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- 0:10Speaker 1: Live from the Liberty University Studio in Memphis, Tennessee. It's
- 0:14Speaker 1: common sense, conservative commentary from Todd Stars.
- 0:18Speaker 2: That's American.
- 0:26Speaker 3: Oh well, hello everybody, welcome to the Tom Stearns Or
- 0:31Speaker 3: Radio program. What an honor to have you with us.
- 0:34Speaker 3: Hope you and your family just had a wonderful, wonderful
- 0:39Speaker 3: Memorial Day as we remember those who paid the ultimate
- 0:44Speaker 3: sacrifice for our freedom. What an honor to have you
- 0:47Speaker 3: with us today. By the way, write down our telephone number.
- 0:50Speaker 3: You will need this if you plan on calling into
- 0:52Speaker 3: the program. Nine oh one two six zero five nine
- 0:56Speaker 3: two six. That's nine oh one two six zero five
- 0:59Speaker 3: nine two six. Really some very beautiful There were just
- 1:03Speaker 3: beautiful ceremonies yesterday. And there was a story. I don't
- 1:08Speaker 3: know if you saw this, It was going viral on
- 1:11Speaker 3: the interwebs. There was a lady from Arkansas, a gold
- 1:15Speaker 3: Star wife. Her name is Charrelle Shaw, and she was
- 1:20Speaker 3: unable this year to make it to Arlington National Cemetery
- 1:23Speaker 3: to visit her husband's grave. He passed away or he
- 1:26Speaker 3: was killed in action back in two thousand and seven
- 1:29Speaker 3: in Iraq, And so she just put something out on
- 1:33Speaker 3: social media asking if someone would mind if they are
- 1:37Speaker 3: there to take a photograph of her husband's gravesite. And
- 1:42Speaker 3: you know, I'm just I'm always so encouraged by these
- 1:47Speaker 3: kinds of stories and by the reaction of the American people,
- 1:51Speaker 3: because it really does it sort of. It's not just heartwarming,
- 1:55Speaker 3: but it reaffirms that there are just a lot of
- 1:57Speaker 3: good hearted people in this country and sometimes you can
- 2:00Speaker 3: forget about that. So it wasn't just a couple of folks.
- 2:03Speaker 3: Apparently many many people stop by her grave, her husband's grave,
- 2:08Speaker 3: including Tulsi Gabbard and the War Secretary Pete Hegseth, and
- 2:14Speaker 3: they all posted images. So we're actually going to be
- 2:17Speaker 3: talking with missus Shaw a little bit later on in
- 2:20Speaker 3: the program, and I know many of you are going
- 2:23Speaker 3: to want to call in and honor her and the
- 2:25Speaker 3: ultimate sacrifice her husband made so that you and I
- 2:28Speaker 3: can sit here and have this conversation on a Tuesday
- 2:32Speaker 3: in America. And it also, you know a lot of
- 2:34Speaker 3: people say, well, you know, social media always brings out
- 2:37Speaker 3: the baden people, and that's true, I get it, but
- 2:41Speaker 3: you know what, social media also brings out the good
- 2:45Speaker 3: and it's just a really a heartwarming and a heartfelt story.
- 2:48Speaker 3: And so we're going to be talking to missus Shaw
- 2:50Speaker 3: a little bit later on. Also, we've been promoting this
- 2:54Speaker 3: speaker Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the House is here
- 2:57Speaker 3: and he is going to He's going to sit down
- 3:01Speaker 3: for a very long form interview that's coming up a
- 3:04Speaker 3: little bit later on in the program and the Speaker.
- 3:07Speaker 3: We're also going to ask the Speaker about the UFOs.
- 3:11Speaker 3: It's uh, it's it's a mind This this topic just
- 3:16Speaker 3: drives me nuts. So we're gonna find out once and
- 3:18Speaker 3: for all from the Speaker of the House whether or
- 3:21Speaker 3: not these alien photos exist and if so, what does
- 3:26Speaker 3: it mean? What does it mean big pictures? So you're
- 3:29Speaker 3: gonna want to stick around to uh, to listen to
- 3:31Speaker 3: this very important interview we've got with Speaker Mike Johnson.
- 3:35Speaker 3: Josh Jones is here as well, are great political strategist
- 3:39Speaker 3: and May's Middleton. All you folks in Texas, today is
- 3:43Speaker 3: a very important day runoff day. You've got uh, the
- 3:48Speaker 3: You've got the big Senate runoff between John Cornyn and
- 3:52Speaker 3: Ken Pankston, and you've also got May's Middleton running against
- 3:57Speaker 3: Chip Roy for the Attorney General's race and the Attorney's
- 4:00Speaker 3: general race. That is a big, big race and there's
- 4:03Speaker 3: a lot of contention. I'm curious to hear from our
- 4:06Speaker 3: Texas listeners today, who are you guys voting for in
- 4:10Speaker 3: the big election race today. So we're gonna, like I said,
- 4:13Speaker 3: a lot of stuff, a lot of stuff going down
- 4:16Speaker 3: here on the Todd Sterns Radio show. Again our telephone
- 4:20Speaker 3: number nine O one two six zero five nine two six.
- 4:23Speaker 3: That's nine oh one two six zero five nine two
- 4:26Speaker 3: six am. I am just befuddled by this story. I'm
- 4:31Speaker 3: curious to hear your fons. Know, we have a lot
- 4:33Speaker 3: of Southern listeners to the Todd Sterns Radio program. Aoc
- 4:38Speaker 3: Alexandria Ocazio Cortes. She has a problem with all of
- 4:43Speaker 3: you Southerners, and if I'm reading what she said correctly,
- 4:47Speaker 3: I think she wants to I don't go to war
- 4:50Speaker 3: with all of you folks. And I have to put
- 4:53Speaker 3: myself in this mix because I am a Tennesseean, I'm
- 4:57Speaker 3: a son of the South, and so I guess she's
- 4:59Speaker 3: talking about us too. But she's very upset over redistricting.
- 5:03Speaker 3: And here's what she told a big mob of people
- 5:06Speaker 3: in Washington.
- 5:07Speaker 4: D C.
- 5:08Speaker 3: Just the other day. Cut seven.
- 5:10Speaker 5: It is time for the North to pull up to
- 5:13Speaker 5: the South. It is time for New York to pull
- 5:18Speaker 5: up to Alabama. It is time for all of us
- 5:22Speaker 5: to come to Georgia, to Louisiana, to Tennessee, to Mississippi
- 5:28Speaker 5: and let them know exactly what they have uncurked with
- 5:32Speaker 5: this injustice. They think they can draw us out of power.
- 5:37Speaker 5: They do not know the sleeping giant that they just awakens.
- 5:43Speaker 3: Okay, because it is right, We're good, thank you. So
- 5:48Speaker 3: I'm just what does this mean? She wants to pull up?
- 5:50Speaker 3: She says, it's time for New Yorkers to pull up
- 5:53Speaker 3: on the South. Now, I'm just gonna I'm just gonna
- 5:57Speaker 3: say something, and we've got some more audio player. But
- 5:59Speaker 3: let me just as a word of caution to the
- 6:01Speaker 3: Bronx princess here. You really don't want to do that, ma'am,
- 6:05Speaker 3: and especially in Alabama. Look, even those of us in Tennessee,
- 6:09Speaker 3: we don't even pull up on the people in Alabama.
- 6:11Speaker 3: You don't want to do that. The Georgia folks they're
- 6:14Speaker 3: nice enough, I mean, they're good, hospitable people. But the
- 6:18Speaker 3: folks in Alabama they will cut you. I'm just telling
- 6:21Speaker 3: you don't want to be pulling up on anybody, and
- 6:24Speaker 3: outward really, for that matter, the entire South. So that
- 6:28Speaker 3: is just not going to end.
- 6:30Speaker 6: Well.
- 6:30Speaker 3: I don't know what kind of games they're playing up
- 6:32Speaker 3: in New York City, but this is not gonna this
- 6:37Speaker 3: is not gonna play well, what is it, homie, don't
- 6:40Speaker 3: play that. Yeah, it's that's just the way it is.
- 6:43Speaker 3: So anyway, this lady wrote this or she posted this
- 6:47Speaker 3: video on TikTok, and you got to hear what she had. Guys,
- 6:51Speaker 3: did we clean this up? So all right, we've cleaned
- 6:53Speaker 3: up some of the language. It's just so hilarious. Take
- 6:56Speaker 3: to listen.
- 6:58Speaker 7: It has come to my attention that aos he has
- 7:00Speaker 7: made yet another bone headed statement by telling people in
- 7:03Speaker 7: New York they need to pull up on the South,
- 7:05Speaker 7: particularly pull up on Alabama. Oh sweet baby, you sweet
- 7:09Speaker 7: face loon. That is not a good idea. And I'm
- 7:12Speaker 7: gonna tell you why listen. We know that they tell
- 7:16Speaker 7: you anything because their voter base does not read or
- 7:18Speaker 7: research none of that. So they could tell y'all anything
- 7:21Speaker 7: and y'all will believe it. But I want to issue
- 7:24Speaker 7: a stern warning to you do not take her advice
- 7:27Speaker 7: and pull up on Alabama, I.
- 7:29Speaker 4: Stayed in one of my previous videos.
- 7:30Speaker 7: We have these things called we have these things called rednecks,
- 7:34Speaker 7: and they will not hesitate to unite and get you
- 7:36Speaker 7: the fuck up out of here. Now, do this thing
- 7:39Speaker 7: for fun that they call swiss cheese and yass, and
- 7:41Speaker 7: I'm gonna give you a clue on what that means.
- 7:43Speaker 7: That means they turn you into Swiss cheese, a colander,
- 7:45Speaker 7: a sifter, they let air at you. They do it
- 7:48Speaker 7: for fun. Don't ask me, It's just something they do.
- 7:51Speaker 7: As far as the red Necks, they can hit a
- 7:53Speaker 7: bird going thirty miles per hour because they were hungry
- 7:55Speaker 7: and wanted something to eat. They could do it, and
- 7:57Speaker 7: they sleep. It's what they do. It's their way of
- 7:59Speaker 7: having fun. And they will get together and get you
- 8:01Speaker 7: to fuck up out of here.
- 8:02Speaker 6: Now.
- 8:02Speaker 7: As far as the other dangers of the South, honey,
- 8:04Speaker 7: we don't want you to come down here and fall
- 8:05Speaker 7: in a wild haul pin.
- 8:07Speaker 4: They will never hear from you again.
- 8:09Speaker 7: We also don't want you to have to navigate those
- 8:11Speaker 7: byous in those swamps because.
- 8:13Speaker 4: Those gators get to rolling witch ags.
- 8:15Speaker 7: And your parents will be crying forever honey, it's just
- 8:17Speaker 7: not a good idea.
- 8:18Speaker 4: Now.
- 8:18Speaker 7: Also, on top of that, we got the Aunties down here,
- 8:21Speaker 7: and we're gonna encourage all the foolishness to go on
- 8:23Speaker 7: because we weren't bothering nobody, all right. Also, before I go,
- 8:28Speaker 7: I want to let you know down here in the South,
- 8:30Speaker 7: we don't call cops. We call coroners. All right, I
- 8:32Speaker 7: just want to remind you of that. Now, stay up there,
- 8:36Speaker 7: leave us alone. We ain't bothering nobody, and don't come
- 8:38Speaker 7: down here talking about you want some kind of smoke,
- 8:40Speaker 7: cause we're gonna get y'all the smoke and you're gonna
- 8:42Speaker 7: be looking up wondering what happened. And when I say
- 8:44Speaker 7: looking up, I don't mean off the ground, baby, No,
- 8:46Speaker 7: I mean in hell in hell that should lift.
- 8:48Speaker 4: Up thine eyes.
- 8:49Speaker 7: So just go on, stay up there, leave us alone.
- 8:52Speaker 7: We ain't bothering nobody, we don't want no trouble. And
- 8:56Speaker 7: don't listen to AOC ever again.
- 8:59Speaker 3: Yeah, this is wise advice here. You just don't want
- 9:04Speaker 3: to be pulling up on people. In the Southern States.
- 9:07Speaker 3: We're very docile. Look when you look at all the
- 9:10Speaker 3: parts of the country, I mean the Northerners, they're a
- 9:12Speaker 3: little you know, wound up there. They're just wound up tight,
- 9:16Speaker 3: that's how they are. But in the South, we're pretty
- 9:18Speaker 3: easy going. And a lot of that has to do
- 9:20Speaker 3: with the heat and humidity. We just don't like moving
- 9:22Speaker 3: around too much because it's so hot down here. But
- 9:26Speaker 3: regardless of that, we're pretty easy going where neighborly, we're hospitable.
- 9:31Speaker 3: We just don't want you coming in and burning down
- 9:34Speaker 3: Atlanta again. We don't want you coming across the Mason
- 9:37Speaker 3: Dixon line causing trouble, right, that's we just want to
- 9:41Speaker 3: be left alone. We're minding our own business. We don't
- 9:44Speaker 3: get in anybody else's business. That's not what we do
- 9:48Speaker 3: as a region of the country. So I don't know
- 9:51Speaker 3: what AOC has planning but planned, But I love the
- 9:55Speaker 3: description of her of as a sweet faced loon because
- 10:00Speaker 3: she is slap crazy. So and again, she may not
- 10:04Speaker 3: believe me, but perhaps some of you good people in
- 10:07Speaker 3: the Southern States will either affirm what I've just said,
- 10:11Speaker 3: or you may say, starns your nuts. Nine oh one
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- 11:55Speaker 3: All right, coming up in just a little while, House
- 11:58Speaker 3: Speaker Mike Johnson is going to join us for an
- 12:02Speaker 3: entire segment. It's going to be a great conversation. Meanwhile,
- 12:06Speaker 3: President Trump is telling the entire cabinet to show up
- 12:10Speaker 3: to Camp David. The President, no doubt focusing on Iran.
- 12:15Speaker 3: Looks like the ceasefire is beginning to unravel. So yesterday
- 12:23Speaker 3: the US conducted strikes on these vessels, these ships that
- 12:28Speaker 3: were laying mines near the Strait of Horror. US also
- 12:32Speaker 3: missile launchers. So the President and by the way, this
- 12:36Speaker 3: is a very rare thing. The President convening the cabinet
- 12:38Speaker 3: meeting tomorrow as these negotiations are what they're calling a
- 12:43Speaker 3: critical phase. All cabinet members are expected to attend the meeting.
- 12:51Speaker 3: The President has suggested that both sides are nearing a
- 12:54Speaker 3: potential breakthrough, while Iranian officials have pushed back on those
- 13:00Speaker 3: claims that a deal is imminent. I look, here's the deal, folks,
- 13:06Speaker 3: and I have great concerns about this because the war
- 13:12Speaker 3: is nobody knows what's going on now. Nobody knows why
- 13:14Speaker 3: we're over there that, nobody knows what we're supposed to do.
- 13:17Speaker 3: Nobody knows about the end game, nobody knows how all
- 13:21Speaker 3: of this is going to ramp up. And there is
- 13:24Speaker 3: one side of the MAGA movement that says we should
- 13:29Speaker 3: trust the president implicitly, do not question the president, don't
- 13:33Speaker 3: be asking questions. Just sit down and shut up, and
- 13:37Speaker 3: deal with the high gas prices, and deal with the
- 13:40Speaker 3: high grocery prices, and this single get wrapped up when
- 13:43Speaker 3: it gets wrapped up. There's another side of MAGA, which is,
- 13:47Speaker 3: I would say, the younger side, and they're saying, we
- 13:51Speaker 3: got to get out of there. What is the point
- 13:53Speaker 3: of all of this, What are we doing over there?
- 13:56Speaker 3: What is the end game? I'm tired of paying high
- 14:00Speaker 3: prices at the gas pump. I'm tired of paying high
- 14:03Speaker 3: prices at the grocery store. I don't care if they're
- 14:06Speaker 3: not as high as what they were when Biden was president,
- 14:08Speaker 3: because they're still going up. And then there are a
- 14:12Speaker 3: lot of political operatives who are stepping back and observing
- 14:15Speaker 3: this and saying, if if this war continues into say
- 14:22Speaker 3: July or September, then we could be looking at some
- 14:26Speaker 3: problems at the ballot box, because Speaker Mike Johnson will
- 14:31Speaker 3: ask the speaker about this. Speaker Mike Johnson has been
- 14:34Speaker 3: saying that the biggest issue facing voters on election day
- 14:38Speaker 3: is going to be affordability. That's going to be the
- 14:40Speaker 3: big issue. And I'm wondering if you think the Speaker
- 14:43Speaker 3: is right here. I think the Speaker in a way
- 14:48Speaker 3: is trying to just gently nudge the administration and remind
- 14:53Speaker 3: them that at the end of the day, it really
- 14:55Speaker 3: is the economy stupid. It really is nothing else matters.
- 15:01Speaker 3: And now there's talk about US sending the military into Cuba.
- 15:06Speaker 3: So I think that if that happens, and I don't
- 15:10Speaker 3: here's the thing. I don't think that's going to happen,
- 15:12Speaker 3: but if it does, it is just going to enrage
- 15:16Speaker 3: a very large swath of the Maga movement who look
- 15:20Speaker 3: at these things and they say these are not America
- 15:23Speaker 3: first moves right now. They want the president to be
- 15:28Speaker 3: focused solely on domestic issues. And for them, it doesn't
- 15:33Speaker 3: seem to matter that we've been at war, a de
- 15:36Speaker 3: facto war with Iran since nineteen seventy nine. They don't
- 15:40Speaker 3: seem to be all that concerned about what's happening in
- 15:43Speaker 3: Cuba because that's been going on for a very long time.
- 15:46Speaker 3: And a lot of us are saying, Okay, well, why now,
- 15:48Speaker 3: why do we have to do these things now? And
- 15:50Speaker 3: these are fair questions. And I believe that the President
- 15:54Speaker 3: had a legitimate reason to go into Iran. I just
- 15:56Speaker 3: don't know what we're doing there now. I genuinely do
- 15:59Speaker 3: not know. And now people are saying, well, you know
- 16:04Speaker 3: it's gonna take some time. No, the administration told us
- 16:07Speaker 3: four or five weeks max, and we are well beyond
- 16:10Speaker 3: that now. Nine oh one two six zero five nine
- 16:15Speaker 3: two six. Is are telephone over? That's nine oh one
- 16:18Speaker 3: two six zero five nine two six. And I am
- 16:22Speaker 3: curious if this war has you concerned, Do you believe
- 16:25Speaker 3: that that was the right call to make or is
- 16:27Speaker 3: it time to wrap this thing up, because I genuinely
- 16:31Speaker 3: don't know how do you wrap this thing up? You can't.
- 16:34Speaker 3: You cannot trust the Iranians at all. Meanwhile, in this
- 16:40Speaker 3: country over the weekend, did you see these uh these
- 16:43Speaker 3: they're calling him teen takeovers? Any of you folks, any
- 16:47Speaker 3: of you folks been watching this over the weekend. So
- 16:49Speaker 3: you had five Chicago police officers and these cops are
- 16:53Speaker 3: out there and they've got all of these these they've
- 16:56Speaker 3: got all of these kids and they're in the streets
- 16:59Speaker 3: causing mayhem. The same thing happened yesterday, by the way,
- 17:02Speaker 3: and one of the teenagers hits the gas on the
- 17:05Speaker 3: car and literally runs down I think it runs over
- 17:08Speaker 3: five Chicago police officers, and a lot of folks are wondering,
- 17:14Speaker 3: all right, well, how do you how do you deal
- 17:16Speaker 3: with that? What do you do about that? Because it's
- 17:19Speaker 3: hampening all over America now just over the weekend. We
- 17:26Speaker 3: don't have the final I don't think they had the
- 17:28Speaker 3: final tally shit, but over two dozen people were shot
- 17:32Speaker 3: in Chicago over the long weekend. The five cops in
- 17:35Speaker 3: the hospital, and this is what life looks like in
- 17:38Speaker 3: a Democrat run city. That's what we deal with here.
- 17:41Speaker 3: In Memphis all the time, so we're sort of we're
- 17:44Speaker 3: sort of used to it. But I'm just gonna throw
- 17:48Speaker 3: this out there, and I'm curious to hear your thoughts
- 17:50Speaker 3: on it, because these teen takeovers have become a national
- 17:53Speaker 3: security threat. I mean, they're happening all over the country
- 17:55Speaker 3: all it is happening a Myrtle beat South Carolina over
- 17:58Speaker 3: the weekend, and I think they've become a national security
- 18:02Speaker 3: threat that is on par with Islamic terrorism. I mean,
- 18:06Speaker 3: you can call them what you want, teens, young scholars,
- 18:10Speaker 3: utes kings, little queens. My mind, they're nothing more than
- 18:15Speaker 3: domestic terrorist. And I'm just going to tell you something here.
- 18:20Speaker 3: It's not the white kids or the Asian kids, or
- 18:22Speaker 3: the Hispanic kids that are rioting en mass nearly every
- 18:26Speaker 3: day in the country. So it seems to me there's
- 18:29Speaker 3: a major problem within the black community and it's got
- 18:33Speaker 3: to be addressed. How do you do that? Because I
- 18:37Speaker 3: have a theory and nobody's talking about this. And don't
- 18:41Speaker 3: get me wrong, you got to have a mommy and
- 18:43Speaker 3: a daddy in the house to make it work, right,
- 18:45Speaker 3: but nobody's talking about this component. I have a theory
- 18:48Speaker 3: about this. I think We are watching the results of
- 18:54Speaker 3: at least a decade of this critical race theory education
- 18:59Speaker 3: right for the past how many years now, fifteen years.
- 19:02Speaker 3: These kids were brainwashed in their public schools to believe
- 19:08Speaker 3: that they were born into oppression and that their white
- 19:13Speaker 3: classmates were the oppressors. You see it play out. It
- 19:16Speaker 3: makes perfect sense to me, And so the media buys
- 19:19Speaker 3: into the lie. And that's why they're turning a blind
- 19:21Speaker 3: eye to what's happening. And that's because many journalists were
- 19:25Speaker 3: trained in the exact same classrooms that were spewing this
- 19:29Speaker 3: critical race theory nonsense. Remember, white people are the oppressors.
- 19:34Speaker 3: Black people are the oppressed. So I think what we
- 19:38Speaker 3: were watching here play out is what critical race theory
- 19:41Speaker 3: was all about. It was meant to create chaos in
- 19:45Speaker 3: the culture. I've got a little bit more to say
- 19:47Speaker 3: about this. I ought to fit a set up over
- 19:49Speaker 3: the break here nine oh one two six zero five
- 19:51Speaker 3: nine two six. That's nine oh one two six zero five,
- 19:55Speaker 3: nine two six. Give us a call today. This is
- 19:57Speaker 3: the Todd Stern Show.
- 20:08Speaker 8: All right.
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- 20:21Speaker 3: So thank you guys for listening to us in Alabama.
- 20:25Speaker 3: By the way, our telephone number on this Tuesday edition
- 20:28Speaker 3: of the program nine oh one two six zero five
- 20:31Speaker 3: nine two six. That's nine oh one two six zero five,
- 20:35Speaker 3: nine to six. Well, Tim Burchett is sounding the alarm.
- 20:43Speaker 3: I want to play this. He's really upset and he
- 20:46Speaker 3: fears that the leadership in the Senate is going to
- 20:50Speaker 3: intentionally slow walk the Same America Act. Take a listen
- 20:54Speaker 3: to cut four.
- 20:55Speaker 6: Hey, everybody, Tim Burchett.
- 20:57Speaker 9: People are asking me about what's going on with the
- 20:59Speaker 9: Site America Act. Well, the Senate, of course, is dragging
- 21:04Speaker 9: their feet. The House has passed it twice. I've got
- 21:07Speaker 9: a sneak in suspicion that they'll probably attempt to pass
- 21:12Speaker 9: it or pass it so late in the dad gum
- 21:16Speaker 9: game that it can't get implemented, and then they can
- 21:19Speaker 9: go home and say, oh, look we passed it, and
- 21:21Speaker 9: their bay bees celebrate and pat them on the back,
- 21:24Speaker 9: and then it just cannot get implemented at the state
- 21:28Speaker 9: and local level in time for it to have any
- 21:30Speaker 9: effect in these elections and Ultimately, I think that's what
- 21:36Speaker 9: you've got in. I'm afraid in the Senate leadership, they
- 21:41Speaker 9: have such a hatred of Trump and the conservative movement.
- 21:45Speaker 9: They want things to go back to the status quo,
- 21:47Speaker 9: which is them being called from the golf course by
- 21:53Speaker 9: the Democrats when it's time to make a vote, and
- 21:57Speaker 9: they do.
- 21:57Speaker 3: The obligatory or we don't like what they're.
- 21:59Speaker 9: Doing, and they get their crumbs off the side of
- 22:04Speaker 9: the table and for their districts, and they go home
- 22:07Speaker 9: and get re elected. And I'm afraid that's exactly what
- 22:11Speaker 9: they're up to, and it's it's disgusting. And at some
- 22:18Speaker 9: point we're going to say enough is enough, and we're
- 22:21Speaker 9: going to start electing people with some guts that are
- 22:24Speaker 9: going to do something, aren't just going to sit around.
- 22:27Speaker 9: America is tired of hearings, they're tired of pontificating, and
- 22:32Speaker 9: they're tired of being talked down to. There's an issue
- 22:37Speaker 9: that's across the board something like eighty percent approval, and
- 22:42Speaker 9: yet you can't even get it to a vote in
- 22:43Speaker 9: a Senate. I just don't buy it, folks. Anyway, Let's
- 22:49Speaker 9: keep fighting, Let's pray for our country. Thank you for
- 22:53Speaker 9: setting them here.
- 22:54Speaker 3: Yeah, and look, I appreciate Congressman Burchant what he said.
- 22:58Speaker 3: I mean, we've been preaching this here on this program
- 23:00Speaker 3: for what a solid year now. I mean, it's been
- 23:03Speaker 3: very clear to me what John Thune has been up to.
- 23:07Speaker 3: But here's how devious this guy is. So John thun
- 23:11Speaker 3: sends all of these senators on vacation again. However, he
- 23:16Speaker 3: does not put the Senate in recess. You say, Todd,
- 23:19Speaker 3: why is that important? Because if the Senate is not
- 23:24Speaker 3: in recess, the president cannot make any recess appointments. So
- 23:29Speaker 3: therefore the Senate majority leader is once again blocking President
- 23:35Speaker 3: Trump's agenda. This is really unprecedented and it's not the
- 23:40Speaker 3: first time it's happened. So every time the Senate goes out,
- 23:44Speaker 3: they do not call a recess, and therefore President Trump
- 23:48Speaker 3: is not able to get anything done. So Congressman Burschen
- 23:53Speaker 3: is right here. There's no doubt about it that the
- 23:57Speaker 3: Senate is slow marching, not just the same America Act,
- 24:02Speaker 3: but all of the President's agenda. And I don't know
- 24:07Speaker 3: about you, and this is just yours truly speaking here,
- 24:11Speaker 3: but in my estimation, it just seems to me that
- 24:16Speaker 3: every single Republican senator up there. They bear responsibility for
- 24:21Speaker 3: this because I haven't heard anybody coming out and saying
- 24:25Speaker 3: that John Thune needs to lose his job. Not a
- 24:27Speaker 3: single have you Have you heard a single Republican senator
- 24:31Speaker 3: come out and say John Thune needs to be removed
- 24:34Speaker 3: from power. Heard a lot of people in the House
- 24:36Speaker 3: say that, haven't heard any Republicans in the US Senate
- 24:41Speaker 3: say anything like that. And that's a problem, you know why,
- 24:46Speaker 3: because they're scared of John Thune. They're scared of John
- 24:49Speaker 3: Thune because he represents the establishment, he represents the deep
- 24:54Speaker 3: state power within the US Senate. He is he is
- 24:58Speaker 3: literally Mitch McConnell two point zero. That's who John Thune is.
- 25:04Speaker 3: And that's why and that's why John Thune is, you know,
- 25:07Speaker 3: thinks that he can stand up to the president because
- 25:10Speaker 3: there's really not much the president can do right now.
- 25:14Speaker 3: And that is a very very unfortunate thing. But that's
- 25:16Speaker 3: where we are right now, folks. It is a very
- 25:19Speaker 3: bad situation. So here's what I recommend. When your senators
- 25:23Speaker 3: come back home, and many of them may already be
- 25:26Speaker 3: back home, if they hold a town hall meeting, then
- 25:29Speaker 3: you need to be asking questions, and they need to
- 25:32Speaker 3: be very hard and direct questions to your Republican leadership.
- 25:38Speaker 3: And honestly, ladies and gentlemen, what we ought to be
- 25:41Speaker 3: doing here is getting together a tallly of the senators.
- 25:45Speaker 3: And trust me, every time they come on my NEWSMAC show,
- 25:48Speaker 3: anytime they come on this radio program, they're going to
- 25:51Speaker 3: be asked that question, do you support John Thune as
- 25:53Speaker 3: the majority leader. They're terrified, these these Republican senators are terrified.
- 26:02Speaker 3: That's why they won't say anything. That's why they won't
- 26:06Speaker 3: do anything. They are scared to death of John Thune
- 26:08Speaker 3: in the establishment, and that's why they're doing what they're
- 26:10Speaker 3: doing here. Nine oh one two six zero five nine
- 26:14Speaker 3: two six is our telephone number. That's nine oh one
- 26:17Speaker 3: two six zero five to nine to six. I just
- 26:24Speaker 3: I hate it for folks because it doesn't have to
- 26:27Speaker 3: be this way. It really doesn't. But that's just the
- 26:30Speaker 3: way it is now. I want to play some audio here,
- 26:34Speaker 3: and this is This is a fascinating story out of
- 26:37Speaker 3: Maine Waterville, Maine, where city council members are telling the
- 26:42Speaker 3: chief of police that protecting illegals is more important than
- 26:49Speaker 3: protecting police officers or law abiding American citizens in Waterville, Maine. No,
- 26:56Speaker 3: I'm not making this up. Take a listen to cut five.
- 26:59Speaker 8: To senator calls, and you know we were selected for
- 27:03Speaker 8: a one point nine million dollar regional project that would
- 27:05Speaker 8: fix our radio issues for Waterville Fire and the Waterville
- 27:08Speaker 8: Police Department. Our executive order fourteen one to five nine
- 27:11Speaker 8: and fourteen two eight seven, and those executive orders say
- 27:14Speaker 8: that cities with sanctuary policies do not receive federal funds
- 27:18Speaker 8: or those funds should be suspended or terminated. Asking an
- 27:21Speaker 8: ordinance will put that money at risk, and that puts
- 27:24Speaker 8: police officers and firefighters in danger.
- 27:28Speaker 10: I'm scratching my head at is the fact.
- 27:31Speaker 8: That Mayor we're talking about saving cops. We're not talking
- 27:34Speaker 8: about equipment here. Now we have this opportunity for the
- 27:37Speaker 8: CDs funds, and that is incredibly important.
- 27:39Speaker 11: We know that federal funds are very capricious right now
- 27:42Speaker 11: and we cannot count on them to run the city,
- 27:44Speaker 11: and we should not. That should not be the reason
- 27:47Speaker 11: that we vote against this ordinance. In my opinion, I'm
- 27:50Speaker 11: more concerned with actually doing something that prevents people from
- 27:59Speaker 11: getting detained.
- 28:00Speaker 8: Well, I think you make a political statement either way,
- 28:01Speaker 8: but you can make a very strong statement by letting
- 28:03Speaker 8: the city manager give guidance to well, as you heard.
- 28:07Speaker 11: I'm just saying that I take issue with this comparison
- 28:10Speaker 11: of the ordinance versus getting the CDs funding.
- 28:14Speaker 8: I think it's important, it's important to know, and it's
- 28:16Speaker 8: my job to bring those facts to you, counselors.
- 28:18Speaker 11: So I'm sorry you're offended, and it's my job to
- 28:20Speaker 11: ask questions on the city staff.
- 28:24Speaker 6: It's basically extortion.
- 28:26Speaker 9: Well, no, if you don't do what I want you
- 28:27Speaker 9: to do, I'm not going to give you this federal money.
- 28:29Speaker 8: Well, I don't think it's extortion. We've always had to
- 28:31Speaker 8: follow federal law under the Supremacy Clause anyway, And of
- 28:34Speaker 8: course I understand the counter argument about the Tentemendment, got it.
- 28:37Speaker 8: This funding is very important to us. It's a year
- 28:40Speaker 8: where we're looking at a very tight city budget and
- 28:44Speaker 8: we shouldn't have to rely on federal funds. But the
- 28:46Speaker 8: fact of the matter is this is a solution to
- 28:48Speaker 8: a very serious problem that we have, and I would
- 28:50Speaker 8: hate to see something unnecessary cause us to lose that.
- 28:54Speaker 12: This is what you're experiencing in your job.
- 28:56Speaker 6: But it is not a reason.
- 28:58Speaker 12: That I won't for an ordinance for the immigrants in
- 29:01Speaker 12: our city. I'm sure if you could say it, you
- 29:03Speaker 12: would say, I don't want a law el the nineteen
- 29:05Speaker 12: seventy one it's you know, it's you know not you
- 29:08Speaker 12: know something that law enforcement probably wants.
- 29:10Speaker 8: You can give information to immigration enforcement. Pursue went to
- 29:15Speaker 8: a USC thirteen seventy.
- 29:16Speaker 10: Three suspecsion a sufficient of trafficking happening in the city, Like,
- 29:19Speaker 10: wouldn't they just call you like to deal with that?
- 29:22Speaker 4: Like, I don't know.
- 29:23Speaker 10: I'm understanding that the correlation with having to call ice
- 29:26Speaker 10: or whoever. Like at the end of the day, if
- 29:28Speaker 10: there's drugs being dealt in wherever or then the call
- 29:31Speaker 10: would be to you.
- 29:31Speaker 8: In a human trafficking case, we're not doing that case
- 29:34Speaker 8: for the purpose of immigration enforcement, but we might have
- 29:37Speaker 8: a person who's not here legally that was being the trafficker.
- 29:41Speaker 8: So then how do we navigate We're not doing it
- 29:45Speaker 8: for the purposes of immigration enforcement. We're doing it now
- 29:49Speaker 8: for the purposes of human trafficking. But if they're not
- 29:51Speaker 8: even allowed in my building, I don't know, I don't
- 29:54Speaker 8: know how we do that. That's the fact that the
- 29:56Speaker 8: person may have some immigration issue that's not what the
- 30:00Speaker 8: police would be unfortunt.
- 30:01Speaker 13: I know that a good majority of the people inside
- 30:04Speaker 13: of Youth Council do want an ordinance, and especially with
- 30:09Speaker 13: like what happened in twenty twenty, with like the Black
- 30:12Speaker 13: Lives Matter protests, a lot of people of color have
- 30:16Speaker 13: like this distrust towards the police, and I think that
- 30:18Speaker 13: that will get worse if we let them work with ice.
- 30:22Speaker 8: I had three incidents personally where I ended up on
- 30:26Speaker 8: scenes and I could not communicate with the com center.
- 30:29Speaker 8: First one, I rolled up on an accident on the Interstate.
- 30:31Speaker 8: It had just happened if it had not been reported. Fortunately,
- 30:34Speaker 8: there was a state trooper right in front of me
- 30:35Speaker 8: on the road. We were before the trapt And Road,
- 30:37Speaker 8: the Waterfall side of the Trafton Road, and I tried
- 30:40Speaker 8: to call into the com center and nothing. Fortunately he
- 30:42Speaker 8: was able to communicate with his com center in AUGUSTA
- 30:44Speaker 8: from there a personal injury accident, and you know, we
- 30:49Speaker 8: need to be able to communicate those things.
- 30:50Speaker 6: It's important.
- 30:51Speaker 8: Another one, also down by the Trapton Road, I was
- 30:54Speaker 8: on the Interstate. I witnessed an erratic operator needed to
- 30:57Speaker 8: be stopped so I stopped that person. I had to
- 30:59Speaker 8: call in the tray stop with my cell phone, my
- 31:02Speaker 8: car radio, and my quortable radio would not work. My
- 31:05Speaker 8: other personal experience, we were out on the procession for
- 31:07Speaker 8: fallen warden tippets and we could not talk from the
- 31:11Speaker 8: Trappton Road exit to the KMT exit with our portable
- 31:15Speaker 8: radios to let them know to shut that exit down.
- 31:18Speaker 8: We had a chase come into town yesterday. I listened
- 31:21Speaker 8: to the bodycam footage. I watched the body cam footage,
- 31:23Speaker 8: listened to the radio traffic, and the officer that was
- 31:26Speaker 8: primary behind kennebec On that was calling doing everything he
- 31:29Speaker 8: was supposed to do on the radio. And then I
- 31:31Speaker 8: watched the sergeant who is responsible for making a lot
- 31:33Speaker 8: of decisions. Do we continue this chase, do we not?
- 31:36Speaker 8: How do we deploy resources? Where do we put the
- 31:38Speaker 8: spike matts? And his radio was silent. It didn't even
- 31:41Speaker 8: break squelch for the location updates and the additional updates
- 31:44Speaker 8: about the things that were happening on that call.
- 31:47Speaker 10: Let us take about all those in favor of this
- 31:50Speaker 10: moving forward as it's currently written today.
- 31:53Speaker 14: Okay, so whoa Okay, so it's six.
- 31:58Speaker 15: And who's it one of those wow.
- 32:01Speaker 3: So there you have it, folks. That and again it
- 32:03Speaker 3: gives you a little glimpse to let you know that
- 32:05Speaker 3: this is not just happening in big cities. This kind
- 32:08Speaker 3: of stuff is happening in small towns and communities as well,
- 32:11Speaker 3: like Waterville, Maine. And the idea that the local police
- 32:14Speaker 3: department has been told they have to protect illegal immigrants,
- 32:19Speaker 3: that's unacceptable, just absolutely unacceptable. All Right, we've got to
- 32:23Speaker 3: take a break here. Nine oh one two six zero five,
- 32:26Speaker 3: nine two six. Coming up, We've got May's Middleton, who
- 32:30Speaker 3: is running to the next Attorney General in Texas. That
- 32:33Speaker 3: election today. Just curious if you have been any of
- 32:37Speaker 3: our Texas listeners, if you've been to the polls, we'd
- 32:40Speaker 3: love to know how is turnout and who did you
- 32:42Speaker 3: vote for? Nine oh one two six zero five nine
- 32:46Speaker 3: two six. This is the Todd Sterns Show. All right,
- 32:58Speaker 3: welcome back to everybody. This is the Tom Sterns Radio Show.
- 33:04Speaker 3: Crazy story out of California. You know Spencer Prant. The
- 33:09Speaker 3: Democrats are terrified of this guy, and so they're really
- 33:13Speaker 3: coming after him. They're coming after a supporter. So there's
- 33:15Speaker 3: a lady. Her name is Daniella Romano, and she lost
- 33:20Speaker 3: her home, she lost her business in the Palisades fire.
- 33:23Speaker 3: She's a baker and she was selling her cookies through
- 33:29Speaker 3: a local grocery store called Vincente Foods. She's also a
- 33:33Speaker 3: big Spencer Prant supporter, and she's been selling Vote Pratt
- 33:37Speaker 3: cookies and they've been selling like hotcakes. So anyway, the
- 33:43Speaker 3: sister in law of Jimmy Kimmel, this is insane. But
- 33:47Speaker 3: the sister in law of Jimmy Kimmel said that's unacceptable.
- 33:52Speaker 3: She tried to get the grocery store to cancel the woman,
- 33:56Speaker 3: and it turns out a lot of people got really
- 33:58Speaker 3: upset with that. And so now they're ordering these Vote
- 34:03Speaker 3: Pratt cookies alt the wazoo. Over seven hundred orders so far.
- 34:08Speaker 3: It's insane, And I just find it hilarious that one
- 34:13Speaker 3: of Jimmy Kimmel's relatives crashed out over a cookie. So anyway,
- 34:18Speaker 3: Spencer Pratt talking about this, and here's what he had
- 34:21Speaker 3: to say about their cookie.
- 34:24Speaker 6: Hey Spencer, how are you, buddy? I'm doing great, how
- 34:26Speaker 6: are you? So these are the cookies that everyone's talking about.
- 34:28Speaker 16: The sold out cookies that people should order from the
- 34:30Speaker 16: fire victim. It's trying to support my campaign is saving
- 34:33Speaker 16: Los Angeles, making LA safe?
- 34:35Speaker 12: Yeah?
- 34:36Speaker 13: These cookies?
- 34:36Speaker 6: Are these the cookies that Jimmy Kimmel's sister in law
- 34:40Speaker 6: tried to shut down?
- 34:41Speaker 16: Is that these are those famous cookies.
- 34:44Speaker 11: So how do they taste?
- 34:44Speaker 8: Can you taste?
- 34:45Speaker 4: Well?
- 34:45Speaker 16: These are just the best cookies in the whole world?
- 34:48Speaker 3: Oh well, where could we buy these films? Was it Salmon?
- 34:55Speaker 8: Sente boots?
- 34:56Speaker 17: And this baker.
- 34:59Speaker 16: Everything's lost, everything in the palace is yed, and she's
- 35:02Speaker 16: just trying to support her family. And that woman was
- 35:05Speaker 16: trying to stop somebody from supporting their family.
- 35:08Speaker 18: What message do you have for Jimmy Kimmel and his
- 35:10Speaker 18: family for trying to do all this kind of stuff?
- 35:12Speaker 16: You know, I hope they go support a fire victim
- 35:15Speaker 16: that lost everything and maybe make amends and buy some
- 35:17Speaker 16: of these cookies. You know, I think that would be
- 35:19Speaker 16: a good apology. I always have time to support people
- 35:23Speaker 16: that are, you know, trying to build back from nothing
- 35:26Speaker 16: and that are being attacked by people that obviously don't
- 35:29Speaker 16: understand that. My message is common sense. So thank you
- 35:32Speaker 16: to this baker who who's fighting for LA.
- 35:36Speaker 3: Yeah, good for you. Spencer Pratt, and I think people
- 35:39Speaker 3: are finally deciding enough is enough. They don't like the
- 35:43Speaker 3: way that they have to live now, and maybe look
- 35:47Speaker 3: the same thing happening by the way in New York
- 35:50Speaker 3: City with Zorn Mamdami. Eventually it's going to get so
- 35:53Speaker 3: bad people and people are already leaving. The people that
- 35:57Speaker 3: are multi millionaires many times over, they're all already packing
- 36:00Speaker 3: up and leaving, and soon a lot of other folks
- 36:02Speaker 3: are going to be leaving as well, because it just
- 36:05Speaker 3: has to get that bad. We cannot help these people out.
- 36:08Speaker 3: We cannot extend an alibrand we can't extend a helping hand. No,
- 36:12Speaker 3: if they choose communism, then we have to step back
- 36:15Speaker 3: and we have to let them learn that lesson very quickly.
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- 39:03Speaker 3: Wow, this this race, this runoff race in Texas is insane. Everybody. Hello,
- 39:09Speaker 3: welcome to the Todd Stearns Radio Program, and honor to
- 39:12Speaker 3: have you with us today. Our telephone number for those
- 39:15Speaker 3: of you that want to call in nine oh one
- 39:17Speaker 3: two six to zero five to nine two six. That's
- 39:20Speaker 3: nine oh one two six zero five to nine two six.
- 39:23Speaker 3: So check out just the early voters, the number of
- 39:27Speaker 3: early Republican voters who cast a ballot in the runoff.
- 39:32Speaker 3: They've never seen numbers like this in at least a decade.
- 39:36Speaker 3: There has been a one hundred and three percent increase
- 39:39Speaker 3: in voting from the Republican primary runoff back in twenty
- 39:43Speaker 3: twenty seventy seven percent from twenty twenty two, and get this,
- 39:47Speaker 3: a two hundred and thirty percent increase from twenty twenty four.
- 39:52Speaker 3: So far mail in and in person votes in this
- 39:56Speaker 3: runoff eight hundred and twenty nine thousand, one hundred and
- 40:00Speaker 3: nineteen votes. Well, there are two very significant races. And
- 40:05Speaker 3: we had Ken Paxton on the show last week. Very
- 40:09Speaker 3: excited to welcome to the conversation on our Patriot mobile
- 40:12Speaker 3: news maker Line May's Middleton, who is running to me
- 40:16Speaker 3: the next attorney general going up against Chip Roy. May's
- 40:21Speaker 3: good to have you with us. I understand you're in
- 40:22Speaker 3: a car. What exactly is what exactly is election day
- 40:27Speaker 3: like for you as a candidate right now?
- 40:29Speaker 17: Hey, Well, Todd, I appreciate you having me on today.
- 40:32Speaker 17: So my wife has been helping me work polls today
- 40:35Speaker 17: and we're about to meet here in League City to
- 40:37Speaker 17: go cast our ballot here in this runoff.
- 40:40Speaker 3: Fantastic so we're hearing. I mean, this has to encourage
- 40:44Speaker 3: you as a candidate to know that there are a
- 40:46Speaker 3: lot of people that are very, very interested in this race.
- 40:50Speaker 17: Look, Texas is Trump country. President Trump is the greatest
- 40:54Speaker 17: president we have ever had. In our history. And it's
- 40:59Speaker 17: funny when paulitics like chip Roy and Liz Cheney are
- 41:02Speaker 17: surprised when their record of fighting President Trump catches up
- 41:07Speaker 17: to them and haunts them. And that is exactly what
- 41:10Speaker 17: has happened here in this race. I mean, chip Roy
- 41:13Speaker 17: is someone that's been a decade fighting the president. He
- 41:15Speaker 17: said the President Trump needed to be impeached on the
- 41:17Speaker 17: US House floor, he cited the Liz Cheney saying that
- 41:20Speaker 17: she needed to be commended and not condemned. And later
- 41:24Speaker 17: on Liz Cheney even endorsed chip Roy for a leadership
- 41:28Speaker 17: role in Congress. And look, when you look up trumps
- 41:31Speaker 17: arrangement syndrome in the dictionary, there is a picture of
- 41:35Speaker 17: Liz Cheney right next to it. And not only that,
- 41:40Speaker 17: you know, in the twenty twenty four election that wasn't
- 41:42Speaker 17: that long ago, chip Roy worked for one of the
- 41:44Speaker 17: largest anti Trump groups in America, spent millions of dollars
- 41:48Speaker 17: opposing the president. Thank god he was not successful and
- 41:52Speaker 17: President Trump won overwhelmingly in that election. But this is
- 41:57Speaker 17: about proven conservative record right who has defeated the left,
- 42:01Speaker 17: and that is me. And I've got a simple rule
- 42:04Speaker 17: for ag If you are an enemy of Texas, You
- 42:09Speaker 17: are an enemy of mine. The left is trying to
- 42:11Speaker 17: destroy our state, and they know, so goes Texas, so
- 42:15Speaker 17: goes America.
- 42:16Speaker 3: May's you're a state senators as well, and you're a
- 42:20Speaker 3: hard working businessman. I find it interesting that you have
- 42:25Speaker 3: your message has really connected with voters. And of course
- 42:29Speaker 3: it's always about the money. And it looks like chip
- 42:32Speaker 3: Roy raising what more than eight million dollars is according
- 42:34Speaker 3: to the New York Times. He's certainly got a lot
- 42:36Speaker 3: of money out there. But your message is the one
- 42:39Speaker 3: that seems to be resonating with voters. Why do you
- 42:42Speaker 3: think that.
- 42:42Speaker 17: Is well, because his record has caught up to him,
- 42:45Speaker 17: first of all, but second of all, I'm the one
- 42:48Speaker 17: that's got the record of defeating the left. It is
- 42:50Speaker 17: why Attorney General Ken Paxton said he is voting for
- 42:54Speaker 17: me in this Republican primary runoff. And actually Ken went
- 42:57Speaker 17: on to say he could not imagine chip Roy in
- 43:00Speaker 17: this position. And the reason why he said that his
- 43:03Speaker 17: chip did work for the Attorney General's office, and his
- 43:06Speaker 17: last day in the AG's office looked like this. He
- 43:09Speaker 17: was told resign or be fired, and escorted out of
- 43:13Speaker 17: the building because of gross and subordination. Meanwhile, President Trump
- 43:18Speaker 17: called me a conservative champion, a maga champion, and my
- 43:20Speaker 17: conservative records second to none. And it is about defeating
- 43:25Speaker 17: the left. I've taken on the woke left in their
- 43:27Speaker 17: radical gender ideology and one author and passed the Save
- 43:30Speaker 17: Women's Sports Law and the strongest women's privacy law in America,
- 43:35Speaker 17: which kicks perverted men out of women's restrooms and locker rooms.
- 43:39Speaker 17: Also defeated the atheists in one got prayer and the
- 43:42Speaker 17: Ten Commandments back into our schools. I took on our
- 43:45Speaker 17: foreign adversaries in Austin, stopped China from buying our land.
- 43:48Speaker 17: Triple Border Security designated cartel's as terrorists. And I'm now
- 43:52Speaker 17: fighting one of our most growing threats, which is Charia
- 43:55Speaker 17: law and as lomification. And I changed the law to
- 43:59Speaker 17: stop rat fool Muslim groups like Care and Muslim brother
- 44:03Speaker 17: from owning any property in Texas because I'll be blunt.
- 44:07Speaker 17: Sharia law is organized crime, period, and I will treat
- 44:10Speaker 17: it as such.
- 44:12Speaker 3: I thought it was interesting. And by the way, folks,
- 44:13Speaker 3: we've got Mays Middleton who wants to be the next
- 44:15Speaker 3: Attorney General in the great State of Texas. It is
- 44:19Speaker 3: election day and a lot of you folks heading to
- 44:22Speaker 3: the polls. I thought it was fascinating that President Trump,
- 44:25Speaker 3: while he has not endorsed his senior advisor, has done that.
- 44:31Speaker 3: And he is a boots on the ground stumping for
- 44:33Speaker 3: you on all over social media, calling chip Roy one
- 44:38Speaker 3: of the most anti Trump congressman in the country. And
- 44:41Speaker 3: this is President Trump's advisor. And I'm curious to hear
- 44:46Speaker 3: your thoughts. And that's going to be good to get
- 44:48Speaker 3: the support of one of the President's closest advisors. Yeah.
- 44:52Speaker 17: Look, Alex Brucewitz is a champion. I mean, he helped
- 44:56Speaker 17: Trump get elected in twenty sixteen, in twenty twenty and
- 44:59Speaker 17: twenty twenty four and he came down to Texas to
- 45:01Speaker 17: do a rally for me. And Alex said the reason
- 45:04Speaker 17: why he came down was to set the record straight
- 45:08Speaker 17: where he said chip Roy was lying and saying he
- 45:10Speaker 17: was President Trump's top ally, which is exactly the opposite
- 45:14Speaker 17: of the case. I mean, chip Roy is someone that
- 45:16Speaker 17: got on TV and called us maga efforts that could
- 45:20Speaker 17: kiss his You know what, that sounds a lot like
- 45:23Speaker 17: twenty sixteen Hillary Clinton that called us a basket of
- 45:26Speaker 17: deplorables and what I'm proud to be in that basket
- 45:29Speaker 17: of deplorables. And Alex just said, look, the truth of
- 45:32Speaker 17: the matter is, you just can't trust Chiproy. He's saying
- 45:35Speaker 17: he's pro Trump, what his record shows the exact opposite,
- 45:38Speaker 17: and that's why he came down to campaign for me
- 45:40Speaker 17: for Texas Attorney General.
- 45:42Speaker 3: You know, it's interesting, I think there are some parallels
- 45:45Speaker 3: between your race and what's happening in the US Senate
- 45:47Speaker 3: race between Packston and John Cornyn. What say you exactly right?
- 45:52Speaker 17: You know President Trump picked wisely, did well chose Ken
- 45:56Speaker 17: Paxton as his choice in this race for US Senate.
- 45:59Speaker 17: And the bottom line is Texas is pro Trump. Texas
- 46:03Speaker 17: is Trump country, and we know, we know President Trump
- 46:07Speaker 17: is all in to put America first, to deport illegal immigrants,
- 46:11Speaker 17: to stop our foreign enemies, to end this waste, fraud
- 46:14Speaker 17: and abuse, to go after those that are undermining our
- 46:17Speaker 17: public safety, to end the woke ideology that has destroyed us,
- 46:21Speaker 17: to defeat the green new scam. The list goes. The
- 46:25Speaker 17: other reason why this is so important here is we
- 46:28Speaker 17: don't have another Texas to move to. This is it,
- 46:32Speaker 17: and I'm never retreating from Washington, DC because I'm never
- 46:35Speaker 17: going to Washington, DC. I have always known that the
- 46:39Speaker 17: fight is right here in the great state of Texas.
- 46:42Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm with you there, and it is so important
- 46:46Speaker 3: and one of the big problems we've had so many grifters,
- 46:48Speaker 3: people jumping onto the Trump bandwagon when in the past,
- 46:52Speaker 3: you know, they've had opportunities to support the president, but
- 46:55Speaker 3: when things get tough, a lot of heat comes to
- 46:58Speaker 3: President's way, they run for conf And it's good to
- 47:02Speaker 3: know that at least you're not one of those individuals.
- 47:06Speaker 19: No.
- 47:06Speaker 17: I mean, look at the election in twenty twenty that
- 47:08Speaker 17: was stolen. It was a stolen election. And what did
- 47:13Speaker 17: my opponent do in twenty twenty one, right after we're stolen?
- 47:16Speaker 17: He fought to certify a stolen election, and now he
- 47:20Speaker 17: wants to run the Election Integrity Division. I don't think
- 47:23Speaker 17: so me. On the other hand, I helped pass the
- 47:26Speaker 17: strongest election integrity law in America, voter ID for apsody ballots,
- 47:30Speaker 17: cleaning out our voter roles as non citizens, making it
- 47:33Speaker 17: a crime for paid voter assistance, but also fighting to
- 47:36Speaker 17: restore Attorney General Ken Paxson's ability to prosecute election related
- 47:41Speaker 17: crimes because we all know George Soros, DA's are not
- 47:46Speaker 17: going to prosecute voter fraud. That's why you've got to
- 47:48Speaker 17: have the AG's power to hold those accountables that are
- 47:52Speaker 17: breaking our election laws because one illegal vote cancels out
- 47:56Speaker 17: your legal vote.
- 47:58Speaker 3: Well, we've got a lot of great listeners there in
- 48:02Speaker 3: your They're in your home district at Patriot Talk nine
- 48:05Speaker 3: to twenty in Houston, Big signal, a lot of great listeners.
- 48:08Speaker 3: I know a lot of them are out there voting today.
- 48:11Speaker 3: May's We're going to leave it there. I know you're
- 48:12Speaker 3: a busy guy, and we wish you nothing but the
- 48:15Speaker 3: very best and appreciate you joining the show today.
- 48:19Speaker 17: Hey Todd, I appreciate you having me on today. Make
- 48:21Speaker 17: sure to vote Maga Mays for Texas Attorney General. Voting
- 48:24Speaker 17: goes on till seven o'clock. Go out and go vote,
- 48:27Speaker 17: make your voice heard to elect true Maga conservative candidates
- 48:31Speaker 17: in this race like me.
- 48:33Speaker 3: All Right, May's Middleton, everybody Maga May's I like it
- 48:36Speaker 3: does have a good ring to it, right. He is
- 48:38Speaker 3: a state senator there in Texas running to be the
- 48:41Speaker 3: next attorney general. Now, we would like to hear from
- 48:44Speaker 3: some of you folks in Texas. You just heard him
- 48:46Speaker 3: make his case, and a lot of people you know
- 48:48Speaker 3: Chip Roy, and we've had Chip Roy on the program
- 48:51Speaker 3: a number of times, and the reality is he has
- 48:54Speaker 3: a checkered pass when it comes to his relationship with
- 48:57Speaker 3: Donald Trump, no doubt about that. So we're we're going
- 49:00Speaker 3: to be taking your calls on this nine oh one
- 49:02Speaker 3: two six zero five, nine two six. That's nine oh
- 49:05Speaker 3: one two six zero five to nine two six. Well,
- 49:10Speaker 3: I do want to go to the phones before we
- 49:11Speaker 3: take a break here. In the last hour of the show,
- 49:17Speaker 3: we we talked about what's happening in the Senate right now.
- 49:22Speaker 3: John Thune did not recess the Senate, which means President
- 49:25Speaker 3: Trump once again cannot take any cannot make any recess appointments.
- 49:30Speaker 3: And there's also concern from Congressman, Oh goodness, gracious are
- 49:36Speaker 3: Tim Burchett, Congressman Tim Burchett from Easternnessee that the Senate
- 49:41Speaker 3: is intentionally slow walking the President's agenda. And I want
- 49:46Speaker 3: to say this, Republican senators have pledged their allegiance to
- 49:51Speaker 3: John Thune, not Donald J. Trump. Do you understand that
- 49:55Speaker 3: their allegiance is to Thuon not Trump? And that is
- 49:58Speaker 3: why you have not heard a single Republican senator call
- 50:03Speaker 3: for the majority leader to be removed from power. I mean,
- 50:06Speaker 3: it really is that simple. All right, let's go to
- 50:08Speaker 3: the phones here at nine oh one two six zero
- 50:10Speaker 3: five nine two Street gains Will Georgia. Man on the street,
- 50:14Speaker 3: what is on your mind?
- 50:17Speaker 20: Well, hello, Todd, thank you for taking my call. It's
- 50:22Speaker 20: wonderful that you're doing so well after your visit to
- 50:27Speaker 20: the hospital, so we're glad to hear you on the radio.
- 50:32Speaker 19: Thank you.
- 50:32Speaker 20: I agree with you so much. The senators are busy
- 50:39Speaker 20: feathering their beds so that they can have a job
- 50:44Speaker 20: long into the future. And if we have term limits,
- 50:50Speaker 20: I think a lot of that would go away. But
- 50:54Speaker 20: you're so right. They're all scared, and they're they're just
- 50:58Speaker 20: looking for their future and not looking for what's best
- 51:03Speaker 20: for the country.
- 51:05Speaker 3: I'm afraid you're right, man on the street, and the
- 51:08Speaker 3: only way we can deal with that is to call
- 51:11Speaker 3: them out to confront them at these town hall meetings.
- 51:14Speaker 3: You know, one of the big problems I have is
- 51:16Speaker 3: a lot of these senators simply will not do town halls.
- 51:19Speaker 3: You know, they get elected to the Senate and they
- 51:22Speaker 3: believe that they're I don't know, political royalty or something,
- 51:26Speaker 3: but they won't do town halls, they won't do debates,
- 51:29Speaker 3: and it's my this is just a b and my bonnet.
- 51:34Speaker 3: As they say, man on the street, if you are
- 51:37Speaker 3: planning to run for office, you need to debate your
- 51:40Speaker 3: opponents and we need to hear from you, the candidate.
- 51:44Speaker 3: I think that is the very least you can do.
- 51:50Speaker 6: Right.
- 51:50Speaker 20: Unfortunately, we have two terrible senators and they're all Democrats.
- 51:55Speaker 3: Well, it's it's ugly, it's ugly, man on the street.
- 51:59Speaker 3: Good to hear, and thank you for calling again. Nine
- 52:02Speaker 3: oh one two six zero five nine two six. By
- 52:05Speaker 3: the way, before we go to break, have you guys
- 52:06Speaker 3: heard this crazy story. It's getting ugly there in Georgia
- 52:11Speaker 3: in the Republican runoff race for the Senate. You've got
- 52:16Speaker 3: Mike Collins and you've got Derek Dooley, who, by the way,
- 52:21Speaker 3: has the backing of Governor Brian kimp And there was
- 52:24Speaker 3: some nasty, nasty stuff going down on Twitter. By the way,
- 52:28Speaker 3: Collins was leading Dooley forty six to forty one percent
- 52:32Speaker 3: and then this tweet came out, which is just really nasty.
- 52:37Speaker 3: So the Collins campaign account tweeted out Matt Lower's sloppy seconds,
- 52:42Speaker 3: talking about, well, it's just really inappropriate. I can't even
- 52:44Speaker 3: really repeat what else was settled here, but anyway, it
- 52:48Speaker 3: was really really nasty, and Collins had to personally call
- 52:51Speaker 3: to apologize to this individual who was on Derek Dooley's team.
- 52:57Speaker 3: Curious to hear your thoughts on that and if that's
- 52:59Speaker 3: having any sort of an impact at all in your vote.
- 53:03Speaker 3: Who are you folks liking? They're in Georgia in the
- 53:06Speaker 3: Republican Senate runoff nine oh one two six zero five
- 53:09Speaker 3: nine two six. This is the Todd Stearns Show. All right,
- 53:25Speaker 3: welcome back, everybody. It's the Todd Stearns Radio Show. Dylan
- 53:29Speaker 3: is on vacation, so I've got to I have to
- 53:31Speaker 3: share some. I've got to drop some. No, what do
- 53:33Speaker 3: they call it? What is it called? They call it
- 53:35Speaker 3: Parker spill, the tea spill, the t So my cousin
- 53:40Speaker 3: Amy first were first cousins and they're having a their
- 53:45Speaker 3: thirtieth wedding anniversary. So they she and Lance decide to
- 53:48Speaker 3: go down to like Disney do the Universal thing. And
- 53:51Speaker 3: then the kids, of course, all the kids are like
- 53:53Speaker 3: in their twenties decided they were going to go along.
- 53:56Speaker 3: So Dylan is is like universal for the next several days.
- 54:01Speaker 3: So that's that's where Dylan is. But Parker, we were talking,
- 54:04Speaker 3: and that we were talking to the break. We were
- 54:06Speaker 3: talking about meds and the fact that Shatka, I don't
- 54:09Speaker 3: do the show while I'm doing meds. While I'm doing
- 54:11Speaker 3: drugs all prescribed by you know, Germantown pharmacy. Of course,
- 54:16Speaker 3: the finest pharmacy in America. I should have phrased that differently,
- 54:23Speaker 3: but anyway, so I was explaining Parker that I was
- 54:30Speaker 3: the reason why I don't like to you know. So
- 54:32Speaker 3: basically what you hear me say is like, you know,
- 54:35Speaker 3: just what is it without I'm not under the influence
- 54:39Speaker 3: of drugs. Authentic, thank you. It's authentic, thank you, authenticity
- 54:44Speaker 3: only because of the heart thing. And people have been
- 54:46Speaker 3: asking how I'm doing, and I'm telling you, this thing's
- 54:49Speaker 3: eating my lunch. I'm gonna be fine. It's just getting
- 54:52Speaker 3: across the finish line here, and it's just crazy. So anyway,
- 54:55Speaker 3: I was telling everybody about the telling the staff that
- 54:58Speaker 3: years ago when I was leaving in New York City,
- 55:00Speaker 3: I just don't handle medicine very well. And there was
- 55:02Speaker 3: this one medicine that causes you to sleep walk, and
- 55:06Speaker 3: I didn't even I didn't know that until after I
- 55:09Speaker 3: had taken the medicine. One day, I lived by myself
- 55:12Speaker 3: in my apartment in New York City, in Brooklyn, and
- 55:15Speaker 3: I went to I took the medicine. I went to bed.
- 55:18Speaker 3: The next morning. When I woke up, Parker, there was
- 55:23Speaker 3: an entire like tray of toll House cookies that had
- 55:28Speaker 3: been baked and then put on the counter. And as
- 55:33Speaker 3: near as we can tell, I slept, walk into the kitchen,
- 55:38Speaker 3: took the toll House cookies out of the freezer, put
- 55:41Speaker 3: them on a tray, put them in the oven, all
- 55:45Speaker 3: while I was asleep. I have a lot of questions
- 55:51Speaker 3: that I have never been freaked out before, and I've well,
- 55:55Speaker 3: actually there have been a couple of times I've been
- 55:56Speaker 3: freaked out, but nothing quite like this. And all I
- 55:59Speaker 3: can think of it was, Jeezulu, what else was I doing?
- 56:04Speaker 3: I think the first thing that popped to my mind
- 56:06Speaker 3: was did you eat any cookies? Yeah? Of course they
- 56:09Speaker 3: were very good. By the way, I'm has that happened
- 56:13Speaker 3: to anybody else? Maybe it's maybe that's just a uniquely
- 56:16Speaker 3: Todd Starn story. But I was concerned, and I was
- 56:20Speaker 3: going through I wanted to make sure that, like I
- 56:22Speaker 3: hadn't written on the subway, gone down to the local
- 56:27Speaker 3: watering hole, you don't wearing my bathrobe. I was getting
- 56:31Speaker 3: a little nervous, to be perfectly honest with you. That's
- 56:33Speaker 3: one of those things. You got to make sure your
- 56:35Speaker 3: door's locked. Yes, and you know, hide my keys the
- 56:39Speaker 3: whole nine yards. Anyway, they were good cookies though, I'll
- 56:43Speaker 3: tell you that much. So there you go. I flushed
- 56:47Speaker 3: the drugs nine oh one two six zero five nine
- 56:51Speaker 3: two six our telephone umber. That's nine oh one two
- 56:54Speaker 3: six zero five nine two six. This is the Ton
- 56:56Speaker 3: Starn Show. All right, welcome back everybody. This is the
- 57:23Speaker 3: Todd Sterns Radio Show. Great to have you with us
- 57:26Speaker 3: today and always fun to welcome back my really one
- 57:29Speaker 3: of my favorite people on the radio and TV, Josh Jones,
- 57:33Speaker 3: who is officially the chief political strategist for The Todd
- 57:36Speaker 3: Stern Show. Josh, good to see you, my friend. Hope
- 57:39Speaker 3: things are going good. Well, let's try that again, guys.
- 57:45Speaker 3: Let me know when we get Josh Jones back with us.
- 57:48Speaker 3: So all right, ladies, and Gellovan, Josh Jones, Josh hope
- 57:52Speaker 3: you're doing well?
- 57:54Speaker 4: How are you?
- 57:54Speaker 3: Josh doing good? And look, let's get right to this.
- 57:57Speaker 3: It is a very busy day politically, of course in
- 58:01Speaker 3: Texas right now. You've got two major races runoff races.
- 58:05Speaker 3: One the Senate race which has been I guess sucking
- 58:08Speaker 3: up all the oxygen Kim Paxton and John Cornyn, and
- 58:11Speaker 3: there is record voter turnout. What do you make of
- 58:14Speaker 3: all of that?
- 58:15Speaker 21: Yeah, look, yeah, the President finally put his endorsement into
- 58:19Speaker 21: this race, so I think it's we all kind of
- 58:21Speaker 21: know what the outcome is going to be here, Well,
- 58:24Speaker 21: they tuned in how this goes.
- 58:25Speaker 15: But yeah, I vote voter turnout so far in Texas.
- 58:27Speaker 21: You have a couple other house runoffs that are happening today,
- 58:29Speaker 21: so should have some good results going out in Texas
- 58:32Speaker 21: later this.
- 58:32Speaker 3: You know, we just had Mace Middleton on who is
- 58:35Speaker 3: running for Attorney General and he's going up against Chip Roy.
- 58:39Speaker 3: And you know a lot of people think that Roy
- 58:42Speaker 3: is like Diehard Maga when Chip Roy has a really
- 58:45Speaker 3: checkered pants. When it comes to Donald Trump, I know
- 58:48Speaker 3: the President hasn't endorsed anybody, but the president's chief advisors
- 58:52Speaker 3: are are promoting May's Middleton. How important is it to
- 58:57Speaker 3: be on the side of the president, and these are
- 59:00Speaker 3: Republican races.
- 59:01Speaker 15: I think it's super important.
- 59:03Speaker 21: I think you've seen that by how much weight empower
- 59:05Speaker 21: the president's endorsement has. I mean, if you look at
- 59:08Speaker 21: some of these states where the president puts his you know,
- 59:10Speaker 21: if I'm on the scale, the.
- 59:12Speaker 15: Republican primary voters are with them.
- 59:14Speaker 21: So whoever Trump backs or who's more in liar Trump
- 59:17Speaker 21: typically wins these in the Republican Party. And that's just
- 59:20Speaker 21: a testament to the fact that Donald Trump's been the
- 59:22Speaker 21: leader of the party for the past ten years.
- 59:24Speaker 15: And some would argue that maybe his you know, influences leading.
- 59:29Speaker 21: Off a little bit, but you know, that's not the
- 59:30Speaker 21: case what we're seeing in these primaries.
- 59:32Speaker 3: You know, again, I'm impressed with the turnout. They're saying
- 59:36Speaker 3: it's the largest they've seen at least on Republican on
- 59:39Speaker 3: the Republican side of the aisle and well over a decade.
- 59:44Speaker 3: And that's also certainly it's been unusual because we've had
- 59:49Speaker 3: other cases where you know, Republicans have not been getting
- 59:52Speaker 3: out and voting.
- 59:53Speaker 6: Yeah, you're right.
- 59:54Speaker 21: I think this is a positive sign for Republicans heading
- 59:57Speaker 21: into the midterms because, look, you have a lot of
- 59:59Speaker 21: nace who are saying, look, Republicans aren't coming out of the
- 1:00:01Speaker 21: bout these primaries, meaning their voters aren't motivated. And in
- 1:00:04Speaker 21: Texas at least so far today, there's still plenty a
- 1:00:06Speaker 21: day less left to go, but at least so far
- 1:00:08Speaker 21: seeing roy high voter turn out, if there's enthusiasm on
- 1:00:11Speaker 21: the Republicans side of the aisle, And look, this is
- 1:00:14Speaker 21: just you know, one primary day. We have plenty more
- 1:00:17Speaker 21: between now and November for people to make their voices
- 1:00:19Speaker 21: heard and come out and showing this enthusiasm as we
- 1:00:22Speaker 21: head into the midterms.
- 1:00:23Speaker 3: So coming up, we've got Speaker Mike Johnson, who is
- 1:00:26Speaker 3: going to be with us for a pretty long segment,
- 1:00:29Speaker 3: and the speakers out there saying that affordability and kitchen
- 1:00:33Speaker 3: table issues are going to be the deciding factor in
- 1:00:36Speaker 3: the midterms. You're working with a lot of candidates out there,
- 1:00:39Speaker 3: and I'm wondering, do you agree with his assessment or
- 1:00:42Speaker 3: is there something else that's going to be motivating voters.
- 1:00:46Speaker 21: Look, I think Speaker Johnson's right, affordability is the issue of.
- 1:00:50Speaker 15: Between twenty six terms at least as of right out.
- 1:00:52Speaker 21: Look we have a political attornity between now and November,
- 1:00:55Speaker 21: so that could change, but as of right now, based
- 1:00:57Speaker 21: on the situation on the ground, it is affordability and
- 1:01:00Speaker 21: cost of living.
- 1:01:00Speaker 15: And I think Republicans have a good answer and message
- 1:01:03Speaker 15: to this issue is.
- 1:01:03Speaker 21: Look the one big beautiful bill that you know, renstated,
- 1:01:07Speaker 21: the family tax cuts, no tax on tips, no tax
- 1:01:10Speaker 21: on overtime, no taxi social security low Republicans are working
- 1:01:13Speaker 21: to address the Florida building and cost of living. So
- 1:01:16Speaker 21: as long as they can go out there and message
- 1:01:17Speaker 21: that we have a good uh, we're all good standing
- 1:01:20Speaker 21: heading into November.
- 1:01:21Speaker 3: Josh, interesting story, AOC. We played this audio earlier and guys,
- 1:01:26Speaker 3: if we can reract that audio, AOC is really upset
- 1:01:30Speaker 3: about redistricting, and Josh, she's calling on New York City,
- 1:01:36Speaker 3: New York City residents to pull up on people in
- 1:01:40Speaker 3: the Southern states. Let's take a list of to this.
- 1:01:43Speaker 5: It is time for the North to pull up to
- 1:01:46Speaker 5: the South. It is time for New York to pull
- 1:01:50Speaker 5: up to Alabama. It is time for all of us
- 1:01:55Speaker 5: to come to Georgia. To Louisiana, to Tennessee, Mississippi, and
- 1:02:01Speaker 5: let them know exactly what they have on court with
- 1:02:05Speaker 5: this injustice.
- 1:02:06Speaker 3: Okay, the powers stop.
- 1:02:09Speaker 6: There we go.
- 1:02:12Speaker 3: Now, Josh, I'm going to spill some tea on you,
- 1:02:15Speaker 3: because you're a cosmopolitan kind of guy. I mean, you're
- 1:02:19Speaker 3: like big city, you know, you where you got it
- 1:02:22Speaker 3: all together. But you're also from a small town near
- 1:02:26Speaker 3: the northeast Tennessee state line. And I'm just curious, as
- 1:02:31Speaker 3: a Southerner, what do you say to aoc here.
- 1:02:35Speaker 21: I mean, I don't know what she's thinking or what
- 1:02:38Speaker 21: she's on about, because I look.
- 1:02:41Speaker 15: This is the kind of thing that is typical.
- 1:02:43Speaker 21: But a lot of Democrats right now is if you
- 1:02:46Speaker 21: listen to that speech, what what is her action plan?
- 1:02:48Speaker 15: What's she actually going to do there?
- 1:02:50Speaker 21: Like, these aren't solutions, She's just using inflammatory rhetoric for
- 1:02:53Speaker 21: the sake of getting clicks on the internet. So look,
- 1:02:57Speaker 21: I don't I don't put much credence into what she says,
- 1:02:59Speaker 21: and I don't most people do either, But I simply
- 1:03:04Speaker 21: but I don't think it's a good idea.
- 1:03:06Speaker 3: Well, of course not, because Southerners we got our pickup trucks,
- 1:03:09Speaker 3: we got the cast iron skillets, we got shotguns, and
- 1:03:13Speaker 3: what are the battery powered cars? I mean, there's no
- 1:03:16Speaker 3: place for they to even plug in if they were
- 1:03:18Speaker 3: to invade the Southern States. You're not You're not terrible.
- 1:03:23Speaker 3: Oh my god. So I'm just you. Look, I'm a
- 1:03:26Speaker 3: kind hearted person, and I'm just telling AOC this is
- 1:03:29Speaker 3: a very, very bad idea. So she needs to really
- 1:03:32Speaker 3: rethink the strategy here.
- 1:03:35Speaker 6: I totally agree, all.
- 1:03:37Speaker 3: Right, Josh Jones on our Patriot Mobile news maker lines,
- 1:03:40Speaker 3: I just can't. It's oh my god. Meanwhile, in New
- 1:03:44Speaker 3: York and Los Angeles, rather your favorite candidate, Spencer Pratt,
- 1:03:49Speaker 3: back in the news. So it turns out Jimmy Kimble's
- 1:03:51Speaker 3: got a sister in law who is just as terrible
- 1:03:53Speaker 3: as he is. And she got upset because there's a
- 1:03:56Speaker 3: lady by the name of Daniella Romano and her baker
- 1:04:00Speaker 3: and her home burned down during the Palisage fires. And
- 1:04:03Speaker 3: so she's a big Spencer Prant supporter. And now it's
- 1:04:05Speaker 3: our understanding she's selling Spencer Prant cookies at a locally
- 1:04:09Speaker 3: owned grocery store. And now Jimmy Kimmel's sister in law
- 1:04:14Speaker 3: is trying to get a boycott going against the store.
- 1:04:17Speaker 3: What do you make of that?
- 1:04:19Speaker 21: I mean, it just further shows an illusion on the left,
- 1:04:22Speaker 21: particularly of those in the.
- 1:04:24Speaker 15: Entertainment industry or in Hollywood specifically.
- 1:04:28Speaker 21: I mean, look, Spencer Pratt is not running as a Republican,
- 1:04:30Speaker 21: he's not running as a Democrat, He's not running as
- 1:04:32Speaker 21: some kind of extreams on any issue. He's a common
- 1:04:35Speaker 21: sense guy who's saying, wait a second, my house literally burned.
- 1:04:39Speaker 15: Down because of city management and competence, and is.
- 1:04:42Speaker 21: Just speaking to those issues and saying, no, I'm going
- 1:04:44Speaker 21: to fix it myself.
- 1:04:46Speaker 15: And yet this is somehow.
- 1:04:47Speaker 21: Like super offensive or super inflammatory, and you know, just
- 1:04:49Speaker 21: offends everybody on the left. Just doesn't make any sense.
- 1:04:53Speaker 21: Like speaking to the cookies and the bakery. The fact
- 1:04:56Speaker 21: that this person's like selling these crazies money. They're having
- 1:04:58Speaker 21: a record sales, so good for this them, good marketing
- 1:05:01Speaker 21: and good good business practice by them. But I think
- 1:05:03Speaker 21: it also speaks to the fact that, look, people don't
- 1:05:06Speaker 21: care what Hollywood thinks.
- 1:05:08Speaker 3: No they don't. And you know, I'm I did not
- 1:05:11Speaker 3: watch The The Hills. Was that the reality show the
- 1:05:14Speaker 3: guys started? That was not my jam at all? But
- 1:05:17Speaker 3: a lot of people did, and a lot of people
- 1:05:19Speaker 3: are huge fans in that age number. I guess the
- 1:05:21Speaker 3: guy's in his early forties or something. So they're all,
- 1:05:24Speaker 3: I'm just I'm I'm going to be very surprised to
- 1:05:27Speaker 3: see the election returns here. I think Spencer Prep might
- 1:05:31Speaker 3: just be able to pull something out here.
- 1:05:33Speaker 15: Yeah, I think so. And if you look at their campaign,
- 1:05:35Speaker 15: they're doing a good job.
- 1:05:37Speaker 6: Now.
- 1:05:37Speaker 21: Look, LA is obviously a very democratic city, so we'll see,
- 1:05:41Speaker 21: you know, how many of those voters are really are
- 1:05:43Speaker 21: willing to abandon their party and you know, vote for
- 1:05:45Speaker 21: common sense here. So it's an interesting one to watch
- 1:05:48Speaker 21: because usually the La mayor Rayce isn't something that's getting
- 1:05:51Speaker 21: national intention are getting talked about all that much. So
- 1:05:53Speaker 21: it's definitely an interesting one to cycle that. You know,
- 1:05:56Speaker 21: we weren't necessarily expecting this. You come on to the radar.
- 1:05:59Speaker 3: All right, Well, Goosh, we're gonna leave it there. You
- 1:06:01Speaker 3: have a good Memorial Day weekend. I hear you were.
- 1:06:03Speaker 3: You were up in the Big Apple.
- 1:06:05Speaker 15: Yeah, yeah, it was good. Whether it was not great,
- 1:06:10Speaker 15: you know, beyond that, it was.
- 1:06:12Speaker 3: All right, good stuff. All right, Well, Josh, we're gonna
- 1:06:14Speaker 3: check back in with you again, Josh Jones. Everybody, our
- 1:06:16Speaker 3: chief political strategist here on the Tom Sterns Radio Show. Josh,
- 1:06:20Speaker 3: good to see you, Thanks Tod. All right, we're going
- 1:06:23Speaker 3: to take a quick break, opening up the phone lines
- 1:06:26Speaker 3: here nine oh one two six zero five, nine two six.
- 1:06:29Speaker 3: That's nine oh one two six zero five, nine two six.
- 1:06:32Speaker 3: This is the Tod Sterns Show. All right. Coming up
- 1:06:41Speaker 3: in the next hour, we're going to be speaking with
- 1:06:44Speaker 3: house speaker Mike Johnson, an exclusive interview here on the
- 1:06:47Speaker 3: Tod Sterns Radio Show. So I hope you stick around
- 1:06:50Speaker 3: and tune in for that. Also, Charrelle Shaw, who is
- 1:06:54Speaker 3: a gold Star wife, She's going to be joining us
- 1:06:57Speaker 3: in the next hour as well. Let's go to the phones.
- 1:07:01Speaker 3: Nine oh one two six zero five nine two six.
- 1:07:03Speaker 3: David and San Francisco wants to weigh in on the
- 1:07:07Speaker 3: Texas primaries. Hi David, what's on your mind?
- 1:07:11Speaker 18: Well, Hi Todd, you know I disagree with you about AOC.
- 1:07:16Speaker 18: I see that she's coming to the aid and the
- 1:07:18Speaker 18: poor peasants of Texas. There are three different things that
- 1:07:22Speaker 18: I can think of right off the bat that have
- 1:07:25Speaker 18: made the people of Texas both the conservatives and the
- 1:07:29Speaker 18: liberals total peasants. The first one is they cannot get
- 1:07:34Speaker 18: a water break now thanks to Governor Abbitt and Paxton,
- 1:07:42Speaker 18: companies don't have to give you a water break. Next layer,
- 1:07:46Speaker 18: let's say the upper class people that have shares in
- 1:07:50Speaker 18: Texas stocks.
- 1:07:52Speaker 3: All right, well, hold on, I want to I want
- 1:07:53Speaker 3: to unravel these one by one. So you're saying that
- 1:07:57Speaker 3: if somebody's Thursday, say you're working at at a construction
- 1:08:01Speaker 3: site and you need a cup of water, you're telling
- 1:08:04Speaker 3: me that it's against the law to go and get
- 1:08:06Speaker 3: a cup of water.
- 1:08:08Speaker 18: It's the estate legislature in Texas what three years ago
- 1:08:14Speaker 18: said that a company is not obligated to give you
- 1:08:17Speaker 18: a water break. And when the City of Houston tried
- 1:08:21Speaker 18: to say to override that, and say, well in the
- 1:08:24Speaker 18: city of Houston, one of the third or fourth largest
- 1:08:28Speaker 18: city in America, that the state of Texas overrode the
- 1:08:33Speaker 18: City of Houston's override. So, yeah, you're on the ball
- 1:08:38Speaker 18: when you noticed that it basically is against the law
- 1:08:42Speaker 18: to get a water break, and that was at the
- 1:08:45Speaker 18: end of two solid months of one hundred and seven degrees.
- 1:08:49Speaker 18: That's when they came up with that creepy.
- 1:08:51Speaker 3: Law, David. So again, this is not making much sense.
- 1:08:56Speaker 3: And I do know that it's been a controversy there,
- 1:08:58Speaker 3: but a judge stepped in and blocked some key parts
- 1:09:02Speaker 3: of the law. Are can you tell me? Can you
- 1:09:07Speaker 3: provide me any information, any data that shows that people
- 1:09:12Speaker 3: number one were denied water and number two that they
- 1:09:16Speaker 3: suffered as a result of that.
- 1:09:19Speaker 18: You mean you can't get a drink of water and
- 1:09:22Speaker 18: you suffered?
- 1:09:23Speaker 3: Well no, seriously, I mean, are there is there evidence
- 1:09:26Speaker 3: that people are being told in Texas? No, you cannot
- 1:09:29Speaker 3: get a sip of water? I find that very hard
- 1:09:32Speaker 3: to believe.
- 1:09:34Speaker 18: Well, I can, I can fax it over to you,
- 1:09:38Speaker 18: but I don't have that at the moment.
- 1:09:41Speaker 3: You're like your old school David. Do we have I
- 1:09:44Speaker 3: don't even think we have a facts here? Do we
- 1:09:46Speaker 3: have a fact?
- 1:09:47Speaker 18: Are there court cases? Is that what you're asking me?
- 1:09:50Speaker 4: Yes?
- 1:09:51Speaker 3: Has has somebody been denied a water break in Texas?
- 1:09:56Speaker 6: Yeah?
- 1:09:56Speaker 18: I don't have details of casees O.
- 1:10:00Speaker 3: So but what does this have to do with the primary?
- 1:10:02Speaker 3: You called in to talk about the primary? So what
- 1:10:04Speaker 3: does this have to do with the primaries?
- 1:10:07Speaker 18: Well, you were ras in AOC for trying to come
- 1:10:10Speaker 18: to the aid of Texas.
- 1:10:11Speaker 3: No, she wants to declare war on the southern state.
- 1:10:14Speaker 3: She says she's going to pull up on us now
- 1:10:16Speaker 3: here in the South. When you pull up on somebody,
- 1:10:19Speaker 3: that means you've got a weapon and you're about to
- 1:10:22Speaker 3: do something.
- 1:10:24Speaker 18: Well, I doubt it. I think she's coming to the
- 1:10:26Speaker 18: aid of Texas because they're being treated as servants, not
- 1:10:31Speaker 18: as citizens, as subjects, not as citizens. And like I
- 1:10:35Speaker 18: was saying, the second one is more for the upper
- 1:10:38Speaker 18: class of Texas. Shareholders in Texas now cannot sue the
- 1:10:43Speaker 18: upper layers of the corporations for corruption. They can't view
- 1:10:49Speaker 18: what do you call them, class action cases to stop
- 1:10:53Speaker 18: corruption in the corporate suites. And then the third layer
- 1:10:59Speaker 18: is now Texas wants to put fracking water into all agriculture. Now,
- 1:11:05Speaker 18: say you're up in Tennessee, right, you got all those
- 1:11:09Speaker 18: famous race horses up in Kentucky and they want to
- 1:11:14Speaker 18: buy some alfalfa from Texas. Well, is that alfalfa grown
- 1:11:19Speaker 18: with fracking water? Are you going to get dog food
- 1:11:22Speaker 18: from Texas that has fracking water in it? Are you
- 1:11:25Speaker 18: going to get any vegetables out of Texas that has
- 1:11:28Speaker 18: fracking water?
- 1:11:29Speaker 17: No?
- 1:11:30Speaker 18: The Republicans in Texas are organized crime. They and AOC
- 1:11:34Speaker 18: is dead right when she says she has to come
- 1:11:36Speaker 18: to the aid of Texas.
- 1:11:37Speaker 3: David, I'm gonna help you out. I'm going to do
- 1:11:39Speaker 3: you a favor. And because we love I love it
- 1:11:41Speaker 3: when liberals call in and voice their opinions. You just
- 1:11:46Speaker 3: got to be upfront with Mike Hall screeners about what
- 1:11:49Speaker 3: you want to talk about, because you said that you
- 1:11:52Speaker 3: wanted to talk about the Texas primaries. And you've been
- 1:11:56Speaker 3: on the air with me for a couple of minutes
- 1:11:57Speaker 3: now and you haven't talked about the Texas primaries. So
- 1:12:01Speaker 3: next time, David, you just gotta be honest with our
- 1:12:05Speaker 3: call screener when you call into the happy to have
- 1:12:08Speaker 3: these conversations with you. By the way, David, just to
- 1:12:12Speaker 3: set the record straight again when it comes to this
- 1:12:16Speaker 3: water situation, the law itself did not ban water breaks.
- 1:12:21Speaker 3: It simply removed local mandates requiring those breaks. And again,
- 1:12:25Speaker 3: the government has no business getting involved in your business.
- 1:12:29Speaker 3: That's the point of it. I have yet to see
- 1:12:32Speaker 3: any stories about people who have who have been denied
- 1:12:36Speaker 3: a water break in the state of Texas. David got
- 1:12:39Speaker 3: to run. Thanks for the call though. Folks were always
- 1:12:43Speaker 3: happy to entertain your questions. But again, you've got to
- 1:12:46Speaker 3: make sure you keep it on topic and if it's
- 1:12:49Speaker 3: an off topic issue, just save it to Friday for
- 1:12:52Speaker 3: open line. Friday. Nine oh one two six zero five
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- 1:13:03Speaker 3: Interview exclusive interview with speaker Mike Johnson. We're going to
- 1:13:07Speaker 3: cover a lot of ground, including UFOs. Now, there's a
- 1:13:12Speaker 3: movie coming out of Spielberg. Movie coming out called Disclosure Day,
- 1:13:16Speaker 3: and a lot of people are wondering if Disclosure Day
- 1:13:19Speaker 3: is really more about it's more than just a movie,
- 1:13:24Speaker 3: that there is something else going on. And we have
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- 1:13:35Speaker 3: lawmakers who said they have seen bodies of space aliens.
- 1:13:39Speaker 3: And I'm curious as we headed in the next hour,
- 1:13:44Speaker 3: whether or not you believe in space aliens, if you
- 1:13:47Speaker 3: think there is life somewhere else, But more importantly, what
- 1:13:52Speaker 3: does it matter to you? Does it make a difference
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- 1:14:02Speaker 3: that it's going to cause it will cause a crisis
- 1:14:06Speaker 3: of faith in people when they realize that we are
- 1:14:10Speaker 3: not alone in the universe. So anyway, I'm just kind
- 1:14:12Speaker 3: of curious how you feel about that and if you
- 1:14:14Speaker 3: think it's a big deal. We had doctor Robert Jeffers
- 1:14:18Speaker 3: on the program What was It a couple of weeks ago,
- 1:14:20Speaker 3: and I asked him about that, and doctor Jeffers says,
- 1:14:24Speaker 3: you know, of course, obviously nobody knows for sure, at
- 1:14:26Speaker 3: least they're not saying it. But doctor Jeffers made a
- 1:14:29Speaker 3: good point. He said that God made the heavens plural
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- 1:14:36Speaker 3: if God made the heavens, is it possible that there
- 1:14:39Speaker 3: could be other life out there? Yeah, I guess so,
- 1:14:42Speaker 3: But I don't think that disproves that there is a God.
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- 1:14:57Speaker 3: the insect people and the spider people creep me out.
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- 1:15:55Speaker 1: Well, live from the Liberty University Studio in Memphis, Tennessee.
- 1:15:59Speaker 1: It's America, his favorite gun, total Bible, clinging, deplorable American.
- 1:16:03Speaker 6: That's jud start.
- 1:16:12Speaker 3: Well, all right, hello, everybody, welcome to the Tod Stearns
- 1:16:17Speaker 3: Radio Show, and you are in for a treat. We
- 1:16:20Speaker 3: have some very special guests coming up this hour of
- 1:16:23Speaker 3: the show. Charrelle Shawl is a gold star wife and
- 1:16:28Speaker 3: she's making national headlines because of something that happened yesterday
- 1:16:32Speaker 3: at Arlington National Cemetery. We're going to be talking to
- 1:16:35Speaker 3: her in just a few moments, but right now we're
- 1:16:39Speaker 3: just very excited to welcome to the show, Speaker, Mike Johnson.
- 1:16:43Speaker 3: Let's go right away to the patriot bubble. Newes Maker
- 1:16:46Speaker 3: line one of the busiest guys on Capitol Hill right now.
- 1:16:49Speaker 3: Speaker Mike Johnson, and mister speaker, You've been all over
- 1:16:52Speaker 3: the place and it was great to see you at
- 1:16:55Speaker 3: the ND five hundred over the weekend, and I know
- 1:16:58Speaker 3: I was. I think one of your post just went
- 1:17:01Speaker 3: viral about the patriotism that was on display there at
- 1:17:04Speaker 3: the race.
- 1:17:05Speaker 6: It was really something to behold.
- 1:17:07Speaker 14: You know, it's the largest sporting event in the world,
- 1:17:11Speaker 14: I think, and single day attendance there was nearly four
- 1:17:14Speaker 14: hundred thousand people on site and one of the stats
- 1:17:17Speaker 14: Todd is that I think it's one in every nine
- 1:17:19Speaker 14: hundred and eighty six Americans was present.
- 1:17:21Speaker 6: At the race. I mean, it was a big deal.
- 1:17:23Speaker 6: But what was so moving.
- 1:17:25Speaker 14: I think the post you're talking about is, you know,
- 1:17:26Speaker 14: obviously it's on Memorial Day weekend each year and there's
- 1:17:32Speaker 14: a moment of silence. They play taps for our fallen heroes,
- 1:17:36Speaker 14: and you could have heard a pin drop. I mean, really,
- 1:17:39Speaker 14: almost four hundred thousand people not a sound as the
- 1:17:41Speaker 14: bugle played. Very moving tribute, I mean, just full of
- 1:17:45Speaker 14: Americans who understand that freedom isn't free, and very moving
- 1:17:48Speaker 14: to be a part of that.
- 1:17:49Speaker 3: I think it's exciting to see this. I don't know,
- 1:17:52Speaker 3: maybe it's a resurgence of patriotism or I don't know,
- 1:17:56Speaker 3: maybe it's been there all along. I don't know, but
- 1:17:58Speaker 3: it just seems like people are more patriotic these days.
- 1:18:01Speaker 3: What do you make of that?
- 1:18:03Speaker 14: Well, look, I think it's tied into what's happening with
- 1:18:06Speaker 14: our country. I mean, we have, you know, an occupant
- 1:18:09Speaker 14: in the White House, in the Oval Office again who
- 1:18:11Speaker 14: believes in America, put in America first, and you know,
- 1:18:15Speaker 14: making that a priority. We're showing strength on the world
- 1:18:17Speaker 14: stage again. I mean, we're we have an economy that
- 1:18:20Speaker 14: is ready to take off like a rocket as soon
- 1:18:22Speaker 14: as we settle out this, you know, the conflict in Iran,
- 1:18:25Speaker 14: and on every facet, we're bringing America back. And so
- 1:18:29Speaker 14: it's promises made, promises kept by the president, by the
- 1:18:32Speaker 14: political party in charge ours. You know, we have unified government,
- 1:18:35Speaker 14: the White House to sit in the House, and that's
- 1:18:37Speaker 14: our ethos. You know, we're about America, and I think
- 1:18:40Speaker 14: it's I think people wanted to move beyond the previous
- 1:18:44Speaker 14: four years with all of the woke nonsense and the
- 1:18:47Speaker 14: DEI and the anti American sentiments. It's good to be back,
- 1:18:50Speaker 14: it's good to be patriotic, and it couldn't happen at
- 1:18:52Speaker 14: a better time, Todd for the two hundred and fiftieth
- 1:18:54Speaker 14: anniversary of the greatest nation in the history of the world.
- 1:18:57Speaker 3: I'm with you there a thousand percent. And it's so
- 1:18:59Speaker 3: excited to see, you know, what Monica Crowley and her
- 1:19:03Speaker 3: team are doing. It's just really it's really phenomenal, and
- 1:19:06Speaker 3: I know a lot of folks around the country are excited.
- 1:19:08Speaker 3: At the same time, though, mister Speaker, they're also a
- 1:19:11Speaker 3: little concerned. And they have seen gas prices surge right
- 1:19:15Speaker 3: back up, not to where they were during the Biden years,
- 1:19:18Speaker 3: but getting pretty close. Grocery prices are going back up,
- 1:19:21Speaker 3: and people are really beginning to struggle and express concern.
- 1:19:26Speaker 3: And I know that in a recent interview you did
- 1:19:29Speaker 3: with with another network, you said that this election is
- 1:19:33Speaker 3: going to be decided on kitchen table issues.
- 1:19:37Speaker 6: Well it is.
- 1:19:38Speaker 14: You know, every election really is at a certain extent,
- 1:19:41Speaker 14: and that's certainly true now.
- 1:19:43Speaker 6: The cost of living is a big issue.
- 1:19:45Speaker 14: Affordability is the you know, the buzzword right now the
- 1:19:48Speaker 14: Democrats are using, but Republicans were talking about the cost
- 1:19:52Speaker 14: of living well before it got their attention, and not
- 1:19:55Speaker 14: just talking about it, doing things about it. You know,
- 1:19:58Speaker 14: our legislation, our mar Key achievement of this Congress so far,
- 1:20:02Speaker 14: the big beautiful bill, the Working Family's Tax Cut, and
- 1:20:04Speaker 14: all the legislation that has preceded that and followed it
- 1:20:07Speaker 14: has been geared towards making government smaller, more efficient, more effective,
- 1:20:11Speaker 14: and putting more money in the pockets of hard working Americans.
- 1:20:15Speaker 6: That's what the legislation has yielded. You know, people just
- 1:20:17Speaker 6: got their.
- 1:20:17Speaker 14: Highest tax refunds and many people in their whole lives
- 1:20:21Speaker 14: because of our policies we put into the tax cuts.
- 1:20:23Speaker 6: Legislation, and wages are going up.
- 1:20:26Speaker 14: The stock market is doing well, the jobs numbers are
- 1:20:29Speaker 14: fantastic right now. All the economic indicators are going well,
- 1:20:32Speaker 14: except for this issue. With the straight of horn moves
- 1:20:36Speaker 14: and the lingering conflict in Iran, We're very optimistic about
- 1:20:39Speaker 14: the presidents moving towards a resolution of that. We need
- 1:20:43Speaker 14: to do it because gas prices will come back down
- 1:20:45Speaker 14: to earth and we'll get all of this right again.
- 1:20:48Speaker 14: You knows grocery prices are elevated a little bit because
- 1:20:52Speaker 14: when gas prices are up, it takes more money to
- 1:20:56Speaker 14: transport those goods to your local marketplace, and that's reflected.
- 1:21:00Speaker 6: The price there. So it's all tied in together to that.
- 1:21:02Speaker 14: I think the other countries that around the world understand
- 1:21:04Speaker 14: the same necessity, and I think we're very close to
- 1:21:07Speaker 14: moving forward on that.
- 1:21:08Speaker 3: It's interesting because you actually believe that we are Republicans
- 1:21:13Speaker 3: are going to buck the trend, and we know how,
- 1:21:16Speaker 3: we know how the party in control normally does in
- 1:21:19Speaker 3: the midterms, but you believe Republicans are going to win
- 1:21:22Speaker 3: in the fall.
- 1:21:24Speaker 6: I'm absolutely convinced of it.
- 1:21:25Speaker 14: And you know I made this call in twenty twenty
- 1:21:28Speaker 14: four when even on the eve before the election, when
- 1:21:31Speaker 14: we won it all and won all the swing states
- 1:21:33Speaker 14: and had the largest popular vote ever, the mainstream media
- 1:21:36Speaker 14: was trying to convince people that Republicans would lose the
- 1:21:38Speaker 14: majority in the House.
- 1:21:39Speaker 6: We didn't.
- 1:21:40Speaker 14: We gain seats and we'll do it again now in
- 1:21:42Speaker 14: the midterm election, the one that comes up this fall.
- 1:21:45Speaker 14: We really do have to defy history, because it's only
- 1:21:48Speaker 14: twice in the last ninety years that a sitting president
- 1:21:51Speaker 14: has picked up seats for his party in that first
- 1:21:53Speaker 14: two year cycle. But we are the group that defies
- 1:21:57Speaker 14: conventional wisdom and makes history every day, and we're going
- 1:21:59Speaker 14: to do it again. And it boils down to a
- 1:22:01Speaker 14: number of reasons, Todd and I won't bore you with
- 1:22:04Speaker 14: all the details. I have a ninety minute slide show
- 1:22:06Speaker 14: I can walk you through when you have time, but listen,
- 1:22:09Speaker 14: it boils down to a couple of things. First, it's
- 1:22:11Speaker 14: promises made, promises kept. As we're referring to. We made
- 1:22:14Speaker 14: effectively kind of a contract with America in twenty twenty four,
- 1:22:18Speaker 14: and we've been fulfilling that and getting America back and
- 1:22:21Speaker 14: bringing America back. We've got better candidates than Democrats do.
- 1:22:24Speaker 14: We have a fundraising advantage for the first time in
- 1:22:26Speaker 14: over a decade, and we have a great political environment.
- 1:22:30Speaker 14: We have a president who's out running like he's on
- 1:22:32Speaker 14: the ballot, you know, doing rallies and events and making
- 1:22:35Speaker 14: sure people understand the necessity of this midterm, so a
- 1:22:38Speaker 14: lot of factors in our favor. And meanwhile, the Democrats
- 1:22:42Speaker 14: are in total disarray. They're on the verge of an
- 1:22:44Speaker 14: open civil war in their party. The insurgent left Marxists
- 1:22:47Speaker 14: are taking that party over and then moving them further
- 1:22:50Speaker 14: and further left, which is away from the American people.
- 1:22:53Speaker 14: So you put all that together, I think we've got
- 1:22:55Speaker 14: a great recipe for success in November. We're charging ahead
- 1:22:59Speaker 14: and believing we're to keep and grow the House majority.
- 1:23:01Speaker 3: I think it's interesting when you look at who the
- 1:23:03Speaker 3: Democrats are putting forward as candidates, for example, Tennessee's Night
- 1:23:07Speaker 3: Congressional District Steve Cohen, who is not going to run.
- 1:23:11Speaker 3: The guy that is on the Democrat side is really
- 1:23:13Speaker 3: almost a radicalized version of a Jasmine Crockett or AOC.
- 1:23:18Speaker 3: And I don't think they've learned their lesson yet, mister speaker.
- 1:23:22Speaker 3: They seem to be really doubling down and hardening their
- 1:23:26Speaker 3: positions on these radically progressive ideas that the American people
- 1:23:31Speaker 3: just aren't buying.
- 1:23:33Speaker 6: That's exactly right. You summarized it very well.
- 1:23:36Speaker 14: And what I say on the campaign Triot is I'm
- 1:23:38Speaker 14: making people understand what we're seeing around the country is
- 1:23:41Speaker 14: the rise of what I call many Mandani's, you know,
- 1:23:44Speaker 14: like these actual Marxists running for office on the Democrat side. Now,
- 1:23:49Speaker 14: the dangerous thing for the country is that that is
- 1:23:51Speaker 14: where the energy and the excitement and the grassroots is
- 1:23:55Speaker 14: on the far left. And so these insurgent candidates are
- 1:23:58Speaker 14: running in primaries and challenging you know, what's left of
- 1:24:02Speaker 14: the old school Democrats, you know, the people who try
- 1:24:05Speaker 14: to be centrist or moderate. They can't exist in the
- 1:24:08Speaker 14: modern Democrat party anymore. This is not our father's Democrat party.
- 1:24:11Speaker 14: So these these crazy leftists, I mean, really, it's a
- 1:24:16Speaker 14: dangerous thing. And they were rising through the primaries. They're
- 1:24:18Speaker 14: making the establishment Democrats spend tons of money, and they're
- 1:24:23Speaker 14: going to make it to the general election.
- 1:24:24Speaker 6: So I really like our matchups there.
- 1:24:27Speaker 14: You know, we're going to have common sense, governing, constitutional
- 1:24:31Speaker 14: conservatives in our general election as our candidates, and they're
- 1:24:34Speaker 14: going to have Marxists, you know, openly avowed far far leftists.
- 1:24:39Speaker 14: That's not what the American people want, and they've already
- 1:24:41Speaker 14: sent that message to Democrats to your point, they can't
- 1:24:44Speaker 14: seem to understand that. So I like our chances going forward,
- 1:24:47Speaker 14: but it certainly is a dangerous trend for the country
- 1:24:49Speaker 14: going forward.
- 1:24:49Speaker 3: I do wonder though, if what's happening in the Senate
- 1:24:53Speaker 3: right now, which is just it's really it's gone from
- 1:24:55Speaker 3: just weird and bizarre to disturbing. I know, Senator Ted
- 1:24:59Speaker 3: Cruz called out Senator tell Us Cornyn, Rand Paul and
- 1:25:04Speaker 3: Cassidy from Louisiana as almost being obstructionist. Now it's almost
- 1:25:09Speaker 3: as if there is an intentional effort to sabotage the
- 1:25:13Speaker 3: president's agenda. What are you hearing in your conversations with
- 1:25:18Speaker 3: the majority leader.
- 1:25:20Speaker 14: Well, Leader Thune's got a real challenge on his hands.
- 1:25:22Speaker 14: And of course he's only got fifty three Republicans, and
- 1:25:25Speaker 14: so to move any partisan priority that we have, any
- 1:25:28Speaker 14: part of our agenda, because Democrats don't want to help
- 1:25:31Speaker 14: at all, he's got to pull off, effectively now a
- 1:25:34Speaker 14: magic trick. I mean, you've got to have sixty votes
- 1:25:36Speaker 14: in the Senate, of course, to move substantent legislation. And
- 1:25:39Speaker 14: there's almost zero chance you're going to get Chuck schumeran
- 1:25:42Speaker 14: Democrats to come along. They simply don't want President Trump
- 1:25:45Speaker 14: to have a win on anything.
- 1:25:46Speaker 6: And so it's a real problem.
- 1:25:48Speaker 14: I mean that the Democrats are obviously clearly obstructionists, and
- 1:25:52Speaker 14: so what we're trying to do is move packages, for example,
- 1:25:55Speaker 14: through reconciliation, which is you know, is the one exception
- 1:25:57Speaker 14: of the necessity of sixty votes in the Senate. But
- 1:26:00Speaker 14: in order to move a reconciliation bill, you have to
- 1:26:02Speaker 14: have at least fifty one votes in the Senate, and
- 1:26:05Speaker 14: when you only have fifty three Republicans, you can't have
- 1:26:07Speaker 14: anybody upset. You know, you really almost need unanimity. So
- 1:26:11Speaker 14: I've got the same challenge in the House. But you know,
- 1:26:14Speaker 14: the Senate is dicey right now because you know, the
- 1:26:16Speaker 14: president's taking a position in a couple of those Senate races,
- 1:26:19Speaker 14: and there's some hurt feelings, et cetera. But they've got
- 1:26:22Speaker 14: to work through it, and we hope they will for
- 1:26:24Speaker 14: the for the best interests of the country. I think
- 1:26:27Speaker 14: everybody's got to put their you know, their personal interest
- 1:26:29Speaker 14: deicide and do what's right for America. And I'm very hopeful.
- 1:26:32Speaker 14: I'm an optimist, Todd. I believe they will at the
- 1:26:34Speaker 14: end of the day. But there's a lot of work
- 1:26:35Speaker 14: ahead of us.
- 1:26:36Speaker 3: I'm wondering if you've had a chance to have any
- 1:26:38Speaker 3: conversations with the president. You mentioned being an optimist. The
- 1:26:41Speaker 3: President certainly feels like we're going to be able to
- 1:26:43Speaker 3: reach some sort of a deal with Iran. Originally though,
- 1:26:47Speaker 3: they said we're going to be in and out four
- 1:26:49Speaker 3: to five weeks, and clearly we're well beyond that now,
- 1:26:53Speaker 3: and a lot of folks are concerned that if the
- 1:26:55Speaker 3: war does drag on into the summer months into the fall,
- 1:26:58Speaker 3: it could have an impact in the midterms. What are
- 1:27:02Speaker 3: you hearing from the White House?
- 1:27:04Speaker 14: Well, you know, I talk with the President about it
- 1:27:06Speaker 14: almost every day, and he certainly understands that he wants
- 1:27:10Speaker 14: it to be resolved quickly, but it must be done
- 1:27:12Speaker 14: in the right way. We have to finish the job,
- 1:27:14Speaker 14: so to speak, as everyone says, and that means we've
- 1:27:17Speaker 14: got to ensure. Of course, his number one condition is
- 1:27:20Speaker 14: that Iran can never have a nuclear weapon, and every
- 1:27:23Speaker 14: common sense thinking, every you know, any American who looks
- 1:27:27Speaker 14: at the facts, any person around the world who loves freedom,
- 1:27:30Speaker 14: who understands the stakes here, should should make that same demand.
- 1:27:33Speaker 14: You can have the largest sponsor of state terror, of
- 1:27:37Speaker 14: terrorists and terrorist organizations with a nuclear weapon it would
- 1:27:41Speaker 14: be a disaster for the whole world. So that condition,
- 1:27:43Speaker 14: I think is obvious. The President's going to make sure
- 1:27:45Speaker 14: it's abided by. And then we've also got to deal
- 1:27:48Speaker 14: with the nuclear dust as we call it, the remnants
- 1:27:50Speaker 14: of their enriched uranium and other things that that may
- 1:27:54Speaker 14: still be in the country. I think those are going
- 1:27:56Speaker 14: to be all part of the negotiation that continues over
- 1:27:58Speaker 14: sixty days. In the meanwhile, we can get the straight
- 1:28:00Speaker 14: up room moves reopen for commerce, because that's important for
- 1:28:03Speaker 14: everybody around the world. And I'll say that he's involving
- 1:28:06Speaker 14: all the Middle Eastern countries there in this discussion and
- 1:28:09Speaker 14: as part of this arrangement, this agreement. That's very important
- 1:28:14Speaker 14: because they have a direct interest in it, as well
- 1:28:16Speaker 14: as do all of our NATO allies and frankly every
- 1:28:19Speaker 14: country around the world. So our fingers across were praying
- 1:28:22Speaker 14: for a resolution there and one that ensures the safety
- 1:28:25Speaker 14: and the prosperity of Americans and everybody else for that matter.
- 1:28:28Speaker 3: Speaker, we appreciate your time, and I've got one more
- 1:28:31Speaker 3: quick question to ask you, only because a number of
- 1:28:35Speaker 3: your caucus members have been on my radio show talking
- 1:28:38Speaker 3: about aliens of course, urch It chief among them. It's
- 1:28:44Speaker 3: you know, people are getting just a little I wouldn't
- 1:28:46Speaker 3: say uneasy now, but it's like one in the world
- 1:28:49Speaker 3: is going on there. Do you know, do you have
- 1:28:52Speaker 3: information that you might be able to share with us
- 1:28:54Speaker 3: about what could be revealed in the coming days.
- 1:28:58Speaker 14: Yes, Look, you're not going to see anything new. Okay,
- 1:29:01Speaker 14: We've all known and it's been widely discussed that there
- 1:29:05Speaker 14: they're phenomenon of flying objects that can't easily be explained.
- 1:29:09Speaker 14: I don't think it's extra terrestrials, Okay, I don't think
- 1:29:11Speaker 14: they are aliens. I don't buy any of that. And
- 1:29:14Speaker 14: as you may know, Todd, I have the highest level
- 1:29:15Speaker 14: of classification that's that exists. Okay, I've never seen anything
- 1:29:20Speaker 14: to the country. Look, we have adversaries like China and
- 1:29:23Speaker 14: other nations who have advanced technologies as we do. We
- 1:29:27Speaker 14: have things they don't have, and vice versa. I think
- 1:29:29Speaker 14: ultimately all these anomalies can be explained that way. Look,
- 1:29:34Speaker 14: I'm a Bible believing Christian. I believe the Bible is
- 1:29:37Speaker 14: the Word of God and it's an errant. I don't
- 1:29:39Speaker 14: see any place in there for illegal I mean, yeah,
- 1:29:42Speaker 14: certainly illegal aliens, I mean aliens from other planets, et cetera.
- 1:29:46Speaker 6: So I think this is a lot of a lot
- 1:29:49Speaker 6: of hype. I really do.
- 1:29:50Speaker 3: Well, technically they would be illegal aliens, true, fair enough,
- 1:29:54Speaker 3: fair enough from an other galaxy. But oh my word.
- 1:29:58Speaker 3: All right, well that's good news. So I think people
- 1:30:01Speaker 3: can rest easy for a little while knowing that that's
- 1:30:04Speaker 3: a knock on the door. So uh well, mister speaker,
- 1:30:07Speaker 3: we always appreciate your time and thank you for the
- 1:30:10Speaker 3: great work you guys are doing there on Capitol Hill.
- 1:30:13Speaker 6: You got them a friend. Good talk with you.
- 1:30:27Speaker 3: By the way, if you want to go back and
- 1:30:28Speaker 3: listen to any of the interview we did with Speaker
- 1:30:31Speaker 3: Mike Johnson, you can download our podcast free of charge
- 1:30:35Speaker 3: and they'll be able to listen to it.
- 1:30:36Speaker 6: There.
- 1:30:37Speaker 3: Let's go to the phone lines. Nine oh one two
- 1:30:39Speaker 3: six zero five nine two six is our telephone number.
- 1:30:43Speaker 3: Let's go to Josh in North Carolina listening to us
- 1:30:46Speaker 3: on WSJS. Josh, what's on your mind today?
- 1:30:51Speaker 20: Yeah?
- 1:30:52Speaker 22: The first thing I'll like to say, Dan Pastor's on
- 1:30:55Speaker 22: my affiliate right now, and I'm really upset that they
- 1:31:00Speaker 22: upset that your station was cut off. I would like
- 1:31:04Speaker 22: to try find a way to fix that.
- 1:31:07Speaker 3: I have no idea what you're talking about. So what's
- 1:31:10Speaker 3: going on.
- 1:31:12Speaker 22: Well, everything is changed on my affiliate and you get
- 1:31:18Speaker 22: cut off before your show is done, and I would
- 1:31:21Speaker 22: like to find a way to fix that. I don't
- 1:31:23Speaker 22: like that because I like listening to you. I have
- 1:31:27Speaker 22: listened to you for probably two years and actually became
- 1:31:30Speaker 22: a listener about a year ago, and about six months
- 1:31:35Speaker 22: ago when my son was going overseas. I've called it
- 1:31:39Speaker 22: for the time to talk. You may't remember I've bragged
- 1:31:42Speaker 22: on my son a marine. He has talked with several
- 1:31:48Speaker 22: of his friends and there's probably forty or five guys
- 1:31:53Speaker 22: that try to find you online listen to you anywhere
- 1:31:56Speaker 22: that can because you you don't only talk about politics,
- 1:32:06Speaker 22: you don't only talk about family. You talk about Christianity,
- 1:32:11Speaker 22: which most people don't care about, and they actually care
- 1:32:17Speaker 22: and spoke with him recently, and the majority of the
- 1:32:22Speaker 22: people that he's a field of filling in with the
- 1:32:28Speaker 22: Marine Corps, the Navy, everybody's disgusted with everything that's going
- 1:32:34Speaker 22: on in the country. It that's not what they're fighting for.
- 1:32:45Speaker 3: Yeah, Josh, Yeah, I hear you. And look, I think
- 1:32:48Speaker 3: we've got a bad connection here. But let me just
- 1:32:51Speaker 3: let me offer this as as advice here. You know,
- 1:32:56Speaker 3: if you've got an issue with the local radio stash,
- 1:33:00Speaker 3: I just give them a call and let them know
- 1:33:02Speaker 3: how you feel. They're good folks, but anyway, we certainly
- 1:33:06Speaker 3: appreciate them being great affiliates. My apologies, ladies and gentlemen
- 1:33:10Speaker 3: for that. Nine oh one two six zero five, nine
- 1:33:14Speaker 3: two six is our telephone number. That's nine oh one
- 1:33:16Speaker 3: two six zero five, nine to six. Coming up, we're
- 1:33:21Speaker 3: going to be speaking with Cherrelle Shaw. She is the
- 1:33:25Speaker 3: gold star wife who has been making headlines over the
- 1:33:31Speaker 3: past twelve forty eight hours. She put out a request
- 1:33:35Speaker 3: on social media and the way the American people responded
- 1:33:40Speaker 3: is just really truly remarkable, and so we're gonna be
- 1:33:45Speaker 3: We're gonna be talking to her in a Todd Sterns
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- 1:34:32Speaker 3: all right, Welcome back, everybody. It is the Ton Sterns
- 1:34:35Speaker 3: Radio Show. Trust you're having a great start to your week.
- 1:34:39Speaker 3: It's one of the it's gonna be one of those
- 1:34:41Speaker 3: weird weeks where you know you miss Monday, but you
- 1:34:44Speaker 3: got It's Tuesday. In case many of you are just
- 1:34:47Speaker 3: now getting out about it is Tuesday. There was a
- 1:34:51Speaker 3: really fascinating story that unfolded on social media over the
- 1:34:55Speaker 3: past couple of days, and it's really a heartwarming story.
- 1:35:00Speaker 3: I think it's an incredibly touching story. And I didn't
- 1:35:03Speaker 3: realize that the person who was central to the story
- 1:35:07Speaker 3: we actually followed each other on social media. And we're
- 1:35:10Speaker 3: just so honored that she took some time to join
- 1:35:13Speaker 3: us this afternoon from Arkansas. Charrelle Shaw, Miss Shaw, good
- 1:35:17Speaker 3: to have you with us today.
- 1:35:19Speaker 19: It's wonderful to be here. Thank you so much.
- 1:35:22Speaker 18: So.
- 1:35:23Speaker 3: What a wonderful story. And I want you to set
- 1:35:25Speaker 3: the scene for us here because your husband is one
- 1:35:29Speaker 3: of our great American patriots and he was killed in
- 1:35:33Speaker 3: action in two thousand and seven of fighting in Iraq,
- 1:35:37Speaker 3: and I want you to tell us a little bit,
- 1:35:39Speaker 3: give us a little bit of the background, and then
- 1:35:41Speaker 3: we'll talk about what happened on Memorial Day.
- 1:35:44Speaker 19: All right, Well, Alan has always been a patriot. He
- 1:35:50Speaker 19: joined the Marine Corps as a very young man, did
- 1:35:56Speaker 19: for four years with them, with one two overseas tours,
- 1:36:03Speaker 19: and he ended up getting out right after nine to eleven.
- 1:36:07Speaker 19: And when he got out and came home, that's when
- 1:36:11Speaker 19: we met and fell in love. So so by the
- 1:36:15Speaker 19: time I met him, he was already ready a hero
- 1:36:19Speaker 19: and we ultimately ended up getting married in two thousand
- 1:36:24Speaker 19: and three. And around the same time we were sitting
- 1:36:28Speaker 19: at home, he was watching a news segment about first Battalion,
- 1:36:33Speaker 19: fifth Marines and their tour over in Iraq and how
- 1:36:37Speaker 19: everybody had come home from that tour, and it hit
- 1:36:42Speaker 19: him immediately that he was supposed to be there with them,
- 1:36:46Speaker 19: with his men. So he tried to go back in
- 1:36:50Speaker 19: the Marine Corps, and like the Marine Corps does, they
- 1:36:54Speaker 19: told him that he wasn't issued that wife and children
- 1:36:59Speaker 19: when he had gotten out, so they were sorry, but
- 1:37:04Speaker 19: he'd have to find another way to serve and he
- 1:37:06Speaker 19: immediately did that joined the army that same day. Six
- 1:37:10Speaker 19: weeks later, he was on his first tour in Iraq
- 1:37:15Speaker 19: as an infantry soldier, and yeah, he was a patriot
- 1:37:22Speaker 19: through and through found a way to serve so amazing man.
- 1:37:27Speaker 3: So when when he passed away he was buried at
- 1:37:30Speaker 3: Arlington National Cemetery, was that something that you guys did,
- 1:37:33Speaker 3: a regular journey that you made to Arlington?
- 1:37:39Speaker 19: Yes, sir. Before he went on his last tour in Iraq,
- 1:37:44Speaker 19: he told me explicitly, if something ever happened to him
- 1:37:48Speaker 19: in combat, he wanted to be at Arlington with his brothers.
- 1:37:54Speaker 19: So that decision was an easy one for me to make.
- 1:37:58Speaker 19: And since then we've been able to go. Many years,
- 1:38:02Speaker 19: some we haven't, but many years over the past nineteen
- 1:38:06Speaker 19: we've been able to spend up there with him. Unfortunately,
- 1:38:11Speaker 19: this year it just it wasn't something we could make happen.
- 1:38:16Speaker 19: So I decided to reach out on social media to
- 1:38:21Speaker 19: see if maybe somebody could could be there in our place.
- 1:38:25Speaker 19: And boy did did people show up.
- 1:38:29Speaker 3: I mean it was it was really amazing And it
- 1:38:32Speaker 3: was a very simple request. And I want you to
- 1:38:35Speaker 3: tell our listeners what you would ask folks to do
- 1:38:37Speaker 3: if they would not mind. What what did you want
- 1:38:40Speaker 3: them to do if they came across your husband's grave site.
- 1:38:45Speaker 19: I asked that somebody would just take a quick picture
- 1:38:50Speaker 19: for me. You know, the Old Guard always make sure
- 1:38:55Speaker 19: that the flags are placed in front of their there's zones,
- 1:39:00Speaker 19: and I just wanted a picture from this year to
- 1:39:04Speaker 19: have And I thought, maybe you know people in the area,
- 1:39:10Speaker 19: anybody who was there in DC for the weekend might
- 1:39:14Speaker 19: be able to stop by and just snap a quick
- 1:39:17Speaker 19: picture and send it to us. And that happened. That
- 1:39:23Speaker 19: happened tenfold.
- 1:39:25Speaker 3: Were you surprised, and we'll talk about some of the
- 1:39:28Speaker 3: people that sent photographs, but were you surprised at the
- 1:39:32Speaker 3: numbers of people that responded?
- 1:39:35Speaker 19: Absolutely? Absolutely right? Honestly, When I made the post, the
- 1:39:41Speaker 19: military and veteran adjacent communities are pretty close knit, so
- 1:39:46Speaker 19: I figured there would be one or two people in
- 1:39:52Speaker 19: DC for the events around Memorial Day that they could
- 1:39:57Speaker 19: stop by. But when so many he started flooding in,
- 1:40:02Speaker 19: it was absolutely overwhelming.
- 1:40:06Speaker 3: I was. I was following all of this in real
- 1:40:09Speaker 3: time on social media, and then I noticed, first Tulsi
- 1:40:14Speaker 3: Gabbered not only visited your your husband's gravesite, but also
- 1:40:20Speaker 3: left you some wonderful words there on X that must
- 1:40:23Speaker 3: have been a special moment.
- 1:40:25Speaker 19: It absolutely was Tulsie Being someone who served herself, she
- 1:40:32Speaker 19: understands the sacrifice in ways that that only somebody who's
- 1:40:40Speaker 19: worn the uniform can truly understand. So her being there,
- 1:40:46Speaker 19: her taking the time out of her memorial day to
- 1:40:51Speaker 19: be there to honor Alan was it was. It's something
- 1:40:58Speaker 19: that I will never ever forget. Tulsi's an amazing woman,
- 1:41:03Speaker 19: an amazing soldier, and an amazing leader.
- 1:41:08Speaker 3: And it wasn't just Tulci Gabbard bought War Secretary Pete
- 1:41:11Speaker 3: Hankseth and his wife and many of their children. They
- 1:41:16Speaker 3: also came to your husband's grave site to pay their respects.
- 1:41:20Speaker 19: Absolutely, and the same can be said for Pete. He
- 1:41:24Speaker 19: truly understands what that sacrifice means in ways that not
- 1:41:30Speaker 19: everyone does. So yeah, him showing up and honoring Alan,
- 1:41:39Speaker 19: it's there's just I don't know that I'll ever find
- 1:41:43Speaker 19: the right word to truly explain how much that means
- 1:41:49Speaker 19: to me.
- 1:41:51Speaker 3: When you look at you know, look back over these
- 1:41:54Speaker 3: many years, and your children you know as well, you know,
- 1:42:00Speaker 3: and they see this, I'm curious what their reaction to
- 1:42:02Speaker 3: all of this has been.
- 1:42:05Speaker 19: They have been crying, are all three of them? Through
- 1:42:12Speaker 19: through every video, you know, some of the best one
- 1:42:18Speaker 19: came from just you know, ordinary Americans who stopped to
- 1:42:22Speaker 19: say a prayer for Alan and for our family, and
- 1:42:28Speaker 19: those were were wonderful. They've been watching all of this
- 1:42:35Speaker 19: and constantly calling to say, hey, Mom, have you seen
- 1:42:39Speaker 19: this one? This one is awesome. So it's been a
- 1:42:43Speaker 19: very healing experience for them as well.
- 1:42:46Speaker 3: You know, I know a lot of times we hear
- 1:42:49Speaker 3: that social media that brings out the worst in people.
- 1:42:52Speaker 3: I then you see stories like this, and I think
- 1:42:55Speaker 3: it really did bring out the best and so many
- 1:42:58Speaker 3: people that just wanted to, you know, to be there
- 1:43:01Speaker 3: and to say thank.
- 1:43:02Speaker 19: You, absolutely, and that's what touched me so much as well.
- 1:43:08Speaker 19: Sometimes being on social media often and being a gold
- 1:43:13Speaker 19: Star family member, we get a lot of pushback from
- 1:43:19Speaker 19: people who aren't necessarily supportive of you know, certain missions,
- 1:43:25Speaker 19: certain things that the military is asked to do. So
- 1:43:31Speaker 19: to see people across political lines, across the spectrum come
- 1:43:37Speaker 19: together for one day, to leave the politics of it
- 1:43:40Speaker 19: all behind and just remember one of our fallen It's
- 1:43:47Speaker 19: something we don't see often enough on social media. But
- 1:43:53Speaker 19: I'm hoping maybe maybe the fact that this happened it'll
- 1:44:02Speaker 19: be a start to something maybe better. Yeah, for our
- 1:44:08Speaker 19: service members.
- 1:44:09Speaker 3: Missus Shaw, I'm just curious, and you mentioned you speak
- 1:44:12Speaker 3: to a lot of other folks, you know, in the
- 1:44:13Speaker 3: within the military family and the community. When when you
- 1:44:17Speaker 3: see what really the transformation within the past really two
- 1:44:22Speaker 3: years of the Trump administration and the focus on the
- 1:44:26Speaker 3: military and the attention to UH to veterans, and I'm wondering,
- 1:44:31Speaker 3: what are people what are people saying? How do you
- 1:44:33Speaker 3: feel about the direction that the country is heading in
- 1:44:37Speaker 3: right now?
- 1:44:39Speaker 19: Feel blessed? I think we are blessed. This administration has
- 1:44:46Speaker 19: done more. Even even in the first Trump administration, we
- 1:44:50Speaker 19: saw changes in the way our gold Star families were
- 1:44:55Speaker 19: received and understood. This one has taken it to a
- 1:45:02Speaker 19: whole other level. In my circles, we see this administration
- 1:45:13Speaker 19: reaching out in ways that have never happened before. It's
- 1:45:22Speaker 19: another one that it's it's hard to put into words.
- 1:45:26Speaker 19: Every American sees the change, like you just mentioned, but
- 1:45:31Speaker 19: to see it from the inside is something else.
- 1:45:37Speaker 3: Well, Missus Shaw, I hope you know that. First of all,
- 1:45:40Speaker 3: thank you for following me on X and I greatly
- 1:45:43Speaker 3: appreciate that. I hope you know this radio audience is
- 1:45:46Speaker 3: pro military all the way, and they are going to
- 1:45:50Speaker 3: be thousands and thousands of people across the nation praying
- 1:45:52Speaker 3: for you and your family, and we just you know,
- 1:45:57Speaker 3: again these are words, but God bless you and thank you,
- 1:46:02Speaker 3: and we just appreciate the sacrifice that your family made
- 1:46:06Speaker 3: so that all of us can be free.
- 1:46:10Speaker 19: Thank you. We're very proud of Alan and what he
- 1:46:14Speaker 19: gave for this amazing country.
- 1:46:17Speaker 3: Well sin all right, well, missus Shaw, God bless you again,
- 1:46:20Speaker 3: and we thank you for joining us this afternoon here
- 1:46:23Speaker 3: on the program. And what an amazing story. And God
- 1:46:27Speaker 3: bless all of you who reached out to the Shaw family,
- 1:46:30Speaker 3: who stopped by that grave site, and who stopped and
- 1:46:33Speaker 3: paused a moment to help a fellow countryman and her family.
- 1:46:39Speaker 3: Nine oh one two six zero five, nine two six
- 1:46:42Speaker 3: is our telephone number. That's nine oh one two six
- 1:46:45Speaker 3: zero five, nine two six. Perhaps you have a message
- 1:46:48Speaker 3: for missus Shaw, Perhaps you have a message for the
- 1:46:52Speaker 3: families who sacrificed loved one so that we might be free.
- 1:46:56Speaker 3: Give us a call. Nine oh one two six zero five,
- 1:46:59Speaker 3: nine two six. This is the Todd Starns Show. All right,
- 1:47:14Speaker 3: Welcome back, everybody, this is the Todd Starns Radio show. Wow,
- 1:47:18Speaker 3: that was a you know, that was a powerful interview,
- 1:47:21Speaker 3: and what a beautiful thing the American people have done
- 1:47:27Speaker 3: by by visiting the graveside of Alan Shaw, who is
- 1:47:34Speaker 3: truly a great American patriot and a hero. And I
- 1:47:39Speaker 3: want to share some information if I may. He was
- 1:47:42Speaker 3: killed in action in Iraq in two thousand and seven.
- 1:47:46Speaker 3: He is buried at Arlington National Cemetery, Section sixty, Grave
- 1:47:50Speaker 3: eighty four fifty one. And the Shaws had four children
- 1:47:55Speaker 3: that were very young at the time. So just keep
- 1:48:00Speaker 3: these families, and I guarantee you there are probably in
- 1:48:04Speaker 3: your town, in your community, gold Star families and they
- 1:48:08Speaker 3: need to be supported, they need to be encouraged. And
- 1:48:12Speaker 3: maybe that is something that and certainly I have to
- 1:48:15Speaker 3: imagine that VFW halls and American Legions and other service
- 1:48:20Speaker 3: organizations they do their part, but maybe churches should start
- 1:48:25Speaker 3: getting involved as well and providing ministry. And I don't
- 1:48:29Speaker 3: know what that looks like, just being there for maybe
- 1:48:33Speaker 3: providing meals or something for these gold Star families. I mean,
- 1:48:36Speaker 3: they're going through well I can't even imagine what they're
- 1:48:39Speaker 3: going through. I really can't. But Anyway, God bless Tulsa Gabbert.
- 1:48:44Speaker 3: I know that many of you may be on different
- 1:48:47Speaker 3: political spectrums and whatever, but Tulsi Gabbert is an American
- 1:48:51Speaker 3: patriot and she is she is a military veteran. And
- 1:48:56Speaker 3: for her to personally go and to pay her respects
- 1:49:00Speaker 3: to this man and again this you know, this man
- 1:49:05Speaker 3: stranger showing up placing American flags and flowers at his gravesite.
- 1:49:10Speaker 3: That's just a remarkable thing. And what a lesson that
- 1:49:13Speaker 3: Pete Hegseth is sending not just to the country but
- 1:49:16Speaker 3: also to his children about the importance of serving one's country.
- 1:49:22Speaker 3: So well done all around. And I want to encourage
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- 1:49:39Speaker 3: really powerful. It really is. Nine oh one two six
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- 1:49:50Speaker 3: Coming up tonight five o'clock on Newsmax, The Todd Sterns Show.
- 1:49:54Speaker 3: We have John Fleming, who is in a big Senate
- 1:49:58Speaker 3: runoff there in Louisiana. We're also going to have the
- 1:50:01Speaker 3: very latest in what's happening in Texas and our great
- 1:50:05Speaker 3: Ladies panel, Mary Walter Case Myke Hill. They're going to
- 1:50:08Speaker 3: be long to talk Spencer Pratt and cookies. That's going
- 1:50:12Speaker 3: to be a great conversation as well. So anyway, you're
- 1:50:15Speaker 3: going to want to be sure to listen to that. Salisbury,
- 1:50:19Speaker 3: North Carolina. Anybody know where Salisbury is? Man They had
- 1:50:23Speaker 3: a horrible situation take place over the weekend. Two hundred
- 1:50:28Speaker 3: American flags vandalized at the National Cemetery there. It's a
- 1:50:32Speaker 3: national cemetery for veterans, and then they repair, they replace
- 1:50:36Speaker 3: all the flags, and then somebody comes right back and
- 1:50:40Speaker 3: tears them all down again. Apparently they're looking for three
- 1:50:43Speaker 3: teenagers that are responsible for all of that. So we'll
- 1:50:47Speaker 3: keep you updated on those developments. Big story out of
- 1:50:54Speaker 3: New York City. Maybe we should have led this, We
- 1:50:57Speaker 3: should have led the show with this. Taylor Lawrence.
- 1:51:02Speaker 6: She is a.
- 1:51:05Speaker 3: She's a nut job. That's really the only polite way
- 1:51:08Speaker 3: to say it. But she's very upset and she's demanding
- 1:51:12Speaker 3: that Mayor Zonorum Mandammy do something about cream cheese. So
- 1:51:20Speaker 3: the New York Post here's the headline. Taylor Laurence whines
- 1:51:24Speaker 3: that New York City bagel shops do not use the
- 1:51:26Speaker 3: right vegan cream cheese, and she wants the mayor to intervene.
- 1:51:33Speaker 3: Miss Lawrence is the former Washington Post journalist. She was
- 1:51:38Speaker 3: also one of the big masker people writing this. The
- 1:51:42Speaker 3: bagels in La suck, but for all the La bagel shops.
- 1:51:46Speaker 3: But at least all the La bagel shops at least
- 1:51:48Speaker 3: use cashew based vegan cream cheese. Guess which word they
- 1:51:53Speaker 3: lost me at New York City bagel shops almost never
- 1:51:57Speaker 3: have vegan cream cheese, or they're using hyper processed toefoodie.
- 1:52:04Speaker 3: What is a toefoodie? That sounds like some sort of
- 1:52:07Speaker 3: a fungal condition that would impact one's foot toefooty?
- 1:52:12Speaker 2: What is that?
- 1:52:15Speaker 3: She's a lout. So anyway, she's hoping that Mayor Zorn
- 1:52:18Speaker 3: Mamdami can somehow What does she want him to do
- 1:52:22Speaker 3: outlaw cream cheese? And for that matter, ladies and gentlemen, look,
- 1:52:26Speaker 3: I get all you No, I don't get all you
- 1:52:28Speaker 3: vegan people. Whatever. It's a free country if you don't
- 1:52:31Speaker 3: want to eat meat. Whatever, knock yourself out, but really,
- 1:52:35Speaker 3: cream cheese, vegan cream cheese. I don't get it all right,
- 1:52:40Speaker 3: we gotta leave it there tomorrow another great show coming
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- 1:52:45Speaker 3: and gentlemen. Todd Starnes dot com is our website. Go
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