Democrat Lawmaker Boycotts National Prayer Breakfast

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

Oh, yeah. All right, listen up, all you godless heathen Democrats out there. This is a Jesus-loving country, and that comes from your commander-in-chief. Pastor Donald J. Trump.

Wow. Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Todd Starns Radio Program. I hope you had a great, great evening last night. And we got a lot to talk about today.

Of course, early this morning, they had the national prayer breakfast. May I just ask a question? And I don't mean to get. Excommunicated from the Southern Baptist Convention. But I've got a question.

And I know, Dieter, your dad, your father was, is a pastor.

So maybe you can offer some insight here into what I'm about to ask. Why do we have to have these prayer breakfasts at the crack of dawn? Why can't we do it at like lunch? Or Five or six in the afternoon. Why do we have to get up at four o'clock in the morning to pray?

Because God meets with his people in a more beautiful way before the crack of dawn. You see, I'm not buying that. Yeah. That sounds hard. You know, the camp meetings.

You remember the tent revival meeting? Everybody has to meet in the morning. There's your prayer meetings, and that typically takes place at 6 A. 6 in the morning. It's hard.

And you know why? I can't tell you where this happened, but this actually happened. It was one of these men's Bible study, right?

So I was invited to attend a men's Bible study, and I'm like, yeah, sure, I want to fellowship with the guys and hang out and do guy stuff. And the selling point is, we're going to have homemade biscuits and gravy. And I'm like, boom, I'm there.

Well, it's 6 o'clock in the morning. It's like on a Thursday, like a workday, 6 o'clock in the morning. And you got to get up and you got to, man, I just sound like the worst sin in the world. You got to get up and get dressed and haul yourself off to church. Wow, I'm not sure.

Here's your small little violin, Todd. I sound like a heathen. Yeah, you do. But I'm just wondering why we can't, and then you got daylight saving time, and it's tough. I'm just saying it's tough.

So you're saying you're not going to Sunday school because you've got worship service, and then the true believers go to Sunday school.

Well, what about, you know, what about a national prayer brunch? What about. Why can't we do that? With Baptist martinis. What else do we need?

Those are very nice. You got the 72 Virgin taiquaries there we were talking about yesterday. Anyway, I know I am curious, though, why it's always in the morning. There may be some sort of a theological reason. Because it sets the table for your day.

Because if you don't go, you hate Jesus. Do you hate Jesus? Don't sir. No, I don't hate Jesus. All right, then get your butt up out of bed.

You'll love him more at six in the morning. All right, Jesus. Hallelujah. I was just asking. I was just asking you.

So, anyway, President Trump today having the big national prayer breakfast. Is it not refreshing, ladies and gentlemen, to have a president who loves God and who is defending people of faith?

Now, the president today had to issue an executive order. And I found this executive order to be Incredibly troubling. And it wasn't the executive order. I mean, the fact that the president had to issue an executive order. specifically protecting Christians, people of faith.

He had to issue an executive order protecting religious liberty, which, quite frankly, is actually enshrined in our founding documents in the Bill of Rights.

So what does it say about what this country has been through over the Barack Hussein O'Biden era that that we could not practice our faith freely in this country, that Christians especially, Christians and Jews, Christians and Jews were attacked on a regular basis. And I'm so humbled that President Trump would do something like this. And the fact that it had to be done, that's what's really shocking to me. But the days of the FBI and these goon squads of Democrats busting down the front doors of the homes of pro-life families in America, those days are over. That's not going to happen under this presidency.

The days of the FBI agents going to spy on the Catholics and trying to get priests to turn on their flock. Do you understand how devious and nefarious these FBI agents were? They were literally trying to convince the Catholic priest to spy on their congregations.

So let's just say that you had a problem and you wanted to go visit your priest. They wanted the priest to then, after you left the office, go to, do they still use the confessionals? I don't know. If they do, I mean, you're pouring your heart and soul out through that little confessional booth, and then after you leave. He's calling the priest is calling the FBI headquarters to rat you out.

That was actually that was going on. The idea that all of our rights were under attack, going back to the days, and a lot of people forget this, but I wrote a book about it called Twilight's Last Gleaming: Can America Be Saved? And you should get a copy of this book and read every single word of it. There was a time in this country, just a few years ago. when they were literally shutting down churches.

where they were arresting preachers. In Idaho, they literally arrested Christians who just simply gathered to pray in violation of the COVID rules. They were arrested and charged and fined for singing hymns and spiritual songs. Churches across the state of California were fined tens of thousands of dollars because they refused to shut down their churches. In Mississippi of all places, they actually had elderly people gathering in a parking lot, and they had set up the church parking lot like it was some sort of a drive-in movie theater.

And you had the preacher outside, and he was delivering the sermon on the PA system. This is in Poduck, Mississippi. And you literally had. The police showing up. The police raided the church and they targeted every single person in the privacy of their cars.

Okay. Those days are over, ladies and gentlemen. What they did to the Christians, it was persecution. It it was persecution. Hear me on that.

It was persecution.

So God loved President Trump and And the reason why and I just want to step back for just a moment here. The reason why that things are going so amazingly well in this country right now, and I can't tell you, I was who was I talking to? I was um Yeah. I was down at the Kroger yesterday and I was talking to somebody, and they made the comment about, man, can you believe how quickly things are changing in this country? And my response, I think, surprises me because I said, yes, I absolutely can.

And you want to know why, ladies and gentlemen? Because I believe that, to borrow a phrase from the Great Blues Brothers, one of the greatest movies of all time. One of the greatest soundtracks of all time. But to quote the Bullers brothers, I believe President Trump is on a mission from God. I truly do.

And I do believe, and I wrote about this in Twilight's Last Gleaming, is that God has given our country one more chance, just one more chance to get it right. And that is why I believe God delivered President Trump from the hands of not one, but two assassins. That's why I believe that God intervened and stopped the Democrats from stealing the 2024 presidential election. And that is why I believe at this very moment, every single one of President Trump's cabinet nominees are going through and they are being approved without issue. Because God is, I just believe that God is in all of this.

And I know, I know that the people over, you know, the woke Christian magazines and publications are going to be all over me for saying this. But this is my view from the pew belief that God is in control and that God is blessing America right now. And this morning, when President Trump was up there and he was talking at the prayer breakfast, he said some things that really impressed me. I want to let's go to cut number five, please. Honestly, it changed something in me, I feel.

I feel even stronger. I believed in God, but I feel I feel... Much more strongly about it, something happens.

So, thank you. Yeah. So, this was the president talking about the assassination attempt in Butler County, Pennsylvania. And I. I I I've seen a changed man after this.

After that incident, I just saw a changed man. And I don't know if you've seen it, if you've noticed it in the presidential remarks. I mean, the president is still the president. He's still the same guy, tells the same off-color jokes. He's got great dance moves, still the whole nine yards.

He is still the president. But there's something There's something different, and you can see it in his eyes, and you can see it in his mannerisms, and especially when he stops, and you can tell that he's not joking around. And this president has a ferocious sense of humor, so witty. But when he's talking about this kind of stuff, you kind of sense that there is something much deeper going on here.

So the president goes on, and he's talking about religion and why religion is so vitally important in life. Number 11. The element, the everything that's going to be happy, people of religion are going to be happy again. And I really believe you can't be. Happy.

Without religion, without that belief. I really believe it. I just don't see how you can do. Yeah. So let's bring religion back.

Let's bring God back into our lives. Thank you all very much. Thank you very much. Great honor. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. President. No, thank you, sir. Thank you. And I think he's on to something here.

When I see people who are perpetually unhappy, usually they're godless heathens. They don't mean to be, but that's what they are. I mean, they don't know God. They don't know with Christ. They don't have religion.

And therefore, they're godless heathens. And I don't mean to say that in a derogatory sense, even though I do, but I really don't hear because you don't have to be a godless heathen. You can come out of all of that. And that's what Trump was saying, right? I mean, has that been your impression that people who go to church, people who believe in God, are just happier people?

I I believe I'm with the President on that.

So by the way, so the President goes on in the course of this incredible speech this morning, the President announced that he's creating a Presidential Commission on Religious Liberty, Cut 13. I'm announcing that I will be creating a brand new presidential commission. on religious liberty. It's going to be a very big deal. which will work tirelessly to uphold this most fundamental right.

Unfortunately, in recent years, we've seen this sacred liberty threatened like never before in American history. There's nothing happened like the last four years, what's happened. With so many things. I've gone bad. But religion, what they've done, and the persecution that They've executed have been just horrible.

For example, most of us would not have believed it possible that a grandmother with a severe medical condition Quite an elderly woman would be put in jail for praying here in America. She was put in jail because she was praying. But we're joined today by a woman who was 75 years old. Paulette Harlow was sentenced to two years in prison. For peacefully praying outside of a clinic, charged under an obscure law that hadn't been used in years, selectively weaponized against.

Christians by the previous administration. I never understood how we won with evangelicals, we won with Christians by a lot. But even that little bit that they got, I said, who are the people that voted for them? Who would vote for them? They were terrible.

They were terrible to you, and they were terrible to people of. Religion, all religions. It's true, but specifically the Jews and the Christians. They were always hands-off with the Muslims. They never touched the Muslims.

But when it came to the Jews and the Christians, we were fair game. And as horrible as it is, and the president's right, they actually threw elderly grandmothers into prison. This is what Joe Biden and the Democrats did. Threw them in prison because they prayed outside of an abortion clinic. That's just unacceptable.

Unacceptable. But again, folks, as we go to break here, do you sense that as well? Do you believe that God is moving right now in America? And I mean, when you look at what the president's having to undo. It is so remarkable and quite frankly miraculous what we are seeing happen.

And folks, let me explain this to you. We have just dipped our big toe into the political waters of making America great again. This is nothing. I mean, wait until you see what's going to happen with the Department of Education and the complete dismantling of that. We are going to be finding out things that are going to blow your mind.

Money that was used, things that were done. And ladies and gentlemen, do not be surprised if we actually end up getting the evidence to prove that the 2020 election was stolen, that there is some sort of a deep state operation going on here, and that there was a global effort to take down the United States of America, and they were using our tax money to accomplish that goal.

Now, our telephone number, and I want you to write this down, give us a call, 901-260-5926. That's 901-260-5926. By the way, Ben Dieter has just sent me some research, and according to the research, Religious people. Report higher levels of happiness compared to godless heathen pagan Democrats.

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So, look, there's a Democrat, a congressman from California. His name is Jared Huffman. And so, this guy is all upset. Over the National prayer breakfast this morning, and he was protesting the fact that they were having prayer inside the U.S. Capitol building, cut number eight.

Hi, folks. I'm just getting ready to cross the street for the national prayer breakfast. I am not going to this event because I support it. I'm actually going to protest it. And I'm going to be wearing a couple of buttons to explain that.

This one, Build This Wall, is about the wall of separation between church and state that our founders intended for our secular republic. And then this one says, Entering Gilead, of course, a reference to a creepy, dystopic theocracy, which is the slippery slope we're heading down with events like this. Let's walk and I'll tell you more about it.

So, look, we should not be having a Christian prayer service in the sanctum of the United States Capitol in Statuary Hall. This is an actual. Violation of church-state separation, like we have never seen. Second year in a row, Speaker Johnson has done this, and now they're doing it in open collaboration with a group called the Fellowship Foundation, which is this radical extremist group that does things like goes to Africa and supports legislation to kill gay people and openly supports an anti-woman, anti-LGBT extreme agenda here in the United States. Stuff like this, this complete breakdown of church-state separation is a big part of the dystopic authoritarian agenda at the heart of Donald Trump and his MAGA movement.

And today I'm going to try to do my part to just say enough.

Okay, this guy's a pinhead.

So look, first of all, this is an event. This is not Speaker Mike Johnson's prayer breakfast. The National Prayer Breakfast was started 70 years over 70 years ago. by none other than Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Our great president. By the way, I've got a new book coming out in the the summer and I write about Eisenhower and why he started the National Prayer Breakfast.

So I've done a little bit of research on this. This has nothing to do with any other group. This is all organized through Congress, both Republicans and Democrats. And need I remind the congressmen from California that even Barack Hussein Obama and Joe Biden attended the National Prayer Breakfast.

So give me a break, you godless heathen jerk. All right, gotta take a break here. 901-260-5926 is our number. That's 901-260-5926. Now, listen up.

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So, Mrs. Bill Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton. Mrs. C, as we'll call her here. Here's what she wrote about the Doge team.

She says, and by the way, this was in response to Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy. He says that the Doge team is going to plug in to help upgrade the aviation system. Which I think that's a terrific idea. Hillary says, Mrs. C says this, quote, they have no relevant experience.

Most of them are not old enough to rent a car, and you're going to let them mess with airline safety that's already deteriorated under your watch.

So look, Hillary is blaming the Trump administration for what happened at Reagan National. But I want to talk about this whole idea that the Doge team, because they're young, they've got no relevant experience. It's misses C. who has no relevant experience. I mean, when you look at her career, the only thing she did was trade in on her philandering husband's job in the Oval Office.

She literally got to where she is in life by being misses Bell Clinton. And you want to know how we know that, ladies and gentlemen? Because Mrs. C. actually gives us a clue.

While her husband was literally defiling The sanctity of the oral office of these great United States of America. While her husband was doing unmentionable things with the interns, She turned a blind eye. And you know why she turned even after it was all exposed that Bill Clinton well, it all depends on what is. No, after all of that, when the entire world knew that he lied not only to the American people, but also to the wife and the kid, who's also getting cash from USAID. In spite of all of that, she still stood by her man.

And you know why she stood by her man? Because she knew. that the word president was going to open up doors for her.

So, the only reason this woman is relevant is because her husband got elected president. Otherwise, she'd be baking cookies back in a Little Rock. I'm sorry it just had to be said.

So, I want to go back to Doge because we've got some new intel, new information coming out. People are really shocked over some of these things. Here are some of the things that your tax money has been funding, and that they will be funding no more. First of all, $2 million for Moroccan pottery classes.

Now, I happen to know a little something about pottery because the lovely Miss Cassie, who answers the phones on this program, she's got her own pottery business.

Now, I'm willing to bet. A Chick-fil-A sandwich that the lovely Miss Cassie has not gotten two million dollars. from the federal government to fund her pottery. which is very nice, by the way. What about this?

Two million dollars to promote tourism to Lebanon. We mentioned the $20 billion for Sesame Street. Seventy thousand dollars for the DEI Musical in Ireland. Six million dollars to promote tourism in Egypt. And here we go, $15 million for contraceptives and condoms in Afghanistan.

But I digress. Because now, ladies and gentlemen, we have some new information.

Now, we told you yesterday on the program that the New York Times, NPR, PBS. And Politico were all getting Tens of millions of dollars of your tax money. They're using your tax money against you.

Well now the Columbia Journalism Review reports. And by the way, I'm shocked they actually revealed this information, but they did it because they were using it to attack President Trump. They said Columbia Journalism Review said that $268 million of your tax money has been funding independent journalism operations around the world. They do not list which organizations are getting that money, but they said $268 million of your tax money is going to fund independent journalism operations around the world. Hear me on this.

If your newsroom, if your newsroom, is getting a welfare check from Uncle Sam it is not independent. at all. This is absolute insanity. But now you understand. I never, it was hard for me to understand this because these news organizations got no money.

And I couldn't understand how they were able to hire all these additional people. How are they able to stay open? People are canceling their subscriptions. People aren't even reading newspapers anymore.

So why is it?

Well, now we know why. Because the Democrats were back channel funding These news organizations. And ladies and gentlemen, every single one of them has to be defunded. And that's why the newsrooms around this country are freaking out. Because when it's all said and done, don't be surprised if all of the major anti Trump publications in America don't be surprised if we find out they have been getting tens of millions of dollars of your tax money.

All right, let's go to the phones here. 901-260-5926. That's 901-260-5926. Tim in Georgia. Hi, Tim.

What say you? Hey, Todd, I'm really glad to get on the phone with you. Much to my surprise, the other day in the mail, I received my second Todd Starnes book, and I was so thrilled. I'm fixing to go on a trip, and I'm going to take that with me, and I'm going to read that book.

Well, I'm glad you got it. Thank you. I hope you enjoyed the read. Yep, I will.

So my question is, I understand this USAID has been around since the sixties, obviously.

So their funding is coming from Congress because they appropriate the money.

So is it Appropriations Committee that is funding this organization? Who exactly are they getting their funding from?

So this is a good question, Tim.

So yesterday we had Congressman Mike Flood on the show. He was also on my Newsmax program this week. And he told me that there was no oversight, that Congress was just, you know, whatever USAAID asked for, they got. And Congress never raised any questions. Nobody bothered to audit.

That, to me, is the shocking thing that there's never been an audit.

Now, the House Freedom Caucus a few days ago, Tim, put out a statement saying, we tried to do something about this. We tried to stop the funding to USAID, but even the Republicans, even their own party, sided with the Democrats to keep the money flowing.

So they they do have some good causes. I'm sure they support some good causes, but there has to be some kind of paper trail who is signing off On these funds. I mean, there has to be. Government oversight has to be, there has to be some account there. Saying who was the final approval on this?

I'm sure that whoever the ranking member of the Republicans could give that answer. During the Biden administration, but there has to be whoever the chairman of that committee was. Has to be the one ultimately responsible for that funding.

So the Office of Inspector General, the OIG, is the one government agency that provides direct oversight into all of the personnel and the programs. And that, you know, that we've got to find out what happened there. We've got to find out where the breakdowns were. And you're right. I mean, there are some things I'm sure when USAID first started back in the 1960s under JFK, I'm sure there were some.

Some legitimate humanitarian needs there. But the reality is we're far beyond that now. Tim, I mean, it's just absolutely insane. What they're doing with our money. It's out of control.

I mean, that there's no oversight for this. Uh That I'm sure they have not uncovered everything that was used by this organization that is apparently an independent organization. I I assume they're under the uh administrative uh branch of government so so Uh that that that branch of government has every right to have the oversight now to manage that organization. Yeah, and trust me on this, they're going to get to the bottom of it. I have no doubt about that.

And heads have to roll. They really do. Tim, thank you for that call. 901-260-5926. We do have some breaking news to share with you.

Breaking news now on the Todd Starn Show. Turns out the state of Iowa is mostly white, ladies and gentlemen. That news coming in on Capitol Hill today, where Ayana Presley. was grilling the governor of the great uh state of Iowa. On Capitol Hill, Kim Reynolds is her name.

Cut number seven. Like Iowa. Governor Reynolds, let's learn more about the state. Yeah. Do you know what percentage of Iowans are white and what percentage are black?

I don't know the exact percentages now, but by far a larger percentage of the white population. That's correct. Iowa is 90% white. and only 4.5% black.

So that is drastically different from the national population.

So when Republicans suggest Iowa should be a national model, they are advocating for a government that doesn't reflect our country. What if Wow, so I will say this: when I went to Iowa, it was like a blizzard. That's all I could see was white everywhere. Jeez.

So look, we ran the numbers here. 59% of the country is white, only 12% Black Hispanic, by the way, you guys nearly 19% of the overall population.

So I have a question for Ayana Presley. And she, again, is the. She is the fourth person in that squad, AOC squad, much like the. Much like the Spice Girls, the one that's forgettable. Anyway, I got a question for Presley.

If we're going to do this, do we really want to go down this path here? I mean, I'm happy to go down the path with her if this is the path she wants to go down. But if, in fact, we have to start treating people based on the actual percentages of the population, where are all the white people in the NBA? That's what I want to know. Why isn't 59.3% of the NBA Caucasian?

Why? Why? Well, I want to go. Let's go to the phone lines here. Ironically, Jerry from Iowa joins us.

Jerry, I hate to ask this question, but are you white, sir? I can neither confirm nor deny the presence or absence of any color that may or may not exist on this phone call.

Well said, sir.

Well, I hate to break it to you, but you got a lot of white people in your state, my friend. Nope. No comment. I try not to be overly suspicious Or to read into things that may or may not be there. I'm just your average country boy.

And I was wondering, is it possible all this USAID money Goes overseas, and maybe some of it gets skimmed a little. And perhaps, and I and I don't know this how how the world really works sometimes. maybe Congress gets paid that way. Under the table. I mean, this is really a terrible problem.

We send all this money overseas. There's no accountability for it.

Well, why did they send it to begin with? To help. gender identity in other countries, or maybe some of it. Maybe that's where all the 23 shell companies come from. What about other congress people?

Do they? Are they on the take? Has this been a source of gravy? It's just a research question. Actually, it's a very important research question, Jerry, because you're right, and it's a fair question.

How do all of these people making what, $174,000, $175,000 a year, how do they become multimillionaires? How is it that they're able to live in these beautiful mansions? Where are they getting all this money from? And I think they're starting to uncover a lot of this and unravel a lot of it, where these individuals have these, these congresspeople have these think tanks, these nonprofits on the side, and that's where I think this money is being funneled into. You mentioned Ukraine, for example.

Are you ready for this one, Jerry? Nine out of ten media organizations in Ukraine are funded by USAID grants. You know, I thought there was something rotten in Denmark. No offense to the Danes. Not whatsoever.

It stinks to high heavens, Jerry. It really does. And that's why there's such outrage right now, because the gravy train is drying up here. It's being exposed, and it has to be exposed. And by the way, don't be surprised by this one, Jerry.

There are going to be a lot of Republicans on those lists alongside those Democrats. No. I know, I know, I know. It's you can't pull the wool over this white guy's eyes. Thank you, Todd.

All right. Thanks and thanks. Jerry from Iowa. He's a white guy. He gave it a he's a country boy.

He's. That's code. All right. You can't make this stuff up, folks. 901-260-5926.

That's 901-260-5926. Now, listen to me about Ayana Presley. Everything is about race. And that's, I don't think that argument plays as well as it did maybe even a year ago. I think people are getting sick and tired of this race nonsense.

And I'm happy to expose it any chance we get. But if you're saying that we've got to start hiring people based on racial percentages, great. Let's get going. And I'll be heading over to the Memphis Grizzlies for tryouts this afternoon. All right, folks, we've got to take a quick break.

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All right, Sonny Haustin, she's one of the squawking magpies on the view. Just moments ago, had this to say about all of you white folk, Cut 15. As it relates to this country, you know, as a as a woman of color, as a woman and a woman of color. There are things that I see through my lived experience that another person cannot see. And so I am very.

Uh intentional. About making sure that that point of view and that lived experience is shared with other people, because in this country, I'm forced to know everything about white culture. in order to be in the space that I exist in. But Other people are not. Forced to know my lived experience or my culture because it's a white majority country.

What is she talking about? What is she talking about? Everybody has their own lived experience. If you've lived, you've experienced it.

So, what is this woman talking about? And by the way, if you want to talk about culture, let's have that conversation because just a few days ago, a black chick with long, straight, blonde hair won Best Country Music Album. Can we talk about cultural appropriation? Want to have that conversation, Sonny Hostin? What the heck?

What is she talking about? I'm telling you, folks, they're losing the narrative. That's what's going on here. They're losing the narrative. It's unraveling.

And this is a lot of fun. We're going to talk more about this coming up after the break. Again, 901-260-5926. That's 901-260-5926. And by the way, I love Medea TV movies.

Live from the Liberty University Studio in Memphis, Tennessee, it's common sense conservative commentary from Todd Starr. That's us, that's right. I love this American ride. Well, ladies. Ladies and gentlemen, at this hour, the deep state is in great turmoil.

Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Todd Sterns radio program. Happy to have you with us today. Look, this is. This is huge.

We are now beginning to unravel and understand exactly how the globalist. The George Soros crowd and his foundation, how they were working in cahoots with the Democrats to fundamentally remake, to fundamentally transform America. That's what's been going on here, and they've been able to do it using our tax dollars. It is an absolutely insane story that will take years to unravel, but we're doing our very best on this program to bring you the very latest information on how the deep state develops. Did it and why they are in a full-blown panic mode right now.

Meanwhile, we're also getting some intel. From Borders are Tom Holman. They were in Aurora, Colorado, which is where the, what is that? The ICE raid. They've got the dangerous gang there.

Is it Tren Diagua? I never can't say that. I never can get that name right. Anyway, they're very dangerous south of the border gang. ICE shows up to arrest these very dangerous people, and they're all gone.

They're all gone. We're getting new Intel. That the gang members were alerted. They were given a heads up.

Somebody leaked the looming raid to the gang members, and they were able to get out of town. Tom Holman is enraged. Tom Holman is furious. And he says that people will be held accountable.

So, whoever leaked this information, they're going to be held accountable. I want to go back though. To USAID for a moment, which by the way, and to understand how nefarious this is. You know, a lot of Uh uh a lot of these um Religious groups, the Catholics and the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, for example, Christianity today. A lot of these Christian groups that were rooted rock solid in conservative precepts and biblical teachings just cast it all aside.

And this has been going on for well over a decade. And it started during the Barack Hussein Obama years. And now we know why, because a lot of these organizations were being given. Tens of millions of dollars, tens of millions of dollars. To betray the faithful, to turn away from the teachings of the Bible and to embrace this globalist agenda.

And part of that agenda, and the way the churches are factored into all of this, first of all, the churches were being funneled all of this money from the Democrats, and they were assigned the task. They had to convince the faithful, the folks in the pews, that supporting Donald Trump was a sin against Almighty God. Yeah. And in exchange for doing that, they received all of this money from the Democrats and these far-left organizations.

So, not only was the government co-opted by the globalists and the Democrat Party, but also the churches in America. And this is important because it almost worked. It almost worked. But for the grace of God, intervening in the presidential election It woulda worked. And I have no doubt that At that moment, if Kamale Harris had won the presidency, we would not have been able to stop.

the implosion of this country. But God gave us a second chance, as I said in the opening of the show today, and I believe we've got a second chance to get this right.

Now here's how crazy it was. USA, there's a whistleblower. His name is Mark Moyer. And he went on uh he went on Jesse Walker show last night. I just can't believe this.

And, Dieter, I want you to listen because I just find this hard to believe it happened, but it happened. He was actually sent to a DEI indoctrination camp. This guy's a white dude, and he was sent to one of these indoctrination camps, and he was ordered to take on the identity of a Scandinavian woman. Let's take a listen. Mark.

You started at USAID. And what they do the first thing, did they send you to DEI camp? Yes, and great to be with you, Jesse.

So I didn't get into the agency until February 2020. 2018. And this is one of the big differences that we're already seeing. In 2017, the Trump administration was very slow to get into the agency.

So I get there in February, and we have what's called a privilege walk as part of the orientation where you are given an identity.

Now, I was a Scandinavian woman, and so when they read lines like, you know, I get discriminated against because of government services, or people don't like look how I look.

So you took a step forward if it applied and if it didn't. And so. I ended up near the front and the Indigenous woman with unwanted pregnancy and the male prostitute were at the other end and then we talked about our privileges. All right, so you were trained to be a Scandinavian woman in a privilege walk, not root out corruption. What kind of Disguises do they use to fund these projects?

I mean, Did they just change the names of these things? Is there really some other reason we're doing this? Yeah, they're very effective at rebranding things.

So, in the first Trump administration, the priorities were. support national interests as they are now. Another thing was Countering terrorism and promoting self-reliance.

So I went to a country, just to give one example, they had a feminist women's book club that had been started under the Obama administration. And then they now said this is a counterterror program because women uh feminist women are key fighters in the battle against terrorism.

Well, there you go, folks.

So the guy had to portray a Scandinavian woman in this, I guess, this workplace DEI indoctrination camp. We had to do that. I know this is going to shock people. Ben Dater, we had to do that when I was at Fox News channel.

So they hired the, so they got rid of the old HR team and they brought in the people who ran HR over at MBC. And the next thing you know, we're all getting summoned and we had to go to these diversity, equity, and inclusion workshops. And they were celebrating inside Fox News in the building. We were having to celebrate all this kind of nonsense. But anyway, I only went to one.

I only went to one of the meetings, and the way I got around it, I said, This is not a my contract, and if it's not in my contract, I'm not going back. And I didn't. But I'm sitting there, and this is where this is, I think this is where I finally ran afoul of the new woke leadership. They were doing these uh Wordplay kind of like questions. Like you had these scenarios.

Like Carl and Bubba, two white guys, wore KKK outfits to work the other day and, you know, offended Tyrone, the black guy. What would you do in that situation? I mean, it's just the most ludicrous things. But anyway, they would always say if it was like a Hispanic, instead of saying whatever the Hispanic slur is, they would abbreviate it. Or if it was like the black sort, they would say the N-word.

But then when it came time for the white person, you know, scenario, it said, Tyrone called Carl a cracker. And so anyway, we're going through this in the workshop. I mean, everybody was in there. Everyone is in there. And my hand shot up.

I said, They said, yes. Yes, Todd, you want to weigh in? You want to offer? I said, yes. I said, I am personally offended.

First of all, I am a saltine American. I don't appreciate you calling saying cracker. You should be calling it the C word. They didn't know that. They were like, oh, wow, we really never thought about it.

They took me seriously. I was really, I was like, there was great umbrage. How dare you call me a cracker? I'm a salty American, thank you very much.

Okay. Some people call me a ritz. I'm buttery. No, I just.

So all that to say.

Well, about six months later, they chose not to renew my contract.

So that could have had something to do with it as well. But they were very, they were like, well, we had no idea. They never really it never crossed their mind. And the reason why, it's okay to be racist against white people. That's the reason why.

901-260-5926. Our telephone number. That's 901-260-5926. I want to go back to the Sonny Haustin piece.

So, just moments ago on The View on their podcast, here's what Sonny Hostin had to say: Cut 15. Tree, you know, as a woman of color, as a woman and a woman of color. There are things that I see through my lived experience that another person cannot see. And so I am very. Uh intentional.

About making sure that that point of view and that lived experience is shared with other people, because in this country, I'm forced to know everything about white culture. in order to be in the space that I exist in. But Other people are not forced to know my lived experience or my culture because it's a white majority country. Dieter, I got a question for you. What do you think she means by white culture?

That's what I'm trying to understand. What exactly is white culture that's got her so bothered? I just guess she looked at the demographics and some of the stats you shared earlier in the program that this country is, I guess, still, what, 60%? The makeup of white Americans. You know, whatever culture Sonny Hostin on The View has, I want that.

I don't think I can dabble in her culture because it's not my lived experience. But this woman is a woman, she makes $8 million a year. I think Disney had to slash her salary a little bit. They dropped it to $5 million a year.

So if that is Sonny's lived experience, And she's trying to force that upon the right- Please. I mean, what an experience she has. I'm making $5 million. I'm still, I'm trying to understand, though. She's got a problem with white culture, and I don't know what that is.

I mean, what is white culture? I just look at culture as culture. I know I used to get in trouble all the time at Fox for this, but I would say, oh man, I need some, I could go for some collard greens and some cornbread right now. How dare you? You can't say that out loud.

That's racist. That's cultural appropriation. I'm like, what are you talking about? Are you saying because I'm a Jew, I can't go to the Jewish deli and order a pastrami on rye because I'm a Gentile? What are you people talking about?

We're eating too many American we're e I almost said we're eating too much American pie. No, that's the movie. The we're apple pies. That's, I think, the culture she has a problem with. Macaroni and cheese.

I don't know. She obviously has a chip. This woman is evil. She is a Joy Reed. They're like best friends.

So that's the woman that puts on the blonde hair and has on Ella. That's a good idea.

Well, she's trying to reclaim the culture, apparently. I don't know, but these people have a chip on their shoulder. I don't know who hurt them, who damaged them, but. I think she's grappling. And in that interview, that was a selection from this podcast where she's talking about Trump slashing DEI.

And so she's saying actively, the Trump administration is trying to erase what culture they have left. And again, I don't know what that culture, and that's really what I'm trying to say. A little bit further on, she makes the comparison, for example, the CMAs snubbed. Beyonce, remember? That was like a big deal because she tried to do the crossover, and we were talking about that.

And she was saying that the CMA kind of embodies white culture, where the Grammys salvage the culture, where Beyoncé is taking back country music, which has its origins in black history. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Dylan, watched, you watched the Grammy Awards the other night. Did you not? Yes.

Okay. Did you notice this? And I did notice this: most of the performers and most of the presenters were not white people. Yeah. I mean, there were very few white people involved.

So, again, it's just noticeable that whites are being shoved aside. But I think my concern here is, like, for example, country music.

Okay, fine, fine, Sonny Hostin. When was the last time you saw a white person win the Miss Black America contest? When was the last time you saw a white person starring on a show on black entertainment television? When was the last time you saw a white person win some sort of a major hip-hop or rap award?

Okay. I mean, if you do you want to have that conversation, yeah, country is predominantly a white musical genre, but it's not because it's racist. That's just the culture of the region, Appalachia. I just, it bothers me that people like Sonny Hostin are out there creating this whole idea of our culture versus their culture. Like, remember, it wasn't a couple of years ago, you couldn't go out and have Taco Tuesday because that was offensive to Hispanic people.

I mean, come on, give me a break. Mm-hmm. Yeah. And I do like Mattea movies. And Sanford and Sun.

You're a very cultured person. I am. And you've said that you're LeBron Starnes and Mr. Starnes. That's true.

So you embody all people. All right. We got to take a break. When we come back, you're not going to believe what's going down at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. There is some freaky stuff going down on Rocky Top.

901-260-5926. We'll be right back. All right, Ben Teter, I am concerned. You know that I'm a big University of Tennessee volunteer fan, a Go Big Orange. Got word yesterday that something freaky is going on down at Rocky Top.

It's not good.

So the University of Tennessee at Knoxville now has a club. That provides a safe space for students that dress up like animals. And it's called the UTK Furries. Are you familiar with the furries? I think I've run into a couple.

Really? Yeah. Downtown Memphis has some insane squirrels, Todd. I saw the possum the other day, and when I tell you, I fed one of the possums.

So I have so many good furry friends. I think these are humans dressed as furries. No, that's not what I was told. You should have seen this raccoon. Todd.

No, it's these are actual human beings dressing up in furry animal costumes. That's how they set their free on. They're furry. Oh, this is sexual. Yes.

Yeah. It's pretty disgusting. At UT? At UT Knoxville. This is shocking.

The student newspaper reports that furries are largely misunderstood with a large amount of stereotypes and false information about them.

Okay, they're humans dressed in animal costumes. I wonder do they use letter boxes? Or they just go out into the quad. How does that work? Anyway, the club president says, I want people to know who furries are.

to know they can share their ideas with other furries in a safe environment. Yeah. Quote, in short, I want to impact the campus by letting people know that we are absolutely here and happy to be here, the critter said. Campus Reform reports are more than 90 members. Of the UTK Furry Club.

Good golly. It's a lot of animals. It's creepy, right? They're saying that That the club allows you to explore gender, sexuality, and all aspects of identity through a character. That is strange.

So, anyway, we're working to find out if, in fact, our tax dollars are being used to fund the Furry Club. I'm still trying to wrap my head around this story. I did not realize that they want to embody these animals, these pets. Yeah, I don't want to unduly alarm folks in the Valls Nation, but maybe Peyton Manning should visit campus, do a wellness check on Smokey. Yeah.

He's our little mascot. Does Dolly know about this? I don't think Dolly knows this. Call Dolly. Dolly!

There's some critters running around. Old Rocky Top. Oh, Lord. They're pooping in the Azalea bushes. We'll be right back, America.

Uh Uh All right, real quick, let's go to Virginia. Tom is listening to us on Truth Radio, wants to weigh in on these furries. Tom, I've never heard of such a thing, especially at the University of Tennessee for crying out loud.

Well Oh Before we get into the furries, I designed the sign. And I've put it in the back of my truck with the truck sign. And it says Christianity. Patriotism. Nice littleism.

Freedom. I I support all of those things, Tom.

Well done, you, sir. And I've got a pair of class pans in the middle that shows they all go hand in hand.

Well, there you go. They do indeed. All right, real quick about these furries. Getting to the furries real quick. The way to stop this, Tom.

Yeah. is you require them to have all their shots. Oh, God. Ray B's to Stamper. There's about nine shots your dogs have, and I don't know how many a cat has to take.

Wow. You know, th or if we get 'em spayed or neutered too, Tom, that might cut down on some of the furries. That was my next one. Oh, geez, hello. But you have to have a sell health certificate for your dog or cats, whatever, to take them anywhere.

And you have to have all the shots.

So the They should be required to have all those shots. Tom, it is a great idea. I like how you think, and thank you for listening to Truth Radio there in Virginia. Wow. I just, folks, I just never imagined in a million years that would be happening in Tennessee of all places.

Well, I want to switch gears real quick here. CPAC coming up February 19th in Washington, D.C. It's going to be a lot of fun. CPAC.org, if you want to get information on who is speaking and schedules, I want to go to the Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line and say hello to our good friend from Newsmax TV, Mercedes Schlapp. Hey, Mercedes, how's it going today?

Well, you know, it is. 24-7 right now, planning for CPAC because it's around the corner. It's that February 19th through the 22nd here at the Gaylord Hotel right outside Washington, D.C. And I got to tell you, the lineup is So powerful. I mean, we've just announced Michael Waltz, our national security advisor, who will be attending.

Tom Homan is joining us. We're going to obviously have President Trump come and join us as well. We've got just the l Ben Shapiro will be coming. I mean, the list goes on and on of the superstars. In the conservative movement, really making a difference in what we saw, and really an opportunity to.

30 days after President Trump has obviously been inaugurated, to discuss What he's been able to do in record speed, and then on top of that, what the vision is for the next. You know, three and a half years. And I think it's a great opportunity to be up close and personal with President Trump and so many of his cabinet members and all-star conservative activists. It's really fascinating, Mercedes, to see how quickly this administration is going. I think they know they are on a, on a, you know, they're on the clock.

I mean, four years.

So there's a lot to get done. And even in the first, you know, what, three weeks of the administration, it's really been mind-blowing to see the amount of grift and corruption they've been able to uncover in the government. Yeah, no kidding. I mean, the really it's been fascinating to watch how quickly Elon Musk, under Doge, has spent time in reshaping, and I think revealing what we've seen with the U.S. Agency for International Development, the USAID, where they've been paying out so much money to this propaganda media to actors as well and actresses, for example, to go in into Ukraine and being paying these people off is just insane.

And then on top of that, you have the fact that they're pushing you know, millions of dollars in these developing countries For the woke agenda. It wasn't even for, let's try to improve their lives. No, no, no. It was to. basically promote the LGBTQ agenda, the woke agenda in so many of these countries, many of them conservative countries.

And so it's a complete waste of money. And I think for the American people to become aware of how wasteful our government has become, I think that's a very telling moment because the American people are there's a lot of people hurting and there's a lot of people who would want the support of the government or want support of just being able to have a second chance. And instead, we're just we've wastefully spent money in the federal government for decades, for decades. without anything being done.

So this idea that President Trump and Elon Musk and Doge is really going in there. And Unraveling the complex web of these foreign contractors that are getting paid to do the dirty work, I think, is very telling. The number of news organizations, not just here in America, but USAID was apparently funding over 6,200 journalists across 707 media outlets. We also understand nine out of 10 media outlets in Ukraine were getting some form of funding from USAID, not to mention all of the news organizations here in America getting money from other government agencies. And, Mercedes, you do have to wonder if this is all part of some huge conspiracy to take down the country.

Well, I think more so. I think it reflects how the federal government has lost its way. Not only has it become bloated, you have federal workers who don't even really. show up physically to work, so you have all these office spaces that are completely empty. And then on top of that, You have this, what I would say, the usage of this fund.

to promote leftist propaganda across the globe. Right. And that's what they were pushing for. And so I think if I don't know, I don't think it's a conspiracy. I think it's reality.

I think this is where we are, and this is why I've had to. become unraveled in the way it's been unraveled. And quite frankly, i in a weird way, you just wish it would have been done even sooner. because I can't believe we let this go by for so long without there being Any accountability. I mean, you have Joni Earns, Senator Joni Earns from Iowa, who said that she had battled USAID for quite some time and they kept.

creating roadblock after roadblock, not giving her the information they need. And so it shows how people just let the federal government just keep doing what they're doing. And no one had any sort of checks and checks on them or checks and balances on them, quite frankly. Mercedes Schlapp joining us on our Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line today. Folks, again, CPAC coming up February 19th through the 22nd there in Washington.

CPAC.org is the website to get information there. Mercedes, just an aside here, you know, was it last week you have the Democrats meeting to choose their leadership? Are you guys asking for like the Catholic priest to go in and just like re-bless the place, give it a good cleaning? Oh, I gotta tell you, I would hope so. I need to, you know, I could tell you when I was in the Obalong, when I was in the West Wing, I did carry a lot of holy water with me.

In my West Wing office.

So I feel that for the Democrats, they've really lost their way. When their whole focus is on abortion and their whole focus is on just this woke addunda, they won't let it go. They just will not let it go. It just doesn't stop. Then I feel that it gets very difficult for the Democrats to be able to really connect with the American people.

And look, They're in chaos. They can't even keep up with President. with President Trump. When we're dealing with the fact that President Trump is very much pushing this revolution of common sense, where it's Basic, just basic actions, like for example, signing an executive order order that there's only two genders. Signing an executive order to protect girls' sports.

I mean, this is just common sense. It should not be this issue that that's been created as this insane issue that the American people have rejected. They rejected it in November. And in essence, I think if the Democrats continue to go down this pathway of woke ideology, I think they'll lose again in the midterm election. Mercedes, before we let you go, President Trump at the National Prayer Breakfast today, why does he say that we need an executive order to protect people of faith in America?

Yeah, I gotta tell you, I think when you look at the fact of the anti-Semitic Protests that have happened across college campuses where the Jewish students don't feel safe. To go to classes. I think you and also the mere fact that Christian kids who go to school and they can't really talk about their faith because they're scared they're going to be bullied. I mean, There's so many of these actions that you think, goodness gracious. What is America made up of?

And when you think of America, you know, it's funny, I was on a field trip with my 13-year-old yesterday. We went up to Philadelphia. where we went to Independence Hall, we went to the National Constitution Center. And I was explaining to the kids, I was like probably like the biggest nerd super excited in there talking about the First Amendment. And the freedom of religion and the freedom of press and the freedom of speech and the freedom to assemble.

And I explained to them how unique and how beautiful this is in America. I mean, there's countries that they change their constitutions every like five years. I mean, you take a country like Chile, or even Israel doesn't, you know. didn't have a constitution for quite some time. And here you have the U.

S., where our constitution has been around for two hundred and thirty seven years. It is truly amazing to watch that we've been able to maintain the stability in our country. And on top of that, we have this unique That of in terms of the Bill of Rights, it basically say and our amendments basically say. You know what? You have the freedom to practice your religion and worship freely.

I think it's something that we have all of us an obligation. protect. Because that is the greatness of America: that it's people from all different walks of life, all from different faiths, that come here. And they are able to raise their kids according to their faith, and they should not have government dictating the rules in terms of what is right or wrong in their religion.

Well said, Mercedes, we're going to leave it there. We always appreciate you taking time for us here on the radio show and look forward to seeing you on Newsmax. Yes, come join us at CPAC February 19th through the 22nd. Go to cpac.org. All right.

There you go, folks. Again, CPAC in DC, CPAC.org. Thanks, Mercedes. All right. Got to take a break here, folks.

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And Of course, when we were growing up, you know, back in the 80s, the late 70s, early 80s, we had no cell phones. There was no need for a cell phone. We had landlines. If your mom needed you, they... Hollered out the backyard, you know, and said, Tut, come on in, supper's ready.

Or if your friends wanted to talk to you, they would come over to your home, right?

So there's a new study out. That says parents are now waiting to give their kids cell phones. At what age would you give your child cell phones? A cell phone. When did you get your first cell phone?

When I was a grown adult. And when they came out, what did they have before that? They had something called landlocks. A telegraph? No, we took these two cups and we tied some string between them.

Morse code. Hello, Ben. Can you hear me? Wow, Todd, I can hear you like you're right next door. This is insane to me.

You have to understand to hear you say you got your first cell phone as. As an adult, it would have been in the what, mid-90s, late 90s, I think when they were starting. Because originally, the original cell phones, you basically had to have a backpack. It was gigantic.

So there was no walking around driving with your phone. And they were normally, the guys who had them were driving convertibles and had big hair. That was that there was a certain look for the early cell phone users. What was your first cell phone? Was it one of those Nokia's or Blackberry?

Flip phone? Yeah, well, first you get a pager, and that was everybody thought that was super cool. And then you got the Blackberries, and then I'm trying to remember my very first cell phone, but they cost an arm and a leg.

So now, according to Common Sense Media, 42% of American children now have a smartphone by the age of 10 years old, 71% by 12%. And how old were you when you got your first cell phone? I. I had a workaround, but 16.

Okay. Yeah. That makes sense. Yeah. I can understand that.

Get your driver's license, you get a phone. Why are you giving a 10-year-old a smartphone? And here's what gets me. All these parents are, you know, when you go to school, if you had a problem, let's say, I'm not a teacher, I'm not feeling well. Can I call my mom?

And they're like, yes, here's a pass. Go to the office. They let you use the landline. You call your mom, and your mom calls them and comes and picks you up.

So.

Nowadays, everybody's got their phones, and so the schools are trying to confiscate the phones, and the parents are freaking out.

Well, what if my child needs me?

Okay, well, they can go to the office and call you. What's the problem here?

Well, okay, so I'm gonna play Devil's Advocate. Back in your day. When you were a little fifth grader. You didn't have your teacher at the elementary school in South Haven in northern Mississippi. teaching you about, well, let's just say, Tranny in a drag queen outfit.

Okay. So your teacher was teaching you Dick and Jane.

Okay, the book, Dick, Jane, Spot. And Dick was Dick, and Jane was Jane. Yeah, there wasn't, you know, Dick channeled. Transforming. Can we find another name?

I'm sorry, it was my first book I ever read. Dick. Baba. Dick. Stop.

Dick. Oh, sweet. Wait, I have to get back to my illustration.

So there is Jankara.

Okay. So they were just teaching you the ABCs, but now you have the fifth grader at the elementary schools, and their teachers are wearing. Heels and it's a dude.

So now these kids need to have those cell phones to start videoing it. How do you think lives of TikTok became a thing?

Now we know what's happening in the classroom, but we wouldn't have known if those fifth graders, the 10-year-old, didn't have their cell phone, their iPhone, to record Mr. Jones, who looked like a Miss Jones. That's the devil's advocate. I'm sorry. I apologize to the listening.

What happens when Jane has a. Oh, wait a second. Never mind. No, I see what you're saying.

So now we know what's happening in the classroom.

So you have to justify it. But I'm curious, moms, dads, have you made that decision? Do you have those conversations about. Yeah. Good golly.

Um Stop. It's been a long week. It's been a long week. Do you have those conversations about, you know, how young is too young? You know, at what age would you be willing to give your child a cell phone?

And when did you get your first cell phone? To the listening audience? Because my mind's still blown that Todd was a 30-year-old man when he got his first cell phone. We've got people listening to this program that didn't even have landlines, those weren't even invented yet.

So you had to climb up a telephone pole. Oh, no, I'm sorry. That was Green Acres. 901-260-5926 is our number. It was much more peaceful back in those days.

I remember when we got our first, we thought this was so cool. And we got our first answering machine. And my dad was the one. We all watched his dad prepared to record the message. Hello, this is the Starnes family household.

And isn't it true if you had a landline, you could listen to everybody's conversation? Oh, darn tooting. Absolutely.

So, if there were two phones in one house and dad was talking downstairs on the landline, you as a kid could be listening upstairs. Absolutely.

Well even worse, mom and dad could be listening to you. Having a conversation. That's the way it rolled back in the day. All right, 901-260-5926. That's 901-260-5926.

Want to weigh in on that story, Dick and Jane, or whatever else is on your mind? We'll be right back, America. Live from the Liberty University Studio in Memphis, Tennessee. It's America's conservative blowtorch. Sir.

That's right. I love this American ride. Todd starts. Yeah, hello everybody. I hope you're doing well out there.

Dick Jane, hope everybody's doing great. Jeaner, she's a loot eater. You know, it's a good thing we have a friend heading up the FCC now. That's all I can say. Wow.

Welcome, everybody. Hour three of the big show. Great to have you with us. Coming up a little bit later on, Congresswoman Diana Harshberger is going to join us. She was at the big event yesterday, President Trump signing that executive order banning dudes from the women's sport.

So well done, President Trump there, and we'll be looking forward to talking to the Congresswoman. I want you to write down our telephone number. You will need this if you want to call into the program today, 901-260-5926. That's 901-260-5926. Now, we have a lot of great guests that come onto this program, and I'm very excited to introduce you to someone.

Who is really doing something incredible? And the best part about this story, you know, we've been talking a lot about USAID and how all of our tax money is being squandered in so many different places. USAID was actually started with something good in mind, something humanitarian in mind, but they got off mission.

Well, there's an organization, a ministry here in the Memphis area. And they are the real deal. And I wanna tell you about these folks. The name of the project is called the Filter Project. Their website, thefilterproject.org.

And they're doing something that seems to me to be very simple. But very important, which is providing The gift of safe filtered drinking water to people around the world. And they are partnering with missionaries and other Christian organizations in Kenya. To provide not only these water filters, but also to share the gospel of Christ. And ultimately, that's how you are going to change this world.

I want to welcome into the conversation Elliot Stovall, who is the chief executive officer and the founder of the Filter Project. Elliot, so good to have you on the program today. Thanks, Todd. Thanks for having us.

So, in full disclosure, you and I, we go to church together, and you stopped me after church one day, and you told me about this incredible ministry that you are starting. And I want you to take me back to that time because you were actually doing something very different with your life until you founded the Filter Project. Yeah, so God works in crazy ways and puts you in places where you never thought you'd be. And delivering clean water and the gospel to families in Kenya is not where I saw myself just half a year ago.

So what were you doing half a year ago?

So I sold health insurance to middle to large market companies.

So I was the insurance sales guy. And so you're selling insurance. You've got a great family. You've got a great life there in this part of Tennessee. I would say you were pretty comfortable.

I would say so. All right. And then one day you wake up and you decide, you know what? We're going to just slam on the brakes here and we're going to Kenya. Yeah.

So last year I met a gentleman named Christiana who's a pastor in Kenya and he came to our church to speak and had the opportunity to take him out to lunch. And I was just asking him what a day in the life of Kenya is like because I've never been there. I kind of asked, you know, jokingly, are there like elephants and giraffes just like walking around everywhere? What's the day like? Are there elephants and giraffes walking around?

I would be asking the same questions.

Well, I haven't seen them walking on the streets. I did see a camel walking down the street one day. That was pretty cool. That was pretty neat. There are safari parks that you can visit that have the exotic animals in them, but I.

I asked him, just, Cristiano, tell me what a Tuesday looks like. You wake up, Lord willing, then what? And he described his day of having to first start. by collecting water for his family, which At the time, I didn't know, but now I know that over 2.2 billion people in the world do not have access to clean drinking water. That is a shocking number.

You would think, you know, in our neighborhoods, even the worst neighborhood in, say, Memphis, Tennessee, you're going to have clean drinking water.

Well, actually, the water that we wash our cars with or the water that's in our toilet bowl is actually cleaner than over a third of the world's drinking. And so he kind of told me about that. And I said, well, Cristiano, if you're getting this water, how do you clean it? And he said, sometimes they boil it, but they don't always have the financial wherewithal to buy the wood and to boil it. And for your viewers, if you've ever, your listeners, if you've ever boiled a pot of noodles, it takes a lot of fire to get it to going.

Sure.

So imagine boiling 30 gallons of water to clean it, and then it's got to cool. A lot of times they end up just drinking this dirty water. And I was pretty puzzled and I said, well, don't you get sick? And he humbly said they do. And he actually lost, he has six children.

Five of them are living. One of his sons died before the age of one because of a heart defect caused by. Medicine that his wife took when she was pregnant, not knowing she was pregnant. And actually, Todd, over 800,000 people die every year because of dirty water. That many.

Yeah, and 300,000 of them are children under the age of five. And so where.

Some people will say that guns or other things are killing children. It's really dirty water.

So here you are, health insurance salesman, living a great life in the suburbs of Memphis, Tennessee. You're hearing these stories and you're hearing about all of these children that are losing their life because they don't have access to clean drinking water. At what point did it click? And did you, I mean, did you hear like God telling you this is what you've got to do? Yeah, I've heard people say that they hear God telling them stuff.

And before this, I kind of thought maybe they were just hearing voices in their head. But at that lunch with Cristiano, I heard God speak to me and he said, fix this. And so I bought Cristiano this filter. Thinking that I had kind of checked the box and helped him and done what God told me to do. And then I got a video several days later from Cristiano of him and his family.

And it just affected me that something so simple that we take for granted a $50 filter that I'd purchased him from Amazon. worked. Changed his family's life as far as health and their water. And I knew from there, Todd, that I. I needed to do more.

So, I want to give out this web address, and we're going to do it several times here before we wrap up. And again, we're honored to have Elliot Stovall with us. He is the CEO and founder of the Filter Project website. Very simple, folks. ThefilterProject.org.

And as you mentioned, a gift of $55, you're going to provide a filter that's going to last more than 20 years to a family that doesn't have access to clean drinking water. That is a pretty affordable gift that you can help Elliot with today. And you're going to be able to also share the love and hope of Christ. And I want to get to that in just a moment. But again, folks, thefilterproject.org, if you would like to make a donation, a gift of $55.

So you have. This bottle in the studio here, and it's basically like a water bottle. And it looks like I'm not, I don't know what's in there. It looks like stuff that Ben Dieter drinks around here, uh, that bone broth.

So it's basically dirty water. It is, it's actually water from my pond behind my house.

Okay, so this is literally pond water, and this is freaking me out because there is a filter attached. This, and this is the filter that the folks in Kenya get. Is that right? Yeah, you want to hold it? Yeah, so I'm holding this up for our Rumble and YouTube viewers.

And this is it. It's like, geez, a loo, it does look like bone broth. There are like critters in the bottom of this.

So anyway, you pour this through, you're just pouring it through a filter. We're doing this live in studio. He uses hollow microfiber technology, which is the same technology and dialysis machine. And look at that.

So, and now, so, and now we've got a clear. This is Absolutely insane.

So, this is what that little filter will do. Yeah, it'll do it for a million-plus gallons of water. Wow. And all it takes is a simple backflush of clean water through the filter, and it's ready to go again. Is that right?

That is fascinating.

So, I'm actually kind of thirsty. He's drinking this water in the studio. That's. Refreshing? It's wonderful.

Good, good. You don't look peaking or anything. No, I've been doing it for about eight months, so I think I'm all right.

So how many of these filters have you guys already provided to folks there in Kenya? Yes, so we started officially in June.

Okay. And so since June, we've been able to put out a little over 1,100 filters. Wow. And that's, are you already getting stories? I mean, do you get feedback from people and saying, hey, look, this has really changed our life.

Well, we were actually just got back from Kenya last weekend, and we were doing follow-up visits and conducting them with our missionaries to see this. And a lady, she's eighteen and she lives obviously with her family there. And she said before that, they suffered from a lot of waterborne diseases such as diarrhea and stomach issues. And she said ever since having the filter, Her and her younger siblings and her mother don't suffer from that. And we've been able to share the gospel with them over four times.

And that's ultimately what this is about: you know, you want to provide the basic necessities for folks, but at the same time, you want to be able to build that platform and that relationship where you can share the gospel message with people. That's right. You know, there's a lot of other water projects out there that are digging wells and large ways to get access to people for their water. But this filter allows our missionaries to have a personal relationship with that family because from ticketing to distribution and then to the three follow-ups, they've seen our team at least four to five times. Wow, that's remarkable.

No, I was shocked because you're right, you were in Kenya, and then Sunday I'm in church, and there you are. I'm like, how does this guy does not, you have like Trump's sleep regiment.

So it was really impressive to see you there Sunday. And I felt really bad because I was a little tired, and I just drove three miles in. A little diet of Coke and a McDonald's, and we're ready to go. You came from a different continent. Elliot Stovall is the founder of the Filter Project, thefilterproject.org.

And folks, this is one of those projects that is worthwhile. They're doing some incredible ministry and work, and you are literally making a difference. And I want you to go over, and you can make a donation of any kind, but at $55, you're going to be able to provide a filter for a family in Kenya that does not have access to clean, safe drinking water. And that's what this is all about.

Now, real quick, before we let you go, I know there is a big event coming up in the Memphis area, and it's called A Night Out with the Filter Project. Tell us about that. Yeah, so March 27th, which is a Thursday, 6:30 to 8 p.m., we're going to be hosting a storytelling event where we will. Have eight top tables for 300 or individual tickets for 40. And we will be telling the story of why we do what we do, how we do what we do, and then we will have several videos from some recipients.

And the cool thing is, is we'll actually be serving a traditional Kenyan dinner there cooked by our chef. Wow. Is it the chef at the church? Yeah, Germantown Baptist. He's good.

Chef Aaron. He used to work at Hog and Hominy at Dylan, which is one of our favorite joints here.

So great guy. You know what you have to do? What's that? You got to go. The people that are serving at the tables, instead of the water pitchers, you got to give them these jugs and just pour the water into their glass from the, by the way, sign Dieter up for an eight-top table.

I'll do that. He's loaded. He can afford it. He's got plenty of it. I love it.

All right. Wow, this is great. And again, if people want information on the night out with the Filter Project, they can go to the website as well. Yes.

All right, folks. There you go. Again, thefilterproject.org, Elliot Stovall, the CEO and founder of the Filter Project. And what a very, very important and clever ministry you guys have there. Elliot, thanks for dropping by today.

Thanks, Todd. Thanks for having me. All right, folks, we've got to take a quick break. 901-260-5926 is our telephone number. That's 901-260-5926.

This is the Todd Stern Show. All right. Elliot, by the way, was telling me just a few minutes ago, they sent 10,000 of these water filters to North Carolina just, wow, within the past couple of months. That's awesome.

So, folks, I know you've got a lot of people vying for your help, for your money. This is one of those projects that is so worthwhile. And again, not only helping out the people in Kenya, but right now helping out the people in North Carolina, providing a Filtered clean, safe drinking water, thefilterproject.org. Go check it out. Also, want to give a shout out to Germantown Baptist Church this afternoon.

They are feeding, and I wish I could be there, they're feeding first responders. And we've got a great full-time chef on staff. He is amazing, and we're feeding everybody barbecue.

So we got, I don't know what you got, pulled pork, ribs, whatever, but we're feeding all the first responders there in the Germantown area. And just a very simple way of saying how much we appreciate our first responders. I know our friends at KWAM, our flagship radio station, we love the police. We love firefighters, paramedics, 911 operators. We just really appreciate what you do.

And here in the South, we show our appreciation by feeding you and giving you diabetes.

So that's pretty much what we do. Let's go to the phones here. Louie in Georgia. Louie, I'm told you were born in 1947. Yes, sir.

Todd, I wasn't planning on being on the air. I was driving when I heard you talking about many years ago and in the landlines and in the houses you could pick up. and listen to the your relative's conversation. But Todd here in northern Georgia, back in the fifties we had what you call the party line. You had little battery packs on the outside of your house, and my understanding is that supplied the low-rate electricity for the phone.

But anyhow, the party lines. Was your neighbors. Actually, tied in on your party line. I don't remember, it could have been four or five or six. on that particular line.

So your neighbors could literally pick up and listen to you. I'll say this real quick, Todd, to show you how mean I am. As a youngster, I thought to myself, Lord, is there any way I could hold that little button down and ease it up where they couldn't tell that you're listening in? But no, they weren't no way, 'cause you could lit best I remember, you could tell when your neighbor picked the phone up to listen.

So if it's all right, Todd, I'm gonna hang up. And let you talk. Maybe some people older than me might call in, but the last thing I'd like to say is: bless the name of Jesus Christ forevermore.

Well, Louis, God bless you. And wow, what a great story. I had always heard of party lines, but I never heard of anybody who actually used one of those. And Louis, back in the day, I guess Louie was saying there in the North Georgia area that how did it work? Like multiple neighbors would.

You would pick up the phone and you would not have a private secure line. If, if you remember those days, I would love to hear from you. 901-260-5926. That's 901-260-5926. But, Dylan, I remember back when cell phones were just really becoming popular, they looked like these giant handheld walkie-talkies, and you had to have a huge antenna.

And a lot of them were actually in the cars.

So, in the console between the driver's seat and the passenger seat, you would have this massive contraption, which would be your cell phone. And you plugged it in and you sucked. I mean, the lights dimmed. I mean, that's how much energy that thing needed. insanity.

901 260 5926. I forgot all about the landlines. Of course, that was long after let's see, Lewis is he was in forty seven. That's when my mom was born.

So that was back in the day. But I do remember that the advent of the cellphones and all those guys that went in and built the cell phone towers, they're making a lot of money these days. All right, we've got to take a quick break here. Phones are lighting up. We got a party line going on.

901-260-5926. Do not forget, during this break, I want you to do me a favor: go and help my friend Elliot out. He's a good guy, doing great work, doing God's work. Thefilterproject.org. ThefilterProject.org.

We'll be right back, America. Yeah, all right, everybody. Welcome back to the Tom Sterns Radio Show. Let's go to the phone lines, Donna in Henderson, Tennessee. Hi, Donna.

What's on your mind? I was listening to your show. First of all, I enjoy listening to your show. Thank you. And you were talking about party lines.

Well That Reminded me of a wonderful memory of my childhood because I stayed with my granny and Paul Paul. And that's what they had was or actually it wasn't even in our house. It was in a neighbor's house. that we had to dr walk through the woods and down a long dirt road to get to her house. And she'd have she had the party line in her house.

It serviced about I don't know, five or six maybe, maybe more. Famely. But you had to walk miles to even get to her house.

So we called on Wednesday. That was our day to call. Because I was staying with, like I said, my mamma or granny and papa And We would call my mama so I could talk to my mama and Granny. Would Tell it was a lady named Miss Jodi Smith. She'd say, Jody, I've got Donna here.

She wants to talk to her mama. And so Jody had pick up the party line and say, Now y'all need to get off. Martha's here with her granddaughter. She wants to talk to her mamma, so they'd all get off the telephone.

So I could call my mom. Course, you could hear it click. Everybody was listening, you know, to what I was saying in my mind. But those were just fun memories. I mean, and that's not that long.

Well, today's my birthday, actually. I'm 67. today. And that was Um was before I started the school, so it was before I was five years old. And like I say, I'm from Chester County, that's in West Tennessee.

And it was just a fond memory. of me and my granny walking through the woods every Wednesday. To go to Jodi's house so I could call my mama. And when I was a teenager, my granny got a telephone. And W she never called us.

And we felt Well why on earth don't she call us or we call her? And she wouldn't answer. And so we went on Sunday and said, Granny, why aren't you answering that telephone? And she said, Well, nobody's told me what my ring. here.

And I don't want to pick up on somebody else's line. We said, no, Granny, this is private phone. When it rains it's for you. And she had no idea. That When her phone was ringing, it was private.

She could have a private conversation. What a story. Called on, she wore it out. I bet she did.

Well, Donna, happy birthday to you. And wow, what a story. Thank you. Thank you for calling in and sharing that today.

Okay. Well, thank you. Keep listening. All right. Well, appreciate that.

Can you imagine, Ben? They called on your day to use the phone was on a Wednesday. Can you imagine if they tried that? In 2025. People would go through with, I mean, they would, it would be like being on drugs and then getting off of the drug.

And happy birthday, Donna. I mean, happy, happy birthday to you. 67? That's not all that old. She's a spring chicken, Donna is.

Let's go to Arkansas, Toad Suck Scott. All right, Toad Suck, what's going on? Hey man, I hadn't talked to you in a long time. How you doing? I'm good, good, good.

Thank you for asking.

Well, I'm good too. I had a new knee replacement back in October, so I feel good. I can walk better now. Hey, you know what, Todd? I was growing up in North Carolina.

We had a party line. And man, you know how us kids are. I'd pick it up, I'd listen to these two old ladies. And they always talk every day, and I would listen. And they would go, you know, I think somebody's on here.

And the other would say, I think they are too. Enough. I love that. And I isn't that awful for little kids to do that?

Well, terrible. These days the government does it, so.

Well, yeah, there you go. But we had the best time. Yeah, party lines were a big thing. This was probably, I was probably seven.

So this would have been sixty six, sixty five, sixty eight, So yeah, I they were they were that's a big thing back then. That's all you had.

Well, I didn't realize they were still I mean, I was born in sixty seven, but I had no idea they still had party lines going on into the late sixties.

Well, maybe North Carolina was behind the times.

Well, it could have been in the South. Remember Green? I don't know if you remember the show Green Acres. Oh, yeah, the pole. They had to climb up the telephone pole to use.

That was hilarious. That was great. Yeah, but I just want to tell you that. Good to talk to you.

Well, thank you, Toad Suck. Always good hearing from you and appreciate that. And, you know, a lot of people, Ben Dieter, come up with nicknames. Like we have OG Bill. We have Toad Suck.

We have Joe from LA J, who actually is Joe from LAJ.

So that's what I'm saying. Oh, and Dark Horse. Dark Horse. Yeah, that's it.

So we love that.

So if you come up with a nickname, you know, be clever about it. And you know who we haven't heard from in a long time is Miss Janice from New Orleans. Oh, we need to check on her. Maybe she's preparing for the Super Bowl.

Well, she may be. Or Mardi Gras. Let's go to Regina in Alto, Georgia. Hi, Regina. Yeah.

Hi.

Well, we we had a party line when I was a child and uh mm, I guess, yeah, fifth grade, something like that. I was ten years old. And we didn't have such a good time because we had a whole family that there were six girls in the family. We couldn't tell when they picked up on the phone and were listening in. But the next day when I would go to school and be on the school bus, they would ask me questions.

Like, um Regina, did you brother blah, blah, blah, and did you giving themselves away knowing that they listened to everything we said?

So It was no fun because they had uh And they were evil. Wow. So they were listening in. They were gossips. Yeah, they were, and I could not tell when they picked up.

They had a way of doing it that you couldn't tell when they picked up, but. But they really loved it. They got off on that. Thank you so much. Regina, thanks for that story.

Ben, I can only imagine what you were probably the kid listening in. Oh, 100%. Collecting the dirt. This is interesting. I am doing a deep dive on what a party line is because of the show.

Let's go to the Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line. We're honored to have from East Tennessee Congresswoman Diana Harshbarger. And Congresswoman, we were talking about somebody called in and mentioned a party line. Did you have a party line growing up? Of course I had a party line, Todd.

Didn't everybody, when you're a certain age, you're a baby boomer, of course you have a party line. You've always got a snooky, nosy little neighbor that wants to listen in, and I know exactly how to do that too. Push the phone down real slightly and keep the line up. It's all good, buddy. I do know.

Wow. I am just in I'm surprised. I'm a Gen Xer.

So we were the whole point of the story was parents whether or not they should be giving kids their cellphones at the age of ten. And I pointed out Ben Dieter being rude asked me if I had a cell phone growing up. And I'm like, we had landlines. We had no cell phones back in that day. Yeah.

Did he know what a landline was? No, Congresswoman, I had to look it up. Man, bless you, brother. You need to spend some time with the baby boomer generation and, you know, a couple other generations, for God's sake, to teach you things you never knew, you didn't need to know. I was trying to explain Green Acres and climbing up the phone pole, but that's just a lost generation, I'm afraid.

Great Congresswoman. Petico Junction, that's good. Oh, that's it. When did you get your first cell phone? Lord, I was let me dwell.

I remember when my husband first got his a car with a phone in it. It was in the console and it was gigantic. And I didn't have a cell phone until I was way in pharmacy school or out of pharmacy school. I mean, we couldn't afford such luxury. Are you kidding me?

That's it. That's it. That's how we rolled back in the day, Ben Dieter. Congress will. When we were your age.

Congresswoman, we got a lot to talk about here. Of course, President Trump having the big prayer breakfast this morning. Yesterday, though, it was just so amazing to see. I was just really moved by President Trump signing that order, executive order, protecting all those young female athletes. And what was that experience like?

It was awesome to see those young girls and young women standing behind him. They were there with their moms. You know, just the people who had made this possible that fought so hard to get them equal rights. I mean, who in the world ever thought that men in women's sports was a good idea in the first place? And now we're coming back to level ground and sanity and common sense is ruling the day.

And it was really special. I knew some of those young women, and it was just a great day for women's sports. You know, it's been so exciting, at least watching from a distance. What's the mood and the atmosphere like within Washington right now, and especially among the Republican caucus? God, we're as happy, happy, happy as can be.

We're just ecstatic. But the looming reconciliation, we have to worry about that. We have to worry about the appropriation bills and everything that's coming down the pike, and we got to get to work. But man, the mood, Todd, is If you you know when you pass somebody in the hall, whether they're a Republican or a Democrat, you can just look at your face and know because they're just ecstatic that we have. the trifecta, and now we've got to use it for the good of the American people and deliver on the mandate that they gave us.

We do. And I think people are just genuinely surprised at the level of grift and corruption we're finding, you know, Elon and his team so far. And, you know, now we're starting to understand why a lot of these news organizations are still up and running because our tax money was actually being used to fund their operations. Hey, can you believe that? And what was it, Politico got 8 million?

You know, I'm waiting on them to pull the plug on NPR, is what I really want. And you can tell when they get very defensive, even in a hearing today. everybody was talking about cutting money from community health centers and doing all these things, and we haven't done any of that. But they are setting the narrative for the terrible things when they go out and do those press conferences and they're screaming at the top of their lungs. It's because they have been had.

And here we go. We've exposed them. And they're fighting for their lives. I mean, that was their honey jar, their little honeypot that USAID. And so now that that's been exposed, and it's kind of like that slut fund that they had up here that they'd Keep everybody quiet when they had the promiscuous things that they didn't want you to know about.

Did you call that a slut fun? That's the idea.

Well, that's what they called it. That's a slang, man. It's a slang, Todd. It's not the slut fun. It's a slut fun.

So there you go. I'm with you. You know what that means. I'm learning all sorts of things being a Congresswoman. Ben knows what that means.

Yeah. Oh, my God. That's funny. Wow. Sweepers.

You know what I'd be afraid of is getting you and Tim Burchett on at the same time. I'm not sure our radio audience could handle that. Man, that would be so fun. We could bounce off each other. I've told him we need to do some kind of comedy skit, some kind of stand-up, either that or a cage match, whatever.

So we're good to go. Throw in John Kennedy. We could have our own version of Hee Haw.

Well, I can understand every word coming out of that man's mouth. I can tell you that right now. True. I you know, this is funny because our Newsmax crew, they're from New York, and they I have to interpret so much. You know, it's so funny.

A lot of stuff doesn't translate below the Mason-Dixon line.

Well, I'm glad you're there, Todd. You're the sophisticated one that can bring some semblance of what this language barrier is. I'm a missionary to the Yankees. It's, you know.

So there you go. All right. Well, Congresswoman, thanks for hanging out with us today and playing along. It's just it's so much fun. We're having a blast, and it is so exciting to see President Trump delivering on all these campaign promises.

So It's going to be a great day. Promise is made, promises kept, buddy, and it's time to make America great again. I love it. All right, Diana Hirschbarger, ladies and gentlemen, from the 1st Congressional District in Tennessee. Thank you.

Uh-huh. Bye-bye. All right. She's great. She is.

Will she come back on again? After that conversation, she called it slut fun. She asked if you knew what that was. I mean, that is a, that's exactly what it is, though. It is.

Yeah. And they've been selling us all out like prostitutes, unfortunately. We're all taxpayers. We're funding this stuff. Sidewalk sallies.

Yeah. All right. We can work in a quick call here. Let's go to Louisiana Bo, listening to us on our awesome K-Wham app. Hi, Bo.

What's going on? How you doing, Tom? I'm good. Thanks for asking, Bo. My grandma had had a party line.

There were six people on her party line. And it had a different ring. Her ring was too long and too short, and that when we got that, we moved to pick up the phone.

So you had like a so you knew that you had a specific kind of a ring? Yeah, yeah, it was two long rings and two short rings, and she knew that with her her phone ringing there. Wow. Okay. Wow.

Bo, did they did they give that to your mother? How did the people get the different ringtones, or was it house by house and you just waited for the countdown? Come from the phone company.

Okay. And there was a beady on the other end that I always wanted to pick up, listen to everybody. Phone call, so An old busybody, and you know they were gossiping. She knew everybody's prayer requests before Wednesday night church meeting. And she was one of those that would go to the funeral home every time somebody died.

Oh, well. Wow. That's you got to love it. All right, Bo, thank you for that. Let's sneak in Diane from Salem, Oregon, listening to us on the great KYKN.

So Diane, you guys had party lines up in Oregon. Yes, I grew up in eastern Oregon. outside of Ontario, which is right on the Idaho border, And this would have been between nineteen seventy and nineteen seventy four, We shared a party line with about five other people And the story I have. Is that uh when my sister and I would be on the phone, These boys Um would get on the phone. and harass us.

They'd cuss or And we told our dad about it. And he said Next time they do that, you come get me. And so it happened, of course, and so we got dad. And dad got on the phone and said his name and he said, I know where you live, and you ever do this to my daughters again, I'm going to come over there and shove your heads down the toilet. And they never did it again.

I yeah, I no doubt. It's I love that. That's That's great. No. Wow, what a story.

Again, I had no, so up into the 1970s, that the party lines existed. That is, that's amazing. I had no idea. Uh-huh. All right.

Well, Diane, thank you for that great story. And it sounds like you got a great dad, too. Folks, we got to take a quick break. We'll be right back. All right, 5 o'clock Eastern tonight on Newsmax.

We're going to have a very, very busy show. Hope you join us. And you can, by the way, watch on your.

So if you're still at work, you can actually watch on newsmax.com. And you'll see the video there on the right side. Full lineup of guests, Congressman Addison McDowell is going to join us, Andy Biggs. Also, Senator Tommy Tubberville will be with us as well. And we're also going to be talking to a campus reform correspondent about that crazy story out of UT Knoxville.

We should have asked we should have asked the Congresswoman about the furries. That was a lot in one interview. I don't know that we get Congresswoman Harsh Barger back on the show if we ask her about furry style. Still working through slut fund. Yeah.

That's awesome.

We need to get t-shirts made up. That's what we need to do. You know what I didn't think it is? I think people are tired of talking politics. Two.

Are you tired of talking politics? I'm not tired of talking politics, but I think people enjoy talking about other fun stories. Like landlines or party lines. That's it. Okay, it's been a lot of fun.

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