J.D. Vance Delivers Stunning Rebuke to Faces of European Leaders

Live from the Liberty University Studio in Memphis, Tennessee, it's America's favorite gun-totin, Bible-clinging, deplorable American. That's us, that's right. I love this American ride. Todd Stearns. Oh, yeah.

Yeah, happy Valentine's Day, America. Welcome to the Todd Stearns Radio Program. A lot of people are very busy today. Gosh, folks are getting. chocolates and and candies and Penn Dieter just got like a huge delivery.

Somebody sent you what? Flowers. That was very kind. I'm not really a flower guy. I think it was just from our Grace sponsors.

Okay. Yeah. That was nice. That was huge. No, no, no.

Listen to this.

So it's a power power shop, Todd, and the name of the local flower shop? It's Ps. Pew's Flowers. And it's as in like Pew the Skunk. I love that.

Yeah, it's great marketing. And it's a great local flower shop as well in Memphis, Tennessee. Pew's Flowers. So anyway, very nice.

So many of you are getting your awesome little Valentine's gifts. Guys, don't forget.

So if you have forgotten, you don't want to get the flowers at the gas station, right? Or the guy selling them in the middle of the medium on the expressway.

So you want to get something nice for the Valentine in your life. Todd. Roses are red. Can we do roses and red, violets or blue jokes for the rest of the show? No, no, we can't.

Why? Because this is important. The official President Trump put out an official White House Valentine's Day message. And it's a beautiful pink background with little red hearts. Amazing.

And it's got the president's bobble, it's got the president's head, and it's got borders are Tom Homan's head, which is a little weird on a Valentine's Day card. But when you read the message, it all makes sense. And here is the official White House message. I posted this on my official Instagram, ToddSternsFNC. You can see it for yourself.

Roses are red, violets are blue. Come here illegally, and we'll deport you. I love this. It's fantastic. No, Trump and Tom look great on the front of a Valentine's card.

Yes. And also, I don't know if you've heard this news, but President Trump. Has now posted, you know, he's got the huge portrait of Ronald Reagan in the Oval Office.

Now, President Trump has a beautiful portrait of his official mugshot in the Oval Office at the White House. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. You remember when the president Did this I I ha I have I have one for you, Todd. Roses are red.

Violets are blue, and this one's coming from President Biden. You know, he's still tweeting carts. He's also sharing his Valentine's message with the nation. Roses are red, violets are blue. I can't remember what I was going to tell you.

Yeah. Or roses are red, violets are blue. Oops, I just had to poo-poo.

So because he's, you know, kind of that age. Or roses are red, violets are blue. Where's your little kid? I want to smell them too. Oh, that's weird.

Okay. Not me, Joe Biden. Of course, of course, Joe Biden.

So there you have it. Thank you, Donald Trump. I love this man. Can I just say that? I love Donald Trump.

What a great sense of humor. And there's so much chaos going on in the country right now. And the great thing about it is it is, if you remember back in the day when Rush Limbaugh promoted Operation Chaos, calling on the Republicans to cause chaos with the Democrats, this is a great kind of chaos. And it is happening. And the Democrats deserve every morsel of angst and anger and frustration and terror that they are feeling right now.

And I just love that.

Now, I want to say something real quick out of the gate here about, and we're going to get to J.D. Vance in just a moment, who is just doing an amazing job, an amazing job for President Trump and the America First Agenda. But yesterday, Linda McMahon, our education secretary, was on Capitol Hill for her hearing. And she said something that caused me alarm. And I wanted to share that with you.

Again, the issue here is we must dismantle and destroy the Department of Education. That has to be done. It has to be done.

So, Linda McMahon was asked about all of this during her confirmation hearing, and she said that she would work to downsize the Department of Education. This is what she wants to do: she wants to downsize the Department of Education. She said defunding the Department of Education is not the goal, and she also stopped short of saying she would eliminate the Department of Education.

Now, for the record, Just so you know. Congress actually has the power, and it is their responsibility to abolish the Department of Education. They created it, they have to abolish it.

So, this is a congressional issue. But it concerns me, though, that McMahon is basically saying. We're not going to really do anything here. We're just going to maybe eliminate a few jobs, but we're not going to defund. That is not the goal.

Ladies and gentlemen, her answer to those questions was absolutely unacceptable yesterday. President Trump wants the Department of Education abolished. He said it's a con, and it is. It's a great big con job. Nobody in this none of the kids in this country can read at grade level.

That's unacceptable. They are trying to intentionally dumb down our kids, and we cannot let that happen. Look, We've talked about this a lot. I didn't realize I was going to have to bring this up because I have been so proud of all the nominees, and they are doing exactly as President Trump has instructed them to do. The President has a very well thought out plan here.

It has been in the works since, well, since Joe Biden put his hand on the Bible. Yeah. So the president has a plan, and the only reason those people are being nominated for those cabinet positions is to implement his plan. His plan, not theirs, his. Yeah.

The Department of Education, though, this is so strategically important. This is. Yeah. The Department of Education is basically the Japanese fleet. Steaming towards Pearl Harbor.

All right. They are the engine that's being used to drive all of the radical change in this country, from political change to cultural change to sex and gender. It's all coming out of our taxpayer-funded schools. And if we do not, and hear me on this, ladies and gentlemen, if we do not. If President Trump and his administration fail to dismantle the Department of Education.

And if they fail to return control of our taxpayer-funded schools back to the local communities, hear me on this, we will lose this nation. Period. It doesn't matter about anything else. You can deport everybody. You can stop putting the food coloring in the fruit loops.

You can do all of that stuff. But if we do not get control of our schools back to the local communities, we're going to lose everything. Barack Hussein Obama, when he promised to fundamentally transform America, he knew that he could do it because the Democrats control the Department of Education.

So I just want to caution everybody here. I don't want to be a Debbie Downer. or a Dug Downer. But I'm just warning you that we've got to make sure that. That Trump follows through on this particular plan.

I think this was the greatest missed opportunity of his first four years in office. And hear me on this. If Linda McMahon, who's a very nice, capable person, If Linda McMahon cannot follow the President's wishes, the President. needs to find another nominee. It's that simple.

Because ultimately it's not about Linda McMahon. Not about RFK Jr., not about J.D. Vance, not about Marco Rubio. Kay and Bondi, not about any of those folks. This is about President Trump's agenda.

And by the way, it's really not about President Trump, it's about his agenda. 901-260-5926 is our telephone number. That's 901-260-5926.

So look, J.D. Vance. Is in Europe right now. He is speaking. He gave a speech at the Munich Security Conference in Munich, Germany.

And normally these things are snooze fests. You know, nothing much really ever happens at these things. But let me tell you something. All you know what broke loose today. JD Vance took all these European leaders to the woodshed.

Now, let me tell you what's going on here so you can understand. And I'm just cutting right to the chase today. All right. Understand what's happening in Europe. Yeah.

So we have these globalists, and we know who they are: George Soros, all of those folks, Bill Gates. We the bushes, everybody. And you can call it a the new world order, one world regime, whatever you want to call it, but they're globalist. They want to do away with all borders and they want to have a one world government. They want to have a one world economy.

They're very dangerous people. And there's been a lot of pushback, thanks in no small part, by the way, to, I would say, talk radio. That Because nobody else is really talking about the true intent of the globalists. But the globalists aren't the real enemy. They're one of the enemies, but there is an even greater concern, a greater enemy that we need to be aware of.

And I'm going to get to that in about 30 seconds.

So, the globalists, they're coming in. And their message is actually being heard and embraced in places like Europe and really across Western Europe. And so, what's happened is the globalists have done away with the borders and they have had unfettered immigration. And who's been moving into town?

Well, it's the Muslims. By the tens of millions. And what's happening is it's been happening so fast. There's zero assimilation, which is why, at this very moment, as you and I are talking. Above Westminster Cathedral, right in London.

Flying on top of Westminster Cathedral is a Palestinian flag.

So, the Muslims pretty much now control most of Western Europe. And that is only going to get worse. And the reason why is they tore down the borders and they allowed all the Muslims to come into these countries.

Now, what have we and you have to be careful? On how you frame this argument, because they'll say, well, you know, not all Muslims are bad. No, that's that and that's true, but their religion is, because at the heart of the religion is conquering. It is waging jihad. Yeah.

And you can, I mean, if you read the Quran, you know they lay out exactly what they want to do, and they want to conquer the world, world domination.

Okay. So, for going all the way back to after World War I. Where countries had borders, immigration, if there was a lot of it, it was orderly and people were able to live in some semblance of peace. Then World War II comes along and the Germans and all that. And then, once that war is waged, then Um we get back to the way things were prior to the war.

But you still had this measured immigration. Yeah. But over the past, oh gosh, 20, 25 years, you have had unfettered immigration. I want to explain, and you folks in Gainesville, Georgia, that listen to us on WDUN, you're getting a little taste of this with the massive numbers of Hispanics that are moving into your community. And many of those folks are, in fact, illegal.

What happens is when you have a massive number of people, and I want to try to get away because people are going to say, Sterns is your xenophobic, you're Islamophobic. No, I'm not.

So let me back this up for a moment. All right, let's say you've got a Catholic community, all right? And this Catholic town, we'll call it Popeville. And so you've got Popeville, and they've got these big walls around Popeville, like the Vatican. And so all of a sudden, there are orders coming down, and Popeville has to accept.

30, 40,000 Southern Baptists.

Well, if you allow 30 or 40,000 Southern Baptists into your Catholic town of about 20,000 people, guess what's going to happen? You're going to get chaos. Your culture is going to come under attack, and your culture is going to change. And why is your culture going to change? Because your population of Catholics has literally been overrun by the Baptists.

And then every liquor store is going to have to move to another county. That's what would happen.

So so it's nothing against you know, it's nothing against the Catholics or Baptists or Hispanics or Muslims. This is just the reality of it, which is why one of the number one baby names in Uh and and the UK is Muhammad?

So, you've got the Christian population. And by the way, so they've been secularized over the years.

So, the churches have been pretty much emptied.

Now, mosques are coming in, and the Muslims are having babies left and right. Christians are not giving birth. And so.

Soon, very soon. The Muslims will eventually take over. Western Europe. And it's starting to happen here in this country. Yeah.

And if you want to know what it's like to live in a majority Muslim country, then I would encourage you to go and take a vacation, take a spa day in Tehran. Or go to Saudi Arabia. Go to go to Iraq. Go to, I don't know, Gaza. And you'll get a pretty good flavor, a pretty good taste of what that life will look like.

where Christians are not treated very kindly.

So you say, well, what does this have to do with J.D.? I'm getting to that. I'm getting to that. Just bear with me for a moment.

So here's where we are, and we're going to play some of this audio from J.D. Vance's speech because this very well could be one of the most important speeches of the Trump administration thus far. Because J.D. Vance is warning Western Europe what's about to happen to them. You see, the globalists, they didn't ac the globalists, they thought that everybody was just going to assimilate.

They were not thinking. They clearly, and most of the globalists are not religious people, they're not students of religion. And they probably have no idea of what history has taught us about the Islamists when they come in. And they come in to conquer. And so now the globalists are in a pickle.

Because the Islamists, they don't like the globalists. And the globalists now are irrelevant across much of Western Europe because they're going to be losing control. They're going to be losing power. And this is why you're starting to see the protests, the marches in the streets. People, what is it, a couple of days ago, there was some guy that got stabbed because he burned a Quran.

It's going to get ugly over there. And the whole point of this is we don't want it to get ugly over here. Real quick before we have to go to a break, I've got a lot to say about this because we have got to pay attention to what's happening in Western Europe right now. Civilization is literally under attack here. It's under attack.

Yeah. And my concern is this. It's going to come to a point where the Europeans are once again going to have to call on America. to save them. From their invaders.

And the question is: should we do it for a third time? All right, we do have to take a break here: 901-260-5926. This is Open Line Friday. Again, 901-260-5926. This is the Todd Stern Show.

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So, look, here's the deal. We're going to circle back. We've got to take a quick break. When we come back, I want to play some audio from. J.D.

Vance's message that he delivered at the Munich conference. We're going to get to your calls as well. Joe from LAJ on our line.

So hang tight, Joe. It's Open Line Friday. And by the way, If you want to give your Valentine a shout out, we're going to let you do that today.

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Uh And happy Valentine's Day, America. This is Todd Starnes. Thank you for hanging out with us today. And if you'd love to phone in and give your precious Valentine a shout out, we're certainly going to welcome you to do that. And by the way, it is Open Line Friday as well.

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Let's go to the phone lines. Our good buddy Joe from Ella J, Georgia, one of our faithful listeners. Hi, Joe. What's going on? Tom, you got an incredibly great program.

Steve Moore, who's an economic advisor to Trump, he's a good friend of mine for twenty five years. He called me yesterday and said after he got off Fox News and said, Joe, Trump is doing just great. Things are just fantastic. Then John Gizzy, who's an old friend of mine, called me yesterday. And Todd, he thinks the world of you.

He's on Newsmax, and I know you know him, but he told me, he said, Joe, Todd is great. And we talked about that I call into your show. And anyway, John had a lot of great things to say about you. And I just wanted to let you know that you probably already know that, but he's very high on you. Todd, I feel great about the future with Trump and Musk cutting waste.

And, of course, J.D. Vance, I know you're going to play him in a few minutes, and he's great too. But I've never felt better about the future of the country for my three children and seven grandchildren. And your show is certainly a great thing for all the taxpayers. I appreciate all you do, Todd.

Keep up the great work. Joe, thank you for those kind words. And I am very bullish about the future. I know there are some concerns about inflation, but the reality is it's going to take a little bit of time to get the economy under control, to get inflation under control. And when that happens, we're going to be living large, and we're all going to be able to go out there and buy a dozen eggs again.

Todd, just keep up the great work. You're a great friend of the technique. Thank you, Joe. All right, our good buddy, Joe, from LLJ, been with me since the Fox days, back when I was doing the radio show at Fox News.

So, look, I want to play this audio. This is J.D. Vance, and he was discussing again the dangers of what's happening there with this unfettered immigration and the attacks on free speech and religious liberty. Cut number six, please. And unfortunately, when I look at Europe today, it's sometimes not so clear what happened to some of the Cold War's winners.

I looked to Brussels. Where EU commissars warn citizens that they intend to shut down social media during times of civil unrest the moment they spot what they've judged to be, quote, hateful content. Or to this very country, where police have carried out raids against citizens suspected of posting anti-feminist comments online as part of, quote, combating misogyny on the Internet, a day of action. I look to Sweden, where two weeks ago the government convicted a Christian activist for participating in Koran burnings that resulted in his friend's murder. And as the judge in his case chillingly noted, Sweden's laws to supposedly protect free expression do not, in fact, grant, and I'm quoting, a free pass.

To do or say anything without risking offending the group that holds that belief. And perhaps most concerningly, I look to our very dear friends, the United Kingdom. Where the backslide away from conscience rights has placed the basic liberties of religious Britons, in particular, in the crosshairs. A little over two years ago, the British government charged Adam Smith Conner, a 51-year-old physiotherapist and an Army veteran, with the heinous crime of standing 50 meters from an abortion clinic and silently praying for three minutes. Not obstructing anyone, not interacting with anyone, just silently praying on his own.

After British law enforcement spotted him and demanded to know what he was praying for. Adam replied simply: it was on behalf of the unborn son he and his former girlfriend had aborted years before.

Now the officers were not moved. Adam was found guilty of breaking the government's new buffer zones law, which criminalizes silent prayer and other actions that could influence a person's decision within 200 meters of an abortion facility. He was sentenced to pay thousands of pounds in legal costs to the prosecution.

Now, I wish I could say that this was a fluke, a one-off, crazy example of a badly written law being enacted. against a single person. But no. This last October, just a few months ago, the Scottish government began distributing letters to citizens. whose houses lay within so-called safe access zones.

Warning them that even private prayer within their own homes. may amount to breaking the law. Naturally, the government urged readers to report any fellow citizens suspected guilty of thought crime. in Britain and across Europe. Free speech, I fear, is in retreat.

So that's just a portion of this come to Jesus moment that J.D. Vance had with the European leaders. And the whole point of this is not to embarrass the European leaders, it's to call them out. And the hope is that a come to Jesus moment will actually make Europe come back to Jesus. That's the whole point of this.

Otherwise, it's going to be lost. But I may I just say something here. Did you notice did anything that J D Vance did it did any of that actually sound familiar? Because a lot of that was actually happening in the United States, and it's been happening in the United States all the way back to the Obama administration. And most recently, here in America, where if you were praying on a sidewalk, a public sidewalk outside an abortion clinic, you too could go to jail.

So, a lot of the things that were happening in Europe were actually happening in the United States as well. But the good news here is that Donald J. Trump got reelected. And as a result of that, we were able to stop the slippery slope. We have stopped the slide.

We're still on the slope, ladies and gentlemen, which is why we've got to abolish the Department of Education. Yeah. But thank goodness. For last November, and I truly believe it was a God-ordained moment. That God is giving our country a chance to get it right.

Because if America had fallen, then the entire world would fall. Hear me on that. 901-260-5926 on this Open Line Friday. That's 901-260-5926.

Dieter sent me this crazy story. From Jefferson County, Colorado. Yeah. And It goes back to the heart of the The taxpayer-funded education system and how evil it is.

Now, I want to say something here for a moment. There are a lot of predators out there. And it seems as though For example, there are just I mean, we saw what happened with the Boy Scouts. We're seeing what's happening in the churches. Yeah.

And If you are a predator and you've harmed a child, then you should be executed. I mean, that's just my personal belief. If you harm a child, you get the death penalty. and it should happen immediately.

Well What's happening in our public schools, I believe, pales in comparison. I mean, when you look at what happens in our public schools. This is the greater threat. to the nation. And the media is turning a blind eye to this.

By and large, they're turning a blind eye to this. And they're not covering a lot of the abuse and the predatory behavior that's happening on these public school campuses. And I want to bring your attention to Jefferson County, Colorado. Columbine High School. And the school district Is in the throes of a massive cover-up and scandal.

Folks, you're not going to believe this. A teacher A female teacher. Was having an inappropriate relationship with a 17-year-old female.

So it was a lesbian relationship.

Okay. And Investigators determined that the social studies teacher. was grooming the seventeen year old girl.

Now, according to their investigation. The the teacher had convinced the child To write on a form, an official document, that she was actually homeless. and therefore would be able to move in with the teacher.

Now, the counselors at the school, so multiple teachers, multiple staff members at the school were all involved in this. And The parents, this 17-year-old girl's parents, were kept completely out of the loop. Heather McCormick, reading from CBS News. Heather McCormick, friends with the girl's mom, says there were red flags long before the district hired investigators. but not a single person stood up and said something doesn't seem right and nobody reached out to the parents.

School emails obtained through an open records request show counselors intentionally kept the parents in the dark while they helped their daughter declare herself homeless so she could move in with a teacher. Quote, I think it's really scary that we can take teenagers or children of any age and say whatever you want to say is true and we're not going to investigate it. We're not going to take big steps to declare you homeless without notifying your family. By the way, not only did the counselors and the teacher know about this, so did the principal of the school. According to the reporting of CBS News.

Yeah. The parents only found out about it when the mom was cleaning her daughter's room and she stumbled upon the homeless document, along with a letter describing her daughter kissing the teacher. She then uncovered thousands of calls and text messages between the pair. She told investigators that she sent the teacher a message warning her to stop contacting her daughter and then showed the principal all the calls and the text messages, and the mom says the principal dismissed them. And he told the mob, quote, This teacher takes interest in helping kids navigate their sexuality.

Yeah, navigating directly to her bedroom. Unbelievable. So the school district is now apologizing. But in the apology One of the well, the superintendent of schools is actually Blaming parents and saying the bigger threat is not the predatory school teachers, but the bigger threat are mom and dad. Cut number three.

I just want to highlight the need to train children, and I want to broaden it a little bit more because my experience as a CASA is not just sexual abuse, in fact, most of this other kind of abuse. And I'll just remember one of my little Emma whose parents mistreated her so bad that she ended up in children's hospital with organ failure. And some of the therapy she got early on, she said to me one day, she said, You know, my mom didn't treat me right. She shouldn't have done that. And she didn't know.

I mean, she was starved, essentially. And so I would want our training for children to be broader than just don't touch these body parts or don't hear the proper terms, but what's appropriate, even for parents. All right. Parents aren't the problem here, folks. This kind of thinking is because, and you've all seen the videos on TikTok and social media of the teachers.

And what have the teachers been telling? They've been intentionally targeting these kids who think they may identify as whatever on the alphabet spectrum. And what do they tell the kids? If your family disapproves of your lifestyle choices, we will be your family. I will be your parent.

I will be mommy. I will be daddy. These are teachers. Using their platforms in their classrooms to groom these kids. And it just seems to me not only should that teacher be in jail, but so should the counselors and any other staff members, the principal, anybody who helped cover this up needs to at the very least be fired.

And if they broke the law, they need to be in jail. But I'm wondering Is this kind of stuff happening in other schools around the country? 901-260-5926. Our telephone number, that's 901-260-5926. This is the Todd Stern Show.

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All right, guys, we got a problem in my neighborhood. And Ben Dater, I know you were talking about this on KWAM, our great affiliate of Memphis. Yeah, I live in Germantown. I think it's a pretty conservative town, but we elect liberals. I don't know why we do that.

But anyway, we have a rule. You're only allowed to keep your holiday decorations up for a certain amount of time. You can set them up like 45 days before the holiday, and you got to take them down no later than 30 days after the holiday. Who writes these laws? I don't know.

I'm telling you. Are people bored? We got liberals.

So there's a woman in Germantown, and she's a leftist. and she has a skeleton fetish. Oh.

So she decorates. She has these massive decorations in her front yard, and they're all skeleton-themed. I hate skeletons. She decorates for Christmas. She's got the skeletons up and Easter and St.

Patrick's Day. And she's a big Pride Month gal this one.

So I'm just she celebrates Pride Month. Oh, yeah. She puts like rainbow stuff on the skeletons. And so anyway, now she's in trouble because the city told her she's in violation of their ordinances, and I guess she's been fined. And so now she's filed a federal lawsuit.

And she's claiming that her First and Fourth Amendment rights have been violated. and that she has every right to put up These awful decorations in her front yard. But you have to give her credit. For Valentine's Day, I think she put a bow from a Cupid in the skeleton's arm for St. Patrick's Day.

I've seen the decor. She puts the Irish dress on the skeleton.

So she's keeping it at least updated. But. The skeletons remain the same. We have a call. Let's go to the lake of fire.

Satan on the line. I love the decorations. Yeah. They're beautiful. Thank you, Satan.

Appreciate the call.

So, anyway, look, um. Do you guys have a problem? I mean, I wonder if it's a stretch that you've got to have an ordinance dictating how long you can keep your holiday decorations up. Why is that the city's business? I would say it's a bridge too far if they came inside because I know a lot of people still have their Christmas trees up.

It's very common. You set up the fern, the Christmas tree. And a lot of people just update the ornaments.

So you put eggs on the Christmas tree.

So that's effectively what she's doing outside. And again, I mean, if it's an HOA, but I don't think it is, and I would never move. People said, why don't you move into an HOA? Because those are communists. If you live in an HOA, then you embrace communism.

And these people are terrible. Take down your flag. Your grass is a quarter inch too high. Like, okay, chill out, pal. But here's the deal.

The broader question, and maybe the courts can help us out here. Do you have a constitutional right to be an inconsiderate jerk to your neighbors? I think that's maybe the broader question here.

Well, she's now suing the city. Oh, yeah. Federal lawsuit. But look, the lady, I mean, she does not have good curb appeal. And I suspect it's going to lower property values.

Mm-hmm. And Germantown is a very wealthy neighborhood.

So I'm curious to see how this is all going to play out. But I'm wondering, because some people will put up like massive, huge, blank, blank Joe Biden and all that kind of stuff in the front yard. And people say, well, they got a constitutional right. You know, if they want to have a junkyard in their front yard, it's their property. They can do whatever they want to do.

She says she is actually going to, for on President's Day on Monday, dress up the skeleton like a founding father and give him a copy of the Constitution. She said, quote, maybe a visual display will make it finally sink in when they ask me to tear it down.

Something tells me she doesn't have a Valentine. I'm just, I want. Maybe she can ask the skeleton out. All right, folks, do you have a problem with this? 901-260-5926.

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

Well, happy Valentine's Day, America. Happy Singles Awareness Day to the rest of you. I hope you're doing well today. If you don't have restaurant reservations, you may be in a little trouble.

So, welcome, everybody. We'll talk more about that in just a few moments. 901-260-5926. That is our telephone number. And today is Open Line Friday as well.

That's 901-260-5926.

You know, Dylan, I just remember this is your first Valentine's Day as a married man. Do you have things planned? Are you ready to go? I'm ready. Yeah.

I know the missus may be listening to the show, but do you have reservations? All of that? I didn't keep it a surprise this year just because of the place that we're going to.

So, yeah, I do have reservations, but for tomorrow. Oh, so you're doing it the day after. Yeah, so we're doing gifts today. Dinner tomorrow. Oh, that's nice.

All right. And Ben Dieter, I have to imagine you've been overwhelmed. With suitors. I've been fending off lovers across the nation, all fifty states. It's like a smorgasbord.

I pull up to the golden booth. What is it? The golden corral.

Well, TMI. Oh, sorry. TMI. What about you, Mr. Starnes?

I'm a reporter. Where is Mrs. Starr? I'm a reporter. Hello?

That's not Mrs. Stars. What?

Okay. Well, I ask all this guys because there's a big controversy about geez. And the controversy involves his work spouses.

Now, do you folks out there, do you have a work spouse? Are you familiar with this? Because some people will call them a work wife.

So, you've got your regular wife at home, but you've got another wife at work, and that's your work wife. Does Cassie count as a work wife for anybody? Is she the. Yeah, I'm giving her flowers. Oh, that's very nice.

Yeah. That's very thoughtful. Yeah. All right. Well, according to the New York Post, There is a brand new line of Valentine's Day cards.

And these Valentine's Day cards are creating some controversy on social media and a heated debate about the appropriateness of workplace relationships. There is a viral TikTok video, and there's a woman shopping for Valentine's cards, and she expresses shock when she finds cards that are addressed to the work wife or the work husband. You know, they have. Where was I at? I was at the Hallmark store, and I was stunned by the various cards you could get now.

You know, it used to be like. Happy birthday, mom, dad, brother, sis. Aunt, uncle, grandma, grandpa. And now it's just like everybody. Oh, yeah.

No, they have them for your exes. They have Valentine's cards for the divorced Spouse. They have Valentine for your in-laws? The in-laws of your ex-wife or ex-husband, they make them forever. I mean, this is a billion-dollar business for Hallmark Todd.

Well, they've got so apparently the term is used for a co-worker and if you have a very close, supportive working relationship with. And anyway, here's the card. One of the card reads: For my work wife, on Valentine's Day, I finally found someone just as inappropriate as me. And I'm, you know, if I'm the real wife with the ring on the finger back home, I'm going to be greeting the husband with a cast iron skullet at the front door. I think you're only allowed to have a work wife or a work husband if you're not married or dating.

A lot of times it's like the opposite.

Someone said, why not just make an affair partner card? Excellent. To my lova. My office lover.

Someone said HR is going to be busy this month. Yeah. So I'm wondering, do those cards cross the line? You'd have to ask. I feel like you'd have to ask the ladies.

Yeah, I feel like, Dylan, think about this. If You got home and Your wife is going through your book bag or your stuff and you have a card that says to my work husband. I think the wife is going to have a big issue with. Maybe I'm wrong. What do you think?

No, you're absolutely right. It's like a form of cheating. Husband and a wife. Stopping short of basically giving them a ring. Yeah.

So even if it's done in jest or humor, it's still, you would still think it would be cheating. Yeah, I just think it's inappropriate, at least. I mean, could you imagine getting back home after a long day at the office and your wife brings you over, I don't know, a cup of hot cocoa and she forgets the marshmallows. And the husband says, You know, my work wife wouldn't have forgot the marshmallows. I could see that going in a very bad way.

Yeah, there won't be another Valentine's for them. Yeah, I think this is a ladies. I think you're right. It's a question for the ladies of the Todd Stearns listening show audience. And we do have the most beautiful women in America listening to this radio program.

Allie Beth Stuckey, who is a conservative Christian commentator, and I think she's a Gen Zero. Millennial, okay, millennial. You know, I met her. Her mom is a big fan of the show, and I met her mom years before Allie Beth became Allie Beth. Yeah.

Interesting.

So anyway, Ali Bethsucki Is enraged over this. I mean, enraged. She says, your spouse doesn't have a playful work wife or work husband. They're just cheating on you, emotionally and otherwise.

So it's an emotional.

So you may not, there may not be some sort of a physical thing going on, but it's all about the emotion. Former athlete and conservative commentator TJ Moe. Writing this, the sanctity of marriage matters. Mocking it with the idea of a work wife is foolishly self-sabotaging. If you have a shred of common sense, you will avoid this nonsense.

Is that I didn't real I I mean, it just I mean, it's kind of like ha ha. It seems to be ha ha, but I suppose I mean, I guess if you're a wife, you know, you're going to take that kind of seriously.

Well, I guess if one in two marriages in this country didn't end in divorce, it would be funnier. Like it would be ha ha. But they say one in two marriages end in divorce papers. A psychotherapist by the name of doctor Ludwig, Of course, he's a psychotherapist. All the psychotherapists are coming from the Ludwigs.

Dr. Robbie Ludwig. A psychotherapist he works with married couples. Oh, it's a chick It's Robbie with an eye. We need to have a whole show on how the parents of millennials screwed up names.

Come on, people. Anyway, she thought the cards were inappropriate in the workplace and could invite a misunderstanding or could be considered sexual harassment.

So you. Oh, okay.

Now we're too far. Hmm. She said those. Oh my, I forgot to turn off my phone. It's all those ladies, Todd, wanting to get in on the action.

Okay. No, he's on air.

So, anyway, for those already in relationships, Professor Ludwig says the biggest issue was that husband and wife suggest an intimate, unique relationship. And to call someone else your spouse even lightheartedly could invite misunderstanding and threaten your primary relationship. It's playing with fire. I agree. Wow.

Good psychotherapist there.

So if the missus came up to you one day and said, oh, yeah, my work husband gave me this. Yeah. Yeah. Work husband's going to have a black eye. Yeah, or I'd be really insecure.

Broken nose. Yeah. So I'm curious, ladies and gentlemen, do you find this to be problematic? I mean, this is a big story. The CEO of exclusive matchmaking called the cards a slippery slope into emotional affair territory.

I think they're treacherous. That's what Susan Trombetti said. Wow. I see no buts.

So, who's the guy at Hallmark that came up with this idea? He is in so much trouble. Oh, now here's the thing: they're calling it a form of micro-cheating. Oh, so what's macro chi? Do we want to know?

I think that takes place at the office Christmas party.

So there you go. 901-260-5926. Do you find work wife and work husbands? Inappropriate. Give us a call, 901-260-5926.

By the way, some exciting news. A lot of people do creative things for Valentine's Day, and one of them is the zoo. And this is not just one zoo, this is zoos all over the nation. The Bronx Zoo. A great zoo, by the way, up in New York City.

The Bronx Zoo. Is going to let you name a cockroach. Mm. It's their annual Name a Cockroach campaign, and they will let you and this I'm going to read the the the the advertisement here. Valentine's Day is creeping up once again.

Only one gift has six legs and an irresistible aura of romance. That's, I like that. Aura. That's right. Name a Bronx Zoo, Madagascar, hissing cockroach after your special someone and spell out your love for them in big, bold, bug letters.

You know, those are hawking big cockroaches, too. $15.

So you just name it? Do they keep it or do they ship the cockroach to the person you want to send it to? They name the cockroach and you get a digital certificate. And it doesn't necessarily have to be an X, right?

So you could, so if there's someone. Could be a mother-in-law. It could be the work wife.

So there you go. And then the person that you're gifting the cockroach to, they get a little letter in the mail letting them know that a Madagascar hissing cockroach has been named in your honor. Do you know what some people do, Todd? Squash the cockroaches. Oh, no, no, no, no, no.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know how you can actually name a star in the galaxy. After someone, you can actually buy a star.

Some people, I saw a story where. They pay a pretty penny, but you can name an actual star after your lover. Your boyfriend, your girlfriend, your wife, your husband, you name a star after them.

Now, are you familiar with Schnecksville, Pennsylvania? Schnecksville? Schnecks. Yes, Schnecksville. Schnecksville, Pennsylvania, yes.

So this is Schnecksville.

Okay. The Lehigh Valley Zoo, they're hosting a catch and release event.

So they will catch a fish and they'll feed it to a penguin. And you can actually name that after your ex.

So, this is primarily if you've broken up. Or get this, zoo guests can also name a fish after their ex or bad boss. Or let's say you've got a neighbor that puts up skeletons in their front yard year round. You can name it after that person, too. Can I get the fish for you, Todd?

I'm good. I'd eat the fish. I'd n save it for myself. Batter it. Eat it.

Get some tartar sauce. Let's go to Suzanne in North Carolina. Hi, Suzanne. What do you make of these work wives? I think it's a bad idea.

And I was just going to mention, a couple of years ago, Shannon Bream was on Kill Mead's radio show. And they were just kind of going back and forth. And she referred to herself. As his work wife, and Killme did not respond. I don't think he was crazy about that, but.

And I didn't think it was a good idea.

So there's a line that has to be drawn, Suzanne. Is that what you're saying? Yes, I think it's a really bad idea. I think it is too. the slippery slope and all of that.

And what about his wife? I mean, what if she's listening to the show? Like My clothes would be out. I was about to say, unless you're a Mormon, and then, you know, you can have a couple, I guess. But that just gets pricey at Valentine's Day.

Yeah, but Kill Mead did not respond. You know how he can, anyway, he did not respond. Wow. Well, Shannon's a good friend of mine. I'm going to have to send her a text.

I'm like, hey, what's this? I hear you and Kill Mead. Ha ha ha ha ha. That's funny. I hope you have a happy Valentine's Way.

Well, well, you too. You too, Suzanne. I'm going to order some of the Dunstals. Chocolates. And I hope you have a great weekend as well.

And I thank you.

Well, Suzanne, let me tell you something. You are going to love dingstals, and they're just some of the kindest people around. And I know you're in North Carolina, so you're going to get the online, they'll order it for you. But if you're ever in Memphis, you got to drop by. And I trust me, you'll be leaving with a smile on your face.

Yes, I know I will. All right, Susie. Have a wonderful weekend. All right, happy Valentine's Day. Let's go to Carolyn in Gainesville, Georgia.

All right, what say you, Carolyn? I would just like to comment on the workplace wife or husband. All right. If it was me and I had a husband that came home and told me that, I'd say, there's the door, see you in divorce court, sucker. Wow.

Good for you, Carolyn. See you in divorce court sucker. Absolutely. Ha ha. Happy Valentine's Day.

Woo! Happy Valentine's Day, Carolyn. All right. We got to take a quick break here. Carolyn said, sucker.

We think. Don't panic, America. 901-260-5926. Ladies, what would you do if you found out your husband had a work wife? Clause Al.

This is the Tot's Turn Show. Put your head on. My show. You know, I want to warn you guys, if.

Some of the most beautiful women, gracious, kind-hearted women in the world are southern women. But you don't want to mess with them, guys, because they will cut you. And they'll do it with a smile on their face. But you don't, you know, you want to they're like Caroline. Caroline.

Caroline means business. She means business. She means business. And Suzanne, too. I don't blame them.

And they're the sweetest people ever. Oh, yes. But they will see you in divorce court. And they'll kill you, and they'll have like a cancer old dish in one hand and just a beautiful smile on their face. Can the New Testament in the other?

You won't even know. You won't even know what hits you. Yeah. I'm just telling you. That's.

I like the music, by the way, today. It's very festive. Very.

So anyway, love is in the air. It is.

So you're so we're sending cockroaches to our exes, and now you've got a situation where apparently Hallmark could be tearing apart families even as we speak. We just got some counsel by our great GM, and we weighed in on this. And the rule of thumb: if you do have a work spouse, you can't badmouth your actual spouse to your coworkers because that's what. I even have some personal stories of people over-sharing about their personal lives, and then they're like, ah, you know, he. Doesn't change the toilet paper roll, and the next thing you know, you start griping about that person, and then that's when it gets tricky.

So you have to you have to make some boundaries and some roles. You can't bring personal into professional, is what I'm trying to say.

Well, that's interesting because we pretty much talk about everything on the national radio show.

So that makes it difficult. Oh, by the way, I got my car. I had to update the people.

So, all right.

So, this was a big story yesterday. Breaking news. Finally, I bought a car. I'm a car owner. Where did you end up getting the car?

They shook my hand and everything. Handed me, it was very official. A Coro a Corolla? Toyota Corolla? Yes, sir.

Principal Toyota. In Memphis, Tennessee. Yes. The best service I I mean, Todd, I am a twenty questions type of guy, and I asked twenty qu actually 200 questions, and they answered every single one of them, and they broke it down for dummies. Congratulations.

Thank you. Hope you got bulletproof windows. It's Memphis. All right, well, thank you for the good people at Principal Toyota. I'm glad to hear this because I know we have a lot of people that actually listen to us out there in the shop.

Yep. Shout out to Chuck, Todd, Andy, all of those guys. Set me up. All right, good stuff, guys. Ben Dater got wheels.

All right, got to take a quick break here, ladies and gentlemen. 901-260-5926. That's 901-260-5926.

This is the Todd Stern Show. All right, folks, welcome back to the Todd Sterns radio program. I want to go right away to our Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line, and we have a very special guest joining us: Congressman Michael Rooley from Ohio, a member of the Doge Caucus, as well as House Judiciary. Congressman, hope you're doing good today. Happy Valentine's Day to you.

Right back at you, Todd.

So Congressman, wow, Democrats are completely freaking out, going ballistic. And I'm curious to get your reaction. What is it like to see it like up close and personal? I never thought I would be ever popping as much popcorn, but we are having the time of our life. The golden age is here.

And you know what? They look like fools. Me and the other members on our side of the aisle, we go outside when they have their little protest and we just literally laugh our you know what off. I mean They look like complete fools. They really, really do.

So you're going to tell me that now it's cool. to protest for more government spending. Are you insane? The Joe Dagadonis guy that's making forty grand a year wants us to cut the fat. They got him a butcher because I'm going to keep cutting fat.

That's doji's aren't on fire, man. We're going to take all this apart Let's trip it all the way down. Let's get rid of most of these federal employees and let's start over again. Yeah, I love this.

Now the rule was they had to be back in the office, what, on Monday, full time, or they would lose their jobs. Are you guys getting any intel on how many people actually showed back up to work?

So we know that seventy five thousand took the buyout, and we think that we increased from up to almost sixty seven percent or sixty eight percent. Those are the numbers I heard. We are not at one hundred percent.

So I don't know how we're going to have to drop the final hammer. We see that they've taken everything that President Trump has done. they've taken everything to court, and you've got some of these low line piece of garbage judges that are just rubber stamping everything that Biden and them would want. But we're not going to stop. We're going to find the right judges at the right place I mean, who would ever think that the mayor of New York City and Tom Holden would be yanking them these bad players out of New York City?

And these are the worst people of them all. We're on the right side of history. Everyone knows that the opposition party has about forty percent on their side and we have about forty percent, forty five percent on our side. But here's the key ton. That 10 to 15 percent of Middle America is one thousand percent on our side on this.

Oh, no doubt about that. And I'm loving it. And I think that sooner or later, these judges are going to realize that. And if it goes to the Supreme Court, it goes to the Supreme Court. But ultimately, President Trump is running the country, not some sort of a federal judge on the bench.

Well, I mean, look at, I mean, we would never think, you know, so I, of course, we all love President Trump. And I mean, President Trump is. God sent him down here, God saved his life. I I've I've had a friendship with James O'Keefe from Project Veritile for a while. But I mean, who would ever think Lee Zeldon would be the next Big sexy thing taking over the country.

I mean, the gold bars over the Titanic. We finally found the Biden Crime Family Slush Fund. Todd, did you ever think we would find it? And here we go. It's pretty remarkable.

Can I share this with you, Congressman? I don't know if you've seen this. I know you're a busy guy. The White House just releasing their official Valentine's Day card. It's a beautiful pink card with little red hearts, and it's got the head of President Trump and the head of Border Czar Tom Holman.

And this is the official White House Valentine's Day message to the nation: Roses are red, violets are blue. Come here illegally, and we'll deport you. I love it. You know, Tom Holden, he was our keynote speaker at the Columbiana County Lincoln Day dinner, and this was like a year and a half, two years ago. And he said he literally said.

It's going to take an act of God to get our President back into office so we can save it. I had a judiciary We had Angel Mom. After Angel Mom. And I tell you what, I don't care w what tough guy you are, Todd, when you hear these stories, there wasn't one guy on our side that our eyes were like crocodile tears. Wow.

I mean, Mom's dad. The one mom from Texas she put her kid to bed and she woke up and they took her. And, you know, it's It's it's pure evil. I mean, it's literally the devil. But this is the thing: we believe in God.

You know, we believe in God and country and we know that the devil exists. And the devil gets inside these people and turns them pure evil. And the Democrats, a lot of them, want to protect them. They want to say Sanctuary City, that there's nothing to see here that and and I just don't understand how you can decide on the side of evil Todd. No, I'm with you, Congressman.

And again, this is a long process. It is going to take, and it may take longer than four years to undo all of the damage that the left has done, that Rhino Republicans have done to this country. And I think that's why there's such an immediacy with everything that is happening right now.

Well, you want to hear something fun, and I have that on Butcher's last name. Congressman Tim Burchard, I think, is his last name. A great guy. He's a prayer breakfast with me, he's from Tennessee. He's a freedom caucus guy.

He was playing around with Daryl Isis, and they were looking at Allah. And do you know, after FDR, when they change the law, it says you are not allowed. to serve more. Then two, drummel. consecutive term.

Okay. What happens? If we do a bill, And we say Here and here on the consecutive terms. But we have President Gregor Cleveland and President Donald Trump, who served a term. took four years off.

Served their term, as far as I'm concerned, President Trump is going to want one more term.

So why don't we go four years now, four more years of four more years of Trump and then put JD in there for eight years so we can I mean we could just have sixteen years of pure utopia. Do you think we can actually do that? I mean, I hear what you're saying, and Tim Burchett's a good friend of mine.

So you're thinking that there could be a way for Trump to run for another term after this? I love this. I think I mean, look, we need it. And I do see where this could be again, it could be a long-term situation where J.D. Vance picks up the mantle after Trump.

And you're right, we could have a sixteen years. Wow, could you imagine what this country would look like, Congressman?

Well, how about our grandkids? Our grandkids would have the country that our grandparents had. I mean, we would actually we'd be right back. You know, sometimes it just happens that way. You know, God brought us George Washington.

He refused to be the king. And then we had Andrew Jackson. And then we had Abraham Lincoln. You know, and then we had Teddy Roosevelt. And, you know, I know Colich, a lot of people don't really understand how he was a pretty great guy.

And then you had Ronald Reagan. And now you've got Trump. I think God just, every so many cycles and every so many generations, God comes back and gives us someone to deliver us because I mean we need delivered into the light to the great republic that we were always supposed to be. Every experiment in time was horrible. All the kings and the dictators and the tyrants and stuff.

America is the last stand for the human race.

Well said, Congressman, we're going to have to leave it there.

Now a lot of folks may not remember, but you are, I think, one of the first garage band Congressmen we've got up on Capitol Hill. But is it true that you also do a little rock and belly too? I do well, I I was in a punk lock in in Boston, and I'm a butcher. But like I'm a little bit older now, so I like rockabilly. I like bluegrass a lot.

And even jazz at the moment's right, but I would say right now the flavor is a little bit more bluegrass. I've been trying to work on my banjo licks. Uh there's a couple guys in Congress with me we're trying to get some Playtime together. Maybe we could get a band together. Maybe we'd go live on your show.

I love that. If I could, I know if you're into songwriting, if you could maybe write a song for our good friend Tim Burchett, and you got to get the phrase dad gummet in there, just dad gummet, dad gummet. That would be awesome. That's so much fun. That sounds great.

All right. Congressman, appreciate you coming on the show today and keep me updated. We're going to get you back on to talk music one of these days. Thank you, my friend. All right.

Good man right there, folks. Congressman Michael Ruley. That's right. He is the first punk rocker in Congress, but he also plays he's a pretty versatile guy.

Now picking up the banjo, doing a little bit of rockabelly. And we got to write a song for Tim Burchett. Dad Gummit, America. Dad Gummit. All right, we got to take a quick break here, folks.

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Now the way the congressmen are looking at how this was all written in the Constitution, it specifically says two consecutive terms.

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I'm so You know what we need to do in the next hour? We need to have like a little dance music so that Americans, no matter what they're doing, Um because um we commissioned a study Ben Dieter, and by that I mean I think we took a poll in the office. But apparently, listeners of the Tom Stearns radio program are some of the most passionate lovers in America. Are they the most passionate dancers in America? Are they the most skilled dancers in America?

So the problem is, we have an inordinate number of Baptists who listen to the program. In my denomination, we're just not coordinated. Our dance skills are not on par with, say, other denominations, but we're passionate. Passionate lovers. The listeners of the Todd Stearns radio show.

More likely to listen to Barry White music. We got to have some Barry White music, Dylan.

So we got to get that in the middle. I always forget him, but he's a great Valentine's Day. It's the voice. I just got an important notice. Because You also have one of the largest.

Single audience. is in America and in News Talk Radio. Throw them a bone, give them something. There's a lot of single people out there that listen to the show. We could do like a Todd mingle, not a Christian mingle, but a Todd Stearns mingle where we could connect.

We could speed date on the radio. Yeah. No, I've seen If you guys go to Rumble or if you go to Todd, where he's streaming the show on X or on Facebook, I have seen Todd, some of your listeners. They're putting feelers out there. One commenter says, Oh, I kind of like that profile picture.

The next thing I see the person with the nice profile picture, the pretty face, say, DM me. And who knows what happened with the brain?

So, love is in the air. Dolly. Yeah, you're basically, hello, Dolly. Love American style. Yeah.

I love it. Let's go to the phone lines. Jerry the Liberal in Milwaukee. Jerry, are you looking for love? No.

That's okay.

Okay, well We can help you out there. There are some lovely conservative ladies out there. Yeah, n uh no. Yeah. He's like hard pass.

All right, Jerry, what's going on? What's on your mind? I mean, I I can't believe I have to point this out. Um The Constitution doesn't allow bans anyone from being elected more than twice.

So a congressman saying that Trump could be elected again I just have to point this out because people are going to repeat this like this could happen. cannot happen, the 22nd Amendment. It is clear. you know, a per a person can be elected two more to the office of the president more than twice. It says that just just point blank.

So But if they could change the rule, would you support President Trump being able to run for a third term? Yeah. There's no way I would support Donald Trump being elected to another term. But then again, think about this. If they do that, would you support Barack Obama being able to run?

Well, look, first of all, I don't think no, personally, no, no, personally, I don't think, I think two terms is enough, and I think it would set a bad precedent because we don't want to go back to what FDR did to this country, which was nearly destroy it.

So I do not agree that we need to have a three-term president.

So I would actually be opposed to that.

Okay. Well, I might too, but I would like to see Obama against Trump and together. Really? I think Trump would claim his clock. Oh, I think Obama would win in a landfly, but you know.

Jerry, hitting the wine a little early today, are we? I think Trump actually wants to go against Obama, but he's afraid a little bit.

So I think that's who Trump really wants to really be, but I think he would be fearful. All right, Jerry, we'll leave it there. A good hearing from you, though. I think you know what? I think a good conservative woman could could get Jerry set in the right direction.

Yeah. Do you support conservatives and and liberals dating time. Do you think it can work? No, it's a mixed marriage. I don't think it can work.

Not equally yoked. No. Yeah. Unequally. Yeah.

Yeah. I just don't know. I have known some of my friends who will date guys that will date a liberal girl because statistically, girls, millennials, Gen Zers tend to be more liberal, progressive than their male counterparts. And the group thinks they're because the majority of them are liberal, I will get married to them, I will date them, and they will be progressive. Persuaded onto my side of the aisle.

You know, I was noticing, speaking of that, I was noticing a trend on social media where you have all these guys now that are putting out their daily, their daily life. Like, that's their videos on the Instagram. And it's like sun up to sundown, and how they're living a very regimented life in their early 20s, and how they're forsaking drinking and alcohol and the partying scene. And they're really embracing the sort of Trumpian. style version of manhood, you know, where they're really turning their back on the party social culture of of college.

It's really I thought it was just a couple of folks, but this seems to be some sort of a movement afoot. Yeah. It's all the Aaron Rodgers people. You know, like the football player and the RFK junior people. Harrison Butker, I guess.

All those people, yeah. And they found themselves in some of these leaders or football players or mainstream media culture figures. I mean, you look at what was it early today, Pete Hegseth, the defense secretary, he's actually out on a long run with a bunch of the warriors. And there's this ferocity. I didn't see a single woman in the pictures at all.

It was just all Rachel Levine, wasn't there? Yeah. He can't run in heels. I'm just saying. Yeah.

But anyway, there you go, ladies and gentlemen. But there is something going on in this country, and I like it. And we're also seeing it happen in places like Poland, for example. And I love where J.D. Vance was over there saying, you know, even all of these moochers, these moocher countries in NATO that are not paying their fair share, that Poland of all the countries is actually out there stepping up and going above and beyond.

In our relationship. And when you look at what's happening in Poland, it's a great example of what could be happening here. And I love it. All right, we're going to take a quick break here, folks. It's Open Line Friday, 901-260-5926.

Coming up, we're going to be talking to Paul Shankland, who is the parody czar emeritus of the Rush Limbaugh Show. Paul's going to, we're going to have a lot of fun. It's going to be a great conversation, and you're going to want to stick around for that. All right, again, 901-260-5926, our telephone number. This is the Todd Stern Show.

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All right. Well, hello, everybody. Welcome to our three of the big show. Happy Valentine's Day to you, America. A lot happening out there.

And I know we have a lot of flower delivery truck drivers that are listening to us as well today. It's sort of like the Super Bowl Sunday for you guys. And I hope you have already purchased that special something for your sweet Valentine. You know, interesting story here. At a UC Berkeley, someone shared this on the social media and sent it to me.

UC Berkeley, you know, we're talking about cutting all this wasteful spending. Are you ready for this? University of California, Berkeley, there is one administrator for every four undergraduates. 7,300 administrators employed during the 2022-23 school year, and many of the administrators. Focused on supporting nearly 30, get this 30 different DEI programs.

So, again, we talk about a lot about cutting out the waste. Look, the reality is that the American taxpayers were funding the salaries of unemployable people. These people cannot function in the real world.

So, they were creating these fake, phony jobs here in the DEI world. And DEI, ladies and gentlemen, leads to DEAD. That's what that leads to.

So, look, today, Open Line Friday, whatever you want to talk about, we're going to talk about today. Our telephone number, 901-260-5926. That's 901-260-5926.

Coming up in just a few moments, we're going to talk to our good buddy, Paul Shanklin. He's going to be in studio, the parody Czar Emeritus of the Rush Limbaugh Show. Let's say hello to the lovely Miss Janice in New Orleans. Miss Janice, it's been a while. Happy Valentine's Day to you.

Same to you. Same to you, Todd. Yeah, I just wanted to call and say hello. I've been listening to your podcast a lot, and I pick you up Every day on uh on Newsmax And I brought you on there. And I really, really enjoy that.

But I wanted to call to wish you happy Valentine's Day. and let you know that I haven't forgotten about you because, you know, I hadn't called in a while. But I'm still keeping up with you. And what I don't understand though What I really don't understand So the lights of me. I mean you know, when people pass away, Social Security for one thing is supposed to send the The information, send the death certificate to the people, the funeral home or whoever it is, is supposed to send the death certificate to Social Security.

So I don't understand. how people that are like one hundred and fifty or would be, you know, People that would be if they were alive, which they're not. 150 years old are getting social security. I'm asking myself, how are they getting it? What's happening?

What bank accounts could it be going into? That's a great question. Who's receiving it? Where is it actually going?

So, Ms. Janice, for the folks who weren't listening yesterday, we shared some new intel that there are a number of people who are 150 years old and they are currently receiving Social Security checks.

So the reality of it is that somebody is clearly grifting and there's some fraud involved here. But it's a great point, Ms. Janice, because I think if the average law-abiding citizen was caught doing something like this, they'd already be in jail. And they should be, and they need to investigate this closely. Find out where this is really going and get down to it because it seems insane to me.

Miss Janice, you're a thousand percent correct. By the way, may I ask you a question, Miss Janice? You're there in New Orleans. You guys are gearing up. I think Mardi Gras's a little late this year, isn't it?

It's in what, the March 4th. Yeah. Mm-hmm. So hopefully the weather will be good for people. I don't participate myself.

But you know, and one thing that does have any concern though, and I'm going to say this to anyone that's thinking of coming to it. I mean, myself, I wouldn't go. It is dangerous. It can be dangerous. I mean, um, you know, hopefully it'll be all right.

I hope nothing will happen. but with the way our world is in this moment, It can be bad. It really can. You have the gangs out on the street shooting at one another, and sometimes cars, some crazy person or drunk person. Ride through what that happened one year.

They had some people waiting for Endemian and a car ran through some people. I mean, it's just our world today is such that I don't really feel that it is a good idea to go out on the public streets like that. Super Bowl Sunday. even with all the protection they had in the French quarter. There was a man on Decatur Street and a guy came up to him and threatened to stab his dog.

Ah, geez hello. Yes, and the man had a ukulele and he hit the guy with a ukulele and it just turned into a mess. And they did, I think they got the guy with the with the knife. But why would you ever walk up to someone and threaten to stab their dog? It doesn't make any sense to me whatsoever.

Our world is not Safe. It truly is not. And I don't advise people to go.

Now, JazzFest is different because that's within the fairgrounds. But insofar as going out on Bourbon Street and downtown on Canal Street and around downtown, For events, I don't advise it. I really don't.

Well, Miss Janice, it is good hearing from you, and I hear what you're saying. And, you know, people need to be, I don't think we can all just, you know, lock ourselves in our houses, but you've got to be smart and you've got to pay attention. You've got to have your head on a swivel. And that's unfortunately, to your point, you know, we do live in a very dangerous world.

Now, Ms. Janice, I still hope that you're going to be able to get a slice of that delicious king cake. Yeah, I might. I thought about doing that. Yeah, you got to get the just be careful with the baby.

You know, Miss Janice, years ago, we had a college friend, and he didn't realize that there was a baby. And anyway, long story short, he ended up giving birth unintentionally. My mother told me that one time. I was sitting at the kitchen table eating the cake, and she reminded me because I had forgotten. I said, oh, my God, yes.

Oh, yeah, I got to watch out for that thing in the cake. Yeah. I don't know. Yeah, I know. People need to remember that because it's easy to forget.

Yes, you don't want to do that. All right. Ms. Janice, it is good hearing your voice. You bring a smile to our faces here on the show.

And God bless you. And I hope you have a great, great day. Thank you for that. Wow. So the guy brought a ukulele to a knife fight.

Who would have thought? Happy Valentine's Day, Miss. Yeah, they bake a baby and the cake and the king cake. And if you get the slice with the baby in it, you have to bring the next king cake. And they do this all the way to Mardi Gras.

And the king cakes are really good, but they got to be made in New Orleans. There's a rule there. Let's go to Drew in Memphis, Tennessee, listening to us on KWAM, our flagship station. Hi, Drew. What's on your mind today?

Hey, Todd, yeah, uh, long time listener, first time caller.

So Excited about that. Yes, sir. Yes, sir, no, thank you. Yeah, I just a couple of quick points here. Just on the topic of the education, you know, grade schools and colleges.

So And I've gathered some of this stuff over the last few years of listening to various podcasts and then. From those sources, going and then doing my own research from what I'm hearing. It's it's so much more deeply entrenched than what we realize. Um You know, like Joe Rogan's had on some people, and they've really opened up a lot of doors there for the stuff that's going on in some of these. liberal colleges and some of them are even state schools, so that's pretty concerning.

But There is outright advocation For Not just Lesbian, gay, transgender. No, it's far more than that. There is outright advocation for pedophilia. and the legalization of such. and various uh current past and current college professors in this country.

That is not a lie, that that is true. All you have to do is just do some searching on a few names out there. There's a guy named James Lindsay. He went on Joe Rogan's podcast a while back, and he shed a bunch of uh light on this subject. Um You can just google him.

But, Drew, you know, it's interesting, though. And again, if it's happening in the church, that should be exposed. And those people should be prosecuted. And again, I believe in public execution for people who harm kids. If it's happening in the Boy Scouts or scouting, you got to do the same thing.

But they turn a blind eye, it seems, to what's happening in those classrooms where a lot of these kids are being targeted. And that is just unacceptable. And I still, my concern here is, to your point, that there is this normalization that happens in the education system. And part of that is actually renaming it. I believe they're called minor attracted persons now.

That's what they're wanting people to call the pedophiles. Yeah, that's sort of softening it, making it a little bit more acceptable. Yeah, right, right.

So that's terrible. And we need to I mean, anyway, there's a lot of literature out there that is really starting to expose some of that. But of course, you're not going to see it at at your local Barnes and Noble, it's not going to be they don't want that to be to be known, you know. The other quick point, and then I'll hop off and let other people call Uh in terms of the Grade school, public education, a lot of corruption that's not being talked about as much as it should be is the teachers' unions. The National Teachers Union, the NEA and the NFT.

The the top heads of those organizations, they're not educators, they're activists. They're not about they don't they don't care about increasingly literacy Skills of our youth. and the mathematical skills of our youth. No, they care about creating little activists in the classrooms. That's all you have to do is go on YouTube and you can search.

Randy Weingarten and Becky Pringle and look at all their little speeches and all their conferences, And 90% of it is nothing but political activism for LGBTQ. Do and um Et cetera, et cetera. That's all they're pushing. Drew, let me ask you how old are you, Drew? Early 30s, 32.

Okay, so you're a young guy. I was in high school and middle school back in the 80s, and I just remember this like it was yesterday. I don't know if my school teachers were Republican or Democrat, gay, straight, because they didn't talk about any of that in the classroom. There wasn't a place for that. They were too busy trying to teach us algebra.

We had typing classes back in the day. We had to take all of that stuff, computer science. But we had none of the stuff that was going on, this social activism. It just did not exist back in the 80s when I was in school. Even when I was I went to school in the late nineties and early two thousands, and it was very much still all of these political things were private.

It was kept underground, so to speak. Um So, yeah, I kinda I hate that our kids now are They're not getting that. They're getting all this other stuff that's not necessary at all. It's just Yeah. Randy Weingarten and people, she's making half a million dollars a year on average.

That's about eight times the salary of the average public school teacher. Sure is.

So, Drew, we're going to have to leave it there. But look, it's a great call, and give us a holler back, and thank you for listening to KWAM. Thank you, sir. Will do. Have a good day.

All right. There you go. The guy makes a lot of sense, ladies and gentlemen.

Well done.

Okay, let's try to work in another call before we have to go to break here. Let's go to Gary in Daytona Beach, Florida. Hi, Gary. What's on your mind? Mm-hmm.

Thank you very much. I'll be really quick. No problems. No, before your last break, you mentioned about conservative and then liberal spouses switching and how that might work out in a marriage or relationship here. And Valentine's and I highly suggest that uh you keep it conservative, conservative and try not to have either spouse or whoever you're with, um The opposite, unless you have great legal representation, a large retainer.

and plenty of free time on your hand.

Now my wife and I for Almost thirty-nine years. conservative. We're both conservative. And that's the way of That's the way it works. She's the pit bull of the relationship, and I'm the beagle.

And if there's anybody to uh that we we meet up with uh she wants to work on them a little bit. If they're too liberal, she's the one that doesn't. Gary, I love that advice. Conservative, conservative. And at least you're you know, I would say the conservatives, you got a better chance of having kids because at least one of the liberals, they may not be what you think.

I'm just telling you, by and large, the libs don't know their pronouns. my cardiologist approves of that relationship that way also.

So it uh helps helps with the testing. But on a really quick note, Elon Musk mentioned Samantha Powers at USAID. Yes. Blew right by everybody that he mentioned that she came in with three million dollars net worth. And she beat Nancy Pelosi.

She left three years later with thirty million. And it wa he said he had it right during one of his speeches. But he said it so quick and went by it and he said there's no way that and that Donald Trump said, we we do definitely have to take a look at Some of the people that have benefited to this amount of money. I want to know where every single penny of that money came from, Gary. Every single penny.

Gary, got a run. Thank you for that. 901-260-5926. This is the Todd Stern Show. You're just too good to be true.

It's not very white, but I still like it. You know, we have to let this play Dylan until the moment in the song because it's like the moment. Are we allowed to do that? I think we have to. We're already in.

I mean, it is Valentine's Day, right? Ben Dieter, are you familiar with this song? I've heard it. I've done karaoke to this song. Oh, you have?

I think so, yeah. Oh, geez. I want to see that. There's nothing Oh, wow, it goes on, doesn't it? It's a long time till we get to that.

When do we get to it after this verse? We have to take this into the next burst. The entire city of Gainesville is just bracing themselves, maybe more Head City 2, for this one moment of the song. That it's real. I think this is it.

Coming up right now. We'll see. This is the dot dot dot dot. Oh, yeah. They're dancing at WTUN right now.

Here we go, America, belted out. Scara liberal. Welcome back to the Todd Stearns Radio Show.

So we're happy to have you with us. Thank God, get that up. The beat finally dropped. Wow. I was on suspense for like two minutes.

Oh, my goodness. I know we've got Connor and Boston and Richard and Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Guys, we're going to hang tight here because we do want to throw out a trivia question as well. And because it's, you know, it's Valentine's Day, right?

So here is the first question. This is a great question. According to most wedding music lists, can you tell me the love song that is most frequently played? at weddings. What is the top?

The top song is it Is it Marry You by Bruno Mars? Is it all of me? By John Legend Or is it Can't Help Falling in Love by Elvis Presley? The number one most requested wedding music list. Don't say, don't say.

Give us a call if you know the answer, 901-260-5926, our telephone number, the number one most requested wedding music song. 901-260-5926. If you know the answer, this is the Todd Starn Show. Nobody but you. And me.

We've got a chicane for you. Come on, America. Make live conservative babies. And the answer to and welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. This is the Todd Stearns Radio Show.

You got to have a little bit of Berry White and some baby makeup music. That's what we do here on the Todd Stearns Radio Show. Wow, the phone's lit up here, and we do have a trivia question out. And let's go to Chuck, who's listening to us in Memphis, Tennessee. All right, Chuck, we want to know the top wedding song that's requested at weddings.

What's the answer, Chuck?

Okay, it's got to be All of Me by John Legend. Chuck. Chuck, we love that you listen to the show, but I'm ashamed of you calling with that answer from Memphis, Tennessee, Chuck. And I'm going to explain why in just a moment. Stop, Chuck.

Let's go to Jim in Georgia. All right, Jim. What's the answer? The number one. This is Elvis Presley, you're in Memphis, it's gotta be.

It's a very good thing. Um Falling in love. Yeah, that's right, that's right, Jim. How did Chuck not get that? PM from Memphis, Tennessee.

I am stunned. I don't know. I don't know. That's pretty easy. Yeah, it is.

And it's a great song, by the way. Can't help falling in love, the number one most requested wedding song in America. Jim, hang tight. We're going to send you a signed copy of Twilight's Last Gleaming. Can America Be Saved?

And we thank you for playing along today.

So thank you for that. All right. I do want to put out another trivia question before we go to our Patriot mobile newsmaker line for a very special guest. We were talking about the love boat. Yesterday, we had some great love boat loveboat trivia.

I've got another one. There was a congressman, a United States congressman, who once starred on the love boat. Can you tell me the name of the character? That the congressman played on the love boat. If you know the answer, give us a call: 901-260-5926.

That's 901-260-5926.

All right, I want to go right now to the Patriot Mobile newsmaker line from Westchester County, New York. I understand we have Bill on the line. Bill, welcome to the show. Yes, I'd like to throw out a lifeline. Maybe is this character, did they change genders between the show and now?

No, and wait a second. Is your middle name Jefferson by any chance William Jefferson?

Well, yes, it is. I'm glad you I mean, I'd I I I couldn't believe I was calling into a conservative radio show and and I I was I was excited when you said baby making music. I I you know, I just hit the phone line and then there was a question and all that. You called did you call Monica? Is that what you did?

Actually, uh this is kind of like for me, it's kind of like I like Santa Claus on Valentine's. You know, I got a lot of houses to visit, a lot of people to talk to, and there's no way to get it all done in one night. Ladies and gentlemen, we are honored here on the Todd Stearns Radio program on the Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line to have President Clinton joining us today on Valentine's Day. I'm wondering, what about Hillary? What do you guys do for her?

I got her a six-pack of Chardonnay and a couple of boxes of Kleenex, and I turned it to lifetime and left the house. That's how you do it. That's how you cope.

Well, that's actually pretty much every weekend. But there's no real reason to hang around. I mean, life's too short. And I'm getting kind of old and gray and growing a beard. And I tell you, on Valentine's Day, I'm as busy as I can be.

Well, I mean, we saw the reports. I mean, I know that you like to spend a lot of time on an island. Is that true? A little private. That plane and jet and takes you off to an island.

At times, yes. And I had no idea any of that was going on. I mean, I have just, and I didn't inhale either, by the way. If I go back to that, I just want to start with that. But I did not inhale, and I did not have my eyes open on Jeffrey Epstein's island.

Not one bit, did you, Mr. President?

Well, I was in the dark, actually, so it didn't, you know. I had no idea. I had no idea anybody was underage or it was more than one person or anything. And the lights were off. How would I know?

And I had my eyes closed in the dark. I mean, how I mean, so I saw nothing.

So y I we saw you, Mr. President, if I could bring this up. I know this is a a sensitive subject, uh, sir, but uh during the the funeral of of Jimmy Carter, uh you were there and we couldn't help but notice, but you were looking when Melania Trump, you seemed like you couldn't take your eyes off of the first lady, sir. Uh well. She um you know, they they thought I was having some heart trouble.

But I tell you, I mean, she just leaves me breathless. And I said that to somebody and said, We got to get him to the doctor. And I was like, No, no, no, I don't mean I I'm fine, I'm fine. I'm just, you know, wow. But Hillary gave you the law.

I wish I had the same mail order company to find a bride that he had. Because I would have surely, you know, I see those things online, you know, date somebody from Estonia. And I, wow. I mean, Wow. But that's, you know, it's too late for that.

Mr. President, I don't want to impose, but, you know, we're right in the middle of like a trivia contest. And I was wondering if, would you mind if we just did a trivia thing here? Is that okay? We want to win somebody a prize.

Well, absolutely. All right. Well, let's go to the phone lines. Let's say hello to Katrina in Germantown, Tennessee, listening to us on KWM. Katrina, welcome.

You're on the air with yours truly, Todd Stearns and President Bill Clinton. Hi, Katrina. Yeah. Hey, nice to hear you. Oh, it's great to hear you.

You have a wonderful voice. Careful now, Mr. President. Careful now. All right, Katrina, it's okay.

I've got you. We're with you.

So look, we were talking about a congressman who actually starred as one of the cast members on the great love boat. Did you watch The Love Boat as a child, Katrina? Yeah, on and off I did. All right, Mr. President, what about you?

Oh, yeah. I like that gal with that short hair. I mean, she was Julie. She was something. Yeah.

All right, Katrina. Let's not let's not get the President distracted here.

So the the guy's name, a Congressman Fred Gandy, but who did he play on the love boat?

Okay, I think he was called Gopher. Hello. Oh, yeah, I love that song. Isn't it a great song? Oh, you got it.

Mr. President, I've heard you've got a great singing voice. I know you've played the saxophone. Yes, I do. Hey, Katrina.

Yeah, you're a winner, but do you know the song, Katrina? Yeah. You mean that playing right now? That's playing right now, yeah. All right, because Katrina, yeah, you're going to win a prize here, but we got to, we're all going to sing together here at the big chorus.

Here we go. Lol.

Soon we'll be making another belt it out, Mr. President. La Lobo. Promises something. Come on, Katrina.

Make Trevintown proud. Your mind's on a new road, bats.

Okay, thank you, Noah. That's it. That's a good handkerchief. You okay there? I bet you know the worst of Green Acres, too, don't you?

Hey now, don't get me started. And Petticoat Junction. Oh, Mr. President, stay away. Yeah, yeah.

Petticoat Junction. Man, that was so. I tell you, when I was a kid, I thought that was the top. I'm Katrina, are you okay? Unless it was L.A.

Mae on Beverly Hillbillies. Oh.

I actually have some CDs from his parodies back in the rest days. I'm sorry, who are we talking to? I know you must be. Oh, you're talking about Paul Shanklin. Yeah, he's going to be on in just a few moments.

Yeah, yeah. Okay, yeah.

So we got President Bill Clinton with us right now. Yes. Oh, okay.

Okay. All right. Yeah. Katrina, thank you. Hang time.

We're going to get Katrina her gift. And, Mr. President, I guess we do have to leave it there, but we certainly appreciate you coming on today. Did Katrina leave a number? No, we can't.

We're not going to do that because we've got Hillary calling on the hotline. That could be. I got to go. All right, ladies and gentlemen, William Jefferson Clinton, our great president, and now stepping into the studio, the great Paul Shanklin. Wow, it's an all-star day here on the show.

Actually, I'm Donald Trump right now, and I just want to let you know that. You know, I love Elan so much that I've adopted him and given him the name Ilanka. Which uh Which has my my love for Elon and my love of Tonka toys. Coming together, Ilanka. It's that those Eastern Europeans.

Shane Glenn, how the heck are you doing? I'm great. I'm great. I mean, and this is, you know, I. Back when uh Trump was elected the first time, and I I you know, I I didn't I usually the first week after the inauguration is like Depression Week, when they when Presidents start telling you, Well, I was going to do that, but you know, I'm going to do this first and we'll get to that.

And they just drop all their whatever the conservative lines were, they just kind of leave that along the side of the road and talk about, let's all get together and and uh kumbaya and you know, I'm gonna have somebody over for movie night. And all I And Trump, the first time, I was saying, this is, you know, it's going to be, we're going to be let down. And, and the. First time around. I mean, it was great.

This is greater than that. And I wish Rush was here to see all this because this is a culmination of my lifetime to just have somebody who actually is doing the things we needed done and doing it in 16, what, 17 days now? It's remarkable how fast it's happening. And it's on all fronts. And J.D.

Vance is with it. Everybody in the administration is with it. And he knows what he's doing because what didn't work last time. You know, so it's. Blowing the doors off.

I think everybody's got their marching orders.

So it's not, you know, you're not going to have individual stars here. You're going to have people that are carrying out Trump's orders. And he knows who to get this time.

So it's very, very different. He got some things done last time, but this time. There's no wheels spinning. It's all traction. You mentioned Rush, and we're just honored to be in this time slot.

And so many people said. Thanks, El Ross. You wouldn't be here unless I let you in. Go ahead. Thank you, Rush.

Talk all you want. It's, you know, it's your three hours. Yeah. Sweet mercy. You know, you go back to the 1980s, and without Rush, I don't think we would have had the Reagan Revolution.

I don't think we would have had Donald Trump back in 2016. No, no. And, of course, when the early days of Rush, there was no social media. It was talk radio, and he was a lone voice in the wilderness. There's been a lot more have come along over time, but he created the genre as it is today.

And people say, oh, it's not going to last, or nobody's going to listen to that. And it was just a flood of people going, finally, somebody's telling me what's going on, number one, and what's really going on, number two, and clarifying the news and giving me more information than I had before. And uh, and it's now a raging river with X and talk radio. Uh, they can't hide, and uh, It's it's it's just amazing. It's fun.

This is Christmas. For, like, I don't know, 28 years. Christmas every year. Yeah, all at one time. Let's go to the phone lines here.

Hendersonville, North Carolina, Mary Lou. Mary Lou, you're on the air with me and Paul Shanklin.

Well, listen, I just want to tell you, you've made my day with that Bill Clinton shit. And the way you two were talking, I was just laughing. I couldn't laugh anymore. You just really made my name. I love you guys.

Well, I was just trying to make him snort the milk out of his nose, but. or Diet Coke or something. Oh my gosh, it was so wonderful.

So happy. I just made my day. And you guys did something like this around Christmas. And I called in and I won a prize. And I just want to tell you that I want another prize.

I want another one. Let me stop that. But I just love that little book you sent me that daily biscuit. I'm enjoying that. Come on.

Well, Mary Lou, thank you. Thank you for that. And we're going to be making our way back to Hendersonville soon. We've got a brand new devotional book coming out in July. And we'll be telling you more about that in the coming weeks.

Biscuits with Molasses. There you go. Extra molasses. No, it's a book for Jewish Americans, a devotional book, or Daily Bagel, Devotions with a Schmear. Shmear.

So a schmear. All right, Mary Lou, thank you for those kind words, and thank you for calling in. How do you do this? How do you come up with the voices?

Well, it's from my father's side of the family. And I didn't know my father did it. He died when I was Quite young.

So one day I was talking around my grandmother. She says, You sound just like your daddy. And I thought, well, I'm 12 years old. How could I sound like my daddy? She says, Oh, he was.

He was always mocking people. And my uncles do it. My brothers did it. And I'm the only one that's actually gotten paid for it. But my brothers my brother David has called the house before and kept Angie on the phone for thirty minutes thinking, He was an old deranged man.

And she's so nice. She's so nice, she couldn't hang up on him.

So.

So rush, so you would he tell you, hey, I want to skit about X, Y, or Z, or you'd call him to say, hey, Rush, how did you guys get get connected?

Well, it was Johnny Donovan who I got connected with first, and I had done a little bit of radio here. In Memphis, I sent some things up and uh because that was the thing, you send you send stuff up to the guy and you'll do demo tape and everything with an explanation of who I am and what I do. And of course I followed up and called and he said, Nope, didn't get it. Send me another one.

So that's Got it all together again, sent it all up to Johnny Donovan again, and there is a Johnny Donovan. Uh and uh Nope, didn't get it. Send me another one.

So I sent him a third one. and called him and uh He said, uh Yeah, we got it. It was great. We'll be in touch. And I thought, well, they don't like it.

My friend Ramirez says, They didn't like it. Listen to it. Did you say anything? I mean, did you do a voice or something? And I said, no, I just I just it was he was in a hurry, he's from New York, and it just sounded like he wanted to get off the phone.

And they said, call him back. Just do something. Make him listen to you.

So I called him back and said Um Johnny, this is Bill Clinton, and I don't know where Rush and I have fallen out, but we are not as close as we once were. Could you put us back together? And he said. Who is this? That was great I said This is Paul Shanklin.

He said, send me a tape. And I said, I have sent you three tapes. As Ross Perot.

So, and that's how it all started. And then, as far as working with Rush, I mean. They just let me come up with what I came up with.

Sometimes he'd have ideas and he'd say, you know, do something like this. Or sometimes specific ideas, and he'd have wanted to punk people. You know, we'd want to have something that sounded straight and like it really was from the present or something. But basically, it's just popping up in my head. And you had to go into character, and you kind of come up with it as I write, I write in character.

And I don't know how to explain it other than it's genetic, and I hope you don't get it. It is so great. And again, Paul Shanklin joining us here on the program. I love it when you get a text message from you in the middle of the show, and it's just so fun. You never know what's going to happen.

What if you get 20? Did you see my text? I see. You're paying attention. I'm paying attention.

All right, we got to.

Sometimes it's important.

Sometimes I'm just messing around, but sometimes it's important. Understand. We got to take a break. We'll be right back. It did.

It did. It actually fit. All right. Welcome back, everybody. This is the Todd Stern show.

Don't tell that on the air. Don't tell that. And this is the end of the show. We are just flat out of time. That's it.

Paul Shanklin, we're going to get you back for the full hour. We're going to bring you back on if that's okay. All right. See if Bill can hang out, or maybe even Jimmy Carter, you know, from the Pearlie Gates. Oh, I would like to.

I would like to. It would have to be a lot more angelic rebo. They don't have a lot down here. We'll work on that. They don't have a lot down here where I'm at.

Paul Shanklin, everybody. Folks, it's been a wild day. 5 o'clock Eastern News Max. Be sure to watch the show. And, folks, whatever you do, be sure to go to church this weekend.