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All right, starting off point for today is in the state of Maine, where there has been open defiance over the transgender issue.

Now, President Trump has been very clear in his executive order, and the president said, We don't believe that young men should be playing in women's sports. We don't believe that young girls should be playing in little boys' sports.

So, you need to be playing. If you were born a boy, you play boy sports. If you were born a girl, you play girl sports. That's a pretty straightforward thing. And by the way, according to the New York Times and Ipsos, The poll that they did just very recently, 79%, 79% of the American people agree with President Trump.

And they say that, yes, we should not be having boys in girls' athletics.

Now, there's a story, and we had a state lawmaker on from Maine just a few days ago. She was on the radio show. She was on my Newsmax TV show. Her name is Laura Libby, and she's taking a fierce stand on this. And she is saying that President Trump needs to defund the state of Maine because that's the rule in the executive order.

Any Any state. That or any agency, whether it be an athletic organization or an educational institution, any organization that defies a president should lose their federal funding. That's what the executive order says.

So the state of Maine and the Maine Principals Association says they are going to defy President Trump's order. That that if they were implementing the President's if they were to implement the President's order, they would be in defiance of the state's human rights laws.

Okay.

So just the other day a young man Won first place in a girls' pole vaulting competition.

Now when this young man competed with boys He came in fifth place, but he was first place winner overall in the girls' competition. And this is the whole point of all of this, is that it's incredibly unfair to young girls because contrary To the biology deniers out there, There are differences, there are physiological differences between boys and girls. We are not alike. And that is something that we all need to understand here.

So, anyway, President Trump. Yesterday, talking about this, and he called out Janet Mills to her face.

So the president was talking to the Governor's Association. He's up there giving a speech, and I guess he saw Janet. The governor of Maine, she's a far leftist, and called her out. Here's what the president had to say: cut three. Men are still playing in Maine.

Is anybody here from Maine? Who is that? Said the governor? I hate to tell you this, but we're not going to give them any federal money. They are.

Still saying we want men to play in women's sports, and I cannot believe that they're doing that. But.

So we're not going to give them any federal funding, none whatsoever, until they clean that up. Wow. Good for you. May I just, just a brief assignment, may I say something about our great president, Donald John Trump, King Donald? May I just say something about him?

Isn't it nice that when he looks out into a crowd, he actually sees living, breathing human beings and not dead people like the previous president? Remember Joe Biden? Oh, yeah, I see Gloria out there. Hey, Gloria. Mr.

President, Gloria died a few years ago.

Well, she's right there. No, no, she's not, Mr. President. Yeah, she's not there. She's in the grave, sir.

She's in the grave. But not King Donald I. He actually sees living, breathing human beings. God bless you. God love you, Mr.

President. So, anyway, so now President Trump, and you just heard, President Trump says that he's going to be pulling federal funding from the state of Maine. And I'm curious to hear your thoughts on this. Do you believe that there should be some wiggle room here? Do you believe that we should give the states time to implement the President's executive orders?

Or do you think that we need to just immediately pull the plug here and say, okay, fine, if you do not change your policy by the close of business at 5 o'clock today, which is Friday, if you don't do that, 5 o'clock Eastern, You will no longer receive Federal funding. It immediately stops. And I'm favoring that policy. These people knew what was coming. The executive order was handed down over a month ago now.

They have a responsibility to enforce the laws of the land, the executive orders coming out of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. And if they do not, Then they can have a bake sale, they can have a car wash, or whatever they do. Did I just say wash? Uh it's Friday. But you get the point.

But no more federal money. That's what I say. Oh, by the way, Riley Gaines was on. I just want you to understand how radical these transgender people are. These people are unhinged.

Riley Gaines. was on a program. She was with Piers Morgan. Last night, and some big old black dude who thinks he's a woman. By the name of Blossom.

My name is Blossom. And anyway, Big Blossom. And by the way, have you noticed something about the trans crowd as well? They are incredibly rude to actual women. Have you noticed that?

I mean that to me is sexism. right, or whatever you want to call transsexism, I don't know, whatever you want to call it. I'm telling you, that there is like female hatred going on there. And you know why I think they hate you know, Ben Dater, why I think the transgender dudes like Big Blossom. You know why I think they hate women?

Yeah.

Okay.

Why? Because they haven't. Because the women have something The women have something that they don't have. They have several somethings. And they want it so bad.

They want them so bad. Um I want I want some ovaries. Yeah.

No big blossom. I want some boobies. No big blossom. Sorry about that. Yeah, they're working hard to get them, but still no breakthroughs in the medical profession to get them.

It's true. It's no matter how hard they try. But this big old boy, I mean, he's well on his way to at least having the moobs. I'm sorry. He was huge.

I got me some man boobies.

So anyway, here's here's This is terrible. Here's Piers Morgan, and you got, I'm telling you, these people are crazy. Here's Riley Gates, Piers Morgan, and Blossom. Absurd, from top to bottom, saying there should be a gender neutral Olympics? Are you serious?

Do you also believe, Blossom, that we should combine the Paralympics and the Olympics? I would love to hear an answer to that.

Okay, I'll ask you. Bring back Blossom. Blossom, should we combine the Paralympics with the regular Olympics? Have them all compete with each other? I mean, why not?

And to go back to finally point to that, my last point. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Go back to that last one.

Okay.

So, I just want to point out here what Blossom was saying. Was that Cut 18 we played, or was that the Cut 18? People like Blossom are exactly why Donald Trump won on November 5th. People, I believe. Oh, girl, please.

Girl, please. Donald Trump win the election, which is why he's sitting in office now. Can we mute? Can we sit up there? Yeah, mute Blossom, please, because she can't stop talking.

Riley, you respond. People turned out, I believe, in masses to the polls on November 5th to embrace Donald Trump, to embrace the America First Agenda, to embrace his Cabinet picks. But more so, I believe people turned out to the polls to reject absurdity. Yeah, I completely agree with Riley Gaines there, but I just want you to understand what Blossom is saying there. He believes that able-bodied men and women should be competing in the Paralympics.

So let's just say that you have a, you know, what is it they play the basketball, wheelchair basketball?

So Blossom is saying that basketball players with functioning legs should be able to compete against the people in the wheelchairs. That's insane. Big wh what what was Pierce calling her? Big black blossom. Yeah.

Wow. Correct on all three points. Triple B. Is this a s yeah 3B? Wow.

Uh I mean It's honestly a great spokesperson for the Democrat Party because why I appreciate Big Black Blossom is because Big Black Blossom says the quiet part out loud. Because let's face it, every Democrat, when it came to saving women's sports, how did they vote in Congress? Every single Democrat voted pretty much unanimously to allow biological men to compete in women's sports. But they never want to run on that because they know it's very unpopular with the country.

So I actually respect this dude. Blossom for saying the quiet part out loud. That's how they all think. It is. It's true.

And that's the thinking here: that people who have arms and legs, let's just, for example, I don't know if this is a sport in the Paralympics. I don't know. But if they have blind people ping pong, for example, they would want somebody with eyesight competing against somebody who's blind. Or if they were doing some other, whatever, kind of a sport. Water polo.

Um swimming. Can you yeah, you could swim in the Paralympics. I mean, let's just think about this for a second.

So, Michael Phelps, under this whole thing, Michael Phelps would be able to swim with somebody who has no arms or no legs in the Paralympics. Correct. Does this make any sense to anybody? I I don't I don't get that. I don't get it.

Wait, it's a great comparison, though. It's like a great analogy for the people that are confused about, oh, maybe it's mean to keep boys out of girls' sports. Ask him this question. Does this make more sense to you? It's a great way to break it down.

Because they are literally calling for a gender-neutral Olympics now. That's the whole transgender movement's next big theme here. And Riley Gaines actually raises an interesting point.

Okay, because Michael Phelps could just show up and say, I'm, you know what? I'm Michael Phelps, and I now self-identify. I identify as someone who doesn't have any arms or legs, but sir, you have arms and legs. How dare you? This is my truth.

And my truth is, I have no arms or legs, and guess what? I'm blind too. But, sir, can't you see? How dare you? I can't see.

But, sir, you can. Who do you th who are you to question who I identify as? I'm surprised there are just not more alcoholics in this country. Because if you had to deal with that every day, you would be driving yourself to drink. Even the Baptist would have to take a swig.

Yeah.

I'm just saying. All right, we got to take a break here. Wow, this hour is going by quick. 901-260-5926. That's 901-260-5926.

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So now the The transgender crowd says that we've got to start letting able-bodied people like Olympic athletes compete in the Paralympics. And Trump is about to defund the state of Maine. They are going to define the President's executive order banning men and women's sports. And as a result of that, they will lose all federal funding. And I think that is an absolutely terrific idea.

But we've got to, folks, we've got to crack down on this. We don't need to hem and haul anymore. We need to play hardball with these people. We absolutely do.

Now, I want to bring up Rand Paul for just a moment. Rand Paul is rightfully enraged because we got a problem on our hands in the Senate Republican side.

So you had just about every Senate Republican siding. With the Democrats to block Rand Paul's amendment that would have cut well over a trillion dollars, $1.5 trillion from the budget.

So again, what's happening here, folks, is you've got Elon Musk and Doge, and they're out there and they're finding all this spending and they're cutting all of this grift and this corruption.

Meanwhile, while they are eliminating money, you've got the Senate Republicans that are adding to. And Ram Paul says this is nuts. Ram Paul says we got to put a stop to this. Cut number fourteen, please. four point eight million dollars spent in Ukraine for social media influencers.

While you're at it, we spent, not we, but the people who vote for this, I've voted against all of this, but the members of the Senate who voted for this spent several hundred thousand dollars sending designers in Ukraine to the fashion show in Paris. It goes on and on. This is ludicrous. Absolutely ludicrous that you would have any Senate Republicans. And by the way, I mean, it was not even close.

Not even close, 7426.

So most of the Republican caucus in the Senate voted to block Rand Paul's measure. And Rand Paul said, hey, look, this is going to be a problem because the American taxpayers are going to be paying for this. and we have got to stand up and say no to welfare and no to warfare. And by the way, Rand Paul goes on to ask a very reasonable question. If the Republicans are fiscally conservative, why are we not just taking the savings from Elon and Josh and using that money to help with the border?

Why do we have to increase and this is why he's so upset is that we are increasing spending and by we I mean Republicans are increasing spending by three hundred forty billion dollars. that is going to come back and bite the Republicans and bite Donald Trump in the butt. And I want to explain why. We've got the midterms coming up, and they're going to be coming up very quickly. And if the federal spending is not reduced and hear me on this, if inflation is still high, Yeah.

If federal spending is reduced, is not reduced, and we're still spending out the wazoo by the midterm elections. That's going to spell disaster for the Republicans. And hear me. We will lose control of the House, and we will very well lose control of the Senate. It is a very strong possibility.

So again, Don't be surprised if we do not reduce spending by the midterms. Don't be surprised if the numbers of Republicans in Congress are reduced by angry voters. We're either going to cut spending and be serious about it, or we're going to pull this crap that the Republicans did in the dark of night. And that is a dangerous move. All right, got to take a break here: 901-260-5926.

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Uh All right, ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the show. You know, Dieter, yesterday we were talking about the big signs that a lot of businesses back in the day. Used to have these huge signs. It was like a part of the, it was a part of the shtick. I remember, for example, there's one in Hollywood.

And it's a huge donut shop, and they've got a giant donut. Like on the roof of the of the building. Mm. I want to go.

Sorry, I just pulled up. Oh, well, it's all good.

So, anyway, we were talking yesterday about Giant Foods, which was a grocery store in Memphis. And so, we got an email from David, and David was listening. And, David, we certainly appreciate you listening. He was listening, as a matter of fact, to KWAM, the Mighty 990. Let's go.

And he said, Todd, the grocery store in Memphis with the big giant sign was called Giant Foods. Back then, Sackers, and that's what they used to call the guys who would fill up your grocery bags. He said, Sackers would help take your groceries to the customers' cars. Wow. A sacker?

Yeah.

Do you guys remember that?

So they would sack your groceries. They would, yeah.

So you're standing there and the checkout, and they've got the conveyor belt. And then there was somebody that was actually putting your groceries in the bags. And then they would take them to the car. They would take your bags to the car, and then they would put them in your trunk. That is chivalry.

Which has died. That's the way it used to be.

Now you go to Aldi and you have to do everything yourself, including buying the bags, buying the grocery cart. You've got to put a quarter in your cart just to get your cart to the grocery store. Where is this? Aldi's. Oh, geez.

Yeah.

You clearly have never been. No. Yeah.

I'm a Kroger guy or Super Low. That's our locally owned grocery store. I love that place. They've got all the old. Look, it's Superlow.

You know, it's a Southern. I love taking pictures in there. It's a Southern restaurant or a Southern grocery store. I've never been in. It's Southern.

Dylan used to work at Superlow back in the day. We can confirm this.

Well, okay, but what about giant eagle? No, forget about that. We've got seven different varieties of chitlins at Superlow, right? Yeah.

And they're in blocks. They are. They're in huge blocks or tubs. Hey, impossible to bag, by the way. Is that right?

Yeah, they don't fit in a bag. And when they do, they slice the bag in half. I love it because Chitlin's is not spelled like it was pronounced. We'll talk about that off here. I don't even know.

It's the lunch hour. I don't want to make people ill. But I was in Superlow about a year or two ago, and somebody was clearly they were not from the South. And they went up to the, I was just standing there. I was at the checkout line, and then there's like the little informational booth.

And the person said, Hello, excuse me, please. Could you tell me where the chitterlings are? The chitterlings? Everybody's like laughing. They're like, What the dun they're called chitlins.

Not chitterlings.

So, anyway, what were we talking about? Grocery store.

So, anyway, it's uh but the guy says, um, yeah, hey, look, the Sackers would help take your groceries to the customers' cars, and the minimum wage, get this, guys, the minimum wage was around $2 per hour. That's ungodly. That's insane. They all lost their jobs when we rolled out self-checkouts, poor guys. What do they do now?

Well, not only that, you've got to check yourself.

So now you don't have any cashiers. Wait, it's chitterlings? I'm sorry, I'm Googling. It's chitlings. Just C-H-I-T-L-I-N apostrophe S.

No. Okay.

Sorry. Yes.

Now you have to do everything yourself. I think that's where you are. You've got to do everything yourself.

So you no longer need the cashiers. You no longer need the baggers, and they don't even have a security guard.

So you're pretty much hosed because you're having to unload. And that's when you're most vulnerable. I mean, if you're a criminal. You're going to be staking out the grocery store because when you're putting your bags into the back of your car, that's when you're the most vir vulnerable. I worked at A.

Menards and um In in college, it was my first real, real job. And as a Menards employee, we would do have you been to a Menards before? Never been no. Yeah, okay.

So it's like a Home Depot, but this is more in the Midwest. I went to school in Ohio. We had to help people. Like, if you had a grandma buy a lawnmower, it was a home improvement store. They would hire the biggest guys at the store to come out and assist those ladies.

So I think you still see that if you go to Lowe's and you need to grab mulch. And grandma can't pick up the mulch.

So, Chivalry isn't completely dead, but this is unheard of. A guy that would just be tasked with bagging groceries and taking it to the back of the car. That was pretty norm back in the day. You know, you had that cool music, right? You walk in, and it was like you're walking through a doctor's office, and you got the music.

And back in the 70s and 80s, there was actually this thing where you would do singles nights in the produce sections.

So you would go, and single guys would go in grocery shops. What? Oh, yeah. And they would, you know, you'd be, you'd be, and it always took place. I mean, you're laughing here, but some of these grocery stores actually had like a singles night experience.

And, you know, you would be a single guy, and you'd be like in the produce section, pardon me, ma'am, could you help me squeeze these melons? You know, and, you know, figure out if they're ripe or not.

So, and romance was blooming. Does anybody remember this or maybe I'm just making it up? Yeah.

You're on your own. Everybody that's under the age of 30 have left the building.

So you are on your own, Todd. You're going to have to have the help of listeners. No, I wouldn't say it was a hookup culture, but it was, you know, you're in the grocery store, you're surrounded by all this fresh produce, and you can possibly meet your future mate. Wow. It makes a lot of sense.

It made a lot of sense back in the day. We had Tinder, and you had. Croker. Oh, let's go to David in Gainesville, Georgia. David, I understand you were a sacker.

Is that true? Yes, sir. I worked at my uncle's grocery store, which is no longer in existence. And it was funny, some of the longtime employees They would work the shelves and stock product But when certain shoppers came in, They would mysteriously appear at the front counter and pack their groceries, knowing they were going to tip. When they went to the car.

So yeah. That was a lot of competition trying to get certain A customer's business and taking their groceries out of the car. Wow, there you go.

So, d was this, did you guys have a lot of sackers, or were was it just you?

Well, actually there was a sacker for each counter. There was a cashier and a soccer. And the soccer would first go over and help unload the cart onto the uh counter. This is before the this the counters that move forward, you know. This was a stationary counter, and then there were paper bags at the end.

You'd pop a bag open. You would fill a bag up and put it on a little cart that you'd walk out to the car with. And um, you know. if it was small enough, the customer may just get it themselves. But if they had more than one or two bags, then you carried out put it in their trunks.

But And I just want to tell you this part. It was very funny how people had food stamps. You know, back then it was a little coupon book. And they would buy their stuff And then you'd go put it in a brand new Cadillac. Back in the middle state.

Yes.

Or my favorite is we would go on youth group mission trips and we'd be going to the impoverished neighborhoods in some town or community, and they always had bigger T V s than we had back home. And you know, I'm a kid and I'm like, wait a second, what's going on here? Exactly. It it was kinda interesting how the food stamps went with the the new cars.

So Well, yeah, go figure, David. I'm sure it was just a coincidence. All right, David, thank you for the call, and thanks for the history there. Let's go to Shirley in Georgia. Hi, Shirley.

What's going on?

Well, I was going to say about the same thing. The gentleman just called. My husband used to work at Gene Ponders. and green groceries in Gangl. And he was a stacker and he said that You know, people back then didn't buy no more than two bags of groceries, and if they did, you had to go back the second time.

And hope their groceries to the car but had SH green stamps. Oh, I remember the SH green stamps. My mom collected those, Shirley. She loved those green stamps. Yes, and also he said this, but he can't tell you where he used to work at, but He said that they would deliver bread.

He worked for a bread company and they delivered bread, and they were running short at the end of the day. The old bread that they tussed up. they would put it in the windshield of the car and stopping it back up and send it to another store. Is that right? Don't you don't I don't don't get me in trouble, Shirley.

No, don't get us in trouble.

So I'm not no no no no more than that. But I just wanna tell you, mister Todd, that I think that you need a DNA because I think you and Donald Trump are kin to each other. Oh, yeah? Yeah, you call the kettle black and you don't back up. No, ma'am, I don't.

And I appreciate that. And that's the way Donald Trump is.

So I'd say, I'm going to go get him to give him a DNA because I think he's kidding Donald Trump somehow. Wow. Wouldn't that be cool? I love O'Donnell. I love Ottawa.

Well, thank you, Shirley. You just made my day.

So, how about that? Sure. I'm going to go get a DNA test. I think I can confirm that you are not just based on your skin color. You have a different hue of skin than Donald J.

He's got better hair than I got, too. Yeah, it's true. Let's go to Marcia, Olive Branch, Mississippi, listening to us on the great KWAM. Hi, Marsha. What's on your mind today?

Hello. I just wanted to say that Piggly Wiggly in Olive Branch still has takeout boys. And there are several for each each r um girl that's ringing up your account. you know, one's bagging and then the the one will go out to a car and unload and And or you can go to Bahalia, which is just down the road, and they have a store, Reed. which is owned by Tiggly Wiggly also.

And they have takeout boys there too. Wow. So there you so Ben Dieter, there you have it.

So the girls do the ringing up and the the the take out boys do the uh the bagging and the taking out. This is unheard of. I mean, but real quick, this is happening today in 2025, Marsha, over in Bihalia and Olive Branch. Yeah.

Now during the day when the kids are at school, there's several men that do it. But dur on a weekend, there's usually Eight boys standing there waiting to take somebody out to their car. Takes their groceries out. Do you take advantage of that service there, Marcia? I do.

And I always tip 'em, but there's a lot of people that don't tip 'em or anything. And many times, if I just have two bags, I'll give them a dollar and I just take my own bag. Because they bagged it all up for you. May I just say this, guys, and Marsha? You know what concerns the problem is most of the time I don't carry cash.

You know, I'm using the card all the time, and I always forget to pack cash when I'm going to the grocery store, and you can't add on a tip on your grocery store bill. That's the that's the one downside, I reckon.

Well, I don't know. What people usually tip, but I usually just look for a dollar bill and give it to them.

Well, good for you, Marcia. They make fairly good money.

Now, let me ask you, Marcia, do you remember that? I mean, they would have singles nights, and I don't know if they were organized or just somewhat organized, but you would go and you could possibly meet somebody in the grocery store. I'll tell you, I got married in the seventies, so I never participated, but I yes, I do remember. you know, talks about it and stuff. All right, good stuff, Marsha.

Thank you for the intel, and thank you for listening to KWAM, our great flagship affiliate. Yes.

Okay.

I think we're about the same age, so I remember most of the stuff when you're talking about it. Back in the day. Grant. All right. I know that the boys will be at Piggly Wiggly.

And it's an adventure to go there because you can get your. Kiddlings there too. Nothing I've ever fought in. Hey, we don't judge. We don't judge here.

Yeah, but I'm always amazed by some of the foods that people are buying. Yeah.

Marcia, God bless, and thank you for listening. And you know, I'll say this, Dieter. The show has taken an odd turn. You need a translator for anybody under the age of 25. You have like a sign language.

People in Salem, Oregon are Googling what is a chitterling. You know what's interesting because I go to Sprout's to get my groceries. They don't even, they don't have these sackers. They don't even have sacks, Todd, because it's bad for. it's not great for the environment.

So they don't even they charge you for bags. They actually charge you because they want to disincentivize people from actually purchasing plastic bags.

So this is a totally different world. Of which Marsha spoke about Piggly Wiggly.

Well, we've got to take a break here. And I got to tell you, you're right. And that is a problem. I mean, there's nothing worse than, you know, take out boys without sex. President Trump is moving at lightning speed.

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Well By the way, we just got delivered. The lovely Becky, who is the general manager of KWAM, Penn Teeter, just brought by Chick-fil-A, and we nearly forgot it is Dylan's birthday today. And so we celebrate birthday, and we said, Tell him whatever you want. You're going to have Ruth's Chris. You can have Olive Garden.

Olive Garden. Piggly Wiggly, whatever you want, we would go get it. We'll take you to the produce aisle. Mitlins? Don't sad.

Give me Jesus' chicken. The Lord's chicken. Give me some chicken. What'd you get, Dill? I got a chicken sandwich.

The number one? Fried. I know.

Okay.

You know, that is the most expensive fast food sandwich in America. According to an e-survey. Wow. Mm-hmm. It's true.

Oh, yeah. It's kind of hit or miss with Popeyes, at least here in the Memphis area. Chick-fil-A is pretty consistent.

So guys The New York Post actually did a story on the whole. And this is a thing. It's kind of like it's a thing. Secret-coded foods that singles people add to their grocery store, grocery carts.

So if you see this food, that means you're kind of like on the market. What market are we talking? We're talking the meat market, baby. The meat market? We're talking the meat market.

So, what are the code items?

Well, one of them involves a pineapple.

Okay.

And the pineapple has been pegged as the appropriate signal to other singles, already from the New York Post here, that you're just not there for the groceries, but you're there to mingle. And those ready to make their approach are advised to playfully bump carts.

So if you bump a cart. With the shopper, they've set their eyes on.

So that's like footsies, essentially. You're like playing footsies with someone like you would do back in the elementary school. Pass them a note, but you're doing this in aisle 14 of the oh, okay. That's it, yeah. We're reading a lot into produce.

The pineapple has to be turned upside down, and you can't have canned. It's got to be a fresh pineapple.

So there you go. They do this in Spain apparently now. It's like a TikTok craze. But I'm telling you, they were doing this back in the 70s and 80s. Mm.

So Or, you know, I've been down the aisles a time or two, and you'll have a lady say, Excuse me, sir, could you help me? I can't reach this item. I'm like, ma'am, it's on the bottom shelf. I don't. That's her asking for a date.

In which time do you get the number? That's where you give them. I just thought she was really hankering for the Martha White flower.

So, no, here's another tip for guys, girls out there. If you have a crush on the person checking you out, and by checking you out, I'm not like checking you out. The grocery person that's bringing you up. You put your number on the receipt and you hand it back to them. That has happened to me when I was a person, I was a cashier in college, and Dylan's waving his hand as well.

People would drop their numbers on the back of a receipt. You shoot them a text, and boom, there's your date night. You know, I'd just rather take a coupon. That does it for me. All right, we got to take a break.

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So there was a huge shindig at the White House. President Trump. Hosting hundreds of black Americans for a Black History Month celebration. What's interesting here is in the woke world of academia, you've got folks like University of Virginia professor Kevin Gaines calling President Trump a supporter of slavery, segregation, and Jim Crow. You've got a Princeton University professor comparing Donald Trump to a slave owner.

And what's ironic here is the president spending a huge amount of money to host this lavish celebration, the buffet tables overflowing with gourmet cuisine. He also restored federal aid to historically black colleges and universities. The most powerful guy in his administration is, in fact, an African American named Elon Musk, and he just announced that Alice Johnson will serve as his pardon czar, who happens to be a black woman from Memphis, Tennessee. I mean, if, in fact, Trump is a racist, he's really doing a lousy job of it. I mean, geez a loo.

I want to go to the Patriot Mobile newsmaker line and say hello to a great American patriot, a good friend, and probably the most famous person outside of Elvis from Memphis, our good friend Judge Joe Brown. Judge, good to have you with us today.

Well, thank you, sir. I was at the White House yesterday. It was a very interesting affair, and President Trump gave one of the most profound black history speeches I've heard in years. was very knowledgeable and he broke down a lot of things that very few people were aware of. at least from the expressions in the audience and laid out some plans and also indicated the prominent Black Americans were going to have statues put up around the White House as someone to commemorate.

So It was interesting what he was talking about. I haven't heard that said by any administration yet. And those clowns that you were citing I think I have as much education as they do. More wisdom in life, let's put it that way. Been around longer than they have, and I think they're just creatures for the woke far left.

I'm with you, Judge. And when you look at, for example, I was born and raised in Memphis. And after my time at Fox News, I moved back home, bought a radio station here. You're on the radio station quite a bit, and we love you. And one of the things that really strikes me is that they don't want to talk about the incredible black Republicans that started the Republican Party in Memphis and the black conservatives who were business owners and very successful business owners.

You don't hear those stories during Black History Month. No, you don't. The interesting thing is black folks started the Lincoln Republicans way back when just about everybody in Memphis was a Republican, and that didn't start changing until about nineteen sixty.

So there were reasons for that, but now there are reasons to go back. And I'm looking at something else I think is a profound change. Like we call the Republican Party the GOP, the grand old party, It's not the oldest the Democrats are. But I'm thinking that we're beginning to hear mega Republicans. And I'm beginning to get the idea that mega is going to be more characteristic of what the party is about than Republican.

And I think we're going to have a viable third party on the scene that's already set up and ready to go in various states.

So I think that's a good thing because mega represents ordinary people. Yeah, Judge, I think you're on to that. And we've been talking about that idea for the past, I don't know, year or so that what you're looking at really is maybe the bones of the Republican Party. But that when you look at the policies and the ideology, these are not Republican ideas by and large. These are more populist, I would say, in many cases.

I would say that's exactly the term, populism. It is a thing that has disappeared from American politics for the longest time. We have a cult, the rainbow cult, that is attempting to impose itself as a the official religion of the country, and that is not good. Hold on one second. I'm getting out of the cab.

So if you can give me fifteen seconds, Judge, we can do that. We're talking to Judge Joe Brown. You've watched him for years on TV. He's in our nation's capital. He attended the Black History Month celebration at the White House that President Trump hosted.

And it was a lavish affair. And folks just had a wonderful time. And it really is special when you see what this man has done, Donald Trump has done, bringing new voices and new faces into the party. Judge, are you flying back to Memphis?

Well, we're going to the judge may be paying up his cam bill there. The judge is en route, we think, back to Memphis, and we hope to be able to get him back on here momentarily. But the judge brings up an interesting point that what we are looking at here is really the Just the name only of the Republican Party. And you do have to wonder: what does American politics look like after the Trump presidency? Let's say this is, in fact, the president's last term, that he cannot or will not run for another term in office.

What does that look like? Are the mega Republicans, are they going to be accepted by the rhinos and the establishment and the conservatives, by the way? Because this populist movement is not necessarily a faith-based populism. I mean, they are certainly respectful of people of faith, but beyond that, you do have to wonder: all right, we got Judge Joe Brown coming back. Judge, are you heading back to Memphis?

Well, no, I'm going to Atlanta to spread the word. Unfortunately, Memphis isn't as receptive to reality as it ought to be because we have some people running our city, a lot of whom ought to be in jail because They think holding public office is shall we say, access to What would you call it? Public funds that they think they should be able to dip into with impunity. That's not the way it works. No, no, it's not.

And, you know, we look at what's happening here, and you've been so outspoken about what's been happening in Memphis. And now there's, you know, again, we're one of the largest majority, minority cities in the country. And the big question is: are we going to be able to start making grants? You know, can the MAGA Republicans move the needle here? And can we get people away from voting just based on the D or the skin color here?

We're going to have to do that. One of the things that is bad is that we are not getting delivered services that we. have earned as taxpayers and as citizens of both the country and this particular municipality we find ourselves in. It's got the potential for being the greatest city in the country. The geographic.

patient. people that want installed Singularly, they are unable to understand that. They don't know geopolitics, and they're petty-minded. And they think in terms of tungsten set of what really could be brought into this community if it were properly developed. We've got Musk trying to build an eighty five thousand square foot factory or finish that.

which will be making some of the most advanced AI computers in the world He needs waste water for cooling, and we've got clowns downtown trying to hold him up because I think they. Say they're not getting bribed under the table. And that's a shame. And some others are talking about they don't like his politics. But you know, that kind of thing has absolutely no place when it comes to the business of the city.

You know, one of the things I really like about you, Judge, you just call it like it is, especially with MSDNC or CNN. You know, back when Don Lemon still had a job there, you just are really unafraid. And I wonder what our country would look like if we had more people with that mindset. Just say what's on your mind. It's not all about money, and that's one of the problems that too many today think about.

They don't deal with principles. I quit a very high paying job after fifteen years. I said it's time to retire because I did not like what Hollywood was into and what they were trying to promote and push. I couldn't be part of that any longer. which cost me about two point quarter million dollars.

To support Trump in terms of canceled contracts because people don't like that kind of politics. But it's worth it because. You know, I'm not going to be here forever, and I've got children and grandchildren who need to have something going for them. And if I can't. Help them retain some semblance of a good place, then I haven't done anything.

And I think we need to be more about principal than too many of the people downtown from the mayor. For the county, from the mayor, for the city, from the chief, you name the city council, the board of education, they're skimming too much money. I I love this Twitter pill. I love this post you wrote on X. The Democrat Party is Big Brother who's gone trans with blue panties and sports bra to become Big Sister.

Wow. There you go. One. And see, that's what we're getting spreading up. because that's what the problem is with two.

People in our administration though very few know that. And I don't care. It's their business. Get your freak on in your bedroom. Have fun if that's the way you swing.

But he always Like, look over there in, uh Cooper Young area where they have Sidewalks painted, that crosswalk painted rainbow, that's the facement of public property. You can't put a cross. Uh Star David. The crescent. In itself.

Shiva, you can't put in Buddha, anything out there, but you can put this rainbow thing in, and it's not just about. Was there some deity? Deity, but it's about a system of philosophy and the way you're thinking about the world. It's basically sick. And the deal that makes it sick is not so much the sexual practices.

It's they're ashamed of what they are and they want to be something else. They don't want to have their responsibility and duty on our obligation, accountability, making where you live about the judge. To your place. Judge, let me jump in. We have got a super bad phone connection now, and I know you've got a plane to catch, and we are coming up on a hard break here.

But we'd love to get you back in the studio when you're back home in Memphis, and we can have a much longer conversation. Safe travels to you, sir. And again, thank you for all the great work you're doing. Judge Joe Brown on our Patriot Mobile newsmaker line. And I think the headline is the judge telling the trans community: just get your freak on, but do it in your own bedroom, Ben Diener.

Yeah.

And I think the thing about Judge Joe Brown and why he was invited to the White House is because you're seeing President Trump build this coalition. I mean, you've got to think about it. This has been a very popular TV personality for years, but he's speaking truth to the culture. And that's something, Todd, you've talked a lot about on your program. We've got to get in the culture and we've got to take back the culture because culture has been basically captured by Hollywood.

You've got a guy like Judge who has spent 15 years on television in people's homes, and he's speaking out about what's happening in our culture. And it's neat to see President Trump welcome that voice specifically to the White House. Real quick, before we take a break here, let's go to Bartlett, Tennessee. Lee is listening to us on KWAM. Lee, what's on your mind today?

Todd, I was wondering about your grocery store experience. What does it mean when you walked up to someone in the grocery store at the produce section and she was holding a cucumber? What's that mean?

Well, as long as it's not a Midget Gherkin, I'm good with that. Yeah.

I as a good Baptist, I yeah, I I don't All right, Lee. I know you wanted to say something to Dylan as well. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Dylan. Hey, uh down in my corner store there's a a a man he he identifies as a woman called Big Juicy. I was wondering if you would like uh me to uh bring him over to you for some birthday spanks.

I think I'll pass on that one, Lee. Thank you, though. Very thoughtful, Lee. Thank you. And I'm sure Mrs.

Dillon would not be a supporter. She would not approve of that. No, she would not approve of that. Dylan's mom just brought him crumble cookies. Yes.

Oh, that was very nice. I've been treated well today. The spread is getting bigger and bigger and bigger. We had Chick-fil-A, we've got the crumble cookies. I'm still giving him a gift.

I'm a little bit late. But it's coming, Dill. Thanks for being honest. That's all I have to say. All right.

Let's go to a break here. 901-260-5926. Again, it is Open Line Friday, ladies and gentlemen. That's 901-260-5926. This is the Todd Stern Show.

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Caesars Palace Major League Baseball Stadium ice cream truck Doge reveals how schools spent billions of dollars in COVID relief funding. According to the report, they spent that money on stuff that had very little impact on students, including Las Vegas hotel rooms and the purchase of an ice cream truck. This is just some of the information we're uncovering. And I think in Memphis, Dieter, correct me if I'm wrong, it was $700 million or something like that in COVID money, and nobody knows where it went. No.

I'd be looking at real estate investments. That's what I'd be looking at. Ice cream trucks. I love an ice cream truck.

So don't cut that funding.

Well, that's funny. Government sanctioned ice cream. This goes right back to the NPR argument. Why should my private radio station that I own and I'm responsible for, why should my taxes foot the bill for NPR? Why should an ice cream truck driver, why should he have to pay for the government's competition?

Compete. Yeah.

Yeah.

I wouldn't be shocked if the government has been funding Ben and Jerry's. Can we defund Ben and Jerry's? I don't know if they get government money, but Doge needs to look into that because they are propaganda with whiptoping on top. I'm just not a fan. You know, I've had Ben and Jerry's.

I was always concerned about what was actually in the chunky monkey, but it's just, I know, the ice cream tastes too weird. There's something weird about it. The left side of my brain enjoyed it, but the right side not so much. They hate Republicans. Hey, let's go to Mark from The Villages, America's friendliest hometown.

Mark, what's on your mind this fine Friday? Couple quick things. First of all, happy birthday to Dylan. Um I also wanted to hit on your your chitlin. You know, they're they're also called chitterlings.

Don't be hitting on that chitlins. Yeah, they're called chitterlings, the intestines of a pig. Um Also, you were talking about big signs yesterday, and one that came to mind was one called Big Johns. He was 28 feet tall. He was built in Cake.

Coral, Florida, 1969. It was built by a sign company, and then the bureaucrats in 'Seventy Two tried to banish Big Down, so the residents got mad and went to the municipal council and granted him full citizenship. Wow. Publics also two more quick things. Public Does bag?

And does take them off to your car for you. I don't know if you're familiar with the Publix grocery stores, but they're really upskilled. um grocery store and really good food. And lastly, Download the YUKA app, YUKA app. You can scan all your foods in your house, and it tells you how good the food is, how bad it is for you.

And if you send it to a friend, it will open up other food options. It is an incredible app. Wow. Okay, we're going to check. I'll check that out.

Mark, I have this on my phone. I'm downloading it on Todds as we speak.

Okay.

Mark, got to run, my friend. And always good hearing from you, keeping it reeled out in the villages. You know, deep-fried chitlin's not actually all that bad. I'm just saying, not sure how healthy it is. Hey, 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. We're now hearing from constituents in some traditionally red districts right now complaining about what they say is the chainsaw approach and saying that it's been done very sloppily, the cuts to jobs and spending.

How do you respond to that criticism? I love how the media takes a few critics when the overwhelming response from the American people is support for what this administration is doing. If you look at the public polling, 70% of Americans, according to CBS, believe that President Trump is delivering on the promises he made. And there should be no secret about the fact that this administration is committed to cutting waste, fraud, and abuse. The president campaigned on that promise.

Americans elected him on that promise. And he's actually delivering on it. And this is something that Democrats promised they would do for decades. President Trump is just... the first president to get it done.

Let me ask you about the fraud if I can. We can all have our own opinion about what is wasteful spending. Republicans have praised the president for cutting wasteful spending. But fraud, of course, is a crime.

So have you turned over evidence of fraud to the Justice Department and when should we expect to see those indictments? It's a clever question. First of all, I think all Americans would agree that funding mastectomies in Mozambique is not something that the American people should be funding or DEI programs. I think it's fraudulent that the American government has been ripping off taxpayers in this way. And we also do know there has been extensive fraud, particularly if you look at Social Security.

In fact, according to an IG report from the Social Security Administration, there was $71 billion worth of fraud in one single fiscal year that we know about. And so that is a lot of fraud, Peter, that the government has admitted to.

So this administration is committed to finding even more of that fraud, waste, and abuse.

Well, and again, that was Caroline Levitt, the White House press secretary, going up against Peter Alexander from NBC News. I will say this. It is an interesting question, though. What exactly are we doing with all of these instances of fraud and waste that have been identified? Are those people going to be held accountable?

And no doubt, there are going to be these circumstances where you're going to have folks just forgetting about all of this, when, in fact, what we need to be doing is going after every single person. If you committed fraud with the American taxpayers' money, you should have to pay a price. We've got to put a stop to this. And that's why I've been a big fan of the White House playing hardball. We've got to start.

We've got to start now. We can't just wait. We can't kick the can down the road. We've got to start now. All right, 901-260-5926.

Let's go to the phone lines. Iowa Jerry is listening to us on the great KXEL. Hi, Jerry. What's on your mind? Um I have a very happy Open Line Friday.

Discovery. I just was reading in uh the Jerusalem Post that it says that CPAC Passes a resolution supporting Israeli sovereignty in the West Bank, and I hate that word, and they're going to basically say that Isra. The U. S. and all allies should support Israel's sovereignty in what's really Judea and Samaria.

And that makes me so happy because I've been praying for that for years. that not only is I think it's great President Trump wants to help Develop Gaza into a resort or a happy place. And then let's just go ahead and take Judy and Samaria and give all of it back. to uh the Israelis. I mean it's It's theirs according to Genesis 18:15, anyway.

So I'm jazzed. I'm so happy. K.T. McFarland, who was President Trump's former Deputy National Security Advisor, actually read the resolution to the crowd at CPAC saying the United States and its allies should recognize Israel's sovereignty over Judea and Samaria. The resolution reached after intensive talks between senior CPAC figures and the Yesha Council.

And they're quoted as declaring this akin to the Balfour Declaration. This is all coming from, as you mentioned, the Jerusalem Post. And the decision grants political validity to Biblical values and to justice.

So certainly very well received there by the crowd at CPAC. I'm so thrilled because I no longer care what anybody thinks. I don't care what the international community thinks or the Palestinians think or anything. I've been waiting for this for years. Even at our Iowa State University, we would have, and this has been some years now, 100 PLO members would meet in our union.

And so this is It was always, you had to tiptoe around the issue. No more tiptoeing, no more two-state solution.

Now it's just we don't care what the world thinks. We don't care what anybody thinks because Israel. Israel's more united too. It's just a wonderful declaration, and I'm really looking forward to All, you know, Israel getting everything God said that was their land. Verily, verily, Jerry, and we're going to have to leave it there, my friend.

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Hey, Todd, good to be with you again. All right. So most importantly, I just want to know if you guys are having fun going toe to toe with the mainstream media up there in DC. Oh, it's always fun because we've got all the answers.

So it's easy to win a battle when you're already equipped with the right tools.

So they're trying to fight us, but we've got all the answers. It must be frustrating to them. But the answers are on our side, and also the facts, and just really the momentum is on our side. There's just so much going on here at the White House. The media doesn't know what angle to take.

You know, there was a lot of blowback when you guys decided to open up that White House press briefing room to other media sources. And the reality is most people are not getting their news from the New York Times or the Washington Post anymore. Was that a difficult decision for you guys to make? Not at all. And it was a decision that was starting to happen in the transition.

These were conversations that we were having pretty much in the first days after we won that historic landslide I believe we have lost Harrison there with the White House. We'll try to get him back. But again, certainly exciting times up in Washington as they bring in so many new. Forms of media into that White House. And Ben Dieter, you talked a lot about this.

You're a Gen Zer, and you're very popular on X and TikTok. It's important because kids are not getting their news from ABC or NBC. And thank God, right? Thank God that we have alternative. Streaming service, I mean, I look at the work you're doing on the Todd Starn show, and while we air it terrestrially, so a lot of people will.

Call into their local radio programs, and we love all of your affiliates. We love your partnership with Newsmax. You just were named one of the top podcasters in America. And that's because a lot of people are getting their information via Spotify, via Apple. And I think that is a testament of how things are changing.

And the White House is meeting people where they are consuming news. It's brilliant, but Todd, here's the dirty secret. You know, Caitlin Collins at CNN, she's getting the back row. Not quite, but like now she's having to compete with all of these conservative voices. And it's remarkable because it just shows the prioritization of alternative news in this country.

No, it does. It does. And you're right. And we love the fact that so many people are listening to our podcast. Ultimately, you know, you want to get your information out there, and you've got to be willing to go out and embrace all of those folks as well.

901-260-5926. Let's go to Kathy in Salem, Oregon, listening to us on KYKN. Hi. Kathy, what's going on? Hi, Todd.

I'm not even doing what sitterlings were I know. He tried or not. You said we were all looking up. Googling chitterlings chitterlings or chitlings. This is true, Kathy.

I stand corrected. I owe the entire city an apology. My apologies. Thank you. Okay, well, since it's Freedom Friday, I've been on the shows already this morning that I've been listening to.

They're talking about. how the kickbacks and which congresspeople are taking advantage of that. I would like to know also who is not. who is not taking kickbacks and taking advantage of their positions. And That should be a big campaign issue for them if they're up for reelection.

We need to keep them. Yes, we do. We absolutely do, Kathy, and that is just so vitally important. And when it comes down to it, we elected Donald Trump and we elected that we put the Republicans in charge in Congress because we want them to cut this spending. All right, Kathy, appreciate your call, and thank you for setting the record straight on the chitlins.

We have Harrison back, Harrison Fields with the White House. And Harrison, we appreciate you reconnecting with us. You know, we've been hearing a lot from our listeners about Doge and how important it is to cut all of this funding. And a question was asked earlier. Are you guys going to go after?

Is the Justice Department going to go after these people that were committing all this fraud on the American people? Yeah, so it's definitely something we have to look at.

Now, a lot of this stuff is done in a very clever way. that it's going to take time to look exactly how the intricacies of A lot of this funding has gone out the door. One of the things we've picked up on is if you have a contract for $100,000. Fifty thousand of that dollar actually went to the intended purpose, and there's fifty thousand dollars that is unaccountable. We've got to look into that.

So, there's a lot of this right now is in the exposing phase and uprooting and stopping the bleeding. And then we're going to have to go in again and really flush through exactly what's going on. And if there's criminal nature, you know Pam Bondi is going to be on it because she will not let anything slide because they're defrauding the American taxpayer, and that cannot happen. But right now, we're just in the identification phase, but we will not let fraud. happen in this country.

Harrison, last night the President announcing and I just you gotta love this man directly to her face the governor of Maine saying, Hey, we're we're defunding you people over the whole transgender sports thing. Is is that going to happen or what is the timeline on the defunding of the state of Maine?

Well, they're obviously ignoring federal law. It is federal law now that men cannot participate in women's sports.

So if you're going against the law, Uh which is under Title IX. There needs to be a conversation of what actually happens there.

So obviously, this all fa falls under the Department of Education, but we'll have to look and see if the state of Maine is Purposely not ignoring, it is purposely ignoring what the federal government is saying, there's got to be a conversation. And in the executive order, it did say that the funding will be held back if they don't follow Title IX. And that's a conversation that will happen very soon. But for Maine's governor to come to the White House, which is a tremendous invitation, to really make herself look Kind of foolish. In debating the President at what is supposed to be a bipartisan gathering over such an issue that really isn't partisan.

Men should not be in women's sports. This isn't a controversial thing to say. But the governor of Maine wants to die on that hill and there will probably be consequences because of it.

Well, and there should be, and it is what it is. And I know we had one of the Republican lawmakers on from Maine yesterday, and she was on my Newsmax show as well. And they're behind you guys 1,000%. Real quick, before we have to scoot to break, Harrison, what a wonderful celebration that was last night, Black History Month. We just had Judge Joe Brown on the phone line, and he was one of those in attendance last night.

That must have been a really special celebration for you guys. Yes, it was. We had almost 500 people in the room, many of whom are proud African American, black Americans in this country. And it was really an event to showcase the historic nature of the black community throughout the founding of this country. Obviously, the story of the black American has been one of resilience.

I'm half African American. I'm very proud of that history. But the one thing we also have to remember is that we are a United States. We're not a white America, black America, brown America. Together, we make one America.

And that's really what it was. It was a coming together under one flag, under one God, and really just appreciating the contributions of black Americans from Harriet Tubman to Booker T. Washington. The rest MLK and then Tiger Woods was a big shock to everyone being there.

So really, really amazing time. It was a priority of the President to make sure that he attended that event, and it was very well received.

Well, Harrison, we are going to have to leave it there. We're going to get you back on, and please tell Caroline, the whole team, we're super proud of you guys. You're crushing it every day, and we just appreciate what you guys are doing. Of course, Todd. You're a good man, and we appreciate the support.

And we'll be back on both on radio and TV whenever you need it. All right. Harrison Fields, everybody, special assistant to the president, also the Deputy White House press secretary, and just one of the great folks that President Trump has assembled. Really, one of the best communication teams I have seen thus far in modern politics. They're doing that good of a job.

All right. We got to take a break. We're going to the phone lines: 901-260-5926. This is the Todd Stern Show. All right.

Let's go right to the phones here. Clarksville, Georgia. Candy is listening to us on WDUN. Wants to weigh in on Jasmine Crockett. Hi, Candy.

What's going on?

Hey, Todd, thanks for taking me. I love your show. Listen to you every day. Thank you. Thank you.

Okay.

Several points real quick. Trump, you asked a lady, I think it was Wednesday, what her grade on Trump was. She gave him a B minus.

Well, I give him a double A plus, plus, plus, and it keeps on going because he's doing great. I love it. And also, on the Doge, finding all this money, I'd love to have $5,000 in my checking account because I could certainly use it. Come on. Born.

Sorry? Yeah, come on. You're preaching, Candy. You're preaching. I Rachin, yeah.

And uh, Boo, aka Jasmine Crockett, needs to call one eight hundred to get a life 'cause she nor bl uh blossom that you spoke of earlier have one. It's true. And um As far as sending the immigrants to Guidmo to kind of hold them and Trump doesn't want to send the worst of the worst back to their country, I got a better idea for him. I think they need to open up Alcatraz and put the worst to the worst there. And you don't have to worry about hiring any staff.

Because all the senators, congressmen, governors, mayors, and anybody else that's not following federal law, they could cook for them, clean for them, do their laundry. And visit with them. And you wouldn't have to worry about them escaping because they couldn't make it to shore. That water would get them because the Pacific. is a lot different than the Gulf of America and the Atlantic for its temperature and currents and there's all kind of stuff in the bottom, so they get hung up and I doubt any of them can swim.

They probably swim like a rock. Candy, you know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna submit your name to the Doge Committee. I think you need to be on that committee, Candy. You've got it all sorted out.

What a brilliant idea. I love the Alcatraz part. Candy, we got to run. I am so sorry, but you give us a holler back. Thank you for listening.

Thank all of you guys for listening. We got another hour coming up.

So hang tight, everybody. This is the Todd Stern Show. Live from the Liberty University Studio in Memphis, Tennessee. It's America's conservative blowtorch. That's right.

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So we really do appreciate all of that, folks. I was reading a fascinating story from a great reporter over at the Washington Free Beacon about Doge. And the shocking headline here is that they found $2 billion in taxpayer funds that were earmarked for Stacy for a Stacey Abrams-linked group.

Well, I want to go to the Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line. We are honored to have the reporter of that jaw-dropping story with us, Thomas Catanachi. Thomas, an honor to have you with us, and a great job writing this story. Thank you so much, Todd. Really excited to talk to you here today.

Yes.

So look, tell us about the discovery and what this money was supposedly used for. Right.

So I'll take you back about two weeks when, as you'll recall, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldon announced that Him and his team, and later Doge officials, were involved as well. but his team made the original discovery that there was twenty billion dollars parked At an outside financial institution, that was EPA grant money. And so I think that raised a lot of questions for people. What is this money? What is it for?

When was it put at this financial institution? And so we looked into it, and the twenty billion dollars Was part of a program called the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund Program. It was established by the Inflation Reduction Act in 2022. And the reason why I'm telling you all this is because part of that money was a $2 billion grant, again, part of the bigger $20 billion. Hot, let's say.

$2 billion was given to a group called power forward communities. And this group involved Stacy Abrams. she was involved in it. And it kind of raised some eyebrows when we came across this information. And in speaking with EPA and EPA Administrator Lise Elden, it certainly raised some alarms for them as well.

And so I think it raises perhaps more questions than answers why Stacey Abrams. Was involved in getting environmental grant money through Biden's EPA.

So I I know that you guys uh interviewed uh Lee Zeldon. W was he concerned about any of this? He's extremely concerned, and I'll give him a ton of credit. Him and his team are extremely diligent. They're going through all the money that was um spent during the previous EPA's Tenure, and they're really with a fine-tooth comb going through everything.

And that's how they ultimately found the 20 billion that was parked. at an outside financial institution. And I'll just Add more because the story, you know, in my view, maybe I'm biased because I'm the reporter, but in my view, it's uh pretty crazy um kind of the the web that it revealed. This group, Stacey Abrams' group, Power Forward Communities, was brand new. In fact, It was founded for this sole purpose.

Of getting this grant, this $2 billion grant, which is not just a small grant. I think any money that the federal government spends. should be analyzed and scrutinized. But this is a lot of money. This is one of the largest grants That the EPA has ever given out.

And it went to a group that was created for the sole purpose of getting the grant. And so I think for a lot of people, including the administrator himself, They think that nonprofits and companies Any entity that's going to get federal taxpayer money, it shouldn't be founded for the sole purpose of getting that money. It should have some other broader mission and purpose. Um and try to achieve that purpose. And then perhaps it can get some federal assistance down the line, but it shouldn't work the other way around.

Thomas Katanatchi is our special guest. He's the reporter who wrote this jaw-dropping story at the Washington Free Beacon. The headline, Doge finds $2 billion in taxpayer funds earmarked for a Stacey Abrams-linked group. Thomas, is it a stretch to ask whether it sounds to me like this may possibly be a case of money laundering here? I can't imagine what they'd be using that much money for.

Are you guys looking into anything like that, money laundering? I think that it certainly opens up the possibility for further investigation. Our role here was to just use the publicly available information. to expose this. And I'm sure that there are conversations happening at a much higher level about let's see where this money is actually going.

And even Todd, I'm certainly aware that there are people at EPA who are high up who are working to claw back The money so that it isn't even spent in the first place.

Now, there's a number of issues with that because, again, it being parked at an outside financial institution presents a series of issues for federal officials who want to claw it back. It was actually tactfully done by the Biden administration to kind of protect this money from the Trump administration. And so that's an issue until it Yeah. But there are individuals and officials at EPA under Trump who are working to get the money back. And so that's certainly something to follow.

And then to your point, I think something to follow is any investigations, whether on the House side or on the Senate side, with Republicans in majority control, they'll have oversight power.

So that will almost certainly happen in this case. And I expect that Abrams and her group will have to answer for it very shortly.

Now your reporting, you discovered what this money was parked in an account at Citibank, and there were at least eight recipients Of the funding. These groups, any conservative groups here, or are they all to the far left? Yeah.

Todd, I think you know the answer to that one. It's a softball question, Tom. A softball question. Yeah, they're all they're all liberal groups. They're all progressive groups.

And just to take it a step farther, They're not just Progressive groups. They're groups with extraordinary influence from Democrats and former. democratic administration officials. Up and down all the way through. And just to use the example of Abrams and her group, it lists its partners on its website.

Again, this is a brand new group, so it's funny kind of going onto the website and looking through it because it's all brand new. They barely have any information.

However, it does list its partners. And I'll just point out a few for you, Todd. One is the Southern Economic Advancement Project. Another is Fair Count. Both of those groups were founded by Abrams after she famously lost her election for governor in Georgia in 2018.

And they have nothing to do with EPA mission or clean air, clean water, or climate change. They're all about racial equity and those sorts of progressive social causes. Again, not environmental related.

So that's interesting. And then two others that are worth noting are the AFL-CIO and American Federation of Teachers. two very powerful democratic aligned labor unions. Um And I'll just take you a step further here, too. The American Federation of Teachers is run by Randy Weingarten, who Sits on a board with Abrams at a group called Climate Power, which is one of the most prolific.

Democratic donors among the environmental movement. They unleashed a $55 million ad campaign in September.

So, again, you know, it really raises more questions than answers. And I really think, Todd, that we're at the very Beginning of this process into unwinding everything that the Biden administration did and executed. All right. Great, great reporting here. Great analysis.

Thomas, we'd love to get you back on soon. Congrats on the great report, folks. You can read that at freebeacon.com. That's freebeacon.com. Thomas, thanks for coming on the show today.

Thank you so much, Doug. All right, there you go. Great reporting, by the way, by Thomas Cantonachi, who's a reporter at the Washington Free Beacon. You know, I meant to share this with you yesterday. There's been a lot of grief.

Elon Musk has been getting a lot of grief over Doge. And the argument was, oh, Doge is going to hurt children. Children are going to die because they won't be able to get health care. And they said that the Doge movement was hurting specifically St. Jude Hospital.

So Elon Musk is trying to destroy St. Jude Children's Hospital. That's here in Memphis. And that is so. That is so not true.

So I wanted to share this information with you because that's going to be the new argument that Elon Musk is killing children in Memphis because St. Jude Hospital is not getting funding. That is simply not true. As a matter of fact, Want to take a wild guess as to who St. Jude Children's Hospital's number one donor is?

That would be Elon Musk.

So Elon Musk donated $50 million to St. Jude Hospital through the inspiration. Remember, they sent somebody from St. Jude up into space in one of the Inspiration 4. Yeah.

And that entire, so Elon donated $50 million. They've got that $50 million. There was another $250 million raised as a result of that.

So just to put things in a little perspective here, it's always good to look at perspective. Let's go real quick to the phone lines. Tom in Salem, Oregon on KYKN. Hey, Tom, what's on your mind today? Good morning, Todd, thank you.

I'd like you to comment about this. I'll just say what I wanted to call about since it's open line. We hear the 36 trillion in the national debt. You know, the speaker talks about everybody talks about thirty six trillion. No one ever talks about the unfunded liability.

I read anywhere from $125 trillion, even as much as $300 trillion of unfunded liabilities. Where Why isn't this discussed? How's that going to be paid for, Todd? You can answer afterwards, and God bless you.

Well, Tom, look, it's a great question you raise. And I talked about this yesterday. You know, everybody's wondering, oh, yeah, I'll take the $5,000, you know, because they're trying to figure out what to do with all this Doge money they're finding, Tom. I'm of the opinion that we need to send that money right back to pay whatever bills we owe. You know, we are a nation in financial distress right now.

We got no money.

So I say, whatever we can do, we've got to pay down the debt to the best of our ability here. But, Todd, the unfunded liabilities, how is that going to be paid for? I don't know. It's maybe $200 trillion. I mean, you know, it's all the things that have been committed in terms of federal pensions, military pensions, on and on and on.

And it's never They just talk about the 36 trillion. I mean, 200 trillion, 150, whatever it is, a lot more than 36 trillion, and it's got to be paid for.

So here's, and I'm just spitballing here with you, Tom.

So bear with me. One of the things that is going to happen, and especially when it comes to things like pensions and Social Security, the cold, hard reality is the baby boomers, that is the largest demographic, I think, in modern American history that will have been on Social Security, that will have been getting pensions. Those numbers are going to drop dramatically as the boomers die off. They did not procreate to the level that the boomer generation procreated, right?

So those numbers are going to drop off. And then, I mean, when you look at population reduction here, you've just got another generation that's not having babies at all.

So that. You know, through death, I think those numbers are going to come down. And that might help out a little bit. But I don't know, Tom, it may be a situation where it's unsustainable. I just don't see it.

Yeah.

Is unsustainable. I just don't see how it can. I just like. The uh Especially the leadership. And the appropriations and all that.

I'd like to see and discuss what we're going to do about unfunded liability sometime, but it's an untouchable. And you never hear about it. Mark Levin said recently on his show, he said it's up to 300 trillion, possibly. And uh That that makes 30. Six tray and look like spitting in the wind.

Well, it does. And I'll promise you this, Tom. We're going to have some folks on from Congress next week, and we'll ask them directly about that. Do that, please. And thank you, Todd, for your show.

And God bless you. All right. God bless you, Tom. All right, folks, got to take a quick break here: 901-260-5926. Open line Friday on the Todd Stern Show.

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So give them a call right now, 800-839-8506. All right, let's go to the phones, North Carolina WSIC. Patty is on the line. Hi, Patty. What's going on?

Oh, well, my apologies, the lovely Miss Patty. We'll get her on the flip side. Again, our telephone number on Open Line Friday, 901-260-5926. Again, that number, 901-260-5926. And I want to go back to the, you know, we were talking about signs yesterday, and it sparked a lot of conversation on our social media pages.

And people really do miss those iconic signs of yesterday. And I mentioned, you know, the KFC when they used to have the huge bucket of chicken as their sign. You had Holiday Inn with their huge roadside sign, which, by the way, Ben Dieter, Holiday Inn, started right here in Memphis, Tennessee. Did it really? Sure did.

Wow. Do they still make Holiday Inns? Oh yeah. Really? But they don't have the holiday insignes.

Yeah.

And I don't think it's actually, is it? I'm not sure if the company is still based here in Memphis, but it's, you know, you look at FedEx, and that's why, you know, Judge Joe Brown talking about how Memphis could be one of the greatest cities in America. I mean, we've got all the components here. We've just got to stop shooting each other. Yep, absolutely.

And St. Jude, don't forget about the St. Jude. St. Jude.

And we got Graceland. Nobody ever talks about where Justin Timberlake lives. Have you noticed that? Jesse Hugh? I think it was somewhere in Millington.

All right, we got to take a break. This is the Todd Starred Show. Dieter, did you guys have Bob Evans when you were growing up back in? in Pennsylvania. Yeah, we did.

I was Marvitt Denny's guy. Oh, Denny's. Denny's breakfast. The Grand Slam. Moon's over my hammy.

Is this the menu? Do you have it remember? This is the menu. Wow. I didn't know we had a Denny's expert in the building.

Hello, everybody. What about Perkins? Oh, I do like Perkins. Me too. People sleep on Perkins and it's a shame.

Really? Yeah.

I yep. And I think Perkins is based in Memphis. I may be mistaken on that. Yeah.

But I think it's actually headquartered here. Is that just where you go for your men's breakfast?

Well, if you're having a men's prayer break breakfast. If you're having a Bible study after that, that's the only thing open besides Waffle House. But they're not praying to Jesus at all. What? You know that Eaton Parks.

Is that a Memphis thing? What is it called again? Eaton Park. It's very, it's the same thing as. Eaton Park.

It's not like a sonic. No, it's a sit down. It's basically the same thing as Perkins. Maybe this was a Northern maybe some of the folks on the East Coast will know what a Eaton Park is. They have the best smiley cookies ever and then a fantastic salad bar.

And I am unfamiliar. I was going to tell Judge Joe Brown if he was at the airport at Reagan National. There is a great restaurant at Reagan National Airport. It's called Ben's Chili Bowl. And the original Ben's Chili Bowl is actually in Washington, D.C.

proper. And it is, they do something called a half-smoke hot dog, and they've got this homemade chili. And I know you're kind of putting your life in your hands, you know, by eating chili before you get on board an airplane. That's rude. But it's worth it.

But rude.

So, you know what I do? Because I don't want to be rude. You have to eat like baking soda or something. No, I don't do that. I actually, whenever I land, because it always takes forever to get your luggage, so I'll go to Ben's Chili Bowl first after I land.

And to go to the go after, yeah. Yeah.

So I'm not, you're not putting the passengers only because, and as much as I love Bojangles, Memphis International Labor, this is a true story. For some reason, the Atlanta to LaGuardia flights were always at a specific gate in the T, I think it was T1 or T2, directly across from the Bojangles. And everybody on that plane was eating Bojangles on the way to New York City. You know, that's strategic. It's so disgusting.

It's like. It's strategic. It's placed there for a reason. Of course, it is. Yeah.

Every Memphis flight from anywhere connecting to Memphis smells like a.

Well, either pot, I'm sorry, I just hate to say it. Wow. Or popcorn chicken.

So somebody. Wow. It's true. It's a deadly volatile combination. That's unfortunate.

That's sad. It's the only other issue in the Atlanta airport, and I don't know who thought this was a good idea. Ben's Chili Bowl, by the way, it doesn't have the impact right away. But if you go to the varsity in Atlanta, which is a famous drive-in restaurant near Georgia Tech, the Varsity. I know our WDU and listeners have been to the Varsity, but they're serving, they have a Varsity at the Atlanta airport, and I can't imagine.

And I just my tho my heart goes out to the people that are on those airplanes where people have been scarfing down the chili dogs of the varsity. They'll do a number on you. Yeah.

It would be like eating Taco Bell. It's insane. It's ridiculous. 901 Chili. Are you a Skyline Chili guy?

Now This is careful.

So, back when Delta had a hub at Cincinnati, that was a regular stopover for me. And that's when I first had the Skyline Chili. They had a Skyline Chili restaurant there at the airport. And I. I fell in love and I loved how they did the cheese on top of the.

That's pretty cool how they do that. It's incredible. Yeah.

They're coming out with the Skyline chili ice cream. That's disgusting. Yeah, but no, it's a big deal, and it's very controversial because you either like Skyline or you hate it. Skyline has that cinnamon. It's cinnamon, right?

Yeah, cinnamon. It's incredible. I don't get the spaghetti with the chili, though. That's where I draw the line. We don't have anything.

I don't think in Memphis or the Mid-South. Are we big chili people? No. Years ago, when I was at Fox, we had one summer where French's the mustard people, they created a mustard-flavored ice cream, and we sent our intern out to get some and to try it live on the air. That's only an intern's job.

The poor guy, he was like, we sent him out there and we were like, he was tested. He was so nervous. I mean, it was like first week on the job, you know, and college kid. And so we're like, call in, call. You got to call in.

He goes, Mr. Starnes. I can't remember who the internet. We'll call him Jeremy. Jeremy the internet.

All right. Let's go to Jeremy the internet. Mr. Starnes, I'm out here and I'm about to try the ice cream. Do I have to try it?

Mr. Starnes, yes, yes, Jeremy, you have to try the ice cream or you'll be fired. Did he try it live on air? Oh, he did. And it was so disgusting.

Because it tastes just like frozen mustard. This is disgusting. Terrible. Horrible. I felt really bad for Jeremy.

I hope they gave him a job out of his internship. I don't think he had a good internship experience with my show. I really don't. Let's go to Patty in North Carolina. Patty, have you ever had.

Mustard ice cream. Hell no. Mm. What you ought to do, Panty, here's what I would recommend: just put your mustard in the freezer for a couple of hours, and you pretty much get mustard ice cream. Yeah, right.

Now, what in front of a truck on 70 here, okay? I no, no, no. Let me tell you something. I want to talk to you about that girl that called before Candy. She was spot on.

That girl, I love that girl. And let me tell you, I give Donald Trump A plus, plus, plus, plus, plus. because you have to clean out a diaper, right? This is, well, yeah, a big adult diaper. You're right.

He did, Patty. He's got a lot of poop to clean up in four years, right? It's true. It's true. And I love these people that give him a B minus or C minus.

My God in heaven, what he did in thirty days? That administration couldn't do it for you. It's pretty remarkable, Patty. And I hear you, Patty. And there were a couple of folks who called in.

Somebody gave them a C, somebody gave them a B plus. I'm with you. I'm just thinking A plus plus plus. Yeah, the guy You know what? My God in heaven, he don't even need this job.

This is Musk. Don't need this job, but you know what? They love this country. And all the Democrats can do is put them down, put them down, and you know what? That girl Candy before, Jasmine Crockett, if she's the new voice of the Democrat Party.

He will never win another election. No, I'm with you. I'm with you, Patty. Patty, got a run, my friend. Good hearing from you and have a great Friday.

Let's go to Connor in Boston. Hey, Connor, what's going on?

Well, first of all, happy birthday to Dylan. I heard it's a big one today. Yeah, it's like the 2.6 or something, right? 2.6? That's right.

Oh, okay. Thank you, Connor.

Well, congratulations. But hub, I'm going to tell you. Um, I you know, every time I listened about more money and more funds that Joe just uncovering, it makes me think too, like when you when you pay your taxes on the taxpayer. And if you hide money or if you do anything with that, it's still tax debate and the IRS is going to come out to you.

So all these people, like in the Biden administration, I'd like to make it more taxpayer every year, and I'd like to see them pull down handcuffs and shackles. And the rest of this would if we be Friday the government. Connor, I love that idea. And I just want to see people I I do. I I know this may sound bad, but I want to see people brought out of those government buildings in leg shackles and they're handcuffs the whole nine yards.

I want some orange jumpsuits too, and I don't want them to put them into like a club bed prison, I want them to put them into a hardcore prison. What they've done to this country. Yes.

That's what I'd like, my friend.

Well, right. But you're right, Connor. They have to pay for what they have done here. This is just unacceptable. And we've got to do, and we have to do that because.

People need to understand there will be consequences. One day you will be brought to justice. Exactly. And you know what? They need to understand they're no different than the rest of us.

We're their boss. And also, I hope you're doing better after your eye surgery. Connor, thank you. I can see again, and I am very excited about that. And that's why I'm telling you, I've got a handsome crew here.

So I can see that now. Connor, God bless. Have a great weekend, folks. Hang tight. We'll be right back.

All right, welcome back to the Todd Stearns Radio Show. You know, I've been trying, I really have been trying to eat better and to lose a few pounds. Just a few. And, like, for example, at lunch today, we had Chick-fil-A to celebrate Dylan's birthday, and I went with the grilled nuggets. No, I did have mac and cheese on the side, but that's no, but the grilled ducats is the healthy part of it.

That's what I'm trying to say. And then I'm at the supermarket and I'm reading all the ingredients. You know why I'm reading the ingredients now in the supermarket? It's because of RFK Jr., and I'm somewhat horrified. Buy all of the things that are going into the food.

And I really do want to buy into this whole Make America Healthy movement, the Maha movement, which is one of the reasons I want to bring in a person who is going to be a regular guest on our program because this is hugely important for me. Because I want all of you to listen to this show for a very long time. And it's hard to hear the show in heaven, I hear. I want to go to the Patriot mobile newsmaker line right now and say hello and welcome into the conversation Kim Bright, the founder of Bright Core Nutrition. And we're going to talk about that in just a moment.

But Kim, hope you're doing well today. I'm doing excellent. Thank you for having me on your show, Todd. Wonderful. You know, Kim, I never really, really thought about it.

You know, you're going grocery shopping, you just assume everything in the store is somewhat healthy for you, but you didn't realize that a lot of that stuff is not only bad for you, but it could very well kill you. That's right. And, you know, thank goodness RFK Jr. is in there and going to clean up that FDA. I mean, I just heard a report just a couple hours ago.

Doge has already found $2.76 billion in fraud at the FDA. And that is the highest amount of any of the agencies. The Department of Defense is next. But yeah, there's between the artificial dyes, the colors, big pharma in cahoots with keeping us sick. You know, the demon rats that are in there and their minions that have, you know, just they want to keep us sick because that's their whole goal.

They make billions and trillions of dollars off us being sick. And so the FDA is right there helping them. And now that's going to stop with RFK in there. I don't know if you're a Star Trek fan, Kim. We're just kind of just starting our friendship on the radio, but there's this great scene in one of the Star Trek movies where Captain Kirk gets sick.

And so the doctor says, oh, you're feeling this? And he just stabs him with something. He injects him. And then the poor guy has. Has a reaction to that injection.

He goes, Oh, you're having an injection. I got something for that. And he was like getting five or six shots. You know, so the more shots the guy was getting, the sicker he was getting. And sometimes that's how I think, you know, when we look at big food and big pharma, you know, they're feeding us stuff that's making us sick.

They're giving us drugs to make us sick. And then they give us more drugs to fix the drugs that made us sick in the first place. That's right. They just go, symptom, oh, you got, that's changed.

Now let's change the drug and now you've got a different symptom. And it's just a downward spiral.

So that's what we're dealing with. And our health is getting worse. We have increased, we have the highest amount of people taking drugs ever, the highest amounts of cancer, highest amounts of heart disease, diabetes, obesity, you name it, we got it. And Kim, one of the things that you've been able to do, and folks, I would encourage you to go to mybrightcore.com. That's mybrightcore.com.

One of the things that you've done with Bright Core Nutrition is that you've been able to analyze, okay, here's exactly what these poisons are doing to us. That's right. Because here's what's happening when we're eating all these foods that are devoid of the nutrients that God needs these bodies to operate off of, and they've been intentionally taken out in processed foods, and all this white sugar dumped in there, and all the salt, it's just increasing and dehabilitating our health. It's increasing our sickness. And so, the whole thing here is it's destroying our gut.

When we destroy our gut, first and foremost, we destroy our whole body because we have a microbiome in our gut that most people are at war. It's overpopulated with parasites and with molds and yeasts and fungus and bad bacteria and viruses due to their diet, due to their over-medications, due to the bad water we're drinking that's filled with Viagra and other chemicals. Because when it comes out of you, nobody thinks about this, but it goes in our soils and our water.

So, you've got to get your water clean. Up, we've got to get the soils cleaned up, and we've got to get our gut cleaned up because our gut, just like our soil where our food grows, has that microbiome. And we need to stop the war there, and we need to put a balance back in and a pH that God wanted us to have to have healthy bodies.

So, so the good news here, as I've been reading through your website, is whatever the damage has been done, it is reversible. Is that right? Yes, it is. Just remember, you didn't get this way overnight. This is going to help you very quickly, but don't, we don't, this is not a magic pill.

You take it, and the next day you wake up and you're perfectly healthy. No, what you can do is start at the gut. That's where everything comes from. We have a gut-brain access, we have a gut-skin access. If you have skin problems, your gut is a swamp.

If you have brain problems, your gut is a swamp. Liver problems, heart problems, all the organs are tied back to the gut.

So we can clean that gut up. We must get our gut cleaned up. 70 to 80% of our immunity is in our gut.

So the gut has to be cleaned up.

So I am fascinated by this because I was not a big Kim Chi fan. I do enjoy a little Korean food. But Kim Chi, I had it once and I'm like, wow, that's, you know, but I'm not a coleslaw guy either. But you're telling me that Kim Chi is. Actually, is the the key here.

It's this is the fix. Kimchi is the fix. Why is that? Because it's a fermented food, and fermented foods restore the balance, kill all the bad guys in our gut, and support the good guys. And it's been used in Korea for centuries.

It is their, they think over there as it's their affordable health care because they eat it at every meal. They've eaten it for centuries.

Some of them eat it once a day, but most people eat it at every meal. And the power of fermentation, where you take and you combine the cabbage and the chilies and the shrimp paste and all these things, it does give a very bad, or not a bad, but a very different smell and a very different flavor than Americans are used to.

So a lot of them, even though they know it's good for them, they're like, oh boy, I don't know if I can get that down. But kimchi has the most probiotics, over 900 strains, and it has unique probiotics that no other fermented food has, whether it be yogurt, kefir, pickles, sauerkraut, anything.

So this is the kimchi. Of fermented foods. It has live enzymes as well.

So we've got about 60 seconds here, and you guys have put this all in a campsule. It's called the Kim Chi One Campsule. Tell us about it, real quick.

Well, that capsule is going to help you to get this in your body every single day. And it's going to help curb your appetite, smaller waistlines, boost metabolism. They had an obesity study and showed the body mass index reduced and waistlines reduced. And so, what we've got today for your viewers, Todd, is 25% off with the code Todd Starnes. They can go to mybrightcore.com forward slash Todd Starnes.

But we really want you to call 888-927-5980 because we've got people standing by that are educated and make sure this is right for you. When you call, you get up to 50% off. We'll give you free shipping and a free bottle of vitamin D3.

So please call. The first time your callers get that free vitamin D, 888-927-5980 and feel better tomorrow. Oh, Kim, this is going to be a lot of fun, and it's going to be exciting. I know you guys sent me some of the incredible product there. And folks, let's give it a shot.

Here and call right now, and you heard this incredible offer: triple eight nine two seven five nine eight o'clock. That's eight eight eight nine two seven five nine eight o. Go to mybrightcore.com/slash Todd Stearns, and you'll find all their incredible products here. Kim, thank you so much, and we're going to get you back home very soon.

Well, thank you. God bless you. It was nice to be on with you, Todd. All right. And, folks, that's going to wrap it up for us.

Get out there and have a great Friday. And whatever you do, be sure to go to church this Sunday.