Crockett Threatens Cruz, Mocks Governor in Wheelchair

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Welcome to the Tom Stearns Radio Show. Happy to have you with us today. Wow. We're going to talk about what happened with the Signal Chat scandal. I'm not even sure it rises to the level of scandal.

I do have questions. And look, here's the deal.

Somebody screwed up a couple of things, a couple of things to unravel all of this, because people are making a big to-do about it, and we're going to be talking with our good buddy, a retired Army colonel, David Giamona, in just a few moments.

So first of all, this signal system they were using was already on all of the government phones, so they've been using this for a very long time.

So this is not like they're just texting super secret information from the federal government, right?

So that did not happen. It was a simple mistake, but i do have a couple of questions number one i'd and by the way so president so now you have the secretary of defense pete hegseth who's out there saying oh um we uh the secretary said oh it never happened it never happened and this guy is a sleazy no account good for nothing weasel talking about jeffrey goldberg over the atlantic and i don't disagree with that as a matter of In fact, Goldberg is a horrible person, just horrible human being. In this instance, though, you've got to give the guy credit where credit's due. He could have leaked all of this information to the newspapers, and he didn't. He could have published it in The Atlantic, but he didn't.

And I appreciate that. I can respect that. But he's still a sleazy no-account-good-for-nothing weasel.

So I don't understand Hegseth out there, and he is now contradicting President Trump, who told NBC News, yeah, it was a mistake. It's not going to happen again. Right. It was a simple mistake. That's all.

And there was nothing nefarious. They weren't being, I mean, I guess you could say they were careless. But here's the question I have. I want to know why any member of the Trump administration, any member of the Trump administration, has the personal contact signal information for one Jeffrey Goldberg of the Atlantic. why why would you have that individual's information there there's only one plausible explanation and i'm not ready to go there just yet but i'm i'm very curious to know what that's all about so again it is what it is you know the democrats are calling for heads on platters and all this kind of stuff i i think it was a simple mistake so the lesson here is stop making stupid mistakes right and president trump forgiving man he gave michael waltz another another shot and i think we're gonna you know i think he's gonna be able to you know move on from here but if you want to have that conversation about they're putting lives in jeopardy really well hillary clinton literally killed people her policies literally killed people in penghazi four americans killed Many more injured.

Some of them losing their legs, their arms, because of Hillary Clinton's foreign policy screw-up.

So if you want to have that conversation, let's have that conversation. But when it comes to this signal group thing, let me say this. To borrow a phrase from Mrs. Bill Clinton, what difference does it make? What difference does it make?

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wipe down this studio with disinfectants speaking of ghetto can we changing the subject here can we talk for a minute about pam bondy uh this is absolutely insane pam pam i'm sorry i said pam bondy i meant jasmine crockett you see i really am not well today it's a it's okay you get the the pneumonia pass so jasmine crockett and pam bondy are going at it like cats and dogs But before we get to that, I got to talk to you about what Jasmine. You said, let's talk about ghetto, Pam Bondi. I wouldn't. Of all the ghetto lawmakers, Pam Bondi isn't fitting that bill. Can we just back up and start the show over again?

Can we do that? Is that possible? Ladies and gentlemen, just forget everything you've just heard. It's only 1113. I'm healthy as a horse.

So let's talk. First of all, let's talk about Jasmine Crockett. And then we'll talk about Jasmine Crockett and Pam Bondi.

So Jasmine Crockett was speaking at the Human Rights Campaign event in Los Angeles. And first of all, the Human Rights Campaign, if you're not familiar with the Human Rights Campaign, these are very awful human beings. They hate you. If you are a person of the Christian faith, they especially hate you.

Now, the Human Rights Campaign is a radical LGBT organization, and they hate Christians. They especially hate yours truly. Joe Biden when he was president he spoke to this group and called all of you Christians out there in front of this mob of people and this is like the Subaru drivers you got the uh the soy boy snowflakes you got the purple hair people all of them it was like the bar scene in Star Wars and Joe Biden gets up there and talks about all of you Trump supporters and Christians and conservatives calling you the dregs of society.

So anyway, this is all that to say these are very horrible people. And quite frankly, honestly, with their attacks on the Christian faith, they ought to be considered a domestic hate group. But that's just me.

So anyway, Jasmine Crockett, who has been very well educated, the woman has attended some of the most expensive schools in america and and yet she acts like she's starring in a tyler perry movie have you noticed this maybe it's just me so anyway she was out there over the um she was um at this um at this human rights campaign event and here's what she had to say about the governor of texas cut number six And because we in these hot ass Texas streets, honey, y'all know we got Governor High Wheels down there. Come on now. And the only thing hot about him is that he is a hot ass mess, honey.

So.

So, yes, yes, yes, yes.

So she's talking about the governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, a Republican. and Governor Abbott is in a wheelchair, confined to a wheelchair. When he was in law school, if you haven't heard the story, he was taking a break from his studies. He decided to go out on a jog. And as he was jogging, a giant oak tree split and fell on him and severed his spine.

So he is paralyzed from the waist down. And it's a horrible tragedy, but it's also an incredible story of perseverance. that the governor, in spite of his horrifying injuries, picked himself up by the bootstraps and became the governor of the state of Texas. It's an incredible story. And yet for Jasmine Crockett to go out there and to mock a man, calling him Governor Hot Wheels, what kind of a human being does that?

What kind of a person thinks like that? This is just a monster of a woman. And I don't know what happened to her. I don't know what triggered her. But she's nothing more than just a race agitator.

Now, a lot of people are going to be upset with the use of this word. But I am a wordsmith. I love words. And I love the meanings of words. And I want to share with you a word that I think befits the behavior of this congresswoman, trifling.

Trifling. She is an unimportant person, this woman. And it's of her own doing. How dare you say that word? Who do you think you are?

That's a horrible thing to say. You got to look at the definition. Trifling means unimportant. And this woman is making herself unimportant. It's a shameful thing that's happening here with Jasmine Crockett.

The woman needs to be censured. The woman needs to be removed from the Congress. Quite frankly, I believe her behavior, and especially what she had to say about Ted Cruz and Tesla drivers, I believe is worthy of expulsion from the Congress. Cut number five. She is promoting violence.

And then you showed the clip of what she said about Senator Cruz. I believe she probably will be censured by Congress for saying that. You know, people don't learn. She's using her public persona, her public platform to increase her followers, to increase her significance. And she is threatening lives, safety.

You know, when she did this at Tesla, Sean, people's lives are in danger. This is America. We're in a free country. And she's yet encouraging this violence in our country. Think of all the lives that could have been jeopardized in Texas just today by her words and what she's done.

But she didn't stop with that. She continued on with Senator Cruz. She has to apologize immediately and denounce the violence.

Okay, well, a couple of things about Pam Bondi. First of all, I don't think it's the place of the attorney general to demand people apologize or the place of the attorney general to write a strongly worded letter to the congresswoman. if if laws have been broken here if in fact jasmine crockett which according to u.s federal law jasmine crockett has violated then it is up to the attorney general to prosecute that so i'm not sure why we're so concerned about writing a strongly worded letter or demanding an apology so my question is this i mean and again she was calling for 10 crews to be hit hard hit hard that's that's what jasmine crockett said so my question is we go to break should should jasmine crockett be removed from the house of representatives 901-260-5926 is our telephone number that's 901-260-5926 this is the todd stern show are you tired of destructive content flooding your screens well i know i was and that's why i joined the angel guild community i wanted entertainment that inspires and uplifts, not drags us down. And with Angel Guild, I can vote on upcoming films and support movies that reflect values that I align with. Plus, I get early access to inspiring content.

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So very happy to have you with us. And we're going to be dipping into a lot of the hearings today. By the way, our good friend, Governor Mike Huckabee, is going through the confirmation process to be our next ambassador to Israel, one of the finest people I know. That is going to be a terrific, terrific pick for the Trump administration. also the hearings this morning on this crazy signal thread between Hegseth and Marco Rubio and National Security Advisor Michael Waltz that's going on Democrats are trying to make make something of this but honestly I don't see this as a big deal as a matter of fact this is something that's been in place as a means of communication for a very long time now here's Senator Tom Cotton pointing out that even the Biden administration used Signal, cut four.

I bet a bunch of those senators that you see at the hearing today are using Signal as well to speak to each other or to speak to their aides. And it is my understanding that the Biden administration authorized Signal as a means of communication that was consistent with presidential record-keeping requirements for its administration, and that continued into the Trump administration. It's simply another messaging app, like the iMessage app on your iPhone or email servers that every administration has set up in which senior administration officials can communicate with each other. Yeah, so again, was a mistake made? Yeah, absolutely.

The administration's been pretty straightforward about it all, except for the defense secretary. But yeah, what would you say, Tom? Wait a second. What are you talking about? What do you mean?

All right, well, here's what Pete Hankseth had to say about all of this. cut number 12 can you share how your information about war plans against the houthis in yemen was shared with a journalist in the atlantic and were those details classified uh so i'm you're talking about a deceitful and highly discredited so-called journalist who's made a profession of peddling hoaxes time and time again to include the i don't know the hoaxes of russia Russia, Russia, or the fine people on both sides hoax, or suckers and losers hoax.

So this is a guy that pedals in garbage. This is what he does. I would love to comment on the Houthi campaign because of the skill and courage of our troops. I've monitored it very closely from the beginning. And you see, we've been managing four years of deferred maintenance under the Trump administration.

Our troops, our sailors were getting shot at as targets. Our ships couldn't sail through. And when they did shoot back, it was purely defensively or at shacks in Yemen. President Trump said, no more. We will reestablish deterrence.

We will open freedom of navigation. And we will ultimately decimate the Houthis, which is exactly what we're doing as we speak from the beginning overwhelmingly. Why were those details shared on Signal? And how did you learn that a journalist was privy to the targets, the types of weapons used? I've heard I was characterized.

And nobody was texting war plans. And that's all I have to say about that. All right. Well, there you go. All right.

Got to take a break here, folks. 901-260-5926. You think this is a big deal? We can talk through it. 901-260-5926.

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Johnny in Memphis, Tennessee, listening to us on KWAM, our flagship station. Hi, Johnny, what's on your mind today? The nerve of Pam Bondo's face to criticize Jasmine Crockett when her boss is the leader of mocking people and saying bad things about people. And you, of anybody, call for a civil war. Jasmine Crockett done forgot more about law.

than Pam Bondo Face will ever know. Why do you call her? I'm just curious. Why do you call her Pam Bondo Face? She's a very attractive woman.

Look at her. It looks like she's got a pile of Bondo on her face. But, Jay, you know why she won't prosecute her?

Well, I'm still trying to work because she has Bondo on her face? Yeah. Do you know anything about Bondo? That's what you use when you're filling in cracks on car bodies. But anyway, Jasmine Crockett has forgot more about love.

That's not very polite. Then Pam Bondo face will ever know. And what idiots do we have running the White House? Them three idiots up there. That chat line is for regular, normal, everyday people.

And they know that. No, actually, it's not, Johnny. But hold on. I want to go back to Pam Bondi and Jasmine Crockett. You brought up Jasmine Crockett.

But Jasmine Crockett's out there calling the governor of Texas, Governor Hot Wheels, mocking a man in a wheelchair. Are you okay with Jasmine Crockett doing that? President Trump? No, no, no. I'm talking about Jasmine Crockett.

I'm talking about Jasmine Crockett. Oh, she didn't mean that. Oh, okay. She didn't mean that. All right.

Hey, Dylan, can we go back? She just being Jasmine. Oh, just being Jasmine. You don't really mean that. Jasmine from the hood.

Jasmine from the street. you say about trump jasmine from the hood of rhodes college huh jasmine crockett you know she's pretending to be she's cosplaying um she's pretending to be a ghetto she's pretending to be from the streets the hood when in fact she's was she was educated in incredibly wealthy schools oh you're jealous are you jealous i'm not jealous i mean maybe i wish i had those eyelashes those you know what you all go insane like one of those woolly caterpillars education that just drives y'all insane no i just wonder hold on hold on hold on just a second johnny that's a good point you raise here's the thing she was when you go back and watch older videos of jasmine crockett she's very well spoken and um just as polite as could be so if that's the edge if that's what happened to her at Rhodes College. She came out talking like she was in a Tyler Perry movie. Yeah, I think if I were her parents, I'd be concerned. You got to get straight to the point and hit y'all where it hurts.

And that's with knowledge. You can't stand that. Oh, you think that's knowledge? Yes, that's knowledge. She got more knowledge than you.

Okay. All right. Let's go back to it. Let's go back and listen, Johnny. Let's go back and listen to some of that knowledge in action cut number six place and um because we in these hot ass texas streets honey oh y'all know we got governor high wheels down there come on now come on now and and the only thing hot about him is that he is a hot ass mess honey so um so yeah so so yes um johnny is that the knowledge that you speak of she's not that tiger woods type the fake type she's not that type she's a real black woman and that's what you get for real black people not them conservative black maggots that try to pretend to be okay and that's where i'm going to stop you here johnny i'm not going to let you call people i'm not going to let you call black trump supporters maggots that we don't do that on this program and you know better than that look here's the deal jasmine crockett can behave however she wants to behave but she's a phony and she's a fraud and she's not authentic.

That's my issue. And the same thing applies to people like, for example, Mitt Romney coming down south and pretending to be southern and liking grits when we know he doesn't like grits. She's doing the same nonsense and it's unacceptable and it's an embarrassment. And she ought to be embarrassed and her family ought to be embarrassed. Johnny got to go.

Good call, though. I'm not we're not going to sit here and let people call black Trump supporters maggots on this program we don't do that 901-260-5926 our telephone over that's 901-260-5926 ben i don't understand this why was he calling your pam bondo so i actually had to look it up because i'm not a mechanic um what is bondo it is putty that he's used to repair dents She's a very attractive woman. Holes and damages on vehicles, wood and other materials. It is quick drying, permanent and a non-shrinking filler. Oh, well, a lot of these women do have fillers, but I don't know that it's Bondo.

Well, all I can say is that Pam Bondi is a very attractive woman. Has she been an effective attorney general? That remains to be seen. But I will say this. She is.

I think she is. I can't.

Some days I don't know if she's a co-host on Fox News Channel or she's the attorney general. She does do a lot of media, doesn't she? She does a lot of Fox media. Specifically only on one channel. Unbelievable.

Hey, Todd, question. Where are the Epstein files? We have yet to have those released. And how dare you ask? I'm sorry.

How dare you? What are you, a closet Democrat? Yep. Take away my credentials as a conservative. This is what I love about what we do here, folks.

We don't work off talking points, and I think that triggers everybody on the left and the right. Yeah, I just think that it's so crazy how they just memory hold that. And if I was like a primetime host at Fox News, and she's coming on, and you have to confirm topics with her team, and last night she's on to talk about what Tesla and also Jasmine Crockett, you just throw in a curveball. What about those Epstein files? Just real quick.

what about the JFK files? I mean, right? I mean, the administration told us bombshells.

Okay, well, okay. We're in the bombshells. I'm just saying, don't hype up something, right? Just tell us if you're going to do something, do it. That's all we're asking here.

You don't have to hype anything up. That's all. That's all I'm saying. By the way, Jasmine Crockett, I'm going to send a strongly worded letter. we demand an apology well what if she says no what if she says i'm not gonna apologize you're gonna throw her in jail is that a crime i mean the way she's talking and i i mean obviously i disagree with jasmine crockett but pam bondy is being tougher and more fierce and severe on this sitting member of congress than she was with the prosecutor's office in the southern district of New York, which are still holding on to the FBI files and all of the Epstein files and all of the CIA documents.

Get tough on those people and do it ASAP because I want that dump of Epstein files. And, you know, I mean, I agree with everything she is saying and Pam Bondi saying all the right things. I'm just wondering what she is doing. That's that's the question I have here. What is she doing?

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The president says, again, that nothing, well, pardon me here, the president says that there was nothing classified that was being discussed in this text chain with Secretary of Defense Pete Hexeth and Marco Rubio, the Secretary of State. Trump telling NBC News in a phone interview, it was one of Michael's people on the phone. A staffer had his number on there.

Okay, so again, the Atlantic is sort of the go-to place for the deep state. And these people, that publication is so incredibly vile.

So incredibly vile. They hate Donald Trump. And I am still puzzled by why anybody has Jeffrey Goldberg's cell phone information or signal information and why that information was being used. And it seems to me that we ought to be hunting down some sort of a mole right now. goldberg published an article on monday detailing how he was added to the signal group chat on march 11th and it was dubbed the houthi pc small group and it included hegseth cia director john ratliff um you had white house chief of staff suzy wilds secretary of state marco rubio vice president jd bance and others and a lot of people are saying okay well what the heck is signal well it is an something that is used all over Washington.

It's an encrypted messaging app, and it operates basically like texting or making phone calls, but they have additional security measures that ensure the communications are kept private.

So again, this is not a big deal here. The idea, and you're hearing the Democrats literally calling for Hegseth to be fired and Michael waltz to be fired this is all meant to turn cabinet members against each other was a mistake made absolutely and i i'm pretty certain that it's not going to happen again but here's the thing the we we hold the republicans to a higher standard but the democrats they don't even hold their own people to those standards keep in mind that hillary clinton's Security flaws and failures led to people literally losing their lives, to people literally being killed. That's what's going on here. And you've got people like Seth Moulton out there saying, well, this sort of incompetence is so severe it could have gotten Americans killed. Hank Seth is in so far over his head that he is a danger to his country and are men and women in uniform.

Do you believe that, ladies and gentlemen? Do you believe that Pete Hegseth is up for the job here? 901-260-5926, our telephone number, that's 901-260-5926. If nothing else, there's going to be a lot of yelling and hearings and all this kind of stuff, and I've got no problem with that. I really don't.

But at the end of the day, folks, this is a great big nothing burger.

Now, again, I don't work off of anybody's talking points. And that normally means somebody on the left.

Well, normally everybody on the left hates me. And there are a lot of people on the right that do because I'm not toting anybody's water. When we invite guests onto this program, it's not for our stature. It's because we want to get information from them. We have questions to ask.

And I don't work off of talking points. Let's just say, for example, you've got somebody from the White House, and they want to come on this program, and we say, great, we want to talk about the Signal group chat, and they say, no, we're not going to talk about that, then we will not have that person on the show because that's insulting to you, our great audience. I mean, we have a very large, very powerful, very influential audience, which is why Ben Dieter, who is the gatekeeper of the show, He's the executive producer, and he's the one who decides who gets to come on and who does not. And we have a lot of people wanting to come on this program. But the reality is that we're not an extension of the White House.

That's just not how we operate. And sometimes the Trump administration will do things we disagree with, and that's okay. You know, that's okay, because about 99% of the time, I am right there with President Trump. And again, with this issue, folks, if it was a big issue, I would tell you, I'm just not seeing the scandal here. I'm really not.

A mistake? Absolutely. Will it be corrected? No doubt about it. All right, hang tight, everybody.

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Well, hello everybody. Welcome to Hour 2 of the Big Show. Great to have you with us today. 901-260-5926 is our telephone number. Our website is toddstearns.com.

We have a lot of great content for you to check out over at the website today. Before we go to our guest, I want to go to the phone lines. Jim in Salem, Oregon, listening to us on KYKN. Jim, good to have you with us. I know you've got a skedaddle, but what is on your mind, sir?

Well, first of all, I wanted to commend you for how you handled that discussion at the first hour. And the thing that occurred to me is I'm not quite old enough to remember this, but I know that it happened. During World War II, there used to be a slogan, and it was meant for the entire population and it was loose lips, six ships. And it had to do with people being careless with information that they had and to not just blurt out everything just because they knew it. And this reporter, Mr.

Goldberg, I think he needs to be investigated and perhaps even prosecuted for what he did. You're referencing the Benghazi attacks and Hillary Clinton's behavior was perfectly appropriate. I was a reserve chaplain in the military for years, and I can't tell you how many funerals I've done and flagged great coffins I've stood by. And I remember how Hillary Clinton, with the families at Dover Air Force Base, when they flew back the coffins, had the temerity and the nerve to look at family members and say, we're going to get the people who made that terrible video and lied to them. And so this man to sit on this story and then break it right now, clearly for political battle purposes, is despicable.

something happened big mistake needs to be corrected i agree but this man needs to be held responsible yeah it's it's very puzzling about the timing of it jim and and i think we're gonna we're gonna get into that with our next guest coming up and jim you're right that slogan from world war ii era uh it was used on a lot of the propaganda posters that were put up all over uh the nation on a military bases reminding people to keep your mouth shut basically that was it loose lips sink ships and that is absolutely right jim thank you for that call and i do want to go to our patriot mobile newsmaker line and say hello to our good friend our retired colonel david giamona uh colonel good to have you with us today god it's always a pleasure to be with you on your show well um wow this is a head scratcher i it just seems to me this is it's it's a big deal but it's not a big, big deal. And it certainly, I don't think, rises to the level of scandal. But what do you make of the controversy surrounding this chat that was held on this encrypted app? Yeah, I mean, this is the wave of what's going on now in the future. I mean, there's a lot of encrypted chats that our military uses.

And the call for the resignation of HEGSF, is that the best that Democrats can come up with? OK, it was an error. No one died. The Houthis got nailed and everything's fine. And Trump even came out and said, yeah, it was a mistake.

He shouldn't have been on the group chat. And, you know, all is well. But here's I think here's the real part of the problem. The Democrats have nothing better than to point fingers and say, oh, this is a problem. That's a problem.

For the last four years, they came up with nothing but problems and no national security, no way forward. And I'm sure Pete Heggs, which I admire a great deal, is going to fix some of these things in the new administration. This shouldn't have happened, of course. All right. But to have this journalist who is also controversial figures, come up with all kinds of innuendos of lies in the years past.

to me honestly Todd this is a nothing burger but that's all they have right now they have no leadership they have no way forward they have nothing to do but to point and do accusations to get something is in the long run that we're going to fix and nothing came of it that's that's my gist of it at this point yeah I'm I'm still curious as to how Goldberg's address or how are they connect with these things do you know how the signal how that works yeah i have been on signal before and there are there is encrypted um it's interesting to know that this guy was on that channel probably from a previous maybe in the previous administration but he was on that group chat for some reason and the complexities of things are so you know hard to detect sometimes you don't know, you know, what the details are sometimes. But he should not have been on that text. How he got on there is a mystery right now. Why would they have anybody, unless it was from the previous administration? But I can't imagine Pete Hegseth using stuff from a previous administration unless they're using signal that was given to him, the chat group was set up by some of the staffers and they made a terrible mistake that's the only thing i can come up with at this point i mean one of the early uh i think yesterday or last night somebody was was pointing out that the the the initials were similar to somebody else that was meant to be on the chat and instead they have added goldberg okay fine that's great but still what was goldberg's address or name what was that still doing in the system that's that's what i don't get i mean this guy is a radical leftist yeah yeah this is a head scratcher for sure uh was it subversive well we'll find out i'm sure that the department of defense is going to do a full-blown investigation if not already and these uh democrats that are pointing the fingers and said that he should resign that's just that's just a bunch of political garbage yeah that's yeah Yeah.

I think Head State and the group, we have some of the best. I mean, Elon Musk is right. We have some of the best cabinet members we've had, maybe since Washington, you know, that was president of the United States. We have a really good group of people that have their heads screwed on straight, and they're doing good stuff. But there's always those critics out there that are going to look at the, you know, minutia to find out what's going on.

Yeah, David Giamona, everybody, retired U.S. Army colonel, author, speaker, and is in the know here. And David, when you look at the efforts that Pete Hegseth has already advanced, talking about physical fitness and making sure that our military is actually able to fight these wars, I'm just curious, in your circles of influence, what are you hearing about the work of the new Defense Secretary? Harry? Yeah, I'm hearing really good things.

A lot of the people I know, of course, are conservatives. I've talked to high-level people recently. They're very excited for the first time in four years. We have a clear national security policy. We have a clear way ahead.

The president has made it very clear if the Houthis attack, this is what we're going to do. We had no such policy behind us. And when I was on active duty, I went around the entire country and around the world and made sure that, you know, the commanders were teaching and training the right things because they had a lot of stuff on the plate. We need to remove all that stuff and get back in to the warfighting business. And that's what Pete Hegg said it's all about.

And I commend him 100 percent.

Well, I'm glad. No, I'm glad to hear that. And again, I think mistakes are always going to be made in the early days of any administration, and we are in the early days of this administration. President Trump, by the way, coming out earlier today telling NBC News in a phone call that Goldberg's name was actually put on the thread by a staffer of National Security Chief Michael Waltz.

So again, we're getting some detail into what happened. And to your point, they'll do an investigation, and they're going to take whatever kind of protocols they need to take to make sure this doesn't happen again. Yeah, and I can hear the left. I've already saw some reports from the left saying, oh, now they're doing national security meetings on texting instead of in a secure room.

Well, ladies and gentlemen, I got news for all of you out there in the left. That's how we do business in the Army worldwide. We don't all meet in a single room, you know, with our heads down in the dark. These people are very busy individuals, and so they have to have secure text. It works all the time.

We just have the right protocols in place to make sure it doesn't happen again. And my understanding, and correct me if I'm wrong here, but this has been in place for quite some time.

So this is something they just decided to do when Trump was inaugurated. The signal system has been in place. Absolutely, Todd. Yeah, this has been in place a long time. And they also have video internet secure calls.

I've been on numerous of them for years.

So this is not something that Pete Heggs had invented overnight. This is how we do business worldwide in the modern military. I wonder if we're still, and again, investigation, they've got to do that. But I'm wondering if we are still dealing with deep state actors that are bureaucrats within the defense department that are trying to cause problems here. Oh, that's absolutely correct.

You're not going to get rid of all the deep state actors. It's like going into a home. You exterminate the cockroaches. There's still going to be some alive and scurrying around. That's what Trump is up against.

But they've done a good job. to root out many of them and now these activist judges as well. Congress is going to be talking about this this week, an active bill so the president can be the president and these judicial officials, you know, make sure they're properly in their place and not out trying to be the president of the United States. All right, good stuff.

Well, David, we're going to leave it there. It's a little confusing for folks who may not be in the know and in the military, but I think you've really helped explain it to us and break down what's really going on here. But again, bottom line, a big nothing burger. Absolutely. All right, David.

By the way, where can folks go if they want to get more information about you and your awesome books you've written?

Well, they can go to www.DavidGiamona.com. They can get my books on Amazon. We just got a new one out last year, Your Mission and God's Army. which I'm going to be talking about in Korea in a couple of weeks.

So, yeah, there's a lot of good stuff on Amazon and on our website. They can get a lot of information there. All right. The great David Giamona, everybody. And, again, David Giamona, davidjgiamona.com.

We'll post a link to the website up on our page as well. David, thank you again. God bless. All right. There you go.

So we just tell it like it is, folks. Again, a great big nothing burger. All right. We've got to take a quick break here. 901-260-5926.

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Oh, wow. You know, I just had a flashback.

Now, I grew up in the 70s and 80s, born in 67, and got to really experience the best of two decades. You've got the 70s and you've got the 80s.

Some of the most incredible music that was ever originated came about during those eras. Gen Xer. I'm a proud Gen Xer. and I'm just curious in our Gen X audience, and maybe moms and dads still do this, and Dieter, we'll bring you into the country, because you're a Gen, are you a Gen Zer? Is that your official moniker?

Yeah, Dieter's Gen Zer.

So, no, you're not a Gen Xer, you're a Gen Zer. What's a Gen Xer? A Gen Xer is my age, my age group. I'm not you. No, no, no.

You're a little munchkin. i'm i i'm a z all right so you're gen z so when i was a kid we would not go to the barber right why not when i was a kid no the barber was your mom really and what she would do and i don't know if anybody else if i'm this may have just been me and so if it is this is going to be a weird story now but she would take us out in the backyard and there would be a chair and she would have a tupperware bowl and she would put that tupperware bowl on on my head and she would just a tupperware bowl a tupperware bowl yeah it was like a bowl and tupperware plastic and then you would she would put that on and then anything all the hair that was still like sticking out from the tupperware bowl she would chop that off and they used to call that a bowl cut wait that's where it stems from That's where it stems from. No way. Yeah. And so all the kids, I mean, and look, but then, of course, if your dads were involved.

Those are so ugly. Bull cuts. Man, that was the jam back in the 70s. You're joking me. No, no, no, no.

You had no sideburns? No. Just everything's shaved? Everything's shaved? Yeah.

You just have a mop on top?

Well, you're lucky. I mean, we were the lucky kids because if your dad was in charge of the haircuts, then you got the buzz cut. I mean, it looked like you were ready for the military. Do you know that my punishment growing up, because I did not respond to spankings, we've talked about this, I was always a very proud kid, and my pride came from my hair. I was Samson.

So you're white, but you have a fro. I have an afro. Yeah, I do have an afro. You can't call it an afro, though. It's a fro.

A wife fro. I look like, yeah, just a lot of curls on my head. My dad would threaten me with a haircut. Oh. And I would obey immediately.

Instead of timeout, instead of spankings, I got haircuts. And I would do whatever they needed me to do. They just had to threaten, we're going to shave your hair. Is that right? Yeah.

Give you a haircut.

So, you know, when you get older, then you could go and maybe go to the barbershop.

So when I became a teenager, we'd go to the barbershop, right? But then if you're like one of the cool kids, you went down to the hairstylist. And then when I was at Fox, I mean, just fast forward, I'm going through the decades here. I always had my hair cut by one of the makeup artists at Fox News.

So they were just happy to do it and slip them a few bucks under the table there and be done with it But one day the person who cut the hair she left Fox I thought, dadgummit, I'm going to have to go and get my hair cut.

So there's a place around the corner from Fox News. It's on 6th Avenue. And I walk in there, and I'm like, hey, I just need a no-frills haircut. And they're like, no problem, no problem. And so they send me back, and they wash your hair.

They give you a massage.

Well, the next thing you know, somebody is like touching my shoulders. And I just don't like to be touched, right? That's just a thing. And I'm like, what is going on here? And I look up.

You know, you're laying there. And I look up, and there's somebody giving me a massage, asking me if I want a shot of whiskey. Like, what kind of a joint is this? I guess a lot's changed since the old days. Did you enjoy it?

Did you go back? Did you want an extended massage? I said, no, no, I'm a Baptist. I don't do massages. But, sir, you're so tense and tired.

Yes, I'm a Baptist. That's the way we're supposed to be. That's the way God made us. Would you like some whiskey? No, no, I'm a Baptist.

You know, I'm really rethinking my denominational choices in life. Just going to put that out there for you. I'm denomination. I'm a non-denomer, whatever that is. Yeah.

Yeah, and they give me beer every time I go.

Now, granted, your haircut's at least $60. No, when I get my haircut. Oh, when your haircut. Yeah, they'll give you alcohol. It's wild.

They'll give you shots. I went into this one place in Brooklyn. Wow, I don't know why. We're going to get to the story here in just a moment. When I was living in Brooklyn, New York, among the indigenous liberal population, they had a lot of those hairs, those like barbershops, and one of them I thought was like a guy's.

You know one of those guy shops where you go in and they have the whiskey and, you know, it's a guy's guy's place.

So I walk in. It's called the Badlands. The Badlands. The Badlands. Wow.

So I walk in there and thinking it was like a biker bar kind of, but it turned out to be a lesbian biker bar. Honest to goodness. Never seen anything like it. All right. All that to say, I have a story for you about gender nonconforming haircuts.

We're going to get to that after the break. 901-260-5926. Am I the only person in America who got the bowl cut? 901-260-5926. This is the Todd Stern Show.

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So I want to finish this story about haircuts. And you say, why in the world is Starnes talking about bowl cuts back in the 1970s? I'm saying that because from Arkansas, there is new information. A bill has been introduced targeting barbers in the state and hairdressers in the state of Arkansas.

So Republican lawmakers introducing a bill that would allow lawsuits against anyone who facilitates a minor's social transition.

So let's just say, for example, that you have a child and your child, you have a daughter, and your daughter comes to you and says, Mom, Dad, I feel like a boy. I feel like I'm a boy. And so your daughter goes to a barber shop and gets a hairstyle that would be similar to what a little boy would wear. Then that barber could get in trouble. It is called the Vulnerable Youth Protection Act, introduced by Republican reps Mary Bentley and Alan Clark.

If passed, the legislation would allow parents to sue anyone who supports a minor's gender transition. The statute of limitations lasting 15 years. And I did not realize this, but Arkansas has actually been leading the legislative efforts restricting transgender rights, as Newsweek is reporting it. In 2021, they became the first state to ban gender, affirming this is medical mutilation surgery. I'm having to read through the leftist propaganda here.

Since 2023, more than two dozen states have enacted similar measures.

Now, the Arkansas bill defines social transitioning as any act in which a liner adopts a gender identity different from their biological sex. And that includes changing in clothing, pronouns, hairstyles, and name. Under the definition, a barber, teacher, or guidance counselor could face lawsuits for supporting a child's gender identity.

Now, get this.

So if your child, and again, do you need parental permission to get a haircut? I do not know. I don't remember that being a thing back when I was a teenager. You just go, oh, you know what happened back in the 70s, Dieter?

So this was in the 80s, early 80s. starnes you know i originally had the bowl cut for like all my elementary school years but come come high school i had the feathered it was feathered that part was right down the middle what oh yeah i look good the feather yeah the feathered look yeah you had your hair anybody does anybody know what i'm talking about here i feel like i'm in it like on alone on a desert was it a male haircut oh it was a guy's guy's haircut okay but then the girls had like farrah faucet hair it was a lot of big hair going on back in that era so all that to say is i'm not sure that moms or dads can really control what kind of a haircut their kids get you know when you're going to the barber shop and the kid shows up alone and the kid wants a man i mean what do you go up if you're a girl and you identify as a boy i want a man's haircut please i'll take the pixie bob the pixie what the pixie bob is that what tinkerbell has the timeless pixie bob hairstyle I don't know. Todd, I've been trying to Google and do some research for this topic on what is actually a non-binary haircut. And I'm confused. Like, is it a mullet?

Because now girls have mullets, but guys traditionally have mullets. I will say this about the hair. And again, this was an issue back when I was in school. we had a situation involving what we thought was a, we didn't know what to call it back in the day, but it was a transgenderism. I mean, this is back when I was a kid, and we had some teenager walking around with like hair, grew his hair out down to the wazoo, and was wearing like all this leather and boots, and we're like, oh my God, he's like transitioning or something.

I mean, that wasn't even a word back then, but it turned out he was actually cool. He was a heavy metal artist, so it turned out he wasn't transitioning. He was just playing the role. Oh, okay. Yeah.

So this is really interesting. I'm just confused about the bill. It seems like we're getting in the weeds, a bit invasive, that we're now trying to decide whether these haircuts are androgynous. That's another word they use here. Like you could get an androgynous haircut, which is not conforming to the masculine or the feminine.

They're going after the wrong people with scissors here. I think you want to go after the people that are trying to snip snip the body parts and not somebody's bangs.

Well, I think the Republican lawmaker is saying it starts with the snip snip of the bangs. And if these kids are getting their bangs snipped and they're confusing their sexes and the masculine, then that could lead slippery slope to other things being snipped below the belt. I'm not sure about this one. I'm not sure about this one. I'm really not.

All right. 901-260-5926 is our telephone number. That's 901-260-5926. I feel bad for the barbers because, you know, now every time. They could be facing a $10,000 fine.

That's right. Yeah. Just for giving a kid a short haircut. I mean, for example, not to, for example, Carrie Lake, right? You've seen her hair too.

What are you laughing at? We have the same haircut. Yes. yes it's i would not say it's a masculine haircut but she's got it very short and it's you know it's a do moving along um this you're in so much trouble for that one i'm just saying all right what's another one um okay i can't think right now this story out of allentown pennsylvania this is your state the commonwealth pennsylvania police arrest a woman for an alleged hate crime hoax her name is latasha latasha brown no not latasha latasha there's an r there latasha brown she is a school board member and also works at city hall she reported one day that she arrived at her office in city hall and there on her desk brace yourself ladies and gentlemen was a noose somebody put a noose oh no not nudes noose like one of the ropes one of the ropes the ropes people were enraged there were days of protest people talking about what a racist city hall it was in allentown pa the police did their job and they went in and interviewed everybody and they had their little cotton swab and they asked everybody for a little swish of the swab saliva took everybody's dna lo and behold guess what happened the saliva belonged to latarsha no oh yeah yeah latarsha she did it latarsha latarsha was gonna hang herself with a teeny tiny noose i think she gonna hung her pinky maybe maybe it was not a large noose was she was she screaming this is racism oh yeah oh yeah oh yeah we have been down this path before so anyway it was she's facing all these charges you know what she's not facing a charge with a charge of the hate crime violation now keep in mind if somebody had actually configured a noose the size of her pinky toe and had placed it on her desk that person would have been charged with hate crimes they could have spent years decades in prison i mean yeah of course but be but latarsha she faked a hate crime and it just seems to me ladies and gentlemen and maybe maybe i'm overstating the case here but it seems to me that if you're going out there and you're faking a hate crime and how many times have we seen this right bubba wallace with the noose in the garage that turned out to be a door handle juicy smooley going out at three o'clock in the morning in the middle of a snow storm with two nigerian brothers because he had a hankering for a tuna fish sandwich you know that was code for something the brothers i have something about there i don't think he was really wanting to tuna melt something was something was going on there yeah something was going on um so so you got juicy smooley you've got the list goes on it goes on and on and on nobody's ever held accountable nobody i mean all you know what breaks loose in the mainstream media i mean look at juicy oh ben crump was already holding he was already on his way to pennsylvania to hold a protest al sharpton already got the call they were they were all there unbelievable every single time and no one is held accountable so i say you know it would be nice if we could have legislation, just federal legislation, Congress could pass a law saying, you know what, you fake a hate crime, then you get charged with a hate crime. And see how quickly that stops.

I'm just telling you, this disgusting is what it is, because they know that race divides this nation, and it just sickens me when they do this kind of nonsense. By the way, I heard, speaking of race, in Memphis, Tennessee, one of the school boards, The school board is pretty much all black except for one white chick. And then you've got it's all female except for two dudes, right?

So basically the school board, a majority black women. A majority of black women in Memphis are leading the school district. That's right. Over 70% of the children cannot read in Memphis. Am I correct?

Memphis. Thank you. I thought I got that. There is an R there.

Sorry, I was pronouncing it phonetically. Yeah, the kids can't read 8 out of 10 of them can't do math. I've been working on Hooked on Phonics.

So they can't read, they can't write, they can't do anything, right? And so anyway, they're having a big hullabaloo about this. And now I understand because of one of the – so the scroll board has hired a public relations firm, which, again, led by a black woman. And they figured out the problem. It's racism.

Yeah, of course. The problem is race. To give a little bit of context, the school system in Memphis, it's the largest school system in the state of Tennessee.

So it's a massive school district. It's so bad that the state of Tennessee, Governor Bill Lee, the governor of this Republican state. A white guy. They're coming in to run the public schools. Because the kids, they're illiterate.

So because the governor and the state legislature, the state is having to step in and the state just so happens to be composed of more white lawmakers than black lawmakers. They believe that this is racism, that they would be coming in and they would be undercutting the female majority makeup of this school board. These these black women. And in fairness, is it fair to say that even some of the school board members can't read or write? That would also be a correct assumption.

All that to say that people love to play the race card because they know it always works. I think those days are over. I really do. Yeah, absolutely. All right.

Got to take a break here. 901-260-5926. That's 901-260-5926. This is the Todd Stern Show. And welcome back to the Todd Stern's radio program.

Very happy to have you with us. I want to go to the Old Glory Bank Newsmaker line. Say hello to our good friend, our great pal, the founder of one of the most important organizations in America. I'm talking about Timothy Plan, timothyplan.com, Art Alley. art hope you're doing well today man todd every time you do this i just wish i had a tape recording so i could record all these things and tell people the nice things you're saying i'm doing fine uh it is always good to be with you my friend art if you'd like i could record your like voicemail message and like this is the great art alley yeah i try to tell these people at the office they ain't buying it so maybe if it came from you we'd be good i have the same problem here with my crew so maybe we could help each other out here all right maybe we could we could balance it out you know art we've been uh talking um for a long time now about timothy plan and the and the ministry of timothy plan and helping people invest biblically and and the more i i think about it and The more that we have companies come on and want to become partners and sponsors, I've realized that we really almost have this underground economy going where people of faith and people who share conservative viewpoints are now doing business with banks like Old Glory Bank, or they're using Timothy Plan to kind of root out these companies that are actually funding the very things that we stand opposed to as Christians.

Amen, man. And I think there is an awakening happening. And I'm just seeing it, and it's encouraging. And I see you're seeing the same thing. This is good, good, long overdue, but finally good.

So let's talk about this because, again, Timothy Plan, we have so many new listeners. We just launched in Houston, Texas, also in Winchester, Virginia. And folks may not be familiar with the ministry of Timothy Plan. Oh, wow. That's good, man.

You're expanding. Um, you want me just to give a nutshell? Yeah, let's, let's, because yeah, explain what Timothy plan does. And again, folks, the website address, timothyplan.com.

Well, Todd, as soon as I figure out what we're doing, I'll let you know. I'm kidding. Um, we are a mutual fund family. Like every other mutual fund in the industry, we have 19 different funds, different assets. we are just like all of them with one major exception we will not invest one penny of shareholders money at any corporation that is for lack of a better term pursuing an unholy agenda and what I mean by that there are corporate people that are funding abortion and pornography you know it all blends together and LGBTQ plus agendas and transgender.

It just goes on and on and on. It's really one big, massive black wall. And why corporations who have a good product, they sell a good product, get involved in promoting these unholy agendas is just beyond me other than an understanding that we are in a spiritual war. There is the dark side and the light side, and some of them are gone on the dark side. And if they are, we will not own their stock for any of our shareholders.

Art, we got a call from a listener, Amber, and she had a question for you. She said, Todd, could you please ask Art, how do we invest in companies we agree with?

So many companies do not agree with our values morally.

well i don't know about agree with because nobody's gonna always agree with everybody but just call us we'll let you know if you have a concern about a company call us we'll we'll let you know if they fail our basic screens you know but we are biblically responsible i want to always make that clear and scripture is clear there is none righteous none only christ was righteous but there's a difference Todd and you and I talked about this between companies that are passively unrighteous and those that are actually pursuing an unholy agenda those are the ones we will not own and remember call us call our number we'll let you know tell us what companies you're interested in or just call us and ask about Timothy Plan and that number again 1-800-TIM-PLAN That's 1-800-TIM-PLAN. Or you can go to TimothyPlan.com, and it is so simple. And they're going to be talking to a real human being when they call Timothy Plan. No computers will answer our phone as long as Art Alley is alive. You know, so it's a very pleasant situation.

Yeah, we will answer it, and we will connect you with people that can answer your questions and send you any information you need. All right. best ministry we're in. Art, well, God bless you, and we're coming up on the top of the hour break here, and again, folks, I would encourage you to go and read Art's incredible story, what an incredible testimony this man has, and what an incredible ministry he's providing for the entire nation, and especially all of you that are looking to invest. Art is going to show you, Art and his team are going to show you how to invest and be biblically responsible in your investing.

Art, gotta leave it there my friend always good hearing from you uh same you god bless all right god bless you the great art alley timothy plan that's timothyplan.com go check it out there's a lot of great information there hang tight everybody we'll be right back hour three of the big show coming up next Live from the Liberty University studio in Memphis, Tennessee, it's America's conservative blowtorch. That's us, that's right. I love this American. Todd Stearns.

Well, hello everybody. Welcome to the Todd Stearns Radio Program, Hour 3. Coming up, we've got Caitlin Bennett. She has one of the funniest videos. It's really sort of sad, to be honest with you.

She went down to spring break, and she interviewed the children. And many of these are college kids and testing their knowledge on all things related to American history. And it's really quite shocking when you hear some of the things that the children don't know. Let's take a listen. Who did the colonists fight in the Revolutionary War?

Oh, God. In the Revolutionary War? Oh, I don't know if this is right. I mean, it sounds so stupid. Was it the Spanish?

Wait, what are your majors? Business, biology, elementary education. Oh. What shape is the U.S. Pentagon building?

Isn't it just a square? How many U.S. senators are there? Six, seven, six, seven, two, three. How many amendments are in the Bill of Rights?

There's a lot. I know 17. Who won the Civil War? Oh, shoot. It's East or West, right?

Well, it's the Civil War, so it's the civilians versus whoever was in power. How many justices are on the Supreme Court? Justices?

So, like, when you say that, you mean, like, the FBI? Who is on the $100 bill? Abraham Lincoln? Nope. Abraham Lincoln?

Come on, bro. That's the First Amendment. What's the second? Right to vote. Name three states that border Canada.

We'll just do one per person. Oh. Asia. I didn't know Canada had a border. That's the future of our country, ladies and gentlemen.

The future of our country. Those are future presidents, future senators. There's a future Jasmine Crockett in there somewhere. Definitely.

So first of all, the question, and I had a chance to talk to Caitlin about this, and she's going to join us a little bit later, but here's what gets me. I think these kids were mostly, by and large, sober.

So they were not a couple of margaritas in or mimosas. Is that what the young people are drinking these days, the margaritas? Sure. On spring break. The mimosas.

Yeah. Well, sure. I don't think many of them are drinking Baptist martinis. No. So I think this is to the last hour of the program where we're talking about our failing public school districts.

this is what happens when Johnny, Mary, I'm just throwing out names, can't read past the third grade.

So if you can't read in a lot of our public schools, and this is not just a Memphis, this is a nationwide issue. Oh, this is nationwide. Absolutely. That's why the Department of Education has been such an epic failure. If you can't read past the third grade, how are you going to read your civics classes.

And that's why you have these spring breakers that are in college. They end up on the beach and then they're just asked basic things about our government and they don't know how to answer it. You know, we could blame our universities and there's plenty of blame to go around there, but it starts at grade third, grade three, reading past the third grade. And this is the result of it. You see, I blame parents.

I know that my mom made sure that I knew how to read before I went to school, right? Before I started first grade, you know, I knew how to read. And I remember when I was a child, this was back before Snow White was black, that when we would get these Disney, my mom enrolled in the Disney Book of the Month Club. And so every month we would get a brand new Disney storybook. And it went from, you know, mom reading the storybooks to me learning how to read the storybooks, right?

So you teach your kid how to read. You get your kid prepared to go to school. And I think when you look at the numbers, a massive number of parents are just not doing their job. You know, their idea is we pay taxes, we have schools, and it's the school's responsibility to educate my kid i'm just gonna sit here and watch the real housewives well yeah and that's what happens when big government and big education is raising these kids like acting like their parents and their nannies you know i you remember the scholastic magazines oh yeah yeah like a long time ago i would get those and they would arrive at my parents' house and my mom would allow us to circle with a red pen the books that we wanted to read and then my mom would order them. And to your point, Todd, I think I was able to read before I also went into the first grade, like kindergarten.

I was already privy to a lot of these phonetic classes that I would end up learning and taking. And I think, yeah, I 100% agree with you. I also think that the whole spring break culture in this society, and that's a whole nother conversation for another time where we mainstream our kids. Can you imagine these parents? You're spending thousands of dollars for your kids to go to these colleges in America in every April or every March spring break rolls around and you send them and you're footing the bill to go to these Panama cities, Destin, Florida, Miami, Fort Lauderdale to allow your kid to get wasted on the beach.

And God forbid your kids watching or you're watching the television at night with you and your husband knowing your kids in Panama City and they end up on the evening news because they don't know the fourth president of the United States. I mean, parents, we have to rethink spring break. Did they ever send you down to spring break? Todd, have you done spring break properly?

Well, I've done it the Baptist way. And, you know, it's like Liberty University, their entire student body is out rebuilding a country right now. That's how they do their spring break. Mission trips, yeah. I want to read to you the New York Post.

This is not some sort of a cheap paperback romance novel. This is from today's New York Post. Are you ready for this? We needed music for this. You know what?

Find some Barry White Baby Love Making Music. I know that's inappropriate for this age genre. But bear with me for just a moment. This is absolute insanity from the New York Post. Again, to your point, talking about how insane a spring break has.

Because back in the day, you go down to the beach, have a party, just goof around, and then go back to school. You would not do what these kids are doing now, which would make, I don't know, it's kind of like freak Nick, those kinds of things. It would make the Jersey Shore blush. And we know what the Jersey Shore and what happened in that. Oh, is that Snoopy?

Yeah, Snooki. Snooki. I was close. Yeah, we make Snooki blush. What these spring breakers are doing Todd on the beaches of Panama City Destin Florida You know who I feel I feel bad for the good people of the Gulf Coast and specifically the redneck Riviera No, no, no.

This is the actual true southern part of the Gulf of America. Everybody else is like South New York. I'm talking about the good, decent southern people of America.

So this is the New York Post, today's edition, describing what's happening in Panama City Beach, Florida. The aromas of weed and fruit-scented tobacco wafted above the sea of sweaty spring breakers packed onto the deck at Harpoon Harry's in Panama City Beach, Florida. Tennessee frat boys lifted two bikini-wearing 20-somethings under their shoulders, while a pink-haired Gin Zero waved a coarse light as a man twerked on all fours to a bass-heavy remix of Van Halen's Panama. Jeez-a-loo. That's quite the scene they're setting there.

Across the dance floor, a mustachioed Timothee Chalamet lookalike's eyes rolled back under his bucket hat, while a bouncer closed off the bathroom door due to a vomiting incident. and that's just day one of spring break that's just day one yeah they go on they do spring break for at least four or five days we had to take five knives today a bulletproof vest-clad security guard told the post these are here's the problem you're sending your good little church going southern baptist to the university of tennessee to the university of tennessee and the first chance they get they're on i-75 they're doing 125 miles an hour to the florida gulf coast to twerk upside down with a pink haired girl chugging a coors light well you hope it's a girl yeah it's true well and the crazy and the crazy thing is is it's mainstream like good wholesome parents they just know that their kid you send them to school send them to a good sec and auburn and oxford o'miss and they just send them right on down to spring break it's jersey shore on crack yeah that's how they're describing it nobody cares and everyone's down to do whatever oh my and according to this photograph they are that's kind of you know this one girl is wearing what if many of you might remember the late great phyllis diller um and she wore the frilly stuff that that's exactly what this young lady is wearing right now and that's about it yeah my goodness a lot of twerking going on you know i tried that once and threw out my back i don't recommend it it's not easy uh let's go to scott uh listening to us on k-e-l-y um our great friends in the nevada talk network scott i understand you're a retired teacher no no my wife is a retired teacher and i'm actually on the main turnpike heading southbound i used to listen to you on lob so but of course of listening to the Nevada Station. We miss you up here.

Well, we miss you guys, too.

Well, my wife is a retired teacher, and I was just going to mention that, you know, years before they started doing all this common core nonsense and the government took over everything, the teachers used to actually have their curriculum set so that they would really encourage kids to learn, and they did an international type of program where each of the classrooms would select a specific country. They would then run with it.

So they learned the history, the geography. They used the mathematics in it. They brought in the English. They brought in every aspect of education. And I'll tell you what, these kids would run off the bus to get into school to learn.

And these kids were accelerating. But then, of course, the government decided, oh, no, no, you need to assess. You need to evaluate. You need to spend an inordinate amount of time to make sure that we get all the information on these kids and see how well they're doing. And by the way, if they don't, it's your fault.

And we're going to make sure that you pay the price and we might just fire you. And that's the nonsense that's happened with the stupid National Education Association. and it's just gone from horrible to extremely worse ever since it came into existence under jimmy carter you know scott scott i went to a public school and i was blessed with some good teachers uh there was a lot of local involvement moms and dads were involved in the school system and it was you know you go to everybody you know went to church together everybody kind of knew each other and if there was a problem you better believe the teachers were telling mom and dad or mom and dad already knew about it uh but but the reality is even i had a i had a great american history teacher but that guy had a big old thing of tennessee sipping whiskey in his desk and the the longer the class went on the more entertaining those classes got but i learned a lot from that guy well see that's the thing and you know what you hit the nail on the head too it has a lot to do with parenting or the lack thereof and i know now my parents weren't as involved when i was going to school but i made sure when i did it with my kids i even went to the you know the student uh teacher conference with my boy my boys and i'm sitting there with him and i look right at them and i look at her and i say guys she's the authority in the class you have every right to reprimand them in any way possible that you feel fit to make sure that this kid is going to be going to be paying attention and respect you and you know what they actually said i was oh no mr rosa oh Oh, no. No, they're wonderful. Oh, it's almost like thinking, what's wrong with this parent?

But that's the mindset. But you know what? My kids told the mark, and they are awesome kids. That's awesome. Did you let him go to spring break?

Oh, never. No, no, no. They weren't even interested in that, which is interesting. No, they pretty much hung around, and they learned to do stuff. But we used to go out into the woods, and, you know, I spent time with them.

And here in New England, when you go out in the woods, you've got all of these beautiful stone walls. And I would sit there with them and explain how they were, you know, why they were there and what happened historically. And these kids, it's kind of funny because my kids actually learned about the old roads in New England that are now just paths, you know, that used to be the highways and the byways and so on and so forth. They've really got a good education in that regard.

Well, Scott, we're going to have to leave it there, my friend. You call WLOB and tell them that you want the show back on the station. And I know we've got a lot of folks up there that are missing us, and we miss you guys. Thank you very much, and God bless you. All right, God bless you.

There's Scott in Maine listening to us on a Nevada talk radio station. That's pretty cool. Here's the quote from the New York Post. cocaine weed molly everywhere they'll take molly and they'll go to the party cocaine they'll do in the bathroom weed they're going to smoke on the balcony i think that's you know three of the four food groups at spring break it really makes you wonder i mean when did spring break turn this wild has it always been that way i mean i've only known spring break to be that crazy so i don't You have to ask our older listeners about that. But that checks.

That is very consistent with the spring break experience. All right. And the crazy thing is they bring it right back to their dorm rooms. What happens in spring break does not always stay at the beach in Panama City, Florida. Yeah, especially nine months later.

Right. 901-260-5926. That's 901-260-5926. This is the Todd Stern Show. Distinguished members of the committee, I want to say thank you very, very much for giving me the privilege of coming.

Sorry about that. Committee will come back to order, and Mr. Huckabee, please proceed. I will mark them down undecided, Senator. Always has a clever line there.

That's Governor Mike Huckabee, our next ambassador to Israel. And those screeching magpies in the background happen to be members of Code Pink. That's that women's group. I don't know what they're squawking about. But anyway, they were hauled out, and all is well.

That ends well. Wow. Pam Bondi, very upset at Jasmine Crockett. And I'm just curious, you folks in Texas, I mean, you've got Jasmine Crockett out there now making fun of your governor, calling him Hot Wheels, right? Governor Hot Wheels.

She's also calling for people to literally attack Senator Ted Cruz. Cut number one, please. Your words have consequences. And what happened after she said that about Elon Musk, she's a Texan in her own home state. After she said that, this morning, three explosive devices were found in Austin, Texas.

So she needs to unequivocally denounce the violence. She must apologize immediately, not only to all Texans, but to our country, to the American shareholders of Tesla, because she is promoting violence.

well no doubt about that and jasmine crockett also mocking the governor of texas my question at what point do the republicans say this woman's got to go it's it's time to get rid of jasmine crockett she needs to be expelled from the congress she needs to be censured 901-260-5926 our number what say you america that's 901-260-5926 this is the todd stern show and welcome back everybody happy to have you with us this is the todd stearns radio show uh by the way want to play some audio here scott jennings bringing some sanity to all of this a chaos surrounding the signal text messaging cut number eight plays it's a shocking thing and you know they've admitted that it was a mistake and admitted that it's authentic so they're owning up to it i think they're still based on what i've heard tonight trying to figure out how it happened i'm not sure the national security advisor walls even knows goldberg in fact i don't believe he knows him and has never met him i did learn a few things in some of my conversations uh if you're interested one is that the signal program was pre-loaded on a number of devices and agency computers uh in this circuit when they got there so in their view it was already in use number two um in some of the messages they talk about needing to go to the high side computers which is the classified system so they clearly were knowing there was a line on what you could discuss in a chat like this versus classified system number three there is a dispute over whether the term war plans is being exaggerated and number four look i love the policy it's well executed you've got a thoughtful policy discussion going on and we did what the biden administration would not do stop these people from harassing our shipping lanes and our boats and our navy so good on the trump administration for reversing a bad policy and again if you want to have a conversation about about keeping our troops safe keeping our people safe let's have that conversation let's talk about the policy failures that led to the 13 marines getting killed in afghanistan and that botched evacuation of kabul let's have that conversation i'd be more than willing to have that conversation and i'm happy to have this conversation the reality is a mistake was made the mistake is being dealt with and there you go nobody was harmed no military plans or secrets were released. Nobody was put in harm's way. But if you want to talk about those security failures, let's talk about Hillary Clinton. Let's talk about her failed Benghazi policies that led to the deaths of a U.S. ambassador there, along with four other American citizens and dozens of people that were injured.

But they don't want to have those conversations. The Democrats don't want to have those conversations.

So now Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, and this guy is a complete sleazeball. And I gave him props for doing the right thing by not releasing the information when he realized that he was on this text exchange that he should not have been on. But now Jeffrey Goldberg is having a second, is having a change of heart about this. First of all, So the idea, he's now saying, disputing the idea there was nothing classified that was discussed in the text message exchanges. Cut 16.

Saying that nobody was texting war plans, given you were privy to this group, Chad. Is that how you saw it? No, that's a lie. He was texting war plans. He was texting attack plans.

When targets were going to be targeted, how they were going to be targeted, who was at the targets, when the next sequence of attacks were happening. I didn't publish this, and I continue not to publish it because it felt like it was too confidential, too technical. And I worry, honestly, that sharing that kind of information in public could endanger American military personnel. But no, they were plans for the attack. They were texted before the attack.

All right. So that was Jeffrey Goldberg last night.

So now Jeffrey Goldberg says that he is considering whether or not he should release more of the chat transcripts.

So we'll see how all this plays out. It just seems to me that if you're on the Trump team, that the best response and the only response should always be honesty. Admit you made a mistake and let's move on. We'll see how all that plays out. 901-260-5926, our telephone number, that's 901-260-5926.

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Millions are switching to Newsmax because we're fighting for you. I saw one of the most interesting videos on X yesterday, last night. It's a mom, and this mom has, and she's got multiple kids. I don't know how many kids, but she has several kids. Anyway, she's got one that's seven years old.

And I want you to go back in time to when your child was seven years old. What are some of the things that you did to help build confidence in your child?

So this mom parked in front of the Chick-fil-A, and she told her seven-year-old son to go in and order Chick-fil-A all by himself. This is really cool. Take a listen. I just read Anxious Generation. And at the end, they have this challenge where they're like, we challenge you to, like, let your kid do something without a parent.

Like, go do something age-appropriate on their own so it can build confidence for them.

So all of my kids came up with an idea that they wanted to do that they could do alone.

So Wells' idea is to go to Chick-fil-A and order some dinner. I gave him some money and just we rehearsed like what to say. And like if anyone gives him a hard time to ask for the manager, because Locke, when he was maybe 10, he went in to get some milk for me. I was like in the car with the baby and I just gave him my card and said, go get some milk. And they like they sent him back.

The worst part is I can't watch. because I can see like if he was going to go do something confidently, I was in there. I could see him ordering or even if the blinds weren't shut and I could just peek in and see him like, okay, he's next in line. He's got this. No, no phone, no way to communicate with me.

I can't see if he's in trouble. Oh my gosh, he did it. hey i didn't have to ask the manager or anything really he just gave it to me yeah they just served you yeah and then yeah you got your coffee now and he gave me some money I want to do that again. Really? Yeah, that is so fun.

Do you feel like that builds confidence? Yeah, for sure. Like a little nervous? Yeah. Like my legs are still shivering.

Really? But yeah, that was so fun. Awesome. You did so, I'm so proud of you. Way to go.

So we got the cup in a big, big cup.

Okay. And then I got... Oh, you upgraded me? Yeah. Nice.

Thank you. I raised you right.

Okay, let's eat. Wow. I love this story. And it reminded me of the time when I was a kid, and I went in to get my mom's cigarettes and tab back in the day. A little different.

It's a rite of passage. It was confidence building, though, for little Todd to go buy cigarettes for his mom. And tab. And AIDS. She loved the AIDS candy.

So that's, it was a thing back in the day. You know, it's interesting because a lot of people are complaining about this. They're saying she's a bad mom because the world is too dangerous to let your child do something like that. One guy writing, never take your eyes off your child in today's society. There are much better ways to build confidence without risking your own child's life.

Okay, dude, lighten up. It's Chick-fil-A. Yeah. All right, come on. You know, there was this study that came out a couple months ago, and we might have talked about this on your show, but it found that most adults between the age category of 18 to 24 admit that they suffer from something called menu anxiety, which is real.

where they feel uncomfortable going in as young adults. I mean, we're talking 18 to 24 years old. And when they're dining out, they get so anxious, they start getting manic. They start sweating, panting. I mean, foaming at the mouth because they're too scared to order from a menu.

And so I think what this mom is doing is, A, I mean, she is building confidence. And a kid to go up to a stranger and adult. Like, anybody remembers that as a kid. It was scary. But you're also going to prevent your kid from having menu anxiety when they're a freaking 18-year-old.

I don't think that. Is that a thing? Yeah. No, 100%. I could speak on this.

Not personally, because I don't have menu anxiety. But, like, a lot of people are like, oh, I don't want to go in there and do it, like, face-to-face. I'd rather, like, phone in or do it on an app. Oh, is that what happens when you go to the Cheesecake Factory and you have a 30-page menu and you can't figure out what to order? Is that what they're talking about?

A little bit of a menu anxiety. Yeah. I was just curious.

So I'm really relating to some of these people.

Some guy says, as kids in the 60s and 70s, we were kicked out of the house until 5 o'clock at night. We played in fields, built forts, rode bikes everywhere, played board games in friends' homes. my mom never knew where i was but knew i had the good sense to take care of myself i came home every day to a loving home and a good home-cooked meal wow good for you sir someone said good lord how have how things have changed i grew up in the era when kids went to the local store to pick up cigarettes and soda for mom yes thank you i thought it was just me but no it's true what about you folks 901-260-5926 that's 901-260-5926 did this mom do the right thing here i mean she's getting some blowback here on social media and people are saying that um she put her child in danger by what asking for a number one at chick-fil-a did you want to supersize that pal coming from the same parents that probably have kid on social media, Instagram at age four. You know, I feel like, so my, my, my parents just made me do every recital possible. And also like, it was not an option.

Like anytime we memorized a passage of the Bible, we had to get up in front of the church to recite it to everybody.

So like, by the time I was a functioning 18 year old, like it would have been nothing for me to walk in and order something. Yeah, you've got to treat these kids like they're going to be adults because they absolutely will. Just give them 10 years.

Someone said, I hope the helicopter parents in this thread don't actually have kids. It's true. One guy says, apparently a lot of our parents, a lot of our mothers smoked cigarettes back in the 70s. Most of these are about cigarettes. Oh, here we go.

Deb says, this seems like child endangerment to me. Child trafficking is real. no hard no all right no chick-fil-a for you deb she's the loo but again you could tell the mom she was nervous she was so excited for her child but she wanted her child to succeed and imagine the confidence this little fella got just by going into to a chick-fil-a and ordering at the age of what seven years old yeah it's incredible what any story truth um truth patriot rights i'm all for teaching independence and confidence building but never send your child alone somewhere that you don't have eyes on them at all time or she was in the parking lot it's not like she's allowing her kid to go on a blind date bro the kid's gonna get trampled by the chick-fil-a cows by the way why did they get rid of the chick-fil-a cows did they get rid of the chick-fil-a cows why did they do that and also the chicken salad sandwich what's wrong they're going woke i'm telling you they're going woke and someone writing in that actually in japan they actually have a reality tv show and it's on netflix and you can watch toddlers as they venture out to run errands on their own for the very first time that's a little creepy that's creepy that's a little creepy now we're going too far yeah that's they always take it there's always good intention and then it just goes the next thing you know, your kid's getting a bowl cut. That's terrible. Oh, geez, Alou.

Anyway, good for you guys. Good for you moms and dads. And, you know, yeah, there's a lot of bad out there, but if you teach your kids right from wrong, you teach them a good dose of common sense, they're going to be okay. They're going to be just fine. The kids are going to be okay.

By the way, some breaking news. Congressman Randy Weber has just introduced a resolution to censure Jasmine Crockett this after she mocked the governor for being in a wheelchair called him governor hot wheels also this morning she beat up a journalist that was tied to laura loomer of all the people you want to you you want to punch that's not the person so now laura loomer's person is really upset uh they're calling for her to be expelled from you wonder what do you have to do to get kicked out of Congress. Not much. I mean, you can do a lot. Pardon.

I mean, they just tried to kind of bring up this whole discussion with Rep Al Green and the cane. Remember that? Oh, yeah. It seems like years ago. Yeah.

I mean, so they couldn't even get him censured.

So this whole discussion of centering this Congresswoman, I think, is just political grandstanding, to be honest. But I don't know. She just seems very unhinged. But I don't know that a censurer in Congress is going to bring this woman back. I'm curious to know.

She's not that old, and I'm curious to know how she is worth more than $9 million right now. How is that possible? There's so much corruption, so much going on. She makes $174,000 a year. How did that morph into $9 million in worth?

Folks, I am telling you, there is so much grift going on right now. the grifting in Congress is insane. And she's out there, you know, saying all of this stuff about Ted Cruz and Elon Musk. It's unbelievable. $174,000 a year, and she's got a $2 million townhouse in Dallas.

No telling what she's got in Washington, D.C. She also owns a $1.5 million lakefront cabin in Galveston, and also a $1.5 million loft in Austin, Texas. All that on $174,000 a year. She must not be eating anything. She must have went to the Nancy Pelosi School of Business doing very well.

I wonder how much she spends on the eyelashes. Those are some pretty severe eyelashes. I'm just saying, it's a lot. She's a loo. All right, we'll keep you updated on that.

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