Ex-NFL Player Freaks Out, Attacks MAGA 'Nazis'

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I love this American ride. Todd Starks. Good Lord, it's like three degrees outside. Icicles literally have formed on the Cadillac. It is not a good situation in Memphis, Tennessee.

I hope it's a heck of a lot warmer. You know what we should have done? You see, El Rushbo knew all he sees all. And El Rushbo knew the best place to do a national radio program was from a beach location. Dieter, we may have to relocate the show to Palm Beach.

Are you good with that? I know that might be a sacrifice for you. Can we please? Can we move it to Tampa, possibly? Tampa?

Yeah. I mean, I like Tampa, but, I mean, Palm Beach is, you know, Mar-a-Lago. I know, but it's very pricey, Todd. It's very expensive. The only upside is that Tampa is now on the Gulf of America.

Yeah. So there's something to that. Anyway, it's cold out there. Hope you guys are doing well. By the way, happy anniversary to Donald J.

Trump, our great president of the United States. Today marks officially one month in office. And this man has accomplished more in one month than Joe Biden did for his entire administration.

So congratulations to you, President Trump. We're going to get into that. J.D. Vance at CPAC giving a Q&A with Mercedes Schlapp. And we're going to talk about that as well.

He has some great, great stories to share with you today. but a moment of personal privilege for our great listeners here on the Todd Stearns Radio Program. And Ben, you and I both know, and it's always good to remind folks about this periodically. We haven't talked a lot about this, but I wanted to start out by saying thank you because the show is making some national news in the industry trades, and it's a big deal because we are the only. And when I say only, we're the only independent, owned and operated talk radio program out there that is nationally syndicated.

Everybody else has some sort of a big syndication service, whether it's Bongino over at Cumulus or Clay and Buck over at iHeart. And I'm friends with all these guys. But they work for the big conglomerates, and they have stations that own them. And we have to fight for every single one of our stations. What you're saying is most of those people, their bosses are in big skyscrapers in Manhattan.

Yeah, pretty much. And you're your own boss here in Memphis. Yeah. That's basically how it breaks down. Aside from owning KWAM, the number one talk radio station now in Memphis, and Ben Dieter, by the way, ladies and gentlemen, host, he's got multiple hats.

And in the morning show, he is the morning show host on KWAM and was recently named by barrett media as one of the top 20 morning show hosts in america but my biggest role did you tell him what my biggest hat is that i wear i get you coffee no you do not get me i get coffee i get coffee for todd so yeah i do host a morning show and i ep this one but i you know that the number one job description if you ever want to work for todd will you get him his favorite cup of community coffee it's pecan pecan praline yeah i love that all right get back to the trip all right so anyway Anyway, so all that to say, we work very, very hard.

So we have a small team here. We don't have the power of the big corporate guys.

So we have to go above and beyond. And I just, you know, when I give out the call letters of people who call into the show, that's a source of pride for me because those radio stations, you know, they were taking a chance, and that chance has paid off. And we just love the radio stations that carry this show. And we're adding more stations, and that's always exciting. But we just don't take anything for granted.

So today, Triton Digital released a nationwide statement, and we made some news. Triton Digital actually measures the podcast audiences across the country. And many of you know that we do a podcast. We take our three-hour show and we condense that down and we have this great podcast. And I'm very excited to say that we have made Triton Digital's top podcast in America list.

And we're talking about overall every podcast that's out there. All right, Ben Teter, every podcast out there. That's a lot of podcasts. We're ranked overall, I believe, at 140, 140 on the list. But when you break it down into conservative podcast, we're number 12.

Which there are still a million conservative podcasts. There are just tons of them. Everybody has a podcast.

So thank you. Thank you for subscribing to the podcast. Thank you for listening, for downloading the podcast. It's free of charge. We don't charge you anything for that.

But I just want to say thank you because we have a massive audience. And, Ben, I think that sort of gets lost in the shuffle. We're sort of like under the radar, but we have a massive listening audience. Yeah, and they're the most tuned in audience. When you are talking about issues of the day, whether that's a political headline, whether that's even asking our listeners, I mean, I can't overstress how much your listeners actually built this show.

For example, here's a perfect one. How many times did you interview Trump before he became the president? Quite a few times. Quite a few times. How many of those questions came directly from the listeners?

So it's, yes, Todd hosts the show. Yes, we work really hard on it. But those listeners helped build this show, and we couldn't do it without all of them.

So all that to say, thank you. On behalf of our great team here, everybody works so hard for you. And I wanted to tip my hat and say thanks, guys. Adele and Cassie, Ben, it is a team effort. And we like to have a lot of fun on the radio.

And I mentioned that in the press release is that, yeah, we want to have fun and we want to inform, but we really want to have fun. I mean, and that's the point of it. We want you to laugh and kick back and have a good time. But we also need you to download and subscribe to Todd's podcast. That's right.

Because, yes, it's cool to be 14. What was it, 14? But we want to be number one. We do. Yeah.

We love Bongino. We love Clay and Buck, but there are mortal enemies in the podcast wars. Tell your friends about the show. And they consider us the same. I just love it when the big conglomerates are coming after us.

You love it? It's terrifying.

Well, okay. It's a little annoying. It's like, guys, come on, leave us be. Leave us be. Anyway, we've got a lot to talk about today and a lot to get to.

I also want to thank Andy Hoosier, who is the host of a great show there in our Wichita affiliate, which happens to be KQAM, the big talker in Wichita. And he did a great job filling in yesterday. I've got to give you an update on what happened with the ice.

So this is – it was a crazy story, Dieter. I was really nervous because, you know, that whole thing was trending on Google. You know, how much is Todd Stearns worth? Where does Todd Stearns live? What's wrong with Todd Stearns' ice?

So I literally pull that up when I get to the eye doctor. And I'm like, people want to know. America wants to know. Oh, yeah. I got off a call after you discussed it on your show with my grandma and my mom.

I've never fielded more questions about my boss's eye. It might. Yeah. I don't want to get biblical here, but I was blind. But now I see.

Now I see, America. I'm very excited about this. Wait, so you can see.

So they did something. Yeah, they did.

So it turns out, you know, I had this retina surgery. I don't want to get into the weeds in it, but I had a detached retina. I had to have the surgery. And then six months after the surgery, you develop a cataract on your eye. It's an old person problem.

And so I had to have the cataract surgery.

So sometimes those cataracts will, like, fog up or there'll be a film that develops, and it basically makes you blind. Wow. And so it took 30 seconds, and boom, they fixed the eye.

So how does everything look today? Everything looks crystal clear. I'm just like, I walked in, I'm like, Dylan, you're a beautiful man. I had no idea. Cassie, what a lovely lady you are.

What about me? Dina, you're kind of what I thought. What about me? I was like, good Lord, man, you got a fro. Yeah.

Yeah. So, yeah, Todd walks into the station yesterday, and he had the beadyest eyes. I thought something had possessed this man. Wait, what? No, I hadn't had my eyes dilated.

He walks in, all I see are big black blobs in the middle of Todd's eye. I'm like, they definitely botched his eye surgery. Oh, can I tell you what happened?

So, first of all, we had a snowstorm here, so I was shocked that they were open. Yeah. But they were, so I went there. And so, anyway, I didn't realize they were going to dilate my eyes. and so you know the snow is all it's as white as can be outside so anyway they they do what they do and i'm just happy that i can see and i'm like hugging everyone i'm hugging the nurses i'm like i can see and i was afraid i was going to learn how to write books in braille i mean i you know it was crazy so anyway i um so as i'm going out there like oh would you like would you like the real pair of sunglasses we have like you know the kind that the 90 year old mafia people wear in Florida on the beach, you know, those big honking, big black.

Yeah. Or do you want the ones that can slip over? And I'm like, oh, no, no, no, I'm good. I can see now. I walk outside and it was like walking into the matrix.

Everything was white. I could, I turned right back around. I said, yeah, I think I'm going to need those glasses.

So he walks in looking like Helen Keller, but now you're good. I'm good.

So thank you guys. Thank you guys for all the kind words and prayers. I was a little, you know, when you talk about your eyes, you know, that's kind of tough. because you've got to have them. You've got to have them.

So anyway, there you go. All right, 901-260-5926 is our telephone number. That's 901-260-5926.

So where are we going to start? We're going to be talking a little bit later on in the program with an Army Reserve chaplain. His name is Rusty Truby, and he was actually removed from duty from a VA medical center in Pennsylvania because somebody got upset that he was preaching from the New Testament book of Romans.

So he's lawyered up now, and he's maybe suing the VA Medical Center. Also, this crazy story out of California, and we've got the video up on our website, toddstearns.com. It is insane.

So an ex-football player, NFL guy, he played for the Minnesota Vikings, and this guy just went ballistic at a city council meeting in Huntington Beach, California. and Huntington Beach, California is a very conservative town. And Dieter, I had no idea. For me, this was the bigger part of the story, is that the entire city council in Huntington Beach, California, all Republican. Wow.

Every single one of them, they're all Republicans.

So anyway, here's what this guy said. He got up there and he was addressing the city council. He was very upset because they had put up a MAGA plaque at the library and this plaque at the library was actually an acronym for the word MAGA and I just think this is brilliant so they what they did was they had like you know M-A-G-A the M magical A alluring G galvanizing A adventurous put it all together you get MAGA anyway this guy went uh bonkers take a listen unfortunately it's clear that this council does not listen so instead I'm going to take my time to say what MAGA has stood for these past three weeks. MAGA stands for trying to erase trans people from existence. MAGA stands for resegregation and racism.

MAGA stands for censorship and book bans. MAGA stands for firing air traffic controllers while planes are crashing. MAGA stands for firing the people overseeing our nuclear arsenal. MAGA stands for firing military veterans and those serving them at the VA, including canceling research on veteran suicide. MAGA stands for cutting funds to education, including for disabled children.

MAGA is profoundly corrupt, unmistakably anti-democracy, and most importantly, MAGA is explicitly a Nazi movement. You may have replaced a swastika with a red hat, but that is what it is. I will now engage in the time-honored American tradition of peaceful civil disobedience. And so then the guy tries to storm the dais. The cops come in, and they toss him to the ground, and then they haul him out like he's a stuck pig or something.

Just haul the guy right out of a city council meeting.

Now, may I just stay here? And again, I don't know. His name is Chris Cluey, and he was a former punter for the Minnesota Vikings. He was in the NFL, bounced around from team to team, and ended up getting booted out of the NFL. And he said the reason why is because he was outspoken about his progressive political beliefs.

i suspect he really got booted because he was just a lousy punter but that's that's just me but anyway the the worst part about all of this is the guy was just boring right i mean they got to come up with something better than nazis now i mean every everybody's a nazi you know it's come on you gotta it's like everybody's right they're all racist well you know that got old so now they're going to nazis and i gotta tell you it's getting a little bit old it's getting a little bit Did you see him throw his hand up in the air when he got done? I'm going to practice my civil disobedience. And he threw his hand up in the air and clenched his fist. It was like a power symbol. It didn't take the cops much to take the guy down.

So I don't think he was like a really, you know, he wasn't a physically fit guy. He just looked like a hippie. I think the guy probably smelled. I'm just going to throw that out there. All right, we've got to take a quick break.

We're going to the phones here. 901-260-5926. a month in to the Trump administration. How do you grade the president? I want to hear from you.

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Don't let the door hit you where the good Lord split you, but it's a one-way ticket. You can leave, but you're not coming back. Do the same thing with the reparations, too. You know, if you think you deserve reparations for what happened to you, your family, you know, seven or eight generations ago, we'll pay you reparations but you gotta you gotta go back to your wherever your ancestors came from that's part of the deal absolutely i love that i idea steve uh well done and uh thank you for weighing in here steve ladies and gentlemen and little rock giving president trump an a plus also uh this just in you know the president and and here's something that is going to be really difficult, and I know it's going to frustrate a lot of you folks, but hear me on this. A lot of conservatives are going to be turning against the Trump administration.

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all right welcome back everybody good to have you with us 901-260-5926 and we're letting you grade president trump today we're marking one month in office and let's go to georgia paula is listening to us on the great wdun hi paula what's going on hi Todd how are you I'm doing good thank you for asking Paula awesome um I think President Trump is doing great I'd give him an a definitely you know there's people out here that are complaining still about inflation being high that was a four-year process working under Biden and it's not going to be fixed overnight well that's true and that is going to take some time and of course you know the president sometimes he speaks before he thinks and you know i think most of us understand that you know that's just his nature that's who he is and obviously egg prices were not going to come down on inauguration day you know that's it's a process and you know we've we've laid all of that out we've explained the process so it takes a little bit of time yes sir i'm curious paula in your circle there you're a circle of influence uh how do your friends your family members how do they think the country's going right now um they have hope you know that that since he's taken back office that things are going to improve but it's just a process and we're all just patiently waiting for everything to kind of know about and even out i love that well and it's and it's going to happen paula i really do uh well thank you for calling in and thank you for listening to the the show so jasmine crockett and you folks in memphis she's one of your folks she is a rhodes college graduate jasmine crockett now representing the state of texas in congress and she's really upset with the president she hates elon musk uh and she thinks all of you folks in the southern states that you guys are broke the entire South, and she says that the entire South is broke and on welfare. Cut number seven. But the problem is that we have a president that is adversarial to states that don't vote for him. And so what some of these people fail to realize down in Alabama, who's broke down in Louisiana, who's broke. I can go through pretty much the entire South and tell you that they're broke And they relied on a lot of welfare from the government.

To be perfectly honest, it is tax dollars from these big blue states like New York. Yeah, they send a lot of money into taxes and then broke states end up benefiting from it. And now they are about to find out.

So we're in the find out phase. And you've got, you know, the other senator from Alabama. She decided to weigh in as well because the largest employer is University of Alabama. And guess what? they decided that they were going to cut all the research dollars.

So research takes place at universities.

So now you're going to have people in your already broke state that don't have jobs. The recession is coming. I told you here first.

Okay, well, let me drop a truth bomb on Jasmine Crockett, the Rhodes College graduate. That is actually incorrect. Yes, the University of Alabama has a large staff, but the largest employer in Alabama is actually Redstone Arsenal, and they've got about 40, a little over 45,000 employees. Also, Alabama Power has a huge number of staff as well.

So you got to get the facts right. But the argument is that all of the southern states are going to suffer with the budget cuts because she's alleging that all of you folks in the South rely on a government handout. Is that true? Do you Southerners across America, do you rely on a handout from the government? I will tell you this in the great state of Tennessee, where we broadcast this show, my home state, I'm a proud volunteer.

We actually have a budget surplus. We're doing pretty darn good down here.

Now, Elon Musk has come up with a plan, and I'm curious to hear your thoughts on this, and Crockett had more to say about this plan, but Elon is now suggesting that we actually take some of the money, some of the money that Doge has uncovered, this money that's going to the sex change surgeries in Guatemala, all of that kind of stuff, and he's suggesting that we might send every American taxpayer a $5,000 refund.

So that's one of the things under consideration right now by the Trump White House is to take all the trillions of dollars and we need to turn that money back over to the American taxpayers.

Now that's one thought. Another thought is to actually put that money towards the U.S. debt and pay down our massive debt.

So I'm curious here, what do you want to see happen? Would you like to get a $5,000 refund from the federal government, from Uncle Sam? By the way, the new head of the Treasury is saying that we also, that President Trump's plan is to also completely abolish, I'm sorry, I said Treasury, Commerce Secretary, said that the plan is not to reform the Internal Revenue Service, but to abolish the Internal Revenue Service. He was on, Secretary Lutnick was on with Fox last night. Let's take a listen to Cut 6.

And I'm telling you, you watch it, we're going to do it. If you get savings from these Doge cuts, are you going to give any of this back to the American people? We keep hearing about these Doge dividends.

Well, think about it. Donald Trump announces the external revenue service and his goal is very simple to abolish. His goal is to abolish the internal revenue service and let all the outsiders pay. I mean, this is someone who is focused on America. Let's drive down our waste for an abuse.

I'll give you an example. Cruise ships. You ever see a cruise ship with an American flag on the back? They have flags of like Liberia or Panama. None of them pay taxes.

None of them pay taxes. Every super tanker, none pays taxes. Alcohol, all foreign alcohol, no taxes. This is going to end under Donald Trump and those taxes are going to be paid and Americans' tax rates are going to come down. That's what Donald Trump wants to do.

Balance our budget and cut our taxes. I mean, imagine a Democratic senator going against that. I mean, just think about this for a moment. And I will say this. If Donald Trump, if Donald J.

Trump is able to abolish the Internal Revenue Service, then I personally will help carve his face into the side of Mount Rushmore. And I think a lot of other Americans would do the exact same thing. Could you imagine if Donald Trump sent every single American taxpayer a $5,000 refund check saying, sorry, we were going to send this money to, I don't know, Afghanistan or Gaza so they could buy condoms but you know what We going to give this money back to you the American taxpayer instead I think Trump would in fact get elected for another term in office I have no doubt about that So look, Jasmine Crockett, though, she understands where all of this is going. She was on ABC, and she was asked to weigh in on this idea of giving Doge money back to the people, who, by the way, that's our money to begin with. Cut 10.

Now, President Trump says he likes the idea of giving some of the savings from Doge back to Americans as kind of a dividend. Would you support that? Listen, he's just telling a lie. He's not the one that had anything to do with the twelve hundred dollar refunds that people had during the midst of covid that was done by a Democratic House and Democratic Senate. Right now, what they're going to do is say, hey, we want to give you a refund.

But Congress won't let us because they already know that there's just no money for that. The only reason that those refunds came before was because we were living in different times. This was a time in which hopefully we won't ever go through again. We had a once in a lifetime pandemic. The bad part is that I don't know if it's once in a lifetime because we know that Ebola, unfortunately, was detected right here in New York here recently.

And if we continue down this road of getting rid of scientists or deciding that we don't want to rely on experts as relates to what they're telling us to do, or we don't want to deal with vaccines and medicine in this country, then we may be facing not only our next pandemic, but our next two, three or four pandemics because of their incompetence.

So, no, we are not in the business of giving out money. And honestly, I don't know what five thousand dollars will do for you. Really? uh so again she's poo-pooing the idea of five thousand bucks ladies and gentlemen here's what cracks me up just a few minutes ago she was going off about how everybody in the south is broke poor on welfare well if that's the if that's true which is not but if if we're going to believe what she's telling us then you better believe all those people would be welcoming a five thousand dollar check you know what todd stars right here ladies and gentlemen on national radio i will i'll tell you, give me my money back. I want you to think about something for a moment here.

All right, let's just say I pay. Wow, this is terrible. I pay about about 30 percent is my about 30 percent of what I bring in goes to Uncle Sam. That's a that's a chunk of change, folks, a chunk of change. Many of you, on average, are paying around 14% to 20%.

On average, that's what you're paying Uncle Sam in your taxes. That's what you're paying to the Internal Revenue Service. All right?

So the theory is we abolish the Internal Revenue Service, and we turn it into an external revenue service. In other words, the people that do trade business with the United States, they would pay tariffs, and those tariffs would end up funding the country.

So you and I, in theory, would get back all of the money. We wouldn't have to pay an insurance. We would have to pay an IRS check, right?

So let's just say you make a half a million dollars a year, all right? That means you get $150,000 back in your pocket.

Now, that's a lot of money. And I'm telling you right now, ladies and gentlemen, that that kind of money, that kind of money is going to be life-changing because what's going to happen is let's just say you make two let's just say all right hold on a second we're going to say this let's just say that you make um a hundred thousand dollars a year all right so you make a hundred thousand dollars a year and you're taxed rate is say 20 that's twenty thousand dollars all right so twenty thousand dollars what would you do with that money if you had that extra twenty thousand dollars you know what you would do? You would go out, you would buy something. You might invest in something. You might put some away for savings.

You might reach out to Priority Gold and get some gold and get some and diversify your savings. You're going to use that money. People are going to go out and they're going to put a down payment on a house. They might buy a car, a refrigerator. In other words, ladies and gentlemen, we are going to, it could very well revolutionize our economy.

But I'm just curious here, your thoughts on this, because, again, the Commerce Secretary coming out on Fox last night and saying President Trump wants to abolish the Internal Revenue Service. 901-260-5926 is our telephone number. That's 901-260-5926.

Let's go to Vicki in Hendersonville, North Carolina, listening to us on the great WHKP. Vicki, what a great radio station. Yeah, it sure is. Listen, Todd, about that $5,000 rebate to everybody, I don't really need it, and I could do without it, and I'd much rather that my $5,000 went towards paying the tax down and the people that really need the $5,000 give it to them. And that Mount Rushmore thing, as the words came out of your mouth, I was thinking it.

vicky i'd go up there and i don't care i'd spray paint it orange yes if he does that the democrats will never win anything again no i don't think they will i i mean i i really don't and in a lot of communities that five thousand dollars is going to go a long way but again i would as much as i would welcome that check we've got to get the the we've got to get the debt under control. It's just simply unsustainable. And let me predict this, Vicki. We are going to see people on the Republican side of the aisle pitching a holy you-know-what because their cash cows are on the line here. That's what's going to happen, Vicki.

So we got to hold their feet to the fire, Vicki. We're going to have to light up the phones. We're going to have to tell our representatives and senators that we want fiscal responsibility from the Republican side of the aisle. All right, Vicki, good hearing from you. And maybe you and I will meet up at Mount Rushmore.

We'll be chiseling President Trump's face into the rock there. All right, let's go to Memphis, Tennessee. Shelby is listening to us on KWAM, our flagship station. Hi, Shelby. All right, so you want to grade Donald Trump?

Yes, sir, I do. Thank you so much. All right, Shelby, go ahead. How do you think President Trump's doing so far?

Okay, so far I would like to say that I am an independent voter.

Okay.

Okay.

And also I would love it if Mrs. Jasmine Crockett would do the same as myself and Oprah Winfrey become an independent person because she's super smart. And I enjoy what she says, and I agree with most of what she says. As it relates to President Donald Trump, I'm very proud of him. And I would grade him at this point a B-minus, Mr.

Stearns. a b minus are you're a tough grader there miss shelby okay and let me say one other thing you asked what do we want him to do next yes ma'am but before that instead of the 5 000 i think president trump should send social security recipient 10 000 into their accounts okay but back to what he should do next I think he should within 30 days rehire and reinstate those laid off federal government qualified and good quality employees. And thirdly, I would like to see him fire Elon Musk. We didn't vote for Elon Musk. Fire Elon Musk.

Bring back Yale graduate Zizek.

So you think he ought to bring back Ramaswamy, give Elon the boot. You know, a lot of folks have that. I've heard that argument, Shelby. And the reality is that Joe Biden actually had an unelected guy running the country by the name of Anthony Fauci. I didn't go for him either.

He gives an F. Oh. I'm comparing. Shelby, you know what it sounds like to me, Shelby, and we're coming up on a break here, but I want you to give us a call back one of these days. But don't hang up just yet, Shelby.

You sound like you call balls and strikes no matter if they're Republican or Democrat. Absolutely. All right. I like that. Shelby, you give us a holler back one of these days, and thank you for listening to KWAM.

You're welcome. Goodbye. All right. There you go. Shelby, Colin Paulson strikes, gives Fauci an F.

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Live from the Liberty University studio in Memphis, Tennessee, it's Common Sense Conservative Commentary from Todd Starr. That's us, that's right. I love this American ride. Well, hello everybody. Welcome to the Todd Stearns Radio Program.

So very happy to have you with us today. I want you to write down our telephone number. You will need this as we celebrate the one-month anniversary of the Trump administration. 901-260-5926. That's 901-260-5926.

and how would you grade President Trump so far? We've had mostly A pluses, one B minus, but, you know, we've got some tough graders out there. But I want to go to Dallas, Oregon. Marvin is listening to us today on our terrific affiliate, KYKN. And Marvin, we were talking about these $5,000 refund checks that Elon wants to send to all the taxpayers.

What do you think about that? I think it's great. but i think what he should do is just give it to registered republican voters and none to the democrat voters because they screwed up the nation so bad by voting the way they did marvin i love this idea so so anyway so i guess maybe you show up at your local republican party headquarters and that's where you pick up your check so if you voted for dean no check for you That's right. Marvin, I love this. Hey, our buddy Paul Shanklin, he does our parody bits for us, and he's a money guy, too.

A lot of people didn't know that about Paul. He says maybe we should put that $5,000 in a new Social Security private account that's yours to keep and invest. Oh, that's a good idea. Shanklin comes up with a few good ideas. I like that.

I like that. I like yours better, Marvin. I really do.

Okay.

All right. Good job. Marvin from Oregon says, only Republicans. If you voted for Trump, you get five grand. The rest of you, no money for you.

Now, I told you in the first hour of the show, and we had this story up at toddstearns.com, and it's just, I wish I could say it was shocking, but we've got to tell you about this. There is a chaplain, an Army Reserve chaplain. He's been there for many, many years at the Coatesville VA Medical Center in Pennsylvania. And he was sanctioned over a sermon he delivered. The religious liberty law firm, First Liberty Institute, now involved.

They've sent a letter to the new secretary of the VA, our good friend Doug Collins. I want to welcome into the program Rusty Truby, who is the chaplain, and Aaron Smith, an attorney at First Liberty Institute. Aaron Champlin Rusty, good to have you guys with us. Thank you. Great to be here.

All right. Well, Champlin, I want to start with you.

So maybe you could explain. You were delivering a sermon. What were you talking about that got yourself in so much hot water?

Well, I had been feeling for some time like coming to work was like coming to an away game. I don't know if you've ever had that feeling, like I'm on enemy territory. And I felt that the Lord, you know, wanted me to take a stronger stand, and that the safest place for me to do that was in our Protestant chapel services, which I lead with our other chaplains on a rotational basis.

So the Holy Spirit led me to Romans 1, and, you know, I knew it was the right text, but I also knew it wouldn't be that popular for some.

So I actually did a two-part series over two Sundays. The first part, I talked about how the gospel is, you know, bad news before it's good news and that we're without excuse, that there's a sin problem, and God is not just a God of love, but He is holy and He is just. And I encourage those veterans present to read Romans 1 throughout the week and to come back next week to hear part two. And part two is where I shared about what happens when our culture ignores God and pretends to be God. And, well, chaos ensues.

And then, well, after the service that morning, I was approached by a VA police officer, and he indicated that there were some complaints about the sermon, and I immediately let my supervisor know. The next day I was removed from chaplain services for about six months while I was investigated for inappropriate behavior. And then since that time, my supervisor had tried to change policies that prohibit me and chaplains like me from preaching according to our sincerely held faith. All right. Let me jump in here for just a second, Pastor, because I've got a couple of questions.

Sure. We have a lot of lapsed Lutherans in the audience, and so they may not be – they're probably saying, all right, well, we don't remember Romans chapter 1, but what exactly – was there something specific that set somebody off? Can you tell us what that was?

Well, I would just encourage your listeners to just read Romans 1, and it's not that complicated. Right. Did you threaten anybody? I'm just trying to understand why – well, okay, I get that, but why did they summon the police? Did you threaten anybody?

No threats. In fact, I was reading, just actually reading the text, and folks were upset and left the service. And so I'm not sure at what point, you know, folks got offended, but simply reading Romans 1, you know, got people upset. No, I got it. I got it.

About how many people were at that service? Do you recall? I do. For us, it wasn't that many. The week before, there was probably 12.

And then the next week, on the second part of my service, there were about 20.

So more came after I encouraged folks to come and bring a friend.

So there was about 20, 21.

Okay, all right. And so these would be what, patients maybe in the VA center and maybe some family members? Is that pretty much the mix of the crowd?

so yeah our veteran population is those who are there on the campus seeking seeking treatment either in the substance use rehabilitation program or the mental health program or ptsd program so okay veterans present are usually those who are there seeking treatment correct got it okay i want to bring in aaron smith uh your attorney here uh first liberty institute uh Aaron, thank you for joining us today. All right, so I think it's important for our audience to understand here that we're missing something.

Something's not adding up. The pastor preached Romans 1. The pastor didn't say exactly what he preached out of there, but he just said we had to go read it for ourselves. What exactly was it that set people off and caused somebody to bring in the police? That's what I don't get.

Absolutely, yeah, and thank you for having us both on. um so so really right like if we look specifically hone in on the the text within romans 1 verses uh 23 through about 32 i mean this part of the bible deals with these behaviors that culture engages in when they're excluding god or when they ignore god um and one of those behaviors is homosexual behavior okay that's what i was it was like pulling teeth here eric i know that's Yeah, that's what I was trying to get at. You can blame me. You can blame me for that. You can blame me for that.

Look, it's important, I think, and this is in our culture right now. I think we got to just, you got to say what needs to be said, and that's what this is.

So somebody got upset about what the Bible says about sex. Is that right? Hello? Did we lose him? All right.

All right, we'll try to reconnect there. I hope that again is – all right. You know what? Let's figure out what happened here, guys. But let me say this.

This is what bothers me. When the religious liberty groups play around, let's get right to the issue at hand. This chaplain was doing nothing wrong. This chaplain got in trouble because he was preaching what the Bible had to say about an LGBT issue. That's all there is to it.

But hear me on this program, and I want to be very clear. We don't count out anybody. That's just not who I am. And if First Liberty Institute is going to come onto this program, they've got to, you know, I don't need to go and open up the Bible and read the Bible to you. I need somebody to tell us what the problem was.

And we can't hem and haw. Those days are over. Those days are over. Hemming and hawing got us to where we are right now in the United States of America. Just unacceptable.

All right, we're going to take a break here. 901-260-5926 is our telephone number. That's 901-260-5926.

It's a sad situation because this chaplain needs to be protected, and he needs that protection from Doug Collins, and I'm reaching out to Doug, and we're going to try to help this chaplain. But the fact that they called the cops on a guy preaching from the New Testament a book of Romans in a taxpayer-funded VA medical center, that ought to enrage the entire country. Got to take a break. We'll be right back. Keep up with the Trump administration when you subscribe to the Trump Report.

This email brings you daily highlights from the Oval Office right to your inbox five days a week. Subscribe to the Trump Report. All right, welcome back, everybody. And we have reestablished contact with Aaron Smith, who is the attorney representing Chaplain Truby. Chaplain Truby is not with us right now.

But, Aaron, to pick up where we left off, I just think it's so vitally important that we just speak truth directly to the culture. And if that's what the issue is, you know, that's what it was. but there's no excuse for calling the cops on a chaplet like that. That's just unacceptable.

Well, listen, right, like, yeah, this is just showcasing a larger problem. And, you know, we love our veterans and are very grateful, grateful for all of their service. And, right, we're dealing with a confused society. but the bottom line really is that the government has no business censoring anyone's servants including VA chaplains so I know that you guys sent a letter and tell us what happened when you guys sent the letter to the VA we have yet to receive a response from the VA to our letter all right so I understand really don't know right but but I understand according to the press release that you guys sent us that when you guys sent some sort of an inquiry and then the chaplain was actually reinstated. Is that accurate?

Yeah, that's correct.

So at the conclusion of the almost six-month-long investigation, the Coatesville VA proposed a letter of reprimand to Chaplain Truby, and that's when First Liberty and the Independence Law Center stepped in and explained, right, this is not right. We want to appeal this decision. And, I mean, very suddenly there was a reversal of this proposed letter of reprimand. It wasn't going to happen anymore. And so that was encouraging that, right, they paid attention the first time.

But the sermon review process still came into being, and we realized, oh, this is a problem. We need to step in and do more.

So is the pastor, is he back in the pulpit, or the chaplain, is he back in the pulpit, and is he turning in his sermons to be reviewed?

So he is back in the pulpit. They have not started the sermon of reprocess, as far as we are aware. This is something that is to come in the future. I think right with our demand letter, there has been a pause on some of this behavior. because they are aware that they are being watched.

So we're just kind of waiting to see. We're excited that we're able to contact Secretary Collins and send him a letter and let him know what is happening on the ground in the VA, and we're looking forward to him being a friend of religious liberty, doing something about this and making it right. Yeah, I have no doubt about that, and he is going to make it right. And, again, all of this happened under the previous administration. Is that correct?

yes sir yeah all of this started happening before before president trump took office all right very good well aaron uh we certainly appreciate you coming on the todd stearns show today and we wish you guys the very best of luck and again um pretty confident that secretary collins is going to take care of this um in no time at all all right uh there you go folks aaron Smith, an associate counsel at First Liberty Institute. Just unbelievable what's happening to the chaplains in our military. It was an all-out war on religious liberty. Let's go to John in Kentucky. John, I know you're a pastor.

What's your reaction to what they're doing to this chaplain? He's got to literally turn his sermons in so they can be censored.

Well, they tried to do that in Houston, if you will remember, Todd, when they had that lesbian mayor saying she wanted all the, about the, about the bathroom bill or whatever. And also, if you will recall a while back, that there was an army chaplain that didn't want to counsel a same-sex couple, so he recused himself, and they turned him in along with his chaplain's assistant. I just want to give some advice. I'm not a legal scholar like, you know, a lawyer is, But there's something in the federal regulations concerning chaplains. There is nothing in there that says that they cannot preach what they want to preach.

They do not have to give the sermon to the leadership. That pastor is not obligated to anybody but the Lord Jesus Christ. And I've seen it happen firsthand to a Fulberg colonel go toe-to-toe with a one-star general, and he refused to kowtow down to a commanding general. It's just really shocking, John, to know that under the Biden administration, that pastors were being censored and Christians were being punished within our military system and especially at these VA medical centers Well the VA medical centers are basically under the same regulations in the military because they taking care of military veterans There's a manual out there, Todd, and I'll just listen and hang up for your commentary, which is excellent, by the way. Nobel Prize, I say, for you.

There's a manual out there, the 165-1, which is a reference manual for chaplains assistants and chaplains, And the government has no right, absolutely no right, to step in and interfere with Christian pastors or Jewish rabbis. I love you, Todd. Great show. Pastor, thank you again, and I appreciate you calling in. And I am so glad that Donald Trump is going to stand up for religious liberty.

Doug Collins, a great Southern Baptist, and he is going to be a firm defender of religious liberty within the VA medical system. And by the way, Pete Hegseth as well on the Pentagon side, the attacks, folks, just beyond the pale, just simply beyond the pale. All right, 901-260-5926, our telephone number. That's 901-260-5926.

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Wow, so apparently the folks at First Liberty Institute are just enraged with this. How dare we question? Oh, all right, well, look, if you've got a cop that's been summoned to investigate a chaplain, it's a fair question to ask, what the heck was the sermon about? And telling somebody to go out there and to read the Bible for yourself, I'm sorry, that's a cop out. And we don't do that here on this radio program.

So, geez, aloof. Dieter, it's going to be one of those days where we pretty much just piss off everybody on both sides of the aisle. Come on, man. Jeez, Alou. I felt like I was in an interrogation hostage.

You did a great job with the interview. We had to get the facts. That's all we wanted. Just tell us the story. Jeez, Alou.

And if you can't tell the story, then don't come on my radio program. It's really that simple. All right. Uh, 901-260-5926, our telephone number, that's 901-260-5926. All that to say, Martha Zoller and Jeff Katz, you guys better not mess with me today.

I'm in a mood. I'm in a mood. And from the sound of it, Todd, it's not the best mood ever. Martha Zoller, ladies and gentlemen, from WTUN, and Jeff Katz from WRVA. Hey, guys, how's it going?

It is great. It's good to be here. It's great to be here. I'm going to tread very carefully. I think I'm having a better day than you are, sir.

Indeed.

Well, look, that is like 10 degrees outside. It's just brutally cold in Memphis. And my favorite barbecue joint burned down.

Well, that explains it. It does. That's it. You know what? Let's just cancel the show and go drinking.

yeah i know baptist martinis no no no i'm gonna go full-blown zoller you know she's got a wine bar there at wdun it's okay martha what that's right it's i love it uh all right guys so first of all um we we're we're doing a regular weekly segment uh with all of our great affiliates and there are so many awesome host program directors out there and we just it's our way of saying thank you for carrying the show and and we love having you guys on and uh martha i know that uh you guys down there on the square and your beautiful new palatial facility what a beautiful broadcasting center you guys have down there yeah i'm loving being right there in the center of things it's really where everything started 75 years ago almost 76 years ago and now we're in this beautiful new building where we can look out on the square it's great and you know can't you and i go back we have history together uh going all the way back to boston remember that when we were doing the uh doing your show up in boston absolutely and i can remember uh you were uh just a highlight for us every time you came on with us and uh now of course thankfully you still talk to me but you're you're you're just huge man you're you're the like the king of the world no no no no uh that would be jeffrey kentz uh at wrva and you guys are just crushing it and uh i'm i know i'll run into you guys at the talkers convention later this summer but let's talk trump here guys because trump is celebrating his his one month anniversary and martha it's it's uh it's hard to believe it's only been a month and the amount of work this guy has done hello martha jeff do we have you there yeah i'm here i think martha may have gone to the wine bar I would, too. I would, too. All right, Jeff, so what do you make of this? A month in, and Trump has done more than Biden did all four years. There's no doubt about it.

And Todd, in all seriousness, you and I, I know, are both signed up for briefing papers and emails and press releases from the White House and what have you. And this is no word of lie. In the course of one month, I have received more from the Trump administration than I received in four years from the Biden administration. And I hate to say it because I love our president, but I'm beginning to think that those four years that he was not able to be president for all sorts of shenanigans and lawfare and the rest of it, they actually served him well because he was still focused on making America great again. He had everything ready to go, and they just keep rolling and rolling and rolling full steam ahead.

you know it's interesting uh elon now suggesting that americans could get a five thousand dollar refund our good buddy paul shanklin says you know what give it to the american people put them in a social security account that they get to control they get to invest i think that's a terrific idea what say you i think it's brilliant i think oh i think it's a great idea i'm sorry i'm back All right.

So Jeff, we'll let Martha answer, and then I'll let you just follow up after Martha finishes. Yeah, I think it's a great idea, and I love the fact of giving back some of your money. I mean, that's what all these governments ought to be doing, and this government in particular. I mean, it is – you know, I worked for the United States Senate for five years, okay? And I said at the time it was worse than I even thought it was then.

It's even worse now than what I thought it was. And it is just horrific. And Elon Musk is like my favorite guy now. Is he perfect? No.

He's brilliant. And I love the work he's doing. He's finding stuff every day. Every day. Jeffrey.

Martha. Yeah, Martha is spot on. Elon Musk has rolled up his sleeves and has gone looking, and he's found a whole bunch of stuff. And I think Paul's idea, Elon's idea, the president's idea that we get some of our own money back, of course, it's our money to begin with. I'm hoping that Elon is able to find that $4.7 trillion that we paid, but we don't know to whom or for what.

Like, there was no memo in the check line. You know, no little writing in the memo line of the check. But if they want to give me $5,000, I'm happy to have it, and I'll invest it and safeguard it the way I should. You know, Martha, I know Georgia, Virginia, Tennessee, we're controlled by Republicans. And I know here in Tennessee we have a supermajority, so the surpluses are tremendous.

And even still, I think that we would do well to have a state version of DOGE going through our state budgets to see if there's any spending that's there that shouldn't be. You know, I agree with you that even though I love my governor and I love the way Georgia, Tennessee, other states run things, But we have a budget surplus in addition to the rainy day fund that's about half the size of our budget. And, you know, I know the governor's going to speed up the income tax reduction and he's going to do some other things. But I think we need to start giving a lot more of that money back. I mean, we've got to look at the budget line by line.

But if you're running budget surpluses that are half of what your budget is, some of that money should be going back to the people.

Now, there's going to be a $500 check that's going to go to every Georgia taxpayer. But I kind of think that's not enough. You know, it's interesting, by the way, Cass, before we get to Martha, this relates to Georgia. Stacey Abrams, the reporting is that Doge discovered $2 billion in taxpayer funds that were set aside for her nonprofit. But I don't know, Mara, this sounds like flat-out money laundering to me.

Yeah, and if you look at, you know, what's the normal fee that a consultant or something like gets from something like that, they're probably getting, she could have potentially gotten 10% of that, which is going to make her a very wealthy woman. And she's already gone from being $200,000 into student loan debt at the beginning of her first governor's race to being worth millions of dollars. Look, the money laundering has been going on in these NGOs and all of these other kinds of things, these nonprofits. And I think we're getting to the bottom of it finally. You know, I think there was a racket, and that's a nice word for it, of applying for these grants and getting money for these crazy ideas or voter integrity or voter suppression or whatever the voter idea was of the day that people like Stacey Abrams are going in.

and they're getting $2 billion allotted to their organizations, that is unacceptable. And we've got to keep exposing it. And even if it's Republican groups that are getting this kind of money, we have got to expose every single dollar. Yeah, 10,000% right there. And Martha Zoller joining us from WDUN in Gainesville, Georgia.

Our good friend Jeff Katz, WRVA in Richmond. And Jeff, it's interesting. I was watching the real estate, the Zillow, for sale numbers going up. And we're talking, I think, the average home sale price in the D.C. area around $3 or $4 million.

There's a study that was done, and as of the last time this was done, it was in 2020, over half of the members of Congress were millionaires, medium net worth about $1 million. I'm curious how that happens since they're only bringing home $174,000 a year.

well uh todd it's it's it's strategic planning and comprehensive investment and and walking around with your hand out and having a big bag in the other hand like it's halloween and you're just collecting this money it's it's just outrageous that uh you you go there and listen as martha said we could see it on the republican side as well you got mitch mcconnell stepping down mitch mcconnell didn't start as a multi-millionaire but we do have to expose it and this idea that somehow this group or that group knows better what to do with our money i think is just insane that's just nothing short of insane martha is there an appetite and you know jeff mentioned uh uh mitch mcconnell uh just yesterday the lieutenant governor of mississippi literally collapsed in the as he was giving a speech there at the Statehouse, and he's in his late 70s. Do you think there's an appetite for term limits or maybe even an age limit in Congress? Yeah, I do think there's an appetite for it. You remember Newt in the contract with America got term limits passed, but I think the Supreme Court said that it wasn't worded the right way or whatever, and then they never went back to it. That was, what, 30 years ago, close to 30 years ago.

So we need to have term limits. We also need term limits for bureaucrats. You know, they should not be able to hold down the fort and wait out the people that get elected to be able to do whatever they want to do. We need to look at that, too. It should be public service.

It should not be a career because you've got – and I love this new cabinet because this is probably the youngest cabinet we've had in a very long time. And so I think we're starting to see that transition of people, and we're going to get some younger and better ideas. Jeff, what about there in the Commonwealth?

Well, I think we have, amongst grassroots people, a desire for some sort of term limits. But as we see, again, whether it's Democrat or Republican, people get a taste of that Potomac air, you know, and all of a sudden they've got the special cufflinks and they know the secret handshake to get on the underground express monorail and the rest of it. And they don't want to give it up. I do think, however, we're looking at some people. My new congressman is a guy who is a Navy SEAL.

He's a businessman. He said, look, I believe in public service. I've devoted my life to it, but it's not my career. And I'm going to go for a couple of terms. And after that, somebody has to step up to the plate.

And I think that's what we're seeing. Martha points out the age in this cabinet. This is an enthusiastic, young, imaginative cabinet, and they're in it for the right reasons. I love, guys, that it's very clear to me, based on the amount that has already been accomplished, that over the past four years, Trump hasn't just been playing golf. He's been devising a strategy and a plan, and he walked in day one ready to implement that plan.

Look, people are going to make this day. No doubt. They came in. people are going to make mistakes but the difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is they learn from their mistakes and so i think in a very strange way this four years out of office for donald trump has made him much better in his second term and you even heard him say you know when he talked and it's hard for donald trump to say that he needed you know he could improve on anything but he said he picked the wrong people around him initially he said that several times in the final days of the campaign well i don't think he's done that this time and i think he's going to get a lot of great work done all right jeff last words for you yeah i was going to say you're you're spot on mark again hitting it out of the park these last four years that he was forced out of office let's not kid ourselves that's what happened but he devoted that time to assembling the right team to having every piece of legislation every executive order this is all ready to go and it has just stymied all of the leftists there There's so much coming at them. And the Trump administration continues to operate at warp speed, man, 110%.

And I think we've got great, great stuff still to come. I've got about 60 seconds for both of you. Martha first, and then Jeff, if you can wrap things up here. There is a new survey from CNN, a new poll. Trump, his approval ratings, 47%.

And the poll found that a plurality of Americans, 28%, say Trump's single most significant action has been securing the border, followed by slashing of the government with Elon Musk and Doge.

Meanwhile, many Americans said they want Trump to do more to address everyday prices. 62% say he has not gone far enough on that issue. And again, I think reality, Martha, we're one month into an administration. That part of it's going to take a little time. Yeah, I think it will take some time.

And I know people are trying to say, oh, we promised he'd do it on day one.

Well, he did the work that's going to put it in place to make the prices come down, to make the other things happening. He did that on day one. But I think what you're going to see is people, the average person, is rising up and saying, we like this. And this is what this new populist movement is, this populist Republican movement. They are rising up and saying, this is what we want you to do.

And that's why he's more popular now than he has ever been. And we're going to see that keep happening. Mr. Katz. No doubt about that.

Yes, sir. I think that what we're seeing right now, we saw in day one efforts to secure the border. He's done a great job doing that, opening up energy production and really, really, really ramping that up. This is all going to result in lower prices as we move forward. I know they keep beating him up over the price of eggs.

Just remember that it was the Biden administration that did all this calling of chickens. That's going to take a little time to come about, but this is an administration just focused, laser beam focused from the president on down on doing it right by the American people, and I think they're making great progress. All right, Jeff, Martha, always great having you guys on, and appreciate you hanging in there through a little phone hiccup there, but have a great day. Look forward to your shows. thanks thank you guys all right great folks right there got to take a quick break here folks 901-260-5926 this is the todd stern show all right uh welcome back everybody all right coming up uh we have an action-packed last hour for you also we're going to be bringing you some of the vice president speech from CPAC, J.D.

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Well, hello everybody. Welcome to the Todd Starnes Radio Show. I trust you are doing well today. our telephone number for this hour of the program 901-260-5926 that's 901-260-5926 coming up a little bit later we're going to be going to Huntington Beach California speaking to a member of the city council there who was in the chamber when the NFL player went bonkers crazy and went on the big tirade against Trump supporters we're going to be talking to Casey McEwen a little bit later on in the program. Again, our telephone number is 901-260-5926.

That's 901-260-5926.

Want to play some audio here. You know, yesterday, President Trump just did a remarkable job. He was giving a speech down in Miami at a tech gathering, and you had everybody there the head of tiktok you had the saudis there elon there a lot of big names and trump used that platform just to again remind people of what exactly elon musk and the doge team are up to in our nation's capital cut number one please 47 million dollars for improving learning outcomes in asia asia's doing very well we don't need to give them money and in another program, $50 million plus another $50 million for condoms for Hamas. Do you know about that? $100 million for condoms.

Condoms. Does everybody know what a condom is? For Hamas, $100 million. And these are just some, I could read this list all day long, I just don't want to bore you, but these are just some, and not nearly as bad as others, and some are just, I just don't want to say them because they're too incendiary. And they really are.

The reality is we were spending $100 million, ladies and gentlemen, to provide condoms to Hamas as well as the Taliban.

So the terrorists, the Taliban terrorists and the Hamas terrorists, were given protection while the American taxpayers were getting screwed. It's insanity. And so there you have Donald J. Trump, and he's out there, and he's taking a stand, and he's saying, enough is enough. All right, let's go to the phone lines here.

Dan in New Hampshire listening to us online. Dan, what's going on?

Well, you know, I'm not too happy about what's going on in Ukraine. Trump's trying to end this war, and the globalists and the corrupt politicians are trying to keep it going, you know?

So you've got to remember, this started under the Clintons, okay, continued under Bush Jr. and Obama, and then started up again under Biden, okay? And they need to investigate this. The money that's flowing into there, they're all bankrolling it, okay? And you've got to look at Victoria Nunes involved, okay?

She served under all administration, and her husband, Robert Kagan, worked for the Bushes, okay? And then Lisa Cardi, who was appointed UN ambassador, okay, by Corrupt Joe Biden, she was on the work for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Global Health Program. And her and her husband was CIA William Burns, okay?

Now, they went over there. William Burns went over there three times twice with his wife and once with Victoria Noonan okay and then three times in all one time it was his wife Victoria Noonan his wife and then the other time with Lisa Monaco and they're going to on top of it all of that money is being washed through England that's where it goes and to the corrupt politicians and they're using shell companies so i hope that elon's going to do a full investigation into this because there's a lot of money that can't be found and when you get into those shell companies it's hard to track down so i'm hoping elon's going to be able to track it down and it's not just billions it's trillions trillions and you heard jeff kant's mentioned this in the last hour dan trillions of dollars that we have no idea where that money went to it's just missing but again you don't have to look very far because what's happening when you see all these homes going up for sale in the dc area and the average home price is about three million dollars that's where that money's going um dan i am telling you that the corruption and the grift is off the charts and that's why they're screaming so much and we get a we get to clean up our elections in every state they rig elections just about every single state in New Hampshire. We have some corrupt elections. They changed, it goes back to 1979. They changed who could vote in New Hampshire from New Hampshire citizens inhabited to domicile, which has no constitutional definition.

Open the floodgates to harvesting ballots in the university, same-day registry. You can come from any state on election day. And not that you live in New Hampshire. All you have to say is, I'm going to be moving into New Hampshire. You can register that day and vote from any state.

Now, that being said, they changed on top of it. They took off as a religious exemption, the absentee voting took off the necessary notarized affidavit, proving who you are. And it's a two-part fraud because nobody's accountable. That notarized affidavit, okay, nobody has to go to a court, okay? And then they brought in the Minion machine, all done illegally, because neither one of those things was put on the ballot, gotten two-thirds majority vote from we the people, empowering the state legislators to then change the election law.

And this is the same stuff they did in 2020, when the Marxist-Cormier Democrats used the virus to inflame FIA, right? And then they went to the courts and judges. All right, well, I don't want to get too far in the weeds here, but what happened to Dan? Dan just disappeared. All right, Dan, my apologies there, but I think you got your point across.

901-260-5926, our telephone number, that's 901-260-5926. This is the Todd Stern Show. So In-N-Out is a California, wow, It's a heritage restaurant for Californians, right? In-N-Out was founded in California, and they have great burgers. Every time I in California I go to the In and it a great experience The places are always clean The staff always polite It kind of like the beef version of what the chicken people are doing over at Chick Dieter, have you ever had one of these delicious in-and-out burgers?

Yeah, they're incredible. They have gluten-free burgers, and by that I mean they'll wrap it in lettuce.

So for all the gluten-free listeners of the Todd Starnes Show, very GF compliant. Yeah, but you know what? Come on. Yeah. And they preach the gospel on the bottom of, I think, the cups.

The cups. Yeah. Yeah, and the packaging. They have little Bible verses.

So the people, they're very devout, the owners of the company. And they've been dealing with a lot of big problems out there. Before we get to that, though, what am I eating? You gave me something from your homeland of Pennsylvania. Yeah.

Is that right? This is something from the Dutch. The Dutch. The Dutch people. Yeah, Pennsylvania Dutch.

And I grew up eating this candy, and I would talk about it on the show here in Memphis, and everybody's like, we've never heard of it.

So I went and I got you one.

So it's called Cow Tales. And when you first asked me if I wanted a cow tail, you're one of these guys, you do the carnivore diet, you drink the bone broth, and at first I thought you were wanting me to gnaw on the backside of a cow. No, if I wanted you to do that, I'd just take you out to the farm. Like I have a farm. But, you know, it's a caramel candy.

And I guess he's holding it up for the people viewing on the simulcast. Interesting.

So it's caramel, and then inside of it, it's shaped kind of like a long Tootsie Roll. Nougat. What? It's nougat. I've never heard of it.

That's the nougat inside of it. Oh, yeah. And then there's cream, a delicious cream inside the caramel Tootsie Roll. then they powder it with powdered sugar and todd got one for his first time and does anybody know what a cow tail is or is this just a pennsylvania it's called a cow tail yeah yeah i've tasted i think i've i think i got diabetes in the break and the commercial break he's still chewing sweet it's very chewy wow i've yes interesting i it's interesting you would braid it a zero being terrible 10 being the best thing you've ever had give it about a five i guess a five okay i don't want to offend the people in Dutch country. Yeah.

Maybe if it was chocolate, but I'm a Tootsie Roller. You're still chewing, I can tell. You still have some of it in your tea. It's true. Anyway, yeah, if you've had these, I'm curious to know the history of it, but it's a Dutch.

Do the Amish people make this? Yeah, from the Kowtow. No, I think that's urban legend, but yes, it comes from the Keystone State. All right. 901-260-5926.

Thank you, Ben Dieter. Anyway, In-N-Out has announced they are moving their headquarters, so they're moving out of California, Irvine, California. They've been there 30 years, and they're moving to Franklin, Tennessee, which is where all the wealthy country music and Christian music stars live in the national area.

So they're moving their headquarters, and they're opening up a lot of restaurants here, including one in Memphis, I understand. This is crazy because In-N-Out has done a really nice job branding themselves all over Hollywood. As Christian as they are, it's a rite of passage for a Hollywood star to go get in and out. A lot of these celebrities will film a music video. They come out with a new song.

They'll go to in and out.

So it's pretty crazy to be leaving California and relocating to flyover country, but we're happy. Come on over.

Well, yeah, and the reason why is because of what's happening with the economy there in California. It is just not conducive to do business in California right now. They've got crushing taxes, anti-business policies, this mandatory minimum wage and and in and out says you know what we love you people but we got to go to tennessee well and don't forget about the big location in oakland california that was a story to shut it down yeah because a crime unbelievable so uh the other issue is over regulation and government overreach um and i mean it's look the the state house here is controlled by a super majority of Democrats. Super majority. There's nothing anybody can do.

So that's why they were able to shove through things like the, you know, not just the high tax rates, but you've got the $20 an hour minimum wage. Then you have all these other policies like the California Consumer Privacy Act, which adds all sorts of massive compliance costs for any business, no matter how big or how small. You've got to, you know, buy electric cars. is just insane. And then when you throw into that, are you ready for this?

The medium home price in San Francisco, Los Angeles, in San Diego, just the medium you want a starter home, $800,000. People can't afford it. It's wild. And the reason why is because they have all of these strict zoning laws, the environmental restrictions. You know, we talk about Pacific Palisades, for example.

And Pacific Palisades, remember what they said when President Trump was there, oh, well, you'll be able to go back in and rebuild. No, that's not what's going to happen at all. The state's going to come back in, and they're going to say what you can and what you cannot build in Pacific Palisades. I just wonder how these states are going to continue. I mean, you have almost every massive corporation fleeing California, fleeing places like New York, and that's because of overregulation.

So they bring these businesses to these red states. I'm talking Florida, Tennessee. Texas would be another one.

So these red states are doing pretty well if everybody can leave the politics at home. But what happens ultimately to a California? Because every one of their businesses are exiting that state. And it's a beautiful state. And that's the thing is that, you know, oh, we want California to slide off into the ocean.

No, you don't. It's a beautiful state. Beautiful people. stupid but beautiful beautiful people yeah so again when you look at what's happening in a place like say for example san francisco which is probably one of the prettiest outside of new orleans one of the prettiest cities in america the architecture and the the natural beauty of san francisco but it has been turned into a third world country and when you look at downtown in san francisco it's like a ghost town and you have companies like nordstrom walgreens just hundreds of stores that have shut down. They shut down the beautiful mall that was there on the main street there in the shopping district, Union Square.

And the reason why, again, is because of the crime, the homelessness, the drug usage. By the way, there was Prop 47 at decriminalized, theft under $950. Love that.

So, well, yeah. But the problem is if you're a small business owner and somebody walks out with that much loot, you're done. You cannot stay in business. And that's why In-N-Out had to leave. And I don't blame them.

But maybe this is the last straw, no pun intended. It wasn't enough that their cities burnt to the ground. It wasn't enough that Gavin Newsom high-taxed their businesses out of business. Maybe it will be the burgers that will wake up the people of California. because they love their In-N-Out burger, and they've just lost it.

So maybe this is how they get back to God, get back to normal politics. By the way, they're not the only people moving. You hear about KFC, Kentucky Fried Chicken. They are leaving Kentucky. They are relocating to the great state of Texas.

So KFC is owned by Yum Brands, and they're based in Louisville. About 100 corporate workers are going to have to move from Louisville to Plano, Texas in the next six months. Rules, I mean, that's the rule. They also own Taco Bell and a few other fancy food chains. You know, I think KFC lost their footing when they collabed with Taco Bell, and you would roll up to go get your chicken from Colonel Sanders, and you would also be slapped with the burrito.

They tried mixing and matching and putting it all under one roof, and you kind of lost your mojo. I hate to say it. It's never been the same. KFC was actually founded by Colonel Harland Sanders. Yeah.

75 years ago in Corbin, Kentucky. Bought a roadside motel. And he'd be rolling over in his grave knowing that they're cooking tacos and burritos in his establishment. Yeah, I'm with you. You have to have some separation there.

But I got to tell you, I love their biscuits not so much. I could go with a Popeye's biscuit. But I love KFC's original recipe. I love the original recipe wings. Do you know that they're trying to take the fried name out of KFC?

No, they're not. No, I'm not. Look it up. Google it. And that's because there's been such a shift away.

And I guess you could thank in part the Maha movement to frying your food because frying your food is going to be unhealthy for you. It's a lot more fattening. What kind of oil are you dipping your tendies in? And so now there's a shift to everything's got to be grilled and nothing can be breaded. And so they've tried to remove a portion of that because there's so much stigma around that fried part.

What kind of a godless, pagan, vegan plot is this? It's true. That's insanity. I'm not making that up. You've got to love the Associated Press headline.

KFC is leaving its ancestral home.

Okay, it's Kentucky. It's not like Stonehenge. They'll have a big bucket out there. You know what I do miss, though? What?

I miss the old school signs, like the old Holiday Inn sign or the KFC when it was a giant bucket. Or the Arby's sign. The Arby's. Was that a cowboy hat or a mitten? I never...

A mitten? I don't know. Was that a cowboy hat? It was a cowboy hat.

Okay.

That was a great sign. That was Roy Rogers back in the... I miss all that. Long John Silvers. Or Long Silver Johns, as I used to call them when I was a kid.

then you've got oh what's a taco bell back when taco bell used to actually look like little mexican little taco joints oh wow they that you know i miss it anybody else miss that back in memphis we used to have a guy he was a grocery store they call it what was the name of that grocery store they had a massive giant guy holding groceries wow wasn't the pigly wiggly no it wasn't pigly wiggly what was the name of that 901-260-5926 our number that's 901-260-5926 two saves all right just got a message from wyatt cox over in nevada the nevada talk network kely our great affiliate out there kfc original recipe wasn't fried it was pressure cooked yes that is true i i'm i'm a big fan of their original recipe uh and then if i'm wanting fried chicken i go with popeyes the extra crispy extra spicy uh hey let's go to frederick in memphis tennessee and frederick i understand you're going to help me out do you know what i'm talking about that they it was a grocery store they had this huge giant outside the store most definitely since both of us are indigenous white havians uh the name of the grocery store was Giant. It actually was Giant. Yes. Wait, wait. Is this Pastor Frederick, Pastor Frederick?

Yes, sir. So this was on Elvis Presley Boulevard, not too far. It was Elvis Presley and Rain. Wow, that's right. And I remember as a kid, that thing looked like it was 30 stories tall.

it was huge and uh he's been moved uh when they first closed giant somebody bought him from a gutter company and so they had him uh in front of this gutter company holding gutters so they had taken the grocery bag out of his hand and put a gutter in his hand so he made his way around well he had those he was holding on to those two big old bags of groceries out there the giant food store and pastor i don't know about you but i miss those old school signs you know that that really you knew what you knew what was coming up oh most definitely and that was one of the most iconic ones ever well pastor frederick thank you so much uh for that i it was on the tip of my tongue and it was very obvious i suppose that was the giant food store with the giant guy in front uh pastor good hearing from you my friend thank you sir all right uh our good friend uh dr frederick tappan a great uh conservative leader in the memphis tennessee area and in the white haven community all right i want to go back and play some audio this this happened at the city council meeting in huntington beach california where you had an ex-nfl player and who is one of these radical activists his name is chris cluey and he is enraged over the council's decision to install a plaque in the public library that turned out to be an acronym for MAGA. Let's take a listen. MAGA stands for trying to erase trans people from existence. MAGA stands for resegregation and racism. MAGA stands for censorship and book bans.

MAGA stands for firing air traffic controllers while planes are crashing. MAGA stands for firing the people overseeing our nuclear arsenal. MAGA stands for firing military veterans and those serving them at the VA, including cancelling research on veteran suicide. MAGA stands for cutting funds to education including for disabled children. MAGA is profoundly corrupt, unmistakably anti-democracy and most importantly MAGA is explicitly a Nazi movement.

You may have replaced a swastika with a red hat but that is what it is. I will now engage in the time-honored American tradition of peaceful civil disobedience. Get out. Get out. All right.

Well, there you go. And then the cops are hauling them out and getting them out there.

Well, Casey McKeon, a member of the city council, joins us right now on the Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line. Casey, what in the world was that like being in the room when that went down? Thank you for having me. No, it was fine. I mean, for whatever reason, we just, I guess, get them all frothy in the mouth and get them fired up.

And we were just sitting there probably, I don't know, 20 feet away at the – where they come up to speak at the podium. And it's disingenuous to hear the crowd cheer because we are a very conservative city, so they have kind of filled that side of the room with a lot of, like, the left followers. That's why you hear those cheering. But now he gave his speech, and then when he was done, he just started, you know, coming towards us. and approaching the desk, kind of rushing us.

And then the cops came down and took him down and put him on the floor. And he actually talked to our chief later. And it was all for attention, which he was obviously getting. But he said, hey, I'm not going to. He told me, like, I'm not going to walk out.

You've got to carry me out.

So once you carry me out of the room, then I'll walk on my own.

So it was all performative. But, you know, we were ready. I mean, I can. Oh, no doubt about it. I mean, it looked like when I saw him trying to rush the desk there, I thought, oh, that's a bad move.

because I understood with how easy the cops were able to take the guy down. I mean, no wonder the guy doesn't have a career in the NFL anymore. I mean, you know, I'm just saying. Yeah, I was telling people I was preparing myself to make sure I had proper techniques so I did not get a penalty for roughing the kicker.

Well said there.

So, look, all of this, what, controversy is over some sort of a plaque that you guys are installing. Tell us about the plaque. Yeah, so we, look, we're a very conservative city. for whatever reason, we're in the news all the time. The Wall Street Journal just posted an article about us calling us the most Trumpian city council in America.

And you guys don't mind that, do you? That's a nice title. It's a very nice title. And it's funny because we're just, like I said in the article, we just emulate what Trump does nationally. He's about America first, and we're about Huntington Beach first.

We focus on our city, and, of course, we're good neighbors to our neighbor. And we just institute common-sense policies. and being in a blue state like California, that's just abnormal to them.

So it brings out a lot of individuals like this that are unhinged, and we get a lot of attention. To answer your question on the plaque, you know, it's the 50th anniversary of our library.

So a very patriotic plaque commemorating that. We have all the council members, the library commission members, and then on the bottom it says, you know, magical, alluring, galvanizing, and adventurous, and they took issue with that and saying, know it's maggot and it's fascist we told them that like ronald reagan said it bill clinton said it um on the bottom we have a quote that says through hope and change we build back better to the golden age of making america great again we had a obama quote in there we had a biden quote and of course trump and they just didn't like that and some of the emails i've been getting of course i can't repeat on online but it's really just whipped them up and and i feel like they need to use find a better word than nazi and fascist because that's all they've been calling us for Yeah, that's, you know, I'm like, all right, you know, I mean, you know, they were calling us racist for so long, and that just kind of like, all right, whatever. And now they've been calling us Nazis, and I'm like, really? That's, you know, if you're going to get yourself arrested and hauled out at a city council meeting, you've got to kind of step up your insult game. For sure.

No, I just said, like, you lose the argument when you resort to personal ad hominem attacks. And, again, it's just, we can have, you know, apply discourse. I mean, some of the emails we're getting from across the country, they're just like, you guys violated his First Amendment rights to free speech. I'm like, I don't know where you're getting your news source, but he had his First Amendment rights. He spoke at the podium, and his First Amendment rights don't then protect him from rushing us to the desk.

And, of course, they don't respond to that. No, no, of course not. And, again, that's what he was arrested for. It wasn't what he was saying. It's what he was about to do.

And you can't look. In this day and age, you've got to be careful. and when somebody's rushing you like that, hey, look, all bets are off.

Well, something brought up a good point that I talked to this morning. I mean, you know, God forbid, what if he, like, made a move towards his pocket, right? I mean, our cops don't know, and we're all there in attentive, and like I said, we're facing a crowd of, you know, sometimes it's up to 100-plus people and we have, like, an overflow meeting, and our cops are all there just watching. But, I mean, it's super dangerous what he did, of course. And he walked up and, you know, basically rushed us.

I mean, it wasn't going fast, but regardless, that's a very dicey situation, and God forbid he didn't make a move that could have made things even worse.

So, Casey, let me see if I got this right here.

So the entire council is made up of Republicans? That's right. Yeah, so we, back in 2020, the left had basically taken over our council because as conservatives, you know, we never usually told people not to run. and the problem is there's no primary in city council races so we'd have like 18 candidates running for three seats or four seats we have seven total and too many Republicans would be running we'd split the vote and the left got in and then immediately they flew the price flag over government property and just instituted this hard hard left agenda and it really upset the community because we're a conservative town so we got together got smart and in 2022 four of us ran for the four open seats as a slate we wanted a huge landslide and we started taking the city back to where it was right in the middle with common sense policies. And that was one of our first things, is we adopted a flag policy that only government flags can fly in government property because all our tax dollars pay for our government, so we should only fly flags that represent all of us equally.

Obviously, the American flag, California, Huntington Beach, et cetera. And that was a huge report. We had like 150 people at the meeting calling us fascists and Nazis. And then, courageous and contagious, Orange County Board of Supervisors, which is basically the city council of our county, adopted the same policy. One of the Democrats voted for it.

and another season that way started doing it. And then we said, like, it's not just us. Let's put it on the ballot. And we put it to the voters. And they actually codified it in our charter, which is our constitution.

So for now, it can never be changed unless it's unanimous vote of the people or the council, actually, to change the flag policy. Man, you guys got to be triggered a lot of people in California. I'm just, wow. Yeah, we're in five lawsuits with Newsom right now. One is over voter ID.

So we had the same election last year in the primary. We put voter ID on the ballot. The voters overwhelmingly voted for that. We're the only city in California with voter ID.

So Attorney General Rob Bonson immediately sued us. We're in two lawsuits over these forced identity housing mandates. We're trying to move our local control over our zoning rights.

So we're no fan of this thing. We're no fan of ours. And they just don't like it when we're just trying to protect our local control. And to answer your earlier question, in this last election, with three seats that were up with three Democrats on there. And we got together three guys, and we got them all elected as well.

So now we have a full 7-0 council majority. And they call us the magnificent 7. I love that. That's epic.

Well, Casey, I know you're going to join us tonight on my Newsmax TV show, and we're going to continue the conversation there. But congratulations. Great job. And, folks, it can be done. It can be done, and the folks in Huntington Beach, California, are living proof of that.

Casey, appreciate you coming on the show today. Thank you so much. Have a great day. All right, you too. Dieter, you know they've got to be triggering so many leftists out there.

Can they come to Memphis, please? That's what I was thinking. That's what I was thinking. For those people, maybe I'm familiar, I mean, Huntington Beach, this is like really close to Los Angeles. It is right there.

And it is dark, dark Mag-A-R-E-D. Mag-Mag-A-N-F-E-N. What did he say? Magnificent Seven? Yeah, the Magnificent Seven.

Yeah, I love that. And by the way, it wasn't men. It's not like they went out there and tried intentionally to put the word M-A-G-A on the side of the library. I mean, the libraries are magical, and reading books can be alluring and galvanizing, and quite frankly, adventurous, too. I mean, why not spend a MAGA day at the library?

Yeah, it just so happens to be a coincidence to get in all those adjectives. Rather do that than hang out with some drag queen cavorting about in the stacks with the children. I'm just saying. All right, let's go to the phones here. Jack in Gainesville, Georgia.

Jack, I understand you have a restaurant recommendation for me. Yes, sir. You were talking of being nostalgic about signs at restaurants and such. Have you ever been through Marietta, Georgia? the big chicken the big chicken in marietta georgia now as now ben dieter i showed ben a picture of the big giant grocery store guy in front of the giant grocery store dieter the big chicken is bigger than the giant guy it's huge isn't it jack yes sir it's a landmark if you need to know what something is you just tell them how to go from the big chicken jack i'm actually showing ben deter a picture of the the big chicken oh wait you have to explain to the listeners this is kfc this i thought we were just talking about chickens no this is the the kfc and the there's it's built into a chicken that's brilliant it's big jack but you're right it is it's like a landmark though right if you're giving people directions um and my apologies guys we're dealing with some phone issues uh here so it's the weather my apologies but um but yeah i mean if you're driving in marietta georgia which is a suburb of atlanta and you're telling people oh yeah just turn left at the big chicken go to the big chicken go to the big chicken hang a right what about chicken we have a no that's chicken chick that's where you get your chicken salad chicken salad chick yeah okay that's a fine place all right let's go to lisa moorhead city north carolina hi lisa what's going on hi todd i'll do my best to do this under 60 seconds but i am xx chromosome so that's really difficult for my type first of all trump gets a b for me until all the j6 prisoners political prisoners are out of jail he should drive if he could go to nascar he can drive to one of those jails and get them out the five thousand dollars it should probably be more but take it and don't look back.

KFC, I'm a sixth generation Kentuckian. It's Kentucky fried chicken.

So, yes, it is kind of like having a so-hinged stone knocked over. And Fort Knox, I'm all for Elon and big balls going in there. Steve Mnuchin, I believe our last secretary or treasury secretary, something like that, he went in, allegedly. This was during the eclipse when his girlfriend, which I'm surprised he had one, was boasting about her $20,000 purse that she found somewhere when they were down there in Fort Knox. And that's it.

I did it. In under 60 seconds, Lisa.

Well done to you. Wow, that was incredible. Wow. Well played, Lisa. And we're super late for a break, but God bless you.

I love Lisa. She's great. We have great listeners. Yeah. I got this from our good friend, Todd Lochner.

So shout out to Todd because Todd hooked me up with a principal Toyota in Memphis, Tennessee. Best car dealership in Memphis. He said Jack in the Box, too. They changed their sign and name as well. All right.

How many of you people remember the big boy at Shoney's? Oh, yeah. Now, the big boy at Shoney's was like a gourmet version of the Big Mac at McDonald's. We may have to talk about this tomorrow. Are there Shoney's left?

There are a few. There aren't that many. But we used to love going to Shoney's. We would either go to Shoney's or Piccadilly after Sunday church. The Piccadilly hasn't changed their branding.

I've got to take you to the Piccadilly. I've never been, but I drive past it every day. Yeah, we've got to take you to the Piccadilly. It's a southern institution. All right, 901-260-5926.

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All right, ladies and gentlemen, if you felt a great disturbance in the force just mere moments ago, That's because Kash Patel has officially been confirmed as the new director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. This is a bombshell announcement, ladies and gentlemen. And what I find interesting is that we didn't need J.D. Vance to break the tie. It looks as though only two Republican senators voted against Kash Patel.

That would be Lisa Murkowski from Alaska and Susan Collins from Maine. But he won the support of every other Republican, including, and I'm a little surprised by this, Mitch McConnell of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. 51-49 was the final there. All Senate Democrats voting against Patel. And just remember, folks, Fetterman is no friend to the Republicans.

All right. Now, I know a lot of the MAGA world. They love that guy, but he is no friend of the conservatives. All right. That music means we've got to scoot out of here.

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