Walz Says He Can Beat Up MAGA Men; Kane Challenges Him to Fight

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

Well, hello, everybody. Welcome to the Todd Starts Radio Show. Happy Friday to you as well. Wow, we've uh we have had a wild busy week. A lot going on today in Washington.

President Trump. Holding a QA with reporters in the Oval Office with Defense Secretary Pete Hagseth. Announcing the development of a brand new fighter jet.

So, we're going to get into more of that a little bit later.

Some folks wondering why do we need to develop new fighter jets? We ought to be focusing more on drone technology.

So, a debate raging even among folks in the conservative world.

So, we're going to get into that a little bit later on. Also, and again, all this week, we've been welcoming our brand new listeners in the Houston area, also Winchester, Virginia, our two brand new affiliates. And today, we will be saluting you. And this is the final day. If you call in, you're going to get a lovely Welcome to the Neighborhood Prize package.

We do that for all of our affiliates when they join the show. And we want to say welcome to you.

Now, Open Line Friday, that's the opportunity where you get to call in. And normally during the week we we stay on topic. And we don't want you to veer off of the topic. But on Friday, it's sort of a free-for-all.

So you're able to call in, talk about whatever you want to talk about. Write down our telephone number. You will need that: 901-260-5926. That's 901-260-5926. We have some breaking news regarding the Tesla dealerships, and we understand there are huge, huge protests happening this weekend, and it is going to be a very dangerous time, quite frankly.

And you need to watch your six, America. The reality is, and I want to just cut to the chase, and I hope that by now you know that I just cut to the chase. There's not a lot of hemming or hawing on this program. But people like Jasmine Crockett And people like the the Democrats that are out there calling for the protest against Elon, they want him to be killed. That's That's what's going on here.

They want this man to be assassinated. I mean, it really is that simple.

Okay. And I hate to be that blunt, but we've got to get right down to it, the brass tacks of it all. And the reality is when Jasmine Crockett says all she wants for her birthday is for somebody to take down Elon Musk, That means she wants this man killed.

Now In my estimation, that's a threat, and quite frankly, she deserves to be thrown in jail. That's where I think all of this Needs to go. But we're not playing hardball right now with these domestic terrorists. And therefore, you've still got a lot of people that are going out there and they're attacking the Trump or the Tesla drivers. They're out there smearing feces.

Feces, ladies and gentlemen, on Tesla vehicles. It's disgusting. They're taking out their car keys and scratching up riding Nazi and the swastika. And my recommendation is: if you are a Tesla driver and you are a law-abiding gun owner, And you've got all your permits, all that kind of stuff. You need to make sure you are packing heat at all times because there's a great big target on you right now.

And it's not right. It's just not right. We need to be throwing the book at these folks, and everything needs to be done very publicly. You know, these people that are out there smearing their poop and all this other kind of stuff on the cars, what we ought to be doing is having SWAT bang down their doors and drag their butts, literally dragging their butts out of their homes. Making a public spectacle of it all.

And the reason why we have to do this, folks, is that this administration is going to have to send a message. To all of these criminal thugs, that we're not going to tolerate this anymore. We are not going to tolerate this anymore. The Democrat Party is the party of the thug. And I got no problem.

I got no problem. Calling them that to their face. It's despicable what they've done. Just despicable.

So, we'll get to more of that a little bit later when we have some interesting comments from President Trump as he weighs in on that. But I want to start. With Little Timmy Waltz.

Now, Timmy is the governor of Minnesota. And remember, the Democrats had a big problem. They had a man problem, and they still have a man problem, but they don't think they have a man problem. They got a man problem.

So, anyway, they decided that Tim Waltz was the epitome of manhood in America. Apparently, they think very little of manhood in America. This is the same guy who wanted to put, or actually did put, tampons in the boys' bathrooms of the public schools there in Minnesota. And so the governor's out there, and oh, he's talking big. This is such a brilliant story.

The governor of Minnesota is out there. And he's saying that, oh, oh, I'm going to kick their asses. He said that he could literally kick the rear ends of every Trump supporter in America.

So he was on Gavin Newsom's podcast, and here's what he said: Cut 16. I despite it. I could kick most of their ass. I do think that if they want to do it, I know they can run them. But I d I don't know if we're going to fall into that place where we want to okay, we challenge you to a to a uh you know a a WWE fight here type of thing.

So even Newsom was like, really, dude? Are you kidding? No, seriously, Tim Waltz thinks that he can go out there and he's talking specifically about MAGA supporters, Trump supporters. And he says that he can go out there and kick your butts. And then he goes on to talk about how That that conservative men And that would be most of our listening audience.

Conservative men are scared by. By his masculinity. Cut 17. But I think this notion of, I think it's. This notion of toxicity and masculinity needs to be separated.

And I think it's been conflated. And I think we're going to have to work on that a little bit. And I think there's, look, there is a crisis. I think some of us scare them. I think I scare them a little bit why they spend so much time on it.

No, I'm serious because I can fix a truck. They know I'm not. On this. I'm not putting this in people's grill. I don't know if my identity is not hunting.

My identity is not football coaching. My identity is not, you know, a beard in a truck.

Okay, assistant football coaching. Men, conservative men, are you scared of Tim Waltz? Does he frighten you? Because he is the Democrat Party's definition of a man.

Now, this is the guy. If you remember during the presidential campaign, he'd come running out onto the stage and he'd do these very strange leg kicks into the air like he was a cheerleader and the jazz hands. Hello, everyone. Oh, I love you. You're beautiful, people.

I'm Coach Waltz. All right, let's huddle up in the locker room, boys. I I don't know. Maybe it's just, I guess that might be appealing to some people, like I don't know, little David Hogg, or maybe Jimmy Kimmel. But I'm not sure the women of America are attracted to grown men who go prancing about on stage doing jazz hams.

I may be off base here, is what I'm trying to tell you, but I Ba b But I don't think I am. I don't think. I think I've got a pretty good read on American women, and I don't believe the women of America. See, a guy like Tim Waltz as a man. He's a mino.

A man in name only. Anyway, Glenn Jacobs.

Well, first of all, President Trump was just asked about this by Deucey over at Fox.

So what do you make of what do you make of Teb Waltz here saying he's going to kick all of our butts? Tim Walls Is now saying about Trump supporters, and forgive me, I'm just reading a quote from Tim Walls. I think I could kick most of their ass. Oh, boy, he'd be in trouble. Is there any way to know?

Well, he's a loser. Yeah, I mean, he's a loser. He lost an election. He played a part. You know, usually a vice president doesn't play a part, they say.

I think Tim played a part. I think he was so bad that he hurt her. But she hurt herself, and Jill. They didn't have a great a great group, but I would I would probably put him at the bottom of the group. Yeah, there you go.

I think she was more of a man than he was. I mean, if you're gonna talk if we won't talk about that.

So anyway All this talk about challenging MAGA supporters to a wrestling match. Guess whose attention that drew? None other than our good friend. He's a regular on the radio show, the regular on our Newsmax show. That would be Knox County, Tennessee Mayor Glenn Jacobs, who is better known as the WWE Superstar Wrestler, came.

Wasn't he part of a group dealing with like the Undertaker? Yeah, he was like the Undertaker's brother. The what do they call themselves the undead, whatever it was, it was like creepy, the brothers of destruction, suction suction. I thank you very much. Uh, yeah, so anyway, it caught his attention, and um, here's here's what Glenn Shaykos had to say: so, Minnesota Governor Tim Wall said that he could kick most Trump supporters' asses to.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No. I know it's Yeah.

You know who could body slam? You know, Dylan, I'd be willing to put money on this. I think that Dieter, I think Dieter could like body slam. Tim Waltz. I think he has a good shot.

I do, too. It works on his, you know, he runs, so his legs, he could probably pick him up.

So, anyway, so Jacobs goes out there, and again, this is awesome. Glenn Jacobs, who is a WWE superstar, he's retired now. He actually challenged Governor Waltz to a charity wrestling match. I think this is brilliant. He told Governor Waltz to put his money where his mouth is.

And so Glenn Jacobs has already put $10,000 of his own money on the line and says, you know what, Governor, let's do this. You know, all joking aside, let's get together in the squared circle and we're going to put on the trunks and we're going to duke it out. Mono, a little mono. That's what we're going to do here. And you know what's interesting?

Something very interesting happened after this challenge was issued. Governor Waltz, this guy was quite the chatterbox on Governor Newsome's podcast. I mean, he was talking a mile a minute. But for some strange reason, after Kane issued the wrestling challenge. The governor.

Hit the mute button. Nobody's heard from him. Just crickets. I don't know. Maybe he's got laryngitis or something.

So we'll keep you updated on that. But I am curious, ladies and gentlemen, do you consider, are you scared of this Democrat Party's version of masculinity out there? 901-260-5926. Our telephone number, that's 901-260-5926. And we're going to be taking your calls on this.

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Let's go to the phone lines here: 901-260. 5926 Open Line Friday. Let's say hello to Little Big Mouth calling from Georgia. Hi, Little Big Mouth. What's going on?

Yeah. Todd, thanks so much for taking the call. And I'm just a dirtbag from nowhere, but you, sir, are one of the strongest and most powerful voices As one who loves this country and what it was founded on. And in that vein and thinking about Our upcoming 250th birthday, a little over a year from now, I would love it. If you would either lead or join A group Of people like yourselves.

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To give those presentations on the air, radio, T V, both, whatever. And in in the print media. and do that at least a couple of times a week. With the grand finale on July 4th. And I don't know the sequence of that and who should be first and who should be last.

and whether or not we ought to throw in some archive. Statements from Rush Limbaugh, Paul Harvey, some things like that. But I think that would be part of the re-education. Of this country about why you and I and many others who feel like us, why we so love this country. Love this idea, little big mouth.

I think this is pretty brilliant.

So you're suggesting sort of like a national oratorical contest for young people. Bill. Absolutely. And not only for young people, but to remind us, the rest of us who have become. more than complacent at times and focused on our own stuff, In a way that re-energizes us to tell our kids and our grandkids.

About what this country is all about and what has been sacrificed. in life terms and our lives, our fortunes, our sacred honor, to quote that last phrase of the Declaration of Independence. What have those sacrifices have looked like in order to maintain and sustain Our freedoms as we still enjoy them for the most part. Yeah. I love this.

All right, little big mouth. Yeah, we're running late for a break here. I like this idea. Dieter, let's get on this. Let's come up with an idea.

We'll come up with a plan. Maybe we can sponsor a national oratory contest, maybe an essay contest. For uh for the for the Urchins of America. The little kids. I love this.

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So, the two American astronauts, Butch Wilmore and Sonny Williams, they were stuck in space for what, nine months? Nine months. And it turns out that they were were not getting paid. Can you believe that? You're stuck in space for nine months.

According to NASA rules and regulations, They don't get overtime.

So.

So they only get if you're in space, you get a $5 per day per diem.

So another I guess they have I don't know, do they have a canteen up there on the International Space Station? Maybe they have vending machines. It's hard to say. But I know Diener was complaining about the Todd Stern show per Diem, which is. I think it's around $60 or $80 a day or something like that.

And it covers, you know, so if you're out on an assignment, we cover your food and your beverages and all that kind of good stuff, but we have to put a limit on it. Otherwise, you know. You know, Dieter's one of these healthy eaters, and he's like on this carnivore, so he'd be ordering the. He'd be ordering an entire side of beef.

So we had to put a you know, we had to put a camp on it.

So, Dieter, I don't want to hear you complaining about the Tod Stern show per diet. I mean, NASA's only giving these people $5 a day. That is an absurd. Low amount of money. To be an astronaut, I mean, you couldn't pay me.

Although I obviously it would be a really neat opportunity to go into outer space, but $5 a day? That's like We talk about raising the federal minimum wage because you've got a lot of these kids working Starbucks and McDonald's taught. They're making, what, $1,250 an hour? These astronauts?

So you would think you would think that astronauts would make huge salaries because they're putting literal they're literally sitting their butts are sitting on thousands of gallons of fuel that's literally burning.

So but they're only making $152,000 a year. It's crazy. That's it. But when they're in space like that, they only get. Incidental expenses, and it's five dollars a day, which amounts to so basically they're going to get a check for $1,430 each one.

So, President Trump. Just announced the president, was just asked about this at the White House. Did I send you guys that?

Okay, I had a brain freeze there. Do we have the audio? We'll pull it real quick.

Okay. So, President Trump was asked about this in the Oval Office just moments ago, and he said, Wait, what? He said, are you kidding me? We're not paying them? I mean, what the heck is going on there?

It's mad enough that Joe Biden left left him up there to die. There were no efforts made. And by the way, Joe Biden could have picked up the phone and said, hey, Elon, need your help. Can you send one of your spaceships up? Can you send Dragon up to get Butch and Sonny?

And he never did it. He could have. But he didn't. All right, so President Trump was uh just asked about this uh in the uh White House. If I have to, I'll pay it out of my own pocket, okay?

I'll get it for you.

Okay, well, it goes on.

So, anyway, we'll get the longer version for you. The president says $1,400. Even the president was stunned. He was like, What? Are you kidding me?

So, anyway, thank you, Mr. President. The president is now offering to pay whatever out of his own pocket to make sure that Butch and Sonny are taken care of. Good for you, Mr. President.

What a good man. Unbelievable. All right, let's go to the phone lines here. Studmuffin calling from Gainesville, Georgia, W-D-U-N. Hello.

Studmuffin, is that your given name? Nickname. I love it.

Now, we should probably explain to our Houston listeners and our new Virginia listeners that. Many of you call him with nicknames, and we're one of the few shows that does that, and I love it. And, Stub Muffin, we're glad to have you with us today. What's on your mind?

Well, I understand that Tampon Tim wants to challenge us Megas to a fight. And I'm all and willing. I would proudly represent mega. fighting this tampon temp. I'm sixty eight years old, voted for Ronald Reagan.

And I don't really work out, but I think I could beat him up pretty good. I think you could take him on, Stead Muffin. I do. Yeah, I mean, he seems pretty sure of himself. And he feels like he can, you know, he can take on all of us MAGA men.

That's right. And I I'll put up one thousand dollars and he can put up one thousand. All right, so you're so studmuffin from Georgia, you're ready to take him on? Any way he wants to go. I love it.

All right, Stud Muffin. You're a great American patriot, sir. Take care. All right, there you go. 901-260-5926.

It is open line Friday.

So, Stud Muffin in Georgia says he's ready to take on Tampon Timmy. Let's go to Robert in Statesville, North Carolina. Great to have our good listeners on WSIC back with us today. Hi, Robert. What's going on?

Hey, Todd. Doing doing well. I have a suggestion. Uh there's always been the uh phrase love it or leave it. And I think those who want to oppose our country who want to support other countries that are our enemy.

I think if they're a citizen, we should revoke their citizenship. If they're not a citizen, we should just pack them up give them a free one way ticket to the country they want to support. I think that's a very neighborly thing to do, Robert. They call me a lot of names, though, because I'm pretty hardcore when it comes to immigration, only because my allegiance is to the People that want to come here legally, and they're the ones always getting the shaft. You know, nobody ever really talks about the people doing it the right way.

So I say, anybody here illegally, you got to go. Gotta go. Yeah, that's me. All right, Robert.

Well, thank you so much for listening to us on WSIC. We love all of our great listeners. Out there, let's go to Doug the t-shirt guy in Illinois. Hey, Doug, what's going on? Yeah, he talked great show as always.

I just had a thought when uh You were talking about how much the the astronauts were not getting being stuck in space. But I think it'd be a good gesture if Donald Trump or Elon Musk bought each of them a Tesla. Ooh. What a great idea. By the way, Doug, you reminded me of something.

I don't know what it is, but over the past 48 hours in Memphis, just driving around, I have seen more Cybertrucks and more Teslas. Than I have. I don't know if I'm just more aware of it, but it is interesting how many people are driving Teslas. I see uh I drive my drive truck for FedEx Freight and I don't see them all the time, but I've I see several of them on the interstate.

So they're out there. You know what, Doug? I love that idea. We'll send a note to the White House, and we'll plant the idea and see what happens. We're going to give you credit, though.

Mm. There you go.

Well, Lord bless. Have a great show. You do have a great show. Continue having a great show. Lord bless you and your.

Your K-Wham family.

Well, thank you very much there, Doug. Appreciate that. And we have a great time. You know, again, for our Houston and Virginia listeners, in addition to doing a national radio show, I actually own the News Talk Radio Station right here in my hometown of Memphis, Tennessee. And Ben Dieter, who you hear producing this show, is also the morning show host of K-Wham and was recently named one of the top morning show hosts in America.

So you can listen online if you want to, but it's a terrific show. All right, let's go to. Waterloo, Iowa. Dieter, are you sure about this? I don't know about this.

Let's go to Waterloo, Iowa, Jackson. Open line Friday, Todd. I know it's Open Line Friday. This always comes back and pardon the fun here. All right, Jackson, what's going on?

First of all, Todd, are you coming to Waterloo again this year? Because you've got a new book coming. We'd love to have you. Really?

So I behaved myself okay the first go-around. Yes, yes. We had Jackson, we had several hundred people come out, and we're it was a beautiful location. We were in some sort of a what is it, a stockyard or cow palace or something? It's where the cattle congress is held.

The cattle congress, man, that was fun. And what's that thing you guys do with pork? I don't, Dieter, I know you're a big carnivore. We got to take you along to the Waterloo trip. What's that?

You guys do like a fried, like it's not a pork chop. It's a deep-fried pork sandwich. Pork, wow, that thing, I clogged three arteries. Are you ready, Todd? What I'm going to talk about?

No, I'm not, Jackson, but go ahead anyway. There's a lady on TikTok. She's selling farts in a jar. Right. Yeah.

Todd, it's true. I just sent you the article. Ben looked it up and it's real, ain't it, Ben? She sells A TikToker, here's the headline by Rolling Stone. This is not a fake headline.

TikToker makes over $200,000 farting in a jar. Here's how she did it. Do you want to know?

Well, I guess you had to unscrew the lid and attach it to her buttocks. Oh, no, that's not what you're asking. I'm sorry. No. Yeah.

I'll let Ben compig you. Go ahead, Ben.

So yeah, okay, let me let me take it from here. She is apparently a she was part of a TV show. She's an attractive person. And, you know, we were talking on the phone. I was talking to her.

Farts smell the worst. Have you noticed that? Female women who fart. That'll clear a room.

So she receives dozens of requests. She receives dozens of requests per day. And she's been shocked, according to the Rolling Stones article that I'm reading, unfortunately, by just how high the demand for her jarred farts have been, has surprised lots of her clients. They're purchasing a fart jar for $1,000 a pop. Yeah.

Yeah. I wish you could see Todd's face right now. It's interesting because there are people that actually going onto these chant rooms saying, can you fart in a jar, close it and still keep the stink fresh? Is it that simple to make money these days, Todd?

Well, what do you think? Wow. You know what? We've got some mason jars downstairs. Ben, we go down Taco Bell, and by supper time, you could put a down payment on a house.

Yeah. Hey, Todd. Todd. Yeah, Jackson. 97 people were idiot enough to pay she got $45,000 from 97 idiots.

that paid for them jars to have a fart. You know what's fascinating? Um I'm surprised I thought it would be like um you know, there would be some sort of a color like green or some sort of you know It's just clear, so I don't know how you can know that she's actually passing gas in a jar. I heard, but Ben, if it's not is it is it true, Ben, she's in por she's a porn star? Oh my goodness.

Okay, that's. She's a porn star. Oh, geez, a loop. We buried the lead there. We buried that lead.

Open line Friday. Wow. Jackson, let me. I'm maybe rethinking the trip to Waterloo, but. But thank you for that.

I'm not certain, Todd, she's a foreigner, but I do know she's on TikTok.

Well, she's wearing clothes. I I'll give her that.

So we we appreciate that here on but she made two hundred thousand dollars selling farts in a jar. Mm-hmm.

Well you've got to give her credit for being creative. Yeah, I mean, God bless, you know, methane. You know, it's interesting. I wonder if AOC would approve. Yeah, they say it contributes to climate change.

If our world combusts, it's Stephanie's fault.

Well, there you go. You know, I'm going to rethink Open Line Friday. I think we need to take it back to the drawing. We've got to put some parameters here. 901-260-5926.

Let's go to Ranger Buddy. Ranger Buddy, where are you calling from? Deloniga, Georgia. Oh, beautiful. The location of the first gold rush in Georgia.

That's right. Delanega is Cherokee for Yellow Rock, also known as Gold. Wow. What a beautiful town you guys have there. What's going on, Ranger buddy?

Well, I heard the story about Tampa and Tim wanting to take on a bunch of megas. in a boxing match. But I actually am a command sergeant major retired, and I was a Ranger instructor and go by the nickname Ranger Buddy.

So I would challenge him anytime anywhere That he'd be willing to go.

Now, keep in mind, he was not actually a command sergeant major, whereas I was. And I'm not sure about the rest of the character. Of his service, if you will. But if you remember, he left his troops behind. Do you remember that story?

Oh, absolutely. I'm very familiar. Yeah, he's something, I can tell you that. I'm sure. Back.

We used to do what was called the post-smoker in the 82nd Airborne Division every Thursday, and anybody that wanted to any time. could step into the ring.

Well, my one of the soldiers in my company In the 2505 Airborne Infantry up there at Fort Bragg, he was the post champion. His name was Philbrick. And man, I'd love to see him get a hold. And I'm sure he's a MAGA. I'd like to see him get a hold of Tim Wall.

That'd be interesting to watch. Ranger Buddy, I have no doubt you could take care of business. I got my money on Dieter. He's scrappy and he's small, so he can dart around real quick.

So, you know, he's a long distance. I love your show, and I love what you guys do. Keep telling the truth, man. Ranger Buddy, God bless you, and thank you for serving our great country. And thank you for listening to WDUN.

Great people there in North Georgia. All right, we've got to take a quick break here, folks. Open Line Friday. Those $10 donations are coming in. And the next hour, we're going to be reading off our list.

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So Gary is suggesting, alleging that she is a faux farter, F-A-U-X farter. Let's go to the phone lines, Terry in Minnesota. Terry, what's on your mind?

Well God, I heard your comments about Tampon Timmy and I just had a call in and give you my opinion of him. You know, if he wants to take on whoever. I'll be more than happy to take them on. Um the guy has no brains. In fact, if brains were dynamite, he couldn't blow his nose.

He was on the other day saying that, oh, we got a big deficit in Minnesota and nothing's changed except Trump was elected.

Well We had a twenty one billion dollar Curve plot. And then the Democrats set the budget. And this year, we have a six billion dollar surplus And for the next Uh fiscal Timing. we're going to be six billion dollars short. And Tampon Timmy is trying to blame Trump for that when actually Democrat.

that the uh budget And they spend more than they bring in. Terry, I'm just curious, how is your governor being received in your state now? Any chance that you guys might be able to turn yourselves red? Oh, I hope so. You know, here's the thing.

Minneapolis, St. Paul, Rochester and Duluth are blue. The rest of the state is red. But unfortunately, Those four cities outnumber everybody else. Hopefully the people in these these cities wake up and realize they're following a bunch of idiots and they they see the lights, but Minnesota's been blue for a long time, so I'm not holding my breath.

Well, Terry, I appreciate you calling in. I want you to give us a holler back one of these days. You're you have just been deputized as our Minneapolis correspondent. Our Tampon Temmi reporter.

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Our telephone number. That's 901-260-5926. Well, at this very moment, Bernie Sanders, AOC, on a national fighting oligarchy tour. They're going after all the rich people in America. This weekend, we are expecting some protest.

I know here in Memphis, Tennessee, where our national show is based, apparently, there's going to be a big, big protest demonstration outside the Tesla dealership. And I will say this: it's in the suburbs, and the police in the suburbs don't mess around.

So, good luck to all you folks protesting Tesla out there. You break the law, you're going to jail. I want to go to the Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line, say hello to our good friend. He's got a great new podcast just out, and you can check that out at RaymondArroyo.com. You see him all the time on Fox News.

He's also a New York Times best-selling author. Raymond, hope you're doing well today. Oh, Todd, great to be with you. Delighted to be with you.

So I heard a rumor before we get into Tesla and all this, I heard a rumor about you. Did Laura really allow? Because I know what Laura is. She literally let you come along to the interview with Donald J. Let me come along.

I was helping out with the inter how do you think it happened? Oh, well, she oh, well, that makes sense.

Okay, she made your work for yours. No, I posted on social media when we were in the middle of shooting, you know, that tour of the Oval Office kind of came Organically, she asked him, hey, can we go and the declaration and they started going, but the problem is I held the door for everybody. And got stuck in the back with the Secret Service.

So then I couldn't walk out on the portico because the camera was in front of. Laura and the president, and I would have walked into the shop.

So there was a hilarious shot that they cut out of me jumping over the hedges at the Rose Garden and kind of running around the camera. It was amazing. I mean, it was an amazing day. And, you know, we talked to him after the interview and after the tour of the Bolo, Bola. What a moment.

And, I mean, that was the day he was on the call with Putin, and he was about to sign the education executive order.

So historic. It was a historic moment. I love how some of the reporters framed it that Laura was hitting him with hard questions. You know, the President likes that. You know, I've had the chance to interview him a time or two, and he likes the back and forth.

And I thought she did a great job.

Well, that's your job. Our job is not to be this is not a cheerleading squad for the Presidency. Our job is to ask the questions that the audience and that the public want answers to. And sometimes because you're under the gun time-wise, you're going to hours and hours. Press, and as you know, when somebody's sort of going down a different path, you have to refocus them.

That's all she was doing, I think. And she's known the president for 30 years. Oh, yeah, absolutely. It's look, I thought it was a great interview, and the President is it looks like he's just having a good time. Did did that come across that he's just sort of he's in the zone?

You know, after I have to say, Todd, and I commented on this to people who are in the new administration, some of whom were in the past, the first round. He is m somehow. He's more winsome. Um a little more sober around the edges. He hasn't lost his money, but he's still, I find him a little more focused than he was.

in the first administration and actually less combative. And I think a lot of that comes from having gone through that assassination attempt. the all the lawfare that they subjected him to over the last few years. Um I do think he feels this is his m he was he was preserved for this moment. and he's sort of just stepping into it.

That was my stance anyway. But he was in a great mood. I love the question.

Somebody asked him a question that was Laura who asked the question about sleeping. And he just doesn't. And I'm the same way. I'm just not a heavy sleeper. I don't need eight hours of sleep.

But I don't know how he does it.

Well, he's standing he's up at like six o'clock in the morning. He's already on, you know, he's already prowling around the mobile. And the man has meetings up until one o'clock in the morning.

So I don't know how he does it either. And look, I was on the trail with him. And you know, you've got twenty year olds huffing and puffing who can barely get up and they're mainlining Red Bull. And here's the seventy eight year old doing laps around everybody, doing six events a day with speeches, going and meeting kids and and people at homes. I mean If It is incredible.

The stamina of the man. at seventy eight years old. And I'll tell you the most interesting thing, Todd. He walked up to me and, you know, I hadn't seen him in, I don't know, maybe two months. And he said, you know, back at the Al Smith dinner, Raymond, when we did that interview.

They told me I shouldn't talk about the life stuff, but you know, what was the first question you asked? IVF and abortion.

So I said, well, I'm going to have to answer it.

Now think of that time. Here's a ten minute interview before a major dinner. After a day of campaigning, he remembered not only that we did the interview, but what we talked about. That to me is His retention is amazing. I can't remember what I had for breakfast this morning who had interviewed yesterday.

So it's an astounding thing. That is so true. I was down at Mar-a-Lago last year interviewing him for the book. And there was some small talk. And I mentioned that I owned the news talk station in Memphis.

And of course, his family's very, very involved in St. Jude, which is based here in the Memphis area. And so he was really fascinated by that. Fast forward, like six months later, he was doing an event in the Memphis area, and we just had a chance to meet backstage briefly. And he said.

So, how's the radio station going? He goes, I can't believe you really bought a radio station. And I just thought that was just, you're right. His ability to remember and connect with people, it really is a gift, I think.

Well, you know, other presidents, like poor Biden, they would give him a, you know, they'd give him a little briefing sheet before every meeting. He didn't know who his own family members were. And then he had a script: you know, you say, hello, Jill. Jill will respond. You say, Jill, you look lovely.

You know, there were sides for her. Trump has none of that. No one's briefing him at all. And then it's freelancing. He's taking you into the gift closet and introducing you into the guy who's the steward for the floor.

He's amazing. He's an amazing. We will never see anything like this in our lifetime. When you go into the White House like that, Raymond, do they give you like swag? I mean, was there stuff you could take home?

Well, we we're limited in the swag we can take because we were there, you know. For professional reasons.

Well, that doesn't matter. You're the White House man. I know, but you can't say, you know, look, their rules governing our. Our presence there.

So he gave us a couple of hats, which I got from the kids. Look, other than that, you really can't take much more. You know, it starts getting. The limitin'. then it looks like you're, you know.

You're being bought and paid for, so you can't do that.

So, no, they're limits. They're limits. But yeah, they're swag. There's pens and, you know, golf teas and all kinds of things. Yeah, they used to have the MMs.

I got the boxes of MMs when Obama was president. They still have them. Raymond Arroyo on our Patriot Mobile newsmaker line today. And Raymond, I have to apologize. I'm not as prepared for this, and I want to blame Dieter, the EP of the show.

Dieter, and I'll tell you why. I thought I was preparing to interview. Ariana Grande. That's what I thought. But it turns out.

You're mistaken. Yes. I was looking at Dieter's notes, and he was like, We got to get ready for the big Raymond Arroyo. He's doing the big launch. And I thought it was Ariana Grande was the name of the podcast, but it's Arroyo Grande.

A royal. You know, Laura, when I first mentioned that the podcast was named Arroyo Grande, Laura said, is this the new drink you're taking? I'm going to have an Arroyo Grande. Oh, that's good. Yeah, I didn't even think about a drink.

I'm going to do that. I'm definitely going to brand a drink. I got to find the right partner for this, and then we'll do it. I can't do it with Starbucks. But Arroyo Grande is.

You know what an Arroyo is, Todd? You know what an Arroyo is, right? I I don't I'm s I'm from the South. I don't think I do.

Well, if you were from the southwest, you'd know. An arroyo is a dry gully, like a river gully that's gone dry. But If you fill it with good things, living water, and when that thrives through it, it breaks open into. And Arroyo Grande. That's the conceit of the show.

That we are, you know, it's focused on culture, it's just a cultural show. And my first guest was Mel Gibson when his home burned down in the fires in LA. And then we had Lauren Day go on right before the Super Bowl and made international headlines. And I've got John Irwin on this week who's directing that incredible. David Mini series over on Prime.

Isn't that a great so that I am really fascinated by that film. And what I love about it, Raymond, I'm actually reading my Bible as you know, I'm going along reading and it all just comes comes to life.

So much you miss, so much you just await, oh, I didn't remember that at all. What? Yeah, there were loads of little moments. I had the same experience when I watched it. But Irwin is fascinating.

You know, when we talk about. You know, Joseph Campbell had this Hero of a Thousand Faces, this crazy book that he wrote. But here's the good part about it: he identified archetypes through history. and religion. and said, look, these are the archetypes of every story ever told.

The problem with that is they're really just prefigurements of Jesus. I mean, that's what they really are. They are it's primitive people trying to reach for the Messiah to come. But Campbell says, look, all these religions are the same. That's not quite the takeaway.

But they call that whole thing the hero's journey, the archetypal journey of the hero. And when John Irwin was putting together this David, House of David miniseries, He used that. He extracted from it. And David is really one of those archetypal stories that we repeat over and over and over again.

So, in the podcast, we get into not only that, but how. we should be living a hero's journey and how we can do that in our daily lives. And I do a commentary on the Snow White movie that's out this week, which is a disaster todd. poison apples. The audience everybody in the audience gets one.

But it so I do that, and it's it's great. It's for families, it's for people who want to engage the culture, but it's no politics. It's not what you do. It's just culture. And it's a weekly show every Wednesday.

Love it. And folks, again, RaymondArroyo.com, and you'll be able to check out his books, his writings, and, of course, the awesome brand new podcast. It is not Ariana Grande, it's Arroyo Grande. That's right. I guess I should have read Dieter's notes better.

My apologies.

Well, look, I haven't had half that plastic surgery, you know, so I don't know. Ariana's got me. That's great. Raymond, man, congratulations. I'm going to be checking out the podcast.

I'm loving this. And I can't wait to. God bless you. Thank you. All right.

Take care. Thank you for guiding us. I listen every day, Todd, when I'm working at the desk. You guide us through all of this with such winsome cheer and a heart of faith. And there are a few people in broadcast who do what you do in the way that you do it.

So I'm so grateful you're there.

Well, you're kind to say that. Raymond Talara, we said hello, and we'll see you on TV. Great to see you. Thank you, my friend. Talk to you soon.

Have a wonderful weekend. All right. There you go.

Raymond Arroyo. Dieter, have you met him in person? I have not. No. He's just the same guy.

And, you know, he's just a brilliant children's writer. He writes a lot of children's storybooks and does a lot. He's a devout Catholic and very involved in EWTN and that program. We always had fun when Raymond would come up to New York. Good guy.

901-260-5926. Our telephone number, that's 901-260-5926. Got to take a break. We'll be right back. Mm Elon's coming Yeah.

Elon's coming. What do you want? Your friend and your cushy job. Elots coming in the car say, Punch is up. Elon's coming, hide the fraud, yo.

Elon's coming, hide the fraud, yo. From Elon's a coming, you better have the fraud. Elons are coming, you better have the fraud. You love the colour. And you better have a bro.

Let's come in, hide. And welcome back to the Top Stars Radio Show. We're spinning the MAGA tunes today. That's the brand new rock group, Three Doge Night. Welcome back to the Todd Starge program.

Yeah. That sounds like Dieter on the uh on the guitar. Dita, are you like a uh is that is that like a thing are you musically inclined? I don't think I could do that. That's only the work of a Paul Shanklin, Todd.

I wouldn't compare my musical skills to that. I don't know. That doesn't even sound like Shanklin. We're going to find out who the three Doge Night guys are. We're going to get to the bottom of it.

All right, 901-260-5926. Our number, that's 901-260-5926. Lamar writing to us: Tim Boy is a liberal clown. Oh, Mick, a former professional wrestler weighing in on our Facebook live stream, he says I'm seventy four with an artificial knee, not formally trained but had a few scraps back in the day. Tampon Tim is more than welcome to step in a ring with me or any one of thousands of other MAGA dudes.

God bless you, Mick. Appreciate that passion. Let's go to the phone lines here. Say hello to Patty in Statesville, North Carolina, WSIC. Hi, Patty.

What's going on? Yeah, I want to talk about uh Tickle Me Elmo, okay, let me show you something. You could have all the guys. I'm ninety pounds, fucked with two. I would kick that tampon right out of his rear end.

I'm hurting here. Go ahead, Battle. I'm not kidding, man. He hasn't seen Ugly Maga woman, okay? I could kick his rear end, Todd.

Patty, I have no doubt that you could. I Get it? To wait on and have Dana put me in a UFC ring with this idiot, and I will kick his rear end. All right, we're going to call Dana White. We'll try to make this happen.

I would love to see that, Patty. That's pay-per-view right there. I'm going to ask you one question, Todd, and you've got to ask it. What if Elon Musk bought like um Planned Parenthood. Would they be burning that down too?

Wow, that is a great example, Patty. And again, here's a guy who's literally providing good-paying jobs for well over 100,000 Americans. They're building cars right here on American soil. This guy just rescued two of our astronauts stranded in space for nine months, and they want to literally assassinate the guy. They want to kill him.

So you think that if Elon Musk I'm taking Cleb Howard, they're going to burn that all that down? Really?

It's a great question. It's it's and it's a fair question, Patty. It is. You've been doing well. Yeah, why?

I you know, I have to do it. I'm just asking, trying to be cordial. Oh no, I hear it. Court? Yeah.

Dear, tell him I said hi. I love him.

Okay, Dieter is, yeah, he's smiling. Hi, Patty. Thank you. You made my Friday. Every time.

I love you, Dieter. Yeah, Dida, I'm going to meet you one day because me and you are going to go out and we're going to have a good time. We're going to party. Oh, party like it's 1965, March 31st. I could party you to death.

Okay. I will take you under. I don't know, Patty. You haven't seen me with a beer bong. Here you are.

Yeah, I can get crazy. Oh my gosh. I've lost control of the show. Good. You know what?

You know what, Todd, you always lose control when me and Dita get on. I do. And then when you throw on poor Jackson from Waterloo, Iowa with the canned farts It's time to go home. You know it's the end of the week, Todd. It is.

All right. Oh, we got to take a break here. Patty, good, good talking to you. I love Patty. All right, 901-260-5926.

Open Line Friday. Pastor Robert Jeffress is coming up next. We'll be right back. All right, welcome back, everybody. Happy to have you with us.

On this Open Line Friday. Don't forget 5 o'clock Eastern tonight, we've got a great, great News Mac show lined up for you. A lot of fun guests, including our good friend General John Tykert. He's going to drop by to weigh in on the big news coming out of the White House with the development of the new fighter jet. Of course, General Tykert was a test pilot, and he was also the commander of Andrews Air Force Base and Edwards Air Force Base.

So all of that is happening at 5 o'clock. Eastern on Newsmax. I want to go to our Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line and welcome our good friend from the First Baptist Church of Dallas, Texas. Dr. Robert Jeffers.

Dr. Jeffers, good to have you with us today. Great to be back with you, Todd. Thanks for having me.

Well, I have to tell you, I was so excited and I gave you a shout out on Newsmax the other night.

So happy to see you in the Oval Office with President Trump, other faith leaders. praying over the President. What was that experience like?

Well, it was a tremendous experience. And when I think about all the things he was juggling and continues to have to work on internationally and nationally, it was amazing that he would take time to visit with us and allow us to pray with him. He's always a gracious host, always upbeat and encouraging. And I was asked to begin leading the prayer. And before I prayed, I said, Mr.

President, there are some things we want to say to you. First of all, we want to thank you for having the courage to push back against these leftist judges who are trying to prevent you from doing your duty of protecting our nation. And I said, the job of protecting our nation is not just a constitutional mandate, it's a biblical mandate. And we support you in what you're doing. And then I want to thank you for bringing faith back to our country.

You realize that unless the Lord builds a nation, those who labor labor in vain. I have to tell you, I can't tell you what they are, but the White House faith office that he's established has some thrilling plans to reintroduce faith as a part of American life. And when you see this Barna survey that only 40% of Americans now believe in God, something needs to be done. Yes, it's the responsibility of the church and parents, but government has a responsibility to make our country a faith-friendly country where faith in God is a virtue and not a vice. And he's committed to doing that.

You know, I have a new book, and we're going to talk about your book in just a moment, but I've got a new book coming out in June, and it's a devotion book called Star-Spangled Blessings: Devotions for Patriots. And went and did a deep dive into how Christianity and faith impacted a lot of American leaders. And it really reminds me what President Trump is doing with his faith office reminds me a lot of what Dwight D. Eisenhower did. And I Eisenhower is credited with really focusing the nation's attention back on the church, back on God.

That's right. And all you have to do is look to our history. That has always been the case, except for the last 60 to 70 years. When these idiots got the idea that we can be good without God and went on this rabid campaign to remove any mention of God from the public square. And we're seeing the results of that 60 to 70 years later.

And, you know, I mentioned in my brief remarks that his predecessors, Trump's predecessors, Barack Obama and Joe Biden, they weren't just indifferent toward conservative Christianity. They hated it with a passion and did everything they could to silence it. But God is bigger than they are. And I think the great irony of all time is that it took a New York real estate tycoon to bring faith back to our country. Wow, it sure did.

And I love that. It's exciting to see young people embracing the traditions of this country, going back to church. And I know you and I are Baptist by faith, by our religious denomination. But, I mean, man, the Catholics, they're knocking down the door. To get into the Catholic churches.

And I'm wondering why that is. Why do you think that we're seeing this massive rush back to church?

Well, I think a lot of it has to do, there's what the scripture calls a famine in the land. There is a hunger thirst for every human being to know God. And I think it is just that time in our history when people are making that move back toward God. They realize secularism doesn't work. It doesn't work individually.

It doesn't work as a country. And I'm happy to see. And look, I don't think we're getting ready to enter the millennium. I believe this is no time to let up in our pursuit of our faith. It's time to double down.

But I think, and I said this before the election, I said this may be. One of, if not America's last chance to turn back to God. And God is no respecter of people or nations. Any nation that reveres God will be blessed by God. And any nation, including the United States, that rejects God will be rejected by God.

Pastor Robert Jeffers joins us today on our Patriot mobile newsmaker line. And Dr. Jeffers, you have a brand new book out. It is a beautiful book. Baker Books just did a wonderful job with this.

The name of the book, Jesus Revealed in the End Times, Hope for Today from the One Who Holds Our Future. And you know, it's interesting your book cover because a lot of these books, when you're talking about the end times, they look rather ominous and scary. And you say the whole point of your book is we shouldn't be scared about that time. Right. I mean, the end times are scary times if you don't know Christ as Savior.

There's nothing good that awaits you if you die without faith in Jesus Christ. But for a believer, it's something to look forward to and to anticipate with great joy. You know, I was reading yesterday in a biography of Billy Graham an interesting account in January of 1961, a few days before Kennedy's inauguration. Kennedy invited Graham to come to Key Bustain and play golf with him. And on the way back, Uh Kennedy was driving a white uh Lincoln convertible.

And he pulled it off to the side of the road and turned to Billy Graham and said, Billy, do you believe Jesus Christ is coming back to earth one day? And Billy said, yes, sir, I do. Then Kennedy said, if that's true, why do I hear so little about it today? And, you know, the fact is, Todd, Jesus is coming back. It's a resounding theme throughout Scripture.

And the fact that he is coming back one day to judge the righteous and punish evildoers, the fact that he's going to burn up everything we see around us and create a new heaven and a new earth, we ought to be building our lives around that truth. I think this is so true. And folks, this is an incredible book, and you can get it wherever you buy your books. Again, the name of the title of the book, Jesus Revealed in the End Times. I don't think I have felt this optimistic about.

The country, where we're going. This it seemed like we were just heading towards a very dark time in American history. And now I feel like we've not only just slammed on the brakes, we've just whipped the car back around and we're heading back to that shining city on a hill.

Well, I think that's true. And I mean, think about it. I mean, all the absurd things going on. Last Easter, I was reminded at the White House. Last Easter at the White House, it was Transgender Day under Joe Biden instead of Easter Sunday.

You had grandmothers being arrested for singing a hymn in front of an abortion clinic. I mean, it's just absolutely absurd. And I think even people who aren't particularly Religious people understood there's something wrong with this picture. And without God, everything unravels.

So I think we're headed in the right direction. I don't think it's going to last forever. I think this is a window of opportunity. You know, Jesus said, work while it is still day because the night comes when no man can work. And so I think it's time not to let up, but to double down in our pursuit of our faith and sharing our faith with others.

All right. Dr. Jeffers, we're going to have to leave it there. Always good having you on the show. You have some wonderful people endorsing the book, including Dr.

David Jeremiah. You've got Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and our good buddy O.S. Hawkins. I smiled when I saw his name in that. He's a great guy.

He is. He's a lot of fun. He's a lot of fun. All right. Well, Dr.

Jefferson, I know you've got a busy week. I was going to say, have a nice, relaxing weekend. You got church on Sunday. Every Sunday, Super Bowl Sunday. I love that.

Getting ready. Love it. All right, Dr. Jeffers, always good talking to you. Great to talk to you, Todd.

All right. There you go, Pastor Robert Jeffers. By the way, he endorsed my book that's coming out in June along with Karen Kingsbury.

So, all of you ladies out there in the audience, you know Karen Kingsbury. They call her the queen of Christian romance novels. And Karen is a dear friend. And also, Franklin Graham wrote the introduction to the book, and very thankful for that as well. All right, we're going to take a quick break here, folks.

We've got to pay some bills. When we come back, we will take your calls. It is Open Line Friday. We want to welcome all of our new listeners in the Houston area and Virginia. 901-260-5926 is our number.

That's 901-260-5926. This is the Todd Stern Show. All right, welcome back, everybody. Good to have you with us. 901-260-5926 is our telephone number.

That's 901-260-5926. Let's go to. Kentucky, John is on the line. Hi, John. What's going on?

All right, let's put John on hold. There we go. I want to play some audio. This is from. Hollywood And, Dieter, I know you sort of cover a lot of this entertainment stuff, and it's fascinating.

Alec Baldwin. I mean, and the guy, the guy is just detestable. I mean, he really is. Rem uh, you may you guys may not remember when uh he the the uh audio leaked of him calling his daughter, his young daughter, teenage daughter, a pig and just yelling at her.

So now he's got himself a young wife. And that's the key here. She's young, but she's like, I think she's 40. All right, so you need to keep that in mind when you hear this. But I guess they were on the red carpet, and she was doing an interview or something, and she snaps at him.

In public, take a listen to Cut 14. The Ilari Show. No, no, I. I think we're gonna see, you know, it's we're gonna see how it feels to have it be out there. This is great.

You're a winner. Oh my god, when I'm talking, you're not talking. Sure. No, when I'm talking, you're not talking. This is why, yes, we'll have to like just pat him out of the show.

No, it's. Wow. What what was that all about? I mean Trouble in Paradise. Her name is Hilaria.

She is hilarious. She, no, she's a fraud and a phony, and she was. Embattled in a ton of controversy a couple years ago, Todd, because she was faking her Hispanic accent. She was like all over the place with accents. Oh, that's her.

I remember. Yeah. Oh, you don't talk now. You don't talk now. Yeah, because she was rolling out like a Spanish product.

I don't know if it was tequila, Todd, but she was trying to sell something.

So she really leaned into the accent.

So she's desperate to be a Hollywood celebrity. And the only reason she even gets the access to a red carpet, in which that moment you just heard, is because she's married to a Baldwin. Because Baldwins are obviously very famous. No one knows who this woman is.

So for her to shush, as you heard, the husband. was I think obviously it felt so disrespectful. You think of marriages, you think of husbands and wives. Like, you obviously wanna honor your husband, your wife.

So she breached that, number one. But number two, she wouldn't be there but for the coattails of her husband. Who is currently, is he still in Court because he shot the cinematographer. I mean, the whole family. And now they just launched a new show on HBO.

I'm not sure if you've been able to see it, Todd. Where they take you life inside the Baldwin household. That's what they were promoting there. Yeah, I don't want to do that. I I don't.

I I I I have no desire to go inside their household. I kind of feel bad for him, though. I mean, just can we play that again? I just, and everybody listen, this is a woman who is 40 years old. She sounds like.

Like she's one of the cast members of the Mean Girls. Jeremy. Ilaria's show. No, no. I think we're going to see.

You know, we're going to see how it feels to have it be out there. You're a winner. Oh, my God. When I'm talking, you're not talking. No, when I'm talking, you're not talking.

This is why. Yes, we'll have to just cut him out of the show. It sounds like she's slipping back into the accent there, Dieter. Yeah, exactly. And if we cut Alec Baldwin out of the show, there would be no show, sweetheart.

When I'm talking. You're not talking. Yeah. Ew, goodness. Yeah.

I why would he put up with that?

Well, he didn't. And he walked out of the shot.

So the video, you see him roll his eyes and he's like, you know what? You want me out of the shot? I'll walk right out of here. He left the shot. Make her get a get an Uber back.

I hope she gets a silent uber. That could be awkward. Mm-hmm.

Wow. All right. There you go.

I want to feel bad for the guy, but he's such a sleazeball. It's.

Okay, I kinda feel bad for him. I gotta tell you, he needs to be talking about D-I-V-O-R-C-E as the country music song once sang. Oh, can we talk about the The This is really the poster child for everything that's wrong on our university campuses in America. I want you to meet Scout. Scout is a.

They them. A student at one of our universities. Let's take a listen. Hi, um, I'm the scout. I use they-them pronouns and I'm an interdisciplinary major at UBC.

I'm in my last semester. My primary thematic focus is uh decolonizing academia and public knowledge systems, and my secondary thematic focus is biocultural and linguistic futurity. For those who don't know what that means, can you give us a quick rundown? Yeah, basically, what I focus on is the promises that the institution has made and also the emergence of Indigenous ways of knowing and being across the disciplines. And I feature in a lot of stuff like language revitalization or the emergent vitality of languages, rather, and just kind of a bunch of stuff.

I've taken courses in over 20 departments, so.

Okay. Yeah. Awesome. You know who she's going to be? She's going to be.

She's going to be driving around a Subaru and firebombing Tesla dealerships. That's what's in this chick's future. What in the world kind of a major is that? Do you now understand what is wrong with our nation's university system? These kids They're they're graduating with with no life skills.

They got nothing. Nothing at all, ladies and gentlemen. It's absolutely insanity.

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Live from the Liberty University Studio in Memphis, Tennessee, it's America's conservative blowtorch. That's right. I love this American ride. Todd starts. Oh, yeah.

Hello, everybody. Welcome to hour three of the big show. Great to have you with us today. Trust you are doing well wherever you might be across this great nation.

So we're getting ready. We're laying the groundwork for this summer. We're going to be doing a little book tour. We're not going to do a major book tour, but we are going to hit some spots around the country. And one of them is going to be: I know we've got to head out to North Carolina.

Our friends over in Moorhead City and New Bern, they have been demanding, you guys have been demanding that we return. And I think the Sanitary Fish House has already reserved a table for us.

So we're definitely looking out there. Also, Houston.

So we're going to be coming to the Houston area. And here's the deal. I mean, every time we go into one of the big cities, they like to take us to a place like a Ruth's Chris or Del Frisco or something. And I love, look, I love a good steak, but you know what I love better than a good steak? I love good, authentic, local food.

I want to eat where the local folks are eating. And so, any of you folks in Houston have recommendations for like a great barbecue joint for a brisket or a good Tex-Mex? I know Dieter is like a huge, he's on this, what is it, a carnivore diet thing where he's just, he's basically eating a cow every single day.

So we're going to need a location where we can go and chow down.

So if you have any recommendations, give us a call, 901-260-5926. That's 901-260-5926. Couple of local items here. In Memphis, Tennessee, we always we're always making national news, and this troubles me. Memphis is my hometown, and I love my hometown, but but sometimes you have to administer a little bit of tough love.

And we're in a tough spot. We really are, and it's two reasons. Number one, Way too many families without dads. in the household. Way too many.

And that's a problem. The the other issue Is we elect Democrats. But even worse than that, we elect morons. I mean, really bad people who have no clue on how to run or govern a city or a county. And it's really unfortunate.

But the headline here, and this is making national news, the U.S. Census Bureau says that Shelby County, Tennessee, which is the home to Memphis, the largest county in Tennessee, has experienced the largest population decline among all counties in the United States of America. In other words, people are packing up and they're getting out of Dodge. I've never seen anything like this. It's really remarkable.

Now, Every other now you folks in um St. Louis You guys are on the list. You folks down in Mississippi, Jackson, Mississippi, Hines County, you're on the list, as is. Orleans Parish, which is the home to New Orleans. And I This is sad because one of the things we've encouraged people to do, and I encourage people to do this here in Memphis, but especially like with California.

We don't want all the conservatives to leave California. We need somebody to stay behind and fight. Because it seems to me that California is is worth fighting for. It's a beautiful state. Beautiful people.

Beautiful culture out there. Yeah, there are a lot of wackadoodles, but we got them in all the states. We do. But I'm telling you that if we keep evacuating these states, we're never going to be able to facilitate change. And that's my concern in Memphis and Shelby County, an area that gave us B.

B. King and Elvis. And yeah, even Justin Timberlake. All right. Yeah, there you go.

Wink Martindale Remember him from the game shows? Memphis has just an incredible, incredible history. There's so much beauty here, so many wonderful things to do. You've got the Memphis Zoo, one of the top zoos in America. You got the we've got the pyramid.

And I think our pyramid, I'm just going to go out here and say this: Ben Dieter, I think our pyramid is a lot cooler than the ones the Egyptians built. Yeah. No comparison. You can't sleep in the pyramids in Cairo.

Well, you can, but you're dead. Oh. I guess they do have King Tut sleeping. But yeah, you can sleep in our pyramids. It's air-conditioned, it has an elevator.

The tallest elevator in they say, I don't know if this is true, but like in the world, I don't know. We've got a lot. This is the largest, the tallest freestanding elevator. Tallest freestanding. Yeah.

And they've got big fish and alligators. And man, do we know how to smoke a pork butt? I tell you, that dry rub, you're rubbing the the pork pork butt and you're getting all the spices in there. I live downtown, and all of downtown smells like barbecue. It's the scent of the South.

In Memphis. I bet you get a good whiff of gunpowder, too. Oh, I get a good whiff of a fair share of things, Todd. It's also the scent of the South of marijuana, the Devil's Lettuce, the Mary Jane, whatever you want to name it.

So it's a combination of smells. Wacky weed. Yeah. So, have you noticed the decline, though? I mean, we have a lot of, you know, tourism is a huge industry here.

You have the Peabody Hotel with the beautiful ducks, and people are just not coming. They're not coming to Memphis. Even the ducks aren't safe. The ducks at the Peabody, the historic hotel of the Saltad, are also fleeing. They wear little tiny Kevlar vests.

Yeah. And little helmets. Even our dogs are shooting people. Whack, whack. Yeah.

It's bad. I mean, I love Memphis. I have a tattoo of Memphis on me. I mean, I'm as I'm not born raised here, but I'm working on my bona fides. I love the city.

And it's really sad because Downtown is unfortunately really scrappy and ghosty. Like, it's eerie. How dead it is. You see, the same thing is happening in St. Louis.

And I know we have a lot of St. Louis listeners as well. And that's, you know, it's a tough thing because they're both beautiful cities, great culture right there. They're Mississippi River towns. And you wonder, and again, like Houston, just overrun by violence.

And you have to wonder how bad does it have to get before the people say, you know what, maybe we ought to vote Republican.

Well, that hasn't happened here for a long minute. And it's a conversation. I was looking at some polling in California, for example. I believe Mel Gibson, though he has not declared that he is going to run for California's governor, he's pulling it number one on the R side. And it's like, you know, maybe after the Pacific Palisades and the terrible fires, those people wake up and vote for.

Change And yet, we see the opposite. And same right here in Memphis, Tennessee. I think the other thing that's just confusing for a lot of people is the gaslighting, where in California, you have the Gavin Newsoms of the world that say, actually, we are the city on a hill. Like every other country wants to be, or every other state wants to be California. Same with our mayor here.

He's like. We've got the coolest city in America. We've got Seoul. And yet, there's no one experiencing it because the reality here is that it's unsafe. And so, until you start acknowledging the people's real concerns and start validating them and doing something about public safety, you're going to see that exodus only widen.

Wow. I'm curious to hear from our Memphis listeners on KWAM. You know, those of you who have said, you know what, I'm staying put. I'd like to know why. Why are you staying put?

Why did you make the decision to stay where you are? And I'm also curious to hear from people that maybe have moved to the outlying counties. Maybe you moved to Mississippi or Arkansas. And I'd like to hear from you. And by the way, Mississippi, my hat is off to you guys.

They just overwhelmingly passed a bill. that will cut the state income tax and reduce the grocery tax. That's how you do it, by the way, ladies and gentlemen. But we have a mayor in Memphis that is. A nice guy, just a nice guy, good family man, wife, kids, good guy, but he's he's not.

He he can't lead. And his whole issue is, well, we don't have a crime problem, we have a crime perception problem.

Well, I got to tell you something, those perceived bullets are taking down a lot of people across our city. And I have to imagine now he's going to say, we don't have a population decline, we just have the perception. of the population declining. Let's go to Kyle listening to us on KWAM in Memphis, Tennessee. Hey, Kyle.

So I'm curious, do you live in Memphis proper? Yeah, well, no, I did for I grew up in Memphis proper, and for the last few years I've been out in Lakeland. Got married and moved out to Lakeland with the wife there. But I work in Memphis a lot.

So I'm in Midtown right now, just taking a quick little break here.

So let's say, let me say, before you get here, isn't it a great city, though? I mean, you take away the crime, you've got really one of the coolest cities in America. Oh, for sure, for sure. shared that sentiment with uh people for for quite some time. With St.

Louis, I spent a lot of time in St. Louis growing up, and I loved St. Louis. But um I mean, I hate to just label it as a quote unquote just. Strictly a political issue, but there is something to be said for how.

I believe it's statistically, I want to say it's something about nineteen out of the twenty one uh Biggest. cities in America are all Democrat ran, and historically speaking, have been Democrat ran at least for the last half century. Um As a matter of fact. I was listening to the Patrick Bett David show the other day Washington DC, ever since Washington DC has had a mayor Which is, I believe, started in the early seventies when they began actually instituting. A mayoral position.

Every single one of them has been a Democrat, has been on the left. They have not had one single Republican mayor in Washington, D.C. And as you probably well know, it is an extremely dangerous and violent city. They obviously have a lot of wealth there, obviously. But at the same time, though, it's an extremely urban sprawl of ghettos there, just like it is in Memphis and St.

Louis. The last thing I'll say, and I'll hop off and let other people go on. Look, it's just It's a shame how the Early on, kind of civil rights activist, you know, way back, way back when, even before King, you know, he had Booker T. Washington and Ida B.

Wells and Robert R. Church and all those those black historical, great black historical Americans Obviously, they fought for equality of opportunity and they got it. The Civil Rights Act passed. But what they were also talking about was they valued Education. They valued reading and writing for their people.

They valued character and integrity for their people. and so on and work ethic and character integrity and all those great kind of values that really the current contemporary left does not give a darn about whatsoever. All the current left is concerned with now is just DEI and LGBTQ And accepting anybody and everybody in this country. It doesn't matter. Right.

We're not concerned with looking at your paper. Just come on in. You can have bombs on you. I guess it's come on in. Don't worry about it.

So it's just it's sickening. Um So, yeah, anyway, yeah, I live in a suburb. I don't live in Memphis anymore, and I don't want to live in Memphis anymore.

Well, it is very dangerous. And I will say this, Colin, I thank you for the call. I will say this: it's not beyond redemption. We can redeem the city of Memphis. We can redeem the city of St.

Louis. We're going to have to work our butts off, and we're going to have to make some very big decisions. But I'm telling you, we can redeem these two major, beautiful American cities. All right, I've got to take a quick break. We've got Congressman Michael Ruley coming up.

Our telephone number: 901-260-5926. Open Line Friday, 901-260-5926. Yeah. All right, folks, welcome back to the show. Let's go to the Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line.

Say hello to our good friend, the Congressman from Ohio, member of the Doge Caucus, Congressman Michael Ruley. Congressman, hope you're doing well today. Hello, Congressman. All right, we'll try to get the congressman back with us. Congressman.

How are you, Todd? All right. Hey, look, I'm excited about what's been happening in Washington, and this is really just incredible. Yesterday, the President deciding to dismantle the Department of Education. But the big issue, and we've talked about this before, Congressman, is we've got to start codifying this, and I understand you may have some breaking news to share with us.

I do. I was lucky enough to be in the front row with our current chairman, Tim, and then we had Dr. Virginia Fox, our past chairman of Head and Workforce, and the three of us were sitting right in the front row watching him sign it.

So my staff knew this was coming, so we've been working on a new bill. It's called the Education Restoration Act. And then I believe that Senator Cassidy out of Louisiana is doing a twin bill in the Senate. And so what this is, is like, you know, all the topics for all you, you know, talk radio junkies, you know, all of us were raised on Rush Limbaugh. And we know that we get together in the town hall effect of, you know, talk radio.

We have to codify these executive orders. They're only as good as President Trump's in office, and some of this stuff is really gold, and this is one of them.

So this has to be codified. If we get these two twin bills moving through both chambers, we can see which one gets to the end, and then we can concur on the other side and get it to the President's desk before we break for the 4th of July holiday. You know what I find fascinating, Congressman, is you had a lot of Democrats out there years ago talking about how, you know what?

Okay, fine. They dismantled the Department of Education. The states will just assume. Those responsibilities. And that's exactly the point here.

It's not necessary. We don't need the Department of Education in its current form.

Well, you know, and God bless Jimmy Carter, but he created this miserable thing, and it's never really worked efficiently. And in the state of Ohio, when I was in Ohio Senate, I was so proud to be part of EdChoice, and we did a voucher program second to none. We gave the power back to urban moms. You know, we're not saying that public education is bad, but we need choices, whether it's a charter school, Christian school, Montessori, Catholic school, home school, all those schools. We want mom to have a choice.

We want mom to have the power again. And not only that, in Ohio, we like to rule by home rule.

So we like to bring back the power to the most local basic, whether you're a trustee or a councilman or whether you're a commissioner. We want to bring it back locally, especially in the hands of a lot of the school board members. You know, we have over 620 school boards in Ohio. And how about if we take that money out of the federal, we divide it with the 50 states? If I'm doing my math right, we could have $4, $5, $6, $7 million extra to every school.

in the state of Ohio, and then also have enough money to boost up those voucher programs a little bit. Everyone's a winner except the bureaucracy, a bloated federal government. It's a fair point. And I'm this is so vitally important. Real quick, just from the formatics of it all, is this something that just requires a simple majority vote in the House and the Senate?

Well, we're going to in my opinion, we're going to have to piggyback it probably with the great big beautiful bill to try to get it through. If we have to get the sixty votes in the Senate, that's going to be a real hard hurdle to accomplish. And that's going to take the leadership of to guide us through that, what they're comfortable with, what the President wants, with the other chamber, leader Thumb, what he's preferring. I know my place and my humility of life, and I'm willing to bend and move and shape any way I possibly can. I just want to codify these bills.

I think that's why we're all elected to go there. Like I said, we saw Joe Biden on day number one overturned every one of the executive orders from the first Trump administration. And we can't make the same mistake twice. We just can't do that, Todd. No, no, we can't.

And again, and you guys have so much to do. We've got to play smart here. You've got to have two-thirds a majority of the Senate, for example, to if you're going to impeach judges, So, if you go through the impeachment trial in the House, it's just a waste of time.

So, we're going to have to play smart politics here for the next couple of years at least. Congressman, appreciate you coming on. We've got to take a quick break here. Thank you again for the great work you're doing in Ohio and for the country. Thank you so much.

All right, we've got to take a quick break here, folks. 901-260-5926. This is Open Line Friday on the Todd Stern Show. Oh, Ben Dieter, we we got some fan mail from Patriot Talk 920 in Houston. This is from Melody.

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That is so kind. Thank you, Melody. Wow, very nice.

Well, I mean, she's quite the author there. Hey, when you're praying, Psalm 91, she knows her Bible. Listen, you guys here this show, we need as much prayer, especially on today's program. Overline Fridays. Yeah, we're going to church not only on Sunday, but also Saturday and maybe even this evening.

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Let's go to John in Kentucky. Hi, John. What's going on? Hey there, mister Starnes. Great to show.

You know, I I want to talk about I've been watching these uh Republican representatives Hold these town hall meetings. one of the worst examples Yeah. and respect our are these audiences.

Okay. They're not giving the congressman The representatives the chance to speak. What they're doing is they are They are shouting them down. And what's going to happen is I don't blame these congressional representatives for not meeting them as a town hall. First of all, Thomas Jefferson said it, and you know this.

The greatest danger to our republic is an uninformed electorate, and that's exactly what these audio these town hall meetings sound like. And that Third ID coming at the representative and aggressive manner. Those cops actually practiced the lottery strength. They just sort of slammed his backside down put him in cuffs and hauled his butt off to jail. Because veterans, he gave a bad name because I'm a veteran, you know that.

He gave a bad name to veterans. all those congressional representatives shut those town hall meetings down and hold individual meetings because You're posing a danger to yourself. These people, to me, are Basically, the mob. And I'll hang up and listen for your response, Todd.

Well, Pastor, yeah, I love you too, Pastor John. Thank you for that. And it's always a fine call and brings a lot to the table. Yeah, I think Pastor John is right here. In my commentary this morning, I call them the party of thugs, the Democrat Party.

They are the party of thugs. It's not a matter of agreeing to disagree. It's not a matter of just, all right, I get it. You know, you and I just, you know, we can't agree on that, but that's all right. No, no, no.

They want to destroy you. I mean, that's it. You don't agree with them, boom, you're done. You're done. Let's go to South Haven, Mississippi.

Joanne is listening to us on KWAM, our flagship station. Hi, Joanne. What's going on? Hey, Todd. I just wanted to make a comment about Memphis and I I actually grew up in Memphis.

I was born in Memphis. But I left over 20 years ago. when my dad moved to Southwest Florida.

So I just followed him. But I recently came back to take care of my mother. But she passed away, and so I really don't have a need to stay here anymore. And with the crime the way that it is, it's not a perception, it really is happening. I don't want to stay stay here.

My job is in Florida. My friends are in Florida and I just you say that there's a lot of good places to visit here in Memphis, but I just I'm I'm scared to go out.

So I don't know what to do about that while I'm still here. I think the issue for me, Joanne, is trying to figure out how do you convince people who are only voting for. Political party, and they're voting for skin color here in Memphis. And I get it, you know, they want to be, and the mayor of Memphis says that he wants us to be known for our swagger and our soul. That we're the, and he's, it's always about skin color with the mayor.

It's not about. Small businesses, it's about black small businesses. It's not about musicians, it's about black musicians. And I'm wondering, how do you, is it even possible to get away from all of that? I mean, you look at Atlanta, for example.

I know Atlanta's got its own problems, but at the same time, they have a very wealthy, affluent, upper-middle-class black community. They've got a strong middle-class black community, and they've got those strong neighborhoods. We don't have a lot of that in Memphis. And I'm wondering. You know, what is it going to take for people to say, we've got to change what we've been doing?

Yeah, I don't see change happening. Um, it's just The mayor is blinded by what's going on in his own city, or he doesn't care. And I I've noticed that at the race is a big issue here. Er it it's just Unbelievable. Here's what gets me.

Here's what gets me, Joanne. You moved to South Haven, Mississippi, which is directly across the state line, and it has become really a refugee center for Memphians and people evacuating and trying to get away from the crime. And what I love about South Haven, they say that you guys, oh, this is white flight. You guys are racist.

South Haven, a DeSoto County, just elected a black sheriff. And for the first time since Reconstruction, you guys are represented in the state house by a black Republican lawmaker. Yes, I participated in that voting, so. Um It's not race. No, it's and that's the point.

It's not race. You know, you want qualified, capable people. And I'm telling you, there is a path forward, but we've got to figure out, and I hope you don't leave, but I understand why you would, Joanne. But cause we need good people here in the Mid-South. Yes, I agree, but I'm just really homesick.

So and what part of Florida are you are you like um are you like the the the sou the only part of Florida that's in the south is the panhandle. Everything else is basically southern New York. My husband's a New Yorker, and I'm from Sarasota, so that's southwest. All right, very nice.

Well, is that anywhere near Ocala? Yes, Ocala is inland, probably about. Two to three hours.

Okay, well, we've got to go down.

Well, we've got a great radio affiliate out there, WOCA. They're great people. We are slowly but surely growing and adding more stations in the sunshine state.

So, well, look, Joanne, we're going to have to leave it there. You hang in there. Let us know what you decide to do. But, you know, if you can, folks, stay and fight. And we've got to convince people.

We've got to win over hearts and minds. All right, 901-260-5926. That's 901-260-5926. It is open line Friday.

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All right, folks, welcome back to the Todd Starns Radio Show. Happy to have you with us. Open line Friday, 901-260-5926 is our Telephone number.

Now, this is an interesting story. Nine out of ten people say that having healthy, prepared meals would help them with weight loss. According to the report. Americans struggle to lose weight due to lack of support and wellness. I kind of figured it was because they were stuffing their faces with ho-hos or little debys, but my bad, apparently.

But this is a big deal. A lot of people trying to lose weight, a lot of people trying to feel better, and especially as spring gives way to summer. One of our great, great sponsors of this program is Top Health Source, the home of Calatrin. Elizabeth Miller is the chief executive officer, and she joins us on our Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line today. Elizabeth, hi, how are you today?

Hey, I'm doing great. Elizabeth, I love every time we have you on the show. You're always such a joyful person, and it's a lot of fun to have these kinds of conversations.

Well, it is, you know, and I'm thank you. I take that as a great compliment. I do feel good.

So overall, I feel like I'm a pretty happy person.

So overall, you know, Caltran, it's helped me get there, too. It really has. Yeah, and again, this is a product that you've tried that is important to you. And I want you to take our listeners through your personal story. Yes, sir.

I actually started Calatrin. It was a couple of years after I had my baby, and my baby didn't come out being 45 pounds like I had put on. And it took a while. You know, even six months later, a year later, I was still carrying around that extra weight, and I just needed a little bit of help. But also, you know, as a new mother, and I was even breastfeeding at the time too, you know, I had to be careful about what I put into my body.

And so drugs and stimulants weren't an option. I wasn't going to go any crazy route. I was already incorporating, trying to eat better and work out, and I just wasn't seeing the results. I guess, you know, just getting older, my metabolism was declining too. And so I found calatrin, and calatrin helped me lose 40 pounds.

I lost 40 pounds. It was not a quick fix. Yeah, it's not a drug. It's not a stimulant. It's not going to be overnight results with calatrin.

That's one thing that, you know, we always like to let people know. This is not going to be lose 10 pounds in 10 days like some of your other diet products out there. This is about giving your body back. What it had when you were younger. It's rebuilding lean muscle tissue, it's repairing, and that's what's revving up your metabolism naturally.

So it is more slow going. It took me right at five months to lose that weight, but I have kept it off now for years. My daughter is actually ten today. Today is her birthday.

So I have kept that off now for I guess that was that seven, eight years, and now I just use it for maintenance. It's not even something that you have to be on forever. We do have some people that get on California and stay on it because it does have a lot of side benefits as well. It's great for sleep. You actually do take it at bedtime.

That's another something different about this product being a diet product. A lot of people are like, will it not keep me up at night? Why is that? Why do you take it at bedtime? Right.

So your body's reparative stage cycle of sleep is that first 45 to 90 minutes of sleep. And that's really when our studies show that your body will efficiently, most efficiently use calatrin to rebuild lean muscle tissue.

So we really want it on your stomach right when you go to sleep and preferably on an empty stomach where it's not competing with anything else in your stomach food-wise.

So your body will utilize all the ingredients in calatrin to rebuild lean muscle tissue and rev up your metabolism naturally.

Now in doing so, and I'm like a science person about this stuff now too. I've been doing it so long, I love it. I get into it. But when you take calatrin at bedtime, your body is already releasing a chemical called glycine that helps you sleep more soundly. And a cool thing about when you take a collagen protein supplement, which is the main ingredient in calatrin, it breaks down into glycine as well too.

So it can help you sleep more soundly.

So I've even heard of customers over the years telling me that they they sleep better and they're dreaming again. They're overall waking up feeling refreshed, more energy. I can attest to that too. You have a more natural energy throughout your day. It's more sustained.

It's not where you have the sugar cravings at 3 p.m. You're not saying, Oh, I need a donut at this point in time or I have to have some caffeine. This is just steady energy throughout your day because your body's metabolism is boosted and you've slept good and your joints are feeling better too. A lot of people get on calatrant and stay on it for the joint support. You know, Suzanne, I know you've talked to her before here in the office.

She's been on Calatran for gosh, like twenty five years, I think, and she uses it for the arthritis. She really didn't have any weight to lose, but she says it helps her arthritis better than anything else she's ever tried.

So it's great for joint support, too. I have to tell you, I was taking Calatrin and loving it, but then I realized I wasn't losing weight, and it had nothing to do with Calatrin. I didn't stop eating the box of little Debbie's, the oatmeal pies.

So, you know, it's important to start watching. And I'm making a commitment over the spring and summer to trim down. And I'm embracing the whole Maha movement, Make America Healthy Again. And I think this is a great opportunity for our listeners to maybe help join on that mission to trim down a little bit. And I love Calatrin.

I do have one question, though, because I've seen some of the other stuff out there, those popular things where you lose like, you know, 80 pounds in two weeks and your face looks like it's melting. That's not what Calatrin is. That's right. You know, Calatrin is actually safe with all medications. It doesn't interfere with anything.

It doesn't negatively affect you at all. It's going to help you tone and tighten while you're losing weight, too, because it does help with tissue growth.

So it's going to actually help you tone and tighten that skin as you're. You're losing weight too.

Now, again, that 90-day supply of calatrin is where the huge 86% success rate is.

So, you've got to give it time to work, too. It's not going to be overnight results with calatrin. It does have a huge success rate once you give it time. The first month is all about healing and rebuilding tissue. Really, around the one-month mark is when people start noticing, hey, my clothes are fitting better, maybe even a few pounds, and then steady weight loss after that.

Now, like you said, it's not a magic pill, it's not going to be overnight results. You're also not going to just magically stop wanting to eat the ding-dongs, the ho-hos, the oatmeal, cream pies. But over time, when your metabolism is boosted, it does help with overeating, it does help with the cravings. It's not a direct stimulant like that, it's not a stimulant, it's not an appetite suppressant. But when your body is functioning efficiently, then you don't have as many of those cravings.

And I know your schedule is crazy, too-you know, being up so early and having to work so much, too. That makes it hard. And so many people out there is we're all out here living these crazy business. Busy lives and eating healthy and trying to be healthy, like you said, getting on this health movement. You've got to put it number one.

You don't have anything else if you don't have your health. You've got to keep it number one. Let's talk about where people can go. If they want to check out Calatrin, what's the best website they should go to?

Okay, so toplos.com is the only place you can get calorie. And there are some people out there that try to fake you out on everything else. We don't sell it anywhere else other than the website toploss.com.

Now you can call us and order it by phone, too, but T-O-P-L-O-S-S.com, TopLoss.com is where you can order it. And then our phone number is also 833-TOPLOSS.

So if you have questions at all, you can call us. We're here to help you. We are family-owned and operated right here in America. The product is made in America. Everything is third-party tested, quality, purity, all that stuff.

So you can trust it. And we've been around since 1997.

So we've been helping customers lose weight safely for almost 30 years. It is a safe natural weight loss. And again, toploss.com, promo code Todd. And I guess people get a discount, right? I think it's free shipping.

I think Todd gives them free shipping. T-O-D-D gives you free shipping on all orders on our website. All right. This is pretty awesome. America's number one choice for healthy weight loss.

And more. And again, it is proven. It is not a quick fix. This is all about making sure getting yourself trained and conditioned and disciplined into living a healthy life. And I'm, folks, I'm buying in.

And hopefully, by this time next year, you know, you're going to be talking to a more slender taunt. I won't be taking up as much space on the radio.

So, all right, Elizabeth, good hearing from you. Yeah, we hear your ads all the time. People ask: Is Elizabeth real? I'm like, Yes, Elizabeth is real. I'm real live.

And you know, I'm actually not far from Memphis either.

So I'm a real live person in Tennessee. I love it.

That's why you know she's good people. All right. Elizabeth Miller, the CEO of Top Health Source, home of Calatrin, TopLoss.com, ladies and gentlemen. That's toploss.com. Check it out.

You're going to love it. I'm going to love it. And we're going to be in this journey together. Promo code Todd, T-O-D-D, and you're going to get free shipping. And you're going to love this.

All right. It's been a great week. Wow. It's been a busy week. We're going to continue the conversation on Usmax tonight, 5 o'clock Eastern.

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