking the call.

Yours truly grew up in the St. Louis, Missouri area. Spent thirty two years there. Country Day High School uh Country Day Prep School. There are no poor people going to Country Day.

They're probably their most distinguished alumni is probably Joe Buck.

So I'm Cardinal baseball games for fifty years. And I think Joe is still on CBS or somebody. And then the This mis this Representative Jackson keeps ranting and raving about this the dreaded R word is racism and I don't know what where they keep coming up well, I know exactly. She's at the Jesse Jackson venue. that as long as you keep spouting that kind of Uh vermin.

The black community is going to elect you, or she's from a predominantly black. Area. Hey, Murph, take a wild guess where she did her collegiate work, my friend. You're going to love this one. There's no tell Harvard maybe or Yale or there's no telling.

A little closer to home. How about Rhodes College?

Okay. Wow, Country Day High School and Rhodes College. That's what, probably five hundred thousand dollars worth of education. I wonder if she's paid it back.

Well, it's a great question. But I always find this fascinating, Murph, that these folks are out there moaning and groaning, and yet they're coming from the other side of the tracks, and the other side it's where all the mansions and the highfalutin folk are. Yes, sir. One commentary and observation, and this may touch a nerve. But it's not a color question anymore, Dr.

Storms. It's a culture question. The numbers you just read. Previous to this dot. This segment.

of the murders and the and the assaults and the and the Ragtag lifestyle in the black community is the primary reason. that there's just discontent. I I went to a graduate school course when I was teaching school. And the speaker was talking about the black fem the American black female. A desire Unconditional love.

Because they can't get it at home. And that's why the Birth rate of unmarried kids, unmarried women in the black community is so high.

Well, Murph, I got to leave it there. Computer's going to cut us off, but I will say this: we've got to get it fixed. That has to be addressed, and the killing has to stop. And this racist rhetoric, it's got to stop too. All right, hang tight, everybody.

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Well, hello, everybody. Welcome to the Todd Stearns Radio Show. Great to have you with us today. Our telephone number is 901-260-5926. That's 901-260-5926 if you want to weigh in on the big stories of the day.

The Borders are Tom Holman. Is about to throw down with the governor of New Jersey. We're going to get to that story in just a little while. Also, If you've been watching the Super Bowl ads, you've noticed something very interesting going on with body positivity.

So we'll chat about that a little bit later on. There is a disturbing story, and it's just. Really shocking. Just really shocking. Coming out of Idaho, which Quite frankly, you would think is a bastion of conservatism, of religious liberty, but that is certainly not the case within the Idaho Army National Guard.

They are now facing a lawsuit. After they removed an officer from his command because he is a Christian.

Now, this gentleman, Major David Worley, is being represented by Liberty Council, and the founder of Liberty Council, the great attorney Matt Staver, joins us on the Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line. Matt, good to have you with us today. Good to be with you. Good to be back. All right, so take us through what happened here with Major Worley and the Idaho Army National Guard.

Well, Major Worley is a member of the Idaho National Guard in twenty twenty three, a subordinate senior enlisted man under his command who claims to be homosexual and is ideologically opposed to Worley's Christian beliefs filed a complaint of discrimination against him. And The basis of the complaint was individual expression that Worley did on his private social media. Not anything as a member of the National Guard, not on behalf of the National Guard, not as a commander, not to anybody within the National Guard, just something that he posted. And what he posted. was he was Saying that there's only two genders, which obviously is the policy, there's only two sexes, male and female.

He said that he was raising concern about the so-called drag queen story hours. and pornographic material for minors in public libraries and the medical mutilation of gender confused children. All of those are protected speech. They occurred off duty in his private capacity. And before he You know, had anything to do with this particular command level of this individual who was subordinate.

And as a result of seeing those posts at some point after they were posted, filed a complaint. And you would think that the complaint would just simply be dismissed. But he says, oh, these Uh Post, they threatened me and they're on make an unsafe work environment.

Well, they had nothing to do with this. All right, let me back up here for just a second.

So he made these comments. Was this on a social media platform or social media? All right. And he made these comments before he was promoted to his command post. That's correct.

Okay, all right.

So they're older posts that are on his on his social media.

So he gets promoted to this command post. And then one of the people underneath him that's homosexual. Finds these posts that were from sometime in the past and files a complaint. And says those posts make an unsafe work environment.

Well, they had nothing to do with work.

So you would think that this would be dismissed, but then The National Guard proceeded to open up a full investigation into the complaint. And they concluded that he had Extremist views because he believed that marriage is between one man and one woman, and that these beliefs, these Christian beliefs, were toxic. And therefore, they removed him from his command solely because of his protected political beliefs. But then what they also did is went even further. uh General Packwood Ashley went further.

And they created a policy. That required that every person in command and everyone in the National Guard be reviewed. for their religious beliefs. And if there's anything that is concerning regarding their Christian beliefs or values. That they should not only be removed, but they should not be allowed to become a member of the National Guard.

This is a stunning aspect of this. Just unbelievable.

So, this would be Idaho Army National Guard Brigadier General James Packwood, who is also mentioned in the lawsuit. Is that right? Also, a defender. That's right. Okay.

Wow.

So, and you guys were able to get all of this as you're investigating. Man, I know you've been down these roads many, many times. I've never heard of anything like this before.

Well, we not only we mentioned this and we brought it to the public light, we had sent a demand letter to Governor Brad Little and two Army generals and others regarding this issue, and they haven't done anything.

So we mentioned this. They got very upset that this would be known by the general public. But they didn't back down, and so consequently, we have filed a federal lawsuit.

Now, I am anticipating. That This will be more scrutinized with President Donald Trump as the new Commander in Chief and then Pete Hakeseth as the new Secretary of Defense. The problem that we're seeing here, Todd, is this is the toxic environment of the military under the Biden and also the previous administration of Obama administration Where they have put in place these woke leaders, even at the level of general. And so these woke leaders Have been pushing this kind of nonsense on the military and cleansing the military of people of faith and values and pushing this LGBTQ. This other idea of abortion and this woke ideology, the DEI nonsense that has been hurting our military, and thus the reason why.

In twenty twenty three, they were forty two thousand people below their recruitment targets because of the morale that has tanked in the military. I anticipate that will drastically change. But this is the residual that we're seeing. with this, what we call it, a no Christian commanders policy, and that needs to change. It has to change.

And I think the shocking thing here is that the governor of Idaho, Brad Little, happens to be a Republican. Yeah. Yeah, he does. We thought that this would be an easy lift. Governor Brad Little is a Republican.

He is the head of the National Guard. He can make this. change very quickly. and he has refused to do it. This recently has caught the attention of some of the members of the legislature who have now recently posted about this, and this issue is now going viral.

Not only in Idaho, but in other places.

So Brad Little's weak leadership. And this woke ideology is being revealed. I can tell you. We will stop it. This will end, and we'll have a new day in our United States military.

Matt Staver is the founder of Liberty Council, and he joins us today on the Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line. Matt, have you been able to ascertain if any other Christians have been punished under these policies?

Well, we're looking at that right now. And we're getting other people now that this has become known who are speaking out and are giving us information. We knew, for example, when we were representing the men and women in the military during the COVID shot mandates, That this wokeness had basically infiltrated and infected the military from the Department of Defense all the way down to. to all the six branches of the military. And that was causing extreme damage.

And causing lack of morale. I mean, we had a 39-year-old member of the United States Army, and frankly, if you think about it, What has been in the news recently? branches related to the Army, whether it's a terrorist or whether it's this particular situation, this is the Army National Guard. The Army, believe it or not, has been one of the worst offenders. It's not the only one.

There's wokeness throughout all six branches. But the Army has been a terrible offender, and they were one of the worst during COVID. They were misrepresenting, they frankly presented lies, even in open court. about what they were doing to the men and women in the military. We have a thirty-nine year veteran.

who was a Purple Heart recipient. Um and he was pushed out because he's a flight surgeon. And he refused to follow the mandate of just saying, look, inject every person, don't give them informed consent. And they pushed this 39-year-old veteran out of the United States Army.

So this problem is systemic in the Army, and that needs to change. No, you're absolutely right. And I have no doubt that Pete Hegseth is going to be able to get a lot of that cleaned up. But the idea that something like this could be happening in Idaho of all places, you wonder if other issues in other National Guard units are happening around the country.

Well, I'm sure it is because you have this brigadier general here that's over parts of this National Guard. But the what you have is a mentality that has been in place and it's been growing since Obama, where they have removed some of these high ranking individuals and they have put these other woke individuals in line And then, if you want to get up to that higher rank, you have to follow the Pied Piper. And so it has created this. level that's over all the branches of the military.

So it really doesn't matter what state you're in. Even conservative states are being infected by this because of the command policies and the wokeness that has grown like a cancer. Wow.

All right. How is the Major doing, and what is he doing right now? You know, he is doing well. Obviously, he loves God. He loves this country.

He'd rather not have this distraction. And that's disconcerting. Because You know, he gives his life. uh for this and he's willing to lay down his life for our freedom. And yet his higher command is Saying that you are an extremist, your ideology must be rooted out.

And the root ideology is Because you're a Christian, because you don't believe. in multiple, you know, a hundred different so-called genders. And you don't believe that. Minors should be cutting off healthy body parts because they could so-called have gender confusion and change their sex. That is not possible.

He's got these common beliefs that are rooted in history and in reality. And for that, he's being called an extremist in that he has no place. I mean, this is a hard thing for these people to accept. You have no place. in this military operation because of your Christian values.

That is disturbing to the core. And that's what's difficult for Major Worley and other men and women in the Armed Services to face. Wow.

Well, Matt, I'm so glad that you guys are on the case. I know you'll be joining me tonight on Newsmax TV, and we'll continue the conversation there. Matt, where can people go if they want to get more information about Major Worley and the other cases that you guys have? Todd, they can go to Liberty Council's website, very simple, lc.org. That is lc.org.

All right, Matt, thanks a lot. We will see you on TV later tonight. Thank you. Good to be with you, and look forward to seeing you again. All right.

There you go, folks. Matt Staver, founder of Liberty Council. He's also the chairman of that great religious liberty law firm. This is really stunning. During the course of their investigation, they literally found a no Christians in command policy there within the Idaho Army National Guard.

And I was surprised to hear Matt say that The Army was the chief offender for so many years. It had actually been the Air Force that was advancing a lot of this woke gender ideology. But according to Matt, they were very concerned that evangelical Christians, and this is how they described it within the lawsuit: that evangelical Christians were treated as extremists within the Idaho Army National Guard. Understand where all of this is coming from. This is coming from the woke Pentagon, which goes all the way back.

to Barack Obama's two terms in office during that eight-year policy, there was or eight-year term, there was a policy to purge any general who was patriotic and Christian. Yeah. And this all happened during my years working at Fox News. And I had a lot of sources within the military sending me a lot of documents. And one of them was a paper that actually described evangelical Christian groups like Tony Perkins and the Family Research Council, American Family Association, as domestic hate groups.

The FBI also working off of that same intel, which came from the Southern Poverty Law Center.

So, some very dangerous stuff has been happening in this country. You may not be aware of it. You may not understand how it all impacts your life, but it does. And this is a manifestation of that.

So, we're going to be following this case. And it looks as though Major Worley's got a good case here. And by the way, it was an innocuous post on social media about how he doesn't think it's right that our public libraries are turned into drag queen shows. For Drag Queen Story Hour. He said nothing offensive, nothing inappropriate.

Yeah. But he was removed from command. And it looks to me like it was a setup where you had the gay subordinate who went out there, Googled his soon-to-be commander, and found all this stuff. And then said, Oh, I feel violated. I've been victimized, a toxic workplace.

And the next thing you know, the major's gone. All right, got to take a break here, folks. Your reaction to this: what a crazy story. 901-260-5926. That's 901-260-5926.

This is the Todd Stern Show. All right, so. New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy. Apparently, he has been harboring illegals. At least that's what he said yesterday.

Let's take a listen. Tammy and I were talking about. I don't want to get into too much detail. But there's someone in our broader universe whose immigration status is not yet at the point that they are trying to get it to, And we said, you know what, let's have her live at our house above our garage. And good luck to the feds coming in to try to get her.

All right, that's what he said yesterday.

So we all heard it, right? Ben Dieter, you heard him say that they were harboring an illegal in the garage. Here's my question. Why not give the illegal a nice room that's air conditioned, heated? It gets really cold in the wintertime.

And you're going to you're really, you're going to stick the illegal in the garage? That doesn't seem very hospitable to me. I'm just saying.

So anyway, Sean Hannity asked Border Czar Tom Holman about this. Hey, mister Border Czar, we've got the governor of New Jersey and he's harboring illegals in the garage.

Well I think the government's pretty uh foolish saying what he said because I gotta know of it. We'll let it go. We'll look into it. And if he's knowingly harboring concealing an illegal alien, That's a violation of Title VIII, United States Code 1324. I would seek prosecution, or the Secretary would seek prosecution.

So maybe he's buffing. If he's not, we'll deal with that. And as far as stealing sanctuary cities, well, get in line because the Trump administration is going to do that already. Sanctuary cities are sanctuaries for criminals. There's one example, right?

If the young sanctuary cities in New York City. If they would have gave us over the the killer of Lake and Riley when he got arrested in New York City for endangering a child, he would have been in jail. They would never have killed Lake and Riley. Sanctuary cities are responsible for deaths of thousands. thousands of young children throughout my career and we're going to sue them we're going to hold them and look if he's got to go supreme court that's what president trump wanted to do he will end sanctuary cities All right, so there you have it.

Tom Holman said, Well, okay, if the New Jersey governor is openly admitting that he's harboring illegal, we'll be there. Just give us the address and we'll be there lickety split.

So then As soon as Tom Holman said that, because you heard the governor say, Well, I'd like to see him try.

Okay. Well, as soon as Tom Holman finished his remarks, the governor's office was putting out statements saying, Well, we were just oh, you were just yanking your chain. We're just we're just joshing you. We, yeah, the governor doesn't have any illegals in the garage. No, they're out back mowing the grass and cleaning the house.

That's where they are. Jeez, Alou. Folks. Trump ain't playing around. He means business.

901-260-5926. We'll be right, Penny. All right, folks. Again, 5 o'clock Eastern, the Todd Stern show on Newsmax.

So be sure to watch. We have a great lineup. Also, we are expecting President Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu to hold a joint press conference. That will happen during my show tonight.

So you'll want to be sure to watch that as well. I want to go right away to our Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line. Honored to have Congressman Mike Ruley joining us from Ohio's 6th Congressional District. Congressman, hope you're doing good today. Good afternoon, Todd.

How are we doing? Doing good, doing good. I got to tell you, I'm winded, Congressman. I knew that we were going to be winning. I didn't realize we're going to be winning this much this quickly in DC.

I hope you're not tired of it yet because he warned you about this. He said you were going to get tired of winning, and in your voice, I'm not tired yet, Todd. I'm going to keep winning. Yeah, no, I definitely do. You know what it is?

I'm out of shape. That's a problem, Congressman. God bless that. Look, it's so fun. And what I love about Elon and his Doche team is that they are going in there and rooting out a lot of this waste.

Were you surprised at the amount of waste they've uncovered so far? No, it's you know, nobody spends your money better than somebody else. And when you have your own money and you have a budget, You know, like I've always said, like, if you made, say, $75,000 and your boss says, I'm going to cut you by $5,000, you're going to make $70,000. You and your wife would figure it out. Not the US government.

All we do is print more money. And just spend your money and destroy your kids, destroy your grandkids' dreams. And God forbid we even have great grandkids, because these are monstrous people. They don't care that you work. 50, 60 hour work week for 40 years, and you don't even have a chance to have a retirement because you die of cancer.

All they want you to do is keep working so they can spend your money. I mean, Todd, sometimes enough is enough. I am so glad Elon's doing this. I actually got a chance yesterday to spend some time with Vivek and JD Vance, and they're thrilled at the job. I mean, we're just going to keep cutting this fat until there's no fat left.

I'm curious about that, by the way. You mentioned Vivek. Just a slight turn towards Ohio politics. My senator, I'm from originally from Tennessee, Marsha Blackburn, saying that Elon would make a great governor of your state. What are the rumblings there in Ohio about Ramaswamy's future?

Well, the bank is a friend of mine. I think he's an amazing guy. I think he is so exciting with his creativity and he's a proven leader, a proven administrator. He is definitely going to be running for governor. And I think you're going to have a race.

You're going to have a race probably between him, David Yost, who's the current Attorney General, and probably Robert Sprague, who is our U.S. excuse me, I stand corrected, our Ohio Treasurer. All three are good guys, but there's only one Vivek, and I mean, he's cut right from the trunk cloth. I think the flavor in Ohio is really excited about him. I think it's a little too soon to call the race.

But I mean, it was a, it was, you know, that song, I think it's ACDC, Thunderstruck. That's what happened to the Buckeyes. The Buckeyes won the national championship, and they thought, oh, my God, am I thunderstruck? But then the Vec throws his hat in there. I mean, it's on like Donkey Kong in Ohio.

Okay, aside from dropping Donkey Kong and ACDC references, this is pretty epic. We've got to win the culture awards, Pod. We've got to win these cultural awards. No, you're right. And we do.

And, you know, Republicans, and I happen to be one of them, we're kind of known as being a little stuffy at times. And I like to, you know, I like to hear real folks talking about real stuff. And you, by the way, in addition to being a lawmaker, you're also a musician. Is that right? I am a musician.

I was in Boston, Massachusetts, a really big grunge band in the early nineties. And I'm a butcher. I break down cattle and I break down carcass lamb and carcass hogs. My And we've had grocery stores in Ohio since 1917, so I was born in it. In fact, over the weekend, I was ringing register, cutting meat and taking people's groceries out.

In fact, on Sunday after church, I went up and I cleaned the dumpster. It keeps me grounded. It keeps me on pulse of the public. And I still rock and roll whenever I get a chance. That's awesome.

And I know we have so many farmers, especially in the southern states, that listen to this show while they're out on their tractors.

So we'll give them a shout out. You know, Congressman, you're pretty new. I mean, you won that special election in 2024. What's been your observation? What's maybe the one surprise that you've discovered up on Capitol Hill?

Well, I think it's the magnitude of the operation. I was in the Ohio Senate for six years, and I was honored to be there. I was the only Republican elected from Youngstown, Ohio into the Ohio Senate. But the scale. You know, I'm just going to give you an example.

In the Ohio Senate, we went on General Assembly. It's about $89 to $91 billion to operate the state of Ohio. I was very fortunate enough to land a seat on ENC, Energy and Commerce. And Chairman Guthrie is just Brett is an amazing guy, but he scolded me. I mean, we have about 70, 73% of the U.

S. budget comes through E and C. And it's 2.9 trillion. And in fact, there was another guy, he says, well, wait a minute. We were going over numbers.

He goes, is that in millions or billions? And the vice chair tees, he said, My friends, especially you younger guys new on committee, we never talk millions. We talk billions and trillions.

So I think that statement right there was very humbling for someone like me. You know, in the grocery stores, I worry about pennies and dollars to try to make a living on one and a half percent net. I'm just not used to this scale, but I'm learning quick. And God tumbled me enough. I know our time on earth is short.

So I'm trying to listen to my mom, and she always taught me to speak less and listen more.

So that's what I'm doing right now. I love this, folks. Congressman Mike Ruley from Ohio joining us on the Patriot Mobile News Make Their Line, one of the good guys, one of the new guys in Congress. You know, it's interesting. I was reading something that our friends over at the House Freedom Caucus put out.

And they pointed out they had been trying for years to slash USAI funding, but they never could get the support of their own party. 114 other Republicans teamed up with the Democrats to kill it. I think from coming from the view from the pew here, that's the frustration is that we need to get all the Republicans on the same team working towards the same common goal, which is to cut down on our spending.

Okay, okay.

Well, Todd, I'm not sure if you pulled up the voting records over the summer. It sort of sounds like you're probably already on par.

So, you know, I didn't run for office until my late 30s. I'm 55 now.

So I had a whole other life before I got involved in politics, did the school board, did six years in the Ohio Senate and about nine months in Congress. I want to talk for a second about Ukraine funding.

So Ukraine's funding and my going on I don't know, eight years in elected government, State House and here. It's one of the hardest things I had to vote on. I want to explain. I have we have three stores, and one of the stores is right across the street from a huge Ukrainian church. And these people are the salt of the earth.

They're absolutely amazing people. But when you're an elected official, you're elected to represent everybody. I represent anywhere between eight to nine hundred thousand people. I tour my district, which is about four hours from north to south, And the number one thing I've heard in the last year, with slides running from primary, is I am upset about Ukraine funding. And I asked them, why are you upset?

And a lot of times, people would give me an example. The U. S. Marine Corps operates on fifty two billion dollars a year, but yet we gave two hundred billion dollars to Ukraine and Zielinski doesn't even know where it is.

So I think it's either four or five times I voted against Ukraine funding. And that's a hard vote sometimes because I have to look at these people literally across the street from where I work that are the Ukrainian church. And they say to me, Why did you do that? And I said, I represent 900,000 people. And they said that, you know, what matters?

America first. America first. You walk the walk. Just don't talk that bullcrap and say that you're in America first, and then you think it's okay to get $200 billion while I have veterans starting in the streets. Why have farmers giving the farms we possess?

I we enough is enough. I mean you're either America first or you're not.

So like, I mean, these are tough votes. And a lot of people just want to go along. And here's something else. I'm going to probably share a little too much with you. I got a phone call from a four star general about my boat saying, hey, can we go over your boat?

And I'm like, I would love to. And we talked it through. And he says, people think Zelensky wife gets a Lamborghini and stuff and it's not that. And I said, okay, well, that's fair. And he says, well, it's only arms and stuff.

And I said, well, that's fair, but still, It's $200 billion. It's not free.

So, I mean, you could. paint it up and fancy it up and dusty it up any way you want, but it's still two hundred billion dollars of your tax working. I mean, how about if you if you make twenty five thousand, your wife makes twenty five thousand, you're making fifty thousand dollars a year, you're killing yourself, you don't even have the money to send your kid to Ohio State. You want to hear two hundred billion dollars going to Ukraine? No, you know what you want to hear?

You want to hear that President Trump is going to go in office. You already did it. If you remember, if you go back in your mind's eye, President Trump, when he was running for this office right now in this term, they said, what is one of the first things you got to do? He said, You know what I'm going to do? I'm going to solve this Ukrainian war and I'm going to solve it on day number one.

And they thought it was funny.

So they go to Moscow, all the reporters, and they found Putin. And they said, you know what? Former President Trump's running his mouth saying he's going to end the war on day number one. What would your message be to President Trump about that? He puts his hand up like a fake phone.

He says, Have him call me.

Okay, let's fast forward a month after that. Zielinski's at the UN. He tells his plan, let's make a pit stop in Mar-a-Lago and let's take care of it. That's what happens when you have normal people coming. Do you know what that Ukrainian war did?

It killed all the twenty and thirty year olds in Ukraine and Russia. We raised a whole generation for what, the great military industrial complex get in payday? I think not. No, Congressman, I hear you, and I respect that. And the fact that, quite frankly, I suspect when the investigation is done, I would not be surprised if it turns out the bulk of that money that was supposed to go to Ukraine actually ended back up here in America in Democrat Party coffers.

And that has to be investigated. You can't just say $100 and some odd billion dollars just disappeared. That makes no sense to me. Congressman, we could go on and on, and we're going to get you back on the show. Really love how you think.

I know we've got a lot of listeners in your congressional district, and we appreciate you coming on the show today.

Next time we'll talk about deportation, which is the best subject of them all. Huge. I'm telling you, it's just too much winning too soon, Congressman. Todd, I'm a huge fan of your show. I have been for years.

God bless you. I pray for you every day, my friend. Thank you very much, Congressman. Great hearing from you, sir. Congressman Mike Ruley, everybody, and all you folks in Youngstown, this is your guy.

And he's a former punk rocker. This is fascinating. He is believed to be the first punk rocker actually elected to Congress. And as you heard, and I know Ben Dieter got excited when he heard that he was a butcher because Dieter does all those beef part things. I don't.

What do you call him? I don't know, the liver and all that kind of stuff.

So, anyway, good guy. A lot of common sense. And can you imagine the now that is a bold man? He just told you that his congressional district, he's got tons of Ukrainians, but even the people in his own district were saying, hey, you need to think long and hard before we start funding this war in Ukraine. All right, got to take a break here.

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One more interesting thing about this guy. He has a policy on his staff. I know a lot of you folks, you call your congressional office and you never get a call back.

So his policy is this. If a staff member fails to return a call within twenty four hours, they get one strike. If it happens, they get three strikes and then they're out.

So that's how he runs his congressional office. I got to respect that.

So, the good news is, you folks in Youngstown, when you're calling his office, you're getting a call back. We'll be right back. All right, I didn't.

So, the congressman there, Ben Dieter, he owns a grocery store. The guy's a butcher.

So he knows about trimming the fat from the budget. Maybe we need more farmers, like Thomas Massey. Thomas Massey is a farmer. That's true. And Tim Burchett is something.

He's from rural Tennessee. He's from Tennessee.

So that's close enough. If you're a farmer, run for Congress. I wonder if Jasmine Crockett knows how to hoe a garden.

So, you know, that's what you do. You have the hoe, and you have to, you know, get the rose. That's spelled H-O-E, right? No, H-Yes, H-O-E. H-O.

H-O-E. Yes. H-O-E. It's a garden utensil. I heard she's great at hoeing.

She went to Rhodes College, which is here in Memphis. She did? Yeah. So this is not surprising that she turned out the way she did. Rhodes is a very prestigious, expensive school.

$54,000 a year. And then she went to the Country Day School, which is a very exclusive school in Dallas for her high school years. That's $34,000 a year.

Sounds like slavery to me. Snacks included. But by the way, people are noting on my Twitter feed because I pointed out that she grew up in the oppressed 80s, and people are mentioning that. That blacks were not oppressed in the 1980s.

So it's there was no slavery. As a matter of fact, we went back and we checked, and we can confirm that the slaves were emancipated by Abraham Lincoln, and it was well before 1980. Just want to point that out. And by Republicans. I love that.

It's always the Republicans. Yep. I was listening to you on the morning show talking about this. You know, Valentine's Day is right around the corner. And can I just say they're not even paying me to say this?

But in all seriousness, folks, I want you to write down the following website address. It's called Denstels. Dot com, D I N S T U H L S dot com. It is the oldest candy store. In Memphis, Tennessee.

And Ben Dieter, I know you're a healthy eater. Yeah. But that's the best freaking chocolate. And they do these things called chocolate-covered strawberries. Everything is made in-house, everything is homemade.

Unbelievable. If you don't yeah, everybody I feel like has a spin-off on Chocolate covered fruits, which is always a hit or miss. You know, the ladies out there, you like chocolate and you like your fruit. You can't dip everything in chocolate and it turns out what they're able to turn over to their consumers. They put this creamy film around the strawberry and then encase it with a hard shell chocolate.

Which is this perfect insane? I mean, it's so good. They bring them by the station every Valentine's and just knock it out of the park. They do brittle, they do something called Cashew Crunch, which is not a chocolate. I'm not a huge chocolate guy, but I love the cashew crunch.

It folks, I'm telling you, you gotta order some Denstals, and it's a family-owned company. The Dentals founded it back in 1902, and they're still going strong today. And just some of the kindest people, Rebecca Dingtal, and the family, just wonderful people. And anyway, all that to say, while some people are getting like chocolate. There's something you can do at the zoo, and it involves cockroaches.

Well, there's a couple different big stories. I know, right here in Memphis, Tennessee, they have this. Valentine's special, right? We're talking Valentine's dating or dumping. And by dumping, they mean if you have a love that went sour or went from the love of your life to the ex of your life, you can actually order through the Memphis Zoo a digital photo card.

So you're giving your ex a card, and it's a video of one of their big elephants pooping. And you send that to your ex.

So, you can either do it, so you can have the red panda munching on a grape, which is to your love. Yeah. And if you've had a bad breakup, you can send a card, a digital card that has an elephant pooping. This is at the Memphis Zoo.

Well, so it's a better way to dump someone. Like, no pun intended, if you're ready to dump someone, I know you have a lot of young listeners, and maybe they're in a relationship that they don't want to continue, dump them. And you dump them by sending them a video card of an elephant dumping. It's not a scratch and sniff card, is it? No.

Okay, that's good. It's better than there was a zoo down in the Dallas area where you actually send your ex bugs.

So that's actually worth it. That's not good. Yeah. That's not good. I like this better.

So if you're true love, you can send them an adorable video of a red panda munching on a grate. And then if you, or that's Team Red, and then there's Team Pooh. Yep. Hashtag team poo. Are you dating or dumping?

Wow.

You could be doing both. All right. Thank you, Venteeter. Digitals.com. Kind of seems inappropriate now.

We'll be right back, America. Live from the Liberty University Studio in Memphis, Tennessee, it's America's conservative blowtorch. That's right. I love this American. Time.

Stars. All right, I am really surprised by this news coming out of the Christian music world. Hello, everybody. Todd Stearns here. Welcome to hour three of the big show.

Our telephone number: 901-260-5926.

Now, Ben Teter, are you a big K-G Love fan? You know, the Christian music, positive, encouraging? K Love. It's really the Chris Tomlins station. They only play one song over and over and over again.

But anyway, a lot of the Christian artists, they're like the country music artists. They don't like to talk about politics. It makes them very nervous. We just want to sing about Jesus. We love Jesus.

Well, we love Jesus too, but we talk about politics. You know, there's nothing wrong with that. And I would say. I would say that a lot of the Christian music artists are probably closet conservatives, but they're just afraid to say something. Or they would identify as Republicans, but a lot of these people you know are never Trumpers.

Because Trump is an extraordinary person. Because Trump says bad words. You have a lot of people that. They get very uneasy because Trump can curse. It's the main tweets.

Oh, they just trigger me so. There's even some reporters that report for news networks that also get triggered by Trump's language. I mean, are we so past that? He's got a potty mouth, that one. The potty mouth The President of the United States is not decent.

Just poop spewing poop. Anyway, Danny Gokey. Who is, he was on American Idol, right? I think he was on the I get them all confused. Yeah.

He's actually talented. Because the other thing about a lot of these Christian artists is they do the Taylor Swift model and they use auto-tune. I don't want to wreck anybody's dreams with these people. Oh, it's true. But he's good.

It's true. No, he's really good. He's a great guy. Anyway, Danny Goki is coming out in support of Donald Trump. Yes, breaking news.

He said he wrote this on X. I can't believe I'm saying this, but I'm glad they cheated Trump out of the win in the 2020 election. I'm glad they indicted him and tried to bankrupt him because the big moves he's making can only come from a man who's been through hell and back and seen firsthand the corruption. Oh, so not only. No, Todd, you maybe left out the biggest part of this news story.

Not only is he a Trumper, he's a. Election Denier. Because he's saying that they cheated him out of 2020, which is taking it to a whole new. I mean, David Gogie is an election denier. He'll never work in Christian music again.

Have we contacted Skip and Amy? Oh, God. I forget they don't like me. You know who else doesn't like me? This is funny.

You know, the Josh Groban dude. You raise me up. It has curly hair, long curly hair. Yeah, the you raise me up, dude. Yeah.

Yeah, he hates me. He and I got in like a Twitter feud, and I'm like, why, dude, what did I ever do to you? And now every time I hear that song, I get a little like PTSD. You don't raise up? No.

That sounded weird. Can I try that again? Yeah. So, wait, so was it over politics? I don't know.

Oh, wow. It had to have been because I like, I mean, I like Josh Crobin. I don't know what I did. That and The Rock went after me once. The rock?

It's the most random people on my X feed. But you know, this is interesting. Danny Goake raises an interesting point here because that first Trump term, they had a lot of deep staters in there. They had a lot of the establishment Republicans. And if you remember, Trump was really trying to appease a lot of these people.

And now Trump is saying, to hell with that, you rummage through my wife's private underwear drawer. There will be hell to pay. Mm-hmm. I think and Melania, the whole Melania look. She's ready to kill somebody.

Do we have a fashion expert? Do we need a. I'm sure the ladies in the audience. have noticed the shift of the fashion. That's rather sexist of you, actually.

Sorry, okay, guys, too. But yeah, the critics are saying the fashion critics are saying that she went from a very How should I say it? A classy, demure style, elegant in 2016 to 2020. And after her reappearance, after Trump got re-elected, she went dark, not dark-branded, but like all dark, dark clothes, hats. I don't know.

She's coming after somebody. And I don't blame her one bit. I mean, she's trying to, they've tried to destroy her family. They've tried to destroy her, her son. Her husband?

Because Gatha has been killed. Not once, but twice. I'm shocked that the whole Christian community, like, you know, the pastors, all these people, haven't come out and fully disavowed Danny Gokee. Like, we're no longer inviting you to come to our concerts anymore, and we will not be doing the worship and praise stuff on Sunday morning to the Danny Gokey songs. Let's get Donny Gokee on.

You know, and he loves you to death. Oh, yeah, we've had him on a lot. We've got to get him on. And a skeleton guy, John Cooper. John Cooper.

He's a, I mean,. I'm telling you, I think, and honestly, I think what's happening in some of the, like John Rich, for example, even in the country music world, Christian. Christian country music is still fairly conservative. The Christian music world. Is shockingly not.

I mean, Southern Gospel, yeah, that's all rock-solid. But I'm talking about the contemporary Christian auto-tuned crowd. Yeah, they are. Whoa. May I just say something?

Oh, I will say the other group that was incredible: the Newsboys. they would take on culture. Because they would, and oh, yeah, because they would always do the God's Not Dead movies, remember those? And they would always collab and but I think it was is it Michael Tate? He's gone.

He just left. He left. He's just up and left. Can I say about the God? I love the God's Not Dead movies, but after five sequels, you know, God is still not dead again.

He's really not dead. Yeah, it's God's Not Dead 1, God's Not Dead 2, God's Not Deader than before. Yeah. So, anyway, good for you, Danny Gokey. But can I just say something about?

I don't know what it is with the Catholics, but they're packing the pews of the Catholic churches. And it could be that they serve real wine during communion. I don't know. We're doing the grape juice, and it's just not doing it for me in the Baptist church. But there's something happening in the Catholic churches across the country where I don't know what it is.

People are looking for something deeper. And I think when you look at a lot of the evangelical Christian churches, And the non-denominational churches, the ones that look like business parks, the non-denoms. The non-denoms. I'm just wondering if that's really if people are getting the nourishment, the spiritual nourishment from the non-denoms. Or even, dare I say, some of the Baptist churches out there.

Yeah. Again, I don't want to. I mean, I am a Baptist, and it's not like I'm knocking my own faith background, but I got to tell you, some of our Baptist churches really suck. I mean, I don't know what's happened. They're going the way of the Methodist.

And that's terrible. You know, they had the big split. Once a denomination goes woke like that, and by the way, a lot of those denominations, you got the Episcopalians. Barely religious. You've got the Presbyterians.

Wow, yeah, they're a little squishy. Then you've got the Lutherans and the United Council for the Catholic Bishops running Catholic charities. And they're getting all these billions of dollars of our tax money, which is why USAID, they're putting the freeze on USAID. But check this out, Ben. These are the same denominations that every time A you know s like a President Trump shows up at a non-tenom church.

Separation of church and state. How dare you? How dare you? Who do you think you are? These people are out there screaming and hollering about separation of church and state, but under the table, they're getting all of this government cash.

I got a problem with that. Yeah. And same with a lot of these Catholic organizations. Like, we know the Pope is incredibly woke. And a lot of these organizations that, let's face it, they're oftentimes nonprofit.

When I hear the word nonprofit and I hear they are doing work in Mexico or in Central or South America, I always get a little bit uneasy because if you follow the money, typically it means they are getting a lot of money off this issue of immigration. And then maybe it's not so shocking that the Pope is so woke and he's absolutely certain that America cannot have a closed border. All right, can we talk about the Super Bowl for a moment? What's going on with the ads? This is insane.

So, normally, you know, the Super Bowl, that's when you bring out all the great ads. And that was a big part of it: just sitting there watching the commercials, right? Because a lot of times the game would suck and you would just enjoy the commercials.

So, now, apparently, according to this new study, most advertisers in the Super Bowl are bringing a healthier and more female-focused message to this year's big game. And they're going to be spotlighting everything from breast cancer awareness to obesity and body positivity. Are we glorifying obesity or are we saying don't be fat? I'm just concerned we're going to be seeing a bunch of fat women wandering around in bikinis as celebrating their body positivity. I don't know.

That is a fair question. Because now obesity is something to be celebrated and not something to go to Jenny Craig about. Right? Yeah. I I'm not being rude.

I don't, you know. full figured gals. Big boned. You can't say big boned anymore. What this study is showing is that while Americans, it is the one day out of the year which we're all allowed to be gluttons.

Alright, 'cause gluttony gluttony is a sin. But not on Super Bowl Sunday. Because that's when you eat all the good food. You eat your cheese dips, and your platters, and your hot wings. But they want to shame us, or maybe they're just leaning into healthy ads.

No, I don't want a healthy, like a celery ad when I'm eating my hot wings.

So that's going to be interesting if they roll out all of these vegan tofu ads and then also at the same time promoting. Body positivity. Oh, they're bringing back butt light. Oh, that's going to be a big thing. They're trying to, they figure, they think they figured out.

I will tell you, I've seen the commercial, and it's pretty darn funny. And it could possibly swing people back from the Dylan Mulvaney years. But I don't know. I don't know. But anyway, it's a funny ad.

It's the new Bud Light ad.

So they're also going to be promoting several non-alcoholic drinks, something called Killer Cola and Cherry Obituary. Mm-hmm. It's from a water company called Liquid Death. What? Also, something called a probiotic soda called poopy.

No, poppy. Poppy. Yeah, that big one. It makes you go poopy. Yeah.

A large number of Super Bowl advertisers, 17 of the 59, but not anywhere near a majority, are still fast food, snack-related, and alcohol, Taco Bell, Doritos among them, and Budweiser is going to do that. But very few political ads in this year. Apparently, one of the pro-life groups is upset because their ad got booted. Oh.

So do you know what I love is that Mexico had to blink. And they blinked against the President's tariff War and frankly, it was going to be a full-on trade war. And they blinked, and we knew they would. Same with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. And the Democrats were really counting on the Super Bowl.

You know, you had Chuck Schumer holding a beer and guacamole, and he was talking about the press, or really during this press conference, the Super Bowl game. And he said, Look at President Trump. He's coming after our beer. He's coming after those Coronas. And he's coming after your guacamole.

And you're going to feel it this Super Bowl Sunday. And then, of course, the news broke that Mexico is actually going to bow down to President Trump and send troops to the southern border. There will be no increased cost of guacamole in Coronas. Sir. Do you like the chunky guacamole or do you like the more smooth?

I love when they'll make it right in front of you. Oh, that's the only way you can do it. Yeah. Yeah, that's it. I would be curious to know from our audience, what is it, you know, because everybody's going out shopping doing the Super Bowl spread.

Do you watch the Super Bowl time? Oh, absolutely. Oh, yeah.

So that's going to be a big show on Monday. Super Bowl's Sunday. Yeah. But you'll do a recap of all this. Oh, yeah, we'll do a recap.

Yeah, but I'm curious: what is the must-have on your Super Bowl spread? I mean, what do you have to have? I mean, Dylan, you're a big sports guy. Have you already started plotting? I mean, this is your first year.

This is your first Super Bowl as a married man. Yeah, it's a big deal, right? Did you tell the wife, woman? I want ribs. Oh my gosh.

I want wings. I think we're doing the chips and dip. That's a pretty uh That's fulfilling for me.

So that's all I need. That's it. Chips and dip. Chips and cheese dip. I mean, you know what?

I always tell you. Concho's queso. What I always find interesting to loop all these topics that we've covered together, you know the churches that host the Super Bowl Sunday? Service. And then in the halftime show, everybody starts taking out their clothes.

Not the church people, the talent. Thanks for clarifying. Yeah. And Shakira starts shaking. And the pastor is sitting there with his flock of sheep.

He's trying to shepherd their eyes while Adam Levine is ripping off all of his clothes. You have Janet Jackson. And I've always wondered how that works. You're shepherding your flock, they're watching the halftime show, and the artists are taking off all their clothes. I know how it works because what we used to do was they would turn off the halftime show and the preacher would give a little.

No, the halftime show, and then also just like a sermon during the halftime show.

So we got a little Bible in there with the Super Bowl. And then you could go dancing in the baptistry, or the or the worship band does covers of Janet Jackson and all those folks. Yes. We get our own halftime show. With their clothes on, hopefully.

You never know.

So, anyway, ladies and gentlemen, I am curious. You guys put together the spread. What is a mandatory thing on your Super Bowl spread? 901-260-5926. That's 901-260-5926.

This is the Todd Start Show. All right, getting word that. All of the employees at USAID, their emails have apparently been shut down and they've been locked out of their accounts. This is just getting better and better. Folks, you need to understand it's hard to get your head wrapped around exactly how much of your money was being squandered on things, which, by the way, we now know that.

the the research in Wuhan, China was funded by our tax dollars. We've been sending hundreds of billions of dollars to Ukraine. We've also been funding Paris Fashion Week. This is unbelievable So it goes on and on and on. Senator Joni Ernst saying that.

We've been giving Moroccans more than two million dollars for pottery classes. And what's ironic is the Moroccans have been making pottery for thousands of years, apparently. I had no idea what they do.

So there you go. They forgot, though, because the translator they hired did not even speak English.

So there was a lot that got lost in translation there. Yeah. She said that the Americans American taxpayers were funding models and designers taking trips to New York City, London Fashion Week, Paris Fashion Week, and South by Southwest in Austin. The agency spent $2 million to promote tourism. to Lebanon.

She said the USAID funneled nearly $1 million into research on coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Uh which the CIA now admits was the likely cause of COVID-19. Yeah. And are you ready for this one, folks? You want to talk about the drug cartels?

Apparently, we are the drug cartel. During the Afghanistan war, USAID spent millions of dollars to help Afghans. Grow opium. Ladies and gentlemen. You can't make this up.

901-260-5926. Our number, that's 901-260-5926. Are you ready for this one? $20 million to create an Iraqi version of Sesame Street. I think Grover's garbage can was a IED.

We'll be right back. You know, I just got a note that February is American Heart Association Heart Month.

So I guess this is when you talk about all things related to your heart. And this is going to be a pretty big year for yours truly. It was 20 years ago in May that I had my big open heart surgery and got my brand new mechanical aortic heart valve and took a licking and kept on ticking, as they say. You know, it's interesting, Dieter. When I was a kid growing up, I would read these great books by an incredible journalist and columnist by the name of Louis Grizzard.

And I think a lot of our listeners probably know of Louis Grizzard. And he was the great sports editor of the Atlanta Journal Constitution and went on. To become an incredible columnist and wrote some pretty funny books and just about life in the South and his many divorces. And it was interesting because I always wanted to be Louis Grousard growing up. That was like my goal as a writer was to be like Louis Grousard.

I had no idea I had the exact same heart problem that Louis Grousard had. Yeah. And when he had his heart surgery, he actually got a pig valve. And so that's what they used to do back in the day: you would get a pig valve. Wow.

Which I embodied pork. And were you so lucky?

Well, so it was interesting because when I, and it happened so suddenly, I thought I went to the doctor and thought I had bronchitis, and I didn't realize I needed emergency open heart surgery, but they did sit down and talk to me. How does the doctor just tell you, no, you don't have bronchitis, Todd?

Well, I, he said, Mr. Stearns, you have a big heart. And I said, well, thank you. I go to church and try to help my neighbors, you know, and do things. He goes, no, that's not what I'm talking about.

Your heart's enlarged. And so, you know, I think it was within a week or so, I was in the hospital having, you know, having the operation. And they sit you down and they give you a brochure. And they like, you know, okay, well, here are the different kinds of heart valves and whatever. Just circle the one you want.

I asked for a pig valve, and I felt like it would enhance my barbecue eating experience. You know, I would feel one with the pig. Yeah. But apparently those only last about 14 years, and you have to have them replaced. And I thought, yeah, I'm I'm not planning on doing this again.

You know, I so I went with a graphite Valve. And uh it's supposed to last forever. That's what they say.

So the ticker is graphite. The ticker is graphite. It's basically, it's about the size of a Susan B. Anthony dollar coin, and it gets the blood. I forget what it does, but anyway, it lets the blood in and out or whatever.

So it keeps me. It's the one thing keeping me alive right now. Wow.

So you have to take care of that Susan B. Anthony coin inside of you. Shockingly, my arteries are clear as a bell. It is a medical, I am a medical anomaly, but I truly believe that gravy is the great lubricator. Oh, honest to goodness, my artery is clear as a bell.

Shocking, right? Do do you set off all of the TSA alert things when you walk through?

So, yeah.

So originally I did it. It had nothing to do with the valve, but you know, when they I mean, they have to it's a pretty invasive operation. And so they put you back together using wire. And so that would I would it would set off. But I had a little card and I still have the card and everywhere I go I just show it to the TSA people.

No, they're they try to be gentle. But it's funny because it's your heart, once that's installed, your heart is cured. Boom, you're done. But it's like everything else that has to mend. They give you a little heart shaped pillow Oh, like a Build-A-Bear.

Yeah. You know what I felt bad about, though? This is terrible.

So they tell me: well, we only give. I probably should share this on air, but they said, we only give the. The The pig valves or the cow valves, the bovine valves. We only give those to people who aren't going to live much long beyond 14 years.

So, anyway. I'm in the cardiac wing, and it's me and about 25 other people who are like in their 70s and 80s. And, you know, it's they get you up pretty quickly. Like the next day, they get you to take a step, and then you slowly but surely you don't walk again. And so, anyway, it was like day three, and I'm like slowly walking down the hallway, and I meet my neighbor, very nice person.

And I said, Oh, he said, What kind of a valve did you get? I said, Oh, I got a graphite valve. I said, What about you? He said, I got a pig valve. And I'm like, I'm so sorry.

Oh, no. I'm like, He's a short-term or walking. It was terrible. Who wants uh that's brutal?

So you had to like relearn to walk. I mean, you relearn everything. Yeah. I was yeah, I had a few setbacks. How long did you take off work for that?

It was a while. I was actually in the hospital and then ICU after. I was there for about Almost two weeks. And it was I had a couple of setbacks and so, but they got me home and it was a process. And you literally, I mean, just walking, and that's all you could do was walk.

And I remember just getting up and walking from point A to point B, which would be, you know, exhausting. Yeah. And you really do wonder Am I You know, am I going to, you know, am I going to get through this? You know, yeah, I mean, it's, it was crazy. But you learned how to walk, and then you went on to run marathons.

Two marathons. It's insane. Yeah, two marathons. With the graphite little ticker.

Well, let me tell you something. The weirdest thing is it ticks like a clock, and you can hear it. If you're quiet in the studio, you can hear it ticking. And that does not, you never get used to that. It's a little reminder of.

your life In your yeah, wow. My doctor said if you hear it stop ticking, you've got about 10 minutes to get to the ER.

So. That's, you know, that's good. The clock's moving. I say all that for this. I really, I was 37.

And I thought I had bronchitis. I had no idea that I had been born with this heart defect. And sometimes they just don't check. You know, babies for this heart defect. And when that valve goes, you're gone.

So, if you ever hear of an athlete, especially a teenager, and they're very active, they're an athlete, they're out on the field, and like Ben Dieter, you're a big marathon runner, you're out there running, and somebody just drops, and they're healthy as a horse. Nine out of ten times, it's because they had that undetected heart issue. And if you don't get it fixed and that valve blows, then you're gone. They cannot bring you back. All that to say, my encouragement every month during February is to go and get yourself checked out.

Go visit a cardiologist. I don't care how old, how young you are, and just make sure that everything is good. And it may cost a few dollars on your insurance.

Okay, but it is well worth it to know that your heart's okay. Or if there is an issue, the great news is now, I mean, I had mine 20 years ago. They had to pop me open like a Thanksgiving turkey.

Now, Dieter, this is great. My cardiologist said, you know, if you just waited a couple of years, we could have just gone in through the side. It's new technology. Oh, man, and save the scar. I'm like, really?

Yeah. Chicks dig scars. Yeah, they do. They do. You know, I don't think enough people realize it is the number one killer of Americans.

Heart disease. There's a crazy amount of people that die from that. And the crazy thing, post, and I don't want to make any correlation to COVID-19, but you know, I'm going there. Is what I was reading a story about this the other day. A lot of younger Americans are now detecting heart issues.

And at a rapid increase after 2020.

So, a lot of people naturally are thinking: why are all these young people in America? Having Heart issues at these young ages? You know, I don't want to go full-blown conspiracy here. But I really do think that some pretty nefarious things have happened. We will never know.

But I suspect that you had the depopulation crowd. Very powerful globalist who stepped in and saw this as an opportunity to whittle down the population of the planet. There's no other explanation. More people have died because of the vaccines than the actual virus. And you're right.

These people are not going to be able to do that. Myocarditis is huge right now with young people. And that's with the initial. I mean, we're dealing with COVID and the mRNA vaccines, and it's only 2025. Who knows what it looks like in 20, 30 years from now, all of these people that got the shot.

It's frightening. And even now, I'm even leery of getting, I haven't gotten a flu shot since COVID. My doctor finally told me, hey, look, you got to get the vaccine. Went in for the first dose, and I was at Baptist Hospital in the ER and then in ICU dealing with myocarditis. Didn't take shot number two.

Yeah. I'm done. And I'm grateful for that. But you know, you do wonder what exactly was in that vaccine and what were they trying to do to us? Maybe that's just me.

Maybe that's just me, ladies and gentlemen, but it does make me, it makes me wonder. All that to say: eat a healthy diet. Yes, and get yourself checked out.

Sorry. Reduce stress and improve your sleep. That's what they're saying from the America Heart Month people. American Heart Association. Yeah.

Good people. And I will say this: they really helped me through all of that because it's tough. You know, you're 37 years old, and the next thing you're thinking about poor life and death situations. And the American Heart Association was so kind. They were so helpful.

And the information they had was really great.

So I'm just all that to say, and we're going to have a big celebration. It's really funny how you remember dates: May 17th, 2005. Remember it like it happened yesterday. And, you know, we'll have a cell, we're going to have a big celebration, big heart cake. Can we have cake?

We're going to have a pig. We're going to have a barbecue. We're going to have a big cookout. We're going to have fun. A graphite, a bomb.

God. You've got to go big. This is 20 years of you having a graphite heart. It's true. It's a cold heart situation.

Yeah, I was about to say it's a whole other definition of Todd having a cold heart. Yes, I do. Thank you very much. You can't help it. All right, our telephone number, 901-260-5926.

That's 901-260-5926.

All that to say, it is American Heart Association Health Month, Heart Month. Go and get yourself checked out. And I am, look, I am a heart survivor. That's what they call us, a heart survivor. And it's an honor to be behind this microphone.

If it wasn't for that valve, I wouldn't be here.

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Well, let's go to the phone lines: 901-260-5926. Patricia in North Carolina. Hi, Patricia. What's on your mind today? Mm, honey there.

Good afternoon. Good afternoon. It's a beautiful day outside. I'm sitting at Concord. in North Carolina.

Wonderful.

Well, I understand you have a heart valve story to share with us, Patricia.

Well, I don't know if it's a valve. It's almost like another continuance of heart disease or problems. you're not aware of until You're made aware of it. And about twenty years ago, I was a gymnastics Director. And every so often I would get this quick, like, rapid in my chest.

And I would think, I don't have time for this, and I would take my fist and pound my chest for like four or five seconds and stop. come to find out. I went to the cardiologist immediately after the monitoring. I was having S V T's and I did not know it.

So what did you do? What did I do?

Well, he said I'd probably save my life by pretending I was Tarzan. Um, the next day I was in the hospital and uh they did one of these, you know, the Electricum. They had to go in and do the impulse on it. and they had to replicate the wave And then they stopped it with electrical current.

So you're okay now? You're doing well? Pretty much, yes, sir. I've survived other things since then. But I thought of when I heard your story, I thought, wow, see, things still work after twenty years.

Well, I sure hope so. You'll be the first to know if they don't, Patricia.

Well, yes, yes. I have a good hip. I have a Mercedes of a hip.

So Snazi, good for you. Oh, thank you, sir. I just want to say thank you and bless you. I thoroughly enjoy. hearing you and speaking to you and listening Yeah, we are in a wonderful world when you look around, and when we all can stick together.

We make a difference.

Well, we certainly, we certainly do live in a great, great country. Patricia, thank you for that call. And I'm glad you're doing well. I'm glad you got checked out. And, folks, that's what it's really all about: just going and getting yourself checked out.

Make sure everything's doing okay. We have some news from Waffle House. I didn't realize they served eggs at Waffle House. I think people go there just to get the waffles, right? Waffle House is now adding a temporary surcharge of 50 cents an egg.

This is all because of the bird flu. It really is that why? Waffle House said it's only temporary, and instead of increasing prices across the menu, they're going to target eggs. Who goes to Waffle House and orders eggs? That's what I want to know.

The French toast. Oh, yeah.

They have to dip the French toast, the bread, in the eggs. Do they have French toast at waffle house? I don't know. I've never been to a waffle house. Wait, what?

No.

What? No.

I'm scared, Todd. We got to talk to HR. We have got to really. I mean, what are we doing here? Hiring people that have never been to Waffle House?

Was that a criteria? It should have been. Meritocracy. Is that merit? Ugh.

So I don't think they serve. No, it's Waffle House. They serve waffles at Waffle House. No.

Waffles. Yeah. And, you know, I was thinking about this. Is it really making that big of a difference? I mean, I guess maybe I'm not in touch with this story.

I buy eggs often. Are the prices going up? I guess that's a question to the people that go to Kroger all the time. Like have you noticed the cost of eggs go up? That's a fair question.

They say that they are. I just. I don't know. The folk you know, Gainesville is the chicken capital of the world. Do they just do the cha- Do they do the eggs there too?

I'm asking what seems to be a stupid question. But do they raise. I don't know. Do they do eggs in Gainesville, or is that just the chickens? Just the chickens.

Because we're talking about two different things: chicken and egg. It's very confusing. Oh, that reminds me. The Instagram, you know, these weird algorithms on my Instagram. Are you in the egg algorithm?

Now I'm on the chickens pooping eggs algorithm. Like these eggs. I'm like, why am I seeing these videos? I don't understand.

So we went from elephants giving birth to chickens pooping eggs. It's a very difficult thing. To raise a chicken and then have them not procreate eggs. What is it? Lay eggs, hatch eggs?

Procreate. I don't know. I only was a farmer of a chicken one time. It was kind of like the Smithsonian kit you could get as a kid. And so I asked for an incubator for Christmas.

And I was going to raise these eggs. I got 20 of them to turn an egg into a chicken. Only one? Only one survived, and then I accidentally fried that one. The one chicken that was left.

It was a baby chick, and you had to be very careful with the heat lamp. And I got it too close to the actual peep. And let's just say I had a little fried chicken. Oh, yeah.

You've got to be careful with those heat lamps. You've got to be careful. All right. Tonight, 5 o'clock Eastern, ladies and gentlemen, the Tot Start Show. By the way, we have some breaking news coming in MDC: Benjamin Etanyahoo meeting with President Trump.

That press conference will happen during the show, and we'll bring that to you live. All right, folks, get out there. Have a great rest of your day. Go get yourself checked out. You be Good America.