Latest / ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes / Enes Kanter Ejected from WNBA Game
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- 0:10Speaker 1: Well, live from the Liberty University Studio in Memphis, Tennessee.
- 0:13Speaker 1: It's America's favorite gun, total bible clinging, deplorable American.
- 0:18Speaker 2: That's that's what.
- 0:22Speaker 3: This American.
- 0:25Speaker 4: Todd starts.
- 0:28Speaker 5: Oh yeah, hello, everybody, Welcome to the Todd Stearns Radio Show.
- 0:33Speaker 5: A little Shenanigans here in the building. Wow, what a
- 0:38Speaker 5: what a weird day. So I was I was heading
- 0:42Speaker 5: to Dallas, Texas, and what a great joy. We met
- 0:45Speaker 5: so many of our great listeners in Dallas at the
- 0:48Speaker 5: first Baptist Church here. Doctor Robert Jeffers really rolled out
- 0:53Speaker 5: the red carpet, and of course doctor Jeffers is the
- 0:56Speaker 5: official champlain of the Todd Stearns Radio Show. And our
- 1:00Speaker 5: friends at Barnes and Noble were there. We did the
- 1:02Speaker 5: big book signing and it was a wonderful thing. As
- 1:05Speaker 5: I was driving though, and a lot of folks think,
- 1:08Speaker 5: oh Starns here he takes the private jet. Well, Dylan
- 1:13Speaker 5: was using the jet this weekend, and so I had
- 1:17Speaker 5: to drive. So I took the Cadillac out and by
- 1:20Speaker 5: the way, you know what I did, Dylan. I rarely
- 1:22Speaker 5: have I done this, but the Cadillac was incredibly grateful.
- 1:26Speaker 5: I went for the premium blend gasoline, and with just
- 1:31Speaker 5: a tap of the of the gas pettle, I was
- 1:34Speaker 5: driving ninety miles an hour.
- 1:37Speaker 3: Your car is very thankful.
- 1:38Speaker 5: For you, very smooth, a smooth ride at that premium.
- 1:42Speaker 5: So they yeah, the Caddy can't get used to it.
- 1:44Speaker 5: So we're back to normal.
- 1:46Speaker 3: This weight these times.
- 1:47Speaker 5: No, no, no, but let me just say this. Gas
- 1:50Speaker 5: prices were cheaper in Arkansas than they were in Tennessee,
- 1:54Speaker 5: and they weren't too terribly bad in Texas, to be
- 1:57Speaker 5: honest with you. So anyway, I'm driving away from the
- 2:01Speaker 5: Memphis area and I noticed it was getting very dark
- 2:05Speaker 5: behind me, and I thought, wow, I hope that you
- 2:07Speaker 5: know storm is not coming my way. No, it was
- 2:10Speaker 5: actually heading to Memphis, and it was. It's a pretty
- 2:13Speaker 5: serious situation. They had what they call a bow echo
- 2:18Speaker 5: and straight line winds. So Dylan, they said the winds
- 2:21Speaker 5: were at eighty ninety miles an hour and they just
- 2:24Speaker 5: slammed into Memphis and a good chunk of the city
- 2:28Speaker 5: is still without power. I know in my neighborhood none
- 2:31Speaker 5: of the traffic lights are working. But I think one
- 2:33Speaker 5: hundred and forty thousand customers, which is almost I think
- 2:36Speaker 5: four or five hundred thousand people without power, and it
- 2:40Speaker 5: could be days before the powers turned back. Did you
- 2:43Speaker 5: lose power less over the weekend?
- 2:45Speaker 3: I didn't lose power. I lost internet.
- 2:47Speaker 5: Oh that's even worse.
- 2:48Speaker 3: But yeah, some say it's worse. But if you lose power,
- 2:51Speaker 3: you also lose internet.
- 2:52Speaker 5: Miss Helen didn't have any she didn't have any power
- 2:54Speaker 5: at all. I think she came out of the building. Yeah,
- 2:56Speaker 5: she came out of the building. So that's not good.
- 3:00Speaker 3: We have ac here.
- 3:01Speaker 5: So people were this is terrible. People were like, Todd,
- 3:04Speaker 5: are you okay? And I'm like, yeah, I'm fine. I
- 3:06Speaker 5: had no idea what was going on because I normally
- 3:08Speaker 5: when I'm traveling, I'll listen to a podcast or listen
- 3:11Speaker 5: to the rain. I like to listen to other radio stations,
- 3:14Speaker 5: you know, around the nation. And so they're like, are
- 3:17Speaker 5: you safe, and I'm like, yeah, I'm on the seventeenth
- 3:20Speaker 5: floor that JW. Marriott. We have a beautiful view of
- 3:23Speaker 5: the Meanwhile, all hell's breaking loose in Memphis since there
- 3:27Speaker 5: trees coming down and the power is out and people
- 3:31Speaker 5: are it's really bad. And we're also in the middle
- 3:34Speaker 5: of the massive heat wave. So it's like a double whammie.
- 3:38Speaker 5: And it is so hot here and in the South,
- 3:41Speaker 5: we're just not built for life without air conditioning. That's
- 3:45Speaker 5: just who we are. I mean, God forbid that the
- 3:47Speaker 5: Yankees ever invade again like they did in the eighteen sixties.
- 3:50Speaker 5: All they got to do is target the air conditioning,
- 3:52Speaker 5: the HVAC people, and that's it. We surrender.
- 3:55Speaker 3: We're good.
- 3:56Speaker 5: Please, We'll do whatever you want to.
- 3:57Speaker 3: A lot of people in the South have those like
- 3:59Speaker 3: necklace fans, so you know that you get a Disney World,
- 4:02Speaker 3: so some of us will be fine.
- 4:04Speaker 6: So I want to.
- 4:07Speaker 5: Thank you. Dylano. By the way, remind me, I've got
- 4:12Speaker 5: to tell you the Bucky story. There's there was there
- 4:15Speaker 5: was some weird stuff going down at Bucky.
- 4:17Speaker 3: He did get Bucky's merch from Tom.
- 4:19Speaker 5: I'm gonna say that I was gonna I was. That's
- 4:22Speaker 5: the only reason I went. But I gotta tell I
- 4:24Speaker 5: gotta get to this story first. We've got a lot
- 4:26Speaker 5: of news to cover. So anyway, so the storm's hit
- 4:31Speaker 5: and power is out. Things are crazy here. And there
- 4:35Speaker 5: is a guy running for Congress. He's a Democrat and
- 4:39Speaker 5: he looks like I mean, he's he's super skinny guy.
- 4:43Speaker 5: And he he's got a massive power fro. So we
- 4:46Speaker 5: either you could say he looks like a Pez dispenser
- 4:49Speaker 5: or like a black Q tip. He's got this huge,
- 4:52Speaker 5: huge power frow. Can we say that? Is that?
- 4:57Speaker 3: I have not heard that one before?
- 4:58Speaker 5: Is that allowed?
- 5:00Speaker 3: I'm not sure, but it is.
- 5:01Speaker 5: I mean, he's very skinny. I mean it's a I
- 5:03Speaker 5: guess it's a compliment. You know, I would look like
- 5:06Speaker 5: a cotton swab if you were doing you know, kind
- 5:10Speaker 5: of like Laurel and Hardy. You can google Google that kids.
- 5:15Speaker 5: So anyway, Justin Pearson is he's a radical Democrat. The
- 5:19Speaker 5: guy's a racist. He's the guy if you remember there
- 5:24Speaker 5: was there were some headlines a couple of months back
- 5:26Speaker 5: where he got in the face of a white state
- 5:29Speaker 5: trooper and called him a mother fing boy. This guy
- 5:34Speaker 5: is just a filthy, filthy racist. So anyway, and he's
- 5:39Speaker 5: running he's the nominee for Congress. So this guy is
- 5:43Speaker 5: running against a Republican, Brent Taylor, who's a good friend
- 5:46Speaker 5: of this program. And this could get pretty interesting because
- 5:52Speaker 5: this guy's generating a lot of excitement and the radical
- 5:56Speaker 5: Progressives AOC, the squad, they've all been that campaign for
- 6:00Speaker 5: this guy. So Justin Pearson comes out and says that,
- 6:06Speaker 5: and again, the National Weather Service says what happened over
- 6:08Speaker 5: the weeknd of Memphis was just like a freak storm.
- 6:10Speaker 5: It just popped up out of nowhere. Nobody saw this coming.
- 6:13Speaker 5: But state Representative Justin Pearson says the storms intentionally targeted
- 6:19Speaker 5: black people and black neighborhoods. And so he posted this
- 6:25Speaker 5: thing on social media saying the power was still out
- 6:28Speaker 5: because Memphis is a majority black, majority working class city.
- 6:36Speaker 5: So here's the deal, just so you know what's going
- 6:40Speaker 5: on here. This guy apparently, oh he also says that Republicans,
- 6:45Speaker 5: all Republicans are white supremacists and racist, and apparently I
- 6:48Speaker 5: guess he believes God is a racist too, because God,
- 6:52Speaker 5: I mean, according to Justin Pearson, God was up in
- 6:55Speaker 5: heaven on Saturday and he was like, all right, which
- 7:01Speaker 5: black neighborhood am I going to go after today?
- 7:05Speaker 7: Oh?
- 7:05Speaker 5: There we go, Orange Mound Boom. You're God, No power
- 7:08Speaker 5: for you, Thus saith the Lord. So anyway, that's what
- 7:14Speaker 5: this guy thinks. Dylan, let me know when we get
- 7:18Speaker 5: close to heresy. All right, I'm taking the show to
- 7:21Speaker 5: the edge today. Yeah, well, ask Ian. His dad's a
- 7:25Speaker 5: pasted yes, so you know Ian would know these things
- 7:28Speaker 5: is a pk. So anyway, Justin Pearson believes that God
- 7:33Speaker 5: was targeting black neighborhoods. So for the record, and I
- 7:37Speaker 5: just want to set the record straight here because you
- 7:39Speaker 5: know a lot of people in the media, they'll buy
- 7:40Speaker 5: into this stuff. Oh, my lord, the Almighty is a racist. No,
- 7:46Speaker 5: the Almighty is not a racist. For the record, the
- 7:51Speaker 5: majority black, working class city of Memphis, Tennessee, is completely
- 7:56Speaker 5: controlled by a majority of black elected leaders, all Democrats.
- 8:02Speaker 5: So if this dude's got a problem with the incompetence
- 8:05Speaker 5: over at city Hall, he should take it up with
- 8:07Speaker 5: his people, the black mayor of Memphis, Tennessee. But by
- 8:12Speaker 5: the way, this has nothing to do with any of that.
- 8:13Speaker 5: It was just a freak storm. These things happen. And
- 8:18Speaker 5: by the way, and this is what really cracks me up.
- 8:21Speaker 5: Apparently God is color blind because most of the power
- 8:24Speaker 5: is out in the white neighborhoods. That's the kick in
- 8:27Speaker 5: the pants here. Why Lord, what did Germantown do to you?
- 8:34Speaker 5: Why you can't make this stuff up? So all of
- 8:42Speaker 5: this was going and I'm just I'm blissfully ignorant of
- 8:47Speaker 5: all of this as I'm driving down listening to I
- 8:49Speaker 5: don't know country music as I'm driving through the cotton
- 8:53Speaker 5: fields of Arkansas. But there you have it. So God
- 8:58Speaker 5: is not racist, and the white people are. There are
- 9:02Speaker 5: no white people elected to office in Memphis. It's a
- 9:05Speaker 5: majority black, majority Democrat city. It just seems to me
- 9:10Speaker 5: the only thing worse than a racist is an ignorant racist.
- 9:15Speaker 5: And that's what troubles me about Justin Pearson because this
- 9:18Speaker 5: guy was educated at Voting College in Maine and it
- 9:21Speaker 5: cost look, it costs more to go to Voting College
- 9:25Speaker 5: than most people make in a year. So this guy,
- 9:29Speaker 5: and he's adopted the whole. You know, back then he
- 9:32Speaker 5: had like a he had like a closely cropped haircut.
- 9:36Speaker 5: You know, he looked like a banker, a Republican banker.
- 9:39Speaker 5: And now he looks like he's a member of the
- 9:41Speaker 5: Black Panthers. And he talked he talked whiter than I
- 9:45Speaker 5: did back in the day. But now he talks like,
- 9:48Speaker 5: you know, I like he's auditioning for a media movie. No,
- 9:55Speaker 5: I'm just saying he's a black you tip. So there,
- 10:00Speaker 5: there you go, ladies, and gentlemen, that's the latest in
- 10:03Speaker 5: Memphis and all seriousness. So let's pray that. And we
- 10:06Speaker 5: understand that folks are coming in from other states to
- 10:09Speaker 5: help put the you know, I mean, power lines are
- 10:11Speaker 5: like snapped in half. It's just terrible around here and
- 10:15Speaker 5: a lot of people are suffering, and we want to
- 10:18Speaker 5: make sure that everybody gets their power back on. But
- 10:21Speaker 5: that has nothing to do with you know, a lot
- 10:22Speaker 5: of time stuff has to has to do with leadership.
- 10:26Speaker 5: This has nothing to do with the leader. This is
- 10:27Speaker 5: just a freak storm. And you know what Justin Peerson
- 10:31Speaker 5: ought to be doing. He ought to be over at
- 10:32Speaker 5: one of the community centers. I don't will make him
- 10:34Speaker 5: blooney sandwiches for the people that don't have any power
- 10:37Speaker 5: instead of spewing a bunch of racist bolooney on social media.
- 10:42Speaker 5: All that to say, you people out there, you've got
- 10:45Speaker 5: a choice to make on election day. Do not screw
- 10:47Speaker 5: this up, because America doesn't need this guy in Congress.
- 10:51Speaker 5: So you got to vote for Brent Taylor there, all right?
- 10:54Speaker 5: Nine oh one two six zero five nine two six.
- 10:57Speaker 5: You Memphis folks, let us know how you are doing
- 11:00Speaker 5: in your communities. Nine oh one two six zero five
- 11:03Speaker 5: nine two six. All right, we're going to take a break.
- 11:06Speaker 5: When we come back, we're going to have to tell
- 11:08Speaker 5: you about Enniscanter who got kicked out, kicked out ladies
- 11:12Speaker 5: and gentlemen of a WNBA game, And we're going to
- 11:15Speaker 5: explain all of that to you. I will say this
- 11:18Speaker 5: Enniscanter is the bravest woman I know. This is the
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- 12:02Speaker 5: All Right, this item from New Hope Baptist Church in Memphis.
- 12:08Speaker 5: Because of the story show, a lot of churches canceled
- 12:11Speaker 5: services yesterday and it's really it's just incredibly dangerous around
- 12:16Speaker 5: Memphis with all of the damage and destruction. UH and
- 12:20Speaker 5: the church there, New Hope Baptist Church posted the following
- 12:24Speaker 5: message on social media. Attention New Hope Baptist Church family.
- 12:29Speaker 5: Due to the continuing hazardous conditions and loss of power,
- 12:33Speaker 5: we will not gather for in person worship this morning.
- 12:36Speaker 5: The safety of our church family is important to us,
- 12:39Speaker 5: so please remain safe and continue to keep our church
- 12:43Speaker 5: up and community lifted in prayer. Dylan, I think that's
- 12:47Speaker 5: very thoughtful, right. You don't want people, you know, I mean,
- 12:49Speaker 5: you have the elderly. You don't want to get out
- 12:51Speaker 5: and trimp it over a power line. I mean, bad
- 12:54Speaker 5: enough they get electrocuted, but they knock got the power
- 12:56Speaker 5: for the rest of the neighborhood.
- 12:58Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, the good point.
- 13:00Speaker 5: Wait a second, there's more. Oh, there's more. For those
- 13:03Speaker 5: who would like to bring their ties and offerings to
- 13:05Speaker 5: the church, members of our trustees and deacons ministry will
- 13:09Speaker 5: be on site to receive them. So it's too dangerous
- 13:13Speaker 5: to go to church unless you need Unless you want
- 13:16Speaker 5: to pay your tie. You may also give electronically on
- 13:21Speaker 5: cash app and or via PayPal. I guess a lot
- 13:25Speaker 5: of churches are doing the PayPal now. You see. This
- 13:28Speaker 5: is what I love about First Baptist Dallas, which is
- 13:30Speaker 5: like one of the largest churches in the country. They
- 13:33Speaker 5: still have pews, and they still have offering plate. They
- 13:36Speaker 5: pass that offering plate, and I like that and and so,
- 13:41Speaker 5: and it shocked me because I'm sitting there, you know,
- 13:43Speaker 5: when you're the guest and you're in place of prominence,
- 13:46Speaker 5: because they actually they were hoped off a pew. For me,
- 13:50Speaker 5: it was I was high high fallutin, high pollutant. So
- 13:55Speaker 5: you don't want to be the guy who doesn't give anything,
- 13:58Speaker 5: you know when the offering play. And I think that's
- 14:01Speaker 5: why I love the offering plate. It forces you to tithe,
- 14:04Speaker 5: whether you want to or not, just out of sheer embarrassment. Sure,
- 14:09Speaker 5: I know this not biblical, and so please don't call
- 14:12Speaker 5: in and say, Todd, that's not why we're supposed to
- 14:16Speaker 5: bring our gifts to the storehouse. No, I get that,
- 14:20Speaker 5: I know that, But I'm just saying, let's get real, people,
- 14:23Speaker 5: Let's get real. The whole reason they do that is
- 14:26Speaker 5: to is to shame people into giving. So during the prayer, Dylan,
- 14:31Speaker 5: I'm like freaking when I realized when I saw the
- 14:35Speaker 5: deacons coming forward, you know, it's business time. And I thought,
- 14:38Speaker 5: oh and so fortunately I had some money. But here's
- 14:42Speaker 5: the bad thing. I only like a fifty. So I
- 14:44Speaker 5: had to put the fifty in the offering plate. Yes,
- 14:48Speaker 5: because you can't break you can't make change rights the
- 14:50Speaker 5: offering like, yeah, I'm sorry, Can I make some change here?
- 14:55Speaker 5: Can somebody break a fifty? How about you focused the balcony.
- 14:59Speaker 3: You know, I doppreciate the offering plate, but it is
- 15:01Speaker 3: tough nowadays because a lot of people don't use cash.
- 15:04Speaker 3: I mean, that's just the reality of how the world's goes.
- 15:06Speaker 6: It's true, It's true. It's that mark of.
- 15:09Speaker 3: The beast is the credit card.
- 15:12Speaker 5: Or if they just passed the credit card machine like
- 15:15Speaker 5: you're you know at Applebee's, you could Yeah, that would
- 15:18Speaker 5: take forever made on the screen. So there you go.
- 15:25Speaker 5: I hope the Lord plus is my fifty bucks? All right?
- 15:30Speaker 7: Uh?
- 15:30Speaker 5: Nine oh one two six zero five nine two. Sis,
- 15:33Speaker 5: I just feel like something very bad is going to happen.
- 15:35Speaker 5: We have got to we have got to have a
- 15:37Speaker 5: prayer service here, and we have got to get our
- 15:39Speaker 5: show back on track with the almighty. Uh this story
- 15:43Speaker 5: out of out of the w NBA. So Enna's canner.
- 15:47Speaker 5: I forgot that he changed his last name to Freedom.
- 15:49Speaker 5: I forgot about that. So anyway, Enna's Canter Freedom was
- 15:53Speaker 5: at the w NBA game, and this was Sunday's game
- 15:56Speaker 5: between what the Indiana Fever and the Chicago Sky and
- 15:59Speaker 5: so we he was wearing this T shirt. You know,
- 16:02Speaker 5: they've been having a big problem with the WNBA. They
- 16:05Speaker 5: had a big summit to figure out what the W
- 16:08Speaker 5: actually stands for in the WNBA. I would suggest woke,
- 16:13Speaker 5: but that's just me.
- 16:16Speaker 3: There.
- 16:17Speaker 5: So they came away from the summit and they still
- 16:20Speaker 5: can't tell you. They still have no idea what the
- 16:22Speaker 5: W actually means. So Ennis shows up at the game
- 16:27Speaker 5: and he's wearing a T shirt that has the actual
- 16:30Speaker 5: definition of woman woman noun adult human female. So it
- 16:37Speaker 5: just seems to me that he was trying to be
- 16:39Speaker 5: helpful and just helping the WNBA understand the definition of
- 16:44Speaker 5: the WNBA. So a couple of the players just went
- 16:49Speaker 5: they went raging. I mean those women were completely unhinged,
- 16:54Speaker 5: almost like they were having a lady's day or something,
- 16:57Speaker 5: because it was I mean, they were screaming and just
- 17:01Speaker 5: completely off their rockers. Did I just get in trouble?
- 17:07Speaker 5: Why is everybody laughing in the UK?
- 17:09Speaker 3: Yeah, you're getting in a slight trouble here.
- 17:11Speaker 5: But anyway, you couldn't control these women. And uh Enna's
- 17:17Speaker 5: is standing up and I think he was what a
- 17:19Speaker 5: plot who he had his hands out My gosh, his
- 17:23Speaker 5: I mean, it's unbelievable. This guy is gonna dominate the
- 17:27Speaker 5: w NBA. So you know he's he's gonna declare and
- 17:30Speaker 5: he wants to be drafted by one of the teams
- 17:33Speaker 5: who picks. Look, if I were a coach, that guy
- 17:35Speaker 5: would already be on the team.
- 17:38Speaker 6: I'm just saying I kind of want the Fever to
- 17:40Speaker 6: do it. Oh that'd be great, but the coach is
- 17:44Speaker 6: a little.
- 17:44Speaker 3: Walk on the fever. The players are nice, I mean
- 17:46Speaker 3: some of the players are nice. Yeah, that would be
- 17:48Speaker 3: the biggest thing. Sylvia Cunningham and this.
- 17:50Speaker 6: Guy, come on, oh that's beautiful. She's just laying them
- 17:53Speaker 6: up for the dunks, right it would And.
- 17:55Speaker 5: Here's the thing. First dunk island and just shattered the
- 17:57Speaker 5: backboard right right, yeah, I mean you know, actually, like
- 18:02Speaker 5: literally as he's running, I'm just just on the backs
- 18:05Speaker 5: of the of the women that are splattered on the floor.
- 18:10Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 18:12Speaker 5: So, anyway, the WNBA says that only women are eligible
- 18:16Speaker 5: to play. That's the rub here, But they can't define
- 18:19Speaker 5: what a woman is so and his freedom is calling
- 18:22Speaker 5: their bluff here. I just think this is so brilliant.
- 18:24Speaker 5: But they kicked the guy out of the They kicked
- 18:27Speaker 5: the guy out of the arena, and he didn't do anything,
- 18:29Speaker 5: he said, he was just applauding. So anyway, I love
- 18:34Speaker 5: this because he's calling their bluff. And this is really
- 18:37Speaker 5: the best way to address the absurdity of the sex
- 18:40Speaker 5: and gender radicals is to literally embrace their absurdity. And
- 18:45Speaker 5: I will say this, ladies and gentlemen, and mark my
- 18:48Speaker 5: words here in his canter freedom is truly one of
- 18:51Speaker 5: the bravest women I know. You go girl, you go girl.
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- 20:17Speaker 5: back everybody. This is the Todd Starnes Radio Show. So
- 20:20Speaker 5: happy to have you with us today. By the way, Sunday,
- 20:23Speaker 5: I will be speaking at Franklin Road Baptist Church that's
- 20:27Speaker 5: in Murphysboro, Tennessee. You can go to the church website
- 20:31Speaker 5: and they'll have all the information there Sunday morning and
- 20:34Speaker 5: Sunday night, and we'll be signing copies of The Golden
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- 21:02Speaker 5: is not about prosperity. It's about Christians re engaging in
- 21:06Speaker 5: the culture. And that is the only way we're truly
- 21:09Speaker 5: going to be able to make America great again. By
- 21:12Speaker 5: getting Americans to pray again, by getting Americans to read
- 21:16Speaker 5: their Bibles again, and by getting Americans to get into
- 21:21Speaker 5: the Word of God again. So that's how we're going
- 21:23Speaker 5: to do it. And I lay out all of that
- 21:25Speaker 5: in the Golden Age, How Trump Saved America. You can
- 21:29Speaker 5: get a copy at your favorite bookstore or you can
- 21:32Speaker 5: purchase a copy online. Well, a very disturbing story reached
- 21:36Speaker 5: my desk this morning, and I knew that we had
- 21:39Speaker 5: to talk about it today. This comes from Charlotte, North Carolina,
- 21:44Speaker 5: the Charlotte Latin School and parents there are very, very
- 21:49Speaker 5: concerned about images artwork that has been displayed on the
- 21:54Speaker 5: campus that depects Jesus Christ with his throat cut, with
- 22:00Speaker 5: blood running down his shirt and God is dead across
- 22:06Speaker 5: his forehead. Now, I'm not making this up. I want
- 22:09Speaker 5: to go to the Patriot Mobile news maker line and
- 22:12Speaker 5: welcome to the program that parent Doug Turpin. Doug, good
- 22:16Speaker 5: to have you with us today.
- 22:18Speaker 9: Hey Todd, good to be with you. You've caught me
- 22:21Speaker 9: on my way down to the State Policy Network National
- 22:25Speaker 9: conference here, so sorry for the back here, but a
- 22:29Speaker 9: pleasure to be on your show.
- 22:31Speaker 2: Doug.
- 22:31Speaker 5: Let's just jump right into this. So tell us about
- 22:35Speaker 5: what happened. And I'm understanding you guys have children that
- 22:40Speaker 5: attend the Charlotte Latin School.
- 22:43Speaker 9: Well they did, and you know, I heard what you
- 22:46Speaker 9: were saying in the lead up, and Christian parents like
- 22:49Speaker 9: us didn't find a comfort level with a picture of
- 22:54Speaker 9: Jesus with his throat cut or a picture of the
- 22:57Speaker 9: Bible on fire there that they hung up as artwork.
- 23:03Speaker 9: They had a gay sex manual that had graphic cartoon
- 23:11Speaker 9: positions to show children how to have a sex, and
- 23:14Speaker 9: the young children's section of the library, you know, they
- 23:18Speaker 9: had a statue of a woman holding an aboarded fetus
- 23:22Speaker 9: out there for kids to see. There was just shocking things.
- 23:26Speaker 9: And so there was a group of us, primarily Christian parents,
- 23:31Speaker 9: that were really concerned about what was going on at
- 23:35Speaker 9: the school, and so we got together and tried to
- 23:40Speaker 9: have a conversation with the board, and the board said, oh,
- 23:45Speaker 9: we guarantee there'll be no retaliation. Come and meet with us.
- 23:48Speaker 9: Prepare presentation. That's on our website right now, Honor above
- 23:52Speaker 9: all dot org. So if you want to see what
- 23:55Speaker 9: the full story is afterwards, just check out that website
- 23:59Speaker 9: on our above all dot org. And so we presented
- 24:03Speaker 9: our concerns and then the head master invited me into
- 24:09Speaker 9: a meeting that was a setup and expelled my two
- 24:14Speaker 9: children there, which was pretty obviously a cancel culture move
- 24:20Speaker 9: because they didn't want to answer any of our questions.
- 24:22Speaker 9: They didn't want to address our concerns. This was a
- 24:25Speaker 9: school that was an apolitical classical education school, measured children
- 24:30Speaker 9: on merit, taught them Todeo Christian values until they had
- 24:33Speaker 9: a new headmaster and a new woke board that decided
- 24:38Speaker 9: to make them the school that cancels children.
- 24:42Speaker 5: So I want to make sure I understand this. So
- 24:45Speaker 5: you have what you had an eleven year old and
- 24:47Speaker 5: a thirteen year old at the school. You guys speak
- 24:50Speaker 5: up about this and then your kids get booted out
- 24:54Speaker 5: of the school.
- 24:55Speaker 3: Yeah, they.
- 24:58Speaker 9: My son was in a classroom where the teacher. He
- 25:02Speaker 9: told me a story time that the teacher was telling
- 25:06Speaker 9: him that all Republicans were white supremacists. That that, you know,
- 25:11Speaker 9: basically asked me, Dad, is there something wrong with me
- 25:14Speaker 9: for being white? And I'm like, wait, what, why are
- 25:17Speaker 9: you asking me that? And he said, well, they said,
- 25:20Speaker 9: you know that, you know, white people have done all
- 25:24Speaker 9: these terrible things, and they were making him feel like
- 25:26Speaker 9: there was something wrong for the inherent color of his skin.
- 25:30Speaker 9: And they told him he couldn't use the bathroom anymore,
- 25:33Speaker 9: that he wasn't allowed to drink water, and they were
- 25:39Speaker 9: they had him questioning his identity. He asked me, Dad,
- 25:43Speaker 9: am I gay? And I said, you're eleven. Why are
- 25:47Speaker 9: you asking me that? He said, well, they said, if
- 25:49Speaker 9: you like hanging out with boys, that might mean you're gay,
- 25:52Speaker 9: and you should you should really think a lot about that.
- 25:56Speaker 9: And so, you know, these kind of things prompted me
- 25:58Speaker 9: to reach out to the school. After our presentation of
- 26:01Speaker 9: the board, after the promise of no retaliation, it said,
- 26:05Speaker 9: I'd like to talk to you about what my son
- 26:07Speaker 9: has told me. So they said, oh, we guarantee there'll
- 26:10Speaker 9: be no retaliation. There'll be no blowback in an email,
- 26:14Speaker 9: come meet with us. As soon as I get in there,
- 26:17Speaker 9: they tell me essentially, well, you know your son's a liar.
- 26:20Speaker 9: We know he's a liar because you know, we trust
- 26:23Speaker 9: all our teachers. And by the way, i've got your
- 26:25Speaker 9: enrollment agreement here. It starts putting it in my face
- 26:29Speaker 9: and saying, you know, we're expelling your two children from
- 26:31Speaker 9: the only school they'd ever known.
- 26:34Speaker 5: And this is and just to be clear, the Charlotte
- 26:37Speaker 5: Lapton School is widely considered to be one of the
- 26:40Speaker 5: top private college preparatory schools in the state of North Carolina.
- 26:44Speaker 5: This is very high profile school we're talking about.
- 26:48Speaker 9: Yeah, this happened back in two thousand and one, right
- 26:50Speaker 9: after the George Floyd riots. So it was one of
- 26:54Speaker 9: the top schools there and we were very happy with
- 26:58Speaker 9: it for ten years when our kids were going there.
- 27:01Speaker 9: They were everything they promised, transparent, honest, they invited feedback.
- 27:08Speaker 3: You know.
- 27:09Speaker 9: They were a political, classical education, Judeo Christian values, all
- 27:15Speaker 9: of that. But it changed with a new liberal board
- 27:18Speaker 9: and a new headmaster, Chuck Baldecki. So and want that
- 27:22Speaker 9: they wanted a woke, ideological and doctrination.
- 27:25Speaker 5: Machine, right, and so Doug, you guys decided to fight
- 27:29Speaker 5: back here. And this is again bringing the story up
- 27:32Speaker 5: to speed where we understand the North Carolina Supreme Court
- 27:36Speaker 5: has ruled that some of the key claims in your
- 27:39Speaker 5: case can now move forward.
- 27:42Speaker 9: Yeah, we started the lawsuit back in twenty twenty two,
- 27:46Speaker 9: if you can believe it, and ran into a liberal
- 27:50Speaker 9: judge that basically said, well, they're a private school. They
- 27:53Speaker 9: can do anything they want. Currently, they can commit fraud
- 27:56Speaker 9: and use unfair and deceptive trade practices, misrepresentations, breach contracts.
- 28:01Speaker 9: And then there was a Democrat panel on the Court
- 28:04Speaker 9: of Appeals and they essentially just ratified this. It was crazy.
- 28:09Speaker 9: You just you can't do that. You properly stayed a claim,
- 28:12Speaker 9: your claim moves forward. So the North Carolina Supreme Court
- 28:16Speaker 9: decided to intervene and hear the case, and they said,
- 28:21Speaker 9: that's not the standard of review, that's not the way
- 28:24Speaker 9: the law works. You are allowed to go ahead and
- 28:27Speaker 9: proceed with the lawsuit. You can't just use politically motivated
- 28:31Speaker 9: reasoning to kick a lawsuit out because you don't like
- 28:33Speaker 9: the parents and what they say.
- 28:36Speaker 5: All right, we've got Doug Turpin joining us on our
- 28:38Speaker 5: patriot Mobile newsmaker line. He and his wife very concerned
- 28:42Speaker 5: about woke ideology at the Charlotte Lapton School, filing a lawsuit,
- 28:47Speaker 5: and that lawsuit moving forward. Now, Doug, what is it
- 28:51Speaker 5: at the end of the day, what is it that
- 28:52Speaker 5: you want the courts to decide here?
- 28:56Speaker 9: Well, we think we're going to be able to prove
- 28:59Speaker 9: that they made false representations. They told the parents, invited
- 29:04Speaker 9: us to come in and give them feedback about what
- 29:06Speaker 9: our concerns were. They promised there'd be no retaliation. Then
- 29:10Speaker 9: they start retaliating against my son, and then when I
- 29:15Speaker 9: reach out to them about that, they invite me in
- 29:18Speaker 9: for a meeting, promising no retaliation in writing and promptly
- 29:23Speaker 9: expel my two children for the fact that we decided
- 29:27Speaker 9: to speak up. I mean, that's an unfair and deceptive
- 29:30Speaker 9: trade practice, that's fraud, it's breach of contract. You just
- 29:34Speaker 9: can't do those kind of things to two young children.
- 29:38Speaker 9: So we're trying to set a precedent not just to
- 29:41Speaker 9: protect our children, but to protect all of the children.
- 29:45Speaker 9: Many of the school, private schools, they've gone woke and
- 29:48Speaker 9: they want to use that position to indoctrinate children. So
- 29:54Speaker 9: if parents ask questions about health safety issues. You're telling
- 29:58Speaker 9: me my sony can't drink, w use the bathroom, or
- 30:01Speaker 9: these kind of things. And you expel parents just because
- 30:04Speaker 9: you ask questions. That's just wrong.
- 30:06Speaker 5: It's it's unacceptable. And let's hope that the Latin school
- 30:12Speaker 5: pays a big price for what they've done here, Doug.
- 30:15Speaker 5: At the end of the day, I have to imagine
- 30:17Speaker 5: that you guys are just concerned that other parents may
- 30:20Speaker 5: be going through these things, very similar things. And again,
- 30:24Speaker 5: it doesn't matter if it's a public school, as you
- 30:26Speaker 5: point out, this can also happen at a private school.
- 30:30Speaker 9: Yeah, and actually you have a greater risk because the
- 30:35Speaker 9: Private School Association file to Breathe. Essentially, their case was,
- 30:41Speaker 9: we can go ahead and expel a child for any
- 30:43Speaker 9: reason at any time.
- 30:45Speaker 3: Well, if we don't like.
- 30:46Speaker 9: You know, where you where you go to work, or
- 30:51Speaker 9: we don't like the where you live, we don't like
- 30:54Speaker 9: anything about you, you don't like your relatives, we don't
- 30:57Speaker 9: like something your employer said, anything, for any reason, we
- 31:00Speaker 9: can go ahead and expel a child. And that's basically
- 31:04Speaker 9: been used and weaponized by left wing schools and to
- 31:08Speaker 9: use a woke agenda to make people too afraid to
- 31:11Speaker 9: answer questions anymore. They don't want questions about what they're
- 31:16Speaker 9: doing because then people might get really upset.
- 31:19Speaker 5: All right, Doug, I want you to keep us updated
- 31:22Speaker 5: on the case here. I think this is so important.
- 31:25Speaker 5: So many moms and dads out there frustrated. Many of
- 31:28Speaker 5: them may not even be aware of what these schools
- 31:31Speaker 5: are trying to do to their kids. And so thank
- 31:33Speaker 5: you for speaking up. And I know it's not an
- 31:37Speaker 5: easy thing to do, but you took the next step,
- 31:40Speaker 5: which is taking this school to court. So good luck
- 31:43Speaker 5: to you, Doug.
- 31:44Speaker 3: Thank you very much.
- 31:46Speaker 9: Appreciate the opportunity to be on your show.
- 31:48Speaker 5: All right, Doug Turpin, everybody a parent who objected to
- 31:52Speaker 5: a god is dead Jesus display, among other things, they
- 31:56Speaker 5: were trying to indoctrinate his children ladies and gentlemen, and
- 31:58Speaker 5: you heard it from him. They were trying to turn
- 32:03Speaker 5: his kids gay. By again, how do you do that?
- 32:06Speaker 5: And this is insane? What did they say? Oh, yeah,
- 32:11Speaker 5: if you like to hang out with if boys like
- 32:13Speaker 5: to hang out with other boys, that makes them gay.
- 32:16Speaker 5: Well it could mean that they're on a baseball team
- 32:17Speaker 5: together or a football team. For this is insanity. But again, folks,
- 32:24Speaker 5: as I wrote in the Golden Age, if we do
- 32:26Speaker 5: not get a handle on these schools, we will lose
- 32:29Speaker 5: this republic. This is the engine driving the radical change
- 32:33Speaker 5: in our country. And again, it's not just a public
- 32:37Speaker 5: school that this is. This is happening at one of
- 32:40Speaker 5: the most prestigious private schools in the entire state of
- 32:43Speaker 5: North Carolina. And I suspect many of you other folks
- 32:47Speaker 5: out there have very similar stories. And God bless the
- 32:50Speaker 5: Turpin family for going to the next step here, which
- 32:54Speaker 5: is taking the school to court. All Right, we've got
- 32:57Speaker 5: to take a break. Nine oh one two six zero
- 32:59Speaker 5: five nine two six. That's nine oh one two six
- 33:02Speaker 5: zero five nine two six. This is the Todd Sterns Show,
- 33:17Speaker 5: all right, the things I do to keep this staff happy. Dylan,
- 33:21Speaker 5: I I was, as I was driving on Interstate thirty
- 33:26Speaker 5: and heading down to Dallas. ID just come right out
- 33:28Speaker 5: a little Rock and I was gonna go buy David's Burgers,
- 33:31Speaker 5: which everybody in Arkansas says, Sterns, you gotta try David's Burgers.
- 33:35Speaker 5: I didn't do that. I decided to pull off to
- 33:39Speaker 5: the brand new BUCkies right outside of Little Rock. Dylan,
- 33:43Speaker 5: there was a traffic jam on the interstate getting off
- 33:47Speaker 5: the exit to get to the BUCkies, which is the
- 33:49Speaker 5: only thing there. That's the only thing at that exit
- 33:51Speaker 5: is the is the brand new BUCkies. There must have
- 33:54Speaker 5: been over five thousand people in the BUCkies.
- 33:57Speaker 3: I'm not surprised at all, right there.
- 34:00Speaker 5: It was like a redneck grocery shopping experience.
- 34:04Speaker 3: BUCkies is an experience. I mean, there's so much to do.
- 34:07Speaker 5: There I have never seen. So I'm thinking, I love
- 34:11Speaker 5: you guys. I did not love you that much. So
- 34:14Speaker 5: I thought, you know what, I'll there's another BUCkies, like
- 34:17Speaker 5: right outside of Dallas, So I thought, you know what,
- 34:20Speaker 5: I'll just stop there. But anyway, I didn't stop there,
- 34:23Speaker 5: and I forgot and I thought, okay, I'm gonna have
- 34:26Speaker 5: to So on the way back, I stopped at the
- 34:28Speaker 5: Little Rock BUCkies. I think there were like twenty five
- 34:30Speaker 5: hundred people in there, which made up more manageable.
- 34:34Speaker 3: So you love us twenty five hundred.
- 34:36Speaker 5: People, Yeah, yeah, pretty much much.
- 34:38Speaker 3: More than that. That's good. You did get us things, Todd.
- 34:42Speaker 5: I brought you back swag.
- 34:44Speaker 3: We got the beaver nuggets in here in the studio,
- 34:46Speaker 3: we got we got mugs here. Yeah, I mean, you
- 34:49Speaker 3: did a good job.
- 34:49Speaker 5: Thank you. I tried, and I did get myself a
- 34:52Speaker 5: brisket sandwich good which I did not eat until I
- 34:55Speaker 5: got home. You know those things. And that's the one
- 34:58Speaker 5: downside of BUCkies is you can't really stay there and
- 35:01Speaker 5: eat unless you eat on the hood of your cast.
- 35:02Speaker 3: This is true. That would be the one thing that
- 35:04Speaker 3: would make it an elite. It's like a restaurant.
- 35:07Speaker 5: Then yeah, put up, so we'll put up some picnic
- 35:09Speaker 5: tables outside, you know or something. Yeah, I don't, but
- 35:13Speaker 5: it was insane. And the number is just the sheer number.
- 35:17Speaker 5: And there is a certain stereotype of an individual that
- 35:21Speaker 5: goes to BUCkies, and I guess I'm that stereotype.
- 35:24Speaker 3: It's like Disney adults, but for BUCkies, they have they're
- 35:28Speaker 3: wearing the shirts, they have the blankets around them.
- 35:31Speaker 5: So there's this other stop in Texas and I did
- 35:34Speaker 5: have to stop there to get gas, and it's kind
- 35:36Speaker 5: of like a redneck version. It's sort of like a
- 35:39Speaker 5: wannabe BUCkies, but it's not. I mean, the bathrooms are clean,
- 35:43Speaker 5: but it's definitely redneck theme, which is where I got you.
- 35:46Speaker 5: The Texas what is it Texas Beer soap.
- 35:50Speaker 3: Oh, Texas beer soap? Yeah, which is that made of beer?
- 35:53Speaker 5: Apparently?
- 35:54Speaker 3: So? And you're supposed to wash yourself with beer?
- 35:57Speaker 5: Well? Yes, the only thing I can figure out is
- 36:00Speaker 5: so you can wash yourself, but if you get parched
- 36:03Speaker 5: during your shower, you can just you know, take a bite,
- 36:06Speaker 5: take a bite of the if you have one nearby,
- 36:10Speaker 5: lick lick it.
- 36:10Speaker 10: Sure.
- 36:11Speaker 5: I don't know what you're supposed.
- 36:12Speaker 3: To It smells good, that's all I know. And you
- 36:14Speaker 3: said it's beer, so I said, I don't know if
- 36:16Speaker 3: I want to use.
- 36:16Speaker 6: What does it say on the I don't have that
- 36:18Speaker 6: in front of me it is, what what does it say?
- 36:20Speaker 3: I don't know. I think we lost it already.
- 36:22Speaker 5: How do you lose the beer?
- 36:23Speaker 3: So we'll smell it somewhere, just follow the scentse it's
- 36:27Speaker 3: in the bathroom apparently.
- 36:28Speaker 5: Oh geez, well it was supposed to be up there
- 36:30Speaker 5: with our you know, with the Doctor Fauci bobblehead.
- 36:34Speaker 3: We'll put it up there. Yeah, we got to do that,
- 36:36Speaker 3: and I'll figure out what the ingredients are.
- 36:38Speaker 5: I love the thing about BUCkies. I love it. First
- 36:41Speaker 5: of all. Everybody's always in a good mood. That was
- 36:42Speaker 5: the one takeaway is everybody was in a great mood, right,
- 36:45Speaker 5: I mean you were, and there were some very large
- 36:48Speaker 5: people in that and that is everybody was.
- 36:50Speaker 3: Happy, very large, good moods.
- 36:52Speaker 5: Very yes. Girth, yes, there were. There were no galls
- 36:56Speaker 5: of girth. There was just girth. Yeah, there were. There
- 36:58Speaker 5: was gladness of girth.
- 37:01Speaker 3: Yeah. I like that.
- 37:03Speaker 5: But I will say this. Tried the Texas Cheese steak. Oh,
- 37:07Speaker 5: it's very good.
- 37:08Speaker 3: I didn't know that they even had they had one
- 37:10Speaker 3: of those, Okay.
- 37:11Speaker 5: I just didn't want to stand in the brisket line
- 37:13Speaker 5: too terribly long, so I you know, but I.
- 37:15Speaker 3: Agree, it was the brisket that goes first.
- 37:17Speaker 5: It's yeah, I mean there was literally they had like
- 37:19Speaker 5: a they had a queue for the line.
- 37:21Speaker 3: Yeah. No, everything will still be there and the brisket
- 37:24Speaker 3: will be the only thing not there and people will wait.
- 37:26Speaker 5: I was trying to figure out, okay, was there something
- 37:29Speaker 5: more clever that I could have gotten you guys, but
- 37:31Speaker 5: I think the beaver nuggets. I didn't get a basket
- 37:34Speaker 5: and that was my big problem. So everything was like yeah,
- 37:38Speaker 5: and then the mugs were at like the checkout line,
- 37:40Speaker 5: and I'm like, okay, I've got to get the mugs.
- 37:42Speaker 3: No, the beaver nuggets were like my favorite thing. They're like,
- 37:44Speaker 3: I don't understand them.
- 37:45Speaker 5: Are they like? Are they sweet? Are they savory? What's
- 37:48Speaker 5: the deal with.
- 37:49Speaker 3: The like pops cereal? Like the yellow that's like that
- 37:54Speaker 3: but sweeter?
- 37:54Speaker 6: Oh, corn pops, corn pops, not the not the Joe
- 37:58Speaker 6: Biden's Gang Gang Banger, not corn pop but corn pop.
- 38:01Speaker 3: Corn pops, oh with milk.
- 38:03Speaker 5: Okay. I was watching an interview with the guy who
- 38:07Speaker 5: created BUCkies and he says that's the whole point is
- 38:10Speaker 5: to have fun. But he says they will not build
- 38:12Speaker 5: BUCkies in any states that don't like you know, that
- 38:16Speaker 5: are just problem states. So you folks, I don't know
- 38:20Speaker 5: in New York and California you will never be able
- 38:22Speaker 5: to experience a BUCkies. And that's you know, I feel
- 38:26Speaker 5: bad for you. So anyway, great to see all you
- 38:29Speaker 5: folks at the BUCkies. They're in Little Rock. Gotta take
- 38:32Speaker 5: a break. Hour two of the Big Show coming up.
- 38:35Speaker 1: Next live from the Liberty University Studio in Memphis, Tennessee.
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- 40:55Speaker 5: following this disgusting story out of Massives Duxbury, Massachusetts. Lindsey Clancy,
- 41:04Speaker 5: a thirty six year old former nurse on trial for
- 41:07Speaker 5: strangling her three young children to death little Cora aged
- 41:13Speaker 5: six years old, Dawson age three years old, and Callen,
- 41:17Speaker 5: eight months old. She admits to doing it, and now,
- 41:21Speaker 5: of course, there is a lot of controversy over how
- 41:26Speaker 5: this trial should proceed and whether or not she is
- 41:31Speaker 5: mentally ill or suffered some sort of a psychotic break
- 41:35Speaker 5: which led to the killings. Well, I want to bring
- 41:37Speaker 5: into the conversation our good friend to the Newsmax columnist
- 41:40Speaker 5: and great attorney, Wendy Patrick. Wendy, hope you're doing well today.
- 41:45Speaker 10: Oh yes, Tom, It's always a pleasure to join you.
- 41:47Speaker 6: You know, Wendy, I've been following this case.
- 41:50Speaker 3: We were.
- 41:51Speaker 5: It generated a lot of calls last week. People are
- 41:54Speaker 5: just really infuriated over what this woman did to her children,
- 42:01Speaker 5: and also the support. I mean, hundreds of women are
- 42:05Speaker 5: outside holding signs, cheering on Lindsey Clancy as if she
- 42:10Speaker 5: is the victim here instead of the person on trial.
- 42:14Speaker 10: You know, Torod, It's almost hard to fathom the way
- 42:17Speaker 10: this unique showing of public support is on full display.
- 42:21Speaker 10: I certainly hope the jurors aren't passing it because the
- 42:24Speaker 10: defense is not. This is a sympathetic case. Everyone agrees.
- 42:28Speaker 10: It's heartbreaking. You have a mother that was apparently seeking
- 42:31Speaker 10: help for some mental health issues that were very serious,
- 42:34Speaker 10: But that's not the defense. The defense, as you mentioned,
- 42:38Speaker 10: is was she within the throes of a psychotic break
- 42:42Speaker 10: due to postpartum psychosis such that she didn't know what
- 42:45Speaker 10: she was doing. She couldn't tell right from wrong, She
- 42:48Speaker 10: didn't understand the wrongfulness of her conduct.
- 42:50Speaker 4: Todd.
- 42:50Speaker 10: I can tell you I've prosecuted cases where this has
- 42:53Speaker 10: been the exact defense. It is hard to prove because
- 42:57Speaker 10: the jurors have to believe that she was just absolutely
- 43:01Speaker 10: swept away by this severe mental health diagnosis to the
- 43:04Speaker 10: point that she didn't know what she was doing. But
- 43:06Speaker 10: listen to what the evidence was. She sent her husband
- 43:09Speaker 10: out to go pick up takeout food, sent him to
- 43:12Speaker 10: go to a pharmacy errand calculated exactly how long had
- 43:16Speaker 10: begne which gave her unsupervised access to those three kids,
- 43:20Speaker 10: and then she went ahead and killed all three of them.
- 43:22Speaker 10: That's the prosecution's case in a nutshell. That's why you
- 43:26Speaker 10: keep hearing them say this is about sophistication and planning
- 43:29Speaker 10: and to use the language of the law premeditation. The defense,
- 43:33Speaker 10: of course, keeps talking about mental illness, but they've got
- 43:36Speaker 10: to make it fit the definition that would actually be
- 43:40Speaker 10: a legal defense that would leave her criminally not liable
- 43:43Speaker 10: for her conduct.
- 43:45Speaker 5: There's a good buddy of mine, and he's a prosecutor,
- 43:47Speaker 5: and he actually specializes in these child abuse cases. Jonathan
- 43:52Speaker 5: Hatami and Los Angeles County. He did an interview with
- 43:56Speaker 5: the New York Times. They actually have a story why
- 43:58Speaker 5: the Lindsey claim and see case as dividing Americans. And
- 44:03Speaker 5: his point is that he's disturbed because people seem more
- 44:07Speaker 5: worried about mss Clancy than the dead children that she
- 44:10Speaker 5: admitted to having killed. And what I find fashioning is
- 44:13Speaker 5: how the New York Times described his concerns, calling it
- 44:17Speaker 5: gnashing of teeth here, what do you make of that?
- 44:23Speaker 10: I have to say in general, Todd, you know, there's
- 44:26Speaker 10: a lot of speculation as to the way this case
- 44:28Speaker 10: is playing out. But you know, no matter what people
- 44:31Speaker 10: are reporting in the Times or on national television, it
- 44:34Speaker 10: really comes down to the instructions that the judge is
- 44:37Speaker 10: going to give. And I always make that distinction because
- 44:40Speaker 10: you're right, if we were to simply follow this case
- 44:42Speaker 10: in the court of public opinion, we would probably believe
- 44:45Speaker 10: the defense is something very different than what it actually
- 44:48Speaker 10: is legally. And that's one of the reasons that I
- 44:51Speaker 10: have to take everything sort of with a grain of
- 44:53Speaker 10: salt and just point out that I really hope that
- 44:56Speaker 10: jurors aren't following the all of the very interesting leads
- 45:00Speaker 10: in the news as much as we are.
- 45:02Speaker 5: I remember, what was it gosh, was it twenty five
- 45:05Speaker 5: years ago or so? Remember the Andrea Yates case where
- 45:08Speaker 5: she tried what she drowned her five kids and the
- 45:13Speaker 5: jury initially found her guilty. She got a new trial
- 45:16Speaker 5: and she was found not guilty by reason of insanity.
- 45:22Speaker 5: Again the idea of mental illness here. Do you think
- 45:25Speaker 5: this was playing How do you think this is going
- 45:27Speaker 5: to play with the jury?
- 45:29Speaker 10: I think the main way it's going to play with
- 45:32Speaker 10: the jury is sympathy, and that is something they cannot
- 45:35Speaker 10: consider legally as a defense. You know, one of the
- 45:39Speaker 10: trickiest things in cases like this, where nobody is disputing
- 45:43Speaker 10: that this woman was asking for help again and again.
- 45:47Speaker 10: The pharmacology is not on trial. The doctors are not
- 45:51Speaker 10: on trial. The medical health system, the mental health system
- 45:53Speaker 10: are not on trial. She's on trial for knowing the
- 45:56Speaker 10: wrongfulness of her actions. So the jury has the on
- 45:59Speaker 10: end enviable, very challenging task of separating and really doing
- 46:05Speaker 10: a clinical diagnosis, if you will, of what those jury
- 46:08Speaker 10: instructions say. The prosecution has to prove and whether or
- 46:11Speaker 10: not the actions of Lindsey Clancy are consistent with her
- 46:15Speaker 10: knowing what she was doing. So I have to say
- 46:17Speaker 10: it's about actions speak louder than words. They can't simply
- 46:22Speaker 10: go through the testimony about what she said and how
- 46:25Speaker 10: she felt. They have to look and see, well, are
- 46:27Speaker 10: her actions that day consistent with somebody that knew what
- 46:30Speaker 10: she was doing and killing those three kids, or with
- 46:34Speaker 10: somebody that had absolutely no grasp on reality, was completely
- 46:38Speaker 10: within the throes of a psychotic break when she committed
- 46:41Speaker 10: the crime. So the look at things like, you know,
- 46:44Speaker 10: taking the kids through a doctor's appointment that day, interacting
- 46:47Speaker 10: with people, the fact that she told all of her
- 46:49Speaker 10: previous positions that she wasn't hearing voices, all the kinds
- 46:53Speaker 10: of things that jurors can look at and say, well,
- 46:55Speaker 10: is this evidence consistent with somebody that was or wasn't
- 46:59Speaker 10: suffering from some kind of a psychotic break where she
- 47:01Speaker 10: didn't know right from wrong. She couldn't be criminally liable
- 47:05Speaker 10: for her actions. This has to be one of the
- 47:08Speaker 10: most challenging fact patterns for both sides, for the defense
- 47:12Speaker 10: and for the prosecution. Remember, I started my career as
- 47:14Speaker 10: a defense attorney. Because there's a little bit on both
- 47:17Speaker 10: sides on almost every element that we're talking about, which
- 47:20Speaker 10: is why when people speculate it might result in a
- 47:22Speaker 10: hung jury. I can't disagree with that, only because of
- 47:27Speaker 10: the legal complexities of separating the heartbreaking realities that came
- 47:32Speaker 10: down on both sides of this case from what they
- 47:34Speaker 10: actually have to decide back in that deliberation room.
- 47:37Speaker 11: I do not envy them.
- 47:38Speaker 10: I don't think we pay our jurors enough to engage
- 47:41Speaker 10: in this kind of deliberated process.
- 47:43Speaker 5: From Southern California, folks were just so delighted to have
- 47:48Speaker 5: the great attorney Wendy Patrick with us, also a Newsmax columnist.
- 47:52Speaker 5: You know, it's interesting, Wendy, the husband of Patrick Clancy,
- 47:57Speaker 5: has divorced his wife, and yet he's out there her.
- 48:00Speaker 5: He's also suing the clinicians who treated her, and I
- 48:05Speaker 5: am wondering again setting aside her for just a minute.
- 48:09Speaker 5: You know, is there any liability here with the pharmaceutical companies.
- 48:15Speaker 10: Well, it's really difficult in general to assign liability to
- 48:19Speaker 10: either pharmaceutical companies or individual doctors without a full fledged
- 48:23Speaker 10: discovery process on both sides standard of care. It's very complicated.
- 48:27Speaker 10: I have, you know, many colleagues that you met. Now,
- 48:29Speaker 10: My family always said, why.
- 48:30Speaker 11: Didn't you go make the big bucks? You have always
- 48:32Speaker 11: been a government lawyer.
- 48:34Speaker 10: But those kinds of litigation cases are very complicated because
- 48:39Speaker 10: it's hard to prove, you know, it's hard to prove
- 48:42Speaker 10: that somebody wasn't doing better on drugs that have helped
- 48:45Speaker 10: so many others. It's expected that you would see litigation
- 48:49Speaker 10: in a case like this. It's also anticipated that these
- 48:53Speaker 10: types of cases have a lot of malpractice insurance because
- 48:56Speaker 10: there is a lot of litigation. But that's one of
- 48:59Speaker 10: those examples of what this jury shouldn't be considering now, Todd,
- 49:02Speaker 10: that's if youer said and done. We all know that.
- 49:04Speaker 10: I don't know if you've been a juror. I think
- 49:06Speaker 10: you'd be a great juror, by the way, but people
- 49:09Speaker 10: that have actually sat in judgment have told me afterwards
- 49:11Speaker 10: they've had to remind themselves every five minutes that they
- 49:14Speaker 10: can't speculate about all the other fascinating aspects of a
- 49:18Speaker 10: case and how somebody might recover from either a misdiagnosis,
- 49:22Speaker 10: an incorrect cocktail of medications, or something like this where
- 49:28Speaker 10: you have a number of different prescribers. That has to
- 49:31Speaker 10: be one of the most complicated cases that this fact
- 49:34Speaker 10: pattern actually fits, is where you have different people prescribing
- 49:37Speaker 10: different things and nothing seems to be working.
- 49:40Speaker 11: That goes right.
- 49:41Speaker 10: Back to the fact that she does mss Clancy really
- 49:44Speaker 10: does have a lot of public support because a lot
- 49:46Speaker 10: of people can relate to, you know, really fighting with
- 49:50Speaker 10: with difficult thoughts and intrusive thoughts and all of the
- 49:53Speaker 10: hallmarks of mental health problems. They have to remind themselves
- 49:57Speaker 10: the defense is not that she suffered from men mental
- 50:00Speaker 10: health issues. It's was she in a psychotic break caused
- 50:04Speaker 10: by postpartum psychosis to the extent that it impaired her
- 50:08Speaker 10: ability to understand the wrongfulness of her actions when she
- 50:11Speaker 10: killed the three kids.
- 50:12Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, back to that I I did. I
- 50:15Speaker 5: did get someone for jury duty once and I showed
- 50:19Speaker 5: up and I was wearing my n RA ball cap
- 50:21Speaker 5: and said I supported the death penalty. But it was
- 50:23Speaker 5: a civil case, so I don't think any of it
- 50:26Speaker 5: really applied.
- 50:27Speaker 10: But you should have got you should have gotten picked,
- 50:30Speaker 10: and you should have been the four person.
- 50:31Speaker 5: You would That's it, that's it. I would, you know,
- 50:35Speaker 5: I would. I would be like I don't know, uh,
- 50:37Speaker 5: you know, I would be like Matt Locke or something
- 50:41Speaker 5: on the on the jury. Now, this is is just
- 50:44Speaker 5: it's a fascinating it's a fashionating story. And again, I'm
- 50:48Speaker 5: just troubled by the reaction to so many women, and
- 50:52Speaker 5: you know they're they're saying the New York Times, I
- 50:54Speaker 5: want to read this. Hundreds of women have posted on
- 50:56Speaker 5: social media about their own postpartum struggles, include being impulses
- 51:01Speaker 5: toward harming themselves or their infants, and they've expressed empathy
- 51:06Speaker 5: for miss Clancy. But here's the big difference. They did
- 51:09Speaker 5: not go and kill their children. I think that's a
- 51:13Speaker 5: very important distinction.
- 51:14Speaker 11: There it is.
- 51:16Speaker 10: And you know the other thing when you brought that
- 51:17Speaker 10: up that I always think about very carefully, is that's
- 51:22Speaker 10: why the jursor admonish they can't consume any other media
- 51:25Speaker 10: about the case, because those women were not on the
- 51:28Speaker 10: witness stand, testifying as experts. The expert witnesses on the
- 51:31Speaker 10: stand is the only evidence they're allowed to consider in
- 51:34Speaker 10: deciding does Lindsey does the timeline that Lindsay Clancy followed
- 51:39Speaker 10: the day of the incident, not at some other time,
- 51:42Speaker 10: but at the day of the murder, the day of
- 51:43Speaker 10: the killing. Does that timeline fit somebody in the throes
- 51:48Speaker 10: of postpartum depression and to that end I could do
- 51:51Speaker 10: a whole show taught on the bottle of the experts there,
- 51:53Speaker 10: because you remember, you had the prosecution experts that actually
- 51:56Speaker 10: knew Lindsey versus the defense expert who didn't. So there's
- 52:01Speaker 10: this thinking of, well, not only do these clinicians have
- 52:04Speaker 10: expert testimony if they can provide they actually are precipient
- 52:07Speaker 10: witnesses to the extent that they were treating physicians, and
- 52:11Speaker 10: you have to believe that resonates with the jurors, who,
- 52:14Speaker 10: no doubt, also have their own personal physicians, maybe even therapists. Now,
- 52:19Speaker 10: I hope nobody's on the jury that actually has had
- 52:21Speaker 10: postpartum psychosis, so they would have been bounced during voidier
- 52:24Speaker 10: no doubt. But that's the kind of thing what you're
- 52:26Speaker 10: reporting about the New York Times, and those women that
- 52:28Speaker 10: are standing outside the jury has to be very careful.
- 52:31Speaker 10: That's why there's safety in numbers. Somebody is going to
- 52:34Speaker 10: bring it up if one of the jurors goes off
- 52:37Speaker 10: and starts talking about testimony quote unquote that didn't come
- 52:40Speaker 10: out of the courtroom.
- 52:42Speaker 5: A great point. All right, Wendy, We're going to have
- 52:44Speaker 5: to leave it there. We had a lot of other
- 52:45Speaker 5: topics that we're going to talk about today, but we
- 52:48Speaker 5: appreciate your great insight into all of this is a
- 52:50Speaker 5: fascinating story, Wendy Patrick. You can see her writings on
- 52:55Speaker 5: Newsmax and Wendy, we love having you on the show
- 52:59Speaker 5: every Monday.
- 53:01Speaker 4: You got it.
- 53:01Speaker 10: I'll see you next Monday.
- 53:02Speaker 11: Thank you, guys.
- 53:03Speaker 5: All right, the great Wendy Patrick. Everybody, you know, it's interesting.
- 53:07Speaker 5: Even some conservative Christians are conflicted about this. Ali Beth
- 53:13Speaker 5: Stuckey was did an interview with The New York Times.
- 53:17Speaker 5: She said that she felt immediate, discussed and anger, but
- 53:21Speaker 5: also a recognition of how dark and out of control
- 53:24Speaker 5: for some women postpartum can be. Ladies and gentlemen, where
- 53:30Speaker 5: do you stand on all of this? It seems to
- 53:33Speaker 5: me again we're trying to glorify this woman as if
- 53:37Speaker 5: she is some sort of a poster child for the
- 53:40Speaker 5: postpartum movement, or it's the most bizarre thing I've seen.
- 53:44Speaker 5: Nine one two six zero five nine two six. That's
- 53:48Speaker 5: nine oh one two six zero five nine two six.
- 53:50Speaker 5: In my opinion, she killed her kids. She deserves the
- 53:54Speaker 5: death penalty. We'll be right back, all right. Todd Stearns
- 54:05Speaker 5: dot Com ladies and gentlemen our website. What do you
- 54:09Speaker 5: think ought to hampen here to this woman, Lindsay Clancy
- 54:12Speaker 5: killing her three children. Certainly the sympathy of the nation
- 54:16Speaker 5: seems to be with the the monster mom. Nine oh
- 54:20Speaker 5: one two six zero five nine two six. Let's go
- 54:23Speaker 5: to Selmer, Tennessee. Danny listening to us on KWAM today. Hi, Danny,
- 54:28Speaker 5: what's on your mind?
- 54:30Speaker 2: Hey?
- 54:30Speaker 12: Definitely, sir, I can't decide. You know, I don't know
- 54:35Speaker 12: details with this and this Clancy lady, but I didn't
- 54:38Speaker 12: know someone very close to the family and that I
- 54:41Speaker 12: knew lady that went through a postpart of psychoses. It
- 54:45Speaker 12: was not just a depression, it was full bowl psychoses.
- 54:49Speaker 12: And uh, it is a real thing. It's actually kind
- 54:52Speaker 12: of scary.
- 54:53Speaker 7: She was.
- 54:55Speaker 12: You know, I know it's a mental illness. And when
- 54:57Speaker 12: you think, when you use your brain to think and
- 54:59Speaker 12: your brain's not thinking correctly, you don't know how to
- 55:01Speaker 12: properly get help and get care, who to trust whatever.
- 55:04Speaker 12: As a paranoia, she was incredibly worried about just everything,
- 55:10Speaker 12: including the kids she came up with. I mean, I
- 55:13Speaker 12: knew her mom and her dad and her whole family.
- 55:17Speaker 12: She was saying that that wasn't her real family. You
- 55:20Speaker 12: know that her real mom was actually in Florida, that
- 55:24Speaker 12: had a name for her and all this stuff which
- 55:26Speaker 12: was all untrue. She dyed her hair jet black, saying
- 55:31Speaker 12: that's her original actual color. She's trying to dye the
- 55:34Speaker 12: kid's hair black because she said that's what their natural
- 55:38Speaker 12: color is. It just really bizarre behavior. Now, eventually the
- 55:42Speaker 12: kids were removed from her, which drove her further into
- 55:46Speaker 12: this psychosis. She never did get any help, and unfortunately
- 55:50Speaker 12: it went really bad and she developed a real bad
- 55:53Speaker 12: alcohol problem, got around some wrong people, and was eventually
- 55:56Speaker 12: murdered by being around those wrong people. The kids were okay,
- 56:00Speaker 12: but they lost their mom. But it is really bizarre,
- 56:03Speaker 12: scary behavior to see someone with going through a prolongce arcosis.
- 56:09Speaker 5: Well, guess it's a very rare. It is an extremely
- 56:14Speaker 5: rare thing. You're looking at one out of every thousand
- 56:19Speaker 5: women go through something like this, so it's like zero
- 56:23Speaker 5: point one percent, So it's a it's a very very
- 56:25Speaker 5: rare thing that that happens.
- 56:29Speaker 12: It is, and you know the postpartum depression, you know,
- 56:32Speaker 12: the baby blues and stuff, that's pretty common, but the
- 56:35Speaker 12: actual psychosis. But it is a real thing because some people,
- 56:38Speaker 12: you know, question, well does that really happen? Everybody?
- 56:41Speaker 7: You know?
- 56:41Speaker 5: What a But the key here is the person you're
- 56:45Speaker 5: talking about. She did not murder her children, right, So
- 56:48Speaker 5: that and again this is for me, This is the distinction.
- 56:52Speaker 5: Lindsey Clancy admits to murdering her children. I don't even
- 56:55Speaker 5: know why we're having a trial here, I really don't. Danny,
- 56:58Speaker 5: thank you for the call. Nine one two six zero five,
- 57:01Speaker 5: nine two six is our number. That's nine oh one
- 57:04Speaker 5: two six zero five to nine two six. We'll be
- 57:06Speaker 5: right back, all right, Welcome back, everybody. It's the Todd
- 57:25Speaker 5: Sterns Radio Show. Todd Stearns dot com is our website.
- 57:29Speaker 5: Be sure to check out our latest up to the
- 57:31Speaker 5: minute news and information there. I want to play some audio.
- 57:35Speaker 5: This is coming from South Carolina. Voters going to the
- 57:37Speaker 5: polls tomorrow and they will decide who will be representing
- 57:42Speaker 5: them as a Republican in the Senate race. There you've
- 57:46Speaker 5: got Darlene Graham, the sister of the late Senator Lindsey Graham,
- 57:51Speaker 5: going up against our good friend Ralph Norman, a longtime
- 57:55Speaker 5: conservative member of Congress. Also a member of the House
- 57:59Speaker 5: Free Caucus. Now we've been trying to tell you something
- 58:03Speaker 5: has been off about Darlene Graham. We have some new
- 58:07Speaker 5: information where she once testified that she was in support
- 58:13Speaker 5: of diversity, equity and inclusion policies and that she wanted
- 58:18Speaker 5: to advocate for those policies. Take a listen to cut
- 58:21Speaker 5: four plays.
- 58:22Speaker 9: I oppose DEI.
- 58:25Speaker 13: I opposed the woke agenda.
- 58:28Speaker 14: We're working on holony policies and procedures, putting internal controls
- 58:31Speaker 14: in place. We've got a diversity Inclusion committee.
- 58:34Speaker 8: I want to be a leader in state agency when
- 58:37Speaker 8: it comes to that.
- 58:38Speaker 5: All right, there you have it. Darlene Graham on the
- 58:40Speaker 5: campaign trail saying she opposed DEI policies, but in twenty
- 58:44Speaker 5: twenty one, she was actually boasting about forcing those policies
- 58:49Speaker 5: on a state agency that she ran. And by the way,
- 58:52Speaker 5: she delivered that testimony wearing a face diaper. So again
- 58:57Speaker 5: that gives you some idea about Darlene Graham. Of course,
- 59:00Speaker 5: she says she knows nothing about national security issues, and
- 59:03Speaker 5: she also got upset because a citizen was filming her
- 59:09Speaker 5: at a campaign event. I want to go right away
- 59:11Speaker 5: to our patriot Mobble News maker line to good buddies
- 59:15Speaker 5: of mine, Harry Hurley from WPG Radio in Atlantic City
- 59:19Speaker 5: and Steve Gill, publisher of tri Stardaily dot com in Nashville. Guys,
- 59:24Speaker 5: good to have you with us. Harry to you first,
- 59:28Speaker 5: What is your take here on Darling Graham's I mean,
- 59:31Speaker 5: she's got the endorsement of Donald Trump, but just about
- 59:33Speaker 5: every conservative out there is saying, whoo, Nelly.
- 59:38Speaker 13: Without the President's support, we wouldn't be talking. This would
- 59:42Speaker 13: not be a topic. She may have had a Governor
- 59:46Speaker 13: Gary Johnson moment, remember Aleppo? What is Aleppo? And he
- 59:51Speaker 13: was done. If South Carolina processes the issue of Taiwan
- 59:58Speaker 13: and national security and not my thing as disqualifying, then
- 1:00:04Speaker 13: Congress and Norman is going to pull this thing out.
- 1:00:08Speaker 13: I think the President's endorsement is extremely powerful. It may
- 1:00:13Speaker 13: be enough without that. If the President were neutral, I'm
- 1:00:17Speaker 13: not even saying he would have had to endorse Congress
- 1:00:19Speaker 13: and Norman. If the President had not gotten involved, I
- 1:00:23Speaker 13: think Norman would have it in the bag. I think
- 1:00:26Speaker 13: that Senator Darlene Graham may pull this out, but purely
- 1:00:31Speaker 13: because of President Trump.
- 1:00:33Speaker 5: Steve, I want to get your take on this because
- 1:00:36Speaker 5: we saw in Tennessee. For example, the President's endorsement did
- 1:00:40Speaker 5: not work for sitting Congressman Andy Ogles, who went down
- 1:00:44Speaker 5: in defeat in his Republican primary for his congressional seat.
- 1:00:50Speaker 5: How do you see those playing out in South Carolina?
- 1:00:52Speaker 5: And what do you make of the president endorsing someone
- 1:00:54Speaker 5: who is I hate to say this, clearly not a conservative.
- 1:00:59Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 1:00:59Speaker 7: I don't know if we should call her Dei Darlene
- 1:01:02Speaker 7: or disaster Darlene. Because the longer she talks, the longer
- 1:01:05Speaker 7: the campaign goes, the worse it gets. And if this
- 1:01:08Speaker 7: race had another week for the disclosures about who she
- 1:01:13Speaker 7: really is and where she really stands or fails to
- 1:01:15Speaker 7: stand on the on the critical issues, she's somebody who
- 1:01:19Speaker 7: basically doesn't have any knowledge of where she stands on
- 1:01:22Speaker 7: you know, abortion from the moment of conception, even though
- 1:01:25Speaker 7: she's been endorsed by right to life groups. And Harry's
- 1:01:28Speaker 7: exactly right. If it wasn't for the Trump endorsement, this
- 1:01:31Speaker 7: woman would not even be being discussed as a viable
- 1:01:35Speaker 7: Senate candidate. That endorsement carries a lot of weight, But
- 1:01:38Speaker 7: President Trump has lost a series of races where he
- 1:01:41Speaker 7: has endorsed the Mike Lindell race, he lost in the
- 1:01:44Speaker 7: governor's race in Wyoming. He lost in several Florida races recently,
- 1:01:49Speaker 7: so his endorsement is strong. But in South Carolina he
- 1:01:53Speaker 7: also endorsed the lieutenant governor and she got you know which,
- 1:01:56Speaker 7: he won the primary and then got obliterated in the
- 1:01:59Speaker 7: in the runoffs, So his endorsement carries weight. But I
- 1:02:02Speaker 7: think if the voters in South Carolina look at where
- 1:02:04Speaker 7: this woman actually stands or fails to stand. She's someone
- 1:02:08Speaker 7: who didn't vote for her own brother in the primary
- 1:02:11Speaker 7: a few months ago, and until President Trump endorsed her,
- 1:02:14Speaker 7: there is no record in any social media at any
- 1:02:17Speaker 7: time for saying anything the least bit positive about President Trump.
- 1:02:21Speaker 7: She is a complete fiction, and hopefully in the next
- 1:02:24Speaker 7: twenty four hours, South Carolina voters figure it out.
- 1:02:27Speaker 5: You know, guys, I was just in Texas speaking yesterday
- 1:02:30Speaker 5: at a book event in Dallas and was speaking to
- 1:02:33Speaker 5: a lot of very high some very high profile conservatives,
- 1:02:37Speaker 5: and I was stunned, stunned by what they told me
- 1:02:42Speaker 5: about the Senate race. There is actually, there is actually
- 1:02:45Speaker 5: concern in Texas that Ken Paxton may not actually win
- 1:02:50Speaker 5: this race against James Tallarico, Harry, what's going on here?
- 1:02:55Speaker 5: I mean, it's are the Republican voters depressed.
- 1:02:59Speaker 12: About all that?
- 1:03:00Speaker 5: I just don't get what's going on here.
- 1:03:03Speaker 13: I still don't think it's scare time yet. Remember that
- 1:03:06Speaker 13: Ted Cruz was going to lose to Better O'Rourke. Ken
- 1:03:10Speaker 13: Paxson is one of those guys that always underpolls but overperforms.
- 1:03:16Speaker 13: He's gonna pull it out. It'll be quasi close, and
- 1:03:20Speaker 13: so was Ted Cruz the last time he ran. I
- 1:03:23Speaker 13: just can't see Texas going for Talla Rico. I just
- 1:03:26Speaker 13: don't see it. I think Republicans will come home. There's
- 1:03:30Speaker 13: some concern and disappointment about Cornyn, but Paxton will pull
- 1:03:36Speaker 13: it out.
- 1:03:37Speaker 5: Steve again, looking at some of these races, the Tennessee
- 1:03:43Speaker 5: Night Congressional race, I was very I was concerned about
- 1:03:47Speaker 5: how how many Democrats turned out in their primary here.
- 1:03:52Speaker 5: Certainly the Republicans had the edge. The question is will
- 1:03:55Speaker 5: they have the edge if they don't show up and
- 1:03:57Speaker 5: vote and are we gonna Are we gonna have some
- 1:04:00Speaker 5: prizes some surprises come November.
- 1:04:03Speaker 7: Yeah, you know your opinion matters, but actually turning up
- 1:04:06Speaker 7: and voting matters more. And I think if Republicans sit
- 1:04:09Speaker 7: on their hands, or as we've talked, stay in the
- 1:04:11Speaker 7: pews rather than get to the polls. We need our
- 1:04:14Speaker 7: church leadership to be encouraging people to pray and discern
- 1:04:17Speaker 7: and to vote, because the black churches are certainly doing
- 1:04:21Speaker 7: that in the Night district you mentioned in Memphis, and
- 1:04:24Speaker 7: if the white pastors across the South and across the
- 1:04:27Speaker 7: country don't have to tell people go vote for this person,
- 1:04:30Speaker 7: but look at the policies, look at the issues, and
- 1:04:33Speaker 7: if people are not registering their vote at the ballot box,
- 1:04:37Speaker 7: their opinions don't matter.
- 1:04:38Speaker 5: Guys. I just don't get it. I don't and I've
- 1:04:41Speaker 5: been asking candidates this and nobody can answer this question.
- 1:04:44Speaker 5: On the Republican side. What exactly are you guys running for?
- 1:04:47Speaker 5: What's the big issue out there? Harry? I'm these candidates
- 1:04:52Speaker 5: are having a hard time explaining that other than we're
- 1:04:55Speaker 5: going to be stopping the socialist surge? Is that enough
- 1:04:59Speaker 5: to get people out of an election day?
- 1:05:02Speaker 13: Here's the problem right now, Democrat generic model plus seven
- 1:05:05Speaker 13: that usually means you lose, they win. What I am
- 1:05:10Speaker 13: comforted by is that right now Republicans appear to be
- 1:05:13Speaker 13: within about six seats of keeping the house, with eighteen
- 1:05:18Speaker 13: too close to call races. I would think they would
- 1:05:21Speaker 13: pull out six of those. But I'll tell you where
- 1:05:23Speaker 13: I'm concerned. I watch not long ago, Mikey Cheryl beat
- 1:05:27Speaker 13: the Republican nominee Jack Chedarelli, who four years before that
- 1:05:31Speaker 13: almost beat the city governor, and Mikey Cheryl won by
- 1:05:34Speaker 13: five hundred and fifty thousand votes. Democrats are motivated to vote.
- 1:05:40Speaker 13: They hate Trump. We are not communicating well. The answer
- 1:05:45Speaker 13: to your question is voters want the answer to the
- 1:05:49Speaker 13: question of affordability, and Republicans are doing a terrible job.
- 1:05:53Speaker 13: You can't say things like capitalism and buzzwords. You got
- 1:05:57Speaker 13: to show them. How's the price of a gallon gasoline
- 1:06:01Speaker 13: not going to be over four dollars? How is food
- 1:06:04Speaker 13: going to come down in costs? Republicans have a much
- 1:06:07Speaker 13: better story, but they're not good storytellers.
- 1:06:11Speaker 6: Steve, do you agree with that assessment? Disagree it?
- 1:06:15Speaker 7: Harry's exactly right, and I think we're seeing now about
- 1:06:18Speaker 7: sixteen to eighteen million barrels of oil a day flowing
- 1:06:21Speaker 7: through the straits of hor moves that should start to
- 1:06:24Speaker 7: bring down the price of gasoline, and the price of
- 1:06:27Speaker 7: gasoline affects the price of everything. You know, the groceries
- 1:06:31Speaker 7: at the grocery store, they don't get there, you know, magically,
- 1:06:34Speaker 7: they don't get dropped off by drones. They're driven there
- 1:06:37Speaker 7: by diesel and gasoline fuel trucks. You know, the cattle
- 1:06:41Speaker 7: that are harvested and taken to butcher shops, they have
- 1:06:45Speaker 7: to get there by transportation. So gas affects everything from
- 1:06:48Speaker 7: pricing from our attitude. There is a big sign on
- 1:06:52Speaker 7: every corner in America telling you to the penny exactly
- 1:06:55Speaker 7: what gas cost. When those numbers come down, people will
- 1:06:58Speaker 7: feel better about everything. And I think that's why that
- 1:07:01Speaker 7: has to be imperative. But it isn't enough, as Harry mentioned,
- 1:07:05Speaker 7: just to be against. We've got to talk about what
- 1:07:07Speaker 7: we're for. The Democrats are against Trump. They're against everything
- 1:07:11Speaker 7: Trump means and everything Trump stands for. That's not going
- 1:07:14Speaker 7: to be good enough to run and win an election
- 1:07:17Speaker 7: unless we fall short of explaining to people why what
- 1:07:20Speaker 7: Trump is for is for America, has benefited America and
- 1:07:24Speaker 7: will continue to benefit our country. From state house, state Senate,
- 1:07:28Speaker 7: congressional and Senate races.
- 1:07:29Speaker 5: Yeah, Harry, jump in there.
- 1:07:31Speaker 13: Steve gil is awesome. He's exactly right. The price of
- 1:07:36Speaker 13: a gallon of gasoline for all of our lifetime and before.
- 1:07:39Speaker 13: If you know what the price of a gallon of
- 1:07:41Speaker 13: gasoline is thirty days before the election, you know who's
- 1:07:45Speaker 13: going to win the election. This is why we have
- 1:07:47Speaker 13: to hope and pray, and I know hope is not
- 1:07:50Speaker 13: a strategy that Operation Economic Outcasts is successful. We have
- 1:07:54Speaker 13: to crush Iran as fast as possible, showing the American
- 1:07:59Speaker 13: people that it's not a quagmire. Because remember it was
- 1:08:02Speaker 13: going to be days, then it went weeks, and then
- 1:08:04Speaker 13: it went months. We've got to get that at least
- 1:08:07Speaker 13: under control so that the American people can have confidence
- 1:08:11Speaker 13: in Republicans to stay in the majority. Otherwise President Trump
- 1:08:15Speaker 13: gets impeached right away. That will be pre filed. It
- 1:08:19Speaker 13: will be investigations of all Trump family members, all Trump allies.
- 1:08:24Speaker 13: It will be an absolute disaster. Steve Goo is right,
- 1:08:28Speaker 13: he just did a masterclass on your show.
- 1:08:31Speaker 5: I will say this, guys, looking at the price and
- 1:08:34Speaker 5: as much as we're talking about gasoline, the price of
- 1:08:37Speaker 5: hamburger in America, it's off the charts here six eighty
- 1:08:41Speaker 5: nine pounds in the last numbers coming out in July,
- 1:08:46Speaker 5: which is up considerably from when the President took office.
- 1:08:49Speaker 5: And of course, the answer to that is to bring
- 1:08:52Speaker 5: in all this cheap, intentionally cheap farign beef, which is
- 1:08:57Speaker 5: just about set off all the cattle ranchers across Erica.
- 1:09:00Speaker 5: And again, there are a lot of factors that go
- 1:09:02Speaker 5: into the cost of that beef, but the cattle, the
- 1:09:06Speaker 5: cattle ranchers are saying, this is not the answer. I
- 1:09:09Speaker 5: guess guys, my concern is we're pissing off uh, these
- 1:09:14Speaker 5: these groups and if enough of them get get get
- 1:09:18Speaker 5: ticked off on election day, we're just gonna have problems.
- 1:09:22Speaker 5: So I think again, communication, they've got to do a
- 1:09:25Speaker 5: better job of that coming out of the White House,
- 1:09:27Speaker 5: and the r n C has to get all messaging.
- 1:09:29Speaker 5: I know they're doing the big convention uh in Dallas.
- 1:09:33Speaker 5: I hope maybe that's the that that'll kind of focus
- 1:09:37Speaker 5: everybody on what the big issues are. Uh, Steve Gill,
- 1:09:40Speaker 5: what say you, Well.
- 1:09:42Speaker 7: There are great reasons, not great reasons for cattle farmers,
- 1:09:45Speaker 7: but but there are great reasons why beef prices are high.
- 1:09:48Speaker 7: We've had serious droughts, we've had the Biden administration pushed
- 1:09:52Speaker 7: the destruction of our cattle herds to the lowest level
- 1:09:55Speaker 7: in decades. The ranchers understand that, and they understand that
- 1:09:59Speaker 7: it takes two three years to rebuild a herd after
- 1:10:02Speaker 7: the destruction that the Bised administration did. The problem is,
- 1:10:06Speaker 7: if you're explaining sixty days before an election, you're.
- 1:10:09Speaker 5: Losing, you're losing.
- 1:10:10Speaker 7: And I think what the Trump administration has to do
- 1:10:12Speaker 7: is quit over promise and under delivering. We promised no
- 1:10:15Speaker 7: tax on tips. It ended up being no tax on
- 1:10:18Speaker 7: some tips, no tax on Social Security. Well up to
- 1:10:21Speaker 7: a certain level. The promises that were made have not
- 1:10:24Speaker 7: been kept and we need to get the House in
- 1:10:25Speaker 7: the Senate to finish the rest of the promises here
- 1:10:28Speaker 7: President Trump made on those issues right now.
- 1:10:31Speaker 5: Yeah, and herry to that point again, the argument was,
- 1:10:35Speaker 5: we're going to crack down on guys and girls sports.
- 1:10:38Speaker 5: Any school that doesn't follow the President's executive order, we're
- 1:10:42Speaker 5: going to defund them. Nobody's been defunded. Nobody's been defunded,
- 1:10:46Speaker 5: the whole Save America Act. You can't have Republicans going
- 1:10:49Speaker 5: out there and running on that. And what are they
- 1:10:52Speaker 5: going to tell voters? All Right, give us give us
- 1:10:54Speaker 5: control again, and we're really going to get into it
- 1:10:57Speaker 5: this go around. Look, I think the problem is that
- 1:11:00Speaker 5: do nothing. Congress really can't campaign on anything because aside
- 1:11:04Speaker 5: from the big beautiful Bill, they haven't done that much.
- 1:11:08Speaker 13: And Todd and Steve, how about this, The Democratic National
- 1:11:12Speaker 13: committ Committee has a negative networth. Yeah, the Republicans are
- 1:11:17Speaker 13: worth hundreds of millions to spend in this cycle. President
- 1:11:21Speaker 13: Trump has more hundreds of millions of dollars. We should
- 1:11:25Speaker 13: crush them on November three. But I don't know that
- 1:11:28Speaker 13: we're going to.
- 1:11:30Speaker 5: Maybe all of.
- 1:11:31Speaker 7: That goes into the pockets of the consultants rather than
- 1:11:34Speaker 7: in good messaging.
- 1:11:35Speaker 15: The Republicans will lose.
- 1:11:37Speaker 7: And the and the consultants are like pigs feeding at
- 1:11:40Speaker 7: the trough. They're going to consume every dollar of that
- 1:11:44Speaker 7: because they don't care if we lose as long as
- 1:11:45Speaker 7: they stuff millions into their seats.
- 1:11:48Speaker 5: Steve, I want to throw out a conspiracy theory here, guys,
- 1:11:51Speaker 5: so you can you can yell at me on air
- 1:11:54Speaker 5: if you disagree with this. But here's my concern. We
- 1:11:57Speaker 5: have seen the majority leader stand up to President Trump.
- 1:12:01Speaker 5: Save America Act is not going to happen. The filibusters
- 1:12:04Speaker 5: not getting nuked. This is the only president in modern
- 1:12:07Speaker 5: American history who has not been allowed by a majority
- 1:12:10Speaker 5: Republican Congress to make recess appointments. That's on the record.
- 1:12:16Speaker 5: I'm just wondering here, is it possible the Republican leadership
- 1:12:20Speaker 5: that has opposed Trump from day one, even quietly in
- 1:12:24Speaker 5: the shadows, is it possible that they could be willing
- 1:12:28Speaker 5: to throw this election give the Democrats control, So the
- 1:12:31Speaker 5: Democrats would be blamed for stopping the Trump agenda as
- 1:12:35Speaker 5: opposed to the Republicans in charge not following through on
- 1:12:38Speaker 5: the agenda.
- 1:12:40Speaker 13: I'm gonna take the first crack at that. That's macavelian.
- 1:12:44Speaker 13: But it is possibly true, because I think the John
- 1:12:48Speaker 13: Thune has been a great disappointment. They say, oh, we
- 1:12:51Speaker 13: can't do it, we don't have the votes do it.
- 1:12:53Speaker 13: The Democrats are going to show you that you don't
- 1:12:56Speaker 13: need sixty votes to do it. They're going to do
- 1:12:59Speaker 13: it the first day they get the chance to do that.
- 1:13:02Speaker 13: If we are to believe, and it's not implausible that
- 1:13:05Speaker 13: this is a game where sometimes the majority party likes
- 1:13:09Speaker 13: to lose because it's easier to be in the majority.
- 1:13:12Speaker 13: Carping on the outside looking in and complaining about everything
- 1:13:16Speaker 13: that's going on, and then winning the next time out. Yeah,
- 1:13:20Speaker 13: that's no joke what you just said, Todd, Steve Gilt
- 1:13:24Speaker 13: final thought.
- 1:13:28Speaker 7: President Trump needs to take the gloves off. And I
- 1:13:30Speaker 7: don't think many people usually have to tell Trump to
- 1:13:32Speaker 7: take the gloves off. Every one of these senators that
- 1:13:35Speaker 7: claims to be a conservative that gavels in Congress for
- 1:13:38Speaker 7: a few minutes to stop Trump's appointments needs to be
- 1:13:40Speaker 7: called out by name. President Trump needs to fly into
- 1:13:43Speaker 7: their state, call them out by name in that state,
- 1:13:47Speaker 7: make them pay the price immediately for continuing to block
- 1:13:50Speaker 7: his agenda. Call out Thune by name. Call out the
- 1:13:54Speaker 7: rest of these you know lackeys, many of whom are
- 1:13:56Speaker 7: just bent out of shape like Corning because they got
- 1:13:58Speaker 7: beat and they're gonna ticket to America on their way out.
- 1:14:02Speaker 7: Call them out by name, go into their state, ruin
- 1:14:05Speaker 7: their futures.
- 1:14:06Speaker 5: All right, guys, we're gonna have to leave. You know,
- 1:14:08Speaker 5: we got to pay some bills here. You know how
- 1:14:09Speaker 5: this goes. Appreciate all of your great analysis, guys. Thanks
- 1:14:14Speaker 5: for playing along with the conspiracy. Harry Hurley, Steve Gill, guys,
- 1:14:19Speaker 5: good to see you all right, folks, got to take
- 1:14:24Speaker 5: a quick break. We'll be right back, all right. I
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- 1:17:10Speaker 5: we have seen a lot of headlines about crime in
- 1:17:13Speaker 5: the United States. I live in Memphis, Tennessee. We broadcast
- 1:17:17Speaker 5: our national program from a fortified bunker here in the
- 1:17:21Speaker 5: Bluff City because of the insane crime. Now it was
- 1:17:27Speaker 5: what gosh has it been? Almost a year ago? The
- 1:17:30Speaker 5: President was on the show and I told him about
- 1:17:32Speaker 5: how bad things were here in Memphis. He said he
- 1:17:35Speaker 5: would take a look at it, and if things really
- 1:17:37Speaker 5: were that bad, he was going to send to the
- 1:17:39Speaker 5: National Guard, which the President in fact did and as
- 1:17:44Speaker 5: a result of the President's efforts, crime in Memphis, Tennessee
- 1:17:48Speaker 5: down forty percent. But again, there are a lot of
- 1:17:51Speaker 5: Democrats out there suggesting that the President's efforts to crack
- 1:17:55Speaker 5: down on crime are not working. So what is the
- 1:17:59Speaker 5: truth of the matter. Well, I want to bring in
- 1:18:01Speaker 5: Zach Smith, who is a senior legal fellow at the
- 1:18:04Speaker 5: Heritage Foundation. Zach, great to have you with us today.
- 1:18:08Speaker 15: Well, great to be on the show, Todd, thanks so
- 1:18:10Speaker 15: much for having me on.
- 1:18:11Speaker 5: Well, let's just get right to it. Are we in
- 1:18:16Speaker 5: fact seeing a decline in violent crime and murder here
- 1:18:19Speaker 5: in the United States?
- 1:18:21Speaker 11: Yes?
- 1:18:22Speaker 15: Absolutely, Look, the FBI released very encouraging crime statistics recently.
- 1:18:26Speaker 15: Showing record drops in many categories of violent crime, or
- 1:18:29Speaker 15: at least drops we haven't seen for many, many years.
- 1:18:32Speaker 15: And I think the key to getting those successful numbers,
- 1:18:35Speaker 15: not only nationally, but more importantly in local places like Memphis,
- 1:18:40Speaker 15: like Washington, DC that we're experiencing decade high crime rates before,
- 1:18:44Speaker 15: is we know what works to drive down violent crime.
- 1:18:48Speaker 15: Put police officers on the streets, empower them to do
- 1:18:51Speaker 15: their jobs responsibly and efficiently, and then have prosecutors who
- 1:18:55Speaker 15: are willing to prosecute repeat violent offenders. Wherever those tried
- 1:19:00Speaker 15: and true tactics have worked, we've seen crime rates come down.
- 1:19:03Speaker 15: And that's exactly what President Trump and his team have
- 1:19:06Speaker 15: prioritized with such great success.
- 1:19:08Speaker 5: You know, Zach, I think back to the days that
- 1:19:11Speaker 5: Rudy Giuliani was elected mayor of New York City. Of course,
- 1:19:15Speaker 5: he had been the incredibly successful US attorney did the
- 1:19:19Speaker 5: crackdown on organized crime in the Big Apple, and as
- 1:19:23Speaker 5: a result of his efforts, sort of the broken window policies,
- 1:19:27Speaker 5: we saw a massive drop in crime in New York City.
- 1:19:31Speaker 5: Do you think that's pretty much what President Trump has
- 1:19:34Speaker 5: implemented nationwide here?
- 1:19:37Speaker 15: Yes, absolutely, that's that Broken Windows theory of policing that
- 1:19:40Speaker 15: Rudy Giuliani along with Bill Bratton pioneered in New York City.
- 1:19:43Speaker 15: You basically enforced the small crimes to stop them from
- 1:19:46Speaker 15: becoming big crimes. And I think the perfect example of
- 1:19:49Speaker 15: this is in Washington, d C. Obviously, President Trump and
- 1:19:51Speaker 15: his legal team they got a lot of grief for
- 1:19:54Speaker 15: deploying the National Guard there, for putting in place a
- 1:19:57Speaker 15: US attorney, a prosecutor Jeanine Piro, who ledge to prosecute criminals.
- 1:20:01Speaker 15: But the results speak for themselves. You mentioned the Memphis
- 1:20:04Speaker 15: crime statistics, Todd, look at what's happened in Washington, DC.
- 1:20:08Speaker 15: At the end of twenty twenty five, the murders in
- 1:20:11Speaker 15: Washington DC had fallen by over thirty percent. If you
- 1:20:14Speaker 15: look at the murders in Washington DC so far this
- 1:20:18Speaker 15: year in twenty twenty six, they've fallen by another thirty
- 1:20:22Speaker 15: percent compared to this same time last year. And so again,
- 1:20:25Speaker 15: I think it goes to show wherever these tried and
- 1:20:27Speaker 15: true tactics have been used, decreases in violent crime in
- 1:20:31Speaker 15: particular follows.
- 1:20:33Speaker 5: We're so happy to have Zach Smith with us. He's
- 1:20:36Speaker 5: a senior legal fellow at the Heritage Foundation, Zach, have
- 1:20:40Speaker 5: we has there ever been a time in American history
- 1:20:42Speaker 5: where we have seen such a dramatic drop in violent
- 1:20:46Speaker 5: crime and murders.
- 1:20:48Speaker 15: Well, it's been a long time. And part of the
- 1:20:50Speaker 15: reason it's been such a long time is because it
- 1:20:52Speaker 15: had been a long time since we saw such a
- 1:20:54Speaker 15: drastic spike in terms of violent crimes and murders. In
- 1:20:57Speaker 15: twenty twenty twenty one, twenty two, twenty three, during the
- 1:21:00Speaker 15: Biden administration, we were seeing record highs in the number
- 1:21:03Speaker 15: of murders and violent crimes committed in too many cities
- 1:21:07Speaker 15: around the country. And that's in large part because we
- 1:21:09Speaker 15: were reaping the consequences of defund the police policies. We
- 1:21:13Speaker 15: were reaping the consequences of having rogue, radical prosecutors in
- 1:21:16Speaker 15: office who were refusing to prosecute entire categories of crimes.
- 1:21:21Speaker 15: And I think what we saw is even many Democrats
- 1:21:25Speaker 15: recognized that these policies weren't working. Look at what happened
- 1:21:28Speaker 15: in San Francisco. They recalled and removed from office Chase A. Booting,
- 1:21:32Speaker 15: a radical progressive prosecutor who had implemented many of those
- 1:21:37Speaker 15: problematic policies. In Los Angeles, George Gascon was kicked out
- 1:21:41Speaker 15: of office by the voters when he ran for reelection,
- 1:21:44Speaker 15: and so you were seeing consistently, not everywhere, but even
- 1:21:48Speaker 15: in many deep blue cities, voters choosing law and order
- 1:21:52Speaker 15: over disorder and chaos.
- 1:21:54Speaker 5: You know, it just seems to me. And again I
- 1:21:56Speaker 5: don't you know, I know who the Democrats are, and
- 1:21:59Speaker 5: I know they seem to embrace this criminal element. But again,
- 1:22:01Speaker 5: it's just it seems to me that, for example of Memphis,
- 1:22:05Speaker 5: the majority of crime victims here are in fact black citizens,
- 1:22:10Speaker 5: many of them, I would say, an overwhelming number vote Democrat.
- 1:22:14Speaker 5: You would think that Democrat leaders would want to protect
- 1:22:17Speaker 5: their base of voters by cracking down on the criminal thugs.
- 1:22:21Speaker 5: And I'm just worrying, why is it that they are
- 1:22:23Speaker 5: so hesitant to do that.
- 1:22:26Speaker 15: Well, I think it's unpopular with the most radical elements
- 1:22:28Speaker 15: of their base, unfortunately, And you're exactly right, Todd, most
- 1:22:32Speaker 15: shooting victims, most murder victims today are young black men,
- 1:22:36Speaker 15: and so the individuals these soft owe crime policies were
- 1:22:39Speaker 15: designed to help actually end up being victimized the most
- 1:22:44Speaker 15: by these policies. But in too many circles on the left,
- 1:22:48Speaker 15: the idea that we should fund the police, that we
- 1:22:50Speaker 15: should hire more police, that we should prosecute repeat violent offenders.
- 1:22:54Speaker 15: For some reason, sadly, that has become a very controversial
- 1:22:58Speaker 15: stance in the circles.
- 1:23:00Speaker 5: All right, Zach, We're gonna have to leave it there.
- 1:23:02Speaker 5: But great great analysis here, and it's a great story
- 1:23:06Speaker 5: that needs to be told that we are watching violent
- 1:23:09Speaker 5: crime and murder historic declines under the Trump administration. And
- 1:23:15Speaker 5: this is great great news. Heritage dot org, ladies and gentlemen,
- 1:23:18Speaker 5: is the website Heritage dot org. Zach, good to have
- 1:23:22Speaker 5: you on the show. We're definitely going to get you
- 1:23:24Speaker 5: back soon.
- 1:23:24Speaker 15: Thank you, Thanks so much, great talking with you.
- 1:23:27Speaker 5: All right, and I would just ask, I know we
- 1:23:30Speaker 5: have a lot of Memphis listeners. Are you guys glad
- 1:23:33Speaker 5: that President Trump sent in the National Guard? By the way,
- 1:23:36Speaker 5: there are reports national Guard maybe packing up and heading
- 1:23:39Speaker 5: out as a result of the massive dropping crime. But
- 1:23:42Speaker 5: have you guys noticed an overall difference in the city
- 1:23:47Speaker 5: since President Trump sent in the National Guard? Our telephone
- 1:23:50Speaker 5: number is nine oh one two six zero five nine
- 1:23:53Speaker 5: two six. That's nine oh one two six zero five
- 1:23:56Speaker 5: nine to six. Want to work in a couple of
- 1:23:59Speaker 5: calls here. Before we go to break, let's go to
- 1:24:02Speaker 5: George listening to us on wy WO or a great
- 1:24:06Speaker 5: affiliate in Warren, Ohio. George, what's on your mind today?
- 1:24:12Speaker 11: All Hi, cod You're talking about the Democrats possibly coming
- 1:24:16Speaker 11: back into power and taking over the House and Senate.
- 1:24:19Speaker 11: And I'm especially worried because I'm Jewish and don't have
- 1:24:23Speaker 11: to worry about my family and my Jewish friends. If
- 1:24:27Speaker 11: the Democrats come back into power totally, even the presidency
- 1:24:31Speaker 11: in twenty twenty eight, I believe that the Jewish people
- 1:24:35Speaker 11: will be beaten and murdered in the streets of our
- 1:24:37Speaker 11: cities with impunity. That's how bad it will be. These
- 1:24:41Speaker 11: people are downright evil. They're insane. They have a special
- 1:24:46Speaker 11: hatred for Jews. They're psychopathic jew haters. Of course, they
- 1:24:50Speaker 11: also hate America, they hate Christianity, they hate Western civilization.
- 1:24:56Speaker 11: But these are very, very dangerous people.
- 1:25:00Speaker 5: George. I can look and I know this is not
- 1:25:03Speaker 5: hyperbole to you. I can hear the emotion in your voice.
- 1:25:06Speaker 5: And I've said for a long time on this show
- 1:25:09Speaker 5: that these people, the Democrats, they hate the Jews and
- 1:25:12Speaker 5: they hate the Christians. And I know this is going
- 1:25:15Speaker 5: to be controversial, but I think they also hate the gays.
- 1:25:18Speaker 5: And if God forbid you let these radicals take charge,
- 1:25:23Speaker 5: you're going to see him coming after all of us.
- 1:25:25Speaker 5: And so that's why I think we have to have
- 1:25:28Speaker 5: strategic coalitions to stand together against what I consider to
- 1:25:32Speaker 5: be a clear and present danger to the country. Let
- 1:25:35Speaker 5: me give you an example. Assan Piker, who is a
- 1:25:37Speaker 5: major player in the Democrat Party right now, over the weekend,
- 1:25:41Speaker 5: was at a conference in George. They were actually singing
- 1:25:45Speaker 5: a praise and worship song that celebrated the assassination of
- 1:25:50Speaker 5: Charlie Kirk. I mean, this is the kind of evil
- 1:25:52Speaker 5: we're talking about here.
- 1:25:54Speaker 11: I know I heard about that. I heard that, But
- 1:25:57Speaker 11: these people, especially with their Muslim uh you know cohorts,
- 1:26:03Speaker 11: that's a very very evil coalition. I call it unholy alliance.
- 1:26:08Speaker 11: And the American people, unfortunately, this is what bothers me
- 1:26:12Speaker 11: the America. A large segment of the American electorate have
- 1:26:15Speaker 11: been brainwashed and a doctrinated in their schools and by
- 1:26:19Speaker 11: the media, and I don't know if they're capable of
- 1:26:21Speaker 11: thinking for themselves anymore.
- 1:26:25Speaker 5: I'm afraid you're look, I'm afraid you're right. I wrote
- 1:26:28Speaker 5: about this in uh in the Golden Age, that we
- 1:26:32Speaker 5: really have a massive education problem in this country. First
- 1:26:35Speaker 5: of all, you've got these classrooms that have been turned
- 1:26:38Speaker 5: into these radical indoctrination centers, and they're advancing this I
- 1:26:42Speaker 5: call it political Islam and radical socialism. They've got the
- 1:26:49Speaker 5: critical race theory stuff going on, the section gender stuff.
- 1:26:52Speaker 5: I mean, they are coming at our kids from a
- 1:26:55Speaker 5: number of different vantage points. And until we get control
- 1:27:00Speaker 5: those local schools we are, we're going to have problems. Now, George,
- 1:27:06Speaker 5: are you listening to us in Pennsylvania.
- 1:27:09Speaker 11: Yes, I'm right near the Ohio line. I'm about fifteen
- 1:27:12Speaker 11: miles away from War in Ohio.
- 1:27:14Speaker 5: So the reason I wanted to add, the reason I
- 1:27:16Speaker 5: asked that question is I'm curious how things are going
- 1:27:19Speaker 5: for the Republicans in Ohio because I've heard that Vivik
- 1:27:22Speaker 5: Ramaswami is really struggling right now out on the campaign trail.
- 1:27:26Speaker 11: That's what I heard too. But I live in Mercer County, Pennsylvania,
- 1:27:30Speaker 11: and that is Trump Country. This part of Pennsylvania is
- 1:27:34Speaker 11: definitely Trump Country. And I think Trumbull, Ohio, Trumbull County, Ohio,
- 1:27:38Speaker 11: that's where War is. That's where you're your program is
- 1:27:44Speaker 11: being broadcast from here. That's also Trump Country, so this
- 1:27:48Speaker 11: is basically Trump territory.
- 1:27:51Speaker 5: George, here's what I want to do. By the way,
- 1:27:53Speaker 5: do you have a copy of the Golden Age yet?
- 1:27:56Speaker 7: No?
- 1:27:56Speaker 11: I don't, George.
- 1:27:57Speaker 5: We're going to take care of that for you, So
- 1:27:59Speaker 5: don't hey up, because I want to send you a
- 1:28:02Speaker 5: copy of the Golden Age How Trump Saved America? Is
- 1:28:05Speaker 5: that okay?
- 1:28:06Speaker 17: Oh?
- 1:28:06Speaker 11: I appreciate that, Thank you very.
- 1:28:08Speaker 5: Much, wonderful. Your only job, George, is to tell your
- 1:28:11Speaker 5: friends to start listening to the show and get them
- 1:28:14Speaker 5: to call in, because we would love to hear from
- 1:28:16Speaker 5: all of our friends in Trump Country there in Pennsylvania.
- 1:28:20Speaker 5: I do that already, all right, George, God bless you.
- 1:28:23Speaker 17: Well.
- 1:28:23Speaker 5: Look hang tight, and guys, we're going to get George
- 1:28:26Speaker 5: a signed copy of the Golden Age How Trump Saved America.
- 1:28:30Speaker 5: I think George is our first caller from wy WO,
- 1:28:34Speaker 5: so we look forward to hearing from more of our
- 1:28:36Speaker 5: great friends out there in Pennsylvania and Ohio. All right,
- 1:28:40Speaker 5: we've got to take a quick break when we come back.
- 1:28:42Speaker 5: Your calls nine oh one two six zero five nine
- 1:28:45Speaker 5: two six. What do you think about My theory here
- 1:28:48Speaker 5: that the Republicans may be trying to throw the midterm
- 1:28:51Speaker 5: elections so they can't be blamed for the Democrats going
- 1:28:56Speaker 5: after President Trump? What do you think about that? We'll
- 1:28:58Speaker 5: be right back. A little bit of breaking news coming
- 1:29:14Speaker 5: from the NFL. Dylan, the owner of the San Francisco
- 1:29:21Speaker 5: forty nine ers. Did you hear about this? Got arrested?
- 1:29:24Speaker 7: Oh?
- 1:29:24Speaker 3: Yeah, big news?
- 1:29:26Speaker 5: I mean, this is this is huge. It happened in
- 1:29:28Speaker 5: East East Palestine, Ohio. Isn't that where they had the
- 1:29:32Speaker 5: big train derailment? Remember that own?
- 1:29:34Speaker 3: Yeah?
- 1:29:34Speaker 5: Yeah, Biden never visited. Clearly Jed York should not have visited.
- 1:29:40Speaker 5: So this is I'm fascinated by this. San Francisco forty
- 1:29:44Speaker 5: nine Ers principal owner and CEO Jed York was arrested
- 1:29:50Speaker 5: Sunday yesterday in East Palestine, Ohio. He was originally detained
- 1:29:56Speaker 5: on suspicion of engaging in prostitution. Oh I'm sorry, but
- 1:30:03Speaker 5: why would Why would he be in East Why would he? Oh?
- 1:30:07Speaker 5: Here's where it gets interesting. It's where he was arrested,
- 1:30:11Speaker 5: I think is the story.
- 1:30:12Speaker 3: Oh no, he was.
- 1:30:14Speaker 5: Arrested at the Wheat Hill Mobile home community. So he
- 1:30:18Speaker 5: got arrested at a trailer park.
- 1:30:21Speaker 3: So he was prostituting himself.
- 1:30:23Speaker 5: No, no, no, I think that he was going there
- 1:30:26Speaker 5: to be prostituted, Yes, to be pleasured.
- 1:30:31Speaker 3: Got it? If you understand Wait, you can be arrested
- 1:30:35Speaker 3: for that.
- 1:30:36Speaker 5: Yes, it's against the law for to have sex with
- 1:30:40Speaker 5: pay somebody for sex.
- 1:30:41Speaker 3: Yes, that's got it. I knew that.
- 1:30:45Speaker 5: Oh my lord. Yeah, so look, help me understand this.
- 1:30:51Speaker 5: The guy is worth five hundred million dollars. And again
- 1:30:54Speaker 5: we believe that, we believe all of that behavior is
- 1:30:56Speaker 5: a sin. You should wait until you get married. But
- 1:30:59Speaker 5: for the sake of our conversation here, if you're going
- 1:31:01Speaker 5: to go out and hire a hooker, why would you
- 1:31:04Speaker 5: go to a trailer park at East Palestine, Ohio? Yeah,
- 1:31:07Speaker 5: I mean, you're worth five hundred million dollars, right, it
- 1:31:10Speaker 5: seems to me unless you know, I mean, some of
- 1:31:13Speaker 5: these very wealthy people, millionaires, they're thrifty, right, they'll like
- 1:31:18Speaker 5: to spend a lot of money.
- 1:31:20Speaker 3: The trailer park is the thrift shop for Yeah, I didn't.
- 1:31:25Speaker 3: I didn't say it fully.
- 1:31:27Speaker 5: Well, it's I mean, it's not exactly what right do.
- 1:31:30Speaker 3: You would think that there would be better quality out there?
- 1:31:32Speaker 3: If he's the owner of the forty nine.
- 1:31:34Speaker 5: Ers jeez alone, I mean it would be sort of
- 1:31:38Speaker 5: like going to well, not the Pigley Wiggily, but you know,
- 1:31:42Speaker 5: like an off brand grocery store right where you don't
- 1:31:45Speaker 5: have the.
- 1:31:45Speaker 6: Brand, not a public right exactly. We're like a family owned.
- 1:31:51Speaker 15: Yeah.
- 1:31:52Speaker 5: So anyway, he according to ESPN, he pleaded no contest
- 1:31:57Speaker 5: to misdemeanor charges. According to the records, the charge was
- 1:32:03Speaker 5: amended to misdemeanor disorderly conduct after he pleaded no contest
- 1:32:08Speaker 5: to that and an additional misdemeanor charge were possessing criminal tools.
- 1:32:15Speaker 5: The circumstances remain unclear, but the police report was obtained
- 1:32:19Speaker 5: by ESPN and it notes that mister York was arrested
- 1:32:23Speaker 5: at nine thirty five am Sunday morning at the Wheathill
- 1:32:27Speaker 5: Mobile home community on the south end of town. The
- 1:32:31Speaker 5: police report narrative consists of a single sentence indicating that
- 1:32:34Speaker 5: officers assisted the Human Trafficking Task Force in his arrest.
- 1:32:41Speaker 5: He agreed to pay a fine of eleven hundred and
- 1:32:45Speaker 5: fifty dollars. That's one thousand dollars for the criminal tools charge,
- 1:32:50Speaker 5: one hundred and fifty bucks for the disorderly conduct charge.
- 1:32:53Speaker 5: He was also sentenced to one day in jail for
- 1:32:56Speaker 5: each charge, with one day already considered to be served.
- 1:33:00Speaker 5: The NFL putting out a statement saying, the league is
- 1:33:03Speaker 5: aware of the matter and they're going to review their
- 1:33:06Speaker 5: personal conduct policy. It's my looks, it's been my observation
- 1:33:12Speaker 5: with the NFL, and that kind of stuff is like
- 1:33:15Speaker 5: normal behavior to them, I mean, the executives. The county
- 1:33:22Speaker 5: prosecutor said that he could not offer any additional details
- 1:33:26Speaker 5: about the case beyond confirming that his charges were reduced.
- 1:33:32Speaker 5: York has been the majority owner of the Niners since
- 1:33:34Speaker 5: twenty twenty four. He was originally from Youngstown, Ohio. So
- 1:33:41Speaker 5: maybe that's why. Maybe East Palestine is near Youngstown, and
- 1:33:44Speaker 5: maybe that's why he decided to go over to the
- 1:33:47Speaker 5: trailer park. But to me, that's the biggest part of
- 1:33:50Speaker 5: the story. Why is the owner of an NFL team going?
- 1:33:54Speaker 5: I mean, as I don't know, was he looking for
- 1:33:57Speaker 5: a discount?
- 1:33:58Speaker 3: Maybe times are tough over there at the forty nine
- 1:34:00Speaker 3: starts top.
- 1:34:03Speaker 5: You see again, if he had been going to church
- 1:34:05Speaker 5: where he should have been at nine thirty on a
- 1:34:07Speaker 5: Sunday morning, none of this would have happened. I'm just saying,
- 1:34:11Speaker 5: all right, gotta take a break. Nine oh one two
- 1:34:13Speaker 5: six zero five nine two six. This is the Todd
- 1:34:16Speaker 5: Sterns Show. All right, Welcome back, everybody. This is the
- 1:34:44Speaker 5: Todd Sterns Radio Show. Todd Sterns dot Com is our
- 1:34:47Speaker 5: landing page. Go and check that out. I want to
- 1:34:51Speaker 5: play some audio here. This is from the Los Angeles
- 1:34:54Speaker 5: City Council. You know, they call them unhoused. Now, I say,
- 1:34:59Speaker 5: we call him homeless, but because that's what they are.
- 1:35:02Speaker 5: And by the way, look I get it, there are
- 1:35:04Speaker 5: some people who are They are homeless for whatever reason,
- 1:35:08Speaker 5: and that's what they want to be. That's what they
- 1:35:11Speaker 5: want to be. But most of these people either belong
- 1:35:13Speaker 5: in a jail or a hospital. So anyway, the Los
- 1:35:17Speaker 5: Angeles City Council has gone out of their way to
- 1:35:21Speaker 5: aid to provide aid and comfort to the homeless by
- 1:35:25Speaker 5: basically advocating for them and allowing them to basically set
- 1:35:31Speaker 5: up their little homeless shelters on these sidewalks. I mean,
- 1:35:35Speaker 5: they're enabling the homeless people. So now, and I need
- 1:35:41Speaker 5: we've got to find out who this person is because
- 1:35:43Speaker 5: I need to know if this guy was being facetious
- 1:35:46Speaker 5: or if he was actually being real, because a citizen
- 1:35:50Speaker 5: showed up at the council meeting and proposed that if
- 1:35:54Speaker 5: they're going to go down this path of providing everything
- 1:35:58Speaker 5: for the homeless, that they should please provide a taxpayer
- 1:36:01Speaker 5: funded brothel for the homeless. Take a listen.
- 1:36:05Speaker 4: That aer a pilot program for free hygienic sexual relief
- 1:36:08Speaker 4: clinics primarily serving the homeless and unhoused. This means equality.
- 1:36:13Speaker 4: It means private sexual relief through masturbation or we're appropriate
- 1:36:17Speaker 4: and consensual with a partner, all funded by public tax
- 1:36:20Speaker 4: dollars and manage the professional oversight. It's about allowing the
- 1:36:23Speaker 4: homeless to have the same comforts and privacy that we
- 1:36:27Speaker 4: have today.
- 1:36:28Speaker 5: Well, well there you go. I mean it's uh, I mean,
- 1:36:32Speaker 5: if you're going to go down, I mean, the thing is,
- 1:36:35Speaker 5: it's not that big of a stretcher. So I get
- 1:36:38Speaker 5: these I get these messages. You're not gonna believe what
- 1:36:40Speaker 5: the LA City Council was righting. No, the LA Council
- 1:36:42Speaker 5: was not trying to do this, but some guy was
- 1:36:45Speaker 5: actually suggesting that they might consider, and you just never know,
- 1:36:49Speaker 5: you never know. Former Vice President Mike Pince there's really
- 1:36:56Speaker 5: no good segue. Here's on my apologies. Former Vice President
- 1:37:00Speaker 5: Mike Pence is in the headlines. So I'm really conflicted
- 1:37:09Speaker 5: about about Mike Pence, and the reason why is I
- 1:37:13Speaker 5: like the guy, but he's not a very nice guy.
- 1:37:17Speaker 5: And there is a there's a story out involving a
- 1:37:22Speaker 5: former CIA briefer who happened to be transgender, a man
- 1:37:27Speaker 5: who goes by the name Julia Curly, and Curly served
- 1:37:35Speaker 5: as Mike Pence's daily intelligence briefer, and Curly says that
- 1:37:41Speaker 5: Mike Pence treated him with dignity despite his long record
- 1:37:47Speaker 5: opposing LGBTQ rights. And this is all in an article
- 1:37:53Speaker 5: that was written and it's making a lot of headlines
- 1:37:57Speaker 5: around the nation's capital. So anyway, Mike Pence was on
- 1:38:03Speaker 5: CNN and the reporter at brought up this particular story
- 1:38:09Speaker 5: with the Vice President, who was supposed to be a
- 1:38:12Speaker 5: very conservative, evangelical Christian. Take a listen.
- 1:38:16Speaker 16: Quickly before I let you go, I do want to
- 1:38:18Speaker 16: ask about comments by Julia Curley, former CIA officer who
- 1:38:22Speaker 16: served as your daily briefer during the first Trump term.
- 1:38:25Speaker 16: She's a trans woman. I spoke to her earlier this
- 1:38:28Speaker 16: week and she said, despite your different views, you treated
- 1:38:31Speaker 16: her with quote great dignity and a big moment for
- 1:38:35Speaker 16: her in her life. Was you telling her mother that
- 1:38:37Speaker 16: you must be very proud of your daughter. What was
- 1:38:39Speaker 16: your reaction to hearing her say that?
- 1:38:42Speaker 17: You know, I haven't read the article. I appreciate the
- 1:38:46Speaker 17: kind words, but you know, you and I have known
- 1:38:50Speaker 17: each other long time. Dylan and my conservative values are
- 1:38:54Speaker 17: fairly well known, but maybe some people didn't quite know
- 1:38:57Speaker 17: that among our Christian values is my wife and I
- 1:39:01Speaker 17: believe in treating others the way that we'd like to
- 1:39:04Speaker 17: be treated with decency and respect. And I, you know,
- 1:39:07Speaker 17: I was heartened to to hear Julia or uh reflect
- 1:39:12Speaker 17: that that. Uh you know that was the experience. Uh
- 1:39:17Speaker 17: uh uh that that that that took place in our office.
- 1:39:23Speaker 5: All right, So there you have it. What was going
- 1:39:26Speaker 5: on there with the church bells ding a ling? No,
- 1:39:31Speaker 5: the church bells, not Mike Pence. That's what they were
- 1:39:33Speaker 5: doing that Dan anyway or ding dong if you will again,
- 1:39:38Speaker 5: the bells, not Mike Pence. So look what what was
- 1:39:42Speaker 5: going on here with Mike Pence? And and this is
- 1:39:46Speaker 5: I think the bigger issue with with him, the former
- 1:39:50Speaker 5: Vice president. So he's practicing what one well known pastor
- 1:39:57Speaker 5: called pronoun hospitality. And the they in the evangelical Christian
- 1:40:01Speaker 5: world is that you should humor the transgender community by
- 1:40:07Speaker 5: engaging in their in their fantasy world. So if you
- 1:40:13Speaker 5: have transgender people that come into your church, that you
- 1:40:17Speaker 5: should refer to them by their preferred pronouns and their
- 1:40:21Speaker 5: preferred names. Now here's where I stand on this. I
- 1:40:25Speaker 5: think that's a load of hooey. And I again, if
- 1:40:28Speaker 5: somebody comes in and says, Okay, well my name, my
- 1:40:32Speaker 5: name was Jim, but now I go by Julie. All right,
- 1:40:35Speaker 5: I'll call him Julie if that's their name. But I'm
- 1:40:38Speaker 5: not going to engage in this ridiculous pronoun hospitality that
- 1:40:42Speaker 5: Mike Pence is engaging in. And Mike Pence, and this
- 1:40:46Speaker 5: is the rub that evangelicals have with Mike Pence is
- 1:40:50Speaker 5: that Mike Pence is a squish. So back when he
- 1:40:54Speaker 5: was governor of Indiana, Mike Pence backtrack on a religious
- 1:41:01Speaker 5: freedom measure in his own state, and this really angered
- 1:41:07Speaker 5: a lot of evangelicals. And the reason why he backtracked
- 1:41:11Speaker 5: is because he came under fire from the LGBTQIA plus community.
- 1:41:17Speaker 5: Oh wait a second, what was the log cabin Republicans.
- 1:41:19Speaker 5: They're just the lgs and the bees. Now everybody else,
- 1:41:22Speaker 5: you're on your own. Anyway. This was in twenty fifteen,
- 1:41:26Speaker 5: and Pence signed a Religious Freedom Restoration Act which would
- 1:41:30Speaker 5: have protected Christians from these radical gay rights groups, among
- 1:41:34Speaker 5: other things. But that was the main point of it all.
- 1:41:36Speaker 5: That was the gist of it all. But then he
- 1:41:39Speaker 5: backpedaled on language that he feared could be discriminatory against
- 1:41:43Speaker 5: gay people. And so therefore Indiana they did not get
- 1:41:49Speaker 5: their Religious Freedom Restoration Act, and it was the evangelical
- 1:41:53Speaker 5: Christian vice or governor who did them in. He betrayed them, unbelievable.
- 1:42:02Speaker 5: At the time, there was a South Carolina pastor, Mike Gonzales,
- 1:42:07Speaker 5: who actually led evangelical outreach for Ted Cruz, and he said,
- 1:42:11Speaker 5: the reason why conservatives are not going to be moved
- 1:42:14Speaker 5: much by Mike Pence as vice president is when he
- 1:42:17Speaker 5: had an opportunity to stand up for religious liberty, to
- 1:42:20Speaker 5: mark himself in history, he did not do that. I'd
- 1:42:26Speaker 5: never thought of that of Mike. But when it came
- 1:42:28Speaker 5: down to it, he crumbled under pressure that for many
- 1:42:31Speaker 5: evangelical conservatives has been something that is a red flag.
- 1:42:35Speaker 5: So anyway, I'm curious to hear thoughts on this. Do
- 1:42:38Speaker 5: you take issue with the fact that Mike Pence now
- 1:42:40Speaker 5: engages in pronoun hospitality and embraces the transgender movement nine
- 1:42:47Speaker 5: oh one two six zero five nine two six. That's
- 1:42:50Speaker 5: nine oh one two six zero five to nine two six.
- 1:42:53Speaker 5: I mean, that was one of my concerns. When President
- 1:42:56Speaker 5: Trump picked Mike Pence. I was wondering, is that a
- 1:42:59Speaker 5: thumb that knows At the time, I'm wondering, is he
- 1:43:03Speaker 5: trying to make a statement here, Because Mike Pence had
- 1:43:06Speaker 5: just thrown Christians under the boss, and then he gets
- 1:43:09Speaker 5: picked up and becomes Donald Trump's VP. And at that
- 1:43:14Speaker 5: moment I was concerned because that proved to me that
- 1:43:18Speaker 5: Mike Pence is not a man of strong character. A
- 1:43:22Speaker 5: man of strong character would stand by his beliefs no
- 1:43:25Speaker 5: matter what. And I warned folks at the time, you've
- 1:43:29Speaker 5: got to watch this guy because he's going to turn
- 1:43:32Speaker 5: his back on Donald Trump. And what happened, ladies and gentlemen.
- 1:43:35Speaker 5: The first opportunity when Mike Pence was his fat was
- 1:43:40Speaker 5: about to be thrown into the fire. He bolted on
- 1:43:43Speaker 5: Donald Trump. We all remember what happened on j six.
- 1:43:47Speaker 5: We all remember, so anyway, I'm just saying, ladies and gentlemen,
- 1:43:52Speaker 5: you can't trust people like Mike Pence, and there are
- 1:43:55Speaker 5: a lot of folks like him in the Republican Party,
- 1:43:58Speaker 5: which again I am beginning to wonder. With hundreds of
- 1:44:03Speaker 5: millions of dollars in the bank, the Republicans aren't spending
- 1:44:07Speaker 5: any of that money, and they're out there stopping President
- 1:44:11Speaker 5: Trump's agenda. Is it possible that the Republicans could be
- 1:44:16Speaker 5: getting ready to throw the midterm elections, at least in
- 1:44:19Speaker 5: the Senate. Just something to think about. All right, we've
- 1:44:22Speaker 5: got to take a break here A nine oh one
- 1:44:24Speaker 5: two six zero five nine two six. That's our telephone over.
- 1:44:28Speaker 5: That's nine oh one two six zero five nine two six.
- 1:44:31Speaker 5: By the way, if you missed any of our interviews today,
- 1:44:33Speaker 5: including early on, we had Doug Turpin on. He's the
- 1:44:37Speaker 5: parent suing the Charlotte, North Carolina Lantin school because because
- 1:44:42Speaker 5: they displayed images of Jesus with this throat slit and
- 1:44:47Speaker 5: they tried to convince his kid that he was gay.
- 1:44:50Speaker 5: If you want to go back and listen to that download,
- 1:44:52Speaker 5: our free podcast. You can find that at Todd Stearns
- 1:44:55Speaker 5: dot com. All right, welcome back you folks in North Carolina.
- 1:45:09Speaker 3: What a mess?
- 1:45:10Speaker 5: What a mess. Transgenderism is spreading across all of the
- 1:45:16Speaker 5: state schools and it's just really appalling. This is from
- 1:45:21Speaker 5: Wake County, North Carolina, where a transgender speaker addressed the
- 1:45:27Speaker 5: school board and she wants the Actually she's pro trans
- 1:45:33Speaker 5: and she wants the children of any parent who objects
- 1:45:39Speaker 5: to boys and girls' bathrooms to be expelled from schools.
- 1:45:43Speaker 5: Take a listen to cut three the.
- 1:45:45Speaker 14: Way County school Board for protecting teachers and staff by
- 1:45:48Speaker 14: standing up to biggots, anti education, biggots who want women
- 1:45:52Speaker 14: out of education and society. I appreciate it as a
- 1:45:56Speaker 14: Way County School's graduate, a parent, and some grand pere.
- 1:46:00Speaker 14: I won't ask for a round of applause because this
- 1:46:02Speaker 14: is a business meeting. Offer three midst proposals to protect
- 1:46:06Speaker 14: my grandchildren from these bigots they protect your children. One
- 1:46:12Speaker 14: offer a home school and curriculum for free. It helps
- 1:46:15Speaker 14: keeps the biggots away from my grandchildren. It provides opportunity
- 1:46:18Speaker 14: for our frailest students. It lets our adults educate themselves.
- 1:46:23Speaker 14: And by golly, we know they need it tonight.
- 1:46:25Speaker 7: Two.
- 1:46:27Speaker 14: Name the bigots, tell us what they cost in money,
- 1:46:31Speaker 14: time and stress. Three protect the students, keep bigots off
- 1:46:38Speaker 14: our campuses. Relocate the children of bigots if needed, Expel
- 1:46:44Speaker 14: the children of bigots if needed, or maybe Jonathan Swift's
- 1:46:49Speaker 14: proposal applies to bigots.
- 1:46:50Speaker 17: Two.
- 1:46:52Speaker 5: Wow, So if you believe that girls' sports should be
- 1:46:58Speaker 5: played by girls and boys should not be in there,
- 1:47:01Speaker 5: this woman says, you need to have your child expelled
- 1:47:04Speaker 5: from the classroom. Ladies and gentlemen, all I can tell
- 1:47:08Speaker 5: you is homeschool your children. If you've got the ability,
- 1:47:10Speaker 5: homeschool your kids, get them out of this mess. Unbelievable.
- 1:47:16Speaker 5: So then, in this is in Massachusetts, Old Rochester, Massachusetts,
- 1:47:25Speaker 5: I want you to listen to this father describing how
- 1:47:29Speaker 5: his nine year old daughter was harassed by a boy
- 1:47:33Speaker 5: inside the girl's bathroom, and take a listen to cut
- 1:47:36Speaker 5: number two plays this is.
- 1:47:38Speaker 18: What happens when a school administration fails off of female students.
- 1:47:42Speaker 18: My daughter was sexually harassed by a boy that decided
- 1:47:45Speaker 18: it was okay to push her stall. Bathroom door in
- 1:47:49Speaker 18: the school has been silent. They're not responding I've been
- 1:47:53Speaker 18: forced to file a Title nine on them and they.
- 1:47:56Speaker 15: Continue not to answer the community.
- 1:47:59Speaker 3: So bring awareness this way.
- 1:48:02Speaker 18: Our local school, which is the Rochester Memorial School, has
- 1:48:05Speaker 18: been silent on this and the people are fed up.
- 1:48:08Speaker 18: We're not going to take it anymore. So these signs
- 1:48:11Speaker 18: have been around town. I have people come in tonight
- 1:48:14Speaker 18: sign petitions to continue to remove all five school committee
- 1:48:18Speaker 18: members and replace them with people who care for us,
- 1:48:22Speaker 18: for our children, and for this community.
- 1:48:27Speaker 5: Well, there you go, ladies and gentlemen. That's what we're
- 1:48:30Speaker 5: dealing with. Guys. The dad's putting up signs in the
- 1:48:34Speaker 5: bathrooms telling them boys, don't you be coming in here.
- 1:48:37Speaker 5: Let's go to young shado Ohio wy WO are a
- 1:48:42Speaker 5: great radio affiliate out there. Pastor Howe joins us Hi. Pastor,
- 1:48:46Speaker 5: how what's on your mind today?
- 1:48:48Speaker 18: Hey?
- 1:48:48Speaker 2: Dan? You know one answer to this problem that you
- 1:48:51Speaker 2: got is private Christian schooling. There's you got to get
- 1:48:55Speaker 2: the kids that snake pits, and that's what the public
- 1:48:57Speaker 2: school system is turned into. And Becca, the Becca School system,
- 1:49:03Speaker 2: they'll send material right to a parents' house that they'll
- 1:49:06Speaker 2: teach their kids anything, any subject and actually they can
- 1:49:10Speaker 2: graduate on the Becca School system, and it's so good.
- 1:49:15Speaker 2: It used to put the kids at least two great
- 1:49:18Speaker 2: levels ahead of their counterparts in the public school now
- 1:49:21Speaker 2: and even put them further ahead than that because they're
- 1:49:24Speaker 2: getting dumbed down so bad and made im moral in
- 1:49:27Speaker 2: the public school system. It's incredible, but a lot of people.
- 1:49:32Speaker 2: What they did over in near Cleveland, a pastor was
- 1:49:36Speaker 2: telling me was that they got four or five families
- 1:49:38Speaker 2: who wanted to pull their kids out of a public
- 1:49:40Speaker 2: school system and have them go on the Specca system.
- 1:49:44Speaker 2: And so they found out one Christian parents that they
- 1:49:48Speaker 2: depended on, you know, that said they got the time
- 1:49:51Speaker 2: to teach the kids. So they meet in a low
- 1:49:54Speaker 2: school place or whatever, and every day that have a
- 1:49:58Speaker 2: teach the kids right, you know, reading, writing, science, and
- 1:50:01Speaker 2: everything else like that. And this is totally legal in
- 1:50:05Speaker 2: the state of Ohio and in most other states. So
- 1:50:09Speaker 2: instead of keeping your kids in a swamp and I mean,
- 1:50:12Speaker 2: you know where it's just completely deadly influences to their
- 1:50:16Speaker 2: lives and everything, pull them out of there, pull them
- 1:50:19Speaker 2: out of the public school, get them on the SPECA system.
- 1:50:21Speaker 2: They can look up the number and call Beck and
- 1:50:24Speaker 2: find out all the information.
- 1:50:26Speaker 5: Pastor hell let me ask you, from your position as
- 1:50:28Speaker 5: a minister, do you have parents coming to you and
- 1:50:32Speaker 5: asking for guidance on what to do when it comes
- 1:50:35Speaker 5: to the schools.
- 1:50:37Speaker 11: Oh?
- 1:50:37Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, And I'll tell you another person that you
- 1:50:41Speaker 2: know they can get a lot of good guidance from
- 1:50:44Speaker 2: the pastor of my church is Pastor Ernie Sanders. He's
- 1:50:46Speaker 2: been on a talk show host for about fifty years
- 1:50:49Speaker 2: and he takes a strong stand against the corruption in
- 1:50:52Speaker 2: the public schools and has a lot of material and
- 1:50:56Speaker 2: information on it. But yeah, people were just getting fed
- 1:50:59Speaker 2: up and and and the thing is the government seems
- 1:51:02Speaker 2: to be allowing these left wing perverts have their way
- 1:51:06Speaker 2: instead of going to the uh, the people and uh.
- 1:51:10Speaker 2: This country was founded upon three principles. There was the
- 1:51:13Speaker 2: old English law, the Bible, and common sense. And when
- 1:51:16Speaker 2: the liberals through the Bible out the door back in
- 1:51:20Speaker 2: the early sixties, common sense went with it. And we've
- 1:51:23Speaker 2: become like insane and they're they're you know, I would
- 1:51:26Speaker 2: I would, I would not. I don't know what I
- 1:51:30Speaker 2: would do, but I if I had a kid in
- 1:51:32Speaker 2: the public school, he wouldn't be there very long. I'd
- 1:51:34Speaker 2: get him out of there before they did damage to
- 1:51:37Speaker 2: him that lasted a lifetime. Yeah, and but look look
- 1:51:40Speaker 2: up the Becca Christian Schools. This right, and they got
- 1:51:44Speaker 2: They'll send them all the information they need to educate
- 1:51:48Speaker 2: their own children.
- 1:51:48Speaker 5: All right, Pastor Hal from Youngstown, Ohio, thank you for
- 1:51:52Speaker 5: calling in, Pastor Hal. I good to hear from our
- 1:51:55Speaker 5: rust Belt listeners today. Well done, guys, folks. Just to
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